The Bismarck Tribune from Bismarck, North Dakota • 1

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE I ESTABLISHED 1873 20 LIVES LOST WHEN BOAT SINKS NEW RECORDS EXPECTED IN MEET TODAY JMore Than 100 High School Athletes Competing in Carnival Here 16 TEAMS ENTERED Preliminaries Held This Morning and Finals on Afternoon Program More than one hundred athletes, representing 16 North Dakota High schools, accompanied by scores of rooters, are here today for the second annual Capital City track and field meet that opened at 10 o'clock this morning at the Baseball park. The quarter mile track was in fine shape and there was little wind as the meet got underway. Conditions were favorable for fast time in the races and good marks in the field events, The star athletes of the 6 High schools were to compete and it was expected that a number pf Capital City records would be broken. ill I I The preliminaries were run off this morning in which six men qualified for the finals in each event, which ure being held this afternoon. The team scoring the highest number of points will be given custody of the Bonham cup for one year.

A school must win the meet three times 1 i to gain permanent possession of the trophy. A gold watch will be award' ed the athlete making the highest individual score. The F. A. Knowles Jewelry store will give cups to the teams winning the mile and half r.iiie relay races.

Ribbons wili be awarded for first, second and third place in each event. Teams from the following schools are competing in the meet: I Bismarck, Mandan, Steel, Minot, Turtle Lake, Arena, Washburn, Wilton. Carson, New Salem, New Leipzig, Golden Valley, McClusky, Underwood, St. of Bismarck. The meet is in charge of the lowing officials: Honorary referees A.

G. Sorlie, Mayor A. f. Lenhart and Superintendent 11. O.

Saxvik. Manager of meet M. Mac- Leod. Starter 1 Personius. Clerks of Cullen, Bob Bodenstab.

Finish Shean, Mickey Lynch, Mike Donovan and Tommy Thoraidson. Head track Cox. Head field F. Bublitz. Judges of Byrne, Harry Homan.

Judges of Sorlien, Gordon Brown. Harry Woodmansee. W. Roberts, Lou Craswell, Mai Brown. Head Shearn.

Cayou. W. S. Casselman. Scorers Robidou, Gabriel Brown.

The program will be us follows: Presentation of cups and ribbons by Jame 3 Morrison. Music by Archie McGray and Arthur Cayou. Speech by Gov. A. G.

Sorlie. Dance by Betty Lofthouse. Speech 'by W. F. McClelland.

Supt. of Training School, Mandan. Music by High School Quartette. Speech by J. Scroggins.

Geo. M. Register will act an toastmaster. The High School Orchestra will furnish music during the banquet. The Bismarck Juvenile band furnished music at the athletic grounds during the mept.

The Bismarck and visiting athletes will be entertained by the Bismarck Association of Commerce at 7 a. m. at the McCabe Methodist church. A program will be given and the prizes will be awarded to the place winners in the meet. 6 I Weather Report For 24 hours ending at noon.

Temperature at 7 a. 42 Highest yesterday 60 Lowest yesterday 28 Lowest last night 40 Precipitation Highest wind velocity 18 WEATHER FORECAST For Bismarck and vicinity: Part, ly overcast tonight and Sunday. Colder with frost possible tonight. 1 For North -Dakota: Partly overcast tonight and Sunday. Colder with frost possible tonight.

GENERAL WEATHER CONDITIONS The pressure is low from the south, ern Plains States westward to the Pacific coast. Another low pressure area is centered over Manitoba while higher pressure prevails over the pf-rthern Rocky Mountain region and over the New England States. Light precipitation occurred at most places in the Plains States and lower Valley; elsewhere the weather generally fair. Warmer weather prevails over the northern Plains States but lower temperature, with Iprost at some places, prevails over the northern Rocky Mountain region. ORRIB W.

ROBERTS. Official in charge. The number of Methodists ip the United States is 4,711,994. MOST TRAGIC EYES IN WORLD Harriot Hammond, movie actress, has the most trdgic eyes in the world, says Elinor (Jlyn, writer. Harriet was working as an until Madame Glyn paid tribute to her eyes.

Now many producers are bidding for her services. LARGE CARGO OF RUM TAKEN BY U. S. SHIP Arrest Near Norfolk Indicates Booze Ships Are Sending Liquor South (By The Associated Press) Norfolk, May gasoline launch, Bank Eloise with 300 cases of whiskey aboard was towed into port today by the coast guard cutter Mascoutin and three men -aboard were locked up in the city jail on charges of violating prohibition and customs law's. Inquiries at the local coast guard station in regard tp details of the capture were met with vague responses but word leaked out that the rum fleet off the New York and New Jersey coast is either sending its cargo south in small boats or it has itself moved its base southward.

BISMARCK GIRL WINS HONORS AT UNIVERSITY Grand Forks, N. May Helen Crawford of Bismarck was among the seven winners in the Stockwell oratorical contest for freshmen, held this week at 'the University of North Dakota. The subject of her oration was Heritage of the Old West." The final contest, which the seven winners in the preliminaries will compete, will be held May 27. Others who won last night were: Slayton Watkins of Fargo, speaking on Agdur Flnten, Grand Forks, "Lincoln and the Leah Gilmore, Grand Forks, Defense of Our Ellen Gunderson, Grand Forks, of Richard Sturtevant, Grand Forks, and Charles Whitlow, Mohall, we Grant the Philippines Independence?" The noise of atoms moving about in a piece of iron has been detected by sensitive amplifiers. PASTOR LEAVES AFTER FIFTEEN YEARS OF SOtVICE IN BISMARCK Starting in Bismarck in 1910 with a congregation of only five communicants and no church, Rev.

E. F. Alfson, recently resigned pastor of the First Lutheran Church will leave be-, hind when he departs from Bismarck next Wednesday for Escalon, California, a congregation of about one hundred and church edifice built largely through his own efforts on the corner of Seventh Street and Avenue D. Mr, Alfson came from Kane, Pa. on June 20, 1910, and commenced holding church services and Sunday school immediately in the court house hall.

In 1913, despite the almost insurmountable difficulties of no funds and a very small congregation, building operations were commenced on the present site, Mr. Alfson himself buying the brick in and the pews and other furniture in Minneapolis. Carpenters and. a 'bricklayer in the congregation acted as foremen on the job, dispensing with the services of a contractor to keep expenses at a minimum. While the men were at work during the wee4c, Mr.

Alfson was scouring the city to collect money to pay the weekly wages. Finally, in July, 1915, the First Lutheran, Church was dedicated, THUGS ESCAPE WITH RICH LOOT IN DARING RAID (By The Associated Press) New York, May robbers held up the jewelry store of J. Ross in Grand Street today and escaped with $90,000 worth of jewelry after handcuffing and binding four employees. The neighborhood was crowded with Jewish Sabbath crowds and police reserves had to be called out to restore order. FARGO UNIONS PROTEST WORK BfPRISONERS Object to Convict Labor For State and County Work Fargo, May 9.

Fargo Trades and Labor Union has sent a protest to Commissioner of Agriculture and Labor, J. A. Kitchen, at Bismarck, against use of prison labor for state and county highway work. The protest followed announcement that prissuers at the stute penitentiary wourl he used in labor operations connected with the paving of a road between Bismarck and the penitentiary. Conrad Meyer, secretary of the local trade aud labor union, said that although the protest was immediately based on this instance, it was meant to apply to all such wofk.

Fargo Union cannot see where use of convict labor would be any great saving to tlic taxpayers of the state and with the great number of unemployed it seems they should be given every possible chance to. secure a job on the state Mr. Meyer said. The protest was brought before the state board of administration here today by Mr. Kitchen but no action had been taken on the protest early this afternoon.

Vienna has more than 18,000 trees within its limits. In Escalon, Mr. Alfson will enlarge the sphere of- his activities and usefulness. No successor has yet been chosen to fill the vacant pulpit at the First Lutheran Church, as none of the calls that have been extended has been accepted as yet. Meanwhile, however, arrangements have been made for Prqf.

A. E. Pannquist of Minnesota College, Minneapolis, to supply the Bismarck Braddock church pulpits during the summer months. Mr. and Mrs.

Alfson, when they leave next week, wiU be accompanied by their daughter, Edna. Miss Alfhild O. Alfson, who until recently was for several years assistant secretary to Senator Frazier, will continue in her position at the State office at the Capitol, and Miss Sigrid Alfson will remain in Washington filling the position vacated by her sister. Edward Alfson, who is well known in Bismarck athleties, playing fullback on the high school team in his student years from 1920 to 1924, and center on the basketball team, as well as being a track star, will continue in his position in the First Rational Bank, BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1925 SENATE RULES ARE DEFENDED BY CHIEFTAIN Mcses Hits Back at Dawes in Address Delivered in New York ACT AS SAFEGUARDS Declares Unlimited Debate Prevents Hasty Legislation by Blocs Syracuse, N- May rules permitting unlimited debate are the strongest safeguards against h.is'y legislation by a coalition of the blocs that have sprung up in American political lift, Senator Moses, Republican, New Hampshire, declared here last night in an address defending those rules against the assaults of Vice President Dawes. Calling attention that the coalitions differed from day to day as new legislation to cure the ills existing in different sections are advanced the president pro tempore of the senate said the majorities thus momentarily welded together i bound to be us reckless us they arc Senator Moses said it was axiomatic that the majority had the right to rule, but he declared that majorities differed from day to day.

majority in the he said, no longer partisan or even political. In point of fact, except through artificial means, strict party division is rarely to be had nowa days at cither end of the capital, and the engrossing question nowdays are those, of economic import affecting the material interests of sectional groups of Detailing his own experiences in the senate. Senator Moses said he could not feel that the rules worked more than a fancied hardship. He added that he could not believe that even more seasoned legislators than himself could freely contemplate, a movement to change them. "It is to be he said, with few exceptions the demand for a change in the rules of the senate arises from those whose contact with' the senate is either brief or non-existent.

Many a man has come into the senate with a determination to tame it, and almost without exception these men themselves have been tamed by the senate and have come to realize the true value of the senate rules." Senator Moses declared that limitation of debate already exists in the senate through unanimous consent arrangements frequently resorted to after full free discussion, He also called attention to the rule which enables sixteen senators to force a vote without debate on the question of limiting debate on any subject to one hour for each senator. Only a majority vote is necessary to enforce such limitation, he said. A remedy for everything complained of in senate rul.es, Senator Moses went on, is offered in the Norris constitutional amendment which would do away with short sessions of congress and prevent legislation by ducks" by moving up the meeting time of a newly elected congress from the March after the election to January! have not he said, any of those now so busily engaged in defaming the senate have shown any willingness to endorse Senator proposal. It may be that they are as ignorant of it as they are of the actual effect of the rules of the senate. in this impatient age it is surely not too much to ask that there may still remain in this country some forum in which freedom of expression in length, if not in depth, may still be found.

If in the ideas of the founding fathers, as president Harding liked to refer to them, there still remains merit in their conception of a Republic with representative institutions, surely it is worthwhile to retain one place where that conception may be sustained. "But if we have discarded the principles of that earlier era and are to live henceforward under hybrid institutions, resulting from the skill of the Luther Burbank of in engrafting scions of democracy upon the stem of the Republic, then we might as stall give ear to the clamor which has recently bn st MURDER CHARGE AGAINST KLAN LEADER STANDS (By The Associated Press) Indianapolis, May 9. James A. Collins, in criminal court today, overruled a motion to strike out vital parts of the murder indictment against D. C.

Stephenson, former gfand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, Karl Klink and Earl Gentry. They are charged with the murder of Miss Madge Qberholtzer of Indianapolis. Counsel for the defendants then filed a motion to quash the indictments and May 16 set as the date foo a hearing. RADIO HELPS SHINE New York, May enterprising bootblaek now carries a small crystal set to entertain his patrons while he is shining their shoes. MENTIONED Among those who are being mentioned for the post of solicitor general to succeed J.

M. Beck, resigned, is William D. Mitchell of Minneapolis, shown above. LIQUOR FLEET BREAKING UP ALONG COAST Many Booze Ships Give Up Fight Against Blockade and Leave For Home (By The Associated Press) New York, May 9. of the breaking up of the liquor fleet anchored along rum row off the coast were reported by coast guard officials who were informed by wireless that some of the rum ships had lifted anchor and put out to sea as a result of the blockade.

Assistant Secretary Andrews, the field marshal the prohibition forces, and Rear Admiral Billard, commandant of the coast guard, are in a serious mood. Admiral Billard recognizes that the situation has developed Into what almost amounts to a war to the death and he plans to do the best job his power and facilities permit. a big job, a hard Mr. Andrews remarked, we mean business. We are not quitters.

The crews of the coast guard have the tradition of service at heart. They be frightened by With evidence accumulating that land agents of the rum smugglers were ready to take long chances for the high stakes of their illicit trade, coast guardsmen everywhere have been warned by headquarters to expect sudden and drastic moves from any direction, and to use caution. Admiral Billard is backing them up to the limit, they were told, and is ready to give them every legal assistance available under coast guard laws. Confidential reports to headquarters and incidents involving officialand members of the coast guard dsjily within the last few weeks, have convinced all that the summer will be no vacation trip for the outfit, but will be crowded with attacks, threats, sabotage, insults, ambuscades, bribery attempts, and political pressure. Headquarters officials have been called by long distance and local telephone in the last two days by rum agents who offered bribes; were refused, the agents branded the officials as crooks and charged them With letting other rum boats through the lines.

In one instance, after the bribe attempt had failed, Lieutenant Commander Yeandle, aide to the Commandant, was warned to make himself around New York. Commander Yeandle has been active in carrying out Admiral program of mobilization. LEGION DRIVE IN BISMARCK NEARING GOAL With more than two-thirds of quota of $2,000 for the American Legion endowment fund raised Thursday and Friday, members of the committee conducting the drive are working today to complete the quota by tonight. The workers expect to have no trouble in raising the entire amount as the people of Bismarck contributed liberally during the' first two days of the campaign. Following are North Dakota Communities which have reported their quotas oversubscribed, with amounts of quotas, in the last 24 St.

Thomas, $290; Sanborn, $100; Dazey, $100; Ray, $160; Edmore, $170; Goodrich, $100; Lisbon, $616; Bowbells, $166; Wyndmere, $156; Heaton, $100; Nortonville, $100; and Kindred, SIOO. SAILORS TRAPPED London, May 9. breaking up a German destroyer beached in Mill Bay, Scapa Flow, discovered bodies of five and sailors concealed under a mass of wreckage. Indian women climb the highest -hilltops at night to wail for the dead. SON CHARGED WITH MURDER OF DR.

DILLON Youth Held For Slaying of St. Louis Man on University Campus BOY ATTENDS COLLEGE Beneficiary of Insurance Policies Carried By His Father (By The Associated Press) St. Louis, May TJ. Dillon, nineteen year old son of Dr. William A.

Dillon, whose body with bullet wounds in the head and loft knee was found on Washington University stadium here, was nrrested at the home of his mother here early today in connection with the slaying. Police would make 'no statement regarding the outcome of hours of questioning. They said the was cool, self-possessed and showed no nervousness. His refusal to answer their questions was steadfast. Young Dillon is the beneficiary of three health and accident insurance policies carried by his father, totaling $15,000.

The last one was taken out April 22, eight days before Dr. Dillon was slain. The son has been attending Kansas University, Lawrence, Kansas. Dillon was arrested April 4, 1924, and charged with robbery in the first degree following the death of George Barnett, high school boy who was killed by a city detective after he had committed four highway robberies. The charge was subsequently dismissed.

His arrest this time followed an investigation of alleged theft made ngainst the physician and the tracing by city and county authorities of numerous telephone calls. ELECTION OF GERMAN WAR LEADER VALID German Examining Board Rejects Protest Made By tSocialists (By The Associated Berlin, May 9. the Socialist protest, the federal election examining board last night confirmed as valid the election of von Hindenburg to the presidency of Germany. Members of the board announced that the evidence presented was of an immaterial nature and that the field marshal's election was incoiitestible. The examination was merely a perfunctory affair as the declaration that von Hindenburg with a plurality of over 900,000, had been elected through fraud had never received much credence.

AUTO PARKED IN FRONT OF THEATRE TAKEN R. E. Yaeter has reported to the police that his Chevrolet touring car was stolen Thursday evening from in front of the Eltinge theatre. The police have notified officers in surrounding town, to be on the lookout for the auto. Girl Reveals Blackmail Plot Against'Star (By The Associated Press) Los Angeles, May 9.

new youth for motion picture was revealed to police today in the story of Justine Neff, known in pictures as Justine Valse, who was arrested at her own request to protect her against men, she said, had used her in a blackmail plot ugainst Pola Negri. The girl explained that because closely resembled Miss Negri and once had for her in a picture, she was chosen by the blackmailers to pose as Miss Negri in a scandalous photograph they intended to use as a means of Intimidating the screen star into paying them money. She was taken to the psychopathic ward of the general hospital for observation, while detectives checked her story. AUCTION OLD CASTLE Paris, May French government plans to sell at auction the ruins of the famous castle of Due de Guise in the Oise Valley. It was 'built in 1549.

The castle was the scene of several battles centuries ago, and during the World War a company of French artillery was quartered there. TWO BQYB TO HANG London, May highest court here has upheld the death sentences of William Crossley, 19, and Edward Heggarty, 17, convicted of murdering a constable. QUITS IN DEBT Colonel Guy R. Moloney ii stepping out as police chief of New Orleans. And with his leaving office on May 1 comes to light one of the most famous mortgages in the history of the city.

It. is a 1500 mortgage on an SBOOO home. The same mortgage was on that home when he took office eight years ago. New Orleans has many police chiefs retire to look after their investments, but this is something new. SEVEN BABIES AWAIT PARENTS IN HOSPITAL Police Investigate Deaths of 22 Children in New York Nurseries (By The Associated Press) New York, May babies await claimants in Bellevue Hospital where they were taken after an investigation of the activities of Mrs.

Helen Geisen-Volk, former Red Cross nurse in the German army, at whose institution twenty-two babies have died within a year. The twenty-second victim is in a morgue awaiting an autopsy to confirm an official verdict of acute malnutrition. Distrncted mothers beseiged the institution yesterday and one tried to attack Mrs. Geisen-Volk. The complaint of William Angerer, that Mrs.

Geisen-Volk returned to him a child other than his own resulted in the investigation. Angercr says he cannot find his own child. Mrs. Geisen-Volk is under arrest on a charge of child substitution. Yesterday she was taken by police to her institution, where, with the aid of a card index, she gave the names of the infants and addresses, if available, of those who left them with her.

Four children were claimed by parents and the seven others were sent to Bellevue. Mrs. GeisCn-Volk's license called only for seven children in the house. SORLIE ASKED TO ASSIST IN SEARCH FOR BOY Gov. A.

G. Sorlie has been asked by a St. Paul mother to aid in the search for her 17-year-old son who disappeared from home on Oct. 20, 1924. The mother, Mrs.

N. Krasnow, 600 Dayton avenue, St. Paul, said in her letter to Gov. Sorlie that she is heartbroken over his silence. She promises that if he will write her a few lines telling her where he is and how he is, she will not bother him.

She says she is just anxious to know that he is living and well. The woman declares she will do everything possible for the boy and if he wants to come home she will send him money and never mention his silence and disappearance. CAMPUS HISTORY BEING WRITTEN AT UNIVERSITY Grand Forks, N. May 9. Agnes Moe of Dick'insog is included in the persons who make up the staff which is compiling the Campus History at the University of North Dakota.

This is the first year such a publication has been attempted. Only two copies will be made, one of which will be kept at the University library, and the other at the Journalism library. Other members of the staff are: Ruth Germe, editor, Red Lake Falls, Alden Squires, Roy Quamme, both of Grand Forks; Lucy Johnston, Wales; Carlyle Onsrud, Coleharbor; LaVerne Cope, Jamestown; Ruth Sulerud, Halstad, Winnifred Beach, East Grand Forks, and Ralph Nyblaad, Alvarado, departmental editors. ROB POLICE BTATION Yokohama, May 9. masked bandits held up a suburban police station here while two of the policemen were asleep.

They not only took a large assortment of valuables from the station, but stole an army truck from the station. FINAL EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS STEAMER GOES TO BOTTOM OF MISSISSIPPI Men, Women and Children Trapped Like Rats When Ship Capsizes DIVERS HUNT BODIES U. S. Government Craft Lies in 35 Feet of Water at Coahoma Landing (By The Associated Press) Memphis, May 9. in the whirling muddy current of the ississippi as she attempted to stagger ashore, the U.

S. S. Government steamer Norman, newest of the engineering corps fleet here, today lies in 35 feet of water just below Coahoma Landing, and with her in her watery grave lie 20 of a day excursion party ypsterday went for an outing on the broad expanses of the big river. Among the men, women and children who were catapulted into the stream and who remained there or were fished out with life extinct were some of the best known men in the engineering profession of the south. The trip had been taken as a side issue to the first annual convention of the Mid-South Association of Engineers, just formed here.

The Chisoa and Monitor, together with other steamers and a number of motor boats, today were combing the banks of the river between Coahoma Landing and Bruins in an effort to find bodies or to locate any living who may have made their way to isolated places. Meanwhile government officials planned to send divers down into the hull of the capsized boat and if necessary cut a hole through her bottom in an effort to reach any bodies that may have been caught in the cabin. The boat is lying bottom up 200 yards below the point where she capsized. The Norman along with the government steamer Chectaw of the army engineer corps fleet here had been put at the disposal of the engineers for a trip to Cow Island, 25 miles south of Memphis. The Norman was being headed for the Tennessee shore when she went down.

When just opposite Josie Harris island, survivors said. Major D. H. Connolly noticed that the boat was shifting. He spoke of this to Captain Howard Fenton, commanding.

Major Connolly went about tho boat scattering the passengers bat the vessel continued to careen. Sensing danger, Major Connolly directed the captain to head for the shore. The boat was started in that direction but when 300 feet from the Tennessee shore she started to list sharply. Cool headed passengers quickly tore away the screen doors and equipped all passengers possible with life preservers and planks. Captain Fenton said the rudder failed to respond when the Norman began to list.

The steamer had on board about fifty persons. The steamer sank at exactly 5:10 p. according to survivors. At first she began rocking from side to side, careening so that persons on board were forced to run from one side to the other in an effort to remain on the high side of the boat. Finally she careened so far that she could not recover.

Survivors said, however, that there was no panic. Tom Lee, operating a motor boat for the Tennessee Construction company, who happened to be passing the Norman when she turned over, saved the lives of most of those rescued, W. W. Deberard, of Memphis told the Associated Press. He said but for this fact virtually every person on board would have been drowned.

Few persons managed to swim ashore. There was no explosion when the boat sank, the survivors said. Jack Cothran, engineer, having turned off the fuel oil under the boilers when the boat began to misbehave. Graphic stories by persons who were precipitated into the swift current, said to be the worst stretch of water in the river between Memphis and Helena, Arkansas, told how the boat overturned too quickly for lifeboats to be launched. Grasping bits of wreckage, loose life preservers and mounting overturned lifeboats, the victims were swept down stream.

But for Tom Lea, a negro who was passing in a motor boat, virtually all of the sixty or more persons on board the boat would have perished, survivors were unanimous in saying. He first rescued the women and then turned to the mep, going about his task coolly and without undue haste. How many he pulled out and carried to safety on a sandbar, none could say. The disaster occurred so fast that few had time to obtain and adjust life-preservers. W.

W. Deberard of Chicago, western editor of the Engineering News Record said: "There was no screaming or yelling of men except to call for life preservers and to throw them DREAMS COMES TRUE Rome, May 9. young woman bought three lottery tickets, according to numbers which her husband, just before his death, said were revealed to him In a dream. All three were winning numbers, the woman receiving more than $100,090..