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London. April <A>>—Represent atirei of the five dominant naval powers of the world. America, Great Britain. Japan. France and Italy, this afternoon affixed their signatures to an epoch-making treaty, limiting and reducing the navies of three of them, and restricting the navies of the ether two. \ Colonel Henry L. Sttmeon, Amer ican secretary of state, .and his col leagues on the American delegation, were the first to sign the historic document. IC. Brlaad, french foreign minister, J. Ramsay MacDonald, British prime minister and Admiral Giuseppe EUrlanni with their delega tions followed. Reijtro WakateUki, a former prime minister of Japan, and those of the Tokyo delegation who hare worked with him through the three months and one day of long and difficult m gottattons. were the last of the tyre power representatives to affix their signatures. ' The unpretentious but dramatic which marked the eulm and Royal RaSoe of St flatting waa one flar artist the .final plenary session of the parley;being held In Queen Anne'S drawing room, with its rich red tapestries from the « *■ crrr AWARDS HOSE, HOLDS UP ON TRUCK Thro* Companies Bid for Fire Supply Contract, Fivt on Motor Equipmont Contract for 1000 foot of ftra boat om wiRW tbo Anoka An How company of Non Jersey at tbo me* lug of the ctty *—- evenlnf, Poncon typo at SL4O a foot imiwy dedgnMed. ■Tbo alee opened five bide for a truck, but no awardwas made from thaw. Three bide were received for the hoee. Tbo 81-Lateral Pin How com pany of Ohleoio offered double-jacket typee at OL4O, 11 JO. SIJS dad II JO. Tbe W. «. Nett company of Idnne . apolle offered two double-jacket typer at 11.40 and $1 JO. The Bureka ran from a maximum of 11.40. through 01JO to double-jacket offers of $1.15 and J 5 cents to a min imum of U cents. Tbe truck bids were: F. A. Copelin, tm, with $95 allowance for old Over laod truck. 0550; If. B. Oilman, 0004, wttb 0900 allowance on old truck. flOl; Capital Chevrolet company, 1571, erttb HO allowance on old truck, 0005; Chrytfar-Plymouth, Corwin and Churchill. Wlt&SnA with 096 allowed for old truek; Bandln and Wilde Motors, Whippet ohaaels. 9476, No. 54 open expnmbody. $395, ■para rtm and tbe, sl* fetal 0710, with 060 allowanoe off for old truck, 0600, or Whippet chaeria, $419. with NO. 549 open expfaas body, ff fir and spare rim and tlm 010, fetal OSOTJO, minus 080 aDonanea'fer old track, 0607J0. • '* > Robert Bridges, Poet Laureate, Dead at 85 loodoa AjrU Kstart Srldfes, poet laureate of NhglaiMf da eorlbed during Me Ufa as the great ait of bring poets and imiaan one mamloal poetTdled bare laetnlgbt. Be was 00 yean old. Previous to hie appointment as poet laureate hi tots, 'fetle of Hr. MdaMr work annealed to the nmmlar tton Tm pcSSa ee tbow of 'S&ngtfSi Stoned* *®2 mere t**** 1 oomnaneatad for their nenmm. - - or. Louia mu joins <>'? . Ndrftlsalr6iaV Oldest,Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1878 • 317 Ohio Prison Convicts Burn Or Suffocate To Death In Fire SIGN LONDON NAVY PA CT'Ftame aid Smoke Kill Locked -Up Prisoners GREAT SEA POWERS ME TO UT OR REDUCE STRENCTH Colonel Stimson and Hit Amer ican Colleagues First to Sign Historic Treaty MftCMBES SHIP HOLIDAY Restricts Submarines and Hu* manlsas Uaa; Leaders Praia# Their Own Handiwork (Continued on paiesk) THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE STANTON FARMER IMPRISONED FORLIFE AFTER DROWNING SON | Called Egg Thrower 1 ♦' '• Being accused of throwing eggs at her superior officer has resulted in a scrambled situation for Mrs. Minnie L. Ward, above, an employe of the Federal Power Commission in Wash ington. Suspended pending an in vestigation of the , Incident, she has accused Chief Clerk Frank W. Grif fith—who was her target—of remov ing valuable official documents from the commission's files which were in COLONEL DIME'S SUCCESSOR IM sJorThontii ft StoCarron, c pMty at • Taeoma, Ordered to Ft Lincoln Major Thomas R. McCarron, In fantry. will sueoeedUeut. 001. Wil liam A. Alfonte as commandant at Port Lincoln. It was announced by Lieut. 001. Alfonte this morning. Mpijor McCarron now Is on duty wtththeOiganieed. Reserves of the Ninth Corps Area, otetioaed at Te coma,Wash. When .the new commandant will arrive la not definitely known, the present commandant said. Major MoCarron will bo relieved of his du ties at ibeoma May 1 but he may decide to take a leave of Indefinite length at that tlwy^ Be Will ***** ly upon his arrival here as he will be the senior offloer at the Bismarck poet,. Lieut OoL Alfonte said. Secrvfc'Aesftte Probe lOwwpt Complaints Under Orders of Nye Washington, April 21—OP) Beeret agents of the senate campaign funds committee wen under orders today to prooeed to Ullnola and Pennsyl vania and Investigate complaints of egocetiva **"T*l l r i espenditueea have been reoetved from those states. In other eases, the irrrtnmlttftt dost not Intend to watt uatil'formal com plaints have been made before oheok mgup bn the disbursements of sen atorial candidates, but will make a "searching inquiry” Into every sen ate contest and when dreumstaooee warrant will hold public heartiws Chairman Nya made these an wwnmyinhtfff late yesterday after a brief meeting of the oommittee. Hoover Warns Solons To Cut Expenditures Washington. April 22.—<P)—Con gresitonel leaders have reoetved let tori from President Rdover that are understood to worn agolnot eaeomlvo appropriations as a threat ,to the dander surplus in prapoot for 1H 1 and the next fiscal year. Dm meildentlal communications were seat toSenator JCneoof Wgeh acton and Repreoentativo Wood of Indiana, ohalnaon of the senate and Wj* WliWiMlai. ■*» vn ti n h o itei i i Trmctor* Are Amured reSetkm toAmSTtheeeedkan rag gwnneir Ml., nwMW. fwHttMr. aad herae food* ' • •v-*’ ?*'? ' - Ji her care. ft: Gus Reinhold Blames Liquor for 'Unpremeditated’ Killing of Deformed Child WIFE HAD BEEN 'NAGGING’ Took a Few Drinks to Ease Hi Mind and Intoxicant ‘Got the Best of Him* Ous Reinhold, 40-year-old Stanton farmer sentenced to life imprison ment for murder, told officers while being taken to the penitentiary yes terday afternoon, that he threw his four-year-old son, Teddy, in the Mis souri river, not the Knife as stated in his confession, Sheriff H. R. Handt mann of Morton county disclosed to day. Reinhold made the statement to Sheriff H. O. Kllndworth, Mercer county, while being taken to prison in Handtmann’s automobile, accord ing to the latter. Kllndworth pressed Reinhold for the truth, telling him 'You have tdd me that you buried the boy in a manure pile, that you threw him in the Knife river and now in the Mis souri river." Is Positive Troth' "This positively is the truth," Rein hold said, according to the Morton county sheriff. M I threw him in the Missouri river." He then described the spot along the river, which is near Mannhaven. Today Sheriff Kllndworth and his party were believed to be searching the location which Reinhold de scribed. He told the qourt his throwing of the child into the Knife river was SNnSg&lRmB Child with him to Hlsen where he drank some liquor and while going (Continued on page nine) 150 STUDENTS ENTER DISTRICT MEET HERE Music, Dsotamation and Com mercial Contests on Pro gram Tomorrow b More than 180 Missouri Slope high I school students will Invade Bismarck ■ Wednesday to participate in the B eighth and ninth district music con k tests and the eighth district contests In declamation and commercial events, it Is announced by Bismarck high echoed officials. ■ Hywel O. Rowland, head of the r music department at the University of . North Dakota, will be Judge in the * musical events while Judges in the declamation and commercial events t have-not yet been chosen. » Eighth district cities and commun t ities to be represented are Bismarck, f ■ Mercer, Underwood, Turtle Lake, 11 t Sterling, Buxton, Haertton. Basen, ? t Ashley, and Napoleon. Ninth district J * entrants come from Marxian, Stan- * * ton, Hasen and Almont. 11 Clarion E. Larson will be in charge * of the musical events, William H. » * Payne and O. W. Kolberg In charge * i of declamation, and Mrs. J. M. Edick * ■ director of the commercial contests. ® » The music events will be conducted c ait the city auditorium beginning at a * 1:88 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. More _ i than 188 are entered in the vocal and n ioio group * numbers. The declamation end ecennevelel “ programs will bs held In the high \ school auditorium and commercial * rooms at 1:18 and 8:88 o’clock re- * . sportively. 21 i ■ Additional musical e— I ft* will be t held at the city auditorium at 7:88 p. f i hl, Mr. Larson haa « ' BenkeraGroup Will Meet Here July B*9 g rrip 1 of the SMrth Dakota- lenlrenr as - sedation will gather. In Btanarek for r their annual spring meeting July 8 ’ **- by are scheduled ae follows: west Mis souri Slops, Kffldaar, May 18; fourth district, Yldnerwocd. May 14; fifth district, VaSsy Ctty.MUy 18; third district, PSigo, May 18: northweet era group, Mfenot, May 18; and aco ond district, DevOeLaka. Mayft Lid*erwood OflPirn Holdings Purchased Chicago. Apm Pstrelaum —haa aanounead purchasa from thg> OcnsunxiiWoß Ca!, of LldgarwQod, N. Du effhe sarrioe nttlnns and four bnlk Blants locatad « acmi. m mmTZSSSi , : f ;• - •/ ' ” V> . I', ' . . . . * ' . < miaul ‘ V ; y BISMARCK, NORTH/DAKOTA, TUESDAY, APRIL 22,1980 PRESBYTERIAN CODE FDR MARRIAGES HAS UNDERGONECHANGES Eliminate Objections to Uniting of Protestants and Ro- man Catholics APPROVE CONTRACEPTIVES Frown on Companionate Mar ri&ges at Not Baaed on Foundation for Home Philadelphia, April 21— <**>—The special commission on marriage, di vorce and remarriage of the Presby terian church In the U. 8. A. will pre sent to the general assembly of the church in Cincinnati on June 2 a new definition of marriage, based on an exhaustive study, of the entire sub ject of aex relationships. The report of the commission, pub lished today in the official blue book of denomination, cbntains definite recommendations for the elimination from the confession of faith of the objection to the marriage of Protest ant to Roman Catholics and of all approbrious references *to "papists." Henceforth, the commission would have It that marriage between "all sorts of people" la lawful, but that it Is the duty of Christiana to many "only In the Lord." Contraceptives, used under medical advice, the report finds acceptable, but it adds that "a baby in the home now and then la a splendid diversion from those suffering from an un eventful married’ life." Die same grounds fqr divorce new reoognlaed by the (Inpinmlnation aifiiHm -**“l —hi rtffltn- Wfinitad for retention. On companionate marriages the re port says: "The Chris Man - ** ,i gSu | *. the basis of marriage is the mutual love of a man and a woman. Faith In God would seemingly be the first moet immediate ground for the wise foundation of a home. Companion ate arrangements that amume less than this are fraught with peril. To base it on the insecure foundation proposed, by certain of oursophisti cates: namely, that of sex desire, and subsidised at- that, oondcmns the whole enterprise to speculation.* HEBRON BOY IS NEAR DEATH FROM BORNS Mistakes Gasoline for Karoaana in Lighting Fire; Explo sion Follows Otto Meidlnger, 15-year-old Hebron boy, was In & critical condition in a local hospital today from amn burns received last Friday afternoon when he mistook a can of gasoline for kerosene and used it in Ufhtiaf a fire. The boy was not Lxought to Bis marck until yesterday afternoon. He suffered severe burns on both lege from the waist down to the ankles, the whole right side of hie body in cluding the face, right arm and elbow, and both HO change in his condition was noted In his Amt M hours here by hie attending physician. The boy, alone in his home at He bron last Friday afternoon, is believed to have used gasoline In lighting a stove and been the victim of the re sultant H spreading fhunsa, Ha Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Au gust woMityr, who rtftntlly moved from to Hsbiesi. CANOS UFSBT FATAL Hudson, Wto., April ah—<a>—Srneet Beaudry, If, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ban Beaudry, drowfpd in Lake ICaQeUeu here when a canoe upset, Has the Census Taker Seen You? If yon are a Bismarck resident and* if you know the enumerator has not called upon you or if you have pleaea telephone 140 leaving your name and * &SB£2j%£ mafl It to Chute 8. Buck, ■■■■ ■; -: 'r - * ? $Sy. * N4mt »■»»«*•».*>»nsmi^i>e>M»»l«>ir«»#»»■ ♦»>» ; ’ * qj,x-j w- ' r <- "Vt 1 *■-'*'>’ wk v , -% s *• • • •••• «v •»••# **»*.,**,•** * City • 4 #eVV« attain m x ■- • • /■ ; . ,?V HOOVER FARM RELIEF EFFORTS ATTACKED BY JOUETT SHOUSE 'lndustrialists Revel in Dividends While Farmers Are Col- lecting Mortgages’ FLAYS GRUNDY TARIFF BILL Will Pay $lO Mora for Food and Clothing for Every Dollar Saved by Tariff St. Paul, April 22.—(P)—The farm relief program advanced by the Re publican party was assailed by Jouett Shouse In an address at the Jefferson day banquet last night. Addressing Democratic leaders of Minnesota and North and South Da kota, the chairman of the Democrat ic national executive committee cited the "great industrial corporations re veling in the biggest dividends of their history, while the farmers of this part of the country were accumu lating nothing but mortgages." "You were promised that the dis parity would be corrected, that agri culture would be given as much pro tection aa Industry was receiving," Mr. Shouse continued. "X wonder if there Is anyone among you who thinks the distress of agriculture is remedied in the slightest degree by the Grundy tariff MU, which we understand the president is quite prepared to sign. "Dure is no particular use in‘Bay ing anything more about the tariff. We aU know that in the form in which it is now before oongress it is a conscienceless subterfuge under which the fanner wUI pay $lO in the added coat of .what be eats and wears and otherwise uses fbr every dollar that he seta because of the higher sands of farmers throughout the northwest who took thebetod*r advice (Continued en page nine) WETS CONTRIBUTED TO BUR CHEST Spent $29,000 in Advocating Repeal of Wisconsin Pro hibition Measure Washington, April 22.—(AV-Henry H. Curran, president of the Associa tion Against the Prohibition Amend ment, testified before the senate lob bp committee today that his organ isation had contributed (11A00 to the 1929 **"»p**gn of Senator Blaine, Re publican, Wisconsin, a lrem*—?* of the committee, and a wet. Detailing activities of the associa tion, during his fourth dap on the stand, Curran also said that $29,000 had been spent in advocating repeal of the state prohibition enforcement laws in Wisconsin. The witness gave the membership of the. association at 11,009 with the majority of its members in New York, lCasaChusetts, Pennsylvania twH other eastern states. Blaine was present when Curran testified that funds had been con tributed to aid In his election to the Curran said ha thought the Wls eonrin senator could have won “with out us." i A charge that the lobby committee had violated the spirit of the fourth amsndasnt to constitution in starching record of eeeoclation was made by Curran as the and of tee camion fpwlifil Berlin Police Search 2,000 Boys for Arms Berlin, bgil BHfHTso thou mnd oommunist youths returning here morning from a convactioo submitted to aeareh by po hee and the entire detective force of Barite before they ware allowed to eater the city. The only weapon found braa'a dapger on one of them. Faces Trial for Paddling Pupil A Jury at Elyria, Ohio, must decide whether Mrs. Myrta Bradley, 22, above, school teacher, committed as sault and battery when she paddled Mary Gerhartinger, 6-year-okl pupil. Mrs. Bradley has been indicted on complaint of the child's parents. FATAL SHOOTING AT DRAYTONISPROBED Note Left by Attacker Indicated Murder and Suicide Waa Premeditated Drayton, N. D., April 2fc-(*Wbhn Peterson, prominent Marshall county, Minn., fanner, died in a hospital here at 4 a. m. today, the third victim of a tragic shooting Monday which claimed the lives of his wife and neighbor, Andrew Anderson. Anderson, the slayer, died lest than three hours after the murder. Mrs. Peterson was killed Instantly but Peterson, with a covered Jugular vein, live 44 hours. Joint funeral services are planned for the Petersons. The servioea will be held from the Teien Mission church at Ip.m. Thursday, instead of the Baptist church at Nagle Point as first scheduled. Anderson will be buried Friday from an undertaking parlor. * Further details of the shooting may be revealed at the ooroner’s inquest which will be held Wednesday at Warren, Minn. Authorities expressed belief the shooting wag, premeditated. The premise of premeditation was baaed on a letter found on Anderson’s body. In it he asked that a. slater living in Duluth not bo informed of the shooting and left directions for his funeral. Des Moines Life Co. Agents to Meet Here A state conference of Dee Moines Mutual Life Insuranoe agents will be held here Saturday, April 36, accord ing to announcement of C. E. Pickles, North Dakota manager of the com pany with offices here. Officials who will be here tram the home office Include J. J. president; K. L. Shlmlck, secretary and actuary; and W. A. Marges, field man. The conference will be held in the state office over Cowan's drug store* corner of Fourth and Broadway. Fargo Grocery Store Loses $56 In Holdup Fargo. N. D., April 22.—<*>-Looal police reported no arrests today In connection with the two bandits who Monday night held up the Morrow grocery and escaped with SB6, scooped town the cash boa. “Stick 'em up and shut up," they said to B. T. Shea, proprietor of the store, who was checking cash when they entered at 9 p. m. BritUh Police Usable To Halt Salt Makers Bombay, India. April &-<»)- Mttah polios made an unauooaasful attempt to break through a National ist votanteer cordon around the salt pans at lhatia BSag today. Throe M«s wort injured Sari* the Sy _<ywd »3Si«<Wixinimfp • it M. Mantel -today'was'aaanrimte m pad • tote! KuTfUsiß 'Havnrwm^'OoasgNwOSOSS—'• -•w*. r \ ■' r- v •. •. ... ' - \ . ... '* Guards and Inmates Battle Heroically fa Re lease Hundreds Trapped in Over-Crowded Penitentiary Cell Blocks PRACTICAL JOKER’S ALARM DOUBTED Soldiers, Police and Guardsmen Battle Terrified Convicts as Prison Yard Becomes Vast Cemetery with Corpses Exposed Columbus, Q, AM 22.—(AP)—Tiles of kmha and of costly hesitancy were told today within the grey grim walls of the Ohio penitentiary when 317 locked in their cells, were horned to death and suffocated last night in one of the most life dcstroyiim fires in history. And as the guards and inmates ortho - recounted the vivid details of tho disaster, aa official state commission appointed by Governor Cooper sought to kern what caused the blase and why the locked-in prisoners were not liberated In time to escape. In the horticultural building at the state fair grounds, scores of undertakers worked untiringly pre paring the victims for burial. The identity? 276 of the dead convicts had been established. The othen w«e so badly burned that identification was almost ’ impossible. Convict heroes and prison guard heroes were told of time and again today by the hundreds of who escaped death. These men, loosed in the big prison broke out in the northwest cell blocks, told of fellow convicts and of guards who, mind* lmLi 0 !i tti i r OW JJ dashed into the hot smoke filled tiers in valiant efforts to free the trapped men* Murmurings last night against Thomas WatUn son, a guard who was charged with refusing to give up the keys to prisoners who wished to invade the inferno, brought his suspension today by Warden Preston E. Thomas. Wathtasont one Of the two guards on duty J rll, y gruuti ton, wu *** agreed today that the two outstanding heroes of toe traffic disaster were Guards Tom Little and W. C. Baldwin. These men, braving the inU) th * tten and liberated convicts until they were overcome, to be rescued by convicts participating in the rescue work. Morton was another whose praises * un &- The former Cleveland bank robber un flirted with death as he dashed in and out of the flaming buildings, carrying an unconscious fel np hiß heroic struggle against the odds until he fell a victim to smoko and heatHewas revived and today was well on the road to recovery. JUDGE PARKER STILL NOMHEE FOR COURT South Carolina Jurist Haa No Intention of Quitting the Fight for Approval Washington. April 22.—(A>>-Judge John J. Parker haa informed his friends here that be haa no intention of withdrawing as a nominee for the supremo court because of the opposi tion of labor and negro organisations or because of the senate Judiciary committee's action in opposing his confirmation. He la now considering the advis ability of requesting that the commit tee give him an opportunity to ap pear before it and answer the ob jections that have been raised against him. His supporters in the senate believe such a course will be followed. Some members of the committee have said that if Judge Patter wants to be heard they win he glad to hear him, but this question, if the request is made, must be settled by a vote of the committee. Yesterday, a motion that Judge Farter be asked to appear was defeated. At the same time, the cnmmtttee voted to disapprove hie nnmiim^n | Objection to the confirmation of Judge Parker’s nomination was raised by the American Federation of Labor and the Assodation for the Advance ment of Colored People. The former argued that Farter was opposed to human rights and baaad this contention upon a decision of the nomlnsc as a mamter of the fedsral ctreuit bench, which upheld the so called “yellow dog contract* under which employee find hnm*m nek to Join unions. WATSON SAT» PABKH WILL WIN OONFIHMATION Washington, April It. (f)Sanatar Watson, mmmmm -leadnr, 'mediated das?Boner*tte TfSTSamtamS'm Judge John J. Farter «a the eapreaaa oeurtwenldte oaotemed “if ha gam _».r.mxcnmtm^ijjiai^ \ ..c' : f >\v. ■ < i»J * • I V y a^i M * -* a• . & -Jl,. ,?.s nir lomcnt, iMni immmmmli ”‘1 —-r »nit irirpm PRICE FIVE CENVi 180 other Prtaonaw and •tate officials ware In the nnnttei tiary hospital and a soars of them woe in critical condition from bums and from smoke they «*• raged in parts of four odl blocks. The penitentiary housed 4AOO eon yiets, some 2,500 above the capacity far which it was whan tho fire, believed of incendiary origin, and fanned by a stiff wind, swant through the upper tiara of the torn blocks, spreading death and in its wake! «»OTg Am tho dead were being pcanamd for burial In the irnliarum of tho stats fair grounds fay corps of undertaker*. «teta officials, headed by Whiten Praaton E. Thomas and Dtaeetor of welfare H. H. Griswold continued thair investigation of the tire. The flames were dlsoonred shortly before 5:10 p. m. within aammlJwin the fire had been brought under can* troi but the euffbeatlns mmfea on* tinued to take its toll cam* the eon* riots. In the aAfwiwiwg Mgtei . men acreamed to be released. AM when the prison -ffirleto mbmS to their the wide tiary yard became a stnamfanaS of gray clothed man. Before two hours had pound Hte mass of men. piddi* flSr S ■£ among eounUem - nm i JS f the yard, became a thrcatcnfcnjMn- / aoa. Some of them cut the fire June which continued to play upon tea flames that spread to the gitem. ■ ■ ton and woolen mffls. othma hurled maintain dishes and tahlae were upaat ■vary available pnlkwman In OiI nUINMB within tea prison and an ths-cuansa.- ■» ttirnß --~r -** Two oonpaniao of renulm arau 3 aSSSmJrn werTetananod asms was an dpny* - 'v fmae m : rif'-'^nnttiit^l Briaonam to * .f.*. • --V