The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 15, 1926, Page 1

Increasing cloudiness tonight; probably unsettled Tuesday. i) asablte eck IO Mee ar Bea LEC 1873 ONE KILLED 419 HURT IN . | MINE BLAST Working Reopened This Morn- ing After Being Closed Since Friday MORE THAN 600 ESCAPE| Most of the Men Were Far- ther in the Mine and Not Touched by Blast Beilaire, Ohio, Feb. 16—()—One miner was killed and 19 others in- jured, oné perha) i. sanity, at the Powhatan mine, files south of here, this erate Six. hundred other men in the mine estaped unin- jured. Employes of the mine, 700 in num- went on strike Friday, after they had been offered checks instead of currency as pay. 0. Percival, xeneral manager of the mine, took the stand that it was too much of a risk to transport money from Bel- laire banks. The miners voted yesterday to re- turn to work today. Shaft Is Wrecked An explosion shortly before 8 o'clock this morning wreck the in- | terior of the main shaft, resulting in the denth of one miner and the injury of 19 others. The miners engaged farther in the main shaft made their escape through the main entrance within three hours after the explo- | sion. W. 0. Percival, mine manager, said the mine would be reconditioned to- day with a view of renewing opera- | tions tomorrow. By a strange fate, the miner killed was drowned. The blast threw him into the air and he landed face down- ward in a puddle of water. He. has not been identified. in workings | THE BIS SLX SIX CHILDREN BURNED TO DEATH IN FARM HOUSE CONFEREES Vera, Countess Cathcart, was sent to Ellis Island when she attempted to enter the United States elopement with the Earl of Craven, as a result of which her husband ed a divorce, was given as the reason for delaying her entrance. SACRAMENTO FEARS START Chinese Killed, Wife Fatally ; Wounded and Infant ie Injured | | 1 Sacramento, Calif., Feb. 15. {What Sacramento authorities believed |may be the outbreak of the tong war, jresulted in the killing of a Chinese, the fatal wounding of his wife ai the shooting of the couple’s in: child in Walnut Grove last TODAY TWO GOOD. BIRTHDAYS. 4 NEGROES, WHERE ARE THEY? STRIKR ENDB;-AS-UBUAL. ONISHI, GUN-TOTER, BY ARTHUR BRISBANE (Copyright, 1926), Another Lincoln’s birthday , gone, the usual amount of nonsense and “flub-dub” talked, Lincoln fortunate- ly couldn't hear . Lincoln is_ still alive’ and greater than ever. Real men, of whom there are few, continue to grow after death, “the MeKin- Clevelands, —Roosevelts, get aveaileycas they fade in the distance, like narrowing tracks behind an ex- press train. ‘0 study Lincoln's is like.taking a voyage on the Pacific. ‘The ocean surrounds you completely, ‘always stretching out farther than your feeble eyes can reach, So with the character of ‘eally great man, Thomas, A. Edison hag, celebrated ei head ot birthday. nam ulso will last. He puzzles and wet noys those that are religious, pure and limited, by indorsing prohibition | and evolution in the same breath. Edison who has helped to light to the people, in more ways than one, says the world is getting better, because it contains more hon- est, humane men, ee What does happen to us after we leave this brief What, Reppened to John Canada, Isman J Cephus Johnson and Clinton Mason, four negroes execut- ed tanec ae in Arkanses yester- day bia the four discover that Her- bert Spencer was right, when, in bit- ter disillusioned old age he said, “Reason ws me to look forward to nothing but extinction.” Did, those four colored men, who , Protested their innocence to the last, ike up in another world, with wings, or in a lower world in horri- ble, external torment? If they gre alt fe somewhere are they now white or black, or new color, perhaps bright | rola they ‘exchanged thi brains for better brains "incapable of marder’ Can they remember the names that they took one after the other to electric chair? Are they boycotted, up or down there? What does hap pen? PEERS 8 Secretaty of Labor Davis an- nounces the coah strike ending. The workers get about what was to be exnected. i Intelligent leadershi other side. After losing millions a week in wages for/months, many o! them hungry and all worried, men return to work with no increase in pay and a contract’ to keep~on working for five years. was on the The mine owners are not worried. Their coal has in the ‘ground quite at They sold huge surplus suppl cluding mountains of coal dust ne “high. prices; It is thard for workin ce a ‘ore wee the pial vi PAY ft i ’ f | the | The slayer, another Chinese, es and excited townspeople sent a riot call to Sacramento which resulted in deputy sheriffs being rushed to the seene, MINOR COLD WAVE GOING _ TO THE EAST Temperature e Will Rise Through Middlewest To- night and Tomorrow | Chieago, Feb. 15. cold wave was over-spr middlewest. today, with, ri {peratures prcjnised by tomorrow. The cold spell, an invasion from | Alaska, was not as severe as two pre- vious attacks which sent thermome- | ters tumbling to well below zero. jer low in the region of the Great | Lakes and adjacént areas tonight and {tomorrow, with a further fall to- t in .the eastern portion, said the Chicago forecaster. In extreme southeastern lower ichigan the; | weather will assume the proportions | cold wave. ‘The temperature will begin to rise) ©! tonight in the northern plains are: and on Tuesday in most of the mid- dlewest,” said the forecast. Railroad Board Is Interested in Salt Freight Rate Permission to intervene in a pe- tition to the Interstate Commerce commission by'the American Salt company, which seeks a reduction in freight rates on salt from Michigan and Kansas to North Dakota, has been ‘asked by the state railroad Oa The state railroad board sgeks to Present testimony in support/ of the contention that the rates én salt should be reduced. NEW DIRECTOR AT ;FARGO D., Feb. 15,—()-—Dr. Mansfield, Ohio, tool Ir phe i is. morning, evening and —— Weather Report ~®)—A minor ing the! ng tem- the Health Demonstration at 7 a sterday Temperatu: Highest ys rey Lowest last night ........ Precipitation. to 7 a. m, Highest wind velocity ¥. i EATHER FORECAST. For Bismarck creasing: cloudine: ably. becoming unsatétad Tuesday; rising temperature. Wek North: “Dakota: tnereaslag {cloudiness tonight; probably becom- ing unsettled Fuenday rising, ‘tem- | perature. sepa: Bs Res get og CONDITAERS ° pressure, accompan’ r ee weather, covers the *e iain, this morning. A low pressure aes over the'Great Lakes region has light Pecrioces over that | fre He ate pistes oe outed ides mi, the western slope of tothe Pacific const and ren are. rising ‘ove: west due to a low pressure area ver British rey ‘ ‘W. RO | ferees, OF TONG WAR}: | The temperature will remain rath-j MAY RESTORE TAX SLASHES House Leaders Are Deter- mined to Adhere to Their Original Figures REDUCTION TOO LARGE: Senate Repubticans on Com- mittee Will Support House Conferees Washington, Feb. 15.—(#)—-The problem of revising the tax reduction bill so as to meet the approval of the house, senate und treasury today co: fronted conferees appointed by the two chambers to stratzhten out points of difference.” As passed by the senate the bill provides for a reduction of $456,26 000, of more than $125,000,000 in ex- cess of that voted by the house, and about $100,000,000 more than Secre- tary Mellon believes the condition of the treasury will permit this year. A considerable portion of the crease appears to be doomed by the attitude of house leaders who would adhere to their own figures. Chair- man Green of the ways and means committee, heading the house co has declared that any in- crease over the $330,000,000 reduction proposed by the house not only threatens a treasury deficit but jeop- tment of several pend- is calling for increased appro- riations, ineluding the public build- ing bill. Mr. Green also declared that while government actuaries, estimated the senate bjll would reduce s by 56,261,000 this calendar year, its actual reduction would amount to »,000,000 annually when the bill goes fully into effect in later years, Support From Senate The house conferees also have more support from the three Re- n representatives of the sen- the major increases oted by the senate were made on the votes of Democrats ded by some Republican insurgents The taxes which seem most 1 to be restored to the bill, passenger cars, admissions and dues, Conferees named by the senate to CK TRIBUNE (mam BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1926 ° WATER POWER | AS BIG FACTOR IN INDUSTRY » Canada Has 18,000,000 Horse- power Available—3,250,- 000 Harnessed ONTARIO IN Water Power Development Stimulated by Heavy Rise in Cost of Coal -With the struggle over public or private operation of Muscle Shoals just started in Con- gress, the whole question of hydro- power again is a leading na- al topic, In view of this ‘Phe bune has obtained a series of four articles t how Catada has han- dled fer r problem. The stories deal with Qubec, where private own ership prevails, and Ontario, where the Hydro-Electrie Power Commis- sion of Ontario has harnessed the Niagara and other rivers for more ‘Editor's Note- -}than 1,500,000 horsepower, which is being sold’ on the government plan. The first follows herewith. | BY W. M. BRAUCHER (Special Correspondent) Niagara Falls, Ont. Feb. 15.— tighteen million horsepower is avail- able to drive the wheels of Canadian commerce, These eighteen millions today are ‘tumbling down cascades’ and waterfalls rushing helter-skelter through narrow gorges or tumbling r rapids in a hundred streams and rivers of Canada, Three and a quarter million horse power has already been harnessed by man for hig needs and bit by bit{ the engineer is locking up more stveams und turning them into the ianect that | drives big turbines that fin t |light and power to {thousand daily cho’ trial life of Can. \. Of the three and a quarter million [horsepower already developed about 800,000 horsepower are used in the manufacture of pulp into paper with huge additions to existing plants al- ready planned and ities and do a in the indus- few months bring the usage of wa: work with the house representatives are, Senator, Smoot, Utah,—McLean, Connecticut,——and, Reed, Pennsyl- | vania, Republicuns;, Simmons, North Carolina, and Gerry, Rhode Island, Nemocrats, ROCKEFELLER WANTS MUSEUM = IN FAR EAS Offers Egyptian | Nation $10,-| 000,000 to Build Institute at Cairo Feb, 16. Jr. has ate t John D. red King New York, Rockefeller, Fuad and the Egyptian nation $10,- |; 000,000 for the erection and mainten: ance in Cairo of a great museum and archaclogical institute. This fact has become known through announcement in Cairo by | Professor James H. Breasted of the University of Chicago, who’ will be chdirman of ‘the Heaeee of the new museum if Bing Fuad accepts cer-) tain conditions for the gift which Mr. Rockefeller desires to impose. In New York an agent of Mr. Rock- | efeller /characteri: the announce- ment as premature. Extreme Egyptian nationalists wish that control be vested in the Egyp- tian government. is asserted, desires ah ‘American di- rectorate. Negotiations have been in progress since last fall. The museum would house marvelous treasures which have been found in Egypt, including those taken from the tomb of Tut- Ankh-Amen at’ Luxor, and other places. It is the opinion of archaeologists that, notwithstanding museums are filled with Egyptian art, only a ama portion of that country’s story has been told and that the Rockefeller gift will go a long way toward bring- ing to light further marveloys things remaining in the veritable treasure house, and also facts about the hu- man race from about the year 15,- 000 B. C. to the time of Homer and Herodotus. One of the gréat incen- tives to srekepalon research i: for proofs ib) Ed the cradle’ of civilization, whet! the Nile or the Euphrates. ‘Wool Marketing Association Wants to Double Pool The Board of of Directors of the North Dakota Co-Operative Wool Barrette ciation is now tom- leting the peed ie satisfactorily sol: ers on the ave: ter ‘than 400,000 po: Cai son, enthusiastic Paltector from Fin- ley, North Dakota, says “We may te well run an id ool.” full accord wi Mr, Rockefeller, ic | million. The. balance is tommertinl “stations ‘and tations for the generatio’ and power which is distributed to about 70 per cent of the people which the last census ¢ to the dominion. Ontario Leads * ontario a the province with the tu municipal 7,246 with its ond with aren | “cattmated output of 1 iehbor Quebec a cl a development of there a {lumbia with a turbi 87,000 and then comes \x th about qne-third of this | Albert 15,249 Island ea oping horsepower. | Edward 2239. The oent i the porelige af Maakavcho- wan, In spite of the war the waterp j development has nearly doubled since 1914. In that year the waterpower developed in central stations was 1,- |307,005 in pulp and paper mills making a total turbine installation of 1,888,023. Today: the estimated total {developed is 3,311,577. ~ Build Up Industry No resource of the country has {seen such phenomenal development ‘;acted so favorably on industry. The the country has practically built up |the newsprint industry of the do- 'minion until today Canada is the largest newsprint producing country jin the world, Yet with only about one-sixth of her visible owes, developed there i; a sum of over $712,000,000 invested in the work which at the present rate of increase should have reached $1 000,000,000 within the next ten year: Canada’s | position with regard to other nations not only in the extent of her resources but in the amount already developed and_ energized makes a showing of which she may well be proud. The heavy rise in the cost of coal has no doubt been a main factor in > (Continued on p: three) The Spirit of Lent’ Lent, the sacred season, is coming. From Ash Wednesday to Easter the Christian world will medi- tate And pray: a A series of daily Lenten Bible readings, prayers and |} meditations expresses the spirit of the time, the spirit of thought on the myster- ies of Life and Death. ay thé | The feature will be ed daily during Lent : pean TRIBUNE, LEAD |“ print, supply | ith new mills that will within the next terpower in this industry to over a! used for |y of light! e installation with an Detect: 07 and in other industries 241,411,! in so short a time and none has re- | \development of the water, power of | ious Falls, S, D., Feb. 15.— A). Margaret Sweeney Anderson,! whose only claim to fame is the title do miles and ha Perhaps to die. ne. old Mrs. c home| Perhaps to Anderson is content. 1 con- | tent, ev yield him t home al he ld Mrs, An- Unfathomable, gigantic thing called motherhood. Walks To Washington All America rang with the story some three years ago of the little old lady of 70 who walked all the way to! Washington from South Dakota to plead with the president for the. free- } jdom of her son, “My Joe is not a bad boy, is a shell-shock victim of the w: told the president. Joc Boyd Anderson was in the fed. Leavenworth old mother made that tam- ous walking trip. Joo was just a case, n number, in! » litte, A World war derelict. hell-shocke serted the army, twid- died his thumbs at an officer and had been sentenced by court-martial to the federal prison. Joe's mother was poor. | The price, {of a ticket to Washington was a for-/ ‘tune. But her-tired old limbs were | {ready for her boy’s sake. |mother walked to Washington. | That was in 1922, and Joe’s mother! went home when President Harding told her Joe should be freed. | Makes Trip a Second Time But Joe's mother did not hear from her hoy, She was worried, Maybe} the president had forgotten. so busy! Joe's Washington again State after state she passed throug getting lifts when she could, but inj jvast spaces walking on the weary old | lfeet. Sometimes a staff helped her. | | There was something of the pic-! {ture ef Mother Ceres walking on old ifeet over the whole earth in quest of her Proserpine in this vision of a 'modern mother walking to find and aid her son. is time the president did not for- In fact, he had not forgotten \befo Joe hud been ordered freed, ‘but had been rearrested on another charge just as he was | x the prison door. Joe's nother walked to | get. sued a pardon to + who had trod the long miles for him. He Yqge Anderson should never again be arfested for any war-time act. | And the old mother walked on ugain, this time to Leavenworth to ee her Joe and beg him to come home, But Joe did not come mother started. on the jdveary trail again. Two y s hired to help her s j took her little hoardings. Ther |nothing left but a erogked ‘help her tread the long, long m in Adrian, Joe had Jthis son of a mot! home and long and ars of it! k Joe And little Mrs. A sc home—perhaps to rest! She is hap- jpy now! EVERYTHING ISREADY 10. Miners Are Anxious to Return, to Thejr Jobs After Six Months’ Idleness Scranton, Pa., us to return to work after an idle- ness of nearly six months, the 158,-, 000 hard coal diggers today eagerly | awaited the ratification by their tri- district convention in Scranton of the jagreement reached in Philadelphia uy officials of the United Mine ‘orkers and representatives of the operators. The convention opens tomorrow and ratification is expected not later than Wednesday, z to an official end the lonfes' | most disastrous strike in the history of the anthracite region. Twenty- four hours later anthracite will be BEGIN WORK : He was | That was in 1923. | TODAY IN WA! b Public building bills is taken ering commitvee ate program, und senate conferees. be- xin work of revising tax b Senate considers treasury std postoffice appropriation | mea sures. ARCH BANDIT | LOSES APPEAL | TOHIGH COURT ; Gerald Ghapcian Fai tempt to Return to At- lanta Penitentiary A as of Con. Chapman's pincer a pman, under h 3 for the murder i teva, Conn, policeman, A iy ithe habeas corpus proceedings to be mekumnel to Atlanta penitentiary, escaped after serving only ay part of his entence for the millions dol mail robbe in New York City. ‘ sentence hae hang | where EARL’S ARREST :: ISSUED. TODAY , Offense Involves Moral Turpi- tude in Elopement With the Countess Washington, Feb. 1 rant for the arnst the Earl of moving towdrd the market. | Everything is in readiness for a jresumption of operations, Large | forces were put to work cleaning up! !and repairing immediately after the | agreement was reached Friday and today found most of the collieries in| | fairly good shape. ; Peak production probably will not | Be reached before the aid of the! month, Many miners left the region| | during the suspension and will not’ j be able to get back for a week or two. Opposition Is Negligible | Some opposition to ratification of |the new contract is expected in the! Scranton convention but leaders of ‘the minefs said this would. not bej formidable. Only one local union,| that at Edwardsville, hay taken a} stand against the pac! rgely anti revoked twice loom, which had hung over] the ee racite belt since September | 1, had entirely 4! (Tapper toda: Praise and thanksgiving services for the ending of the strike were held in churches throughout the district yes- tePday. | Earthquake Felt * at Redondo Beach londo Beach, Cal Calif., Feb, 15,.—@) ii ea regapeke was felt here early. tod tremor also was felt in some. sections of Los Angele: ae swas no. damage. ‘ ; rant will be [see Craven was issued today by the de- partment of labor. Issued at the request of Commis: sioner Curren, in charge of immigra- tion affairs at New York, the war: forwarded to him for} service. It was not known at the department at the time of the issu- ance that the earl had already de-+ parted for Canada. The charges contained in the war- rant are that the earl was guilty of an offense involving moral turpitude in his elopement to Africa with the Countess of Carthcart, who has been denied admission to this country on similar grounds irder Be Contested Should the earl return to New York, the warrant will be served and he will be given a hearing at Ellis Island. Maenwhile, Wilton J. Lam- bert of this city and William A. De- ford of New York, attorneys for the countess, went forward with their plans to gontest the order of Com- missioner ‘Curran in New York for deportation of the countess. intend to make the point thi migration law covering such cases is not mandatory and that it would be an unwarranted exercise of discre' far the government to apply the act to Peet counter A hearing in the case will be grant- ed by a board of review at the labor department late: tor ‘WALES-IS MASTER London.—The Prince of, Wales has been installed as Worshipful Master BR len. (Oxford) Lodge of “T plane WARRANT FOR | \Just the Story of a Mother--She Walked Thousands of Miles for Her Son, and Lost Him, But She’s Happy AVA —aass Anderson, DETROIT AIR MAIL PLANE STARTS TODAY H ; Henry Ford Puts Mail Aboard | —First Machine to Run on Contract ‘Plan | Detroit, -—P)—The first mail for the post- of » department under the contract {system took the air at Ford Airport, rborn, at 10:40 a, Ici land, whe! BR: ns-continental air placed serv! aboard ‘the eived Kellogg, of city including: was, by Henry Fo the pouches from ‘postmaster, in the and government of ond Assistant Postma RULINGS MAKE THINGS WORSE ‘: FOR FARMERS: Interference by Government Drives Business to Winni- peg, Says Cutten (#)—Arthur Pel ain operator, be- ent interference grain market,” this country's faite Cutten, p eves that gov has demor: and is driv anding of the funet that speculation performs has led onl a series of rulings which, instead of helping matters makes them worse,” Mr. Cutten said statement today. Everyone with a practical knowl- f speculation knows that the is ulways a buyer in every speculative marke Strangely enough, how ver, politicians in their hunt for farmer votes continually at- tack the markets, which are the very places where the farmer must stil his: surplus when he has one. The result is that the ‘portion of, the public which buys for higher prices lis frightened out of the market, and upport to tuke care of the hedging \done by elevator interests “against actual grain bought from becomes insufficient to prices, x ‘The continued interference with grain trading in this country i ing the business out of the U States altogether up to Winnipeg. The market there is rapidly becoming the dominant grain market of North Americ “Prisoner’s Song” Writer Buried With Military Honors pie San Antonio, Texas, Feb. 15.—@)— ‘ull military honors for the dead were accorded Guy Massey, worfd war veteran, boxer, singer and publisher of “The Prisoner’s Song,” at Fort Sam Houston Sunday. at the base hospital Saturday ing an illness of long duration. _The body was sent to Dall burial tomorrow, for BANK AT BARTON CLOSED Closing of the Farmers and Mer- chants Bank of Lea) nounced today by th irae, tee hed a a ital at 15,000, a sarnlae ‘ot $69,000. PRICE FIVE CENTS PARENTS AND BABY GIRL ARE BADLY BURNED 2 dane. ‘gram| ances] meras| nti ot me Even ngan- friend Tan- Victims Trapped in Second | Story” Bedrooms of Log House by Flames TWO OTHERS CAPE ‘ather Suffers Burns in Des- perate Effort to Rescue the Family ildren who lost rapie lives la, 10; Elsie, 9; Martha, 8; Wil- Ruth, 4; Paul, 3 © other children, Alfred, 13, and Irving, 11, escaped without dnjury by jumping through a window to’ the roof of a shed at the rear of the house. ‘ Mrs. Rothenberger and the baby are in a critical condition, suffering from severe burns. Rothenberger, who used a rag rug to protect his facéiwhile he attempted rescuing the children, was badly burned about the hands and feet. he fire broke out in the lower pa of the house, and before any member of the family awakened from the smoke the entire first floor was ablaze and the flames had worked their way’up an open stairway to the second floor. DAYTON, OHIO, HAS AN § 0 BLAZE Dayton, Ohio, Feb. 15.—-)—F which early today destroyed the Home department store, the 14-story American building and'a number of small shops, was brought under con- rol this morning. Fire Chief Ramby would make no ¢ eof the loss, but unofficial estimates said it would be $800,000, 7 VICTIMS OF FIRE BURIED IN SINGLE GRAVE All Children of Ladysmith Couple—Pirents and Baby Are in Hospital Wis., Feb, 15.—(P)—Fu- Y held here today noof Mr. Bell, who were burned to f fire destroyed the Bell ottage aturday. Burial will. be made in a single grave. Raymond, 14, died Sunday; Orvill Ladysmith, Toutes |1 perished in the h an explosion in the In add both fee which followed kitchen. ion to the parents, who are [tempt to Kindle a. fire i the oldest boy. Live coals are believed to have remained in the stove when he poured kerosene on the ashes. TWO FIRES IN MANDAN CAUSE $15,000 LOSS City Opera House, a Land- Mark, and Barn at Fair Grounds Destroyed Two fires which broke out simul- tanneously in Mandan at ‘midnight Saturday caused los: of $15,000.' The old Mandan city opera house, a land park of the late eighties, was completely destroyed with esti- mated loss of $10,000. Insurance for $5,000 was carried by the city with the state fire and tornado insurance fund. In the second blaze a barn owned by Cecil Pennington, located in the Missouri Slope Pair Grounds, of which he is caretaker, was destroyed with seven head of horses and two calves. One thousand dollars insur- ance was carried on the barn. Der Wanderer Editor Is Given ration St.. Paul, Feb, 15.—@)—The! rib- boned maltese cross. of St. Gregory was pinned on Joxséph Matt, Sr., edi- tor of Der tdelvend cd Gorsalie Ger- man languay pape: St. Paul, by Archbishop Dowling of ‘Si ul, at ceremonies here last night. The decoration came from the yatican at Matt has pestered, ‘atholic chureh through the news- raper, and makes him a knight of that order, build have tonic after te as} 4 ILS. a