The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 24, 1919, Page 1

as LAST EDITION BUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1919. PRICE FIVE CENTS PARIS CELEBRATES PEACE AGREEMENT GERMANY’S UNCONDITIONAL VICTORY CERTAIN IF TOWN PEOPLE STAND BY STATE Changing Sentiment in Country Indicates Majority Against Townleyism ONLY TWO DAYS REMAIN Socialists Working Tooth and Toe-Nail to Hold Farmers in Line Victory for sanity and sound gov- ernment at the polls Thursday is re- garded certain if the cities of North Dakota stand by their guns and vote their convictions. League support has been slumping rapidly in the ru- ral districts; Townley is aware of this fact and he and his 500 social{s: or- ganizers are working tooth and toe- nail to hold the country vote in ine. At the same time a remarkable infiux of transients is noted in every town and village in the state. It is inti- mated that a large number of these transients expect to vote Thursday, and election boards are warned to be on their guard against illegal votmng. It was the importation of several thousand 1. W. W., who were voted in droves, that won the Minneapolis city election @or the socialists a few years ago. North Dakota, it is stated, is face to face with the same proposition, and it is contended that unless everyone keeps his vyes open and is on the alert T"irscay tor fraud, the state may heve fastened upon it a regime of extreme sociali- ism through the vote vs men who are not taxpayers, or even electurs, 5 Cities Unorganized. ‘The cities are handicapped through Wick or organization. So far as can be learned no committees have been named in any of the towns or vil- jages in this section of the state for the purpose of getting out the vote ‘fhursday. As a resus, unless there should be some intensive work during the next two days, the city vote may be much Jess than normal, On the ot» er hand, nothing is being lett undone in the country districts.. Every loyat Townleyite’ has been made a commit- tee: of one to see to it*that his nefgh- bor gets to the polls Thursday to “vote Yes Seven Times.” No dis- tinction is made between the seveao qmeasures to” he ‘voted upon Thursday: Townley insists thatthe farmers swal- jow them whole, without discrimina- tion, and his: organizers everywhere are driving in the league slogan. The Seven Bills. ; ‘The seven pills to be referred are: House Bill 17, creating an indus- trial commission of three members endowed with unlimited powers in the management of state-owned in- dustries and enterprises and author- ized to handle without check or ac- counting the $17,000,000 capital to be furnished through state bond issues and the $50,000,000 or more in public funds which must be deposited un- der the law in the Bank of North Da- kota. House Bill 19, establishing a Bank of North Dakota, in which must be deposited without security all public funds, including the school funds of the state, sinking and bonding funds of the various counties, townships, school districts and municipalities, and special assessment funds, such as those provided for paving, sewer construction and park purposes in the cities, or for drainage districts in the country. Senate Bill 157, establishing a new political printing commission with’ power to desgnate one offcal news- paper in each county to be the sole re- cipient of all public and private le- gal printing of every description. Senate Bill 134, making a socialist mill out of our public schools, taking their management out of the hands of the state superintendent of public in- struction, elected by the people, and turning it over.to a socialist hoard named by Governor Frazer. Senate Bill 67, reducing the mem- bership of the tax commission trom three to one and giving this one tax commissioner sole authority over all matters affecting assessmen, valu- ation and taxation. House Bill 123, appropriating $200,- 000 as a league propaganda fund to be used in extending the power of Townley in other states. House Bill 124, giving the governor power 30 place three of his friends on the district bench, increasirg the number of judges from twelve, which has always been sufficient, to 15, and reducing the number of districts to six in order to effect an arraugeme:it whereby Townley will have one judge upon whom he can rely in each dis- trict. Vote No Seven Times. The defeat of Townleyism doze not mean failure for the farmers’ pro- gram in North Dakota. Real friends of the farmer, it is urged, will vote “NO” seven times, free the state from the scourge of Townleyism and then, in an initiative election, get sol- idly behind a real farmers’ program which will give the farmer terminal elevators and flour mills, rural cred- its and other relief which he has teen seeking and which will place the innovations under the control of the farmers and not in the hands of a Bolshevist bund which has its head- quarters in another state. The farmer, down in his heart, knows that the bills to be referred next Thursday are not a part of the program foxwhich ‘fe has been bat- tling ten years; he knows that he, the farmer, had actually nothing to do with the framing of these bills, but he has been misled into believing that it is this doctored program or (Contigued on Page Seven.) FACING THE COLD FACTS It is now time to sum up the arguments to the jury which is all the people of North Dakota who are legal voters and who will decide between a continuation of sound business principles or the uncertain and unsound doctrines of socialism. The verdict will be cast Thursday, June 26, and there will be but one ballot. Those who are going to vote yes just to “try it out” will find that they have fastened something upon the state which will be hard to remove. Any socialistic experiment will leave its indelible mark upon the name and credit of the state for generations to come, long after those who voted “just to try it out” have passed beyond. Citizens of Burleigh county and of the city of Bis- marck should vote as a unit against the seven bills re- ferred at the special election to be held Thursday. No more gigantic plot to loot the taxpayers was ever devised by any coterie of designing politicians. It is incompre- hensible why some property owners declare that they want to “try it out.” The pitfalls are so apparent and the motives of those behind the “looting of North Dakota” so transparent that the verdict should be unanimously against the whole program bills referred to the people. as conceived by the seven It is possible, for instance, under the state banking bill, to place all public moneys under political control. Many of the citizens of Bismarck are paying for their homes. Each year they set apart money to meet the pav- ing assessments so that the bonds can be met when they fall due. This money is placed in a sinking fund and in- vested safely against the day the bonds fall due. Under the state banking law tliis money can be taken by the bank manned by Townley henchmen and thrown into the red jackpot to be used te finance any wild-cat scheme that may be spun in the brain of the socialists who dominate the policies of the present administration. Mr. Taxpayer of Bismarck, do you want your trust funds to pay off your paving assessments jeopardized. Do you want the socialists to speculate with it and run the chances of a double assessment in case these mills, elevators and other state owned utilities fail? Do you want the school for the schoolhouses erected money held in trust to pay in Bismarck, placed at the call of the Bank of North Dakota, to be invested in social- istic enterprises? These are the chances you run if you vote for social- ism “just to try it out.” The bank act requires not only that all current tax money, and permanent school funds, but that all sinking fund money ,including county, city, village, township, schools and special improvement sinking funds for pav- ing, sewer, sidewalk, lighting and drainage bonds be de- posited in the Bank of North Dakota to be used by that bank without any provision for such use. for the payment of interest This, then, is the condition that confronts the tax- payers of every county in the state. Answer these ques- tions in your own mind Mr. Voter, before going to the, polls next-Thursday. ‘If you decide these issues to your own advantage you will register “No” seven times and place the trust funds beyond the reach of the plundering politicians. As a taxpayer, do you want to place your money in a bank and put it under the control of three political offi- cers who are not under any bonds and who are inexperi- enced and who are controlled by no law but are governed merely by political expediency? : Do you want the tax money raised by your county and municipal subdivision diverted from the community to the state bank and invested in enterprises and long time paper which make it uncertain whether the money will be paid back when needed or at all? Are you willing to lose the interest on your tax money by approving this program? And don’t forget that if you vote “Yes” on the pro- gram, you are voting not “just to try it out”, but prac- tically for a permanent approval of the experiment.. All of the seven measures referred cannot BE CHANGED OR REPEALED LIKE ORDINARY ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE FOR THE CONSTITUTION PROVIDES THAT LAWS APPROVED AT A REFERENDUM CAN ONLY. BE AMENDED OR REPEALED BY A TWO- THIRDS VOTE OF THE LEGISLATURE. The Tribune has discussed the measures to be re- ferred without dealing in personalities or cheap invective. It has tried to bring home to every voter the vicious feat- ures of the program. No paper can do more than that. It is now up to the voters. them. Whatever the result The responsibility is upon June 26, the voters of ‘the state can never say the independent press did not sound the warning: VOTE NO SEVEN TIMES, THREE JURORS SECURED IN TOWNLEY CASE Jackson, Minn. June 24.—Three jurors were selected in the forenoon]: session of district court here this morning in the trial of A. C. Townley, president of the Nonpartisan league, and Joseph C. Gilbert, organizer for the league, charged with conspiracy to promote disloyalty. Attorneys on both sides spent con- siderable time this forenoon asking prospective jurors whether they had been approached by anyone who at- tempted to discuss the merits of the case. The three jurors accepted, all of them farmers, stated they had not discussed the case against the two; Nonpartisan leaguers, but that they had formerly discussed various phas- es of the league industrial program. Townley’s attorneys asked the jurors whether they understood that Non- partisan league issues were not on trial, but that the case involved only th personal actions of the two men. 63 REBELS KILLED. El Paso Tex., June 24.—Sixty-three- Villa rebels were killed and many more wounded Saturday in a fight be- tween federal troops and Villa forces for possession of Villa Ahumada, ac- Rr EAS ee AVIATOR IS KILLED WHILE FLYING OVER FIANCE’S HOME une 24.—Lt. Shel- prs, Texas, and his reland, of West- tury, were killed today, when an air- Plane in which they were flying crash- ed to the ground here and caught fire. Watson, who recently returned from eighteen months’ service overseas, had flown here every morning and encircl- ed the house in which his fiancee was lnaking her summer home. Van Lear Discharged From Socialist Party Minneapolis, June 24.—Thomas Van Lear, former socialist mayor of Minne- apolis, and a score of other socialists were notified by Charles. X, Derba, secretary of the state socialist com- are no longer mem- in good standing, The expulsion, according to Mr. Derba, comes out of Van Lear’s action m joining the American Labor Alli- ance . $250,000 Worth of Valuables Stolen From Biltmore New York, June 24—Investigation cf a claim that $250,000 worth of val- vables was apparently stolen from a cording to an official military dis- patch given out here today. safe deposit vault at the Biltmore ho- tel here, was in progress today. 61 TOTAL DEATH TOLL AT FERGUS FALLS Injured Estimated at 89, While Property Loss Is Three Million MARTIAL LAW DECLARED Several Militia Companies on Ground to Guard the Property Fergus Falls, June 24.—Mayor Geo. Frankberg, today estimated that the city’s tornado loss is not less than three million dolla A careful sur- vey of the city shows that the early estimate of a million and a half loss is too conservative. “Forty per cent of the residence dis- trict is in ruins and about the same portion of the business district has been demolished. Nearly every church { in the city has been destroyed. We have-only ohe bridge out of four standing; our courthouse and jail are | gone.” A revision of the list of injur- ed placed the total injured at 89, Only a few of thege are serious. Total known dead, 51, Two: fresh companies of the Sixth infantry Minnesota National Guard, that arrived in Fergus Falls this murn- ing, took up the task of searching the ruins for victims still unaccounted for. Particular efforts were centered on the Grand hotel, ruins ‘of Which will be systematically searched, with the expectation of finding the bodies of A. | LE, Brandenburg, president of the First State bank, and George W. Woodhouse, proprietor of the Grand hotel, both of whom are missing. ee ~The burial’ of the dead began this morning. The first funeral was that of isserine Slette, the four-year-old Maughter. of Mr. and Brs, James Slette, who died in’ the ruins of their four- room home, Another death occurred this morning when a colored child died in a loeal hospital. The father and mother of the baby are injured and are in the same hospital where the child died. Lieut.. Burns, in charge of compil- ing the death list said this afternoon that 48 dead had been accounted for as a result of the Tornado’ that struck Fergys Falls late Sunday af- -Hterhoun. This ‘number’ including two bodies taken trom the Otter Tail riv- er this morning and two deaths that occurred during the day. Montevideo, Minn., June 24.—Flood conditions here today have changed but slightly from last night. A few additional farmers have been forced to leave their farm homes, but re- ports from above here on.both Min- nesota and Lac Que Parle river give assurance that the crest of the flood is past. Mankota reported this morn- ing that the worst of the floods were passed. In the Ortonville district the dove waters are said to be reced- Ing. TOWNLEY GOING THROUH MORTON ~ AHEAD. OF BILL President of Nonpartisan League: Just One Lap Ahead of Attorney General New Salem, N. D., June 24.—Presi- dent A. C. Townley, .of .the National Nonpartisan league, who did not go to Jackson, Minn., for. the. opening of his trial there Monday on a charge of violating the Minnesota.laws govern- ing sedition, landed in New Salem on ‘Monday afternoon one lap ahead of Attorney (eneral. Bill Langer. Town- ley spoke briefly to a crowd here in the afternoon, and the attorney gen- eral spoke in the evening. Townley set out from Mandan early Monday morning over the route which had been mapped out by Lang- er for his closing tampaign. Town- ley’s first big meeting was at Glen Ullin, where he finished just before Langer appeared. Brinton remained after Townley left to circulate through the crowd with large posters offering to debate with Langer. Langer took sufficient notice of the posters to reiterate to Brinton the statement that he (the attorney gen- eral) will debate the issues of the referendum election with the gover- nor or any other responsible person, but that he will not discuss, them} with hirelings of President Townley nor the latter's. “imported socialists, ; anarchists and I, W. W.’s.” BOLSHBVIKI LITERATURE IN RAND OFFICES New York, June 24.—State troopers acting for the Lusk joint: legislative | committee investigatins alleged sedi- tious activities in this state, raided the Rand school for social science this af- ternoon at the instance. of the state’s attorney general and- opened a safe “Lelieved to contain writttn and print- _», ed matter of 9" revolutionary nature.” MANDAN WILL CELEBRATE IN CAPITAL CITY Morton County Seat Drops Plans for Fourth to Concentrate on Big Fair Mandan, June 24.—Because of the shortness of time in which a Fourth of July celebration could be put on it has been decided to abandon the idea and add just that much more to the Missouri Slope fair this fall. While the majority of citizens whom the finance committee visited were in favor of a celebration they all expressed the belief that the time was too short. Because of this those who had _ fostered the celebration have decided to give it up. PACKARD SHOWS UP LEAGUE PLAN OF JOURNALISM Secures Affidavit From Hughes That “Loan” Story Was Ab- solute Falsehood WITNESSES TO TALK FEST As evidence of the kind of cam- paign being waged by Townley and his socialistic advisers, I offer the fol- lowing: The North Dakota Leader in their last issue published the following ar- ticle: i The Story. “Frank Packard, member of the state tax commission, approachéd Ed Hughes, the Bismarck Electric Light magnate, and an avowed enemy of the league during the winter. This was BEFORE Packard deserted the league, “He wanted to borrow $300 from Mr. Hughes. Mr. Hughes- expressed surprise that Packard should come to him, and remarked that the two were not trotting in the same crowd, “Packard admitted the fact, but the state tax commission.’ “Mr. Hughes thot of his big inter- ests and aj once made the loan to Mr. Packard, Mr. Hughes also says he figures he received very good re- turng-on the loan. “Mr. Hughes tells of the incident himself. Mr. Packard has not told the story, so far as the Leader has learned. “Mr. Packard is not Attorney Gen- feral Langer’s assitant, and with good training as a loan negotiator, there should always be a little pin money in sight.’ The above article was called to ithe attention of E. A. Hughes (des- ignated in the article as “Ed Hughes) and he made the following statement which was corroberated by two per- sons who heard the conversation: The Truth, “Bismarck, N. 'D., June 28, 1919. “Mr. F. E. Packard, Bismarck, N. D. + Dear Sir: Regarding an interview appearing in a Non-Partisan paper with reference to your securing money from me for taxation purposes. This interview is absolutely false. A newspaper reporter representing a labor paper published at Grand Forks called on me a few days ago and stated I could give him a good story with reference to Mr, Packard. I informed him 1 had a lawsuit with Mr. Packard of the Tax Commission over our books and I won the case, further than that I knew nothing about Mr. Packard except what Gov- ernor Frazier told me a year ago and that was that Mr. Packard was a most capable and efficient officer in this state and probably the most ef- ficent tax commissioner in the Unit- ed States. He replied ‘you ought to talk to Governor Frazier now” and left the office. “Yours very truly, E. A. HUGHES.” The Evidence. | “We, the undersigned, were pres- ent in. the office of the Hughes Elec- tric Company when the foregoing conversation took place between Mr. BE. A, Hughes and a representative (name unknown) of some Nonparti- san publication and allege that the foregoing is a correct resume of the conversation which occurred. The representative of the Nonpartisan newspaper began the conversation by saying that he wanted to “get some-; thing”’ on Mr. Packard and that hej} understood that hé had borrowed $309! from Mr. Hughes, some time during the past winter, and that he (Pack- ard) bad led Mr. Hughes to under- stand that if he loaned him the $300, he would see that his taxes were re- duced. Mr. Hughes replied that he had not loaned Mr. Packard $300 during the past winter nor at any other time. The conversation was very brief and clearly set forth in the letter by Mr. Hughes, “Ww. T. KRAFT, "ROBERT ‘DUTTON.” The Moral. There may be a more yellow news- paper man in the world than the one who wrote and sent in the above ar- ticle to the North Dakota Leader but the probabilities are that the man, Smith, who engineered this interview and wrote the article, is the champion handpicked lar of newspaperdom and the yellowest of the yellow reporters. Eighty per cent of all the stuff be- ing published in the North Dakota Leader today is manufactured much as this story was manufactured. F. EB. PACKARD. stated, ‘You know I am a member Of!/it is intended to show the newspaper SURRENDER RE STRAIN ON LIEVES SEVERE ENTENTE CITIES Demonstrations as Intense as When Armistice Was Signed—Cities of Lille and Redeemed Territory Especially Joyful Over News Paris, June 24.—Long mon negotiations and weeks of doubt the conditions offered or would ths of strain during the peace whether Germany would accept invite by her refusal of them a further invasion of her country ended late this afternoon when a note announcing Germany’s unconditional acceptance was deliv- cred to the supreme council, It was not long after the reply had been received that guns began to boom from the forts around the city and rejoicing crowds began parading the streets of the city. Allied flags were flown from win dows as though by magic; auto- mobiles loaded with cheering doughboys and excited poilus dashed through the thoroughfares. Church bells throughout the city were pealing everywhere, and cheering, animated crowds gave evidence of the joys with which the crowds welcomed the end of th long years of agony and suffering. The German delegation that will sign the peace treaty will arrive at Versailles on Wednesday morning, the French foreign office has been informed. It is thought in French cirel signing of the peace treaty will occur at 2 o’clock Fridey atlenee, PRESS GANG TO . MEET IN MANDAN AUGUST 7 AND 8 Dates for Annual Convention Announced by President M. I. Forkner Mandan, June 24.—M. I. Forkner of Langdon, N. D., president of the North Dakota Press association has! announced that the annual meeting of the association will be held in Man- dan on Thursday and Friday, August 7 and 8. A great many matters of very vital interest to all publishers will come up| at this meeting, and it is expected that there will be a large attendance. Local committees will be named with- in a few days to make all the local arrangements for entertainment and boys and their wives the best kind of a time. The association met heré in-1915~and: Mandan got more good wholesome advertising out of their visit than from any other convention the city has ever entertained. BABE DRVOURED BY BROOD SOW IN FARMER'S HOME Shocking Tragedy Occurs in Home Near Pretty Rock in Absence of Parents Pretty Rock, N. D., June 24— Aroused by the screams of their infant brother, five young chil- dren of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Preichel, homesteaders residing near this place, awoke to find the three-months’old baby being torn to pieces by a sow. The young- sters rescued the baby from the animal, but not until it was so badly torn that it died the follow- ing day. The parents were abroad in the field breaking, leaving their fam- ily of six children, the oldest of whom is eleven and'the youngest three months, asleep in the tem- porary shack in which they made their home. There was a space at one end of the shed of about a foot which was filled in with sod. The cow had burrowed her way in at this point. Whether she snatched the baby from the bed where it was sleeping, or whether the child had fallen to the ground before the animal got into the house, is not known, When the children were arous- ed by the baby’s screams and the grunting of the sow as she proceeded with her unholy feast, the infant was already terribly mangled and practically all of its back had been eaten away. A physician was summoned as soon as the father and mother could be brought back from the field, and aid was promptly administer- ed, but the child was so terribly tarn that it only lived through the night. State’s . Attarney Frank P. Lembke of Carson came to Pretty. Rock to investigate and has veri fied the facts in the case. The Preichel’s are a Russian family Who settled on their homestead near here last March. PENNSYLVANIA SEVENTH STATE TO RATIFY SUFFRAGE Harrisburgh, Pa., June 24.—Penn- sylvania today became the seventh state to ratify the federal suffrage amendment when the house adopted the resolution adopted by the sen- ate last week. PERMIT BEER MANUFACTURE Harrisburg, Pa., June 24.—The brewing and selling of beer contain- Ramsay house bill permitting the brewing and selling of beer contain- ing 2 3-4 per cent of alcohol was pass: CELEBRATION INTENSE, _Celerations over the agreement of Germany to sign the treaty of peace without rvation were nowhere more emonstrative than in Lille and other towns wrested from the German invade! At Toulon, Brest and other borts warships announced the news to the people by firing salutes, In all the cities government buildings were il- luminated, 27 BANDS BUSY, Tn Paris the city hall was lighted avd in the square before it and in other open spaces improvised jazz Lands appeared, and informal balls be- gun, only to be stopped by unsympa- thetic police, who declared that dane: ing was unauthorized exe on July 1s. The news was announced to all theatres and moving picture houses, the bands striking up national anthems. amid the cheers of the audience. Scenes enacted at the signing of the. arinistice were repeated and intensifi-. ed. Motor, trucks loaded with Ameri- can soldiers armed with all kinds of noise-producing appardtus threaded their way through the masses, Women in mourning to whom the of- ficial ending: of the : brought re- imembratices ‘only. of ‘wooden crosses, were observed here and there in the crowds weeping silently. TUMULTUOUS CHARACTER. The celebration soon assumed a more tumultuous character and by eight o'clock in the evening Paris seemed in- dulging in an excited tone of joy, Canon were carrying its burden of cheering youths, The newspapers with the huge captions, “Peace Has Come,” worked unceasing! Plans for the ony attending the signature of the treaty were considered by the supreme council today. It is known that President Wilson favors making it a imple as is consistent with the nature of the event and the original plans for the conclusions of the “second peace of Versailles” has been materially modifified at his sug- gestion. NO SET ADDRESSES. plenipotentiaries will be seated in the center of the in the chateau of ich will be installed the table on which the treaty will be signed. The program does not contem- plate any set addresses, but it is be- 1 aL De le that both Premier Clem- erceau and the leading delegates will make short speeches. The announcement of Germany's ac- reptance of the treaty has thrown the peace headquarters into wild confus- jon, Because of the uncertainty as to the date on which the treaty will be signed, experts, officers and clerks who The on ar +} will return on the George Washington with the president have been ordered tu be ready to leave Tuesday night. Trunks were today being tumbled into the great: corridors:'in great disorder. The ‘sonnel of the mission will be ready to leave at once should the treaty be signed on Tuesday, The Italian delegation said today it had been informed a new delegation to the peace conference will arrive. in Paris It will consist of For- eign Minis Titoni, Senator Marconf, and Senator Victorio Scialoia, It is ved that, Signer Cresti and Signor who are in Paris, will complete fon. the mi: RELUCTANT IN SIGNING, Berlin, Monday, June 23,—Premier av Bauer, addressing the German national assembly at Weimar today, said that a “defeated nation was being viclated body and soul to the horror af the world,” , “Let us sign,” he continued, “but it is our hope to the last breath that this ‘ffense against our-henor may one day oil against its authors.” NO WORD FROM WEIMAR. Paris, June 24.—No word has been received from Weimar relative to the new German Plenipotentiaries at Ver- sailles. The date of signing the treaty las not as yet been fixed, but the be- lief is gaining ground that it will oc- cur Thursday or possibly Friday, RESIGNS RATHER THAN SIGN. Weimar, Monday, June 23,—Dr. Haniel Von Haimhausen, who was on Sunday designated as the German rep- resentative to sign the treaty of peace, has telegraphed his resignation from Versailles rather than attach his name fo the instrument, PROFOUND DISTRUST, London, June 24.-.Profound distrust cf Germany is the predominant note in London press comment on the German government's agreement to sign the treaty .of peace,. It is contended the éd finally today. (Continued on Page Two.