The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 13, 1919, Page 1

yi § HE BIS BU THIRTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 210. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA SATURDAY, SEPT. 13, 1919. PRICE FIVE CENTS BOSTON LABO ) STRIKE SERIOUS; FIGHT TO END Positions of Striking Police Are Declared Vacant by Com- missioner Most Extensive Industrial Up- heaval Looked for by Leaders » Boston, Sept. 13.—It is a fight to a finish, The officials formerly held by striking patrolmen are vacant. New men will be recruited. The request of Samuel Gompers that the strikers be reinstated is refused. This is the attitude of the state as made known today by Police Com- missioner Curtis. It appeared to mean the complete failure of the attempt at compromise, Attention is turned to the position to be taken by the Boston firemens electrical workers, telephone operat- ors, carmen and other organizations affiliated with the policemen’s union. A general strike has been threatened and if the threat is made good the most wide spread labor trouble ever experienced in New. England is im- minent. Doubt as to Attitude There is no doubt as to the at- titude of the’ other unions. It is re- ported there are strong differences of , opinion within the unions. Some of them will vote,on the question to- night. Others’ are’ expected to take action within a day or two. (Meantime it is known the authori- tfes have taken steps to meet the work. Federal troops are available to reinforce the state guard which is now policing the city with the aid of vol- untary officers and such of the old policemen as remained loyal. Under the direction of Brigadier General ‘Sweetser, the old state militia is being revived through recruiting. The city was generally quiet today and business went on as usual. One Shot and Killed Raymond Gaist of Dorchester was shot and killed when he resisted a state guard. It was said he refused to move on and when prodded with a bayonet attempted to seize the guards gun. In the excitement that followed and while the guards were dispersing the crowds another shot was fired wound- ing a woman in the knee. Police Commissioner Curtis today announced that the posts deserted by striking policemen were vacant and that he would proceed to fill them. Governor Coolige: promptly -endorsed the attitude of the police commis- sioner. ‘New York, Sept. 13—When inform- ed of the action of Police Commis- sioner Curtis of Boston in declaring vacant the positions of the striking policemen, Samuel Gompers, president} # Y of the American Federation of Labor, said, “I suppose ‘he is willing to as- sume the responsibility for the con- sequences of his action.” He would make no further comment. Pays $400 for Drink of “Hootch” and Then Finds Out It Was H-20 Montana’s Thirstiest Man Tells Sheriff Sad Tale of Kick- less Liquid (Missoula, Mont, Sept. 13—Mike Marino is the latest Montanan to be hard hit by the high cost of liquids. , * Marino has told his story to.the sher- iff. It goes something like, this: Three men accosted Marino and de- clared they had 20-gallons of “hootch” obtained before the country went dry; that they had to go east and could not transport the stuff. F “I told them to lead me to it,” said Marino, They came to a 20-gallon keg in a shack near the railroad yard, One of the men inserted a rubber tube and partly filled a glass. Marino drank, paid the $400 and the men departed. ‘Water. MINE WORKERS URGE ECONOMIC LABOR ALLIANCE Cleveland, O., Sept. 18—The United », mine workers convention today en- dorsed the Plump plan for the nation- alization of railroad, pledged support of the miner’s association organization to secure its enactment and invited the railroad brotherhoods to join with them for alliance for the joint action 10 be later extended into an economic alliance with the labor organization in other basic industries, The conven- tions action was almost unanimous, Warns Against Use of Alcohol for Bath or Drinking Purpose Cincinnati, O., ‘Sept. 13.—Internal Revenue Collector Gilligan , has re- ceived a communication from the com- missioner at Washington advising that reports received thera establish the fact that completely denatured alcohol is being used extensively for bathing ‘and rubbing purposes. Such use of completely denatured alcohol is highly injurious to the skin and animal tissues, it is stated. It also has been established, it is said, the denatured alcohol is being t# sold in some instances by dealers “under circumstances that assure them it is being used for beverage purposes. ‘Where it is used for any length of time blindness inevitably ensues, and the continued use can only result in ‘fleath, according to the Commissioner. Another Klondike Gold Rush Being Made at The Pas Indian Made First Strike and Now the Copper Lake Re- gion Is Frenzied The Pas, Man., Sept. 13—The gold rush to the Copper Lake region failed.| to die quickly, as some mining men had forecast and the government has become interested in activities in this wild region. Jacob Cook, an Indian prospector from the Hudson Bay country, made the first strike, Dispatches assert that his find was a pay streak of four inches wide in a 6-foot vein of quartz. Copper Lake is east of Lake Atha- papuskow, and about 50 miles east of the sulphide mines. It is about 60 miles due north from here but prospectors are obliged to travel 150 miles by water to-get there. There is no railway. Pioneer miners from The Pas who are at Copper Lake have reported that rude buildings are springing up and that scenes which took place during the Klondike and California gold rush- es are being re-acted. CHARGE COMPANY DISCRIMINATED AGAINST FARMER Occident Elevator Officials Ar- rested by Attorney Gen- eral’s: Department MAY CANCEL CHARTER Pay Two Different Prices, It Is Alleged, for Same Kind of Wheat Action which may result in the can- celling of the charter of the Occident Elevator Company, headquarters in Minneapolis, the largest line elevator company operating in the state, start- ed yesterday with the arrest, ar- raignment and binding over to dis- trict court of three managers of local plants. Charges of aiding and abetting the Occident Elevator company in unlaw- ful discrimination have been preferred against LeRoy Irving of Hazelton, R. J. Schott of Linton, and W. R. Gentz of Temvik. The three men were ar- rested upon the complaint of Assistant Attorney General Albert E. Sheets, Jr., following an investigation of condi- tions. Phillip Pfeiffer, farmer residing two ‘miles\ from Temvik, on September 10, took a load of wheat, newly threshed, to the elevator at Linton securing $2.37 per bushel and a grade of No. 3 Northern. From the same threshing and stack he hauled a load to Temvik ind was there paid $1.43 per bushel ‘and a grade of No. 1 dark Northern; and the following morning he took a load of the same grain to Hazelton which he sold to the Occident Elevator at a price of $2.50 and received a grade of No. 1 Northern. Waive Examination All three men. arrested were ar- raigned before a justice at Linton Fri- day and waived preliminary examina- tion. They were released under bonds of $2,000. The arrests were made under amended statute against unfair dis- crimination which makes it a crime for any corporation operationg elevators at various points in the state to buy grain at one point at a lower price than that which is paid for grain at another point, excluding the differ- ence in freight between the two points and the difference in the quality of the grain. The officers of the Occident Eleva- tor company as.@ result was summon- ed today to appear at Linton on Sep- tember 26 ‘to ‘ariswer to the same charge of unfair discrimination. In the event that they are found: guilty of the crime charged, the Occident Blevator company will be suspended from doing business in the state of North Dakota and the charter will be cancelled. Langer Made Investigation The arrests today were the result of investigations carried on by At- torney General William Langer for a number of months. “Men who pay un- fair prices for grain to the farmers of this state are criminals in no differ- ent sense and in no smaller measure than those who violate the swindling, highway robbery or other laws of a similar character,” said Mr. Langer. “An effort has been made by the old line elevator companies, doing busi- ness in this state, to discourage the patrons and stockholders of farmer elevator companies, and to wipe out local competition by lowering the price paid for grain at points where independent grain buyers are doing business and boosting it at those points where only old line’ elevators are in operation. As soon as the farmer elevator companies have been forced to the wall the price of grain drops and the farmer is once more at the mercy of the so-called grain trust. “Those elevator companies and their agents who are guilty of this method of unfair discrimination are criminals even more dangerous than those per- sons who commit swindling or grand larceny, because unfair discrimination robs every man who sells grain tribu- tary to the elevator of the guilty com- pany.” TO RETAIN LINERS Washington, Sept. 18.—Some of the seized German liners are to be re- tained permanently by the United States as a part of the army transport corps, Cheif of Staff March today told the house military committee. President Wilson has definitely de- cided on the ships, he said, but asked to be excused from discussing the plan of disposal which would be announced s00n,, ty ( NORTH DAKOTA HAS ONLY STATE-OWNED BANK DISABLED YANKS Mrs. Poole of Red Cross An- nounces Latest Improvement to Help Soldiers > Important changes have been made on the vocational rehabilitation act and Mrs, T. H. Poole, secretary of the home service bureau of the Red Cross is ready to furnish former service men who are entitled to benefits under this act with all information they de- ; sire., Some of the important changes in the act are 1. Benefits of the Vocational Re- habilitation,.Act. are,.extended to, men who were discharged in disabled con- dition between April 7th, 1917 and October 6, 1917. 2. Men with major vocational handi- caps will be given first considera- tion in being placed in training. Men with minor ‘handicaps will be given training later. Men with minor dis- abilities which may be removed by treatment will not be eligible to train- ing. 8, All cases in which the disabalities are of a minor nature will be given training under Section 3 of the Vo- cational Rehabilitation Act. This Sec- tion provides training after compensa- tion is awarded. Tuition and books will be given free but no subsistence will be paid by the Federal Board. The men will, however, get their reg- ular compensation and family allow- ance payments. 4, Vocational advisors will no longér be sent out through the Division to interview appilcants for training. The Federal Board will summon them to its Minneapolis office for interviews ' sistence. 5. A man. with a major vocational handicap may be put in training by the Federal Board without waiting for the award of compensation. 6. The Federal Board will enter a ; man in training as soon as it ‘has been decided that his injury or disease con- stitutes a vocational handicap, and that he is physically fit to undergo training. It is no longer necessary to await the approval of the Headquar- ters office in Washington. 7, An allowance of $80 a month for men without dependents and $100 for men with dependents, plus the allow- ance to the family which was recefv- ed while the man was in the service, will be paid during the entire training period by the Federal Board for Vo- cational Education. Officers will re- reive the same amounts. These amounts are given in paragraph 107 of the Handbook. Compensation and allowance to dependents will not be paid by the Bureau of War Risk In- surance to men who are receiving Federal Board subsistence during training but will again be paid by that Bureau as soon as the man is out of training. It is the responsibility of the Home Service Sections to understand these new provisions so that our’ service to disabled men may be carried on. Will you please take up with the Di- vision office any points in the new procedure which do not seem clear to | you. Marjorie C. Evans (Mrs. H. C.) Director, Bureau of Information & Publicity, Department. of Civilian Re- lief. Great Lakes Naval Patrol to Be Armed Toleda, O., Sept. 13—Preparations are being made here and at other points for establishing a patrol on the Great Lakes. The move has been au- thorized by the Navy Department to protect and aid. the marine interests, to save life and property and advise others in the work of enforcing navi- gation laws applicable to the Great Lakes. It is said that four Eagle boats will be assigned. The ships will work under orders from the naval district headquarters at Great Lakes, Ill, The ships are to be armed, it is said. LAW FOR AIDING BISMARCK.—Here is the lobby of the new State Bank of North Dakota. It is the only state-owned bank in the country and the first of a group of North Dakota’s publicly owned institutions to begin operations. Below is Miss P. A. Benson, deputy director of the farm loan department. VULTURE PERCH Miami, Fla., Sept. 13.—Many hours before the storm which sank the Ward liner Corydon in the Bahamas channel Tuesday with a loss of 27 lives a vulture followed the ship and perched on her spars while members of panic stricken crew believing in. the super- stitions ‘of the sea were convinced that they were doomed. Such is the story brought here by eight of the crew who were 53 hours} adrift on an upturned ‘boat battered and bruised and without food or water. All day Sunday as the ship pursued her way in calm seas and light winds the great bird hovered overhead. Sunday night and Monday the Cory- don staggered thru the slashing seas. ‘Monday night every member of the crew was engaged in a desperate bat- tle.for life. There was no food; the galley and provisions rooms were flooded. Tuesday morning they lost control of the ship, the wireless ap- paratus was short circuited and no S. O. 'S. calls could be sent out. When the vessels went under the Americans in the crew kept their FEELING TURNS AGAINST RULE OF WAR REGINE London, Friday, Sept. 13—The re-]) sults of the election of Widnes Lan- caster in which Arthur Henderson the labor leader was elected, the house of commons is considered a and pay their transportation and sub-, Severe blow to the coalition govern- ment and has revived speculation as to the prospects of another general election. The: virtually unanimous vote of the trades union congress at Glasgow for the amelioration of mines and todays vote to withdraw British: troops from Russia are regarded as evidence of every determined attitude on the part of labor against the gov- ernment. The sreconstruction of cabinet is long overdue and has been delayed only because the ministral changes would involve an election which it is said would almost certainly provide additional ¥evidence that the tide of feeling in the country is running strongly against the government. $39,000 WILL BE SPENT BY MANDAN FOR CITY NEEDS Commissioners Adopt Budget for Financial | Requirements Until Sept., 1920 Mandan, N. D., Sept. 13.—Thirty- nine thousand one hundred dollars is what the city commission estimated will be needed to run Mandan from September 1, 1919, to September 1, 1920. At their last week’s session the following budget was arranged to care for the city during that period, and city taxes will be levied on that basis: Salaries «+ -$ 8,500 Street lighting . 7,000 Highway, bridges and s! Fire department ~. Board of health .... Fuel ee Books, printing and Waterworks fe Special park improvemen Sinking fund .... Interest on bonds ..... Sidewalk construction ...... Contingent expenses ......- TOTAL .. ilk! UNE Wi eee Go East on Vacation . M, Dahl and daughters left for the Twin Cities on a vacation and buy- ‘stationery ing trip. Mr. Dahl will also go to Chicago before returning to this city. ED ON SHIP'S SPAR SPELLED DOOM FOR SAILORS OF STRICKEN VESSEL i heads and saved the lives of some others of the 36. “YT slid against a life boat and clung) !« lreceived while working for the com- to it when the Corydon lifted” said! one of the survivors, “The life boat and I shot into the sea together. Luck- ily it landed right side up and I got} in, All the oars were lashed to it.’ Nine other men got into the life boat and a few moments afterwards the Corydon went down. Almost im- mediately the life boat capsized three times as fast as the men could dive from under it and right it again. They lashed themselves to the seats with strips of clothing. Thifd mate Malloees told a graphic story of his battle with John Cond- ron, a Greek-American seaman, when the latter became crazed by privations and fear. “I held him all the first day and night,” said Malloees. “He was, raving crazy. He got violent and tried to draw a. stilleto, I tied him to the boat then. Wednesday I became so weak, I} could do nothing with him and whenj he got a chance he threw himself over board and was drowned.” ENTENTE AND RUMANIA NEARER AN AGREEMENT Paris, Sept. 18.—The situation be-' tween Rumania and the Entente ap-| pears to be brighter, A cordial meet- ing was held) by Stephen Pinchon, rench foreign minister, and Nicholas su, Rumanian representative in Paris, and M. Vaida, one of the Ru- manian peace delegates, yesterday, The Ruman' sed the desire of Rumania guard their coun- tries national. dignity and to uphold her avowed intentions to remain on; friendly relations with the Entente. still without official confirmation of the reported fall of the ministry head- ed by M, Bratino, Advices of further requisitioning in Hungary by Rumanian troops were} received today by the supreme council, On September 10 the reports stated the Rumanian requisitioned 71,425 pairs of shoes from the orphan asylum in Budapest. Of these the great bulk were shipped to Rumania. Many other cases of alleged looting were reported. FIRE RAGING IN N. Y. OIL PLANT) New York, N. Y., Sept. 13—Five| alarms had been turned in at 2:45 Dy m, today for a fire which is raging inj the plant of the Standard Oil Co.! along Newton creek. in Long Island {treasurer should not pay) the bureau's [Aig Liner Makes Successful Trip With 89 on Board a) Minealo, N. Y., Sept. 18.—The Law- son air liner carrying 89 passengers landed here safely at 10:30 o’clock this morning after a successful flight from Syracuse. The plane left Milwaukee ten days ago stopping at Chicago, To- ledo, Cleveland, Buffalo and Syracuse. OLSON WILL NOT PAY WORKMEN'S BOARD WARRANT State Treasurer as “Custodian of Workmen’s Compensation Fund”, Balks a %. BEFORE SUPREME COURT First Warrant Drawn by Com- mission for Injury Award Meets Harsh Treatment The constitutionality of the Work- men’s Compensation act will probably Le decided in'an action filed with the supreme court of North Dakota late Friday night. This action is the result of State Treasurer O, A, Olson refusing to pay voucher warrant no, 1, drawn by the Workmen's Compensation commission 7.33 on its award allowed to A. Stern, employed by the Northern Produce Co, of this city for $s of wages due to an injury he had pany. L. J. Wehe, one of the commission- ers of the workmen’s compensation board and William Lemke, legal ad- visor of the nonpartizan league will represent Stern in the proceedings, At- torney General William Langer, it is understood, will represent the state. The warrant was drawn on the “treasurer of the state of North Da- kota as custodian of the North Dakota workmen’s compensation fund” and Stern, through Wehe and Lemke, has mandamused Treasurer Olson, it is! said, to show cause why the state! award, Although the real action in the is to test the right of the compensation bureau to draw its war- rants direct on the treasurer’s office, yet legal men here state that in all probabilities its result will go a far way to determine whether the act it- self is constitutional, HISTORY OF ACCIDENT Stern, while carrying boxes at the Northern Produce Co. on July 4 ran a nail into a finger on his right hand.| Op July 23 he was forced to give up work because blood poisoning set in and he v unable to. resume his du- ties until August 12, being laid off for 19 's. On August 138, he filed papers} claiming compensation for that! period on the basis of 66 2-3 percent of his UNITED STATES SPENT MILLION AN HOUR FOR TWO YEARS, SAYS PRESIDENT TO TACOMA AUDIENCE Immense Crowd Yells “No! No!” When Asked by Wilson If They Had Forgotten Desire to End Autocracy and Guaranty Liberty Tacoma, Wash., Sept. 18.—Reading to a Tacoma audience today a part of his address to congress asking a dec- laration of war with Germany, Presi- dent Wilson declared the purpose there outlined was not yet fulfilled and would not be until the treaty was ratified. Pointing out that he had asked in that address for a complete freedom from autocracy and guaranty for lib- erty everywhere, he said that was the program which had been adopted without respect to parties and which it now was proposed to abandon in some quarters. When he asked wheth- er the people wanted it abandoned there were shouts of “no!, no!” and cheers from the crowd. It was the first of two addresses to be delivered by the Bresitlent an Washington dur- ing the day, a night meeting bein scheduled at Seattle. 4 . Before he went to the armory the president was driven to the stadium where a cheering mass of humanity including many school children wel- comed him. With a seating capacity of 30,000 the stadium was packed ex- cept for small spaces at the end of the’ jhorseshoe and thousands more thronged ‘the steps and terraces above. In a brief address at-the stadium Mr. Wilson said he was grateful that the children had come out to see him because he felt the decision being made now affected the children more than those of the present generations. There was a continual roar of cheering after he finished his speech and until his party had circled out of the sta- dium on the way to the armory. At the armory, which was packed, Mr. Wilson was introduced by N. B. Coffman, president of the Washington state branch of the league to enforce peace. _ Giving the cost of the war on both sides at 186 billions and the cost to the United States at $1,000,000 an hour for two years, he said that was the cost in money of saving civiliza- tion. In addition, he continued, there were 7,450,200 battle deaths. These were “terrible facts” he declared, and he had come out to the people to see whether they had forgotten them. “The country has not forgotten,” he added. “And it will never permit any man who stands in the way of the ful- filment of our pledges to forget the sorrowful day when he made the at- tempt.” President Wilson arrived in Tacoma at 9 o’clock this morning. SENATOR GIBBENS TO BE BURIED AT 3 O’CLOCK MONDAY, State Officials Send Telegram of Sympathy to Bereaved Widow Senator A. S. Gibbons of Cando, who died Friday morning at his farm home, will be buried Monday at 3:00 wages. The compensation commission award- ed his claim of $37.33 for loss of pa and also allowed $15 for medical se: ices rendered. It is these two war- rants that Treasurer Olson refuses to pay. The case has been set for hearing on September 18. The action is being watched by em- ployers of labor all over the state for lin all probability sufficient flaws will be fond in the law to declare it un-, constitutional, Other court actions are pending on the payment of premiums by employers but this is the first legal, action on whether the commission has the authority to draw its warrants direct on the state treasurer as “cus- todian of the North Dakota workmen's compensation fund.” MEX CHIEF READY TO FIGHT U. S. Nogales. Ariz, Sept. 13. Alvaro Obregon, former minister _ 0! war in the Carranza cabinet and a candidate for president in 1920 an- 1ounced today that he would take the field against the United States in the event of armed intervention by the United States. city. The plant covers many acres. PERSHING REPORTS TO BAKER UPON FIFTY-NINTH BIRTHDAY; CROWDS FIGHT TO SEE HIM Washington, Sept. 13—Almost fight- ing his way through hundreds of ad- mirers gathered at the war depart- ment General Pershing officially re- ported to Secretary Baker today his return from France with his misson— victory over Germany—accomplished. The chering crowd had waited long to see him. By actual physical effort aided by two of his staff officers and finally by guards of the building Gen- eral Pershing got through into the Secretary’s room. There were no ceremoines attend- ing General Pershings reception at the war department. He came as any other high officer would come to re- port. This is General Pershing’s 59th birthday. He was born September 13, volunteers would soon be heard in the} Missouri town where he was born. From that day his life’s history has been filled with the things of war General Pershing will dine tonight with his father-in-law, Senator War- ren of Wyoming. It will be a private dinner with only a few guests. Hours before the call by general Pershing on Secretary Baker there was mobilization of spectators in front of Mr. Baker's office. The general saw several members {of congress and others who called to present invitations from cities and towns eager to receive him. After his conference with Mr. Baker, Gener- al’ Pershing’s program was to go to his office here in the old landoffice 1860, when the war clouds of the struggle betwen the states were about to break and when the first call for building to reestablish headquarters in Washington of the American Ex- Generat |} pm State officials at the capitol and other who knew Senator Gibbens in- tmately and his personal sacrifices for public service were considerably sad- dened at the news of the stateman's death. It was planed by a number of state officials to attend the funeral ‘services, but because of the distance from the capital city and the unfavor- able train schedules it was found im- ‘it is said that if the supreme court possiple to " i : The Rumanians representatives are|decides adversly in this instance that ee reach Cando in time. How- some officials may make trip by auto. The following telegram was sent to the widow, Mrs, A. S. Gibbens, from the capitol: “We are inexpressably shocked and grieved at the sudden and untimely death of Senator Gibbens. The state can ill afford to spare a public servant of his sincerity of purpose, personal honesty, ability and high ideals. His sympathies were so broad and both his public and private acts so just und kind that to know him was to honor and love him. His long and faithful vublic service places him among the most distinguished of our citizens and entitles him to the gratitude of our state. Kindly accept in this dark hour of your sorrow our most heartfelt sympathies, the (Signed) Llyn J. Frazier, William Langer, John N. Hagen, Minnie J. Nielson, O. B. Olson.' e Carl R. Kositzky. Thomas Hall, SHORTAGE OF GAS IN OHIO LOOMS UP Toledo, O., Sept. 13.—Gas companies of Eastern, Northern and Northwest- ern Ohio have sent out a _ warning from the West Virginia field that the gas supply in that district may be exhausted after 1921. The effect in this district would be felt heavily, it is pointed out, as thousands of fami- lies depend upon gas for their cook- ing and heating. In addition to the domestic consumers who would have to resort to other fuels, several of the leading industries would be para- lyzed at least temporarily. Bisse aie esta WAR ON SEIN FEINERS Cork, Sept. 13—The military and police raids which began yesterday in connection with the proclamation of the supression of the Sein Fein parlia- ment and Sein Fein organizations throughout Ireland were continued to- day. During the morning raiders proceeded to the house of David Kent a Sein Fein member of parliament and peditionary forces, Seana je no opposition, searched the place. The raiders met /