The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 25, 1919, Page 1

> pat the THE WEATHER | Unsettled. ‘THIRTY-NINTH YEAR. NO. 47. /PRO IT MADE ON "PRICE: FIVE CENTS | VALLEY CITY BANK DEAL NONE OF FARMERS’ DAMN BUSINE On eee ne wat, (i ae SIX BILLION TAX MEASURE. IS. NOW LAW President Wilson Signs Measure on Special Train Monday ’ PARTY BACK IN CAPITAL Chief Executive Has Not Deter-| mined Upon Successor to Attorney General Washington. D. €., Feb. 25.—An- nouncement was made upon the ar- rival of President Wilson today that he had signed the six billion revenue measure. , The bill, was signed on the special train en ‘route here from Bos- ton. ee Signing of the ‘revenue’ bill by Presi- dent Wilson on. his special: train en route to Washington Jast night puts into operation machinery for : collec- tion of six billion in taxes. Increased taxes go into effect on liquors, soft drinks, tobacco and so-called luxuries. Anticipating the imposition of ne taxep, thousands of gallons of whis! haye -been withdrawn .from govern- ment, honded warehouses the last week tovercape the new tax of $6.40 per gallon now effective. Luxuries of which new taxes go into effect. tolay include autos, pianos, ehowing gum, ‘slot:. machines, » candy; tollet soap ‘and art. goods. The tax is pald by the manufacturer, | Other fea- tres of. the: bill, which’ go: into’ effect bit which (are: retronetive, include taxes, on incomes, excess -profits and war profits, estates and: inheritance: excise taxes’ on ‘a. number of ‘special businesses, such ‘as’ brokers, sbowling alleys, insurance agenciés’ gnd -Jiquor dealers. A drastic measure td-prevent: the narcotic .drug traffic becomes effec- tive. at: once. ‘This-biN” contqina tt “ritter — which makes the District. of Colhmbla bone ary. i : President “Wilson: arrived at Wash- ington at,5 4. m. Beéhuse.of the carly howt Me. and Mra. Wilson mained in thelr special train for some ‘time. Pres: ident Wilson left ‘thé train‘at 8p. m., and walking through -tHe'depot lic was greeted “by,.an.garly” ‘morning ctowd of travelers who cheered him.” He ‘itc- knowledged, their greeting. Several of the Rroctatys weéte soldiers who stood | rigidly at ‘attention ‘as their éommand- er-in-chief passed by. BACK IN WHITE HOUSE Back in the white house after an absence of nearly three months, Presi- dent. Wilson was. working away at his desk this morning when surprised members of the staff at the executive office began to report. His first act was to send a telegram to Theodore EF. Burton, president of the league of nations, at New York. Mr. Burton, republican, and former senator from Ohio, ‘had telegraphed a welcome to the president. Mr. Wilson Jeft his train here at’ 8:30 and drove directly to the white house.. A few minutes later he was at his desk review.ng the task which lies ahead of him. No interviews have been arranged, but there may. be one or two on important. government. matters hefore the president meets members of the foreign* relations committee tontor- row night to go over the platform for a league ‘of nations. CABINET MEETING ‘The only engagement made for, the preatdent, today was the cabinet meet- ing at 2 p.m. Vice President Mar- shall, who has presided at the meet: ings ‘during the president’s absence, | was invited to be present again and to preside at the deliberations.: It was said the president has not made up his mind on the appointment of an at- torney general to succeed Thomas Gregory, or the calling of & special ses- sion, The calling of the. latter. will depend upon the amount of business transacted by congress before March 4, particulatly whether the Victory loan and revenue ‘bills are passed. WANTS TO MEET GOVERNORS The president is anxious to meet the governors of various states to -harmon- ize the domestic situation. Conferences planned by the department of. labor will, be Gulled on a date depending |: upon the' ability of the state execu- tives, many of whom Now are engaged with state legislatures,. The nresident has accepted an invitation to lead the parade up Pennsylvania .avenue on foot, of the District of Columbia na- ional guard, in honor of returning sol- iors. NORTHWEST BOYS TO LEAVE FOR HOME SOON Des Moines, la.,.Feb. 25—The 83ta division, which is to return in May, was trained at Dodge and is made up| of men trom Iowa,. Minnesota, North’ Dakota and ‘Illinois. To Cost Over. Billion For 25 Years to “Pay Off War Debt Waphington, D. C., Feb: 25.—It will the American people one billion two bundred million for the next 25 years to pay off the war debt. ‘NURSES’ BILL | KICKS UP SOME ROWIN SENATE League Compliments Over Religious Features of Measure ADJOURNMENT BY FRIDAY Does Not Seem Probable Session Can Finish Work Before | Last of Week, Now | Monday was a quiet day in both houses, in) one sense, There was con- siderable adoo in the senate over 8. B. 204,. the Sunday baseball bill, which passed, 25 to 23, and_over the nurses’ registration board bill, which was de- feated, 31 to 16, with two absent, ‘but there was little or no debate o the one big bill of the day, house bill 56, creating a workmen’s compensation commission for the adjudication ot damage claims resulting from personal injuries sustained in industry. This measure passed the ‘upper house al- most unanimously, and with a very slight amendment. brook and J. F. T. O'Connor of Grand Forks locked horns over Patterson's motion to reconsider the vote by which ithe house concurred in_ the senate amendments to house bill %7, giving the railway commission more complete control -over., public, utilities. Patter- xon ‘declared’ that ‘O'Connor couldn’ tell him anything, to which propos’ tion the gentleman from Grand Forks agreed, and :alko that he O'Connor, couldn't put 2 hole.ever. him, Patter- son, which O'Connor also agreed to he physically impossible. But the house reconsidered, at. that. Senate bi 134, creating. an admin- {stration board to manage the. prisons and Insane asylyms:and reform schools little? chaps. in. the, Kindlens xton:zand thé first’ gradé | arid.on ‘up"to the big- ger chaps. and chappeses «in ‘the col- |: Jeges and university, and to buy ‘paper towels “for. the. state hove, and look after the young folks in the state ‘re- form’ schooland the idiots in thé state institution for the feeble-minded 4 Dr. Laddwat Fargo and ‘the deaf and dumb and’ the Halt and thé blind, ind all that, went back to state affairs comnittce Monday on recommendation of Senator Bowman. It is expected to come out again this. afternoon. Honse bill 66, which would make the state very boneadry by prohibit- ing not only, the possession but the ability to produce, manufacture or oth- epwise procure intoxicants, was re- ferred_to the committee on state af- (Continued on Page fight.) CHINA SETS FORTH DATA ON JAP PACT Pekin, Feb. 25.—The foreign office has dispatched’ a statement to tie conference at Paris enumerating the Chino-Japanese agreement, Japan’s 21 demands *and the Chino-Japanese mili- tary convention. These comprise all the secret agreements between China and Japan. the statement says. “With regard to the Chino-Japanese agreement, you took away with you papers from the foreign office relat- ing to all the Japanese demands and |the Chino. Japanese military covenant. The draft of the agreement for the a@Mnchurian railway loan; the draft of the agreement for the Fuchowfu and Tsinin-Shuntufu railway loan; the notes exchanged regarded the cooper- ative working on the Kiochow rail- way.” Besides these there are no oth- er private agreements or secret under- standings of any kind,” reads the mes sage. = os Warsaw, Feb. 25.—Forty pounds of i Wheat flour is being sold at Moscow at eighty rubles, Sugar bring corres- pondingly high prices and either com- modity is hard to get. Starving horses who fall dead on the streets are stripped bare of flesh before they are cold. A trader must offer clothing in order to get food. ‘Money and other valuables have no attraction. Food is stolen while priceless jewels are left untouched. Worten who had their clothes taken were not robbed of * valuable pearl necklace. Woden houses aya. been. torn down in the suburbs to furnish fuel. +I many instances beautifal furniture is used as fuel. Despite all this thunder and squalor Leon Trotsky is, very fastidious about his person. He employs a lady mani- curist and frequents the beatity par- Members Exchange} In the house Del Patterson of Donny- | and: to plan courses. of study’ for the | DEAD HORSES STRIPPED OF ~ FLESH TO FEED THE STARVING ~ POPULATION IN MOSCOW CITY i | | BABIES STARVE B By LIEUT. con. HOMER FOLK American, Red Cross investigator, signed by N. E. A. to write of conde tions in i Balkans. 1 Belgrade, Feb, 25.—A child’s 'mournful, insistent, penetrating, tracted. members of the Red Cross sur- yey mission to a ‘one story shack in | Leskovatz. The child, perhaps three years old, !was lying amid filth on the dirt floor. | ‘Through an interpreter we asked a bystander what was the matter with the child. “Its mother. is dead. . She is in there,” he said. On the dirt floor was the, body of a .woman sewn up) in coarse rags and packing. been dead two years. We asked if there were any other children. + “Yes, there are one or two. more. | We don’t know whether they are dead or sleeping.” ‘Another. bundle of rags began ‘to stir ‘and a tiny hand crept out, feeling about in a weak, uncer- tain, trembling fashion. The arm was bare to the élbows, It was literally skin and bones ‘and: covered with. re- pulsive sores. “Who is looking after the children,” we asked. f “No one,” was the reply. We said that it was not necessary to let the children die because mother was dead. The bystanders shrugged their shoul- ders and said something to the effect that that was the way with these peo- ple. ” Our ingniries: and, observations had ery, lors. ‘Nicola Lenine is the only other vrominent, Bolshevik. leaders wo leads an austere life. It is related that one day when his automobile hecame stlled in the snow that: fellow Bolsheviks, foot-pads by. profession,, ran out ard )store his chauffeur’s fur. coat. about to strip Lenine of his fur gar- ment when the Bolshevik protested telling them who he was. “Well then,” they said, “since we are all comrades you won't object,” and they made off. Typhus js prevalent and vodka sub-| stitutes have undermined the health; of the nation. Kerosene and benzine are comomn drinks and the soldiers demand liquor first: of all and are rarely sober. Deatia ‘hve 4iifcome so frequent tit the undertaking business is a state monopoly, at-| She = had | H the They were; ee ESIDE DEAD MOTHERS; NOBODY CARES—IT > ISTHE WAY WITH REFUGEES their e tfect,, “however, for ' few moments later, we found that the | two children hat been removed to 2! ‘room with another family, — almost equally miserable. Some one had giv- Fen a large, dry’ piece of bread to the [erying child, and he was devour! ing it} with every appearance of extreme en- | j joyment. | |: These were Albanian refugees from | jthe village of El Basan. The inbab- ‘itants had been transported to’ norfh- | tern Siberia and now were finding their ‘way back on foot, some hundreds of miles. Leskovatz is quite like all the other Serplay towns along the main high- wa "Ab 9 o'clock in the morning we tare | at the open square in’ the center ot { one village. A large group of women, children and old men, with an extri- passing 2 !in questioning them. , SAYS. HASTINGS ‘Priest's Housekeeper Under Arrestin Probe” to Solve Nun’ 's Death Feb, 25.—Officers from Leenau- county last night took {ante custody (Miss Lypchinski’ on. a charge of murder in epnniGeHlOn with | the disappearance 11 years ago of Sis- iter Mary, [vent at Isadore, near Traverse City. Manistee, Michi, The pastor, Father Bienowske, at LIsadore, will be questioned. Mrs. Lyp- who was housekeeper for | Father Bienowske at Isadore and came j here with him a few years ago in the | same:capacity, was arrested after the | officers had spent an entire afternoon Both the woman and the priest denied any knowledge of the aifair, They also denied any knowledge of } the fact that Sister Mary was buried beneath the church altar and whose body was recently exhumed. Th said that all they knew was that Sis- ter Mary was supposed to have disap- peared one day while out walking. ordinarily picturesque’ collection . of bags and bundles, were sitting on the | curb or loaded into English trucks that | i otherwise would be returning empty to! the next station toward the south. | | They were refugees from. Greek | Macedonia, from the neighborhood of | 'the destroyed city of Seres. + They | jhad. been sent by the Bulgarians into j northern Serbia. The Tommies. a little remetant— | truth, the refugees were j “an—were loading them and ; j their bundles into the trucks. | Other groups of refugees occupied | what had been shops, the whole tront| sides open to the street. | Their faces were thin and pinched. | They weré dressed in rags. Even the | women were dressed in coarse burlap! and other... packing © material eel stitched together with strings. It was Jate December, but they wt ere, barefoot, sittir- about on the damp | dirt floor, in little groups, around tiny | | fires made of .a few twigs. They were Aibanians caught in the swirl of the war, their village de- | stroyed, sent fro mnear the Adriatic to northern Serbia, where they had been working for. the enemy on the Se bian farms. “:Most of. them iopked as! longer and; El-Basan, their home, w2 still 250 miles*distant. |. A fimeral procession pa I the street. ‘The body, v coarse cloth, was on an. ox four or five ance in rags we ing it, We passed -into” what hospital. Here-were -seve in| rt and follow: | been a} hundred region of Monastir. The bajtding lad stone floors. fires had heen light- ed hy @ifferent “groups. The rooms were full of sitioke. Two of the.men, who had lived in Philadelphia, spoke English well.. and told us the story of the group. They had heen six days “at Leskovatz, hop- ing to secure some kindof transporta- tion toward their destination. © A food many were. sick, and.there were many deaths. . g; the basis of justice and right. Serbian refugees: originally trom the | CHANGED VIEWS SAYS WILSON !No Longer Suspects Motives of United States, He | Declares TRUSTED BY THE WORLD Roston, Feb. 25.—The President ieee his speech at Mechanics hall 0 o'clock yesterday afternoon by tecitae the audience if they under- stood he was-as glad to see them as they were to see him and went on to | express his: appreciation of his re- cold snap of the winter. ception. ' His reception in Europe, he con- idered as not a tribute to himself i but to, America. He \regarded it as a welcome the-friends of liberty though they could not hold ent much }coming across the sea to see that a OW. vs [new world was to be encoraedtcsno attained during the morning, however, new world was to be consecrated on “The greatest thing I have to report ‘o you he said, is that this great \ Phat would be premature. “The men who are in conference in | Paris realize they are not masters of itheir people. but servants of their j people and that nd man will dare £0 ihome from that conference. and re: | Port anything less than is expected.” Speaking of the- slow progress of the conference, the. president _re-; minded hig audience of the ‘complex- ity of the problems. affecting nearly, ‘every. country. in: the world... ~- “What We are doing,” he said, “is (Continued on Page Taree.) a former inmate of a con-} EUROPE HAS | | the frigidity. aa Ae ate | AGENT OF TOWNLEY CHARGED | WITH REALIZING $47,000.00. FOR SELF AND MASTER COCKY Admits That President Olson Is Figurehead—Declares His Activi- ties Were Directed by Big Chief and Others Who Were Prin- cipal Beneficiaries—American National Bought After Loans WereShut Off Because Lemke Was Attorney in Suit Against President. Buying the majority stock of the American National bank of Valley City at $162,000, and unloading it on farmer-league stock- thplders of the American Exchange State bank at a profit of 1$19,000, as a part of the $230,000 capital and surplus of this new {institution ; Buying’ in the banking building of the American National at $42,000 and passing it on to league friends at $69,000; | Using as they might see fit the $1,500,000 worth of assets \represented by the certificates paid for by Consumers’ United Store Co. patrons, who have no interest in this great jackpot which they have built: up and‘no voice in directing its expenditure; Putting in as' cashiers of league banks unbonde Jeague em- ployes who promptly make off with $3,300 of the bank’s deposits; oe Accepting another league employe’s note for $6,000 worth of the organization’s assets which he appropriated to himself,.and Then calmly informing the governor of North Dakota and the'secretary cf state and the attorney general, as members of the state banking board, that any personal profits resulting from these transactions are “none of the damn business” of the farmers. who put up all of this money. These are some sidelights on the recent investigation of the ‘purchase of the American National bank of Valley City, the or- ganization of the American Exchange State bank, and the consoli- dation‘of the two by John J. Hastings, working, he.informed the banking board, under the direction of Arthur C. Townley, president of the National Nonpartisan league, and at all times with the full ‘ecognizance+and: approval of Townley and others of those “who would principally benefit from the transaction.” John J. Hastings, financial aide to C. Townley, president of the Non- rtisan league, does not consider ‘that the amount of his commission.on the Valley City bunk deal was “anyof the . WANG ARAD. il RAKED BUT $20,C00. Banking friends of Promoter Hastings insist that Mis -net ral on, the ‘Valley i@ity - banking deal jjby sof the, furmers, ao, put. up | was little more than $20,050 which #|! 0,000. capital and. $80, sur- represerited his 10 per cent coni- | plus with which to purchase the Amér- ational bank stock which Hast- hid invat $162,000, his is said. to have been Flastings’ ly to et question from a& member of jthe state banking board who; desired ito know whether | the. Nonpartisan | league farmers: who financed Hastings’ Valley City operations were.““hep” to the: deal. of $200,000 Miey. in- the. $15,000 the pur: tig mission on. the .sale Worth, of capital stocl { he, returne | | | | | on made from | chase of majority stock at | ure and its sale to the bank | other, and that the differen h| price at. which the bank building | | | | | | | | | was turned in to the new bank does not represent a profit for the} The building was ea ad on the books of the American National at $42,000 and turned in to the American Exchange bank at a figure*ranging according to varying estimates from $62,000. to $69,000, ‘Thomas Allan Box, Huast- ings’ colleague, was in on the deal with him, it is said, although he does’ not appear to have been haled | before the banking board for an | ,er difficult to explain td. the banking | board all of the involved details of the | Valley City transaction. He referred |to the assets which could not be re- ivealed and to private accounts and lto resources which could be recovered \jonly through judgments. HMe-spoke in detail of the ‘bhiking {practice which enabled him to charge the American Exchange bank, the state institution financed, by Barnes county explanation of his par icipation in || farmers, $69,000 for a bank building | the promotion. |} Which the American National bank ARQODET Gece SPOT IN STATE. MONDAY NIGHT |ing the transaction was also something | else again, Mr. Hastings is reported to. ‘have informed the banking. board. Mercury Goes Down to 26 Below at Gate City—Warmer Here Today—Storm Coming promoter. CONSUMERS’ STORE CO, IN. The. Consumers’ United Btores Co. was in on the deal to the extent of 100 shares, The Consumers’ Co., for which Hastings claims to be acting as. fiscal agent without remuneration, also: in- vested in some of the stock of a bank at Hatton, which Hastings bought. or founded for the league. The Kimbatl- j Hastings Co. was mentioned, but it did not appear to have cut much figure ‘in the Valley City deal. i Indignant when the ability of the | Consumers’ United Store Co. to meet | its obligations as a shareholder, which ; would make it liable for twice the SS jumount of its stock, Hastings is said Fargo on Monday evening enjoyed|to have informed the board that the the distinction of being the coolest! Consumers’ Co. had a million and a FRIGID WAVE IS GENERAL! {spot in Nortn Dakota, with a temper-| |half in assets, and that it would be | considered good anywhere for at least 0.000, These resources, Hastings hid ‘to have stated, are entirely he disposal of the diregtors: of the The stockholders, ap- have no claim on> them. explained that not over ature of 26 below. Bismarck wa comparatively warm, with but 24 be low. and ‘twas even milder at Willi ton, wher ethe mercury siopped at 20. For real chilly weather one would have been forced to journey all the way to Edmonton or Prince Albert, each of which cities reported 32 ber low. ‘s’ store. and that these stores were Bismarck was fortunate in having | meateleted to an earning of not to ex- practically no wind with its second|cecd 10 per cent. Any single store Only once; Company might, however, he stated, before this year, December 31, has) hve 500 ‘vertificate-holders, each pay-" the thermometer’ registered as little] ing $100. and the difference ‘would go at 20 below in the capital city. At 7| into the general jackpot. which tha, a. m. the mercury had climbed to 18| directors were authorized to use for below, and at noon it was but 10 be-; the good of the cause, for, ig Rate 'a wind velocity of 24 miles was|f banks, the financingf other teagie or for “edyeation and at Consumers’ Co. narently, Hastings $10.000' was invested in any consum}- "| enterprises, to, Propaganda.” TOWNLEY: KNEW OF PLAN + The reorganization or. urchase of the American National of Valley -City, making pedestrians quite sensible e The cold wave is general over the Missouri and Mississippi’ valleys, country of ours is trusted throughout With temperatures near zero or be-| Hastings is said to clain, was dh jthe world. I have not come to re- “aoe igara instead Tore ee Sane ee by President A. C. Townley ot the port on the progress of the peace.;down to .32 below in the Canadian) x progi pe \noeth@osbs arUdeetlied: well therein due! National Nonpartisan league last June. it} None of the hanks which Hastings or- it) genized, he contends, were con! without the full knowledge and an proval of those who would princi { profit from the enterprise. The ing onerations, he stated, were Duluth, Feb. 25.—With the shop! ducted with a view to increasing windows full of spring hats and ox-/ league’s financial resources and to give fords, the street thermometers show-| it added prestige in Moller jea 18 below as against twenty above. ties. yesterday. At 1 p. m..the north wind was blowing twenty milés an -holir. The storm. ‘however, was reported as, local. ‘ within the next few hours,’ and probably will be followed by rising temperatures. . 1 COLD aT-QU LUTH. * eens the organiza| without : Stockholders. This plan (Continued = Page Hastings admitted that it, ‘was -rath: