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THe WealEer Partly cloudy to cloudy Monday North Dakota's Oldest Newspaper THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE PRICE FIVE CENTS foLUMES BISMARCK, NOBTH DAKOTA. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1931 Holmes Kills Self in bsbss5Sss Prison SS Reapportionment Battle Opens in V.A MINORITY REPORTS Mrs. Schroeder and Fighting for Chicago Mayoralty Dague Electrocuted These men are the leading figures in what promises to be one of the bitterest end most, involved ma.vnrs.itv fiamrjaiens Chicago has had in years. Four candidates have filed for the Republican nomination, while the Democrats are united on one. Tne rtepuDiican uNiiinn u.i.

Thiunnnti, (Wn Charles V. Barrett; No. 3, Alderman' Albert F. Albert, and No. 4, Judge John H.

Iyie. NO. IS tne lone uemocraiic aiiiuu u. Disorders Reported As Bed inmiA imfllllimi WING BLACKSMITH USES SUSPENDERS TOGHOKE HIMSELF Was Awaiting Trial on Murder Charge Following Armistice Night Fray PROTESTED HIS INNOCENCE Accused cf Inflicting Fatal Wounds on Deputy Sheriff George Pe'rpkorn John Holmes. Wins blacksmith charged with the fatal stabbing of George Felpkorn, deputy sheriff last Armistice 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 a. m. Sunday. Physicians pro nounced tnat aeatn was due to strangulation and estimated that he died sometime between midnight Saturday and 3 o'clock Sunday morning.

was discovered lying on nis oea prison hospital with one end ol his auspenders 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 to a forward position by the band at his neck. No signs of struggle were evident and he was found with his hands folded across his chest. Prisoners in adiolnlne rooms testi fied that he made not the slightest sound; the hospital attendant heard oisturoance. jmson orxiciais were azed at the fortitude of a man who could quietly strangle himself without making the slightest sound.

A prisoner in the room just opposite testified that he had been awake during the time the tragedy occurred and that any noise would have penetrated his room, the doors of the rooms in the hospital being made of bars with wide spaces between. just oeiore mionignt Hoimes naa spoken through the bars to a fellow- 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 to the hospital for a scalp wound sustained when he struck his head against the wall. He had been (riven to mumbling to him self but when directly questioned his taut nas oeen rational, prison oraciais DODGE YOUTH IS ACCIDENT VICTIM Earl Fisher, 21, Dies in Dickin son Hospital from Automobile Collision' (Tribune Special Service) Dickinson. N.

Feb. 23. Earl Fisher, 21, whose father operates an automobile agency at Dodge, died at 7:30 a. m. Monday to a local hospital as the result of a skull fracture and lacerations received to a head-on automobile collision on highway No.

22 four miles south of KiUdeer Sunday night. Herman Jacobson, Dodge, who was riding with Fisher, suffered a broken arm and Lillian Gustafson, also of Dodge and a passenger to the car, was cut above the eye and two stitches were taken to one of her knees. Knute Buriey, Kiiideer, driver or the other automobile, was the only one of the other five passengers to oe nun. his neao is oaoiy onnsea. The accident occurred at tne loot a hill.

An automobile was parked there and when Fisher saw it he turned his machine to avoid a colli sion and ran head-on into Burley's Beauty Hints Book Offered by Tribune This compilation is a condensation of the best of modern thought and Knowledge on me oroso suoject or beauty culture. It tells to the most helpful way what every woman should know and what she can do to attain her maximum to physical attractiveness and charm. It includes many recipes for creams and lotions and directions for massage and healthful exercises. Above all, it suggests nothing that is not absolutely sane and safe. send your letters direct to our Washington NOT to The Tribune office in Bismarck.

This win insure quicker service to yon than if your letters are sent here and relayed Washington. P.O. I enclose herewith six cents in eoto or stamps far a copy of the booklet on BEAUTY HINTS. Chicago Election Wears S0PRAN0V0ICE0F MM MELBA IS Malady Contracted in Egypt Brings Death to 71 -Year-Old Prima Donna GIVEN UNIVERSAL ACCLAIM 'Australian Nightingale' Had Appeared on United State Stages Often Svdnev. Australia, Feb.

23. (ffr I The curtain was rung down Monday on the life oi name rueuie aaeioa, uw of the purest sopranos grand opera has ever known, after weeks abed with a strange illness which baffled ner physicians. Seventy-one years old, the fai n.ta rinnna for cpvprftl dftVS fought a losing battle with a skin malariv ntalred lit) in EeVDt and ag gravated oy a long juuree the extreme heat of the Australian tw.nri. hoiieved she hastened her own end witn insurance upon spcuu- Itchell, changed by her marriage in 1882 to Armstrong. to Pattl and Jenny Llnd; Melba sang last in America at the New York I Metropolitan in Faust in 1917-18, and alter inas oum 1930 'She contracted the disease which brought her death and was so ill last November when the ship bringing her fmm iturone reached Freemantle, West Australia, that she could not; A Universally Acclaimed wbiiia Melba.

"The Australian Nightingale," known IvjiiubIb loverr billty and sweetness of her voice in Its dazzling upper registers, was universally acclaimed by critics as one or tne greatest sopranos auy wen known in the United States, which she toured numerous times both in grand opera and in concert, Mme. Melba also was the pride of London musical circles and Idol of the Parisian public. Her success in uaiy Rnuifl. oermanv and in her own na tive Australia was equally notable for the high honors accorded ner. The musical education of Mme.

Melba began when she was three years of age. As the age of six she maoe ner jireir vocalist. rwerminert to rive a nubile 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 distressed father, begging ticket holders as a family favor to stay away, and all DUt two oi mem oia. hhywuic-less, Melba faced her diminutive au-riianre and nana her oroeram pre cisely as though the hall were packed Tv the time Melba was 27 years her father had modified his oppost- to ner stage amoiuons uu (Continued on page nine; GERRO GOVERNMENT SEEKS VOLUNTEERS Insurgents unofficially Reported to Have Taken All of Southern Peru M.o Pom Feb.

23. (JP The provisional government of Lieutenant Colonel Luis Sanchez Cerro enlisted volunteers to Lima and Callao and moved troops down from Cuzco and Puno Monday to put down a revolution which began last Friday night at Aiequipa, secona city oi uk nffifflal bulletins admitted AreOUi- pa had fallen to the insurgents, and fighting Incident to capture of the city. These official communiques offered the only definite information available here, everything else being subject to a strict censorship. n-nsmtchea from AriCA. Chilean border town, to Mercurio, Dally of Santiago, Chile, said all southern Peru had gone over to the revolution but that the border censorship made it imnnasihie to obtain definite infor mation.

Tacna and other border points were quiet.) The government called for 1,600 volunteers of 21 to 30 yean of age -for 60 days service. Masonao Hanihara in Coma After Operation! Tokyo, Feb. Masonao Hanihara. ambassador to wasnmg-ton from 1922 to 1924. who created sftr by predicting the proposed Jap- would bring 'grave consequences," was In a coma Monday after failing to rally from a paralytic stroEe.

at a 8U1E OF FACTION FAIL TO ADJUST VIEWS litter Controversy Rages Over Congressional Redistricting Question actional coalition seen ome I. V. May Join Non partisans to Create East- thftf. the course of future may be affected by a split 1 ranti of the reaDDOT- eir calendars of bills initiated in respective orauwura liced in one branch must be cleared that branch by the end of the Ktieth day of the session. Under fcrmal procedure the era 01 E.i.tv, Aan mill Come at 2 P.

reanesaay, simjwub" ritomm. its mock oacs im jininiiw nwr the reaDDOT- mment measure wtiuicu -rrr A unab! caucus. At the tush the caucus had failed to agree fad a Diner iignt who A majority 01 me n. north-south division "lJHwSSTSd refused budge from tnat position. omhamuR Governor George F.

bafer if the east-west division were kde and that he would have to veto in fha nreanizatlon. The Inorlty's contention was that the fvernor would have to solve his own loblems as they urr iDGE APPOINTMENT SENTTOWfHEE little Prospect Seen for Con- firmation of Judge Nord- bye Nomination nnrkintnn ph 23. un tresi- It HOOVer noDiumwvu he tVie additional fed- al judge for Minnesota was sent to by the senate Judiciary com- flator bc schairs crotest. the Immlttee clerk reported some letters complaint naa oeen receiver. With a share fight forecast, little respect is seen lor nwaBjeo bmation before the March 4 ad-burnment.

Unless confirmed by aa- inrnmonr. the nomination expuxo. PMirmo'n vnnHc of the Judiciary bmrnittee appointed senators oiac kiolicans, and King, Democrat, Utah, a subcommittee to consider the omlnation. pipiAS nZINGlLDUGE alians Ask for Particulars of Assistant Attorney General's Speech woh MPi The fallan embassy Monday requested fie Italian consulate in New York to nd to it for study a full report of pe remarks made there Saturday hem bv Assistant Attorney ueuw Ohn Lnrri n'BHon Tne official has Been quoteu Bavins indirwi.lv criticized Premier russolini to his talk. AmhassMior He Mnrtino declined to fake any statement of Brian's recn oeiore tne union ueuguo BronVltm as wnvn-ten in Press dlS- BatfihM Tt.

naa aaM nrt hiffh ftllthor- nowever, tnat tne aiumae (mbassy now is that since CBrian hade a public explanation that he pas not casting aspersions on Italy Premier Mussolini but merely tawing a contrast, no action would uiKen. The emhnjwv has not cornmunleat- with the state department. Mr. Josenh Rotrers. Alexander, Buried WiUiston.

Wen. 99. (JPY Fu- PrU services for Dr. Joseph Rogers, gander, who died here Friday from typhoid fever and complications, were peld at Alexander Monday. oy dt.

Rogers are nis wio FAVORED BY HOUSE IN BITTER BATTLES Saturday Session Results in Continual Debate on Disputed Measures SWETT SCORES BIG VICTORY Offers One-Man Minority Report on Securities Bill; Body Accepts It Discussion of a bridge bill and two measures Involving the sale of securities to North Dakota brought to the House Saturday its stormiest session the present legislature. The afternoon was almost a continual round of debate and resulted to the proposal to appropriate $25,000 for bridge across the Little Missouri river to Slope county being placed to general orders for further discussion, despite an unfavorable majority committee report, while the securities killed with "clincher" motions tached. The House continued its deliberations Saturday nieht. the third con secutive night to which the grouo has! touea. sins oi an uncontroversiai na ture only were considered at the after- dinner meeting, nowever, oue to many members being absent.

During the afternoon, debate also resulted over three other bills. A mi nority reoort recommending for pas sage a bill repealing the present law requiring assessors to oouun agricultural statistics was adopted and the measure nlaced on the calendar. An attempt to reconsider a bill making it umawiui id sen wooa aicoaoi. mevu- anol or methvl alcohol as a radiator anti-ireeze preparation was vowu monies and credits. Securities Bills Draw Fire The most violent opposition was Bill 306, a proposal to regulate the sale of securities to the state, after receiving mucn consideration, went down, 64 to 41, while its companion measure, proposing to license securities agents on a salary basis only was disposed of quickly.

L. L. Twichell of Cass, Independent leader, fought desperately for the measures, while F. Swett, Kidder county Nonpartisan; H. L.

Halvorson of Ward, and Gordon Cox of Burleigh, earnestly opposed them. It was a signal victory for Swett, as he was the lone member on the minority committee report recommend- (contmueo on page nine OFFICIALS SEEKING ARIZONA CONVICTS 14 Make Way to Freedom Sun. day with Aid of Steel Construction Cirder Wlnrenee. Feb. 23.

IP) Four teen convicts, including one murderer, who clambered over the state penitentiary wall here Sunday while a guard was not watching were being tracked through sagebrush and cactus of the surrounding desert Monday. Fifteen escaped, but one was captured. A steel girder, token from a prison construction Job, enabled the convicts to climb to the top of the wall and drop 20 feet to the ground OUtSlde. Tne last man wh oeeu a guard as he sprinted for cover. Warden William Delbridge immedi--alaaeeH bloodhounds and guard detail.

He personally relieved the wail guard. J. Daly, whom he desCriOea as "lnawenuve. in the vard and several hundred prisoners had been taken from their the escape plot apparently had been hatched on the spur of the moment. Late Bulletins VETOES HOSPITAL BILL Washington, Feb.

23. tfV-President Hoover Monday vetoed a bin to extend hospitalization and soldiers' home benefits to certain veterans who served to the ejuartermaster corps tn the Spanish war, the Philippine insurrection, or the China relief The four kidnapers who held Earl Tecum, Galva banker, a prisoner for five days last October to an abortive plot to extort $50,000 ransom pleaded guilty Monday to Henry county circuit court. They will be sentenced Thursday to penalties fixed by nilnois statutes from five years imprisonment to death in the electric chair. On Trial Again second time to a year Lila jlmerson, Seneca Indian, has gone on trial at Buffalo charged with instigating the "witch murder" of Mrs. Clothllde Marchand, wife of a scenic artist.

This picture was taken as she sat in the courtroom helping her lawyer select tne jury. GOVERNOR SIGNS BILL PROVIDING FOR NEW CAPITOL Measure Becomes Law When Executive Affixes Signature at 12:35 P. M. The S2.ooo.00o caoitol building was enacted into law at 12:35 p. m.

today. Governor George P. Sharer signed came Immediately by vir- tue of being an emergency biu. Sneaker C. V.

Freeman of the house, and Lieutenant Governor John Carr of the senate were present at the signing and were photographed with the governor as he affixed his novernor Shafer used a pen pro vided' for the occasion by the Bismarck Association of Commerce. The pen will be placed to the cornerstone oi tne new structure. Sienine of the bill brines to ai efforts to provide legislation for the construction of a building to replace the old statenouse destroyed oy lire last December 28. A commission will be appointed by the governor to carry out the provisions of the bill. HOOVER IS VETERANS INQUIRY President Expects to Veto Loan Measure Between Now and Thursday Washington.

Feb. 23. UP) Presi dent Hoover, preparatory to vetoing the veterans' loan bill. Is having an Inquiry made throughout the country to ascertain the degree and number of veterans in distress. At the white house Monday it was said various federal agencies are making queries to ascertain also how effective the legislation would be as relief measure.

Under the bill the ex-soldier would be able to borrow up to 50 per cent of the face value of his adjusted com pensation certuicate. tween now and Thursday. Efforts are to be made in congress ride the veto at once. The average value of certificates is $1,000. Dealing with the groups which hold certificates of lesser value, the president was said already tn have ascertained there are 210.000 veterans who would be able to borrow ii6.ooo.ooo or 880 a niece, if they had received no advance already on their certificates.

In the group having certificates ranging from $250 to $1,000, there are 500.000 veterans who if they had not previously borrowed would be aoie 10 get svyuu.uw or ii cacn. Inmates Flee from 1 Minnesota Hospital Hastings, Feb. 23. (flV-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, 26, committed from Stevens county, and the other Lloyd Morse, 31, from Rice county. of a Gunwpman Was First of Her Sex Ever to Be Electrocuted in Pennsylvania 'IRON IRENE' UNTIL END Woman's Body Tense and Struggling, Fists Clenched, as End Comes Rockvlew 1 mtiary, Feb. 23. CSV-Calm and collected, Irene Schroeder and Walter Glenn Dague went to, their deaths in the electric chair at Rockvlew penitentiary Monday Just after break of dawn.

The state claimed of them the supreme price for the killing of a guardian of its highways. The woman went to the chair first, 7 a. m. one contact was made and she was pronounced dead at 7:05. uague was piacea in we catur ut, :08 and five minutes later was dead.

Mrs. Schroedex's face was Dale, al most gnastiy, except xor a sugnt oit 27 Women Have Been Executed Mrs. Irene Schroeder, who died to the electirc chair at Belle-fonte, Monday, was the 27th white woman to be legally executed in the United States since the respective states were char- of rouge on either cheek, as she was eyes were open until she was seated ui uie Dig coair, mea sne ciosea wrcm and kept them closed until the death hood was placed over her head. vague waus oteaouy Daeue came in- with steady stride and as he sat down to the chair, gazed left and right at the witnesses. Then Winced was adjusted and the electric contact was made while the prison chaplain still was offering up prayer ior tne condemned.

Neither of the slayers spoke, nor was any word spoken to them. The woman who once wielded a gun with her gunman lover to merciless bloodshed was as unflinching at her (continued on page runej NATION'S CAPITAL OBSERVES HOLIDAY President Hoover and Congress, However, Continue Legislative Work holidays for all but President Hoover and congress, the capital devoted itself Monday to celebrating to earnest tho 199th birthday of George President Hoover remembered the father of his country Sunday by attending divine services in Alexandria. He occupied the pew to Christ church In which Oeorce Washington often sat. With him were Mrs. Hoover and their oldest grandcnuo, Peggy Ann.

Most of tho churches held patriotic services but all lay organizations postponed until Monday the usual Monday mornins a military mass at the Church of the Immaculate conception was the principal service, attended hv a laree bodv of American Legion members and a guard of honor of Marines from the Quantlco, base. Part of the ceremony was a presentation of massed colors. In the afternoon Memorial Continental hall was the chosen scene of a program sponsored by the daughters, sons ana cnuaren oi tne tuauuu APPROVE IASURE ON MUSCLE SHOALS Sudden Aotlon by Senate Unexpected; Another Vote to Be Taken Wuhlnstnn Ah 93. (JT The senate Monday approved the Muscle Shoals conference report but then reconsidered its actionin order that the report could be debated an inr ham Republican Con necticut, asked for reconsideration of ne vote oy wnicn me repon, woo idoptea The report was taken up again der unanimous consent rrmviaintr tot a vote in one nour. Approval oy tne senate who Not a word of debate preceded the rtion.

What stand the president will take a the affreement is problematical. It was emphasized at the white house oniy last weeK mat ne ana uuv nection that Because of that some predictions made on eapltol hill that ne wouio, veto were mini rawing. primary election ou o. it onnoseH hv these candidates: No. 2.

MORE WIGKERSHAM Information on Some of 161 States Omitted Last Week Is Forwarded Washington, Feb. 23. (ff-Trans- fer to the senate by the Wlckersham commission of prohibition data some of the 16 states omitted from the material already sent to the cap- itol was assured Monday of the commission. While it was said at headquarters that data was lacking on conditions in six states or so, tne remaining reoorts available are to be forwarded to the senators. Thirty- two states were covered in tne uuor-mation sent last week.

The new material deals witn some states where anti-prohlbitlon sentiment 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 taadyertince. One commissioner wno wished his name withheld, said there was some dissatisfaction among tne members tnat any testimony naa oeen suomii- tea to tne senate witnout, me approval of the full commission. He assert ed the selection of what was sent and what retained had been made entire ly by cnairman wicgersnam. 3 PRISONERS KILLED IN ESCAPE ATTEMPT Chicago Convicts Shot as They Scale Wall in Futile Dash for Liberty JoUet, DX, Feb, guards, forewarned 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 to a futile dash for uoerty.

Aided by a prison searchlight, the guards, posted outside the prison rfm hofnre thev had a Chance to reach two automobiles parked on a roadside near-oy, presumaoiy confederates. Tho-oecupant of the -cars, pursued by guards in two automobiles, drove toward Chicago and escaped, apparently untouched by shots fired at Joseph Norkiewicz, 31, and Julio Chlleno, 39, both serving time for a same and Alvin J. Kil- man, 34, a convicted robber, were the men killed. They were part of a kitchen detail of five convicts. They overpowered mas.

uuuwi guard. Army of 70,000 to Keep Order as City Votes for Mayor and Aldermen rnlnatm Pen 93 OPW An armv of anoroximateiv 70.000 Monday made plans to maintain order in Tuesday's mayoralty ana aiaermaiuu reports already before them of pre-election violence. The reports came from the eighth and 30th wards and told of an attempt on the life of Theodore Clif ford, a candidate lor amerman, iwi ford reported to police two shots had been fired at him from another automobile as he rode along In his own car Sunday night He was slightly hurt by flying glass broken when a DUUet snairerea me nuiiauia- machine. sn.nsrri ahaehan 91. and John C.

Grady, 30, 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 kidnaped in an automobile and attacked by their abductors oeiore uiey Credentials were issued to 45,000 poll watchers by Judge Edmund K. v. cnenriainr of the election, nf 1 sno iudees and clerks or election wm iz.

by 5,000 policemen and a special city and count detail of several thousand si ma to Hut annroacned there was speculation about Alphonse Ca-none the gang leader. Rumor had it he to Chicago. His attorneys ld ttt he "probably'' was butjust v.aH eome back from winter sojourn at Miami, they dW not think he had returned for nrtmaries. hut rather to ap pear in leaerai euuiu ordered caoone i connection with a citotion for con- tempt of court, issued wnen msu income in a yeas ago for questioning 8 Meanwhile Mayor William Haie Thompson, oue Sne's arrest. Arthur F.

Albert and George K. Schmidt planned the wind- called for police guards. Fmhariro and Tariff Bills Are Rejected! Washington, Feb. 23. flV-All tariff bills lncludinjt the proposed limitation on oil imports Monaay ways and means committee.

Chairman Hawley said that after voting down a proposal to limit oil tn if! noo.000 barrels annually, the committee adopted a resolution nostponlng aU action on the tempor-arv agriculture embargo and the Williamson bill to ban all Russian products. NewspaperRRCHIVE flee SEWSPAPtRi.