The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 21, 1919, Page 1

THE WEATHER Generally Fair. THE BIS CK TRIBUNE-=] ; BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1919, _ GERMANY READY TO SIGN PACT THE VALLEY CITY BANK DEAL; : INVASION OF |pppeipewy EBERT FORCED T0 THB PLAIN TRUTH ABOUT ALL WITH SANCTION AND FULL e prornay|| MEXICO 70 1. "qvowtenogor eacue-Hasrinés) MR: TOWNLEY'S PROGRAM GUARD BORDER) WARLY. PRAGR. SETTLEMENT Facts the Taxpayer Should Consider Before He Makes Up His oo . Mind How He Is Going to Vote jin the United States Plans Aggressive : Second Instalment of Official Abateagt of Bank Referendum Election June 26. Avia 1 Silk i Provincial Preas: Uiiite for: Aécepting Entente ing Board Hearing Upon Which A. C. Townley Reprisal TT oakeuoue Action toe Libel Terms — German Delegates at Versailles se : A and bill Lemke ba Apparently Relieved at Turn of Affairs “ EDITOR'S NOTE: The Valley City Bank deal is now ancient : history. of, notorious memory. But President A. C. Townley of _ Paris, June 21.—Herr Ebert has asked Herr Mueller, the socialist leader of the ministry, to form a new cabinet. Mathias the National Nonpartisan league and William Lemke, Mr. Town- ley’s chief assistant, have seen fit to resurrect the mess as a Erzberger probably will head the peace delegation, advices indicate. |r te ty et JUDICIAL REDISTRICTING BILL House Bill 124 provides for the redistricting of the state for judicial purposes. The state now. has twelve - judicial districts and twelve judges. .Under House Bill 124, the state would have six districts and fifteen judges. Judges now receive a flat salary of $4,000 per. annum. House Bill 124 provides for salaries and traveling ex- CHANGE IN ATTITUDE! Watchful Waiting Policy Has Been Disregraded by means of penalizing the independent press of the state which penses. ’ Administration Qpposition of German nationalists on the subject of the treaty carried stories of the state banking commission’s investigation of William Lemke, league lawyer, is given credit for the probubly will include Von Brockdorff Rantzau and Von Bernstorff the transaction. authorship of House Bill 124. Its principal purpose 1s Washington, June 21.—Develop-|from the provisional government. The provincial press is urging ments along the southern border and within Mexico itself, it was learned officially today, has brought a radical | change in the attitude of this coun- try toward Mexico. It can be stated on positive author- ity that “watchful wailing has been disregarded” for “watchful prepared- the speedy signing of the treaty. Sumnarizing the situation in Germany up to midnight, press dispatches show sentiment throughout Germany to be in favor of accepting the peace terms. Geographically analyzed dispatches indicate all southern German states favorable to accepting the treaty, while the Prussian states are maintaining some opposition. For this reason, and in accordance with a motion made by Attorney General Langer and seconded by Secretary of State Hall, and upon which Goveror Frazier voted “NO” at the meeting of the banking board on February 27, 1919, The Tribune is pub- lishing ‘pertinent sections of the official abstract verbatim. The} resolution of the state banking commission, against which Gover- said to be to give Governor Frazier.an opportunity to re- ward Edward P. Totten of Bowman, in whose home was entertained Kate Richards O’Hare after she referred to our dead soldier boys in France as fit only for fertilizer and their mothers as no better than brood sows. Judge Totten, it is understood, is slated under House Bill 124 nor Frazier voted, is as follows: “RESOLVED: THAT ALL, PAPERS OF EVERY NATURE, ALL LETTERS, ALL STATEMENTS OF THE STATE BANK BEFORE OR AFTER APPLICA- TION, THE TESTIMONY GIVEN BY MR. WILLIAM OLSON AND J. J. HASTINGS, ALL COPIES OF MO- TIONS MADE; ALL COPIES OF TELEGRAMS OR ANYTHING ELSE WHATSOEVER IN CONNECTION WITH THE AMERICAN EXCHANGE BANK OF VAL- LEY CITY BE THROWN OPEN TO THE PEOPLE OF NORTH DAKOTA OR TO ANY PERSON WHO WISHES TO SEE THE SAME.” At the same meeting, with Governor Frazier voting “NO”, there was adopted the following supplementary resolution: “That if at any time any bank officers, stockholders, promoters of banks, or any persons connected with any of ‘the state banks in North Dakota make any exorbitant profits; hide any accounts or checks or do any act to bring banking into disrepute, and which tends toward wildcat- - ting, or organizing farmers to buy out a bank, promote or ~ organize the same with another bank, in any investiga- tion in any transaction above named, the books of .the secretary, showing the same, shall be open to the public and the most possible publicity invited.” : TESTIMONY OF J. J. HASTINGS. 6 February. 20, 1919, P. M. By Governor Frazier: Q. There have been a, lot of re- ports which have come to us about you fellows getting rich’ quick, ete.. and beating the farmers out of a lot of money and organizing a bank, and we want to straighten the matter cut a little bit and get the matter at first hand. A. Well, I have never kept any- thing back from anyone wio should know. We have organized a numer of banks, it is true, and charged for Therefore, in accordance with these resolutions, adopted: by a public commission representing the people of North Dakota, The Tribune proceeds to present herewith the offici testimony: presented by John J. Hastings,’ “by the banking-board of a resolution requiring Hastings and asso- ciates to restore to the bank $15,000. abstract of the 0 the adoption SPLENDID RAIN SOAKSCENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA Precipitation at Soo Line Points Went as High as Four Inches for one of the three judgeships- which Governor Frazier is given the privilege of distributing. Two other men of the Totten type are said to be in line for the other two jobs. North Dakota does not need fifteen district judges. For two years while Major J. M. Hanley of the 12th judi- cial district was serving his country in France, eleven judges handled the work of the twelve judicial districts, and did it with ease. House Bill 124 accomplishes no good purpose. It is desired by Townley and his associates merely as a means of distributing more political pap and as an agent in building up a stronger political machine, at the expense of the people, of course. The cost to the state of rewarding three political favorites of President Townley and Governor Frazier will be about $15,000 per annum. Compared with other league luxury taxes it is trivial, but the voter should take into consideration as well the effect on our courts of the eleva- tion to the district bench of court favorites who are not required to go before the bar of the people, but who secure their preferment solely through their standing with ‘the chief of the Nonpartisan league and the men he has placed in power in North Dakota. _ Our district courts are as yet uncontaminated with socialism. In House Bill 124 is the opening wedge. . It merits the most serious consideration. Deportation’ of Bolsheviki Aim of U.S. Government New York, June 21.—Information that the government has under consid- eration wholesale deportation of Bol- sheviki, anarchists and other radicals in this country was obtained here to- day from what was considered an au- thoritative source. It was declared the plan called for using the returning troop ships to take natives back to their lands. ARMIES READY ALIEN TOWNLEY ORGANIZER HELD AS SEDITIONIST H. I. Trelease, Worker for So- cialist Regime, Convicted on Two Counts NOT QUESTION OF TASTE Be Shocking, Though ness.” The war department has per- fected plans to throw an expedition- ary force of adequate strength across the Rio Grande the moment word is received of reprisals on the Ameri- cans for the Juarez incident. Orders for the advance of this column, however, it is said, will be accom- panied by instructions for the mili- tary protection of the border by the c¥eation of a neutral zone south of the border line. Villa’s Demands. Further movements of the expedi- tion would depend on developments later. Little credence is placed on the report that Villa has abandoned his expedition into’ the north. The elimination of the Carranza garrison is now called for by Villa, and for the preservation of a principal fron- tier port, which would give the rebel chief fresh sinews of war. Although three federal generals are now operating against Villa in north- ‘ern Mexico, confidential reports to the war department are not optimistic. while the withdrawal of badly needed troops from’ the south will- be fol- lowed by fresh incursions by the Fel- icistas already at the very gates of the capital. Carranza Outnumbered. The Carranza military establish- ment, according to official reports fil- a heres actually include less than forty -per-- centof-ita-paper--strength: of 160,000, and if military value is ‘te. creased by the doubtful loyalty ‘of some of the high officers and the fact that hundreds of recruits were forcl- bly conscripted. Of the rebel factions, of which there are seven opporing Carranza, Villa is said to ‘be the strongest. The Villistas are conserv- atively estimated to number 10,000 2quipped with modern arms. AMERICANS WARNED. Washington, D. C., June 21.—Ameri- cans were warned to leave the Mor- mon districts of western Chihuahua “when the crisis arrived’ by Gen- eral Dieguez, commander of the north- eastern military zone, according to a message received last night from Consul Stewart at Chihuahua City. asked to assume the task. sions are made. TOWNLEY WILL MAKE HIS LAST SPEECH TONIGHT President of League Goes From Bismarck -o-Minnesota-to Stand Trial CONSPIRACY IS CHARGED Alleged That Nonpartisan Chief- tain Sought: to Defeat Bonds and Draft President Arthur C. Townley of the National Nonpartisan league will make his last speech of the referen- dum campaign from the balcony of the league hotel on Main street at 8) this evening. From Bismarck he will recent struggle. CONSENTS TO ACT Paris, June 21.—Dispatches received over military wires from Germany early this afternoon stated that Herr Mueller had been prevailed upon to form a cabinet after Edouard David had been ; SENDS NOTE TO CLEMENCEAU Berlin, June 21.—Mathias Erzberger (mentioned as the prob- able head of the new German peace delegation) is reported as hav- ing sent a note to Premier Clemenceau, as president of the peace conference, asking whether the allies will agree to the immediate admittance of Germany to the league of nations. He also desires to know whether the powers will consent to the limitation of Germany’s liability to 100,000,000 gold marks and renounce their efforts to have former Emperor Wilhelm surrendered. The note does not announce whether Germany but the inference is clear that Germany will accept if the conces- will sign the peace treaty, SOCIALISTS WANT PEACE + Berlin, June 21.—Theodore Wolff, editor in chief of the Tageblatt, has telephoned that newspaper from Wei- mar that those in favor of signing the treaty are so active and numerous among the majority socialists and clericals that a peremptory refusal to sign the terms is hardly possible. Members of the national assembly. who take this stand, Herr Wolff says, are being given active support by several majority socialist members of the senate, who are urging the appoint- .4ment.-.of. Mathias. Erzberger to head the new cabinet. Difficulty is being experienced in se- cnving a majority without the German democrats for the formation of a gov- and the conditions named by Erzberger, are those upon which the democrats would re-enter the ma- jority flock, The center party has also declared it hus desired similar con- cessions, DELEGATES RELIEVED Versailles, (Friday), June 21.—The eighty-two attaches of the German peace delegation remaining here have been kept informed of developments in Germany by press telegrams re- ceived by German correspondents of Berlin newspapers in Versailles. They seem to interpret events as favorable doing so, perfectly to the-satisfaction The message proceed tomorrow to Jackson, Minn.,| «oni. nd of the stockholders. Everybody knew Last Night T 0 M A R ( H considered She withdrawal of Aner! where he, with Joseph Gilbert, Minne to ne aerine ome Bertin vith what they were’doing, and the banks Judge Amidon Admits Examina-| cans from the district advisable un-|St@ State manager for the league,| manifest joy. are all making good. The principal ies til such a time that he could send| Will face trial in the Jackson county —— reason of organization was a matter| RESERVATION IS DOUSED tion of Wilson’s Brain Would | troops into that district to protect |COUrt on charges growing out of their MINERS RETURN of interest, to have means to finance Americans. © The warning was re-|#lleged anti-war activities during the) Paris, June 21.—Striking coal min- the league, but a person cannot do that work for nothing. I started cut _ to organize a few banks for nothing and found out we were going out the wrong end of the horn, so we just turned tactics. | have kept the bank organization as an adjurct of the league, but as an individual proposi- tion, and all of my bank activiti have been with the sanction and the knowledge of people to be most bene- fitted by it. I do not know who is kicking. because we are making a commission, unless it is the Fargo ‘Forum and a few people like that.! ‘The farmers are not, at least those who have stock. Occasionally some- body comes in and wants to know if this stock is good, but he has just come from the opposition bank. They told him there that anything the Non- partisan league members attempt to do/was sure to fail. In fact, one of the bankers in Valley City right now is spreading his personal literature Average Downpour of Two Inches Reported From Max to Sanish Country One of the heaviest and most time- ly rains ‘this section of North Dakota ever has been favored with soaked all the central part of the state from as far west and north as Sanish east and south to Lidgerwood Friday night and early this morning. Soo line reports received up to 3 o’clock this afternoon gave an average of two inches on the Sanish-Drake section of the line, ex- tending through the rich reservation country and including Ryder, Parshal, Plaza, Douglas, Dogden and Benedict. South from Max the average rain- fall was one i%/1 or better down to Baldwin, and, beginning at Moffity south of Bismarck, the precipitation Coblenz, June 21.—Divisions of the third army, after having been away from battlefields and war scenes for seven months are again plunging into the stirring scenes which usually pre- ceded the thunders of war, An army unperturbed by the pro- ceedings of the peace conference and thinking of home, has suddenly been galvanized into the life the army knew before the signing of the armistice. With renewed vigor it is today moy- ing toward the edge of the great semi- circles which mark the line between the occupied area and the central ter- ritory of Germany, This was the most stirrring day at Third army headquarters, and among | the First and Second divisions holding the east bank of the Rhine, since the Americans moved in about six months ago. Late yesterday orders were flash- ed from headquarters in Coblenz to the H. I. Trelease, an.alien Townley or- ganizer, charged with circulating peti- tions early last summer for the repeal of the conscription act; with declaring the world’s war a rich man’s war in which America had no place, and with suggesting that if President Wilson’s head were split open his brain would be found to be no bigger than that of the speaker, was found guilty under two counts in the indictment charging him with violation of the espionage act by a federal court jury which reported at 10 this morning. The jury went out about 5 o'clock Friday evening and arived at its ver- dict at 8 p, m., after. having taken an hour for dinner, There were three counts in the indictment, and the only one under which Trelease is not found guilty is that charging him with inter- ferred to the American state depart: ment. EXEMPTS FEDERAL GARRISONS. El Paso, June 21.—Villa has given instructions to his men to attack none of the federal garrisons along the Mexican border. SIXTY BODIES ARBREGOVERED FROM RUINS San Juan, Porto Rico, June 21.~ ty bodies now have been recovered the ruins of a motion picture theatre at Mayaguez, destroyed by fire f TRIAL TO OPEN MONDAY Jackson, Minn., June 21.—The trial will open here Monday of President; A. C. Townley. of the National Non-| partisan league and Joseph Gilbert, a league organizer, indicted by a Jack- son county grand jury on charges of conspiracy to defeat the purpose of| the selective draft law. Gilbert was specifically charged with having made disloyal utterances in an address at spired to use Nonpartisan league li erature in violation of the espionage 8 The LaFollette Convention The convention of the Nonpartisan league at St. Paul in September, 1917, which was addressed by Senator Robt.: M. LaFollette and which adopted a declaration of Nonpartisan league |principles, was investigated by a grand ers returned to work everywhere in France this mornnig, owing to the adoption by parliament of a bill ap- plying the eight-hour day to the coal- mining industry. SOVIET TROOPS DEMORALIZED. Southern Russia, June 17.—The for- ces of General Denikine, the anti-Bol- sheviki leader in Southern Russia, are advancing rapidly toward the Volga in pursuit of the demoralized Soviet troops. The Denikine forces are with- in 20 miles of Tzaritzin, on the Volga, south of Saratov. : Sixty thousand Bolshevikl, it is re- ported, are fleeing in panic toward the Volga from the river Don region, leaving rolling stock behind them. To the northeast on the Donatz-Tsaritzin railway, General Denakine’s troops have captured four howitzers, 15 ma- chine guns and thousands of rifles. REPORT SHIPS WERE SUNK. ranged all the way from one inch to] divisions across the Rhine ordering| fering with the movement of federal |jast ni mo i ii i 4 > 0 Ss o ight, according to latest reports.|jury of Martin county, at Fairmont, is ts ~ that in- - broadcast over the territory there. He; four inches, this maximum being at-|them to prepare to march into the|'Toops. “He is convicted of interfering |‘Phe injured number 150, TUNG Oe Minn, as well as by the Jackson| , aed une 31 Repen sf agree is not saying anything that we could|tained at Kulm and Mericourt, where The Second di-| With the enlistment service of the i i 2 erned German ae tie and pin to, but it is the untertow meaning that he.has a national bank, sa old bank that is perfectly safe. He does got say that the farmers’ bank is unsafé,.but he insinuates it. We have all these things to counteract. Q. Your bank will have to come in under the State Guaranty act. A. Certainly, that is what creates the talk, such activities as that. By Mr. Langer: . How much did you. pay for that national, bank? A. $162,000, roughly. speaking. Q. How much did you sell it to the Q. Who has the statement? A. He was to bring it up-to the capitol. Mr. Waters: He means the examin- ation report. The Witne: (continuing). You see, with this bank at Valley City 1 have negotiated on that bank about nine months. | WENT UP THERE THE FIRST TIME at the direction of Mr. Townley to buy it for the league, and at that time Grady wanted too much; and | kept dickering along all summer, along until about the first of December—he came down to the controlling interest which was 280 shares—I don’t remember’ the exact figures on it, but f paid iL. (Continued om Rage Six.) ‘ a short section of track went out in a cloudburst. At Jamestown 3.99 inches of rain were reported at 2 this afternoon. Jamestown got its heaviest rain of night when 1.70 inches were ly recorded, Ellenda officialy reported 1.59 inches and Lis- bon 1 in other parts of the state the precipitation was scattering and comparatively light, although Napol- con came to bat with a liberal half inch which will be a boon to the al- ready splendid crops in that viciuit, Bismarck merely hung on the w Slope points, where it is so Dad) ed. The only points on last night’s rein map, as reported by Orris W, Rob- erts, meterologist in charge of the weather service for North Dako were Fessenden, with 39, and Mooi head with .18. Unofficially, however, it is reported that Regan and other points immediately north and north- enst of Bismarck were in the rain belt ond that they received a good soaking. Cloudburst on Soo. A cloudburst occurred on the south Soo between Kulm and Mericourt, where four inches of rain fell in a very short period, washing out a sec- tion of the Soo tracks. Reports to the division office of the Soo here show (Continued on Page Two.) ne of concentration. sion Was the first to move, getting into way early this morning, Along the Seine valley, the Second, with all the paraphernalia of war, pushed for- ward. Ordinarily the Seine valley is 'cool and peaceful in summer, but today it appears somewhat like the valley of the O last summer, when the Americans were driving the Germans back to the Vesle. Tonight the American soldiers are sleeping beneath the skies in the open fields, while the country in every di- rection is dotted with smouldering fires where the soldiers’ suppers had lien worked and marched today they sang as only men can. Officers said the doughboys wanted Germany to sign the treaty and after that to go home, but “if the Germans did not sign—look out Germany.” A state of seige has been declared in the district of Munster, in Westphalia, vortheast of Cologne, because of Spar- tacan disturbances, according to infor- mation reaching American headquart- ers here. SEINN FEINER LANDS IN AMERICA. New York, July 21.—Announcement was made here today that Edward D. Vallera, president of the Seinn Finn re- public, had landed in America, United States and with making disloy- al anil sedit utterances with an in- tent to hinder enlistment in the mili- tary and naval forces of the country, Not T for Bad Taste. In charging the jury Friday after- noon, Judge Amidon-impressed upon it that Mr. Trelease was not being tried for his bad taste nor his lack of taste. Referring to Trelease’s alleged state: ment at Strawberry Lake to the effect | that if a North Dakota farmer had President Wilson for a hired hand, | “He'd wonder what he was going to do with the darned fool,” Amidon con- illustration, an illustration in bad taste at the time in which it was uttered, but the defendant is not on trial for his good sense or good taste.” Sentence Withheld. Following the announcement of the jury’s verdict, brought in sealed last night and read this morning, Amidon announced that he would withhold the pronouncing of the sentence for a time. To say that if a farmer had Presi- dent Wilson employed as a farm hand he would scratch his head and ask himself, “What am I going to do with the darned fool,” or to suggest that if President Wilson’s. head were split open and his brains examined they would be found to be nothing particu- (Continued on Page Twe.) whom may die, Women and children were crumpled or crushed to death, NORTH DAKOTA DEAF ASSOCIATION CLOSES ANNUAL CONVENTION Devils Like, North Dakota ass closed its three day school for the deaf her ing the following office Gilman ‘Nordhougen of first vice-president, Oscar Twete of Miller, manager of the Grand, at the matinee, and last evening there was a reception at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Louis. Ringuette. Mrs. Ringuette is one of the first graduates of the school for the deat. ship lines, bound from New York to Boston with several hundred passen- gers and a large cargo of freight, ran aground on West island, about nine miles from the Buzzards Bay entrance to Cape Cod canal, about 9 a. m, today. All of the 300 passengers have been tuken off safely and carried to New <;|buoyant platform on which a certain Bedford, be ay Present trips; county grand jury. Townley was indicted on March 12, 1918, by the Martin county grand jury for being responsible for the declara- tions, which dealt chiefly with the high cost of living and various eco- nomic phases of national government. The state supreme court squashed the Martin county indictments on the grounds that the resolutions were not in themselves disloyal. “The resolutions, taken as a whole, appear to be nothing more serious than a rhetorical and somewhat flam- class of citizens are solicited to join OVER RADICALS Atlantic Ci J., June 21.—Sam- nel Gompers wa: in elected presi- dent of the American Federation of Tabor today, President Gompers, in a Speech, said the election was labor's answer to its traducers and opponents. TO WITHDRAW BATTLESHIPS. Washington, June 21.—Battleships and cruisers now used in transporting American soldiers from France will be withdrawn from that service by July 15. Those now in Atlantic ports will not return to France, but those now overseas or en route will complete Flow were sunk and abandoned by their crews, was reported to the Brit- ish admiralty today. The ships, whose number is not known, had not been manned since their internment. PREPARE OFFICIAL COPIES. Paris, June 21.--Official copies of the peace treaty to be signed by Ger- many and the allies now are being prepared in the office of the general secretary of the peace conference ac- cording to Marcel Houtin, writing in the Echo de Paris. Each of the allied whose names must appear on the duc- representatives farmers for? A. For actual bookjern edge of the downpour, and, al-|heen prepared. tinued : Abercrombie; second _ vice-president, WO. 2 ime though a gentle rain began about 5 in ely eLva tioti balloons moved up| _ “Now, you heard that statement and | Miss Orra Kinyon of Steele ; veeretary. (Continued on Page Tvo.) ument, have Veerheeey dormaly Fert Q. What is that? A.T don’t know the afternoon and continued after mid-|to get a better peek into Germany if the ot! statement, about ‘if you} Arthur Anderson of MeVille; treasurer, | ‘holes coal ol r sigi just what that was. If Mr. Halvor- night, the total precipitation was only | the allied peace terms are not accepted. would open the president's head and | Miss Olga Anderson of Devils Lake. eteiseast: son’s statement were here, we could|.15 of an inch. Minot got .0%. and no) The concentration of the first divis- look at his brain, you would find that |The members had a most enjgxble LLYoYD GEORGE ILL. find out. rain at all was reported from Dic’ fon is well under way and will be com-|he hadn't any bigger brain than the|outing at the lake in the aftefnoon. is son, New England and otuer. SI qeted before Saturday night. As the speaker..’ It is a hideous, shocking} Yesterday they were guests of Archie Paris, June 21—Premier Lloyd George is confined to his room with a severe sore throat. His place at the supreme council was taken ‘today by Arthur J. Balfour. PERMITS RATE INCREASE St. Paul, June 20.—The state su- preme court today held that the N. W. & Tri-State Telephone companies in Minnesota may immediately put their increased schedules into effect. AVIATORS KILLED. Houston, Tex. June 21.—Graf‘eur, Richmond, Calif, and Lieut. Bayer, De- troit, were the two army aviators killed when their plane dashed to the ground at Del Rio, Tex., according to the official report today. Se ate ad