The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 6, 1919, Page 1

Generally Fair. 4 é “ THIRTY-NINTH YEAR. NO. 129. BUNEG=] PRICE FIVE CENTS PAN MOTOR CO. AND ITS CHIEF ~ WILD-GATTING Federal Trade Commission in First Action of Kind Charges Misrepresentation $4,783,000 FROM SHARES Stock’ Sales in Year Reach Huge Sum—Statements Made to ~ Public Misleading Washington, 'D. C., June 6.—The Pan Motor Co. of St. Cloud, Minn, and its president, Samuel C. Pandolfo, were cited today by the federal trade. commission to answer a complaint the ifrst issued in the government's campaign to eliminate mssrepregenta- tion and unfair practices in the inter- state sales of, stocks and securities. Hearings will be held here July 10. The committee stated in its com- plaint that it had reason to \believe the concern; which, it alleges, had: ta- hen “in $4:788,000 from. stock sales igineé its "incorporation in January, 1917; \intil February, 1918, and its president, have, with the effect of de- ceiving the publta,seirculated through- out the country false, unfair and mis- leading advertisements, and state- ments of the assets, resources, pro- gress ‘and financial standing of the company, WOMAYE MURDERS HUSBAND AND TAKES: OWN LIFE Double Killing Follows Quarrel Over $10 Hold-Out at Plaza —Were Well Knowh Plaza, N. D., June 6.—Following a quarrel in which she was beaten to.un- consciousness by her husband, who sharged her with having appropriated 10, Mrs. Joe Eberhardt shot her hus- | band: through the back of his*neck as he was sitting in hig. chair at their home and then, stretching herself. up- ona cot, placed the revolver at Her own-temple and fired. Neigbors who reached the. house some” time later, found a gruesome spectacle. Eber- hardt's -eorp! ‘ag still seated‘ up- right in the chalr,\with the newspaper clasped in its hands, while the dead women still held: the revolver with which the double murder was commit- . Eberhardt’ was better. known. locally as, ‘Hamburger ”y, Forsyedts he conductég a ,restaurant here, but it was closéd: recently, because of his ill health. A brother, and sister came to Plaza to look'.after him during his illness, and upon thelr departure he presented each of them with $100. ‘This Hberality is said to have been ob- jected to by Mrs.| Eberhardt, which fact led up to the fatal quarrel. The couple were about 45 years old. SIOUX FALLS TO '/ ENTERTAIN SOUTH DAKOTA MARKSMEN| Sioux Falls, S. ‘D., June 6.—Ar- rangements have. been completed for the South Dakota State Shooting tournament to be held on the grounds of the Sfoux Falls Gun club, Thursday and Friday, June 12 and 13. Marks- men from:all parts of this state, Ne- braska, Iowa, Minnesota ‘and North Dakota are entered in the venets. The program is arranged to attract the largest number of marksmen, as the money divisions will be on the Jack Rabbit system, with cash, trophies “and merchandise added and options 1 nd sit ~~ “grranged for those who wish to back ‘ssitheir’skill. ‘'Two'lrew'‘évents. have been added this:'year}’in ‘the ladies’ mid-western championship an dthe South Dakota doubles championship. The winner of the American Trap-shooting associa- tion’s state amateur championship will represent ‘South Dakota at the Grand American: in ‘Chicago in August. WOLF AND COYOTE ROUNDUPS. NEWEST SIOUX FALLS FAD i Sioux Falls, S. D,, June 6.—Wolf and coyote roundups in this section have given place to dog roundups. Farmers in the Blooming’ Valley dis- trict inaugurated the new form of sport recently, when it was found that a large. number of sheep end cattle had been killed_* Indications pointed to several dogs, Which no one seemed to own, and apparently .had nothing better to do than raid sheep and calve herds. The roundup ‘was & complete success. BENEFIT RECITAL ' SATURDAY NIGHT A benefit recital for the Armenian children will be given by Mrs. B. G. Wheeler’s pupils at the high school assembly room Saturday ‘evening at 8:15. $i The program has been carefully ar- ranged and willgpresent a variety of features, consisting of solos, duets, trios and chorus’s. There wil be no admission charge, but a collection will be taken. The public is cordially in- wited. +. , dat Interment At-Hazen. The remains of John Goetz. who passed aWay Thursday morning at a Jocal hospital, were shipped Thursday to Hazen, where” interment will ‘be made, “INITIAL STEPS TOWARD MAKING THE WORLD DRY Anti-Saloon League Considers Constitution for Interna- , tional Organization 4 Whshigton, D. C., June 6.—The first step toward the formation of an in- ternational anti-saloon league was ta- ken today, by the national’ convention of ‘the anti-salloon league of Ameri- ca whe a tentative constitution for the international league was submitted to the convention, i The proposed legislation provides for effective cooperation in the move- ment for world-wide prohibition. WIMMIPEG ADDS 3,000 MEN TO POLICE FORCE Returned Soldiers Opposed to Strike Urge Drastic Action ALL PARADES ARE STOPPED Winnipeg, June 6.—Acting on re-| ports that the radical element involved in the-general strike here was threat- ening to launch a campaign of terror- 1m, the Winnipeg city government today decided to increase its special constuble force to 3,000 men, mostly returned soldiers, One thousand con- stables have been sworn in, it was announced. City officials have construed the. ap- al for national assistance which local strike leaders announced they sent out as an invitation for all classes of radicals to come to Winni- peg. Several thousand returned sol- diers opposed to the strike held their second meeting today and threats were openly made that unless certain of the strike leaders are taken into custody the “loyal soldiers” will be heard from. The stoppage of all parades was ordered this morning my Mayor Gray. Mayor Gray said he acted in the interest of law and order. It is un- derstood the mayor learned that a clash between, parades of strikers and of returned soldiers was conside: inevitable today if both factions car- ried ‘out parade plans, which would have. brought the rival processions to- gether. 5 To Deal. With Bolghevivem. General. Ketchum, the commander lof. the mifltary forces-in theManitoba district in hls first “public address since the beginning of the «Winnipeg strike\ today told’ a-mass meeting of returned soldiers that steps were be- in gtaken to deal, fully with revolu- tionaries and undesirable aliens. “When that is, done,” said General Ketchum, “I am stire you ‘will. agree with me, that when I said today steps were being taken té deal Wit ‘anarchy and bolshevism, I did not’ tefl‘you all.” There was treemndoys cheering. ‘Shortly after the meeting.’ strikers began a demonstration-in the busi- ness district in defiance of the proc- lamation of Mayor. Gray, which the strike leaders declared unconstitu- tional. ‘ BEULAH COAL C0. MUST OBEY NEW STATE MINE LAW Injunction Will Be Made Effec- tive in 30 Days Unless Changes Are Made Mandan, N. D., June 6.—Upon ap- plication of the state Judge J. M. Han- ley, in 12th district court here, has issued an order effective in 30 days restraining the Beulah Coal Co and the copartnership: which operates its mine from further mining operations at Beulah unless in the interim more stairways and escapements for the men and a more adequate air supply is provided. The Beulah Coal Co. is a Minnesota corporation operating the second larg- est lignite mine in the state. Its troubles began last winter after the United Mine Workers of America had failed in its attempt to organize the mine. Mine Inspector John Han- well, under tbe mine inspection act drafted by Stephen Ely, district presi- dent of the United Mine Workers, and passed -by the last assembly, immedi- ately after his appointment ‘served notice on the company that it would be restrained from operating if it did ont comply with the new yight-hour law. He also held that proper safe- guards and ventilation were lacking. The company tested Hanwell’s order on the eight-hour law in federal court, contending that it employed no labor, but that the mine work was done by a copartnership which was not amen- able to the provisions of the statute. Judge Amidon declined to take juris- diction. 'YANKEE WANTED TO USE ‘TWO-YEAR-OLD MARRIAGE LICENSE (By Associated Press.) Virginia, Minn., June 6.—An over- seas man, still dressed in service uni- form hurried into the office of the clerk of the probate court's office here recently and asked if a two-year-old marriage license is good. The service man had one wound stripe, also his service stripes told that he had been in the service eighteen months, which perhaps told the story of the old mar- riage license, and his. interest in knowing whether jt was still good, HORRORS OF SIBERIA DESCRIBED BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1919. BY A GIRL REPORTER 450,000 People Crowded Into Omsk, a-City of 60,000; Refugees Dwell in Holes in the Snow—Epidemics Spread Like, Wildfire —Corpses Found in Rooms Fullof Sick Sufferers—Thousands Homeless With the Temperature at 60 Below Zero. \ BY PEGGY HULL (N. E. A. Staff Correspondent Cover- ing Russia and Siberia) Omsk, Siberia—If Vladivostok is the waste-basket, of humanity, then Omsk is a huge cauldron in which’ human life is being “fried out” like pork fat in a packing plant. Survival here means nine parts luck} . and one part constitution, for one may brave typhus, Siberian pleague, small- pox and other deadly diseases only to be blown up in a Bolshevik plot, shot in a street fight or run over by-an automobile. It has ceased to be a question with the@e people of where or how they will. They ask for life and that is all —and they pay an agonizing price in order to walk upon. the earth and keep their spirits in this troubled world. Omsk, before the révolution, wag:a city of about 60,000. Refu- gees fram Russia fled here in the hope of getting through to Viadi- vostok, Japan and even’ America. The major portion were caught in the jam of traffic. There was no transportation, and they were forced to @emain, with the regult that a city ordi- narily capable of housing a:tran- sient ‘poputation of 25,000 finds about © 450,000 people | seeking; roofs for themsélves and families... As there were no roofs to‘be had;'a most appalling state was created. Fif- teen and twenty people, men, women and children were forced to live in a room ten by twelve. They slept on tables, on the flat brick stoves, the floor, boxes, or anything with an even surface. 1 Many of the quarters were only dugouts—holes scooped out of_ the snow, with a few trunks as beams and cinders or ashes for the floor! EPIDEMICS SPREAD AMONG THE REFUGEES. To think of one family living under these conditions is not so bad, for they can be changed; but when thou- sands; are doing the same thing it seems, almost hopeless. i Epidemics spread like fire in a match’ factory. Sometimes the American Red Cross workers ‘would find a whole roomful sick and ‘unable to move, with three or four corpses, in the crowd, dead no no one could tell how long. And the people who had to submit to this: sort- of an. existence were for the;,most -womenfrom-families. that had lived in every sort of luxury before the revolution. . An admiral’s wife and daughter ar- rived in Omsk in a box car. They had only the clothing which they oie nothing to change with, They. had no soap, no tooth paste— not an extra pair of stockings, and there wagn’t a shop in Omsk where any of. these articles could be pur- chased! _ They: could find no rooms, and they have had to-live in'that box car during the whole bitter winter, with the ther- mometer gt 69 and 60. below zero the greater part of the time. An ‘American Red Cross worker found them. They were in a pitiable condition=half-dead from ill-nourish- ment, hardships and lack of clothing. From ‘her own small store of personal belongings she gave them the things they needed, and which:the Red Cross did not supply. ,Yena Kramkoff, the daughter, ex- pressed-het gratitude in fluent Eng-, lish. . She: spoke several languages|| and’ had lived in all the capitals in Europe. Privation and hardships were new to her yet she bore them bravely in the hope> that Russia might be saved from gnarchy & FATHER: KILLED BY THE BOLSHEVIKS. Hee father had been killed by the Bolsheviks.” A stone was tied around his feet and she was dropped overboard like|a’bag of sand. *-Yena Kramkoff pleads for. allied intervention: “Russia's, salvation can never come from: within,” she explains. “It is too late—the real Russians were, for the; most part, killed during the first years of the German war, The Bolsheviks murdered the remnants and now there are anly a few—one or two here and there in this great country. What can they hope’to accomplish alone?” Yena Kramkoff is a representative Russian woman. They: are eager, en- ergetic, intelligent and ardent patri- ots. The game thing is true of all the classes; From the women who work side by side: with their men’ in the fields on-up through the various stratas they are spirited, industrious and full of the love of life. The allied officers gre inclined to believe the Russian women are supe- rior to the men. They form their con- clusions from their associatibns with the, Russian men, They say the Rus- sian women are more courageous than the men—that they have more charac- ter, more stamina. . But. the Russian women deny* this,, and explain. the broad-differetics id the ghastly losses during the war. . “The finest of our women hove. been killed—there are only a few left.” CZECH. MINISTER “ADMITS DEFEATS FROM HUNGARIANS Dr. Jrobauer Declares Advance of Enemy Is Costing Bil- lion Crowns Daily Prague, June 6.—Admission was made today by Dr. Irobauer, Czech foreign minister here, that the Hun- garian army had achieved an unex- pected victory over the Czch armies in Slovakia, which are still retreating. The situation in Slovakia is said to be very serious. The damage caused by the advanvé of the Hungarians is said to exceed one pillion crowns, according; to the estimate of Dr. Irobayer. MEXICAN PAPER CLAIMS VICTORY FOR VILLA’S MEN El Paso, Texas, June 6.—La Patria, leading Mexican newspaper published here ,issued an extra today. saying Chihuahua City was taken by Gen- erals Villa and Angeles after only two hours’ fighting last Sunday. The in- formation is said to have come by wire-from Loredo from refugees who fled from Chihuahua City. MAJOR WASHBURN TELLS OF RUSSIA Wilton, N. D., June 6.—Major Stan- ley Washburn of Lakewood,.N. J., re- cently returned from Russia, address- ed a large audience here on the Rus- sian situation. His hearers included many miners / of Russian birth who were intensely interested in the sub- ject. The Wilton local of the United Mine Workers of America adjourned its session in order to heat Major Washburn, who is vice president ot. the Washburn Lignite Coal Co., oper- ating the Wilton mines. Minnesota G. A. R. Holds Engagement St. Paul, Minn., June 6.—The annual encampment of the Minnesota ‘G. A. R. is in session today,at the old state capitol. Old soldiers from all parts of the state were welcomed this morn‘, ing by Governor Burnquist and’Mayor Hodgeon, of St. Paul. The principal speaker of the day is C. E, Adams, Lincoln, Neb. command- e rin chief of the G. A. R. who will address the encompment late today. START INVESTIGATION Paris, June 6.—The British corres- pondents in Paris have begun an in- vestigation as to why their first dis- patches regarding the discussion of the necessity of peace treaty changes by the council, of four were held up for thirteen, hours. «The: dispatches reached the newspaperaitoo late for publication in the current issues, 2,835 NORE OF OUR BOYS LAND “IN MANHATTAN Madawaska ‘Brings Home Big Contingent of 313th Engi- neers—351st at Dodge New York, N. Y., June 6—The Mad- awaska, bringing 2,835 officers and men, arrived here today. The prin- cipal unit on board was the 313th en- gineers, field and, staff, train, medi- cal and ordinance detachments,. head- quarters companies, A to F inclusive, and Co, No.1. This regiment belongs to the 88th division, Minnesota, Ne- braska and North and South Dakota. THOUSANDS CHEER. Des Moines, Ia, June 6—With thousands of cheering persons lining the sidewalk the 351st infantry of the 88th division today paraded through the flag-bedecked streets of Des Moines. - The soldiers reached here last night. After the parade they en- trained for Camp Dodge, and tomor- row they will come out as civilians. CHANGE TIME “IN OCTOBER Washington, June 6.—Favorable re- port on the bill to repeal the daylight saving law on the last Sunday in Oc- tober was voted today by the house interstate commerce committee. ONLY GIRLS; ALL BOYS WENT TO WAR Malta, Mont., June 6.—When diplo- mas were distributed to the Malta high school, at commencement exer- cises, only girls received them. Every boy in the class had gone to i This is thought to be the Montana GARL KOSITZKY CLOSES TOUR IN EMMONS COUNTY State Auditor Makes Many New Friends in Section Where He Is Best Known CHALLENGE TOWNLEY MEN Defies League Organizers” in Audience to Prove Asser- tions of Treachery Linton, June 6.—State Auditor Car! Kositzky completed a speaking tour of Emmons county Tuesday, speaking in both ends of the county. At Hazelton the speech was made in’ the hall and there was not room for all who wanted to hear him. At Linton, the talkj was given in the opera house be#6re the moving picture show. And that talk is still the topic of general discussion. Rep- resentatives from all parts of | the county attended. Kositzky is not an orator, but had a most convincing manner of ad- dress, He explained that he had been promoted from oftice to office by the voters of Burleigh county and the state, and that he had been lauded to the skies by Townley’s string . of newspapers and his vast ‘corps of speakers—until’ he refused to stand for four proposed laws that Townley wanted, the education bill, the judge bill, the immigration bill, and the newspaper bill.~ . League Organizers Welch. Two league organizers were in the audience, and he defied either of them to show in one single instance that any of the four were league measures. He singled out the organ- izer, Heck, and asked him personaly to prove these measures part of the league program, and called upon him to’ say before the meeting some of the things he had been saying to the afrmers while organizing. Heck maintained a vast silence. He called upon Argast, who attempted to put up an argument at Moffit, but Argast, too, was strangely dumb. vf Kositzky gave the history of the passage of some of\the measures, and showed just where, they were. head- ing us. ‘To the remark often made by the. league organizers to. “let's try them once,’ he said: “We know what a lighted’ match will do to a keg of powder; it’ isn’t necessary to try it once.”. He showed the efforts that Townley ‘had ‘made to force through some-of the-taws thatswill’ beiteHt the Townley inner ring. He said that the state “pay-roll_ was increasing by leaps and bounds and that from & us- ual salary of $25,000 per month the pay-roll will, be more then $75,000 yer month ‘dnd that ’ ‘the’ Townley gang had gone maney,mad. , He. said “That gang at the ‘capitol don’t know the value of money, e man from Ohio is now working: there ‘at a sal- ary of $1,800 per month.” + Townley's Grab-Bag. | - But Kositzky explained to the au- dience that the vast money-grab, of the Townleyites was coming through j their allied financial schemes, He stated that a million and a half had been collected for Consumers’ stores and that. thousands, of; that money was being invested by members of the “Inner Ring” in bank stock throughout the state. Of the school: bill, his explanation was short, concise and to the point. ‘He said: “I voted for and worked for Neil MacoDhald. He was de- feated and he didn’t do the right thing when he refused to give over the of- fice like a man. The law now pro- vides that the. state supbrintendent shall be in charge of school matters of this state.-Under the new admin- istration law, board of five the majority of ‘them appointed by the governor—is given that charge. Will Minnie Nielson have a voice in school matters? Yes. Every time she votes ‘Yes’ the other four will vote ‘No.’. Some voice. If she orders some certain procedure in school af- fairs today, tomorrow the Frazier, ap- pointees can change it. all,” Proves He’s No. Coward. The charges made against Kositzky are “coward, fool and traitor.” That he is anything but a coward he showed Monday night. That he is a fool may be so If jeopardizing his political future in the interests of honesty makes him a fool. That he is a trait- or he defied. the league organizers, Heck and Argast, to prove then and there. They answered not. Strasburg and Hague were the laost two points covered by the auditor in his Emmons county trip. AUSTRIA WILL BE ASKED TO PAY AS SHE IS ABLE TO Paris, June 6.— The financial clauses of the Austrian peace terms, as completed it is understood, fixes no specific sum as reparation payment. | The question is left to a committee which will examine the resources of Austria and determine the amount and method of payment. record. TOOTHACHE AND NERVOUSNESS AFFLICT. GERMAN WANT MUSI Berlin, May 23:—(Correspondence of the Associated Bress).—Fearful nervousness and depression which manifest themselves in toothache, rheumatism and various other ail- ments, ar afflicting the German dele- gates at Versailles, according to the correspondent of the Berlin Gazette, and which he whimsically terms “trop- ical madness.” : The first to be affected was a sur- ’ Vi DELEGATES; C WITH THEIR TALK geon, who fell'ill with a raging tooth- ache and intense neryousness. Then a councillor. attached’ to’ the delega- tion caught the strange malady and; insisted upon having a gramophone play during conferences which he at- tended. ‘The wanted American rec- ords principally. The food, the correspondent says, is getting one everyone’s nerves. “It is the wire enclosure that makes every- one wild.) <1, BERLIN SENDS | TREATY TERMS TO OUR SOLONS — & Paris, June 6.—It is understood here that the Berlin government is send- ing photographically reproduced cop- fes of the peace terms to every Unit- ed Qtates senator and representative. SENATE ASKS RECOGNITION FOR IRELAND Resolution Demanding for Erin Seat at Peace Table*Al- most Unanimous e DEMAND CORY OF TREATY Solons Insist That They Know What State Department Is Seeking to’ Do \ Washington, D. @., June 6.—Senator Borah’s resolution asking the Ameri- can peace delegates: at Paris to se- cifre a hearing before the peace con- ference for the Irish: delegates was adoptd by the Senate 60 to 1. ‘Sen- ator Williams of Mississippi cast the negative vote.’ Tke-resolutions ex- press the sympathy of the senate for the aspirations of the Irish people “for a government of its own choice.” Demand Treaty. The resolution of Senator Johnson asking the state department to fur- nish the senate with a copy of the peace treaty was adopted by the sen- ate today without roll call, with no further debate, and with only a hand- ful of senators present. To Investigate Leak. Investigation of how copies of the peace treaty with Germany reached persons in New York was ordered in the senate today. Without a record vote and after a short debate, the senate adopted a resolution introduced by Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska to investigate charges made on the floor of’the senate by Chairman Lodge and Senator Borah a few days ago. WILSON CERTAIN TREATY AGREES WITH 44 POINTS ees i Chief Executive Says He Would Speak Right Out If They Did Not Comply i eels Paris, June 6.—I am convinced that our, treaty project violates none of my. principles,” “President Wilson is quoted, by the Matin as, having said when he was made acquainted with the German counter proposals to the/ peace treaty. “If I held a contrary opinion I would not hesitate to confess it and would endeavor to correct the error. The treaty as drawn up, however, en- tirely conforms with my fourteen points.” ANSWER BY JUNE 4 (By Associated Press) Hope is expressed in peace confer- ence circles in Paris that the: allied rejoinder to the Germans will be ready for preséntation Monday. It is under- stood that with this reply the Ger- mans also. will receive notification that the discussion has been finally! closed and, will be given a period. of not less than’ three days or not more than five in Which to accept or reject the treaty. : If this plan is carried out it seems probable Germany’s decision will be xnown: not later than Saturday, June 14th, | Dispatches state that the council of four has decided to refuse Germany’s request that a fixed sum for repara- tion be indicated in the treaty. Noth- ing is known as to the reasons for the refusal to name the sum, which news reports had forecast at approximately $25,000,000,000. eo As reflecting Austrian opinion on the terms of the treaty presented at St. Germaine, President Seitz of the Austrian republic is quoted as stating: that the terms could not be enforced upon the Austrian people and that “it would be dangerous for the man who signed the treaty.” READY TO HANDLE HUGE GRAIN CROP) “Over fifty per cent of the 1918 wheat crop was produced in the terri- tory served by railroads in the north-/ western region, and to handle the enormous crop which will undoubtedly be harvested this summer, every ef- fort is being made to furnish ade- quate ‘car supply,” said Supt. S. W. Derrick of the Soo line today. On may 15 there were on the rail- roads in this region 173.742 box cars: Instructions have been issued that re-| pair work to make cars fit for grain loading, is to proceed at once to the full capacity of available facilities. This, with the permit system which will again be installed for the handling of grain, and which will permit ‘a steady flow to the terminal markets iwthout the congestion that otherwise would occur, we believe will insure good service to the grain shippers, ad- vises R. H. Aishton, regional director. Attorney H. A. Armstrong returned to Hazelton today after a brief visit in Bismarck while en route home from Fargo, where he attended the annual grand lodge sessions of the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. Armstrong has served through all the REPEAL ACTION ON WIRE LINES TO BE PUSHED jKelloge of Minnesota Declares ! Burleson’s Order Does Not Go Far Enough STILL IN U. S. CONTROL Restoration of Operations to Pri- vate Hands Does Not Elimi- nate Government BAR UNION MEN New York, June 6.—Employes of the Western Union Telegraph Co, who joined the telegraphers union on the assurance of the postmaster general that there would be no discrimination in re- gard to employes ‘joining union will not be taken back, Newcomb Carleton, president, pointed out today. Mr. Carleton said that of the 40,000 employes, only 710 belong to the union, and that the call for a strike in the southern division was meeting with practically no response. Washington, D. C., Jure 6.—Indica- tions that the bill to repeal] the law authorizing federal control of tele- graph, telephone and cable compan- ies would be pressed despite Post- master General Burleson’s order re- storing private operations of the wires were given today by the senate inter- tate commerce committee which re opened hearings on the repeal meas- ures. = ‘Senator Kellogg, republican, ‘Minne- sota, author of the repeal bill, told the committee the postmaster general's or- der only restores private operation and did not end government control and that consequently the repeal bill should be eacted as speedily as pos- sible. # Postmaster Burleson's order.,abol- ishing the wire control board in New York and restoring the operation ot telegraph and. telephone lines to the companies owning the lines was :at- ‘tacked by members of congress, who charged _ that Postmaster Burleson had passed the buck because of ‘the threatened nation-wide strike of tele- graphers. . Inimeditely after Mr. Burlesori’s or- dér was issued last night, S.J’ Konen- kamp, president’ of the telegraphers’ union, ordered a strike of the met- bers of the union empfoyed by the Western Union Telegraph -Co., in the southeastern states, and reports from chief cities 'tdday ‘showed that’ scores of operators “as"well ds’ some clerks and messengers had quit’ théir’ posts. Officials of the company atAtlanta ‘said that with the wires again’ under company operation there Would be a finish fight, while those of the union indicated that if necessary a nation- wide strike would be called. Unanimous decision to press legis- lation for repeal of the wire’ control resolution despite Postmaster General Burleson’s order returning telegraph and telegraph property to private operation was reached by the senate interstate commerce committee. NORTH DAKOTA TRAVELER GIVES SOLDIERS FARM Patriotic Grip Knight Places 440 Acres at White Earth at Yanks’ Disposal Col. T. J. Rogers, of the Dakotas recruiting district says that, one trav- eling man’s appreciation of, American soldiers is now being shown by an ef- fort to materially jaid,one of them. The loca] recruiting office has had placed in its hands for rental to a discharged soldier a farm of 440 acres located near White Earth, and the owner has promised exceptional terms for a lease of one year, five years or longer, without it being necessary to spend money for improvements, There are no implements or stock on the farm, but a barn on the land for six head of stock, a house of three small rooms, good flowing spring and one well and a schoo] house on one of the kuarterg. Discharged soldiers may get detall- ed information at the local army head- quarters recruiting station. BOLSHEVIKI CLAIM RECAPTURE OF BIG TOWN FROM ENEMY London, June 6.—The Bolsheviki have recaptured Sarapul on the Kama river, southwest of Perm, which was one of the important towns taken by Admiral Kalcyak’s forces in thelr spring advance, a Bolshevik wireless message claims. The dispatch also asserts that the Bolsheviki are con- tinuing to advance in this region. PARIS STRIKE SITUATION IS STILL SERIOUS Paris, June 6.—The strike situation tion was stationary -this morning. Transport workers pledged themselves to stay ount until their demands were fully satisfied, and subway employes adopted resolutions expressing con tempt, for. persons “who have been insinuating that Bolshevism is be- appointive chairs in the grand lodge. hind the strike.” ‘s rt