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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-23
GOVERNOR SIGNS
BILL PROVIDING
FOR new CAPITOL
Measure Becomes Law When
Executive Affixes Signature
at 1885 p. M.

The 100000 capitol building bill
was enacted into law at 1885 p. m.
today.
Governor George F.. Shafer signed
the measure at that time, and it be-
came effective Immediately by vir-
tue Of being an emergency bill.
Speaker G. v. Freeman of the
house, and Lieutenant Governor John
Carr of the senate we're present at
the signing and were photographed
with the governor a. he affixed his
signature.
Governor Shafer used a pen pro-
vided for the occasion by the Bis
marck Association Of Commerce. The
pen will be placed in the cornerstone
OF the new structure.
Signing Of the bill brings to an end
efforts to provide legislation for the
construction Of a building to replace
the old statehouse destroyed by fire
last December %. A commission will
be appointed by the governor to
carry out the provisions of the bill.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-23
MORE WICKERSHAM
DATA TO SENATORS
Information on Some Of 16
States Omitted Last Week
Is Forwarded

Washington, Feb. 23.-(R-Trans-
fer to the senate by the Wickersham
commission Of prohibition data on
some of the Is states omitted from
the material already sent to the cap
itol was assured Monday by members
ct the commission.
While it was said at commission
headquarters that data was lacking
on conditions in six states or 50, the
remaining reports available r to be
forwarded to the senators. Thirty
two states were covered in the infor-
nation sent last week.
The new material deals with some
states where anti-prohibition senu-
ment Is apparent-such as New York
and Illinois.
Omission Of some of the available
data from the original consignment
was said at the commission to have
occurred through an inadvertence.
One commissioner, who wished his
name withheld. said there was some
dissatisfaction among the members
that any testimony had been submit
TED to the senate without the approx
al of the full commission. He assert
ed the selection OF what was sent and
what retained had been made entire
~ by Chairman Wickersham.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-23
MEMBERS
Of FACTION FAIL
TO ADJUST VIEWS
litter Controversy RACES Over
Congressional Redistricting'
Question
Ac1I0NAL COALITION SEEN
lone |. v. AS May Join Nom
partisans to Create East
West Districts

Prospect that the course of future
krislation may be affected by q split
the I. v. A. ranks Of the reappor-
onnent question loomed Monday as
Ne house and senate hurried to clear
1eir calendars of bills initiated In
he respective branches Of the legis-
Iture.
Under the constitution bills intro
iced in one branch must be cleared
that branch by the end Of the
ftieth day Of the session. Under
primal procedure the end OF the
ftieth day will come at 2 p. M,
kednesday, although the house may
4 its clock back to technically COM
' with the requirements.
The difficulty over the reappor-
onment measure occurred Sunday
the I. v. A. senate caucus. At the
nish the caucus had failed to agree
hd a bitter fight was in prospect.
A majority Of the I. v. A. senators
lvored a north-south division OF the
late or, as q compromise, no division
all. A minority commended steadily
kr an east-west division and refused
bulge from that position.
Would Embarrass Shafer
The majority contended that It
build embarrass Governor George F.
nafer II the east-west division were
ade and that he would have to veto
he measure in order to maintain
Armony in the organization. The
inority,s contention was that the
byernor would have to solve his own
Eoblems as they occurred. .
Reports indicate that the argument
Continued ON page nine)
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-23
APPROVE MEASURE
ON MUSCLE SHOALS
Sudden Action by Senate Unex.
pectsd; Another Vote to Be
Taken

Washington, Feb. 23.-R-Te
senate Monday approved the Muscle
Shoals conference report but then re-
considered its action-in order that
the report could Be debated.
Senator Bingham, Republican Con-
necticut, asked for reconsideration Of
tho vote BY which the report was
adopted.
The report was taken up again un-
der unanimous consent agreement
providing for . vote In one hour.
Approval by the senate was sudden.
Not Z word Of debate preceded the
action.
What stand the president viii take
on the agreement Is problematical. Il
was emphasized ct the white house
only last week that he had not seen
the agreement, and said in that con-
nection that because Of that some
predictions made on capitol hill that
he would vsAo i ware mikeadins.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-23
3PRIS0NERS KILLED
IN ESCAPE ATTEMPT
Chicago convicts Shot as They
Scale Wall in Futile Dash
for Liberty

Joliet, H., Feb. 23.-(R-Prison
guards, torewarned Of an impending
plot by prisoners to escape. early
Sunday shot to death three Chicago
convicts who scaled the wall Of the
old state penitentiary in q futile
dash for liberty.
Aided by q prison searchlight. the
guards, posted outside the prison
walls with machine guns. moved
them down before they had q chance
to reach, two automobiles parked on
q roadside nearby, presumably by
confederates.
The occupants of the cars. pursued
by guards in two automobiles, drove
toward Chicago and escaped, appar-
emily untouched by shots fired at
them.
Joseph Norkiewicz, 81. and Julio
chileno, -. both serving time for 2
confidence game, and Alvin J. Kill
man, 81, q convicted robber, were the
men killed. They were part Of z
kitchen detail Of five convicts. They
overpowered Frank Lambert. Z
guard.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-23
CERR0 GOVERNMENT
SEEKS VOLUNTEERS
Insurgents unofficiaIIy Reported
to Have Taken All OF
Southern Peru

Lima, Peru. Feb. 23.-R-The
provisional government Of Lieutenant
Colonel Luis M. Sanchez Cerro en-
listed volunteers In Lima and Callao
and moved troops down from Cuzco
and Puno Monday to put down .
revolution which began last Friday
night at Arequipa, second city Of the
republic.
Official bulletins admitted Arequi-
pa had fallen to the insurgents, and
that several had been killed in
fighting incident to capture Of the
city. These official communicates Of
Tered the only definite information
available here, everything else being
subject to q strict censorship.
dispatches from africa, Chilean
border town, to Mercurio. Daily Of
Santiago, Chile, said all southern
Peru had gone over to the revolution
but that the border censorship made
It impossible to obtain definite infor-
nation. Tacna and other border
points were quiet.)
The government called for 1900
volunteers Of Al to 50 years Of age
for 60 days service.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-23
DODGE Youth IS
ACCIDENT victim
Earl Fisher, ~, Dies in Dickin-
son Hospital from Automo-
bile Collision
Tribune Special Seryicel

Dickinson. N. D., Feb. 23.-Earl
Fisher. 81, whose father operates an
automobile agency at Dodge, died at
1880 a. m. Monday in a local hospital
as the result Of q skull fracture and
decorations received in q head-on au-
tomobile collision on highway No. "a
four miles south of Killdeer Sunday
night.
Herman Jacobson, Dodge, who was
riding with Fisher, suffered q broken
arm and Lillian Gustafson, also of
Dodge and q passenger In the car,
was cut above the eye and two
stitches we're taken In one Of her
knees.
Knute Burley. Killdeer. driver of
the other automobile, was the only
one Of the other five passengers to
be hurt. His head is badly bruised.
The accident occurred at the foot
OF q hill. An automobile was parked
there and when Fisher saw it he
turned his machine to avoid Q COLI
sion and ran head-on into Burley's
auto.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-23
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Offered BY Tribune

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beauty culture. It tells in the most
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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-23
NATIONS CAPITAL
OBSERVES HOLIDAY
President Hoover and Congress,
However. Continue Legis-
lative Work

Washington. Feb. 23.-R-With
holidays for all but President Hoover
and congress, the capital devoted
itself Monday to celebrating in ear
nest tho 199th birthday Of George
Washington.
President Hoover remembered the
father Of his country Sunday by at
tending divine services in Alexandria.
He occupied the pew In Christ church
In which George Washington often
sat. With him were Mrs. Hoover and
their oldest g%randchild. Peggy Ann.
Most Of tho churches held patriotic
services but all lay organizations
postponed until Monday the usual
exercises.
Moncay morning a military mass
at the Church Of the Immaculate
conception was the principal service.
attended by q large body Of American
Legion members and q guard Of hon.
or Of Marines from the Quantico. Va,
base. Part Of the ceremony was q
presentation Of massed colors. In
the afternoon Memorial Continental
hall was the chosen scene Of q pro-
gram sponsored by the daughters,
sons and children Of the American
revolution
Congress set its meeting hour early
to permit the annual exercises In the
house.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-23
wing BLACKSMITH
USES SUSPENDERS
choke HIMSELF
Was Awaiting Trial on Murder
Charge Following Armistlce
Night Fray !.
PROTESTED HIS INNOCENCE
Accused Of InfIicting Fatal
Wounds on Deputy Sheriff
George Peipkorn
PROTESTED HIS INNOCENCE

John Holmes. Wing blacksmith
charged with the fatal stabbing Of
George Peipkorn, deputy sheriff last
Arrnistice day. committed suicide
early Sunday morning by strangling
himself with his suspenders. He had
been held at the state penitentiary
awaiting trial.
A prison guard discovered the body
at 6 q. m. Sunday. Physicians pro-
nounced that death was due to
strangulation and estimated that he
died sometime between midnight
Saturday and 3 o'clock Sunday morn
ing.
He was discovered lying on his bed
In the prison hospital with n end
OF his suspenders looped about his
neck, the other end tied to the bar
at the head Of his bed. He was lying
almost flat On the bed with his head
held In q forward position by the
band at his neck. No signs Of strug-
gle were evident and he was found
with his hands folded across his
chest.
Made No Disturbance
In ADJOINING r0omS teStl-
fled that he made not the slightest
sound: the hospital attendant heard
no disturbance. Prison officials were
amazed at the fortitude OF q man
who could quietly strangle himself
without making the slightest sound.
A prisoner in the room Just oppos-
tie testified that he had been awake
during the time the tragedy occurred
and that any noise would have pene-
trated his room, the doors Of the
rooms In the hospital being made Of
bars with wide spaces between.
Just before midnight Holmes had
spoken through the bars to q fellow
prisoner. protesting his innocence
and saying that he was being unjust
" imprisoned. For the last three
weeks he has been acting queerly at
times. prison officials said, and was
being treated in the hospital for q
scalp wound sustained when he
struck his head against the wall. He
had been given to mumbling to him
self but when directly questioned his
talk has Oeen rational, prison officials
said.
The position of the bed was such
CONTINUED on page nine)
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-23

Of rouge OH either cheek. as she was
brought into the death chamber. Her
eyes were open until she was seated
III the big chair. then she closed them
and kept them closed until the death
hood was placed over her head.
Dague Walks Steadily
Dague came in with steady stride
and as he sat down in the chair,
gazed LETT and right at the Witnesses
Then thu. h0od was adjusted and the
electric contact was made while the
prison chaplain still was Offering up
a prayer for the condemned.
Neither Of the slayers spoke, nor
was any word spoken to them.
The woman who once welded q gun
with her gunman lover in merciless
bloodshed was a. ~unflinching at her
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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-23
Quoted AS
CRIYIC|Z|NG ILDUCE
faIians Ask for Particulars Of
Assistant Attorney Generals
Speech

Washington, Feb. 23.-R-The
talian embassy Monday requested
ne Italian consulate in New York to
end to 1t for study q full report Of
ne remarks made there Saturday
Plght by Assistant Attorney General
ohm Lord O'Brian.
The official has been quoted as
saving indirectly criticized Premier
dussonni in his talk.
ambassador de MARITIME declined to
make any statement Of O'Brtans
peech before the Union League club
Brooklyn, as reported In Press dis
patches. It was said on high author
Ey. however, that the attitude OF the
nbassy now Is that since O'Br1an
Plade a public explanation that he
eas not casting asperdons on Italy
p Premier Mussolini but merely
Prawing q contrast, no action would
p taken.
The embassy has not communicate
0 with the state department.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-23
|UDGE APPOINTMENT
SENT.TOC COMMITTEE
little Prospect Seen for Con-
firmation Of Judge Nord-
bye Nomination

Washington, Feb. 23.-(R-Presi-
Int Hoover's nomination of Gunnar
!. Nordbyc to be the additional fed
Fal Judge for Minnesota was sent to
subcommittee for investigation
fonday by the senate judiciary com
(ittee in response to a protest by
enator Schall, Republican, Minneso-
In addition to schalls protest, the
pmmittee clerk reported some letters
j complaint had been received. These
|ere not made public.
With a sharp fight forecast. little
respect is seen for Nordbye'S con-
rmation before the March I ad-
purnment. Unless confirmed by ad-
purnmenr, the nomination expires.
Chairman Norris of the judiciary
pmmittee appointed Senators Blaine
Wisconsin, and Steiwer, Oregon. Re-
|unlicans, and King, Democrat, Utah.
S a subcommittee to consider the
Domination.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-23
Inmates Flee from
Minnesota HOSPITAL

Hastings, MIMI, Feb. 23.-R-Two
inmates who used bedsheets to lower
themselves to the ground from the
second floor escaped from the state
insane asylum here early Monday.
Officials said the men were harmless.
Both had been transferred here
from the Fergus Falls hospital. One
was Elmer Erickson, Is, committed
from Stevens county, and the other
Lloyd Morse, 81. from Rice county.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-23
SOPRANO VOICE OF
NELLIE MELbA IS
S|LENCED BY DEATH
MaIady Contracted in Egypt
Brings Death to 71.Year.0Id
Prirna Donna
GIVEN UNIVERSAL ACCLAIM
Australian Nightingale Had
Appeared on United States
Stages Often
GIVEN UNIVERSAL ACCLAIM

Sydney, Australia, Feb. 23.-R-
The curtain was rung down Monday
on the life OF Dame Nellie Melba. one
Of the purest sopranos grand opera
has ever known, after weeks abed
with q strange illness which baffled
her physicians.
S~eventy-one years old, the famous
prima donna for several days had
fought a losing battle with q skin
malady picked up in Egypt and ag-
gravated by q long journey home
from Europe before Christmas and
the extreme heat Of the Australian
summer.
Friends believed she fastened her
own end with i%nsistance upon spend
ing Christmas In her native Australia
Her real name was Nellie Porter
Mitchell, changed by her marriage IN
1882 to Armstrong.
known to all the world as the sue
cessor to Patti and Jenny Lind; Melba
sang last In America at the New York
Metropolitan in Faust in 1917-18, and
after that was seldom heard in
public.
She was stricken with a severe at
tack Of influenza in Feb. 1929. In
1880 she contracted the disease which
brought her death and vas SO Ill last
November when the ship bringing hel
from Europe reached Ffeemantle
West Australia, that she could moi
land.
Universally Acclaimed
Nellie Melba, sThe Australian
Nightingale" known tU-muic lover
the world over for the purity, flexi-
bility and sweetness Of her voice II
its dazzling upper registers, was uni
versally acclaimed by critics as one
OF the greatest sopranos Of any era.
Well known in the United States
which she toured numerous times
both in grand opera and In concert
Mime. Melba also was the pride OF
London musical circles and idol Of the
Partisan public. Her success in Italy
Russia, Germany and in her own ma
tive Australia was equally notable for
the high honorS accorded her.
The musical education Of Nine.
Melba began when she vas three
years of age. AS the age Of six she
made her first appearance as a
vocalist.
Determined to give a public enter
tainment, she hired a theater and
personally went about selling tickets
to friends who had heard her sing In
the choir. Behind her came her dis
tressed father. begging ticket holders
as q family favor to stay away. and
all but two Of them did. Neverthe-
less, Melba faced her diminutive au-
ldience and sang her program pre-
cisely as though the hall were packed
with enthusiasts.
BY the time Melba was ~ years old
her father had modified his oppost-
ton to her stage ambitions and al
CONTINUED on page nine)
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-23
Embargo and Tariff
Bills Are Rejected

washington, Feb. 23.-<R-Ml en-
bareo and tariff bills including the
proposed limitation on oil imports
Monday were rejected by the house
ways and means committee.
Chairman Hawley said that after
voting down q proposal to limit oil
imports to 100000 barrels annually,
the committee adopted . resolution
postponing all action on the temper
ary agriculture embargo and the
Williamson bill to ban all Russian
products.
Hawley declined to make public
the vote In the committee.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-23
MasonaO Hanihara in
Coma After Operation

Tokyo. Feb.
Hanihara, ambassador to Washing
ton from 1922 to 1924. who created .
stir by predicting the proposed jap
nnese exclusion act would bring
grave consequences" was In a coma
Monday after failing to rally from .
paralytic stroke.
physicians said his recovery was
doubtful g the patient developed
pneumonia and cher. complications.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-23
Mrs. Schroeder and
DQque ElectrOcuted
GunWomar, Was First Of Her
Sex Ever to Be EIectrocuted
in Pennsylvania
IS IRON IRENE UNTIL END
Woman's Body Tense n d
Struggling, Fists cIenched,
as End Comes
IS IRON IRENE N T ENC

Rockview Penitentiary, Bellefonte,
Pa, Feb. 23.-ReCalm and collected,
Irene Schroeder and Walter Glenn
rague went to, their deaths in the
electric chair at Rockview peniten-
tiary Monday just after break Of
dawn. The state claimed Of them the
supreme price for the killing Of q
guardian Of its highways.
The woman went to the chair first,
at Z q. n. one contact was made and
she was pronounced dead at 7:05.
Dague was placed in the chair at
7:08 and five minutes later was dead.
Mrs. Schroeder's face was pale, al
most ghastly, except for q slight bit
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-23
DR.. Joseph Rogers,
Alexander, Buried

Williston. N. D.. Feb. 23.-R-Fu-
[,eral services for DR.. Joseph Rogers.
alexander, who died here Friday from
kypnoid fever and complications. were
|aeio at Alexander Monday.
Lett BY Or. Rogers are his widow
ING son, Cecil. Alexander. and q
Plotner. Or. lawrence Rogers. Ed
|nonton, Ats.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-23
~ Women Have
Been Executed

Mrs. Irene Schroeder, who died
In the electric chair at Belle
fonte, Pa, Monday, was the 9th
white woman to be legally exc
cuted In the United States since
the respective states were char
tered.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-23
Disorders Reported As
Chicago Election Ncars
Army Of 10000 to Keep Order
as City Votes for Mayor
and Aldermen

Chicago, Feb. 23.-(P-An army OF
approximately 10000 Monday made
plans to maintain order in Tuesdays
mayoralty and aldermanic primaries,
with reports already before them Of
prediction violence.
The reports came from the eighth
and 30th wards and told Of an at.
tempt on the life Of Theodore Cliff
ford, q candidate for alderman, OF two
sluggings, and two kidnapings. Cliff.
ford reported to police two shots had
been fired at him from another au-
tomobile as he rode along In his own
car Sunday night. He was slightly
hurt by flying glass broken when y
bullet shattered the windshield on his
machine.
Beaten BY Hoodlums
Bernard Sheehan, 81, and John Q.
Grady, 80, complained they had been
seized and beaten by hoodlums when
they handed out campaign literature
asking the selection Of John O'Shay
over John S. Clark. simultaneously
O,shay headquarters reported two
unnamed men had been kidnapped In
an automobile and attacked by their
abductors before they were freed on
the outskirts of the city.
Credentials were issued to $4,000
poll watchers by Judge Edmund e.
Jarech, supervisor Of the election,
and q force of $500 judges and
clerks of election will be augmented
BY 5000 policemen and a special city
and county detail! Of several thousand
men.
Capone Reported Home
AS primary day approached there
was speculation about Alphonse Ca
pone, the gang leader. Rumor had II
he was in Chicago. His attorneys
said that he probably" was. but just
where could not be learned. Police
said II he had come back from his
winter soiourn at Miami, Fla. they
did not think he had returned for
T1Iesday's primaries, but rather to ap-
pear in federal court next Wednes-
day.
IN connection with q citation for con-
tempt Of court. issued when he failed
to come in q year ago for questioning
about his income tax.
Meanwhile Mayor william Hale
THOMPSON, Judge John H. Lyle. who
issued q vagrancy warrant for Ca
uone,s arrest, Arthur F. Albert and
George <. Schmidt planned the wind
up Of their fight for the Republican
mayoralty nomination. None Of them
called for police guards.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-23
Late Bulletins
yEToES HOsPTTAL Bull

Washington. Feb. 23.-Re
President Hoover Monday vetoed
q bill to extend disqualification
and soldiers home benefits to
certain veterans who served in
the quarterInaster corps IN the
Spanish war, the Philippine In
surrection, Or the China relief
expedition.
KIDNAPERS PLEAD GUILTY
Cambridge, H.. Feb. 33.-Re
The four hdnapers who held Earl
Yocum. 0alva banker. . prisoner
for five days last October In m
abortive plot to extort $4,000
ransom pleaded guilty Monday In
Henry county circuit court. They
will be sentenced Thursday 20
penalties fixed BY Illinois statutes
from five years imprisonment 70
death il the electric chair.