The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 3, 1924, Page 1

| MANY DIE IN P | 4 Ss r} 4 4 i) 1 ry es * by ' WEATHER FORECAST | Fair tonight and probably Fri- day, Continued cold. TABLISHED 1873 LOCAL BANKS RECORD GAINS DURING YEAR Bismarck People Thrifty, In- dicated by Statements of City’s Institutions DEPOSITS INCREASE! Total $247,113.70 Over Last Year For All Banks, State and National Deposits in Bismarck banks, not including the Bank of North Dakota, show an increase in the past year of, $247,118.70, accoyding to a compari- son of the statements of the banks us of December 29, 1 and at cloge of business Dee. 31, The state- ments of the local » under the regular ank call for this time of year, are published in The Tribune today. Total deposits are shown to be 59, or more than $471 for ident of the city Bismarck citizens appear to be a thrifty lot, according to the bank statements, since the time deposit: which usually include saving: counts, ‘all show increases over period of a year ago. The situation shown in the state- ménts of the local banks is above the average for the state, since votal bank deposits in the state declined somewhat in the last year because of agricultural conditions, The state- ments are held indicative of the im proved situation of the Bismarck territory over many sections of the state. The capital stock of the five banks totals $250,000.. The combined gur- plus is shown in the statements’ to be $281,000, all’ banks reporting a surplus. Undivided profits on/ Dec. 31 totalled 296.17, all banks re- porting undivided profit: The total footings of all the banks, as shown in the statements, are $5,- the nnual election of officers in nks will be held during the month of January, the law prescrib- ing the date-of aunual meeting of national banks. if any changes are expected in locah ban! AUTO OWNERS LIKE NO. 18 Not so Well as Number One, However—New Licenses Out Automobile owners of North Dako- ta are not superstitous—-and a lot of them are not afraid of someone reading their license numbe: No. 13 of the 1924 licenses has been issued by J. P. Tucker; motor vehicle registrar, but there are two applications in for it. There were 250 applications for’ No. 1, which is very easily read by speed cops, and it went to W. H. Wilson of Devils Luke. ; The 1924 licenses are now being Twenty-four sacks of mail confaining application blanks, rate books, copies of the. law, ete. went st night to banks, sheniffs, county auditors and others so that motor vehicle owners will within a few days have no excuse for not hav- ing an auto license, according to Mr. Tucker. The 1923 ‘figures in the registra- tion office are: total number cars and trucks registered, 109,244; 105,- 957 of them passenger cars; 645 mo- torcycles, receipts $760,444.45. TORNADO HITS SOUTHERN CITY Meridian, Miss., Jan, 3—A tornado strnck Causeyville, four miles south of Meridian, shortly after midnight injuring several persons and ‘doing heavy property damage. Numerous families are homeless. COLD WEATHER HALTS WORK ON CITY ICE RINK Extreme cold weather has inter- rupted work on the water pipe line from Main street to the municipal skating rink site in the baseball park. Howevér, it is expected that the \connection can he finished to- morrow, according to L. S. Craswell, chairman of the committee. If this is accomplished the rink will be -flooded Saturday. The warming house moved to the park has been equipped with a stove and ‘electric lights and the rink will be ‘electrically lighted. ‘ The rink near the William Moore school is in use and is proving popu- lar. ‘The rink at St. Mary’s was to be flooded today. CONFIRM SALE. ' ~ Wilmington, Del., Jan. 3.—Sale of seized German dye and chemical patents to chemical’ foundation in- corporated by alien property cus- todian was sustained today by Judge Morris, federal district court, as } barley, 8,374 bushels oats, 5,274 bus- | hels speltz, 22,159 bushels potatoes, 200 tons alfalfa hay, 100 tons millet hay, 150 tons corn fodder, 850 tons corn silage, 50 tons oat hay, green; 4,000 bushels husked corn on cob, 800 tons mangels. 750 bushels of string beans, 650 gal-| rhubarb were canned. nite has been learned since last week regarding the identity of the bank burglars who robbed the First State bank here the morning of the 19$h of December. Burns detective agency, who was | here last week in the interest of the American Bankers association, stated to the Pioneer that the robbery was clearly the work of professionals, al- though he believed that there had been a “picket” located here two or threé months this fall. tom of the sea two or three times, J according to scientists. Ashes of the old frame building @ woman and a child w > burned the rows cf blackened iron bedstea PO THE BISMARCK TR BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1924 of the Chi to death just after Christmas. ds in the search for re ins of the Investigators » ~WHERE 17 PEOPLE BURNED TO DEATH 0 Hospital for the Insane at Dunning, Ill, in which 15 men, shewn groping among victims, ' MOTIVE FOR SHOOTING COMPANION OF FAMOUS MOVIE _____ STARSIS TATE HAIL FUND LARGE| hail insurance fund is| gne of the largest in the state trea- Surer’s office at this time. The last) balance, Di 27, shows $2,098,000 inj the fund, according to figures at the treasurce’s office. This includes $1,-| 600,000 borrowed to pay hajl war-| rants, Because all warrantwhave not! been issued the fund at this time is! larger than usual, but with addition- al receipts from tax sales, it is ex- pected in the treasurer's office that! there will be a balance in. the fund after paring al! warzants, { The state MUCH RAISED — AT HOSPITAL’. One of Largest Crops in His- tory, Superintendent Reports Jan, 3.—The| , one of the} Jamestown, state insane hos} largest “gardeners” in the state, has} in 1923 produced one of the largest! crops raised in the history of the in-| stitution, according to a report of} Dr. A. W. Guest, superintendent, All of the vegetables used at the! institution afe raised, and a surplus} will begsold. A corn shredder pur- chased for the institution, the first! in Stutsman county, was used liberal- ly this fall, 150 tqns of ensilage be- ing produced. Foremen and gardeners are em- ployed by the institutions, but in- mates also heiped in the production of the vegetables. The production as listed by institution authorities fol- lows: Garden products—60,000 head of} cabbage, 3,000 head cauliflower, 5,000 | dozen celery, 2,500 ‘eushels beets,| 60,000 bushels navy beans, 1,800 bus- hels carrots, 800 bushels cucumbers, 50 bushels dill pickles, 800 bushels lettuce, 850 bushels green peas, 20 bushels husk tomatoes, 300 bushels musk melons, 50 bushels parsley, 30 bushels peppers, 150 bushels plums and 75 bushels apples from orchard, 2,000 bushels onions, 400 bushels} radishes, 800 bushels rutabaga, 200} bushels salsiby, 400 bushels spinach, 900 bushels string beans, 1,000 bus-| ROunced today that it is possible hels sweet corn, 800 bushels Swiss chard beets, 900 bushels tomatoes, 600 bushels tirnips, 150, bushels as- Pparagus, 90 tons rhubarb, 20 tons pumpkins, 357 tons squash, 1,500 pounds tobacco leaf, 150 gallons cur- rants, 100 gallons strawberries. Products of farm—6, 7-8 bushels) cut In addition 100 gallons of corn, lons tomatoes, and 800 gallons of WORK OF PROFESSIONALS, | Ft. Yates, Jan. 3.—Nothing deh A detective from the The Alps have been at the ‘bot- | P.)-—What drove ) New Year's night*in-the presence of DEBATED BY | Police Now Declare That Jeal-| ousy of Mabel Normand! Prompted Shooting, While Chauffeur Reiterates Orig: inal Story—Dines Will Re- cover Los Angeles, Jan, 3.—(By the A. Mabel Normand’s chauffeur to shoot Courtland. S. Dines, Denver oil operator and club- man, in the Dines apartment here Miss Normand and another «motion picture: aétress, Edna Purviance, to- day was a matter on which those most intimately concerned, seemed utterly unable to agree. Horace A. Greer, the chauffeur, so known as Joe Kelley, still in- ted he put a bullet through Dines’ lung’ in ‘self-defense. The police were equally positive that infatua- tion for Miss Normand coupled with an ambition to be her hero and pro- tector led Greer to shoot when balk- ed in his efforts to “rescue” the actress from Dines. Miss Normand, ignoring her chaut feur's self-defense plea, ridiculed the police infatuation story,with “Impos- sible, the man must have been in sane Dines, lying on a cot in the Good Samaritan said he didn’t know “why. that fool ever shot me,” but in the | same breath declared “he must have been full of hop.” Thinks Him Jealous. The theory advanced by Miss Pur- viance was that Greer was foolish ly jealous enough to have shot any} man he might have found in the apartment that night with, Miss Nor- mand. Meanwhile Greer remained in jan on a charge of assault with a dead: ly weapon; Dines was Said to be re- | covering, Miss “Norn i same ‘hospital suff her physicians termed a “nervous | breakdown brought on by worry and | excitemgnt,’-and Miss Purviance was resting at home after announcing that reports of her engagement to Dines were entirely unfounded. | al: i | } nl i - | May Star Another. Charley Chaplin, who starred Miss Purviance recently in a picture of his direction and who, was reported to have decided to use her as fem- inine lead in his next comedy, an- someone else may take the role but denied that the publicity arising from the Dines shooting would in- fluence his choice. Officials of the | Sennett studio with which Miss Nor- mand has been working under one- picture agreements declined to say whether her cofinection with the (Continued on Page 6) PRINCIPALS IN THE AFFAIR SATISFIED WITH MILL Governor R. A. Ne with the board of managers of the tate mill and C, E. Austin, general manager, jn and Forks during a recent trip, today expressed himself us satisfied with the progress be- ing made in the mill. During the fall months, at times the mill earn- ed enough to pay running expenses, interest on bonds and depreciation, aid, while in some months the r fell slightly below this figure. The experience of the last few months, on the whole, has beet fairly satisfactory, he suid. MERCHANTS MEET HER {State Association Comes To} turning a six to six disagreement Bismarck in May ’ North Dakota merchants will gath- er for the annual convention of the North Dakota Retail Merchants as» sociation at Bismarck May 27, 28 and 29, it is announced in New Year's messages sent to all members by Pres. Fred Mann of Devils Lake, and W. A. Donnelly of Fargo, secretary. While details of the program are not yet available, one of the princi- pal speakers will be Gov. R. A. Nestos, Mr. Donnelly announced. Both Mr. Mann and Mr. Donnelly urgd North Dakota merchants to get on a cash basis, if possible and if that is not possible to at least make limited credit terms. 3 CHILDREN. _ IN FAMILY DIE WITHIN WEEK Valley City, N. D., Jan. 3.—The holiday season brought no joy to the home, of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Cooney here, who have lost three children in the last week from scar- let fever ,and the mother is now very ill. The dead are Patrick, 7, who died Christmas eve; Terence, 8, who died Thursday, and John, 6, who suceumtbed Friday night? The Cooney family came ‘recently from Ireland and settled at Eckelson. Barnes county. Three weeks ago they moved here because of the su- perior educational advantages for their children. Between Samoa and New Zea- jand runs a submarine mountain range 1500 miles long. . EFFORT WILL BE MADE TO TAKE _ HARRY K. THAW FROM INSANE ASYLUM | New York, Jan. 3.—Bartholomew B. Coyne, a New York lawyer, who for a number of years ‘has repre- sented Harry K. Thaw today con- firmed ‘reports that his client, the slayer of Stanford White, now in a Philadelphia asylum would soon seek his freedom. Mr. Coyne’s announcement follows printed reports frqm Philadelphia that if he succeeded in having him- self declared sane that he would surrender to, the New York authori- ties to face charges of having ‘whip- ped Frederick Gump Jr., son of a Kansas City manufacturer, in a New York hotel in 1917. The Coyne state- ment also followed denials of Phila- delphia attorneys representing the Thaw family that any efforts would be made to have Thaw declared sane in the Pennsylvania courts. o MAY DROP CHARGE New York, Jan. 3.—Coxfirmation of reports that Harry Thaw will seek release from a Pennsylvania asylum to face charges of whipping Frederick GMmp Jr.-of Kansas City in a New York hotel in 1917 today was followed by announcement that Gump would agree to settle a $650,- 000 civil suit against Thaw out of court and indications that he would let the criminal charge lapse. MOTHER NOT AIDING Philadelphia, Jan, 3.—Former Judge James Gay Gordon, counsel for Mrs. Mary K. Coplay-Thaw, mother of Harry K. Thaw, indicated today that any attempt to have Thaw released from the Pennsylvania hos- pital for mental and nervous dis- eases would) be opposed. os, who met CAR DITCHED, MAN WANDERS, FOUND FROZEN Frank Klenny, Blacksmith at Melville, First Victim of Freezing This Winter BECOMES EXHAUSTED Had Taken Neighbor to Home and Lost Way on His Re- turn, He Asserts Jamestown, : Klenny, a blacksmith for some years at Melville, was frozen to death New Year's night» when he became exhausted ufter the Ford car which he was driving went into the ditch some six miles south of Mel- ville, He wandered into a field, fell upon his face and was frozen. He had taken a neighbor, Melvin Bohn, to his home four ‘miles south of Melville, leaving there at about 6:30 in the evening and indications are that he became confused and ittstead of going north went south and east of where Bohn lived. His body was found New Year's Day a few hundred i feet from the car which was in # ditch near a culvert. Tracks around the car showed that Klenny had at- tempted, to’ crank the car, The coroner and county sheriff were called, the body being found in S. Stutsman county. They decided death was ‘due to exhaustion and freezing. Klenny leav. wife and MURDER TRIAL DATE IS SET Joe Swift to be Tried at Het- tinger, Beginning Feb- ruary 18 Judge H. L. Berry in the sixth ju- dicial court today at Mandan iysued an order setting February 18 as the date for trial in the case of the state against Joe Swift, who charged with the murder of Howard Smith ut Selfridge in 1921. The case will be tried at Hettinger, Adams county, on a charge of venue fiom Bowman county where Swift pre- viously had been tried, the jury re- vote. ’ Judge Berry also, issued an order postponing the opening of the ¢ den Valley term of court at Bes from January.21 to January 28, This term will be the first held in the new Golden Valley court house and the most important case will be the arraignment of J. W. Holmes, farm- er, arrested ‘two weeks ago * on charges of homicide and incest in connection with the murder of tour infants alleged born to his daugh- te CONGRESS AGAIN MEETS Goes Into Session After Holi- day Recess Washington, jan. 3.—With the two weeks holiday recess over, Con- gress went back to work today with indications pointing to a busy five months before adjournment for the national conventions. BACK AT WORK. Washington, Jan. 8.—Senator La Follette, Republican of Wisconsin, who has been sick for several weeks, returned today to the senate. He said he was “pretty well” and show- ed no marked evidences of his ill- ness. Because he has been absent since the new Congress convened Senator LaFollette did not take his oath of office until today. ( YOUTH FROZEN IBUNE SINGS WHILE FACING DEATH, AIDS FELLOWS Peoria, IM, Jan, 3.—(By the A. P.) Trapped on the third floor ot a building of the Corn Products Co., Frank Lichtweiss, 26, of Peoria, sang to his fellow workers for nearly an hour to calm them and when the last retreat was cut off jumped trom the window. The young man has a voice of un- usual quality and some ofghis com- panions went to their death with the strains of the song in their memory. He did not jump until all the men who were able to leave the floor had done so. He was severely burned and with injuries to hig eyes is in a hospital here. : MISSIONARIES IN HOSPITAL, REPORT TOU. s. Mr. and Mrs. Bernhardt Hoff, Northwest Missionaries, Are Being Cared For MR KILEN-HELD Hankow, China, Jan. 3.—(By the Associated _Press)—Professor and Mrs. Bernhardt Hoff, missionaries of the Swedish branch of the Lutheran church in the United States, who were wounded recently when bandits raided the town of Tsao Yang in the northern. Hupa province, are in hospital at Siangyang Fu, near Tsao Yang, according to official advices to Chinese government officials here. No word has been recived con- cerning Mrs. Julia Kilen, 50, of Northfield, Minn., their co-workers, who was kidnaped by the bandits. NAMED HEAD OF CO. BOARD - FOR 46TH TIME}: Edward G. Patterson Is Re- elected Chairman of Board of County Commissioners Edward G, Patterson, proprietor of the McKenzie hotel, hus been re- elected chairman of the Burleigh county board of commissioners for the ensuing year. Mr. Patterson has served as chairman of the board longer than any other county officer in a similar capacity. The recotds show he was named chairman of the board on January 7, 1919, after having served as chair- mun pro tem some time previously, and continued to serve as chairman until 1918. He was again named chairman in 1919 and has been chair- man since. He was elected chair- man for 16 years, The commissioners, who are in Dr. C. E. Others Believed Trapped Men in Freight Cars on Been Killed by Explosion Pekin, Ill, Jan. 3.— The terrific dust explosion at the recovered. REQUISITION IS ISSUED The Governor of Minnesota been asked by Governor Nestos to honor a requisition for the return to Dunn county of C. R. Reisberg, alias Robert Blythe and Robert Lowe, charged with forgery. The requisi- tion was issued for L. C. Ross, offi- cer of Dunn count FIRE DRIVES 8 INTO COLD Overheated Furnace Pipes Probably Cause of Fire at Oscar Wold Home ly dan Third street. The house was filled with smoke and flames were crackling when the occupants of the house rouse‘l and scurried to safet; The fire, originating ment of the house, n the ‘base- bungalow, a followed the course of the chimney into the attic. kitchen, bath room and the badly damaged. The dining room, room and one bed lower floor were the loss would be made ‘by Mr. Wold. The house is owned iby R. B. Steveng of Minnewaukan. The household goods of M were not badly dar insured. ‘Water was thrown in the bas ment ‘but only chemicals used above the fir: floor. Mr. expressed app done by firemen. ed were not session today, reappoin Stackhouse county physician, Dr. F. R. Smyth superintendent of the board of health, and Dr, Smyth and F. H. Register again members cf the insanity board. VICTORY OVER REBELS, CLAIM Mexican Government Says They Have Been Driven Off Pachuca Mexico announced rebe. forces threatening Pachuca, capita: of Hidalgo; northeast of Mexico City, had been defeated. Vera Cruz revolutionary headquar- ters said the advance on Pucbla and Mexico City would pegin today. Mexico City admitted the defeat sev- eral days ago of General Gardenas’ federal cavalry leader: before Guad- alajara. Obregonists claim the fed- erals defeated General Sigurcoas, operating south dnd west of Mexico AT HIS HOME Emil Oster, said to be about 15 years old, is in the Bismarck hos- pital here with a badly frozen face and fect. He was brought here from Stanton, : Oster is said to have returned tv his home a few miles from Stanton from a New Year’s day affair and was found near the barn after lying there for three hours. is team was still standing, unhitched. HELD ON BOND. Valley City, Jan. 3.—E.°G. Mor- ton, arrested here onthe evening of Friday, December 27, is at liberty under a $500 cash bond. Morton was given a preliminary hearing before Judge Zabel on a charge of trans- porting liquor. Fifty gallons of al- cohol alleged to have been the prop- jerty of Morton, were seized at the Northern Pacific depot by police on the evening of December 27. ‘he was struck by an automobile driv- City and that there are many de- sertions from: Figueroas’ forces. Trade unionists as well as agrari- an workmen continue to join federal @lors, Mexico City says. KILLED BY AUTO. Grand Forks, Jan. 3.—L. 0. Ferch, 40 North Fourth street, was instantly killed Monday night when en by Willis Pierce, 415 North Third COLD WAVE JS UNABATED Entire Northern Half of! Country in Grip of Winter ; has | BARLY TODAY ———— Fire probably starting from oyerheated furnace pipes drove . Oscar Wold and Miss | 's Kappes into the cold at 2:30 o'clock this.morning and bad- gad the Wold house at 411 | No estimate of | Wold which | Wold | ation of the work | FINAL EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS ANT EXPLOSION POWDER HOUSE OF BIG ILLINOIS STARCH PLANT BLOWS UP; FIRE FOLLOWS, MANY WORKERS KILLED Several Bodies Removed From the Ruins While Blazing Starch Factory Building Prevents Rescuers From Seeking in the Burning Ruins — Five Siding Are Thought to Have DEATH LIST MAY EXCEED 40 list of dead or missing in the Corn Products Refining Com- pany plant is mounting and perhaps may pass the number ‘of 40, it was said this afternoon. | Pekin, Ill., Jan. 8—(By the A. P.)—Between 20 and 35 persons were killed and 100 injured, according to estimates, in an explosion and fire in the starch building in the Pekin plant of the Corn Products Refining company, early today. At 10 a. m. seven bodies, six of them identified, had been At that hour two buildings of the big plant were in ruins, building No 38, the starch powder house, where ithe blast occurred being reduced te ]a smouldering pile of debris an: ‘building No. 27, the starch house still blazing, its walls standing but |iving off heat so intense that no jefforts could be made to search for | bodies Although ordinarily 260 men were employed in the starch house, ac- cording to Frank Veldy, manager, j only 72 men were in the starch pow- der house where the explosion oc curred, according to the best infor- ;mation he had. He and Supt. Law- |son refrained from offering any es- timates of the dead and injured*un til they could obtain more definite information. When the blast occurred relatives and friends of the employed rushed | from their homes in Pekin, two miles !away and rushed to the plant. Be- | tween 200 and 300 persons gathered joutside the walls of the plant, for- | bidden to enter while the rescue |work went on. Heroic measures j were adopted by fellow employes in ating the injured and the Salvation Army and Red Cross workers boitr from Pekin and Peoria, 11 miles dis- tant, gave first aid to the injured | before they were removed to Peoria hospitals. Corn oil manufactured in the plant 3 used as an ointment to aid the injured. The oil was rubbed onthe burns and was said to have assuaged their pain to some extent Fire gompanies from both Peoria and Pekin responded to the calls for aid. The fire quickly followed the ex* | plosion and the distance and severe cold handicapped the fire fighters and aid workers. Water froze on the ruins and gave an icy mantle to the blackened walls of the starch house and debris of the starch powder house. Five men working in five box cars about 30 feet from building No. 33 | were missing and believed to have been killed as thé cars were destroy- ed by the explosion, Building No, 9, known as the cable house, also was partly wrecked by he concussion which shattered all | windows, leaving only the steel skel- etons of the window frames, Many Trapped Many of the tims believed te have lost their lives were said to have been trapped in the basement of the starch powder house, The heat was so intense that except for those who staggered out or were help- ed out by others there was little chance to rescue those caught in the starch powder house which burst into flames and which set afire the nearby starch house, building No, 27. A score or more of those taken to 25 26 The cold wave continues to grip a wide area from the Mississippi Val- ley to the western slope of the} Rocky Mountai which sent tem- peratures in Canada down to 30 he- low and sent the mercury in M souri to near the zero mark. There is no indication of a let-up in the weather in the next 24 hours, the weather report shows, Today's weather report follows: For twenty-four hours ending at noon today, Temperature at 7 a, m - 18 Highest yesterday . : Lowest yesterday . 2 last night . 19 itation é 2 aD: Highest. wind velocity . “78 WEATHER FORECAST | For Bismarck and vicinity: Fair tonight and probably Friday. Con- tinued cold. For North Dakota: Fair tonight and probably Friday. Continued cold. WEATHER CONDITIONS Precipitation occurred at most places west of the Rockies and in the Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes region, while fair weather prevails over the Plains States, The pressure is high and temperatures are low from the Mississippi Valley to the western slope ef the Rockies. street. The accident occurred on North Third street in front of the Northern Pacifie depot: Mr. Ferch and William Lowe of East Grand Forks had just left the curling rink. Ferch stepped off the sidewalk on to the strect, not seeing the car approaching ftom the south. Mr. Pierce used his horn but as Mr. Ferch was deaf he did not hear, it was reported. Mr. Lowe heard the car \approach and stepped back to the curb but Mr. Ferch was struck by the bumper of the machine. Orris W. Roberts, Meteorologist. BANK CALL IS ISSUED Washington, Jan. troller of the currency today issued @ call for the condition of all na- tional banks at the close of business on Dec. 31. , \ A similar call was issyed for state banks today by the state examiner. 3.—The com- |" hospitals are reported to have been so severely burned that they are ex- pected to die, The disaster, the first to over- take the big plant which covers 10 acres or more, is believed to have {been caused by a dust explosion. N | definite means of ascertaining t | cause was available but the dust ex plosion theory was generally held TABERT FUND SUBSCRIBERS BEING REPAID .Langdon, N. D., Jan, 3.—Checks | to repay all subscribers to the fund raised to prosecute Walter Higgin- ‘botham, convicted of murder in fa- tally flogging Martin Tabert of Munich, N. D. hile he was in a southern penal camp, are being written ‘by Fred Thompson, treas- urer of Cavalier county. They are being sent out as fast as possible. The money to repay subscribers. was received some time ago, (but there were no banking facilities in ‘Langdon then, and the ‘process of repayment was delayed. The First National bank of Lang- don, which recently reopened vol- unteered assistance in the repay- ment task and furnished @ special check for use in making the reim- ‘bursements. NOT WORRIED A Del Ray, Fla., Jan, 3.—Asserting| ‘through her secretary that “her at- torney would take care of the mat- ter, “Mra. Nina Wilcox Putnam San- derson at her home here today re-; fused to discuss the probable annul- ment of: her divorce granted by - Providence court, ‘