The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 11, 1927, Page 1

| FIFTEEN LOSE LI WEATHER FORECAST Partly cloudy tonight and Sat- urday. Not much change. ESTABLISHED 1878 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [awom] SORLIE LOPS b, $15,900 FROM BU 2, DGET BILL Appropriation For Industrial Commission Secretary’s Salary Not Allowed OFFICE IS NOT NEEDED Money For Gas Tax Auditor and Travel Expense Cut From Auditor’s Budget Veto of two items in the bill ap- propriating more than $2,000,000 for the mabtenance of state dgpartments was gnnounced late Thursday at the exerutive office here. he governor lopped $9,100 off the appropriation for Ng atate auditor's office and $6,800 off the budget for the state industrial commission. Among items stricken out of the industrial commission appropriation is one for $5,600 to pay the salary of the industrial commission secretary. His Message The veto message follow: “I file herewith Senate Bill No. 19, an act to appropriate money for the xpenses of the executive, legislative and judicial departments of the state government, or the general budget. 1 have approved this bill with the ex- ception of the following items: 1. State auditor. “Certain items in the general bud- xet have been raised without any ap- parent justification. The budget board allowed the state auditor the sum of $59,300. The state auditor is a member of the budget boa this amount was allowed gonsent and approval, Sen: No. 19 appropriates the sum of $67, 500 for the state auditor, and pro- vides for the following items over the allowance made by the budget board: Gasoline tax auditor, $4,800; travel expense, $4,300; total, $9,100. he investigation and inspection of companies dealing in gasoline in the state has heretofore been taken care of by the oil inspector of the state regulatory department. That department is equipped to do the work and can well continue to handle it. Travel Allowance Too High “The allowance for travel expenses for the state auditor should be no more than that allowed other depart- ments engaged in similar work. Since the governor dees not have the power to veto part of any item, I am oblig- ed ‘to veto the entire allowance for travel expense, and I recommend that the state auditor apply. to the emergency commission for an allot ance for travel expense for his de- state auditor's almost identical with| ment. Senate bill No. 19 approp: 8 the sum of $48,840 for the state treasurer.‘ The allowance to the state treasurer for travel expense is but $500. “The state auditor's budget for the last biennium, 1925-1927, was $41,700, or $25,800 less than the budget pro- vided in senate bill No. 19, “I have therefore vetoed the item of $4,800 for gasoline tax auditor and the item of $4,300 for travel expense included in the budget for.the state} jp. auditor. Asked Discontinuance of Office Industrial commission. asked in my legislative messa: to have the office of secretary of the industrial commission discontinued, upon the ground and for the reason that there was no necessity for such secretary. Some other department of the state can hardle the work for the industrial commission without any additional expense. . Therefore 1 veto the following items in the budget of the industrial commission: ~ “Salary of the secretary, $6,600; furniture and fixtures, $100; miscel- laneous, $600; travel expense, $500; total, $6,800. “The secretarial work of the in- dustrial commission ‘can be turned over to the department of the state examiner, where {t'will be much more efficiently handled. Departments of the state are tike private organiza- tior If some member of the organ- ization is not kept fully occupies ‘the effect is bad and he soon demor- alizes the whole orgafiization. .Wejtion of “Mi should see to it that all departments are busy with constructive work.” May Develop Contest ‘The governor's action in vetoing the appropriation for the salary of the indust: commission secretary is ex- pected to develop a real conteat in that body, of which the governor, ral and commission agriculture and labor are members. It is rumored in capital tl some way may be found to keep the industrial commission secretary on @he payroll despite the governor's veto of the appropristio: the three members aro said to be favorable to such action. This question will bi June or July, since the p covers only the two-year period be- ginning July 1. inners Named in High School Paper ‘National Contest New York, reh 11,—()—Win- ‘mers of the Columbia scholastic press tect the beat stode ib blicatic ject the best lent publications at Columbia Uni- reity yesterday. . The South Side Times, of South de high school, Fort Wayne, Ind., : chosen je. best Sewepaper ind Red and White, of Lakeview igh school, Chicago, the best mag- ine among high echools of more 1,000 pupils. pen n inne: toa Albert Les lah Aa ea, Minn, high schools with 500 to pupils; and Th light, inona junior h school, Winona, inn. junior high schools with 500 760 pupil: ? ae competition to| ne! Trade Week rogram Friday Evening Vaudeville program and style show. Draping of fiving models on stage of auditorium. Saturday Afternoon Vaudeville program at city au ditorium. Free to out-of-tow guests. | Drawings for — prize awards, Prizes will be uwarde immediately to winners who present. Other winners will notified and arrangements made to fet prizes to them. Two draw- ings, one for farmers only and the her open to all out-of-town people, farmers included. BURLEIGH PAIR PLIGHT TROTH BEFORE CROWD Violet N. Mutschier, Bis- marck, and Oscar Wiect- stock, Arena, Wedded Before a packed house, Violet N. Mutschler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mutschle 410 Fourteenth became the bride of Os Wiectstock of Arena last ev ning’ at the city auditorium. Es Young, Lutheran pas- tor of Arena, read the service on the flower-decked st while mem- hers of the style show cast grouped themselves at the rear of the st: The bridesmaid was + Olive schler, a sister of the bride, and the best man was Everett I marek, The auditorum was complet out half an hour before the rose and hundreds had to be turned The public ceremony, a y in this country, probably al tracted more attention than any other feature of the program. As the curtain went down on the last of the vaudeville acts, the or- chestra struck up the Wedding March from Lohengrin. The curtain rose stage decorated with flowers, while the groom and his best man walked on from the right side. Little Beverly Snyder, flower girl, preceded the bride on the stage. Then came the ceremon: With the audience standing, the services were read and then Mr. and Mrs, Wiect- stock were presented to the audience. The bride wore a Mother Goose tan georgette gown and carried a bouquet of roses, while her brides- muid wore a rose and gold taffeta gown, The couple plan to at Arena, where Mr. Wiectstock is a mail car- riér and farmer. Their application was chosen by members of the com- mittee in charge at a drawing held Tuesday ‘afternoon and their names kept secret until the wedding last night. Couple Gets Many Presents Presents were given Mr. and Mrs. Wiectstock by various business houses and included: mahogany chair, Webb Broth: Ladies’ traveling bag, f as compan! fancy over, is-Robertson; —32- jpiece set of dishes, the Burg com- pany; diamond wedding ring, Bonhai toilet set, Lenhart Drug ce: pany; silk hose, Real Silk Hosiery company; 25 pounds of sugar, Scott's grocery; three-pound can of coffee, -T Grocery; wedding cake, Hughes | Bakery; men’s pajamas, S. E. Berge- son and Sons; and -a bridal photo, Mrs. W. E. Butler. Flowers for the bride and bridesm and for the stage were furnished by Hoskins- Meyer and O. H. Will and company. Other features of the evening show were the vaudeville acts, including the Stanchfield Sisters, the Peter: son Brothers, Earl Patwell and Leroy Sisson. The Style Show was as in- teresting as on previous evenngs and the setting, slightly changed from other showings, was praised. To Drape Living Models. Draping of living models will be the feature of the closing presenta- tion of the Style Show this evening. Done by S.A. Marcks, this is de- elared to be one of the most beautiful things of its kind ever presented here. In connection with the draping, a special number will be presented. One of the models is to’ be draped as an Irish girl, while Henry Hal- vergon sings “My Wild Irish Rose. Another feature will be the presen’ s Bismarck” and still another, the big surprise closing number, whch will be presented in one of the most beautiful stage set- tings ever attempted locally, illustra- (Continued on page three) FREIGHTER SINKS AFTER COLLISION Crash Oceurs in New York Harbor During Heavy Fog —One Man Lost New York, March 11.—(#)-—Blinded by fog that shrouded New York bay, two freighters collided head-on to- day, one of them sinking in the chan- , one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. Only one man was lost, John Brown, a ship’s carpenter on the Southern Pacific freighter El Sol, the ship that sank, All other members of the crew gf 2 were saved. The other craft in the collision, tbe American Dia- nd line, freighter Sac City, was Ber iasinaged ut none of the crew is injure: A police launch and a fireboat rush- La|jed to the scene to pick up members| T' of Ei Bol’s crew. ‘The ill*fated freighter is in water to 60 feat deep, half a mile, south- west of Governors Island. Only the tips ag spars are visible above BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1927 FRICK LOSES GAME FIGHT WITH DEATH, Young Chicago Man Suc-) cumbs to Creeping Paralysis | Despite All Efforts CHEERFUL TO’ THE END, — Doctors Hope Post Mortem | Will Yield Information of Value to Science Chicago, March 11,—(@)- the last flutter of a stalwart heart, Albert Frick yielded to death last night, four and a half days to the hour after the 22-year-old youth be- gan a grim battle with the mystery that numbed his lungs and placed his life in the hands of three score val- ient friends, He died as tw of them cea steady compressing and relaxing, pressing and releasing, that for 108 hours und 12 minutes had pumped the breath of life in and out of ‘the body chilled into helplessness by creeping paral: Attending doctors, amazed with their profession at his ability to live more than half a week although pow- erlesssto breathe, knew the end was i but the last phrase through s parched lips was a halting! assurance that “I'm all right.” Little Known About Disease Medical s isease except that there have been but whi inday ph: ficial r vgen fed| to the body tissues until the youth! rallied from the paralysis which had | set in three days after an attack of| intestinal influenza. Working feverishly, they despatch- ed a call for volunteers to aid them, and within a few hours dozens of employes of the Public Service com pany of Northern Illinols, for. w rick had been a salesman, appeared | at the hosvital and offered’ their ser. Organized into shifts of two men each and instructed by the company band of volunteers took up the acting work, two at a time, for the lungs to take in and expel After 50 hours passed and Frick ontinued to live, even appearing to improve at. times, physicians grew hopeful, recallitig that medical rec- ords described one case. in which a victim of the mysterious mal. kept ali for 41 days by artificial respiration, before death. That w in 1898, and the patient was a 20-year. old girl at a St. Paul hospital. For two days, Frick received all nourishment through a glucose solu tion injected into his paralyzed legs, but Wednesday his condition was so improved that he could swallow food in small quantities, He also became able to talk more freely. Sleeps From Exhaustion Yesterday morning, however, he grew weaker, and both doctors and his friends gave up hope. He drop- ped into his first lengthy sleep since lgst week, but it was from exhaustion and last night he lost consciousness for the first time since he was strick- en, At the bedside when the fight end-| ed was Frick’s father, Herman Frick of Crys His mother left the hospital just before the end came. Through his last conscious hours, the youth continued to smile in the face of death, jestin ith the men laboring to save his ite. Almost his last word was an agreement to attend a home coming party his father pro- posed. ‘The parents consented to a post- mortem examination early today and a section of the spinal column was removed. The tissues will be sub- | jected to a series of tests which doc- tors believe may be of great valu in science’; fight against the bafflin; | disease, which was first described | 1898 by Landry, a Frnch physician, ‘Comstock Calls Off |His Engagement Peggy Hopkins Joyce; Hollywood, Calif, -March 11—@)— Stanford E, Comstock, wealthy Miami, Fla., realestate operator, who was slated to be the ‘fifth husband of Peggy Hopkins Joyce, says his en- gagement to the much-wed actress has been called off: ree “Peggy is a wonderful girl—for {somebody else,” he declared when located th a real estate office which he recently opened here. As for . Connie Almy, cabaret en- tertainer who also claims the affec- tions of the Florida millionaire, Com- stock says he never had any inten- tion of marrying her. — 0 | ‘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 ‘ Highest .wind veloc: rf as i EATHER FORECAS' For Bismarck and vicinity: Partly cloudy tonight ‘and Saturday. Not much change in temperature. : For North Dako’ Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday. Not much change in tempers ure, WEATH! DITIONS A well developed low pressure, ac- companied moderate to heavy precip- itation, covers the southern Plains States. Light precipitation occurred over the north Pacific coast region. rally fair over the Rocky Mountain region and unsettled from the Plains States eastward. Moderate temperatures prevail in all sections. ORRIS W. ROBERTS. ence knows little of the| ™ Jand will b | shall ree la da; a to remain as long as necessary, the ? * Official in charge. Six Democratic senators-elect who congress convenes next December, (Left to right) Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, succ: Rep.; Millard E, Tydings, Maryland, succeeding O. E. Underwood, Dem., and Robert Alabama, succeeding Osca‘ HIGHWAY BODY TO BE CHANGED , UNDER NEW LAW New Commission Will Consist of Governor and Two Mem- bers Named By Him ation of the state high- rtment will be effected | under the ned by Gov- | announced signed the | Re-org vay di pro} 4 power: ion, rod za x sof the state high - Both are emergency measures ecome effective within 10 days after they were signed. The re-orga ion bill provides that the ission shall nd two mem- appointed by him, These | ve nay at the rate of $10 y for not more than 180 days | The commission is to meet | at least once a mont! Separate Secretary Provided A secretary is provided at a salary | than $3,000 a A chief engineer also of the commission io. member. When appointment of commis ers to serve under the new law will! be made not announced. The} governor is expected to take action ek, Present appointive com- joners are I. J. Moe, Valle: and Herman Hardt, Napoleon. Hl The bill broadening the powers of | the commission gives it the right! to “provide, designate, locate, re- do alte nend, re improve. | et, re-construct, surface, : maintain, — patrol, nd sign the stat tem and to do all othe 'y to make them usu- afe for the ic” Mt is the powers th regard to the letting of ts and the admin ion of | AUTO THIER GETS 3-YEAR PRISON TERM Suspension of Sentence Later Revoked When Man’s Prison Record Is Learned i acts | and} ion- City | sur mark, highway things ni able and Raymond B, Poole, whe was a rested by officers near Menoken| Wednesday morning as he was having an automobile which he had stolen in Bismarck pulled out of the ditch, was given a three year term in the state penitentiary by Judge Thomas H. Pugh here this morning after he pleaded euilty to grand larceny. When Poole claimed that he was under the effects of liquor at the time he took the automobile and did not realize what he was doing, the three year prison term was suspended by the judge, and the man was to have pees paroled to the custody of friends here. Information obtained later by Chief of Police Chris Martineson m | Leavenworth prison and Minneapolis | police, concerning Poole was present- | ed to the judge before the paid rs were signed, however, and resulted in the suspension being revoked, Con- | sequently Foote wilt aerve the time in the penitentiary. | The officials at Leavenworth in- formed Martineson that Poole, alias I. B. Howard, was brought there in 1923 from Mankato, Minn., and served two years for breaking into a pest- office, that later he was in the Wash- ington state penitentiary as Roy How- ard Register for robbery, and had al- so served time in the Minnesota state reformatory for burglary. An inquiry to Minneapolis police brought the in- formation that a Chevrolet sedan which Poole brought here about five | weeks ago and stored in a local gar-| age had been stolen in the Mill City. | Poole took a car belonging to Ch: Herman of Center from its parking | place on Fourth street here Tuesday id drove east. He went off id near Menoken, however, and was nabbed just as he was getting the; car back onto the highway the follow- | ing morning. ‘ AIR TRAFFIC LAWS Albany, N. Y.—A code of traffic ‘aws for aircraft has heen prep»red for consideration in the New York assembly. Flying while drunk would | he nunishable hv two years’ impri- sonment, the balloon would have ‘he right of way over the heavier-than- air machine and stunt flying with) passencers would be barred by the new bill, 4 | pa WAITING FOR THE 70TH CONGRESS are to take their posed on the steps of the ing Ric! W. " Minot Woman Is ay TERRIFIC GALE “Floods in France Severely Burned in Explosion . N. 1, March 11.—U?)— b dge Bergstrom, who was severely burned when gasoline with which she was cleaning gar- ents Wednesday afternoon nded, today is said to be re onsible, v ing as comfortably as under the circumsta Her chest, neck, lower arms and hands were badly burned, and she ix suffering considerably from xhock, but is making satisfactory pgress, it was reported today. CITY NATIONAL Sealed Bids Will Be Opened at G. F. Dullam’s Office Tuesday, March 14 Nation one of B ill be sold The City located on c bank building, k's bi » Depositors’ Holding company o ganized to take charge of the affairs of the closed banking : 4grding to an announ ent mad ) W. H. Webb, president of the com- received at Sealed bids will b office of GF. Dullam, City bank building, until 2 p. m Each bidder must submit with proposal a certified check for 10 pe cent of the amount of the bid, able to the Depositors’ Holding com pany. This money will be applied on the purchase p! if the bid is ac- cepted. The building. is located on lots 16, 17 and 18. biock 48, of the original plat, which location is at the corner of Fourth street and Main avenue. Fixtures now in the building are not 0 be included in the sale. The directors of the holding com- pany are advertising for sealed bids n the property so that eve th | might be interested in pu will have an equal opportunity to participate’ in the deal. Has Many Tenants The ground floor of the building includes the banking rooms, the rooms on Main street forme! occu- pied by the Lenhart Drug and soon to be taken by the tros@ve Company os Veahpeton, ine Sweet Shop, the Harris-Robertson jadies’ reauy-to-wear store and the Holt and Johnsrud men’s clothing store, The second floor of the build- ing houses » number of doctors, and dentists’ offices, several attorneys, and the Pollyanna beauty parlor, in addition to the suite of rooms until recently occupied by the Quain & Ramstad clinic. In the basement are the City Loan and Investment com- pany offices and the national guard armory. PAY ROLL CAR I$ BOMBED AND MONEY STOLEN Driver.of Armored Truck and Guards Are Badly Injured By Explosion Pittsburgh, P: (A) — Nine armed ban ‘tomobile with a $100,000 payroll of » March 11, ats in the filibustering upper chamb apito! at Washington whe: ard P. Ernst, Rep.; Carl Hayden, Arizona, suce Weller, Rep.; Elmer Thomas, Oklahoma, suc | 1 i “| | its escaped in an au-| Ja | ing down many of the hastil BANK BUILDING | WILL BE SOLD : , despite serious ty ing | participate in the | withstanding | Geneva, er of the they witn dir IN JAPAN ADDS | TO SUFFERING i Rough Weather Halts Efforts to Get Retief to Ccast Villages By Sea MW (A)—Ceatral slowly from the y Monday's a 4 ie hardships the Tango district, bl rece refugee shelters after troops had perienced considerable difficulty pui- ling them wi As relief by seu had been hindered y rough weiSher, it was feared the would further delay help for refugees in vil along the coast which suffered most in the quake. Latest figures compiled by the home office, which are not looked up- on as final, gave the number of dead through the quake as 2,687 with 6.443 injure The home office estimated | 10,000 buildings were de: Food and Clothing Needed Relief measu went on steadily ¢ andicaps, authori giving particule attention to those in need of medical care, Their next thought was for the thousands com- pelled to cam out in the cold and now through co:lapse of their homes. Strenuous efforts were made to pre at an epidemic, and to provide food and clothing. Immediately after the catastrophe, relief expeditions were hampered by mpassuble roads and flooded however, — man. ndicated hopeful progress was made in the work of relief. The government. no outside help was n y shaled all its forces, heads of the various departments " working long und hard in an effort to ameliorate he plight of the sufferers, The gov- ernment ordered a large quantity of rice to be shipped from the govern ment warehouse at Osaka, wry, 0 JAPAN VOTES ACCEPTANCE OF U. §, PROPOSAL Cabinet Votes Unanimously in Favor of Three-power Naval Arms Parley Tokyo, Mareh 11.-(P)- Japan cepted President Coolidge’s. proposal for a three power naval arms limita- tion conference today when the cub- inet voted unanimously to favor the project and cabled Ambassador Mat- sudaira in Washington to notify See- retary Kgllogg of its decision. Washington, Murch 11,-(#)- Ac- ceptance by Japan of the American proposals for a three-power confer- ence to discuss further curtailment of naval armaments means that the United States, Great Britui an will send delegates to Genevi summer in an effort to find p: methods by which competitive struction of cruisers, destroyers and submarines may be avoided. Great Britain's determination conference, not- the declination of France and Italy to send delegates to was communicated to the state department yesterday by Am- bassador Howard, The acceptance of pan had been anticipated, The hope that France and Italy may to the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal com-| yet find it possible to participate in pany this afternoon after bombing an armored car containing the money | held here. Some officials be and an escorting automobile as the| two two machines approached the Cover- dale mine’ of the concern, about six miles from Pittsburgh. Five men, occupunts of the two au- tomobiles, were badly injured in the explosion. :L. A. Cram Funeral Is Held Thursday Funeral services for L. A. Cram, who died Thursday evening at a local hospital, were held Thursday aft- ernoon at the Webb Brothers Chanel. Rey. Paul S. Wright officiated. Spe- cial music was furnished by Mrs. F. J.B k and Mrs, R, E. Morris, es were lurgely attended the casket was banked with beautiful floral offerings, Interment was made at the family lot in Falr- view cemetery. Pall bearers were SS, MeDonald,|a correspendence course in law hax | C. G. Thornton, R. H.! been vin Ol-| comm Fred Cathro, Walker, E. S. Dale and Ma’ son, f i some way in the discussions is still eve the European continental nations should be invited to send observers and technical experts to sit in at the meetings, © Audry Baty Dies of Spinal Meningitis Audry May Baty, six-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eber Baty of 224 South Third street, died this morning at 6 o'clock of spinal menin- gitis. The child is survived by her parents, two brothers and two sis- ters. Funeral services will be held Sat- urday afternoon at 1 o'clock at Webb Brothers funeral parlors. Owing to the nature of the disease the services will be private, LICENSE GRANTED Permission to sell a contract for epies by the state securities ission to the Brodie Burnham company, Chicago, national legislature when ssed the verbose demise of the 69th. Wagner, New York, succeeding James and Jap- the 70th H. Cameren, Re Hugo worth, Jr., Rep. ng J Reaching Disaster | Proportions Today | | i * ris, March 11, — (AP) -= caching proportions of a dis- in southwestern re spreading today. other paris of the rising rapidly, and t, bar. of the rain, of ¢ appeared no Lkeli- tributaries of the Marne would shortly over- They do not expect in- ! undations in the Paris district, however. The situation in the environs of Bordeaux was critical today, inhabitants beng driven to up- per stories of their houses by the Water. Farther upstream, the Garonne converted the plain of Bergerac into a vast lake and the road between Marmande and , Casteljaloux was submerged. ‘MINOT BARBER i i} , Emmet Brewington Convicted | ef First Degree Manslaugh- ter By Mountrail Jury | Minot, Emmett N. D., March 11.) Brewington, Minot barber, cted of manslaughter in nd was sentenced to n the state pr ct anley inimum ive un- der the verdict of first degree man- slaughter. 1 Brewington was convicted in con- nection with the death of Mrs. Mil dred Wilson of Minot last December 16, whet she was fatally injured when struck by an automobile which had run onto the sidewalk. | Brewington admitted being an oe- feupant of t euth” eur and te: ified ‘that jes Lyons of Min | neapolis driving, while ns testified that he was’ an occupant of the machine and alleged that | Brewington was driving. |Bids on Equipment ‘and Markers Opened By Road Commission Bids on all equipment and_machin- ery which will be needed by the main- tenance division of the state highway department were opened at a meetin| of the highway commission Thursda | Bids ulso were received on a supp he c was, coming yea Ten bills were received on the ma- chinery and three on the markers. De. cision on the awards will de at a meeting of the highway commis- sion to be held next Tuesd: having been referred to the highway maintenance engineer for tabulation. Coulter Confers With Sorlie About Appropriation Bill Governor A. G. Sorlie was noncom- mittal as to his attitude on the ag: | cultural college appropriation bill during a conference Thursday — with | John Lee Coulter, agricultural col- | lege president, Coulter, who was accompanied to the governor's office by R. B. Mur- phy, chairman of the state board of administration, said that the governor gave no indication as to his possible action on the measure. The governor said that he had let Coulter “do the t ng” and had con- tented himself mostly with listening. Because of numerous — statements made by the governor during the leg- islative session, it has been expected here that the executive will use his veto pen on some of the items in the appropriation for the agricultural college. Former Bismarckan Dies in Portland Theodore Shenkenberg, 76, a form- er resident of Bismarck, died Tues- day morning at his home in Portland, by Telatives. No details as to the ments are known here. earliest pioneers of Bismarck, com- ing here in 1872. He helped to build the first house erected here. Mr. Shenkenberg left Bismarck with his family in 1889, going to Portland. He is survived by his wife and | three children. Fred, Harry and Wil- liam Glitschke of Bismarck are brothers of Mrs. Shenkenberg. ~ PRISON TERM, of highway signs and markers for the) the bids. P! Ore., according to word received here | cause of death and funeral arrange- |'N, Mr. Shenkenberg was one of the; PRICE FIVE CENTS VES WHEN TWO HOMES BURR ‘USE OF OIL ON KITCHEN STOVE CAUSES 1 FIRE Father and Five Children Are Burned to Death in New Jersey Blaze {TWO OTHERS INJURED |Nine Members of Pennsyl- | vania Family Die When | Trapped in Burning Home Browns Mills, N. J, March 11.—-() —A father and his five children were jburned to death cagly today when | fire destroyed their home at Sunsét, | ake, neur here. The mother and a daughter were burned seriously, and another son, William, Jr. 15, excaped | uninjured. The dea ' William Stevenson, 55; jErnest, 1 hinn, 12; Alfred, 95 Mildred, 6, and Lily, one month, The fire was caused by a flarcup \of kerosene placed on the kitchen |stove by the father. State troopers rushed Mrs. Rebecca Stevenson, the mother, to Pemberton | for treatment for burns on the hands and arms. Clara, 20 years old, se- \verely burned and with an injured hip, broken when she fell from a story window, was taken to pital. yot up shortly after midnight jto heat some milk for my. little si ter,” said Clara, “I called father | und he red kerosene on the stove to make it burn quicker. | “There was a great burst of flame jand I sereamed and ran upstairs and | got the baby. I do not know how \T got out of the house.” | ‘The girl was found by state troop- jers in'a field 50 yards from the | house, apparently dazed. | a hos = Blairsville, Pa., March 11.—()— | | | GIVEN 5-YEAR | Nine persons, all members of the : | same family, were burned to death when fire destroyed the home of Clarence Marsh, gt Tunnelton, six miles west of here, early today. The dead are: Clarence Marsh 45, | his wife 40, and their five children, | ranging in age from one to 12 years, |and Mrs, Harry Montgomery, 2i, and her one-year-old. child. Mrs. Mont- gomery was a sister-in-law of Mrs. Marsh. Only one person, Harry Montgom- husband of one of the victims, ped. He leaped from a second istory window. The victims were be- lieved to have been trapped in their PO ‘ELECTION LAW (CHANGE GIVEN ' EXECUTIVE AXE Setting Ahead of Dates For | Naming Precinct Commit- | tecmen Not Advisable ‘ Veto of the bill revising the state primary election law and providing for the selection at state conventions ‘of presidential electors and delegates |to national political conventions was jannounced today at the office of Governor A, G. Sorlie. | “As introduced in | Representative A. | county, the bill provided for elimina- |tion of the primary system of nom- | inating candidates for state office but was amended so to affect only delegates to national conventions, | presidential electors and precinct | committeemen, | In his veto mesage the governor | said: “I have before me House Bill » providing for the election ef ri ct commfteemen and doing away with the election of presiden- , tial electors and national committee- men and delegates to national party conventions. “Under existing laws presidential electors, delegates to national party conventions and national committee- | men are voted upon at the presiden- | tial election on the third Tuesday of March of every fourth year. Phe precinct committeemen are elected at the state primary election in June in every even-num year. Docs Away With ir Vote “House Bill No. 25 provides that | precinct committeemen shall not be j elected at the various precincts at | the primary election in June but | that such precinct committeemen | shall be elected on the third Tues- {day in March of every presidential | election year. These precinct com; }mitteemen so elected shall meet [the court house in their county: the | third Tuesday thereafter, -which {would be during Avril. Then the delegates there elected shall meet at the state capitol on the second Tues- day in May, where this state organ- ization shall elect delegates to a state party convention, and this conven- tion, so made up, shal! on the same | date nominate and elect presidential lelectors, a national committeeman, jand the required number of dele- gates to the national party conven- tion. These provisions, to all intents and purposes, do away with the pop- ular vote for these most important offices. “The effect of House Bill No. 25, ;if the same should become a Ia | would be to disfranchise a of the electors of this state. | North Dakota, realize and well know © | that March is not the most agreeable ant elec- tion, and that an election held on the ithird Tuesday in March would pre- jvent a love number of farmers and one families from partaking In the election. the house by Fowler, Cass jtime during which ‘to ho! wit i ‘easily seen eat thle, would leave the control of the ma- (Continued on page afer yh