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G. O. P. Committee Meets Herd
League Warns Parties Against Wet Stand
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SAYS LIQUOR TABOO
FOR 1932 PLATFORM
John J. Raskob ‘Home Rule’
Plan Is Particularly Scored
By Dry Organization
WOMEN AMONG SPEAKERS
Body Says it Will Not Hesitate
to Allow Settlement 'ln
Constitutional Way*
Washington, Jan. 20.—(A*) The
Anti-Saloon League biennial conven -
tion left behind it Wednesday a
warning to the political parties to
steer clear of prohibition this elec
tion year.
Reiterated by the speakers who
mounted the platform at Tuesday
night’s final gathering, this theme
was summed up in a declaration of
policy which asserted “repeal or
modification are not for party plat
forms or party lines.” -
With that the veteran dry organ
ization went on record as opposing
anything that might weaken prohibi
tion: referendums, resubmissions,
state control, modification and beer
proposals, as well as repeal attempts.
Raskob Plan Condemned
It scored particularly the Raskob
“home rule” plan of liquor control,
asserting:
“Let there be no mistake, Raskob
ian ‘home rule* means eventually
saloon rule.”
Among the individual expressions
was the declaration of Mrs. Jesse W.
Nicholson, president of the National
Women’s Democratic Law Enforce
ment League:
“If there's any doubt, let any party
have a wet candidate next fall and
the women will give him such a lick
ing as he never had.”
Dr. A. J. Barton of North Carolina,
chairman of the league’s executive
committee, asserted the south would
deny .support to any presidential
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FORECAST t
For Bismarck and vicinity: Mostly
cloudy tonight and Thursday; not so
cold.
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hot a: Mostly
, cloudy tonight and
. * /i Thursday: not so
\ / l cold Thursday and
=3 \ t east and central
,3 JRR k portions tonight.
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if DJI kota: Probably lo
cal snows tonight
H* and Thursday; not
80 fold Thursday
extreme east por
#p- VS T Fo r Montana:
f J L. Unsettled tonight;
colder southeast
—. ... portion: Thursday
warmer partly cloudy.
For Minnesota: Mostly cloudy to
night and Thursday; not so cold to.
night in northwest portion and In
■west portion Thursday.
CONDITIONS
High pressure now covers the north
ern portion of the district being cen.
tered over the Red River Valley; and
the Pacific Coast (Winnipeg, Man.
30.42; Roseburg, Ofe. 30.40); while a
low lies over the Lower Missouri- Val
ley and Southern Plateau Region.
Light precipitation has been general
from North Dakota west to the coast
and southern Rocky Mountain district.
Temperatures have fallen over all
sections except for the extreme south
ern portions of the district, the Low
er Lake region and Ohio Valley, with
falls of 20 degrees or more reported
in southern Manitoba, eastern North
Dakota, western Minnesota and South
Dakota.
Bismarck station barometer. Inches:
28.36; reduced to sea level 30.27.
TEMPERATURE
At 7 a. m 3
Highest yesterday 25
Lowest last night 3
PRECIPITATION
Amt. 24 hrs. ending 7 a. 00
Total this month to date 14
Normal, this month to date .... .25
Total, Jan. 1 to date 14
Normal, Jan.' 1 to date 25
Accumulated deficiency since
Jan. 1 -09
NORTH DAKOTA POINTS
, 7 a. m. Low Pet.
BISMARCK, snow 3 8 .00
Devils Lake, cldy -S >l2 .00
Fargo-Moorhead, cldy... -4 -6 .00
Valley City, clear -T .00
Williston, snow 10 10 .00
Grand Forks, cldy -11 -11 T
Jamestown, clear -4 -6 .00
GENERAL
Other Stations—
Temprs. Prc.
' Low High Ins.
'Amarillo, Texas, clear.. 40 .02' .00
Boise, Idaho, clear 28 42 .00
Calgary, Alta., clear.... 8 16 .00
Chicago, 111,, pc1dy...... 86 40 .00
Denver, Colo., clear 26 60 .00
Des Moines, la., clear... 28 46 .00
Dodge City, Kane.* dear 86 48 .00
Edmonton, Alta., cldy;.. 4 14 .04
Havre, Mont* cldy. .....-. I 82 .00
Helena, Mont., clear...-. 26 38 .60
Huron, 8. D„ pcldy 10 26 .00
Kamloops, B. C., pcldy... 18 32 .06
Kansas City, Mo., pcldy. 44 64 .00
Lander, Wyo., c1dy..:... 18 82 .00
Medicine Hat, Alta.. Cldy. 14 16 .00
Miles City, Mont., cldy. 18 38 .01
Modena, Utah, snow.... 20 40 .04
Moorhead, Minn., cldy... -6 22 .Off
No. Platte, Neb., cldy... 24 56 ' .00
Oklahoma, 0., clear 46 -58 A 0
Pierre. 8. D„ cldy 10 42 .00
Pr. Albert, Bask., pcldy. -8 .06
Qu’Appelle, Saak., cldy... >B' 8 .00
Rapid City, S. D., cldy... 22 62 .00
Roseburg, Ore., cldy.... 36 46 .06
St. Louis, Mo., cldy 40 62 .00
St. Paul, Minn., cldy.... 20 32 .00
Salt Lake City, U., snow 24 34 , .Off
S. S. Marie, Mich., clear 24 34 .06
Seattle, Wash., pcldy... $0 44 .14
Sheridan, Wyo., snow... 80 3# .84
Sioux City-lowa, dear.. 16 38. .00
Spokane, wash., cldy.;. 2|r 40 .12
Swift Cur., Saak., cldy... 8 16 .02
The Pas, Man., cdekr.... -21 -4 ,00
Toledo, Ohio, c1ear...... 84 38 .00
Wlnnemucca, Nev., clear 26 28 .02
Winnipeg, Man. clear.. -2(L lff -00
ORRIS W. ROBERTS, '.
Official » charge.
THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE
Mother of Twins Is Co-ed, Too
Mothers, if you think caring for your children is difficult, just consider the
case of Wilva Davis, former stage star. She left the University of Minne
sota in 1926 to star on Broadway. Then she met Paul Martin, Jr., and
married him. Her duties in caring for a home and the birth of twins
forced her to give up the .stage. Now she has decided to finish her school
work. And here you see her feeding her seven-months-old twins while
studying at her home in Minneapolis, Minn.
Coast Guard, Red Cross
Help Victims of Flood
FIFTH PERSON DIES
AFTERGUNBATTLE
IN KENTUCKY FEf
'Little Henry* Johnson Suc
cumbs to Wound Suffered
Last Week-End
London, Ky., Jan. 20.—(/F) Ken
tucky’s worst gun fight in recent his
tory, from the standpoint of lives
lost, was written into the records
Wednesday.
The toll of the feud shooting in
the New Salem churchyard was
brought to five with the death Tues
day night of “Little Henry’* Johnson.
The other victims were “Big Hen
ry” and Earl Johnson, brothers, who
were cousins of the man who died
Tuesday night, and Forrest and Hom
er Crook, brothers who were neigh
bors of the Johnsons. They were
slain Saturday in the feud outbreak
in which “Little Hetiry” was mortally
wounded by a stray bullet.
Willie Johnson, brother of -“Big
Henry” and Earl, was the only mem
ber of the two families present who
survived. He was wounded in the
arm. Willie was the cause of it all,
according to the Crooks, who ac
cused him of wronging their 17-year
old sister, Ruby.
The girl, visiting her sister, Mrs
Will Settles, near Connersville, Ind.,
said she and Willie Johnson were
principals in a mock wedding' she
thought was legally solemnized.
Sheriff W. H. Steele said no charge
would be placed against Willie un
less further investigation revealed
he took part in the shooting.
Kentucky's worst gun. battle dur
ing the 20th century heretofore was
the Clayhole election shooting in
Breathitt county in 1921 in which
four men were killed and 17 wounded.
NEW RACKETDEATH
OCCURS IN CHICAGO
Cleaner’s Card Bearing Name of
M. Costabile Found in
Dead Man's Pocket
Chicago,/ Jan. 20— (Jf) —Another kill
ing punctuated the strife in the
cleaners and dyers industry Wed
nesday.
Thebody of a man shot to death
was found on a road near Downer’s
Grove, in adjoining Dupage county.
In his pocket was a cleaner’s Card
bearing the name M. Constabile, Chi
cago. v
A fortnight ago Benjamlq Rosen
berg was clubbed and shot to death
near his Maywood home. Rosenberg
was ai> ‘independent manager whose
particular profits from a good busi
ness to oleaning coveralls were be
lieved to .have brought the envy and
enmity of racketeers.
Rosenberg’s widow pledged her aid
in apprehending toe men who Slew
her husband, mid her own life since
has been threatened by anonymous
telephone callers. /
Investigators for tbs state’s attor
ney said they were convinced Wed
nesday’s victim was another casualty
of the racketeers’ war and that his
body probably was carried to the spot
after a slaying in OtUesgo. *•
Irving Abamanell, proprietor of 20
suburban cleaning establishments, re
ported he too had been threatened
with death, and nightly attacks had
been made oh his shope tor hoodlums.
; ‘Tm supposed to die tomorrow,” he
said. ■ .*;* ...
Four private guards watch hie heme
in l* Grange, and eight men armed
with shotguns convoy his tricks.
Warmth Record Established in
St. Paul; Atlantic Struck
By Severe Storm
(By The Associated Press)
The coast guard and National Red
Cross worked together Wednesday to
bring relief to the floodswept Missis
sippi Delta and its thousands of re
fugees.
While a squad of Red Cross work
ers moved swiftly to alleviate suffer
ing among the homeless and enforce
public health measures in refugee cen
ters, coast guard boats and crews,
hurrtpd frqm the, Great Lakes, and.
Gulf Stitlbns, gave reassurance to
marooned householders in the water
bound back country.
Wholesale vaccinations in the
crowded, half-flooded towns erf six
counties, where farm families sought
comparative Eafety after seeing their
homes inundated from breaks in the
Detta levee systems, were ordered by
the Red Cross and were proceeding
rapidly under the direction of county
health officers.
The swollen Tallahatchie, Yazoo
and tributary streams continued to of
fer the menace of additional damage
with a further spread of the floods.
An all-time record was broken in St.
Paul as the city entered its 20th day
of winter without having experienced
zero weather.
According to records produced by M.
R. Hovde, United States weather ob
server, the longest previous record of
winter weather above aero there end
ed Jan. 18, 1889.
Beven transatlantic passenger ves
sels, including the speedy Europa,
ploughed through stormy seas toward
New York from one to three days
late as a result of the most severe
storm of the winter.
Cold wind helped bring sub-zero
temperatures to parts of the north
west.
The coldest point reporting was
Thief River Falls, with 15 de
grees below zero.
WILL BRING CAPITAL
FIGHT OUT IN OPEN
To Discuss Plans For Resisting
Removal Attempt at As
sociation Meeting
Plans to resist attempts to move the
seat of state government from Bis
marck will be brought into the open
Wednesday night at the annual meet
ing of the Bismarck Association of
Commerce at the World War Memor
ial building, H. P. Goddard, secretary
has announced.
A general discussion of a campaign
to keep the capital at Bismarck will
be the principal business of the eve
ning;
The meeting will, follow a dinner to
be held in the gymnasium of the me
morial building at 6:20 o’clock.
Goddard has Issued an invitation to
the public to attend. Members of the
association will be guests of that or
ganization while members of the serv
ice clubs will attend the affair in place
of their regular weekly meetings. A
charge of 85 cents, to - cover dinner
fees, will be collected from those hot
belonging to the above groups.
O. K. Allen Apparent
Victor in Louisiana
New Orleans, La* Jan. 20. (*) —
Louisiana's combination Governor
and United States senator, Huey P.
Long, Wednesday on toe face of in
complete returns from the • Demo
cratic primary appeared to hove won
another political victory by nomin
ating O. K. Alien to succeed him as
governor.
BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1932
Hint at Accomplice
In ‘Trunk Murders ’
BRITISH FEEL PINCH
OF DUN BOYCOTT
WHILE JAPS PROFIT
100,000 Merchants Expected to
Gather Thursday to Pro
test Restrictions
(By The Associated Press)
Bombay’s markets and exchanges
have been closed for 16 days in pro
test against the government's meas
ures to suppress nationalist activities,
and the merchants organization has
called a meeting expected to .be at
tended Thursday by 100,000 persons
to protest against the restrictive or
dinances and the arrest of Mahatma
Gandhi.
Such a meeting would be in defi
ance of the law forbidding gather
ings of more than five persons. Sta
tistics issued Wednesday gave some
idea of the effect the boycott is hav
ing on British business.. They showed
Japan is fast replacing England in
the cloth market, despite increased
duties.
Sen Gupts Arrested
Sen Gupta, former mayor of Cal
cutta and prominent member of
Gandhi’s cabinet, was arrested Wed
nesday as he arrived on an Italian
steamer and taken to Jail at Poona,
where the Mahatma also is com
mitted.
No illegal act was charged against
him, and it was presumed he was
being held on a charge of member
ship in the national congress which
has been banned by the government.
Charges of terrorization, beating of
Indian women and rough handling
of prisoners by British authorities
were made by Rev. H. V. H. Elwin, a
young English missionary who has
been deported from the frontier.
Friend of Mahatma
Elvln is a friend of Mahatnw
Gandhi and has worked with him
among the untouchables. The Ma
hatma asked the missionary to go to
the northwest frontier and report on
conditions there, and he said he
learned “things that ought to make
an Englishman ashamed.”
Troops have been raiding villages,
he said, and forcing Indian authori
ties to point out people who picketed
cloth and liquor shops on pain of be
ing beaten if they refused. Women
were roughly handled, he said, and
members of the “red shirts” were
beaten and their uniforms burned.
Police also attacked with their
staves a crowd which was praying
outside a mosque, he said, and threw
the bleeding, semi-conscious men in
to the river.
DENVER BAKER HELD
BY KIDNAPING GANG
B. P. Bower Threatened With
Death Unless $50,000 in
Ransom Is Paid
Denver, Colo., Jan. 20.—(/P)—An ap
parent drive by a gang of gunmen
against a Denver bakery corporation
has culminated in the kidnaping of
Benjamin P. Bower, 62, the manager,
by two men who threatened him with
death unless $50,000 ransom was paid
by noon Wednesday.
Bower was abducted from a group
of six persons at his home here late
Tuesday night. The gunmen said they
were members of a gang which had
looted the concern, the Campbell-
Sells Baking company of more than
$1,500 to two robberies.
“Now we are going out after real
dough,” said the leader. The wit
nesses reported to police he told them
he was “Shelton of Illinois.”
The kidnapers forced two women
motorists) Mrs. G. Wlnboum and Mrs.
Clara Pool, to drive them to toe Bow
er home, where Mr! and Mrs. Bower
were entertaining two guests.
“You’re the bird we’re alter,” one
said to' Bower. “We’re taking you
with us *nd we expect to get $50,000
by noon '•tomorrow. If you tell the
newspapers or police it will be just too
bad.”
Urbana’s Young Mayor Orders Holiday
To Protect Local Banks and Business
Urbana, 111., Jan. 20.—</P)—
They’re having a holiday in
Urbana because it looked like the
banks might get into financial
troubles.
Paradoxical as this may seem,
Urbana’s 31-year-pld mayor,
Reginald O. Harmon, just five
yean ago a graduate ,of toe Uni- ;
vanity of Illinois law school,
Wednesday w«s confident the
holiday was a successful means
of insuring financial stability to
the city r s two banks, the First
National and toe Busey state.
He is working on the theory
that “when you lose your head,
stop and count ten.”
When hysteria cawed heavy
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Shadow of Another in Case Ap
pears as Prospective Juror
Is Questioned
JURY NEARING COMPLETION
Winni« Ruth Judd Charged With
Slaying Two 'Best Friends*
Last October
Courthouse, Phoenix, Ariz., Jan. 20.
—(/P) —A hint of producing an accom
plice, or of shifting the burden of
guilt was given by defense counsel
Wednesday In the selection of Jurors
who will decide the fate of Winnie
Ruth Judd.
The shadow of another person in the
case appeared shortly after court con
vened for the second day of the trial
of the pale-faced, 26-year-old woman
for the slaying last October of Agnes
Anne Leßoi, her friend. She also is
charged with murder of Miss Hedvlg
Samuelson, native of North Dakota.
This indictment is to come up later.
Herman Lewkowltz. of defense
counsel, demanded of a prospective
juror: "If you find human life has
been taken and there Is no direct evi
dence showing any connection of this
defendant with the taking of human
life, and the court instructs you as to
circumstantial evidence, and there is
raised in your mind the possibility
this act was committed by another
person—”
Objection Is Raised
Assistant County Attorney G. A.
Rodgers came to his feet to block
completion of the question with an
objection. It was not, he contended,
a proper statement of the case on
trial.
Judge Howard C. Speakman re
cessed court while .counsel went in
search of legal authorities.
Previously Lewkowltz had hinted to
jurors that the question of Mrs. Judd’s
actual connection with the slayings
(Which she once confessed) might
Vise.
"IfiYßßifOnabledoubtwas raisetfln
your mind as to the connection of this
defendant with the act charged, would
you hesitate to vote “not guilty.”
The juror being examined, Stewart
B. Thompson, said he would not hesi
tate.
He was accepted, the 15th juror
seated in the panel of 29 required be
fore peremptory challenges may be ex
ercised under Arizona law.
Reports Are Revived
The defense hint as to possible
shifting, at least In part, of the once
confessed guilt revived reports Mrs.
Judd had given her counsel a state
ment differing from the confession
she made when she surrendered in
Los Angeles, a week after her two
friends had been slain In their Phoe
nix duplex apartment and their bodies
sent In trunks to the coast city.
The strain of her first day in court
had placed its mark on the slender
defendant, when she took her place at
the counaef table Wednesday morn
ing, wearing again the dark blue dress
with modest frill about the neck and
sleeves, in which she made her initial
appearance. Her face was more hag
gard.
When counsel retired to frame their
arguments as to admissibility of Lew
kowlts's questioning of jurors, how
ever, she talked rapidly and animat
edly to her husband. Dr. William C.
Judd, seated at her side. Her blue
(Continued on page Seven)
JUDGE DISMISSES
ACTION AT CARSON
Decides Stats, Failed to -Prove
P. E. Rasmussen Com
mitted Embezzlement
Carson, N. D., Jan. 20.—(AP)—'The
case against P. E. Rasmussen, former
cashier of the Shields State bank,
charged with embezslement, was dis
missed in Grant county district court
Wednesday by Judge H. L. Berry.
On motion of John Sullivan, de
fense' counsel, Judge Berry took the
case from the Jury and ordered a dis
missal on the ground that the state
failed to prove embezzlement had
been committed.
withdrawals, following suspension
of two banks in the adjacent city
of Champaign, he issued a pro
clamation Tuesday dosing all
business establishments, includ
ing banks, but excepting food
stores, drug stems, transportation
and public utility agencies, and
newspapers, hsmi Monday.
Meanwhile toe newspapers
printed editorials encouraging
confidence to the i»4w paving
too way ter 10S dttmna to make
a house to hbwe canvass to
' secure pledges from Amajority of
tefredtow in Urbans'* two banks
tost they win not wltodmw tool*
money ■•‘V;*.
SENATE AND HOUSE
CONFEREESNEARING
AGREEMENT ON BILL
Reconstruction Measure Ex
pected to Be Sent to Presi
dent in Near Future
WITNESSES URGE BEER BILL
Secretary Stimson Asked to
Furnish Barco Oil Conces
sion Correspondence
Washington, Jan. —With
its highest officers already at work,
the reconstruction corporation faced
but a few more hours of congressional
consideration Wednesday before it
will be brought into actuality by
presidential signature.
Conferees adjusting points of dis
pute between the senate and house
as to just what it will do, by way of
giving business a spurt forward,
found their task easy.
After conferences Senator Norbeck,
(R.. S. Dak.) explained that the task
of “ironing out” the differences is
one that takes time but added, “we
are getting along fine and hope to
report the bill tomorrow.”
Once that is done, congress prob
ably will take a short time to ap
prove the adjusted legislation and
send it to the other end of Pennsyl
vania avenue for President Hoover s
signature.
After six hours of deliberation
Tuesday and Wednesday conferees
were agreed the $2,000,000,000 cor
poration's obligations should not be
eligible for rediscount through the
federal reserve system.
Victory for Senate
This was a victory for the senate.
On another major principle of the
mammoth credit organization’s
make-up the senate yielded, agreeing
tp a house provision to permit the
corporation to make loans to insolv
ent banks to relieve depositors. A
special administration-sponsored bill
to create a separate corporation for
this purpose Is pending in both
houses.
Another point of agreement was a
concession on the part of the house
the farm loan commissioner Instead
of the secretary of agriculture should
be a member of the board of direc
tors.
A $50,000,000 provision for loans to
farmers, conferees agreed, should
stay in the bill in essentially the
form passed by the senate except the
amount will come out of the $2,000,-
000,000 instead of being an addition
al appropriation.
The senate finance committee re
quested Secretary Stimson to fur
nish certain correspondence relating
to the Barco, Oil concession after
the state department head had sub
mitted telegrams with the oil mat
ters eliminated.
Advocate Bingham Bill
Benator Barbour, new Republican
member from New Jersey, advocated
the Bingham four per cent beer bill
as a “step toward the return to rea
son find common sense.”
Dr. Martin Dewey, New York,
president of the American Dental as
sociation, testified that the “general
nutrition of the American public,
the general health of the individual,
and improved dental condit ions
would be established by making it
possible for the American people to
obtain the benefits from light wines
and beer."
Matthew Woll, president of labor’s
national committee for modification
of the Volstead Act, pleaded for a
change to permit manufacture of a
2.75 per cent malt beverage.
Proposals on Capitol Hill for re
duction of federal salaries were stu
died by President Hoover, but he ad
hered to his position that no general
slash is advisable.
Further congressional action on
the $616,250,000 naval construction
bill may be delayed until President
Hoover has passed on it.
BOY ACCIDENTALLY
SHOOTS B SISTER
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‘Unloaded’ Cun in Hftnds of
Nine-Year-Old Fatal to
New Rockford GTrl
New Rockford, N. D., Jan. 20.— 4ff>—
Funeral services for Ingaladise Jensen,
killed when her nine-year-old brother,
Raymond, discharged a rifle which he
believed was unloaded, have been set
for Thursday.
The accident occurred while the
Jensens were visiting at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Rasmus Eldom, about SO
miles east of here. Raymond found
the gun as the Jensen family was
ready to depart.
He playfully pointed the weapon at
his sister and pulled the trigger. The
bullet entered the girl's right eye.
The child’s parents, MV. and Mrs.
Thor Jensen of Colvin township, and
seven children are left.
Following an investigation My
county officials held the death result
ed from accident and announced no
inquest would be held. * r V’
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Your hair would stand on end, too,
if you had to sit. in an electric chair
with 200,000 volts of electricity turn
ed on. But that’s the lot of every
freshman taking the electrical course
at Oregon Institute of Technology ai
Portland. Here you see Vernon Rose
braugh as the Juice was turned on.
There is practically no amperage,
which accounts for the harmless ef
fect of the chargp.
EARTHQUAKE ROCKS
PERUVIAN CITIES TO
FRIGHTENPOPULACE
Only One Killed But Several Are
Seriously Injured as Build
ings Topple
Lima, Peru, Jan. 20.—<A>)—Inhabit
ants of Lima, Callao, and the sur
rounding area, were recovering Wed
nesday from a night of terror caused
by an earthquake . which ripped
streets and buildings and resulted in
at least one death and serious injury
to several.
The newspaper El Commercio re
ported one person killed in the crum
bling of a house at Huacho. The
shock was most severe at Ruaraz and
Huacho and was strongly felt also at
Pisco, Canete, lea and other towns.
The shock,, which citizens said was
the most severe since 1904, followed
a lesser one earlier in the day. The
second occurred at 9:30 P. M. on a
hot summer night It was preceded
by a hollow, underground rumbling
which caused the first fright among
the people.
Walls of buildings cracked, cornices
fell, roofs crumbled and the streets
rolled as if In waves. They were
soon filled with careening automo
biles. out of the drivers’ control In
the unsteadiness of the pavements
underneath.
Simultaneously, lights went out.
The darkness was filled with the
hysterical screams of thousands who
fled In panic from homes, churches
and theaters into the unsteady streets
and open squares. The crash of
breaking glass added to the tumult.
RAIL-LABOR PARLEY
IS POSTPONED AGAIN
Presidents of Carriers Are Pre
paring Statistics on Their
Obligations
Chicago, Jan. 20.— (/Pi —The sixth
session of the negotiations between
railway presidents and their organized
employes was postponed Wednesday
morning to enable the executives to
collect more data in support of their
plea for a 10 per cent wage reduction.
The Brotherhood and Union leaders
Tuesday told the presidents that if
they wanted ffife employes to give
“careful consideration" to financial
arguments for the wage reduction. It
would be advisable for than to pre
sent “a written compilation of what
they regarded as important statistics."
The presidents said they would, have
the data compiled and Tuesday’s
meeting broke up early to enable
them to start on the work. '
Wednesday, however, their Infor
mation still was Incomplete and at
(he presidents’ request the conference
scheduled to start at 10 a. m. was de
ferred, to start at 2 p. m. if possible.
The new statistics backing up the
argument for a voluntary wage cut for
one year were expected to deal main
ly with the needs of the railroads to
meet their fixed charges and to main
tain credit.
David B. Robertson, leader of the
Union delegation, made it clear Tues
day this was what labor would Oho to
be informed about.
■ *nm M ynii retard and
talk of the value of railroad proper*
tm seas classed by Robertson *s .
less argument,” and he added that la-
Uor, “oonid a*Mlt" the CoiHgMMh
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Mostly cloudy tonight and
Thursday: not »' cold.
PM CHIEFS WILL
NOMINATE MEN FOR
IMPORTANT OFFICE
Indications Are No Candidal
Will Be Entered Against
Hoover in Primary
WILL DEVISE PLATFORI
F. J. Graham and Mrs. Minnie I
Craig Favored to Retain '*
Present Posts
Members of the Republican Stat
Central committee met in Bismarc
Wednesday and indications wee
they would not endorse a candidat
for the presidency to run at th
preferential primary election i
March. *
Most leaders of the group regard
ed endorsement of President Hoove
as an impossibility and there was n
one else to whom the committe
could turn if it were disposed to glv
an endorsement.
This situation was further em
phasized by receipt of informatioi
from Senators Lynn J. Frazier in
Gerald P. Nye at Washington, sug
gesting that action be delayed unti
later. It was reported that Senator
Johnson of California and Borah o
Idaho, each of whom had been ask
ed by the North Dakota senators u
enter the primary, had either re
fused to do so or had not made i
decision.
The official business of the con
vention was to nominate II candx
dates for delegates to the Republicai
national convention, four for Repub
llcan presidential electors and oni
each for national commltteemai
and committeewoman as well as U
draft a platform to be urged by the
delegates to the national convention
This declaration also will eompriw
the official declaration of principle!
by the Republican party in North
Dakota.
Is Open Proposition
The selection of convention del
egates and presidential electors was
an open proposition, although them
was some disposition to renominate
the men who proved successful can
didates four yean ago.
Fred J. Graham. EHendale, and
Mrs. Minnie D. Craig, Esmond, were
regarded as certain choices for re
nomination as national committee
man and committeewoman. respec
tively.
Reports that Graham might meet
opposition apparently were without
much foundation. Some delegates
said they sensed that certain mem
bers of the party were not wholly
satisfied with Graham but that no
rival candidates were being talked of.
Proposals, made in pre-session
conversations, that the committee
endorse Joseph I. France, former
Maryland senator, for the presidency
seemed to get lisle support and in
dications were that the “favorite
son” movement, launched some time
ago for Senator Lynn J. Frazier, had
died a horning.
See Support for France
Members of the Progressive Re
publican party, who also are mem
bers of the state central committee,
saw in the prospective failure of the
committee to endorse a candidate,
however, tentative support for
France. This idea is based on the
thought that national convention
delegates selected here will be pro
gressives and that they will prefer
France to Hoover. The Progressive
Republicans meet January 25 at Val
ley City and it was suggested that
they may endorse the same candi
dates for the convention and the
same presidential electors as are
favored by the meeting here.
The list of official committeemen,
as issued by T. H. Thoresen, Grand
Forks, committee chairman, contain
ed the names of two regularly elect
ed members who ordinarily would be
expected to meet with the "rump” or
I. V. A. minority of the committee.
They were R. J. Hughes of the 12th
legislative district, Wahpeton, and
Maurice A. Aker of the 37th district,
Wahpeton. Both are la Richland
county. .
Other members of the minority
faction had refused to serve with tne
majority of the committee and their
places have been filled by appoint
ment, but Thoresen said Hughes and
Aker had indicated a willingness so
(Continued on page Seven)
Name New Directors
For Hebron Company
Fargo, If J b, Jan. 20.—<*•)—' Two
new directors of thp Hebron Brick
company were elected at a meeting
of the hoard Of directors lrr Fargo
Tuesday. They aio R. R. Wolfer and
Morris Bede, both of Jamestown, who
sucoeed the late J. F. Bolinger and
L. B. Menteyer, Jamestown, trim is
ill. >•
Other Mn elected are A. M
ffshOead. Jamestown; J. D. Dtnni*,
Orapd Forks, and Carl J. Farup,
Park River. The dlreptoes will elect
of fleers at a Meeting to Tamsstmrn,
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