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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-03-03
US. NEUTRAL
IN HONDURAS
This Enjoined Upon Naval
Commanders There

Washington, March 3.-Strictcst
neutrality as between the riva
revolutionary movements in 'Hon-
duras has been enjoined upon Ameri.
can naval commanders in Hondurar
waters.
They have been directed to confine
themselves strictly to the protection
of American lives and interest and
not to permit their operation to as.
Isume the appearance of American in
terventiOn.
Forces of the defecto government
were seriously defeated yesterday by
the revolutionary column commanded
by General Ferrera. The fight oc-
Cured at the town of Tamara. Ii
miles west Of Tegucigalpa, the Hon
duran capital.
Presumably IN attack by Ferrea up.
on the capital is imminent. The wife
of the defacto president De Guiterras
has left the city for the seaport of
Amapala.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-03-03
NEW FIGHT ON
LAF0LLETTE'S
NAME IS MADE
Application Prepared to Ask
Supreme Court to Review
Lembke's Order
BROUGHT FOR STATE
Will Seek to Invoke the
experimenting Powers of
the State High Court
BROUGHT FOR STATE

An action was to be filed in the
supreme court this afternoon asking
it to order up for review the pcremp-
tory writ Of mandamus issued by
District Judge +. T. Lembkc in Man
dan Saturday in which Judge Lembke
directed Secretary Of State Thomas
Hall to place the name Of Robert NJ
LaFollettc on the presidential ri
mary ballot Of March IS.
Announcement OF intention to
bring the action was made by W. II
Stutsman, attorney for Senator Hi
ram Johnson, at noon, following q
series of conferences between inter
ested parties during the morning.
The action will be brought in the
name Of the state, Attorney General
George Shafer having given consent
that this course be taken. in order
that supreme court review Of the
law applying to the filing of candi-
dates in the presidential primary
might be had.
The application made to the ,su-
preme court late Saturday in which
Hiram Johnson, through attorneys
Stutsman and S. l.. Nuchols asked
for an original injunction preventing
LaFollette's name from going OH the
ballot, was temporarily withdrawn
from the supreme court, pending the
filing of a new action, Mr.. Stutsman
said.
Secretary of State Hall advised At
torney- General Shafer by letter he
was at liberty to take such action as
he saw fit for his office.
The application being prepared by
Mr.. Stutsman and William Langer
will seek to invoke a writ of certior-
ari and the experimenting powers
of the supreme court over district
judges, and will allege that Judge
Lembke's peremptory order was with
out foundation in law and without
due notice to opposing parties to ap-
pear. The application presented Sat-
urday to the supreme court by Jonn-
sons attorneys set out that Johnson's
interests would be adversely affected
by LaFollette's name remaining on
the ballot, saying it would split the
progressive vote
II. N. Tucker, Hiram Johnson's cam
paign manager, remained here direct
ing attorneys in the efforts to keep
LaFollette's name from the ballot.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-03-03
PIG CLUB is
SPONSORED BY
LEGION BODY

Hazelton, N. d., Mar. 3.-Unex-
pected interest is being developed in
the pig club being sponsored by the
local American Legion post. There
were many applicants over the mum
ber of members the Legion is tt
carry in the club, and some of these
will have to be eliminated by d
process Of drawing.
The Legion will purchase ten reg
istered bred sows, one for each club
member, and on or about September
first the division is to be made. The
member is to keep the sow and his
pick of one Of the litter, the balance
Of the litter being turned over to the
Legion. This gives the boy a chance
to get started in purebred hogs with
out the expenditure necessary to the
purchase of SOW. At the end of
the contest he has earned the sow
and has one fine gilt besides. In
another year his two pigs should
make him some good money.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-03-03
WILL PRESENT
HANNA CUP TO
F0RMAN MARIE
Gala Affair Planned There to
Celebrate Winning of
Championship

The Hanna sweepstakes cup, won
at the first state wide corn show
held here in January, will be formal
ly presented to Sargent county, the
winner, at Forman, the county seat,
on March IL, Secretary Bradley of
the Association Of Commerce an
nounced today.
Mr.. Hanna was invited to be pre-
sent. Commissioner of Agriculture
Kitchet and immigration Commits
sioner Joseph Devine will be present,
with representatives of the corn show
committee.
A letter from Forman advises Mr..
Bradley that gala day is planned
in Forman, and the affair is to be
advertised extensively throughout
the county. Free lunch at noon and
a bigger feed in the evening is plan
ned by business men of Forman.
The cup will remain in possession
of Sargent county for one year unless
the county wins the sweepstakes next
year in the corn show. Then it would
remain permanently there.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-03-03
BEGIN PROBE
OF BLAST IN
JERSEY PLANT
18 Dead, Two Missing, Is in
Hospitals After Ex-
plOsiOn

Nixon, N. j., Mar. 3.-An inquiry
into the cause of Saturdays cxplo-
sion and fire here which killed 1S
persons and destroyed 40 buildings
begins today. Fifteen persons are
still in hospitals and two are miss
ing.
Among those requested to appear
are Lewis Nixon, president of the
Nixon Nitratjon Works, and II. Nor
ris Shreve, president Of the Aminite
Company.
Major A. S. Casad, in command of
the Raritan Arsenal, said yesterday
that he believed the explosion was
due to conditions in the Aminite
plant rather than to any possible fail
ure to separate TINT at the arsenal
from the ammonium nitrat: whicl
was eventually sent into tanks to the
fertilizer factory Of the Aminite COM
pany.
Until the ruins cool, which may
take a number of days, no thorough
search for other victims will be
made. Those in charge Of the works
fear that within the debris are acids
which will explode in contact with
water or by impact.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-03-03
HEARINGS ON
SOLDIER PAY
BILLS BEGUN
New Proposals Made Empha.
sizing Feature of Paid.
Up Insurance

Washington, March 3.-The house
ways and means committee began
hearings today on soldier bonus leg
Sis lation.
The committee study will be based
on the Mckenzie bill similar to the
measure vetoed by President Harding
and several proposals to make the
principal form Of the bonus a paid
up life insurance policy.
The Mckenzie bill provides four
options; adjusted compensation based
on the number of days served by
veterans; vocational training aid;
farm and home aid; or adjusted pay
ment certificates involving the insur-
ance feature.
Rep. Bacaraht, Republican, New
Jersey, announced a plan yesterday
to substitute paid-up life insurance
policies maturing at 62 and limited
to enlisted men. Reps. Andrews,
Massachusetts,, and Fish, New York,
also have introduced bills making in
surance the chief feature of the
bonus. Mr.. Andrews also would ex-
clude all officers from benefits of the
bonus while Mr.. Fish would limit
benefits to men below the grade of
captain in the army and marine corps
and lieutenant in the navy as is pro-
vided in the Mckenzie bill.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-03-03
WILLIAMS GRAND
JURY SUMMONED

Williston, N. D., March 3.-A coun-
ty grand jury, declared to be the
first ever called in Williams county,
and one of the few ever convened
in North Dakota, was summoned to
meet here March IL, in an order
signed today by District Judge John
c Lowe of Minot, who is presiding
at the present term Of district court
here.
Coincident with the cali for a
grand jury, which, it is announced,
will investigate various complaints Of
alleged law violations in Williams
county, Judge Lowe also singed an
order calling a special term Of dis
trict court to convene on the same
day.If
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-03-03
URGES SURVEY
OF ALL POSTAL
PAY PROPOSALS
POStmaSter.General Suggests
Appointment of Special
Committee

Washington, Mar. 3.-Submission
to some general body such as a con-
gressional committee all proposals in
volving increases in salary and
changes in employment involving pay
increases for postal workers was re-
commended by Postmaster General
New to Chairman Grist Of the post
office committee of the house in a
letter made public today.
Mr.. New pointed out that there
arc more than 80 postals bills now
pending in Congress and it was pro-
bable a readjustmcnt for the whole
service along lines provided in the
bills would involve an increase an
nually of $l5O,OOO,0OO. In addition,
he said, there are number of bills
proposing a reduction Of postage
rates.
Certain classes of employees are not
provided for in the bills, Mr.. New
said, and any readjustment of salar-
les must necessarily include the
whole postal establishment.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-03-03
BURNS TO BE
SUMMONED BY
0ILPR0BERS
Head of Department of Inves.
tigatiOn to be Asked
About Codes Use
FIND CODE DIFFERED

Washington, March 3.-Cipher ex-
perts of the War Department who
have been translating code messages
found in the Mclean private wire file
will be called first tomorrow when
the senate oil committee resumes its
public hearings.
Senator Walsh, chief prosecutor in
the inquiry, said translations by the
government experts did differ ma
terially from the paraphrases fur
nlshed by the committee last week
and arrived at by use of an old code
OF the Department of Justice.
William j. Burns, chief of the De-
partment of Investigation, will be
questioned tomorrow as to how en-
ploycs of E. B. Mclean came into
possession of this code and whether
Mclean is on the roll of special
agents at a salary of 81 90 a month.
Burns also will be asked about the
Mary code message sent to one of
McLean's confidential men at Palm
Beach in which reference was made
to Burns and the Mclean inyesti-
CATION"
Miss Mary Dockstein, former pri-
vate secretary to Burns and now an
operative in the justice department,
who sent the Mary" telegram to
her husband, w. o. Dockstein, prob
ably will follow Burns on the stand.
Mclean may be called before the
committee before the end of the
week. He returned from Florida
early last month in response 10 q
summons but unlike other persons
under subpoena he has not been re-
quired to make daily appearance at
the hearings.
Ready For Suits
Preparations nearcd conclusion to-
day for the first step in the oil suits
to be instituted by special govern
ment counsel as result of the SEN
ate committees disclosures. Some
announcement is expected tomorrow
or Wednesday but meantime those
preparing the suits will make no
statement as to their precise intcn-
tions.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-03-03
SOLEN BANK
SHOWS MIXED
FARMING

Fl. Yates, N. D., Mar. 1.-The So
len State Bank has prepared sur
vey of what is being accomplished
in it's territory in the way of mixed
farming. The total farmers in their
territory number 1876 and they have
a total Of 1878 milch cows, or an
average Of 8 cows to the farmer.
Beef cattle total 2,453, not count
ing those belonging to the Stiles
Cattle Company.
There are $50 brood sows in this
territory or an average Of 6 sows to
the farmer.
The 1876 farmers have agreed to
plant total Of 3,57S acres of corn
this year. This means an average
acreage of 26 acres farm, which is
sufficient to provide ample corn for
the hogs, and ensilage and fodder
for the cattle.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-03-03
CHECK ARTIST
IS ARRESTED
Man Who Cashed $1OO Check
Here Held in West

Jose NJ. Dias, allies M. D. Gonzales,
who cashcd worthless check for
500 here about two months ago, may
halt his career as check artist for
few years by serving sentence
in federal prison. He is now under
arrest in Spokane.
Dias, here a couple Of months ago,
endorsed a check on the Imperial
Bank of Canada, Winnipeg, and
cashcd it at a local store. lie posed
as Legion man, and had done so
In Fargo. He was here but a few
days. Writing to the chief con-
stable at Winnipeg Chief Martineson
learned that the man has issued a
number of bad checks, and had been
arrested shortly after he left, here
at Spokane. He wrote to Spokane
and received back Il photograph and
other Identification marks.
Diaz, Spokane authorities said, was
Spaniard who had been ,cashing
bad checks in various parts of the
country. He was arrested in Spokane
on telegraphic warrant from Ogden,
but released by a judge because the
warrant was not certified. He was
rcarrestcd OH federal warrant
charging impersonation of an officer
in Salt Lake City. He also is wanted
at Ell Centre and Pasadena, Cali
fornia, Billings, Mont, and one or
two other places, the Spokane
authorities wrote.
The warrant issued here charging
him with forgery will be served,
but he probably will be tried on the
federal charge.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-03-03
AYERS FRANCE
DOES NOT ASK
GERMANS RUIN
Premier POincare, in Answer
to Macdonald, Disclaims
Militarist Spirit
FEARS ARE SET OUT
English Premier Gives t0
POincare Englishmen's
Fears of Her Action

London, March 3.-Premier Ram.
say MacDonald's second letter to M
Poincare, published today, set forth
some Of the apprehensions regarding
Frances policy held by numerous
Englishmen and these fears, the
French Premier in his reply endeav-
ore to allay. Premier MacDonalds let
ter says that the people of England
regard with anxiety what appears ia
be the determination of France ia
ruin Germany and dominate the con-
tinent without consideration Of our
reas enable interest and future conse-
quences to European settlement;
that they feel apprehensive of the
large material and aerial establish
ments maintained by France"
Mcdonald expressed hope that the
report of the expert committee on
reparations will draw France and En-
gland together.
IF cooperation can be reached
he says, 1T will be possible for US
to approach the United States not as
debtors disputing with one another
but as united Europe anxious by
mutual sacrifice and arrangement to
cure the ills from which our people
are now suffering.'
Premier Poincare characterizes as
mistaken those Englishmen who be-
lieve that France dreams of the po-
litical or economic annihilation' OF
Germany"
Disclaims Militarism ~.
Disclaiming a spirit Of militarisnl
on the part of France he asks:
Are there really Englishmen who
suppose that France would be capable
of making fratricidal preparations
against their country? Our military
and aerial establishments are exclu-
sively designed to defend US against
attempted German revenge ''v-'''-''.-'f.
1t is infinitely to be desired" he
agrees, that the questions of inter
allied debt and reparations should be
settled at the same time.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-03-03

W vo,VOS, vi I1.V pei SCHI.
All classes of property increased
in value from 1912 to 1922, except
live stock, which decreased from
$125, 900 to $98 1925, 900, or 21.s per
cent, and stocks of goods, vehicles
other than motor, furniture, and
clothing, which decreased from $780,
10000 to 1854 4,O66, 900, or 1927 per
cent. The estimated value of taxed
real property and improvements in
430, 200, or l4.5 per cent; exempt real
property Exclusive of Verendryc
National Monument and Sullys Hid
fnQm $l04 ,00l 900 to $3O0,533,0 200, or
1890 per cent; farm implements and
machinery from $49,87s,000 to $94,-
O95,O00, or 1877 per cent; manufac-
turing machinery, tools, and imple-
ments, from $5,244,00O to $9,47O,OOO,
or S0.6 per cent; and railroads ana
their equipment from $240, $4,000 to
$305 100000, or 22.6 percent. Private
ly owned transportation and trans
mission enterprises, other than rail
roads, increased in value from $17,-
O52,00O to $34,387,0O0, or l0l.7 per
cent. No comparison is possible for
the value of motor vehicles, which
was estimated in 1929 at $36 ,O36, 900,
because no separate estimate was
made in 1912.
In making these estimates the
Department followed in general the
methods employed in making the es-
Inmates for 1912, though it is believed
that in some RESPECTS the work in
1922 has been more thorough. 1t
should be borne in mind that the
increases in money value are to a
large extent due to the rise in prices
which have taken place in recent yea rs,
and SO far as that as the case they
do not represent corresponding in
creases in the quantity of wealth.
says department statement.
The estimated values Of gold and
silver coin and bullion, the vessels
of the Navy, and privately owned
waterworks will appear only in totals
for the United States.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-03-03
NEW ROCKFORD
BANKERS FREED

NV Rockford, N. H., Mar. 3.-Char-
ges of embezzlement were dismissed
against Charles MacLachlan, pres
ident. John F. Goss, and X. B. Van
Meter, vice-pfesident and A. o.
Ouren, cashier of the Farmers and
Merchants bank by Judge Collins
after preliminary hearing here last
Friday. The bank closed Aug. T.
1923.
The preliminary hearing of Charles
MacLachlan, John F. Goss and A. w.
johnson, charged with making. false
statements to the bank examiner, was
concluded late Saturday and the
charges were dismissed. The de-
PENDANTS were represented by Will
liam LANCER,
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-03-03
SUNSHINE is
ALONE NORMAL
But Temperature Is Far
Above Average in February

February was normal month on.
ly in one respect, the weather bur.
eat's monthly meteorological sun
mary issued today shows. The per
centage of possible sunshine was IS
percent-exactly normal.
The average daily temperature dur
ing the month was 142 degrees above
normal, and the accumulated excess
Of the temperature since January is
daily average of degrees.
The snowfall during the month was
2.6 inches, the deficiency Of precip-
tation as compared to normal being
"a. There is deficiency in precipi-
tation since January of "a.
j The highest temperature during
February was So degrees on Feb. IL
and the lowest was II below on Feb.
81. The absolute maximum for the
month in SO years is "a degrees above
zero and the absolute minimum Is 4a
below.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-03-03
FAMOUS INDIAN
AUTHOR IN N. ID.

Ft. Yates, N. d., Mar. 3.-Dr. Chas.
Eastman, the famous Sioux author
and lecturer, who has recently been
appointed to the position Of special
inspector formerly held by the late
Major Mclaughlin, visited Fort Yates
and the Standing Rock reservation
in his official capacity for the Iur-
pose of making a general survey of
conditions on this reservation.
1t is understood that DR.. Eastman
is making such survey Of all Sioux
reservations.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-03-03

Washington, March 3.-(Bv the A.
P.)-Members of the Daugherty in
vestigation committee devoted their
time today to working out a plan
of procedure for the inquiry into the
attOrney-gencral's S administration. The
investigation, which was authorized
Saturday by the Senate after two
days of intensely bitter discussion,
is expected to get under way without
delay and in the opinion of some
will vie with the oil inquiry in its
ramifications.
The members had before them to-
day the request of Attorney General
Daugherty's pers sonal counsel, Paul
Rowland of Cleveland and former
Senator George f. Chamberlain of
Oregon for the right to examine the
witnesses, have process served for
witness and documents and present
independent evidence and for ample
notice of charges to be met.
Senator Brookhart of Iowa, tho
Republican insurgent, who was elect
ed CHAIRMAN OF the committee by the
Senate feels that the investigation
should not be held as though it were
trial but along the lines to brine
out all facts, taking evidence and
running down charges as they de
velop. He and Senator Wheeler,
Democrat, Montana, author of the
investigation resolution, already have
a large amount of. information and
correspondence with which to start
the investigation. s..
Mr.. Daugherty, the chairman as
serts, will be given "a fair hearing
regardless of what course it takes.
Besides Senator Brookhart and
Wheeler the committee is composed
of Senator Moses, New Hampshire,
and Jones, Washington, Republicans,
and Ashurst Arizona Democrat.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-03-03
MRS. MASER DIES

Dickinson, N. D., Mar. 3.-Death,
suddenly and with little warning,
Monday evening called MRS. Fred
Maser, wife of Judge Fred Maser of
the county court, at the family home
on Marguerite Boulevard. AS the
news went forth pail Of gloom settl-
ed over the city at the passing of
one who for 90 years had been a re-
sidcnt, loved anA respected by all
who were privileged to know her.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-03-03

THIRD MEMBER OF FAMILY DIES
NSEC0ND ACCIDENT WITH SAME
AUTO; AUTO PLUNCES OVER BRIDGE

Almost two years to tho day
from the time when the same
light automobile was responsible
for the death of Leonard Weller
and young son in crash near
their farm six miles east Of He
brOn the machine proved tho
agency of fate to dim the life of
a third member Of the family,
Chris Weller, "a, another son.
Weller left Hebron about 1880
o'clock last night and reached a
point a mile and a half east Of
the city when the machine leaped
over the end Of bridge and
turned turtle into a creek bed.
Weller was pinned beneath the
car.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-03-03

Passing motorists who saw the
car disappear suddenly attempted
to rAse the machine from him
but were unable to do so. They
heard him struggling. They raced
to Hebron for additional help but
by the time they returned Weller
was dead.
1t was the same machine by
Leonard Weller, father Of last
nights victim, which he was
driving two years ago when it
skidded from the road, rolled
down an embankment and killed
him and son. A coroner's jury
today returned a verdict of acci-
dental death in last nights acci-
dent.