The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 8, 1927, Page 1

» ¢ d WEATHER FORECAST =s=-] THE BIS Hoe hetal 4 fair tonight and Wed- nesday. i jing temperature, ‘$620,000 STATE AID RESTORED TO BILL BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, T' MAN WOUNDS GOLF PARTNER, | » KILLS: HIMSELF ) Oe “Dragedy of the Links Occurs » on Bellevue Club Course - i at Los Angeles ASSOCIATES | rere, i} Suicide’s Wife, With Men on| : the Links, Becomes Hys- ' terical After Shooting Los Angeles, Feb, 8.—UP)—The story of a tragedy on the golf links| was woven today into the annals of | the royal and ancient game in Los Angeles, as police ,sought to learn why Andrew Jankowski, Toledo, Ohio, pacutomobile dealer, yesterday shot and FP’ probably fatally ‘wounded his old friend and business partner, Cornelius J. Callahan, on the® Bellevue club links and then killed himself. _ Mrs. Jankowski, who was with them in a threesome and who witnessed ‘the shooting, was under care of a physician after having become hys- terical and unable to tell a coherent story. Police believe Jankowski was seiz- ed with a fit of temporary insanity, precipitated by an argument over the golf cards. Threatened to Kill His Wife Mrs. Jankowski told Deputy Sheri Stensland her husband flared into a| Yage, cried out that he was going to kill her and drew a pistol. Callahan, she said, leaped between her and her/| angered husband at the critical m ment and dropped with the bullet in| his head. “You've killed the best friend I ever had,” Mrs. Jankowski screamed. Jankowski then turned his weapon on himself and sent a bullet into his temple. The woma.'s screams attracted oth- er players who rushed up to find both tmen lying on the green. Had Nervous Breakdown Jankowski recently suffered a nervous breakdown and came here with his wife a month ago, hoping to regain his health, Callahan accom- panied them, The two friends fre- quently played golf together. Jankowski and Callahan had been close friends and business associates for several years. The former was president and general manager of a motor sales company in which the latter was a heavy stockholder. Call- BUSINESS ahan was general manager of a soft drink manufacturing concern in which Jankowski was one of the heaviest stockholder: Besides widow, leaves a son, Andrew, J REVOLUTION AT OPORTO IS __ INFULLSWING Virtually All Civilian Popula- tion Is Under Arms—Hun- dreds of Casualties London, Feb. 8.—(#)—Not only was the Portuguese revolutionary move- ment still in full swing today in Oporto, where it began last week, but newspaper reports from the cap- ital, Lisbon, were that virtually all the civilian’ population there was in arms. Other uncensored dispatches reach- ing London indicated that the move- 4 ment as first confined to an in- surgent garrison at Oporto, had as- sumed serious proportions with the revolutionaries clamoring for res- x toration of the constitutional rights which they allege were suppressed iG President Carmona when he as- sumed the dictatorship after a mili- party egue last spring. a heh word of the insurrection at ‘Oporto reached Lisbon several days ago, President Carmona in his ca- pacity as war minister, hastened to the district to organize his forces, confident that the revolt would be short lived. insurrectionists re- Only meager, ‘bled reports have come out o: Portugal the lagt few because of the censorsh! fey seem to agree that the revolution has not been without some heavy fight- ing, that serious damage was done to q@ Oporto by the bombardment and that there have been hundreds of casualties. The Lisbon correspondents of the apaily Express, announce that “Pear y all the ci pulation of ‘Lisbon is enthus supporting ie movenient, its success seems certain.” Federal Reserve Bank | Governor ee ‘ Be Bibbing, Minn., Feb. 8.—()—The Ymorning session ‘of the Retell Credit ‘% Men's association was given over this fmorning to open forum discussion. The election of officers and thé ‘hoosing of the next convention city ‘yawas to be made before adjournment ql oclock, Last night's meeting was featured \by a banquet held at the Androy t which 250 guests were Bic jovernor R. A, Young of the inth Fed Reserve Bank district ras the principal s) Governor Young, r | explaining Bear For Punishment People joke about how painful it imust be to listen to the speeches in the U.S. Senate. But. Theodore F, Shuey has listened to them uncom- plainingly for 59 years. He reports them for the Congressional Record. Shuey, who has just turned er has missed a day’s work through illness. ONLY WET CAN BE PRESIDENT, SAYS BUTLER |Dry Republican Would Have No Chance Against Smith Or Ritchie, He Says (OREGR Feb. (P) Nicholas Republican president of Columbia ity, expects that President Coolidge will decline to run for reelection next year. It. ix also his view that no man not frankly wet can be elected. Speaking at 4 meeting of the River- side Republican Culb last night, Dr. Butler, said: “One of the deepest and most per- sistent convictions of the American people is that no president should have three terms of office. It is idle to define as to the length of either of the two terms which a president may have had. ‘That president has served two terms who has twice taken the Jankowskit 08th of office.” Dr. Butler spoke of the bitterness engendered by attempts to name Grant for a third term and recalled Roosevelt's statement objecting ‘to a third term, voiced in 1904. “The Republican party is going to have a hard enough time in 1928,” he said, “without inviting certain defeat through injecting the third-term is- sue into the sampeleo. Campaign Issues Dr. Butler said prohibition, farm relief and forcign policy would be the issues of the campaign. “The notion that either Governor Smith or Governor Ritchie, should he be the Democratic candidate, can be defeated by a Republican who is not openly opposed to. prohibition is quite groundless,” the educator con- tinued. “For the first time since 1884, it seenrs likely that the presi- dential election will be settled in 1928 by the vote of the city of New York. “If the Republican candidate is to be elected in 1928 he must carry the state of New York, and the state of New York can be carried only by a candidate who is so strong in the city of New York that he will keep the adverse majority down to 250,000 or 300,000 at most.” “Any candidate of the Anti-Saloon League or the Ku Klux Klan or any one who tries to dodge the prohibition issues,” Dr. Butler said, “would find arrayed against him New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Con- necticut, New York, New ‘Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Mon- tana, Nevada and Wyoming, with 212 electoral votes, and not improbably ulso California and Minnesota with 25 electoral votes.” JUNIOR CLUBS Two Boys and Girls Junior Organizations Started, Elect Officers, at McKenzie Two boys’ and girls’ clubs with memberships of 19 were organized yesterday at McKenzie by County Agent A. R. Miesen. Clubs organized were a pig club and a sewing club. Members of the pig club are: Isam Belk, president; Russell Swamick, vice president; Kenneth Thompson, secretary-treasurer; Chester Coons, Manford Munley, Donald Sack, Stan- ley Enviek, Lyle Wilton, ‘Henry Bechvell and Esther Watson. Sewing club members are: _ Ruby Thompson, président; Norma Leath- Florence McNeill, retary-treasurer; Beulah McNeill, Florence Envick,* Dorothy Wilton, ‘Agnes Oeffner, Lucile Oeffner and Johnson. Mr, and Miss Madge Runey, county superintendent of school will address a Parent-Teacher ai ciation meeting tonight at Regan. the’ reserve urged bis listeners ing yh de power to item, contending that it was found. on sound principles evel ae hag lation Toasters SF Present}, jer. Hazen. — Officers elected for the year ¥y the stockholders and direc tors the .Union State Bank Bare it, vice president; Roy Seibert, active vice ‘president; E, A. Keyes, cashier;.E. M.:- Suess, assistant cash- \ a { ARE ORGANIZED BARLY ACTION IS SOUGHT ON FARM AID BILL | i) Senate Will Continue Debate | Today—Bill’s Supporters | Hold Trump Card {MAY INVOKE CLOTURE) House Will-Start Debate Te- | | morrow and May Spend Bal- | ance of Week on Bill Washington, Feb. 8—(AP) —The senate today agreed to i vote not later than 4 o'clock’ | Friday on the McNary-Hau- | gen farm relief bill. Washington, Feb. 3.—-()--Un-| daunted by storm clouds of opposi- tion both within and outside con gress, senate and house suppo of the McNary-Haugen farm r bill today renewed their determined effort to bring it to an early vote. | The senate is ready to debate fur- ther today on the measure, while its sponsors plan to engineer a vote by the end of the week. To accomplish | the vote the bill's supporters held a |trump card—the cloture rule | which would limit debate, for which | |68 senators have signed the neces-| | Sary petition. | | Not so speedy a vote on the meas-| ure is contemplated by its house | managers. The bill is scheduled for debate tomorrow und its considera-| tion is expected to consume the re-} maindef of the week, with a vote be- | ing sought e: y next week. Rough Sailing Anticipated As their major argument, they voiced the opinion the president would not sign the bill if it were passed. ‘Senator Fess, Republican, Ohio, predicted the ‘veto, characterizing the bill as “an approach to sovict- His solution for the agricul-! situation was reduction of pro- duction and increase of consumption. The Republican leader, Curtis, of} Kansas, offered as a complete sub- stitute for the measure his own bill, the Curtis-Crisp $250,000,000 farm surplus measure, which he said eliminated the eq tion fee. This latter phase of the McNary-Haugen legislation, he declared, was “uncon-| stitutional. i Approved By Nation's Farmers | Supporters of the bill, howeve futed the claim that the presi | would veto it, Senator Gooding, publican, Idaho, declaring Mr. Cool-j idge “will be glad to sign the “| ism.” ent Re- while Senator Sheppard, Democrat, Texas, formerly an opponent of the measure, said he would support it now as it has the wide approval, he believed, of the nation’s farmers. The United “States Chamber of Commerce came forth with an an-? nouncement of its opposition to the} bill, John W. O'Leary, its president, declaring ‘in a statement that it would “result disagtrously to agri- culture” and that it was “substan- tially the same bill that was defeated last year.” LOWDEN IN McNARY-HAUGEN BILL Washington, Feb. ()—With congress approaching its third show (Continued on page three.) GUARANTY BILL IS INTRODUCED: | IN MINNESOTA Measure Provides Plan of Mutual Insurance of De- \ posits, Author Explains St. Paul, Feb. 8.-—()—Another plan for insurance of bank deposits! appeared in the Minnesota legislature to aa when members of the senate and house completed preparation of a! bill modeled largely after the Nebras- | ka guaranty law. | 1. The bill to be introduced in the senate today by Senators Victor} E. Lawson, Iver J. Lee, C. J. Putzier,) L. P. Lund, A. M. Landby, Henry! Arens, Frank Romberg and Moses L.| ‘rost. ! Though designated a bank guaranty | bill, the measure really provides | plan of mutual insurance of bank de- | Senator Lee, one of its authors, lained. Provides Assessment Under the bill payment of interest on deposits in state banks would be| limited to three and one half per cent, | instead of four per cent, which most of the banks pay, For the first two and a half yeard, the bill provides, | there would be an annual assessment of one half of ong per cent on de- Posits in the banks to build up a state guaranty or insurance fund. The assessment would bring in a fund of approximately $8,000,000 by! the end of this period. After this fund is built up, during! the first two and a half*years, the ‘assessment would be one tenth of one per cent a year, with a possible in- crease in the way of a special assess- ment if the guaranty fund should fail below two per cent of the de- posits in the state banks. A special ‘assessment of one quarter of a per cent would be permitted. Thus depositors in the banks reduction in interest rate covering public a signed statement, calling at- tention to the larze number of banks which have failed in Minnesota and urging the need of guaranty plan. The statement. pointed out that state banks having total deposts of $54,- 711,208.68, have closed in Minnesota since 1921, the visitingf Legionnaires parents weighing, four babies ore norma! cording to the attending physician. [__te China? __] To China? | Se ha aa The Fourth regiment of U. S, Marines has suiled from San Diego for Guam, with Col, Charles W. Hill (above) in, i. ‘The regiment. may be’ comn destined for duty in China. Today’s Program in Legislature senate meet at 1 in s. troducing appropri- pires in house at 2 ation bills ex o'clock. } Flour label bill to come to floor of senate. RISING WATER THREATENS 0 OUST FAMILY Basement on Roberts Farm at’ Leonard Filled—Explana- tions Are Varied Fargo, N. D., Feb. 8.--(#) 4 flicting theories designed to exp the cause of the Theodore Rove farm flood w expressed today the steadily rising water threa' to drive the harassed Leonard, N. D., family from their home. While water lapped underneath the | , ground floor of the farm dwelling William Falconer of Fargo, Cass county road foreman, declared that he believed un underground spring on the farm yard had caused the flood. R. R. Brownlee, chairman of the Cass county board of commissioners, was ut the scene Monday. He char- acterized the flood as “a freak of nature” but did not amplify this tatement or offer an explanation as 30 the cause. He declared that noth- ing could be done to stop the flow | at the present, The Roberts basement is entirely filled with water and in a matter of hours the first or ground floor of the dwelling will be under water, ac- today, That the family would be forced to move out before nightfull. was another report received her There are 11 children in the Roberts family. The eldest is 19 years old. LEGION HOLDS MEETING HERE | District Meeting Will Be Held Tomorrow—State Officers to Be Present. A district meeting of the American | Legion and Legion Auxiliary will be |held here tomorrow and jof work for the year will be mapped a program out. The meeting will be held in the A. 0. U. W, hall and delegations are ; expected from most of the posts in the district, Several state officers will be present at the meeting, includ- ing Earl Sarles of Hiilsboro, depart- ment commander of the Legion; Jack Williams, of Fargo, state adjutant; Ted Hoverson of Fargo, manager of the U. S. Veterans’ Bureau for North baie and others, rles will talk on the Legion in North Dakota during 1926 and Mr. Williams will ulso give} With it. an address. A “pot luck” supper will be given! ¢stent church has no technique for by the| caring for sick the assessment. _ {members of the local Legion Auxil-| handed over that problem to the Completing the preparation of their| iary and a dance will be held after péyoboana) ats.” bill, authors of the measure made| the supper. it, Fosdick maintains an office "PARENTS OF TRIPLETS enden.—Mr. | | here, are the ach. The ay ace <{ State’s Attorney C.F. Kelsch of Mo} ind = Mrs. Julius} turbed can come with their boys, and } hearly a¢ ‘man: DAY, FEBRUARY DEATH PENALTY INS. D. IS UP T0 GOVERNOR Senate Passes Capital Punish- ment Bill Without Debate | By Vote of 27 to 15 AWAITS GOVERNOR'S PEN | House Had Previously Passed Measure—Provides For Electrocution Pierre, S. D., Feb. 8.—C)—Capital | punishment for murder in South Da- | kota loomed today as the senute sent! the house measure with that provision | ; to the governor after passing the bill \ yesterday without debate. The vote! was 27 to 15, | Absence of debate was as much a} surprise to senators as it was a dis- appointment to a crowded gallery which had gathered in the expectation | of verbal. pyrotechnics over the mea-! sure. Several speeches been pre- pared on the measure, but when Lieutenant Governor Covey called for discussion not a senator moved. —_ | Although there is no indication of | Governor Bulow's attitude on the} measure, it was said that the chances | of his vetoing or signing the bill are about equal. The bill is that of Representative | ; Otto Johnson of Spink county, and| {provides for electrocuti Prisonment on conviction of murder, ; with the penalty to be fixed by the| jury | ‘The senate also passed th vill of the capital —punis | asure to exempt from jury duty | ons who object to the death pen | This measure had previous! pissed the house. i 'JANSONIUS TO | PRESIDE OVER THIELE TRIAL Offers to Let Any Sixth Dis-| trict Judge Preside, But They Decline * \ on or life im-! Judge Fred Jansonius will pr over the trial of Arnold Thiele, leged slayer of Police Chief Nels Romer of Mandan, he announced to- day following a conference with Judge | H. L. Berry. Judge Jansonius had offered to let) any of the judges from the sixth dis trict come in and try the case be- cause of the fact it had come from there but they decided they would prefer to have him preside. The trial is to start at 10 a, m. of | \ | \ Tuesday, February 15, and a pan | 48 jurors 4as been drawn. William! Langer is chief defense counsel and ‘ton county is attorney cution. Thiele for the pros still in the Burleigh coun- jail and, according to the sheriff's ice, has given no trouble, He approacning a breakdown according to reports and has not broken the silence with which he surrounded himself after the Romer funeral. ty IS URGED FOR © PROTESTANTS Baptist, Has Conducted One For Six Years New York, Feb. 8.—(#)—Substitu- tion of the confessional for the psy- choanalyst’s office is urged protestants by the Rev. Dr. Harr: | Emerson Fosdick, pastor of the Park Avenue Baptist church. He views the Catholic confessional | as “an amazing service for the treat- | ment of sick souls,” and advocates | a “renaissance of evangelical preach- | ing” to replace old style evangelism, “thrown out the back door’* by mod- protestant Christians. For six years I have conducted— | Baptist though I am—what I call aj confessional,” the pastor of the | Rockefeller family told the Greater |New York Federation of Churches yesterday. “I am not afraid to re- away-—beauty of service and the ¢on- fessional.” ’ “We modern protestants fail some things,” he asserted. in Dur the confessional have pretty nearly wiped us off the stage in one fea- | ture of human service. | Nothing to Compare With It “Through the confessional they have built up an amazing service for | the treatment of sick souls. A good Priest, through the confessional, can develop a treatment for the individ- ual and we have nothing to compare! “Some one has said that the prot- souls, We have “where people who know they are | spiritually sick and nntally dis. problems. t week I meet pretty people as a priest, he declared. “They are mentally un- balanced—sick souls who need minis- tration,’ “Week 1927 Woman Confesses Axe Murder Because the Anthony Li with axes While he slept, they told Cleveland (O.) poli (center), pictured abo father and husband h aand her daughter beth (eft), and Ant ve, them in a thrall cf fear, Mrs. beth, 11, hacked him to death Mrs, Liszka ni 10, another ette, ‘HOUSE VOTES 10 CHANGE DATES OF PRAIRIE CHICKEN SEASON-ATTEMPT The The r tha ndio an ered by House studies the Muscle consid ii The the legisla the last o measures tax appeal. Today’s Doings in Nation’s Capital senate conven: house Shoals bids are house Ford tax recovery sui tinued before section of board of at noon. an hour ft m meets n usual at 1 farm relief the senate. re con immigration cominittee national origins bills under mili ion of the house pects to complete »propriation bill, annual supply tive of the is con- SELF DEFENSE | PLEA FROM LENARD EXPECTED Bowman County Farm Hand Claims He Feared For His Life and Shct Pippin | Bowman, funeral servi for Arthur Pippin, si by Jack Lenard, his rd languished iA the Bowman county , 1 under a charge of first degre ence sala coca & is | A-coroner’s jury late yesterday have the prai | found that Pippin had come to his| down the gr | death feloniously by shooting with a! Richland count i gun in Lenard’s hands. v ‘gree murder charge wax murder. diately and preliminary before Murti peace. He w district court. hearing’ later this wee! Madden, justice of the * D., Feb. 8. (AP) While es v held here today; win last wi ‘ rm hand, Len-{ A first de filed imme Lenard will be given ill be bound over to the} Lenard is expected to plead self, Tages defense, alleging that Pi cording to reports reaching Fargo|Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, | him and then chased pitchfork followin, “Shot From Behind,” Before he died, statement characterizing the shoot- ing as a “cowardly act,” Si torney Mark claimed that behind. The for | this statement, however, and the bul-| ‘Tet which killed him was found in his’ yy. Lenard’s contention is ex-| J clothes. in cursed an ate’s At- Amundsen Lenard shot hin’ from, ‘ wound did not beur out! pected to be that he feared Pippin in- tended to ki: fense of ‘his Amundsen said today evidence in (hj ll him and fired in de- own life. his possession shows, however, that | Lenard went to the house on the Pip- | pin farm and returned with a rifle | to the place where Pippin was shot. ——_— { Weather Report |, Weather c cover things the protestants threw | kota points for the 24 hours ending at 8 a. m, tor | Temperature at 7 a. m. .. Highest yesterday .... Lowest last night ... wey Roman Catholic brethern in keeping | Precipitation to 7 a. m. . Highest wind velocity ...... WEATHER FORECAST For Bismarck and vicinity: ‘erally fair tonight and Wednesday. | Rising temperature. For North tonight and Wednesday, | perature Wednesday and west north portions late tonight. WEATHER A high pressure area is over the northern Plains States this \'morning and cold | from the upper Mississippi westward to Mountain 8 falling in | region, upper Mississippi Valley and over the middle Rocky Mountain re- Elsewhere the weather is gen- gion. erally fair. | region. The temperature is | below zero in the Dakotas, Montana ind in the Canadian Provinces. ‘onditions at North Da- day. Gen- Dakota; Generally fair Rising tem- | and ONDITIONS centered ather prevails Valley the northern Rocky Snow the upper Great Lakes ORRIS W. ROBERTS, | Official in charge. i »| troduced an amendment 2 supported by the original sponsors of TO REVIVE BANK LOAN BILL FUTILE Bill Passed Giving Banking Department Right to Re- fuse Charters to New Banks —Effort to Raise Standard of Juries Defeated—Dog Tax Bill to Be Amended Bills appropriating $100,000 for the irks’ building at the state training school at Mandan and $200,000 for the erection of a ward building at Jamestown hospital for the insane were introduced today by the house appropria- season on use is in Dakto hunters us pn of the house recom- nd fish h It of the ac in amending a t y the state game ion. mmended by the game 4 hoard the season would have heen lengthened two weeks and the opening of the duck shooting season would be set back two weeks. Contending that the law is de- signed to protect the prairie chickens and not the hunters, 0. E. Erickson, Kidder county, moved that the open season end from October 1 to November 1. At present the season opens September 15 and closes Oc- tober 15, The change proposed by him would have been recommended by the game and fish board had it not been for their that such a bill would fail to slative support, Erickson contended, and said there are “too few prairje chickens and too many shoppers now His idea is to ickens heip keep ppers. AlbertHauge, J. Burkhart, Ward county; Peter Boeckel, Mercer county, and C, N. Lee, Dunn county, back son’s stand. Burkhart contended t on would result in the practical ex- termination of the prairie ken while Boeckel pointed out that with : hunters to Mond and the proved firearms, the chick- litt chance — to how. nts of the change contended 1 the chickens be- sand that any- icken after that Erickson's Amendment ‘Adopted son's amendment went into bill over the opposition of A. Rulon, Stutsman nty, chair- man of the fish and game committee, Rulon attempted to amend the bill to p the open season on prairie ns as it is now but failed. A motion to that effect lost, } When the report of the committee of the whole was ‘ted upon in formal session Rulon mov. for today. ive the house of North who led e measure when first time, in- which was the> measure but unexpected opposi- tion developed in other quarters and the committee of the whole recom- mended the bill for indefinite post- ponement by a 55 to 46 vote. I s, Pierce county, moved for indefinite postponement on the ground that the bill only opens the door to get the state deeper into debt by widening the list of persons who can get state loans on farm property. Twichell Defends Bill L. L, Twichell, majority floor lead- er, defended the bill, contending that land eculators are barred from articipating in the benefits of the law by a ruling of the bank which limits the amount which may loaned to any person to $8,000 und , F. Streich, Bottineau county, con- tended ther€ is no reason why a (Continued on page three.) WITH MINORITY daughter, are | ‘the mother and Elizabeth were charged with murder, t to lengthen the sea-) be} MARCK TRIBUNE Laaaar) PRICE FIVE CENTS 6 INDEPENDENT SENATORS VOTE Senate Wipes Out Amend- ment to Budget Bill Elim- | inating Aid to Schools |HOTTEST FIGHT SO FAR Senators Ployhar and Hamil- ton Have Word Battle Over | Question of Budget i ease Purther consideration of | the senate gencral appropriations bill for state departments, including the state school aid cut, was post- poned today until Wednesday afternoon. The motion for post- ponement was made by Senator Frank E. Ployhar, Barnes county, when the senate convened thi afternoon. : A resolution asking appoint- ment of a special committee to investigate charges made on the floor of the senate yesterday by Senator Ployhar that. there is a deficit In the department of pub- lic instruction amounting to $225,000, was introduced by Sen- ator J. E. Fleckten, Wi county, today. The resolution says that Ployhar failed to furnish detail- ed information and “if such a condition exists it is a serious matter and the best interests of the state demand that this state of affairs be investigated and, if necessary, to call the matter to the attention of the attorney's department.” The committee would consist of three members and would be re- quired to report within 10 days. | |. The North Dakota senate turned | in its tracks Monday to reinstate an appropriation of $620,000 for state aia in the budget bill for the depart- ment of public instruction in the hottest fight of the se | In its action, resu! a | change of front of several senators, the te wiped out an amendment, made Friday at the recommendation of the appropriations committee, that ‘eliminated the $620,000 and = sub- stituted $24,000 for teachers’ inspec- tors. Senator John W. Benson, Rolette [squats who tought the elimination of the school state aid Friday, took the lead in the fight that restored it Monday. He moved that yumended to th (Coatinued THREE EASTERN the bill fect, which car- Dage three.) ROADS CONTROL | WHEELING LINE | Disclosures Viewed in Wall Street as Death Blows to | Proposed System | New York, Feb. 8.—)—Disclos- ‘ures that the New York Central, | Nickel Plgte, and Baltimore —anu | Ohio railroads today were in control lof the Wheeling and Lake Erie and the Western Maryland systems— terminal keys to a trunk line trans- voration system-—were viewed in Wall street as death blows to | the proposed fifth trunk line system of L. F. Loree of the Delaware, | Lecekavvanna & Western. The New York Central, the Nickel Plate and the Balitmore & Ohio each has acquired about one-sixth ‘interest in the three classes of Wheeling stock, and the Baltimore und Ohio holds 35 per cent of the outstanding Western = Maryland stock, equivalent to controlling terest. Announcement of the holding of the roads allied against the Loree plan also cast light on the mystery vehind the technical corner in Wheeling and Luke Erie and the sen- sational advance in stock of that road and Western Maryland in the last few weeks. Awaits 1. C. C. Approval Wall Street today awaited approval by the Interstate Commerce commis- sion of the Wheeling and Lake Erie plan to increase its issue of com- mon stock to end the corner that has | resulted in loss of millions to bear traders recently. i Wheeling common selling. at 95 and Western Maryland at 44 on the ew York stock exchange represent advances of 68 and 31 points within one month, ;_ Short traders in Wheeling and | Lake Erie remainded trapped us the technical corner in the stock. con- tinued. Short interests covering on commitments yesterday were forced j to pay $7 n share premium or $700 for one day's use of 100 borrowed ; shares. The new interests in Wheeling and Lake Erie and Western Maryland | were victorious in their soup through jwell executed market deals and a |privute transaction with Joha .-D. Rockefeller, who is said to have held | stock in Wheeling and Lake jon whieh dividends had been accu- |mulating for years. A. H. Haris, \vice president of the New York Cen- tral, announced that his road had | acquired over 95,000 shares of Wheel- | ing stock and M. J. Van Sweringen }made a similar announcenment . in behalf of the Nickel Plate. M. Shriver, senior vice president. of the Baltimore and Ohio, said kis road holds bout one-sixth or practically the same amount as j the Central and the Nickel Aggregate holdings of the | fosds are sutinaed to be wa east $29,000, more ithe adv: in Wheeling ard ern Maryland began on