The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 24, 1919, Page 1

Unsettied. THIRTY-NINTH YEAR. NO. 70. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA MONDAY, M HUNGARY DECLA ‘SMOKEBARRAGE’ OFFICIAL CALLS TOWNLEY ATTACK Assertion Made That President Is Attempting to Mini- mize Disclosures SOME INSIDE DOPE GIVEN First Revelations of Transactions of Consumers’ Co. Are Made Public “This is the beginning of a smoke barrage under whicn Townley pects to remove the, Consumers’ Un - ed Stores Co. from the dangerous po- sition it now occupies on the firing | line,’ said a state official the mid- dle of last week, when the president of the National Nonpartisan league launched his first major attack on the state officials who are opposing some of Townley’s private measures. “Mr Townley fears, and I believe’ with, very good reason, exposure ot} operations in connection with the Consumers’ Co. which will not be pop ular with the thousands of North Da okta farmers who have paid $10 apiece for certificates in this con-} cern,” continued the speaker. “He is preparing the league mind to reject these disclosures when they come by adopting tactics which have rescued ‘Mr. Townley and his friends from sev- eral other tight places.” i Big Business Again. Although resolutions ordering an in-| vestigation of the affairs of tne Con- sumers’ United Stores Co. were sign- ed by Governor Frazier, chairman of the blue sky commission, as well as Attorney General Langer and Secre- tary of State Hall, the Townley or- gans profess to see in this action aj deep-laid plot of “Big Business” to throttle the Consumers stores. | The Courier-News tells of a meeting in Fargo last Thursday to raise $1,003 “or $2,000,” “to be paid into a fund of $40,000 now being raised in the Twin Cities for the purpose of ‘protecting’ the farmers of North Dakota and fight- ing the Consumers’ United Stores Co.” More details of this plot are con- TOWNLEY HAS | Vote-Getters TACKLED ONE MAMMOTH JOB President of National Nonparti- san League Starts Fight on Own Officials PUT IT ‘CAN HE OVER?! eae ‘Langer, Hall, Kositzky, Olsness, Olson Are Party’s Best i {There is much speculation in politi- ral circles as to the success which} will attend the efforts of President Townley to read out of the party At-, torney General Langer, State Audi-j | tor Kositzky, Secretary of State Hall and State Treasurer Olson because of their opposition to the Macdonald educational ‘bill, the Brinton news- paper bills. the one-man tax commis- ston and the immigration bill. Langer, Kositzky, Hall and Olson! have not bolted their party, and trey refuse to be ousted without a fight, eclare their friends. In every pub- ished statement they have made it $s clear that they e not opposing any portion of the league program. | They insist ihat the bills which they have attacked have nothing to do with the league program, but are the! personal projects of a few men who have been admitted to the inner cir-| i cle of the league. i Had Slated Two. i Two of these state officials have! been slated for the ax for some time A conversation between Governor | Frazier, Herbert Gaston, managing; editor of Townley publications; John! B. Brown, assistant secretary of the council of defense, and or two} other league follewers on a train en! route to Steele for. the celebration! staged there some weeks ago has be-! come a matter of common gossip} about the capitol. i were criticised for the independence | upon certain oc- | casions, and the verdict was r that they must go into the di I DSO Ob ecim Jo Davidson, American artist who preserves history in sculp- ture, has completed a bust of General Pershing at his Paris studio. Here is the artist giving it the finishing touches. Davidson has already made a bust of President Wilson and a number of other prominent Americans, besides shaping several statues which had} are F. | their inspiration in the war and which are designed to become: Life, pr famous. es | tt KOSITZKY DEFIES LEAGUE BOSSES, AND THEIR LONG-HAIRED ‘EXPERTS: State Auditor Declares Threats of Political Ruin Are Held Over: Heads of Nonpartisan Legislators by the Leaders—Believes Referendum Is as Good in Practice Today as It Was in Prin-| The meeting will open with ciple Three Years Ago—Takes Stand Against Graft Measures | i 2:30 th Forced Through Assembly. Hurling defiance in the teeth cf the Nonpartisan league bosses, thse reforms they were good today, and asserting his independence | many qu ‘declaring that if the referendum and the initiative were good Both Kositzky and Hall,’it is said,; things three years ago when the league began its agitation for ned jof political domination, State Auditor Karl Kositzky, twice elected rd. to his present office with the endorsement of the league, addre ssed THE BISMARCK TRIBt ARCH 24, 1919 Ne "PRICE FIVE, CENTS RES WAR PERSHING. SCULPTURED BY DAV BISMARCK LIFE “UNDERWRITERS "GET TOGETHER ‘Insurance Men Form Local As- sociation for Mutual Benefit STATE LEAGUE IS COMIN 1 i { ! ‘Convention of North Dakota Or-| | ganization to Be Held | Saturday | The Bismarck jation of Life ' Underwriters has been organized with { a charter membership of 42. It is a {discover that there are in’ this com- i munity of 8,000 42 men who special- ize in the writing of life insurance to/ Will be shipped to Danzig at once. ‘meagre, j the exclusion of everything else, | The officers of the new association | Conklin of the Provident | surprise to most Capital City folk colin Hungary AGAIN BOLSHEVIKS GAIN CONTROL © OF GOVERNMENT AND START DRIVE AGAINST ENTENTE Important Action Is to Be Taken by Peace Con- ference in Reference to Communist Uprisings { Situation Attributed to Delay Over Final Settlement. (By Associated Press) Paris newspaper writers see the situation as serious. They express belief that Germany may be behind the movement to defeat the work of the peace conference. Rioting is reported ‘ joceurring in Budapest. : Two French divisions are at Budapest. The extremist element f said to be in absolute control and in ‘wireless com- munication with Premier Lenine at Moscow. : It is understood in Paris that three Polish divi sions in France Reports from Slovakia are | _., The Bolsheviki are within 100 miles of the eastern frontier of ' iGalicia, but reports are to the effect that the anti-Bolsheviki . Stegner of the! elements were driving the Bolsheviki back in some regions, ident; HW Equitable Life, viee president, and 8. | | KE. Jones of the New York Life, secre | and treasurer. These three of j ficials with C. A. Barton of the Prov j dent and S. D, Cook of the Montana! | Life form the executive committee, | 1 he announced purpose of the as | | sociation is to promote harmony and | cooperation and to eliminate abuse iin the relations between underwrit-| ,ers and their clients. \ State Association. ! A convention of the North Dakota j ij Association of Life Underwriters will | jhe held in Bismarck next Saturday. | bu: jon at the Commercial elu) | re will be a luncheon at the} fic hotel, and in the even-! tors will be guests of the! j Bismarck a ion at. theAuditor- | ium, where the First North Dakota! | band will give a concert. | | Kepresentatives from all parts of; jthe state are expected here, and ons of interest to insur-| Fance men will be di ed, { OSS Se! ; Grand Pa jing the v Paris, March 24.—The necessity for a barrier against Bol- shevism has come sharply to the front as a result of the situation in Husgary, where the Bolsheviks have seized epower and have jdeclared that a state cf war exists between Hungary and the entente nations. It was reported that important action might be taken by the supreme council at 4 o’clock this afternoon regarding Poland and Roumanis. It was indicated by Paris papers that action looking toward military proceedure would be taken. ‘ _ ANXIETY AT VIENNA __ The communist uprising in Hungary caused much anxiety at ienna, but no great surprise among those familiar with the trend of developments there, says a correspondent of the Mail. He points out there,is grave danger if Bohemia follows the example of Hungary. The situation is attributed to the failure of the peace congress at Paris to recognize the seriousness of the situation and occupy Budapest with entente troops. The situation is as serious as that which arose when the con- gress at Vienna learned of the return of Napoleon from Elba. Tuesday, as 100 years ago, the conspiratcrs’ were surprised by the destiny’ which they provoked, s: a writer in the local press. : _ GERMANY MAY LEAD “Otherwise with Germany declaring herself alone in position to save western civilization will lay down her own: peace terms jinstead of those the allies seek to dictate to her, or will assume jthe lead in the Bolshevik revolt.” This editorial expresses the general sentiment--of -French Zaston is said to have volunteered the ja receptive audience of 400 people at the Dunn Center auditorium. IN E T A N ] D E Anformation: thet Herane ositaks | Three-fourths of his hearers’ were league farmers, and they evi- | ‘already ha een ticketed hy 5 Pras Apa enmee Ae? rote 1 \“higher-ups" for political. oblivion. denced their approval of his sentiments in frequent and prolonged Langer Was Regular. tained in the Sunday issue of Town. ley’s principal. dafly organ. Some History. E The Courier-News also. gives: a’ his- tory of the Consumers’.Co: which does} not accord in all'details with the story which -former President John J. Hast- ings gave the blue sky commission | when the latter had the Valley City: abnk deal under investigation. Wargo paper says: “The Consumers’ stores were incor- porated in October, 1917. Since that time the organization has signed up over 10,000 members who have su3- scribed , over . $1,000,000. Twenty- four stores ure now in operation in Thei chief suggested that the aggressive | With Langer, it another mat-| ter. The attorney general, it'is true, | was reported to have been given a ‘talk-talk” by Townley at the time of his renomination, in waich the big! attorney general soft pedal some ac- | tivities which might make the league | less popular in certain circles, but; the league press has continued to, idolize and idealize him, and there! never has been a question as to his| | “regularity.” t CHEAPER FOOD IS PREDICTION Washington, March 24.—Cheaper food in the near future was predict- ed today by Chairman Peake of the The Referendum. The state auditor advotated the referendum of the printing bills, the commissioner of immigration bill, tu board of admini: judicial redistricting bili. Replying to the argument of the league that its members should sign no referen- dum petitions,-he declared that if the vation bill and the! applause. The-chairman of the meeting was one of the most active | SUM T0 CARE league farmers in Dunn county. i 4 { ~ PORINSURANG Washington, March 2: Financial i stringency of the war insurance | | bureau was relieved here today by a! i message from President Wil | wirele son saying he had set aside a sum!{ 4 referendum was a good thing three: {from his war fund to pay expenses ‘agents of the critical situation in Hungary. years ago, it was a good thing today, | Uatil the next appropriation by con-lin Budapest has been reported, and it is urged that the allied ~ | |newspapers. They generally agre in placing th’ principal blame ‘for the event on the procrastination of the peace conference and insisting upon immediate steps to fight Bolshevism. i EXPECTED TO, HURRY EVENTS The news from Hungary and Poland was expected to spur the heads of the government to military decisions of the first importance at the meeting of the supreme council at 3 o’clock this afternoon. The peace conference has been advised by entente Some street fighting * the state, all of which are selling mer- 3 » as last week, the Beach Ad-; © ¢ Nace Sb raitot HC; and that tht people of North Dakota | &? inationals ne 2 ati thich w a Une nutes all ob whic ere 2 eine er git a8 laa Trinton string of | department of commerce agricultural | yore wise enough not to reject at the, This action means that there. is no | watona’s need ine population which would be afforded by monitors the wholesale plus freight, according! jeague weeklies, eulogized Mr. Langer! board. * aid cthove Wha uence) Pole thing waich they wanted. | immediate danger of allotment or al-jP ig up er, j to officials of the company. jin tae following terms: |_ Mr. Peake said. dae Mat Deon gem) “How about the mill and clevator Iewance checks being held up by a/ ENCOURAGES UPRISING “The organiaztion now holds abou: | "ty. Langer is the most popular at-| efi! misunderstanding 0 tat when: | DUI?” asked Senator A. A. Leider-| forced reduction of clerical help with-| TSC Aeeie eos SING ‘ $800,000 worth of notes of its mem-|torney general with all classes the| Statement by Mv. Hoover that wheM! bach, who sat in the rear of the, in the bureau. | he Hungarian revolution and the reported alliance of the mers, and other assets, including fur-! state, of North Dakota has ever had.| ™ght go to op ushel a house. | —— ‘mew government with the Russian soviets which is considered here uiture, fixtures, etc., total nearly $200,-! 000. Collectors sent out to realize on notes were paid two per cent of the cash they collected and paid their traveling expenses out of their own rockets, Later, when weather condi- tions made travel dificult in the win- ter, their compensation’ was raised to His fairness, his fearlessness, and his tirelessness in forcing a square deal for North Dakota and the people of North Dakota have won for him the love of the people.’ The ink with which this was print ed was hardly dry when Townley, in the Courier-News, launched an attack How It Began. ution made by congress grain appropr prices cheaper for the to make the public. y With wheat prices reasonable, Mr. Peake said, reasonable prices of oth- er food stuff could be expected. ARMY DOCTORS “if the mill and elevator bill is a good thing, the people will not turn it down," replied Kositzky, and the audi- ence cheered. Discussing the judicial redistricting bill, the ite auditor said: — “Origin- ally it was planned to reduce the number of di: cts and decrease the ‘FINE RESULTS | | FROM SALE OF | | BLOODED STOCK | | Fargo, N. D., Mareh 22.--Sales total-| |ling more than $25,000 were reported | a grave menace to Europe has given rise here to new criticism of delays in peace conference proceedings. The Globe says: “That is the natural consequence of the delay of the peace conference in making peace, and if the delay continues, we will ave worse situations still. The delay simply encourages the ‘ spread of the Bolshevik disease and gives our enemy field for more private intrigue. q three per cent.” leveled directly at the head of Mr | - number of juiges. But a certain) this morning by B. H. Critehfield, sales | e This Js the first publie ftatement Langer, and this was followed Satur-} FIND PLACES AT Hn leader canted more judges, | manager, fi connection with the pure- | DISARM ENTENTE TROOPS ever made of the affairs of the Con-| gay and Sunday with articles which; and the original bill was side-tracked | preq cattle sales held at the livestock | i Q] ai ial ‘di i i hy sumers’’ United Stores Co, John a clever innuendo, attempt to create | HOME ARE GONE | ang there was introduced and forced peedition ! Berlin, March os en special dispatch to the Freieheit, an- Dee Hastings, in his testimony before, the! the impression that in demanding an| through a bill increasing the number} ‘The H. T. Brewer dispersion sale |POuNces disarmament o entente troops at Budapest. $ ee ‘blue sky commission, asseried the| investigation of the Consumers’ Unit-| Winnipeg, Man., March 24.—Physi-| of judges. ‘These three new judges} of Shorthorn cattle totaled $10,000, | Recent events in Hungary were not the result of the entente 3 company had resources of $1,590.00, | eq Stores Co. the attorney general isjcians and surgeons who e j ithe thelr stenographers and travel-|the cattle coming from his herd at note outlining the decision as to the boundary dispute between t and quick assets of $1,250,000. If| not actuated by “fairness, fearless-/France for four years or le wel ing expenses will cost you farmers | junter, N. D. ‘The top bull was sold | Bohemia and Hungary, says the Vossiche Zeitung. , there are 24 stores established. a fact| jess and tirelessness in forcing aimade formal complaints to govern-| $31,000 per biennium in increased tax-|t9 H. W. McInnes of Kelso, N. D., at/ Demands were made Thursday that ev api i which will surprise many people who! square deal for North Dakota,” but/ ment officials that medical men who|es, and while you are sweating in|the price of $450, and the top cow| 2 eMmands were made i nursday inal every unemp loyed person i. have followed the operations of thej through’ some veiled, ulterior motive. | stayed at home have absorbed their] your fields in the summer digging up| went toc. 8. Moores of Hope for $390, ;reCeive 000 crowns for relief, besides the payment of house rent, 4 Townley chain store scheme, there | ipractice and that they are obliged to| taxes to pay their salaries, some of | ‘ry, ‘tho e 5 Yi [an dreduction of food prices by one-half. j would, under the certificate-buyers’ agreement, be a maximum of $216,009 actually: invested in stock, fixtures and buildings. It is specifically agreed between the certificate buyers and} the company that not more than $10,- 000 of the funds subscribed by any local company shall be invested in the store, and that $1,000 of this amount | The trouble with Langer began with the Macdonald attack on Miss Minnie J. Nielson after the latter had de- feated him for re-election to the office | (Continued on Page Seven.) H TELEPHONE GIRL | | SEVERELY BURNED shall be used for promotion. The of-} ficials quated by the Courier-News in- dicate that less than an average of $9,000. has been invested in each of the 24 stores, and that the whole i Washburn, N. D., March 24.—Pauline | Neuhart, employed by C. G, Arvig, manager of the Washburn Telephone “start all over again. It is expected that the government may send broadcast a formal state- ment suggesting that former patient: of doctors who served their country reward these medical men by seeking their professional services again. Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Bruce, who was consulting surgeon for the British forces for two years, is one of the leaders of a protest movement. Charges have been made that some civilian doctors profiteered during the war period. ese judges will be down at the lakes fishing, and while you are going around your farm in the winter in the } more taxes, tu will be taking it easy in Florida or California. This work could have been handled by ten judges. Instead, because one league leader wanted it, we have to pay for fifteen. Long Haired Experts. Commenting upon the league's “ex- | pert” legal advice in the drafting of | bills for the last mbly, Mr. Kos- cold and snow, preparing to: dig up! abe Shorthorn sale averaged $2 head. | The sale of Chester Whites, con-| signed by J. W. Ha is of Hannafora, | was reported to have been the best! consignment of Chester Whites ever ; Placed on the market in the state. The; itop sow wa ssold to J. A. Platt of | |Cooperstown, for $250, and the top| gilt went to Joe Pazandak of Fuller-| jton, for $500. The average price per} head was $132. | | The Aberdeen Angus sale attracted | jmany buyers, the sales totalling close | | to $10,000. The top bull was sold to} BUDAPEST QUIET Basle (Sunday), March 23.—Budapest was calm Saturday; according to advices reaching here. Business for the most part was suspended, but the streéts were animated, and posters were displayed everywhere asking the people to continue work. : “As a result of the manner in which the entente has treated us, we have allied ourselves with the Soviet government. and have placed ourselves under their protection,” says a proclamation of the food administration. a Lenine was told that the Hungarian proletariat has assumed power and had established a proletarian dictatorship. J company, was severely burned here; Sts lan titel ome itzky said: “ a ze : 3 . : 4 2 ‘would’ tend to show. 5 ““|her summer suit of clothes with gaso- 2,000,000 Creditors last 25 years have graduated hundreds |/@? $525, and the top cow to C. E. Peck greetings to the Bolshevik congress at Moscow, which: had re- Wholesalers Alarmed. The Courier-News quotes Consum- ers’ Store executives as stating that these 24 stores are doing so much bus- line. The gas was ignited by an electric spark, which was emitted from her hand, as she started to gather up the cleaned garments. The! instantly became a of Russia in France| E. A. Special to The Tribune. Paris—France has more than 2,000,- | upon hundreds of women and girls who were equally capable of drafiing these bills. And we have at the cap- itol an efficient attorney general with of Euclid, Minn., for $510. T aver-!| jage price per head was $200. \ The sales were attended by 500! |farmers and breeders. | | ceived it with great enthusiasm. He closed by extending “com- munist greetings and a hand-shake.” GERMANY SEEKS UNION that the: ing ii ‘ young woman ia Vy a capable staff of assistants who sure- | € ari: arch 24.—Count* | prottts of Iovboes ‘aed Sencisoncrs| use of amos, which’ soam aprend| 000 holders of Russian bonds, Vast |, S000 ti" ianecoasney during the/ 14,000 TROOPS —__ |roroktts, March 24-—Count Von Brokdorff Rantean, the Geran numbers of them are workingmen,| (¥ mace Mec es enny the | Aids! foreign minister, has sent Karl Krotsky, one of the under-secre- who have asa result planned to raise| through the room, and damage to the ji and’ ‘trad last session to import any long-haired gaan e s tes 3 n 4 a $40,000 fund to fight the Consumers’ |extent of $500 was done. peasent Bropeipter and tradesmen! gentlemen from. Utah, Washington ARRIVE HOME itaries in the foreign ministry to Moscow, to see the chiefs of the ’ Co., and it leaves the impression taat| The city volunteer fire department | Wise Sav Res 0! Mr iw so| 2nd Minnesota to make our laws for ae : ‘Bolshevik government and to get accurate information which will le s 'y oa Mare the action of the blu sky commission, composed entirely of league members of the administration, is in line with this campaign. “Arrangements are being made to use the membé@aship notes to finance| the stocking of stores in other lines of | merchandise,” says the Courier-News, “and in doing so direct purchases-will be made from the factories. In so doing it severely threatens the higa profits of the Twin City jobbers and wholesalers.” ; Some Question Here. So far as can be learned, the Con- sumers stores have not given even lo-; cal retailers in thé towns where these stores have been established any very keen competition. In a majority of instances the stores have not carried a very extensive stock. In many towns where companies were organ- ized almost a year ago, no stores have ran to the scene and with the use of chemicals put out the blaze. Miss Neuhart was able to quench the blaz- ing clothing without any assistance, although she was severely burned in the act. Seeing the bright skies and the gen- eral thaw, on Friday morning, Miss Neuhart’s thoughts: instantly leapt. to/ summer. She got out her summer; clothing and started to clean therm in the sun parlor. She left two of the windows open,. with - the — belief that the gas fumes escaped iato the open air. She got through with her task and for a few seconds walked through the inner rooms, covered with Brus- sels carpets. Evidently in this man- ner, she generated a great deal of static electricity, for as soon as she reached for the clothing to take it off the table, a big spark glanced off her yettbeen established. Tae officership and management ot (Continued on Page Seven) hand. The cloth was instantly a mass of flames and the garments onthe young woman likewise caught fire. much worried and so determined that some arrangement must result by which Russia will pay her debts. Serbian Soldiers Are Forced to Walk Home N. E. A. Special to The Tribune. Belgrade—The overland trip thru Serbia left. many impressions on the minds of the special Red Cross mis- sion. One of the most permanent is that of little groups of Serbian soldiers walking home.” From the extreme ‘south of what was the high- way, or on the nearby railroad track, little groups of..two to ten soldiers were trudging. “Many of them were just out of hospitals. Weak as they were, dependent for food upon the vil- lages through which they passed, with uniforms and shoes in all stages of disrepair, they were plodding bravely along. + Drunk With Power.” “In was in the house chamber when the printing bill was railroaded through. [ saw member after mem- ber called into the lobby by league leaders and given his instructions When I learned later that these men had been threatened with political ruin if they did not vote for this bill, it made my blood boil. When any man or set of men become so drunk with power that they think they can come in and dictate to our Jaw-makers and control their every act, it is time that power was taken from them and re- | stored to the people.” Undue Domination. “I feel there has been undue dom- ination exercised by a few leaders who have threatened us with political ruin unless we did their bidding,” continued the ‘speaker.:=“This is: con- trary to the principles of democracy and to the spirit of our party. I am (Continued on Page Five.) New York, 24.—Fourteen | | thousand six hundred troops of the} , American forces, more than 3,400 of em convalescent from sickness, ar-j ‘ived on the cruisers North Carolina {and Montana, and other ships, here to- |day. For the most part the home- {coming soldiers were of former na- j tional guard units of Missouri, {| dafi Colorado, New Mexico, C: ; Pennsylvania, Ohio, and) West | ginia. | A \Secretary Daniels | Arrives in France | Washington, Mar. 24—Sec. Daniels, | | who arrived today in Brest, will go to Paris this ‘evening, according to wire- less advices received here. = | ESTABLISH AIR SERVICE. Cairo, March 24.—Aairplane postal bring about closer political and economic relations with the Russian government, says a dispatch to the Matin. v WORK OF RUSSIANS Berlin, March 24.—That the seizure of power by the Hun- - garian communionists is the work of Russian work, seems *pparent from the history of the movement. Bola Kuhn, the new foreign minister, who probably was-the man who formulated ‘the proclama- tion spent a long time in Russia as prisoner and there made the acquaintance of Lenine. and Trotzky. i : The Hungarian socialists would ‘have nothing to do with him and he thereupon founded the Communionist party. s Other leaders likewise had been in Russian captivity. 3 They were participants in the plan to form a ‘communionist army of 70,000 men in Hungary. ‘George Ranssay, also one of leaders, was arrested last February charged with bri million rubles from Russia to Hungary to be used in fo! ; this army. e GERMANS. FIGHT -ANNEXATION®:*** 309-35. > Copenhagen, March 24.—Germaiy can not and will not sign. service has been established between Alexandria, Suez and this city. (Continued on page eight) peace which involves the annexation of Danzig by Poland, Presi :