The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 1, 1919, Page 1

JAP-CHINESE CONTROVERSY I$ SETTLED Future Integrity of China to Be Handled by League of Nations SOME DELAY! MAY BE Germans at Versailles Arouse Little Curiosity Among Dele- gates to Conference (By Associated Press.) Possible delay in the handing of tic) peace terms to the eGrman delegates! at Versailles is indicated in late ad-} vices from Versailles. The function| may have to go over until next week,! while instructions as to the powers ot} the enemy representatives and their powers as spokesmen for Bavaria is| being looked into. Today was set for the handing vy the Germans of their credentials to; the committee for examination. | The Chinese, Japanese dispute over Kia Chow and the adjoining Shang |' ‘Tung province territory has been sel: tled ‘by the council of three’ of the! peace conference. Aunouncement is| made that the former German hold-| ings are to be given without reserve; to JaJpan, which would engage to; hand the Chang Tung peninsula back! to China with relations between China! and Japan and the future integrity of} China to be under the control of the! Jeague of nations. READY “MONDAY. Paris, May 1.—Opinion prevails in| peace conterence circles that peace | preliminaries will be communicated , to the Germans Monday afternoon. OFFER CONCESSIONS. London, May 1.—Tue Hungarian! communist government, a wireless | inessage trom Budapest says, has’ of-| fered: the Rumanian government ter iitorial concessions and requested ces- sation of hostilities. CEASED WORK. London, May tiIrish workers on; railways, newspapers, shops and oth: | cr industries ceased work today in re- | sponse to orders trom the powerful! transport workers’ union, Although! the one-day . ‘strike will not be ov- served in the north, there will be la-; ‘bor demonstrations and processions in in the petty, there, PEACE (TABLES REEADY. Versallte: ‘Puesday, April 29.—The spacious dining room of the Hotel T anon today received its peace conter: ence installation, three long tables in horseshoe torm, covered by the tradi-| tional. green bai ot diplomacy and| games of hazard. H TO RECEIVE (CREDENTIALS. | Versailles, May 1\—The first official} meeting between ¢llied and German} peace delegates wiill take place at three this afternopn. A committee; from the allies and} the United States will receive the (ferman credentials at that time. PARIS 5 Paris May L-— ED UP. hile Paris aud a greater part of Frjifce was tied up to- day by labor’s 24*/)ur general strike | as a demonstration“ Sr better working | conditions and chal rtain gov-| ernmental, policies, 1 hal been! reported. upto this 4f ‘$6: JEWS KHLLED. London, ‘May 1, ty-six Jews have| been killed in a progpm at Pinsk, ac- cording to an ahuounbement from the} central ‘office of tho Zionist associa-| tion, 1) Forty persons wei brutally treated, it is sat; three wo-| men were flogged, one schow! mistres being made insane by tre torture. iiyprisoned and TRY TO GET TROOPS. \ Copenhagen, May 1—The soviet} government of Russia is making extra. | ordinary efforts to obtain troops to carry out an offensive against the for-| ces of Admiral Kolchak in eastern and! Southeastern Russia, according to a; dispatch from Libau on Tuesday. Leon | Trotzky, minister of war and marine, has appealed for swift action, sayin, “It is necessary to defeat Kolc'! within the shortest possible time It is planned at Moscow to mobili ten per cent of the members of the! ak| fat Washington who bave acquired the Thabit of taking the | police mi ‘the lid when his succ | hela {been raised in the state. LUXURY TAX HITS SWEET YOUNG THING RIGHT WHERE SHE LIVES fraction the icles aw. sof in value, y stump is to] {be pasted, As usual, there are no | stamps yet available, and the drug: gists are autographing purchases with r oWn initials to show that the has done his dut The No longer will two thin dimes bu, cents ¢ as many is. nor Will a} On such ar solitary nickle serve as legal tender for a coca cola, The war may be at an end, but the stern hand of war is) th et on the land, This fact was real- | pure! ized this morning when Flossie went} same war tax applies in varying de- | to her favorite fountain for her ma-} grees on jewel pianos, hard coal, tutinal malted mi and was com-/egs and other real luxuries, In every pelled to dig down in her mesh bay im decrees that the ulti- more penn mate consumer shall pay the freight, war luxury which is quite characteristic of this fective today. Densvolent old gentleman, Of course, nut sundaes and banana ere’s just one way to beat Unele and angel’s dreuus, and chop Sam's war tax game at the soda foun- and) Buffalos and malted milk | tain—that's to not drink, eat ov in- and such are uot lnxur as anythale it on the premis Mlossie, for sweet young thing will tell you, but a| instance, can have her chocolate imalted lot of bone-headed congressmen down finilk put ip 1 she can carry it round the corner and loll up agaist Jthe barber sign while she consunies it, and thus e two cents, Ico eream jmay be carried home in pint, quart or gallon lots, und dished out in the form of ice cream plain, sun- dae, ada nut. and there'll be no war {ax to But everything that's served frou fountain and tax” became ef- s straight and as they can get it were not hep to that fact, so they included all manner of jfountain drinks in the luxury class, * So today thére was clapped on penny on every ten-cent drink or frac- [tion thereof, and upon the -cent stat pre Was made effective a tax of two i con It applies, too, on toilet wa-|swizzled while it sizzl ; ters and perfumes and patent medi-| cent to two cents higher and cines, at the rate of one cent for each | remain for some time to come, ‘THOU ae NOT, “twill so 3,000 CARPENTERS GO.ON STRIKE in St y be- eased wa were not met by the Ma Suildet association, of — the there | st. Pau, {inn May 1.~Three | TWO IMPORTANT POINTS IN T vate Purpose First CONSTITUTES REAL ISSU! Decision of Judge Amidon Proby. ably Will Hinge on This— Another Question Up Attorney General linger and Judge: S. L. Nuchols of Mandan leave this ; eventing for Fargo, where tomorrow, RY .| With Judge W. S. Lauder of Whap ton, they will fedend the state against {the attack on the industrial program in federal court by a gommittee of for- ty taxpayers. There remain two{amportant ques- |tions. Chief of these is that as to | whether the money to be derived from the bond issués authorized by the | teenth general assembly is to be used "| tor a puolic or private purpose. Judge Lauder will ‘principally discuss this question jn behalf ofthe state. The taxpayers in’their complaint contend that the building of terminal Union leaders asserted five thousand ; men were out, but contractors fixed the number between three and four | thousand, Efforts were being made at the state bring the leaders together urbitration. E. H. Howell 1 Applies for New Job to Find C. F. Bleckreid |; Busily Sitting on Lid | capitol to for possible JOSEPH GILBERT HEADS LEAGUE'S. WEEKLY BUREAU. Minnesota | HOLDS HE’S STILL “IT” ch . Bleckreid, whose term as} trate under the twe ‘rule was held to have expired today. | and who did not become a candidate | for’ re-election at the receut munielpat | ballot-fest, was found sitting firmly on rE, A, How- ell, applied for the keys to the desk |. = ‘ fof the police magistrate and the ree-|Name of Former ords-of the office, this morning, vale ee = “Judge” Bleckreid, represented hy | Manager for Nonpartisan Ap: pears on Press Literature ‘le: Attorney Doughty of Wilton, advised | Polige Magistrate Howell that he haul ho standing in Court; that he “(Police | Magistrate Bleckreid) was elected for | ater four years and that ‘be had tw years yet to serve, After amaking | fa formal demand. for’ the’ office and receiving a formal denial, Magi «/a criminal action alleging violation | Howell departed, “leaving “Jud the Gopher espionage laws, which 1 | Rleckreid, in possession. It is under: | cently was argued in the Minnesota " stood, that Mr, Howell will report the | Supreme court, appeai chief of the situation to the city commission next | Nonpartisan league newspaper bureau | Monday evening, When a. line of ac ‘in North Dakota in the articles of in- tion Will be decided upon. rporation filed with the s tary of LAW IS VAGUE tate by the newest of the league's j ing te the election of of- | /armer Press’ organizations. ficers under a commission form of gov-| The new concern is the Ward Coun ernment are vague, ‘There is noth-| ty Farmers’ Press, a corporation whic h! ing defining the length of term of | purposes to. establish a weekly ne police magi ate and city justices, i paper at Minot to be made the offi- precedent, rit has alway fi 1 state, county and local legal or- that these terms ran pa |gan for Ward county ani to become with those of appointive officials and | recipient of some $10,009 per annum thet they were for periods of two} in public patronage under the terms years, Bleckreid is the first to ques-[0f the Brinton newspaper bill. tion this precedent, So far as known, | Plain Grab Covered Up. this is the first time the question has Even more important changes than Minot andj the substitution of the name of Jo-| Vargo, operating mder a commission | r that of Job W form of government, have always elect- Eeiuton is a change in the new arti- ed their police magistrates for terms of incorporation of these “Farm- of two years, Press” league controlled weekly Under the old aldermanie form of | newspapers which would give the i nnent police magistrates anl| holders ,of preferred stock equal vot ves were elected for two] ing strength with the owners of the 3 nd this fact has served fo; common. Heretofore no holder of pre further strengthen the precedent, al-| ferred stock has been entitled to more though there is said to be no other! than a single vote, no matter how actual justi n for fixing the te many shares he may have poss at two y This question was dis-; Under the amended articles of incor- eussed during the recent city cam-| poration holders of preferred are en- », When it was reported that} titled to a vote for each share the (Bleckreid’s contemplated his present | same as the owners of common, action if the candidate for police m Old Plan Was Good. istrate ‘Whom he favored was not Under the original plan all of the elected, Blee! ’s choice was not} common stock w held by the pro- ‘ected, aud Mr, Bleckreid has precip-(moters, and its po: jon and the itated what promises to be # contro-| right to vote ever¥ share separately versy which will affect every city in| was cunningly devised to give them the state operating under a connnis-|control of the corporation, a fact | Sion form. | which ordinarily was not much dwelt vt RETURN promoters, in addition to receiving a commission of 10, 15 or 20 per cent for an 1 Joseph Gilbert, former state man- ager for. the Nonpartisan league in | Minnesota, and who is now co-detend- ant with President A.C. Townley in t{ Laws i s le the sale of the preferred stock, which has run all the+way from $10 to $2: 000 in the case of weekly newspapers organized by the league, and to more than $100,000, in the case of one daily Bt, newspaper which the league has or- » May The cham professional union and 20 per cent of ber of ‘cbniiarce of the United States the communists, representing half. a million busine eae men, today adopted a resolution w LEAVING PETROGRAD. ing immediate return to this country Helsingfore, Wednesday, April 30.—| of President Wilson and. an extraor Petrograd is being evacuated by the! nary nl of Congress to enact spe- Bolsheviki reports from reliable sour-| cial legislation to safeguard our busi- ces si Many inhabitants are being! ness structure. sent away and the Bolsheviki govern-| — ment is taking rigorous measures to _ WITHDRAW prevent the news of happenings from Wesnington, D. C. May 1 adopting a resolution urging Pi reaching the people. pane ae Wilson to hasten back to America and | LARGE POLICE FORCE REQUIRED. /call an extra bession of congress, the London, May 1—A large naval i . S. chamben of commerce reconsid- ternational police force will be neces-:ered its actioth today and eliminated sary under the league of nations plan’ reference to\the president’s return. immediately after peace is declared; The amended ‘resolution expresses the} in the opinion of Josephus Daniels.) hope that the yr American secretary of navy. and one, cnhis return will assemble an extra- of his objects abroad is to discuss with | Italy, France and England some de | (CELEBRATE | MAY DAY; BY STRIKING tails as to this force. All the plenipentiaries were out for} a brief stroll this afternoon. The (e mans excite little curiosity in Ve Suenos Airs, May \ celebrated jall over the stoppage of ‘hus ESOLUTION,. sailles, and passers by rub elbows with! the Teutonic visitors. Will Meet This Evening. Capital City Lodge No. 2 I. 0. 0. F. will hold their regular weekly meet-| ing this evening and all Odd Fellows are cordially invited to attend. The conferring of the first degree will be! the principle order of, business. Horne From “Shrine. John A. |Graham, cashier of the City National bank, has returned from the Shrine ‘pilgrimage to Duluth and AP UNECIRRY 0g 2908 sident immediatly up- |’ ganized on this basis, the promoters, w thout expense to themselves. have retained control of the company into which the farmers have put their good money, Apparently the untoward ac- tivities of the blue sky commission in investigating other league enterprises has resulted in a change which ap- pears, on the surface, to give the afrmer an even chance for his ante. Burleson Declines to Consider Request of Clarence MacKaye Washington, D. C., May 1.—Post- master General Burleson today de- clined to consider the request of Clar- ence H. MacKaye for the immediate return of cable lines to private owner- ship. Business Caller. B. D. Wetmore of Pained Woods was among the visitors in the Capital City yesterday, and was stopping at the Grand Pacific. At the Van Horn. A. J. Chandler of Werner was among the out of town arrivals yester- day, and is spending today in the city. Mr. Chandler is registered as a guest at the Van Horn, elevator and flour mills, the purchase jot farms and establishment of homes |and the finan¢ing of. banks, for which |the funds to be derived from the sale jof bonds is to be used, are not “pudlic; ¢, | Purposes, but are essentially of a pri- ivate nature.” If the taxpayers can | sustain their contention, then Judge {Amidon must rule under Article 14 of ‘the constitution that this is a seizure Question as to Whether Boni i Money Is for Public or Priv id of the 16th general assembly launc ed | ie EDITION sweek into the addition of @ to the list of major casu- ar department announce died of wound: , Q from other ca fr of prisoners was. re- a result of correc: ywiksing in action reduced v total of wounded was 847, but in many cases gelnded in this total as} ethan once, Bor MONEY| kppropriation lergency— ‘for Frazier 08 a boune fiver: defense after {a tempestuous: caréer an which it sue- | for Governor, Pri ‘and quietly 4 | evening, unm} | sung. bot the taxpayers’ money for private ; Purposes without due’ process of law/ ‘and that the taxpayets’ constitutional! i rights are being infringed. | The state will contend that terminal} elevators, flour mills. state banks, {ete., are public institutions, destined to he operated for the public good, and} jthat funds invested in such’ institu: | tions are public funds, The state will) largue that the building of homes and |the purchasing of farms as provided jin the home-builders’ act is, for the i public good. and that any public funds i ed are being used for a pub- {lic purpose, ‘of their contention the government op- ‘eration of the postal v¥stem and gov- lernment ownership ud operation of | other public utilities, | The second question involved is! ; Whether the state is a party to this jaction. The defense contends that the state cannot be sued without its con- sent and it insists that insofar as con- jcerns the taxpayers’ effort to restrain | the use of funds appropriated from money ate treasury, the taxpay a suit against the | state and that inasmuch as the con- sent of the to be sued has not | been obtained, such suit cannot prop- erly be brought. William Lemke and Frederick A. | Pike will appear for Governor Frazier, | Commissioner John N. Hagan and the | state industrial commission. KOSITZKY WILL QUIT IF PROVEN _ TO BE TRAITOR i That Judge Amidon Referee Charges Against Him | Offers to resign are flocking in on | Mr. Townley thick and fast. The lat- est proposition of from Karl Irked by’a stereotyped brand of league pe. on ndemning his independence jand which wee circulated and filed by Senator E. Bowman of Kulm, Mr. | Kositzky ties the league |from LaMoure county as follows? “Tam in receipt of a petition signed by you and others living in the vicin- ity of Kulm, in which it is charged that Iam a traitor to the farmers, a tool of big business, etc. Now, a man in this country is held innocent until proven guilty, and I contend that | am innocent until proven guilty, so I ask! for a hearing before Judge Amidon, jone of the fairest judges in the state,| fand hope that you people who signed that petition will make arrangements iwith Judge Amidan to hear our case} and if found guilty I shall resign as) state auditor at once. Judge Amidon, if he aspires to ref- eree all the disputes between Presi- dent Townley and the state officials whom the latter elevated to power | through the medium of the league,| | promises, to ‘be very busy during the; i'TREPASSY IS | STARTING POINT | OF OCEAN FLIGHT. New York, N. Y., May 1.—The offi- cial start of the transatlantic flight} of American naval planes will be from Trepassy it was announced today. |From Trepassy the planes will fly to the Azores, thence to Portugal and then to Plymouth, Eng. WEATHER IDEAL, St. Johns, Newfoundland, May Chances for the start this afternoon of the transatlantic flight planned by Ed- ward G. Ryuham and Harry G. Hawk- er seemed excellent, with virtually ideal weather conditions. 1— | Another State Official Asks H for weeks and then released in full,} || kind things { session of 1918 had appropriated, Secretary TE the city for thergt jt | Brown, executive’ gor tary, was’ the) | licensed embalmér,im' charge. C. .M.j | Casey, head ‘of the’ film department | officiated as chief mourner, Mr. Cas! is the only man who will remain on {the job at the capitol. He will con+} tinue to occupy the state offioess ; Whence he will conduct the film, | ness in which he and Mr. Browifi associated. Mr. Casey intimated two weeks to go. ‘Much Sputter; Little spume. The new council of dofense, with a; | $15,000 appropriation and a great bang- ing of tom-toms, started on its way a | year ago. Governor Frazier was chair- | man ex-officio; there was an execu: tive committee of fifteen prominent citizens, principally leaguers, and an inner committee of five, which really did the business. Thomas Allan Box. was named secretary. There were long, flowery addresses to the public, encouraging patriotism; there were orders prohibiting the | speaking, reading, writing, snoring or { sneezing of German, issued with great pomposity by one member of the coun- cil and repealed by another. Probably {the most famous act of the council was the seizure at the close of last yea ling season of idle land for crop purposes. Some good idle land was plowed up in desultory fashion. Some good sod was spoiled; grazing lands ruined, and fine crops of wild mustard started. There were a num- ber of lam suits, in each of which the council lost or compromised. That Famous Order. Then came the famous pronuncia- mento of last July, in which Attorney Dorr Carroll of the council announced its intention to take over all the vators in the state, paying their what the unci] regarded 2 reasonable return on their investment. The council was to form within itself a million dollar holding company, and | it looked forward not only to operat- ing elevators and flour mills, but to confiscating lignite mines and banks ‘n’ everything. The plan was discussed i i ! 1 prematurely. The short and ugly word was used by various members of the council in their comment on cer- \tain other members, and the fiat went forth that there should be no further; meetings of the unwieldy itive jcommittee of 15, but that thereafter the work of the council should be done by the select committee of fiv nd these orders were very — strictly | obeyed. There was a spasmodic effort short- ly after the primaries last June to es tablish a political censorship of the press. Editor Tostevin of the Man- dan Pioneer, who had said some un- of the league, was called | with the governor before the council, presiding, and asked whether he | would suspend if the council com-; manded him to. and he calmly inform- ed the council he would see it in hell rst, and that was the end of that in- cident. Johnny on the Spot. Thomas Allan Box lost interest in| things about this time, and John B.| Brown, whose federal farm labor ex-' | pertship had petered out, was given a! | job. Joun and the rest of the force} thenceforth devoted most of their time] to running the moving picture shows |° {the council had established and to spending the funds which the special the latter of which they did so well that when the 16th assembly convened last January it was asked for some $6,500! more to keep the outfit going until May lt. This the legislature kindly} provided, and the council's peaceful; existence was extended until this date. | Secretary John Brown, who is now! secretary of the workmen’s compensa- tio nbureau, has moved the force down to his new job. The “force” is or are Miss Clara M. Jackson of Fargo, Miss Jennie Minder of Crystal, Governor Frazier's niece, and Miss Lilian oBehlke of Dickinson. They will cite in support | terday that this department, dad about, p jout a warden jmeantime it is probable that Mr. |delegates to the St, |has broken the back of the PRICE FIVE CENTS POLICE THWART ANARCHISTS WHO MAILED BOMB TO PROMINENT MEN ENGAGED IN ANTI-HUN CRUSADE Infernal Machine Directed to Senator Overman Is Intercepted—Police and Detectives Watch Haunts of Extremists—Twenty-six Engines of Death Sent to Various Sections. MAY DAY CASUALTIES Cleveland, May 1.—One man is dead, three policemen shot and probably 200 per- sons arrested up to 3 o’clock this afternoon as a result of the Socialist-I. W. W. May Day demonstrations which ended in a dozen dif- ferent riots in the downtown section. The dead man was a bystander killed by an officer’s bullet when a patrolman fired at rioting marchers. ONE FOR SENATOR OVERMAN Washington, D. C., May 1.—The nostmaster of Salis- bury, N. C., wired the postmaster general today that.a package containing a bomb similar to those intercented in New York had been received there addressed to Senator Overman. As acting chairman of the senate judiciary com- mittee, Senator Overman had charge of the espionage act and many other measures dealing with law enforcement during the war. He is also chairman of the special senate committee investigating pro-German and other radical propaganda. It was said here that the Salisbury package bore the Gimbel Bros. label and in every way resembled those found in New York. ‘There has been no other overnight information as to other finds and some of the men in the chief postal inspector’s department who had been on the job all night expressed the opinion that the whole an- A Bc! istic. output had been located. Reports from every ction of the country indicated a thorough search was ‘With the frustration of a nationwide against the lives of many prominent Re“department of justice and the postal -in an effort to trace the terrorist dd. Hoes of a nation-wide surprise, and it was indicated by the po a general round up of extreny urbs. Twenty-six bombs ha e various cities, all apparently mailed f packages. Although all the parcel post pz “kases "aedla he from New York, the postal authorities believe others ‘te yaw been sent from other cities, and postmasters throughout tite coum ad have been warned to look for suspicious parcels. 2 PENITENTIARY OFFICIALLY IS MINUS WARDEN Term of Frank S. Talcott Ex- pires Today—Deputy C. F. McDonald Still Acting Two bombs, one addressed -to Sen- | ator Reed Smoot and the other to an unknown address in Utah were re- turned to Gimbel’s store for addition- al postage and innocently mailed out again by a shipping clerk, Tuesday, it was learned toda: Cleveland, ©., May 1—More. than two score of people. several of them ‘women ‘and’: ‘children, were injured, | with the entrance Into the down-town | district of the socialist May day pa- rade at noon today. Fire and army | trucks were called out to quel the riot that threatened for a time the wholo down-town. ¢ ict. | Two policemen were shot by rioters and 12 persons, both men and women, were in the hospital shortly after the riot broke out. Theriot broke out when the social- ists, many of them carrying red flags, \ ssed a Libe rly loan truck. ry is officially with- today. The unexpired term of Frank S. Talcott, who re- igned last December, expired today.) Charles F. McDonald, deputy warden, has been serving as acting warden The state board of control was not} $1,130,697,000 day, and it intimated that there was/ little likelihood that one would be} made until after July 1, when the fate! Dp. 1——-The report pmewhat in the Victory loan of the board of administration bill,! which abolishes the state board of| control, may be determined. In the sheriff of Golden Valley county ign based on reports from re- said to be President Townley’s choice! serve districts. The total subscription for this job, but the board of control! stood at $1, W seems unable to agree with the big) The t chief on this subj The board of! “The perc control had practically tendered the|subscribed still is below the percent- position to a trained prison e: ive} age the Fourth Liberty loan subscribed from Wisconsin when Townley set his}at the same period. There is a grad- foot down and declared it should not’ ual falling off in the average percent- be. Since that date, some months ago,' age subscribed. Every district seems relations between the two powers! to be hopeful that it will obtain its have been strained. quota, but none of them is overly op- | timistic.” WAR VETERANS TO | Me Minnexyotie district wie in MEET IN F ‘ “a ARGO, first to piss, the 100 per cent mark, probably will have as much difficulty Julius Baker | as any other district in this loan, due ‘ ‘ htirman of the|te the fact that farmers are busy #* s legions of North Dakota, to-) belated: planting. issued a call for a meeting of all} an veterans of North Dakota to be; 45; 87 Coun bes aR. in Fargo next, Saturday, when}, Minneapolis, May | 1.-—Six Jouis convention ;Counties in’ the ninth dist of next week will be selected poversu bed thelr quotas - nad ei ficially announced HAS AUTO THIEVES. | trict quota is $157,500,00' Sheriff Koss of Cass county left for) date total slightly more Fargo last evening with two automo-| 000. Indications from The penitenti Me-| Washington, wry today ned interest” Donald will continue to a Seaman A. Smith of Be: , forn jew said: of quota officially vet day war held IES OVER, | bile bandits whom he had picked up) today indicated thew taking or- at Glen Ullin. he} and completion promised increase: these s The sheriff believes Moorhead- | Dressed Cat- Lake Superior Fargo auto gang. this week From La Moure. TT. S. Hunt, Emil Ellison and C. M. Holbert, prominent LaMouse business y men, visited the capital this week. ne W. Bristow ¢ s week dis, hjs vicinity