The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 5, 1919, Page 1

TRIBUNE THIRTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 177. PRICE FIVE CENTS ATTORNEY GENERAL PALMER TODAY TO PRESENT PLAN FOR REDUCING PRICES OF NATION'S FOOD STUFFS President Will Receive Advice on Possible Steps to Be Taken by Government Agencies—Gover- nor Bartlett of New Hampshire Has Scheme ‘Which Will Receive Consideration—Barnes to Discuss Spread Between Market Price of Wheat and National Guaranty to Farmers. Washington, Aug. 5.—Attorney General Palmer expects to be ready to present a preliminary report today to President Wilson concerning the possible steps tobe taken by the government agencies in an effort to reduce living costs. ‘Many offers of assistance in his investigation of the high cost of living are reaching Attorney General Palmer. One came today from Governor Bartlett of New Hampshire to which the attorney general replied that he would be glad to avail himself of the services of state officials as soon as definite plans of action were formulated. LEAGUE OF NATIONS SIDESTEPPED. Conferences with republican and democratic senators on the league of nations have definitely been abandoned by the president until the problems of the high cost of living are solved, Secre- tary Tumulty announced. The president, Mr. Tumulty said, “is going to give his whole time to the question of high cost of liv- ing. TO TALK OVER . WHEAT GUARANTY. Julius H. Barnes, president of the United States grain corpora- tion, will be called to the White House late today and it is under- stood that the president will take up with hima proposal to restore wheat to a free'market with the government making good .the|: difference. between: the market price and the $2.26 guaranteed the farmer. ‘Administration officials feel that one way to decrease the cost of living is to increase produc- tion and President Wilson is, un- derstood to feel that strikes now or threats of strikes will inter- fere materially with any solution of the problem sought by gov- ernment agencies. BISMARCK MAN TO ADDRESS DAKOTA PHARMACIST MEET Burt Finney Has Prominent Place on State Conven- tion Programme Fargo, N. D,, Aug. 5.—The annual meeting of the’ North Dakota Pharma- cautical association will open in Fargo tomorrow to continue until Wednesday night. One hundred to 200 members of the association are expected to be jn attendance, W. 8. Parker of Lisbon secretary of the association, has ar- rived in Fargo to-make final arrange- ments for the meeting. Sessions of the convention will be held in the Commercial club rooms in the auditorium. The program, which has just been complete, is a very interesting one, and men Widely known in the pharmaceuti- cal profession ‘will be the speakers. Informal discussions also have a place on the program. The official program of~-the state meeting was announced late this aft- ernoon by Roy G. Cook, local secre- tary and follows: TUESDAY, AUGUST 5 9 A, M.—Presidential address— Peter Mergens. Roll call and. reading of minutes, Appointment of committees, Report of officers. Report of committees. 2 P, M.—Paper, “The Soda Fountain jn the Drug Store,” by Bert Finney, Bismarck. Address by Counsellor Eugene Brockmeyer, of Washington, D. C., “How Problems of Pharmacists Are Handled at the National Capital.” Paper—‘“Courtesy,” by J. A. Bel- anger, York, N. D. 6:30 P. M., Banquet at Elks’ Hall. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6 9 A. M.—Auto ride to Agricultural college where the session will be held. Paper—“A Review of Drug Inspec- tion Samples,” by Mattys Jongeward, of the state Foo and Drug Commis- sioner's office. Paper—“Inspection of Drug Stores,” by H. K. Seaver, state drug inspector. Biological Lecture—Ilustrated. 2 P. M.—Address by Secretary 8, C. Henry, of the N, A. R. D., on Rules and Regulations Relative to the Pur- chase and Sale of Narcotic Drugs and Alcoholic Medicinals. Election of officers. Unfinished business. The officers of the association are: President, Peter Mergens, Fairmount; First Vice President, John H. Vold, Grand Forks; Second Vice President, Homer L. Hill, Sutton; secretary and ‘Treasurer, W. 8. Parker, Lisbon; DRAKE MILL WILL BE PURCHASED BY INDUSTRY BOARD State Expects to Be Grinding Out North Dakota Brand of Flour in Month CITIZENS BUYING BONDS Community Assimilates Enough Securities to Provide Pur- __, chase Price of Plant James A. McGovern, manager of tho North Dakota mill'-snd olavetor asso. ciation, was authorized at a meeting of the industrial commission Tuesday to prepare a contract for the purchase of the Drake Milling Co. plant at Drake for a consideration of $20,000, to be operated as a state mill. The citizens of Drake in consideration of the establishment of an experimental mill there, have agreed to purchase $36,000 worth of the bonds of the mill and elevator association, of which the industrial commission will probably issue $100,000 at once. To compiy with the requirement that the bonds be given first mortgage security, the association will issue a mortgage on the Drake mill property. The citizens of Drake will therefore buy this util- ity for the state with their own mon- ey. The Drake city council has also agreed to vacate any streets which the commission may desire vacated to provide for expansion of the plant. Four Plants Considered. (Manager McGovern made a detailed report of his investigation of possible milling sites. He advised that after going over the entire field he found four plants which complied with the state’s requirements. He then con- tracted with Toltz, King & Day, an architectural and engineering firm of St. Paul, for a survey of these prop- erties. They included the ‘Minot Flour Mill, at Minot; the Osceola Mill & El- evator Co. of Fairmount; the Baldwin flour mill at Oakes, and the Drake ‘Milling Co., of Drake. Thomas San- derson, manager of the experimental mill at*the state agricultural college, also made an examination. The St. Paul firm reported, said ‘Mr. McGovern, that to replace the Drake property, allowing for deprecia- tion, an investment of $32,928 would ‘be required. Thomas. Sanderson's esti- mate of the value of the property was $26,000. As a result of these reports the offer of the Drake Milling Co. was accepted, and the actual transfer merely awaits the ratification of the contract which ‘Manager McGovern is to prepare. To Be Milling in ‘Month. Mr. McGovern believes that all de- tails can ‘be disposed of and the state grinding out North Dakota flour with- ina month. The mill has a 125-barrel daily capacity which can, it is said, without adding to the buildings, be doubled. The industrial commission estimates that from: one year to a year and a half will be required to get its definite mill and elevator plan under way. In the meantime the experi- mental mill will be organizing a staff, developing a market and providing a field for the experimenting with vari- ous grades of wheat in the manufac- ture of flour, says Secretary Morris. As a result, when the state gets in- to the real game, the industrial com- mission feels that it will not ‘be grop- ing in the darg, but will be in a posi- tion to proceed with certainty. In the meantme, states Seoretary Morris, Manager McGovern will pro- ceed with the main project of estab- lishing permanent mills and terminal elevators which will carry out the Provisions of the act of the last as- sembly committing ‘North Dakota to a program of “industrial democracy.” In Pembina County. Attorney F. E. McCurdy is in Pem- bina county lookin gafter the harvest- Local Secretary, R, G. Cook, Fargo, ing of his beautifil crop. LOGAN COUNTY TO INVEST _ $67,000.00 IN FEDERAL ROAD In spite of the fact that black rust has to some extent cut down Logan county’s early fine crop prospects, the county commissioners are not backing up on their progressive road cam- paign. Last week contracts were awarded at Napoleon for 22 miles of federal road which will cost $67,000. The highway will extend east and west from. Napoleon, and will ‘be the finest {bit of roadway of its type in the state. Charles Dupahey of Sanger has been awarded the contract for the grading, and F. M. Haas of Minot will do the concrete work. RUMANTANS LOOT SUPINE CAPITAL; FOES ADVANCING Fifteen or Twenty Civilians Re- ported Murdered in Sub- » urbs of Budapest ENEMY WITHIN 25 MILES Troops of Szegedim Government of Hungary Approach Be- leaguered City Paris, Aug. 5—A telegram from ‘American officials at Budapest states that Rumanian troops upon entering Budapest yesterday started plundering in the suburbs. ‘Fifteen’ of twenty civ- ilians were killed by the Rumanians during the day it is.added. “American reports said» the Ruman- ians were demanding hostages and threatened, to Kill . five hostages for each Rumanian soldier injured in Budapest. mn aA, ‘Some members of the new Hungar-. ian ministry, the telegram states, have been, arrested by the Rumanians. who have mounted machine guns in various parts.of the city and demobilized. the local police". ENEMY WITHIN: 25:MILES. Berlin, Monday, Aug, -4—(By the Associated ~ Press)—-Troops. -of. the Szegedim. government of Hungary have advanced to within 25 miles of ‘Budapest and expect to reachthat city tonight and Jugo-slav forces are also advancing on Budapest according to a Vienna dispatch received here. It is stated that the Rumanians have cap- tured many communist leaders of the Hungarian capital. u The Rumanian official statement which declared that the people of Budapest “met the Rumanian forces with enthusiasm” failed to agree with special dispatches to Berlin newspa- pers which say the approach of Ru- manians caused terror in the city. RUMANIANS’ ROYAL ENTRY. ‘Budapest, Monday, Aug. 4—(By the Associated. Press). — Thirty. thou- sand, Rumanian troops including in- fantry, cavalry, artillery entered the city today with a glare of trumpets. The Rumanian forces led ‘by General Marewhascu passed through Andrassy and other streets. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1919. LEAGUE OF NATIO H.C. OF L. AND LABOR TROUBLES CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA MAY BE SRED RESERVOIR Probability Is. That Much of Northwest Must Look to Us for Pure Grain CONDITIONS BEST HERE Absence of Black Rust and Blight Sends Up Stock of Slope Farm Lands Central ‘North ‘Dakota may be call- ed upon to, supply the northwest’s seed wheat for 1920. ‘J, A. McGovern, who retains his post of chief, “deputy inspector of grain grades, in addition to being manager of the state mill aud elevator associa- tion, was in *Bismarck yesterday en route from Leith, where he had ad- dressed a farmers’ picnic. ~*~ East In Bad Shape. “Conditions in the eastern part of the'state are ibad,” said Mr. McGov- ‘ern. “The rust.has made terrific in- roads,.and we hardly know what to expect in the way of crops. This con- dition extends ‘down into Minnesota and into Wisconsin. “Your wheat bere does not appear to be touched by the rust. I have ex- amined some of it. It seems of fine \ color, bright and red. ».The heads. seem to be well filled, and the kernels are plump and-hard. ‘It’should make good . Seed wheat;'ga it: will grade high, and it is free from rust.” (> Rye Crop Fair. Rye-threshing ‘was‘in progress dur- ing: Mr. McGovern’s. recent ‘visit to Drake... The scrop. was -running. five ; bushels to the acre. of a-high-grade of grain testing full 56 pounds to the bushel.“ At ‘Lefth Mr. ‘McGoyern found the small grain crop very light; but he states that’ he never has seen finer corn in ‘North’ Dakota than is growing in the Slope section this: year. + Cattle LOoKs Good. “They have - splendid cattle in that said the deputy state in- rtoday.~ are’ fine” and fat as: butter; ready for the There is ‘something in the sleek, market. ‘buffalo grass you have out here on the prairies that is ‘found nowhere else. “It’s the only grass I know of that will fatten cattle and put them in shape for the butcher.” ‘Barley Not Affected. Prohivition, says ‘ Mr. McGovern, will not affect barley, which has be- “come one of North Dakota's important. crops. “A very small percentage of ‘barley went into malt,” said he today. “Al large proportion of ‘northwestern ‘parley is ground up with wild oats and shipped south for stock food. It is surprising, too, to discover ‘how much of this grain enters human consump- tion. For the fattening of stock, and for pork, especially, there is nothing finer. Putting the breweries out of business isn’t going to affect the price of barley.” f irs, WORST GETS IT. * The appointment of John H. Worst, president emeritus of the North Da- kota agricultural college, which he served for 25 years as active head, to ‘be immigration commissioner is con- firmed at the governor's office. INTRODUCING MR. DAVID GUELPH Better Known as the Prince of Wales and Heir = The little tricks of the trade have a greater fascination for cabinet ministers. Apparent to the British Throne : of the teamster or the chauffeur him than the oracular words of OPERA PRODUCER DIES OSCAR. HAMMERS TEIN ~« NEW YORK—Oscar Hammerstein, America’s leading producer of grand opera, is dead. Hammerstein came to America in 1863 from Germany. HQUALIZERS IN INITIAL SESSION ATSTATRHOUSE Busy Season Ushered in for Gov- ernor Frazier and Fellow Tax Doctors LAWS CAUSE CONFUSION Little Grist for Mill Available Today Because of Mix-up in Statutes The state board of equalization ent- ered upon its annual sessions today. The commission consists of Govern- or Frazier, State Treasurer Olson, State Auditor Kositzky, Attorney Gen- eral Langer, and George E. Wallace, state tax commissioner, who by an act of the last assembly is made secretary of the board. " The meeting which began today. prob- ably will be the most important ever held by a North Dakota state board of equalization. The new tax laws have created much confusion and not a lit- tle dissatisfaction. The last assem- bly provided that individual com- plaints may be carried direct to the state board, instead of first being sifted out by the county boards of equalization. As a.result it is expect- ed that the state commission will Have many times more individual claims to pass on that have ever before been presented, Some Big Job. The state board must determine the amount which will be required for the state levy under the new assessed valuation, which increases the worth of taxable property in North Dakota from $450,000,000 to $1,200,000,000. It is believed probable this rate will be 3.5 mills, as compared with four mills last year. The revenue produced by the somewhat smaller levy upon the trebled valuation will be much great- er. The equalizers must also spread upon the tax rolls of the various counties the assessment which Insur- ance Commissioner Olsness deems ne- cessary to indemnify farmers whose crops were protected in the state hail insurance department. This assess- ment probably will range between 15 and 25 cents on adout 9,000,000 acres of land. Eighteen millions acres of crop lands originally were covered, but the withdrawals averaged about fifty per cent. The total loss, whatever it may be, will be pro-rated over the lands which were not withdrawn. New Tax Levies. The board is also required to assess against all taxable property a special levy of one-half mill to provide for the soldiers’ bounty payments, and there must also he spread on the rolls another special levy to create an in- terest and sinking fund from which the $17,000,000 in state bonds author- ized by the last assembly may be re- tired. The work of the board is complicat- ed by the fact that the last assembly in its tax program provided that the state equalizers should meet on the first Tuesday in August but did not demand that returns from the county ‘auditors be made before the last Mon- day in the month. A majority of the county auditors appear to need all the time they have been allowed, and, al- though Secretary Wallace has appeal- ed to them to hurry up, there was lit- tle grist for the miJl when it began grinding today. ‘Still another tax statute requires that the board make its levy on or before the first of Sep- tember, which will necessitate some tall hustling upon the part of the equalizers. HAGAN OPERATES U. S. EMPLOYMENT OFFICES The United States employment of- fice for this district has been trans- ferred from down ‘town to Commission- er John N. Hagan’s office at the cap- ital, and applications for labor are be- ing filled from that point. NEW ARCHITECT BOARD MEMBER J. A. Shannon of Jamestown yester- day was named by Governor Frazier a member of the state board of archi- tects for the term ending March 15, 1925, vice George H. Hancock of Fargo. : S SHELVED FOR ORGANIZED LABOR BEFORE NATION WITH DEMAND THAT EMPLOYES AND GOVERNMENT OPERATE RAILROADS Tripartite Management as Substitute for Private Ownership Urged—Statement Signed by En- gineers, Firemen, Conductors and American Federation Recognized as Most Far-Reaching Proposal Yet Placed Before Country During Reconstruction Period—Strike Still Spreads. Washington, Aug. 5.—Organized labor was before the nation today with a demand that pri- vate capital be retired from railroad operations and that there be substituted a tripartite control of the railroads by the country with the operating, management and employes of the roads. The demands presented in a statement signed by engineers, firemen, conductors and the Ameri- can Federation of Labor was recognized today in Washington as the most far-reaching proposal yet placed before the nation during its recon- struction period. Officials refused to predict its outcome. Tomorrow it will be formally laid be- fore the house interstate commerce commission. ALLIES IN FEAR OF COAL FAMINE CONSULT HOOVER Head of International Relief Or- ganization Asked to As- sume Charge OUTPUT BELOW NORMAL Paris, Monday, Aug. 4.—Shipping and fuel representatives of France, Belgium and Italy conferred with Her- bert Hoover, head of the international relief organization here today and de- cided to urge the supreme council of the peace conference to appoint an European coal commission to coordi- nate the distribution of European coal to avert what threatens to be a dis- aster. The meeting was held as a result of the warning by Mr. Hoover in an address at a recent conference in London of the supreme economical council. He said European coal pro- duction w% 35 per cent below normal and the United States could not offer relief because of the shortage of ship- ping. ‘Only a greatly increased coal pro- duction and improved organization for its distribution can save Europe from disaster next year Mr. Hoover ex- plained. ABUNDANT RAINS MAKE GRASS FOR SLOPE’S CATTLE Situation Saved for Present, De- clares State Treasurer Olson, Big Rancher Abundant rains of the last week, al- though a month too late to help small grain, have saved the feed situation for the present on the Slope. “We have no further worry about fall feed,” said State Treasurer Ol- son, a big farmer and rancher in Bow- man county, today. ‘These rains will make plenty of grass and that will take care of the cattle until cola weather comes. Unfortunately this late grass, even t/iough we didn’t need it all for grazing, will not cure on the ground for winter pasturage as the earlier grass would have done. But it will take care of us until snow flies, and if we can only get some hay for winter we'll not be in bad shape. Wheat for Forage. “Small grain crops on the Slope are not bad as they have been reported, in spots at least. I started cutting wheat last week. We worked all morn- ing and didn’t get a header-box full. I intend to let it stand now, hoping that it will grow up with thistles so we can cut it for wheat.” As is characteristic of men from the Slope, State Treasurer Olson shows no discouragement. He is disappointed with the failure of his small grain, but he’s far from flat on his back, with 2,000 acres of the fine grazing land ana plenty of sheep and cattle to turn the grass into money. FORMER SAILOR NEW DEPUTY EXAMINER O. E. Bergstrom, late of the U.S. S. Plattsburg will make the Williston dis- trict ‘his new quarter-deck. He was named today deputy state bank exam- iner for that territory. Before he went to sea, Mr. Bergstrom was en- gaged for eight years in the banking business at Pekin. 4 Hines Considers Demands Demands of 45,000 railway clerks, freight handlers, express and station employes, that their wages be in- creased unless something is done to materially reduce the cost of living were to be considered today at a con- | ference between Director General Hines and J. J. Forester, grand presi- dent of the brotherhood of these em- ployes. Similar demands from the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen now are before the director general. , Meantime 500,000 shopmen over the country are formally voting on a gen- eral strike to enforce demands made last January. that’ their wages besin- creased 25 per cent. Pending the outcome of this vote the thousands of shopmen now out on arike were expected to return to work. STRIKE STILL SPREADS Chicago, Aug. 5.—The strike of the federated crafts of railroad shopmen which started on Friday continued to spread, according to a report today of the officials directing the walk out. Representative of the men who have been endeavoring to bring about an adjustment of the demands for an approximate increase in wages of 25 percent, are making efforts to end the strike, claiming that it is not legally authorized by the several unions of the allied crafts involved. While points in the south and south- west reported walkouts by shopmen, the strike appears to be confined for the most part to the middle west. Traffic Not Imperilled R. H. Ashton, regional director of railroads, said that traffic thus far had not been imperilled by the strike and that he expected a speedy return of the men now out. “I understand the men have been ordered back by the officials in Wash- ington,” he said, “and the strike from the first lacked their grand lodge sanction. It is only being conducted by those disobedient ones.” Shopmen Deliver Def: Chicago, Aug. 5.—John D. Saun- ders, secretary of the Chicago district, council of Federated Railway Shop- men’s union, said today his organiza- tion had refused to take the strike vote ordered. “We will pay no atten- tion to orders issued by the grand lodge,” he said. “No strike vote will be taken, and we will not return to work until our demand for increased wages has been granted. Further- more, we will refuse to negotiate for a settlement thru the grand lodge. If the government wants to talk business with us, it will have to come to us direct.” Officials declared that the effect of the shopmen’s strike is being felt by every raliway in the west and south. Reports received at union headquar- ters were to the effect that many loco- motive engineers had refused to take out trains because of the bad condition of the rolling stock. Secretary Saunders said the strike is spreading daily. NORTHERN PACIFIC MEN AT JAMESTOWN WALK OUT Jamestown, N. D., Aug 5.—The boll- ermakers of the Northern Pacific roundhouse, about 25 in number, went on strike here at 11 o’clock today. The men demanded several months ago 35 cents an hour and 60 cents an hour for helpers. The machinists and carmen are taking a vote tonight. If the three crafts strike, 200-men will be effected in Jamestown. INCREASES CAPITAL State Bank of Davenport Boosts Ante to $15,000 Application of the state bank of Davenport for permission to increase its capital from $10,000 to $15,000 has been approved by the state banking. board. ares yeaa