The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 21, 1919, Page 1

THE WEATHER | Generally Fair. THE BIS THIRTY-NINTH YEAR. NO. 68. BISMARCK, NORTH “DAKOTA FRIDAY, MA ITALY THRE CONSUMERS’ UNITED STORES CO. ORDERED TO QUIT SELLING ITS CERTIFICATES IN NORTH DAKOTA Townley Chain Concern Commanded to Appear Before Blue Sky Board Showing What It Has Collected, How Expended, Number of Companies Organized, Commissions Paid, Ete.— Report Asked on Hasting’s Valley City Bank. A pre-emptory demand that the United Consumers’ Stores Co. cease at once the sale of certificates in North Dakota was served upon officers of this company by the North Dakota banking board Thursday. ; : This action was taken after the banking board, or blue sky commission, had digested a decision handed down this week in which it held in denying an agent for the Lignite Consumers’ Min, ing Co. release under a writ of habeas corpus that certificates being sold by, this concern on a plan similar to that of the United Consumers’ Stores Co., were of a speculative nature. The banking board thereupon adopted resolutions demanding that the Consumers’ United Stores Co. cease at once the, sale of certificates and that it make to the commission a complete financial statement covering all of its affairs; that it disclose the number of companies it has organized and the number of stores installed; that it produce a list of its certificate-holders, its officers and WANCRR ATCQN MOTOR VEHICLE LANGER, OLSON, | AP PL I CATIONS HALL, KOSITZKY | rhe ee, he st motor vehicle registration scherule was ibe- gun today ‘by the torce of A. W. Luehrs, motor vehicle registrar. Some 38,000 1919 tags now are on hand, ready for shipment as soon as applications and-checks are received. The new tag is ‘block with letters, inlaid, instead of raised, as hereto- fore, in light blue. President A. C. Townley Chal- lenges State Officials to Defend Their Statements LEAGUE HARBORS BAD MEN Chief Intimates That Opposition SLOVENLY HOME wo emo WAS BEGINNING league, in a signed statement in t week’s issue of the North Dakota | Neighbor Declares Dan McDon- Leader, warns the members of ‘the farmers’ organization that “men who! nell to Have Been Model Man—Irked by Wife have enjoyed your full confidence— men into whose hands you havo; = + placed tremendous power—are this; very hour secretly, cunningly plotting to turn upon you and to rend your or- ganization.” { Calling attention to certain inter, ATENS TO LYING FARMERS CHILDREN NEGLECTED LAST EDITION RCH 21, 1919 PRICE FIVE CENTS LIKE A HORSE THIEF A LEAGUE DUTY Not/ Necessary to Tell People| Full Truth About Taxation | It Is Alleged TAKING NOTICE | Newest Revolt at Capitol Re-! garded More Seriously Than | Former Insurgencies “Lie to them, 0D: ned horsethiet ; vs a Nonpartisan league of- | capitol, was the advice! which President A. C. Townley gave | Senator F. W. Mees of Morton when| the latter asked what he could say to his people in defense of the league's one-man tax commission bill and its other taxation schenies. It was following a rather heated ion of the joint committee on taxes and tax laws, where Senator mn it—Lie like ficer at the agents, and that it show what has been done with the $1,500,000 in assets to which John J. Hastings testified in unveil-| ore than ing before the blue sky commission his transactions in connection with the organization of the American Exchange bank of Valley City. “The Consumers United Stores Co. plan seems to be very similar to ‘that of the Lignite Consumers Mining Co., Said a member of the commission in announcing the ‘board's action. “The supreme court held that an enterprise of this kind cannot evade the blue sky law by contending that their plan is not speculative. The supreme court ruled in the Lignite Consumers’ case that the value of shares sold on this plan is speculative. The Con, sumers’ United Stores Co. has either | ; Attorneys for Phone Companies ; ignored or sought to evade the pro- visions of the blue sky law, and we have remanded of them the showing required by this law and an account- ing of their stewardship.” Was Busy Meeting. Thursday afternoon's sion of the ‘blue sky commission was a ‘busy and interesting affair. The banking oper- ations of Jack Hastings again came up for consideration, and the board ordered a statement as to the condi- tion of the American Exchange bank, which Hastings recently organized at Valley City. It also asked a re- port as to whether this bank has taken over the affairs .and the assets and accounts of the “American Na- tional ‘bank, whose majority stock was purchased by ‘Hastings, and if Bo, Who. signed over the property on behalf or the Americas National and who receipted or it on the part of the American Exchange state bank. The Consumers’ Company The Consumers’ United Stares Co. was incorporated about two years ago with an original capi- tal of $10,000 which later was in- creased to $25,000. On this small amount of capital the company has accumulated assets in excess of $1,500,000, according to the tes- timony of Hastings, its financial agent. The company appears at all times to ‘have ‘been a close corporation, di- rectly affiliated with and controlled ‘by the inner circle of the National Nonpartisan league. Job Wells Brin- ton. one of Townley’s chief, lieuten- ants, was until a few months ago general manager, He has been su ceeded by Harry Dunbar, state tran portation officer. The plan of operation has ‘been to organize local “stores” through the sale of certificates at $100. each en- titling the holder to trade at a Con- sumers United Store to be establish- ed at some time in future. The con- tract has spcifid that not mor than ten thousand ‘be invested single store, and that $,1000 of the amount raised go to the promoter or organizer. Any balance remain- ing is devoted to education and propaganda,” This ‘balance, which now totals $1,500,000, is: entirely at the disposal of the directors of the company. It has been invested in league banks and other enterprises, (Continued ‘4n Page Three.) RETAIL STORES 10 TAKE UP - STAMP. SALES Washington, Mar. 21.—A campaign to promote the sale of war savings stamps in the retail stores of the coun- try has been started by the savings de- partment of the treasury. | District meetings of retailers are urged. Sev- eral national organizations, it is an- nounced, already have pledged sup- port. 3 in any} STATE RIGHTS SUBORDINATE TO THE NATION Hold North Dakota Court Can’t Enjoin Burleson Jurisdiction of any state court over an issue affecting the right of the federal government to take over and operate the telephone and tele- graph systems of the country, as a Prendergast, attorney for the North- western Telapbone (€o., and. Judge John I, Dille, both of St. Paul, ap- pearing as, counse) for the Northwest. ern and North Dakota Independent Telephone Co.'s in the action ‘brought by the attorney general’ praying .a writ of mandamus preventing the col- | lection of increased toll rates recent: ‘ly ordered in effect by Postmaster! General Burleson, The action was argued, before the NortH Dakota stfpreme court Thurs: day afternoon, assistant Attorney General Packard appearing for the state. Counsel for the defense, con- tended that the police powers of a state are soverign only when they do not conflict with any prerogative re- served. to the federal government, and that where such police powers conflicted with u measure adopted as a war emergency, they were tempo- rarily and automatically suspended. District U. S. Attorney M. A. Hil- dreta did not appear in person, but filed a brief contesting the jurisdic- tien of the court. IN WORK OF TAX ADVISERS) Washington, Mar, 21.—Fraud or mis- representation by private income tax advisers in many cities has been re- ported by internal revenue officers, it became known today. Prosecutions are possible in many cities, it was Stated. Private income tax advisers reaped a harvest last week, it is said, opening offices and by advertising drew thousands of patrons to them Revenue officials assert many of them were guilty of illegal acts in aiding income tax payers to make false re- Yurns, COLORADO IS STORM SWEPT Denver, Colo., Mar. 21—The west- ern part of the country is isolated to- day as a result of a snow and slect storm which swept Colorado and Wyoming last night. All wire commu- nications have ceased, and trans-con- tinental trains are hours behind their schedules. KING ALBERT AND QUEEN OF BELGIUM VISIT PERSHING Chaumont, France (Thursday), Mar. 20.—King Albert and Queen Elizabeth arrived here last night for a visit to General Pershing. They were met at the great entrance of the chateau by General Pershin: and his staff, dined quietly and pass the night in the chateau. Snow fell heavily here in the upper hills of the Marne all last night, but it did not interfere with the reception given the Belgians today at the city hall. The streets were crowded with soldiers from many towns. Nearly all the American officers of the staff were present. The Belgian royalties went to the Courban airdrome and reviewed the 8ist American division. They then returned to the chateau and took tea with General Pershing, his staff, the local and civil military authorities. public press the past few days in which} high officials at Bismarck, put into| office by the memb of the league. | ; have been quoted as favoring a refer-| endum on some of the legislation en-; ‘acted by the last. legislature, Mr.} Townley challenges these men to come out openly on the platform and support the charges they are purport-; ed to have made. “Th traitors did t appear before the caucus because | they knew they were wrong and could not convince the farmer legislators,” ithe statement ey did not} dare.” | Mr. Townley declares that the ‘ola without so ve been i league is impregnable the “people's enemi work on “cowards, f00 | within the - farmers’ or; t ' hopes to secure a deflection in the leadership. “It is my duty to war you against a vicious, cowardly att: upon the. organ: ion from the in- side,” the league head's statement! Following is Mr. ‘Townley’s state-| ment: 2 | Towniey's Warning. ‘bers: : It is my duty to warn you against a | viclous,. cowardly ‘attack upon the or- | ganization from-the inside. + | j « We-have-had our Ingles -ant our; Nelsons among the membership, ‘and our Maxwells among the org: Now there are traitors at: Bis among: those.-you have’ trusted most. | Men who have:enjoyed your, full con-| fidence—-men into. whose han | | {have placed tremendous. pow {this very ‘hour, secretly, cunningly plotting to.turn upon you and rend | your organization. i} The: Nonpartisan league is a mighty | army for the common good; its ac-| jcomplishments are phenomenal. Ne er anywhere else have the wo so completely routed the plunder After ten thousand political batiles here for the first time in the history | of the country, the nen elected to of- | fice have so far fulfilled every pledge | made to the people who put them in| office. | Whole Nation Looks to N. D. If the league program succeeds} here it will succeed in every other} | state in the United States. Ifthe} farmers and workers here can free} themselves from the clutches of the! price fixers, the workers everywhere | else will arise, and through the bal-! lot, throw off their oppressors: | If the laws just enacted here are} honestly and efficiently carried out, the plunderers are through in Aner ca. 4 But if the laws just passed are dis-| honestly and ineff administe: (Continued on Page Seven) | 3 i eing intimate with ‘both before their July, 1902... It was Mrs, Crawford | who helped. Marshal -M. D.° Patterson | last To The Nort Dakota ‘League Mem-| ¢ war measure, was assailed by KE. A.; ‘1 : | and upright. | views which have appeared in the| Mrs. Crawford Insists Babes Re- ceived No More Attention Than So Many Pigs (By Normbn J. Gillespie.) Jamestown, N. D. March 2}.—De- scribing the trouble in the McDonnell home, ¥ re the 12 old daugh- ter Etta was beaten and kicked to death la Friday morning, rding to the roner’s verdict. M John Crawford, friend and neighbor, un-| folded a harrowing tale that leads up to the frightful tragedy of last week to a sentative of The afternoon ford. has known both Mr McDonnell for the. past 20 of Courtenay, to bring the six surving McDonnell. children” to Jamestown night -ffom their formey home, the scene one of the most fien and appalling crimes developing i stion” of the state for a d Mrs. Crawford, whose home is ay. spent the night in a ious’ room at-the Capital hotel in charge of the little ones, also’ caring for them today and xacisting Siupt. Ds Hall; of thé Fargo children’s’ hom to ‘take them to the Gate night on Northern Pacitic N ‘Mrs. McDonnell w formerly ta Myers, of near Kensal, daugater of M Joseph Myers, now located at Portal. Mrs. Etta McDonnell has ‘both a mother and s Portal, according to Mrs. Crawford. Neither had heen advised of the un- fortunate occurrence up to Wednes day night, Crawford asserts a friend told her on the train while en route to Jamestown. + McDonnell Good Farmer. “Dan McDonnell was a good and a fine man,” dec Y ford. ‘I have known both Etta for over year: Dan used to work for Mr. C our farm near Kensal. el hired man. Dan was cle: I never kne perform an ungracious act. Calls Wife Slovenly. tta Myers was a slovenly women. declared Mrs. Crawford. ‘She was a mod- n, bright, of him to never tidy, either before her marriage | é or after. I have seen Dan fly into a rage at her many times because of her untidiness aud slovenliness with the children, “After they had been married three or four years Etta seemed even worse. She would never care for the children. She would place them on {the floor in the morning and‘ never (Continued on Page Two.) star, until the other day..-They were married in New York. . Tribune | :/er, who is reported to have er living at| elf on! ;'Mees had made another stand against the one-man tax commission ill. “I can't consistently nor consci- entiously vote for this bill,” Mees had intormed the committee. “I have fought for the defense of the three- | man commission for years; I voted! against a bill similar to this one two| years ago; I can't turn around and vote for it now.” After the committees had complet: | work, Townley, Mees, Simon Bel of the state board of control | Attorney General Langer with-| and drew to one corne ) "Mr. Townley, what could [ say tot {my constituents if I voted for this | bill?” Mees asked. | “LIE TO THEM, {LIE LIKE | THIEF," was ply. It is said to have been too strong | for Simon ‘J, Nagel, Haymarsh farm-| i rned to| the — statem “You est that man and throw DAMN tT! ) HORSE- alleged re-| j Langer with ought to {him into | This, fr s of Mees and > claim, is one of the several re | that these two strong Morton county | leaguers, are somewhat j | Both are seavily inte {Morton County Farmers of the strongest Jeagu in the stat nator M who vot- ed against pveral of the league's | taxation schemes in the upper hguse, and who.-also opposed the league's the one | newspapers | ss| printing and educational bills. is re- ; garded as one of the coming league | lleaders. in the state. He has had} many years’ experience. in Slope poli- | tics us an old-line progre . Farmers Prick Up Ears. Letters which are flooding of State Auditor Kositzky Olson and Attorn denote an une j the league fi lat the capitol apparently ss on the part of} The new revolt rmer | impresses | him as something more serious than the k: of insurg- y whieh have occurred here and, over the state during the last | ars. ittle rebellions always have ted against. Townley and | autocratic regime rather than | against any principles of the league movement. The fir of these ne } March 9, 1918, when ‘Townley in an ion endeavored to ob- tate board of the Farm: | ers’ union and endorsement of the ebain store scheme which has netted ity promoters 94,500,000, and which is now being investigated by the blue sky commission. i Harking Back a Year. | J. W. Buren of Burleigh county; W. (Continued on Page Eight.) TWO PAIR—BRITISH AND AMERICAN Fairbanks, wife of the movie S/Orlando to pr | tion of nearly 40,000. iia | DELEGATES DEMAND ANNEXATION — OF FIUME IMMEDIATELY AT CONCLUSION OF PEACE TREATY Marshal Foch Declares That Rhine Line Neces- sary to Proper Defense of France—Jugo- Slavs and Italians in Bitter Controversy Paris, March 21.—“The Rhine is our only good line of defense. I do not demand annexation, but if we do not secure that military frontier, we will have fought in vain,” is a statement made by Field Marshal Foch in an interview in the Matin today. The chamber of deputies in the duchy of Luxembourg’ has voted unanimously to maintain the independence and the autonomy of that country. The Italian delegation to the peace conference has unanimously decided to withdraw from the conference unless Fiume is assigned to Italy contemporaneously with the consummation of peace. MAY BREAK OFF NEGOTIATIONS A semi-official statement regarding the breaking off of nego- tiations at Posen, say it has been impossible to reach an agreement. The Germans say they are contemplating the appointment of a president by Pope Benedict, while the allies stand for the appoint- ment of the presiding officer by the inter-allied armistice com- , mittee. Millerand, former minister of war, is said to-have been ap- pointed governor of Alsace and Lorraine. Le BITTER CONTROVERSY The decision of the Italian delegation as reported from Paris apparently brings to a head the bitter controversy between Italy jand the new Jugo-Slav state over the disposition of land along the Adriatic formerly belonging to the Austro-Hungarian empire, and which both countries claim. DEMAND FIUME Italy’s claims formerly included the whole Dalmatian. coast from Fiume to Triest. Recent reports have been that the Italian delegation was manifesting a disposition to make important con- cessions of land along the Dalmatian coast, provided the city and harbor of Fiume went to Italy. The Jugo-Slavs, however, have been insistent that this harbor be assigned to them, contending that it is essentially a Croatian city and essential to the Jugo-Slav state as the only outlet for its commerce to the sea. On the other hand there has been no inclination on the part of Italy to yield so far as Fiume is concerned. The decision of the Italians was reached at a meeting today of the full delegation presided cver by Premier Orlando. It was immediately communicated to the power: Col. House of the American commission, promised Premier ent a project concerning the Italian-Jugo-Slavak he hoped would settle the dispute. A STUMBLING BLOCK It is known, however, that the question of territorial adjust- ment has been before the conference of premiers which has been in progress for the last day or two. A report last. night-stated there was every reason to believe that the question of territory: was one of the foremost obstacles. _ Fiume before the war was the chief seaport of the Hungarian kingdom. It had several harbors and was the seat of virtually all the shipping trade of the kingdom. It had an ante-bellum popula- frontier, which DELIVER SHIPS TO UNITED STATES Paris, March 20.—The German steamships Cleveland, Patricia, and Cape Finistere, which are to be handed over to the United States, have left Germany for British ports, where the German crews will be replaced by Americans. The vessels then, it is ex- pected, will depart for French ports to take American troops to the United States. The first food for Germany under the agreement reached last week will come from England. It is understood vessels are being loaded and probably will reach German ports within a week. Although the supply of food of England has been main- tained by America, the conservation plans have worked there so well that there are many tons of foodstuffs there. The Germans have begun the movement of gold to Brussels, where they agreed to deposit it as collateral for the food. NOT. BEATEN IN EAST Warsaw, Tuesday, March 18.—Germany, although defeated in the west is not yet beaten in the east, and if her aims in that part of Europe are to be frustrated and there is to be peace, there must be a strong Poland, Dan Paderewski, the premier of Poland, stated today. He said: “The importance of a strong Poland to the peace of Smith of Hebron, W. J. Mozley of | Europe cannot be underestimated. “The men who organized the present war count on reorganiz- ing Russia in their own interest. If they do they will have an endless supply of labor and raw material. In addition to wheat they will have cotton from Turkestan, and gold, platinum, coal, ‘and other minerals. Germany, therefore, would be able to stamp ‘her dominion on the whcle world. What stands in her way is not | France or England, which are so far off. Germany is at the gates jot disorganized Russia and wants her to become with the Bolshe- iviki and reorganize Russia as she will have the leisure to do in |peace time and dominate the whole world.” i DRAFTS SUBSTITUTE | Washington, March 21.—Senator King of Utah, said today he jhad drafted a substitute for the constitution of the league of na- tions designed to overcome present objections and which he would |submit to the president. Senator King has exempted the Monroe doctrine, gave each country jurisdiction over its own immigration jmatters and the right to withdraw from the league. | Ann TODAY IS ANNIVERSARY OF 2 | HUNS FINAL WAR DRIVE Washington, D. C.. Mar -One|the ignomy of having their cap- {year ago today the German army, at} tured the Germans forced the fight ot the peak of its power poured down on|the emperor and surrender as a nae the British lines in Picardy bent on | tion. i winning an overwhelming victory be-| fore American troops could reach the | tront in force. Today Germany no| PRAISES SOLDIERS ‘| brought the news of the first German At the left Lady Patricia Ramsay—formerly Princess Pat—and her husband, driving through a London street after their marriage. The Princess Pat insisted that an open carriage be provided that the view of an admiring public might be unobstructed, and they had a deuce of a time finding the four white horses that etiquet prescribes must draw such an equipage. On your right, James Evans, Jr., Pittsburg broker, and his bride, who was: Mrs. Douglas longer exi as a military power; her gigantit war machine has collapsed, and the America she sought to evade stands astride the Rhine, shoulder to shoulder with the British and French, and with all Germany at its mercy. When the cables on March 21, 1918, onslaught, American effort was striv- ing toward the production of an army of 5,000,000 men equipped to bring vic- tory in 1919. Within nine months the first and second American armies had {broken the hinge of the whole front army by the capture of the Sedan. «It was then that to save themselves from Paris, Mar. 21—Marshal Foch was reminded today that March 2ist was the beginning of the great German forces toward Amiens, and was asked by Jules Sauerein, of the Matin to explain by what methods the marshal had turned the German efforts into. eUeedy The allied generalissimo: re- plied: “You ask me to tell you much ina {few words. Victories are won by sci- ence, ft is true. won by faith. “You tell me that I gave France. It was our diers who gave it. I merit—that of never But they, are also <A . to