The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 15, 1919, Page 1

4; BISMARCK “T PA aN BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA THIRTY-NINTH YEAR. NO. 88. _ TU PEACE PRO J MBBS GIVES PUBLIC THE TRUTH [PACKARD TELLS ABOUT “LIE LIKE HORSBTHIER” DEBABCH” HERE: INCIDENT IN NP. SECRET CAUCUS PECTS MU ‘AIR CHIEF | # { - NEW | | | 4 s j League Senator Declares Courier-News Is Again |Declares Money Is Squandered | a . . . . - gf] “arr 3 | > & Caught in Deliberate Falsehood—Big Chief) . c PA on inde a | + . : ‘ i . \ rial Scheme i } Did Urge Morton County Senator to Deceive | ie | . . ¢ ° } | His Constituents, Says Statement—History of |Many NEWw-JOBs CREATED, | yi Tax Legislation Is Made Public. | ogee 7 | i 4 ty \ A —— i. ‘Townleyized Deputies and Seere- | | j In the Morton County Farmers’ Press, a’ Nonpartisan league nai ‘ Se | weekly newspaper published at Mandan by 400 farmers residing | taries Being Baid More | | { in Morton and adjoining counties, Senator Fred W. Mees, mat Than Officers | : “ influential of the league legislators from the Slope, gives to the} its Masi | ! ublic the first correct version of the now-famous “Lie like ‘ay Fargo, N. D.. April 15—“North Da-| \ GEN. WILLIAM MITCHELL b orsethief,” incident of the Townley secret caucus operated during | kol#’s Financial Debauch,” was the| hell has been: made director of | eS) ay the last legislative session. Senator Mees charges President |s"Piect of an address delivered y aeronautics, succeeding Maj. | Townley and the Fargo Courier-News with deliberate f&lsifying | fore the North Dakota Employers’ as-| Gen. William L. Kenly, who has been | fo Gand in an effort to deceive league members throughout the state as to | 9ciation ‘in its first annual conven: Rr ieee nese 3 pulley. i the facts in connection with’ this matter, and he presents the|tion here today, by F. E. Packard of!the aj ve. Before the war he! 1 b affair in detail as follows: \ the state tax commission. jsaw service in China, the Philippines, | Mr. Packard showed that appropria-; Ala: public believe to be a correct version | “ 7 % Sain ‘wi : | have advanced apportions prooably Bu} ae of “lie like a horse thief” story which | Ter aGaE ait ine on RH be ne per cent to these big powers, rane \ has appeared in the Press some time} 4 = and’ helspredieted that if the inet | perhaps peber cent te pallets i e | ago. At the outset, | want to make; aia to iey is. more’ thant} | rane of rem. taly, Serbia, eu ; this point clear, that at no time since} Kaen Oeics \iormalsevetysiaabilt in the State will | ante oe and others eee pre ight, that ‘this, statement) wag | i ity 5, he boggted between 33 1-3 and 50 per TPE Re [teroconen i rowers: Disappointed: | » a made by Townley to me, have | ever! Board of University and School |e ad “pe } « ‘ This is a smaller proportion than -. ¢ i ( cent. ‘ ,,; Attorney General’s Return tothe secondary powers expected. and Lp MQ Girectly or indirectly authorized the | ands Again Sets State Ex- whis, nerfase ‘in’ the tax burden’ | ) ; i ondary lowers: exbetted and | publication of the statement referred, mh * : is not ane »propriations .or bond Taxipd “5° Contplaint Takes | they are a most sure t obe dissatisfied ! i i j Sati. due to appropria axpayers Contplaint Takes | with it. It has been suggested among to, cand: owing. 0, the conflicing ‘re ample in Patrictism ‘sues necessary to ¢ out the Non p I Ehe expert Haivenaentl ia porte; whichi(have «been published! pee oe partisan league program, said Mr.| Up All Details pecs ber is/ou) the Tepe raion eolmit , wil give the -readers: of the Morton, sinost a half-million of the perma Packard. Only 17 per-cent of the to-| ene lnauisig have received: renaration: thrall as VY County Farmers Prees, and all others} ures s funds | tl. appropriations and. levies are} ‘ end rae py isiti FF OUOEHibEe bate ihia ‘ee interested, a correct statement of ;nent university and school lands funds | 1446 to carry out the industrial pro KS ACTION: DISMISSED | crasoning will scarcely appeal to Bel:| what was said before the caucus on of North Dakota will have been in- gram of the league, he said, while 7 : letaee ing will scarcely appeal to | j . the night in question, especially do’ vested in liberty bonds if the ninth dis- percent of the whole is for depart-| are Weve Ueintiaucateaieor: i tree neti ee tha time aines, trict accepts a subscription of $200,000 ments old or ngwly created. ‘Declares Causes Cited in Bill Not! 4 share of the reparation fund, will] this, information at this time sinc? made by the university and schoo “Qur finances are in desperate ‘ "| according to the present understand. | ; the Courier-News has chosen to gf! lands ‘board at a special meeting held ylight," said the commissioner. Ordi-| Sufficient to Warrant ing ‘becnssigned Russia for damage to| i ble the facts, into, blackfaced, damn-) Tuesday. morning. inarily for the fiscal year ending ai | i invaded By ian territory, but prob-| sie able lies when they had the absolute; ‘phe meeting was called by Miss June 30-we have h cash balance of! Proceedings |attyawill be turued oven to Great: Brite! Hs truth in hand. | also wish it under-| Minnie J. Nielson, state stiperintend-; $359,000 to. $500,000, with all bills/ ef ain gad-Brange to dpaly.onvadvantes | im stood that this’ applies equally to all’ ent of public instruction, who presid-| paid. The prospects are now that] Fargo. N. ., April -Denying':in| made to the old Russian’ government | i Soe rit ta tenroduee than’ tmatave| cl in the absence of Governor Fra- June $0, 1919, at the end of our fiscal] part and admitting im part practically) during the war. Although contribu:| ¥ ; eé6en fit to reproduce their master |) zier. Attorney General: Langer and! year our general fund will be deplet-| every allegation in’ the petition filed! tions to he paid by Gerntenplave-char-| . volée” in publishing this same article.! Secretary of State Hall were present,’ , and we Will Have from 350,000 to’ by North Dakota taxpayers in support! acterized as reparation, a very consid._| : i ° : éonatituting a quorum. The custodians | $500,000.in unpaid bills.” of their player for an order restrain-j Grable part of the first five billion | i The Courier-News Lies. ‘of North Dakota’s permanent school) “Showing how rapidly state expendt-| ing the state administration trom pla | gotlara wil not be available for repar-| ti The Courier-News in this .article|tunds were addressed by'J. 1. Bell,!tures ‘have risen, Mr. Packard noted) cing in effect the Nonpartisan league) ation, since it. has been assigned for says: 4 . district chairman, and H..P. Goddard,| the fact that in.1917 the total appro-| economic program enagted by the 16th) payment of the-expenses of the army.| . Mees, whois’ a personal friend | heaa of the Bufleigh county war loan} priations, for-state purposes were $4 , assemyly, Assistant Attorney General] of” occupation, and In exchange tor | of Attorney sGéneral Langer ‘and © organiaztion, .who explained’ the. im- | 229,054, while. according to statistics) F. E, Packard and. Judge S. L. Nuch- food supplied Germany a director. of Langer’s personal, | portance of putting the Victory loan).prepared for. the tax commission %y, ols, on behalf of the state, today filed Reparation for Destruction. % organ, the’ Morton County Farm- ‘over. With little discussion and by} I. A. Baker, and’ published with ap-/ in federal:court a bill, answering the! ppere is no definition for, the class-| / ers’ Presi. “has “been making ”/ unanimous vote the board then agreed} proval, in’ the! 'Courier:.News, A. C.! charges made by assailants of the! es of damages which Germany Is re-| r% speeches .in his county in at- ° ito subscribe for $200,000 of the Vic: ; Townley’s ‘official’ brgan, the total for league program and praying dismissal} quired to pay. It can be stated, how-/ ie tempting to. justify himself ‘for tory. bonds, to be paid for with mon-/1919 will “bB $4¥,954,235, an increase! of the action for lack of.cause. fever, that the five catefories adopted | ‘ 2 6h voting against the League | pro- |-ey now available in the universiiy and“ of $8,736,231; or 203 per cent. Showing! The bill .is,an unusually. voluminous | include reparation for actual destruc- ‘a gram bills at the last feceion: schoo} lands funds. ‘ | what he eee eree eo untae ncread= | ne, feltog up each charge made DY/tion of life or property: enka As his pet story he is telling his" |) AT TW, AD jon acre property tending towar ©, petitioners and’ answering it in-! tion to eripples or the f } Townley of ‘the Nonpartisan |BROWN TO OPEN “single tax system, he showed that|diyidually and at length. ‘The bill ad- apted soldiers, compensation for work | | league told him to go home and the leagye’s own estimate of the aver- mits, for instance, that the state has! done py deported Belgians and for il! la ‘lie Hke a’ damned: horsethief ‘ WORKER BUREAU ;age acre value oa Dakota, in the number of banks alleged in th@) jugatly exacted labor from prisoners | y about the League tax Jaws. Mees 4 : p99 $5.48, or $876.8 for a qular-| petitioners’ complaint, but it denies! of war, and repayment of German re- oy has been able to get away with OFFICES- MAY 1); ion, and that under the league/ that these institutions afford thé re-! quisiions in heaped territory. i the milsrenraen ration sagt Se tax plan this wale reer : id olde aihien wi aie offered by, he Although members of the confer- oné here appeared to know how |g y onsation 3 per quarter section. The league| Bank of North Dakota, one of the; ence regar dthe reparation question a the story originated, but’ today | Secretary of Compensad Les\ es that the levy for t/league’s economic feadures attacked.! settled in the mali, there are many Pa | J. N. Peters, a league farmer of Board Leases Room in North- | poses wil be 3.5 mills as ‘The same line of reasoning is follow-| details ‘to be worked out, including pany pees aes cist a ra al , ' [ie eores dren letters, weir ‘Jed. in answering the attack on the! German contributions of labor, men, plied the correct version-of the | | west—Goes East Tonight ing boards, the tax comm mil’ and elevator association plan, the) capital and manufactured articles fos yarn which differed materially | aa jtimates that the total levy for all} state's allegation. being that while! the restoration of devasted districts from that told by Mees. * * ** j John BE. Brown, retary of the! purpo states as well as local, will| North Dakota has the number of ele-| ite 1 Mees had ‘been one of the prin- | workmen’s compensation bureath to-|be mills this year against 40|yators cited by the petitioners they; SWISS WANT TO JOIN; ‘ elpal objectors. to the bill, his jday announced that offices will be op-|mills last year. Applying these tojdo not afford the relief which the) DON'T WANT TO FIGHT. § claim being that he had ~ gone \jened in the dining room of the oldjthe changed. values he people expect from a terminal ele-} N. E. A. Special to The Tribune, through three ~ political cam- |Northwest hote] April 1. The room;the farmer would pay a vatoy and. flour mill system owned! Berne, April 15.—Switzerland is paigns for state senator on the | will be remodeled and divided into per quarter this and operated by the state. On the}anxious to be a member of the league Li Platform, ofja three man tax // several offices. The bureau will em-| pared with $35.07 last year. tate insists: that the action of tne/of nations. yet she doesn’t fanev ene commission ‘and that he’ couldn't | ploy a consideradje staff, Secretary] | ‘Tho significant fact in this cohnec-|state canvassing board in declaring | of the essential duties of membership, ‘ make explanations to’his constitu- © | Brown, by direction . of the bureau,|tion is the increased burden an acre|the league amendments. properly| military action in care of a violauon 5 ye ents were he to vote for the bill. | jeaves this evening for Columpus, 0.,| property,” said Mr. Packard. “This}adopted was regular and that the su-|o finternational law. The reason for * * * Mr. Townley, who happened {and Madison, Wis., to inspect the |incres auch greater than the av-|preme court decision upholding the| this is the strong German element in to be in the hall at the time, |owrkings of the Buckeye an] Badger} erage on all property, and city prop-|action of the canvassing board was! the Swiss population. Switzerland sudednly arose to his feet and ad- | workmen's compensation comumis-!erty, both real .and personal, enjoys | sound. | rears revolt if Germany should be the VA dressed Mees saying: ‘I don't care | | sions, which have been in operation’ the advantage of especial exemptions| It is ‘probable this action, involving | offender against the league. On the 4 if you go home, and lie like a | siy years or more. The North Dakota; which are not.extended to acre prop-|the league's entire economic program,| other hand, should France offend, horsethief about this caucus, | compensation law is in some respects|erty. This transferring of the bulk|will come up for hearing in federal] there is a strong Romanic element in fete.” similar to statutes in effect in Ohio|of the burden to acre property shows | court here April 25, with Judge Ami-|the Swiss population which would ob- i and Wisconsin. i (Continued on Page Two.) don presiding. (ject to marching against France. In the first place were it not for x Nea he : 1 Sas the fact that the public interest has{ re rt PPR ah a LR noc’. Pinte MA aR aE T SAR ae a APRA LAL DD een ‘aroused, and furthermore thej WKER nny statements, appearing in the “press” x ! have been so much at variance with! : \ the fgéts, and especially the: Townley-; if — bi Brinton “service bureau” are devoting | ae bi . their energy through the columns of| t * their “own” coxtrolled press, in giy-| -) ing the public stories and news items i which have been garbled so as to j' meet their own desired viewpoin:, al-! though stripped of every vestige of truth—were it not for these facts, we/ a yh. would consign the whole matter to : the silent contempt it deserves. I do not deny the charge of personal friend | ship to Attorney General. Langer,’ as i charged: in the Courier-News’ state-| : 3 ment. | thank God that we still have; r men like Mf. Langfer, and that he has/ endowed me with sufficient wisdom) to choose .between honest and up- 4 right men having the best interests of the state at heart, as against a small coterie ‘of self-seekers, whos¢! \ only ambition is personal gain. which: “they propose to secure through their | | rx ’ v5 established policy of “rule or ruin.” 7 Dares Assailants. ‘ The ‘charge’ “has ‘been making ‘speeches in his cougty in attempting to justify himself fdr voting against the League program bills,”;is a delib-|- , erable, barefaced, unqualified lie, and ss know it! I challenge the Cour| ier-News and the rest of the Brinton | “Copy” sheets, te PUBLISH THE). -ROLL CALL, ON ANY. OF THE fi LEAGUE PROGRAM ‘BILLS. The ? statement “Mees has been able to get : af : away with the, misrepresentation , t. ‘ Loe stare ne eattx “oh te ee Las ./ St. Johns, April 15.—Weather conditions had improved suffi- LN. pategte © supplied the correct; Ciently: tdoay to lead associates of Harry Hawker, Australian pilot, . yersion * * ” Why did not the Cour-| of the Neckwith biplane team, to express the opinion that Hawker ‘ terNews k the story origin- Glen Ullin, No. Dak., April 7, 1919! To the Public: ee | In its issue of March 30, the Cour: jer-News, under the caption “Me Juggles Statement| of Pres. Townley publishes what they would. have the $300,000 SCHOOL FUNDS TO BE PUT now until told oan Peters? Why; Sue Peters qualified to give the bmchd “correct version”. and. the rest (Continued on Page Seven) ¢ tions and Jevies made for the ensi two years will aggregate an increase | of 21.4 per cent over levies and taxes far all purposes. in 1918, including! state, city, county, school district and} township levies, With the increase and Mexico, ALL CHARGES IN DAY, APRIL 15, 1919. PRICE FIVE CENTS IUCH BRIGHTER PROBLEMS OF DRLEGATES. TO ASSEMBLE AT . REPARATION | VERSAILLES T0 FORMULATE TROUBLESOME FINAL TREATIES APRIL 25 ondary Powers, Disappointed |< scion Will Meet Just 125 Days After Big Guns Over Share Allotted to s aes, ‘Them in Agreement | Were Silenced on West Front by Signing of — | Armistice—Allies to Hold Rhine Frontier BELGIUM COMES FIRST! — Until Indemnity Is Paid. Leading Powers Have Advanced ; " (BY se SOTA UED. ERE) i ‘ aie ae ' rospects for peace have suddenly become brighter.as a result Apportions Aggregating ‘of the agreements reached by the council of four at Paris, an- 85 Percent ;nouncements of which seem to indicate that within a short time jthe war-worn world will begin to return to something like normal jconditions. , lements has troub-| April 25, which will be 125 days after the last gun of the lous times before it in connection with) great war was fired, delegates will assemble at Versailles, where the question of the distribution of t! | treaties have been made which revised nations. A statement given indemnity to be paid by Germany. by President Wilson at Paris last night indicated that the treaty smaller powers are yet to be heard | with Germany would be completed in a short time, and that in the with regard to their share of the re-imeanwhile the problems involved in the settlement of the conflict- \ 15.—The problem of re paretion settlements. still paration fund, particularly Belgium, | ~/ the cliims of LANGER DENIES which are entitled to ifrst consideration under various pre-{ conference pledges. Tentative Scheme, tentative scheme of distribu- h Great Britain and France The tion wi i i} Al ing claims of Italy and Jugo-Slavia to territory on the eastern shores of the Adriatic would be given preferential consideration. 100 BILLION MARKS : Germany, by the terms of the treaty, will be called upon to pay one hundred billion gold marks, which at the pre-war rate of exchange would be equivalent to $23,840,000,000. - % There seems to be an agreement on the vexing problem of the Franco-German frontier. It is said the Germans will be compelled to withdraw all troops from a zone 25 miles wide on the right bank of the Rhine, while the allies will hold the left bank of the river until the indemnities are paid. | RIOTOUS CONDITIONS CONTINUE Riotous conditions continue. In, Germany there is evidence that the government is gaining ground, and that the soviet regime may be ousted. In Berlin there have been riots, and the soldiers ave fired on street vendors alleged to have been dealing in stolen goods. A rathr disquieting situation has arisen in India, where there have beén uprisings of a serious character. Lahore and other points in the northwest ‘part of the peninsula have been scenes of riots, while at Ahmedaed, further south, mobs have burned government buildings. : . The situation in Egwpt is reported to be in control of military forces commanded by General Allenby. 3 The owners and workers in all branches of production are to be organized, artists, journalists and preachers .and physicians as well as manual workers of each profession being expected ed preset point local representatives. The national council will electe dele- gates to the workers’ council which will supplant the national assembly. " The soviets congress today adopted the resolution sponsored by the majority socialists for the incorporaiton of every ounce + : national economic energy into a nation-wide soviet system whic will culminate in a national workers’ chamber representative.of all crafts, arts, professions and industries, TO SAIL, APRIL 27 OR 28 Paris, April 15.—President Wilson intends to sail for the United States April 27 or 28 after being present at the opening session of the peace congress at Versailles. EXECUTIONS RUMORED London, April 15.—A Copenhagen dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Co., says that the Acht-Ur-Blatt and the Abend Blatt of and Commander Greive, his navigator, might start their attempted trans-Atlantic flight late this afternoon. A slight drizzle was falling this mornigg after the heavy downpour of last night, but Lieut. Harry Clements, meteorologist of the royal forces, predicted clear weather for this afternoon. | Berlin print reports received from travelers to the effect that com- | munis sat Budapest have executed Archduke Josef, Dr. Alexander : Weckerle, former premier, and Baron Joseph Szteprenyi, minister 1of commerce. | The report, the dispatch says, has not been confirmed. PILLAGE STEAMSHIP Paris, April 15.—An Amercian steamship laden with food for | Poland, was pillaged at Hamburg by the Germans, according to a |dispatch from Warsaw received at Zurich and transmitted to the | Echo @’ Paris. ! SITUATION SATISFACTORY | Washington, April 15—Brigadier General Richardson, the {new commander of the American forces in North Russia, has re- |ported the military situation satisfactory, in his official dispatch i since landing on the Murmansk coast. | The message, sent to General Pershing, and relayed by him to | the war department, was dated April 13, or about two weeks after. | the mutinous conduct of Co. I, 339th Infantry. ' It is assumed here that a satisfactory military solution means |that proper discipline prevails among American troops generally. |General Richardson reported the occupation March 11 of Uroch :Drazo by a force of Russians supported by the allies. Two field / guns, one machine gun, and several thousand sheels were captured. | ‘The allied casualties comprised one Canadian sergeant killed ,and one French sergeant wounded. | BANK CLERKS STRIKE Berlin (Monday), April 14.—The strike of Berlin bank clerks spread today to Chemnitz and Mannheim. All the big banking institutions in those cities are reported closed. | / COMMUNIZATION OF WIVES Berlin (Monday), April 14.—A communist government in Munich, aparently realizing that its days are numbered, issued Saturday a long list of orders more radical than its previous de- | crees. : | One order provided for the communization of women i cluding wives.” | } 275,000 TO RETURN HOME é Paris, April 15.—American troops to the number 6f 275,000 |are returning to the United States from Europe during the present ;month, Newton D. Baker, secretary of war, said today upon his \arrival in France. In May, he said, the number will fall to 250,000 for lack of transports, but in June the number probably will rise to. 300,000, which will be maintained as the monthly rate until iall of the 1,400,000 men still here are returned. bes TO FIGHT REDS London, April 15.—Extensive military. operations in Finland ; against the Bolsheviki movement im Russia are described in dis- | patches received here today. The Finn army is reported to have , been cleared energetically of questionable material, even and large supplies of food and munitions have been mobilized. Four tanks are known to have arrived at the border, and a secret {military committee has been sent to the north. Stockholm newspapers are said to have stated that only the fear that America would not’ support the enterprise was likely to {restrain it. ; Re SES SS NS Oar PARIS HAS MOST as the Kiffel tower. Direct POWERFUL WIRELESS.| cation with China or peer, rr} H : States will be possible. bee | N. E. A. Special to The Tribune. | = : 3 Paris, April 15—France is to have FLU NO ONE TIME DISEASE SESS the most powerful wireless station in the world. It is in course of construc- > er Paris—Infideniza is time” disease, tion near Bordeaux. ‘The station was rag by the me s begun by the American army, but sold to France incomplete. Four masts {carrying aerials will be almost as high