The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 19, 1926, Page 1

CK TRIBUNE [ewan] ESTABLISHED 1873 ft oa oe : BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1926 ‘ PRICE FIVE CENTS | PENNSYLVANIA REPUBLICANS NOMINATE A WET — CONDITIONS WEATHER FORECASTS Me Cloudy and unsettled tonight and , Thursday; not much change. 4 T INDIANA AND ILLINOIS HIT BY WINDSTORM Aviator Loses Life in Storm— Two Other Persons Killed By Lightning $500,c00 DAMAGE DONE Rain and Hail Accampany Wind—Fruit Trees and Crops Badly Damaged . Chicago,” May 19.—@)—The first ‘severe wind and rainstorm in the middlewest this season centered its wrath on portions of Hlinois and Indiana, bringing death to three per sons, one an aviator. snd causing | damage esti 000. . In northwestern and central In- diana and in northern and central Illinois, the storm, which struck late yesterday, was accompanied hy winds of extreme violence, several houses being overturned, sheds wrecked and roofs blown from buildings. Trees and telephone poles were leveled and communication was hampered. Fruit trees and crops, especially gardens, were damaged in portions of Miinoi: hail. Houses and Garages, Damaged The storm in Illinois reached its greatest intensity at Harvey, Chicago suburb. There a 70-mile tornado-like wind cut a path two blocks wide and a mile long, damaging two score of houses and garages and causing dam- age of $300,000. Considerable damage also was! done near ‘Lafayette, Ind., where tele- phone poles and garages and barns were wrecked. Big hail stones ham- mered Indianapolis, but the damage was limited to broken windows, Aviator Killed [END OF WEEK 10 [: ei i lh in sae FARM RELIEF an i pont: N rea a with fi z A a N er 10 collided with a frei Reading of Haugen Bill For | : here\early today. h engines were badly dam- Amendment May Be Fin- aged in the smash up which . erely jolted Pullman sleepers ished Tomorrow in the rear of the passenger train, ‘the collision occurred when the DISPUTED PARTS © 0-K°D | (ee eee netore’ heme granted the ight of way, and the two locomotives met head on, sos 7 : Most of the injured were pas- Provision For, Equalization | en Si ‘Pullmans They put. Fee on Sale of Basic : y “from cuts “and | Crops Apireved [J OTAn investigation will he made i] to fix responsibility for the col- Lp lision, * Washington, May 19.—(?)—Having . approved the most controversial sec- tions of the Haugen farm relief bill, ry the house tomorrow probably will conclude reading of the measure for | amendment. | Before a vote is taken, the Tincher| jeredit bill and the Curtis-Aswell commodity market proposal will he | offered as substitutes, Action on all | three is ex ed by ‘the end of the week. Other business was on the | house calendar tod: |: Approval was given yesterday to the much debated provision for an equalization fee on the sales of basic crops. The fee would be levied on{Commission Decides That wheat, cattle, corn, hogs: and butter i during seasons of surplus, to inain- Only Peace-time Arma- tain a market stabilization fund. A z Ce | like assessment on cotton would be ments Can Be Limited authorized after two’ years. After rejecting a motion to strike | out this provision, the house accept-}) Gen ed an amendment by Representative | time | Jones, Democrat, Texas, to require the proposed federal farm board to| Visional was reached at today advertise for 40 days its intention to| sion of the preparatory disarmament [levy the fee on a product, with the} commission, which decided that it junderstanding that. the procedure] was impracticable to think of reduc- | would be canceled if a majority offing the ultimate war strength of j the farm organizations opposed it, countries. May 1 maments — ¢ onference of nations. AT Her PRISON TOLD, | | | Grand Jury thoinerts Straps | and Hickory Clubs Were bai told Used i WARDEN DAVIS INDICTED | loggings Administered With- | out Supervision of Pri- son Physician Birmingham, Ala., May 19,—() Indiscriminate use of the’ strap and hickory clubs in beating convicts con- fined at Flat Top prison and work-| ing in coal mines there and the! “monarchical” rule of three lite te ' were some of the conditions und by the Jefferson county grand following its inVestigation and described in a partial report made here yesterday. Floggings were administered with- out the supervision of the prison physician, Dr. J. E. Robbins, whom | the report stated was on hand each} morning when the convicts went into! the mine shaft, then left to attend | his private practice, leaving a ne-! gro to attend those who became ill or injured in his absence. The report stated that the prison; physician had admitted that he had} not examined the body of Jumes| Knox, West Virginian, until the day| after his death and that his certifi-{ cate of “death by suicide” was issued on “information furnished him. It} was due to the death of Knox, whom! it was alleged died during the course | of “duckings” in a launtiry vat and | later had poison pumped into his in-! testines to simulate suicide, that brought the grand jury investigation | and resulted in six indictments for] murder by the grand jury, one of Victor, Vangie VARE HAS BIG LEAD OVER HIS ‘TWO OPPONENTS Attributes His Vote to Peo- ple’s Desire For Dry Law ‘Modification PEPPER RUNS SECOND Former Lieutenant Governor Reidleman Leads in Gu- bernatorial Race Philadelphia, May 19—(AP)— Returns from ‘6,873 of the 8,281 districts in Pennsylvania in yen- terday’s primary gave Congres man William 8. Vare, wet cani date, a lead of 110,86 for United Staten wenator,. Vare's vote was 563,411 and Pepper's 452,599. Governor Pinchot’s vote for the same districts wan 290,- 858. Philadetphi May 19.—()—Con- gressman William S. Vare, advotate of modification of the prohibition laws, today regarded himself as vie- tor in a sensational fight for the Republican nomination for the Unit- ed States senate, Incomplete returns from _yester- day's primary showed Vare ahead, Senator George Whatton Pep- per, ‘supported by the forces of Secretary of the | Treasury Mellon, was ih second place with Governor Gifford Pinchot, bone dry candidate, ird. Returns from 6,968 of the 8,281 districts in the state, gave Vare uw plurality over Pepper of 115,540. Pin- chot was 160,298 behind the senator. € In ratifying this conclusion, how- | Lively Debate ever, the commission agreed to a | The debate was enlivencd by} significant reservation by M. Paul- The figures were: Vare 6529, ,004 5 Pepper 413,504; Pinchét 263,20€. Defeat Not Admitted - ~ Although Vare said the returns in- dicated his nomination, neither of his opponents would concede defeat. At Argo, Illinois, near Chicago, Ross C. Kirkpatrick, air plane. pilot in the Ford Airways Service, and his all-metal ship were hurled to the ground by the gale. He was dead charges of “vicious” lobbying which] Boncour of France. It was to the|them for Warden Davis who had Representative Tincher, Republican, effect that, when the sub-committee | charge of the prison, ! i Kansas, authority of the Tincher bill,| frames the exact formul: Knocked Prisoners Unconscious® {hurled at delegates of farm organi-| recognize that estimated reductions] Warden Davis often persdnally ad-| (eee supporting the Haugen mea-] in peace-time armaments should take| ministered floggings, according to ) when his wrecked machine was found z | into account the military, economic] the report, and jt was not an uncom- Vare attributed the vote given him { after the storm, r President Coolidge xu spend the ammer in the Adirondack mountains j The delegates were defended by| and geographical factors upon which| mon practice for him to knock. pri- to the modification issue whic William Arnold, a farmer of Fort, at this attractive ere reservation on the shore j Rep ive McLaughlin, Republi-] the w ne power depends soners unconscious by striking them, stressed throughout the cam Wayne, Ind, and Virginia McQuis-! of Lake Placid, N. Y., owned he Irwin PL tion, 15, son of a Kenton, Ohio. fatm- | eraphs of the er, were killed by lightning while at > work, ‘Ten persons in Mlinois were injured, two probably. fatally, TODAY so the rapidity with which ild be afforded to a sta over the heads with a rubber tube, Much additional information was| withheld, the report stated, because the grand jury had not completed its ee, which will re-] investigation at Flat Top, but many the ‘agenda and en-| instances of inhuman cruelty were} separate technical military | cited. He said the people of the state felt that he was a safe agency “for the expression of their will and desire for a return of personal liberty and non-interference with American , rights, which the constitution of the Ll United States originally granted them.” His nomination, and election next November as United States ecrztor, he said, would force consideration of the prohibition issue by the national Republican party, By virtue of the office, he contended, he would be a delegate at large to the 1928 Republi- can national convention and would be in a position to present a modifi- cation plank which the drafters of the party platform would be | com- pelled seriously to consider. Kirkwood. first photo- ot shew, above, a view of the main ¢abin which the president and Mrs. Coolidge will cecupy; below, the camp as it appears from the lake, almost hidden in the trees CONDITIONS IN MINNESOTA FOREST =. FIRE AREA IMPROVED, BUT SHIFTING "FRAZIER WILL wins cas mow |, OF WINDS WOULD CAUSE HEAVY LOSS FILE THE NYE fz Si ie, ‘eat 10 GRUSH THE | Still at Work—Very Little Migratory bird bill is before a notice was served by , Republica Ore- eller, Dem Ten- they expected. farm re- nm to be enacted at this} cu de Philadelphia-Gives Vate Lead = % BY ARTHUR BRISBANE i st Night—For-|| *™« ( ‘ | Philudelp! Hi (Conyight, 1026) ft ; Rainfall Last Night—For William S. Culbertson testifie Decides Not to File His Own; IN UIRY GETS i Preparing to Attack Mar-, Bp ef gave Vare, eee Hour after hour radio, stations a > . at t ssion investiga- Pj ™ out the state. me e points far apart, Nome, Cordova, st. @strY Dyeectment’t0, Brae tien. | Name When Opponents | shal Pilsudski—Has Army | fist subndeaiineie on Paul, in the Pribilo islands, have Pers y i nterstate commerce commis- J! P re, now vil continuously sent out the three let-| cute bs cone Found Re-}). or rears rguments in Urge Him to Run TU A HEARING: of 25,000 Men , ‘thember of congress, lone ise the Aretie, When you read this an! Fires, | Roy Frazier, hero toda eae F The | Polish adalohlas te igehee tee Earl ieee answering call may have come from! . 5 : Caan ee would file in the near future 3 general, Haller, who has at his dis- he entered polities with luis brothers, the explorers, or the ¢all may go on — o] jicate nominating Gerald P. Nye, in- Railroad Representatives to} Post! 25.000 men of all arms ands (Continued on pag ie be i * and never be answered. |, Duluth, May 19.—(P)—Six brush |cumbent, ax the Republican candidate mits tanks aie preparing to altace = — (and grass fires are still, smouldering for the short term for senator. Be Heard First, Then Pas alae y who recent What eould be more mysterious |in Duluth diftrict this morning, and Any idea of filing his own name Heer eerie \ than the power of man to send. al although conditions dre mech bere | was abandoned, he said, when politi- the Shippers the Posen correspondent of the Weather Report reassuring call through the ether! than the first part of the week, the {cal opponents urged him to make the} de Paris. : . all around the world? To the great situation ‘remains very serious’ and |face in the belief that it would hurt puiiraalnin calmniass tent rina at : ‘4 Sera Mee tae MRI ele tee cary, seraeaand 1 eeserneins eli Washington, Bay 19:--UP)—The in-| saw, and fighting has again broken | Temperature at 7 a, m jike ‘hearing your name called in| would regult in Meavy lose to proven: Commenting on Nye’s expressed de- terstate commerce commissibn out,” the correspondent quotes Gen- | Highest yesterda the midst of a forest. Some day, | ty and timber, C. S. Lind, district| sire that the nomination be not filed eral ing into the nation’s fr eral Haller as having said to him, Lowest last night ing to Bible teachi: the | er, Frazier said: “I'll fill it. If Nye) rate structure, as directed by con-| The general denied that 80 per cent} Precipitation to 7 according to Bi ing, jforest ranger, said. y Il send out a call | e wants to withdraw it that’s his busi-| gress, reached another stone to-] Of the Polish troops supported * These three men were candidates Highest wind veloci ig cepts olga us will have. to| leicae eee Gentian Aetna wpuiver| ness.” day in the form of oral arguments Pilsudski or that President Wojeie- | for the Republican nomination for the _ Weather conditions at North answer. We are \used to that | Bay, Knife River, French River and * Pye At a Republican convention here] in that phase relating to r: in the chowski had resigned, i . Senate in Pennsylvania at the, kota points for the 24 hours oe thought, but feeble ‘men. calling out Gnesen early today and confined Tom Kelly, Injured in Chevro- | March 31, controlled by Frazier, west. Arguments will continue pro- ‘The ministers are prisoners and’ primary election yesterday. William, at 8 a, m, today: + aeross the Arctic ice to their lost| their efforts to putting ‘out smail 3 given the party endorsement for! bably 10 days, with 70 representatives| tefuse to accept the situation im-|§. Vare, above, has a large lead with ; s romantic even let Garage Fire Yester-, the short term and Frazier was it Reales nal posed by violence,” General Haller | about three: fourths of the precinets s ee Very little rainfall was reported day, Will Recover choice candidate to make the race in| views, feat Pileudeki vouldeventualig Meatienntiss Rene George Wharton RS A new Tow price for wheat. Altast night in fire districts but-a for case Nye declined to run as a Repub-| Although six different proceedings | With success in his movement. | Pepper, center, is running second and $3 new low price for the French franc. | and abatement of the wind helped} le soi ..,_ | tican. had been tied up with the general in- I have every contidencesin the | Governor ford Pinchot, below, is Be ‘A rather discouraged windup in| considerably. Tom Kelly, mechanic at the Capi-| Nye previously had made an agree-| vestigation, ‘the commission decided| Value of the Posen troops,” he de-| third. : fare Wall street. Such is the week-end Situation Looks Bad tal Chevrolet company’s garage, who| ment with L, B. eure real or Cool’! to argue the western cases first to] clared. “It will peguite sige ual ~|Amenia . 0 financial news. Finance is as sen-| The most serious conditions exist-| was burned when his clothing caught | i#@ Republican candidate, wherchy | enable it to readjust, if possible, the | ¢fush tlie insurrection, but we shal 5 x Bismarck rl aitive as any iF Belbane sine ing this morning wore in Cramer| fire as he attempted to light a gato- |" Would ran as independen’s. | rates affecting agriculture and tive-| succeed.” Major Operation Bottineau o shivers ink 0} ‘i 5 t where a st a a stock in accordance with a provision * evil : Suppose it came here, It will not | Gtsict, where a strong northwesterly tine torch in the garage work room Of the Hoch-Smitn resolution sue: | on Two-Hour-Old | Dickinson... |; 0 come here, but just suppose. ened several settlers’ gabins. The) yesterday afternoon, is getting along cifically directing that these charges i f ] Dunn Center .. 61 32 0 yn ee Mei ing to make| Situation here looks bad today, said nicely today according. to the attend: be reduced, with the least delay, to ‘ i Baby Successfu Ellendale (Ho ast Saturday near’ Manitou Falls,| jus hospital and will not be in condi. | | Milwaukee, May 19.—()—-A majo * abe stronger than the pack of tbralar, spread nine miles within three hours,| tion to be taken to his home for at MAKE A SECOND Ae yh cota dec ROM PTO LETS CONTRACT |eperation, “performed withins two Tameestowe) «0 cae fake stock deals, In the Journal of| making its way to the | lake and| least two weeks. is Creag a1 Morninestiem, wot hours after the child's birth, proba- eee! - Larimore . Lisbon Minot . spreading “back towards the inland, Kelly's worst burns were on his Re M ted, bly will save the life of an infant ‘the American aaigre" Association he} 4’total area of about 80 square miles | left leg and right arm and, while his Penne F- Burgas, coneral, soliel, | now being cared for at a hospital urges @ national program to, prevent is involved in the fire district. * | condition is not considered critical, | j Biot tne Chicage: Burlington {he j sales of fraudulent stocks. He ought) “ nrastic-steps will be taken by the] the injuries are very painful. He Quincy, two of a committee of nine, 7 @ s 8 ee00ssSbb0 ( | Napoli ks » baby was born Sun wpe oe to include land swindling enterprises ibaa tomates. denatt were selected to open the arguments The baby wa Pembina $28 'y department in prose-| told itors yesterday afternoon that Mi sbirth was afflicte ry pe useful program, and doubtless | citing, all persons found guilty of | his. daning ad become. saturated | i por ene wesiern road Pela ies \the'urpbilical’ cord. Ha wan Wapeted en Pieter aa Ciena |” his writer iaa7just investigated! Lind announced, stressing that the’ tant Se°on sucomontie ‘ehichene was | ESeaped Electric Chair When per cent in freight rates, which they| Stanley Bros, Get Red Trail | to the hospital where the operation WEATHER FORECAST is writer is just investigate i. Sa urenee ‘ claim is needed to bring a fair re- | a prs For Bismarck and vicinity: Cloud; } the case ofa poor women pereuaded | Perielems fisherman, | EAE inthe’ bhew’ torch nis SUF Disagreed—To Be turn of thelr investments, Job, From Eldridge to |, Yesterd: Ta tenet the baby | and somewhat unsettled tonight and y cash for a lease where 4 : arles E. Hug! epresenting re- . . a : ursday; not much change in tem- } itod"Zatinow be Soughe for t¥0 st] ange Arinans PUEREA gy. | stihing, bustin fine" eon) Tried im Maryland — | gaett"sr'une"ChicugeMliatise| ‘Kidder Co, Lime ie \ ec beng + meus te senlly Bs igh ridges, and poreupines have te with & heavy coat but not until Kelly | and St.Paul also was ready to, sak For Be dual Dakota: Cloudy and { ‘at orate waymentoot balances -due,{ found killed by the recent fires, Mr.| had received painful burns. | Baltimore, May 19—-(AP)—For the|.teday or tomorrow morning: | It nas] Jamestown, N. 19—-Stuts- somewhat unsettled tonight and ‘yy pip cade purchases ‘a, cock-and-| Lind said, while hundreds of other!’ Considerable damage was done to! second time within a month the life been indicated that he would center! man county com ners have Thorsdar: not much change in tem- } \ bul story about traces of gold be- animals have been seen roaming | the GENERAL WEATHER CONDITIONS i tention on the Potter plan pro- . contrac! ine | ement of the Chevrolet gar-‘of Richard Reese Whittemore, candy| his at awarded two’ road contracts, totaling d to a ‘number of automobiles! kid of the underworld, is han viding for a pooling of all revenues| more than $157,000. F B D ARE bout with their fur singed and age , ing found in the neigh rhood, warn. | ppowe Ne : TLAt Hace be tho tice [aire Sau derived from a general increase in|” Stanley brothers, St. Cloud, Minn., ‘A large, high presstire area is en: \ ine ee 4s gold Hea picosn French River fires are_ pretty Which spread. through the” bul ding | old gangste Fatés “for apportionment ard the} were awarded the contract for a road tered over the Plains States a: | 70 eee Base istully paid for. | well under control of the fighters| following Kelly's accident. New au-|steps of the state of Maryland to fix| carriers earning less than 5% per! on the Red Trail, beginning one mile weather prevails from the Miastesipot I bas aed this morning, after a strenuous fight) jomobiles in the display rooms. ona noose about his throat for the will cont. Bek wan west of Eldridge and running about Valley to ihe, castern slope | ot the i made last night to keep flames from} the d floor were quickly driven| ing of a penitentiary guard in a jai’ miles, or to the Kidder county} a ) athe sees th ling oe ivery"reme- crossing Cant Road | into tinther, foe “the. building hen the’ fico| breakers ober s war ago. Live stock shippers probably willljine, ‘Contractors bid on three proj- | eastern North Dakota. A low injures} Only a light rain fell, there last|'started and fure ‘area, | accompanied b ee table real \estate anverent ere di Janiaged. i Fac than a month past Whittemore} be heard Thursday or Friday while} ects on this road, from the starting sli night. d from the, shackles of New| state corporation commissioners will] point to Cleveland, from Cleveland to | 4 temperaturd, has in the oth yatta ‘tnd California, PPike| The fire at-Pinland is Burning be- te: Lé ads York's. electric chair when a jury | take the stand Saturday or early next| Medina, and from Medina. to the Officers Fear Wealthy Wis-| extreme Northwest. ens widely ~ oth to Florida end California, Tee] iow Baptian river near the laxc| FOFESter Fy failed to agree that he had kilied a] week, * county ‘line, the successful bid being! seattered showers fell from the east. catduct, Such shameful exceptions| front and is pretty well at hand with t C ‘bank messenger during a $93,000 bank| The western roads first had asked|'$101,803.04.. Fifty per cent is paid! consin Farmer May Have {ern Rocky Mountain slope bart 4 prthe general honesty injure a state| numerous sinouldering places keeping Quiet Campaign ‘robbery in Buffalo, an increase sufficiont to net them a| through federal aid, 25 per cent by and heavy ptecipitation ocearred ii Wat otfers to investors ‘the greatest| the fighters busy. 8 Fi Whittemore’s of poverty ‘has| return of 5% per cent and ut the} the state and the remaining 25 per Been Robbed and Slain the midile Mississippi, Valley and cuportunities in the world. to uppress TPES) prought to his sido agar Allan Poe,| time it was estimated a boost of ap-l cent by the county. Great Lakes region. | | conpenSn ees Taek WIND INDICATES 4, 289, 9f the ablest of the statc's crim: proximately 11 per cent in rates) A. _ i: guckton of Jamestown was) ov octon, Wise May 18 a[ North Dakota ‘Corn and Wheat ” —P)—] tt} woul be necessary. er the in-| awarde. ¢ Streeter ackle road, & ' - PP) — 1 The British government appears to | CHANCES RAIN Bottineau, N.D, M May 19.—(A)- iffal lawye: Gr and a former presiden s “ 6 d 1 of bh 1 ¥ —i#)—Hu- ‘of the sociation. Both; troduction of the Potter plan, how-j@ distance of about 10 miles, his bid|¢ap and a pool of blood are clews inf\ For the ee endii 18, 1926, have won more than Ree ‘the ae St. Paul, Minn., May 19.- Hu-|E, Cobb, state forester and head of|of imore assoc! to] being $55,642.16, As Gackle is in Lo-| the mystery which surrounds the] Weather fav. ste for iy 18 oper- fforts, light rains,’ and achool here, is Whittemore id his counsel ‘have an-j ever, they revised their requ : r Het to sold, ene that nat walked abating nas Meander nl aa re- Mnling 4 Ser itoalen ta ¥ aired nounced hat a plea of “not guilty"| call for a specific & per cent’ rate] gan’county, each of the counties will; disappearance of Herman Freimuth,| ations provaile in all sections + of is necatae | the objected to edi- cies, northeastern Minnesdta’s fire | prairie and toreet fires caused e | will be entered. raise. “This plan was prepared by]|ipay 12% per cent, the state 25 per | 60, farmer, who lived three miles] the State. Early sown spring wheat oui yy nt up, and because the: td until bday ad one menacing sareiences of hunters and a ees Mark W. Potter, former interstate] cent and federal government 50 per | southwest of here, is in excellent. condition and the late f toriat tated oe vainers,, tin ti wan borai in overy letter semt out from. the MRS. DISRUD DIES. ammerse commissioner and now a| cent. ‘Six road-contractors bid on the| ‘The cap,, identified as Frelmuth's| sown is up 10 geod stand ord je stril foe é ‘The most | se fous conditions this i school he pistée a peel placard show-| McClusky.—Mrs. E. Disrud, wife of} receiver for the St. Pau! jobs. by ia children, was found on a rail-las ¥ * 4 in ~ Cramer: dis-| jing @ cartoot ees to make; | the Goots ich high gehen! Principat, j way bridge near here.” Y pool of} ing Be Hanger and bpaid ane are hard] trict hare ‘@ stro poremetelty tp and Ane before throw-| died last Le featyage oot topele county- in the may visitors’ register of the Los! blood was a few feet away. ide drivers. The be et et} wind was blowi e fire threat- itd matches ‘in the ar} Rolla followin; where communication ene ci ree is al Officials fear that Freimuth, who ny “about He. am ened several settlers’ cabins. ‘ ee cempiielbeer eaeeaey ness. The hus! ae aga = Be no telephones, roads or pounds and ¢on- aa a large %um of money with him, wre stent seen on mabe tise: (Continued on page three.) childien survive, ites. Racing 2 may have been — and alain, | < 4 x