The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 21, 1926, Page 1

WHATHER FORECAST Partly cloudy Fri. day. Coiaer ale oe ESTABLISHED 1873 EUGENE DEBS pasta PASSES AWAY | mm DURING NIGHT INVESTIGATION IS POSTPONED Veteran Socialist Leader Dies| ’ Hearings Begun Wednesday . Peacefully in Sanitarium Before Rail Board, But Only ? Near Chicago : One Witness Called NEARLY 71 YEARS OLD SET FOR NOVEMBER 18 Advance Years, Heart Disease Railroad Company Represen- tatives Ask More Time to : Prepare Their Case Eugene V. 1" Eugene V. Debs, aie. leader, succumbs to heart disease in fum near Chicago. ae pees ; Debs fs deed aap ‘The os ie indomitable will Sent since i. Saiki the drat, General investigation into North Dakota freight rates, launched today by the state ra’ id rd at a he ing which was expected to last three days, has been postponed until No- vember 18, br last night under the flood of The postponement was taken when Pvnnd and the etrain of h disease representatives of railroad companies irom which he had suffered for 25 asked more time in which to prepare years. ‘ to defend the rates already in exis- (| Nearing his 71st birthday, the five 4 ‘ times nominee of the Socialist party for the presidency died peacefully in a suburban sanitarium, surrounded FY And Uanonees members of his! 'y and leading representatives | q of the party. . sas apc Debs sank into a coma last Satur- | day, reviving for only a few minutes Sunday during which he motioned to his wife for a pencil and a feeble scrawl scratched out W. E. Henly’s tence and others on which they have asked increases. The action came as a surprise to @ score of freight rate experts and pers who had gathered here for the meeting. The shippers, however, expressed general satisfaction be- cause the extra time also will, give them an opportunity to prepare more data to present to the commission, Hendricks Testifies Only one witness had been heard NAME BARRETT PRESIDENT State Association of Commer- cial “Club Officials to Coincident with the visit to Ai reported King Ferdinand, her favor of his son, famous poem, “Invictus,” ending when postponment was announced ay fin ane ene Meet Quarterly He was HM, Hendrick es am ie Cal n. M. seul.” Friends explained thes pert for the state railroad board, who submitted numerous exhibits in sup- port of suggested rate changes which he recommended to the board for special consideration. The present rate structure, Hen- dricks said, is’ antiquated in that some items are given very fair and reasonable rates while others bear a disproportionate part of North Da- kota’s total freight bill. He submit- ted numerous exhibits and compila- tions in support of his contention: dn board, attorneys for the railroads they ‘would be prepared, when ‘ing is resumed, to offer testi- mony in rebuttal and to examine Hendricks and other witnesses with seeped to the points brought up for ser n. ARMY FLJERS CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER Accused of Killing Confeder- ate Veteran, Struck By sec Flying oe stock purchasers in order to obtain use of the money required by the Montgomery, Ala., Oct. 21.—()— iti jission to be d Faree Officers of the Maxwell flying Pig riceangie qroraiaal agp aes an army airport, were arres| here’ today on charges of voluntary Wright Defends Practlee s manslaughter in connection with the} W- G. Wright, president of the killing of Frank G. Brow 83, con-| company, defended this practice in a federate veteran who was instantly] Statement to the commission, con- killed when struck by = low flying| tending that he had obtained tho plane near here yesterday. eonsent of every stock purchaser The officers arrested are Li whose money was taken from escrow. ants A. J. Lehman of Indiana, J. C. The books also shave. Lund said, Dennison of Rhode Island and Clai: tat vd cs pee “sg oe Zick pela hy le - ig! al ole ane ee malt ip eee them was recorded on the compan: lechanics who accompanied the| books. accused officers on flights during the morning denied knowledge of baving .of havin, ied to the ground, The ‘accused men made no ’ SECOND WOMAN ARRESTED IN MURDER CASE Dr. Hall’s Former Choir Lead- er Held in Connection With Mrs. Mills’ Death — Somerville, N. J., Oct 21—)—A| second woman been arrested in moneetion with the Hall-Mills mur-| ler. ‘ Miss Minnie Clark, a friend of Mrs.' Hall and choir leader for Dr. Edward W. Hall, until superseded-by Mrs.' Mills, was sees last a it and peiny ian ee ry to take up their deal ‘without ba caring today/ t¥ Mile. Mrs, Pall, ing cach individual, therefo the murder of tr Sccused of the murder, is fiee on|we have not made m complete audit native) that city, will one of the el rane bail. Sane Chis oa of the accounts or attempted to make speakers st the North ~, The arrest of Mrs. Clark was bas: work, usually become tow ‘ A} Dakota Corn r. on, : a statement of fe here next it nt the! of SE Paul for two terms, from 1628] i jury ae for a} Steve: an ac- verse, written by the English author! James Barrett, Devils Lake, w © ipa pet was his lifelong source |clected president of the North Da- ation. kota Association of Commercial Club Funeral at T. Haute secretaries at a meeting here Wednes- Funeral services will be held at day. (W, "W. ‘Blain of, Grand orks Terre Haute, Indians, his birthplace, |S Oem Minny coring ee Friday or Sunday, after which Fae) Minot, Cefenere F bit wi agreed that members of! ie body will be taken to Indianapolis for cremation, ‘The Terre Haute sef- cane tn ste associ ont to, act as an advisory com- vices probably will be public. mittee for the Greater North Dakota Debs suffered a nervous breakdown | association. The first of these a month ago and was brought to an| quarterly meetings will be held De- Elmhurst ‘sanitarium for rest and|cember 3 at Jamestown. treatment. His advanced years andj In its invitation to the commercial the heart disease he had been forced | club secretaries to act as an advisory to fight off virtually throughout his| board, the Greater North Dakota As- mature life, him with little re-| sociation said their services would be sistance and kidney disease, adding| valuable in guardin; inst favorit- complication several 26° /ism for any particular section ef the weeks pre e scales completely against | state in the association's development Born ‘in Terre Haute, November 5, ft Bbc! Be eater we Difficult to Make Accurate Check Because of Condition Records, Auditor Says—Es- crow Provision Evaded Hearing on the proposal to cancel the stock selling permit of the R dale Homes compan: by the state securi was continued at noon until 2 p. m. Tn presenting 0 the co the results of his audit, O- ind, auditor, said that an accurate check of the company’s affairs was diffi- cult because of the condition of its books and the inadequacy of its re ords. The audit showed that the co pany had $287.50 in the escrow ac- count subject to the control of the securities commission when it shoul have had $15,215.60. Commenting on this fact Lund said ‘For the purpose of evading the escrow provision, the officers of the company are converting the ginal stock subscription sales into notes.” These notes, he explained, program. Those’ attending the “meeting to- deyawese CG. C. Eustgate, Dickinson; the presidene: of the ‘American Rail-| Jamestown; We Chea oad Union, during which he won a! David S. Owen, Minot; James 8 strike on the Great Northern railway, und lost another when President z lation ond a Goddard, Bist Cleveland called out troops to guard! marck : : > domal’, Goatees tac! thet ges BODY OF WOMAN, MISSING SINCE TUESDAY, FOUND Discovered Crammed Into Trunk in Attic of Her Home in Portland Portland, Qregon, Oct. 21.—)— Crammed into a closed trunk in the Withers found am fet y was foun by_ her son Charles, aged 16. . Mrs. Withers had not been seen A WOMAN'S, MILLIONS. COURAGE CONQUERS ALL. CREDIT OVERSTIMULATED. 1,000,000 BUNGALOWS. n dates Pager What will be the bise of America's fortunes 100 years hence, iting other millions? statement of the company’s assets and liabilities Lund said that it showed a deficit of $18,082.14. Tho assets were $14,696.78 and liabilities 327,780.92. 4 Lund. listed the company’s interest in real estate equities at $7,205.82, but said they were carried on the bets worn “ ving | me, ante iscovery. thers was divore-| was an admirably benevolent| od from’ her husband, Charles H. giving a Withers, an architect. It was said at the house that Withers left Port- land recently for Seattle. by com ‘was at the bottom of the trunk and over it a layer of cloth- ing and the tray, filled with articl fe were no marks of violence on body, except a discoloration at ire. In cases where capital stock was exchanged for lots the titles were taken by the company without sise: ing them in escrow as required by the commission, Lund said. Incomplete She owned Standard Oil stocks, hundreds of thousands of shares, also Rensants, Ke shares a Sane lec! 1. ‘elephone ele- graph, Atchison and other railroad ‘ system: ethod of keeping rec- ords, tl were drawn on the company’ without explanation and no entries made on the books, Lund said: “Part of tl originally kept at Minot and part of them at the Bismarck office. Dur- ing the last two months preceding Inheritance sauce take sixteen millions of her Her’ Bismarck office were moved to Minot and ledger pages were redrawn. In duplicated in othe: were miss! The jeces could not be connected w: of original entry by us. re of the company, it would bacl ne Hind Former Mayor Arthur Ne! of St, fate indus : tthe thevabient| Paul, prominent ts publie affaire in money cept that the children’ of je busine: hay ie “ah oo) ving no company from the who served dion to 1926, declining « has! ta ing @ n rk i the general dition of the com; Hilite| homes. ‘had rm, has always rt in aftaire of ver City, Calif., Oct. 1—) Louis . Ni » of Danville, DL, 28. years married— his way to a film contract “which was Nat x who aes were given by company officials to! usband, will abdicate the throne in the Crown Prince Carol, with whom Marie was recon- ciled during her stay in Paris, — (right) and Carol are shown re, DEFICIT OF $13,082.14, 0. B. LUND REPORTS TO SECURITIES COMMISSION *| again be the basis of the Washington ‘| campaign. | \ of Books and Inadequacy of; company’s books at a much greater! high school. she records were | dent at the time of his di some cases oy, were found to be/ from his district. erarecions of the } Dickinson teed said two ber at Fa Minot and a or a Dickinson lodge No. 1137,] had Hastings Given ‘of Queen Marie of Rumania, it is |, 5-year Sentence night by Judge Thomas Pugh to five years in the state prison— three years for embezzlement of funds from the New England State Bank, and two years for viola of the blue sky law. Th terms to run cont tively. OF SENTINEL inent Banker and For- mer State Senator Sentinel Butte, N. D. fred L. Martin, 58, Sei banker and one of the most widely known wen in all Western North Da- kota, died at 9 o'clock Wednesday night in a private hospital in Minne- apolis. Death was due to cancer. He had been in ill health for several months, Funeral arrangements will not b completed until tonight when Lyle Manrtin, who left Sentinel tte early this morning, joins Mrs. Martin, who was with her husband when the end came. , Business asso- el s at Sentinel Butte were not certain whether the body would be returned here for burial. Alfred ate ie Martin was born at La Crosse, Wis., July 1, 1869. He was educated in the public school of Minnesota and was graduated from He came to North Da- in 1890 and for eight years he was in the employ of the Northern Pacific as agent and operator, be- ing stationed at Sims, Taylor, Dic! inson and Sentinel Butte. - the first station agent for the Nort! ern Pacific at the latter point. In 1898 he entered the ranching Records Stating that the aneeny had no | business and gradually increased his holdings until he operated on a large ry Later he and/his associates es- tablished the Interstate Ba: tinel Butte, of which he ink of Sen- presi- He also owned a line of elevators in Western North Dakota. In 1904 he was elected to the North this audit some of the records of the! Dakota state legislature without op- ition. he was elected to the State Senate as the first senator His ability a ses they | legislator was at once recognized and yr accounts | he was given appointments on many the books | important committees. He also serv- In order | ed/as a member of the State Normal to prove the exact condition of all| gehool board from 1908 to 1907. . Martin was married in 1891 to Miss Julia Farmer, St. Cloud, .Minn., who with one son, Alfred Lyle, sur- ‘Mr. Martin held membership in all Masonic bodies, Blue Chapter, Council and and in El Zagal Shrine . He also held mem- Ln es, ‘har! 63, a retired Minneapol shot to death as he Rs, fecrnt et his home Police’ are see! his son, Ca: 4 lowing a/reported quarrel : between the father and the slayer fired two shots, both ‘atriking near the heart. Death was ous. cee ma wife BUTTE DIES | Cancer Causes Death of Prom- Com- | and was once candidate for lieutenant THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [muon] | BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1926 MUCH DAMAGE IN HAVANA FREIGHT RATE |[___wnweexineceror ill it Be King Carol? SUPPORT OF COTTON MEN NOW SOUGHT Legislative Committee to Con- tinue Fight in Congress For Farm Relief | TO MEET AT ST. LOUIS| — i McNary-Haugen Principle to Again Be Basis of Wash- ington Campaign Des Moines, Oct. 21.—(). of the cotton growers of the south in the farm relief fight to be resum- tee representing 30 middlewester farm organizations which have membership of more than a million For this purpose, the G tion of Farm Organizations! called a conference to be held at! » Louis on November 16 and 17 and| has invited all southern states to send representatives. A desire was form: ally expressed at the federation meeting ended here yesterday to work with the south in obtaining legislation to prevent a_ recurre: of the recent cotton market slump. Per Capita Assessment __ Calling of the post-election mect- ing and adoption of the new method of financing its legislative work with @ per capita assessment on all mem- ber organizations were the principal new acts of the federation confer- ence here. It was determined press congress more vigorously for| passage of surplus control measures and agreed that the McN; ‘Haugen agricultural relief principle would Unlike previous meetings of the committee, the administration was n eri ized in the resolutions, which, leaders explained, side step- ped possible interference with the | proposed alliance h the south. | Such an alliance ix feared by op- ponents of agricultural relief. act: William Hirth, Columbia, Mo., f eration chairman, believes. To sup-/ port this contention, he pointed to| the administration's’ promptness in| interesting itself in the cotton sur- plus problem ac a move to remove an incentive nore al of the south with elt. Oo Governors question still holds the attention of Governor John Hum- mill of Iowa, who was instrumental in calling the first corn belt confer- | ence. He is now preparing an appeal | to all governors of the middlewest and south, secking their aid ut futures conferences or through their con- gressmen, His letter to the execu- tives will be a detailed review of e isting farm, conditions, it has bee: iH announced. i | Elevator Owner | Is Indicted For Arson and Forgery St. Paul, Oct. 21—()—Indictment | by the Morrison county grand jury ‘at Little Falls, of Lunde, on charges of arson and forgery, was announced by George W. Wells, Jr. state insurance commissioner, toda: The charges grew out of the burn. ing of Lun ain elevator at Bow- lus, March 10, last. Detection of the forgery came when it was found that more wheat tickets | had been issued for the content of the elevator than it was capable of holding. The forgery charge involves the issuance of the tickets. ~ Mr. Wells sald he was informed at Lunde had served a sentence of ix months at Dwight on a charge of forgery. | THOMAS HOTT OSBORNE OF AUBURN DEAD Former Warden of New York Prison Stricken on Street | By Heart Disease Aubu: N. ‘Thomas’ | | Y., Oct. 21--()— lott Ogborne, noted for his activities in behalf of —prison re- form, is dead. Stricken on the street by heart disease last night, he was identified at an undertaker’s parlor through 2 little metal check with the name “Tom Brown” raved upon it, which Mr. Osborne received when he voluntarily entered Auburn prison as a prisoner to study the actual life of perience at Auburn suggest- ed many reforms, some of which he an opportunity to put into effect as warden of Sing Sing prison, and later:ab the naval prison at Ports- ft which he had charge An independent Democrat in poli- tics, he eerved as mayor of ‘Auburn governor. He was for many years owner and publisher of the Auburn Citizen. Cigaret cards to the number of 70,- Hit sets and without nie ceettadel Tes el ; Couple Wanted By Wisconsin don. The oldest set in the collection was issued aa 1.1870, r \ PRICE FIVE CENTS For Love of Two Sons CITY OF MIAMI ESCAPES FURY OF HURRICANE 25 or More Killed, 1,800 In- jured in Havana—Damage Totals $30,000,000 EMBASSY IS WRECKED Storm Victims Lived in Poor- er Sections—No Americans in Casualty List Havana, Oct. 21—(AP)—Fifty- eight persons are dead and 2,100 injured, 400 seriously, in the Havana district in consequence of yesterday’s hurricane, accord- ing to the first complete though unofficial checkup. Buildings to the number of 325 collapsed. Havana, Oct. 21—(#)-—The toll of the Caribbean hurricane which struck Havana yesterday was estimated to- day at 25 to 30 dead, 1,800 injured and $30,000,000 dam: if cat sued by the municipality contained no names of Americans. The address of the vic- tims indicated that they lived in the poorer sections of Havana. Communication with all parts of the republic was interrupted. No def- inite reports had been received of the extent of the damage in the prov- inces of Hatanzas, Pinardel Rio and Havana, over which the hurricane passe It is believed that nearly all the buildings in Havana suffered damage, but few of them collapsed. The monument erected by Cuba for the 266 Americans who were killed in the explosion which sank the United States battleship Maine in Havana harbor in 1898, was razed. Only the base and two ten-inch guns, relies of the battleship, remain. Heaviest Damage in Port The heaviest damage occurred in the port of Havana, where two steumers, five schooners, 40 fishing Is, numerous launch were sunk, Four The Havana Coal company's was wrecked. Its skeleton w of twisted’ steel today. Three large docks and many smaller ones were hove) of wrecked and all the others were has been damaged. to setve a8) Most of the persons killed were ohn! struck by falling walls or flying de! ident} bris. After the storm had pussed College ote- out over the Gulf of Mexico, the Coolidge has! streets were littered with deb: he oss shown in intensity of the storm was indicated the memorial by the wrecking of the Belven Col- ite] sep lege wind gauge when the storm hac vin Coolidge, | reached a velocity of 96 miles ar stipe, 50 hour before it struck the city with MME MILANHOFF: ARE ARRESTED, Colonel Edm the Ss. Co den pre Ko! the lower picture to chapel of Mecersburg emy in mem: Jr. who died th ¢ Machado to shoot any persons found looting. STORM DOES LITTLE DAMAGE IN FLORIDA Miami, Fla., Oct. 21—). iami today apparently had suffered no damage from a 60-mile gale which blew here for several hours last night. One man was killed here when struck by a sign post blown down by the wind. Warned yesterday by government weather bureaus, residents fled ‘to public buildings for refuge from the storm, which was expected. A rising barometer ut 3 a. n ever, and a diminishing wind and sea caused police to believe all danger had passed, and the people were ad- vised to return to their homes. Many Leave the Cit: Following _ warnings hundreds of Miami residen' an exodus and northbound itomo- biles filled highways leading out of Miami, while railroad stations were packed with others awaiting passage. Rushing northward from Havana, the 120-mile gale struck Key West late yesterday, where it r1 for four hou! While street signs were blown down and windows smashed, no casualties were reported. ‘ At Miami and at West Palm Beach early today, a 60-mile gale and heavy sea lashed the coast. A lull in the wind came at 1 a. m., however, and the barometer held steady for more than an hour. : ie Wires Down All telephone wires were down be- tween Miami and West Palm Beach, and the Western Union Teleeraeh Sop y reported only one wire working intermittently. No damage of any conseauanee was reported either Palm Beach or West Palm Beach. The attack ef the heavy sea on the ocean did not penc- trate the bulwarks. AMERICAN Washington Oct. 21.—()—The American embassy building in Havana was badly damaged. by informed the state department toda; The interior of the building was wrecked and rendered uninhabitable. but members of the e y ataft Authorities Found Living Near Minneapolis Minneapolis, 21—()—Frank Loyd Wright, internationally known architec housekeeper-com- panion, ga Milanoff, a Mont- enegrin dancer, both wanted by Wis- consin authori as an outgrowth of the architect's stormy marital dif- ficulties with his estranged wife, were in the county jail here today. In the children’s ward at the are Mme. Milanoff’s nine-ye daughter, Sv » and an eight- months-old child of whom Wright contends he is the father. The di- vorced husband of the dancer has a writ of habeas corpus, demanding that Svetlana be produced in superior court in Chicago. Wright and his companion were held without charge for police in Wisconsin where both are wanted on charges of adultery preferred by Valdemar Henzenberg, the dancer's former husband. Other legal com- plications in the case include a suit for $100,000 for alienation of affec- tion brought against Mme. Milanoff by Miriam Noel Wright, estranged ct. he said, while his greatest concern was for the «Continued on page tnree.) ‘ —— 9 Weather Report | ¢—____________# Weather conditions at North Da- kota points for the 24 hours ending’ at 8 a. m. today. Temperature at 7 a. m. Highest yesterday Lowest last night Precipitation to.7 a. m. Highest wind velocity WEATHER FORECAST For Bismarck and vicinity: Partly clo tonight and Friday. Colder tonight. ; For North Dakota: Partly cloudy tonight and Friday; colder tonight. WEATHER CONDITIONS A_low pressure area accompanied by light, scattered showers is cen- tered over Manitoba and the Upper ‘Mississippi Valley. High pressure, ied by fair Oct, 21.—()—Dawn 7m the pe aile gale night fined to © small amount of debris in streets, iF wreck- ‘ reported