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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-02

the senate within so days after the
opening of the session.
Committees Delay Action
Mrs. Minnie d. Craig called atten-
tion of the house to the fact that
more than GO bills are being held in
committee longer than the seven days
permitted by the rules and demanded
to know how the house expected to
"wade through" the business already
accumulated.
A small dispute arose over the
federal relations committees report
recommending postponment of the
senate resolution condemning con-
gressmen for increasing their pay.
1t was passed in the senate when
Lieutenant Governor Walter Madb
dock cast the deciding ballot.
Twichcll said the resolution
presented queer spectacle in view
of the fact that the state senate
and certain house members are trying
to add $4,000 to the states expendi-
lures by voting themselves "a raise
of SO u day which would be wholly
illegal. The committees report was
approved despite the opposing votes
of some Nonpartisans
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-02

that they have mitted a crime"
said Stretch. During the last few
sessions have been with many mem
bers of the house and l want to say
if they vote as they drink this bill
would pass. 1t would get Is per cent
of tho vote"
Commenting on statements that
prohibition protects women and chill
dren, Stretch said he knows women
that would rather live with man
who drinks than with a ohibitionist.
The law never has been and never
will be enforced, he said, because the
people do not want it.
+. j. Lyon, Mclean county, said
drunken drivers violate the personal
liberty of everyone else using the
road and that passage of the bill
would put the common people to the
expense of making another campaign
against the liquor traffic.
George Aljets, Wells county, said
he is fke father of eight>children and
the master of the family" but that
he intended to vote for the bill be-
cause he believes it to be sound in
principle. Most present difficulties,
he charged, arise from the fact that
there are "tO0 many people interested
in other peoples business. 1T
wouldn't make any difference to him,
he said, if there were saloon on
every corner since he would expect
to have enough control over his chill
dren to combat its influence.
Trouble Is in the Home
1T isn't a matter Of law" said Al
jets. "The trouble is in the home.
If you could buy gallon of whiskey
or barrel of beer at every grocery
it couldn't be worse than it is now
If liquor were as free as the water
in the Missouri river there would be
small demand for it but when you
attempt to restrict it everyone wants
it."
A. Van Berkom, Divide county,
charged that IS per cent of the people
have ''booze" in their homes and
charged that prohibition has taught
IS per cent OF the women and chill
dren of the state how to make 'booze.'
A man can purchase for 81 enough
malt to make 10 gallons of beer, he
said, and charged that children eight
to 10 years old are being reared in
homes where they not only help to
make beer but serve it to visitors.
A crowded gallery listened to the
debate and numerous speakers: were
cheered. THE senate left it's work to
60 over to the house chamber to
listen.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-02
Court Term Will
Open February I

The regular February term Of Bur-
leigh county district court. scheduled
to have opened here last Monday, has
been postponed TO Monday. February
Z. according to an order received By
Clerk Of Court Chas< Fisher from
Judge Fred Jansonius, who IL nov
conducting court at Fessendeu.
The calendar will be called at 10
.. M, Nenday and attorneys inter.
ested. should plan TO be present,
Court eases viii Be heard throughout
the week and on Tuesday, February
~. tia jurors summoned Ter pesaihlG
service IN the Arnold Thiele murder
trial viii r9b6ft. The murder eRst
will probably require several days.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-02
Baptists to Meet
in Grand Forks

The Baptist pastors and general
workers of North Dakota will hold
their mid-winter annual institute in
Grand Forks, February 1913. All
the sessions will be held in the First
Baptist church of which Rev. H. M
Wyrick is pastor. DR.. Fred +. Stock
ton Of Fargo, the general supcrintend-
ent for the state. will have general
oversight of the institute and will
preside at all sessions.
The pastors institute will be pre-
cedcd by the mid year meeting of the
board Of managers Of the North Da-
kOta Baptist convention. j. N. Jen.
sen Of Fargo is the president of the
board and Rev. c. w. Finwall of Far
go, secretary.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-02
Stock Transactions
of Power Companies
Being Aired Today

Hearing was begun today by the
state railroad board in the case OF
William Davidson ana - other Will
liston residents against the Montana
Dakota Power company, Northern
Utilities company and Eastern Mon
tana Light and Power company.
The petitioners allcgc that certain
stock transactions between the three
companies. the directorate Of which
is intcrlocking, were fraudulent and
against the interests Of stockholders
Of the Montana Dakota Power COM
pany.
Attorneys for the utilities took up
the morning session with arguments
that the railroad board has been ask
cd to assume judicial function
which it has no right to do. Attor-
neys for the petitioners will answer
this contention this afternoon.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-02
Senate Committee
Takes No Action on I
Frank L. Sraith Case

Washington, Feb. 2.-IR)-For
nearly two hours today the senate
elections committee discussed the
case Of Frank L. Smith, scnator-des-
ignatc and senator elect from Illinois,
but came to no conclusion.
Eve met. VIC discussed the matter
and VIC adjourned until tomorrow
just as though we had held no meet
ing" said Chairman Ernst.
Other committeeman disclosed that
the consensus was that no action be
taken until Smith has been given OPP
portunity to present testimony.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-02
n. P. OFFICIAL
TESTIFIES AT
RATE HEARING
Class Freight Rates Need
General Upward Classified
ton, He Contends

Omaha, Neb., Feb. 2-R-Class
freight rates in Minnesota and North
Dakota are in need Of a general up
ward Redistribution, J. G. Morrison,
general freight agent of the North
ern Pacific railroad at St. Paul, tes-
titled at the Interstate Commerce
Commission rate investigation here
Tuesday.
Mr.. Morrison's testimony supported
the contention of the carriers that
in North Dakota and Minnesota ter
ritory there is distortion and dis
elimination in rates. He testified
that If the commission accepts the
western trunk line roads proposal
for new rate structure with rela-
tive percentages of charges, the
state should also revise existing rates
to do away with discrimination.
During consideration of South Da.
kota freight rates, H. NJ. Eicholtz
Chicago, assistant general manager
of the Northwestern railroad, tes'
titled traffic there is so light thu,
operation of any railroad is hardly
warranted. Class freight rates be.
tween Omaha and South Dakots
points on the Northwestern and thu
Milwaukee railroads will be in
creased by proposals of western
trunk lines carriers, it was brought
| out earlier.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-02
TO
PUT QUESTION
UPTO PEOPLE
(Continuej from paee onel

(COntlnued from O4go OoOJ
alleged that "the average man con-
ccives the law rather as q sword Of
repression than as a shield of pro-
lection and averred that only ia
natics, liquor law enforcement Off
GERS and bootlcggers, want il"
Talk Penned BY Brewers, Says TFub-
shaw
r. r. Trubshaw, Barnes county,
charged that he was "rising to the
defense of the American home" Rabc,
he said, is friend of his
and q "damn good fellow to boot"
but his charges that IS per cent Of
the people were opposed to the law
were bunk" He cited the votes cast
.s.f0r C. p. Stone. wet candidate for
= senator ut the last election, as evil
dcnce of the popular weakness o. the
demand for liquor.
r. Bubel, Oliver county, said he
doesn't defend drinking hut does not
believe law should tell man what
to eat and drink, while J. M. Thomp-
son, Burieigh county, cited statistics
to support the contention that pro-
hibition has been successful. Scores
of institutions which formerly treated
business for lack Of business, he said,
and pointed to the immense increase
Of bank deposits as evidence Of the
fact that it has brought prosperity to
the country. Prohibition, he said.
hever caused crime and charged
that ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Of the law is
responsible for the crimes for which
prohibition is blamed.
r. O. Signalness, Mckenzie county,
said only distillers, brewers, gunner,
'Sloan sharks and the proprietors Of
"drink cure" institutions regard the
prohibition law as . failure and
linked wbiskey and cigarettes as
joint evils.
Stretch Supports Hill
G. F. Stretch, .Bottineau county,
who, with Rahe, sponsored the bill,
denied that the resolution had been
inspired by brewers or anyone else
and said It was put in on his own
initiative. Europe has repealed her
prohibition acts. he said, and Ameri-
~ wouldn't have It now except as a
war measure. He denied that it was
an issue in the senate campaign,
pointing out that the real issue was
: between Hanna and Nye. 1.-THE jails
really criminal. aud who a. aot tel
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-02
Films Worth Half
a Million Dollars
Destroyed BY Fire

Fort Lee, N. j., Feb. 2.-tP)-
a half million dollars were destroy
ed today when fire RACED u build
ing used by, the Universal Film CON-
pany for development and printing
An explosion in one of the, vaults
in which the films were stored shot
flames 500 feet in the air. One large
vault and two smaller ones were
destroyed, as were two barns and
five automobiles standing nearby.
Five persons employed in the plant
received minor burns.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-02
Famous Pedestrian
Z is Nearly Destitute

New York, Feb. 2.-(R) Edward
payson Weston, famous pedestrian,
who is So years old, is seeking JOB
as q messenger to save himself and
his adopted daughter from starva-
ton, he says.
Nearly destitute. Weston was
east side flat with his adopted
daughter.
Walking never did pay much, he
remarked as be discussed the feats
of George Young, Gertrude Edcrle
and other athletes whose work has
brought them finapcial return.
/ Weston's last walk-from Buffalo
to New York, distance Of 500 miles
which took 50 daysdidn't earn him
enough for subway fare, he says.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-02
MONTANA SENATE OPPOSES
| PROPOSED RAILROAD MERGER

Helena, Mont, Feb. 2.-[R-Four
officials Of the Great Northern and
Northern Pacific railroads were here
today to explain the proposed Merger
of the two roads to heads of state
departments.
The meeting today follows intro
duction of resolution before the
state senate here yesterday petition
ing congress to oppose approval of
the merger pending its submission
to the people of Montana.
w. p. Kenney. vice president and
director of traffic for the Great
Northern, said the conferences plan
ned in the 10 states affected were
intended to show that the project
conformed to all regulations speci-
fled by the transportation act.
While the conference will be held
with Governor Erickson, the state
railroad commission and the state
legislative committees on railroads,
the session is open to the public.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-02
Bills Allowed By
City Commission

Hughes Electric company, serv-
ice ....... 1896
American Railway Express
company, express ........ 81
Filtration Plant, pay roll =. 10000
WatcrwOrks Department, pay
roll .:......... ...... $3.50
Pittsburgh Meter company,
supplies ................ 4.O7
G. l.. Spe:-, refund sidewalk
assessment ....... $50. 24.4O
WatcrwOrks Department, wa
ter and hydrant rental. 49,. $500
Square Deal Store, groceries 1000
L. 5. Fredcricks, poor relief SOC
HempcFs Grocery, supplies for
detention hospital ........ 3O.67
0ridgeman- Russell company,
supplies for detention hos
VlIal l1.JI
National Theatre Supply COM
pany, supplies for auditorium 4.66
Geo. Klingensmith, painting at
auditorium ............... 100
HughesElectric company, light
ing S46.3S
Marcowitz Grocery, supplies 1900
St. Alexius Hospital. care of
Lucas company. clothing for
American Railway Express pres.
company, express .......... 2.86
Fire Department, services at
AiLeS ........ 1O.UO
Grethcr Fire Equipment COM
pany, nozzles ............. 37.5l
Mrs. Anna Brych, laundry -. 2.85
Bismarck Grocery company,
paper towels .............. 4.50
st. Alexius Hospital, care of
poor ................ 2O.70
City Auditorium, pay roll -. 1915
Vcsperman Poster Adv. Serv-
ice, posting ..... $40
Sam s. Shubcrt Amusement
Co., booking fee ......... 14.7O
Jack Fettig, janitor city audi
forum .................... 5000
Bismarck Grocery company,
supplies for auditorium. 80. sos
League of N. y. Municipalities,
dues for 1927 .............. 5000
Otto Dirlam, key for city scales rs
Street Department, pay roll =. 1O1.3O
Mike Wilds, carctakcr, skating
RINK r.. 5000
John Burden, carctaker city
dump .................. 1880
Garrison Second Hand Store,
repairs ,................. 1.5O
Lewis Motor company, repair
ing truck 1890. -. 139. 63
Otto Dirlam, motor brushes :. 2.75
500 Line, kilograms .......... .46
Evening star., 1927-09-02
NEGRO IS JAILED
IN AK ASSAULT
Denies Attack on Bladensburg
storekeeper, Who Is in Hospital,
and Accuses Another.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BLADENSBURG, Md. September
2.-Ollie Commodore, colored, 25
years old, standing more than feet
and weighing around 1870 pounds, has
been arrested in connection with the
attack on Wallace Raybold. 7S-year-
old storekeeper, here late Wednesday
night or early Thursday morning.
Raybold was found in his store after
having been struck with an ak and
robbed.
Commodore denies his guilt, but
says he saw another man go into the
store. This man, he said, visited him
before going into the store and short
ly after midnight came back to his
house, which is across the street from
the Jail, and told him that he had got
Raybolds money. He then left, said
Commodore. saying he was going to
blow out.
Commodore was arrested by Prince
Georges County Policeman Claude
| Reese and George Wiseman, jailer
here, upon a tip of Private Detective
investigation.
The condition of Raybold at Cas-
| ualty Hospital, where he was taken
| following the attack, was said this
| morning to he serious. He was still
| unable 10 give coherent account of
| what had happened. it was impos-
sble TO definitely determins the seri.
! BUSINESS of his condition.
Evening star., 1927-09-02
BOY, 8, INJURED
BY AUTO, MAY DIE
Childs Skull Fractured When Hit
After Darting in Path of
Car in Enacostia.

Ebert Gibson. 9-year-od son of Mr..
and Mrs. Yeager Gibson, 2O3 Mime
sofa avenue northeast, was knocked
down and probably fatally injured this
morning by an automobile driven by
David Alsop, 80 Kentucky avenue
southeast who picked up the uncon-
scious child and took him to Casualty
Hospital Alsop was detained tenn.
porarily by Motor Ccyle Policeman W.
Fl. Humphries of No. IL precinct, then
released on his own recognizance.
Preliminary examination indicated
a fracture at the base of the skull
and possible internal injuries and ply
sicians, while conceding the child a
chance. expressed the fear that he
might not live for more than "a hours.
The driver stated that he was pro-
ceeding along the Anacostia road at
a speed Of Is miles an hour when the
little boy darted from a group of chill
dren directly in his path without paus.
ing to heed his horn. Mr.. Alsop said
that he swerved his car as much as
possible, striking the running child a
glancing blow. The accident hap
pened in front of III Anacostia road
Ebert has four brothers and sisters
His mother was prostrated when told
of the accident
Evening star., 1927-09-02
TALIAFERR0 LAUDS
FRATERNITY SPIRIT
Commissioner, in Address to Theta
Chi Convention, Commends
College Organizations.

The advantages of college fraterni-
ties were stressed by District Commits
sloner Sidney +. Taliaferro i'm an ad-
dress of welcome at the first business
session of the seventy-first national
convention of Theta Chi. national col
lege fraternity, at the Mayflower Ho-
tel this morning. Mr.. Taliaferro told
what his own organization had come
to mean to MIN.
The morning and early afternoon
were consumed by reports from COM
m1tteeS and from members of the
grand chapter. Plans for an endow-
ment campaign, which is the principal
business of the convention. were to
be discussed this afternoon and to-
morrow morning. The endowment 10
for the purpose of providing scholar.
ships for members and to help finance
the building of chapter houses. Con-
tributions to the fund will take the
form of life subscriptions to the Theta
Chi Magazine.
The convention was formally opened
last night with smoker. followed by
q buffet supper. Maxwell f. Nc.
Dowell presided and introduced vari-
Gus members to the assembly
Tomorrow afternoon the delegation
will go on a sightseeing tour of Wash
ington and Arlington. and they will
law wreath on the Tomb of the I'm
known Soldier in the cemetery. Capt.
Francis NJ. Van Natter, the first
Theta Chi man in France during the
World War, will conduct the exercises.
Speakers at the anniversary ban.
quet. to be held tomorrow night. In.
clude Frank Fl. Schrenk, national
president of Theta Chi. as toastmas-
ter; Albert C.. Dieffenbach, John j.
Tigert. commissioner of educatio
Capt. Van Natter. national vice presi-
dent; Writ r. Marks, national chap.
lain. and Judge William r. Bayes,
chairman of the National Interfrater.
nifty Conference.
Evening star., 1927-09-02
WOULD SAVE OIL SUPPLY.
Secretary Work Urges Legislation
to Stop Waste.

A proposal for legislation looking
toward conservation of the oil supply
OF the Nation made by Secretary Work
in speech before the American Bar
Association at Buffalo found favor
yesterday with Secretary Hoover.
DIR. Work, who is chairman of the
Federal Oil Conservation Board, Sug-
gested a committee of nine represent
ing the oil industry. bar association
and the Government to draw up bill
designed to stop waste in oil produc-
ton.
The Secretary of Commerce. who is
a member of the conservation board,
declared the whole problem was one of
conservation and no one wanted to see
regulation of the industry in the nor
NAL sense that regulation implies.
"Of course" MIR. Hoover said. there
has been no agreement as to the con
stitutional basis of Federal legislation
affecting petroleum. That seems to be
the big question involved at the start.
Mr.. Hoover added that the industry
was studying the problem itself and
that the oil companies seemed to lean
toward State legislation.
THE broad general principles in
volved seem to favor State action" he
said. declaring, however, that he could
add nothing to what Secretary Work
had said regarding the constitutional
basis and method involved in possible
action by the Federal Government.
Evening star., 1927-09-02
HOOVER TO LEAVE
FOR FLOOD ZONE
Secretary viii Make Inspec.
tion to Obtain Revised Data
for President.

Secretary Hoover will leave Wash
ington late tonight for Memphis,
Tenn, where he will begin an ex-
tensive post-fiood inspection tour of
the lower Mississippi Valley.
The survey will be in the interest
of completing the rehabilitation and
reconstruction programs outlined for
the food area, part of which already
is in effect.
Fieser Plans Trip.
Accompanying the Commerce Sec
retary will be Vice Chairman James
l.. Fieser of the Red Cross; George
Alkerson, assistant to Mr.. Hoover.
and Capt. l.. A. Pick, Army engi-
neer, assigned as technical adviser
to the Secretary.
Upon arrival in Memphis Sunday
morning the party will hold con-
ference with chairmen of county re-
lief organizations in northeastern
Arkansas and northern Mississippi
That afternoon the officials will go
to Greenville. Miss, which on previ-
GUS visits was under water. and
thence on Monday by beat to Ar
kansas City for a view of one of
the worst of the flood sections.
Hoover Auto Tour.
Tuesday will be spent at Nicksburg.
Wednesday in New Orleans and
Thursday Mr.. Hoover will visit by
automobile all of the stricken region
in the land of the Acadians, princf-
pally through st. Landry and st.
Martin parishes. Another automo-
bile trip will he taken Friday to
Bunkee and other places in the
Bayou des Glaises section. Saturday
a tour Of flooded towns in northern
Louisiana and southern Arkansas
will be made. concluding with con-
ferenre with relief officials in Little
Rock.
Mr. Hoover expects TO be back in
Washington by September 13. He
will bring back with him compre-
hensive. revised data regarding the
extent of food damages and further
relief and rehabilitation needs of the
people in the disaster zone. His
findings will be incorporated in
report to President Coolidge, who will
have returned TO Washington before
Hoovers return.
Evening star., 1927-09-02
Liquor Dropped
On Street and
PossessOr Runs

Police reports may indicate that
respect for the dry law is woefully
weak in Washington, but fear of it
is powerfully strong, as was proved
at Eleventh and f. streets shortly
before noon today.
A man whose identity could not
be learned dropped sack contain
ing six quarts of liquor on the
street and fed. Nobody appeared
TO have heard the crash of bottles.
but the scent of whisky soon at
tracted a crowd.
There was considerable spectlla.
ton as to the brand of spirits, and
finally colored youth examined
the package. He found two bottles
had been broken. In some man.
ner one of the remaining four dis.
appeared.
Finally A fireman arrived on the
scene. The bottles were near his
automobile.
"I'll take these around 10 the no.
lice station" he said, picking up
the thu > quarts and driving off.
He disappeared in the general direc-
ton of precinct No. !.
Evening star., 1927-09-02
EATON STUDIES ABROAD
ON FELLOWSHIP AWARD
Former Bureau of Standards Of
ficial Working on Flood Preven-
tion in Europe.

Herbert n. Eaton. former chief of
the aeronautic instrument section of
the Bureau of Standards and con-
nected with the bureau for 10 years
until his resignation a year ago. is
now studying flood prevention methods
in Europe as the holder of travel
ing fellowship. awarded by the
American Society of Mechanical
Engineers and founded by John r.
Freeman, hydraulic engineer of
Providence, r. L., and past president
of the >ciety.
Mr.. Eaton was notified of his
award on July l and left Immediately
for Europe. where he will make
special study of hydraulics, although
the award was not made public until
yesterday. Blake R. Van Leer. pro-
fessor of mechanical engineering at
the University of California. was
awarded similar travelling fellow
ship.
Although Mr.. Eaton resigned his
full-time connection with the Bureau
of Standards a year ago, bureau Off
cials requested him to act in an
advisory capacity and he is serving
as a consultant to the bureau during
his tour of Europe.
Evening star., 1927-09-02
CONSENT JUDGMENTS
SECURED AGAINST FIRMS
$625 Award Allowed Woman for
Death of Man in Street
Car Accident.

The Washington Railway & Elec-
trio Co. today consented to judgment
for $625 against it in favor of Mar
guerite T. Costello. as Administrative
of Charles c. Costello, who was struck
and killed by car of the company
April 2S, 1926, at Fourteenth street
and Ohio avenue. Attorney Francis
p. Callahan appeared for the plaintiff.
A consent judgment for 1915 was
granted today by jury in Circuit
Division | against the District of Co.
lumbia and the Potomac Electric
Power Co. in favor of Kate d. Lotus,
who was injured by stepping onto a
depressed manhole in the sidewalk of
Fifth street between N and O streets
June 81, 1926. Attorneys Mark Stear-
man and Henry Stearman represented
the plaintiff.
The District of Columbia and the
Potomac Electric Power Co. today
consented to n verdict against them
in Circuit Division | in favor of r. f.
We'll for $3.50 damages. The plaintiff
was injured by stepping into hole
or excavation left unguared on Four
teenth street near street in October,
1925. and injured her right foot. She
was represented by Attorneys Harlan
Wood and ROLAND T.. Mutt.