The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 25, 1924, Page 1

WEATHER FORECAST Fair to-night and Tuesday. Some- whit warmer Tuesday, ESTABLISHED 1873 OPEN DEFENSE _ OF PROPOSED LIGNITE BOOST Itiilroads, in Hearing Here, Attempt to Show Level Is Too Low PROBER POMERENE DOES NOT GRANDSTAND, SMILE OR PLAY BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1924 . IN SPOTLIGHT OF POLITICS First State-Wide Primary on Presidential Election to be Held Here Mar. 18 IN RUHR HELD 0.” BY DAVIS American Says Commission Would Not be at Work Were it Not For That CABINET CANCELLED STORAGE P NORTH DAKOTA |FRENCH POLICY |COOLIDGE AND FAMILY OCCUPY WASHINGTON’S PEW IN CHURCH Washington, Feb, 25—President Coolidge closed a wee devoted largely the country over to apm- memoration of the birth of Wash- ington by going to the nearby city of Alexandria, Va., Sunday to at- tend the regular morning services in Christ church, where the first pr dent for many years was a vestryman, The chief executive was panied by Mrs. Coolidge, hi the double box pew in which Wash- ington worshipped during his years at Mount Vernon, The sermon heard by the Presi- dent contained a_ veiled prence to fhe oil lease disclosures, Speak- ing upon “The Parable the of Sower,” the rector of Christ church, the Rev. William he could not share ome that the natic me diseased. Morton said the views of al life had be- PRICE FIVE CEN LAN WITNESS SAYS FALL TOLD OF - THIS ACTION Attorney-General Daugherty Raised no Objection, Wit- ness Quotes Fall DOUBLE HEARING HELD MELD VERY IMEORTANE /FOINCARE'S STATEMENT |irtive Walton. Moots, wicse. cia | high government places has not af- | OTT, QUIZ IS CONTINUED ‘ Bas ny waaay 2 = trict includes Alexand: and Migs | fected the soundness of our govern- Virginia des of} ment.” he added. “The heart. of . ——— N. D. Railroad Commissioners and Interstate Commerce Examiner Hear Case ives of railroads, open- use here today in whicn This Vote, Together with South Dakota’s a Week Later, to Show Trend |, North Dakota soon will take her accustomed place in the glare of Premier Defending Ruhr Oc- cupation, Refers to Expert, Shown to be Dawes "Certainly Brigad Paris, Feb. it,” declares Burke, a ndant both the Washington and Jeffer- son families. ‘The visit was made the invitation of Representa- Moore. | Presidential party occupied tiv 1 GOVERNOR IN H the union is sound and despite dis- closures and reports let us remem- ber'that very few of those in our government or private life have been parties to wrongful acts.” FIRPO KNOCKS Bank Accounts of Washing- ton Publisher Subject to Examination Washington, Feb. 25, (By R a the nation’s political spotlight. Charles G. Dawes, Amerjean mem- m the A. P.)—s ome. definite Muney seek to justify “propored in- Fir a Rea ae ee ber of the first committee of experts HOSPITAL HERE pronouncement from admin- cre in freightrates on lignite 7 ea el which been investigating — into nf ra istration quarters regarding tial primary on March “18 is the s ; ; FOR FEW DAYS : H jon's \« aetitua coal claim .d by operators to average first in which there will be any a financial and economic | the administration's i el 51 percent, sought to show that the real indication of the popular trend Ha. to the Associated Press i des 7 ! 3 Ly Ae conor then eee present level of lignite rates is an for president, in the opinion. of| !#3t night. ‘ Governor R. A. Nestos entered | cabteinietceas nee inheritance of emergency conditions political experts of the nation. T repeat it: nch were} a local hospital t morning on isembled to consider th caused by the World War. Already eyes of Washington are{ "®t in the Ruhr s would) advice of physicians, to remain A : ; Kahala ae Through J. G. Morrison, assistant turning toward North Dakota, not be here. probably for several days. A. se- 5 liry of Mr. Daugherty’s ad- general freight agent of the North- Following the North Dakota pri General Dawes hadi been asked fe e cold, which threatened: to set 5 ministration of the Department ern Pacifie Railroad, St. Paul, first ‘ollowing ey Na ae k a by the correspondent if he was the tle on, the Govern caused | @ . tighter Wins of Justice, witness for the carriers, the North mary on March 18 is that in South | expert to whom Premier Poineare re. physicians to adv orous hos-| South American Fighter Wins President Coolidge was re- Dakota railroad commissioners and W. H. Wagner, examiner: for the Inter-state Commerce Commission. Dakota on March 25. These two together are expected by political wisacres to give an accurate index ferred in addressing the chamber of deputies Saturday when the premier said that one of the experts recently .pital treatment to avoid complica- tions. Over American Heavy- weight presented by those in his con- fidence as without a definite decision regarding the demand : joi i to the feeling in the Northwest) told a French colleague, “we should 7 for the Attorney-General’s bd ° cas , were i A Mk a , the genes ue srelionae low level toward President ‘Coolidge. have been unable to reach our pres- POLICE H LD Se i ieee resignation. i { lignite rates was ordered by the In North Dakota the names of] ent results were you not in the i D COMES I FIFTH _ An adjustment of the situa- United States railroad commission Cootidge, Johnson and LaFollette} Ruhr.” tion without great delay, how- in 1918 to avert a fuel shortage in robably will appear on the bal- Made Statement Year Ago ever, was said to be believed the Northwest by increasing lignite production. The hearing opened here as a con- tinuation: of the hearing conducted by Examiner Wagner at Aberdeen, South Dakota, last week. D.F. Lyons, encral solicitor for the Northern cific railroad, in charge of the for the petitioners, omitted an ng statement of the carriers’ position and proceeded with the in- jon of testimony. He ‘was by a battery of railroad and experts. trpdu isted ATLEE POMERENE lot. In South Dakota only the names of Coolidge and Johnson will go on the Republican ballot, it is understood. Arthur Sears Henning, political writer for the Chicago Tribune, says of the importance of the vote in North and South Dakota: “These states are in the heart of the wheat country, in which there has been much economic distress and asresultant (disaffection in the republican party. According to all the rules of the game, Johnson said it as early as February, General Dawes replied. “I re- dit to my colleagues on the committee, and I am telling it to you now because I believe it.” M. Poineare’s reference in parlia- ment to the foreign expert's opinion was given great prominence in the French newspapers yesterday, which printed it in heavy type on their front pages. The Matin attributed the remark to Reginald McKenna, head of the second committee of ex- perts, who was quoted by the news- JEALOUSY WAS MURDER CAUSE Ruth Downing, Intimate of Murdered Couples, Talks To Police Man Who Failed Before Demp- sey Is Cheered by Fellow Citizens Buenos Aires, Feb, 25—Louis Ange] Firpo was still the heav: weight champion of South Ameri- a today, having disposed of ‘armer” Lodge, American heavy- weight, by a knockout last night in the fifth round of their ‘bout at the River Platé football field. by the president to be possible. Washington, Feb. 25—The news bureau or the Republican national committee was charg- ed in the senate today by Sen- ator Walsh, Democrat, Mon- tana, with “a deliberate and malicious misrepresentation of the facts in the statement which it issued yesterday that the naval oil leases were under an act sponsored by him.” Stanley donee ivehioticounsealton should be more popular’ than the [Pers as having declared to a French] Chicago, Feb Police inve Thirty-three thousand fans] Washington, Feb. 25—Director the North Dakota Lignite Coal Oper-| By NEA Service stranger to recreation in any} president in Gece betta Ordin- | Senator in the course of a private] gation of the mysterious slaying Fri need their ado} ye nee carried Bain of the Bureau of Mines told Association, Raymond Dillman,! “Washington, .D. C.! Feb, 25.—| form. t arily,.a New England conservative, | dinner, previous to the Ruhr oc-|day of John Duffy and his wife is} to his corne i “ii at ike pods the oil committee today that Sec- nt attorney-general of South| Atlee Pomerene, named ° Teapot During his 12 years as United | ike the president, would have little | C"pation the German people werej centering on a jealousy theory as a nyats eo ic Aes! ie Ny ie pody | retary Fall informed him the plan ; Ross Miller, engineer for! Dome prosecutor by | President} States senator, Pomerene was sel-| chance in th territory compared willing to pay, but the industrials} result of disclosurés said to have ies aay the a Bethe to build storage tanks at Pearl SOuerisDalatamooguntaa’ ont eats Coolidee, ‘has never found time for dom in the public eye, yet few/with a “progressive” rival like? used, the occupation of the Ruhr|been made by Ruby Downing of| Uodge took the aggressive at the Harbor in return for royalty oil George Shafer and nt, John Thorpe, of Nerth E, Peterson, traffic mana- ser for the Fargo Commercial Club, J. dV. Goodman, traffic manager sti for the protestants. tive of northwestern dock anything but work. e looks out on: life serious spectacles. His entire pub- lic career’ has’ been characterized by ceaseless labor and application IMMIGRATION through | Democratic senators were more in- fluential’ in shaping legislation than the man from Canton, O. The spotlight passed Pomerene byy because he lacked the ability Johnson. “Both candidates recognize the importance of these two primaries the first conducted in the west. The president has been devoting s initiated measures ster threatened by the relief, and h. to avert dis: WILSON WILLS gonvinced the latter of the necessity to pay. It is the result of French policy.” Was Credited to McKenna The semi-official Hexas agency, that Mr. McKenna w: ot the expert M. Poincare had in mind when mak- Louisville, Kentucky, an intimate of the couple, brought here for ques- tioning. According to the story the Downing woman is,alleged to have told Harold retired oil operator and farmer of Norwalk, Ohio, named Exley at one outset, forcing the Argentinian to the.ropes but after his initial on- slaught the American never had achance. Twice before the knock- out he was sent to the floor by lacked power and he clinched re- peatedly. The referee was obliged was destroyed at a cabinet meet- ing .and that Attorney-General Daugherty “vaised no objection to it.” “After hearing Mr. Bain the com- rth Dakota Mill and Eleva-| to the task, at, hand. He is a total (Continued on page 3) much thought and activity to solu-| however, in an evidently inspired ar-|Levy, asslatant states attorney, the) te flailing right which is Pirzo's | nee adjourned until 10/40 Mn ociation, Grand Forks, entered os tion of the problem of agricultural | ticle yesterday afternoon, asserted] slain woman, daughter of a wealthy | £2 Wee and hein anes | morrow. BAG OF SURPRISES nterests, Wyoming and Montana coal series of bank failures in that sec-|ing his reference in parliament.| time uttended a California institution | 9 US¢ force to pull him out of some 25 TCGEsEEs claciwenenieee net MOSM ORE RUDY E [fic nerdres atestneticits | tne ews apeane odds Gnee tol rie hea ge corns institution |e ihate eiubeates: Atamedberina)/ in canine en) ech 20. st nsacenee The hearing js betng helg in’ the TO HIS WIDOW] have sent his political stock sky-|#20d reason to believe General] Dissatisfied witMfarm life, acconl. eeee eI ace eee ce nuruutsel Het cea hearing United States court room. ward in the Dakotas. Johnson is/Dawes was the expert in question. ying to the story, the girl went to DCCL Te PANIGRE TE eae iatteeie aotdeeitee Tmtent ie Uh cuain ‘ \ LEMME, headed that way for a stumping] “You can confirm that Iam the] Columbus, 0., where she met James | Voteetihectenee pete 4 ee ee care chautealivcenmevsthoton When the hearing opened it | Washington Feb, 25.—The will of tour to show up the administra. |™an,” said General Dawes. “I don't] Zollar, a business promoter, Later | #4 over the heart forced the Am- BEDE AD pphe serallsok th eke1 00) indecided as to what scope and ent it would embrace. Because BY DEMOCRATS Woodrow Wilson, filed for probate leaves the estate to his wi- tion and tell the farmers what he would do for them, know whether Mr. McKenna said it; but, as far as I am concerned, I did, isville, she left him and went to Lou c ‘Ss mak- Ky., where she received le! ertcan about the ring. Once miss- ing a t fic swing Firpo went to loan made to A. B. Fall by Edward B. McLean, publisher of the Wash- uniner Wagner’ must: leave Wedn dow, Mrs, Bolling Wilson, with the] Watehjng for Political Straws [and I stand pat on it : ing threats from Zollar, Migs Down- ences bat yy pesupany eae ngben e Seite ane ~Aday aidan’, Shokane ausiianeunenta( a exception that his daughter, Mar-| If’ Mr. Coolidge wing the Da-| Asked what he meant by his state-| ing said. Duffy and Orlando Hortons| he wilell “eank deem into lithate Me aM reer a eens vhether the cxaminer and the North yet Wilson, shall recoive an annual kotas it will look'ss of 4 re all |the Ruhr occupation had made the] who is being sought in connection| "ht , which sank deeply into | that Mr. McLean's checking balance Yakota Raflroad Commission, will Eitome of $8,500. pene las eanortes aoe ht Himenawuneys nie vill | Germans realize that they must pay} with the slaying, visited ‘Low Lodge's body, doubling him up likey in neither of the banks was more akota aflroa $ A 5 i income o! as B as she re-lover but the shouting for there will | “mans real i sone bP ay SB VARS a a jac ife. The Brican cre 3 ‘7 ; 9 e lear more than the carriers’ side| New ~York Representatives aicainel be strong indiation that the presi-|UP to their capacity, which it ap-|last fall and later Miss Exley came|# Jackknife, The American crump- | than $10,000 in December, 1921. The rf the case. It had been proposed oy Mr. Wagner to continue the case itil March 24 after the present Sign Statement Against Johnson Measure dent could beat Johnson in the progressive west in which John- son is naturally “stronger. With peared they had not intended to do until the Frehch troops entered the Ruhr; also the year’s stay in the to Chicago. She and Duffy were mar- ried in Louisville one week prior to the finding of their bodies. Duffy led to the floor and lay motionless as he was counted out. Firpo weighed 218 pounds and Lodge 231. publisher has informed the commit- tee that he gave Fall checks aggre- gating $10,000 on the two banks dur- ing that period but they were return- ession is concluded, but Chairman the conservative east and the south | Ruhr had brought the French to un-| was found Friday morning with three (see = Aya ariel Milholland of the state commission z aura 3 and the greater part of the west |erstand that occupation itself was] bullet holes in his head, lying in a Saas aungeaned: aid that if the case is not coneluded| Washington, Feb, 25—Twenty- in the convention, Coolidge would|°t producing reparation payments| snow bank near Argo,’ Illinois, a C, Bascom Slemp, secretary to ‘ tow the North Dakota ;commission| one of the 22 Dembdcratic members win ina walk on the Airst ballot.|#"d caused them to recede from the|suburb. His wife’s body, a bullet? President Coolidge, was questioned ‘ vrobably cannot sit in it again until] gf the House from New York state 5 If Johnson carries the Dakotas | ‘tnd taken demanding enormous im-| hole through her head, was fougd 12 ; about a visit he made to Palm Beach n April, Because of this, uncertainty Mr. oined in a statement that they are he will be encouraged to believe that the west will yet rally to him . (Continued on page 3) hours later in the ap rtment hey shared with the Hortons. while McLean and Fall were there last December and January. The Touck, counsel for the operators, said | “unalterably opposed to the rigid- FOR BROTHER 3 Wes oun mn ‘Ty fesreey CASE FILED secretary declared he talked with ‘ that he was not certain just what | ly restrictive Johnson tmmigration iB atta Generally eudeenabie: hits TWO ARRESTED Fall several times, asked him for the i course the ‘ease for the operators bill.’ eee ee, in the convention. All the repub. New Orleans, Fe Orlando ie true peut Hie ig charmee sand ad H would he. The lignite operators and| |The measure, it was. contended, lican. politicians will be watching Horton and Morri Curtis ; Join i ition| Pon recn Peary patina i he representatives of the public] “is particularly objectionable’ be-, Man Shot Down’ on Iron/ii2",Smaries in the Dake ne and their wives, wanted in Chicago in Aviomeys: Jol) inj iRetition Pall replied, he said, that he had H have made elaborate preparations for| cause it discriminates against cer- Ra While Walking | political straws. connection with the murder of John For Advancement on nothing more to tell. the defense of present rates on lig-| tain. nationalities already going to inge. While “With 519 votes necessary to : Duffy and his wife, were arrested I | ipments Shown norte 4 + H are claiming that the president will A eS —— ’ At the oufset of the carriers’ pre-|geligious and national hatreds and | ———— have 866 on the first ballot. Vir-| SayS-He Would Have Got This ie "i { sentation, the commissioners and the| brands forever elements »#lready| Chisholm, Minn., Feb. 25—Knute| Pave Rentuey, are eae Na “Vesta SHOWS N. D. CLAY judtiameys for both sides in th - iner were. informed through an| here f es hurenioe eee Mahne, 22, arrested last night/olina have selected their delegates exican Negotiations PRODUCTS EAST °¢ Governor Nestos’ call for a special H | that coal shipments on the. Northers| “The foreign born. population of ‘shortly after Cosmo Libro, 33, was |and instructed them for Coolidge, Were Successful election on March 18 to submit the Pacific railroad in the coal year|our country and those born here of ‘slain, had made no statement to|Among the delegations claimed for ')_ Grand Forks, Feb. Margaret lied “nonporty election laws ending March 31, 1923 were 490,216 foreign parents,” the statement. the president by his managers are t authorities at noon today. Mean- the following: Los Angeles, Feb. 25.—William K. Cable, assistant professor of Cer- Joined in a petition to the su- ii “ if g = ii i ii e court to adi ce ‘ load ton iend that of gas eee declarer: spormprisg 3 of nee eant while officers throughout the range] “Alabama, 16; Colorado, 15; |G. Me Adon, candidate jor the Dem- ay i at of ‘North coy Goes [fen ih or ') Attorney-General Rules They percent move intrastate (wholly. 5 ese, A 5 % A :. | Ocratic esidential ination, A i bs * | dispos e © forma i between points in North Dakota), 10]at least 25 per cent are recent im- | Country were searching for Henry Fa rae are Ss BOE: declaved. aes Fiat’ ie ibe hon tending the annual meeting of the disnositign oe ae pee. The fonmal Are Entitled To It percent move tg stations in Minne-| migrants, and constitute the young Mahne, 24, Knute’s brother, who is} ida, 10; Def) » 11; American Ceramics society which | T@duest for advancement, in writing, sota and 18 percent to stations in South) Dakota. Because the state railroad commissign has also pre- sented figures to show that approx- mately 85 percent of all lignite coal mined in North Dakota is moved in- trastate, especial importance is at- tached to the intrastate rates, men and women of today’s labor dustrial prosperity. , “We are underhoused, and under- constructed, ahd underdeveloped, and are in some need of those who are willing to do our,work, both skilled and hard ang laborious, but ing classes so necessary to our in- | wanted in connection’ with the 26) Louisiane: oe Move eee: | shooting. _, _{Sachusetts, 39; Michigan, 83; Min- | Authorities believe one, of the] nesota, 27; Mississippi, 12; Mis- ! brothers did the shooting for Libro, | souri, 39; New Ham} shire, 11; New a miner, is alleged to have slashed | Jersey, 31; New Mexico, 9; New both with a knife during 4 drunken |'York, 91; North Carolina, 22; brawl here a, month ago. Libro | Ohio, 51; Pennsylvania, 79; Rhode was arrested on a charge of third|Island, 13; South Carolina, 11; 1 would have received a fee of $1,- 000,000 from the Doheny interests if its negdtiations in the Doheny company’s Mexican affairs had been successful. McAdoo made this statement in a telegram to the New York World in which he asserted that he had not been fully cross-examined at mét at Atlantic City. She is one of the three active women members. Miss Cable made an exhibit of 35 pieces of North Dakota pottery —/ bewls, cooking and table ware, and art pottery. While no prizes were awarded the North Dakota exhibit eastern men were especially gener- was made by Attorney-General George Shafer and F..0. Hellstrom and Joseph Coghlan, attorneys for Roy Frazier, who seeks to obtain the permanent injunction. he appeal was filed late Saturday afternoon. Judge H. L. Berry of the district court upheld the Governor's cal The Democratic party is entitled to a place on the ballot in the elec- tion of March 18, Attorney-General George Shafer said in an opinion given to Secretary of State Thomas Hall. g The Attorney-General found that the law regarding parties named as The jurisdiction of Examiner Wag-|this bill’ would terld to keep Out | degree assault but he was acquié | South Dakota, 18; Tennessee, 27:| his recent appearance ‘before the| ous in their praise of the state's pro- legal, but continued the temp- ¢ i ; Id te ut | Gdn Ee ing the} entitled to the ballot the Republican Ber ie foneined te. tiagstate sates (DS) Clase Pe lowmimrania Hope cults) SAe in caistrlet veeures ot Hibbing |"Tesas, San eane 11; Vermont, 11;| senate ofl investigating committee.| ducts, Miss Cable said. ‘niunetien iehdeds pending the or ya ceste eee ete any other and that of the North Dakota com-|ed for such occupations. \last week and returned to his horhe. | Virginia, 17; West Virginia, 19;|He ‘declared that if a congression- party created by cgsting of five per- Libro was walking toward. home| Wyoming, 9; Alaska, 2; District with his wife and small child at|of Columbia, 2; Hawaii, 2; Phil- :30 P. M. Sunday when the shoot- | ippines, 2, and “It would: not, however, bring! into this country a better class or: @ more assimilable body of immi- | mission to intrastate fates. Elaborating on his statement of fate changes during the war the wit- @l ‘committee would start an in- vestigation of the private business connections of all presidential can-; cent or more of the total vote for its candidate for Governor at the preceding election. ness Morrison said that in the early spring of 1918 the North Dakota lig- nite producers and representatives of carrying lines, the coal situation re- sulted from the effort of the fuel administration to confine consump- tion of coal as much as possible to the:areas of the country in which it was produced, to avoid long railroad hauls. The North Dakota operators and others represented that every en- courtigement should be given the lig- ‘nite industry, he said. The railroads agreed and published a new schediile of rates in July, 1918, “Those rates were not satisfactory to the shippers of lignite and renew- ed pressure was brought to bear on the railroad administration to adjust rates on lignite coal,” Mr. Morrison said. pallroad administration prescribed a \vry low scale of lignite rates . to meet thé alleged emergency. These emergency rates of Noy. 20, 1918, were prescribed both, inter and in- trastate.” ; bats i P to ie They continued, he said, until ad- (Continued on page 3) “On November 20, 1918 the|1 grants. : Country Still Big Enough The statement concluded with this paragraph: “ vei “Our, great country is still big enough, geographically, politically and socially,. to receive ‘these per- sons knocking at our doors, ‘wheth- er brain cr brawn, who answer aur mental, moral’and physical require- ments, and can contribute to our science, our art, our literature, our commerce and our industry.” Attached to the statement were the names of _ representatives Carew, Kindred, Sullivan, Cullen, Mead, Griffin, Cleary; Quayle, O'Connell, Black; Bloom, Lindsay, Celler, Corning, Dickstein, Boylan, O'Connor, Oliver, Prall and’ Wel- ere een ee CONDITION OF BANKS New York,’ Feb. 25.—The actual condition of ‘clearing house’ banks and triist. companies fer the week (five days) shows a deficit -in .re- serve of $5,602,350. This is a decrease of $49,289,100. Porto Rico, 2. TARIFF CASE NBARING END Concluding Hearings Begun in Washington ing occurred. Foyr shots were |fired in quick succession and Libro {fell with a bulletaittreuel ‘his head | and three in his right arm. | -Mrs. Libro told authorities she | saw two men running away from {the scene of the shooting. The description she gave of one tallies with that of Henry Mahne. | X-RAY-CLINIC IS CONDUCTED 4 Glen W. Files and: S, V. Cuthbert ‘of Chicago and M. A. Turnville of} hearings were begun today in the Minneapolis are conducting special | tariff commission investigation into classes in X-Ray technique in the] the cost of production of wheat and | X-Ray department of St. Alexius hos-] wheat products in coffnection’ with pital. . the application for a tariff increase. A number of nurses from differ-]The commission expects shortly to | ent hospitals in Minnesota and North| make a report to President Coolidge Dakota are attending these classes and should increases be decided on which will continue all week. thd by him the new rates. would go into most modern apparatus was found| effect 30. days thereafter, here by the instructors. Anyone in- Representatives of the flour mill- terested in this work ‘are. most cor-}ing interests of the middle west, tes- dially inyited to attend the clinic. "tified today as to their cost, = . , Washington, Feb, 25—Concluding ~ didates he would be glad to sub- mit himself unreservedly to such an jnquiry. He assailed what he termed “a continued effort to make my private law practice a political issue,” and declared: “The matter of my employment in connection with Mexican con- ‘acts by the Doheny companies al- ready has been coyered in my testi- mony before the senate commit- tee. This matter has nothing whatever to do with the naval oil leases junder investigation by. the senate.’ ‘ He added that under his arrange- ment with the Doheny company “if/ my firm had succeeded in getting a satisfactory settlement of the Mex- ican quéstion, Mr. Doheny -compa- nies would have paid an additional fee of $1,000,000. As I stated to the senate committee, my firm re- ceived. a fee of $100,000 but with several hundred million dollars of property at stake our services, had they ‘heen effective, would have teen lightly compensated by the additional fee.” . PIGGLY WICCLY MILLIONAIRE NOW BANKRUPT, SAYS HE’LL COME BACK ee “Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 25.—“Here | goes three ‘million dollars,” said | Clarence Saunders as he signed a yoluntary petition in bankruptcy which was filed late Saturday and he added “I'll have it all back again in a year or twa.” Whether Saunders aeted for ‘him- self or for the Piggly Wiggly Stores, Inc., of which he was pres- ident, when he conducted the, fam- ous “corner” in Piggly Wigdlv stock on the New York Stock ex- change, @arly in 19238, will be de- termjned in court decisions and will have a vital bearing on the settlement to Saunders’ | creditors. In the $3,244,070 total assets listed 1s ‘against $1,976,919 liabilities is an “unliquidated claim” for $1,- 880,560, . which represents the amount for which Saunders is: su- ing the new’ management of Piggly Wiggly Stores, Inc,, of this amount $1,408,000 represents debts largely stock purchased for which Saund- ers claims in his suit he acted as azent of the Piggly Wiggly Stores, ne. f Saunders turns over as assets all of “his worldly goods” as he term- ed it. This includes his twoshomes in Memphi8, ‘one, as yet uncom- pleted, is a pink marble suburban residence which was to cost up- ward of $1,000,000, his household goods, automobiles; life insurance policies—totalling $550,000—and a number of notes signed by friends and payable to Clarence Saunders, the value of which Mr. Saunders places at $0.00 are included in the assets, Of the liabilities there is a total of $652,738 secured by 24,531 Shares of Class A stock Piggly Wiggly Stores, Inc. b; / The Democratic party? although having no candidate for Governor at the last general election, “is entitled to a.separate ballot in the primary for the reason that the foregoing statute specifically names and des- ignates the Democratic party as an existing national party to which the primary laws are applicable,” the Attorney-General held. MANDAN GIRLS ’ ‘TEAM VICTOR ! Three Mandan high school girls defeated three Dickinson boys fr a district high school debate at Man- dan Saturday. The ‘Mandan girls had the affirmative side of a debate on the utility of the proposed Great Lakes-St. Lawrence waterway. The Dickinson team, Lloyd Blume, Howard Eyer and Ray Reichert un- der the coaching of Miss ‘Burgum argued the subject with Lillian Chris- ‘tianson, Marie Blass” ang Mary Brown of the Mandan high school,