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112, THIRTY-NINTH YEAR. ‘NO. TO REFERENDUM PETITIONS . FILED More Than Two and a Half Times Number Requested by Fra- zier Are Procured INITIATIVE 36,000 ON Three and Half Times Constitu- tional Minimum Ask Chance to Vote on Laws Referendum petitions directed against legislation of the 16th general assemply containing’ signatures rang ing from 35,858 to 38,562 were filed with the secretary \of state Wednes- day afternoon by Theodore G. Neison, secretary of. the Independent Voters | association. -At the same time Mr. ‘Nelson filed additional initiative pe- titions containing: approximately 16,- 000 signatures, bringing the average number of signers requesting the initiation of measures to substitute for league legislation up to 35,000,’ or three and a half the minimum re quired by the constitution. Referendum petitions were filed as; follows; Industrial commission—38,101. Printing bill—38,562. Educational bill—37,917. Immigration pill—37,835. Bank_ bill—37,481. Judicial redistricting—37,438. One man tax commission—25,858. The 1. number of signers to initiative petitions was increased to} approximately the following: Nonpartisan elections—36,000. “MiN and elevator association—36,- 000. Rural credits—35,000. A very large percentage of signers of. both ‘initiative and referendum pe- titions are said to be farmers. ct Many Are Yet Out. © “It:ig hard to tell just’ how many people have signed.our referendum pe- Home building entage of seer titions,” said Secretary Nelson last} night. “Many: who have petitions that they have been circulating’ live ’way out in the countfy and you know that the'roadd have been almost impassible tor a long time, help scarce and the season late. rmers are. not paying much ‘attention to, their mail just. now, ‘aud hav > as potees: to -spare for. a! trip to town. / Ney, dan't-ase-the.auto, Ho. 1 expect; that ‘petitions will con- ito. come: in.trom, many sections 0 : Tera longfime. ‘The date set tor re-jcraft fonk the alr ato | turning: réferendum petitions was York time, after’ circling ‘May. 10, put they, will provably: keep! The NC4 rettirned here a Soming “in tillthe*ead-ofithe month.| (10:15 New “York tim 14 “Bince’ the: initiative petitions were; Was forced, to descend tw | filed w@ have received additional pe-| cast of this, port. matic nit titions ‘containing “over 16,000 names. vould provably be. ax many ad- referendum ‘There ditiong! names: for’ ‘the ‘petitions, if there were. any object in’ spending any- time on them.” i One Name Withdrawn. Referring to the reported withdraw- al of names, of which much pas been; made in the Townley préss, Mr. Nel- son said: “All the nojge that Townley organiz-: rs have made about people withdraw- Ing their names is only gas. .Up till /the filing of the petitions today there / had been only one lonesome request to have, @ name -withdrawn, and that came. through a third party.’ Uses Short and Ugly Word. _ .“What willbe the program of the i. Y:.A. if the governor ignorés the initiative, petitions? We'll cross that bridge ‘when we get to it. “If the governor is.correctly quoted in the Townley press, ke lies when he says that the voters might vote for two laws on the same subject at the same time. If he wilt let the people vote on: the initiated laws, which he might do at the referendum election without.a single dollar's ad- ditional. cost,‘ there would be only oe pill on any sudject for or. against. “There could be no confusion, Jue people will demand some other ‘rea- son than that they are not intelligent enough to know what -they waar to vote for as an argument for turning down a petition to vote on laws sign: ed by 36,000 (more than three and a half times ‘the number required by Jaw), especially when he could let it be done by calling the election just a , few days later.” Notes Significant Fact. Mr. Nelson regards that the referendum petitions on the industrial’ commission, which. is the key ‘to the league's entire economic program, rank~ second in nunfber of singers. The league provides througa the industrial ¢ommission act for tae political controlby a board of three of all state-owned utilities and enter- prises. In order to procure favorable action in the Senate on the league program pills, Governor Frazier agreed that he would calt a ‘special election to give the people an opportunity to vote on these measures if petitions were signed by. 15,000 representative elec- tors. The acts to which his promise principally referred are those the In- dependent Voters’ association has sought to submit, through the medium of initiative petitions, Although these petitions are signed by two and a half times the number of electors des- ignated by the governor, he has de- clared his intention of invalidating these petitions by setting the special election on the referendum: petitions for-a date which will.not admit of the submission of the initiated measures. The Independent Voters’ association did not take advantage of the gov- ernor’s generosity in the matter of the referendum petitions, but has filed ap- proximately 8,000 more signatures than the 30,000 required by the con- stitution to make the calling of a spe- cial election mandatory upon the part Of the governor, , se -lin their, company, it significant; 88,000 SIGNERS BIDS FOR FIRST WORK ON BRIDGE OPENED MONDAY Bids for the preliminary engineé-! ing on the million-dollar bridge which is to; span the Missouri and. to form the last connecting link wp the Red Trail from Chicago to Seattle, will be opened at a joint session of the Bur- leigh and Morton county commissions at Mandan next Monday. | It ‘is esti- mated that the, preliminary engineer- ing will cost $5,000, and this amount has been jointly appropriated by the Bismarck city commission and » the Morton county commission. FLIGHT OVER ATLANTIC MAY START TODAY. t Waiting for Opportune i Time | BIG DIRIGIBLE IN GROUP Balloon in Air for Twenty-five | Hours—Daily “Air Mail | Service Is TREPASSY, NFD., May 15.—Com- mander John H, Powers, chief of the American seaplane division, announc- led today, the NCL and NC} might} {start before nightfall for the Azores. | ;The commander stated that if the! 'NC4 left Trepassy twelve hours later than her sister planes she would be; enabled to make the flight to Lisbon | The. flight, he de- {clared,;jcould not he delayed — much | jlonger because the destroyers in the {Warship’s © patrol were — exhausting | }their- fuel. Naval officials said today ‘that. with good weather forecast over ‘the long. course to the ‘Azores, Com- imander Powers probably would not furher delay ‘the start of the NC1 and NCS3-to, await the NC4 It‘was ex- | pected the planes would leave ‘Trepas- sy just before sunset, in order, that'the {flyers might have the advantage of) 4 ful mon for as*much .of ‘the long; \Aight to Punta Del Gordo as possible. | » LEAVES FOR TREPASSY. |} HALIPAX, May. {naval “sea” plane eft toda, a ‘repassy,. Nfd,, to “joi theyNC1 and | ‘8 for the trans Atlantic flight. The ‘ew gain for the 'ret ‘\DIRIGIBLE . ARRIVES. ST. JOHNS, NFD.. May U + American naval dirigible C5, schedul- fed for a posisble nonstop flight from this port to the British aisles, arrived There today after a da, and — night; i isé from Montauk point, N. Y. The! {balloon had been in the air 25 hours {and 25 minutes. i ' READY FOR FLIGHT. | New Foundland. Mav 15.—The C-5| i was ready for her flight across the; | Atlantic, Commander Coil declared as; ‘he stepped out of the dirigible’s bas- ‘ket. Both the machine and crew stood; {the trip well, he said. As yet, he added, no orders had been issued for! {future movement: / The American navy, seaplane NC-4 after leaving Halifax this’ morning owing to engine trouble but resumed her flight at 11:47 a.m: | POOR WEATHER CONDITIONS. {, Washington, ‘May 15.—First reports furnished by Commander Powers today | showed poor weather conditions for; (Continued on Page Three.) LBNKE SEES BIG. “TROUBLE COMING Courier-News’ Prediction of Rev-! | olution. Repeated in Let- i ter From Bishop ~ William Lenixe, uescribed by Asso- ciate Justice Robinson as the bishop of the Nanpartisan league, fears that the Union,is threatened: by “serious trouble.” Writing a Nonpartisan leaguer in the northern part of the state who asked information as ‘to the! amount of traveling expenses which the league paid Karl Kositzky, state} auditor, during_the last campaign, Mr. paid Karl only $50 to cover the ex- pense of a South, Dakota tour made in the interests of the league. He dismisses the Courier News’ edi- torial against Kositzky as insignifi- cant, howeker, “This matter, how-| ever, is very trivial,’ says. Bishop} Lemke, under date of April 29. “The {energy and attention during the’ com- ing campaign is not the fact that! j Karl Kositzky is hard up dr is receiv- jhelp from the opposition to carry on his campaign of. misrepresentation, but we are interested in bringing be- fore the whole league pro | fore the people the whole lagu pro-, gram—th most progressive piece of| legislation ever enacted in the Union. and which will be enacted in every state in the Union AND SAVE THE NATION FROM SERIOUS TROU: BLE.” The leaguer to Whom the letter was 2 | of. enar: ¥ raking Classwil i pose ,of dest: Lemke states that the league actualy! “ ‘thing to which we wish to direct our, < addresséd is a supporter of State Au- ditor Kositzky, and ‘he immediately forwarded tlie epistla'to Mr; -Kositexy. location-and didiwikdiwest:stunts for the McAdoo personal film library.Fairbanks:did'the directing. caped toward Chicago, a BISMAR RED MENACE IS PICTURED HERE BY F.G.R, GORDON Secretary of American -Anti- Socialists Portrays Utopia of Bolshevism PUBLIC OWNERSHIP FAILS Tells of Mounting Costs and In- ferior Serviee Brought About in'East A convincing and virile mesage of. individualism was delivered last night to a sinall but deeply. interested: Auai- pact once, gathered: in the Grand. Theatre, jby R. Gordon of Haverhill. Naval Crafts at | Trepassy)) tary of the Anti- Socialist Society” of ‘America, ‘The the address was “Che Menac shevism in’ America,” ang its aim was to show that Bolshevixm — really. is nothing bat tate Social ism, which speaker expressed it. Mr, Gordon, who spoke under’ the auspices of the North Dakota ‘Stitd:, ard, was ivtroduced by W. ‘J. Arnold of Lisbon, and announced at ‘the. out- set that bh vax not going to. speak as the about. polifies’ He confined “Wimselt . | strictly ‘fo hig, subject, avoided abuse, and demonstry ted that his knowledge of Sochlism-Bolshevism not sup- erficial, but a‘solid product of years of exhaustive stidy and re: array ¢of. incontrove and an effective display casm, Mr, Gordon suc int ex} ing the fallacies. of So ie claims and the sortcomiig of public owner- ship tems. SOCIALISM AND BOLSHEVISM The ‘Socialist theory is: ‘That with the. groyth gna. development of the present’ kystef under which we have made the moat. wenderful progres: the struggle for ‘existence by, the. gr working! cliiss grows ever mort more intense,” that*the wealth a nation cofventrates into fewer (is, thatithe rich grow Ticher’ «and the por Bow Poorer; that the’ once power- ful middie, class as they say in their platform? Wwilt4be driven “into bauk runtey:and ‘tingly, ppear in’ strugale, and: then. s fronted with tivo Classes only, a great and, power ing: class’ despoiled of all. their wealth, of their homes. wNEhA, Avdtild od - the other ‘side. WUE bEAE Plutocracy awning all the means ‘Of? “production +dnd, excliange. and when this; time ‘comes: then the cl mya jal tripe Ys being preached. by the organ- ied Socitilist who raise. and pent a,mjilion, dollars a year for ‘the pur- every social, politi- cal. and economic _ institution which (Continued on page six) BOARDING HOUSES ASSESSED AT 100 PCT. OF VALUE Dwelling houses whose _ principal use is for boarding or rooming esta)- lishments must be assessed under the new tax laws'of the 16th assembly as business properties at 100 per cent of their’ actual value, Attorney~General Langer today advised State Auditor |to this important trail and winnig membef of the Minnesota house, and Kos{tzky in’ response to his request | general for an opinion. George B. Wallace of | Adams, traveling secretary of the as- Forest Lake, was. indicted the tax commission, it is stated, has | sociation, will. be here from Spokane’ grand jury. of Washington county on @ to consider | to: address’ the North Dakota ‘con: charge of forgery inthe second de- boarding and rooming houses’as pri-|vention.; He is making a tour ofthe gré and’ grand larcenry in‘ the second been ‘advising .assessors vate dwellings. ° « YES, THE M’ADOOS ARE IN THE -MOVIES— ime ONLY FOR THEIR PRIVATE ‘FILM LIBRARY jerans of the. World ‘War ;|{ bers now. i | | 1 1 1 ! i CK, NORTH DAKOTA’. THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1919. Enthusiasm for Son of Rough | Rider Forces Pledge He'll Lis- ten If They Want Him in No- vember. 5 ‘By E. C. RODGERS. > (N, E. A. Staff Reporter Assigned to Cover the Organization of the Vet- into the American Legion.) ° St. Louis,Mo., May 15.—It’s Teddy's Legion or the Legion. of Teddy, | don’t know which,, Maybe both. Every, session of the American Le gion éonvened here demonstrated the wonderful. hold. the name Teildy Roosevelt has upon Americans, From now on it. will be Teddy; Roosevelt. Never again Theodore} junior. { | It was the sqme rough riding Rot yeltian convention: which used to 1i9: {ze Teddy the first. The new Teddy eould have done anything ‘he iikgd with this convention. * | w Bui paforehe Could persuade admirers ta.pick Col. Hetlry, J>., Lin Jey, for chairman he hid'‘to promise them he would listen to tlieir eallit| they called in) November, And. ning, of every ten delegates now ‘are sure Teddy will be.the league's first. presi { dent, to be ‘chosen at the November| O DARA RAR ~ “TEDDY FOR PRESIDENT,” IS CRY - OF AMERICAN LEGION DELEGATES COL. HENRY D. LINDSLEY. j ein STORE FUND JUST: CONVENIENT JACK Permanent Chairman of: American Legion, Which Organized in | St. Louis, i { convention in .ChickEo. \John J. Hastings, Former Presi-' There are only. a few thousand mem, There may be four mil lion. » Will, they be as “strongly Roose:| veltian? If they ate, Teddy Roosge-| velt will be the first, president of .the American Legion; ar one step { j reer, | CAPITAL CITY 10 .:: RECEIVE TRAIL State “Convention of National ety will be con-| ; ee Parks ‘Highway Association . Called for. Bismarck’ The Nortn vakota convention bt the Red Trail association will be ‘held’ in Bismarck .on!,May 129,’ when it js ex- pected that delegates from every. town| and village on the highway will be in attendance: Seventeen counties of ‘the Slope and ‘many other sections of the state which are interested ‘inputting the National Parks highway into good shape are expected to be represent- ed. Secretary George N. Keniston of the Bismarck Commercial clut~ who is vice president of the Nationa} Parks Highway association, estimates that this route will attract 10,000 tourists during the current year. He points to the faét that in 1917 and 1918, de- spite the war. approximately 20,000 cars wed the trail to its full extent from Chicago to the Pacific coast. The initiative taken by Burleiga and Morton county commissioners to provide a wagon bridge over the Big Missouri is attracting much attention commendation. Fred A. highway by auto, that will be bat! | dent of Townley Concern, Re- veals Intimate Facts FARMERS NOT INTERESTED i ting revelations of the} workings of the Consumers‘| | United Stores Co,, which were disclos-| ed by John J. Hastings, testitying be- fore.the state banking. board as: presi- dent of this league organization, were Some inter by Secretary. of State Hall relative toj the income and profits of. the’ Cofisum-! ers. Co. which has organized more} {than a half hundred “stores. com-| panigs” and established ‘perhaps a| , dozen'‘stores,, | |. “They <have no profits, said Mr. Hastings: of. the stores. "They have AccuimHntive-assete-they- get through {selling membership. ‘They represent assets. through cash or other securi- es that-the board of directors want to-invest in. “About the only fact that I-can say is they have the assets and they have within the power. of’: the board of direcors to do anyting with jthe assets that is reasonable ‘ant! legitimate. They are amenable (0'no-| j body. If they want to go and buy a! building or a couple of banks they have a perfect right to do it.” “Now,” asked Mr. Hall, “when you get a membership from a farmer who! buys an interest or a membership in! (Continued on page six) | FORMER: MINN. LEGISLATOR FACES FORGERY CHARGE Stillwater, Min Malmberg of Forest May 14.—Carl B.! Lake, former} cashier of the People’s State bank of | by the degree. | | i i { | | | | i \ | “Doug” Fairbanks would have to look to his laurels if W. G. McAdoo were to seriously go teeta for moving acting. :: McAdoo and Mrs. McAdoo, as here pictured with Fairbanks, left, went out on Julius Baker Chairman and Jack 'prior to his enlistment in the national RCE GERMANY MARSHAL FOCH ON RHINE FRONT PREPARED T0 MOVE ‘TF TEUTONS OPPOSE PACT i Immediate Economic Blockade of Empire Planned as Part of Program Provided Enemy Attitude Makes Such Action Necessary CALLS TERMS IMPOSSIBLE Berlin, May 15.—Coun head of the German peace d to the delegations of other na! to the terms offered the Ge: t von Brockdorff Rantzau, elegation, in communicating tions the reply which he sent rmans, pointed out that the treaty could not be signed, “because it was impossible for the German people.to fulfill its terms.” Count Yon Brockdorff Rantzau, head of the German peace delegation at, Versailes. ceau yesterday three notes, features‘ of the propose » handed to Premier Clemen- dealing with the economic treaty and the effect it would have on Germany. It was pointed out that Germany is no longer an agrarian state and cannot feed more than 49,000,000 people. “The economic features of the treaty means,” the note says, “that many millions of people in ~> Germany will perish, all the more quickly as the nation’s health already is broken by the blockade.” (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Germany has met with ano’ ther rebuff from the council of y ‘ 1 | POT FOR LEAGUE AN OR LE 4 \four, in the efforts her plenipotentiaries at Versailles are making to secure alterations in the peace treaty by setting forth objections in a series of notes. The council has refused to consider the note sent by the Ger- i ;mans regarding international labor legislation. {belief that the terms of the treaty meet the objects the Germans are pointed out. ‘ Vigorous measures that will |refusal of the Germans to.sign the peace treaty ‘have been planned Marshal Foch, commander-in-chief of the allied jarmies, is on the Rhine front, and dispatches state-that he will by the council. take such action as is necessary i enemy to sign the treaty. The council's /|profess to desire is set forth, and the defects in the German plan be an immediate: result of a n the:event of the failure’of the An immediate economic blockade ‘of Germany. also is planned asa part of the program in case ,continued hostile action against Mr. Hastings was being qiestioned|the enemy-is considered necessary. The Adriatic question ‘which has-so important a bearing on the Austrian treaty has not ‘yet DAKOTA OFFICES! OF YANK LEGION: Wiliams Temporary Secre- ’ tary of Organization | ARE FORMING LOCAL ‘POSTS \ Temporary state offices for the North Dakota division of the ‘Ameri- can legion have been “established in rye with Julius Baker as chairman'| amd Jack Williams as secretary. In- formation relative to the organization | of posts will be supplied any com- munity which addresses either of these | officials. Fifteen is* the -minimum number of members allowed for a post ,and it is. expected that every town and village in‘the state will have a post. Baker and Williams are both, en- thusiastic army men, Mr. Williams, army, had seen active service in the Philippines, Hawaii and Russia. He is now a prominent union labor man at the Gate City. ‘State Meeting Planned A state convention of the American legion will be held at Fargo on July 21, the opening day of the state fair. In addition to thousands of North Da- | kota veterans of the world war, it is planned to have at the Gate City for this occasion 1,000 Canadian troops, for whose transportation across the border especial permission has been obtained from the secretary of state, and it is probable that thirteen bands will assist in the military spectacle, At this meeting of the legion a per- manent organization for the state will be perfected. Every North Dakota post will select delegates to the state | convention. These delegates will elect | th officers for North Dakota and will] name delegates to the national con-} vention which is to be held in Min- neapolis on November 10, 11 and 12.) Capt. R. H. Treacy and Lieut. H. V.| Semling returned last night from Louis, where they attended the initial | national convention of the American! legion as delegates from North Da- kota. Capt. Treacy and Major J. M. Hanley of Mandan, were named thei two North Dakota members of the national executive committee. | BANDITS GET $90,000 IN BANK RAID Chicago, May 15.—The Bank of Dal- a small town in Cook robbed of $20,000 by five y. The mfranders es- bandits" toda been adjusted, and this fact may serve to delay the presentation‘of the treaty.” vanes te 2 7 CAPTURE 8AMARA. ‘Berne, May 15.—Taa-troops of: Ad- miral ‘Kalchak have captured ‘Caniara, the Ukrajne press ‘bureau here. says iTearns from an ‘aut! @ soured. SHORT MESSAGE, © Paris, May .16.-4Présidént, Wilson has advised the cable com his message to the forthcorti session of congress’ wil ‘not “be ‘more. than a few hundred words, enabling: it to be cabled prebably on ‘the day of delivery. ¥ SCORE PEACE TERMS. Paris (Wednesday). Mav 14—The financial and economic :terms of tie peace treaty with \Europe’, condemn to poverty, disease and despair, ac-’ cording to the communication sent the peace council by the Women’s In- ternational: League for. Permanent Peace at Zurich. Tha United States. is alleged to have had 24 delegates at the Zurich conference, 'MEET AUSTRIANS WEDNESDAY. Paris, May 15.—The. Austrian peace terms probably will be presented to the Austrian delegation Wednesday. The terms, it is understood, require the dismantling of the famous Skoda works, among other armament plants. RANTZAU’S OBJECTIONS, . Berlin (Wednesday), \May.,.14.—No relief work however '‘Istge: {ts scope could prevent wholegalé’ lpsstot life, the note says: i i “The peace. terms,”;, the note can: tinues, “would demand: of Germany several times as many victims as did the war. There has been nearly a million victims of the blockade. Count’ Von Brockdorff-Rantzau con- cludes he, considers it his , duty to bring these general remarks to’ the general knowledge of the allied and associated delegates and promises to furnish statistical evidence if it is required. ESPIONAGE - VERDICTS ARE RESERVED New York, May 15.—Reversal of the conviction of Joseph 8, Rutherford and seven other members of the Ih- ternational Bible Students’ associa- tion, and allied organization, who were found guilty of. yiolation of the espionage act, was ordered today in an opinion today of the United States circuit court of appealy’here today. The opinion ‘states that’ the defen- dants, who were convicted by a jury before Federal Judge Howe in Brook- lyn, did not have a fair trial. TWO PER CENT ~ BRER ILLEGAL Washington, May 15.—An_ opinion to the effect that the brewing of beer containing 2 3-4° per cent alcohol is illegal has ‘been given by Attorney General Palmer to Internal Revenue | Commissioner Rober, but officials ex- plained that it would not operate to stop the manufacture of this beer pending a decision by the federal dis- trict court'!of’ New York in a’ case now under consideration, 100,000,000 people in central Europe,

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