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\, - . ingness to go if there was anything thro ut <p Breet WEATHER FORECAST, Partly cloudy tonight; Friday fair, not much change. THE BIS (BI j ARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TH ELECTIONS COMM CHANCESOF AGREEMENT ARE REMOTE} © Both Miners and Operators Seem Unwilling to Com- promise in Any Way FREES MOTHER . WILL ATTACK ITALY'S DEBT SETTLEMENT House Ways and Means Com-' mittee Will Recommend All Other Settlements ‘ TO TRY AGAIN TODAY \ | DEMOCRATS OPPOSE Style of Government En- dangers Italy’s Ability to | Fulfill, Agreement | Operators Reject Pinchot Plan and Miners Do Same With Markle Plan New York, Jan. 7——Uncom- promising opposition to peace pro- positions has developed at the con- ference of anthracite miners and operators. After each side iterday had placed itself on record for or against various schemes to end the suspen- sion the 12 conferees professed will- Washington, Jan. 7,-U)—The house will receive from its ways und means committee _ recommendation| for acceptance of the war debt set- | tlements but will face a fight against! approval of the agreement with Italy,! Yhe Mussolini dictatorship in that| country is to be the target of two, democratic repregentatives in pppos-| ing the settlement, Settlements with Rumania, Italy Belgium, Cecho Slovakia, Latvia and sthonia, were approved by the house! committee, and a resolution author-| izing their acceptance will be intro-! duced in the house next week by/ Chairman Green. . Rainey and Hull Oppose Representatives Rainey of Il and Hull of Tennessee, Democratic members of the committee, will ask/| the chamber to reject the Italian set- | tlement on the ground that the dic-| tatorship government of that coun- try constitutes a threat to fulfil ment of the debt contract, which car- ries through more than fifty years. | As an alternative to immediate ac- | ceptance, the two representatives! would suspend the agreement for 10/ years, Italy to continue interest pay- ments on the debt during that per-; iod as provided in the settlement. At the end of that period, they believe, stability of the Italian government could more readily be determined. | to consider. Alvan Markle of Hazelton, Pa., chairman of the joint conference, the hope that another day might bring something new, suggested an adjournment overnight and _ both sides agreed. President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers said that he would regard a breakup without an agreement as a public calamit Oppose Congressional Regulation The miners suggested and the oper- ators rejected a proposal that the two sides join in presenting to con- gress a bill to regulate the anthra- cite industry. The operators said such regula; tion would be unconstitutional. The peace plan of Governor Pin-|' chot was rejected by the operators and that of Chairman Markle by the miners. The Pinchot plan provided for. an inquiry to determine if wages can be increased and for a voluntary check- off, The Markle proposal was for three impartial citizens to decide que&ions not agreed to by the mine ers and operato: While the conferees were strug- gling to end the tieup, reports that a settlement had been made reached the ‘anthracite veqien by radio. Chairman Markle said that the circu: Intion of such reports among peo: ple in distress was “almost crimi- nal.” The coal conferees went. into ses- sion shortly before noon. Appai ently there were no developments to- ward a solutton of the deadlock dur- ing the morning. Mrs. Grace Moore was sent to jail because she stole a Christmas pre: ent for her son, Alber The boy, grief stricken, attempted to kill him- self with poison, Physicians saved his life and a kindhearted judge ae om DEFICIT OF $2,067,286.34 ON SEPT. 10, SAYS OFFICIAL AUDIT a ae Seon SE ET Practically Ail Losses Orig- inated During Period of De- m te TODAY IN WASHINGTON Nye eas is considered by sen- ‘PETRIFIED ! | | Contest Conducted by Town ps SDAY, JANUARY 4, 1926 HEART FOUND | AT STERLING | L. Hurr Is Exhibiting Unique Rock-like Forma- | tion in Bismarck Uhat is said by medical experts to! the petrified heart of a human be- | ng of gigantic stature is being exhib- ! today by E. L. Hurr,| swine, who li ears ago, but the cur- never before been shown} rble, and weighs two and one-quar- er pounds. It has an appearance ntical to that of a human ysicians say, except that it,is co rably larger. The veins are rt, h, i oe — rs—Wi - lily discernible, and the various cavi-j M AR K M AY flation and Prior to Period pute on interior bill oceu- - sine Chal ‘Hes contained in a heart are shown. pies house nge to Dunham en some of the muscles can be! of Oct. 16, 1924, to Sept. 10, cotati teoctors (hoo one (clearly. seen. : i 1925, Covered by Audit peeeealereontral, Providence, R. I, Jan (| of the! eign fuming atte 7 peter ittens hes: sR Ve i ‘ol e its st | T SERIES OF 925, Cover y Audi tm controversy. [The all-New ‘England fiddiing cham-| plowing. “He: made a diliwent search | | SEM coc RRL Rca donc Hatihacttocatloaiion conti pionship crown rests today on the |for other remains of a human body] by house commerce commissio NEGRO RACE P years old, of Plainfield, Conn. im . Dakota on September 10 amounted to | $2,007,286.34, according to the report on the business of the bank made to the state auditing -board by O. B. tune accountant, The audit, report ‘of which has just been filed with state officials, covers the period from .October 16, 1924, to Sept. 10, 1925, and shows, und says in his statement, the true dition of the lh The repo contaigs 448 page: luding many multipage exhibits and statements of financial detail. mmehting on the hug listed_as deficit the report said attempt was made to ide estin ed losses on bank assets into-any cer- tain period. Practically all losses o iginated during the period of defla- tion and prior to the period covered ‘by our audit, Estimated losses on bank assets, that is, losses to the’ Bank of North Dakota through failure of other banks, are placed at $1,606,383.96. The operating loss to October 15, 1924, was placed at $425,028.04 and the operating loss from October 16, 1924, to September 10, 1925, was fixed at $35,874.34, Estimates Believed Correct Commenting further on figures di: closed by the audit Lund sai “While it is not possible to accurate- ly determine the ultimate loss of all accounts, they were gone over with the officers of the ‘bank, the re- ceiver of closed banks department and other officers having knowledge of banking conditions in the state at this time and from available infor- mation gathered I believe our esti- mates to be approximately correct. “The banking department, exclu- sive of the farm loan department, shows an operating profit for the period before charging interest on eapital stock bonds. After charging interest we show a net loss for the Period of $3,618.35. ; “During the period of this audit the bank kept its records on the cash time fiddlers’ contest in score of aspirants “vr the title peted during the past three ni under the auspices of the Criers, a businessmen’s organiz: The contest ended last i duel between Shippee and ffney, 71-year-old Provi Five or Six Road Show Com- panies Are to Be Routed Through Northwest Minneapolis, Jan. 7.—(#)—Five or six theatrical companies, presenting legitimate stage productions, are to be routed over the northwest during the coming season, it was announced today, following a conference of man- ind executives representing the jin and Ruben theatres in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Da. kota and Wisconsin. It also was announced that on Sen- tember 1, Finkelstein and Ruben will operate a vaudeville circuit out of the Twin Cities, with performers and companies playing short runs jn the various citle: ‘ The announcement said thet the road shows’ decision will undoubt- edly affect such towns as St. Cloud, Mankato, Ai Rochester, Abe! deen, Sioux Falls, Fargo, Grand Forks, and Bismarck. | While vaudeville acts are now ap- pearing at various points in Minne- ota, it was decided to expand the uit to include Grand Forks, Far- go, Mandan, Eau Claire. Aberdeen, Sioux Falls, Huron and Mitchell. Three Are Killed in Mexican Uprisings Mexico City, Jan. 7—(@)—The Mexican government is continuing its “tron hand” policy, in quelling up- risings. Former Colonel Manuel Gomez has been captured and summarily execut- ed at Tala, a village in the state ot ion, | a dence favorite. pratulptions us the gold medal, em- ORIGINATED Besides the medul, Shippee received Dr. Scott’s Opinion Based on) $50 in gold and a’ check for his ex-| : " nses here during the contest. | Remains Found Through- nthe Town ‘Criers have announced that they intend to issue a challeng: out Europe to “Mellie” Dunham, Mi pion who played for Henry Ford, on| Shippee's behalf. BVELYN SORRY - Princeton, N. J., Jan. 7.—(®)—Ne- groes may have originated from .a' white Eurasian race, part of which migrated into Africa before the race became’ extinct in Europe, Dr. W. B.} Scott, professor of geology and pale- ontology at Princeton University, red a gtoup of his students yester- jay. The present white race, on the other hand, he continued, may have had darker ancestors, not, however, negroid, there being little evidence of what color primitive man may have been. He also said that in looking for the cradle of the human race in the Mesopotamian valley scientists. may be on the wrong track, as there was a distinct possibility that the human. race may have several cradles. The] TO GET WELL Says She’ Dtank Plenty in Hopes It Would Be Enough | - —Was Full of Booze | id plained, strongly suggest that, there were several different species of man, only a few of which survived., The negroes, he said, may be a distinct race which had a different origin from other existing ra He believed the sunmise that ne- groes may have descended from a non-African race at one time was Chicago, Jan. 7—(#)-—Evelyn Nes- bit Thaw is sorry she is going to re- cover from her attempt at suicide. Informed by her physician today that | the eight ounces 5f disinfectant she drank Tuesday would not be fatal.|™ the former model, stage star, and wife of Harry K. Thaw, replied that she was sorry. furrowed brow of Joseph Shippee, 69 or ai was proclaimed the winner of the old; what jappenred which a! tines, com-! bones of a n considerable attention since, so ight in a has ever before been found. Annual Convention of Pub- and Saturday, January 22 and 23 in the annual convention of the North Dakota Publishers’ Association. Jul- ius F. Bacon of Grand Forks is pres- Forkner of Langdon is secretary. The following program has been prepared for the meeting: skeletdl remains of early man, he‘ex- entative, mal in the jothing except a small s to have been s also petrified. y kind could be located. The petrified heart ateaating rary is known here, nothing of its kind | This | ! | { i | EDITORS’ MEET IS ANNOUNCED; lishers to Be Held at Minot January 22-23 Publishers of North Dakota news- dent of the association und Mark 1. Friday, 9:30 A. M. Invocation—Minot clergyman. Address of welcome—Minot repres- Response to address of weleome— W. H. Francis, Velva. Remarks by the president—Julius . Bacon, Grand Forks. Secretary's report—Mark I. Fork- er, Langdon. Reading of communications. Material and makeup of front page Roy L. French, head of school of Jalisco, while Joaquin Medii basis,: For our statements we have| based upon the remains of negroid hi it .| journalism, University of North Da- Serafin Leon were shot dead in alcomputed the accrued interest re-| races of very ancient. origin found] ation with het res one | Rota. skiri ceivable and payable to date of audit \(Continued on page three.) in southern France and other places in Europe; “Why did you do it” “I was full of gin, beer and wi i key and just drank it. ink plen- | COOPERATION IN HANDLING 1925... |amsnetgie""', CALIFORNIA GRAPE CROP BROUGHT |": 4 ‘GROWERS INCREASED RECEIPTS cloudy tanight; Chicago, Jan. 1.—(P)—California much change in temperat grape producers received more than For North Dak tonight? colder increase in receipts last tion, Friday fair, ban arrangement effect- WEATI Atlantic State. Shippe: sory Board and the aure area, weather, extends coast eastward to region, while lower pressure moderate temperature covers, Sask-| ciation. 7 i \atehewan and North Dakota. Preci-| He addressed the opening session pitation occurred ab many placestof the first joint national confer- the Plains States and} ence of the officiats of the American tern alope of the Rock- lations, representattive: the weather is goner- ra’ rej aly advisory oRniasw. eal Unite, and of eT omiolal tn chats soldiers Lac Noria, in the state of Michoacan. t Weather Report | ee eaten Temperature at 7 a, m. .... Highest yesterday ‘ Lowest last night - Precipitation to 7 Highest wind vel the doctor Art Dealer Dies | or more than 84 per cent of the total California prbduction. last year, were handled through the co-operation of all concerned in New York ter- minal district ‘without any embartoes whatever, contrasted with the re- ceipt of less than 12,000 cars in 1923, with successive “embargoes on all lines,” he declared. “ Brief reports upon the transporta- tion situations in their respective gistricts amare ate ae, each of chairnien o} shippers’ reg- ional boards. ‘ Railroads tn -¢ ¥ northwest have pot ey met re nds i the hasta. ut have gone n PI in, service, ‘aid, J. Fy chelrnan of {the northwest ion, and president of the Minneso! Fm bureau. Were Self-inflicted Berlin, Jan; 7.—()—Having shot himeelf after arranging a settlement | ~ for his wife, who contemplating @ divorce, Paul sirer, noted art deale: ii has played in New| His 19-year matrimonial with Tila Dyrieux was often mark- ed by stormy encounters between the two temperamerital artists. n,. manager of public rela- ‘American Railway asso- depression since the outbreak of the world war, during which he was sub- jegted to heckling ‘by the military charge.| -| views. Abuses”—By Winthrop Chamberlai quid be out of the hospital | chief editorial writer of Minneapol id. fos alliance | Francis, Williston. Cassirer had suffered from fits of |.Mohall.' authorities. because of his, radieal) mecting places. Discussion of abové by assembly. Lunch. Friday, 1:30 P. M. Appointment of committces—by the resident. “Edito: Page—Its Uses and n- of above by assembly. Musical number—Minot residents. “Advertising Rates”—Wayne Pet- From Wounds Which| Sr ce nan id glove by assembly. Musical number-—Minot residents. “Newspaper Features”—Jim Kramy T, rmarth. Discugsion of above by assembly. Friday, 7:30 P. M. Entertainment: by the Minot Cham- wife, Till4| ber of Commerce. Saturday, 9:30 “Neighborhood New: "— Ernest Diacussionof above by assembly. Election of officers for 1926. “Free Publicity”’—W. H. Chapel, ‘Discussion of above by assembly. Reports of committees. she . Selection “of ‘sunimer’ and winter Adjournment CK TRIBUNE [om * PRICE FIVE CENTS ITTEE REPORTS ON NYE SEAT — INE AT WHITE HOUSE SORLIE HAD NO i | | | THREE ATTEMPTS AT SUICIDE FAIL—WOMAN RVES SELF TO DEATH Harrisburg, Mls. Jan. 7. (@) Death, which she sought in three attempts at suicide coal i husband, a | miner, was drowned last June |} and worry over his death and financial reverses are said to have caused her ‘to slash her throat five weeks ago. She wit }} rushed to a hospital. Her first day at the hospital ghe jumped from'a second story window but she did not die, Two weeks ago she went on a hunger strike and this time had her wish, for she developed paralysis which cau ed death, She leaves three chil- dren, Q ARRESTED IN BOOZE RAID | AT CINGINNAT! Two Policemen Included in; Roundup of Large Moon- shine Liquor Ring neinnati, Jan. (P) je per-| sons, including a sergeant and sub- patrolman of the Cincinnati police} department, were arrested last night by federal prohibition agents, who announced the roundup had broken the largest moonshine liquor ring erating in this distr H At least a score of he- sought, among them a northern Kentu man, said to be rated on his liquor dealings, emen, Sergeant Alfred d Sub-patrolman Homer} according to the federal for an x0] gallon shipment of liquor from an} hio river bridge to an inn north of innati, where the agents, posing customers, had n jated for ¢ es of a quantity of whi SACRAMENTS ADMINISTERED T0 CARDINAL Condition Remains Unchang- ed, However, and Has Not Become Aggravated Brussels, Jan. 7.—()—Cardinal Mercier's condition was unchanged this morning with temperatures nor- mal but pylse feeble. It was an- nounced that no medical bulletin would be issued during the day. \It is learned that Cardinal Mercier last night expressed a desire to re- ceive the holy sacrament although his condition had not become aggra- vated. Accordingly the sacraments were administered in strictest pri- ‘the fascist purpose is to endeavor to give the crown to Archduke Albrecht, ! obtained through the putting of spur- RIGHT TO NAME | NYE, SAYS GOFF To Construe North Dakota Statute in That Manner Is Called “Perversion” VOICES MAJORITY VIEWS Committee Holds Special Elec- tion Necessary to Legally Choose Senator Washington, Jan. 7.—()—It_ would he a “perversion” to construe | the h Dakota statute, providing for filling vacancies in state offices by appointment, as having any reference .to congressional offices, and Gerald P. Nye should be dehied'a seat in the enate from that state on this ground, ator Goff, republican, West Vi ia, suid today in? presenting the «i majority views of the senate elections : +... |} committee on the Nye case. tte at the Witte House on New] He held that the governor had no their democratic glory. j tight to make the appointment, and ae j the only way @ successor to the late ERR | Senator Ladd could be legally chos- THRONE HINTED North Dakota legislature would be convicted of “gross ignorance, or of a ition to do idle and foolish Fascists Supporting Arch- duke Albrecht, Legitimists Want Prince Otto acts” if it were held that the gover- nor had authority to fill a vacancy} ‘in the United States senate by ap- pointment, Senator Goff, republican, West Virginia, declared today in pre- senting the view of the majority sen- ate elections committee holding that Senator-designate Gerald P. Nye was not entitled to his seat. “We conclude,” said the West Vir- ginia senator, “that it is not open —) Budapest, Jan. A report | te argument that, prior to the adop- that there is a plot to restore the| tion of the seventeenth amendment throne of Hungary is in circulation,| t© the federal constitution, there wan no intention on the part of the legi lature to confer on the governor the power to fill a vacancy in the office of the United States senate and that the legislature has at all times since On the one side it is asserted that while the legitimists are supporting | Prince Otto, son of the late King} Chablen: recognized a distinction between The latter state offices and congressional offices Viennese : based upon fundamental differences that the leader of the Hungarian fas-| i" functions and source of power.” cists, Julius Gombos, was 50 miles} — southeast of Budapest gathering to-|| Governor Held Without Authority. gether men for a march on the cap-| , The majority report was based on ital withip two or three days. It was|the ground that the executive of added that Count Pethlen, the Hun-| North Dakota had no authority to garian premier, was conferring with] make the appointment and that “the leading legitimists for the purpose; only way in which this vacancy can of devising means to put down a fas-| be filled is by a special election.” cist attack and elevate Otto to the! “The state statute provides that thron Clo connected with the talk of the re-establishment of the monarch: the thirty billion franc note ea: he socialists charge that the fas- i e at the bottom of the coun- ancies in ‘state and district of- * shall be filled by appointment the Governor,” said Senator Goff. “It is argued that this gives the gov. ernor the power to fill a vacancy in the offi of United States senator on the theory that the legislature in- tended to include in the phri ‘state office’, the office of United States senator, The uniform course of leg- islation since Dakota’s ~statehoood negatives the existence of any such intent. Not Intended Embrace Congressmen. “There is no room for construction with respect to the meaning of ¢ term ‘state offices’ as used in statute. It means precisely what it i di | brace members of the national legis- jJature. It would clearly’ be a per- a | version to hold that the statute has any reference whatever to vacancies plot and that the money jous French notes in circulation was to be used in Albrecht's ambition. financing | in “congressional offices, _, |. “When we note tatute express- Has Broken Leg and Wrist,|1y, provides that vacancies in. state jo be ‘filled for th “4 But Injuries Not Consid- ‘recall, fur mainder of the term_and recall, fur- " | ther, that this statute was substan- ered Serious ially the same as section 8, chapter of the code of 1877, and enacted —_—_ | contemporaneously with the statute, v. (#)—After fall-| it becomes clear that it is nothing 12's ment of a) short of absurd to suggest that the building under construction on River | legislature, at any time, had in view Side Drive, Paul Roeckhold, a struc-| a yacancy in the office of the United tural ironworker, was found alive by | States senate. fellow workers on a pile of debris.) To do so would be to convie He calmly tald them that he had al law-making body of Senab eects broken leg and broken wrist and/or of a disposition to do idle ned asked them to call an ambulance, | fooliah acta” Roekhold ha fallen n stories | through an airshaft, landing square-| ly on a bricklayer’s scaffolding, from} which he bounded and fell five more! floors into the basement. His con-{ dition was not serious. Hollywood to Have | Two Boxing Bouts; Jan. 7.—@)—The | c nmy Mandell, Rock- | ford, Minois, lightweight, with T dy O'Hara of San Francisco, and! Ace Hudkins, Nebraska, 135 pounder, WILL AWAIT DECISION OF HIGH COURT Industrial Commission’s Ae- with Frankie Schaeffer, of Chicago! tion on Redepositing State for 10 round bouts at Hollywood was | announced today. The, Mandell-! Funds Delayed O’Hara bout will be staged January | vacy. Porand the Hudlins-Scheeter, air! No. action’ dbowanl ‘edppasiing January 2: | funds of the Bank of North Dakota wan nnn | in various state banks will be taken |by the state industrial commission KNUTE ROCKNE, FOOTBALL COACH | uni the euprame court decides a ATNOTRE DAME COLLEGE, JOINS — S.seqe Seucirs? ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH s-:3:' Seutas oe THE New York, Jan. %.4-(#)-Knute Rockne, coach of Notre Dame teams, has Wecome a Roman Catholic. Friends had known for some time that he contemplated the step. A priest of the Sacred Heart church in South Bend, Ind., confirmed the report yesterday, and it reached the east after Rockne had led for a tour of France, Germany and Italy. The coach was baptised November 18, and was confirmed by Bishop Knoll two days later. He took his first communion: with the Notre Dame football team November 22. Rock football players. first earned of his intentions in the game against Northwestern when they were 10 points behind at the end o' | the subject which now is before that | body, Attorney General George Shaf- | er said tod: cial decision whether or not in- | dividual banks have the right , to | pledge thelr, anscte, to secure ay- ment of public money on deposit in such banks to the exclusion of other dupes eis 5 formaiy’ ie agreement was inf, reached between himself Gov. A. G. Sorlie, Shafer. sai that the industrial have adequate. “Sounds like a churchman,” legal powers of marked one of the players. ing with “He's going to join the church to- posit morrow,” another informed them. Notre Dame drove across. touch- downs enough ‘to win in the last half and the next Sunday Rockne was re-| structure of the state to ceived into the church. able to small- banks Mrs. Rockne is a Catholic and their} money deposit two sons-are students-at Notre Dame. o€ North Dekel, “ales first half. Some of them feared the storm that would come from the coach between the halves. But “Rock”, as they knew him, was a changed man, and his instructibns were mild.: He told them that he would go into the grandstand and watch the remainder of the battle from there. re-