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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-01-21
BRIQUETlT'ING
PLANT WILL BE
AT LEHIGH, N. D,
Factory to Be Built There
Will Be First of It's Kind
in the United States

License to sell $500 shares of COM
mon stock at par value Of $lOO per
share has been granted by the state
securities commission to the Lehigh
Briquetting company of Fargo.
Money from the stock sale will be
used to erect briquetting plant at
Lehigh, N. ID. The plant will use u
system known as the Lurgi Process
in making the briquettes.
The process was developed by an
engineering firm in Frankfort and
hackers of the new company say it
can be used to make North Dakota
Ignite coal into briqucttes in AZ:
economical way. The technical prob
lem to be solved, the securities COM
mission was told. was that Of carbon
izing the coal sufficiently to make
it into briqucttcs. The briqucttcs are
held together by pitch binder which
is extracted from the coal during the
briauetting process. The carbonizer
which will be installed in the Lehigh
plant is said to pre-dry the coal, ex-
tract the Ia: and oil by-products and
carbonize the coal on satisfactory
commercial basis.
System Is Practical
A system has been worked out
whereby the coal will be handled in
volume and at low cost. 1t is said
TO be in practical use on large
scale in Germany. A plant sim liar to
that to be built at Lchigh was erected
for the Greek government last spring
and another will be erected in Greece
during this year. The commission
was told that a similar plant also will
be constructed in Canada this year
but that the Lchieh plant will be the
first of its kind in the United States.
If the proposed venture is success
full it is expected to be the beginning
Of what may become a great industry.
providing work for many persons and
utilizing the mineral wealth of this
and neighboring states which has as
yet only been scratched.
1t is claimed that the briQuettes
made by the new process will offer
sootless. smokeless and odorless
fuel superior to anything now on the
reasonable price will aid in the devcl-
opment of other industries in the
Northwest. Until the last few years
most of the coal used in North Da-
kota was imported from the head of
restricted to a comparatively small
number of persons. Now. however,
most Of the coal used in the state is
mined at home because of the rela-
lively high price Of imported coal.
May Develop Clsy Deposits
Dreams Of the hackers of the new
company include the development Of
North Dakota's clay deposits by
means Of the new fuel. Carbonizing
OF the Ignite coal will produce large
Quantities OF tar oils. Chemical in
dustries to refine and process these
oils could be established to make
numerous commercial products which
are now for the most part imported
from Europe.
The Ignite char also should be
used, it is said, in blast furnaces to
reduce iron ore.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-01-21
|. G. G.. Denial Of Right For
Railroads to Make Water
Competitive Rates Has
Caused TranScOntinental
Lines to Suffer, N. P. Gen.
eral Counsel Says

Chicago, Jan. 2l.-tP)-Opcning O.
the Panama Canal and the coinciden
change in the federal government
long standing rail rate regulation
policy were termed today by ID. +
ern Pacific railway, as outstanding
factors which have restricted middle
west manufacturers trade territory
Mr.. Lyons addressed the mid-yeal
meeting of the North Central Divi
sion of the Chamber of Commerce oi
the United States.
Transcontinental railroads have
suffered losses likewise because OF
denial of the Interstate Commerce
Commission to carriers of the right
to make water competitive rates. nee
essary TO open markets Of the Pa
cific coast to the middlcwcst manu-
facturers, he declared.
Applications Denied
Mr.. Lyons reviewed the applicat ion
Of the long and short haul clause
of the Interstate commerce act, show
ing that prior to the world war lower
rates were permitted for the long
haul than for the short haul. The war
period saw erasure OF the whole prin.
ciple, and after the war the carriers
applications to restore it were denied
An inflexible rule as shown by the
Interstate Commerce Commission de.
cisions was adopted which now denies
rail carriers the right to meet water
competition on the Pacific coast
This, the speaker said. deprives mid.
west manufacturers of Pacific coast
markets, which they formerly en-.
joyed.
i"It is not the opening Of the
Panama Canal alone that wrought
the change Mr.. Lyons said. III
was the fact that the opening of thu
Panama Canal coincided practically
with Il change in the government.
policy in the matter of the regula
tion of rail rates, as evidenced botf
by legislation and by the commits
sion's decision.
Railroads Ruled Against
''Starting with the commission!
decision 1903 in the Spokane rat'
case, there has been an increasin,
tendency on the part of the .ttibuna
in decisions since rendered to den!
to transcontinental rail carriers tn
right to make the water competitiv,
rates necessary to open the market
Of the Pacific coast to the manu- fac
turers Of the middlcwest.
The Panama Canal was opened il
1914. Except during the war period
the volume of intercoastal traffic
moving through it has since steadily
increased; the right of. the rail car
riers to make rates to attract thi.
traffic has been denied, and thi.
curious and anomalous result ha.
accordingly been brought about, that
their ability to cope with condition.
arising out Of the opening Of tho
canal has diminished in proportion Il:
the necessity for coping with then
has increased"
Mr.. Lyons said the increases il
rail freight rates since the war were
relatively slight in comparison will
increases in the price of commodi
ties. The speaker did not undertake
TO lay down formula for relief.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-01-21
FRAZIER ACTS
DELAY WAR
WITH MEXICO
Resolution Opposes Use By
President Of Armed Forces
During Recess Period

Washington, Jan. 21.-LR9-Under a
resolution. introduced today by Sena-
tor Frazier, Republican. North Dako-
Ia, the senate would 20 on record as
opposing the use by the president Of
armed forces against Mexico during q
recess Of congress.
I. A resolution was referred to the
foreign relations committee. 1t sets
forth in the preamble that the consti-
tuition specifically limits the power to
declare war to the congress-; and that
armed intervention is "in effect un-
declared war;" and adds:
"Resolved, that it is the sense Of
the senate that the president Of the
United States should not exercise the
powers Of the commander in chief of
the army and navy Of the United
States to send any Of the armed forces
Of the nation into Mexico, or TO mobil-
ize troops on the Mexican border, or
I'd assemble fightine units Of the navy
III waters adjacent to Mexico, while
the congress Of the United States IL
Rot in session, but that Il and when
h(e contemplated such action. he Shall
i,S,mediately summon the congress In
sAecial session and communicate to II
TN reasons Tor such propossd MILL
taAy action"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-01-21
RAIL MERGER
IS ADVANCING
STEP BY STEP
Agreement Reached For EX
change Of Stock on Equal
Share-fOr-sharc Basis

New York, Jan. Merger
plans of the Great Northern and
Northern Pacific railroads have ad
vanccd another step with agreement
for an exchange Of stock on an equal
sharc-for-sharc basis.
The agreement was made yesterday
ut a conference attended by directors
officials, and counsel Of the two rail
roads.
In statement announcing that
encouraging progress had been made
in the negotiations, Ralph Budd, presi-
dent of the Great Northern, anc
Charles Donnelly, president of The
Northern Pacific, said the exact
method to be adopted for putting the
plans into execution could not be re-
vealed at this time. Unification OF
the two lines first must have the
sanction Of the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
Mr.. Donnelly left for the west after
the conference, and it is assumed
that there will be further discuss ions
probably in st. Paul.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-01-21
VOTE COMES
! AFTER 2DAYS
OF ARGUMENT
Illinois SenatOr-designate Re-
fused Oath of Office
Pending Inquiry
VOTE LATE THURSDAY
Elections Committee Meets
Tomorrow to Make Plans
For Public Hearing

Washington, Jan. 2l.-LPLDenied
a seat in the senate to which he holds
Q certificate of appointment, Frank
L. Smith of Illinois must await an
other investigation into the financ-
ing of Shis primary campaign last
year and a vote on the findings
before learning whether he will sit
in the present congress.
The vote by which the senator
designate was refused the oath Of
office pending the inquiry by the
elections committee was 48 to 33.
1t was reached late yesterday after
nearly two days of debate.
The elections committee has been
called to meet tomorrow to make ar
rangements for public hearing for
Smith. He will be given every OPP
portunity, according to its members,
to add any details he desires to the
testimony he gave last summer before
the Reed campaign funds committee
regarding contributions he received
from Samuel insult and other public
utilities officials in Illinois.
How They Voted
The vote denying the former chair
man Of the Illinois commerce COM
mission a seat at this time found
some of the Republican old guard,
who had previously been counted on
to support him, joining the opposi-
tion, which comprised Is Republicans,
mostly insurgents, SO Democrats, and
the one Farmer-Labor member, Sena-
tor ShipsteAd of Minnesota.
Four Democrats, Smith and Blease
Of South Carolina. Overman, North
Carolina, and Steck, Iowa, joined the
20 Republicans voting to seat the
senator-designate pending further in
quiry into his fitness.
The vote was on the Ovarman
resolution proposing to seat Smith
without prejudice to any action that
might be brought against him later.
1: was defeated, 48 to 33, and by a
:'.:i:ar vote the senate adopted a
resolution by Reed Of Missouri,
denying Smith the oath and referring
his credentials for inquiry.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-01-21
more DETAILS
SOUGHT ABOUT
DEATH IN IOWA.
C0r0ner's Jury Claims Man
Met Violent Death-No
Poison Evidence Found

Marshalltown, Iowa, Jan. 21.-LP)
Emerging from a tangle of love
letters. the mystery of Charles Ell
rods death here u week ago, today
promised more details.
The coroner's jury having delivered
a verdict that the Lewellen, Nebraska,
man died by violence, special investi-
gators for the state and county were
intent on discovering by what means
the victim met death.
The exact condition of the hotel
room where the body was found ly-
ing on bloody pillow has recla i'm ed
the attention of experts who earlier
in their Investigations were busy
pursuing threatening letters Elrod
had received from rival in love who
signed himself Keith Clayton"
Elrod's l9-year-old sweetheart, We
da Bellefeuille, testified she wrote
the letters herself to arouse the
youths jealousy.
No Suicide :iotive
Failure to find any definite motive
for suicide. continued affirmation
and denial by opposing experts that
Elrod could have died from poisoning,
uncertainty rs to what part the let
ters played in the death scene and in
tive of robbery. will delay the calling
of grand jury Investigation at least
two weeks, County Attorney Pell said
last night.
Physicians at a post mortem ex-
animation found no marks Of violence
on Elrod's body, but concluded that,
as blood on the pillow was from Ell
rods tongue and a certain poison
contracts the jaws and causes biting
Of the tongue, the victim must have
died from poison. University Of Iowa
chemists, however, said Elrod's stom-
ach gave no indication that it ever
had contained poison.
The youths father, W. C. Elrod.
said he was convinced Charles met
an unnatural death.
Finances Involved
search for possible motive for
murder got under way last night,
based upon contradictory statements
as to Elrod's financial condition.
Marshalltown and Waterloo friends
said he collected more than 1900
within q few weeks Of his death. Miss
Bellefeuille said Elrod was. worried
over . heavy indebtedness. Only s.
was found on his body at the hotel.
Miss Bellefeuille was closely guard
ed at her home today.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-01-21
Weather Report

Weather conditions at North Da-
kota points for the ~ hours ending
ut & a. m. todav
Temperature at a. m. ........ .2l
Highest yesterday ..............., =
Lowest last night ............. -26
Precipitation to q. m. .... o
Highest wind velocity .....~.... s
WEATHER FORECAST
For Bismarck and vicinity: Fair
tonight and Saturday. Not so cold.
For North Dakota: Fair tonight
and Saturday. Not so cold.
WEATHER CONDITIONS
The high pressure area is centered
over the Dakotas and eastern Mon
tana this morning and cold weather
prevails from the middle and upper
Mississippi Valley westward to the
Pacific coast. The lowest tempera-
ture on the Weather Map this morn
ing was SO degrees below zero at
Havre, Mont. Somewhat lower pres
sure prevails over the western Came
dian provinces and over the south
west. Precipitation occurred at most
places from the southern Plains States
northwestward to Idaho and Nevada.
ORRIS w. ROBERTS,
Official n charge
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-01-21
Eva Tanguay, As, to
Marry Pianist, 25

New York. Jan. 21--(R)-Eva Tang
uay; dynamic vaudeville star who is
48 years old, is to marry her pianist
who lis Is years old, says today's
New York American.
The prospective bridegroom. Allan
Parade, a Hungarian, joined Miss
physicians had predicted total blind
ness and nm inyalid's chair for her.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-01-21

Recommending that the flour label
bill be not passed, the state affairs
committee, headed by L. L. Twichell,
majority loor leader, will present q
majority report against the bill in
the house of the state legislature
this afternoon, while minority will
advocate its passage.
If passed the measure will require
millers to label flour showing the
kinds of wheat contained in it, the
percentage Of each kind Of wheat and
the protein content Of the flour.
Twichell opposes the bill on the
ground that I'VE have had enough of
that sort of thing in this state" He
believes the principle involved is
wrong and that it would work hard
ship on millers generally
The Governors Claim
The governor contends that the
bill would give North Dakota millers
an advantage and would permit North
Dakota mills to operate on a full
time basis. In. the conversation yes
terday he pertinently asked Twichell
just what milling interests the North
Dakota legislators should protect.
Following the committees action
Yesterday, the executive called
Twichell and league members OF the
state affairs committee to his office
and an argument ensued. The discus
sion took place in the antc-room ia
the executive chambers and visitors
were treated to the spectacle of see
ing the governor and the floor leader
of the opposing house faction in a
warm discussion while league men,
bers Of the state affairs committee
looked on and occasionally put in q
remark. 1t was all perfectly friendly
and without fancor but at the close
of the conversation the position of
both Twichell and the governor was
perfectly plain.
Twichell had planned to submit his
committees report yesterday but the
conference lasted so long that he was
unable to prepare it.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-01-21
KANSAS VOTES
TO REPEAL BAN
ON CIGARETTES
House Passes Bill-Similar
Action in Senate Forecast
Tax Is Provided

Topeka. Kans.. Jan. 2l.-lR-Kan.
sas. after trying for 20 years tt
enforce a law prohibiting the sale
Of cigarettes, nears surrender or
this issue. Its house of repre-.
senatives yesterday voted, SO to 35
for repeal of the measure. With a
victory in the house, supporters OF
the bill forecast similar action By
the senate, which voted to annul the
act two years ago by a. 3 to ! ma.
jority.
Governor Paulen said he would
sign the measure il the senate pass:
ed it. The proposed measure provide.
for two cent tax on each package
while the dealers would have to OBJ.
tain a state license. It would becoml
effective July l.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-01-21
Man Drives Auto
Into Fast Train,
Escapes Unhurt

Milwaukee, Wis. Jan. .,l.-
,AP)-Frank Wamsie, AZ, drove
an automobile through railroad
crossing gates here last night.
crashed into speeding lOcOmO-
live, rolled around in the tangled
debris FOR half a block and came
eut almost unscathed.
Police ordered him held on
charge Of driving while intOx..
Gated.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-01-21
PANAMA CANAL OPENING CONFIDENT
WITH CHANGE IN RAIL RATE POLICY
REDUCES MIDWEST TRADE TERRITORY
Today's Doings in
Nations Capital
Congress meets at noon.

Congress meets at noon.
Senate gets back to routine
labors after denying Smith
seat.
House faces first deficiency
bill after completing action on
army hill.
Senate agriculture committee
continues consideration Of farm
relief.
House rules committee again
debates whether Boulder Canyon
Dam bill should be given prefer
entail status.
Nicaraguan question comes up
again before senate foreign rela
tions committee.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-01-21
26 BELOW ZERO
AT BISMARCK
THIS MORNING
City Has Coolest Weather So
Far This Winter-'Not
& So Cold Predicted

Bismarck and vicinity experienced
its coldest weather of the winter to
date early today when at 8 o'clock
this morning the government ther-
mometer registered 26 below zero.
The previous low mark for this win
ter was 18 below on December IA,
during the pre- Christmas cold snap.
The temperature moderated slowly
after 3 q. M. however, and at q. M,
the mercury stood at 81 below zero.
The weather continued to warm up
slowly until 10 a. M, and from then
on the mercury rose more rapidly,
standing at Is below at IL o'clock.
Havre, Mont, was the coldest point
among all those in the northwest re-
porting to the local weather bureau
this morning, registering 36 below
zero. Williston, with 30 below, was
the coldest North Dakota point.
while other low readings included
Winnipeg, 32 below: Sheridan: Wyo-
% below; Miles City and Helena,
"a below.
g Below 1t Mln0t
Minot this morning reported %
below, Devils Lake 26 below, Man
dan 10 below, Jamestown 16 below,
Grand Forks Is below, Fargo IA be-
low, St. Cloud 10 below, Msnkato five
below, Crockston Is below, Duluth
10 below, Hibbing IA below and
Rochester five below.
The high pressure area which has
been centered over North Dakota,
causing the, extreme cold, il gradual
h moving to the southeast today, ac-
c3yding to those in charge Of the
local weather bureau, and the pres
sure is lower to the north and west.
This Indicates that the cold spell
has about reached its height here
Ind warner weather is In prospect.
jfhc prediction today Is "fair to-
night and Saturday. not 80 cold"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-01-21
THURSDAY WAS LIGHT
DAY FOR THE SENATE

An amenOment prOVtulng tnat
workmen's compensation insurance
may be obtained from any insurance
company authorized to do business in
the state as we'll as from the state
workmen's compensation bureau was
introduced into the state senate
Thursday by Senator c. w. Carey
Richland county.
The measure requires that insur-
ance companies must be held respon.
sible and in the same degree and to
like benefits as provided by the state
department. Workmen's compensa-
tion is still mandatory, but the re-
qairementl that, state insurance be
carried is eliminated in the bill. It
was referred to the coWmittee on
insurance. sailastl l. 80. siiits5
The temperance committee recon-
mended passage, Of senate bill s.
repeating the law against sale of
snuff in North Dakota.
Another postponement occurred in
the expected battle over the capital
punishment bill when on motion OF
Senator ]. f. Stevens, Ramsey coun-
ty, it was made q special order of
business for p. m. next Tuesday.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-01-21
GRAND OPERA
FAUST TO BE
BROADCAST
Famous Third Act, as Sung
by Chicago Opera Com
: panX, to BE Heard

Chicago, Jan. el--GP The Chicago
Civic Opera company's single prcsen-
tation this season Of Gounod's
Faust" will be broadcast in part
tonight BY one of the largest hook
ups of radio stations ever known.
1t is tile famous third act of the
opera that is to be radiOcast-the
garden scene" the invocation" the
'dammi ancor," and the "eternelle.' .
Singing the Marguerite role will be
Edith Mason, whose husband, Gi0rigO
Polacco, will direct. Richard BOnelii,
principal baritone Of the company,
will be Valentine, brother Of Mar
guerite. Charles Hackett, the Amer
lean tenor, will sing the Faust role,
with Vani-MarcouX cast-as Mephis-
topheles.
Maria Caessens and Irene Pavloska
are other principals.
Is MicrOphones to BE Used
The combined skill of the best
radio technicians and program ex-
pcrts has been engaged for several
weeks in the effort TO make this first
nation wide radiocasting of Il lead
ing opera company successful.
Fifteen micrOphones will be used
in picking up the notes of the opera,
the atmosphere" of the auditorium
audience, and in sending it over many
miles of telephone wires to widely
separated stations which in turn will
put it on the air and into hundreds
Of thousands of homes in continental
America.
Each microphone is connected di-
rectly with mixing panel" oper-
ated by f. +. GrOssman, of the WIZ
staff. 1t is the mixing panel" that
is the key to the successful radio
casting Of the opera. The operator
of the panel may cut off or on at
will any one or all of the Is mikes"
thus balancing g-the tone structure be-
fore it starts on its long journey to
radio receivers throughout the coun-
try.
Directing the linking" will be
Gerald Chalfield, director of pro-
grams for the National Broadcasting
company, who win be seated in the
audience and in communication with
the mixing panel operator by tel
ephone.
From the mixing panel, the music
will be carried to station KYW, Chi
cago, and thence by telephone cir
cults to New vc-k, where it will be
~clayed and broadcast by WIZ,
WEAF, and the other stations in
their chAins, including WCCO, Min
ncanDlis-St. Paul.
The hour has becn fixed at $50
p. M. central standard time.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-01-21

THOUSANDS ATTEND FORMAL OPENING
OF ST. ALEXIUS HOSPITAL s NURSES
hOmE-ONE OF FINEST EVER BUILT
Today's Program
in Legislature

House and senate meet at 2.
House to continue with supply
bills.
Test Of strength scheduled on
flour label bill.
Senate to consider week day
church school bill.