The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 18, 1927, Page 1

‘ie i} q ‘ 4 0 a. . ported the city had been looted and ie Py a fag of which Hangchow is the capital. ’ Capture of Hangchow by the Can- “Achurian troops of Ma WEATHER FORECAST Unsettled tonight and Saturday, Not so cold tonight. “ESTABLISHED 1878 KELSCH CLAIMS ARNOLD THIELE WAS ‘COACHED’ ‘| Don’t Remember,’ the State’s Attorney Says LANGER DENIES CHARGE i Attorneys Making Pleas to| Jury Today—Case May Be Completed By Night Instruction to the jury in the Thicle murder trial will be given at 7 p. m. this evening, Judge {| Fred Jansonius said this after- # Roon. Closing pleas for the de- fense were being made by Wil- liam Langer . Thiele’s attorney, and C. F. Kelsch, state’s attor- ney, late this atfernoon, with a definite amount of time allotted to each er. Kelsch’s plea was to he completed at 5:30. | Charges that William Langer, de-| fense counsel, had “coached” Arnold | Thiele, alleged murderer of Nels Rom- | er, Mandan police chief, to say “I} "t remember’ to all pertinent ques- tions relating to the slaying were made on the witness stand today by *, F. Kelsch, state's attorney of ‘Mor. ton county, Kelsch, who has conducted the prosecution, took the witness stand today as the aftermath of an incident yesterday when Langer took the stand to deny that he has solicited the job | of conducting the defense. In his testimony Kelsch said he walled at Langer's office to diseu: the case and that the defense attorney told him “I told that fellow no mat ter if you guys or the authorities | called him up’ 20 or 30 times to say: | {I don't remenjber.’ By golly that’s | &ne time the defendant stayed coach- ed. | Statement Surprised Him j Kelsch said he remembered the statement well because it surprised | him. failed to change his testimony. In his testimony yesterday Langer specifically denied having made such a statement. The official record of testimony with Langer on the stand shows Kelsch: “Let me ask you this ques- tion and I want you to answer it yes or no, Did you not state to me at that time, while I was in your office, alone with the doors closed--Did ‘al not state to me that ‘this is-one time the fellow stays fixed. ‘I told him if the officials called him up 30 times| ‘T don't remember. "? anger: “So help me God, T say« I never told anything of that) and you know it.” ch: “That is ali, Mr, Langer.” Sensational Event of Trial ch's action in taking the stand came as a surprise and was one of the most sensational events of the trial. (Continued on page three) CANTONESE IN CONTROL OF HANGCHOW Defeated Northern Army at * Marshal -Sun in Full Re- treat Toward Shanghai Shanghai, Feb. 18—()—The de- feated northern army of Marshal Sun Chuan-Fang was in full retreat to- ward Shanghai today while jvie- torious Cantonese war machine Yoll- ed into Hangchow, picturesque key city to the defense system of the lower Yangtze valley, without resist- ance. : ; All communication between Shang- hai and Hangchow has been severed. At present there are 10,000 of Mai shal Sun’s troops at various points on the Hangchow-Shanghai_ railway between Kashing and Sungkiang, in- dicating the Shanghai warlord will make no further stand in Chekiang tonese gives them a great leverage in their struggle toward Shanghai. It gives the nationalists control of the southern terminus of the grand | anal which runs. the full length of | jangsu province and 1,000- miles jorthward to Tientsin. It also giv: he southerners a stronghold only 113 miles away, and a sea outlet near to Shahghai. City Looted and Burned Cantonese sources at Hangchow re- partly burned by retreating north- erners. i With the increasing threat of a \battle for possession of Shanghai, foreign powers continue, to increase ‘their forces. A battalion of the sec- ‘ond Suffolk regiment, which’ was tationed temporarily at, Hongkong, jeft for Shanghai this morning. ‘American transport Chaumont, + route to Guam with 1,200. marines, s ordered to proceed directly re. Twenty-one warships of five reign nations, the United States, land, Javan, France and Italy, ‘ewing at anchor in the river here. On the northern f the Man- | jal = Chang ‘so;Lin, generalissmo of the north- rn alliance. were reported to have | good. rived at Chengchow, important rail enter ‘of northern Honan, where ey will be joined shortly by their Mies, | the_ paren advancing com! fore rd in an offen- Rue A oie ontrolled ley. that dent ni join C hal itarist, 6 in {Independents bolt on the issue and + bill was that of H. F. Cross-examination by Langer | zency clause attached to the bill was BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1927 THREE INDEPENDENTS STRAY FROM FOLD AND JOIN NONPARTISANS To DEFEAT HAIL INSURANCE MEASURE ‘Clincher’ Motion Fails, How | Today’s Program ever, and Bill Will Prob-! in Legislature ably Be Revived Today— House meets at 1; senate at 2. Provides For Budgeting ‘| ttouse to vote on bill combining ” ryship of securities com- Expenses of Hail (Solicit with that of industrial 2 sion, Snuff Bill Passed Attempt to revive bill to bud get hail insurance department expenses planned in hous Independents in the house hit a snag Thursday when three members’ strayed from the fold and a bill au budget the expenses of the state hail insurance department was defeated,| J.D. Holthusen,; John Ehr, Ward! Stark ate to renew fight on re- peal of flat hail insurance sax. 22 DEAD FROM Representatives Richland county; county and Herman Rabe, county, voted against the proposal } and it ‘was defeated when it received | lone yote loss than the 57 required to} i ass it. The roll call showed 56 to B3"and. the Independents demanded a verification. The re-check reduced the vote to 55 and 54 but a motion to apply the “clincher” to the ac- tion lost, 57 to 53, It is probable that the bill will be revived today and passed unless more; "IN CALIFORNIA Property Loss Estimated at refuse to stay in line. | $2,500,000—Storm Abates The action came as a surprise in| view of the fact that there had been in Southern Part | no argument on the tcgertade) aly 1 though it was bitterly contested Pe Poh *. s ct Wednesday in the committee of the| .,L0¢,Amgeles, Feb. 18. UP). South. | whole. The only statement on the pee a oh7l Meelabiathed tt, Kidder the five-day storm abated county, who declared it is an effect "eo dead Cane) property, lose to cripple the state hail ally estimated ‘at '$2,500,0 lepartment. ‘but Imperial Valley points i the Tax Muddle Bill P: {Colorado r: wert threatened with | The Independent majority. worked | {100d conditions and northern Cali- | smoothly, however, in. passing the /fernia coast cities awaited an ap. first of two bills designed to clar r storm center from the ned ching the muddle resulting from acquisi-| pias eee | tion by the Bank of North Dakota of! Dense fox added a new peril last land on mortgage foreclogure. The Right when the Standard Oil tanker bill provides that counties Sr ae pau an with 42 me take action to acquire tax t addict went cnelie iif Premera ny the Bank until colas Islands, 70 miles southwest of Pedro. fter diving frantic moratorium as to the ‘right of coun- ' fobagy SOS calls being aground for ties to obtain title te land held by SOS : AD the bank for non-payment. of taxes, More than an hour, the distressed The vote was G1 te do and the emer. vessel succeeded in’ putting off un der her own power. Acct ; Farmers and citrus growers pre ira ‘i i e benefit. to crops by the Anothe ropriating $250,009 dict that be : y to pay tax certificates held by in Seaking rains will overshadow the dividuals against. land which the Property damage in their state has acquired by mortgage fore- | Highway closure, Wes on the calendar for) aithough rail communication, with dare rein Spiess Song st "few exceptions, had been restored, highway traffic continued in a sna as crews of workmen set out to pair roads, rebuild bridges and re-| move landslides. an Diego, isolated since, Wednes- | » remained cut off from rail and} A bill changing the law relating to ank ivers passed with only one dissenting vote. It. is similiar that under which the present receiver of closed state banks was appointed, except that it provides also for a receivership managed by three local persons on application of depositors RighWay communication. Hemet anu controlling 80 per cent of the depos. San Jucinto, in San Jacinto Valley its, The bill was described by Swett water which inundated bottom lands: as a “hybrid measure” which — re- placed two bills introduced early in! Reports of the flood situation re- : eived last night, stated. the entir the session, It was supported by Celved SP dg x the banking committee, the state San Pasquale valley, east of Escon- dido, was flooded and many ranches guaranty fund commission und the bank examiner’s department, — the house was told. Little Argument on Snuff Bill washed out. Delmar,. Solano Beach, | Cardiff and Encincitas, were virtua ly isolated following a record break- ing rainfall which flooded the San The bill legalizing the sule of | Dieguito valley. snuff passed Thursday with little] | Palm Springs suffered he: argument and that wholly = damage. opponents of the measure. rg s 7 vote was 65 to 45 and River Changes Channel Newport Beach was temporaril) cut off when the Santa Ana river} charged through a new channel be-} tween there and carrying with it about 1,500 f ot! highway and 1,000 feet’ of Pacific Electric railway tracks, Thermal was flooded with four feet | of water and Coachella was threaten- | ed with inundation when a raging; flood swept down from Whitewater, | Washington. HUNTERS FROM SIBERIA HAVE cece) PERILOUS TRIP Mate Gets Reprieve Swept 300 Miles Across Ber- | as Negro Is Hanged ing Sea in Open Skin Ca- —_ noe By Arctic Storm | the clincher was added as soon as the vote was announced. It now aa to the senate which already has pass- ed a bill repealing the anti-snuff law without taxing sale of the ar- ticle. The house bill carries a tax of three cents for cach one and one- quarter ounces. The senate bill was: killed in the house. The committee of the whole rec- ommended passage of the bill pro- viding for appeals to the courts from decisions of the guaranty fund commission. A. W. Fowler, C: county, explained that the measure had been amended in committee to meet certain objection of the guar- anty fund commission and had been partly re-drawn by the commission’s attorney. Minnie D. Craig, Benson county,| charged that permitting appeals from the commission’s decisions will result in greatly increased costs in managing the fund with a consequent Chicago, Feb, 18,--(#)——Two hours after he had witnessed the arrival of s, | a reprieve for his death-cell mate,| , Sevoonga, St. Lawrence | Island, Sam Washington, who was to have| Alaska, Feb. 18.—(By Radio WXY at | been executed with him, OscarjNome to the Associated Press)—| Quarles, regro slayer, 7 o'clock this morning. Swept in an open skin canoe for 300 see DANeOM AY | Thee actoos Bering Sen from Siberia | Washington, sentenced to die for|to this island under the lash of an peg ee law wife, was de-| Arctic storm, six survivors of a party Se ee coal be Govertor Smati;| of eight wairus hunters today ‘wer but at the eleventh hour his attorneys | Tecounting a story of hardship, peril, | ined from Judge Harry B, Miller |#"d tragic disaster, iat a stay of a week in which to prepare | Their arms and lexs frozen, their) an appeal, on a plea of error insthe | ¢¥és distended and swollen, and their Convustin: .« meany elarh ing an saliars, she aie ’ i: ve j !men finally reache e¢ Eskimo vil- pQuatles, was convicted of killing a Thee ‘o¢" Gambell,, on. the northern PRB VIC [part of the island, from where the story of their ill-fated battle with) the elements has reached Sevoonga | jby_ radio, Driven’ by approaching starvation | to seek food, eight men left a village | on Little Max Bay, Siberia, February | 2, to hunt walrus. Venturing far out ‘on the icy sea, the party jn the frail roads kayak was caught by the full fury tof an Aretic gale. Temperature and Road Conditions ' (Mercury readings at 7 a. m.) Bismarck—Clear, 6 below; good. Fargo—Clear, 16 below; roads’ | good, On Floating Ice Pack i St. Cloud—Clear, 8 below; roads} After being lashed about on the| fair. waters for, several days, the hunters | Minot—Clear, 0; roads fair. pulled their canoe onto a floating ice Jamestown—Clear, 8 below; roads|pack. There, suffering cold and/| fair. . without food and fire, the little band | Mankato—Clear, 8 below; roads!snent the fourth night while the! rough... storm raged unabated. — | ‘Mandan—Clear, 8 below; roads} The next day, the drifting ice floe carried them to shore on St. Law- Lake—Clear, 10 below;| rence Island, although they did not roads fair. , Grand Forks—Clear, 12; ronds fair. p Croekstan—Ciear, 20 below; fair. “ sribhing-- Clean 22 below; know their location, Camping on the northern shore of the windswept ads island, the hunters dug their beds for the night in the snow. The next morning, two of the party went fair. foraging for food and failed to re- ‘Winona—Clear, 1; roads fair. turn. , They have not since heen séen. Duluth—Clear, 14 belo roads} Five of the surviving irre finally good, rage into. Gambell. After a Rochester—Clear, 6 below; road: reh, the sixth member\of the par- fey. t was found, nearly dead, e ronds | a CD TORNADOES SWEEP TWO SOUTHERN STATES Huntington Beach | | dity marketing bill of last year, re- | To Veto or Okeh? Farm Relief Bill Placed. Squarely Up to Coolidge ' Final Action at Capitol Taken Late Thursday Night: When House President Has 10 Days in ure—He Is Expected to Confer With Jardine and Other | Cabinet Members Before Acting Washington. Feb. 18—(AP) farm relief bill today is squar Three years from its incep' with i stabi executive. Final action at the capitol came last night when the} gover Passes Senate Bill Without Change, 214 to 178— Which to Veto or Sign Meas- The up to Pre jon in congre. MeNary-Haugen lent Coolidge s, the measure s widely debated equalization fee provision for price zation now must be passed upon by the nation’s chief house by a vote of 214 to 178 approved the bill in exactly the form it passed the senate, for either enactment into law Previously approved 1 { ! sent it to the white house or flat rejection, he senate, 47 to 89, or cight votes to the good, the house gave the bill a margin of only 36 votes more than needed, Haugen camp made no effort ponents that strength, at least in the house chamber, would; be lacking to muster the two-t bill ov y a presidential veto. ad cniefains in the McNary- to deny the contention of op- hirds necessary to pass the Opinion Divided as to Coolidge’s Position Congressional opinion |debate over what position Mr. Coolidge would take. absence of any definite expr we ct a ts and pre Sometime today a copy of the mea sure bearing the signatures of Vice President Dawes, as presiding offi cer of the senate, and Speaker Lony worth of the house, is expected to be transmitted by messenger to the White House. “No more formality in this procedure is planned than if it were any ordinary bill. Under the constitution the pres dent has 10 days in which to veto or sign the measure. *Should he do neither, it would automatically be come a law. Mr, Coolidge undoubtedly will tah no action until he has conferr Secretary Jardine and probabi. members of his cabinet. Be this, several days are expected elapse before a pronouncement. if ke Vote Ends Nine-Hour Session Final action by congress came last night after nine hours of feverish dis cussion in the house during which the biJl’s supporters in steam roiler | fashion crushed more than 100 at tempts to change it. The roll call in the house on the final passage of the bill included; For the bill: Burtnes: Sinclair, North Dakota; Dakot#; Andresen, 2," Cal Furlow, Godwin, Keller, Knutson, W fald and Kvale, Mi Against the bill sota. With Chairman Haugen of the agri culture committee, one of the mea sure’s co-authors, in ¢harge, the Me- | Nary-Haugen group held a’ majority | on the floor from start to finish ant | at the outset of the day’s proc | disposed of the bill's chief legislative | contenders- the Aswell and the Cur- tis-Crisp farm measures. Two other farm relief plans, offer ed as substitutes, were rejected w' out record votes. One was a debe ture credit plan, sponsored b; sentative Jones, Democrat, Texas, anc the other the Curtis-Aswell commo- nesota, Newton, Minne vived by Representative Hill, Repub-| liean, Maryland. Having cleared the field of these} barriers, supporters of the McNary Haugen plan set out ta keep the bill} intact as passed by the senate so it! could go immediately to the president and avert a possible filibuster should a conference with the senate become necessary by adoption ‘of amend- ments. All Amendments Defeated Cries of “vote, vote” met the sub-1 sequent flood of amendments, and one and all were sent into the legis- lative discard, In these contests the McNary:Haugen bill drew support and fire from both sides of the cham- ber and the vote on final passage is indicative of the strength it muster- ed throughout. today | Mexico transportation f: ad ided in closing hours ot In the fon, each member held his ” How to Tell When a Person Is Drunk a) oy London, — F 18.—(P)—The question “when is a man drunk?” was answered by the report of an expert committee published today. The answer is when the per- son “is so much under the in- fluence of alcolhol as to have lost conttol. of his faculties to such an extent as to render him unable to execute safely the oc- eupation in which he is engaged.” SOUTHWESTERN STATES HAVE COLD WEATHER Kansas, Oklahoma and North- ern Texas Get Freezing Temperatures and Snow Psa s City, Feb, 18,-(P)- Fed by ‘o temperatures in the northern Mountain states, a cold wave engulfed the southwest and middlewest. Thermometers dropped from the upper sixties to well below freezing at many points within 24 ns sub-z Roel cold wind brought sleet and | snow to this territory to nip budding trees and flowers, snow slides con- tinued to menace Colorado and Utah communities while Arizona und New ilities were crippled by flood Kansas today reported temperatures of from 8 to 20 above, with two inches of snow in the western part of the state drifting into railroad cuts be- fore a strong north wind. Similar, conditions prevailed in Oklahoma and northern Texas. With snow at many Missouri points, indications were that the storm would extend well into the upper Mississip- pi valley today and tomorrow where low temperatures were predicted. Havre, Mont., held the week's ree: ord for cold with a mark of 24 de- grees below zero, Trains were re- stored to regular schedule in western Montana following a blizzard and five slides which delayed Great Northern The final lineup found 113 Republi- tinued om page seven.) servicesjin the Glacier Park territory. +17 hours, ; i ONPARTISANS. USE Today’s Doings in } Nation’s Capital bills. suit con House tackles minor Ford tax nues. enate considers public build FORMER TEXAS GOVERNOR ISX ANOTHER FIGHT (James E. Ferguson Will Make Last Effort to Protect: Political Rights recovery 18. (A) mpeuched as jzned his Austin, state legislature by the senate sterday, Ousted on eh of y to his own use rted his second term governor, Ferguson's politica! righ not restored until his wi A ni " at « restoring the right to hold to all impeached state of Although yuson's on . , was not mentioned in the bill, i adoption followed a “vindicatio: mpaign which resulted in his n, The measure was one the first signed by the woman gov ernor. Law Called Unconstitutional | Following a bitter ¢: BLOCK VOTE ON BILL ELIMINATING FLAT ONE CENT AN ACRE HAIL TA xo went to the 4 > the , be THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE (mam) PRICE FIVE CENTS FILIBUSTER TO 94 KITT RD AND Measure Finally Made Special nw cty DAMAGE HEAVY day—Senate Kills House Louisiana and Mississippi Flour Label Bill— Eight! Hard Hit Thursday Night Bills Killed, 13 Passed in By Severe Storms Senate Thursday |HEAVY RAINS FOLLOW npartisans used filibustering | x to block a vote on the house inating the flat one ¢ an for hail insurance in the te Thursday. ‘or more than half an hour league with alternate despite | motions were out of order, until Independents reed to make the bill a special der of business for’ o'clock today. The house flour label bill, amended Many, Houses Blown Away— Rescue Work Made Diffi- cult By Impassable Roads protests a | New Orleans, Feb. 18.—(P) -Tor- nadoes that swept through parts of | Louisiana and Mississippi last night until Governor Ae ial amended | killed at least 4 persons and injured nounced that he would veto it, was! Sores, ax well as leaving a trail of killed through an adverse report by | heavy damage. the state affairs committee. The! The heaviest toll of dead was taken report wns adopted without com-| at plantations south of Newellton, in eht measures were killed and 18| Tensas Parish, Louisiana, where 14 bills were passed. | Persons were reported killed and at ove to block the vote on the! jeast two score injured with pros. The insurance bill was opened. b; \- re hn W. Bengon: ‘rho "moved | Pects of the total fatalities being in- ment in order’ that absent) reased as other neighboring planta- mirht be given a chance to! tions were heard from. The absentees were Sen- iJ ‘ant, Emmons county. Martin, Morton count: Nine persons lost their lives and 18 were badly hurt near Pleasant Hill, Sabine Parish, Louisiana, and eight were killed and ippi. storm apparently swept into WeveMout Nefore iana near Shreveport and travel- lof the senate, ed eastward across the northern sec- milton, McHenry, tions of Louisiana and Mississippi. “pall Much Wing and Rain High winds and heavy rains were accompanied by the storm as it mov- ich Ped eastward with increasing fury. motions — for adjournm tponement — of | and. yy the bila other da; recess, whieh Benson Hea MiniKe 11! Fourteen were killed when the hight if n struck Newellton, near the vote, at ssippi-Louisiana line. Many bats evab ab- Persons were injured there. izht persons died and others were to take the full injured as the tornado swept across {tlhe could notl a sippi with abating fury. . The delay, he. said,! deaths occurred at Rose Hill, where and stated that he and his colleagues , Seven members of one family were members’ had a he He proposed time of the senate hain consent for right to be ague mpuen i" could “jockey all night with mo-| killed and six other members pf the aD ee Hae “ECM ions if necessary. | same family were injured. , defeated Mrs, Fens i id that it isan import.) A doetor who visited the scene of ant hest interests of the the storm at Newellton returned to mtal to the as a ate, He con.| Tallulah with the statement that he thse ag uncom, tended that all senators should he| had dressed the wounds of 35 persons. i present when the bill ix acted on. PTE oe ae PS sti ceded the Ferguson... He was interrupted by'Senators J. RESCUE WORK DELAYED str when Mrs wxon Was Ramsey county, and J.| BY IMPASSABLE ROADS tr, passed the bill last night + Grand Forks county, In-| | New Orleans, Feb. 18.—-P)—Im- by a vote of 19 to 7 The measure @ Eine protested thet he} pedetl "by “almost impassablo’ roads, {would have to pass the house and he on the question be- | Tescue workers today were checking tsigned by ¢ coming gffective, | 0. LEADER STARTS TOUR | OF COUNTRY} Will Try to Learn ntiment | Trend on Prohibition and ‘ | Coolidge Renomination bh (®)—Charles iD, man of the Re- | publican-national committee, starts jtemorrow on a reconnoitering tour jof the country preparatory to the | 1928 pre-convention campaign } Consulting with party chieftains in jYarious centers, he will endeavor to! }learn the trends of sentiment, partic- | jularly on prohibition and on the re-| {nomination of President Coolidge The survey will also include busi-| ness conditions. j He will stop in Chicago and other \cities on the way to Los. Angeles and San Franeiseo and will return by | | way of New Orleans and Atlanta. | In annoyneing his plans after con- | | ferences with President Coolidge and ‘with William Butler of Massachu-/ | setts, chairman of the Republican| |committee, Mr. Hilles said he be- lieved “only a law enforcement. Re- | ublican cain be elected in 1928. Mr. Hilles said President Cool-! idge had not informed him as to whether he planned to run again. Asked who might be the nominee if: not Mr. Coolidge, Mr. Hilles ob- | served, “there, are many sons. For instance, there is Governor ; Lowden and Vice President Dawes,! jalso from Illinois; Senator Borah, nators Willis and Fess of Ohio; + Senator Watson of Indiana, and other} upstanding men.” t EMPL Lt 2 SEER | Weather Report | —_—__________“4 | Weather conditions at North Da- | kota points for the 24 hours ending: at 8 a. m. today. Temperature at 7 nm, - 6 Highest yesterday 0 Lowest last night . -10+ Precipitation to 7 a. m. 0 Highest wind velocity .......... 14 WEATHER FORFCAST i For Bismarck and vicinity: Unset- tled tonight and Saturday, Not so! cold tonight. { | For North Dakota: Unsettled to- night and Saturday. Not so cold to- night and east portion Saturday. WEATHER CONDITIONS i | The high pressure a extends {from the sdithern Plains States | Northeastward over the Mississippi) Valley and fair, cold weather pre throughout the north-central states. | A well defined low pressure area is | centered off the north Pacific coast | and precipitation occurred at all ‘ions from the western Rocky Moun. | tain slope to the Pacific coast. Pre |itation also occurred in the southern: | Plains States, lower Mississippi Val. ley and lower Great Lakes region. The ; temperature js rising quite rapidly ‘over the Northwest. ORRIS W. ROBERTS, ‘ Official in charge; der, It : Signed to aid in the construction of favorite | ¢: {regulation and the toll of a tornado wich struck of the measure. two places in Lowisiana last night, P. J. Murphy, Walsh coun-!leaving 31 known dead, scores in- t Benson's conclud-|jured and an unestimated amount of re Ss Was out of| property damage. The storm struck first near Pleas- ant Hill, Sabine Parish, on the Loui- siana-Texas boundary. ‘Pleasant Hill, house, that of final con- Senato ty, contended t ing motion fo order, but Lieutenant Governor Wal- | ,ter Maddock ruled that it was in or- was defeated on party is Wn a newly covered oil vote which é K on declared the bill wove reported nine known dead, one two-thirds maj for| missing and two expected ts age, asserting that part of it] with more than a score injured. initiated measure, and after! storm next was reported near St. on’s second demand for a call Joseph, Tensas Parish, on the line enate was held out of order,/between Louisiana and Mississippi. ‘ were killed and scores motion | injured. Property damage was heavy. ._ | Wires were down at many points n Non- | along the supposed path and a com- Jumped into | plete check could not be made. Patte: of the moved that the bill be placed at the | Seven negroes foot of t defeated, ‘enator Peder L. Hjelmsta rtisan, Walsh count calendar, The © fight for de ith a motion to| Another storm was reported at send the bill back to the insurance | Leaf, Miss, where several houses committee and to amend the 1,' were demolished, ts but his proposals were voted do At Pleasant Hill, it was reported houses had been leveled. Qne -year-old boy was killed’ when the wind lifted him from the ground, then hurled him back, crushing him: Benson offered an amendment, and Hamilton moved that it be ma a special order of business for morrow, Both were to- unsuccessful. Special Order for Today League senators were finally sue- + cessful, however, when Senator | Frank’ E. Ployhar, Independent, | Barnes county, seconded another mo- jtion by Hamilton to have the bill | made a special order of business for | tomorrow, and the motion was adopt- 4 ‘ ed without objection. Among senate bills passed Thurs- day were companion measures de- dormitories at state educational in- stitutions, The first would author- ize the state board of administration | T0 NICARAGUA Fear, That American - Lives sharing corporations providing that | the lands "are ‘used | at sites | and Property Are in Danger for dormitories, and the second provides for the formation of non-| Brings Reinforcements profit sharing corporations to con-, struct the bulidings and issue bonds. According to Senators Hamilton and Walter Schlosser, Grand Forks joint sponsors of the bills, they were drawn in the hope of rem: edying crowded dormitory cond tions at several state schools without | additional expense to the state. | Oe eee: ee Sere A bill that would provide for state | 4,4 force, of 1,600 marines is being id pro dispatched from four bases to the . jon und licensing of engi-! Central American républic to be ers wax killed when a minority re- | Slaced under’ command’ at tere Any port of the state affairs committee | Kival Julian L. Latimer, oe oaree pr) pmmending its passage was Te-| the special service squadron in Nic- A bill that would require all farm-{araguan waters. Their arrival will ors to carry state hail! insurance re. augment the marine troops in that gardless of crop conditons was kill- Sr"igy fp Sau mon, @ detachment ed, 27 to 21, without debate by ac- | Minacint he essleal on duty at inauranee sommqney report of| "The American government is under- Attempts to kill two bills by mi-, {tood te regard the Mategaina impend- nority reports of committees failed. | ing battle as a critical situation. not One was a senate measure providing | ° Nie Boas! gL ond to its citizens that the state bank examiner's term | i” Nicaragua, but also an important of office shall be four yeurs, and / (70k in the civil war now raging in the other was a house bill that would | tha enttal : American - country. provide for, free transportation for ge See tenor a se milies 5 . lor WhO are. Cae ae ail seurte net the-praskdaury tasababls. is teaeie te More than a score of house and | avert the impending conflict. Even senate bills received favorable re- | if Sacasa might wish to stop the ports by committees and were placed | battle preparatory to entering peace on the calendar for final consider- | negotiations with President Adolfo ation today. : D it is Pp impression among of- 3 Passi ; ficials here military leaders have Pneumonia Causes —_ Simi ‘he Tormcnty wathority, over the Death of Canine | Rescued From Cave Woodruff, $, Cy Feb. 18—@)— “Ring,” the prized fox-hound taken| precautionary protection of Ameri- from a cave here yesterday after the | can intereats, i their duties whole countryside had worked day! include of and night as rescuers, died today of | zones in sues oes a pneumonia brought about by his 110-| ing open for traffic the Carinto-! hour imprisonment. } agua railroad. Rar i ‘ Washington, Feb. 18-4#)—Antie- ipating that an impending clash be- tween Diaz and Sacasa armies at Matagalpa will jeopardize American “| lives and property, the government |is concentrating additional forces in For I The new marine forces probably | are destined to be landed at Corinto | on the west coast. approximately 75 j miles from Manag %, the capital. They | are expected mainly to be used for x MANY INJURED; -