The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 29, 1918, Page 2

ee At oe mere Ae a. { CORPORATION OF i HALF BILLION 10 HELP WAR NEEDS, Corporation Under Governricnt| Auspices to. Support Noces- sary Enterprises TO DEAL IN SECURITIES And Support the Market in Case! of Need and Issue Notes and Bonds Washington, Jan. he creation | of a half billion government | corporation to make loans and ad-| vances to enterprises essential to the} war and otherwise assist in private} financing was recommended to con-} gress Honday by Sec. McAdoo. The} secretary also asked issues of secur- ities of more than $100,000 be made} subject to the approval of the govern- ment body, to be known as the “war finance corporation.” The: proposed corporation would have power to make advances to banks which finance industries essen- tial to the war, or to buy direct the securities of such corporations, sub- ject to certain restrictions concerning price and length of the loans. The cor- | poration also would make short time) advances to-savings banks. Further powers of the corporation would be ‘to subscribe for, acquire and own, buy. sell and deal in bonds and obligations of the U. S.” It could issue notes or bonds of its own amount not more than eight times its capital, which would be supplied or- iginally by the government. The corporation would be managed by the secretary of the treasury and four directors to be appointed by the secretary with the approval of the president. The draft of a bill embodying Sec- retary McAdoo's suggestion was pre-) pared and will be introduced shortly in both houses of congress. PROCEDINGS IN BANKRUPTCY RE TOWLEY ET AL President of Non-Partisan League BISMARCK EVENING TRIBUNE “Sirens of he Sea” at the Bismarck Wednesday & | He's Little in Pounds and Inches | But Mighty'in Brain, Say | Frionds, By H. E, BECHTOL. Special Staff Dispatch. Cleveland ©., Jan, 29.—Almost any | Clevelander who. has been. lined up) with or against Newton D. Baker back | here in his home town, will lay you a) bet on this: | That the effort of politicians to | make a “goat” of the Secretary of , will NOT succeed, | The bu 3s ef being thecenter of a big fight not new to Baker. As city tor and aid to Tom L.| i | John: uccessor and as mayor and | “Sirens of the Sea,” the six-act SU- Johnson's successor in the battles to | per feature of the Jewel Productions,! make Cleveland a “City on a Hill,” Inc., featuring Louise Lovely, Carmel | poor fought bitter and powerful op-| Myers and Jack Mulhall, will have its | ponents and interests for many years. | premier at the Bismarck Theatre on with President Wilson, standing | Wednesday. | tirmly behind him and his own ability | not be able to raise and fatten hogs and other stock, thus increasing the acuteness of the meat shortage and | retarding the development of diversi- fied farming. | CO-OPERATIVE VIGIL LASTS UNTIL THREE, NOTHING FOR PUBLIC, D. C. Shipley, state organizer of the ‘North Dakota Farmers’ union, admitted this morning that he was present at the conference, but declined’ to state what trans- pired there or for what purpose it was called. “Our board of directors met this morning and went over the mat- ter and decided we would not give out anything to any of the news- papers—at least not for the pres- ent,” said Mr. Shipley. “No, | do not care to state what the meet- ing was<called for.” It is known that R. J. J. Mont- gomery of Tappen, president of the state Farmers’ union, was among those present. Organization work in the Farm- ers’ union is going remarkably well, says Mr. Shipley. to dispose of political enemies, Ba-| | ker's “home town, has no doubt of the outcome. | | Baker has a fighting jaw not unlike} | that of the president and he has an} | uncanny habit of being on the right) side of a fight. st who never played with as secretary of war!” a his enemies. | Farmers of Kidder county, rep- i But there are pacifists and pacifists. | resenting 185 stockholders in eae a8 intolerent OF Deseo BEany- ipec om 4 ae ii pricers as he is of inefficiency. Townley’s new enterprise, “The | ivan Bo eT eek a || Con rs United Stores com: | own statement is: “I BELIEVE 2 a 5 |IN PEACE AND IN THE PROPER Revizwed on Account of i Debt UNSUCCESSFUL VENTURE IN FLAX AGRICULTURE | Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock has been definitely set as the hour at which the long deferred hearings in| the Townley bankruptcy proceedings will be resumed. An agreement was | reached Monday by Attorney William Lemke, chairman of the Republican | state central committee and one of | the league managers for North Da- kota, representing A. C. Townley. the president of the National Nonpartisian league, and Francis J. Murphy of Mi- not, former assistant attorney general who represents the creditors. Townley and a younger brother went broke in a big flax venture in Golden Valley and McKenzie counties in 1912. The petitioners schedule un- secured liabilities of $19,000 and com- bined assets of approximately $65,000 It is probabl e that many league leg Jators will remain over to hear the proceedings, which will be conducted | before Referee in Bankruptcy H. F’.| O'Hare. | | PRICE FIXING FOR SEEDS, FEEDS AND FARMING UTENSILS Walton, of Ward, Believes Unele| Sam Has Another Duty to CONCURRENT RESOLUTION “MEMORIALIZES CONGRESS) | a _ Representative Anthony Walton, of Ward, thinks that while Uncle Sam is! in the price-fixing business he should} regulate the price of seed and feed and repair parts for agricultural ma-| chinery. His concurrent resolution | memorializing: congress to this effect | was adopted by the house yesterday without a dissenting vote. In the sen- atéit was referred to a committee. Representative Walton’ finds it is! paintully evident that seed corn,! spring’ rye, barley, oats and forage seeds are being hoarded by special in-| terests, and that the prices to be| charged by the United States licensed | seéd-dealers. have not .been fixed or| regulated. “The attention of the Un-| ited: States department, of agriculture} . is catled to this matter and also to the fact that the price of seed is high | and the priceof repair parts for farm | machinety still higher. It is urged that | it costs no more’to manufacture re- pairsthan it does the original parts, and*in view’ of the fact that the con- Perform | | pany,” met at the Grand Pacific | | pyp, a a + 1E_BY last evening with A. C. Townley, | ENT ORCEMINT. 208 . HACE By fovernor Frazier and Attorney | | General Langer. | Judging trom the noise and tur- i | moil that bubbled over into the | | FORSE IF NECESSARY.” | This little man with the strong jaw| and the whimsical eyes is a “human little cuss,” but he never has been a) | ‘slap-em-on-the-back” politician and he | |never will be, A Cleveland reporter | | once asked him: “Why don’t you thaw | out? A lot of people don’t know how} human you are because you won't} warm up to’em. Why don't you cuss once in a while?” | corridors about room 401, the meeting anything but har- monious. Mr. Townley while here await- | ing a resumption of his bankrupt cy proceedings was asked to ex- plain what the mere stockholder i is _ Sate The next time that reporter en-) Dae te cea t Dav a Peal tered Baker's office Baker greeted | noies to the amount of $18,500 him thus: ‘Come in, damn it, | sit down!” But it sounded so strange en signed and since the xpose of the scheme, the | to the United Stores | are starting to wonder just where the proposition is going to benefit them. There floated down the hall at one interval the demand: “T want to know who gets my | grain?” Qu he never tried it again. Baker's working knowledge of th | English language is so complete that) |he doesn’t need cuss words. It has ; | been said cf him that ‘he can talk) |ionger more fluently and more con-| | vincingly on any subject without no-! jtice than any man in the United! | States.” That may be exaggeration. | j But he can talk. | Long political campaigning has| || sharpened his natural ability at the art of repartee. Roosevelt, who's out; to get him now, knows something of | his ability in that line, as the result jot the many letters exchanged by Ba- ker and T. R. when the latter wanted | to lead a division to France, | After he was graduated from Johns | Hopkins and Washington-Lee, Baker practiced law for a while in Martins-| | burg, W. Va. Previously he had been secretary to former Postmaster Gen- eral Wilson. ions were being “popped” regula at Mr. Townley and his aides in the store proposition. The farmers are asking what is | going to be done with the surplus over $10,000 which on the Dawson | porposition alone amounts to a cool $8,500. In whose “jeans” do these dol- | | lars nestle, is the substance of the demands made on the fourth floor of the Grand Pacific last evening. The agreement with the 185 is rather elastic as to the manner in which the surplus can be used. It is a sort of a ‘jack pot” to be ap- | | plied either to establish a central | buying agency or to ist the ‘ed- ucational work or propaganda.” | This phraseology has a sort of | | blue s tinge and that is the | | chief reason why the Dawson del- | | gates came in to see Chief Town- @ to learn from this “finan- st how deep into the farm- ers pockets the United Stores Co. | proposes to go. i The meeting started early and | continued long after 3 a. m. Gov- | ernor Frazier left the conference | Shortly after midnight. i UNCLE SAN HAKING MEN OF SOLDIERS, such acts, so much so that no thought of personal suffering or sacrifice en- ters their mind. To throw themselves and ‘their might into the conflict that. these great wrongs may le righted; to punish and so curb the beast that there will never be a repetition of this | | horrible world’s war, are the desire | and aspirations of the young Ameri-| | cans called to the colors. invited to do so; he made two ad- s at the local schools submitting tions by the pupils, that ranged | in ‘their curiosity from his daily camp} life to the point-blank interrogation of; whether he expected to get married or | | not on his return. He also addressed the local gathering of women at the! Red Cross last Saturday. Two social) | gatherings were staged in his honor,) at the home of F. H. Hankins Satur-) jday night, and at Frank Van Eckh-) | out's Sunday evening. | SAYS PARSHALLITE. The community has been impressed | by Mr. Kjelstrup’s recital of his life} since becoming a soldier, the va amount of work being done to train! Parshall, N. D., Jan, 28.—Ed B. Kjel-| our army, and particularly by the im: | strup secured his leave of absence} provement in his case in physique! from Fort Dodge and was here from} thought and.action. If all the boys| last Thursday till Tuesday of this | who left here are likewise improved it} week. During that short period he in-| gives consolation to know they are} stilled more patriotism and fervor for! healthier and better men. He has in-| the war's prosecution amongst Par-/ creased 15 pounds in weight. shallites than all the agencies that! = <9 have gone. before. He'is a vitally dif- | a ferent boy from the Ed who left here| Funeral Services For = 3 | PEOPLE WHO KNOW BAKER BEST | giant.” He was elected city solicitor) | the stakes weren't so high. are long and , days correspondingly short. |fore 4 o'clock in the afternoon an What | Think of Baker. ecretary Baker ig a humani-— | tariamand as such would make an || excellent tenement and aley in- | spector.”-—Theodore R+osevelt. What I Think of Baker. “My association and constant conference with the Secretary of War have taught me to regard him as one of the ablest public of- | long!” Warming up in Spring. The rapid warming up when spring; / comes is not so noticeable as in the | United States, the weather bureau The average temperature in} March is only 2 to 4 degrees warmer {than in February. April and May are | moderately cool and not unpleasant, | the length of the day Ingremies much ici or sk ‘1. |More rapidly than in the United States. Helale i pare evet Hnown. | and there is a correspondingly large % |increase in the amount of sunshine. } Rainfall is comparatively light but it He, came to Cleveland in 1897 andj occurs frequently. hooked up with Tom Johnson, who | Summers are more pleasant than ES | those in the United States. Day tem- i | peratures are moderate and the nights | cool. Heat is not excessive and heat- | ed periods are of short duration us- | ually. Fall brings lots of rain, both in | intensity and frequency. This usual- ly is the season of maximum rain- fall. Brussels North of Winnipeg. | The geographical position of France and Belgium it appears from inquiries to the department, are not very well known to most people. They lie | about as far north as the section be- ‘tween Boston and New Foundland. | Marseille, the most southerly import lant city of France, is farther north ! than Boston, while Paris is nearly 500 | miles north than Chicago. Brussels lig more than 50 miles farther north {than Winnipeg Canada. It could be expected, the weather | bureau says, that in view of the loca-| {tion so far north as compared with lOhio, that France would be colder) than Ohio, but its climate is affected | by the Atlantic ocean, from which pre-| | vailing winds come, these not being) | breken by mountain barriers in renol:| said of-him: “Baker is a little mental’ TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1918. pian soaee trae sae Fargo,,N. D., Jan. 29.—The famous Medina bank case in which former Governor 1. B. Hanna and several of- ficials of the First National Bank of Farge were sued for $50,000, charged with wrecking the Medina State Bank of Medina, N. D., will be settled it was learned here Monday and will not be tried in district court. | sot on noes] ARPATRS OF FORMER GOVERNOR HANNA sn | iy corm peste ear tae] ATT MEDINA WILL BE SETTLED OUT OF COU: The, case has attracted. state-wide attention and has been up to the state supreme court on a demurrer where the lower courts action in granting the demurrer was reversed and the case was ordered to’ be retried in district court here before Judge Cole. Just how a settlement was reached could not be learned. aaa? ing the interior. Since large bodies of water heat slowly and cool slowly, a more steady temperature results. The warmth from the Atlantic ocean, which keeps France and Belgium from. being cold, is from the Atlantic drift, originating in the so-called Gult Stream, which transport warm water from the Gulf of Mexico. Normal wes- terly winds carry the warmth to adja- cent land. In Devils Lake Zone. “It is of interest to note,” the weather bureau says, “that while Brest, on the western coast of France, has about the same latitude as Devils Lake, North Dakota, the average Jan- uary temperature: at Brest under these conditions is 44 degrees white at Devils Lake it is about zero. Brest’s Jowest temperature seldom is as cold as. zero, while Devils Lake has-been asicold as, 60 degrees below zero. On the other hand, owing to less rapid cooling of the ocean water, the July average temperature at Brest is 64 degrees, while at Devils Lake it is 68 degrees.” Rainfall in New Orleans is three times as heavy as in Paris, but it is considerably more frequent in Paris. The average annual rainfall of Chica- go is one and one-half times as large as in France and Belgium; at New York more than twice as large. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY FOR RENT—Modern housekeeping rooms in Varney Flat. Phone 773. ‘ 1 29 3t | unwee times and fought at Johnson's | side through the three-cent street car} fare‘ fight. ; | He looked Ikea boy, in court, but | he handled the months’ litigation in| this case so well’ that the legal lights | =—“"Over the Top” arranged against him—some of the H best in the countrys-first sat up to take notice, then ‘went down in de- | the town, a Grafonola programme that wili make your next dance the talk of Let’s start with “Over the —thatellithe ST & GRAFONOLAS COLUMBIA so22s ON EASY TERMS COWAN’S DRUG STORE i a a a eh ee ‘eat. = hens ‘ * ened Baker was first}elécted mayor of | Top,” an ap othesne ae 5 Cleveland in 1911 by the biggest ma- mediey one-step. jority ever given a mayoralty win- ner. As mayor he fought for and wen a municipal electric light plant that sells current, at a maximum of three cents a killowat an hour and forced, down the private lighting and power} company rate: He won the lake front case—a bat-) tle with the powerful railroad inter- ests that involved thirty million dol-| lars worth of property. And then he turned around and got the railroad he had beaten to agree to build a mag-| nificent union depot for Cleveland. The war has held up this project. Nope, Baker's friends are not | troubled. He has come, out on top | many times in fights just as bi®er with opponents just as powertul, if Then a fantastic fox-trot that NORTHDAKOTA BOYS TY SARE. OLD LATITUDE Brest, Where Some of Our Troops | Have Landed, Even with Devils Lake. EARLY SPRINGS A FEATURE | Weather Rapidly Warms up Liter | February Snowa-Have Pass- cd into Bistory. Columbus, O., Jan. 29.—What about | the climate in France? What about | the probable effect of weather upon the health, comfort and military oper- | ations of the American soldiers in | Fran Is there much difference in | the climate and atner there from that in the United’ States?, These questions jour into practical- ly ail the weather bureaus of the Unit- | ed States daily and have become, ap- pareatly, of such general interest that the Ohio section, climatological ser- A fox-trot medley from “* “ ‘Along Came Own” ‘and along! you hunting for your favorite partner. On the back, ‘‘Doing His Bit for the | Girts.?? It will make you do yours. A6008—$1.25 “Wait till the cows comehome” \ Lantern’’ that no onc ever sat out yet. Introducing ‘‘A Sweetheart of My Little Girl.”? It will make them come i A2448—75c servation of farmmachinery now in use: ts highly: important, the depart- ment of agriculture and the food ad- ministration: ‘are ‘asked to use their utmost influence on congress to regu- late prices om farm machinery “parts sold as repairs to be sold at not more but a few months ago. He is more . erect and alert, keener, and radiates | Mr. Franklind Wednesday Funeral services for Olof Frank- the enthusiasm he feels for army Tife | and the mission that called him to the service. On the topic of the war it-| lind, aged 79, who dropped dead at self, its righteousness and unselfish-| the family home in Avenue A, Mbn- ness as it applies to America he shows | day morning wil be conducted Wed- the depth of feeling to which wrought | Nesday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the that the proportionate cost of similar| ed to the front let happen what will. | E: F. Alfson in charge. * parts of new machinery, plus the cost This appears to be -his gréat ambi-| of disttibution and a reasonable profit. On’ the sdéd and feed subject, the! after first-hand knowledge told them/ in 1876, hen Bismarck was in its in- For a number of years he con- resolutinon recites that failure to reg- ulate thé prices qdickly will résuit in exhorbitant prices that ‘will cause a great dectease’ in ‘the acreage to be seeded the-coniite spring in the north- west; with the result that because of consequent feed shortage farmers will | Mr. Franklind was one of the old- tion as it is of all the boys, he says,| est reside ts of the city, coming here | of the horrible atrocities practiced by} fancy. | the’ Huns. He says the sight of muti-/ductel the old: Franklin house in /lated Belgian children.and the auth-)Fourth sireet. soldiers’ with a°deep an dceonsuming | vices. | desire . to punish beasts capable of} Mary's cemetery. F t] Te decease came to enticated tales of ravished — Belgian America from.Sweden when a ‘boy, 10- fend SNOW L852 8 and French women, have inspired our| cating in Michigan. The widow sur- Interment will’ be made in St: | vice of the weather bureau, U. S. De- ! Agriculture, has pro- | | partment. of ;cured information from Washington | thai 's expected to answer most of the | queries that people of Ohio are mak- |ing since Ohio soldiers reached the by his expressed willingness to be call-| Swedish Lutheran church with Rev. | western front. Winters are Rigorous. Winter weather in’ France is rather | says a | statement. fssued by the local weather “This is due to persistence temperatures, | (much cloudiness and frequent rain |’ “rigorous and unpleasant” burean. of* comparatively low The winds bi stly from the | west southwest and are frequent. | 5) _)ly damp and chilly. 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