The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 12, 1926, Page 1

WEATHER FORECAST Unsettled tonight; Tuesday part- ly cloudy and cooler. ESTABLISHED 1873 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1926 25 ARE KILLED IN EXPLOSION ABOARD TANKER LOWA CONTEST |[_tnder arrest | DEMOCRATS TO REACH VOTE AT 5 O'CLOCK Senate Will Decide Status of Smith W. Brookhart This Afternoon UNLIMITED DEBATEENDS Brookhart’s Seat Sought By Daniel F. Steck, Dem- ocratic Opponent Washington, April 12—U%—The senate was ynder agreement toddy to wind up its debate on the Iowa sen- atortal contest and make its decision before nightfall. The agreement provided for the shutting off of unlimited debate, which consumed all of last weck, at p. m, with senators limited to 15 minutes each thereafter, and the be- ginning of the roll call at 5 o'clock. The outcome will determine wheth- er Smith W. Brookhart, Republican insurgent, retains the place he now occupies in the senate, or is to be un- nepeige in favor of Daniel F. Steck, his Democratic opponent in the 1924 election. TODAY 5 INSTALLMENT BILLIONS. zip MAY DIE. MUSSOLINI AND TROTZKY. 5,000,000 RADIO SETS. BY ARTHUR BRISBANE (Copyright, 1926) The people bought five billion dol- lars worth of goods on the install- ment plan in 1925, and some say, “we are rushing into nkeuptey, But don’t worry. 'Money well spent by those that cen psy helps spender and pave and hurts nobody. you want a plaro, radio- ret ile and you know you can for it get it now and‘ enjoy it while you pay, ‘The rich so Liked estate and stocks on instalimen A good automobile is worth more then a house. The important thing is that install. ment business should be on a sound ‘basis not encouraging extravagance, ing excessive rates for time pay- ments, or encouragin man with car, good for two or three rs more, to get rid of it evggteas y and glut the used car market. What hurts ig waste, not ‘spending. “Zip,” eighty-two years old, and in the hospital, may not live long. You e met him, when he was Ba: What is it?” You remember circus and dime museum rows of freaks, fat ladies, living skeletons, bearded ladies, tatooed men, sword swallowers, dwarfs, giants, that used to delight. the populace. Contrast with that our modern moving pic- ture, beautifully made. The world improves. Ne ‘ Shooting doesn’t discourage Mus- solini. ith his nose plastered, his cars deafened with. ri shriek- ing sirens, cries of “Viva Mussolini” and “Viva Fascismo,” Mussolini left sterday for Tripoli, announcing his desire to convert the world to fas cism, twould convert the world to communism. Mussolini and zky are exact opposites, and. each hi the same plan to make the world a cept his ide ae Russia: eee two, Mussolini makes more ‘The human race under- But a up” on a dangerous progres stands powerful dictations.- man that wants to a Aivide communist basis seems novelty. b 5,000,000 raido sets in the United States have, 27,000,000 human beings listening in. Sad that so little broad- casting is worth attention. Science perfects the machinery, but intel! gence hasnt yet sup) pled, worthy ma- te 1. But that will come. dn fu- ages, the individual worth while wit ve as personal following an au- dience of 100,000,000 ,.ot_ 500,000,000. ‘The wena word watt foto pete. & Ten. million dollars worth of oil ‘burned in California, Cat men killed. sed rg storage lakes Tl spend money on lightning rods will wonder how val- uable they really are. Cannot scien- tiests find a way, wae high tension wires or otherwis protect oil irld nd oil storage? “Se long bi fore great conductors escort the tightning pately and use it as i ae down? Edison should work 7 Russia Sieaivta: to enlist private capital in state ‘industries.” Russian credit should be better now than ever, Lark pee fy. bc has ae elimi ed Biicled Ith ia, i alld ets holl ae it the curb, on ‘a eet |eing heart discasc. down from the clouds} / Bi DR. MAX R. SCHNELLER, Dr. Max R. Schneller, formerly of Mott, N. D., who is held in St. Paul ona forgery charge. Dr. Schnel- ler is alleged to have passed sev- eral worthless checks in Bismarck, but local authorities did not press their charges against him after he had made good most of the 1s: He twice attempted suicide when taken into custedy by Milwaukee lice. Later Minnesota authori- les secured his extradition to St. Paul, where he is said to have also passed worthless checks. WASHBURN DOCTOR DIES SUDDENLY Dr. C. G: Forbes Succumbs to Heart Disease at His Home Sunday Dr. C. G. Forbes, for the past 30 years physician and proprietor of a drug store at Washburn and prior to that a physici: suddenly at-his home at 8:30 o'clock gy, the cause of death Dr. Forbes had apparently been in the best of health, except for a slight cold, until Satur- day evening about 11 o'clock when he Ean carne coughing spell. When that had passed he retired. At 2 a, m. he suffered several chills but did not consider his own condition serious until afew minutes before he Dr. Forbes was born in Ontario, | ° Canada, 62 years ago. He was gradu- ated from the 1 school of the Unitersity of Michigan and the paerer part of his professional work North. Dakota. He leaves the Gidow and five children, One daugh- ter, Mrs. E. d. Schulz, resides at Washburn. Another married daugh+ ter lives in Fargo and a third lives in Washington. Hazel Forbes teaches in California and Miss Beu- lah Fobes is a nurse living in Wash- ton. Funeral services will be held Fri- day afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Washburn city hall, ‘with the Masonic lodge in charge. Rev. Leslie R. Bur- gum, formerly of Washburn but now, attending the University of North Dakota Grand Forks, will speak. Buriel will be in the Was! rn ceme- tery. Dr. Forbes was senior warden of the Washburn Masonic lodge, worthy patron of the Easter Star, and a member of the Knights of Pythias and Woodmen. 3 MEMBERS OF ROBBER BAND UNDER ARREST One Negro’s Confession Leads to Arrest of Two Others —More Sought ) Madisonville, Ky., April 12.—()— With the confession of one of a trio of negroes arrested for an attack on @ 16-year-old girl here. Wednesday it, authorities today were prepar- for a speedy trial and for furth- ering their efforts’ in arresting other negroes. believed to be members of fn organized band committing rob- berics in thi: one through finding letters of an- ir to to. a white woman, led to aghe arrest of Bunyan Fleming, 31, and Nathan Baird, 30, whom ollis declared robbed Adair Stum, 24, and piaacked his girl companion. All three negroes were removed to Owenburro yesterday, when crowds ew menacing and then Aneto and jird were taken ,to le and 4 to Hendereoh.” ‘Autho ties are every possible sap to prevent pr eutbeeais a nig women by roes, two oc- within the past two weeks. se and vicinity have been te Aeees ot pote senberemy dur an of the 7 onths and police ‘ion that Fieming,: a above werage it is the leader of a. rE been committing the rol in Traill county, died: ' son, Langdon; Vricultu It of attacks | W TO HAVE FULL STATE TICKET Valley City Meeting Dom- inated By Those Opposed to Fusion Plan HOLMES FOR GOVERNOR Platform Favors Continuation of the State Mill and Elevator ACCEPTS SNDORSEMENT Grand Forks, N. D., April 12— (#)—Declaring that he would ac- cept the endorsement for gover- nor conferred on him Saturday at the state Democratic meeting at Valley City, D. M. Holmes today expressed the hope that no Re- publicans would enter the Demo- cratic primary in order to vote for him. If | am nominated for gover- nor I will be glad of all the votes lL can get in the fall election, but 1 believe that party lines should be maintained in the primaries and f hope, therefore, that even if some Republicans may be fav- orable to my candidacy they will not attempt to break party lines by coming into the Democratic - primary,” said Mr. Holmes. Holmes said that it was too carly as yet to announce any cam- paign plans but said he hoped to see the “mug wump ticket” en- dorsed at Devils Lake defeated. “I do not believe in fusion be- cause T think it is detrimental to the best interests of the Demo- cratic party and the state of North Dakota,” he said. Valley City. The Democratic meeting here indorsed a complete set of can- didates for state offices, adopted a state platform and urged the Demo- crats to vote their party ticket at the primary in June. The convention was, dominated by Democrats who are opposed to the Republican Democratic fusion agree- ment made by the Democratic state gentral committee at Devils Lake in February. Only a handful were pres: ent, most of the votes on candidates showing ony 3) ballots cast. Several Cass county delegntes : | il jeoted that the convention was not a representative gathering, since of 142 seats only 31 were filled. The candidates for state office in- dorsed by the coavantion were, for vernor, D. Holmes, Grand Forks; lieutenant governor, A. n- kopf, Dickinson; audito: Ole S. John- commissioner of ag- and labor, Charles Otto, Val- yi. secretary of state, F. S. Ellendale; treasurer, Mrs. Lillian Lillibridge, Dickinson; attor- ney genera], Samuel H. Nuchols, Bis- marck; board of road commis-: sioners, John A. Heiling, Valley City, Thomas Malloney, Devils Lake, and ‘. H. Boatman, Milnor; commissioner of insurance, W. S. Hooper, Fargo. Resolutions were passed calling on North Dakota Democrats to register! and vote as Democrats at the pri- mary and to contribute to a Demo- cratic campaign fund and advise the candidates to join in sending out an appeal to Democrats, asking for their support. Hughes Objects Chairman Ed Hughes, Dickinson, who also is Democratic state chair- jan, asked to be relieved of the duty of sending out the appeal be- (Continued on page three.) f Weather Report . Temperature at 7 a. m. Highest yesterday . Lowest last night . Precipitation to 7 a, m. Highest wind velocity . ‘eather conditions at North Da- kota points for the 2 hours ending at 8 a. m. today: i: E 3 HI in inches Amenia .. Bismarck . Bottineau . Devils Lake Dickinson Dunn Cente Ellendale . Feasenden . Grand Forks Jamestown . Langdon .. Larimore Lisbon eae y fapoleon Pembina Williston . i Moorhead, Minn. . .64 Pn 0 Cloudy *For 24 hours ending 7%. m. Mon- da The above record is for the 48 hours ending at 7 a. m. today, local time. WEATHER FORECAST . For Bismarck and vicinity: | Un- settled tonight; Tuesday partly cloudy and cooler, For North Dakota: Unsettled to- night foo! r north portion. Tues- day partly cloudy and cooler. GENERAL WEATHER CONDITIONS A trough of low pressure extends from Manitoba and Saskatchewan southwestward to Arizona and preci- pitation occurred over the extrenie northern Rocky Mountain region and at scattered ‘over the extreme| a: and Southwest. Fair weather vail over the pearthere ind and ener the upper Mis- Coo! iF accom. nter- SSSNSS wLowest SSSSS 22S nighes BeBe PEE OE CGE Piecigiinsicn 7 — caary 88s ¢ tal} chief of Three Killed in Sunday Accidents Minneapolis, April 12—CP)— Three terrific fatalities ushered in the first warm _ Sunday spring here today. Peter ats lund, 47 years) old, was killed hy a “hit and) run” driver; Louis Shaft, 55, was killed by a troliey after a taxi driver, sought by po- lice, had forced him on the track; and Dolores Swanson, five, dicd from injuries after being struck by an automobile-driving pupil. LAST RITES FOR BURBANK TO BE SIMPLE Famous Plant wi Wizard Died at) {iv His Home in Santa Rosa Early Yesterday MASONS HAVE CHARGE Judge Ben B. Lindsey to. R cite Ingersoll’s Famous Funeral Oration lif, April 12--) a youth when the flower of his love wilted and died, Luther Burbank sought solace in the culture brief, is of the life of the eminent scientist who lay in the quiet sleep of death in his garden wonder- land here today. The end came early yesterday morning. None of his friends and neighbors during the fifty-odd years he worked -| miracles in the plant kingdom here knew the story. _ Luther Burbank They knew him for his inspired de- votion to the friendly trees and flow- ers among which he worked with un- ‘tiring zeal—knew him for the w ders he wrought. One Man Learns Story To Edgar A. Waite, of the San Francisco Bulletin, in whom he had confidence, ‘Burbank opened up the chapter of his life that resulted in his turning his energies and talents toward the service of mankind. Waite was given permission to publich the story only after Burbank’s death. The details of the incident will be told in a copyrighted article tu be published in the Bulletin toda: Unostentatious in life, Burbank willed that last rites be simple. Judge Ben B. Lindsay of the Denver juvenile court, a life time friend, was on his way to take a leading part in the final services. Judge Lindsey and Rev. Caleb S. Dutton of San Francisco, Unitarian minister who married Mr. and Mrs. Burbank 10 years ago, will address public memor- ial services in the open air in one of Santa Rosa’s parks. The Masonic order, which had conferred upon Bur- bank the 33d degree, will perform the ritual of the dead. Public Barred The public will not see the casket nor the interment. That is reserved for the immediate members of -h family. At Burbank’s request, Judge Lind- sey will recite the famous funeral ration which Robert Ingersoll, noted gnostic, spoke at the bier of his ‘brother, Ebon C. angeraoll, in Wash- ington, D. C. 1879. ‘Burbank’s final resting place has not yét been de ly decided upon although his friends hope to lay him to rest in the midst of the garden he loved so well. Burbank’s last illness came shortly ufter he made the announcement that he was an “infidel,” explaining that he merely m he was unable to ac- cept the arbitrary, mai de creeds and orthodox ideas of ‘heaven and A flood of telegrams, letters (Continued on page three.) Development of National Guard to Be Discussed Plans for the further development of the North Dakotaenational guard are expected to be discussed at a conference to be held here April 19 between Governor A. G. Sorlic and Major Genera! Benjamin A. Poore, poraia: r of the army seventh cor; neral Poore will be accom- panied by. here Tenney, Ross, his sta! It also is expected General Maite will visit the na- tional ard camp at Devils during his visit to North Dakota. bale SENDS TO SALE “ait n, April ae ry re- ea sent to pod it. Ma- ‘illesde: ni ber of useful siilcles for the annual sale of work. Lake | trade. HEARING IS TURNEDOVER TO THE DRYS Wets sian Oe Case a Day to Accommodate a Delega- tion of 75 Women HAVE 11 HOURS LEFT Citizens’ Interest in Law En-; forcement Gratifying, Says Coolidge Washington. April 1 ~The ie nate prohibition hearing was turn [ed over to the drys today with the sent of the wet leader: o still 11 hours left of the time lotted them for pr ntation of ease for liberalization of the stead act. The one-day suspension of the wet case was agreed upon to accommo- date a delegation of 75 women repre- senting the women’s national com- mittee for law enforcement, which opened a three day meeting yesterday | ing rigid enforee- ition law and op- ication. i of w headed by 3 Henry W. Peabod. Beverly, Mass., chairman of th mittee, arranged to divide th for presentation of their views nate committee by altetting. ea member one minute during hearing. Volstead Act Called Un-Amer! wet side was rot complete! iminated from the day ings. however, Representatives G van, Democrat, Massachusettes, havin; prepared a statement for the record | sailing the Volstead act as “the most un-American v that was ever ue upon the statutes,” and asserting! that, instead of being removed from} lection campaigns as predicted be-| fore its now the polities Prayer and mass meetings of pro: test against liberalization of the law! were held throughout the country to coincide with the women’s law’ en forcement meeting, delegates an- nounced, and the Rev. R. E. Fultz, pastor of the Mount Pleasant M dist Episcopal church upon his congregation yesterday i Vol- i When Bett; *“\father, Di Lee Dellibac, ‘Chicage ian. But Betty -! at the left, with her father at the ri on probation for a year, behind hin grou PLES OM EN AE PERT IED TODAY N WASHINGTON KF hearing nears end. ion program is be Senate votes on Steck-Brovi- comy n is resumed, Delegation of wo at prohibition hearing. SEEDING IS.0N IN FULL BLAST OVER THESTATE | Seeding Being Done Mostly} By Drilling — Ground | Dry For Plowing i ission 1 appears assemble this morning. in front of the caiptal-to participate ine meeting and silent prayer for continuation of the present. restrictions. The women’s meeting was opened with a message from President Cool- idge, in fh he said “this earnest manifestation of inter enforce- ment of law:is gratify juch interest on the part of those citizens not officially connected itn [ the execution of law,” hearte: responsi | i | ‘ | i ig to those charged with that N) Washington, April 12.— rupting the presentati: of the wets, a corps of 63 delegates | from civic, temperance and other women's organizations passed before the senate prohibition o (Continued on page thre MAN KILLED AS THE RESULT OF | LOVE TRIANGLE: Woman Tells Details of : Five-Year Romance With | entire ding of W. Rob-! here, on ‘oughout. the itory began the s according to O. lerts, government meteorologis {who also keeps a close ts operations and crop | Mr. Roberts made long trips into the | country yesterday and found near: | all farmers ready to begin seeding at jfull blast this morning. The mild | weather of the past two or three days has made the agriculturists anxious to get ut their spring work. Most of the seeding at present is} being done by drilling, on land plowed last fall or on stubble of corn ground. Considerable plowing has been done during the past week also, but the ground is almost too dry for plow-! ing. Grain will be sown on the plow- ed ground later. Unsettled weather is predicted for| | tonight and present indications are i | that rain will fall over this territory Boarder in Her Home | tomorrow or Wednesday, Mr. Roberts | states. CONFESSES SHOOTING | Gary, Ind., April 12—(7)—W. A. | Fargo, N. D., April 12.--)—Seed- Donaldson’ today confessed to the | ing operations begun full blast in the police that he shot and killed Joe | Red river valley today. Mullins last Thursday night after | Reports from princi three other efforts he and Mrs. | Cass county indicate — that Virginia Mullins, the slain man’s | are rushing the planting of widow, attempted had miscarried. | with the average planting showing a Donaldson and Mrs. Mullins con- — slight increase over last year. fessed several years of intimacy | In many localities farmers were! led them to plan Mullins’ death. | able to be in the fields several af-| aa s | j ternoons last week, but today wa Gary. April 12—-P)-—W. A. (Continued on nage three.) Donal 3, today confeswed to th OF THE TIGRIS | THREATEN CITY was found slain in a Gary park last Thrsday night. He immediately was | booked on a charge of murder. Bagdad May Ret Under Water Within 24 Hours—Thou- sands Are in Peril points in farmers! Ine Donaldson denied, however, fired the shot, and refused make any further’ statement etry ing the shooting. His declaration fol- | lowed accusations of Mrs. Mullins that he had fired-the shot. Mrs. Mullins told her story to the police fast night in the presence of | her five children and Donaldson, who | had been a boarder in her home. She | related details of a five-year romance with Donaldson. Authorities indicated that a charge would be placed against Mrs. Mullins a also, pending an inquest later in the; dud, Irak, April 12, -()—With week. i the Tigris river still rising and thou- sands of men fighting desperately to! Stock “Market Takes j repair the dikes, the chapces seemed about even this morning that Bagda a Plunge D Downward weuta be under water within 24, Pct iui, ane aes "the eet waters are already well 5 ~ above the city lev prices plunged violently downward to-| "If the Calnuinaats fuil to hold, day as aggressive short selling and| it is feared that thousands will be tn'"unezpected “tghtsning "of the| fond one te esimsted at #0000 money situation and uneasiness over BS rsa iz bs the ‘lagging tendency of spring BUILDS FOR BEAUTY Paris, pH Re 12—Cannes, that pret-| . Extreme declines of one to 12 points Beet of all the large towns on the/ era, is extending its boundaries | carried mi resentative railroad red Peete that soon it will be! ind industrial issues to new low lev- els tor th dene ee linked with the next hamlet of Juan- Tes-Pins ‘by s continuous. chain of! Dice hog lots are lisble. a Hable to cause s lows and vill: laid, out on worms in smal oe len city plane. Sati Roy Dellibae of Kankakee, rs | where he! had been for shoplifting, and the physician, threatens to sue “those who caused my arrest.’ onditions. | © wheat | FINAL EDITION FIND “LOST” NURSE IN POLICE CELL » student Ih, nurse, disappeared, her caused the arrest of a then found in a 7 station cell, exonerated, Photo shows Betty thulman, who put her jail matron in the back- ight; Judge m, and a nd, PROHIBITION, WORLD COURT. ARE ISSUES; Many Factional Struggles to! Be Settled at Mlinois Primary Tomorrow (P)—The op- y to ex- for dherene y a senator ed in the Ilinois primary question of will be offe tomorrow. In addition another current national interest—prohibition --will be involved to some extent, while considerable local interest will be centered in scrambled and fantas- tical factional struggles. The world court issue revolve: jaround the fight for the Republican | nomination for United States sena- tor, with Senator Wm. B. ley defending his world court vote on the e of party regularity and in of President Coolidge. Extends Through Entire Ticket opponent, Frank L. Smith, of the Illinois commerce commission, has made chief campaign issue manding a ferendum on McKinl question has not been confined to the senatorial struggle, but has ex- tended through virtually the entire ticket, even down to races for minor county offices. Prohibition lurks in the «round of Republican — congressional ampaigning, but stands to the fore the Democratic senatorial race. Chief interest in the Democratic con- test has been centered in the “silent”; campaign of George Brennan, a na- tional party wo de 's who decided to run for an elective office to bring attention to the prohibition question, He has pledged his ener- getic support toward repealing o: a Wad the prohibition ac el Senator ames T, MeDer- | ssman, and James His opponents ar mott, former cong O. Monroe, t campaign in ; which prohibi i was | found in the fight for the Republi- can congressional nominution — be- tween Representative Fred A. Britten | Gold Coast ; and Mrs. Berta Bauer, society woman, with both on sume side~modification. For the first time in history, the | federal government hus engaged more ‘than 500 special Ueputies for duty} in troubled areas of Cook county to prevent election disorders. Bottineau County Decision Rever: The supreme decision of the Bottineau county dis- trict court in the case of the Mer- chants National Bank of Willow City, and B.C. Schram as receiver of the} First National Bank of Willow City the | vs. William J. Armstrong and others. ‘The case involved the right of Arm- strong to give heavy property owned by him to relatives such a mannen that the banks were prevented from collecting sums al- Teged to be due them.’ The district court held in favor of the defendants but the supreme court held that cer- tain of the bs, ies were fraudu- lent and void on the ground that they operated against collection by the | banks of money justly due them. HAIR IS SCARCE London, April 12—There is a [bred scarcity of hair here. With 96 pe cent of the women either bobbed 0 oF shingled, it is almost. impossible to find hair long enough for commercial Hcg Big prices are being paid for} to jong this point his; offi virtually de-| | The world court} back-} i | were seen to go cour has reversed the; mortgages on? PRICE FIVE CENTS ‘MEN CAUGHT | INQUARTERS AND BURNED everal Members of Crew on Deck Escaped, Some With Serious Injuries 300,000 DAMAGE DONE Yesterday’s Disaster Seventh Serious Loss to Oil In- dustry in Week Port Arthur, Texas, April 12—A)— The blackened hulk of the oil tanker | Gulf of Venezuela today rode quietly on the waters of Port Arthur Bay where yesterday a gasoline explosion aboa#td her tore out her vitals and killed 25 men, climaxing a week of oil disast in the southwest. The buckled plates, scorched sides jand twisted superstructure of the ‘tanker tell a mute story of how the metal of the ship was heated to a glaring whiteness in two furious hours during which the 25 men were tonation while the men slept quarters aft, the explosion, | as sudden as it was mysterious, shot | 4 flame of burning gasoline 150 fect jinto the air, The blast took several | members of the crew with it and left ithe others imprisoned in a shell of j hungry flames. Ten in Hospital | The toll of injured tod 10 in the hospital, with About five men were the hospital after receiving ents ency een While the flames seemed to en lclop the pall ship, only one of her tanks was ignited and the gasoline in. ad- joining compartments remained undis- turbed, though some of her bulkheads were white hot. The cause early today remained un- determined, but it was the opinion of refinery ‘men that the explosion was due to the overflowing of a compart- ment, the gasoline coming in contact with steam pipes. One of the injured men in the hospital is quoted as say- ing a compartment overflowed as it | was being filled. | The disaster ix the seventh seriows | loss to the oil industry in the last | week, including two oil tank fires: in | Texas resulting from lightning. The seven disasters took lives and cost approximately $15,000,000. A tank farm at San Luis Obispo, Calif. burned with a loss of milliozs of lons of oil and two deaths. A sim ar fire occurred at Bre: The Dutch tanker Silvan Nided with the steamer Thomas H. Wheeler in the Mississippi river, 40 miles’ below New Orleans, Thursday and on the same day an exploosion rocked the tanker O. T. Waring in a drydock at New Orleans. Thirty or more lives, | were lost on the datter two ships, and the damage to the three ships is esti- { mated at more than $3,000,000. Cargo Can Be Saved The Texas tank fires, one at Luling | and the other at Humble, brought a | total loss of about $300,000. A preliminary survey of the Gulf of Venezuela indicate, according to. Is of the Gulf Refining com- s owner, that she could be re- issioned for about $300,000. The vessel was valued at $1,500,000. A | large part of the gasoline cargo of {about 85,000 barrels can be salvaged, ‘it was said. | The ship came to port here Friday tat midnight and was preparing to sail Sunday for England, stood at Men’s Screams Heard ; It was shortly before dawn--wiile jgasoline was being pumped into her compartments—that the explosion oc- } curred. The blast shook the water- ‘front. In a few seconds the ship was un inferno, und the screams of men being rousted alive couid be heard above the roar of the flames, Those on deck were cither biown nto the water or onto the dock. ‘two over with their clothing afire like flaming rock The force of the explosion appar- jently drove A. G. Schutz through a porthole. A hospital attendant found { him on the dock with a porthole ring ; tightly about his body. The attend- ance had to file the ring loose before jhe could remove Schutz. The injur- jed man said he had no recollection of what had occurred, ' Captain John F. Charlton of Phil+ jadelphia was asleep. He rushed on | deck to find burning oil all about thim. As he tried to aid the crew his inight clothing was scorched and he ; had to leap from the burning ship to { save-himself. Captuin Charlten was leredited with being the first Ameri- can cuptain to sink a German submar- ine in the world w: He commanded ‘the Silver Star, an armed guard ship, during the world conflict. Two men Med in the hospital. ‘The other 23 were so badly burned that identification thus far has been im- possible, and the company has unable to check the list of the crew. Heaton Announces | His Candidacy For | LE. Heaton of McKenzie election in June. | marck on business Saturday, and 2 nounced that his petitions are al: in_circulation. Mr. Heaton came to North Dakota years ago from Io ettling’ on. 8 farm Be exeers 5 ci “ne etill He ,is also a buyer. oe and has elevators: