The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 14, 1919, Page 1

BIS ‘CK TRIBUNE == THIRTY-NINTH YEAR. NO. 185. 1919. PRICE FIVE CENTS FRAZIER: FINDS HE CANNOT HIT - THE BALL WITH THE SAME OLD LINE OF TALK TO DEAR PEEPUL North Dakotans Developing Disconcerting Habit of Demanding Truth Rather Than Invective, Jests and Jibs—Bunk About Big Business and Kept Press Doesn’t Get the Hand—Even Betting at Capital That the Electors Will “Vote Yes’ Seven Times” in Reverse English. Governor Frazier returned yesterday from a speaking trip, in the southeastern part of the state. As usual, the governor was greeted. by large crowds, and there was considerable enthusiasm. Mr. Frazier, however, found that the familiar line of talk dealing with “hig business” and the Minneapolis chamber of commerce and the “kept press” was not sufficient to hold the interest of his auditors.. They were principally concerned in the seven acts of the 16th assembly which are to be referred at the special election June 26, and they appeared insistent that they be given the cold truth, minus the popular old-time trimmings. Unfortunately for the success of Mr. Frazier’s tour, he was not always prepared to give this information.’ The governor has been a very busy man since the first of the year. Aside from the board of administra- tion bill, he had little to do with the introduction of any of the measures passed upon by the 16th:assembly, and he has not had a great deal of time since the adjournment of the session to familiar- ize himself with this legislation. Opposition is Active. All of the league state, officials op- posed to Townleyism are in the field, where they will remain until June 26. Attorney General Langer and Senator Fred W. Mees of Morton county have been speaking to tremendous crowds in the eastern part of the state. It is conservatively estimated that they addressed 7,000 people in two days in Nelson county. Senator Asle J. Gron- na, once ‘ace high. with the league, but who now realizes that he is to’be rel- egated for Governor Frazier or Wil- liam Lemke if the Townley progrem succeeds, is said to be doing some quiet work with his friends in Nelson county and other parts of the Re? River valley. State Auditor Karl Kositzky ‘has had very good meetings in the southern part of the state, and Secretary of State Hall has been “packing them in” in the north. S!- thon’ J. Nagel, plain league farme~ member of the state board of control, is reported to be doing effective work in opposition to Townley west of the river, where’ Nagel knows practically every man, woman and child. Rep O. B.-Burtness of Grand Forks, sav those who have hetard him, is doing great work for the anttTownley cause. * Big Boss Helping. Townley’s forces here assert that the big boss himself is the best worker in. their cause now in the field. They contend that -his invective, directed’ against Hall, Langer, Kositzky, Nagel, Mees and. others. whom he has branded traitors; is not getting by with the people who come .to hie meetings through curiosity or with en warhest desire to get some actual in- formation on the bills which form the issue in the present campaign. As iv well known in.league circles, Town- ley is not himself in favor of some of the bills which he was forced, through loyalty to his friends, to pan- handle through the last session. This is particularly true of the Brinton newspaper monopoly bill. Brinton, with his consumers’ united store scheme, a project which was all vel- yet, saved the league following its strenuous campaigns in Minnesota and North Dakota last year when the organization was flat bloke. Townley /ig naturally grateful for this fact, but he is beginning to realize that the Brinton newspaper bill is a big price to pay for the service which Brinton performed at that time. The Propaganda Bill. Townley does want the immigre- tion bill, with its $200,000 immigra- tion fund, for there is nothing in the act as passed to prevent the expendi- ture of the bulk of this sum in league progapanda in other states, under the guise of advertising North Dakota and correcting erroneous reports spread by enemies of the league. The judicial redistricting bill, however, i+ another pledge to gratitude. Bilt Lemke wanted it,Anthony Walton anc other strong leaguers opposed it, and Townley is said to have realized that politically the bill was a double-edged instrument, but he was not in a posi- tion to refuse anything to so faithful a servant as Mr. Lemke. The one-man tax commission Dili originated in the brains of Townley henchmen, and he regards it a good thing, inasmuch as it gives him di- rect control of ajl matters affecting taxation, which he could not have, so completely, with a three-man commis- sion, even though Governor Frazier had the appointment of the trio. Betting Even Money. \ ‘Men about the capital accustomed to placing a little money on the side are finding it easy to get odds on a number of propositions. There are some who back the seven measures to win; others are betting good mon- ey that the whole septette will lose, and still others are wagering nice little sums that the two program Dills will survive the onslaught, but that the five others will go down Something to Remember. It is not to be forgotten that a ma- jority of the electors who ballottea jast November did not approve the Jeague’s constitutional amendments under which the Nonpartisan indus- trial program was enacted by the 16th assembly. Only two of the amend- ments submitted by the league re- ceived a majority of all the votes cast, and these two did-not apply to the league program.’ It is also re- called that some 30,000 voters were out of the state, many of them out of the country, in their nation’s service. and that they had no voice at all in this election. The 15,000 Silent Vote. It was preached constantly, befors election that the failure to vote at all on the amendments.was equivalent to a vote against them. It is safe to presume that tlfe 15,000 to 20,000 elec- tors who did not vote for the amend- ments, altho they cast their ballots ras ~~. BISMARCK BOY IN THICKEST OF FIERCE FIGHTS Neil McHugh, Son of Mr. and Mrs. Pat. McHugh, Wound- ed, Gassed, Shell-Shocked Neil McHugh, son of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick McHugh, is home from fif- teen months’ service in France. Mr. McHugh returned to America on the U.S. |S. Leuckenbach and when only a few days out the propeller on the ship broke and the sails bad to be put.up. The boat was sixteen days at sea. The Bismarck boy was in service in France with the 126 infantry. He en- listed with the Michigan division and he was stationed in Texas for several months. On February 15, 1918, he sailed with his division for overseas service. “He was in the trenches in France “for six months» straight, with only asten days’ rest at: camp~during that time. He took part in the heay- iest fighting in France from Chateau Thierry on. During the fierce struggle in the Ar- gohne region, he was wounded ‘on October 5, and spent six weeks re- cuperating in a French hospital., He was also gassed and shell shocked. Mr. McHugh was assigned to the army of occupation along the Rhine after the armistice was signed, later returning to his own company, and he reached home with the 68rd_bri- gade, After arriving in the United States thirty of the original 63rd brigade were given a big reception in Detroit. Mr. McHugh spent some time in De- troit and other points in Michigan be- fore coming to Bismarck for a visit with his parents and with his ‘sister, Mrs. Victor J. LaRose. HECK ARRESTED! FOR DISORDERLY CONDUCT, JAILED One of Townley’s Principal Lieu- tenants Raises Disturbance ‘in Home Town Wilson, N. D., June 14.—John Heck, one of Townley’s chief lieutenants and grganizers, and prominent in Consum- ers’ United Store Co. rcles, spent an unpleasant 15 minutes in the village jail here following a tirade on the street corner in which he used lan- guage so abusive and so objectionable that there was a general protest, Heck, was taken into custody by Chief of Police John Hammack and was led away to the village bastile to. recover his equilibrium. Chief Hammack stated last night that-no formal charge has been pre- ferred against Heck. Apparently Heck's appearance here was im- Promptu. He was first discovered in a@ typical street-corner harangue. He apparently was intensely excited or labored under a high mental tension. A crowd quickly gathered, and women and children were included. It is said that the language Heck used was not entirely suitable for their ears, and that there was a general protest on the part of the citizens who were threatening to take the law into their own hands when the chief of police appeared on the scene and took charge o fthe situation. ‘Heck is said to have called upon leaguers in his audience who support- ed his declarations to hold up their hands, and it is alleged that, although there were a number of good Nonpar- tisans in the crowd, they were too dis- gusted with his line of talk to accord him this recognition. Heck is a form- er resident of Wilton, where he has always been known as a radical of an extreme type. NON-STOP FLIGHT. St. Paul, Minn., June 14.—A flying circus of five planes left St. Paul this morning for Indianapolis. This is one of the laps of the journey from Dal- las to Boston, and a non-stop flight is sContinued on Page Seven) en Se ee — BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA SATURDAY, JUNE 14, MURDERED WOMAN|*—————————— THE PLAIN TRUTH ABOUT DENIES THE TALE Dickinson, N. D, June 14—Stark county officers were called’in haste to to home of John Tarcolla, near South Heart, by a report that John had slain the wife of his bosom and decamped. When Deputy Sheriff Pat McGrath and Juvenile Commissioner Walter Sterlund reached the Tarcolla home, Mrs. Tarcolla, alive and well, joined with her husband in assuring them that the report was much exag- Serated and that they knew nothing of its origin. There has been’ consid- erable trouble between the Tarcollas, and Mrs. Tarcolla has left him on one| or two occasions to come. to ‘Dickin- son to make her own way. 86 MILLIONS ESTIMATED ~ WHEAT YIBLD Acreage of Grain Is Placed at! 7,300,000 — Slight De- crease CONDITIONS 91 PER CENT Extreme Heat During Last Week in May Caught Rye in Tender Stage Grand Forks, N. D., June 14.—North |. Dakota’s prospective wheat yield) was today egiimated by A. J. Surratt, U. S. Field. Agent for the state,, at) 86,000,000 bushels compared with fin- al production last year of 101,000,000. Mr. Surrat! fixes the siate acreage of wheat at 7,300,000, compared witn 7,700,000 “acres last year, a decrease of six per cent brought on, Surratt says, by the fact that there was little fall. plowing and spring weather re- tarded seeding arrangemenis. The condition was placed at 91 per "ert compared with 93 per cent a same time. last year. Acreage. ‘ Comenting on the June 1st.govern- ment crop report issued through his office, A. J. Surratt says that an un- usually small fall plowed ‘acreage in| the western two-thirds of the state, and a late wet spring together with fear of riist damage to late sown wheat were the chief factors causing te 6 per. cent decrease. in wheat acreage from last season. These conditions decidedly upset the earliey plans of a majority of farmers in N. age ahd a decreased acreage of, oats) and barley, especitlly barley acreage. The result has been that oats acreage has increased ‘ore. per: cent andthe} decredye-irr barley reduced to the very low figure of four per cerit. Owing to; was more: favorable in the eastern} third’ of the state, the wheat acreage |, for this section as a whole is .only modtratley decreased, and ranges from no change or a small decreasé in the central and northern counties to a small increase in the southeast- ern counties, Wheat acreage de- crease in the western two-thirds. of the state with a few exceptions ranges around 10 per cent, Some! counties being less and some slightly more, Durum acreage has increase from onethird. to one-half .over a year ago. Last season's oats acreage has been quite generally maintained jas & rule with a slight increase in 'several » counties. Barley acreage changes run noticeably uneven’ in the different counties with a tendency to; decrease in all but a few counties, | Condition. The. state’ condition of all grain crops was about average June 1st with the tendency to be above aver- age in the eastern half and below av- erage in the: western half of the state due to the splendid rain about the 30th of May of which the western half of 'the state received. but little or none. Unless this section receives rain soon the favorable spring star cannot be maintained. Spring mois: ture with few exceptions was suffic!- ent to germinate seed quickly and growth-has made good progress as * rule, Root and top growth about av- erage with fully the usual weed) growth. The grasshoppers are more or less general in all the territory extending from the south western counties in a northeasterly direction to the north central part of the state. Spotted damage has already occurred in small areas, with additional dam- age reports coming in dafly on June 1st. Several counties have already organized and are waging a vigorous campaign against this pest, which will greatly reduce damage possibill- ties. It is a hard fight at best which (Continued on Page Seven.) FOILED, MURDER) THEIR OPPONENT Gary, Ind., June 14.—Five autonio- bile bandits failed in an attempt to rob the First State bank here today, but. it cost the life of Herman W. Uecker. When a dozen other persons, in the bank put up their hands, Uecker seemed to reach for a pistol. The bandits shot him dead and fled. $15,000 LOSS IN BEACH ELEVATOR Beach, N. D., June 14.—The Elliot & Back elevator was almost wholly destroyed by a fire which broke out shortly after midnight. Of the 4,000 bushels of grain in the elevator; it is estimated that 2,000 can be salvaged. The loss will be over. $15,000, and “it only partly covered by insurance. The elevator was 40,000 bushels capacity and was built in 1907 by the Chase Lumber Co, Dakota for an increased wheat acre-; ‘the fact that the fall plowed acreage |,; BANK ROBBERS’ teat nme ‘ MR. TOWNLEY’S PROGRAM Facts the Taxpayer Should Consider Before He Makes Up His Mind How He Is Going to Vote in the Referendum Election June 26 “.THE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION House Bill 17 has been termed by President A. C. Townley. the parent measure of the entire league program. House Bill 17 creates a board of trustees which is to age for the people of North Dakota their business, which has an estimated value of $2,000,000,000. As“ capital, to provide for immediate operating ex- penses,.there is appropriated for the use of this board of trustees, or directors, $17,000,000, which is to be provided from‘the sale of bonds. ‘Bonds differ from capital stock in that they form a mortgage:on the property which furnishes the security, but: they. give the holder no voice in the management of ‘such property. Buyers of the bonds of North Dakota therefore. acquire a mortgage on the state’s two billion dollars’ worth of property, but they purchase no right to participate in the management of that property. Nor do the people: upon whose property these mortgages are secured enjoy such right. That right is invested solely in a board of three directors, of whom the chairman is really the dictator, through an unlimited veto power which’ has been conferred upon him by legislature. Members of this board obtain and retain their posi- tions through politics. there, for two years, no Once in office they will remain matter what blunders they may make, » Once in office they are the masters of an intricate machine which they may use at the expense of the people who elected them with a view to perpetuating themselves in office. Under Section 5 of House Bill 17, “The industrial commission is hereby empowered and directed to manage, operate, control and govern all utilities, industries, enter- prises and business projects, now or hereafter established, owned, undertaken, administered or operated by the state of North Dakota, except those carried on in penal, chari- table or educational institutions.” , The. powers of this commission cover the right “to acquire by purchase, lease or by exercise of the right of eminent,domain all necessary properties and property . Yights,and to hold and pogsess or to sell the whole or any part thereof; to construct and reconstruct necessary buildings thereon; to equip, maintain, repair and alter any ‘and all such properties and the improvements there- on;” , s.\ “To: appoint at its own discretion managers and all necessary. subordinate officers’ and. employes of and for « each, such utility, industry and enterprise and business and to remove and discharge all such‘persons at will. 1X THE’ BUYING PRICE’ OF ' THINGS BOUGHT‘ AND THE SELLING PRICE OF THINGS “SOLD; iichiental-to the’ said ‘utilities, industries, enter- prises and business projects; and to fix rates and ‘charges for any. and all services rendered thereby ; “To procure the necessary funds for such ‘utilities, industries, enterprises and business projects, by hegotiat- ing the bonds of the State of North Dakota;” » “To conduct investigations,” etc., in which it is dele- gated the power of a state court, with the right to sub- poenae witnesses and to demand the production of books, i/ accounts and property material of private business enter- prises, and to PROSECUTE AND PUNISH THOSE WHO DISOBEY OR DISREGARD ITS DECREES “AS FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT;” “To make rules and regulations for its own proceed- ure; AND TO DO ANY AND ALL THINGS NECES- ,SARY OR EXPEDIENT IN CONDUCTING THE BUSI- NESS OF SUCH UTILITIES, INDUSTRIES, ENTER- PRISES AND BUSINESS PROJECTS.” | No more autocratic authority was ever delegated to any body of three men in the history of any monarchy, and the only knowledge which the people by law are to have of the workings of this autocratic triumvirate will be furnished in an annual report to be filed by the indus- trial commission with the secretary of state, giving an itemized account of expenditures and receipts. There is appropriated for the immediate expenses of this commission $200,000. No limitation is placéd upon the time within which this appropriation may be expend- ed, It may be “blown in” in two months if the commis- sion deems it.“necessary or expedient,” and this fund is solely for the expenses of the industrial commission, for each of the enterprises and utilities provided by law to be operated by the commission has a neat appropriation of $190,000 or $200,000 of its own. There is placed at the disposal of the industrial com- mission for the financing of the several state enterprises $17,000,000 to be furnished through the sale of bonds, or mortgages upon the property of the state. It is required that there be set aside each year a sum sufficient to retire these bonds in 30 years, which would be $566,666 per annum. It is also provided that the state shalk by tax levy, or by appropriation from any available funds, to be replaced through a tax levy, pay the interest upon these bonds. Senator F. W. Mees, an enthusiastic leaguer, ex- pressed in the senate last winter the opinion that the state cannot float its bonds for much less than seven percent. Ifthe maximum interést rate is used, the yearly charge will-be $1,190,000 for interest: The state would then be required to raise by taxation $1,756,666 per annum, in addition’ to the ordinary expenses of government, as an interest and sinking fund on this bonded debt, and AT THE END OF 30 YEARS THE STATE WOULD HAVE PAID IN INTEREST AND PRINCIPAL THE NEAT SUM OF $52,700,000 on democracy. its first experiment in industrial There are 85,000 farms in North Dakota, and they pay 85 per cent of the taxes. Each of these farms, there- fore, may be considered mortgaged to the amount of $527 at the outset to carry out the program of industrial democracy to which House Bill 17 will commit the state. And the operation of this program, which involves every farmer, every business man, every laborer and every professional man in the state today, and which is mortgaging the rights of their children and their grand- children, is to be entrusted to the hands of three men who secure their positions through political favgr and not be- cause they are great captains of industry, or financial leaders or commercial geniuses. Would any one of us commit our farm, or our store, or our law practice, or our little shop to the keeping of a trio picked in such a manner? (TO BE CONTINUED), oe GLEN ULLIN GIRL BURNED TO DEATH Glen Ullin, N. D., June 14.—Barbara Dietrich, fourteen-years-old daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Stephen Dietrich, nine miles southeast of Glen Ullin, was burned to death while boiling some linseed ofl_which was to be used on the floor of the Diterich home. The oil caught fire while on the stove and the girl picked up the container and carried it outside, where she emptied the burning oil. The wind caught up the blazing fruid and blew it back ov- er Barbara and her sister Gertrude, igniting their clothing. Before the flames could be extinguished Barbara was fatally burned, and Gertrude was injured, but she will re- CONFER ENGR IN STATE HISTORY Gifford Pinchot, Senator Gore and Other Notables in Bis- marck Next Monday FARMERS URGED TO COME Problems of Reconstruction Will Be Discussed by Masters of Their Subject Probably the most important gather. ing of farmers North Dakota has ever known will open at the Bismarck Audi- torium at 9:30 Monday morning, when Governor Lynn J. Fraizer will welcome on behalf of the state notable repre- sentatives of the national board of farm organizations, including Gitford Pinchot, the great apostle of conserva- tion and a member of President Roose- velt’s cabinet; Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, father of the $2.20; 1919 wheat. guarantee act; Charles S. Barrett, national president of the Farmers’ union; Milo D. Campbell, president of the national milk produc ers’ federation; Dr. W. F. Spillman, the Washington economist; Maurice McAuiliff, president of the Farme' union of Kansas; A. A. Elmore, presi- dent. of’ the Farmers’ union of Wash- ington ‘state, and others nationaliy prominent in agricultural work. The conference will be devoted to the discussion of reconstruction as it affects the farmer. Much emphasis will be placed upon the value of organiza-; tion and cooperation. It is urged that e farmer in western and central North Dakota who can get away ott the-day-arrange to attend the conven- tion, which is expected to prove of in- estimable benefit to the agriculturists of the state. THE PROGRAM 9:30 a. m.—Address of Welcome on behalf of the State, Governor Lyn J, Frazier, Address of Welcome on behalf of the City—Geo, N. Keniston, secretary of Commercial club, 10:00 a. m.—Address by Milo D. Camp- bell, president National Milk Pro- ducers’ federation, on “The Dairy Farmer and the Sherman Anti-Trust Law. 10:45 a, m—Address by Dr. W. J. Spillman, of Washington, D. C., on ‘arm Organization and the Cost oi Far Production.” 1 a. m—Talk by Maurice McAu- | liff, president of Farmers’ union of Kansas, on “Organization and Coop- eration in Kansas.” Afternoon 380° p. m.—Add: py Gifford Pin- chot on “Reconstruction Problems as ffecting the Farmers.” ) p. m.—Address by John “A, Me- Sparran on “The Federation of Farm Organizations and the Temple ot Agriculture.” 8:30 p. m—Address by Chas. 8. Bar- rett, National President Farme: union, on “What Part the Farmer Took in the Peace Conference, and the Part He, Should Take in the League of Nations,” 200 p, m—Addr president of Fi union of Washington, on “The National Board of Farm Organizations and the Plans of the Temple of Agriculture.” 00 p. m—Address by Senator Thos P, Gore of Oklahoma on “Farm Or iz and Government Price ession om A, Elmore, Dn ABOR PROTESTS; PROHIBITION Washington, June 14.—Labor’s pro- test against prohibition, insofar as it applies to light wines and beer, was to be brought to the attention of con- gress today by a throng estimated at 100,000 to 150,000. representatives | and members of union organizations from this and scores of other cities throughout the country. The meeting was to open with a salute to the flag, as a mark, it was said of the “anti- Bolshevik and anti-German __ senti- ments of the workers.” TEN IN FIELD FOR COMMISSION JOBS Dickinson, N. D., June 14.—Two candidates for president of the city commission and eight for city com- missioners are candidates for the fa- vor of the electorate at Dickinson's first city election under the commis- sion form of government, to be he!d June 126. The candidates for pre dent are Alf White, former may and Patrick McGinley, proprietor ot the Gem hotel. | Those who would be members of the commission, of whom four are to be elected, are A. D, Heaton, Fred L. Roquette, William Kostelecky, J. V Reed, H. L.. Reichert, Jerry Brabec, N. J. Gruschus, and Jacob Mack. Four BIG FIVE AT WORK ON PACT: PRINTED SOON Food Riots Break Out in Italian Districts—Revise Prices Downward INVADE WILL GALICIA Russian Bolsheviki Intend to Effect Union With Hun- garian Comrades Paris, June 14.—The council of five continued the work of editing the re- vised peace treaty this morning, at the same time enabling Barin Makino, the Japanese ambassador to famillar- ize himself with the document. It is said it will be printed and ready for delivery to the Germans, Monday or Tuesday. It is the present plan of tha coun- cil to renew consideration oi Austrian terms Monday. Representatives of Turkey will be received Tuesday. If no other developments arise, Presi- dent Wilson probably will inak2 his trip to Brussels after Wednesday, Some modifications were made by the council yesterday in the labor covenant in the peace treaty. The existing labor situation in several countries coupled with clever German tactics has resulted in this part of the treaty becoming one of the principat objects of attack. The reply will lay stress upon'the motives of the reparation committee. It will be held that this is not a piratical -body, but ome which will help Germany in its program of re- construction. It is known that the council 'is acting on the belief that there is no general feeling on the Part of the masses against German acceptance of the terms. An air of optimism pervates the council in this respect. ISSUES ULTIMATY) Coblenz, Friday, June 1?.—An ulti- matum demanding the immediate transportation of Polish troops ac1o¢3 Germany has been sent to the Get: man government my Marshal: Foch. Orders were issued at Berlin several days ago to hold up the Polisa troop trains. The transfer of Folish:troops from France to Poland began about six weeks ago and was due to be com- pleted on June. FOOD RIOTS. .Rome, June 14—The disorders which began in Spezia Thursday continuedtoday. because of, lack of troops to suppress the crowds, which were sacking the shops.’ ’Hogshédds of wine were rolled from wineshops several miles outside the city and dis: tributed to the people amid’ tumult-- ous enthusiasm. Later the mob stopped its pillaging tactice but took control of the mar- kets and obliged the merchants to sell at prices fixed by +the people. Thus chickens, which recently sold for $6 apiece sold for $1, while thous- ands of bottles of fancy wine which had. been selling at high prices were poured out to the crowd at 20 cents each. Several thousand sailors have been landed and contingents of cavalry have been ordered to Spezia. CROSS INTO GALACIA. London, June 14.—Russian bolshe- vik troops are reported to have crossed the Galacian boundary, and to be approaching Tarnopol, with the ev- ident intention of joining the Hungar- ian Bolsheviki when the Hungarian frontier is reached, says an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Vienna. The CzechoSlovaks, advices add, report a.favorable turn in their mili- tary operations, They have recap- tured several towns from the Hun- garians. CABINET RESIGNS. Peking, June 14.—In consequence of difficultiés created by the popular movement against the pro-Japanese members of the government, the cab- inet has: resigned, and Pres. Hau Shiah Chang has also intimated his intention to quit office. GOV. LISTER OF WASHINGTON PASSES AWAY Seattle, Wash. June 14—Ernest Lister, governor of Washington died heer today. He had been ill for sev- eral months. MINER ARRESTED FOR RADICALISM Coblenz, (Friday) June 13.—Officers who have heard the particulars — re- garding the imprisonment of Robert Miner, the American magazine writer and cartoonist, say Miner was arrest- ‘hat the request of the authorities who have ing for action against the propagand According to informa- tion in the hands of the Americans, Miner wrote several pamphlets in Dus- seldorf and had them printed there. It is asserted the pamphlets were of radical tendencies, It is stated here the British have notified American army officers that they do pot care to take further ac- tion in Miner’s case, Miner was stil! in jail tonight, but it is understood there are no formal charges against him, _Robert Miner, the American maga- zine writer and cartoonist, is in the .| military prison at Coblenz it was an- nounced today at third army head- quarters. Officers who have heard of these candidates are now serving On the city council, the particulars say he was arrested by the French, 4