The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 18, 1924, Page 1

WEATHER FORECAST Partly cloudy tonight and Wed- nesday. Moderate temperature ESTABLISHED 1873 DEALS IN DOHENY STOCKS BARED PLAN DIVERSIFIED FARMING AID THROUGH NEW CREDIT CORPORATION 18.—(By the A. BONUS BILL IS PASSED BY BY HOUSE _ MAJORITY 8. "SUFFICIENT 70. OVERRIDE VETO! House Adopts Measure With) Paid-up Insurance as Its | Main Feature 54 OTE IS 353 TO Now Goes to the Senate For Action; Vote Comes After 40 Minutes Debate Washington, Mar. 18.—The house today passed the soldiers’ bonus bill. The result indicated there are suf- ficient votes in the to over- | ride a presidential veto. The vote came after 40 minutes debate under rules requiring a two- | thirds majority and barring amend- ments, As sent to the senate the bill pro- vides for paid-up 20-year endowment life insurance policies and cash pay- ments to those veterans not entitled to more than $50 in adjusted com- pensation, The vote was 353 to 54. gin over the necessary vote was 82. SOLONSTOBE ASKED T0 PAY HAIL LOSSES Insurance Department Will Make Proposals to the Next Legislature house The mar- two-thirds | The next legislature will’ be asked to make possible payment of 1923 hail insurance claims at 100 cents on the dollar, it is explained in a cireu- lar issued by the state hail depart- ment, in line with a previoys an- nouncement made, The circu ie let- ter says: “At the time hail warrants for 1923 were mailed out to their respective owners, it was thought that petitions might be circulated for the initiation of a measure amending Section 7 of the Hail Insurance Law so as to make possible the payment in full of ‘in- demnities for hail losses suffered during-the past season, instead cl paying only 80 percent of the: same. “On investigation it was found, however, that it wasn’t such an easy matter to perfect. after all. Thous- ands of petitions would need to be circulated, printing done, etc. and the expense in that connection natur- ally could not be borne by the De- partment, and as nobody seemed par- ticularly anxious to back the proposi- tion, it was thought best to leave the matter for the Legislature to decide. We are accordingly recommending to the Legislature that the Hail Insur- ance Law be amended so as to enable payment of the 20 percent balance now outstanding. There may be ob; jections raised to such an amendment on the ground that part of the’sur- plus fund originally created as a permanent surplus would be used for other purposes than intended. That is true in a way, but the Department feels that no serious consequence will result though part of the surplus being used for such purpose, if proper safe- guard is made that shortage does not recur in the future. The proposed changes to the Law will embody such provision, “The Department has proposed four sets of measures distinct in themsel- ves and still identically the same so far as producing results are concern- ed. The Legislature we trust will} follow our recommendation and adopt one of the plans or substitute some- thing better. ! “In the meantime nothing can be done by the Department but to ask the claimants to wait patiently for such action as the Legislature may see fit to take.” NEW RULING ON HAIL INSURANCE| The state hail insurance depart- ment, in 4n amended ruling on agents; withdrawing land from the hail in- demnity tax, provides that “when agent signs affidavit of withdrawal for the owner, such agent must state under oath, that he-is agent for such owner and has a right to make afft- davit of withdrawal from hail indem- nity tax in his stead. The .declara- tion may be ‘stated in this way: ‘Agent, with power to withdraw.” Thé ruling is being forwarded to Subpoenaes Are Issued hese are the officers and non hopped off from Clover Field, Los Turner and A. L. Harvey and Lieutenants Lowel Smith and it up now. MELLON AND WEEKS TO BE CALLED UPON For Them By the Senate Oil Committee MEANS’ TES EMONY | Secretary of Treasury to be} Asked About Alleged At- tempt to “Get” Him Washington, Mar. 18.—(By the A P.)—Subpoenas were issued today fer Secretaries Mellon and Weeks by the senate committee investigating Attor ney-General Daugherty. The two secretaries were to be questioned about the government con- tract with the Standard Aircraft Cor- poration in connection with fon B, Means previous testimony that he accepted $100,000 'for the late Jess W. Smith to stop further legal action. Prohibition commissioner Haynes and Internal Revenue Commissioner Blair also were summoned, presum- ably for questioning about Means sertion that he “got” Secretar’ lon in an investigation of the is of permits for withdrawals of whis- key. Alfred R. Urion, a lawyer named in the alleged film “deal” also was subpoenaed as was H. H. Votaw, su- perintendent of federal prisoners and a: relative by marriage of the late President Harding. Mel- CONTINUE ATTACK intgon, March 18.—Attorney Daugherty’s foes continued afternoon to pile in testi- General yester again struck charges of the prize fight film back, this time grace blackmail. The most direct testimony yet given before the senate investigating committee, in an effort to connect. the attorney general directly with the conspiracy to show motion p tures of the Carpentier-Dempsey prize fight in violation of federal law while vafious “goats” were pro- secuté and fined small sums, came from G. O. Holdridge, former depart- ment of justice agent, who presented a witnessed report of a conversation he said he had with Jap Muma, ready identified in the inquiry one of the owners of the films, Based on Talk Holdridge quoted Muma as having auoted Attorney General Daugherty as-having said to him in Washington: “If you .put this across you ought to get a big cut, not less than fifty per cent.” On vigorous cross examination by the attorney general's counsel, Hald- ridge conceded that he ‘had nothing else to substantiate the charge that the attorney general was part of the conspiracy. Previous testimony has heen that Jess W. Smith, the at- torney general's late friend, boasted that “we’ could get $180,000 by pro- tecting the fight film owners from prosecution. and that’ various sums of monéy were collecteq for Smith on that account. Corroborating is many _particu- lars the previous testimony of Gas- ton B. Means and Fred C..Quimby, Holdridge related a circumstantial story of his investigation of the al- county auditors and notary publics. TO SPEAK AT MEETING Mrs. John Hillius of Kulm, gvho learned to read and write at an ad- vance age, will be a. speaker at @ school officers’ meeting in Beulah on March 22. leged arrangement by which the fight films were exhibited in 1921, Muma Called Mums, correspondent of Edward B. McLean's Cincinnati Enquirer at -coms who'll participate dieutenants L. mony and connect him directly with | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [aioner BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, BEALE 18, 1924 *ROUND THE WORLD FOR UNCLE SAM Angeles, yesterday. Wade and E. Arnold. Plane H Maj how LL IRING OF DIAMOND THIEVES WHO DUPED INSURANCE COMPANIES HELD | ( | | | in the army's flight Fi rom left to right are Se ‘FINE WEATHER | Rural Vote Probably BRINGS VOTERS _ 10 THE POLLS Sun Beams Down in Almost Every Part of the State, Indicating Big Vote ROADS ARE ALL OPEN Much Heavier Than it Was Four Years Ago TO ISSUE EXTRA The Tribune will issue an elec: lection extra Wednesday mor giving the latest vote tabul as gathered throughout the state. It will be on sale on the streets early in the morn hround the world: “Thoy) with the thermometer well above geants H. H. Ogden, A. I s jor F. L. Martin, flight commander, , ‘Teezing, with all roads open and yn in this picture, They're tuning | with a bright sunshine beaming down on nearly every section of North | Dakota today, | big vote it was expected that a woultl be rolled up in the presidential preference primary to- City elections in several cities of the state also serveg to increase the interest in the electic j out the vote. With ah and to bring avy city vote Chicago Police Believe They Have Uncovered Ring Which jeg tk Aes ceutuenesenies Got More Than $8,000,000 From Insurance Companies | But with the Nonpartisan League |making a drive against the election | jlaws and for the Fedge bill Chicago, Mar. 18. An alleged ring of diamond thieves who for j considered more than likely years have been directing holdups in order to collect. thet! | large rural vote also would be regis- linsurance and who are believed to have obtained more than $8,000,000) | tered. {from insurance concerns heen uncovered her cording to police; The polls will close at 7 pm. for jhe are holding four men and a woman for questioning {the first time in some years, the leg- | ihc. rerintiuns aver eaieeey weve |islatire Having medics tho tune the ik ae jpolls close from 9 p.m, Hpea DEDUER te UGUtes By a NES AYORe | iran Goulidvevaided onvnoncersani: | ey ute detectives who employed the) zations in some places were’ work- on, isas, psychic seeress.|ing to get out the vote, but not to hes nieal wii ie ventas ica wetcteea tha lnyaarcutuextanti’ Where: waa: miore AVIATORS OFF . ON NEXT LEG :: Flying aie Sacramento, | Jalifornia, to Vancouver | Barracks, Today. | | Mather Fieid, acramento, Cal.,! March 18.—With the start of the} reat adventure behind them, si ju nited States army aviators out of | ) eight who will attempt an afound| S| the world flight of 30,000 miles, rest- | Tled here last night preparing for the} |resumption of their flight which be {gan at Clover Field, Santa Mon yesterday morning. Today the planes, under command | of Major Frederick L, Martin, took | off on the next leg of their journcy | |to Vancouver Barracks, Wash., near | Portland, Ore. Lieutenant Brik H.| 1 Nelson, flight engineer, who was de-! tained at Clover Field because of | adjustments necessary for his air-| plane, was expected to be here to fly} north with his companion he three airplanes which thade| the 370 mile flight from’ Clover Field | |vesterday, starting at 9:40 a. m.} landed at 2:05 p m, Lieutenant Low- | ell Smith’s machine was the first to! land ‘and was greeted by cheering hundreds, including Mayor Albert |Elkus of Sacramento and officials of \the Sacramento chamber of com- Lieut, Smith was followed by Major Martin and Leigh Wade. Escorting ma- s swarmed around the world merce. in order \Lieut, There were no mishaps of any kind on the Clover Field-Mather Field flight. The speed averaged 80 's an hour and over the Tehachapi mountains in southern California the machines flew at an altitude of 8,000 feet, WOULD RETURN ON CONDITION Draft Evader Wants to Know What Punishment He’d Get * Eberbacly Baden, Mar. 18,—-(By the A. P.)—Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, the American draft evader, authe ed his secretary to state today that Bergdoll had not agreed to return to the United States as has been report- ed but that he was willing to consider proposals giving assurances as to the exact punishment he would have to undergo in such case. WANTED SUSPECT RETURNED Minot. N. D., March 18—-Fred C. Havelock, 44, charged with embez- zling approximately $3,500 from the Gamble Robinson branch house of Minot. was returned here from Cas- New York, again emerged from be- kind the scenes in a stellar role. Re- (Continued on page 6) per, Wyo. and is awgiting further action. Havelock was formerly em- ployed as a traveling salesman by the Gamble Robinson firm. | | pose the operations of thieves who of stayed a Chicago gang obtained the fake theft of jewel salesmen in to co on beries in collect * surance, The jewel thieves employ a. woman diamond salesm are said to accomplice as a n to whom the pro- to participate in a sham rob- bery 1s madq After the robberies the jewels S. returned, according to detectives, with the exception of 10 percent of the insurance meney and 10 percent of the diamonds which jare given to the man who arranges ithe robberic Police believe a number of men and women, to be wealthy, may he involve pidly as evidence is adduced s indictments WOMAN WINS BiG VERDICT fre for | Mrs. Lena eae to Get $12,000 From Utility The United Stat has declined to enter ‘certiorari in the case of Mre, Lena Greyerbeihl of Bismarck against the Hughes Electric Company, which is the final action in the case in which Mrs. Greyerbeihl won a damage suit of approximately $12,000 from the lo- cal utility, according to information received by F, E. MeCurdy, who with Knauf and Knauf of Jamestown, rep- resented the plaintiff. The case was tried in the United States District Court, verdict given, d appealed to the United States Cireuit Court, which upheld the de- n. The case is of the class in which the action of the U.S. Circuit Court is final except in exceptional cases in which the Supreme Court may review the case, according to Mr. McCurdy. In this case the United States Supreme Court decided the ease. was not one which should be considered by it. Mrs. Greyerbeihl claimed she suf- fered terrible injugies through a Hughes Electric Company wire com- ing in contact with other wires which caused her to be shocked by electri- city while at a wash tub. | INFORMATION ON TURTLES IN ING D. SE SECURED dens eaters ririliplenesailtatse ities North Dakota, but only after consid- erable effort by the state department of agriculture. Through yarious actentia in the state the state departmrent obtained considerable information, and in pa- dition found that studies of turtles nyNorth Dakota had beer made by the scientifie departments of Am- herst College, Massa¢husetts, and the University of Michigan,” Supreme Court ain a writ of some of them supposed] rob-| As} Democratic votes and Wm. te’s | attorneys plan to go before the grand! | evidence {work along this line by tnd independent organizations, with the league the measu the for the ae ; he close of the campaign found anna, Coolidge manager, de- claring that the state would roll up a real vote of confidence for the President ag against Hiram Johnson chief as reasons. {and Robert M. LaFollette. The Tribune will post bulletins afte p. m. tonight. Because of the blizzard four years ago, on March 16, a very light vote cast. Hiram Johnson received .573 votes for the Republican pres- idential indorsement, Leonard Wood ; 987 and Frank O, Lowden 265, a total of 3 W 25 votes being ¢ am J. Bryan ived 340 McAdoo 49, STICKER CAMPA) The force of the LaFollette stick- er campaign was expected to be felt more in the rural districts than in the cities. There was practically no of LaFollette stickers around polls here during the morn- ing. The vote at noon was not more than 15 percent of the total. Mandan reported many LaFollette stickers were in evidence, but at Jamestown they were not being dis- tributed at th’ polls, . BIG VOTE IN MANDAN Mandan, Mar, 18.—The largest vote polled in yedts is expected by the time the polls close at 7 o'clock to- night due to an extremely heated and bitter fight for city commisston- er positions, H. L. Henke, president, and Nels H. Rohmer, waterworks commissioner, out for reelection, are opposed by Dr, A. O. Henderson for i P, yard master. J. B. Frederick, pr commissioner, is seeking reelection, opposed by H. A Schmidt. ‘QUAKE ROCKS JAP ISLAND Inhabitants in State of Terror as Shock Continues Tokio, March 18-—Many houses were demolishel by a severe earth- auake that Saturday evening rocked the southern section of Sughalien Island, off the east of Asia advices received today in Tokio suid, Several persons were injured but none were killed, the report stated. The shocks were said to he con- tinuing and inhabitants ure the in a state of terror, In places fissures eight feet in width appeared in the earth. SCHOOL AREA MUST PAY . JANITOR HURT BY BLAST Minot, N. D., Mar. 18.—Judgment of $700 for injuries alleged to have been sustained by Jacab Pierce while employed as janitor by the Tolley special school district No. 2h, was riven hy a jury in district court here, Pierce asked $7,500, He war injured by an explosion of chemical- while working in the school. Will Be Washington, Mar. lidge and his cabinet decided Credit Corporation recently { sify their crops. from the War Finance Corpo 000,000 will accordingly be d plishment of the purpose of cently defeated by the senate. ROBERTS, ACTOR, GOES TO HOME | Pittsburg, Mar berts, the actor, cember has ‘the Pacific valescent. Mr his train on companied by ch 18 18. ill since lust De- | arted for his home on Coast, Although con Roberts was taken tol itretcher. He was ue- Mrs. Roberts, PIONEERS ARE PAID TRIBUTE. BY J. M. DEVINE Commissioner of Immigration | in Radio Talk Praises Their Service to N. D. | STILL STATE BENEFIT ! Heritage of Sturdy Pioneers! Is Still Evident in North Dakota, He Sa: Minneapolis, Mar. 18. ' |Pakota, a heritage from which the! State still benefits, J. M. Devine,! Commissioner of Immigration of | orth Dakota, declared in a radio talk over WLAG station her last | night. Mr. Devine, during his talk} on “The Making of North Dakota” sought to disabuse auditors of the] idea that North Dakota is a coid wind-swept, barren land, He spoke! of the abundance of plant life, biras| and flowers, and traced the many of the famous ci state. In paying his tribute to the pion- eers Mr. Devine said: “We were fortunate in the kind and character of our original pioneer settlers. Of the native born ates; and from out; of those st ame the bi the had. Of the foreign born, th most of them, from the Anglo: races, the bigger percentage from te farm homes of Norway and Sweden. Tn the majority of cases, they were largely young, full of ambition, hope and courage, inexhaustible optimism, eager to build a home upon the wide flung prairies of the new territo “Pioneering in a new countr Severe test of courage and e ance. As a general rule, the journey is long; the road rough; the hills steep, and only those physically and mentally fit can last that journey through. Some of the early pioneers fell by the wayside; others gave up the struggle and returned either to the section of the country from whence they came or journeyed on across the Rockies to the older and the more settled up western states. Langley's Invention “Not many years ago Prof. Geerge Langley saw the concrete expression of a life’s effort and sublime faith fail miserably at the Capitol of the nation, Multitudes of curious on- lookers, including the representatives of this and other nations, smiled and jeered at the pitiable result. Yet be- cause of that faith and effort, we to- day see the birds of the air outrivaled in speed and intricate evolution by the heavier than air machine. But What of Langley the pioneer, in his long, patient effort to conquer and subdue the forces of the air? He went out of that great crowd with bowed head, cruelly hurt because of the thoughtless laughter of the crowd and died broken-hearted. Yet e principle of the machine that f was adopted in the Wright m that a few years later suceecded, | Langley never say his faith vindicat- ed or his big dream come true, So with the pioneers in a new country, who with vision far seeing} and with faith unshakable blazed the | pathway from the Alleghenies to the (Continued on page 4) | Work of fighting fire in the mine of the Haynes Coal Mining CompAny at Haynes, North Dakota, is still be- ing carried on, and after several | weeks efort state mine officials be- lieve that great progress has been made, according to W. S, Stratton, who has returned from Haynes. Belief is now expressed that if the work of throttling and putting out! fire can continue much of the Haynes lignite mine will he saved, and a spread to the mine of the state of South Dakota and to coul land of the Theodore Ro- Pueblo, 18. (By the A. P.)—An unnamed Mexican impli- eated in the confession of Fred Janssen yesterday following his a | rest here in connection with the finding of the body of Mrs. Bella anssen, his wife, in a trunk at Ogden, Utah, Saturday remained to- day the only «apparently unknown element in the trunk murder nsxen, Who calmly confessed the det of the murder to the police, aying he had employed the Mexican to kill his wife because he feared she would kill him, was arrested in {| m !but admitted making all the prepar- | into ; Was slain, PROGRESS IS MADE IN FIGHTING FIRE IN HAYNES, N. D. COAL MINE P.)—President Coo- today to ¢ the Agricultural ‘ormed with a capital of $10,- 000,000 to assist wheat growers in the Northwest to diver- | The' resources of the corporation supplemented by a loan ration of $20,000,000 or $30,- irected in part toward accom- the Norbeck-Burtness bill re- ‘CONFESSES HE ~ HIRED MAN'TO ~ SLAY HIS WIFE Trunk Murder of Colorado Is olved with the Arrests of Church Janitor / KILLED ; AT PRAYER Fred Janssen Says That He Hired Mexican For $150 to Kill His Wife Z Colo, March 4 taxicab near here yesterady after police officers patrolling the re had stopped the car in which he was riding. Last night and today Janssen was auestioned but ne information was given out afterwards. Janssen will Ne returned to Denver tomorrow. In his alleged confession Janssen said his wife killed last Thure- ay while she was kneeling in prayer their Denver’ home, He denied taking an actual part in the killing ations, even to letting the Mexican the house and pushing the “casket trunk” into the room for the Mexican to use in boxing up the body, Janssen declared, however, that he did not see the body and that he was not in the room when his wife Took 35 Minutes In 35 minutes, according to Jan’ sen's story, the Mexican killed Mr. anssen, stuffed the body in the trank had slipped away after he, sen, had given him $150. Jan: sen insisted he engineered the trunk slaying because his wife had said she intended to kill him, Two years ago, he said, he received a box of candy from a man in Pittsburgh whose given name was Calm and the box in which the candy came also contained a pistol, he asserted. When arrested Janssen had in his possession more than $1,200 in bills of large denominations. In his pocket also was found his wife's wedding ring and the rosary she was using in the prayer which ended in death. CONTINUE PROBE Denver, Colo., Mar. 18—Police te continued their search for tne Mexican named in the confession of Fred Janssen, church janitor, who was arrested yesterday near Puchlo in connection with the trunk murder which was uncovered Saturday al Ug- den, Utah. The body of M da: Janssen and the trunk that bore it westward last Thursday night are due in Denver today, having been taken from there last night. Police announced charge of murder against Janssen, last would night a be filed MITTEN SAVES LOSS OF HAND Hettinger, N. D., March 18. usually heavy mitten he was wear ing saved George Fryor, farmer near here, from loss of his left hand when the member became caught iw a corn husking machine. However, the hand was badly mangled. An un. PRICE FIVE CENTS DAUGHERTY’S NAME BROUGH IN OIL PROBE Dealt in Oil Stocks, Broke Testifies; Slemp, Senators Also Dealt in Them NEW SURPRISES SPRUNG Cleveland Man Says Secretary: Fall Asked Him to Falsify Loan Tale Washington mittee resumed double-bi f of oil stock speculating by government officials and further testimony about the famous $100,000 loan to Albert B. Fall Brokers’ records submitted by expert accountant showed that Ate torney-General Daugherty had dealt} in both Sinclair and Doheny stocks since he entered the cabinet, that C, Slemp, now secretary to sident Coolidge, also bought some’ Doheny stock before he retired from Congress in 1923 and that there were records of dealings also by Senators of Kansas, Elkins of West McKinney of Cleveland then testified the committee was inquiring] into Fall's finances to have McKin- ney say that he had loaned $100,000 to the former Secretary. That was| before Fall made the same proposal to E, B. McLean. Slemp, at the time, was a member of the house. Other representatives dealing in the stock include A. B. Rose of Kentucky; Wells G. Koontz of West Virgini of New York Thomas and J. H. Hines . Ryan] of Ohio, The names were disclosed before the senate oil committee by Lou Bond, a federal trade comm who number has e of amined the brokerage necountant, books of a houses. Daugherty Profited Attorne al Daugherty bought, one thousand shares of Pan American (the Doheny company that leased the California reserve) and sold at profit of $544.50, the accountant said. Mr. Daugherty himself had disclosed previously that he had had some deal- ing in Sinclair stocks both before and after he entered the cabinet. The -Attorney-General’s account with W, H. Hibbs and Company of Washington opened in November 1921, Bond said, in his own name and subsequently changed to the name of W. W. Spaid, a name of Hibbs and Company. On October 9,| 1922 the company sold 500 shares of Sinclair Consolidated and on October 27 he purchased an equal amount to the same stock, Bond s rtis Bought Small Lot Senator Curtis, who is the assis ant Republican leader of the senate, was said by the witness to have bought 100 shares of Sinclair Con- solidated on Fe 1922, The rec ords indi i purchase. Senator Elkins bought 8,- 700 shares of Sinclair Consolidated on November 16, 1922 at a cost of 302,355, 7,700 shares on y 24, 1 $272,924 and took “straight delivery” on the remaining 1,uuu snares, Bond told the commit- tee that Slemp bonght 100 shares of Mexican Petroleum for “P. W. Slemp” and sold them at a net profit of $i He then bought on June one thousand shares of n Seaboard, unother nelair| ny, and sold at a profit of $1,- Representative Ryan, the witness] said, dealt in 5,400 shares of Sinclair and 700 shares of Doheny stock in 1922 ang 1923 and realized a net profit of $8,645. AUTO CRASH TOLLIS FOUR Child, Eight, Dies En Route To Fargo Hospital he toll of the automobile-Northern Pacific passeng- er train collission at Audubon, Min-| nesota, Sunday reached four today, when Itvin Lehne, aged eight, died on his way to a Fargo hospital Ernest, aged 10, died at a Crookston, Minnesota hospital last night whild Mrs, Fred Lehne and her daughter Ethel, 21, the other victims of the crash, died instantly. Irvin was reported at first to bel but slightly injured but complica tions proved fatal. The funeral of all four will wi held from the Lehne home at Audu- state of North Dakota will be. pre- vented The fire is heing fought with wa- ter, by controlling air, shutting it off and using it, according to Mr. Stratton. Pillars and ribs are pulled out of entries, the top dynamited and the second vein clay wetted down, sealing up the entry, he said. This practice is carriéd on until a portion of the coal vein is segregated, and if the fire continues to burn it will take but a small section. The fire fighting probably will con- inue for weeks! hon on Thursday afternoon. COLORED MAN IS SENTENCE D William Vaughn, 24 colored, charged} with being drunk and disorderly, wa sentenced to 30 days in jail last] night by Police Magistrate W. C. Cashman. Vaughn, who got into anf altercation with his wife in 9 loca’ barbershop Sunday night, smash tonic bottle and did other damage the barber shop, also struck Police man Wm. Ebeling before being rested,