The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 16, 1919, Page 1

alr tonight. E BIS THIRTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 187. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1919 PRICE FIVE CENTS SUPREME COURT)’ STAYS TOWNLEY RAID ON SCHOOLS Boards Cited to Show Cause Why ‘They Should Interfere With Studies BIRDZELL SIGNS ORDER ‘ Administration and Educational Commission Must Appear September 8 Associate Justice Luther E. Bird- zell, on application of Attorney General Langer, this morning directed to the state board of administration and the state educational commission, :appoiat- ed under the provisions of the board of administration act passed by the six- teenth assembly, an order to appear in supreme court September 8 to show Cause why there should not issue a writ of prohibition enjoining them from seeking to deprive Miss Minnie J. Neil- son, state superintendent of publiz in- struction, of the power of fixing the cuurses of study for the common schools of the state. : Assistant Attorney Generai ©. B. Cox is acting in the matter for Mr. Langer. The order. signed this morn- ing by Justice Birdzell on petition of Mr. Cox is:directed to Georg: A. 'Tot- ten, Robert Muir, P. M. Casey and John N. Hagan, of the board of administra- tion, and A. P. Hollis, P. S. Berg, L. M. Dockne and D. J. Bell, of the ¢iluca- tional commission. } To Appear September 8. ‘These appointive officials are formal- ly ordered to appear in supreme court at 10 4, m, September 8 to show cause why they should not be restrained and prohibited from proceeding to prescribe a course of study for all common schools, in'accordance with a resolutiog adopted, by ‘the state board of admin- istration last week, when it removed from the office of the state superin- tendent the certification of teachers. The petition alleges that the duty of prescribing and preparing the courses of study. for the cowmon schools has since statehood been conferred on the state superintendent of public instruc- tion; Section 6, Chapter 62, session laws ef 1890, is cited in support of this con- tention, as the law of the state on this subject which hsa stood with but one amendment since statehood, and which 4s at this time the Jaw, as found in Sec. 1109 of the compiledlaws of 1913, which reads as follows: “He (the, ptate superintendent of Public instruction) shall prepare and prescribe the course of study for all the common schools of the state.” =<Section 9 Cited. 4 The petition also cites Section 9 of ; board of administration act ,which ex- pressly .reserves to the state superin- + tendent of public instruction all powers held by her prior to the passage of this act. The petiton recites/that fhe fixing of the: course ‘of‘studiey for the common schools is one of the powers su reserved, and that furthermore — this legislative enactment, according to the power is inherent in the office of the staté superintendent of public instruc-| tion and cannot be taken away by any opinion of the North Dakota supr-me court in the case of ex parte Corliss. RAILROADS ACCEPT ALL FREIGHT HERE; STRIKE AT AN END Livestock Being Shipped in Large Numbers Very Early This Year All freight is now being accepted for delivery “without delay” by the local railroads, it was reported today. A telegram was received by Northern ‘Pacific officials instructing them to “accept freight for the Chicago and “Northwestern and the Chesapeake and Ohio of Indiana, and all points in the country.” There is a large amount of live- stock now moving over the Northern Pacific, according to H. V. Wilmot, traveling freight and passenger agent of that road here. Mr. Wilmot stated today that there will be a special train of livestock out of Mandan next week and also one out of Killdeer, with another out of the latter place the first week in September. These special trains are composed of approximately 50 cars each and each car holds an average of 20 head of cattle. The shipping of livestock is very early this year, according to Mr. ‘Wilmot. shiYnents usually starting the end of August at the earliest. There is an increase of at least 25 per cent in the amounti of stock ‘being shipped this year in comparison wth last year’s shpments, accordng to the ralroad offical. Killdeer Has Fine Cattle Mr. Wilmot stated today that the grazing condition around Kildeer is exceptionally good and that that sec- tion is shipping a high grade of feea ecttle to South St. Paul and Chicago markets. Most of this cattle, he said, had been shipped north from Mexico and Texas and has been grazing on the reservations. In July, the Northern Pacific had over 500 cars of livestock shipped over its lines between Bismarck and’ Glendive. This was extremely early for large shipments, according to ‘Mr. Wilmot, and 75 percent of the total shipped was the result of the drouth. Half Rate on Feed Farmers and cattlemen in western North Dakota and eastern Montana, where the feed is very scarce, are commencing to take advantage of the half rate on feed and hay shipped into those sections from Minnesota and eastern North Dakota. The Mis- souri river is the dividing line, it was stated. It is expected that shipments of these commodities will be very heavy this fall because of the lack of grass due to the drouth. SIOUX CITY MAN HELD IN CHICAGO FOR SOUTH DAKOTA BANK ROBBERY Chicago, Aug. 16.—When police today arrested Frank Boyles of Sioux City, Ia., ina South State street hotel as an assistant to the robbery of a bank at Dempster, S. D., they found several hundred dollars worth of nickels piled on the floor. It was neces- sary to call a patrol wagon to remove the coin to a police station. ¢The bank at Dempster was held up August 2 by bandits who escaped with $6,000. NO BIG RUSH IN HOMEBUILDING 1S BVIDENT $0 FAR State Association Has Not Re- ceived Enough Money to Erect First Cottage Sah NOT LOANING ITS FUNDS Many Applications Received From Borrowers Who Have to Be Disappointed The North Dakota home building association is making naste slowly, according to Robert B. Blakemore. its manager. One of the principal teasons why the association is not building any homes at present, and will not do so in the immediate fu- ture, is that it ‘has not the where withal. The home building associa- tion relies upon its members for funds, and its membership, just now is decidedly limited. To correct thie condition agents or organizers are tc be placed in the field. It will be their duty to organize local home-buying leagues, through which there may be accumulated the money which the association must have before it buy a single form or builds a- solitary home for its members. When any individual member of one of these leagues has paid into the association 20 percent of the purchase price of a home, whose cost ig not to exceed $5,000, or a farm, which is not to cost more than $10,000, he may make-spplication to the-asso0clation for the purchase of such farm or home, and if the association chances to have the money handy, it will pro ceed with such purchase. More Borrowers Than Investors. st. at present there seem to be many more people in ‘North Dakota desiring to borrow from the associa: tion than there are investors whc wish to hand their money over to the association. ‘Manager _ Blakemore states that his mail is flooded with requests for loans. These come prin. cfipally from people who have al- ready borrowed money on_ their homes or farms, and who wish tc take; aavantage of the ten or twenty year amortization plan and the ad- veftised lower rates of the state as- sociation. “We are not competing with any privately-owned building and loan as sociation,” said Mr. Blakemore. “We are not in a position to make such loans. Ours is purely a co-operative organization whose only capital wil! be that paid in by its members, and this capital can only ‘be used as pro. vided by law.to buy new homes and new farms and to encourage home building and the ownership of farms We cannot help the man who has al ready acquired a home or a farm.” Little Action So Far To date little has been done be- yond the preparation of the forms which Manager Blakemore regards necessary to the development of the work. Inasmuch as the most miodest dwelling is now costing $1,000 per room, there seems little probability of any extensive building campaign being conducted this fall under the $5,000 limit for house and lot. TOWNLEY’S FRIENDS REWARDED WITH BIG DEPOSITS OF FUNDS Allotment to Those on Good Terms With Boss Doubled; Others Cut Down An examination into the public rec- ords by State Auditor Karl Kositzky has disclosed the manner in which the Townley government rewards its friends and punishes its enemies. The Scandinavian-American bank of Far- go, controlled by interests identified with or friendly to Townley, was des- ignated by the state board of audits as repository for $25,000 of the state’s funds. It now has on deposit $66, 157.98, which amount exceeds by one- third the institution’s capital stock of $50,000, which is said to be in direct violation of the law safeguarding the deposit of public moneys. A bank on the slope controlled by Adam Lefor, another league friend, has on deposit $15,175 of the state’s faoney, while it was designated for only $8,000. On the other hand, the Middlewest Trust Co, of Valley City, designated for $50,000, has but $12,333.80; the ‘North- west ‘National of Grand Forks, desig- nated for $25,000, has but $6,275, and other institutions are in like cases. Minister Here The Rev. Robert H. Myers, former ly pastor-at-large at Bismarck of the Presbyterian church, was a visitor in Bismarck yesterday on business. Rev. Myers is now residing at La Moure. ‘COMMUNISTS OF AMERICA TO BE CONFEDERATED Left Wing Socialists Plan, Or- ganization of the Ultra- Radical Reds “SOCIALISM” TOO TAME Word Has’ Come ..to Signify Merely “Welfare and Uplift,” Assert Leaders New Yo;k, Y., Aug. 16.—Left Wing” socialists have issued a call to radicals throughout the country to at- tend a convention in Chicago on Sep- tember 1 to organize “The Communist Party of Ameria” it was learned here today when a copy of the call was made public by the joint legislative committee investigating seditious and anarchistic activities n this state. The “Left Wngers” declare their intention of severing their connections with so- cialism on the ground that the word has come to signify “merely welfare and uplift.” The proposed platform demands “dictatorship of the proletariat, both Industrial and agricultural and nation. alization of great business enterprises and financial trusts.” International alliance with other Bolsheviki of Rus- sia and the Spartacans of Germany is also advocated. RUSSIAN. TROOPS: WIPE OUT FORCE OF BOLSHEVIK] Several Battalions Reported An- nihilated in Capture of . Narva London, ‘Aug. 1.—Several battalions of Bolshevik troops have been wiped out in the new: counter offensive of the northwestern Russian army along the river, Luga southwest of Petro- grad according to dispatches from Helsingford ‘dated. Wednesday. The Soviet forces also lost. a large num- der of prisoners, machine guns and ammunition. On the west bank of the Luga east of Narva the anti-Bolshevik: troops occupied Alexamdorffakia Gorka. ‘South of Narva other anti-Bolshevik detachments, made ‘ralds~ against *'the Soviet front and cptured. 500 pris- oners, : 3 MINIMUM WAGES FOR EVERYBODY NEWEST SCHEME Arthur Henderson, Socialist Leader, Would Nationalize All Incomes ‘London, Aug. 7, Correspondence of the Associated Press.—The latest thing in the labor program of social reform is the provision for minimum incomes for every man, woman’ and child. Under the scheme which is fathered by Arthur Henderson, secretary of the labor party, 20 per cent of all-incomes would be nationalized at the source and paid in a pool which would be de- voted solely to the provision of a per- manent weekly income of $2.25 a week to everybody. At Logan Grocery Bob Sheehan, who formerly worked at the Stacy Fruit Co., is asisting for a time at the Logan grocery on Third street, during the absence of Melvin Burbage, who has gone to Colorado on a motor trip. ts WASHINGTON.—Telephone > censor on the American, lines in Paris during the war, then’ president ‘Wilson’s pri- vate chipfyoperator, on the switch- board in the Murat mansion in Paris, Miss Beatrice Francfort'is now back in the United States. She gave up business to volunteer for telephone service abroad. NORTH DAKOTA ‘IS COMING: BACK AS GREAT COW STATE Hundreds of Thousands Loaned on Cattle, According to Lan- | ; ger’s Records That North Dakota is coming, back’ as a cow state is shown by. reports which are being received by Attorney General Langer through A. \W. Carl- son, who is tiaking a special. investt- | gation of m@neys and cré@dits due) trom foreign. corporations. The: St. Paul Cattle ‘Loan Co., said to be a subsidiary of_the Swift Packing Co., is shown’ to hold chattel mortgages or notes secured ‘by North Dakota live- stock aggregating $474,051,64. Many securities of thiditype have also ‘been resold, it is said, . to ‘North Dakota hanks*or~ individials:-* “Under the state moneys:and. credits act. the St. Paul Cattle Co. will pay the state $3 ver thousand on’ these holdings, or $1,460. ? The. Patterson Land Co., another Twin City corporation, will pay a moneys and credits tax on $395,779 of ‘North Dakota paper, and the Northwest Improvement Co. of St. Paul will be taxed on $1,242,672.72 Several of these ‘corporations have united in a suit to test the act in the North Dakota supreme court. SHOP STRIKE AT END; TRAFFIC 10 BE. NORMAL SOON Strikers Return to Work Today in Accordance With Thurs- day’s Mass Action Chicago, III, Aug. 16—Railway shopmen, who have been on a countrywide strike since August 1, returned to work today in accord- ance with action taken at a mass meeting in Chiago last Thursday. M. J. Gormley, assistant region- al director for the northwestern region, said he expected traffic on all railroads would be restored IRISH FACTIONS LOOT AND BURN; TROOPS STONED Rioting General at Londonderry Following Insult to . DeVallera UNIONISTS RESENT ACTS Clubs, Bricks and Rocks, Weap- ons Used in Series of Seri- ous Street Battles Londonderry, Aug. 16—Rioting and looting occured in this city during last night and early this morning, Troops charged on mobs but did not fire any shots. The soldiers, however, were met with a volley of stones when they at- tempted to break up a nationalist dem- onstration. The monetary luss from loot and damage is estimated at thou- sands of pounds by the police anthori- The trouble started when a nativn- alist set! fire to a number of tar bur- 1els which had been collected under an) arch over which had been set a picture of Edward BP. De Valera, recently elected president of the “Irish Repub- lic” and sang the “Soldiers’ Song.’ ties, Unionists responded by singin; na- tional anthem. One force of troops kept the streets clear and charged on the thronge re- peatedly, Bricks and stones were! hurled at the charging troops, one sol- dier being seri Jy, hurt. The nation- alists finally driven back to their own quarter. Windows were smashed and shops’ were looted by the crowd and the city was in darkness the entire night, More rioting is feared tonight. The soldiers used in suppressing riots between nationalist and unionists in Londonderry last night and early to- day were withdrawn at. 4 o'clock this morning. A number of rioters were in-{ jured during charges by the police and! soldiers. RiOTING GENERAL, Belfast, Aug. 16—Ten nationalist excursionists’ were injured during a fight Friday with Orangemen at Lis- burn, county Down. Serious rioting also occured at Coal, county Tyrone, in which several. policement:and military officers were ‘itijured severely. FIRST DIVISION ON WAY HOMETO KENTUCKY CAMP Men Who Captured Cantigny and Have Held Coblenz Bridgehead Get Orders Coblen Thursday, Aug. 14.—The American first division, the first di- vision to land in France and the cap- tors of Cantigny, will begin leaving the Rhine for home tomorrow. It is expected that all troops will have arrived at Brest within a week. The Coblenz bridge head, which has been held by the first division since the departure of the second, now will be taken care of by such, troops as the Eighth infantry regiment ofthe Amer- ican army which will remain on the Rhine for several years. The first division is bound for Camp Taylor, Key. SMALL BLAZE YESTERDAY. The fire department was called out yesterday to extinguish a blaze that threatened the Masonic temple. The fire originated in a pile of wood and rubbish in the rear of the building and due to the high wind might have proven serious if it had not been no- jticed in time and the department noti- fied. Very little damage was done as the firemen had a stream of water on to normal by Monday. it in a short time. WHEN GOOD FRIENDS GET TOGETHER — FORD'S PARTY i é 3 GREEN ISLAND, N. Y.—When Henry Ford visited his new tractor plant at Green Island, he combined business with pleasure and made a cam ping trip of it. Burroughs were in the party. A Cadillac turned into a sleeping car and a kitchenette made on a Ford chassis provided all the comforts of home. Left to right the entire party is: Of course Tom Edison and John H. S. Fire- stone, Jr., H. S. Firestone, Thomas A. Edison, John Burroughs, Mayor James R. Watt of Albany, Henry Ford, Chauncey D, Hakes and Samuel Ott. OLDEST PACKER IN COUNTRY IS DEAD Milwaukee, Wis., Aug. 16.—Freder- ick Layton, 92, the oldest meat pack- er in the country, died today following a week’s illness, Mr. Layton had lived a retired life for many years. He was a noted phil- anthropist. He was a director of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul for many years, was a bank director and was interested in a number of busi- ness institutions. FOOD THIRD IN LIST OF GOODS SHOWING GAINS Clothing and House Furnishings Have Advanced Much More Than Eatables CHICAGO IS MOST COSTLY Washington, D. C., Aug. 16.—General increases of about 80 percent in the cost of living during the period from December, 1914, to June, 1919, were shown in tables made public here to- day by the department of labor. The tables were based on investigations in various representative cities over the country. In every instance greatest in- creases were recorded in the prices of clothing and house furnishings: Food advances were of third importance. Figures for the period from December, 1917, to June, 1919, showed generally average increases of about 20 percent, Total increases in the two items of food and clothing without considering other items in family budgets showed enormous increases, From December, 1914, to June, 1919, the advance in the ease of Chicago being 157.7 percent. The same items went up 125 percent in Detroit, 125 percent in Cleveland and 110 percent in Seattle. Smaller increases in such ‘things as housing, fuel, and light and miscellat- eous items lowered the general average increase. In all instances the increase in clothing prices were greater than any other item. BEACH EDITOR CHARGED WITH CRIMINAL LIBEL (Sheriff Pierzina Through: ‘Bis< marck With Warrant for Martin Blank Beach, N. D., Aug. 16.—John Pier- zina, sheriff of Golden Valley county, left this morining for Fargo with.a warrant for the arrest of Martin Blank editor of the Golden Valley Progress, published here,.who is charged by State’s Attorney Gallagher with crim- inal libel. Blank, who has been conducting an active propaganda in connection with alleged to have charged Gallagher edi- torially in this week’s edition with con- niving: with Offley to shoot Bowen. Judge Crawford of the district court today admitted to bail in the sum of $10,000 each the four men who are held for the slaying of Bowen. WILSON REFUSES APPROVALTO ACT SHORTENING DAY Declares Pressing Need of Coun- try for Production Makes Daylight Essential Washington, D. C., Aug. 16.—Presi- dent Wilson today vetoed the bill re- pealing the daylight saving law. . The president said he returned the bill without his approval with “the utmost reluctance” because he realized “the very considerable and in some re- spects very serious inconveniences to which the daylight saving law subject- ed the farmers of the country.” Declaring the pressing ned of the country was for production by indus- try the president said he had been obliged to “balance one set of disad- vantages against another” and decide which was the most serious for the country. LIBERTY BONDS CAN’T BE SOLD TO GIVE BANK OF DAKOTA MORE CASH ——= Attorney General Langer has been asked. whettter $16\000 of (Liberty bonds owned by the teachers of North Dakota, in their retirement fund, can be sold and the proceeds therefrom added to the millions of public funds which now are on de posite in the league-controlled Bank of (North Dakota. The question came up Friday at a meeting of the trus- tees of the teachers’ retirement fund, which now amounts to $191,599.13. The board of university and school Jands also has been a buyer of Lib- erty bonds, and it has $400,000 invest- ed in Uncle Sam’s securities, The same question has arisen in connec- tion with these holdings. Without going into all the lagal phases of the matter, Attorney General Langer has informally expressed the opinion that these bonds cannot be sold. the recent killing of M. K. Bowen, is! LIVING PROBLEM OF FUTURE T0 BE SOMETHING REAL Representative of Farm Organi- zation Warns Labor and Capital to “Cut It” When Agriculturist Does Get Up on His Hind Legs and Rar’, “Look Out” Washington, D. C., Aug. 16.—Unless “capitalistic monopoly,” and organized labor “cease profiteering in goods and wages” the next vital question of the season will effect a condition of liv- ing now undreamed of, the senate and house agricultural committees were told today by J. R. Howard, president of the Jowa Farm Bureau federation. Mr. Howard appeared as spokesman for a committee recently appointed at a conference of farmers from Iowa, ‘Nebraska, Indiana, Ohio and Illinois. Denying that the farmers were re- sponsible for present conditions, Mr. ‘Howard said: “The high cost of living is not due to lack of desire or efforts on the part of the farmers to produce to the limit of their physical ability. The farmer has not struck, walked-out, or otherwise slackened his production, He has increased his efforts, extended his operations to the limit of physical ability and financial credit, and striv- en to feed the world believing that the world would fairly and gladly rec- ompense him.” EUROPE FACING DISASTER; COAL SITUATION BAD Berlin Sees No Hope for Conti- nent Unless Great Finan- cial Pool Forms Berlin, Fridy, Aug. 15.—That all Eu- rope is facing disaster in the coal.sit- ‘uation, is the common opinion. of’ in- dustrial and shipping leaders who have been conferring on the csubject here for the last few days. Walter Fehling, of Hamburg a shipping ex- pert,..in..discussing -the. prospects. for the coming winter so far as Germany is concerned delared the fuel situa- tion will positively prove a more po- tent reviver of aute Bolshevism than will food. Experts estimate the shortage in the German. coal output for the mext twelve #ionths will be approximately 100,000,000 tozs. Financial Pool Inevitable. Financial leaders here express the opinion that the formation of a world’s financial pool calculated to stabilize the international situation is inevit- able if central Europe as well as en- tente countries are to escape the af- ter-the-war cataclysm. RAIL CHIEFS PUT ON OVERALLS AND WATER LIVESTOCK Humorous Incidents Arise Out of Recent Strike When Diner Is Iced All signs of the recent strike that threatened to tie up the railroads of the country have disappeared and both the Northern Pacific and the Soo railroad report that freight and passenger traffic is normal again. On the Northern Pacific divisions from McKenzie to Glendive, Mont., all te boilermakers, machinists, shopmen, car cleaners and others who dropped their tools some time ago, are now back at work, according to officials of that road today. Approx- imately 200 men were effected at the division points at Glendive, Mandan and Jamestown. Officials Water Cars One of the humorous incidents arising from the strike was the water- ing of livestock being shipped as freight and the ice of cars containing perishable freight and passenger and dining cars by supervising officers of the roads affected. H. V. Wilmot, local traveling freight and passenger of the Northern Pacific, was engaged in this work three days at Mandan and the same length of time at James- town. “It was good fun while it lasted,” said Mr. Wilmot today, “but a little bit of it goes a good ways. All of the officers were clothed in overalls and one of the funniest sights was when we first started to ice the dining and passenger cars at the division points. One prominent official whose name I dare not mention, nearly caused a riot when he dropped a piece of ico down the chimney of a diner. Wheth- er it resulted in a “cold dinner” for the travelers I don’t know, but the colored chef’ could not see the funny side of it. ‘ “All of the work was done very good naturedly and what we lacked in experience we made up in hard work. We were on the job cintinually for sixteen hours a day icing cars, water- ing livestock, coupling and uncoupling cars and do many of the other tasks around the yards. The strikers did not bother us in the least as they did not look upon us in the same light as workers imported to hold their jobs permanently.”