The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 30, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER FORECASTS Partly cloudy and somewhat un- settled tonight and Wednesday. 4 — 1873 TRIBUTE PAID TO SOLDIE 130,000 SEE SPEED DEMONS "AT SPEEDWAY Greatest Crowd That Ever Saw Sporting Event in U. S. at Indianapolis German Driver Is_ First Forced Out in 500-Mile Speedway Race Today Speedway, Indianapolis, May 30—| While speeding nearly 100 miles an hour the car driven by Lautensch- lager, the German racer, crashed in- to a concrete retaining wall on the south turn of the track, wrecking the turn. He escaped with only a few scratches, but his mechanician was rushed to the hospital, presum- | ably suffering from internal injur- ies, The German was on his 38th| mile when the accident occurred. ‘The second Argentine driver forc-! ed out of the race was Raoul Rig- anti, who quit after covering 47) miles because of a broken gas pipe; This eliminated the two South Am- crican entries, both of whom were| driving French cars. The first 50 miles were covered in, 02:10, an average of 96.1! per hour with Jimmy Murphy - Milton was second and never Wilcox third, Vileox, with his singing motor,' was in the lead at 100 miles with| Milton second and Murphy third.| The century mark was reeled ‘off in| 1.02:13:20, an average spced of 96.-| 43 miles an hour. | Tom Alley, a veteran racer, prob-| ably was gravely injured when his| car crashed through a fence on the} back stretch injuring William Goetz! of Lafayette, a spectator. Alley was! driving as relief for Earl Cooper at! the time of the accident. Alley and} Goctz were rushed to a hospital. | Speedway, Indianapolis, Ind. May W--With « roar from perfectly tun- ed motors 24 drivers, the premier racers of five nations, shot away at 10 o'clock today in the start of the 590 mile automobile race over the 21-2 mile brick course of the India napolis Motor speedway. Jimmy Murphy winner of the 1922) grabbed the lead, covering the| st 21-2 mil in 1.82:64, an aver-; age of 97.44 miles per hour. Tommy} Milton, another of the favorites, cap- tured the lead in the third lap. Christian Lautenschlager, the Ger-} man entry, was the only driver in the race carrying a mechanician. The attendance at the start of! the race was officially announced at/ mote than 130,000, making it the test crowd that ever witnessed a ‘sporting event in America, The| race was run under delightful weath- | er conditions with a friendly sun, ac-| companied by a cooling breeze, beat-| ing down on the course. First Forced Out e first: star forced out of the} was a French’ tar driven by Martin DeAlzaga of Argentine, De-| Alzaga had covered 15 miles at ter- rified speed when a broken connec- ting rod sent him to the side. 1" i race! PRIZES $85,000. Indianapolis, Ind, May 30.—The list of certain starters in the 500- mile. automobile race here was in- creased to 25 when a French car, driven by Raoul Riganti, qualified by turning ten miles in 6:18:72, an aver- pre of 95.3 miles an hour. Three German cars and fivé French machines are entered. They are heav- ier than thé American speedsters, and, while they have not shown as much speed, give every indication of being sturdy and enduring, The race drivers will compete for prizes totaling approximately $85,000. Tue <peedway divides $50,000 among the first ten to finish. In addition the citizens’ lap prize fund amoynts to more than $10,000 and automovile and accessory firms give monetary prizes annually amounting to BE ABD: 000. BUYS THE ONLY ‘LOOSE’ WILLYS CAR HE FINDS _T. O. Klovstad of Rhame, N. hi way .to Rhame from a busine tfp in Minneapolis, stopped in the Lahr Motor’ Sales company garage. “I just wanted to tell you what 1 thought of the Willys-Knight,” said Mr. Klovstad. “After looking all over Minneapolis for a used car, I bought the only Willys-Knight used cdr that I could find for sale. I saw a good many Willys-Knights on the streets but only one in the dealer's stock so I-made up my mind the Wil- lys-Knight must be a good car.” Mr. Klovstad said his, opinion had been confirmed on driving the car. “I neyer realized that a four-cylinder motor cpuld operate like this Willys- Knight does,” he said. “I've slways been_a six-cylinder enthussiast but T’ve had it alj taken out of me.” Mr, Klovstad left for Rhame this mobuing. THE BISMARCK TRIBU BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1923 | FINAL EDITION | PRICE FIVE CENTS R DEAD WILL MAKE WATER COMPANY OF FE R PARADE MOVES oor “MUST REVIVE FLAME OF PATRIOTISM” — OWSLEY Political Pepper! Pennsylvania Delegation Is To Season Convention Well SENATOR GEORGE W. PEPPER. BY HARRY B, HUNT. NEA Service Writer. Washington, May 30.—Rock-ribbed Pennsylvania, the good old Gibraltar | of the G, O. P., is the first state off | ; the reservation in the movement for renomination and re-election of War- ren G. Harding as president! At a conference of the Pennsyl- vania members of Congress, held in | Atlantic City, decision was reached | to support the selection of an unin+ structed delegation to the 1924 Re- publican convention. This, in the face of diplomatic suggestions from Harding henchmen ‘that it would be timely and signifi- cant—also helpful—if the Keystone state senators and’ representatives should sponsor a delegation pledged oh support Harding for a second “nck of the decision reached lics a double motive. The first and most moving one is of revenge. They Are Peeved. Harding has disregarded many of jthe pet recommendations of the Pennsylvania boys in placing patron- age. Their slice at the pie counter as been nejther luscious nor large. And considering the fact hi ing, and therefore should have had fat pickings, they fecl they have been “done dirt.” Next to the desire to register a dig at Harding, the Pennsylvantans’, ac- tion was due to their desire to boost | j early and late for a favorite son can- didate of their own—Senator George ; Wharton Pepper. In view of this situation, Pepper | played, to all appearances, a passive | part in the Atlantic City conclave. Senator Reed, who is particularly | sore at Harding over patronage re- fusals, led the hymn of hate. May Be Serious. This fair to be a really serious obstacle in the way of a harmonious renomina- tion for Harding. If the Congres- sionat delegation, controlling as they | do ii most cases the local organiza- tion machinery, can put across their ticket of uninstructed delegates, that sets over into the debit column— either for purposes of trading or of active opposition — a block of 86 votes, ‘Which is no small handicap. On the other hand, there seems some likelihood that’ the Congres- sional crowd, presuming to assume direction of Pennsylvania's presiden- tial program, may be brought up with a bump by the Pinchot progres- sive group within the state, which while not defining its position with respect to Harding does not look kindly on the kindling of a presiden- tial Pepper pot. Recount. Taken In City Election, Oakes, N. D., May, 30—A° court hearing was conducted here by Judge Allen in connection with the mayoralty elections contest initiated by Byron Gibbs and W. F. Rathman against S. Bergenthal, the successful candidate in the election of April 3. Most of the time was occupied in taking testimony of W. R. Whitver, city auditor, regarding alleged irre- gularities, and, of several public hool; teachers Who were alleged :to have voted illegally in the election. A recount of the votes in the first ward, requested in the petition on the grounds of the incompetency of the election board, tallied exactly with the figures turned in by the board, _ INJURIES CAUSE PARALYSIS, Leonard, N. D., May 30.—Injuries to the back of her neck and -head, sustained when Mrs. EF. A. Hoffman of this place was knocked down by. a car driven by her husband, have caused a partial paralysis of both arms, the seriousness of which have not yet been: determined by attend- ing physicia Eee | Pennsylvania felt it nominated Hard- ' i Pennsylvania situation bids ! CHIEF JUSTICE HIGHEST COURT Attacks of “Radical Republi-' cans” Is Answered by Chief Justice at Cincinnati — HELD -UNWARRANTED Declares Verdict of Country Has Been.in Favor of Court Ohio,-May 30.--Attacks made by dical Republicans” on the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court in Civil War and reconstruction days were here today with the comment that the verdict of the country in retro-| spect had been in favor of the posi- tion maintained by the court and st the attitude assumed by its | Speeling: at the unveiling of a’ | monument to Chief Justice Salmon P. {Chase, Justice Taft declared that | while the highest Court undoubtedly jhad made mistakes in Chas and at other times, the effect of its j record as a whole had been to real-j jfirm the sound foundations upon which it was built. \ “The people now are glad,” he said, “that the guarantees of personal l-, berty were maintained by the court, against the partisan zeal of the then{ majority. The court survived the in- evitable attacks upon its jurisdiction then, it had survived them so many times before.” The Chief Justice made no direct reference to proposals recently made in Congress to curb the power of the court, but he recalled that bills pro- posing to abolish the Court's right to declare the laws of Congress un-; constitutional were introduced just} after the Civil War and were defeat- led. “During the incumbency of Justice Chase,” said Justice Taft, “popular feeling was strongly arous- ed against the Court. From time to time, by reason of its Jurlpdiction and’, it: proper ‘exereise,: the: Cou can not help becoming the on patrol of politics. It is the head of the system of Federal Courts estab- lished avowedly to avoid the local prejudice which non-residents may encounter in State Courts, a function) often likely to ruffle the sensibil s of the communitics, the poss’ ity of whose prejudice is thus re-! ‘cognized and avoided. More than} | this, the Court’s duty to ignore the’ acts of Congress or of the State leg-; islatures, if out of line with the fun- i damental law of the nation, inevitab- ily throws it as an obstruction across ; the path of the then majority who ‘have enacted the invalid legislation. ; The stronger the majority, and the) |more intense its partisan fecling, the| iless likely is it to regard constitu-+ ttional limitations upon its power, ‘and the more likely is it to enact laws of questionable validity. It is | jeonvincing evidence of the sound/ Isense of the American people in the; jlong run and their love of civil 1i- | berty an@ its constitutional guaran. ties, that, in spite of hostility thus i frequently engendered, the Court has| ‘lived with its powers unimpaired; until the present day. { “The assassination of Lincoln stir- red the passion of the Northern peo- ple and threw power into the hands of the Radical element of\the Repub-} ichn party in Congress. _Confli i with Lincoln's successor quickly en- ‘sued and a policy of radical recon-| struction followed, which:jwe can bel reasonably sure would have been| spared’ the South, had Mr. Lincoln lived, With a two-thirds majority in jeach House, the Republican party {leaders brooked no opposition, and! when that which had been done in ;due course came before the Court for \consideration of its validity, the at- titude of those leaders toward the Court became one of suspicion and; resentment. Until one refreshes his recollection of that period, he can hardly realize how far the radical Pepabiicant in Congress went in! eir effort to oust the Court of its! jurisdiction.“ They were afraid that; the Court would pronounce their re-! construction measures invalid. They; were stirred to’ this by the deci- sion’ in ex parte Milligan, in which the Court refused to recognize the {power of the President in time of war to direct 9 Military Commission to try for treason and sentence to death a civilian in a state not invaded by| the ‘enemy and where the civil courts! were functioning. For fear that the. Court might hold invalid the work of such Commissions when organized under the reconstruction acts by military governors in the “ Southern States, Congregs took the case of Mc- Ardle, Arenentlan the question, from the Court's consideration, abruptly, after it had been argued and submit- ted, by repeal of its jurisdiction. In thé heat of the feeling against the Court, bills were proposed limiting its: power to declere laws invalid by majority, and there were serious proposals made to abolish this pow- of thé Court altogether. The per- sonal’ attacks tn upon the Court by the party press re seyere and unmeasured. Tthis was the atmos: phere in which, Chief Justice ‘Chase lived during his. judicial service. “While mistakes were made’by the Court in ‘those days, at other ae “(Continued on Page 2) Chief reviewed by Chief Justice Taft i more, bringing the total j at 18 percent of the operating cost, HUGE SAVING OIL ENGINES ‘Would Cut Blectrleity Cost ‘in Water Works and White Way $10,000 a Year BIDDERS Declare That Installation of City’s Own Power Plant Would Mean Saving Guarantees that the city would b r in the cost of pumping water in a new water works by the instal- lation of Diesel oil burning engines, were made to the mombers of the city commission and citizens’ com- mittee sitting last representatives of various bidders. A representative of Morse & Co. declared the city on the expected pumpage of water would save $6,929.00 in the cost of romping and in an extended White Way system would save over $3,000 saving to $10,129.00 per year. He explained the cost of a 300 horse power engine was $22,600.00. It would have an clectric output of 1190 kilowats per hour. Figuring in- ‘terest on the investment, deprecia« tion, cost of running and fuel; the latter at $7.35 per day, he declar- ed that a kilowat hour of electricity could be manufactured for 94 cents and the total cost with overhead would be $1.27 cents per kilowat hour. He compared this with a 3-cent rate now paid the Hughes Electric Company for electric current to get | the saving. He declared he would ask one hour a day of one man's time to run the { engine. “If we can't do as we claim, we will tear out the engine and take it back, and bear all expenses,” he said, BigSaving, Claim He declared t! use of an oil burning engine was saving a local} milling company $1,000 a month in electric power bills, and that the engine was being installed in scores of mills and hundreds of eastern! , manufacturing plants. Any fuel from 11,000 B. T. U. up can be used, he said—crude oil, ker- osene, distillate, other fuels. The! average cost to the local mill fuel is 71-2 cents per gallon he said His figures were based on a higher fuel cost. If the city can buy fuel at 71-2 cents per gallon, the cost of! of} | manufacturing a kilowat hour electricity would be cut to 74 cents. Another speaker for the Worthing- ton engine estimated a fixed charge which he said was high. The en- gine would,furnish power to pump 1,000,000 gallons of water in !hours. The cost of a 200 horse power engine would be $19,200, he said, and cost of fuel tank, exten: sion of building, etc. would make the total cost of the power plant $26,000. Figuring the various items he said that at this rate a kilowat hour of electricity could be produced for 2.72 cents, and that with increased pump- age which was expected in a new water works it could be reduced to 2 cents. Many bids on Diesel or semi Diy: el engines were submitted, as fol- lows: Worthington engines, 200 h. p. Diesel, $19,200; 300 hi p. $26,600 al ternate 225 h, p. $21,690. McIntosh and Seymomr, 200 h. g. $27,500; 260 h. p, Van Severn $18,450; 325 h. p. Anderson $25,600; 300 h. p. McIntosh and Seymour, $41,090. Chicago Pneumatic Tool engine, 200 h. ). $19.2 Fairbanks, Morse, 200 h. p. $16,130; 300 h. p. $22,360; 100°h. p. alternate $9,145. R. B, Whittaker &' Co,, bid on Allis-Chalmers engine, APPEAR’ saved several thousand dollars a! night to hear} Fairbanks, | for} 11) [VALUE T0 BE TAFT DEFENDS | ISOFFEREDON | FIGURED FROM BIDS RECEIVED | Be Taken at Meeting Thursday Afternoon | PLAN QUICK ,ACTION Whole Matter Probably Will Be Settled Within the Next Ten Days The city comm committee, in executive session un- til midnight last night after hearing representatives of bidders on the Proposed new water works system, instructed the city engineer to ply the ynit prices on bids received for construction of a new plant to the present equipment and property of the Bismarck Water Supply com- y, to figure depreciation and ar- at a valuation of the present water plant by comparison with the bid prices. On this basis, it was decided, the city commission will offer to dis. cuss the purchase of the present city water plant with the Bismarck Water Supply company officers, and to make a definite offer for the purchase of the plant, Bids of contractors on two classes of material, which also are in the present water plant, will contain a reservation, if acted on, so that the bids would be merely on additions to the present plant or replacements The city may be ready within a day or two to say what it would pay for the Bismarck Water Supply Cop- pa plant. Action must be tuk: 4] on the bids before it and the whore matter decided one way or the oth: within the next ten days, according to the commissioners. Another meeting of the city com- mission will be held at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon, at which time the matter will be discussed further. Says Offer Too High Mayor Lenhart said that the com- mission believed that the best test | of the value of the present Bismarck | Water Supply company are the bids | for construction of a new plant. He said that he believed the bids show- jed that the water company had ask- jed too much money for thcir plant that the city had made the water compafy an offer to buy its plant at a higher figure than it really should have offered. The highest | offer made by the. city commission was $265,000, which was offered, re- jected and withdrawn. The matter of bids was not defin- itely settled in entirety, and no con- | tracts were awarded at the meeting last night, but the discussion is un- | derstood to have resulted in a decis- American Cast Iron’ Pipe Co, 1, furnishing of cast iron pipe; con- tract No. 2, St, Paul; contract No. construction, Wodrich — Construc- tion company; Contract 4, installation of filters, Mc Engineering Co. Kansas City. Bids Submitted ulated, include: Contract No. 1, furnishing Cast Iron Pipe Co., and Foundry Co., pipe and cast iron specials only, $220,167.00; James B Clow & Son, Chicago, all items $270,106.40; Waterous Fire Co., St. Paul, hydrants 065.00; Rensselaer Valve C cago, valves and hydragts $19,908.00. Contract No. 2, installation of sup- only $14 - Chi- only, marck, $185,142.80; | Haggart Con- 200 h. p. $26,714.00; 300 h. p. $34,- 601.00. No action has been. taken yet on these bids. TO OUR SOLDIERS They left their homes behind them, They bade their friends goodbye They gave their all to Uncle Sam Ready to dare and die. Some came back badly wounded Others came not’ at all, But living or dead, they did their bit In answering their country’s call. Think of what they suffered Think of what they've done, Remember the hard fought battles And the glorious victories won. Let's honor their memory again, boys Let’s laud them to the sky Up with the colors they fought for Keep them waving on high. Off with your hats as you watch boys Honor the red, white, and blue, And, honoring, think of the heroes That gave shelr lives for you. Yes, gave, and gave them gladly Now silent and cold they lie Let’s honor their memory today boys As the tide goes passing by, —A Contributor. ‘| Construction Cof St. Paul, ‘| made on what app struction Co., $188,633.56; Wodrich $192,621.- 65;. W. C. Fraser & Son $200,297.60; Phelps-Drake Co., $210,297.60; De- Graff and Wolff Co., $173,150.80. Contract No. 3—Installation com- plete filtration plant, pumping ma- chinery, Wodrich Construction Co $108,291.24, Other bids not extend ed and totalled. Contract No. 4—Installation head ing system in filtration plant build ing, ¥F. G. Grambs, only bidder $7, 292.00. Contract No, 5—E. W. Bachatac) Co., Kensas' City, $25,075.00; McFar land Construction Co., Kansas City Mo. $25166.00. (two lowest out 0 tive bidders—others not tabulated. Contract/No, 7—Building two con crete reservoirs—Wodrich Construc tion Co. $47,931.00; Phelps-Dodg: Co., $1,020.00; ‘Campbell Construc- tion Co., $54,605.00, : HEAR BIDDERS | The ‘city commission and’ citizen: committee first met at 4 o'clock yes- terday afternoon to hear bidders ex- plain the merits of their propositions At that. time calculations had been ‘bids, but: not on all bids, and. there was,some dispute, ee the total] engagéd in J emount of the bid on pump: i - city (Continued on Page’ 2 Definite Action Expected To) on and citizens’) ion to certain bids on each class, if| eral times to the the work goes ahead. This includes! hold of the bandits on errands of of! mercy for the foreigners held by the Birmingham, Ala., for contract No.| bandits, has written a ¢ installation of supply] Chinese capti mains, DeGraff and Wolff Company, train was raided near Suchow and 3, filter plant] the foreigners kidnapped. No.| place‘May 6 the bandits beseiged in arland| their stronghold were short of food. The bids as submitted, and tab-|to their death over a precipice. cast] prisoner was labelled with an iden- iron pipe, hydrants, etc. American] ti Birmingham,| thrown over with a Ala, $250,061.47; U, S. Cast Iron Pipe] arms. Engine] the cliffs. ply mains, Frank G, Grambs, Bis-| sale of $195,000 of 5 percent 20 year By Alvin Owsley National Commander, American Le- gion On this acred to the memory of Ame brave fighting men who lie buried in the cemeteries of Eur- ope and America, the American Le- gion joins the great body of Am can citizenry in reverent tribut At home and in the lands acr the seas, Legion men, the comrade in battle of thos who sleep, are making ages to the burial| places to strew! upon their graves the flowe membrane As we pause in reverence at the shrines of hero dead, a ing. of our unworthiness must manifest _ itself. | Our comrades have| OWSLEY made the highest | sacrifice; they have given their live to prepetuate the ideals of peace and good will. ‘The cause for which they died has not prevailed. We who survived the | fight have been unable to accomplish | the holy tasks bequeathed to us by those who fell. his Memorial Day should mark | the | died for u pilgrim-| ¢ | those sinis econsecration’ of our endeavors toward instilling in this nation and the world the spirit of the men who In our own country we must revive that flame’ of patriotism which burned brightly during the days of strife and in the world the unity of sentiment that — existed among allied peoples fighting for their homes and firesides against the advancé of a militaristic power. If pur efforts are not turned toward the achievements of these high ideals, we break faith with those whose mem- reverence today. he American Legion was founded to preserve for posterity the spirit | that led the finest men in our land to sacrifice their all for a great and noble cause. Its program is based on a broad conception of peacetime service to r community, state and nation, s thrown the weight of its in- own| fluence on the side: of the right dur- | ing the uncertain days following the! return ta America of our overseas fighters and has assisted in preserv- | ing the nation from the perils of! r forces which have} brought disaster and ruin to the latg-| est nation in the world and which today threaten many other lands. Members of the Legion have caught the torch thrown to them by their! falling comrades and will bear it on, | lifting men and nations to the high- yer ground. PRESIDENT LEADS NATION IN PAYING MEMORIAL DAY TRIBUTE: Harding Joins in Capital’s Tribute by Planting Elm : Mr: ‘Tree in Honor of World War Dead—Acting Secretary of War Draws Lessons From Past War. Washington, May -As the principal speaker at Memorial Day ; exercises in Arlington Napornl cemetery President Harding led the to the dead heroes of its wars. The ceremonial in the nésonal ampitheater at Arlington, with na- a today in paying tribu’- nal officers of the Grand‘Army of the Republ patriotic Legion participating and other and the American! organ jong ‘represented, formed the principal feature of the eae 's observance. THROW EIGHTY CHINESE OVER GREAT CLIFF i in the past, and probably indicated] Short of Food, Suchow Band- its Put Captives to Death in Horrible Manner PRIEST GIVES ACCOUNT 30-—Rev. German Shanghai, China, May William Lenfers the aged priest of Linching, who has gone sev- mountains strong- m account execution of 80 s before the express of the reported Previous to the train hold-up, which took Because of this the 80 Chinese pris- | oners were said to have been hurled Father Lenfers reported that each tion, tag. One woman child in was her Later the families of the massac- red captives were notified and al- lowed to claim the bodiee beneath MINOT SCHOOL BONDS CARRY Minot, N. D., May 30.—Voters of Minot school district No. 1 by a vote of 84 to 32 approved the issuance and bonds, to pay outstanding indebted- ness and place the district on a cash basis, The bonds were recently sold by the board of education subject to the approval of the voters. BURNED IN ACID TEST Raleigh, N: D., May 30.—Harry Vhiteman will not lose the sight of tis eyes physicians said today after horough examination. He suffered \ badly blistered and burned face} as the result of a battery explosion vhen he placed new acid in the con- ainer. A parade of members of several! oruenieatibne reviewed by the Presi- dent from the White House preceded | on the program the ampitheater ex- ercises. Other speakers ut the cem- ery included James W. Nett, commander-in-chief of the G. A. R. and Watson B. Miller, national vice- commander of the American Legion. Ceremonial programs also were ar- | ranged at other cemeteries in and | j around the city. The progyam for separate exercises at Arlington under the auspices of the Disabled American Veterans the World War included the dedica- tion by Mrs, Harding of an elm tree to the World War dead. The site of the tree is about 100 yards from the tomb of the unknown sol- dier. In the principal address at the American Legion Memorial Services at Arlington Acting Secretary Dwight Davis of the war department declar- on “must demand that! n shall American boys be sacrificed us y us these, our com- sacrificed, beca forgot the lessons of the pas RECOVERS HIS STOLEN AUTO Ford Roadster Taken Last! November Back in Hands of Owner The Ford roadster of Paul Gaschk was stolen the night before the last November 6th election. No _ trace was found but Mr. Gaschk didfft for- get about it. Today he has the car back, He said the man he believes stole it is now in Idaho, and had been in Bismarck working at the time. He says he sold the car to Emil Spitzer! east of McKenzie, representing it to be a Minnesota car and presenting papers: which appeared reliable. -Spit- zer traded it in on a new car and the old car later was sold to Her- bert Lille, near Baldwin. Gaschk recognized the Ford frén the hole in the foot-board, where he formerly had a whistle and other re- pairs. The sales all had appeared gen- uine, so no blame is attached to any- one except the man who stole it, Gaschk says. He isn't certain whether he will seek to prosecute the man, MEMORIAL DAY ISSADDENED AS: CHILD, PLAY VICTIM, IS BURIED ait, N,,,D., May 30.—Memorial Day in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Inches of this city is a par- ticularly sad one, for this morning was held the funeral of Doris, their little 4-year-old daughter, who was burned to death Monday forenoon Re ¥8 be the low} while at play st her home, Inches was at the time busily hing clothes while the child was playing in a playhouse con- structed out of a piano biel which stood alongside the house. here was a lantern inside the playhouse which it is believed the child played with and which in some manner started the fire. The blaze was di covered by a neighbor who notifie the mother immediately. but the box had already burned and the'charred remains of the little girl were found huddled up with her hands over her. face in what had been.the corner of the box, far from the entrance, f| A Memorial Pageant THROUGH CITY; PAGEANT HELD Flowers Laid on Graves in Cemeteries of The City PATRIOTIC EXERCISES Judge Christianson Pays Tri bute to Valor of War Dead At Auditorium . Tribute to the nation’s war dea: was paid today. Citizens of Bismarck paused i company with millions of other cit zens all over the land to reverence the memory of these wh gave their lives in defense of the nu solemn! j tion, Many homes. and business place were decorated with American flag Early today the flag in Norther | Pacific park was placed at half-staf , jand at noon was raised to full staf With Company A furnishing a ii jing squad, American Legion me? ladies of patriotic organizations ar | soldiers of Civil, Spanish-Amer jand World Wars, visited the city cemeteries and laid flowers upon tl graves of the soldier dead. Flowers were strewn on the Mis ouri river in honor of the sail: dead. ARADE THROUGH STREE The Memorial Day parade form in Second street and the processic moved through the down town se: ition, ending at the Auditorium whe: patriotic exercises were held. Capt. H. 'T. Murphy, magshall « the day, had in line sevzrak people on foot and in automobile: with thg Elks, St. Mary's an ’ y bands heading sectionss< tion Ari , the parade, Company A, North Dakota Nation Guard, the Quarterm ment, American Legion, American War veterans, G. A. R. ‘autos, W. R. C., War Mothers Legion Auxiliary, formed the firs! section led by the Elks band. The second section, headed t ‘Mary's band, included the Red Cro | Nurses, secret organizations and s« peut, and Poy Scouts. The Ameri can Legion today offered a flag t {the Boy Scout troop making the bes | appearance. The third section was headed b: | the Salvation Army, and included thi ‘Indian school girls, floats and autos Spanis! Memorial Pageant preceded ar | address by Judge A. M. Christiansor \of the supreme court in the Auditor- ium. The Memorial. Pagearg, ine directed by G. H, Russ, is Bis marck's unique annual tribute. I | opened with mourning for those lost. jand concluded with # patriotic e emble. The pageant cast includ Mrs. Obert A. Olson, H. F. O‘Ha in leading speaking parts; | Gwendolyn Jones, Clarice Bel -| Cayou and Mable Campbell singing ies 3 nal” by Mrs. Hi heffer, and with Miss Sigf | Altson representing the Goddess | Liberty in the fi tableau. Vii |erans of the Civil, Spanish-Americ {and World Wars assisted. The Donald orchestra ‘furnished mut with Mrs. Arthur Bauer as accc panist for’ Mrs. Schefer. written Address Given Judge Christianson was introduce hy Ferrid Cordner, commander the Lloyd Spetz Post, American i gion, and paid a glowing tribute + those who in the past gave th; lives in the isnation’s defense. \i Cordner, for the Legion, at the c clusion of the exercises, announ: that the American Legion was ri ing an endowment fund with wh to keep graves of American soldi in France decofated each Memoiix Day. The minimum amount set $100,000. Half has been raised. was announced that Bismarck ci zens would be given opportunity contribute to the fund, but that ro solicitation was desired for suci: fund. A box was placed at the dow: where persons were permitted ¢ give whatever they desired to | added to the graves endowment fun POCOHONTAS'S GRAVE OPENED No Body Found in English Burial Plaee Gravesend, England, May 30.—The graye in St. George's church yard here in which: tradition says the In- dian princess. Pocohontas was buried was opened today on instructions from the Home Office, with the ‘ob-. ject of discovering if any remains were actually there but it is stated ‘that. none. were found. The search will be continued, Sey Pocohontas died: at Gravesend in 1615 after-marriage to John Rolfe, one of the early settlers at James- town. A movement has been on fc for some years to recover her body, . | and return it to Visgine