The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 7, 1925, Page 1

ay ity re ‘WEATHER FORECAST For Bismarck and vicinity: Un- settled tonight and Sunday. ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY a1 1925 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | | FINAL EDITION | PRICE FIVE CENTS _ HOUSE 0. K’S CIGARETTE LAW REPEAL ee OO. END OF WORLD NOT HERE BUT: MAY COME YET Leader of Little Band Near New York Disappointed, But Still Hopeful WATCHES ALL Li corerans Cleud Which He Expected To Come Did Net Appear at Midnight NIGHT Patchogue, New York, Feb. 7.— The sun rose in the East today just as it has for untold ages and shone on the rude heme of Robert Reidt, the “Apostle of Doom,” despite his fevered prediction that at midnight last night would come the beginning of the milennium and the Salvation of the “chosen few.” Reidt and his flock of 13 follow- ers, who had lived throygh as hectic a night as ever may be their lot, were still confident today that the “prorfised sign” of the second com- ing of Christ is still not far off. Just when he would not say, although he had declared that the end of the world would take fully seven days. Hopeful all through the night that the sign would come “as a cloud no bigger than your hand,” Reidt watch- Ye heavens until well into the morning. When nothing (startling had happened at midnight in the East he still felt that the end might come within the next three hours when it would be midnight in Holly- wood, where is the home of Mrs. Margaret Rowen, the. leader of the cult. His night had been full of di: cord in sharp contrast with his wish- es to pay and prepare himself and his followers for the end. Hundreds of curious persons gathered in the neighborhood of his shack; 'report- ers interviewed him; camera men took his picture. Once his chief diseiple, Willard Downs, drove away the crowd under a shower of hot water. At another time Downs’ son, Daniel, aiermete to take his father home forcibly. A scuffle followed ‘and-the son was persuaded to leave with difficulty. WILL DESERT HER Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 7.—If the pre- diction of Mrs. Margaret W. Rowen of Hollywood, leader of what is termed the “Reformed ‘Adventist Church” movement, does not develop to the point of realization within the seven days allotted, 12 follow- ers of the California cultress are prepared to renounce her as their leader. This was the announcement of Joe Gammel, leader of the College View group, after the midhour Friday, the time set for the Savior to begin his ; 5 tee, leng journey from Heaven to earth. Members of the cult gathered in their homes last night and early today and scanned the cloudless sky. “Only believers in Mrs. Rowen's faith are able to see the clouds and other signs,” Mr. Gammel explained to a group around his home in Col: lege View. Mr. Gammel went to the back door during the night to see if the sign of the milennium was vis- ible bat on his return did not indi- cate what. vision, if any, he had seen. “No one is able to sce the exact time when this coming of -Christ will take place,” Gammel said, “but we have followed. Mrs... teachings for several years and have seen other predictions come..true. If this. latest prediction does. .not ma-| terialize we will renounce her as our leader.” MRS. ROWEN SILENT ‘ Hollywood, Calif., Feb.-7.—If. last midnight marked the end of the be- ginning of the world as predicted by Mrs. Margaret Rowen, Hollywood prophetress, the event was strictly censored “here. What Mrs. Rowen her disciples heard and saw they dit not tell and if they drew any conclusions from what they saw and heard they kept them to themselves. Even the whereabouts of the wo- man and most of her followers were ‘krouded in mystery during the night. —————_-_—______ | Weather Report | For 24 hours ending at noon: Temperature at 7 4. m. ....,..... Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday Lowest last night Precipitation .. Highest wind velocity WEATHER FORECAST For Bismarck and “vicinity:, Un- settled tonight and Sunday. Moder- ate. temperature. For North Dakota: night and Sunday. perature. «. WEATHER CONDITIONS No high pressure appears on the Weather Map and the temperature rémains moderate in all sections. Only a few stations reported tem- peratwres below freezing. Areas of low pressure are. tered over the southern Plaids States and over the Canadian. Rockies.. The weather is generally ‘fair from: the Plains States eastward, but precipitation occurred in the Pacific coast ard and at Unsettled to- Moderate tem- scattered places’ the Rocky Mountain region, *” onRis W. ROBERTS, 1 Yoqorologist. eashi Rowen’s | WHEAT GIRLT TO WHITE HOUSE Pee Miss Vada Watson, Kan. ansas claimed is the s Wheai Girl, presents President Coolidge with oest wheat in the world—Kansas wheat. Your Income Tax 9 is one of a series of explaining the in- to the laymen. It s been prepared in view of nt changes in the income tax law. —— Tax Consultant Following is a list of credits chargeable against taxes in your in- come return. 1. An amount equal to 25 per cent of the tax which! would be pay- able if the s “earned income” (wh ceed $10,- 000) constituted ntire net in- come, but in-no n the amount of the credit exceed 25 per cent of his normal tax; 2. All tax withheld at the source. 3. ‘All income, excess or war profits taxes paid by citizens or resi- dent aliens to any foreign country, and ‘ “4. In the case of income recelved from partnerships or fiduciaries, the taxpayer is entitled to his propor- tionate ‘share of the preceding credits, applicable to such income. NEW BANKING BILLS ARE IN Ingerson. Presents Two More Measures to Legislature New banking «leg fore the ‘North Dakot F today, in the form of bills introduc- ed by Senator Ralph Ingerson, c' man of the Senate banking commit- The present. Depositors Guaranty Fund, which Jevies asscssments on banks to provide a fund to repay depositors in failed banks, would be retained, and the law amended to provide’ assessments totalling’ 3-8 of one percent of average daily depos during the year, for the fund, in- stead of one-fourth of one percent, under Senate Bill No, 204. Another measure introduced by Senator In- gerson prohibits the issuance of 's checks except for cash on hand in the bank, Many other new measures, includ- ing several bills sponsored by states attorneys of the state, to strengthen ‘the criminal laws, were also before the legislature, being irgroduced in the House pf Representatives. Among them is one-bill affecting present li- qhor laws, the measure amending the defin n of intoxicating liquors so as to include “or intended” in fol- lowing “one-half of one percentum or more of alcohol by volume which are fit or intended for use or beverage purposes,” An old statute, obsolete, would be} amended to substitute the words “life imprisonment” | for “death penalty” and “murder in the first degree” instead of “capital crime,” since the death penalty is not applied for murder in the state. WOULD BOOST SOLONS’ PAY Senator A. A. Peck, Nonpartisan of McLean county evidently believes that’ the laborer is. worthy of “his hire, and also that the labors of the legislators are worthy of a higher hire than.the state pays. So he introduced in the senate a concurrent resolution for the submis- sion of a constitutional amendment which )would raise the pay of the state solons from five dollars to eight dollars ‘per day. . The resolution wag referred to the committee “on state affairs. 4 Worki Me rail Measure A special committee of Nonparti- ‘sans today was working on’ the hail insurance problem before the legis: lature, with a. view of working out some scheme of zoning for rate-mak4 ing’ purposes that would be generally tor Steel's attempt to amend Sen: te acceptable, S) however, the measure BANKING BILL BEFORESENATE FOR DECISION Final Passage of Measure Re- quiring Deposit of Bank Stock Value Expected WOULD TAX MONEY) Senator Ettestad Introduces! Bill to Tax Money and Credits in State The Senate of the North Dakota legislature had before it this after noon a bill requiring holders of bank the value of their stock with the thé value of their stork with the state treasurer. On a roll call batlot which showed bolts from both, the.political , fac- tions the Senate yesterday afternoon voted 25 to 24 to accept the report of; the committee on banking which re- commended for passage Senator Ralph Ingerson’s bill requiring hold- ers of bank stock to deposit securi- ties equal to the value of their stock with the state treasurer, The roll call was on a motion for the ty ent of the| he indefinite postponement o: Rea bill. Senators McLachlin of Cass, and Carey of Richland county voted with the Nonpartisans against kill- ing the bill, while Senator O. A. Ol- son of Burleigh, Nonpartisan, voted with’ the Independents for indefinite postponement, \The motion to kill having been lost the recomenda- of the committee that the bill d, and it was on the for third reading and final age today. Bill Modified As reported in by the committee, ified to a great extent from the form in which it was originally introduced by Senator ‘Ingerson, Under amend- ments which have heén made the payments of the equivalent of the stock value to the state are spread! over a period of 20 yéurs for alt banks, instead of 10 years as was ori- ginally planned. given to new banks which may be or- ganized as well as those already operating, Ingerson’s View “Under our present laws the dou- ble liability on bank stock is not well secured” said Senator — Ingerson speaking for his bill, “We have found that out to our cost in con- nection with the large number of bank failures which have recently octurred in the state.” The banking committee of which Senator Ingerson is chairman re- ported for passage, Senate Bill 91 prohibiting officers: and directors of any bank from borrowing money therefrom.- This report was accept- ed without opposition. Two new bank regulatory measures were introduced by Senator Ingerson. One throws additional safeguards around deposits in savings banks by requiring the creation by each such bank of a trust fund equal to the amount of its savings deposits. The other is designed to make certificates of indebtedness issued by the guar- anty fund commission to depositors in closed banks, negotiable instru- ments bearing interest at 5 per cent.! Money. Credits Tax Another bill of importance was in- troduced today by Senators Kaldor and Ettestad, It provides for a five mill tax on moneys and credits. The procéeds of such tax would be divid- ed as follows; 15 per cent to the state for general purposes, 25 per cent to the county general fund, and 60 per cent to the school district in which the property ig assessed and taxed. An attempt to tax. moneys eredits was made by the Nonpartisan League several. years ago but the law was repealéd- a short time ‘ later. Moneys and credits aré specifically exempted from taxation in the tax laws: passed, in 1923, t Fails... iy iconkpar to the expectation. _soenbieat on page three)* jas been mod-} This extension is} and ‘LOCAL OPTION {BROTHER SAYS ON CARRYING ) COLLINS LIVES PUPILS ASKED} DOWN IN CAVE House Defeats Measures Pro-}Makes Forbidden Trip Into viding For Reduction of Transportation Costs LENGTHY Appropriation For Reopening Bottineau Normal Also Is Carried MILL BILL The Independent the Senate State Affa tee today introduced a bill the Governor the authority of the Grand Forks mill board of managers. minority of While the House of Representa- \tives voted against any reduction in present school transportation cost, another bill may come before it on the subject. Senator Whitmer, Oli- ver county, has introduced a_ bill providing that transportation of pupils to consolidated schools may he abolished upon “no” vote of two- thirds of school district taxpayers. The bill makes an exception in cases of pupils in isolated sections, or where poverty of a family prompts the board to transport pupils. rges’that the legislature was failing to heed the economy demand of the people and the measures warmly defended, when the House yesterday afternoon defeated two bills which their spokesmen de- clared would save over a_ million dollars a year in taxes levied to pay for transportation of school pupils, and passed a bill appropriat- ing $66,320 to reopen and maintain the Bottineau Forestry Normal School for a period of two years. The House also, after having ap- {proved the measure in committee of the whole Thursday, defeated by a large vote a resolution for an amend- ment to the constitution providing four year terms for county officials. Lengthy Debate Lengthy debate ensued on the two bills of Representatives Morton, Nonpartisan, Veitch, Independent, to reduce school transportation costs. House bill No. 136 provided trans- portation should be furnished, or parents paid for transporting, school pupils living not closer than 21% miles from school instead of 1% as at present, and limited the jamount which might be paid to one House bill No. 137 increased the minimum dis- tance beyond which common school pupils shall be transported or trans- portation cost paid, from two and one-half to four miles. Rep. Morton declared the meas- ures would save a million dollars a year in taxes. “If you can show me where we've cut taxes here, I would like for you to do so,” he declared. “I came here to cut taxes, and I am going to do everything I can to this end. I don’t care whether I come back here or not. I'm not going to trade my vote for anyone so he can be re- elected.” Rep. McGauvren, Independent, re- torted to Morton's declaration by declaring that “If I can’t find any way to cut taxes than to take it from defenseless children trying to get an education I'm willing to go back home and say we did not cut tax- es.” Defends Bill + Rep, Bubel, Nonpartisan,- defend- ing the bill, declared one school district with which he was acquaint- ed was paying more for transporta- tion than for teachers and if the transportation cost is not reduced the schools will have to be closed, or greatly .curtailed. Rep. Vogel, League floor leader, who opposed the measures, said that he favored making the matter of school transportation a question of local option. A bill to this end was introduced in the Senate by Senator Whiter, under which residents of a school district would vote on the matter. Rep. Starke of Stark, saying he was opposed to the school transpor- tation bills, declared “I am opposed to this for while it might save a million dollars in taxes, it is at the expense of the people living more than four miles from school.” The objection was raised that any transportation law would not fit all conditions. “We can’t make -any taxation re- duction and please everybody,” said Rep. Morton. “Since I introduced this bill I have letters from all parts of the state saying that the bill is right.” »Rep. Thompson, Burleigh county, declared “the people looking forward to this transportation money don't work in the winter and don’t do much in the summer.” Same On Second Bill Virtually the same.debate occurred on the bill limiting consolidated school transportation. Rep. Hempel declared he was against it because most of the con- id schools had been built in six or eight years, with the people believing transportation would be. cernlahes: Rep. Twichell. -|“The people didn’t send us hete to consider whether we hurt someone’s _ Continued on page three) Cavern and Returns With Declaration DEBATE/|TROOPS ARE ON GUARD) Digging Continues on Shaft Being Sunk in Hope of Reaching Man P.)—The measured tread of Ken- tucky troops beat a staccato today to the frenzied digging of driving a new shaft to Sand Cave where Floyd Collins, entombed, has been pinioned by a boulder for al- most 200 hours. Determined that no person shall in any way interfere with operations, the guardmen under Brigadier-Gen- eral DeHardt, last night ordered Homer Collins, brother of the victim,} — and John Darrelds, away from the cave, Darrelds was the leader of one of the numerous rescue partics which early in the week made fruit- less efforts to get Collins through the Cave entrance. Those men were called to National Guard headquarters and officers there told them the mine, now boring downward, was the last reach the cavern’s prisoner. Their actions, especially Darrelds’ criti- cism of the means being employed, made their presence undesirable, be- ause it slowed the work, officers explained to them. It would be ne- cessary, therefore, to forcibly eject either man who returned to the cave. 2 Both agreed not to further inter- fere. Slowly the shaft is going down.|, Workers said it probably will take 48 hours more digging before the opening is made, Test drilling was discontinued after a diamond drill had reached limestone at a depth of 40 feet. Dr. W. B, Funkhouser, geo- logist, expressed the opinion that the drill had reached the top rock of the eave. Homer Collins, during the night, made a forbidden trip into the cave a few hours before he was called to military headquarters. He found the light near the “squeeze” still burning, and by turning off all Vights for a few mements, said he determi ed that the entombed man's life still! i glowed. 1 A truck load of ammunition and other supplies were en route to Cave City from Frankfort by way of { Louisville this morning. Eleven more guardsmen arrived last night, 14 others were expected soon. Large crowds are hampering the work. Physicians are constantly on duty at a Red Cross tent, prepared for emergency service and two trained nurses are waiting to lend their assistance. TORTURED BY BAND, CLAIM Farmer, Robbed, Tells Story of Hours of Torture Plankinton, S. D., Feb. 7—A story of being tortured for three hours at his home near Stickney, S. D. by a band of men who robbed him of $300, was told yesterday by John Bieler, farmer. Bieler said that the man, believing that he had more than $300, placed tourniquets about his -head and waist, drawing them up ht enough to produce severe pain, and threatened to kill him with a butcher knife which they brandished before him. The men called at the farm early in the evening and asked Bieler for some water for their car. While Bieler was getting the water from a! well, they slipped a sack over his head and carried him into the house. ‘The robbers took what money they could find in his pockets and search- ed the house for more but without results, then the torture commenced. Large sticks were used to tighten | the tourniquets, the one over Bie-| ler’s head being drawn so tightly that his nose was broken. Bieler denied having any additional funds at the farm. Bieler was alone at the farm. Authorities yesterday ‘were attempting to trace the robbers but | had no clew other than the des¢rip- tion given by their victim. Chinese Also In Withdrawal| Geneva, Feb. 7.—(By the A. P.) The Chinese delegation today, following the example set by the ' Americans yesterday, withdrew from the Inter- national opium conferences. The chief Chinese delegate, S._Al- fred Sze, did not appear for today’s plenary session and sent his secre- tary with a letter to President Vahle, saying he~believed no good purpose would be served by his» continuance in the conference and that he, tltere- fore, felt spies to cease participa- ve Gity, Ky., Feb. 7—(By the A.} miners | chance to| ed home from the late, he says with a smile, be fore now, | He is Harry Klawitter, son“of Mrs. Emma Klawitter, formerly a resid of this city and now 1 | He has been in the hos en years—and isn’t discharged Klawitter saw a lot of the and he isn't anxious to fight the battles over again, either in conver sation or in public print. He left Bismarck in. 1911, wag saround Chi- | cago for some time and then went to ada. He enlisted with the first in contingent and sailed from 1 After fighting with the Canadian forces he obtain- ed transfer to the United States Army, when this country entered the | war. While piloting a plane about | 12,000 feet above the earth before the St. Mihiel drive, on August 28, | 1918, he said, a German bullet got war--some y but not HUMAN HEAD | HOAX FOOLS BISMARCK MAN Hugo Helland, employed by the Hughes Electric Company, while | driving along Avenue A this morning, saw through the soil on the boulevard at the corner of Fourth street und Avenue A. what looked like a human head be-spattered with blood. From a distance it appeared to be the | hasty grave of a body. He jump- ed from his wagon and digging up the object found a clay bust | fashioned after a death mask. | Some practical joker had smear- ed the clay model of a human head over with red paint. The matter doubtless will be called to the attention of the po- lice department for investigation. POSTAL BILL IS APPROVED Coolidge Lets It Be Known He Is Satisfied Washington, Feb. 7.—President Coolidge let it be known that he ap- Proves the postal pay and rate in- crease bill drafted by the house post- office committee, Postmaster General New laid the views of his department with re- spect to the measure before the president at yesterday's cabinet meeting, and it was described after- ward as fairly satisfactory to the president. Provision of the house bill increas- ing rates so as to bring in more than $60,000,000 annually and in fhak- ing the increased pay for postal em- ployes retroactive only to last Jan. 1 are considered by Mr. Coolidge a: distinct advantages over the legis- I lation recently passed by the senate. Protests against plans to force the bill through the house under a rule shutting off amendments and limit- ing debate were sent to members of the chamber today by E. B. Reid, acting Washington representative of the American Farm Bureau Federa- tion. ¥ Attacking the pay increase section of the measure, he argued that “this is a-period of declining salaries rather than increasing salaries, and while moderate salary increases may be needed in certain cities, there ibs {no occasion for a for a general i al increase.” ONE KILLED | IN EXPLOSION Many Valuable Films Are Destroyed Fort Lee, N. J., Feb. 7.—One man | and 18 were slightly hurt by falling walls after the explosion of an am- monia tank today in’ the National Evans Film laboratory. The explo- sion followed a fire. Salvatore Joy, a projector, was | killed: The explosion practically de- | stroyed the building. The loss was estimated at nearly $2,000,000. of the injured were firemen. Sev- eral valuable films were destroyed, | Statement in Army Row Is Washington, Feb, first public statement regarding the tow that has centered around Bri- gadier-Genéral Mitchell, assistant chief of the Navy air service, Secre- tary Weeks declared that those who had disagreed with General Mitchell had been the targets for “unjust and supereilions | Shipm" A Bismarck man has just return-| his pl rs} earth se he did not want to come be-| was killed, two were severely injured’ Some Made By Weeks .—Making his 'BISMARCK VETERAN RETURNS FROM WAR-IN HOSPITAL FOR SEVEN YEARS Harry Klawitter Still Suffering From Wounds Received During Fighting in France Many Years Ago— Glad to See His Home Town Again © and he crashed to the heyond the American lines woke up in a hospital in Paris days later, The Americans had driv- en forward and he was picked up by Americans, although he fell behind German lines. Klawitter is in mighty good spirits and is making continuous, but slow, improvement. He says, also with a that he will never be broke, e he has 7 or 8 pounds of s ver in him, used to fasten his ribs together and generally make him whole again. He is going back to a hospital in New York soon where 114 silver stitches in his back will be removed. For years he has been in a wheel chair, in a New York Hospital and} also in Prescott, Arizona, About everything happened to him that could happen, But he was glad to get back to Bismarck and meet rela- tives and friends. He says he al- ready feels better since coming here a few days ago. |ATTORNEY FOR | PROBING BODY IS APPOINTED J. Will Act For, The Committee ASYLUM PROBE UP State Affairs Committee Hears More Reports About Conditions The special investigating commit- tee named by the House of Represen- tatives to investigate affairs of the State Highway, Commission has em- ployed former district judge, as attorney. This was decided upon by the com- mittee last night. Another meeting of the committee is planned for*Mon- day, atw hich time it will receive any complaints to be ‘made, and de- termine on the course of its hear- ings, if any, it is understood. Mr. Graham, it is understood, was willing to accept the post as attor- ney although the matter of compen- sation cannot be settled. The in- vestigation was authorized only by the House and both House and Sen- ate must vote on any appropriation to pay for services of attorneys or other employes of a committee. This matter was threshed out after the 1921 investigation. Chairman Yeater numerous documents had been handed to the committee regarding the commission. The joint committees of the Sen- ate and House on state affairs held | a joint meeting this morning to fur- ther consider the matter of investi- gating conditions the Jamestown hospital for the insane. Ed Steib, who made the original charges, ap- peared before the * committee, and discussed at length the ques- tion of food for the patients, and others were heard. No action was taken by the com- | mittee, it was said, and another meeting will be held SHOALS BILL SATISFACTORY | TO PRESIDENT Conference Report on Under- wood Measure Is Pre- sented Washington, Feb, 7.—With Presentation to Congress today of the conference report on the Under- wood Muscle Shoals lease bill, man- agers of the revised bill in both Sen- ate and House were arranging to call it up at the earliest opportunity and predicted its passage without much delay. Described as fundamentally similar to the original Underwood bill, the conference measure.’ carrying numer- ous changes, includes some provi- sions of the McKenzie bill passed by the House to authorize lease of the property to Henry Ford. The bill is held by President Cool- idge, whom it would authorize, to draft a lease, as thor€aghly satis- factory. While the executive is presented as prepared to accept it as a compromise, he is understood to hold some objection to the prevision for ROVERS construction of dam No. 3 at an estimated cost of $: 000,000 as counter to the .adminis- tration desire to get the government tional investment. out éf Muscle Shoals without addi- | Graham of Ellendale; F. J. Graham of Ellendale, } the/ ‘MEASURES WIN APPROVAL BY BiG MAJORITY | Passage of Cigarette Bills on He} Monday Predictedas Re- sult of Action EMERGENCY ADDED Laws Would Become Effec- tive on April 1, 1925, Under Proposed Bills The House of Representatives this afternoon apswoved Senate Bills Nos. 61 and 62, the cigarette bills, in com- mittee of the whole, and the House accepted the reports. The bills pro- bably will be up for final passage Monday. Both were somewhat amended from the form in which they passed the Senate, The action of the House, taken in’ | committee of the whole, was on viva voce vote, but appeared s0 over- whelming in favor of the measures, | that their passage appeared certain when they come to a final vote, Senate Bill No. 61, which prohi- bits sale of cigarettes‘ to! miners, was amended to make the minimum fine for violation of the law $50 and the maximum $300, and the jail pen- alty 90 days. An amendment also was added making it possible to de- clare places where cigarettes are sold to miners a nuisance, which might be closed b¢ injunction. Senate Bill No. 62 was amended with respect to licenses, on motion of Rep. Twichell, who said that the tax on an ordinary package of 20 ci- garettes would be 3 1-2 cents instead of 3 cents as provided in the Senate bill. No roll call was demanded on the measures when the report of the | committee of the whole was given the House. This was taken as an in- dication of weakness of opposition to the measures, The emergency clause was added to both, making the measures become effective April 1, 1925. It was de- clared that the state could begin to collect revenue at that time. A two- thirds vote is required to carry the emergency. Big crowds had appeared in the House galleries for two days, await- ing action on the bills, but when they were taken up shortly after the House convened at 1 o'clock this af- ternoon, a comparatively small num- ber of spectators was on hand. U.S. FIFTH IN AIR POWER Brigadier - General Mitchell Appears Before Committee Washington, Feb. 7.—Brigadier General Mitchell, assistant chief of the army air service, told the house aircraft committee that the United States ranks fifth in air power, be- ing surpassed in this branch by Eng- land, Japan, France and Italy. Representative Perkins, Republi- can, New Jersey, the committee ex- aminer, remarked that Genera) Mit- chell’s statement, made near the end of today’s hearing, conflicted with earlier testimony from srig.-General Drum of the army general staff, to the effect that the United States ranked second in aircraft. This clash of views added to the maze of contradictions the commit- tee has received over the controversy in army and navy circles as to tho value of aircraft in war, which was further supplemented today by Gen- eral Mitchell’s reply to Secretary Weeks’ demand for an explanation of recent testimony, “seriously reflect- ing” on the war department. ‘POLICEMAN I$ ARRESTED Held by Police in Death of “Two Girls Los Angeles, Feb. 7S. K. Stone, 55, father of Jack Hoxie, film actor, employed as a night watchman in the residential trict from which May and Nina Martin disappeared last August, was being held in the coun- ty jail today for further questioning concerning the kidnaping and death of the little girls, whose bodies were discovered in a sthall grave not far {rom their homes here last Wed- nesday. Stone was arrested last night. Un- der questioning he declared repeat- edly that he knew nothing of how the Martin sisters met death and also maintained that he:was. innocent of a statutory charge brought againat him last October. LILIES. POPULAR