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a a 1 ! , i — (OO TI LOCOMOTIVE BOILER BURSTS, KILLS TRIO, * SETS FIRE 10 CARS Charred Piles of Twisted-Steel | Alone Left After Indiana Freight Is Destroyed Evansville, Ind. Mar. 18—(?)— ‘Three men were killed and at least + one other man was seriously injured early today when a freight train on the Louisville and Nashville railroad was wrecked at Kinney station, be- tween Guthrie, Ky., and Springfield, Details of the wreck were meager 28 officials of the company here boarded a wrecking tfain to rush to the scene. ‘The cause of the wreck according to information received at the com- pany’s offices here was a boiler ex- plosion on the engine that threw the freight train from the rails and set fire to the cars. The known dead are: Henry Russell, trainman, Evansville. Aaron Moss, trainman, address un- i own. oy An: unidentified man believed to pac been a a ride. jured: Joseph Crandall, trainman, Evans- ville. There were several tank cars of gasoline in the train and at least one of these near the engine blew up, scattering wreckage for some distance around the right of way. Supt. J. H. Fish. in charge of the and Nashville district here, with other officials of the company left shortly after daylight with a wrecking train to clear the tracks. Mr. Fish confrimed the last of dead and gave out details of the txplosion. ‘There was nothing left of the train, it was announced at the offices, here, except charred piles of twisted steel. ‘The series of explosions and the fire that followed destroyed every car. Senate Lobby Group In Row Over Huston Washington, Mar. 17.—(P)—After a heated exchange with Chairman Hus- ton of the Republican national com- mittee and a row among its members, the senate lobby committee today is- sued a subpoena to obtain from the New York brokerage firm of Blythe and Bonner records of a $36,100 de- posit made last year by Huston. Huston, a former president of the ‘Tennessee River Improvement asso- ciation, objected strenuously to the committee action and characterized it as unwarranted interference with his personal affairs. He also asserted that his “character had been at- tacked.” ‘The committee first proposed to ob- tain a record of all of Huston’s ac- counts with the New York firm but when Senator Robinson of Indiana, ‘Republican, protested and threatened to carry the fight to the senate, the subpoena was limited to the records of the $36,100 contribution from the ‘Union Carbide company. ooo [PEOPLE'S FORUM | UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM BASIC Moorhead, Minn. Editor, Tribune: Under existing circumstances it ap- Pears from a careful examination of the facts that the industrial high protectionists in addition tovimposing an exorbitantly high and unneces- sary tribute upon the agricultural sections of the country for the sup- plies which they are obliged to buy the wanton discharge of men on ac- count of the introduction of machin- ery, to such a degree that.the farm- ers market is seriously injured. It is the legitimate basis of the Salt Lake City, Mar. 18.—(#)—Fer- vent love letters sent her by Prince Farid, a Persian prince, have been revealed in the investigation into the mysterious murder of Mrs. Dorothy Moormeister, whose mangled body was found on a lonely road near here. She had been struck on the head with a piece of ore and her car had Mrs. Moormeister was the wife of a prominent Salt Lake City physician. She had met the Prince in Paris last fall and they were carrying on an ardent courtship by mail. On the day of the murder, Mrs. Moormeister or- dered a half dozen suits of pajamas adorned with the royal crest of the prince. Charles Peter, mining engineer, has to school and necessarily butter was @ very large portion of their diet, did they have the wages and the money to enable them to buy the same. Through loss of employment these with the other laborers thrown out of employment are obliged to buy as cheap food substitutes as possible to prevent starvation, consequently the consumption of butter along . with other food products has diminished through the high protectionists de- liberately creating unemployment which is estimated: in the United States at the present time to amount to approximately six million persons. ‘These ate things which I wish every farmer would carefully talk over and consider as shown the amount of reliance which can ‘be Placed in the representations of the eastern politicians. James M. Witherow. Italy Still Demands Equality With France London, Mar. 18.—(?)—The Italian .| delegation to the naval conference was, today to have held firm- ly to its stand at the outset of the naval conference for naval parity with France. Secretary Stimson undertaking the role of mediator in the Franco-Italian. naval dispute in an effort to solve the problem which is threatening the out- come of the conference, had a conver- sation with Foreign Minister Grandi of Italy this afternoon. His discussion in an effort to ef- fect a compromise between Italy and France was reported to have achieved nothing except to get from the Italian foreign minister reiteration that Italy wants naval parity with France. Eielson Honor Guard Leavés for Seattle Fargo, N. D., Mar. 18.—()—Mem- Persian Prince Wood Slain Salt Lake Woman by Mail been run over-her body several times. | The photos above show Mrs. Moor- meister, Prince Farid and (inset) Charles Peter. been questioned in connection with the murder. He insists he was only a friend of the family, but Miss Amelia Hugentobler, sister of the murdered woman, testified Peter was often seen with Mrs. Moormeister and had urged her to get a divorce from her husband. Beier, Carrington; and Harry Hart, Ray, state commander of the Amer- ican Legion. -| Presbyterians Listen To Prominent Divines Grand Forks, N. D., Mar. 18—(?)— Men nationally prominent in the work of the Présbyterian church to- day .addressed the convention of Presbyterian men of the Grand Forks area. The sessions will close tonight with a men’s club dinner at which Dr. L, Myron Booser, executive secre- tary of the Iowa Synod, will speak. Dr. Charles H. MacDonald, New York, is presiding. In two addresses he discussed the functions of men in the church and Christian education. Other speakers were Rev. Clair Boyd Gahagen, Chicago; Dr. William R. Harshaw, Minnesota synod executive secretary; Rev. Selden L. Haynes, Chicago, and Rev. Paul S. Wright, Minneapolis. School Strikers Back At Montevideo.Desks Montevideo, Minn., Mar. 18.—(?)— Four days of turmoil caused by a | strike of high school students ended | here today with all of the 71 strikers |and four boys who had been sus- | pended for improper conduct back at their classes. The four boys, reinstated by the board, of education’ Monday night, will be on probation for the balance fot their high school periods. Superintendent C. A. Pederson said that “everything is straightened out” and that the 475 students in the high school were back at hard work after being disrupted ‘since Friday, when a student parade opened the strike. ADDRESSES PRESBYTERIANS Fargo, N. D., Mar. 18,—(P)—Dr. bers of North Dakota's guard of hon- or which will escort the body of Carl Ben Eielson from Seattle to Hatton where it’ will be buried March 26, to- = gy Clan yr lady journeying westward. “y cons of commodities through mass Production, and give the consumer benefit. This' they have not only failed to do, but in addition through the intro- upon the advices of so-called “indus- trial specialists,” they have created an arbitrary dead-line at aig by ‘ j g gE = el i . i 5 g. 4 ! i F Hl H h | z i i Ly F i 3 F & a ur He i General G. A. Fraser, the representative, Forks; T. O. Rraabel, Fargo; Colonels Thomas Murphy, Minot and Ivan Metzger, Williston; Captain Los Angeles, Mar. 18—(NEA)—At At 12'She’s Learning to Fly an Airplane Charles H. McDonald, New York, ad- dressed the final session of the dis- trict men’s convention, held: at both Fargo and Moorhead, Minn. Meetings at Grand Forks Tuesday, Minot ‘Wednesday,and Bismarck Friday are scheduled. STRAWN SCORES ACE Ocean Springs, Mass., Mar. 18.—(P) For 30 years Silas H. Strawn, Chicago lawyer, has struggled, and at last he has attained pegfection. He thinks the Gulf Hills country club course is ex- cellent, especially the first hole. His score on that hole was indicated -on the card by a straight line running north and south. i y Bell, work in the So" eat eee Su develop . wee 1 pune Ss tae that look. out of place as 1D E i ? i & i 5 I INCOME TAX TOTAL COLLECTIONS LESS THAN 1929 RETURNS Treasury Officials Refuse to; Venture Estimate of the Eventual Total Washington, Mar. 18—()—The | treasury statement issued today as of | March 15 showed that income tax! collections were running a scant | $5,000,000 behind the total on that! day a year ago. This, however, could be taken only | as an indicator, and a none too ac- jcurate one at that, for the bulk of the payments of last Saturday have | | yet to be reported. | ‘Treasury officials know that mil- | lions of dollars were taken in at var- | ious offices throughout the country. | These as yet had not been officially | recorded here and until received the veasury statement shows only a } small fraction of the money actually | in hand, | The statement for March 15, issued | this morning, showed the total col- lections in the treasury on that date amounted to $67,507,962, against more | than $72,500,000 a year ago. Treasury | officials however, already have be- fore them a much larger total obtain- ed by the telegraphic poll. This they have deciined to make public al- though Secretary Mellon has said it was lower than last years but noi substantially so. This larger total cannot show in the treasury balance for several days. Officials refused today to venture any estimate of the eventual total. Northern Group in | Control of Peiping Peiping, China, Mar. 18.—(AP)— All Nanking government offi administrative bureaus in Pei former capital of China, were taken over today by the local authorities who said they were acting under orders of Yen Hsi-Shan, so called “Model Governor on Shansi prov- ince. The action implied a very definite widening of the breach between the administration of President Chiang Kai-Shek at Nanking, in central and south China, and the Shansi Kuom- inchun generals, headed by Yen. The northern group is now in foupure control of the situation eres Despondent Lover Is Found Dead by Noose Minneapolis, Mar. 18.—(#)—The body of Arthur Nelson, 30, with a bullet wound in the heart, was found early today hanging from a ventilator in the garage of the Minneapolis Building Supply company. The body ‘was suspended by a chain wrapped around the neck. Deputy Coroner C. A. Hobbs gave @ verdict of probable suicide and ex- pressed the opinion that the bullet wound was the cause of death. He said there was no indication that Nel- son strangled or that his neck was broken. In the man’s right hand overcoat pocket was a .38 calibre revolver ‘d!tndies and Panama Canal Zone. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. TUESDAY MARCH 18, 1930 { \The beauty title at the University of Mississippi went to Elizabeth Capps of Tupelo, Miss., ee Mardi Gras at school, 2 —_ W. H. Strachan Flies Nonstop from Ocean To Ocean at Panama —— 4 St. Paul, Mar. 18.—A non-stop flight from the Pacific to the Atlantic and return was accomplished by W. H. Strachan, of St. Paul, general super- intendent of the Northern Pacific, he reported when he returned Friday from a six - weeks’ tour of the West He was accompanied by Mrs. Strachan and their daughter Jean. The airplane trip was made from Colon to Panama and return, a total distance of about 80 miles. The fly- ing time was 56 minutes, Mr. Stra- chan said. | Wood Alcohol Spree Is Fatal to Imbibers Bemidji, Minn. Mar. 18—()}— Beltrami county officials today were investigating the deaths of two men at Blackduck Monday as a result of drinking wood alcohol. Mike O'Neill, believed to be from Grand Forks, N. D., and Albert Wis- tad, who said Thief River Falls was his home, are the men, who according to Coroner H. N. McKee of Bemidji died of acute alcoholism. The two who became ill while en route from Kelliher to Blackduck, ad- mitted drinking the alcohol before they began the trip, officers said. O'Neill died before Blackduck was reached and Wistad later. St. Paul Bank Robber Suspects Are Jailed St. Paul, Mar. 18.—(?)—Three sus- Pects, arrested at Wildwood yesterday | after the Payne Avenue State bank | 5, containing one empty shell. Powder burns surrounded the hole made by the bullet in Nelson’s clothing. Mrs. Christine Nanny, a sister of Nelson at whose home he lived, said her brother had been despondent re- cently over a love affair. Grand Forks Slayer Seeking Death Knife Grand Forks, N. D., Mar. 18.—(P)— Alfred Aragones, confessed slayer of Bernabe Basco, today was taken by deputy sheriffs to the scene of the killing on a farm near Kellys to find the death knife which Aragones says he hid there. SHIPSTEAD REACHES HAITI Port au Prince, Haiti, Mar. 18.—(P) Senator Henrik Shipstead of Minne- sota arrived aboard the United States destroyer Overton, which had brought him. from Guantanamo, Cuba. He plans to return to New York aboard the steamer Cristobal, sailing Wednes- day. BARTLETT BANK PAYS Payment of a 20-per cent dividend to depositors of the closed Bartlett State bank was alti today by the state receiver of closed banks. Payment is being made through the; office of C. W. , district man- | ager for the receiver ‘at Devils Lake. | HOOVER FLOWERS GET MEDALS New York, Mar. 18.—(#)—The Presi- had been held up and robed of; $3,000, were held without charge to- day while police questioned them and delved further into the crime. ‘The men held are George Vreeland, William Keller and Joseph Conroy. The first two arrested while seated in an automobile several hours after the robbery. Conroy, in a cottage nearby, fled but was arrested shortly afterward. SINGING IN SPITE OF COLD Singerscatch colds, the same as any other people. But they can't give in to them, and*most of them know how to con- quer the worst cold —without loss of time—from one performance to an- other! Pape's Cold Compound is the answer. You can be . hoarse, your throat sore, eyes bleary, head ringing with a cold—and these harmless tablets will have you clear-headed, without ‘won medals at a flower show. an ache or pail » and be rid of every sign of a vicious cold in a few hours! 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About 75 dealers and staff men sat around the | tables. manager, was toastmaster. | The girls were the Red Jacket or- | chestra, made up of students of the} Wichita high school and the Univer- | sity of Wichita, which the Gleaner | Minneapolis is carrying with it on the trip through South and North Da- kota and Montana, under the chaper- onage of Mr. and Mrs. V. C. Walling, | heads of a Wichita music studio. The orchestra appeared in white sailor trousers and red jackets, the latter giving the organization its name. They played selections through- out the dinner and put on classic dances, while Miss Magdalen Bryan, of the Keith-Orpheum circuit, N. ¥., sang several solos, The dinner was of a standard menu which the staff men have been put- ting on at each stop. Standardiza- tion is the keynote of the Gleaner corporation. Grilled dinner steak, Beraise sauce, was the chief dish. During. the dinner, at which a com- bining film was shown, talks were made by H. P. Goddard, secretary of the Association of Commerce; F. A. Copelin, local representativ: John Cheney, of the Ford Motor branch at Fargo; Art Cody, Scranton; Earl Robinson, Washburn; L. B. Dallas, Reeder; John Hendricks, Underwood; Harry Harding, Dickinson; Frarik Wernli, Hazen; C. C. Mabrey, Inde- pendence, Mo.; R. V. Barrington, Bis. marck blockman J. Turley, Min- neapolis manager; Robert Turley, Glendive, Montana, blockman; T. W. Hulsey, Independence; H. D. Lawless, Fargo blockman; and V. C. Walling, Wichita. ‘The business session, Monday after- noon, considered sales policies. One feature was strict enforcement of price. Points in the makeup of the new combine which cuts and threshes wheat, and, with an attachment added, does the same performance in the corn field, were explained. At 11:10 this morning the party left for Glendive, where the next mecting will be staged, Wednesday. 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