The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 26, 1919, Page 1

‘ Generally Fair. ===/THE BISMARCK: T UNE 26, 1919. THIRTY-NINTH YEAR. NO. 145. _ BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, J PRICE FIVE CENTS. GREAT MILITARY AND COMMERCIAL PARADE PLANNED M. B. Gilman Invites Every Bis- marck Business House to Prepare a Float MANDAN RECEIVES “BID” Sister City Across River to Unite in Big Fourth of July Celebration Every busness house in Bismarck is invited by M. B. Gilman, chairman of: the parade committee, to enter. an ap- propriate float in the big military, civic, commercial and fraternal parade which is to be made a feature of Bis- marck’s great Fourth of July celebra- tion. Chairman Gilman offers business men an opportunity to do some effect- ive advertising. The city will entertain on the Fourth thousands of guests from all parts of the Slope ,and it is urged that the capital city commer- cial enterprises should put their best foot foremost on this occasion and prove to the visitors that they are - alive, Mandan business houses are extend- ed an invitation to join with Bismarck. The Morton county capital has aban. doned its plans for a Fourth of July celebration, electing to go in with Bis- marck on this event and accept Bis- marck’s liberal support for the big Missouri Slope fair to be held in the fall. It is probable that special train service may be arranged from Mandan for the day, and an especial welcome is reserved for our sister city, SOME REAL BASEBALL. Real baseball for the Fourth is as- sured from the fact that Rudy Patz- iran’s Colts have signed up for the tournament the strong Wilton and Haz- leton teams. The Colts met Wilton in the first game of the season last Sun- day, when the locals trimmed the lig- nite city representatives 2 to 1 in a breathless battle. Wilton is coming back for blood on the Fourth. Next Sunday Bismarck will meet Hazleton ou the later’s home grounds, and the Emmons county team will come to the cxpital city for a return game on the Fourth, Tennis tournaments in courts roped off. on the pavements; pavement dancing all afternoon and evening to the best dance music in North Dakota ; ealithumpians, carnival sports, races and contests for the youngsters, a pat- riotic address by Hon. ©. 1. Young and firework‘in.the evening are. among the many? attractions. guaranteed, BIRTH OF A RACE THE PREMIER OF PICTURE DRAMAS Heralded as World’s Greatest Picture, Epoch - Making Film Comes July 2 When “The Birth of a Nation” was launched into the world of photo- plays, the sweep of the theme and the trtmendous scope embraced in the ef- fects, drawn from many fields of art that were made tributary to its pro- duction, quite took the amusement going public off its feet. Since that time, though many great pictures have been proruced, probably nothing that quite equaled that picture in breadth of theme and adequacy of presentation has been produced until now, when “The Birth of a Race” has appeared, deal- ing with a theme incomparably great- er and yet with a success equally marked. The theme of the great pro- duction is—humanity; nothing less than the creation of the world, the beginning and end-of man’s being and the purpose running through it all. The breadth of this theme is nar- rowed only as it is viewed from tha particular aingle provided by the war, with autocracy as its cause, and de- mocracy at ance its deciding facter its fruitage. And if the United States} and its single part in the great drama moight be thought by some to bulk unudly large in the perspective, it is a fault which patriotism will readily forgive. Briefly it is a great pictur: per- haps the greatest yet produced It grips the interest from the first to thelast moment. It satisfies, and leaves much to carry away. This really great part of the pic- ture is rather in the earlier than the latter half. But whether the inter- est of the particular spectator be principally in the story, the won- derful art in its make-up, the mas- terly musicad setting and its rendi- tion the big imaginitive element in tgs conception, the presentation of the great, underlying principles of life and their apprication to the soul of the war as part and parcel of the soul in the whole hostory of the world— whatever be the main element of in- terest for the individual, none could fail to be carried away with the pro- duction. George V. Halliday is to be con- gratulated on succeeding in securing this attraction ot the very outset of its career for a premiere at the Bis- marck Auditorium on July 2 3 4, when as yet hardly any others than a limit- ¢d number of the leading cities have tad an opportunity of see.ng it. MODIFY INJUNCTION New York, June 26.—The U. S. cir- cuit court of appeals in an opinion to- day modified the injunction recently granted breweries by Federal Judge Mayer against U. S. District Attorney Chappey and. Acting Collector of Revenue McElligott. The opinion per- mits the prosecutor to proceed EQUITY ELEVATOR |MURDERER, BANK ROBBER;BURGLAR, BUT HE’S ABOVE ALL. AT HEIL BURNED Three Thousand Bushels of Grain Are Lost Heil, N..D., June 26.—The Farmers’ Equity elevator here was, burned to the. ground by a fire which was dis- covered about 4 o'clock yesterday aft- ernoon. The origin of the fire is un- known. The elevator was built about five years ago and was of $30,000 bushels’ capacity. It contained 3,000 bushels of grain. The building was covered by insurance, but there will be a net loss of several thousand dollars. KOSITZKY WINDS UP HIS CAMPAIGN’ IN HOME COUNTY, State Auditor Addressed Large Crowds Yesterday in East- ern Burleigh State Auditor Karl Kositzky wound up his referendum campaign in eastern Burleigh yesterday, when he addres- esd large audiences at Sterling, Dris- col and McKenzie, At Sterling scores cf Mr. Kostitzky’s old neighbors and friends turned out and gave him a splendid reception, At Driscoll two leaguers named Myers and Thomas in- terupted the meeting, but did not suc- ceed in preventing the auditor from getting his message across, and at Me- Kenzie last night Mr. Kosi really exceptional meeting. The McKenzie hall was well filled when the state auditor began to speak, although it was still bright daylight outside, Farmers had driven in di- rect from the fields, not waiting to change from their working garb. They were a quiet, sincere, intent lot of | men. There was no shuffling of feet, no whispering, hardly a sound, as the ate auditor proceeded in a simple, di- ion of the five bills voted rect discu: upon today which he was opposing. As his address proceeded, the farmers ecntinued to straggle in, until the hall was soon filled almost to capacity, Mr, Kositsky told why he opposed the printing bill, the judicial redistrict- ing bill the immigration bill and the board of administration bill, At the same time he told why he is support- ing the two league bills which were referred: today, and why he can no longer — support Townley, Walter ‘Thomas. Mills and, their ilk. The state auditor refrained from profanity which some members of his opposition have appeared to regard essential in addres- sing a: farmers’ audience, but -he told in every-day language some strong tiuths with which his hearers, it was apparent, were not familiar. It will be interesting tomorrow to note the: McKenzie township vote. The entire precinct was well represented | at Mr. Kositzky’s meeting last eve- ajing and unquestionably the farmers were impressed with what he said. MACDONALD FILES APPEAL IN NEWEST FIGHT ON NIELSON Former State Superintendent of Public Instruction Goes to Supreme Court N, C. Macdonald, former state sup- erintendent of public instruction, has served upon his successor, Miss Min- nie J. Nielson, notice of appeal from the judgment of Judge W. L. Nuessle in the Burleigh county district court in the quo warranto proceedings in- stituted by Mr. Macdonald to test the qualifications of Miss Nielson for the office of state superintendent. Judge Nuessle held that the act under which Macdonald brought suit, and which fixes new qualifications for the office of state superintendent of public instruction, does not square with the constitution, and that under the constitution Miss Nielson’s quali- fications for the office cannot be questioned. He dismissed the action on this ground. Macdonald, in tak- ing an appeal, contends that Judge Nuessle erred in each instance. The record of the case has not yet come up from district court, and it is not probable that argument will be reached in Supreme court until the fall term. Assistant Attorney Gener- al W. B. Cox is acting in behalf of the state in the defense of Miss Niel- son, who already has won one vic- tory in supreme court over Macdon- ald. TRIAL OF FRUIT COMBINE CASES TO OPEN MONDAY It is expected that the action brought for the state by Attorney General Langer against the Gamble- Robinson and Stacey-Bismarck fruit companies, charging conspiracy and illegal combination, will come up in district court next week. The attorn- ey general alleges that these com- panies entered into an agreement to keep up the price of the products they handle. CAPITOL DESERTED; STATE OFFICERS ARE VOTING HOME TODAY The capitol is fairly well deserted today. Governor Frazier is in Hoop- le, voting on the referendum issues; Commissioner of Insurance S. A. Ols- ness is in his home at Sheyenne for the same purpose. State Treasurer 0. A. Olson is at Bowman; Secretary Charles G. Boise of the board of con- trol is at Fargo, and the several oth- er state officials who have not estab- itzky had a KETCHED pence Rr ae Jeirnstor PETTY VICES SS ant NEW _vyoric Bh Gordon F, Hamby, alias Allen, who has murdered and robbed, but never swore, told bad stories or chewed tobacco. His thirteenth bank robbery, committed on Friday, the 13th,:in which he got $13,000 loot was his undoing. Crook Who Killed Two and Stole $13,000 Cash on Friday the Thirteenth Is Rather Proud of Record. Never Swore, Talked Dirty or Chewed Tobacco, and He Has Bank Roll of $16,000 for Eight Years: of Crime. TO DIE JULY 26, New York, June 26.—Gordon Fawcette Hamby, who fired the shot which killed Dewitt C. Peel, a paying teller, during the sational hold-up of an East Brooklyn savings bank last De- cember was sentenced today to die in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison during the week of July 26. By T. A. JOHNSTONE (Staff Coresponden of N. E. A.) New York, -June 26.—The most amazing “criminal in the history of the police records of crime is Jay B. Allen, burglar, robber and murderer, who has stolen $410,000 in eight years, and who in December last year, accompanied by a confederate walked into a Brooklyn Savings Bank, kiled two men and escaped with $13,000 in cash. Allen—he prefers this name among a dozen aliases—is remarkable not for what he has done, but for what ne is. When I went to the office of Dis- trict Attorney Harry Lewis in Brook- lyn to meet and sketch this man. I started to talk to the detective whe sat handcuffer to him—thinking the coper was the criminal! Allen himself is a well dressed blond young gentleman, with every mark of refinement in his face. He has a soft voice, pleasant manners and is quite at his ease with every- one. Nobody in America, I dare say, looks less like a hardened criminal. His hands are white and his nails well manicured. He looks like a mov- ing picture hero—nearly six feet tall, erect, with square jaws, good eyes and a fine forehead. Allen never swears; he says that he hag never uttered a profane word or told a smutty story. He doesn’t chew tobacco and has never used drugs. He seems to be utterly frank. He told about his life and exploits with a sincerity that carried convic- tion. Allen left his home in Alberta, Canada, eight years ago at the age of 18. In his eight years of crime he claims to have stolen about $410,000. Allen was caught as a result of what he said was his thirteenth bank holdup. It was Friday the 13th of December when he entered the{ Brooklyn bank and, as he says “had to shoot a couple of nice but imprac-| | tical young men there.” “I don’t mind telling you,” he said “that that was my thirteenth bank holdup. I have, of course, taken part in many times thirteen hold-ups, but that was my thirteenth experience in walking into a bank and _ getting away with whatever I could pick up.’ Allen was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for killing a pal named Davis in Tacoma, Washing- ton. They had an argument over politics, Davis accused the younr gentleman burglar of not having any “red blood,’ Davis attempted to pul! a gun, and Allen shot him, Allen thinks that altogether his eight years of crime have been fairlv! profitable, “I had about $16,000 when I was arrested,” he said. “The average sal- lished a residence in Bismarck arej against alleged violators of the war- time prohibition act, spending the day in their own baili- wicks, as See 'ariedman would, consider that bank roll quite ample at the end of eight $34,000 10 B DIVIDED AMONG WOLF SLAYERS Warrants Issued Two Years Ago ‘Will Be’Takén Up After July 1 Holders of some 13,600 wolf bounty warrants will divide a $34,000. melon July 1 after a two years’ wait. When the wolf. bounty act was « repealed July 1, 1917, the state auditor was left without funds for the payment of 13,600 warrants which had -been ap- Proved. No relief was provided for the holders of these warrants until the 1919 session, when a special ap- propriation of $34,000 was. made to reimburse them, and the old wolf bounty act was reinstated, providing that on and after July 1 a reward of $2.50 shall be paid for each wolf or coyote. pelt. presented to the county auditor in the county in which the varmint was killed.’ Wolf hunters must ‘present the entire pelt, includ- ing head, but they may keep the pelt after the ears are punched. MISS NIELSON TO ADDRESS SCHOOL COMMENCEMENTS Miss Minnie J. Nielson, state sup- erintendent of public instruction, and Dr. G. A. McFarland, her deputy, are in La Moure, today, attending a meeting of the La Moure county school directors and the commence- ment exercises of the La Moure pub- lic schools. Tomorrow Miss Nielson will attend the commencement of the ty, and July 2 she will deliver the commencement address at the Har- vey high school graduating exercises. tect tt ere _—e patrons and friends .will save the’ city commission undertook polling place officially selected ISHAM HALL Is Grand Prairie School in Barnes coun-! which an entire family was living and CROWN PRINCE ESCAPES INTO RATHERLAND Rumored Kaiser May Attempt to Follow Son _ Into Germany REPORT CAUSES BIG STIR Rumored Reactionaries of De- feated Nation Will Not Rally Around Former Monarch Paris, June 26.—Frederick Wilhelm Hohenzollern, the former German crown prince, has escaped from Hol- land and has made his way into Ger- many. News of the escape caused a considerable stir in peace conference circles. While it is not felt he is a figure around which the reactionaries and monarchsts would -rally enthus- jastically, his act is regarded as hav- ing some: significance in view of oth- er German recalcicancy. KAISER MAY ATTEMPT ESCAPE. Washngton, June 26.—Confidential | reports that the former * German crown prince and also probably the former emperor would attemp! to re- enter Germany after the signing of the peace treaty were received re- ently by government officials here. | This became known today after an Associated Press dispatch telling of the escape of the crown prince had been received. ACQUITTED WITH LITTLE DELAY Federal Jury Finds Bismarck Man Not Guilty After 45 Minutes’ Pondering Isham Hall of Bismarck, charged under a federal indictment with vicla- tion of the bone dry laws, was found not guilty by a jury which deliberat- ed 45 minutes in U. S. district court last evening. Less than a day was consumed in the trial and acquittal of Ilall. He} was indicted’ by the last federal grand jury in Fargo. LAFOLLETTE WITHDRAW AS SPEAKER Asbury Park, N, J., June 26.—U. S. Senator Robert LaFollette, of Wiscon- sin, has been withdrawn as a speaker at a concert to be given by Anna Case, opera singer, in the Oceean Grove Aud- itorium on July 5th, it was announced here today by S. J. Hurkon, manager of a musical bureau which leased the building. 3 When the announcement was made that the Senator had been engaged to talk on the “world tragedy,” returned war veterans protested, who based thelr objections on the Senator's atti- tude prior to the war. Dr, Newell Hills, of Plymouth church, Brooklyn, has been substituted for Senator LaFollette. CALGARY HIT BY TORNADO Calgary, June 26.—A tornado struck the outskirts of Empress, a small town near Medicine Hat, last night. The twister picked up a railway car in carried it some distance. The car was smashed to bits, a child killed NO ELECTION RETURNS TONIGHT Because of the fact that the polls, under a new election law, will remain open this evening until 9 o’clock, The Tribune will not be in a position tonight to give its readers any election returns. The office will not be open during the evening, and operators much time and inconvenience by refraining from calling up. The Tribune respectfully begs its readers to take note of the situation and to co-operate with the news staff by not monopolizing The Tribune ’ Indications are that there will be a normal vote in the city. There was some confusion this morning owing to the fact that in Bismarck, a duty which devolves upon the county commis- sion‘in'state elections. In Wards Four and Five the city com- mission and county commission did not hit upon the same poll- ing places. In Four the city commission selected the Wachter school, while the official polling place, designated by the county commission, was the Northwest hotel. commission picked the Thompson plumbing shop, while the the Soo hotel. County Auditor T. E. Flaherty got on the job early this morning and notified the inspectors of election in these two wards of the mistake. advertised polling places of the transfer, and the adjustment was made without a great amount of confusion. and others. injured. —+ themselves and the telephone phone service. | to designate the polling places In Ward Five the city by the county commission was Notices were posted at the years. of toil, I should say.” , REMEMBER YOU CAN VOTE UNTIL 9 O'CLOCK TONIGHT Engineer W. S. Stratton of the railway commission is making a physical valuation of the Hughes Electric Co.’s Bismarck plant prelim- inary to a hearing on the petition of certain consumers attacking the rates and service of the utility, which will be held July 7. BISMARCK VOTE MAY BE NORMAL; COMING SLOWLY About 70 Percent of Total Re- corded at Press Time This Afternoon INTEREST IS NOT GREAT Apathy as to Outcome Apparent Over the Capital City Generally —_________--_-+ | NOT TOO LATE TO VOTE | | If you have not yet voted, | | it is not yet too late. The | | polls remain open until 9 | o'clock tonight. It is every | citizen’s duty to vote as he | | thinks. ntl ———-—? THE VOTE AT 4 P.M, Ward 1—128; normal, 180. Ward 2—140; normal, 190 Ward 3—167; normal, 263 normal, 140 normal, 160 normal, 154 1087 Somewhat less than 70 per cent of the average Bismarck vote in a state election had been recorded at 4 o'clock in the special — referen- dum electon being held today as: a final test of A. C. Townley’s program of socialization of industry. The polls will remain open until 9 this evening, and it is possible that a full vote will be polled before the closing hour, but the most popular prognostication is that the vote will be ten per cent un- ner normal. The polling places are: Ward Onc, North Ward school; Ward Two, Faunce {building on Fourth’ stroet; Ward Three, new high school; Ward Four, Northwest hotel;) Ward Vive, Soo hotel; Ward Six. city fire hal'. The polls for Wards Four and Five were changed from the Wachter school and the Thompson plumbing shop, respectively, to the Northwest and Soo hotels to conform with the selection made by the county commis- sion, which controls the designation of polling places in all state elections. The city commission had. selected the same pollng places which were used in the last municipal election, and some confusion has resulted from the eleventh-hour change in plan necessi- tated this morning. No Excitement. There is less apparent excitement than in an average Bismarck school election. No great amount of work appears to be being done by either side, although leaguers in favor of the Townley program are putting in some effeotive efforts quietly. Voters are stringing in one by one, and there is almost complete absence of the scur- rying motor-cars and diligent vote sleuths who usually characterize anj important election. Bismarck, it is predicted, will vote about eighty per cent in opposition to the seven measures. How well found- ed this prognostication is will be bet- ter known after the votes are count- ed this evening. The polls west of the river will not close until 10 o'clock Central time, and little is expected to be known of the result there until midnight or later. WRECKAGE IS CLEARED AWAY BY MILITIA Fergus Falls, June 26.—The state forces here today clearing away the wreckage will be increased by Com-; pany “S” of Moorhead. Orders for Company “S” to report here Satur- day morning will be issued this af- ternoon. General Rhinow said. The Moorhead troops probably will entrain Friday night. Burial of the dead con- tinued today and it is expected all of the bodies of the victims wil be in-| tered this afternoon. State troops assisted by workmen continued their search today in the tornawo wrecked huildings of the city for bodies of the victims of the storm last Sunday. At least one body is known to be in the ruins of the Grand hotel. Funeral services were held today for Mrs. Emil Haug and her three children, whose bodies were recov- ered yesterday. Sightseers are still barred from the city, to avoid congestion and to con- serve the food supplies of the restau- rants, which are being used to feed homeless people. PROHIBITION LEGISLATION IN THREE PORTIONS Washington, June 26.—The house judiicary committee today decided to split prohibition legislation into three parts with enforcement of wartime PEACE TREATY T0 BE SIGNED ON SATURDAY Mueller, Giesberg and Leinert to Sign for German Nation JULY 14 TO BE PEACE DAY France to Engage in Celebration to Commemmorate End of War Paris, June 26.—Efforts were: bee ing made today to arrange for the signing of the peace treaty at’8 o'clock Saturday afternoon. The council of three is apparently satisfied with semi-official assurances that the Ger- mans will be on hand. _ Although the unofficial informa. tion is that the German signatories probably would be Herr Herman Mueller, former foreign minister, Herr Giesberg and Herr Leinert, of the old delegation, it developed today that Herr Giesberg, who had remained in Versailles for some time had left there for Germany. Violation of Armistice Germany has been notified in a note sent today by the allies that they pos- sess the right to punish the persons held responsible for the destruction of the German ships and collect indem- nity for the loss. The sinking of the ships is denounced as a violation of the armistice and a deliberate breach in advance of the signing of peace. To Hold Germans Responsible The German peace delggation has been informed in a note from Premier Clemenceau that the German govern- ment will be held strictly responsible for unoffiical support of any move- ment against Polish authorities in any territory given Poland in Posen and east and west Prussia. TO CELEBRATE JULY 15 Paris, June 20.—The French gov- ernment has decided that the official Victory celebration by ‘France shall take place July 1 July 14 is Bastille day, the principal French holiday. It also is the anni- versary of the beginning by the Ger- mans in 1918 of their last drive toward Paris, which ended so disastrously for « them through the staunch Franco- American resistance and ultimate counter attack. ENVOYS ANNOUNCED Berlin (Wednesday), June 25.— Herman Mueller, the foreign minis- ter ,and Dr, Bell, the colonial. minis- ter, it was announced tonight, have been selected as the German envoys to sign the peace terms. They will leave Berlin Friday. MILITARY HEAD RESIGNS Berlin (Wednesday), June 25.— General Groener, who succeeded Field Marshal von Hindenburg as German chief of staff, has tendered his resig- nation to President Ebert, but has agreed to remain at his post until the situation in eastern provinces becomes stabilized. WORKMEN SEIZE GOVERNMENT London, June 26.—Representatives of industrial councils have assumed full political and military power in Hamburg and are sitting in the town hall, according to advices from Berlin quoting newspaper advices received there. General von Lettow-Vorbeck has been ordered to Hamburg with a strong force. DISORDERS AT BERLIN London, June 26.—Disorders are in- creasing in Berlin, the Exchange Telegraph correspondent at Amster- dam reports. Many streets are barri- caded and there have been serious en- gagements between troops and mobs. EXPRESS REGRET Copenhagen, June 26.—Three presi- dents of eastern provinces of Prussia have issued a proclamation to the in- habitants of their district expressin, the deepest grief at the unconditiona acceptance of the allied circumstances but adding that the people must not under any circumstances “prevent the government from fulfilling its agree- ments to the enemy.” “Regard for our compatriots, who would have to bear the consequences of such act makes it our duty to re~ frain from fighting for our right of self-determination and our honor,” says the proclamation. RAILWAY STRIKE FAILS Berlin (Wednesday), June 25.—Up to 4 o’clock this afternoon the strike of railway workers failed to show signs of spreading. The federation of rail workers, the membership of which is 400,000, is opposing the strike, and is calling upon workers not to allow themselves to be “misled by political agitators or be guilty of plunging the country into economic chaos.” SIBERIAN CASUALTIES. Washington, June 26.—One officer and three enlisted men were killed, and {wo men were wounded, and one officer and four men captured in recent fight- ing with anti-Cossack forees in Siberia, the war department was advised to- day by Major General Graves, com- manding the Siberpan expeditionary forces, All of the men were of the 3ist in- fentry, BREAK ARMISTICE. Paris, June 26.—The armistice en- tered into several days ago by the Poles and Ukrainians has been brok- en by an advance on the part of the Ukrainian forces according to inform- ation received here today. Hints have come from Germany within the last few days that the mili- tary caste there would not be ad- verse to bringing about a military situation within the former ompire prohibition separate and distinct from the other. that would embarrass the allies {n putting the peace treaty-into effect.