The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 3, 1925, Page 1

| { } { | } i ' } at pina S ae rer “eee pe eenrnn—eed ee a. fs WEATHER FORECAST Fair tonight and Wednesday. Somewhat colder tonight, ‘ESTABLISHED 1873 CONGRESS NOW IS MOVING T0 ADJOURNMENT Busy Day Is Expected in the National Congress as it Nears End SOME Big Appropriation Bills Safe- ly Cleared From the Leg- islative Jam VOTE BILLS BIG BILLS IN JAM Washington, March 3.—The Sixty-Eighth Congress entered the stretch of its final session today with all of its remaining projects for major lezislation losing ground in their race against time. The appropriations program was virtually complete by early afternoon but general agriculture legislation, the Muscle Shoals Bill, the Crampton prohibition reorganization measure, the mi- gratory bird law, and virtually all the other Icgislative proposals the leaders had hoped to see written on the statute books be- BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 1925 EKADLOCK SEEN OVER BRIDGE BILLS LIEUTENANT WOOD IN A FAR COUNTRY | | Being The Story of a Modern Prodigal Who “Began To Be in Want” fore final adjournment at noon tomorrow seemed to be caught in a tangle of opposition from which they could not be extri- cated. As a consequence, private bills and measures of “lesser import- ance occupied the attention of both Senate and House during much of the day and promised to keep them buey until late to- night. Washington, March 3.--(By the A. P.)—The somewhat leisurely fashion in which Congress has neared the adjournment hour at noon tomorrow, promised to give way today to ses- sions extending well into the night for both houses in the last minute rush to clear the calendar of all bills having any chance of enactment, With all of the regular appropria- tion bills safely cleared off the ieg- islative jam, the Senate and House set what was declared to be almost a precedent for both by adjourning without night sessions yesterday and with only a few hours remaining. before sine die adjournment. ~The Senate called it_a day shortly after seven o’clock after Senator Pepper, Kepublican of Pennsylvania, had called up the house branch banking bill as the unfinished business, Sen- ator Curtis of Kansas, the Republi- can leader declaring “no Senator be- ves this bill can be disposed of,” finally obtaining an adjournment un- til eleven o’clock today. The House fixed its convening s hour today at ten o’clock when it adjourned yesterday at 7:30 p. m. After completing a round day’s work By NEA Service Paris, March 3.—Montmartre isn’t exactly a church community, but there is one Biblical passage with ‘which it is intimately familiar. The recent notice paid to Lieutenant Os- borne C, Wood, son of Governor G eral Leonard Wood of the Philip- pines, reminded the Quarter again, and it reads: “The younger son gathered all to- gether and took his, journey into a ;farcountry and there wasted his substanee .with riotous living. And ;when ‘he had spent all, he began ‘to be in want.” There is a variation in the wording as ‘the story proceeds, for the Bible reports that the prodigal son says “J will arise and go to my father.” Lieutenant Wood’s comment is: “Well, put me in, jail. Maybe then the old man Will come through.” Paris hds been the far country for thousands of young sons of America, in which a dozen measures were|and. none of them has wasted his passed under sugpension of rules,| substance on living more riotous in addition to acceptance of the Sen-|than Lieutenant Wood. While: it ate’s umendment to the rivers and} lasted he was the talk of the town, harbors bill and adoption of the con-|from Ciro’s and the New York Bar ference report on the Interior bill, and also joined in putting through a bill appropriating $10,000,000 for additional hospital facilities for World War vetetans. Big Deficiency Bill The only one. of the important money bills still held up is the final deficiency measure. The dispute be- tween the Senate and House on this measure arose from the elimination in conference of a Senate amend- to'the lesser known, more cozy and equally expensive haunts of the fes- tive elect. Flushed with’ stock market win- nings, the young officer got out of the army a year pgo. Following tips cabled fram Wall Street he had run up a fortune estimated as high as $2,000,000, A little later he was sald to. have made a “killing” in U. S. Cast Iron Pipe stock, estimated at $360,000, These reports of specula- ment to appropriate $8,000,000 for)tions were no political asset to the construction of _public throughout the country, heretofore authorized, the Senate refusing to accept the conference report. Legislation in.the Senate to carry out the cooperative marketing inves- tigation of the “President's ugricul- | ture conference. now faces pra cally certain failure. The House in passing the Dickinson Cooperative marketing bill already has once re- jected the Capper-Haugen measure reported yesterday by the Senate agriculture committee, and there ap- pears no chance of either bill be- coming law. § \ | BROOKHART HITS ~ AT CONTEST Washington, March 3—-Senator Brookhart, Republican, lowa, an- nounced today that ‘he had refused buildings | young man’s father and there were MITCHELL IN. HOT DENIAL Says He Did Not “Disobey President’s Orders Washington, March 3.—Brigadier- General Mitchell, the assistant air chief, yesterday, contradicted Secre- tary Weeks’ statement: that he had disobeyed presidential orders in publishing certain. magazine articles with reference to the air service. In a letier to the house aircraft ‘i a to accept service of papers in the /committee the General declared he. contest for his seat which the Re- publican committee of his state is seeking to bring, and that when the |tion that I am familiar with. Senate adjourned he would go te had “in. no way disobeyed of trans- gressed any known order or instruc- . “It-would seem,” his letter added, Towa to make a contest against “that /eihat ‘if I had’ violated. orders, -my gang” with “no quarter” asked. JAMESTOWN MAY attention should have been drawn to them long béfore the present time and action: taken accordingly.” GET POSTOFFICE] 4 MBLING BILL Washington, March 3.—Authoriza- tion for the treasury to . proceed, without regard to previous limit on cost, with construction of public}/open” gambling bill ide its buildings in nearly 100 cities, scat-|pearance in the state. lepislate - IS INTRODUCED Reno, Nev., March 3—A “wide- ap- ince in the state legislature at tered through 40 states, would be giv-|Carson City yesterday when Assem- enjin an amendment to the second /hlyman Robbins. of Elko County ‘in- »ydeWciency bill proposed by Senator |troduced a measure providing for Fletcher, Democrat, Florida, It wa8|the ¢ollection of $1,000 fee from eliminated by the initial conference|each_ table operated for various on the measure but today the senate | games. . insi: on its retention and-teturn-|/ Among the games which would be ed thé’ bill to conference. The amend-|lawful under the bill are faro, rou- ment would authorize a lump appro-|lette, fantan, big injun, twenty-one, priation of $7,900,000. stud and draw poker. Poker games. Among cities interested are: Fait-Jare’ already permitted under the. mont, Minn., and Jamestown, N. D. smteJjaw, ‘ 8 Ont. \ Lieutenant’ Osborne C. Wood and his ‘bride on their wedding day and (inset) Wood's latest photo with his baby. Feports of a‘family break. But the lieutenant went on confidently to his far country. Last summer at Biar- ritz he won on the green tables as consistently as he had in stocks. Many a droll story they recount here about these wild young Ameri cans. they remind you, was the “Suicide Soiree” of Licutenaat Wood, The lavish host issued one single royal decrees that” each ‘of! the, 40 guests as an appetizer should drink 30 cock- tails, all different, Only three of the 40 cared for ‘any food after that. But ‘twas a gay evening. Gradually ‘the fiddler’s collection agent began to follow the dancer. Things were not so encouraging on Wall Street. Baccarat proved dis- tressingly expensive. Wine and song make inroads aven into a million dollars, Mrs, Wood, ' the’ fornier beautiful Kathryn Thompson of Washington and Philadelphia soci- ety,’ came ‘home and said she’ was through. Young Wood went to Spa: ft Behind in Paris three haunting survivors mutely moralize on his his- tory. First his automobile, left at a curb before a cafe with,.a pretty- A faced butterfly saying the lieutenant told her she might have it until he returned. Then his balance with the American Express Co., a meagre $100 and that attached. And last, old Chang, the Chinese valet’ who has served Wood since his Philippine days and found him the generous and all. sufficient deity. Chang's celestial imagery tells him that so far as his fond prodigal is concerned there has arisen a mighty famine in the far country. SENATORS WILL HEAR COOLIDGE Members of the North’ Dakota State Senate will hear President Coolidge’s inaugural address Wednesday afternoon. Arrange- ments were made by Senator “Schlosser, through a local firm, to install a radio in the Senate chamber. TWO PROMINENT EDUCATORS FOR - SUMMER SESSION Grand Forks, N, D., March 3.—Two prominent educators from other un- ivergities will be on the program for the annual summer session of the University of North Dakota June 10 —July 31, Dean Joseph Kennedy, di- rector of the summer school, an- nounces. Dean M. E. Haggerty, of the Col- lege of Education of the University of Minnesota, will lecture on mental measurements each day for one week beginning July 6. L, V. Cavins, of the University of West Virginia, who is directly concerned with education- al psychology, will be a regular. mem- ber of the summer school faculty. BIG METEOR FALLS IN WEST March 3.—An San Francisco, Cal. enormous meteor wi north of this.city last night. The distance could. not be estimated. There was a flare of light similar to that of a skyrocket but many times larger. Several. persons reported seeing it. pi Ong of the biggest parties,| ‘BOY FALLS 10 FEET TO PIT F. C. Ellsworth Has Nar- row Escape Slips From Ladder in Deepest Portion of Cement Pit, Near Diving Board Frank Ellsworth, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs./Frank Ellsworth of Broad- way street, fell ten feet from the lower wall of the municipal swim- ming pool Monday afternoon and narrowly escaped fatal injuries. The five year old boy was trying to descend the ladder into the pit of the pool under the diving board Iwhen his foot slipped and he fell jface forward. He struck his chin and stomach and bled profusely about the mouth. With him was his sis- ter, Laura and other playmates. They managed to get him to the home of Mrs. Tong, 3 Broadway. Mr. Ellsworth arrived there soon after the accident and took his son to a physician’s office. It will be a day or two before it can be ascertain- ed whether there are any internal injuries. Some teeth were knocked out and the boy was resting. fairly easy today. Complaint has been registered in that neighborhood at the insuffi- ciency of the fence. It is urged that the fence should be higher and more securely fastened at the ground. Small children can crawl under and insist upon romping on the diving boards and about the ladders at the foot of the pool. | The Ellsworth boy struck the hard ice formed on the floor of the pool Dr, Brandt who made the examin: a miracle that the boy was not killed falling from that distance. . His heavy cap, coat and overshoes helped to protect him. The two-inch mesh “chicken” net- ting fence which encloses the Mun- cipal Pool affords little protection against entrance by enterprising youngsters bent on play. - Although barbed at the top, it is torn down and sags in several places to within three feet from the ground. At the shallow end of the pool there is a j four by three foot hole allowing easy access to anyone. And the absence of any board at the bottom of the | fence posts at ten foot intervals be- ing the only fastening makes it pos- sible for children ‘te squirm under the wire netting anywhere. Residents of ‘the neighborhood, realizing the menace, are constantly cautioning their children against | playing around or in the pool, parti- cularly since there have been acci- dents in the past. Two years ago young Richard Tiedman of 16 Thayer Street fell from the edge at the nine foot depth, but fortunately sustained no serious injury. Mothers complain that they. have frequently kept their Idren indoors, rather than run the risk of their being hurt. Although the pool is particularly hazardous in the winter when, there is no. water, residents say that un- guarded. as it is in the summer as well, little children are frequently found wading in at the shallow end. Complaints were made to the City Commission so long ago as three years against the inadequacy of the fence, and while it has been repaired from time to time, such repairs have been of little value, and none at all have been made during the past winter. Mayor Lénhart questioned this morning as to the city’s intentions, replied that they “intended to go up there today to look it over.” To comments on the inadequacy of the fence, he merely replied that it was a case of “wanton destruction of pro- perty” and he did not know how they would fix the fence, He mairftained that ag originally set up the fence prevented access to the pool. Catholic Church Is Demolished By Earthquake Quebec, March 3.—The Roman Ca- tholic church at St, Hiliarion, 60 miles from here, was demolished during the earthquake Saturday night, it was reported here today by the agent of marine and fisheries at Cape Salmon. ‘Man Arrested Charged With Annoying Woman ~~ Earl Christenson was arrested to- day upon complaint of Frank Everts who saw him attack a woman whose hame could not be learned at the corner of Fourth and Rosser streets at 10 A. M. this morning. The wom- an broke loose from the man and came across to where Mr. Everts wa: standing. She said she did not know the man and asked that he be arrest- ed: Mr. Everts gave chase and caught the man ima fifth street pool hall) He turned him over to Sheriff Hedstrom and filed a com- plaint. The woman who wag attacked is sked to get in touch with the riff's office, “ f ‘ OF CITY POOL Frank Ellsworth, Jr., Son of} Appropriations | HITS FACE’ DOWNWARD! BEFORE BUDGET SAILS IN ROUGH SEA Committee and Two Houses Must Approve of It THE Appropriations Hears Requests From De- partmental Heads HOUS) The state departmental budget bill, fixing salaries and expenditures in the state capitol, was before the House apptopriations committee last night, and a lengthy hearing was conducted. Heads of departments appeared to explain budget reques| departments must run # long gaunt- let. First, the Budget Board, which met for ‘two months prior to the op- requests for appropriations and agreed upon a report. The’ budget recommendations in the form of bills, have since gone through the Senate appropriations committee and a fight on the floor of the Senate. The measure now comes out of the House committee and must pass on the floor of the House. If there is difference be- tween the House and Senate a final settlement must come in the appro- | |RAILROADS NOT priations committees the bodies. of two Among other things learned in the | House appropriations committee meeting last night was that while the Constitution provides for the printing of a publicity pamphlet no appropriation had been provided for it. Since the law for repeal of party registration by assessors failed, the office of Secretary of State must lalso have an appropriation of $2,000 % invented, tion after the fall said it was short of for supplies for them, Secretary of State Byrne and Deputy Secretary Duffy informed the committee. The law also requires that a state census be taken, and no money had been provided for this. Explains Travel Need Frank Milhollan, chairman of the railroad commission, explained the budget requests for thet office. He told the commission that it ought not to eut traveling expense, but to (Continued on page tnree) DEBT AUDIT IS PROPOSED Follows Investigation of Al- leged Irregularities Washington, March 3.—Secre- tary Mellon, in a letter to Pres- ident Coolidge today, informed the executive that ithe Treas- ury’s “accuser” charging irreg- ularities in the handling of fed- eral securities remain “as far now from proving their charges as they were in 1920.” Washington, March 3.—A_ report urging a complete audit of the pub- lie debt and other measures to cor- | rect conditions which were declared to have led to duplication.of govern- ment bonds, some with fraudulent purpose,’and the falsification of rec- ords, has been submitted by a ma- jority of the House committee which investigated charges irregulari- ties in the Bureau of M&graving and Printing. Declaring that the proportion of the bond duplications which resulted from fraud is “not yet determined,” the committee majority added that the report of the Treasury relative to the matter is “incomplete, con- tradictory, and evasive.” eo——_—_-. ooo | Weather Report | ————____-——_ For 24 hours ending at noo! Temperature at 7 a. m, . Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday Lowest last night Precipitation Highest wind velocity . WEATHER FORECAST For Bismarck, and vicinity: Fair tonight and Wednesday. Somewhat colder tonight. For North Dakota: Fair tonight and Wednesday. Somewhat colder tonight. WEATHER CONDITIONS The low pressure -area. over the northern Rocky Mountain region yes- terday morning has moved eastward to the upper Mississippi Valley and temperatures sre rising rapidly in sippi Valley and Great Lakes’ region. A high pressure area is centered off the Pacific coast re- gion but temperatures are above freezing at almost all places from the Plains States to the Pacific ‘coast states. Light precipitation oc- curred in Minnesota, North Dakota and at scattered places over the northern Rocky Mountain region. Elsewhere the weather is ‘generally fair. % -QRRIS W. ROBERTS, Official in charge. 31 42 18 ee A typesetting machine that is operated directly from the keyboard of any standard typewriter has been The appropriations for the state | Committee | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. ening of the legislature, went over | i { | | ! Paul residents. ed Here are shown radio engineers at work at the great speech input and long distance panel at WEAF, Now York City, wiere the inaugural | upeech of President, Coolidge will be received over a wire and then | rebroadcast through stations all over the country. REQUIRED TO = ARBITRATE Washington, March 3.—Railroads are not required to submit to the Railroad Labor Board for arbitration | labor disputes with their employees, | the Supreme Court declared today in a decision holding the roads can d termine who shall be recognized representing their employees in 1 bor disputes. BIG UTILITY PURCHASES IN STATE MADE Otter Tail Power Company Acquires Many Pro- perties St. Paul, March 3.—-Vernon A.! Wright of Fergus Falls, Minn., own- CEREMONIES DON'T WORRY MR. COOLIDGE Washington Is Quiet on the Eve of Inauguration of Executive DAW! IS CALLER Washington, March 3.—In a set- ting that reflected but dimly the [ FINAL EDITION: PRICE FIVE CEN HOUSE MOVE IS NOW AWAITED INTHE SENATE Bridge Bills May Pass if Edu- cational Institutions Given Funds KILL CONCERT BILL House of Representatives In- definitely Postpones Band Tax Measure The State Senate this after- noon reconsidered the Sanish and Williston bridge appropria- tion bills and laid them on the table for further action. House Bill 86, the Hail In- surance Zoning bill failed of Passage in the Senate for lack of a constitutional majority, the vote being 24 ayes, 19 noes with 4 absent. It may be brought up again. The State Senate was expected this afternoon to reconsider the vote by which appropriation bills providing state aid for bridges at Sanish and Williston were indefinitely postpon- ed, and the bills were expected to be laid on the table for future ac- tion, as were the Fargo and Des Lacs bridge bills yesterday. With this action taken, the Sen- ate was expected to await action of the House on several measures, par- ticularly bills appropriating money for the University of North Dakota and North Dakota Agricultural Col- lege. The action of the House on the gasoline tax bill, appropriations for agricultural fairs and the state bud- get also may somewhat guide the final action of the Senate with re- ference to the bridge bills. The two educational institution appropriation bills still are in committee: The Senate position is, it is under- stood, that if the House is “fair” with the educational institutions in appropriation measures, it is ready to pass bridge bills, but if there is to be an attempt at economy by slashing the educational institutions, the Senate will take the position that the economy should extend to cut- ting out of bridge appropriations. The House leaders take the posi- owy splendor that has shown upon inaugural history for a century and more the American government brought to completion today its plan to install a new national administra- at noon tomorrow. ything considered, it was the March 3 of any inaugura- tion year that Washington has seen in many a decade. The ceremonies to- morrow will be somewhat more ex- tended than those of four years ago qui er of the Otter Tail Power Com-| non President Harding ordered that pany, has acquired control of vir- the whole inauguration be attended tually all of the independent elec-'}° utmost simplicity but on that, oc- trical utilities of North Dakota, it ¢.in the impending change of gov. was (disclosed) here:taday. jernment stirred the capitol to a high Control of the North Dakota pow-!yitch of expectation and brought here er and electrical service by Mr. 4 tremendous crowd of spectators. Wright resulted from his purchase : of the Midwest Power Company, a] 4.) Gcrenneaterren ae oe ch hs oriwed intel best, itol was almost barren of pre-inaug- Confirmation of the purchase last week enlarged the Wright's holdin, to more than $5,000,000 it was sai During the past year Mr. Wright acquired the Jamestown Electric Co.| other independ in North the Midwest Power Compa nt electri- ota from LYNCH NEGRO | AFTER ATTACK Rockyford, G: » March 3.—An ‘un identified negro who confessed to attacking a 14 year old girl near| here was lynched late yesterday about 2 1-2 miles from Rockyford. He was captured after a chase last- ing nearly the entire day and was wounded in the back with a rifle shot. The negro was burned at the stake. He was brought back to the scene of ‘his crime and identified by his victim. He was then carried to a field where brush and wood were piled about his manacled form and after gasoline had been applied to his clothing, the wood was set on fire. The victim, uttered’ but faint out- cries and was stoical throughout the experience. There was little dis- order. IN LOCAL and only a few scattered reviewing stands and profusion of red, white and blue which draped imost every building along the line of tomorrow's abbreviated parade ev- idenced the near approach of an- ural crow “lother inauguration day. At the White House President Coolidge a little busier than or- dinary, receiving distinguished visit- ors and keeping pace with the fever- ish activities of the dying Congress, but he went about “doing the day's work” according to the motto he long ago adopted as his watchword of public service, without apparent thought of the morrow. Dawes Comes One of those who called on the president was Charles G. Dawes of Chicago, the soldier-statesman who in another 24 hours will become the nation’s second in command. Fol- lowing his celebrated dipper pipe on a trip about the capitol to renew old acquaintances the vice-president elect dropped in for an hour's chat with his chief and regaled senators whom he met in the executive offices with quips about staid parliamentary de- corum he foresees for himself as presiding officer of the senate. Send Greetings Delegations from a score or so of states, headed in most cases by. governor, either called to pay their > tion that the Senate action can make no difference with appropriations, al- though it has been hinted that the educational institution bills may be treated in accordance with the way the Senate treats the bridge bills. A deadlock and settlement of the matter by conference is probable. The biennial attempt to empower cities and villages to levy a tax for + band concerts, upon majority vote; failed in the House of Representa- tives today. The bill, which had passed the Senate, failed in the House, receiving 48 ayes to 52 noes. The Senate appropriations commit- tee had restored an item of $60,000 for a new Auditorium at the Minot Normal, and a hot fight was expected on this in the Senate, The House, during its morning session today, cleaned up several bills of minor importance. The Sen- ate bill providing a tax on dogs was indefinitely postponed, 55 to 42, and may possibly be revived. A bill was passed providing that when a deposit has been made in a bank in the name of two persons, and one dies, it may be withdrawn by the other; a bill was passed amending the statute governing the state training school at Mandan to bring the parole practice up to pre- sent-day methods, and a measure was enacted providing that a for- warding bank would be protected from failure of a payer bank through insolvency or other default in ac- counting for the proceeds on a draft, check or other instrument. ATR SERVICE PROBE ENDS New Tangle of Contradictions Marks the End Washington, March 3.—The House aircraft committee has closed its in- vestigations amid a new tangle of (Continued on page three) |FEBRUARY WEATHER MOST DESIRABLE STATION'S HISTORY Mild and pleasant weather pre- vailed throughout Nerth Dakota dur- ing February, 1926, especially over the Missouri Slope and western counties.’ At Bisfharck the maximum temperatures wefe well above zero on all days, ¢xoppt the Ast when the highgt temperature was 2 degrees below. Thé highest temperature re- corded was 50 degrees on the 3rd and there were five other days with a maximum temperature of 40 de- grees or moft.q The temperature was below zero on but seven days, the lowest béing -16 on the 1st. The mean temperature for the month was 20.0 degrees, or 9.7 degrees above the normal, .In 1924 during February the mean was 24.5 degrees. ) There were no severe storms and |gress. the precipitation, 0.05 inch, was 0.45|dicated no obje inch below, or only one-tenth of, the normal. No high winds occurred, the highest being 38 miles per hour from the northwest on the 25th. When one considers both temper- ature and snowfall, the weather of the month just passed was one of the most desirable in the histciy of the local station, There were 2 clear days, 18 partly cloudy days, and 13 cloudy day8, and but 2 days with 0.01 inch or more of precipitation. The total wind movement was 4,712 miles, an average velocity of 8.5 miles per hour. The sunshine was 11 percent below the normal, \ contradictions in the row between Brigadier General Mitchell, Assist- ant Army Air Chief, and the War Department. The committee faced the task to- day of going over the voluminous record of its hearings although it has pending in the House a resolu- tion that would give authority to de- fer the report until the next Con- Republican leaders have in- ion to the postpone- ‘ment. bassin AN. ht HAS UNIQUE DISTINCTION By The Associated Press To William Howard Taft goes the unique distinction of being the only man who ever was call- ed upon to take the oath of of- fice as President, and later to administer it to another, Mr. Taft was inaugurated Pre- sident of the United States on. March 4, 1909, and on Wednes- day, as Chief Justice of the United States, he. will administer oh same pledge to Calvin Cool. .