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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-25
SUPREME COURT
HEARS BISMARCK
ARMORY CASE

Arguments in the case Of Co. A,
North Dakota National Guard, against
Edmund A. Hughes, Bismarck, a case
which comes before the court the
third time for argument, were heard
by the Supreme Court yesterday.
Reversed on it's first trip to the su-
preme court, the case was tried again
in district court, appealed to the
supreme court, the decision affirm
ed and then q rehearing granted up
on specific questions.
The jury had granted verdict OF
$4,000, by five-sixths vote, to Co. A,
for alleged conversion Of personal
property in the former company
srmory in Bismarck, which was sold.
The sale, it was alleged by plain
tiffs, was without authority.
The court asked for reargument
on the question Of whether the jury
award was excessive, IL the. verdict
was in error as to value can 1t be
corrected in the supreme court, and
IL it is held it can, what AMOUNT Of
the award should be remitted.
In the first trial Of the case. the
verdict was for $4,000, this being
rendered Feb. z, 1922. The second
verdict was in December, 1923.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-25
CHARGES BIG
FIR MS SEEK
TO EVADE LAW
Declares American Business
Forms Combinations i'm
Foreign Countries
GOODS SOLD CHEAPER
Investigation BY U. S. Trade
Commission Demanded BY
Senate Group

Washington, March 25.-Sixteen
members of the Senate have joined
in a request that the Federal Trade
Commission supply them with any
information they may have regard
ing the nature Of combinations being
formed abroad by American business,
commercial and financial firms and
corporations in alleged violation Of
the antitrust laws"
In a letter to the commission, made
public today, the Senators cited al
legations that American business
interests are establishing themselves
in many countries in combination with
similar business interests in those
Countries They ask for any in
formation the commission has of this
and particularly as showing "wheth-
er in any cases American goods are
sold cheaper to foreign customers,
as Il means of maintaining the prices
OF such goods manufactured in the
United States, than to American con-
sinners"
THE request was addressed to the
Federal Trade Commission as the
agency charged with the administra-
tion of the Webb-Pomerene act,
which the letter said "is designed,
as we understand it, to help Amer
lean business corporations and to
find market for their products
abroad"
The letter was made public in a
statement by Senator Ladd Of North
Dakota, who announced that in ad-
dition to himself it was signed by
Senators Fletcher, Frazier, Howell ,
Harreld. Kendrick, King, LaFollette,
Mayfield, MacMasters, Mcclellan, Nc
Nary, Norris, Sheppard, shipstead
and Wheeler"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-25
CULT MEMBERS
UNDER ARREST
Death of Man Starts Probe
of New Religious Sect

Oroville, Cal, March 25.-District
Attorney William f. Rothe announc-
ed today he will ask the county grand
jury fully to investigate the alleg-
ed branding, as part Of religious
ceremony of Charles Schalow, who
died In local hospital several days
ago. presumably from Il mental DIS
order"
Rothe said he expected to issue a
call for the grand jury today and
that no information will be filed.
The belief unofficially was expressed,
however, that one or more indict-
ments in all likelihood would be
forthcoming.
According to authorities here, Sch
allow was burned about the body
with hot rod during so-called re-
ligious ceremony in a private home
in q small community few miles
south of here. Rothe said tonight
the only charge which could be
brought against any person who
branded Schalow would be that OF
mayhem. He called attention to the
fact that if the burns inflicted on
Schalow had brought about an infec-
tion which caused him to die, more
serious charge could be brought.
Officials said that information in
their possession was to the effect
that two women said to be relatives
of Schalow participated in the brand
ing ceremonies and that Schalow was
willing participant in the affair.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-25
Relief Measures
Well Developed
In Tornado Area

With other organizations and
groups which responded to the early
call for help in the stricken tornado
region rapidly evacuating and leav-
ing the American Red Cross in
charge, emergency relief measures
are now we'll developed and being
handled with dispatch. according to
communication just received by
the local chapter of the Red Cross
from St. Louis headquarters.
/. Operating from Carbondale, Ill.,,
Henry NJ. Baker, National Director
of Disaster Relief, after completing
personal survey, has established
centers of relief throughout the de-
vastated area, with depots for mo-
bilization and distribution of medi-
cal. clothing. and food supplies at
Carbondale.
The heavy demands for nurses
have been promptly met by Chapter
Nursing Committees throughout the
affected states, but calls for addi-
tional nurses still exist. Contribu-
tions of food and clothing, in order
to prevent waste, should be sent only
upon request, the communication ad-
vises; but prompt remittance Of fin
ancial aid is enjoined.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-25

FACTS FOR CITIZENS
Efficient Management of City Affairs

'Father l wish you would talk to the children.
l sent Jimmie to buy you l5 cent package OF to-
bacco and he brings home 35 cent package of
cigarettes instead. Annie was told to get sugar and
brings home candy"
Two answers are possible, which one should
good father make?
First: - Now, children that is just fine. You
know better than your mother and do just what
this household needs"
Or, Second :-"See here children. Your mother
and are running this home, and you do just you
are told. Timme take back those cigarettes and
get what mother told you to get Annie you do like
wise. Your parents are not merely rubber stamps
No fuss; get busy"
Every person or parent with the least judgment
would make the second answer. Every real execu-
tive of private business or a city government it
a similar condition were presented where a minor
official sought to run the establishment would do
likewise. Subordinate officials should not be per-
mtted to build roads, make purchases change con-
tracts specifications or direct public policies with
out first getting the written approval OF those
vested with the responsibility and authority by the
public. These should not be merely rubber
stamps" Those charged with the management of
public affairs should really manage and direct, and
not just merely approve. To do otherwise opens
the door to waste, ineffciency and extravaganza.
Power means responsibility in fact as we'll as in
name. Men who allow themselves to be placed in
responsible public office, and shirk the real assump
ton of it's duties perpetrate. fraud a trusting
public.
Leading and respectable businessmen" have
been the smoke-screen for public waste and extra
vagance in many a city other than Bismarck.
American citizens want real executives, real bosses
on the job who will give real attention to the
publics business
Do you want merely rubber stamp, real
business methods in the city hall?
MAKE YOUR CHOICE, APRIL 9TH, ELEC-
TION DAY.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-25
SPRING FARM
WORK T00PEN
IN TEN DAYS
Increased Acreage in Durum
Wheat Predicted in State
This Year

Grand Forks, Mar. 25.-Although
few farmers have been seeding in
the south central portion of North
Dakota, it will be about ten days be-
fore the greater part of the states
farm land will be in suitable condi-
tion for working, according to H
H. ~Herbrandson, statistician of the
United States Bureau Of Agricultur-
al Economics.
Practically all areas in the state
have sufficient moisture for soil re-
quirements and in the northern part
there is an excess, much of which
must disappear before the soil can
be worked satisfactorily and it is in
this northern section that the great
er part of the spring plowing must
be done, Mr.. Herbrandson stated.
According to intentions expressed
by North Dakota farmers, there will
be material increase in the durum
wheat acreage of the state this year
and reduction of about 20 percent
in the flax acreage compared with
last year. A decrease in the spring
wheat acreage is expected.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-25
INSTITUTIONS
MUST BUY n. D.
MILL PRODUCT
Bids on Flour BY Private
Firms Barred BY Board
of Administration

State institutions in North Dakota
will purchase flour from the state
mill and elevator at Grand Forks
at rs cents per barrel under the pre-
vailing market price, as result OF
decision made by the state board
of administration yesterday after
noon. Private mills will not be per-
mitted to bid ON flour contracts for
state institutions.
An attempt to amend the resolu-
tion to include cooperative flour
mills on the same basis as the state
mill by J. A. Kitchen, commissioner
of agriculture and labor, was un-
successful.
Governor Sorlie appeared before
the board and urged that it pass the
resolution and o. L. Spencer, mama
ger of the mill, here for the grain
dealers convention, also urged that
the board adopt such a resolution as
an aid to the states flour mill.
Commissioner Kitchen, opposing
the proposal, declared that the state
flour mill at Grand Forks was estab-
lished On an experimental basis and
should compete with the private
mills in the state which pay taxes
and that the latter institutions
should not compete with the private
bid on flour for the various institu-
tions, since private mills pay taxes,
employ North Dakotans and most of
them are owned within the state. He
said that the practice Of the board of
administration had been to favor the
state flour mill at Grand Forks
where possible, but not to the extent
of shutting out competition entirely.
r. B: MURPHY MURPHY G ehaiIman na,;ns +h.t OF the the
cost of flour to the state institutions
under the resolution.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-25
DEATHTHREATS
GIVEN GUARDS
Lives of Men Threatened For
Recent Drive on Rum
Runners

Washington, March 25.-Coast
guardsmen, by their increased vigil
ance against rum running, are incur
ring an unpopularity among the
townsfolk at points along the At
lantic Coast that in number of
cases has been carried to the point
of death threat. according to a
report reaching coast guard head
quarters here.
The most recent of these disquiet-
ing notices was received by Captain
Warner of the Montauk Point New
York station. Under the word "Please
watch you step, it's your turn next" "
was a rudely sketched skull and
lcrossbones. Especially in communi-
ties along New York and New Jer-
sey coast the coast guardsmen, ac-
cording to officials here, are being
snubbed in stores and subjected to
various other forms of social boy
cott and live in perpetual fear of
being mobbed.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-25
STATE STRONGLY
OPPOSES BAIL
FOR SHEPHERD

Chicago, Mar. 25.-Completion of
arguments was in prospect today in
the hearing for the petition for re-
lease on bail Of William d. Shep-
herd indicted on charges of killing
with typhoid germs his foster son,
William Nelson McClintock, whose
81 ,OOO, 900 fortune was willed to him.
Charles Marshall, assistant states
attorney, who began the prosecution.
argument, said the indictment and
the testimony of witnesses at the
hearing was "more than great pre-
sumption of guilt" and sufficient to
warrant denial of bail.
Attorney w. S. Stewart for Shep-
herd intimated that an appeal might
be taken to the Illinois supreme
court in the event bail was denied.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-25
FIVE N. d. HIGH
SCHOOLS ARE
ACCREDITED

Grand Forks, N. D., March 25.-
Five North Dakota high schools were
included among the lat added to
the accredited list Of the North
Central Association Of Colleges and
Secondary Schools at a meeting Of
the association last week in Chicago,
according to Prof. C. C. Schmidt, of
the state university high school, who
returned Monday from the meeting.
Announcement Of the five schools IS
to be made later.
Over 1900 schools out of twenty
states are included in the member
ship Of the association. Prof. Schmidt
states. Prof. Schmidt represented
the North Dakota committee on Sec
ondary schools at the convention.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-25
ELLINGSON GIRL
SEES ENORMITY
OF HER CRIME

San Francisco, Cal, Mar. 25.-
Dorothy Ellingson, 16-year-old stem
ographer, entered court here today
with Il renewed determination to
curb the youthful impetuosity which
has been responsible for fainting
spells during the first two days OF
her trial for the killing of her mo-
ther.
observers say the trial is bringing
Miss Ellingson to full realization Of
the enormity Of the offense to which
she has confessed. She listened to
other fathers and mothers, prospec-
tive jurors, shudder when they dis
qualified themselves and say they
could not sit in judgment fairly on
"a girl who killed her mother"
AS court opened today nine men
and two women were in the jury box
temporarily passed as jurors. tn"
girl expressed a desire to be tried
w eluerly men anu lao Women.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-25
FATTY FORCED
TOPOSTPONE
HIS MARRIAGE

Los Angeles, March 25.-Roscoe
Arbuckle and his bride to be, Miss
Doris Deane, may make another
start toward the marriage altar
about April 8 but they are not
tempting fate by announcing that
date as definite.
The portly former film comedian
yesterday thought he had every
thing arranged for wedding at Miss
Deane's suburban home in San Mar
ino last night, but before his friends
could bet the rice and old shoes to-
gether he announced his attorney
had advised him that the Partisan
divorce of his wife, Minta Durfee.
would not become effective until
April. s, SO it has been decided to
wait,
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-25
CHILDREN SLAIN
AS SACRIFICES
TOGODDESS KALI

London. March 25.-Dispatchcs
from Calcutta report an amazing
case of the sacrifice of children to
the goddess Kali at Mandla near ia
balupur in the central provinces.
The young son of a former native
government official, named Mulchand
tell sick and the family, believing
the boy possessed of devil, decided
human sacrifice necessary to his re-
covery and offered up his sister as
this sacrifice. When no Improvement
in the boys condition was forthcom-
ing, they deprived him of food and
bound HIM, naked, near holy place
where he died from exposure.
Mulchandv and two sons have. been
sentenced to death for the crime and
daughterinlaw to Imprisonment
for life
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-25
RED CROSS OF
THIS COUNTY
AIDS RELIEF
County Chapter AD-
prOpriates $500 TO Aid
Stricken in Tornado Zone

Directors Of the Burleigh County
Red Cross chapter in session yes
terday afternoon appropriated $500
from the funds of the organization
for tornado relief. The money was
sent today to the st. Louis office
which is directing the relief work.
Owing to the generous response
from Bismarck citizens at the last
roll call, a reserve has been created
for such emergencies SO it was not
necessary to put on drive or to
issue an appeal for funds.
If there is greater need later a
public appeal can be made but it is
believed that $500 constitutes large
enough quota for this county.
The annual meeting of the Bur-
leigh county chapter will be held
Tue esday, March 81, at the Associa-
tion of Commerce rooms at p. m.
Reports will be made by Mrs. +. L..
Conklin, chairman; j. l.. Bell, sec
retary and treasurer and Miss Mary
Cashel, executive secretary of the
chapter. 1t is hoped that a repre-
sentative gathering Of members will
attend.
Under the new policy in vogue
now, the social service bureau is con-
Quoted in conjunction with the Red
Cross. 1t acts as clearing house
for all charitable and relief work.
The work of the office with its new
duties and obligations to service
men and their families has grown
and few realize the vast number of
cases which are acted upon every
month.
Mrs. Conklin has issued a special
request that as many members as
possible attend this meeting which
will be brief, merely an accounting
to the members of the work done
during the past year and election
Of new officers.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-25
ANDREWS TAKES
TREASURY POST
IN WASHINGTON

Washington. March 25.-Lincoln &.
Andrews of New York was expected
to arrive in Washington today to as
sumo Immediately the post of Assist
ant Secretary of the Treasury, from
which Eliot Wadsworth of Boston has
just resigned.
The new treasury appointee, who
was named for the office by Presi-
dent Coolidge yesterday, was born
in Minnesota and served in France
during the World War as a Provost
Marshal General and later from 1921
to 1928, as chief executive of the
New York Transit Commission.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-25
II n. D. FAIR
DATES ARESET
North Dakota State Fair To
Be Held at Grand Forks
July 1918

Grand Forks, N. D., March 25.-
Dates for II state and regional fairs
to be held in North Dakota during
the coming summer have been reg
istered at. the office of the state
fair secretary, E. R. Montgomery, at
Grand Forks.
The North Dakota state fair will
be held here July 13 to IL, and
plans are progressing to make the
exposition q success, despite the
legislatures refusal to grant it
funds.
Five fairs for which dates have
not yet been set are: Burke county
fair at Bowbells; Dunn county fair
at Killdeer; Mercer county fair at
Beulah; Richland county fair at
Wahpeton, and the Sargent county
fair at Forman. The Barnes County
Fair association at Valley City will
not hold an exposition this year.
Fair dates announced are:
\ Bottineau county, Bottineau, June
1919.
Cavalier county, Langdon, July
14-17.
Dickey county, Glendale. Sept.
1919.
. Griggs county, cooperstown, June
23-26.
Interstate fair, Fargo. July 20-25.
Missouri Slope Agricultural asso-
Citation, Mandan, July IA.
Mountrail county, Stanley, July
14-17.
North Dakota state fair, Grand
Forks, July 1918.
Northwest fair. Minot, July I'll.
Pembina county, Hamilton. July
21-23.
Pierce County Agricultural asso-
citation fair, Rugby. June 24-28.
Ramsey county, Devils Lake, July
I'll.
Stark county, Dickinson, July IA.
Steele county, Finley, June 1920.
Stutsman county. Jamestown, July
IA.
Towner county, Cando. July IA.
Wells county, Fsssenden, July q
u.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-25
MINOT FIRE
CAUSES ABOUT
$4,000 LOSS

Minot, N. D., March 25.-Damage
which may total $4,000 was caused
by fire in the Ehr block here, which
drove 80 occupants outdoors in night
attire, and which threatened many
adjacent buildings before quenched
by the fire department which brought
nearly all its equipment into action.
About $4,000 of the loss is covered
by insurance. The origin of the
fire is undetermined.
Estimated losses include: Dakota
west Press, $1,000; Taxi line, two
autos slightly damaged; Peter Ehr,
proprietor Of building. $4,000; North
ern States Power company, $500:
and Cy Goldberg Furniture store,
$1,000.
Considerable damage was done by
water.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-25
WAR VESSELS
OF PACIFIC
SHOW TEETH
Fighting Strength of Navy
Displayed in Maneuvers
OFF San Diego
BATTLE LINE FORMED
Ships Hurf Steel Shells at
Enemy" and Repulse
Torpedo Attack
BATTLE LINE FORMED

Naval Base, San Pedro, CAL, Mar.
25.-The Commence firing" tenet
from the signal bridge Of the super
dreadnaught California was the her
aid today for the six most noisy
minutes in the naval history of the
Pacific Ocean. The naval backbone
of the American nation stood out to-
day in battle line 70 miles off the
base here for the major gunnery
event of the year, force practice of
the battle fleet.
engagement of 6 minutes on behalf
of mightier fleet in gun power
than history has ever reported to
have engaged in actual naval battle.
Each salvo from the battle line of
the eleven dreadnaughts represented
blasting belt of some l25 tons of
steel projectiles.
The great battle line staggered
through the calm Pacific waters
amid protective smoke screens at q
speed of 18 knots, or more than 20la
miles an hour. A squadron of the
HOTHcIS u tIe sea, sleek LfllN grey
destroyers, launched schedules of
torpedoes with dummy heads at the
battle line, Stimulating the enemy
and causing the dreadnaughts to veer
this way and that to avoid the one
weapon that the dreadnaught fears
, most.
The Commence fire" tenet was
the signal for loosening the full
gunnery power of the battle divi-
sions, the l6, II and 10 inch rifles
from those massive turrets, many of
which testify to the uherring aim
of the American gun pointer, by
the prize letter "E."
The ton projectiles of the mighty
16. inch guns are felt 20 miles with
a force that no armor can with
stand, and the turrets can hurl them
one every five seconds.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-25
ARGUMENTS END
TODAY IN OIL
LEASE HEARING

Cheyenne. Wyo.. Mar. 25.-Today
was scheduled to be the closing day
in the Teapot Dome lease annul-
ment suit with George P. Hoover,
Washington attorney, and Martin w.
Littleton, both Of counsel for Harry
F. Sinclair's Mammoth Oil Company,
and Owen j. Roberts of government
counsel, taking the floor for approx
innate one and one-half hours of ar
gument each.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-25
Towner county, Cando. July IA.
Wells county, Fsssenden, July q
FIGHTING FLOWERS

Washington, March 26.-When a
rose and piece Of mignonette are
placed in a vase together, the flow
ers, within half an hour, start q per-
fume ''gas attack" on each other.
Each loses its scent, but when separ-
atsd again, the scent il revived.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-25
WEATHER CONDITIONS
FOR WOMEN ONLY

quiring railroads to operate trains
with special Compartments for wom-
en- only Is being sought by women's
organizations of Great Britain. They
claim it is necessary to protect wo-
men while travelling alooa.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-25
BIG ~. S. BLIMP
WILL MAKE TRIP
TO PORTO RIGA.

Washington, Mar. 25.-The air
ship Los Angeles will make trip to
Porto Rica or Cuba after a second
flight to Bermuda, now planned for
April. 12 or Is,
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-25
W00dlock Named
On Interstate
Commerce Body

Washington, Mar. 25.-Thomas F..
Woodlock of New York was given a
recess appointment today by Pres
ident Coolidge as member Of the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-25
Weather Report
For "a hours ending at noon.

For "a hours ending at noon.
Temperature at a. m. ......... AZ
Highest yesterday ...............5 90
Lowest yesterday ...............27 ~
Lowest last night .........,..... Az
Precipitation
Highest wind velocity ...........24
WEATHER FORECAST
For Bismarck and vicinity: I'm
settled with probably rain tonight
or Thursday cooler Thursday.
For North Dakota: Unsettled with
probably rain tonight or Thursday;
cooler Thursday.
WEATHER CONDITIONS
A we'll defined low pressure area
extends from the northern Rocky
Mountain region to the northern
Plains States and a high pressure
area prevails on the Oregon coast.
Temperatures have dropped in the
Great Lakes region and over the ex-
treme South and extreme Northwest.
Elsewhere warm, pleasant weather
prevails. Minimum temperatures
were considerably above freezing
over the Plains States and Rocky
Mountain region. Unsettled weather,
with scattered precipitation, prevails
throughout the northern states.
ORRIS w. ROBERTS,
Official in ehargs
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-25
RADIO ON SHOE

London, March 25.-A London girl
has new radio set that ought to
prove extremely popular. It is a
small crystal receiver on her shoe,
which looks like q large shoe buckle.