The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 14, 1931, Page 1

North Dakota’s THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 The ‘Weather Partly cloudy and somewha' warmer tonight and Tuesday. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MON , DECEMBER 14, 1931 PRICE FIVE CE: To File Ballot Petitions Eight Are Killed As Storm Hits Arkansas PROPERTY DAMAGE | IS EXPECTED 70 TOTAL HUGE SIM Disturbance Follows Unseason- ably Warm Weather and Heavy Rains MANY HOMES _ DESTROYED Only Few Buildings Escape Fury of Winds at Waldo, Ark; Score Injured f Turns on Hoover |JAPAN'S PREMIER ISSUES WARNING ‘10 CHINESE CHIEF’ Says Chang Hsueh-Liang Must Withdraw Army From Chinchow District PS WILL FOLLOW SUIT New Nipponese Leader Says It Is Only Way to Restore Manchurian Peace Noted North Dakotan Dies PNEUMONIA FATAL —|[ Wins Audition Prize TOHATTON BANKER IN FORKS HOSPITAL Ole Eielson, Father of Famous Aviator, Succumbs After Two-Week Illness WAS BORN IN WISCONSIN Came to North Dakota in 1883 and Obtained Job as Clerk in Store | Wins Audition Prize | = MOVE 10 TIGHTEN RESTRICTIONS OF LAW IS SUPPORTED Approximately 15,000 Persons Sign Petition to Halt Election Frauds TIME EXPIRES WEDNESDAY Proposal to Initiate Law Is Ex- pected to Be Decided at March Vote Petitions to initiate a proposed law to revise the North Dakota absent - voters ballot act were to be filed with Secretary of State Robert Byrne Monday afternoon or Tuesday, ac- cording to leaders of the movement. Little Rock, Ark. Dec. 14—()— Eight dead, almost a score of in- jured and thousands of dollars of) property damage were left Monday in the wake of a tornado that whipped! across southwestern Arkansas and northern Louisiana Sunday, ‘The storm followed unseasonably warm, weather and a@ heavy rain. Much of the ‘south reported down- i kill Five negroes were kil Hortman and Cotton Valley, La. by a tornado that struck those isolated communities Saturday night, said belated reports Monday. ‘There is no telephone commu ‘ica- tion with the stricken sections and detailed seen i the wore = not available. e. re] said, however, Ad bes jae perlahed under wrec! e eir homes. the srenyear-old Helen Culvert was buried in the wreckage of her home and fatally injured as the storm struck Camden, Ark. Her father and a sister also were hurt. Two negro do tore its way over a plant ne Minden, La., and destroyed three houses. : Despite heavy property damage at ‘Waldo, Ark., where but two or three business buildings and a few homes were left undamaged, only two per- sons were known injured there. Hundreds “were Leon Or oe homes as the tornado dipped down. ripped off roofs and overturned hter structures. a onien streams and rivers through southwestern Arkansas and northern led near Horace Mann, above, of Tennessee, one of President Hoover's chief lieut- enants in the 1928 campaign, is now heading a nation-wide anti-Hoover Republican organization. Senator Hiram Johnson of California has been mentioned as the organization's possible choice for the Republican nomination. EXPERTS EXPECT BETTER TEST OF BRIDGE SYSTEMS Some Hint Contestants Are Not Sticking to Their Out- lined Ideas New York, Dec. 14—()—Having diagnosed the enemy’s tactics fairly well, proponents of rival systems of contract bridge will resume the big 150-rubber. match Monday night. Neutral experts expect a better test ‘ofjsubsequent drop in, the - is|eign' exchange were anticipated by to| speculations estimated to have been each team is adhering to its| about $200,000,000. of systems thatin the fh re Play has afforded, no unadjustable dispute as whether system. Once Oswald Jacoby, partner ot|have purchased more than 100,000,- Sidney 8. Lenz in representing the|000 yen worth of dollars in anticipa- (Copyright, 1931, By The Associated Tokyo, Dec. 14.—(#)—Premier Tsuy- oshi Inukai declared that Marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang must withdraw his Chinese army from Monday night the Chinchow district. “As soon as he does this,” the pre- mier said, “Japan will evacuate oc-/ cupled points outside the South Man- | churia Railway zone and peace will! be restored to Manchuria. “I don't see any other way out of the difficulty. Chang himself must realize that.” Premier Inukai had just concluded a prolonged session of the cabinet, the first to octur in his official residence. The Tokyo stock exchange and other exchanges throughout Japan were closed Monday as shares leaped as much as 60 yen ($30) following suspension of the gold standard and reimposition of-a gold embargo by the new cabinet. : One of the first effects of the em- bargo appeared to be the halting of two specie shipments of $7,500,000 to the United States, contemplated by the Yokohama specie bank to com-| plete deliveries of dollar bills. Tne! hank may contest the ban. ‘The stock exchanges are expected to remain closed until the middle of the week. The gold embargo and a yen on for. JOHN WRAY, PIONEER OF BISMARCK, DIES Had Lived in County 51 Years; Intestinal Rupture Proved Fatal The Mitsui bank was reported to OLE. EIELSON Ole Eielson, Hatton, one of North Dakota’s noted citizens, died Sunday at Grand Forks, Six Ice Skating Rinks Are Established in Bismarck 175,000 Square Feet of Surface Sufficient For City This Size Six ice skating rinks, with a total ‘burface of about 175,000 square: feet, ‘have been established for the use of Bismarck skaters, according ‘o John |W. Reel, director of recreational ac- tivities. Estimating that each skater needs only 100 square fect while on a rink, Grand Forks, N. D., Dec? 14—(F)— jOle Eielson, Hatton, N. D., merchant jand the father of Carl Ben Elelson well known aviator who lost his life} in a plane crash in Siberia in 1929, died Saturday in a hospital. Pneu-| monia was the cause of his death. He| had been a patient here for the last! week. He was 68 years old. | Eielson’s body was taken to Hatton} jbut no arrangements for the funeral have been made. i Born at Coon Valley, Wis., March 27, 1863, Eielson spent his early child- hood on the small family farm. He left home at the age of 13 and after seven years of roaming, came to North Dakota and found employment as a clerk in what was then the only store of the village of Hatton. A few years later he started a store of his own. He built up ¢ prosperous) business which he continued to oper- ate, until 1918, when he 5 During his residence in Hatton, Eileson took an active interest in the affairs of his community and state. He was instrumental in organizing the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Hatton, of which he was president for many years. He also served as mayor of the city. Relieved of the responsibilities of active business life, Bielson was a fre- quent and welcome guess at many iPublic gatherings. In New York he |shared penges oe ee at @ re- i given ‘Ben on his re! from Sis fel arkable flight with Sir Hubert Wilkins across the arctic. After the death of Ben, Eilelson made the long and trying journey to Alaska in the dead of winter and re- turned with the body of his son. On} LILLIAN MEYER New York, Dec. 14—(P)—The 10 winners of the fifth national radio audition sponsored by the Atwater Kent Foundation, who will divide $25,000 in cash in addition to other prizes, were announced Sunday night following the final national competi- tion over the National Broadcasting company network. Miss Lillian Meyer, Jamestown, N. D., won a fourth place. Identical awards in each of the five classifications were made to one man and one woman. The winners of first plaee, who get two years’ tuition in an American conservatory, a gold decor- ation and $5,000 each, were Miss Saida Knox, 22, of Kearney, N. J., and Jay Alden Elkins, 24, of Somerville, Mass. fourth place, one year’s tuition and $1.500 each, went to Miss Lillian Mey- er, 21, Jamestown, N. D., and John Bennett Metcalf, 20, of Austin, Tex. | Late News Bulletins (By The Associated Press) LITTLE RESIGNS POST Madison, Wis.—George E. Little, director of athletics at the Univer- The time for filing the signatures expires Wednesday. To place the measure on the ballot, 10,000 signatures are required but pe- jtitioners said indications were at least 15,000 signatures would be available. If the sufficiency of petitions is ap- proved by the secretary of state, the measure will be submitted to the vot- ters at the presidential primary in March. The law provides petitions .|must be filed 90 days before an elec- tion at which the proposal is to be submitted. The purpose of the proposed law, according to the petitioners, is to in- sure honest elections and to prevent possible wholesale fraud under the Present ballot law. Mrs. Emma C, Nagle, Jamestown, is chairman of the committee of peti- tioners. Under the present absent ballot statute applications for absent voters ballots may be made by letter, in person, or by an agent with the re- sult that one agent, the petitioners contend, may legally come into pos- session of numerous ballots. ‘The proposed measure would pro- hibit the practice of furnishing ballots to political agents; would authorize © only the county auditor or his chief deputy to give or send out absent vot- ters ballots; would prohibit marking of such ballots within 100 yards of a courthouse and would fix a penalty from one to five -yeats, imprisonment and $5,000 fine on any suditor con- victed of violating provisions of the MANDAN BRAKEMAN Loses RIGHT FOOT James J. Howe Is Victim of Ac- cident at Zap Saturday Night as Feet Slip tion of a dollar rise and other banks lesser amounts, but well into the tens of millions. Louisiana threatened traffic. Highway travel between Monroe and Shre' , La, was disrupted and a washout cut off rail travel be- tween the two cities. ‘The rain caused the bursting ofa dam at Shreveport, flooding 3,000 acres of land. Near’ Wartrace, Tenn. nl hse struck, uprooting trees and ul s ing buildings in the section. Only last Friday, a tornado hit near Tex: arkana, Ark., killing two persons. 89 LIVES LOST AS STORMS SWEEP EUROPE London, Dec. 14—(P)—At least fifty -nine lives were lost and the “official” system, brought out the point that Mr. and Mrs. Ely Culbert- son by bidding a four-card suit be- fore a five-card suit were not prac-; tising what they preached. Culbert-| DENY REPORTS THAT son retorted that under his tenets| CHANG HAS RESIGNED the five-card suit was not of suf-| Nanking, Dec. 14—(7)—Widely cir. ficient strength to be bid {culated reports that Chiang Kal-Shek | The Culbertsons have been wonder-|had decided to resign as president of ; ing whether their opponents are fol-|the Nanking government were denied lowing the “official” system in bid-|in official circles tonight. ding four-card suits originally on| A spokesman for the president said balanced hands when the “official”|Chang had not indicated in any way | system lauds no trump as the better|/a decision to step out of office. bid. Under the Culbertson system] Despite these official denials, how- an official bid of no trump deniesjever, a belief prevailed that Ching | of a biddable ‘suit. and other high officials of the na*; For a while in the first week of|tionalist government were likely to play Lenz and Jacoby added to theirjretire within a fortnight. Reel said the six rinks will de suffi- cient to take care of all of the city’s, he visited again in 1931. skaters this winter. { Funeral services will be held Wed- The park board established five of /nesday at 1:30 p,m. in St. Johns the rinks, while the board of educa-|Lutheran church of Hatton with Rev. tion assisted the park board in ar- |O. L. Jensen officiating. ranging for the North rink. John Wray, resident of Bismarck | that trip he made many friends, whom for the last 45 years and of Burleigh; jcounty for 51 years, died in a@ loci ‘hospital at 10:45 o'clock Saturday night. He was 72 years old. Death was) caused by an intestinal rupture, which made an operation necessary. He was ill only one day before his { death. Before his retirement a few years ago, Wray had been in the grocery and coal business. At one time he; operated the electric car which ran} to Capitol Hill and in 1889 he wos) night captain at the state peultea- tiary. Member of I. 0. 0. F. sity of Wisconsin, tendered his resignation Monday to President Glenn Frank and J. F. A. Pyre, = " chairman of the athletic council. ASKS EMERGENCY MONEY Washingten — President Hoover Monday asked congress for $136,352,- 420 in additional appropriations for the federal government during the present fiscal year. The allotment asked for the interior department in- cluded $200,000 for relief of Indian distress, particularly in the Dakotas, Montana and Nebraska. CAPTURE ESCAPED ROBBER Leavenworth, Kan.—Earl Thay- er, 65, Oklahoma train robber, Practically all business houses of the Rinks Are Named jelty will close for the services and the; ‘The rinks are as follows: North, on|Farmers and Merchants bank, of Avenue E between Seventh and)Which Eielson was president, will be Eighth Sts.; East, at Eixteenth st, | Closed all day. and Rosser avenue; Park Lake, imme-| 1 early life, Eielson married Miss diately west-of the underpass at the | Ol@va Baalson of Brooten, Minn., who western extremity of Main avenue; |“ed 19 years later. There were born Roosevelt, Hannafin St, and Avenue |‘® them nine children. Those living E; Richholt, Avenue E and Thir- |e Elma (Mrs. Elmer Osking of Hat- : ton), Adeline, Oliver, Arthur, Helen, A-ha all as eg a Eleventh St./and ‘Hannah, at present a student at Slipping under a slowly moving Northern Pacific freight train at Zap Saturday night, James J. Howe, the University of North Dakota. ‘ 40-year-old Mandan brakeman, lost lives of scores of others seriously threatened over the week-end in storms that swept the Mediterranean ‘and North Seas, damaging shipping, especially off the north coast of Africa. Thirty drowned and more than 100 others were rescued from grave peril when the Italian naval tug Teseo went down off the coast of Sardinia. ‘The survivors were rescued from fury of the Mediterranean gale, by the cruiser Trieste, from Italy. ‘craft were capsized |Culbertsons were sev once when/the Japanese, \doubled and once when not doubled.|form Monday. They fulfilled one contract which they had redoubled. In five rubbers|said Chang Ching-Hi and ‘played Saturday night the Culbert- or damaged by the storm that raged | off the African coast, including @ coast guard cutter swept ashore of Bone, Algeria, with @ loss of 12 lives. ‘The City of Algiers suffered consid-| erable damage. In the North Sea the captain and 16 members of the crew of the steam- er Venus drowned off the Norwegian coast after the ship, chased:as a rum over the spot. Two members of the crew who reached shore, one of them an Eng- lishman, were arrested. Isensee Trial May Be Ended Tuesday Fargo, N. D., Dec 14.—(#)—Trial of | with a fire at his garage in July of 1930, was delayed in a Cass county district court Saturday as the defense introduced more than 200 exhibits, mostly sales records at the garage, for evidence. Mes, Ethel Flatrer, now of the St. Paul and previously bookkeeper at the Isensee Mortor company, was on the stand throughout the day identifying the records. - Because of the delay it is improb- te the case will reach the- jury until lat? Monday or early Tuesday. WANT MORE LABOR OFFICES Washington, Dec. 14.— (AP) — Funds to establish 54 additional em- ployment offices have been request- ed from congress by the labor de- partment and will receive immediate jonsideration by the house ayyro- Driations committee. ‘ | night. 11,670 points from their deficit. Officialites Set Twice (Continusd on page seven) What Do YOU See? F. H. WALDO, Northwestern Bell Telephone company: “The depression is not over, ‘The peak, however, seems to have been reached and, with normal growing conditions as soon as the grass is green, I look for a mark- ed improvement, with a decided change for the better by August. Bismarck has suffered less than any cther city in the state. “Statistics of the telephone in- dustry have been very generally used all over the country as indi- cative of business trends. While a loss in the number of tele- phones was shown every month in this present year, an improve- ment began in September and has continued since. The tele- phone company sells. a service and not a commodity, and so 15 not affected by commodity prices as soon as other business inter- ests. What might have been a loss in telephones in the Bis- marck district during the last few months has been offset to a large extent by a determined sales effort on the part of all em- ployes in all departs throughout the territory. “It may require a similar ef- fort in all lines of business to carry on during the winter, but I believe the indomitable pioneer spirit is still with us and that if we couple hard work with’ op- Uimism conditions will be better with each month and we shall wake some fine morning to dis- cover the deoression was actually over some time before.” net. point total. by deliberately tak- ing sets in a waiting game for bet- ter cards. But a few doubles by the Culbertsons made such a policy cost- ly in a sensational rubber Saturday The result that in one rub- Iber of 11 hands the Culbertsons took In that rubber, the 30th of the ser-] AUTON: ies, Lenz and Jacoby fulfilled one} SEEN AS POSSIBILITY contract in which they were doubled} Mukden, and were set twice when doubled and|/(AP)—An autonomous M. twice without being doubled. The/state, under ofécials favorable to | Chiang Kai-Shek, 46-year-old Can-; tonese who was commander in chief | of the nationalist forces in the Chi- nese civil war, was elected president of the national government for the | yania schools and came to North Da- He was a past noble grand of thc local I. O. O. F. lodge. John Wray was botn at Lewiston, Pa,, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Wray. He was educated in Pennsy'- first time in October, 1928, and was reelected in June, 1931. NOMOUS STATE Dec, 14.— hurian Manchuria, kota when he was 21 years old, filing on a homestead south of Sterling in 1880. He moved to Bismarck in 1886. He was married to Hanna Carlson at Bismarck Feb. 6, 1902. He leaves his widow and three sons, Frank, William and Floyd, and one daugh- ter, Mrs. Edith Piercy, all living here. He also leaves two sisters, Mrs. P. and Mrs. Saran seemed to be taking e Ww Hei fis , heads of the new ernments in Heilungkiang and Kirin provinces, are to arrive December 20 to con- fer with Yuan Chin-Kai, who wa: installed as head of Fengtien_prov- ince several weeks ago under Japan- ese auspices, regarding unification of authority FEDERAL CONVICTS ARE KEPT IN CELLS Prisoners Create New Disturb- ance Sunday Night at Leavenworth, Kan. Sources close to the ne Leavenworth, Kai (AP)—Many convicts at the federal Penitentiary remained locked in their cells Monday following a disturbance Sunday night in which prisoners shouted and yelled in their cell blocks, E. H. Eckholdt, neceetery. $0 War- den T, B, White, wounded Friday by one-of seven prisoners who abducted him and escaped from the peniten- tiary, said the disturbance had not; extended throughout the convict pop- ulation. Eckholdt ;said the convicts were quiet Monday but had not been per- mitted to go to work until the dis- turbance was investigated and the “attitude of the prisoners” became known to authorities. PLAN BUS SERVICE H ! gt. Paul, Dec, 14.—(?)--Bus and; ‘truck services will be substituted for- two trains by the Northern Pacific railway between Miles City and Bil- lings, Mont.. beginning Jan. 1. ac: cording to H, E. Stevens, operating vice president, as, Dec. 14,—| pected | Farmers’ club. and one brother, Plan Funeral Tuesday Funeral services will be conducted jat 2:30 p. m. Tuesday under the aus- ‘pices of the local organization of the 1. 0. O. F. Last rites will be con- ducted from the First Lutheran) church. Rev. Emil Benzon, pastor of the church, will be in charge of the rites and pallbearers will be se- | Sit lected from among members of the I. O. O. F. Interment will be made at Fairview cemetery. ‘The body will lie in state Monday evening at the O. A. Convert Funeral Home. Credit Men to Meet In Fargo Next March Fargo, N. D., Dec, 14.—()—Whole- sale credit men and bankers from many parts of the northwest are ex- here for the annual meeting of the northwestern conference, Na- tional Association of Credit Men, sometime in March, it was announced) Monday by E. E. Simonson secretary) of the Fargo-Moorhead association of credit men. A feature of the one-day session| will be an address by Henry Hei- mann of New York City, national executive secretary. Heismann then will be on a national tour, and will stop here for the northwest session. Delegates from this state will come from Fargo, Grand Forks, Minot and Bismarck. * Minnesota will be rep- resented by @ group from St. Paul! and Minneapolis, Duluth and Moor- Head. Between 100 and 125 persons are expected at the meeting. MUST CUT COSTS | Erhard, Minn,, Dec. 14.—(4)}—Farm-, ers cannot hope to survive the present! low price era unless they drastically | reduce their production costs, Cap E. Miller, Fargo, declared here Saturday ght in an address before the Erhard E.| Season are requested to communicate ‘Water for the rinks is furnished by, the city water department while city employes or men paid from the city unemployment fund are in charge of maintenance, Reel said. Shinny or hockey will be permitted only one the North Rink, the director said, while the Roosevelt rink primar- ily 1s for children and beginners. Curling Is Possibility If demand for curling facilities is sufficient, efforts. will be made to ar- range a curling course at Park Lake rink. All interested in curling this with Reel in the near future. More than 500 persons used the six city rinks Saturday and Sunday. The coasting hill established by the city commission on Avenue E between Mandan and Third Sts., proved popu- lar over the week-end, Reel said. The sliding hill was arranged to decrease the danger of accidents. The hill has been made a stop street, warning mo- torists that children use the street for CHINESE PRESDENT RESINS HS OFFICE Chang Kai Shek Quits Post as Head of Oriental Nation’s Government Shanghai, China, Dec. 14.—(7)— Chiang Kai-Shek, president of China, resigned Monday and: his resignation was accepted. T. V. Soong, finance minister of the Nanking government, also is expected | to resign within a few days and sev- eral other changes in the cabinet are anticipated. 6 - | | Pastor Confesses And Is Forgiven P cela High Point, N. C., Dec. 14. —The Rev. J. D. Barnette, former treasurer and assistant pastor of the Green Street Baptist church here, at the church service yester- day, confessed to misaporopriat- ing $869.97 of church funds. The minister asked and was giver for- piveness for the congregation. Many members of the church nt wept as he told of his de- In addition to Carl Benjamin, chil- dren preceding Elelson in death were Edwin and Hannah, the latter being a twin of Helen. She died in infancy and the ninth child was given the, same name. RIOTING OCCURS ON | HONOLULU STREETS American Servicemen Tangle With Civilians Following Attack on Woman Honolulu, Dec. 14—(#)—Fighting between American service men clad in lungarees and gangs of civilians on Honlulu’s streets forced navy shore patrols and marines into riot duty Sunday. Fighting broke out sporadically in eight separate sections of the city. Police attributed the disorders to the recent mistrial of five men accused of attacking the young wife of a naval officer, Sept. 12. The rioting followed the kidnap- ing of Horace Ida, Japanese, one of the defendants in the assault case, and beating of Robert K. Wong, & Chinese mistaken by the.mob for one of the defendants. Ida was kidnaped by about 20 men, taken to the opposite side of Oahu island, whipped, beaten and left ly- ing beside the roadway where passing motorists found him. The city was comparatively quiet Monday. Shore patrols had arrested 200 participénts in the rioting and returned them to barracks. ‘The major fight was in the down- town section. Police said several hundred men participated. Last Friday Rear Admiral George T. Pettengill, commanding mine craft of the 14th naval district, announced he had warned Admiral Richard H. Leigh, commander of the battle force, United States fleet, that Honolulu! was unsafe for naval officers’ oe yee uneasy for naval ole. He | Wants Minstrels to |; Keep Mind on Work e Ossining, N. ¥., Dec. 14.—(?)— Warden Lawes wants Sing Sing's minstrel shows to be successful. He doesn’t want the convict per- formers distracted. He has asked patrons not to display costly whe escaped from the federal pri- son in Friday's break, was cap- tured Monday afternoon and re- turned to the prison by Sheriff Roy Murray of Leavenworth. G. 0.-P. ORGANIZES SENATE ‘Washington—Republicans organized the senate by appointing committee chairmen but four ballots failed to break the deadlock over the reelection of Senator Moses, New Hampshire, as president pro tempore. Indications were that this fight would go to Moses by default as Senator Robinson, Dem- ocrat, said he would not press for the election of a president pro tem if any “{mportant” legislation is presented. Under the rules, Moses serves until his successor is elected. BEULAH MAN SAYS HE WAS ABDUCTED Authorities, However, Indicate Doubt of Story; Hold it Improbable Kansas City, Dec. 14.—(}—Police today were investigating tHe story of/ a kidnaping told them by a man giv- ing the name of Philip C. Maier, 36, Beulah, N. D. “The man came to the police de- partment Saturday night, officers said, told of being kidnaped in North Dakota last Nov. 16 and of being held captive in various parts of the Uni- ted States until Sunday, when his captors allegedly released him here. He gave no details of his alleged ab- duction or the reasons for it. He sald he was a chiropractor. BEULAH OFFICIALS DOUBTFUL OF STORY Beulah, N. D., Dec. 14.—()—Philip C. Mater, local chiropractor, who told authorities in Kansas City he had been kidnaped, left h's home last Oc- tober to practice at Edgeley, N. D., and then disappeared. Authorities here and Mrs. Mater said they doubted the kidnaping theory and assertel Maier had been in financial difficulties before leav- ing. State’s Attorney John Moses said, Mailer was divorced several vears 9g0 | at Linton and had been jailed at one} time for failure to pay atimony: The chiropractor was married to the pres- faleation and asked forgiveness. Jewels. ent Mrs. Maier four years ago. his right foot when it was crushed under a wheel and suffered a frac- ture of his left leg just below the knee. The train was backing up while switching and the mishap occurred when Howe jumped from a ladder on the side of the car. His feet slip- ped from under him when he struck the ice-coated ground. Howe will live, his attending phy- sician said in Bismarck Monday morning. The accident occurred at 9:45 o'clock (C. S. T.) and Howe was brought to a local hospital for treat- ment at 2 a. m, Sunday. He was brought to Mandan in a caboose and was met at the Morton county city by an ambulance, in which he was brought here. Conscious upon his arrival here, he asked that his family not be told of the accident until Sunday forenoon. A blood transfusion was performed Sunday forenoon since Howe had lost considerable blood during his trip to Mandan. Zap, in Mercer county, is 87 miles from Bismarck by rail. Howe's Mandan residence is at 307 Fourth street, northwest. 300 Chinese Killed As Vessel Explodes Shanghai, China, Dec. 14—()}— Three hundred Chinese drowned or burned to death Sunday when the small ‘steamer, Tahte, blew up in the Yangtse estuary. There were 600 passengers aboard when a blast rocked the litte ship and it burst into flames. Many of them jumped into the icy river water.