The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 23, 1919, Page 1

TOWNLEY CLANS * principal organizers,: Walter W. THE WEATHER Partly cloudy. THIRTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 95. PRICE FIVE CENTS ITALIAN ‘SITUATION STILL CRITICAL FLOCKING IN TO ATTEND DEBATE: car line business, has accepted | J the North Dakota railway commission | Trained Corps of Hecklers Being Assembled to Intimidate State Auditor BIG CROWD IS EXPECTED League Farmers Write Kositzky From All Parts of Slope. They’re Coming The Townley clans are gathering for the Kositzky-Liggett debate to be staged at the auditorium Saturday af- ternoon. In addition to Townley there are already, assembled here A..1. Bowen, clerk/of'the house during the 15th assembly and. one of the jearue s Jig gett, former St. Paul newspaper, man picked by Townley to. spend the league's $200,000 state immigration fund; Madame Signe Lund-Robard, a prominent Norwegian palitico-mu-| sician; C, FR. Stangeland, formerly in; several minor governmental. positigns, | Nell Macdonald, former state superin- tendent of publi instruction, and) others. It is understood to be Townley's plan to have here for the debat best trained corps of hecklers, be posed ‘of several scores of league or- ga@nizers and agitators, with a view to embarrassing State Auditor Kositvky. Mr. Kositzky has never professed to; be @ public speaker, but during his re-i cent tours in which he explained the anti-league legislation of the last ses- sion he has developed greatly, and he is expected to more than hold his own! Saturday afternoon. The state auditor will debate with a Liggett the ‘board “of administration : ine designed to humble Miss Minnie; ’Nieison, state superintendent of Up public instruction and to elevate Neil! C:, Macdonald, repudiated ‘by an over- whelming: majority at the -polls ‘last fall;..the state printing. bill, whica would give a string of newspapers! ely controlled by Job Wi. @rinton;’ ‘ownley agent, a monopoly of a half million dollars;in public printing; the various taxation bills passed by the! last: session with :a.view to shifting! the burden .wholly onto the land and; paving the: way for a single tax;. the judivial 4rediatrictigg ‘bill,.destgned to; create! Joby ‘at an expense..of $30,029 pel annum, .for: three friends of the! ldéagui :. who are tO.be rewarded with! judgéships by appointment, and _vari-j dug! @ther “bits! of legislation to wich; State,’Auditér Kositzky,, Secretary of State. Hall, Attorney General Langer and other prominent league state orfi- clals have taken exceptions. It is expected the auditorium will) be crowded for this debate, as league farmers have written. .Mr. Kositzky|\ yrom various points on the Slope ad vising of their intention to come, and |( there wil be a big local attendance. Townley has also leased the auditor-; ium for Saturday evening, when a meeting whose purpose has not yet! ‘been announced will be held. i MUCH ACTIVITY { IN FLIGKERT AIL jover Walker D. Hines and the fed-icourt when Rapheal admitted he was} | will also be discussed three similar de-i AVE 7 SCHOOL CIRCLES: County and District Meetings | Being Palnned jn All Parts of State ‘Ah unusual season of(activity has| opened, in North Dakota school cir-| cles. Friday and Saturday of this week the Mid-State Teachers’ Association, |! anew organtaztion comprising Fos- ter, Eddy, Wella and Benson coun-' tles, will be held. at New Rockford, andDr. G. A. “McFarland, assistant state superintendent, will be one of the «speakers, . Thursday and Friday! of next week the Missouri Slope Kdu-| cation association will meet at Man- dan, and State Superintendent Nielson and Miss. Bertha Palmer of her staff! will be among the speakers. ‘ The @dminiatration is encouraging the holding of county play days. Mc- Lean county. has ‘May 13 as the date for its play déy°and the eighth grade graduating exé@rcises. to be held at Underw under the direction of County Superintendent M. EB. Mc: Curdy. : Miss Nielson will be amongi the speakers. Williams courty has arranged for a playday, but the date has not been set. mn county will have its annual .playday June 7. Grant county’s playday will be meld at New Leipzig on June 6, while the annual school officers’ meeting will be held at Carson the day /preceding. High School Conference. The eighteenth annual, high school confefence and -a state meeting of! county superintendents will be held at the university May -15, 16 and 17 in conjunction with .the annual inter- scholastic contests. “Miss Nielson will discuss the relation of the rural, con- solidated and graded schools/to the high schools before the conference of county superintendents -on the. open- ing day. Other speakers’ will be Miss Annie Shelland of the Minnesota de- partment af édycation, Dr. R. A.Beard of Fargo, Dean L. D. Coffman of the college of education of the:university of Minnesota; J. J. Pettijohn, director of the division of educational exten- ston of the. bureau of education at Washington, and a number of mem- ders: of the. North’: (Dakota, mniversity jinfantry and two companies of coast artillery; Ohio two regiments of in-} (RAILWAY BOARD EMPLOYS EXPERT Frederick Breimler, late in charge of the special investigation made by the federal trade commission of | pri- the post of public utility expert with and will arrive the latter part of the week to assume his duties. Mr. Breim. ier is a graduate of Bucknell univers- ity and a former instructor in political science and economics at the Univers- ity of Pennsylvania. He is recom- mended by Deloss F. Wilcox of New York, Francis J. Henry, counsel for the trade commission, and other well known men. LEASE FOR NEW BANK SITE WILL BEPUT THROUGH Absence of Governor Frazier, Undergoing Treatment for Rheumatism, Not to Delay The industrial commission, altho |Goyernor Frazier, following the \re moval of his tonsils, at. Thermopolis, Wyo., treatment for rheumatism, ward the issuance of the $2,000,900 worth of bonds which are to be turn-; ed over: to the bank to enable it to! begin operations, Governor Frazier wrote today that | he is recovering from the operation on! his tonsils, and that his rheumatism? seems to be yielding to treatment, but | he does not hope to he home untilethe | first of next week. Thursday's business Vill be. trans: acted by Commissioner of Agricul- ture John N., Hagan and General William Langer, who fre in agreement, On the site Propositi lon. TO CONFER ON BIG RATE CASE Langer Victory | in Rail Matter | in North Dakota of. Na. ‘ tional Importance W.Y, Tanner, former attorney gen eral of Washington state and now en- (gaged as ‘special Counsel for Wasting in, Oregon and Idaho: in the conceré ed attacks which the states aren ing upon the federal railway admin tration’s authority to interfere with intrastate freight rates, was in con- \ference with Attorney General Lan- ger ‘and Assistant « Attorney, General | Packard on Tuesday while en route to, Chicago to attend a national meet: ; ing of state's representatives called | {for Saturday by the national associa | tion of railway commissions. At this conference there will be dis cussed proceedure in the govern- ment’s appeal from a decision of the North Dakota supreme court in which Attorney General Langer and Mr. ; Packard won a: victory tor the state; eral railway administration and there cisions in re Postmaster General) Burleson’s right to boost; ‘intrastate! telephone tolls. i All of these cases Will be a:gued ‘he- {fore the United States supreme court May 5. While three states have won decisions against the government in) ; the telephone matter, North Dakota is| | the only state which has successfully attacked the right of the federal rail- : way administration to toy with intra-| state freight, express and passenger j rates. FLYING CIRCUS . AT GATE CITY Fargo, N. D., April 23.—Four army aeroplanes furnished Fargo a_ real show today, when they staged a flying | circus for the Victory loan. “ 'Reconstruction _ of National Guard Actually Started Washington, April 23.—Reconstruc- tion’ of, the national guard was actual- ly starteg today when the yee depart- ment through the bureau Of mititary affairs authorized the organiaztion ot seven regiments and one battalion of | infantry. | . The state of New York was author-} ized to raise four regiments of in-| fantry; New Jersey one, regimen: of fantry, and Oregon a battalion’ ot in- fantty tillery. These new units are intended to re- Place: state troops which under Sec. 61 of the national defense act cannot be legally maintained in times of peace. That section prohibits the maintenance of amy. troops except! those described in the act——regulars, state militia or naval resefve and na- tional guard. The organization of units wiven in; states where the immediate need for armed protection seeme: most press- ing. The units, must be ready for June: 30, if the federal government is to extend financial aid. The com- panies will be organized on a peace basis, with 65 men-as a minimum. is still detained i undergoing | ‘Thursday ; will sign a lease for the new Bank of; North Dakota, and take steps to for-! Attorney |, and two companies of coast ar-} [SALVATION ARMY OF INDIA GIVEN FULL CHARGE | | { i { fl ! | 1 { When you see the caps and the little poke bonnets of the Sal- ivation.Army in America or England you may not think of the; ‘world-wide influence of this organization. picture of Salvation Army workers in India, in native attire, and ‘ly, know.that in India, land of famines and poverty,. the aimy has would put it. | been given the management..of problems: dealing:with the. poor. | ‘HOGS HIT NEW | RECORD OF $21.10) Chicago, April 22, ea new ;Fecord Yor hog prices at | hundred ‘was esta ished + CNR FIREMAN "DENIED PAPERS BEAST, COLE | i aliirude ‘Applicant Bi Citizenship Admit-| ted“Membership in I. W. W. | and Similar Organizations N. D. April 23,—George | tater: a Northern Pac fireman, | was\today denied American citizenship by Judge A.,T. Cole of the district! | ja member of the I. W. and “similar jorganizations.” | “Phe» court»: believes. that he jDheal) adwocates the chang e of | ernment by, revolutionary | m rather than by peaceful m j Judge Cole, ‘in’ dism: judice Rapheal's appli ‘TRACHOMA RULING 'UPHELD BY NORTH TRIBUNAL (Ra- gov- ures said pre-4 [DAKOTA Reet Court; Declares La-} Moure County School Board | Was Within Rights The right of the Ros Ss | trict in’ LaMoure county to | mittance to a trachoma s' se ad. ect was ‘upheld by the supreme court yester-| !day when it affirmed a decision ot; {Judge Coffey in the LaMoure county | j district, court in an action brought by! C.-T. Martifi again: Hattie Craig,| | principal, and Chris - Waldie, J. Youngman and Knut Larson, directors | of the RoScoe school district. Evidence suowed that a survey made} for the federal government by Majo Oakley disclosed that at the time the school board took. this action ihere were 120 positive and 350 suspected oases of trachoma in LaMoure coun- ty. It was shown that a number of cases diagnosed .by the county board | of-health as trachoma and held by, ‘the pudlic health laboratory at Grand | {Forks to be sometiing else had been { confirmed upon submission to the gov- ‘ernment hospital ai Pikesville, Ky ,! (and that aS‘ a result of conditions in LaMoure county the government ; found ft: necessary to establish a | trachoma hospital there. The su- preme court found that one known case of trachoma iad developed in the Martin home and that the second; | child; over whose exclusion the suit ‘originated . was suspected. It holds. itherefore, that the school board. was j entirely within its rights in excluding | ithis pupil from school. i INSURANCE COMPANIES OMING. | ‘The ‘Union Automobile Insurance| Co, the Union Fire Insurance Co., and the Union Life and Accident, all of Lincoln, .Neb., have written the stace commissioner of insurance relative to | admission ‘to North Dakota. - | state dat OF POOR RELIEF Old Stand-by of Central North Dakota Is_ Practically Over the Top Today ENTHUSIASM IS GROV G Reports From Nation Over, Show That Loan Is One of Best of the Series SEVERAL COUNTIES OVER TOP. |. Fargo, N. D., April 23.—Wesley | McDowell, chairman of the North { | Dakota Liberty loan organization, announced this morning that Mc- Kenzie, Nelson, Divide, Hettinger, Dunn, Mercer and Stark counties have completed their quotas. En. couraging reports are coming from all sections, In the north- east section of the state the big- gest proportion of the work will be done the latter part of this, workers delaying because farmers are in the midst of seeding. | While neither Chairman Goddard of the Burleigh county organization nor} { Chairman, Conklin, acting commander in chief of the Bismarck loan forces Would announce results today, it ‘is un- | derstood that the capital city and the {county are so near over that a very *|liltle mopping up tomorrow will com- ‘Burleigh a five. i The committe begin with, but thi tivity with which ithis fifth Liberty loan, the Victory ‘Joan, has been taken up, especially by | ‘aight pat hand. ;the smaler investors, has been an jagreeable surprise to them. The city {and county have once more availed themselves of an opportunity to show; Glance, then, at. this! that they are right—“absoposttivelute-! as the Yanks from over ‘here NEW YORK GOES WELL. OEE nO ners New* York, April 23.—Official sub-| i scriptions to the victory, liberty loan jin the New York federal reserve dis-; | tret this dad totaled’ more. .than | great strides. Seventy-five counties jot lowa were ovr the top. In Michi- 4 we 2. A gan Muskegon went, over without aid| State Audits Hae Has Privilege of 9 mthe -banks, and Flint oversut- Ss ing Last S: ; | scribed. In linois, Indiana and Wis: peaking Last Saturday, ;consin the drive was said to be going! (at Auditorium | strong, but ‘details were slow in arriv-' ing. In Chicago the unofficial es COMMON LABOR AN INSULT H j mate this morning | was $24,00,000. SUPERIOR OVERSUBSCRIBES Auditor Kar Superior, Bells and! Kositzky won, Whistles last nig! med that rst advantage in his joint de;! Superior and Douglas county has ex- \bate with Walter W. Liggett, former) ceeded their Victory loan quota of $1 editor of the Courier-News and immi-!200,000. Reports this morning show: gration commissioner to be, when he; Oversubscriptions of — more than took the toss of a coin this afternoon ; $50,000. to determine whether he or’ Liggett! should decide the order in which the: Was debaters were to. appear at the Audi-| 6; ‘i torium on Saturday. en Kositzky REACH $50,000,000, BD: Cs April 23.—Unot- y, winning the toss, elected , to speak las He will subject Lig-; ))9°, gett to the necessity of firing hia 900,000. Siar: best ammunition first, without any! TQ CLEAN UP THIS WEEK. advance knowledge of the line of at-! Washington, April 23.—Telegram: tack which Kositzky is to pursue. The| from district headquarters of the Vic general opinion locally seems to be: tory loan throughout the country this that in any event Kositzky is fully; morning told of qualified to more than hold his own]asm, Many of these communities re: with Liggett. ; Ported they already had oversub- Liggett an Outsider. I scribed their quotas. Forty-eight cit- Liggett is comparatively young and! jes and towns in New England have inexperienced, even as.a news auper | reached their goal. In the Cleveland man, Of North Dakota he knows lit-| district $60.000,000 sales had been tle or nothing aside of second-hand in-| made up to yesterilay.. Sixty- one hon- formation gleaned from’ Townley,|or flags had been awarded to towns Mills, boc Ladd, A. E. Bowen and oth-! which had subscribed their quotas. er “authorities.” His residence in this: In the central northwest district, of | loan were approaching $500,- increasing enthusi. fore tue first of the year. | subscriptions have been retarded by! Kosilzky came to North Dakota a8} had roads and through the fact that | a poor. farmer boy from a sod home| the farmers are engaged in seeding. steader’s shack in South Dakot where he was born, He has been a TRADE BALANCE of state auditor, three years ago next) North Dakotan ever since, winning his ‘all. Washington, “April 3.—The trade way against unusual obstacles, educat- | ing himself, and inspiring his fellow! Belittling Karl. z. 'palance of. the United States for the } A local ‘Townley organ. seeking’ to fiscal year will pass $3,000,020,000 t citizens with such confidence that hei held a large number of county offices before his f election to the office 8 | belittle Kositzky and to show that he| Month, if the nation’s commerce con. jcould not possibly be a match for Unies its rapid growth. At the end of | such-an aristocrat as Waiter Liggett | March the favorable boat was $2, born amid affluent surroundings, edu-| 199,000,000. ‘cated by a proud father wno paid the} bills and gave his son the best, sneer- COUNTY AND CITY ingly alluded to the fact a few, days; ago that it w&s not long since that| OFFICERS AGAINST Karl Kositzky” worked’ as a day la- borer in the manufacture of the con-| LEAGUE N MUST GO crete blocks. from waich the Soo ho-! tel was built. Kositzky admits the truth of this charge; he even con-ja great many county and municipal of-} fesses to having gone hungry, now | ficials who have not been friendly to and then, but he asserts that he nev-/ the league are due to lose their heads er yet has sold his manhood for the after July 1; When Senate Bill 29, ex price of a meal, and that Townley and| tending the governor's removal pow-| all the resources the great czar has ers, becomes law. This act empowers at his comman:i cannot buy him now. | the governor to remove county com- Kositzky has been assailed on racial! missioners, clerks of district courts. and religious grounds. The fact that! county judges, sheriffs, coroners, his ancestors fought for the freedom) county auditors, registers of deeds, of Poland is another source of pride; state’s attorneys, county treasurers. for the state auditor. That very fact, | superintendents of schools, all city he contends that he is charged with | officers, including city commissioners, membership in a church with which | and any custodian of public moneys. -| It is reported that laxity in the en-| he never allifiated is evidence enough of vhis liberalty in relgion. + E, Runey of Driscoll, a *promi- nent Burleigh county léague farmer who stands well with all factions in the league, will preside at_Saturday’s dedvate.- ‘The audience Will be ‘the referee. The debate: will open pzompt- ly at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon. forcement of the automobile registra- tion law will be used as a means of removing @ large number of sheriffs and city police officers, constables, etc., who ‘are not affiliated with the leagé to make way for officials who are friendly to Towaley and his asso- clates. BURLEIGH WILL HAVE ITS: QUOTA) THURSDAY NIGHT: plete the job and give Bismarck and} were optimistic to; Chicago, in, April cores os viriually.; subgcrihed its_.qnota..of the Victory loan and lowa is making | back.only a few weeks be-| which Minneapolis is headquarters, | Word is Zothe round’ round the capitol that | WILSON STANDS FIRMLY UPON ISSUE OF FIUME AND CLAIMS OF ; ITALIANS TO ADRIATIC ZONE [Premier Orlando Threatens to Return Home Today Unless There Is Satisfactory Adjust- ment—Premier Lloyd George Tries to Pacify Contending Leaders. (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Although the peace conferees in Paris have passed along for future adjustment the Japanese problem, one of the two trouble- some questions standing in the way of the peace treaty, the Italian’ difficulty was still pressing for solution at today’s meeting. Italy’s delegation at the peace conference, however, seems to be showing a disposition to recede from the extreme attitude which it had taken, and which had brought about an admittedly grave situation in the work of restoring peace. Reports from Paris indicate a willingness on the part of the Italians to listen to sug- gestions of a compromise to adjust existing demands of Italy and Jugo-Slavs regarding Fiume and the Dalmation coast. | WANTS FIUME ! Italy, it is said, has offered to give up all claims to the Dal- matian hinterland, if given Fiume, the Dalmatian coast and tht Damation watershed. \ Lloyd George tried unsuccessfully during the discussion last ‘night to reconcile the viewpoints of Wilson and Orlando on‘the \Italian situation, it became known today. pe ‘ | TRIES TO RECONCILE LEADERS i Premier Orlando threatens to return to Italy today unless ithere is a satisfactory adjustment of the Fiume and Dalmatian questions. Premier Lloyd George is attempting to persuade the iItalian leaders to remain in Paris longer. Rival claims of China and Japan to Kaio Chow and the Shan- tung peninsula have not been settled, and if the’ Chinese and Japa- ‘nese home governments consent, it seems probable these claims | will be left to be taken up by the league of nations after peace has been declared. i It seems established that the Soviets government of Hungary ‘has been crushed, but the situation is still obscure. ‘The ‘party which has taken control, is not definitely known. \ Reports that.a soviets regime has been set up‘in Turkey is ‘|doubted in London, which feels if there was ‘any truth in the {report advices would have been forwarded the British® ‘foreign. office by British warships lying off Constantinople. On the north Russian front the allies have pushed forward:a /considerable distance along the line south of the Mena ‘peninsula. CLASH OVER. ADRIATIC Paris, April 23.—The facts of:the deadlock over ‘the Italian \claims in the Adriatic are as follows: (president Wilson proposes that Fiume® not rienitioned ti" the city of London, shouldbe a free city, but attached to the fogo-Slav icustoms city. $ | Italy refused to accept this proposal, whereapon: Preside | Wilson withdrew, leaving Italy alone with the other signatories of | ‘the treaty. During the meeting both Premier Orlando and Foreign Minister Sonnino were most conciliatory, Orlando especially:having asked repeatedly on what conditions Great Britain and France : would give Fiume to Italy. | However, President Wilson, who, while he was not present at ithe meetings, kept in touch with them, wanted to reopen the qués- ition of the treaty of London. The president has receded from his ‘first proposal to make Fiume a free city and is inclined to give it absolutely to the Jugo-Slavs. Premier Clemenceau and Lloyd George are understood. to |favor adhering flatly to the treaty of London. | ITALY STANDS FIRM | Paris, April 23.—The Italian delegation to the peace confer- . |ence asserted today its determination to stand firm on the question ‘of Fiume indicating that unless the council changed its attitude ithe delegates would not return to the conference. ‘Solution of: the \difficulty is regarded improbable, as President: Wilson is equally as firm as the Italians. , With Premier Orlando of Italy Still absent, Lloyd George, ‘Clemenceau and Wilson resumed this‘ morning consideration of questions involving China and Japan. $ RECEIVE GERMANS APRIL 28 . Paris, April 28.—The allied and associated governments have informed the German government through General Nudant, at Spa, that they are ready to receive the German delegates at Ver= | sailles April 28. | WILL LEAVE APRIL 28 Paris, April 23.—The Ger may delegates to the peace congress probably will leave Berlin April 28 and arrive in Versailles May 1, |according to a dispatch from Berlin. | HOOVER ARRIVES | Berlin, April 22—Herbert Hoover, chairman of the inter: jal allied food commission, arrived here today. SERIOUS DISTURBANCES Berlin (Tuesday), April 22—There has been serious disturb jances at Hamburg during the week end. A mob plundered the jharbor quarter and clashed with the police. Several were killed jor wounded. A dispatch to the Voerwarts says there was a regular battle in the suburb‘of St. Paul, west of the city, Saturday. A | policeman was killed and several others wounded, but the rioters suffered worse than the officers. The rioting was renewed today; jarms being distributed to the mob. Several police depots were | attacked, and one was captured by the mob. | FACES BAD CRISIS | Budapest, April 23.—This city is going through a crisis worse ‘than that of April 3. There‘is aprehension that there will be a violent revulsio nto anarchy, with the present government losing control of Bolshevik leaders. Looting which heretofore has been held in check or legalized as “the nationalization of aah and | the assassination of old national leaders are feared. SPAIN TORN BY STRIKES Madrid (Tuesday), April 22—The Spanish government has | abandoned the idea of placing the postal service under military. con- jtrol, as the men are beginning to returh to work. Negot | with striking telegraphers have failed. The textile strike is more |serious, and martial law has been proclaimed there. | |diplomtaic representatives report that the Bolshevik government in Russia is manufacturing foreign coins and bank notes to be ‘used in propaganda service. iPoliceman Shot By Automobile By cit * Chicago, April 23—One policeman zuh age was shot dead today ‘n an effort to|and have ca halt automobile bandits an: another oe shot in the leg.