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

rh yh ay a] RCE \ ly % id a>, rey Fair tonight. THE BIS: TRIBUNE oo Fl LAST EDITION: THIRTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 185. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1919 PRICE FIVE CENTS UNCLE SAM SERVES NOTICE ON MEXICO TOWNLEY PRESS READERS BELIE WOULD HAVE ITS VE MISS NIELSON ENJOYS BRUTAL TREATMENT eel Courier-News Carries Story to Effect That State Superintendent of Public Instruction Is “Indignant” Over Articles Carried by Unkept Press Exposing Actions of Frazier Board—Never Has Said a Word to League Renorter, Declares People’s Official. Smoked out from its long silence by the fires of public indig-| 4 nation, the Townley press of North Dakota is seeking to camou- flage the outrageous treatment w! hich Miss Minnie J. Nielson, state superintendent of’ public instruction, is receiving at the hands of the state board of administration, in direct contravention to pre- election promises made by President A. C. Townley of the National Nonpartisan league, Governor Fr: azier and others who campaigned the state in defense of the board of administration bill. The state board of administration has removed from Miss Nielson’s office the certification of teachers and the preparation of examinations for the eighth grade and high schools, which it has placed in the hands of E. P. Crain, a loyal servant:of Neil C. Mac- donald, the man whom Miss Nielson so thoroughly drubbed at the last general election, and Mrs. Katryn Macdonald, the former state superintendent’s. wife. What ‘Board Has Done. The state board of administration has’ demanded that Miss Nielson sur- render to an~éducational commission which this board has packed with Macdonald men the fixing of courses of study for all public schools, which might mean that the youth of North Dakota would be taught the tenets ap- Proved by Walter Thomas Mills and other socialists who are managing ‘Nonpartisan league affairs. Miss Niel- fon has not been treated by the board with even ordinary official courtesy. courtesy. In view of these facts, the version of the affair giveri by the ‘Courier-News, of which Townley is editorial director, is a unique example of league journalism: “A determined effort is being made by enemies of Governor Frazier and the farmer administration to arouse friction between Miss Minnie J. Niel- son and the new board of administra- tion, of which she is a member,” says the Courier-News. “In the reorganiz- ation of school affairs that is ensu- ing since the educational bill’ was in- dorsed by the voters in the recent referendum election, new and larger duties have fallen upon Miss Niel- son, and several matters of routine have been. eliminated from her de- partment, , “The opposition newspapers are car- rying newspaper stories every day Stating that Miss.Nielson’s powers are being taken away and that she is be- ing persecuted by the other members of the board of administration! Miss Nielson stated today that ‘these. stor- ies do not emanate from her, and pro- fessed to be indignant over the articles that have appeared in the Bismarck Tribune, the Fargo Forum and Grand Forks Herald.” “I have ‘been wondering just how ‘Mr. Townley’s press would get around this situation,” said Miss Nieison to- day when the Courier-News story was called to her attention. “I think this is the best thing they have done yet. As a matter of fact, I have not had a word to say to any Townley newspa Per man about this matter; I have never professed indignation over the stories appearing in newspapers of this state which were sympatretic enough and honest enough to tell the truth. I believe the actions of the hoard of admipistration should be giv- en publicity—that the people have a right to know what is being done— and the Bismarck Tribune, Fargo For- um and Grand Forks Herald have not exaggerated the situation in a single! instance.” “RUBBER STAMP” RESENTED; NEAR FIGHT IN HOUSE aT RY fd Rep. Blanton Makes Rude Allu- sion to His Colleague Hardy’s Actions Washington, D. C., Aug. 14.— Members of the house intervened today to prevent a personal collis- ion between Representatives Blan- ton and Hardy of Texas, both democrats, iResenting the charge by Blanton that he was “a mere rubber stamp” in the sense that he was defending the administra- tion, Hardy rushed at his col- league, but was restrained. ELEVEN CENTS HELD FAIR SUGAR PRICE; CAN'T FIX MAXIMUM Washington, D. C. Aug. 14.—Recent opinions ‘by food administration offi- cials that 11 cents was a fair price for sugar are being transmitted by the department of justice to district at- torneys for their information in the campaign against profiteering. Attorney General Palmer said, how- ever, that. no price for sugar could be fixed by the government. WARFIELD PLAN OF RAILROAD CONTROL BEFORE THE HOUSE Flat Return of Six Percent to Stockholders, Remainder to Employes Washington, D. C., Aug. 14.—The Warfield plan for railroad control with |Provision for a flat return of six per- cent on capital investment was present- sed today to the house interestate com- merce committee by Luther M. Walter, general counsel of the National Asso- ciation of Owners of Railroad securi- ties. The fundamentals of the plan in- clude the division of all surplus over the fixed return among employes, the {public and the road earning it, were ex- plained by Mr. Walter, who declared KOLCHAK FORCES CONTINUE THEIR RETREAT INURAL Cossacks Back 60 Miles From Uralsk GENERAL POSITION SOUND Russian Commander Asserts Situation Has Not Been Seriously Affected London, Aug. 14.—The retreat in the Ural mountains of the force of Admiral Kolchak continues according to news received here today. South of Uralsk at the southern end of the Urals, it is added, the Bolsheviki have driven the Cossaks back 60 miles and are endeavoring to separate them from the main “body of Kolchak’s forces who are fighting on both sides of the trans-Siberian railway. East of Cheliabinsk, a junction point on the railway, the Bolsheviki are said to have reached the line of the Miaft and Isset rivers and captured Tiumen just east of the Russia-Siberia border. The advices add that there is no sign that the Bolshevik advance is likely to be checked. General Position Sound. The Associated rPess is informed, however, that the general position of Admiral Kolchak and his government is not believed to have been made ma- terially worse ‘by the bolshevik ad- vance and baring the unexpected col- lapse of Admiral Kolchak, the muni- tions America is sending should arrive in Siberia in time to aid in his recovery. Nevertheless it is admitted here that their reverses are a serious blow 2. the policy of the entente in Rus- sla. Good News From South Russia. Better news has ‘been received from south Russia where General Pet- lura, the Urkranian anti-bolshevik leader is progressing rapidly toward Kiev with a view of cutting the rail- road southward toward Odessa. The Russian volunteer troops under Gen- eral Denikine are’ closing in on Odes- sa from the northeast and east and it is believed that the whole Black sea coast will be out of bolshevik hands soon. GOOD SAMARITAN LURED FROM HOME TO GIVE AID SLAIN BY RUM RUNNERS Toledo, O., Aug. 14.—Awakened from his sleep and lured out of shot and killed from ambush by four men early this morning. his home on the pretext that a rope was needed with which to tow an automobile which had broken down, Dean Traddica, dep- uty sheriff of Erie, Mich. was Toledo’s rum runners are sus- pectéd, although authorities have no clue other than fragmentary descriptions furnished by Mrs. Traddica, who witnessed the mur- der from the upstairs window of her home, EVERY COMPARTMENT. SMOKING CAR; BRITISH WOMEN TAKE UP WEED London, Aug. 5.—(Corres- pondence of the Associated Press) —So many English women fave become con- firmed smokers that in re- cent months railroad em- ployes have hesitated to en- force the rule against smok- ing in certain carriages and || it has come to be expected i| that if the women passen- gers do not object every com- partment becomes a smoking WALL STREET IN CONTROL OF YANK LEGION ~ LEMKE Boss of Nonpartisan League Be- gins Attack on Service Men’s Fraternity ISAYS OFFICERS RUN IT car. eo SENATE T0 CALL ON PRESIDENT 10 DISCUSS TREATY Foreign Relations Committee Advises Wilson of Inten- tions Today TO HEAR FORMER ADVISORS E. T. Wililams, S. K. Hornbeck and William C. Bullitt to Be Summoned D. C., Aug. 14.—After Washington, treaty. ’ The committee ‘also decided. to call before it E. T. Williams, S. K. Horn: ‘beck and’ William... Bullitt, who re- signed as adviscrs to the American peace commission at Paris because, it has been reported, they disagreed with decisions by the conference. Will Not Call Delegates. A motion to call also Col. House, Ohio,. republicans, , democrats. In deciding to request the president to receive the committee /on which there. was no. committee vote_it. waa. agreed that all information obtained from the president. should’ ‘be made public. J “No Comment,” Says Tumulty. There was white house when the president would receive the committee. comments to make.” Speculation at the capitol as to the purpose of the committee in requést- ing that the president receive it re- volves around the subject of reserva- tions to the treaty, and league cove- Before the committee acted it had been intimated at the white house that the president had not changed nant. his attitude against reservations. LABOR FORCES TO _ CELEBRATE THEIR DAY SEPTEMBER 1 Observance—Good Program to Be Arranged Organized labor in Bismarck will celebrate Labor day, September 1, with an elaborate program of sports, games and addresses to e held at the capitol park. The Bismarck labor fed- eration has named the following com- mittees to look after the event: ‘Chairman of the day—F. S. Morey. Secretary—R. H. Spink. ‘Treasurer—Charles Hanson. hollan. ling. ‘Committee on sports—Harry Loh- man, Eddie Edmundson and Charles Gandy. Dance committee—R. H. Spink, Fred Broedle and James Martin. Refreshment committee—H. H. En- gen, George Tekippe, Mr. Johnson. Publicity comittee—Frank Milhol« lan, Harry Lohman, Eddie Edmund- son. PAY a two-hour discussion today the for- eign relations committee decided to notify President Wilson that it would call on him at the white house at his convenience to discuss, the peace General Bliss and Henry White, Amer- it could be put into effect immediately. ican delegates, was aed down 9 to 8. Senatcrs McCumber and Harding; voting with the no ‘indication ‘at the To inquiries, Bolsheviki Claim to Have Driven | $°&ret2'y. Tumulty said, “We have no Committees Named for Annual Committee on speakers—Frank Mil- Committee on grounds—John Ger- Gives Soldier and Sailor Owners of Divide County Paper Double Cross “Don’t: you Know that the American Legion is controlled by Wall street?” asked Bill Lemke. That is the way. the chief counsel of A.C Townley takes a rap at the 100 per cent Americans who have or- ganized the non-political American Le- gion of all the men who were in the service during the Great War; organ- ized for the purpose of instilling true Americanism into the nation, for fra- ternal and social intercourse and not for politics. 5 The above statement was made to Rheinhart Kamplin of Crosby, a ser- geant in ‘the. army,and a law partner of Lieut. “Lester Smith, who was killed October 2 in the fighting in the Argonne forest.- Smith and Kamplin closed up their law office when the United States: entered the war, and both got into the service. Smith’s record is that of one of the nation’s heroes. Kamplin served until long af- ter the armistice and returned to his work some time in June. ! With the Divide county members of the American Legion he conceived the idea of establishing a soldiers’ and sailors’ weekly newspaper to serve the 29,600. service mén of the state. An option . was secired on the Divide Courty Journal, published at Crosby,. and Kamplin’-then began writing let- ters to various people in an effort to secure the naming of that paper as the official publication. “He addressed. re- quests for assistance to. Secretary of State Thomas Hall; who declared he would do everything possible to have the paper named, ‘but called. attention to the fact that he had ‘but one vote. He wrote to Commissioner of. Agricul- ture Hagan who answered: “I will try to be fair in every respect and. your application will ‘receive every consid- eration.” He wrote to Sam Aandahl, railroad commissioner, who answered: “I have made, no nromises ‘but: will ract as “my ‘consélénce dictates’ when the board meets Saturday.” No: Quarrel With League. Kamplin ‘then. wrote to William Lemke, and this letter-in part was as follows: “A number of us returned soldiers have just about completed negotiations for the purchase of the Divide County Journal Of course we have to buy on time as we lost most everything we had when we went to war. We have no quarrel with the Nonpartisan league. This newspaver will immediately represent about 700 soldiers, and sailors in. Divide county and it is our hope that it will event- ually become the official mouthpiece for the entire state. As I have stated ‘before we have no quarrel with the Nonpartisan league. As a matter of fact most of the members of the Di- vide County legion belong to the league. It occurred to me that you might be willing to put in a good word for us. Hon. John ‘N. Hagan, Hon. S. J. Aandahl and Hon. Thomas Hall, are, I understand, to comprise the printing commission. To us @ paper of this kind means a great deal. * ** An- other purpose of our paper is to help perpetuate the memory of all the noble men in this state who made the supreme sacrifice and to help those coming ‘back.” To this: letter Lemke replied to Kamplin: “Received your letter in re having Divide County Journal appointed the official newspaper. In reply will state I am forwarding same to ‘Mr. Hagan who is a member of the board with suggestion that he consider your ap- plication, which I am sure he will do. Will also talk the matter over with him at the first opportunity.” Kamplin then came to Bismarck for a conference with Lemke and Hagan His signed statement concerning this meeting provides some interesting reading. It not only shows a radical change of heart on Lemke’s part but it gives a strong indication as to who actually selected the official papers In the various counties. It produces evi- dence that the soldiers whether they (Continued on Page Two.) THE SOLDIER’S “FIRST AID” BUREAU IN NEW YORK {DEFIANCE OF WILSON | URGED BY LOCAL HEADS OF RAIL CAR-WORKERS Chicago, Aug. 14.—Several thousand striking railway shopmen from all parts of the country met here today to consider the question of returning to work in accord- ance with President Wilson’s demand. Local leaders urged the’ strikers to stand firm while international officials | urged the men to call off the strike and delay until later the settlement of their de- mands for higher wages. While the meeting was in session, 28,000 striking car- workers in the Chicago dis- trict began taking a referen- dum vote to decide whether they will return to work. Railroad officials reported little change in the traffic situation due to the strike. @. RUMANIANS QUIT BUDAPEST, SAYS VIENNA MESSAGE Troops to Evacute in Conse- quence of Note From Peace Conference SITUATION IS_ CRITICAL Invaders Alleged to Have Strip- ped Country and Seized Railroads ABOUT TY LEAVE BUDAPEST. Amsterdam, Aug. 14.—Ruman- ian troops-are about to leave Bud- apest in consequence of a note sent to Rumania by the peace con- ference, according to. a wireless received here from Vienna quot- ing papers from that city. CONFERENCE HELD WEDNESDAY. Vienna, Wednesday. Aug. 13.—Al- lied. miiltary representatives confer- red at Budapest today with represent- atives of the Rumanian and Hungar- ian governments, but the results were not announced. It” is belfeved how- ever, that a crisis is imminent and that the Rumanians must give a defin- ite reply to the peace conference note of August 7 without material delay. “Meanwhile the Rumanians, accord- ing to reports from Budapest, are stripping the country and seizing the railway transportation lines. ‘Sup- Plies of all kinds are in readiness to ‘be moved out of the country. The Rumanians, it is added, have taken flour and sugar from warehouses and even threshing machines working in the harvest fields and seized food ana medical supplies from hospitals. RUMANIA DEMANDS FEDERATION Vienna, Tuesday, Aug. 12.—A state- ment attacking England and America demanding that Hungary be united with Rumania under the sovereignty of King Ferdinand and threatening to strip Hungary if the Rumanian army if forced to withdraw from that coun- try has been presented to Archduke Josef, head of the Hungarian govern- ment, by the. authorized Rumanian representatives at Budapest, according to dispatches received here. FORD JURY RETIRES TO. CONSIDER CASE Million Dollar Libel Suit Ad- vanced to Last Leg Mt. Clemens, Mich., Aug. 14.—The jury which for three months has been hearing testimony and argument in Henry Ford's $1,000,000 libel suit against the Chicago Daily Tribune re- tired today to consider its verdict, The jury was locked up at 9:55 a. m. NEW YORK.—This is the bureau in New York that gives “first aid” to discharged soldiers. Whether it’s a job he wants, his bonus or any other service to which he is entitled, he gets help and information here. And the bureau’s always busy. CARRANZA WARNED HE MUST GUARD AMERICAN LIVES AND PROPERTY IF HE WISHES TO AVOID INTERVENTION State Department Submits Sharp Note to Sister Republic, Declar- ing There Must Be Radical Change in Present Complacent Attitude Toward Outrages to Which Foreigners Are Subjected Washington, Aug. 14.—Warning that there would be a radical change in the policy’ of the American government regarding Mexico if the Carranza government continues to fail to protect Americans in that country, was Mexican foreign office July 22. contained in a note sent to the That the note had been dispatched was disclosed today by the state department together with the information that in its reply the Mexican government had said that everything possible already was being done to protect foreigners. There was the sug- gestion that unless foreigners concentrated in populous places it would be impossible to afford the protection demanded. Notification of a possible change of policy was made by the American embassy at Mexico City on instruction from the state department which determined on this course as a result of the long series of murders and outrages of Americans in Mexico culminat- ing in the murder of Peter Catron in San Luis Potosi last month. RAILWAY RIGHTS THROUGH INDIAN LANDS ATTACKED Lane Would Revoke Privileges Where Carriers Have Not Utilized Tracts Washington, D. C., Aug. 14.—Revo- cation of railway rights-of-way thru Indian reservations or land where the grantees over a period of five years have failed to construct roads or util- ized other lands granted them was recommended in a report sent to con- gress today ‘by Secretary Lane. He also asked that he be empowered to decide questions arising from the pro- posed law. ST, PAUL'S COLD STORAGE HOUSES FILLED 10 BRIM Three Times as Much Produce in Warehouses as There Was a Year Ago BUTTER IS TAKEN OVER Federal Seizes 1,282 Tubs—Grain Takes Big Drop St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 14.—Fed- eral investigations of the food conditions in St. Paul today showed that three times as much food is in cold storage here as there was a year ago. (Mountain of Butter Seized. Chicago, Ill., Aug. 14.—One thousand two hundred eighty-two tubs of butter valued at $50,000 were seized here to- day on libel warrants issued by the United States district attorney’s of- fice in the government’s war on thej high cost of living. Part of the butter seized was a con- signment en route from St. Paul to ‘Pittsburgh consisting of 300 tubs ta- ken from freight cars. The owner was not disclosed by government of- ficials. The rest of the butter seized was taken from Chicago cold storage warehouses. The seizure was made under direc- tion of United States deputy marshals on warrants authorizing the con- demnation and sale of the commodity or its disposal in any other way which, may be ordered by the court. It was learned that the government plans the seizure of other large quan- tities of food in cold storage ware- houses. Grain Takes Dron. Radical down turns in grain and provision prices took place today. Breaks were ascribed to seizure of food hordes and to other develop- ments in the war against the high cost of living. Corn fell 8 1-4 cents a bushel and pork $2.35 a barrel. $600,000 MORE ASKED TO REDUCE H. C. OF L. Washington, D. C., Aug. 14.—Appro- priations totalling nearly $600,000 with which to carry out the president's suggestion to reduce the living costs were asked by the agricultural depart- ment of congress today. Marshal at Chicago ts bE a PATTER EG, | INTERVENTION CERTAIN UNLESS PROMPT ACTION IS TAKEN, SAYS EXPERT o %. BY RICHARD SIPLLANE America’s foremost writer on finance, commerce and Economics, who is a special contributor to the Daily Tribune. Either Senor Carranza must back down or there will be intervention in Mexico by this country. That prac- tcially is certain. In some respects the situation is similar to that which confronted us in Hayti. The govern- ment there was unstable, the rights of foreigners were not safeguarded and some European nations advised the United States that if we did not act they would be compelled to do so. We acted. We practically police Santa Domingo and Hayti today. For the first time in decades there is peace. - Holland, France and-Great Britain have very large holdings in Mexico principally in thé Tampico oil regions although France has considerable in- terests in the wonderful’ hydro-electric plant at Nexaca which supplies light and power to Mexico City. The bonds of the Mexican National Railways are held principally in this country but to some. extent: abroad. The Mexican government owns: the common stock. The value of this stock today is negligible and it probably will be a generation before it is worth anything. Mexico’s railroads aggre- gate 14,000 miles. Practically every development of consequence in the republic has been the work of outside engineers, capital- ists and promoters, Mexico not having brought forth any man of distinction in these departments for 50 or 100 ears. William Jennings Bryan, while sec- retary of state, once asked some Americans who had properties in Mexico and who suffered from raids by revolutionists: “Why don’t you get out of Mexico? You have no business there. You only went there to make money, and now you expect the government to collect your bills. It will do no such thing. Good day.” Mr. Bryan was wrong. A nation is like a family. The government stands as the head of the household. The protection of the family at home and abroad is a duty. AMERICAN INVESTMENTS THERE BY INVITATION. American and foreign enterprise and money were invited into Mexico. The concessions granted in the ad- ministration of Porfirio Diaz were for the national benefit. They added greatly to the national wealth. They opened the nation up, through mines, railroads, hydro-electric plants, harbor developments, great plantations and oil fields. Today Carranza would write a new constitution which would make foreign ownership of any of the resources of Mexico illegal and, at the same time, confiscate to the state all properties now held by other than Mexican citizens. How much the foreign investments in Mexico aggregate is difficult to fig- ure for the value of some of the prop- erties has increased so tremendously in recent years that former statistics no longer fit the case. It can be ac- cepted that no other oil basin of the world is so valuable as that of the Tampico district. Oil from the wells is carried by pipe lines the compara- tively short distance from the wells or storage tanks to Tampico city or to vessels some miles off shore, the ves- sels anchoring in the Gulf alongside a pipe station and getting a cargo of oil about as rapidly as a ship gets grain when under the many spouts of a grain elevator. It can be accepted as a fact that there would be little or no oil develop- ment in Mexico today but for E .L. (Continued on Page Two.) NO PALLBEARERS; NO EULOGY MARK LAST RITES FOR ANDREW CARNEGIE Lenox, Mass., Aug. 14.—The funeral of Andrew Carnegie was held at “Shadow Brook,” his sum- mer home in the Berkshires, to- day. There was no eulogy and there were no pallbearers. The service was as simple as were the tastes and habits of the man in life. Fully one-half of the 60 persons present were members of the household. The others were int'mates of the family. The ritual of the Presbyterian church was used by ministers who officiated, assisted by the pastor of the Lenox ‘Congregational church. A mixed quartet sang the three hymns that were the favorites of the philanthropist and former ironmaster.