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oe é. ts Tess $ Says He Had Forgotten That DIGKTNGON. RED CROSS CHAIRMAN PACES COUNCIL ‘Woman’s Husband was in Service TO MAKE. RESTITUTION President Sylvane M, Ferris Is Willing to Leave Terms to_ State Defense Board . A lapse of mempry. resulted in the. foreclosure of a chattel mortgage con- Tract on furniture ought by Mr. and Mrs, Henry Rademacher for the St. Paul hotel at Dickinson and brought before the councii of defense to ans- wer for the violation of the morator- ium act Sylvane. M. Ferris,a resident of the. Slope: for 37° years; president of the Dakota ‘National Bank of Dick- inson, and chairmga of the Stark coun- ty Red ‘Cross chapter, the defendant testified in his hearin before the defense council Wednesday afternoon. “I would rather have donated Mrs Rademacher eyery penny of this ac- count than to have had all this trou- ble and publicity,” said, Presifient Fer- ris, in advising the state council that any ‘order which it: might issue in the premises would .be agreeable to him A note for 91100 was given by the,| Rademachers something over a year ago for the purchase of furniture for the St. Paul \rooming house. The paper was deposited withthe Dakota National bank, ‘where payments were made regularly. until last _ winter, when Mrs. Rademacher began to de- fault. In the meantime her husband had been drafted, leaving for Camp (Dodge with other Stark county sel- ects last September. Since that time (Mrs. Redemacher received an allotment. of $30. per month from the government, and she had continued to conduct the hotel until April 25, when the gods held as security for the note were seized by the-bank. Mrs. Rademacher’s testimony was quite dramatic as she told of the “draymen, being in such a hurry to get to the statidn‘to see some soldiers off that. they -tossed everything out of the house: without regard to its care, even: waking up roomers who were asleep. at. the: time, and leaving me without a bed to sleep on.” “Aa the drays loaded with.my fur: nitnre. moved down. one street, the soldiers, headed by.aband, and fol- lowed. by cheers, marched. down ‘an- ote Mrs; Rademacher. 4) Mhe,t ed. that two days earlier she visited, by the: sheriff with an” ion, and. that: he advised she signed , she might retaig:possession of the goods for: thirty days. She had , Signed. ‘Two days later she returned from. her doctor’s’ office to find much of her furniture-in’ the’ Street and - with “teamgeoh: running through the house” tossing out. the remainder of — her had|ichanced to refer to 320 acres of raw goods. . “They left me my clothes and the baby’s clothes, a sewing machine and a few chairs, but they took ba- by’s high chair and his little bed,” said Mrs, Rademacher, Ferris Had’ Forgotten. President. Ferris testified that the account had: been an unsatisfactory one; that Mrs. Rademacher had failed to live up to her promises, and that, |~ hearing she was about to close the hotel and leave the city, acting on ad- vice of counsel, and overlooking at the time that she was a_ soldier's wife, he had ordered a foréclosure on the contract. ' Mr, Ferris ‘stated he had directed the sheriff to»give Mrs. Rademecher 30 days’ time, and that he kney nothing of her illness nor of the summary ac- tion of thé sheriff's deputy, but pre- sumed that jeverything was satisfac- tory until two days later, when Attor- ney Charles Starje, whom he had ap pointed chairman for soldiers’ relief, called upon him with Mrs. Radema- cher’s complaint. He had been ad- vised that Mrs. Rademacher merely requésted sufficient furniture for a couple of rooms, and he arranged, he stated, to give all she asked, / hrowing in some articles which she had not applied for. Mrs. Racemacher, stat- ed the banker, had seemed satisfied with this arrangement, and he heard nothing further of the affair until Tuesday, when he received a pre- emptory sunrmons: to appear before the council of defense. “ “Conceding all the facts as Mrs Rademacher has stated them—which are not according ito my previous’ understanding—I will admit that. the action of the bank was not proper,” said President Ferris, “I had, however, overlooked the fact that Mr. Rade macher was in the service, and 1] merely, acted for the protection of my/, clients. -1 am willing to make any restitution which the council holds proper. ‘I am-ready to ‘return the goods to the woman, and leave the terms of the transaction to the coun The matter was referred to the! legal affairs committce which will report today. CONSERIPTION OF IDLE ACRES * 4). IS UNDER WAY (Continued From Page Oue.) __ Poetic Justice. What would appear to be pogtic jus: tices was meted out this mor when H. G. Garber, operative in of the southwestern.section of North Dakota for the department of justice, was given authority by the council to take over 320 acres of raw land south of Beach and plant it to flax on the ten per cent crop payment plan adopt- ed by the council. Mr. Garber reported to. the councit that while 30 miles south of Beach some time.ago investigating an al- leged. case of sabotage which had re- sulted in the loss of 200 horses, he met .M: K: Mowen of Carlyle, Mont., fwho. last year had 1,100 acres in crop on this side of the line. Mr, Bowen land adjoining his, which he stated he could easily, le. with his equip- ment,:- Mr, Garber discovered that this tract. was owned by C. H. Blanchara of Otange, Calif, and he agreed with owen! to go, halves-on the cropping of itedf:an-s gent. could be made with Biakenard for the Jand. The Californ- President Marching at Head of Gotham’s Red . Cross ‘Parade This news photo-of President Wilson “= was’ snapped as he marched at the head of the great Red Cross parade in New York, Saturday, May 18, opening the Red Cross ‘mercy fund drive. ian’ when approached on the subject agreed to accept $2,000 December 1, is tract. Garder and Bowen accent. ed these terms, regarded the contract Josed, and invested $700 imeseed and ing up the land. Then, after the seed was partly in, £ame a peremptory. wire from: Blanchard, stated Mr. Gar- ber, insisting that he have a payment of $1,000 immediately. Eowen and Garber had their - money tled up in| seed and tractor outfit, and they were desperate until ‘they learned through fhe press of the North Dakota Council of Defense's ruling as to the status of non-resident lands in this state. Mr. Garbér put the matter before the board this morning. and as a result he and his associate will jhave the use of this 320 acres.for the growing ot flax, and their. only obligation to the owner will be the payment of ten per cent of the net proceeds of the crop. Wehther they go through with the or- iginal contract ns now a matter en- tirely asjde from the present all-im- - Freé Carnations for. the Ladies—Cigars for the Men-Folks M, ROSSON and C. R. DOWNING “<< ANNOUNCE’ GRAND OPENING ‘__OF THE ma o> > and served TOBACCOS. — FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN —- IN THEIR NEW BUILDING | 413 BROADWAY onday, May 27th The service will be all that the name implies, plus food well cooked - SOFT DRINKS BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE portant! question of getting ina. crop. ‘flax, om the ten per cent crop pay-;men, who might. easily have. done| istering. to. the saldiera'.. weat and beliig protected in its possession. Bank Must Appear. _ The council of defense directed its almost unlimited. authority in: another direction this morning when it digect- ed the First National bank of Krifner: to appear; forthwith to show cause why it should have seized, for debt, all of the seed wheat owned by one Mitchell of the Kramer vicinity. It is now too late ta satisfactorily sow wheat,’and the crop which Mitchell's seed would have produced, is probably lost -beyond repair, but if the bank is found guilty»in this proceedure, sum- mary action wiil be taken to prevent a repetition of such seizure next year. Would. Put in Quarter, | Another evidence that tke council of defense's conscription of slacker acres meéets with the approval of px triotie farmers came this morning’ in a wire from ‘M. B. Butler of Grane Forks, stating that he had a Nelson county quarter-section, owned ‘by -a. non-fesident, under lease to ‘be sown to wheat next_season, and ‘asking per- mission to plant that tract to, flax this year, The council of defense considered the question of whether Nelson county is good flax territory, and also wheth- er cropping: the land to flax this year might not do more damage to the wheat crop next year than the benefit derived from the flax crop.. It finally} was decided that Mr. Butler, inasmuch as he must stand the loss if the lana is spoiled for wheat next year, should use his/own judgment, antl he was giv- e1 permission to: plant the land to 8, and $1000 a year thereafter for| put in a hig steam tyactor autfit breal- x eiblelisBbet Suc cath ing oa ment plan, providing seeding is fin. ished not later than June 15. The council adopted a resolution formally fixing June 15 as the last date upon which flax may ‘be seeded |, on. non-resident Iands conscripted on the ten per, cent payment plan. It was the opinion of the ‘board that little results could ‘be expected from flax seeded after that date. NUNS KILLED _ BY HUN BOMBS BACK OF LINE “(Continued From I’age One.) her ward, and each one went her round and quieting the unfortunate | NECRO HANGED ON ON SCENE OF ASSAULT ON WHITE WQMAN, ; e eae PUT Cordele, Ga., May 23~James Cobb, | the negro taken from the jail here | by a mob shortly after midnight, | was carried to the scene where he | | attacked and killed Mrs. Roy Sim- | | mons, 7 miles east of Cordele,\and ; [hoard ny oe themselves great ‘harm by -springing | another died, shortly afterw: from their beds. another was dying today,“ ~ One Sister Killed. Qne sister was killed, while admin- cue qiribune Want Ads Bring Results. MMM At Home and"Overseas See Stereopticon Views ——in. the—. 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