The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 14, 1925, Page 1

eo «... WEATHER FORECAST For Bismarck and vicinity: Part- ly cloudy tonight and Sunday. ESTABLISHED 1873 © HE BISMARCK ' 4, 1925 TRIBUNE [manor BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 PRICE FIVE CENTS — ESCUE SHAFT NEARS BIG CAVERN) ee nn BLACK FAILS TQ APPEAR AT _ PROBE HEARING Chief Engineer of Highway Commission Not Present For Testimony KX PLANATION MADE A. D. McKinnon Called on to Tell About Bismarck Paving Project W. G. Black, chief engineer of the State Highway Commission, failed to appear at the hearing of the House Highway Commission _ investigating committee today. a F. J. Graham, counsel for the com- ‘mittee, placed Herman Hardt, acting sergeant-at-arms for the commit- tee, on the stand to state that he had subpoenaed Mr. Black to appear at 9:30 a.m. Mr. Graham said that J. M. Hanley of Mandan, Black’s counsel, had called him and asked that Mr. Black be permitted to come sat 11 a, m, and this permission had been. granted. Mr. Hanley, later interviewed, said that the committee had promised to give Mr. Black a copy of testimony taken in secret session, so that he would know what charges had been made, before he took the witn stand. He said that he had suggest- ed that Mr. Black’s appearance be put over until Monday and Mr. Gra- ham suggested they could wait un- til 11 a. m. today. Mr, Hanley said) he assumed the reason Mr. Black did not appear was because he had no been furnished the transcript of evi- dence taken in executive session, and that if furnished it he would appear Monday. Mr. Black could not be this morning. A large part of the testimony at the hearing this morning was from A..D. McKinnon, project engineer, who was called upon to further ex- plain methods of letting Federal Aid contracts, which he asserted were let on recommendation of the county boards of the commissioners, with the Highway Commission. agreeing with them in all but one case, in two years. A letter from Mr. Black was plac- ed in evidence, giving an opinion of the acting attorney-general of the Vhited States, to the effect that sur- plus war material in the Highway Commission's hands, could be sold. A second letter was» received as follows: “TO THE HOUSE INVESTIGATING reached We E. D. Stokes and his WEATHER FOR First Picture of W. E. Stokes in Court ‘ secretary, Miss Marian Brophy, snapped during Stokes’ the charge of conspiring to defame the character of Mrs. Helen Elwood Stokes. Johngon and Robert Lee, negrocs. \‘SAKAKAWEA,’ LEWIS AND CLARK GUIDE) SEVERED HEAD op KILLED DURING BATTLE, SAYS “TRUE STORY” OF HER TOLD BY AN INDIAN WEEK 14.—Weather outlook for the coming week beginn- ing Monda Upper M Valley—Much issippi t cloudiness and occasional snows over north and snows or rains over south portion. most of the week. Temperature below normal i | | | | Your Income Tax This is one of a series of articles explaining the —in- come tax to the laymen. It has been prepared in view of recent changes in the income tax. law. o—_______ 4 BY R. A. CONKEY Tax Consultant Generally speaking, “tax-free cov- enant” bonds contain a clause where- by the issuing corporation agrees to ‘pay the interest thereon as it ma- ‘tures, without deduction for any tax or taxes which the corporation may ‘be required by law to deduct or re- ‘tain therefrom. The law requires COMMITTEE: “Gentlemen: “I have received your subpoena requesting me to appear before your committee on Saturday morning, ‘\ February 14th, to testify as a wit- ‘ness in the investigation that is now pending. “In response to that subpoena, I have sent to your committee, through Mr. McKinnon, also subpoened by you, the documents which you asked me to produce before the committee. “With reference to me testifying before you at this time, will say that for the following reasons, I ask your committee to postpone the taking of my testimony until I have had an. opportunity to read the transcript of the testimony that has been tak- en before your committee in secret session. the following grounds: oy “Your committee hag denied my written request made to you.ta per- mit me to be represented by: .coun- sel, and it denied the right of my counsel to cross examine witnesses produced by the prosegution... , . “Further your committee held secret sessions at which testimony and statements of witnesses were taken and from which the. public and myself were excluded, ‘The trend that your investiga- tion is taking is evidently aimed at ‘ne as State Engineer and I am in- formed that a number of, alleged charges against me have been made before your committee. “In fairness and justice, [ am en- titled to know what the nature of ‘those charges are so that before I ' come before your committee, I can have an opportunity to look up my records and be: prepared to answer those charges, it being elementary that a person charged with offences is entitled to know what they are be- fore he is required to testify as to them. “Further your committee agreed to deliver to me a transcript of the tes- timony that was taken in the secret sessions so I would have a chance to go over the same before J was called to witness. This you have failed to do. “THEREFORE, | ask your Honor- able Committee that you furnish me with an Abstract of the testimony that has been taken and as prepared by the stenographer of your commit- tee and I be given an opportunity to : look over the same and an opportun- ity to: look up my records and be prepared to answer that testimony when I come before the committee and for that regson I- ask that the calling of me as a witnéss be post- poned until I have had that oppor- tunity. W. G. BLACK. A copy of the evidence was un- derstood would be in Black's hands by. this afternoon. ; i (Continued: on page: three): - i Pe lwhich it is required by However, in the performance | : I make this request. upon | »{mant” bonds. the corporation issuing bonds of this ‘class to withhold 2 per cent of the interest paid, although the owner actually receives the full amount of the interest due. This is explained as follows: The debtor corporation pays to the owner of the bond 98 per cent of the in- terest, retaining fer remittance to the government the 4 per cent fa hold. of its “tax-free covenant,” it pays to the owner of the bond, from other funds, a sum equal to the 2 iper cent withheld. These operations for convenience take the form of a single transac- tion, in which the owner of the bond receives! 100 per cent of the interest vayable. It will be scen, therefore, that ‘the actual cost to the debtor leprporation is 102 per cent of the emount of such interest. The act provides ‘that the taxpayer need not ‘include as additional in- ee the 2 per cent withheld on imterest received on “tax-free cove- The regulations under ome of the prior acts held that it was additional income to the owner of the bonds and required that it be returned. ‘ In cashing coupons from bonds which contain a “tax-free covenant” clause it is required by law that an ownership certificate be filed with the coupon showing who is the owner of the coupon, the amount of the coupon,'name of’ debtor corpora- tions, title of bond, etc. If the owner is one who is not subject to the pay- ment of any income tax he is al- lowed’ to claim exemption from. the withholding, which he does by filing a yellow ownership certificate upon which the debtor corporation is not required to withhold the 2 per cent.’ If, however, the owner is one who is subject to the payment of income tax he is required to file a white ownership | certificate upon which the company must withhold, and pay to the government, 2 per cent of the amount thereof. Ownership certifi- cates are required only in case of bonds containing the “tax-free cove- nant” clause. TWO MOTHERS ‘ ARE ARRESTED AS ROBBERS —_—— Chicago, Feb, 14—Two 18-year-old mothers, charged with taking their babies- with them on several of eight. holdups,-were held today with four men ‘alleged to have been their ac- complices. - ‘ : Mabel Robertson und Genevieve Watier, the women, afmitted, the police said, that they kept their hus- bands in: ignorance of their opera- tions which they said they did “for fun,” A “i % w to with- | Major Welch of Mandan Be- lieves Bulls Eye Told the Real Story of How “Bird Woman” of the Great Ex- pedition was Slain Mandan, N. D., Feb. 14.—-Sakakawea is dead. The “bird woman”, who guided the Lewis & Clark expedition back — in 1804 from a point near here to the “western rivers”, is without ques tion, dead, but no one knows where a nation may raise a statue over her grave to honor her. Doane Robinson, state historian of South Dakota, declares she is buried near Fort Manuel, a long since obli- terated trading post on the North and South Dakota line and the Miss- jouri river, 80 south of here. Dr. Grace Hebard, state historian of Wyoming, claims Sacajawe is buried ‘at the Fort Hall agency in Wyoming. Major A. B. Welch, too, adopted son of Chief John Grass of the Sioux and who has been a friend of the In- dians in this part of the northwest since 1882, when he came here as @ youth in his teens, says the “bird woman” has gone to her happy hunt- ing ground, and today for the first time made public’ a story gleaned from her grandson, that Sakakawea was killed during an attack upon a wagon train and is buried near Glasgow, Montana. The whole dispute has come up as the result of introduction of a bill in congress to appropriate. $5,000 for Jerection of a statue of the historic Indian woman at the Fort Hall in Wyoming. Charles Eastman of the bureau of Indian affairs, himself part Sioux, recently came into this country and has been endeavoring to bring order | out of the conflicting stories. “Sakakawea” has been famed in isong and story. There is no ques- tion but that it was due to her al- | mosb uncanny faculty of orientation, i her knowledge of Indian customs and ‘their probable action under certain ircumstances; her acquired informa- tion of the country through which the party passed, and her sunny, cheerful disposition that actually saved the lives of the famous Lewis & Clark expedition the winter they spent north of Mandan in the Man- dan and Gros Ventres villages. And these same qualities made it possible for her to guide the men whose ex- plorations were to result in the Unit- ed States acquiring the vast domains from the Mississippi ‘river to the western sea. Monuments Erected Suitable monuments have been erected to Sakakawea at Bismarck, N. Dak. and at Sunnyside, Oregon and congress now is considering giving to this buckskin clad woman of 120 years ago, her rightful “place in the sun.” Dr. Charles Eastman has the task of determining just where Sakakawea is buried._ It will not be an easy one. Historian Robinson of South Dakota places his claim ta the Lewis & Clark expedition guide being buried at Fort Manuel, on the entry made by John C, Luttig, a clerk in the employ of the Missouri Fur Company in his diary under date of “Sunday, the 10th, December 1812,” in which he says “clear and moderate. This evening the wife of Charbonneau, a Shoshoni squaw died of a fever. She was a good wife, and the best woman in the fort. ‘Aged about 25 years. She ft a fine infant girl.” Major Welch of Mandan calls at- tention to the fact that Luttig does not mention the name of the squaw, and the only connection Robinson finds to prove this woman to have been Sakakawea is a notation in the diary of H. H. Bresenridge, who came into the upper Missouri river coun- try in 1811. That Luttig could not be relied upon, Major Welch says, is evidenced by the historic fact that he ‘did actually take four children of Sakakawea to. St Louis in 1813 mak- ing application for papers of guard- |. ~ (Continued oh ‘page this) Ley FIRE DESTROYS AUTO SHOW AT | KANSAS CITY Damage Estimated at $1,- 500,000 Is Done in the Conflagration 300 CARS BURNED) Many Pleasure Automobiles | ‘ Are Destroyed During The Fire i Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 14.—(By the A. P.)—Fire starting in flimsy de- corations supposedly from defective wiring killed one man and destroyed automobiles valued at $1,500,000 and the American Royal Livestock pavil- ion, valued at $650,000 early today. All of the exhibits at the annual Kansas City motor show were a total loss. The show had closed for the night and no one was in the| building when the fire broke out. The pavilion, owned by the Amer- ican Royal Livestock Association, was dedicated November 19, 1922, and i was considered the finest of its kind | in the country. The floor area was seven and one-half acres and the Auditorium had a seating capacity of 14,000. Captain John J, Crane, 65, | the oldest fireman on the depart- ment, was caught on an incline be- | tween the annex and the main‘ building, where he was attempting to work a hose, and was burned to | death. Three hundred pleasure cars, ap- proximately 75 trucks, and two air- | planes, were burned. In addition to |the exhibits of about 200 accessory manufacturers were destroyed. The fire struck in the last fleeting min- ute of Friday, the 13th, and it was ithe 713 fire of the year here. KANSAS MAN IS NAMED FOR CABINET POST Jardine Is Selected to be Sec-| retary of Agriculture After March 4 trial in Chicago courts on Co-defendants are Hattie Sawtelle, California, Feb. 14.—The severed head of a woman, who ap- parently had been dead, for several months, was found today in a canyon near here, according to police, While a searching party endeavored to lo- cate the remainder of the body, po- lice checked records of missing per- sons. RLIHU ROOT I$ HONORED Seeretary Hughes Pays Trib- ute at Dinner New York, Feb. 14.~—Secretary of e Hughes last night elevated hu Root to “the American nobili- ty” placing him “in our hall of il- lustrious men, who hold the only patent of nobility in this’ republic, that of worth of character, distine- tion of attainment and pre-eminence in service.” This, said Mr. Hughes is “the nearest approach that we can make in this country to the gift of an earldom.” Secretary Hughes delivered his tribute as the principal speaker at a dinner to Mr. Root at the historic Union League club, of which the for- mer cabinet member twice was presi- dent. Washington, Feb. 14.—William M. |the commission would be elected for The occasion was in celebra- Mr. Root’g birth, which falls on Sun- of the state and nation gathered to to the Republican Union League club.” party, and who spoke were: ernors, Odell, Miller and Whitman and former Senator William M. Cal- deg, president of the Union League club. LAUNCH FIGHT Fight Compulsory Selling to Co-op “Pools” A campaign has been launched through communications against the penalty section of the new coopera- tive marketing bill pending in the state House of Representatives, which prohibits buying from “pooled” products from “pool” members. One of many petitions received ‘from various parts of the state by House members follows: “The undersigned, warehousemen, farmers, merchants, citizens general- ly of said county, hereby. respect- fully urge you to oppose the passage of House Bill 153, which is,an act amending the cooperative marketing act, but especially section 25 of said act, which penalizes all persons who buy ‘pooled’ agricultural products jfrom members of the marketing as- sociation. This gct would prohibit any storekeeper to buy butter, eggs, potatoes or other agricultural prod- ucts from any farmer who has join- ed an association ‘pooling’ such products, under penalty of a $500 fine, and would prohibit the farmers from disposing of any of his said products except through an associa- tion. Such an act is un-American in its spirit, is destructive of com- petitive merchandising and compels the merchant and warehouse to do business with the producer at his peril.” YOUTH HANGED : IN MONTANA Butte, Mont., Feb. 14.—Roy Walsh, 24, was hanged in the Jefferson county jaid at Boulder today for the murder’ of Albert Johnson, store- keeper, at, Renova, Montana, in June, 12,0 3 % naa eh ein tion of the eightieth anniversary of day, and men high in the public life acélaim his services “to his country, to the cause of international justice, the In addition to Mr, Hughes, those Solicitor General Beck, United States Senator Wads- worth, former New York state gov- ON MEASURE Jardine, president of the Kansas Agricultural College, was selected today by President Coolidge to be the Secretary of Agriculture. He is to take office on the retirement of Secretary Gore, who on March 4 be- comes Governor of West Virginia. Along with Mr. Jardine’s nomina- tion, the President today sent to the Senate the nomination of Frank Kel- logg of Minnesota, now ambassador at London, to be Secretary of State after Secretary Hughes leaves the cabinet March 4. This action leaves three cabinet appointments pending before the senate, that of Charles B. Warren to be attorney general having been sent to the capitol a month ago but delayed, by opposition. Selection of Mr. Kellogg to succeed Secretary of State Hughes had been | previously announced but within an hour of Mr. Jardine’s nomination, the supporters of other candidates still Hopeful of success had called in an effort to sway the President's decision. Mr. Jardine, who is.a member of the President’s agricultural confer- ence was chosen from an_ original list of nearly 200 names. The exec- utive in making the selection en- deavored to obtain a man with a knowledge of marketing and distri- bution which he regards as the primary problem facing American ag- riculture. PICTURESQUE FIGURE Manhattan, Kan. Feb. 14.—Dr. William (M. ‘Jardine, president of Kansas State Agricultural college, selected today by President Coolidge to be secretary of agriculture will bring to the cabinet a first hand knowledge of agriculture and a per- sonality of rugged western _ back- ground. Once a “cow puncher,” once a “Broncho buster,” Dr. Jardine has a@ sympathy with the’ farmers and ranchmen. and a comprehension of ( their problems based on intimate ; experiences. He is said to be the best authority on dry farming and the growing of wheat and grain | sorghums, President Jardine has been an out- | spoken advocate of the farmers’ in- terests. In public speeches, he has declared that 10 percent of the trou- ‘bie of the farmers can be remedied by legislation, that the other 90 per- cent must be solved by farmers themselves and their immediate as- sociates, the businessmen of each agricultural community. SHOALS BILL - IS PUT OVER Washington, Feb. 14.—Caught by an appropriation bill which has tak- en more time than was expected, 6-YEAR TERM FOR RAILROAD BOARD ASKED Measure Passes House Re-; ferring Matter toa Vote of the People OTHER HOUSE ACTION ‘The State Senate this after- noon voted 25 to 23 to accept the report of the minority of the State Affairs Committee amend- ing the Mill and Elevator bill to put the authority now in the hands of the Board of Managers of the Grand Forks mill and the Industrial Commission into the hands of the Governor. Submissioh of a — constitutional amendment to the people of North Dakota to provide that terms of members of the state railroad com- mission shall be six years in length, | was approved in the House of Rep-/ resentatives yesterday afternoon. | The House passed Senate Bill 104,! providing for submission of the amendment, by a vote of 71 to 33. The measure now will go to the Gov- ernor. Under the terms of the proposed | amendment, at the first election fol- | lowing approval, three members of | terms of two, four and six years, and | thereafter each for six years. The | measure would become effective so that one member would be elected | each two years. During a long session on third reading, after it had killed the four | fair appropriation bills, the House | RENEWED HOPE - IS FELT TODAY FOR F. COLLINS Party of Men in Natural Pass- age to Sand Cave and Res- cue Party Talk TAMMANY CHIEF 1 20 HOURS NEW LIMIT Hope to Reach Collins, De- clared Alive, Within That Time Mrs. Thomas J. Nolan has been se- lected by Tammany Hall, the nation- ally known Democratic machine of New York City, to act as district leader of the First District, one of the most important posts in the or- ganization. Cave City, Feb, 14.—Men in the na- tural passage to Sand Cave talked to men in the réseue shaft being sunk toward Floyd Collins. ‘entombed cave explorer, while making soundings at 11 o'clock this morning. “H. T. Carmichael and Albert Mar- shall, a miner, went to the bottom of the shaft and held distinct’ conver- sations with Ed Brenner and two other men who were in the passage as far as the cave end,” said an of- ficial statement. It is estimated 4 FAIR BILLS more feet before we reach the origi- nal limestone top, believed to be the “Clincher” Motion Is Applied After House Fails roof: of the cavern leading to Collins. To Pass The shaft, according to Mr. Car- michael, will tap Sand Cave and the point where the cave-in occurred in the natural passage last week. The point betwéen the cave-in and Col- lins was estimated at 20 feet. The penetration of Sand Cave will be in front of Collins. Previously it had | been believed that it would be bekin VERY SHORT DEBATE passed many meastres, most of them with little discussion or opopsition. i, “North Dukota—Fargo, Grand Crevices Found ong the measures was House Bill i444. Minot and Mandan--was re-| More’ small crevices found in the ;No. 182, prohibiting the placing of ¢y..4’by the House of Representa- walls of the shaft this morning gave advertising signs within 1,000 fect 3 pleas of a railroad crossing in such man- ner as to disturb vision of one ap- proaching the crossing. ,The House defeated Rep. McGauvren’s bill de- signed to provide for payment of township road taxes instead of con- tinuing the system whereby - they may be “worked ‘out.” Pure Seed Bill Passed The bill providing a system of. fees to aid in maintenance of the state pure seed labaratory and test- ing work, which was the subject of a hot fight in general orders Thurs- day, was passed, 68 to 38. The pres- ent led control of mothers’ pen- sions, between the county and commissioners, was done away with in House Bill No. 163, placing ithis entirely under the commission- ers and providing a method of ap- eal. The House passed H. B. 169, but after some objection. The measure, it was explained, provided a change in the present method of filing af- fidavits of prejudice against both a judge and a county. In a so-called “double barreled” affidavit, it was stated, the judge must immediately transfer the case to another judge and another county. This has been abused, Rep. Starke of Stark county declared. The bill, he said, provided that as soon as a judge is disquali- fied, another judge must be named and he shall decide the question of whether or not there is such preju- dice in a county as to bar a fair trial for the accused. Rep. Divet of Cass county opposed the measure, stating that while the present method had been abused by being used to force delay, it was about the only protection a defend- ant had against being tried under prejudiced conditions. BILL HAYWOOD HAS RETURNED? Reported I. W. W. Who Fled Has Come Back Chicago, Feb. 14—Several agents today investigated reports that Wil- liam Dudley (Big Bill) Haywood, who fled to Russia in 1919 after he and 92 others were given peniten- tiary sentences for obstructing the government in prosecuting the war, had returned here to settle his affairs preparatory to giving himself up. Officials of the I. W. W. here de- nied knowledge of his presence as also did William Bross Lloyd, weal- thy Communist, who paid the gov- ernment the $30,000 bonds he had headquarters said it would not be surprising if Haywood would ap- pear here before very long. 2 N. D. Houses ‘In Fargo Sold At a meeting of the North Dakota industrial commission yesterday aft- ernoon ‘the sale for $3,700 each of two houses built in Fargo” by the North Dakota Home Builders’ Asso- ciation was confirmed. The houses cost the state between $6,000 and $7,000 each. They were two of a group built at the came time. $ Affairs of the state owned mill the Muscle Shoals leasing bill went lover. today until next week. and ator were touched on: only incidentally at the mesting. judge State aid to four agricultural fairs | Collins. this afternoon. the added proof that the real honey- ves four fair bills had escaped indefi-; combed section of the hill overlying nite postponement on Thursday by a;Sand Hole was at hand. Newspaper narrow margin, opponents rallied|men today were assigned a small sufficient support this afternoon tojtriangle-shaped location atop the defeat the bills. All received 62j)ledge or hill overlooking the mouth \“ayes,” 56 “nayes,” with five absent.jof the rescue shaft, about 35 feet After the $5,000 appropriation billjaway. General Denhardt decided on for the Northwest Fair at Minot ap-|this arrangement so that none could peared lost, Rep. Streich changed , interfere with the rescue workers or his vote to “no” for the purpose of :endanger the shaft, and the news- making ‘a motion’ to reconsider the paper men and “press photographers next day, he announced. However,!would themselves be protected from after the next fair appropriation: interference by spectators. ‘bill, that for the Mandan fair, lost,! Yesterday the reporters were kept Rep. Streich joined in urging the back with the crowd which gathered “clincher” motion, which was applied |during the tense moments of explor- to three of the fair bills, preventing ,ation of the crevice found and e7- their reconsideration. plored with no results by H. T. Car- The appropriations provided were | michael. annually for two years, $2,500 for| As the time of Collins’ rescue Minot fair; $3,000 for Mandan fair; |draws closer, the work of rescue provided for Haywood. The ly W. W.| $5,000 for state fair, Fargo and Grand Forks. Since the matter of the fair appropriations had been debated at length the day previous, there was little discussion. Rep. Hanson,.Grand Forks county, declared that he didn’t believe it was good policy to deny some aid to the agricultural fairs while the state was experimenting with state-owned industries, and declared that he be- lieved the state fair really benefit- ted the western part of the state more than the eastern part, because of the visits of boys and girls to the fairs. Rep. Rabe of Dickinson said that he would oppose the appropria- \tions. He believed North Dakota should have one good state fair, and he didn't sce how this could be brought about when four were rec- ognized. | The vote on House Bill No. 4, ap- propriating money to aid the North- west Fair at Minot, the first of the bills voted on, follows: “Ayes” — Borman, Bollinger, Boyd, Brown, Burkhart, Burns, Carr, Crocker, Cur- rie, Divet, Dougherty, Eckert, Elken, Ellingson of Ramsey, Ellingson of Traill, Flom, Fox, Frank, Freeman, |Halcrow, Hanson, Hildre, Hoople, Johnson’ of Pembina, Johnson of Traill, Levin, McDowall, McGauvren, Montgomery, Muus, Olafson, Peters, Plath, Polfuss, Radcliffe, Root, Ru- lon, Sagen, Sanderson, Slominski, Sproul, Standley, Starke, Thompson of Burleigh, Thompson of Sargent, Traynor, Tschida, Tuneberg, Twi- chell, Veitch, Watt, Worner. “Nayes”—Anderson of Divide, An- Iderson of Sargent, Anderson of | Stutsman, Arduser, Brant, Bubel, Butt, Cart, Craig, Erickson of Di- |vide, Erickson of Kidder, Erickson lof Griggs, Ferris, Fine, Hardy of Bowman, Hardy of Mountrail, Hartl, Hempel, Iverson, Jacobson, Jones, Kamrath, Keierleber, Lazier, Leraas, McCay, McManus, Martin, Miller of Williams, Morton, Oberg, O'Neil Palms, Quade, Quam, Rabe, Rasmu: sen, Richardson, Roberts, Sanford, ‘Schmidt, Shepard, Shurr, Skogland, Streich, Svingen, Swett, Thatcher, Tweten, Vogel, Yeater, Zimmerman, Speaker Larkin. Absent—Helbling, Jodock, Johnson ot Rarfsom, Loudenbeck, Miller of McIntosh. Mrs. Longworth Becomes Mother Chicago, Feb. 14.—A daughter was born to Mrs. Nicholas Longworth at a hospital here, at 10:30 this morn- ing. Physicians in attendance said both mother and baby are “doing well.” The child is the first born to Mr. and Mrs. Longworth and is an addi- tion to the grand children of Theo- dore Roosevelt. Rep. Longworth of Ohio is expected here tomorrow from Washington by fast train, and the plans for spreading the tid- ings to a waiting world are shaped almost to perfection. Cave City, Ky., Feb. 14.—(By the A. P.)—Only a few feet of earth early today separated the Sand Cave rescue party from the cavern they believe will lead to Floyd Collins, imprisoned for two weeks in Sand Hole by a boulder on his foot. The shaft was more than 55 feet down, and at 60 feet a diamond core drill had indicated a cavern approximately nine feet high, although the dept at the shaft is small, due to ac- cumulation of mud and sand. Collins is still e, the members of the state's military board in charge of the situation declared yes- terday evening. Five of thé miners on the rescue squad said they heard coughs or groans from* him come through the crevice located yester- day morning in the shaft wall and hear them from the upper side of the cave in down Sand Hole. Ed Brenner and Alex Bailey of Louisville, convinced General H. H. Denhardt and others of the military board they had really heard these sounds from Céllins and the court collectively and individually express- ed their conviction that Collins is alive. The last official word of the situ- ation at the bottom of the shaft said @hat it was 52 feet deep and three feet more was about to be timbered. The material encountered was limestone boulders in very wet earth. Considerable trouble has been experienced with slides,in the last few feet, necessitating the removal of 10 cubic yards of materidl to com- plete a three-foot section. Drilling has been stopped at 71 feet, finding a limestone bottom after passing through six feet of loose mud. General Denhardt today exhibited two large suitcases filled with near- ly 2,000 letters he has received about the rescue work, most of them filled with suggestions and advice about how to rescue Collins. Many of the messages are from Governors and Mayors, tendering them their encour- agement and assuring him the rescue effort is holding the attention of the entire nation. Kept Mother, Dead, in House Jersey City, N. J., Feb. 14.—“Be- cause she didn’t want mother to leave me,” Miss Margaret Butter+ worth failed to report the older wo- man’s death and lived in the same room with the body for six weeks, Police reported today. * The body, swathed in blankets and ‘| towels, was locked in a room from | which all heat Riad deen turned ‘off, Police said. Miss Butterworth will (j be submitted to s mental examina-