The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 11, 1919, Page 1

THE WEATHER: Generally Fair. THE \ THIRTY-NINTH YEAR. NO.85. - BIS BISMA. RCK, NORTH DAKOTA MR. KATE O'HARE FEARS WE WILL SBE REVOLUTION Believes Wife’s Conviction Will Stir Up Enemies of Country to Revolt IS WOMAN AND A MOTHER Socialist Lecturer Declares She’s Human Even Tho She is Wild-Eyed Agitator Following a farewell tour of some of the leading cities of the east and middle west, Mrs. Kate O’Hare, wo- man radical leader, convicted of vio- lation of the espionage law, has ar- rived in Fargo to surrender herself to the United States authorities, and BISMARCK T0 BEI REAL TANK TOWN AND PROUD OF 17 Loan Enthusiasm Tomor- row Afternoon AIA, STORES WILL CLOSE; Half - Holiday Proclaimed \by| Mayor Lucas—State House Falls in Line > PROCLAMATION. Wheras we will have with us to morrow a genuine American army tank, operated by two officers of the American tank corps, brought | to Bismarck in the interests of the Victory Loan drive, and inasmuch as we are also to be fayored with Capital City Center for War|" APRINCEONTHEJOR Prince Albbrt of England works in the British air ministry PRICE FIVE CENTS | DRIVEN FROM i : Flood Waters Rising at James- town and. 11 Blocks of City Under Water FLOUR MILL {S FLOODED Thirty Refugees Spend Night in City Hall—Several Hun- dred Rescued Jamestown. N. D., April 11.—Flood waters of the James, which receded over one foot during the night, at noon today were rising slowly. Warm weather makes the condition increas- ingly grave. were driven from their homes last} RIVER BANKS Seventy-five persons! GERMANY REFUSES TO SIGN TREATY NOT IN CONFORMITY WITH WILSON'S 14 POINTS I ‘Insist Upon Raising Blockade and Want to Dis- cuss Question of Indemnities With Victers at Peace Table—Austrian Industries in Hands of Soviets. | Berlin (Thursday), April 10—Count Von Brockdorff-Rant- zau, foreign minister, speaking before the assembly at, Weimar said Germany would not sign a peace treaty which deviated in any important principle from President Wilson’s 14 points. | “The financial demands to be made in the peace treaty are obviously causing as much difficulty to our opponents as that of territory,” said the foreign minister. “It is impossible to solve |the question of financial.demands without conferring with our experts at the peace table. “Our-opponents,” continued the minister, “cannot dismember |and terrorize Germany and at the same time extract from the re- as an ordinary clerk. He is probably the first of a British ‘royal family to hold such a routine job. upon the issuance of the warrant of commitment will be taken to the fed- eral prison at Jefferson City, Mo. sources. of the country the enormous amounts they demand. ‘We need to have the blockade speedily raised and we required jnight. Eleven blocks in the northern. part of the city are under water. The! addresses from Lieut. Browning of | the U. S. aviation corps; ‘Major J. | | | On a mandate handed down by the United States Circuit Court .of Ap- pealg and which affirms the decision of the lower court, Mrs. O'Hare was given 30 days from the time of tae filing of the order to present herself. to the federal authorities. The time expires at midnight on April 12. Her early arrival in Fargo, she said this afternoon, was for the purpose of getting some needed rest. ‘she stated she would call on Judge! Charles F. Amidon some time today |! or tomorrow. Mrs. tenced on Dec. 14, 1917, by the Hon. (Martin J. Wade of Des Moines, la., lo serve five years in the federal pri- son at Jefferson City, Mo., following a sensational trial held at Bismarck, arrived in Fargo on Wednesday even- ing. She is accompanied ‘by her hus- band, Frank P. O’Hare, a business; man of St. Louis, and their daughter,| Miss Kathleen O'Hare, 1 years old. 'No Trouble. “There will be no ruction in Mrs. O’Hare's going to prison,” said her husband. “Mrs. O’Hare will enter upon her five-year, term of imprison- ment very quietly and feels that she can stay in prison as, long as the ad- ministration can afford to keep her there. All she demands is that con- gress and the administration make an- investigation of the facts leading up to-her arrest at Devils Lake, N. D., on July. 29, 1917, and in face of these facts if the administration can afford to-keep her, she ig willing to stay. In regard to the verdict of the higher! court, nothing else: could have been} expected .a8.the.caurt .recards will) show that the evidence collected by Prof. W. BE. Zuech. in. his inyesiee. tion, of, case were never presente: to meh: ad the higher court ‘can- not! ¥o“back of any jury verdict.” i <~ Court.of Final Appeal. | The struggle for Mrs. O’Hare's free-| dom,,is just beginning. according to; her husband. He declared this aftet- noon that’ she will be imprisoned Wut that ‘he will be on the, outside and on advice of counsel he waited until the final act of the United States Su- preme court in this particular case had beer registered before -he started to make the big fight for her free- dom. “The court of last resort in this; case now is the American people and Saturday, || Kate O'Hare, who was sen-|| ‘M. Hanley, who‘commanded a ma- | chine gun battalion on the west | front. and C. L. Young, Four Min- j ute Man, as mayor of the city of Bismarck | do most respectfully | request and urge that all ou-lic and private Dusiness houses and | offices in the Capital City close from 12:30 to 3 o’clock Saturay af- ternoon, April 12, in order that | their employes may have an op- || portunity to see the tank and to hear the speeches. A. W. LUCAS, President Bismarck City Commision. f { i LB i tf (| i «| Bismarck tomorrow achievs {ts am-! bition to become a real “Tank Town.”| Upon this occasion the capital city -is to be favored with a visit from a genuine army tank, operated by two, members of the American. army tank; corps which ran the legs off the Hein-| ies on the west front, and which will serve as a speaking stage for Lieut. Browning of the U. S. aviation corps; Major J. M. Hanley, commanier of @ machine gun battalion on the west front, and C. L. Young, Bismarck Four Minute man. The tank is coming in the interests of ‘the Fifth Liserty loan, the Vic- tory loan,-through which Uncle Sam! hopes to close up his war account and wipe all debits from his books. The tank will parade from 12:30 to 2:30 on the: principal streets, and at ong, of. the important street intersec- tions ‘Lieut, Browning, Major Hanley! and Mr. Young will address the| crowds in: 15-minute talks. op the, V’ tory loan. pee: , GERMAN WAR PRISONER ieut.. Downing,’ ‘who visits Bismarck tomorrow as an official speaker. for the ninth district, war loan. organization, had, been flying for Uncle Sam on the west. front three months when his plane was brought down inside the German lines, and he was bundled off to a German prison camp. le spent several ‘months there in adding to his conviction that Sherman was right when he said it. He will tell tomorrow of his experiences as a prisoner of the late imperial German govern- ment, i i it { jeaten up iney 65 MILLION WAGE BOOST. AUTHORIZED H Pay and Half for Overtime Al- lowed Only to Men in Yard Service AVERAGE INCREASE $160 Washington, April vances aggregating s' were ordered today by e eral Hines for 400,00 railway eng neers, firemen, trainmen and con tors in passenger and freight servi members of the big four brotherhood and to be retroactive. The brotherhood’s demands for pay and a half for overtime were granted ed only for men in yard’ ser The increases were arranged according to a contemplated schedule one of. the wage relations existing before the as- sumption, of government control. he per man. Including today’s inc: gregate wage increa: 000,000.xailway employe $400 average per man. “1 more than he tot work out the te {timate about a ceipts from tariif increases More than 20 per cent of this will be e PERSHING’S BAND TO HELP OUT IN | NORTHERN PAGIFIC iEARNED SURPLUS \OF $2,768,334 IN 718 | New York. April 11.—After paying idividends of 941,860,000, tae Northern Pacific railway company earned a sur- plus of >2,769,334 in 1918, according to the annual report. approved at a meeting of stockholders today. The report contained both corporate and federal income accounts. The ‘former showed_that out of its standard jreturn of $30,089,692 from the rail- { i mfscellaneou urces amounting to- 307, a balance of $20,- applicable to The government account shows that operating revenues of $31,- the railroad administration deductions had a deficit of eliring directo: were re- nd George H. Carl, vice pre- sident of the company wa s fill a vacancy cauged by tion of William Stoan, now in France. © [elected an | Average increase in wages will be $164 3 G AUTO PLANT Pians:Announced for Garage 100) 140 Feet to Cost About $-£0,000 by N..D.,, Apiil 1 hy 140 feet in y § be con- soon bids can be se- 1 the building and the weather pe The announcement was made this -morimmng firectors of the Western } Anto-com The site selected and {purchased i t corner of ‘Second Avel street, di- irectly opposite the Daily Pioneer of- road administration and income from; dividends re-! to cost |! boiler rooms of the Russell-Miller mill were flooded during the night, and O. J. Seiler reports that 40 pigs were drowned near his farm. clare the flood the highest: since 1883. Night police officers John Bracken, and Roy Sappenfield, wading in water up to their armpits, rescued a hun- dred in the northwestern part of the city. Thirty refugees spent the night in the city hall. James river is out of her banks at a number of points, and a large num- ber of farmer families have ‘been flooded from their homes. James- town homes were opened tq refugees last evening. A number of wagon bridges have gone out. BRIDGES ENDANGERED. Sheynne, N. D., April 11.—The Shey- enne riverg usually a very modest k, is a half-mile wide at this point. A number of highway bridges have ben.washed away, and the North- ern Pacific is engaged in putting in pie nd ballast to save its bridge at this point. é DRYS WIN | PART VICTORY TN CANAD Montreal, April 11.—With a larger number of points in distant parts of Quebec province to be, heard from, }the wet majority registered in yester- rendum ion in favor of cider and beer had been to 110,000" this morning. Prohibition leader 1 this morning | that while a bone dry triumph had not {been achieved, a substantial prohibi- tion victory had been won. GALLI CUR Pioneers de-; Jamestown, N. D., April 11.—The| the importation of foodstuffs on conditions which will make their reasonable sale possible. All the states which participated in the war find themselves in the same difficulty.” i SOVIETS sIN CONTROL | Vienna (Thursday), April 10.—German Austria is coming junder the influence of the establishment of soviet republics at Munich and Budapest. At Donnitz 10,000 workers in the iron plants have driven out the managers because the latter have re- fused wage increases. The coal miners are said to have threatened {similar action, and it is probable the workers in the iron mines will take over the property and elect their own managers. ia WANT HIGHER WAGES i Bank employes in Vienna are demanding higher w. . In one bank salaries before the war auaregatedt bans: Tee wi During the war this was increased to 25,000,000, and now the \officers face demands for 11,000,000 more, which would make the \whole amount greatly in excess of the dividends paid before: the j war. | ELECTIONS QUIET The electinos in Hungary for the creation of soviets councils ;|passed off without reported incidents, soviet organizations being |formed in country distircts by means of this balloting. The pro- jcess was carried out under the coercion of the red army with a ;majority of the voters in various places not appearing to know |why they were voting. { Outsiders in Hungary are inclined to take the economic view lof the experiment, which they are not inclined to believe will de- ivelop into a lasting success. | i RELEASE PRISONERS yeh: \ Berlin (Thursday), April 10—The Munich revolutionary [council has ordered the immediate release of all prisoners of war in Bavaria. The order releases thousands of Russian prisoners, in- |cluding Axelrod, the community. ath | BAR EMPLOYES ; Berlin, April 11.—Volunteer soldiers, streams of water froma \fire hose, improvised blackjacks and knives, played a part today in. ; jpreventing employes of the Deutsche bank, who had voted to re- sume work, from entering their offices. | Strikers’ pickets appeared at the Deutsche bank before the {would-be workers came on ihe scene. A struggle ensued when the iclerks attempted to force an‘entrance. ' GERMAN DELEGATES TO BE SUMMONED Paris, April 11.—The peace conference:has reached an agree- ‘ment on all questions affecting peace with Germany, reparations, :indemnities, the Rhine frontier and the boundaries of Poland. they will be informed of the facts,” { said Mr. O'Hare. “I am prepared to} ‘Arrangements have been made toj carry her fight to the people of the} stop»No. 3 at Sterling, Driscoll and} United States and let them pass. on| McKenzie and a large number of peo-; the injustice. of the conviction andj ple are expected in trom these points. imprisonment of an innocent woman.; The program is being arranged for i The German delegates will be summoned to Versailles within DIVOR J 0 or three weeks. + i Premier Lloyd George is quoted as saying that if the allies lBscan RENO the slit carasecet the _— |agree as well at present as during the war the peace treaty will be “ompany having, proven too small. It| Chieago, April 11,—A deposition in| effective and lasting and the menace of Bolshevism avoided. Waaince ; ema ithe 2 sui Jali Curci, >i pi Was recently sold to L, F. Lyman of|the divorce suit of Galli Curei, the/ WOMEN DELEGATES APPEAR the Perfection Baking company. opera singer, was filed here today.| VICTORY L 0 AN fe his move has been contemplated | New York, April 11.—‘Pershing own band,” organized by the cow mander in chief, to- improve musica The people will be informed of the! their benfit in such a way as to per- conspiracy at Bowman, N. D., and! mit them to return home tie same af- that those. who perfected this con- ternoon on No. 8, which leaves Bis- spitacy, unfortunately for them, have marck about 2:30. not’ concealed their tracks. The fight; The siren on the Hughes Electric for the freedom of Mrs. O'Hate will; plant will announce. the start of the tbe made by an immense number of; tank, and a bugler will occupy its tur- friends, many of‘ whom: are not So-! cialists. No one ever ‘thought Mrs./ O’Hare would go to prison. Now that she is actually facing a term in the! federal penitentiary, the people are} awakening and from all hands there come, support and promises. “She is not requesting pardon, ‘because she cannot do that when she is not; guilty.” it Predict Revolution. In the farewell speech that - Mrs. O’Hare gave at St. Louis early: this month and which she gave at other points on her trip, she predicted that! social and industrial revoluti sweep the United States and Europe,| despite the prosecution of the social- ists and other radical leaders. She is; said to have declared in that speech; that she violated no law. * “Don’t think that I don’t feel for my children,” she is quoted as saying in one of the press reports. “My heart ig almost breaking because of them. 4 may be a wild-eyed agitator, but I am a woman and a motiier also. But my brave husband, with whom I have lived for 17° years, and my childsen are made of the same fighting stock as myself. They would rather see me behind prison bars than have me .@® coward when my country needed me most of, all.” Z veh St. Louis in Larabee H Mrs. O'Hare left Lous in Marc! and according: to ie husband deliv- ered farewell addresses in New York, Buffalo, Milwauke, Chicago and Min- neapolis. Se Very Tired. Mrs. O'Hare said to visitors at the hotel this morning that she was very tired and nervous following her ‘speechmaking four of the east and the middle west.” Her husband said that ever since her conviction, Mrs. O'Hare has been preparing herself to continue welfare work and that dur- ing the last 20 months she has been making a thorough study of" psychol- ogy and criminology and that she in- tends to devote her time in the fed- ral prison toa scientific psycholog- ical survey of the prison population. “I this * said her husband, “she has promised co-operation and assistance. “Her work will be {ple will be here from out-of-town and * | ret ‘deck to hail the progress of the; whippet. Business will be suspended in the city proper during the: peregrinations of the tank, and’ N. A. Mason, secre- tary to Governor Frazier, annouced! this morning that a half-agliday would; be proclaimed at, the capitol. tomor-} row afternoon. It is, expected that hi | {ndreds of peo- that the Victory loan cam be given a flying start. Tank to Have Escort. | The army tank will have an escort paign will marching order, with a bugler and col- or sergeant. The Bismarck band will! enliven the tank parade with rousing: march tunes. ‘ ¥ Saturday evening at 7 an informal luncheon will be given at the Grand} Pacific by the Bismarck Commercial club in, honor of Lieut. Downing and the two tank officers. All returned) soldiers whether overseas men pr not, are invited to enjoy this feed, and business men of the city are expect- ed to turn out and give the -figting men a rousing reception. It is requested that soldiers andj others who can arrange to attend no- tify the Commercial club, Phone 313; leaving their names not later than 5 orclock tomorrow evening. BANKS HELP ROADS OUT ve Washington, ‘April 11. — Bakers, railway executives and Director Gen- |eral Hines today agreed to co-operate to care for May 1 financial require- ‘ments of the roads along lines fol-} lowed in providing for Aipril ‘require- ments. . JAPANESE ANDO CHINESE ~ i me BANKS UNDERGO RUNS. 'N. E. A. Special to The Trbune. Tokio, April 11.—Japanese banks done on the same basis as ‘psycho- Jogica}.and. sociological work done. by the United States army for the sol- + (Continued on Page Two.) recently withstood a run caused by re Ports of grave finacial trou>les. Trey algo extended help. to. a. number of Chinese banks which were under fi- nancial strain. i A as standards in the army, has sailed for than to aid in the Victory loan, .Th of the best mu can army and take part in Victory loan demonstr tions. throughout the country. ARMY OFFICER HERE TO AID SOLDIERS IN QUEST OF $50 BONUS CHECKS Capt. P. J. Keegan of ‘the United States field artillery, is here to assist former soldiers to. promptly obtain their. $60 bonus. Capt. Keegan has been assigned’ to this duty at the sug- gestion of Adjutant General Fraser. He will certify to true copies: of dis- charge papers and will offer returned fon willjof a squad of oversea men in full) soldiers other assistance in filing their claims. He will ‘remain in the city over Sunday. wi diers within the surprise of their The Western Auto company has been re-organized, new stockholde mitted and the capitalization raised ,000. At the meeting last eve- directors were elected as fol- L. F. Smith, R. A. Country- H. 0. Altnow, F. 5 | Ed Miller, George H. Bin- i genheimer and_E. A. Ripley. Election of officers will be held later. L. F, Smith, will be manager of the new garage. ; The building will be one story but; | So constyucted that it will be possible; |to add as high as six additional stories for offices or other purposes as the need may become:-apparent. “NINE KILLED. | Seoul, April 11—Nine persons are i ; Said to have bn:killed and many oth-! ‘ers injured in distrubances at five | points in the rpovince of Ping ang | Yang. lives. It was by Cleofonte Campanini, di- rector of the Chicago Opera associa- |tion, in which Galli Curei sang. Cam- pinini said that twice when Galli Curci was singing, he saw Luigi, her hus- band, escort young women to his wife’s apartments| The director said he did not remember the names of the towns or the hotels where these things happened. Galli Curci’s suit alleged that her husband made her life unbearable. Campinini said one of these acts was when Luigi repeat- edly said to his wife: “You sing flat.” FOR EARLY CONVOY ;gram from American expeditionary headquarters to the war department today announced that all organiza- tions of the:29th and the 23rd, Illinois division, had been assigned to early convoy, as well as the 158th field hos- BUT WHEN THEY FALL, THEY FALL HARD It’s nice to skim through the air, but when you land, as this plane did, ’mid a tangle of ires, it’s not.. The aviator struck the roof of a barracks at Bambrook, Texas, and handed the sol- Washington, April 11—A cable- | pital brigade and base hospital No. 77.| Paris, Apri] 11.—The session last night of the league of na- tions commission at which the new section providing that the {Monroe doctrine was not to be affected by the covenant provision {began at 8 o’clock and continued until midnight. Women’s dele- gates appeared before the commission and asked that the principal lof suffrage for women be included in the covenant. PROTECTS MONROE DOCTRINE Paris, April 11.—While the text of the Monroe doctrine amendment adopted by the league of nations’ convention at its ‘convention last night, are withheld, its main features are: Article 10.—Nothing in this covenant shall be construed as abrogating any agreement such as the Monroe doctrine for maintaining peace. ATTEND DEMONSTRATION Rome (Thursday), April 10.—A group of self-styled Sparta- cans carrying a red flag attended a demonstration here today, but the people attacked the crowd and dispersed it. Several of the |Spartacans were injured and others arrested. There ensued an enthusiastic demonstration in celebration of the victory and in honor of the allies. | ACTIVE IN BAVARIA i Copenhagen, April 11—Communists are reported very active jin Bavaria. The agitators are said to be attempting to start a revolution jand to proclaim a soviet republic in Baden. They would also unite \Baden with the soviet Bavarian government. | The council of people’s mandatory which has been in control ‘in Munich, has been dispersed by the communists, according to the Franische Taggepost of Nuremburg. ORDER STRIKERS TO DISPERSE Several thousand persons asesmbled before Spartacan head- quarters in Dusseldorff Thursday. The police ordered the strikers 'to disperse. Shooting followed. The Spartacans erected barri- cades in the street. After an exchange of shots in which a number were killed, the Spartacans fled. The strike in Brunswick is re- ‘ported to be general, and the railway station there is closed. Leaders of the Brunswick strikers have sent an ultimatum to the diet demanding that all powers be handed over to workers’ coun- cils. Workers in 20 other towns have gone on strike in favor of introducing the soviets system. \ OVERCOMING DIFFICULTIES Washington, April 11.—Without giving details, advices from \Paris indicate that some of the peace difficulties delaying F in the negctiations have been overcome and that the |secured the adoption of certain of the important points for which ihe has been contending. E s : ; REVOLUTIONARY TRIBUNALS Copenhagen, April 11. | established in Munich and 28 judges set in relays , out the day and night, says a dispatch to the Moniteur, tences of the judges are carried out immediately. The dispatch says that all newspapers municipal control, the owners receiving no