The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 19, 1919, Page 1

1K TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA . FRIDAY, SEPT. 19, 1919. PRICE FIVE CENTS : ARMY GOODS GOBBLED UP BY THIRTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 215. \ | TOWNLEY IN NEWS ORR aaa | LIGHT BUT BANK me AIR LINER TO TRY TEST TRIP TO THE COAST FOR WINNING VICTORIA CROSSES, : AMERICA NOW LEADS THEM ALL), "0THE coast ’ Lawson air liner left here today for : . Corpus Christi, Sept. 19—With a large amount of territory still to be explored searchers today doubled their efforts to recover bodies of persons who BOARD STEPS IN lost their lives in the gulf hurricane which struck this vicinity last Sunday. line has not been visited and there still ix much wreckage in the city to be re- moved. Early today 284 bodies had been re- ported buried and of that number only $2 identified. Fifty-seven bodies have been buried here. “Friend” of Tiller of Soil Wants STAGE SET FOR : Rich Quick Wallingford” is so danger- cus to the farmers of North Dakota, that the state banking board, sensing Officials En Route Home to Pre- ' the danger and grave possibilities that - Ey might result from, Townley’s effort to pare for Big Industrial Struggle form country banks in the state, has! instructed Attorney General William Langer to immediately warn all farm- ot : ers of the form of bank organization peine ‘projected and promoted by CANNOT ACCEPT TERMS ‘ownley, ! The board, in 4 resolution passed yesterday, expressed in no uncertain terms the dangers of the Townley method of forming banks among the farmers, It urges that farmers who wish to organize banks do so in such a manner that they will be able’to say who will be the officers of the institu-| . pitisburgh, Sept, 19.—Labor leaders tion, the kid of notes it shquld take from. yar' tions of the country and other matters affecting the actual who atten ‘the: meeting here during operation .of the bank which is im-'the Yast two day8‘of the national com- possible under Townley’s plan. ‘mittee for organizing iron and _ steel Townley’s, scheme is to go onto a workers were enroute to their homes commuity, snggést.to the farmers there today to make final arrangements for that they need @-bank and then vol- the nation wide strike of iron and unteer to raise more than one-half of steel mill employes not working under the desired capital himself.“ The farm- pion agreement which is to go into ers believing, as they have been in- effect next Monday, structed to believe, that Townley is 4, “Ail hopes for a postponement of the god and is always striving to help the gtrike until after the industrial con- farmers, thank him profusely for his furence in Washington October sixth as splendid offer, get the money needed requested by President Wilson were and the bank is formed and started apandoned yesterday when the com- with Townley owning more than half of mittee voted down a motion to rescind the stock and thereby controlling the the strike order and adopted a motion Nonpartisan League Head Urg- ing Farmers to Form Finan- cial Institutions HE RETAINS 51 PERCENT Wire Wilson That Delay of Walk- out Imnossible Because of Intolerable Conditions Long stretches of Neuces Bay shore}: bank, naming its officers, directing its policy and saying what shall be done with the banks funds. BOARD INDICATES DANGER The banking board points ‘to.- the danger in this method of high finance stating that such banks “are inimical to the best interests of the state guar- antee fund” and that it considers “the double liability of the league exchange valueless.” The board urges the farm- ers to form their own bank so that they. will “not be subjected to dictation of any person or corporation.” The resolution as passed by the banking board Thursday in full is as follows: RESOLUTION : Whereas information has=come to fayoring the walk out. In a letter dispatched to President Wilson last night, the committee as- serted its entire membership, the pres- idents of 24 international unions, “rep- resenting over 2,000,000 — organized men,” desired to comply with his re- quest for a postponment of the strike if possible and that such action would have been taken had it not been for certain “facts” which were embodied in the communication. “The facts given in the letter charge that “ever since the men started to or- ganize prosection was instituted begin- ning With discharge/ and ending with murder recalling to us the days of Homestead and Reign of despotism in Russia. jwon Victoria Crosses in The Victoria Cross and Americans who wonit. Above: Left, Sergt. W. L. Rayfield; right, Capt. B. S. Hutcheson. Below: G. H. Mullin. Only 177,of Medals Given in En- tire British Army of 5,000,000 Men, But Six Yanks in 12,000 With Canadian Troops Are Honored| FE. A. Special to The Tribune, London, Sept. 18.—Six Americans of 12,000 serving with Canadian troops the Great War. But 55 Victoria Crosses were award- ed among all the rest-of the 450,000 dominion soldiers, 5 British ‘troops, numbering 5,000,000, were given 177 of the medals. Five of the six Americans lived to receive. the cross. from the king; the left to right, Corp. H. G. B. Miner, Corp. W. H. Metcalf, Sergt. PRESIDENT WILSON SOUNDS GRAVE WARNING AGAINST RADICALISM AS RESULT OF TRIP IN NORTH DAKOTA AIR FLIGHT FROM FRANCE Paris, Sept. 19.—An airplane flight from France to Australia will be at- tempted by French Aviator ;Poulet it ‘ig announced’ by “thé” Excelsior,* today. | After Coming in Close Touch With Affairs of Nonpartisan League in This State Chief Executive Talks of Dangers It Engenders. Considerable publicity has been given; in the papers of the larger cities of President Wilson’s comments on rad- icalism following his trip through North Dakota where he came in close touch with the working out of the pro- Washington on the first proposed transcontinental flight. Milwaukee, Wis., to this HIRAM JOHNSON SCORES LEAGUE TOLEGISLATORS Declares Before Minnesota Leg- islature That Public Sentiment Is Opposed to Pact A REVOLUTION ce; CALLS IT Californian Says Haste Is Due to Democrats Fear of Defeat When People Know St. Paul, Sept. 19.—Senator Hiram W. Johnson, of California, in an ad- dress delivered to a special session of the. Minnesota legislature this morm- ing presented his arguments in opposi- ton to the unqualitied ratification of the league of nations covenant. He charged those behind the peace pact were endeavoring to rush it through the. senate before the people fully un- derstood the provisions of the measure. The senator expressed the opinion that if action on the league could be delayed 60 days, the people would speak in positive terms and insist on its defeat or amendment so as to pro- tect the country’s interests, Public sentiment against the leage is growing every day and is fast as- suming the proportions of a revolution, said Senator Johnson, “Its friends realize that if it is not rushed through uow before the people have had an opportunity to understand it, their cause is hopeless, That explains the haste to have it ratified without amend- ments, The statement that immediate action is necessary to stabilize business is absurd. As our people become nearer, normal and see things again with clearer ion they begin to understand the inquity of the thing that is sought to be fastened on America. The treaty of }eace was made in accordance with the contract secretly sealed and de- livered among England, France, Italy avd Japan. We talk of what the treaty should contain but the treaty when written contained what the other rations, wanted. and followed their Secret bargainings.” Jeg of a The plane recently compieted a trip from PROFITEERS Chicago Probe Shows That Govy- ernment Food Sale Is Mis- handled by Authorities PRODUCTS ARE STORED Retail Grocers Sold Them at 100 Percent Profit, Charges Investigators Chicago, Sept. 19.—Huge quantities of canned government goods fell into the hands of packers, wholesale gro¢- ers and retailers and thereby prevented pest office authorities from — filling orders filed by William Mulvihill, at- torney for the city bureau on food markets and farm products charged at the city’s investigation into the high cost of living. Approximately $145,000 worth of food wags sold through the Chicago post office andyonly part of two very small orders have been ‘de- livered to the post master, W. B. Car- lile, post master stated today, The canned goods “are being stored until the public has forgotten there ever was a promise of army goods at Jess than one-half the present retail {prices,” Mr, Mulvihill asserted. “Then 4g wilbibe placed on shelves and re- led: Ab profits that are appalling, Phiree retail grocers at the hearing admitted’ that stores had sold army canned goods at more than 100 per cent | profit. Each of the grocers sought to con- vince the authorities that only a few cins had been sold and that those sales were made by clerks who acted Without instructions in selling the goods. They asserted that inspectors for the city’s pure food bureau were the only persons to whom sales had been made, TONNAGE TAX IS VRTORD BY GOV. BURNQUIST St. Paul, Sept. 19—Governor Burn- quist today vetoed the Bendixen ton- nage tux bill passed by the state legis- lature this week. The bill levied a |tax of five per cent'on the value of the ore at the mouth of Minnesota Mines. PRINCE ACCOSTED i this State Banking board that A. C.} “Treats and intimidation are re- sixth died’ in the performance of the}pne airman plan, to start September gram of the Nonpartisan league. Prac- BY BATHING GIRLS Set ” © “for deed that won him the honor, 9 ‘5 ris wi me as his} tically a he write He referred to the 14 points which P Townley and a man from San Fran- storted to,” says the letter, ‘for the 28 from Paris with Melbourne as his) Ucally all of the write ups appearing |p Saent Wilson had declared would| ‘Halifax—The Prince of Wales had cisco by the name of Cutting, are out among the farmers of this State or- gunizing banks which are so organ, ized that a corporation controlled by A. C. Townley owns 51 percent of the stock in each bank with the result. that the farmers putting their money in, will have nothing to say about the actual operation of the bank, who will be officers, what kind of notes it should take, etc., and Whereas, the banking board con- siders the double liability of the league exchange valueless, and ‘ Whereas, banks organized as out- lined above are inimical to the best in- purpose of putting the men in fear and preventing them from/ exercising their own free wills, coercing them into signing statements that they are not jrembers nor will become members of any labor organization and threaten- ing them with eviction and black list, denial of credit and, starvation.” VOTE SYMPATHY STRIKE Detroit, Sept. 19.—Members of the sailors union of this port voted un- avimously in favor of a strike in sym- pathy with the strike of steel workers called for September 22. Union officials, announced this morning 239 ballots jhave The six are: Sergt. W. L. Rayfield, V. C. Sergt. G. H: Mullin, V. C., M. M. Sergt. R. L. Zengel, V. C.‘M. M. Capt, B. S. Hutcheson, V. C., M. C. Corp, W. H. Metcalf, V. C., M. M. Corp. H, G. B, Miner, V. C. (de- ceased). It will be noted that four of the six won, the Military Medal or Military Cross, in addition to the Vie- tory Cross. RAYFIELD Rayfield, who calls half a dozen states “home,” was awarded the V, C. tor bravery in the fighting east of A The official cita- destination. The principal stopping points as indicated in plans for the} flight are Rome. Brindisi, Constantin- ople, Bombay, Calcutta, Bangkok, Sing- apore, and Batavia. . D'ANNUNZIO STILL HOLDS CITY OF FIUME in the papers feature the president’s remarks and all of the writers unhesi- tatingly state that. the remarks were ede by the president with the league and its activities in view. One of the paragraphs in an eastern daily written while the president was| traveling between Bismarck and Hele- na, Mont., is as follows: orth Dakota, through which yesterday, the President san League in d making every endeay- 1d their radical. doc- The situation there has be« acute that members of the come be incorporated in the ‘peace pact and asserted, he was obliged to abandon them one by one and accept a treaty written by European diplomats by the terms of which America is required to guarantee with its blood and treasure for all times the division of foreign territory and peoples, He denied that the delay of the sen- ate in ratifying the peace pact had any connection with the high cost of liv- ling. 136 DEGREES HITS FRENCH WINE YIELD Paris—Intense heat and lack ot a chance to inspect Halifax ‘bathing girls at close range. Four of them as he strolled along the shore swam in, approaching him and asked, ‘Are you the Prince of Wales?” The girls nearly fainted when they found he really was, but recovered to chat with him, to the delight of the prince. ONE IN 30 SOLDIERS TAKES FRENCH WIFE Paris—One in 30 of allied soldiers sent to France has taken home a French bride, if American and Port- uguese claims are correct. It ig es- timated 100,000 French women have q terests of the state guarantee Fd. a cant f the mari ooks a Hoe Se ee tans: American Legion, composed of sol- {rain has seriously affected production| married Americans and the Portu- Be it resolved, that a warning be he vote 0 he ine cooks and ached ae = 1 r mele 5 «| dierg who have returned from | of wine in France, for acres of vines| guese legation says 3600 Portuguese (! sent out by the attorney general of this stewards union and the Marine firemen, renee ceoepled company te we els F Rome, Rare i ae Hine mle France, are making open; threats | are so badly scorched as to be useless] soldiers thave taken French wives. b State, warni farmers of this oilers, water tenders and coal passers th, occupled by 2 rge party xed by General Badoglio for the Ital-} Tea EMEA TEs T SS tle Uk yi \ aaa of bank senicatien and onthe: union is being taken and tabulations the enemy, personally bayonetting two} jan troops entrenched at Fiume with ita they wilt ee o the matter neg for Rae Official ere Se of uke Bov ernment tor lunged to offer te i (Continued on Page Two.) (Continued on Page Two.) end taking ten prisoners. Later he|Czptain D’Annunzio to return to their; thelr own ands JE the powers ot. | grees are reported in some sec-|ducements to foreigners marrying located and engaged, under constant} commands expired last night. Latest} the radical element cannot other- ions. French women to remain in France. rifle fire, an cnemy sniper who was] adviced from the scene of Captain D'-| Wise be broken. . > { causing many alties. He then} Annunzio’s. coupe showed “his forces}, 12 Montana, the situation is dit- ih rushed the section of trench ,from| still in control of the city. The food] ferent. ‘The Non-Part san League MBING PLANE ARRIVE AFRLY | 4 whfeh the sniper had been operating} situation there is said to be serious.| 22 the I. W. W, endeavored to get PLACED AT BILLION AND HALF BY EQUALIZATION BOARD TODAY and so demoralized the nemy’ by his coolness and daring that 30 others sur- rendered to him. “Again, regardless of his personal safety, he left cover under heayy ma- chine gun fire and carried in a badly wounded comrade. Rayfield enlisted in Los Angeles in July, 1917, with the British Recruiting “There have been no advices as to the blockade of the place by Italian yal and military forces. There are indications that people not essential to the defensa of the place may be com- yelled to Jeaye so that. the armed forces may be able to hold out longer. VANDEWATER a grip in the State, but so far have failed to gain much headway. In | Billings this morning it was openly declared that they would hang the advocates of Bolshevism, rather | than permit them to rule, Another comment appearing in the y York ‘Times in connection with sident Wilson’s utterances in Mon- WITH FIVE PASSENGERS MAKING TRIP FROM FARGO WITHOUT STOP x $3,800,000 for General Purposes, $755,155 for Soldiers’ Compensa- |r ee area ae eee aera fin sats pri __ | Bucking a 40-Mile-an-Hour Wind All the Way, Giant Aircraft Has 4 F on 2 " i Detroi ots iladel- The President found -abundan' . * A 4 tion, and $1,510,310 on One Mill School Levy, Taxes Francisco, Detroit, Denver, Philadel. inspiration for his auaeks oli Stormy Voyage, Covering 200 Miles in Two Hours and 45 Increased Nearly Three Times Over Last Year On an assessed valuation of $1,510,- 810,719 of all property, both real and personal in the state of North Dakota a 3.02 mill levy will be made to pro- vide $8,800,000 for general purposes. Besides this huge amount to run the state for the ensuing year, $755,155 will be needed for soldiers’ compen- sation and a one. mill tax levy for school: purposes will produce another $1,510,310, These figures were announced here year would be the same as 11.33 on last. year’s assessed valuation, or al- most three times as great. Increase Nearly Tripled By way of comparison it is shown that on an assessed valuation last year of $2,000, property holders were taxed $8.60 while this year the same piece of property would be taxed $22.66. Last year, with the one mill school tax levy, $401,659 was raised, but in- asmuch as the assessed valuation is He won ithe Victoria Cr phia, New York, Des Moines,’ Kansas City, St. Louis and Néw Orleans. ZENGEL Zengel is a naive of Fairbault, Minn, for attack- ing a machine gun, single-handed, kill- ing most of the crews and capturing those who remained alive. He cele- brated his 24th birthday on armistice day, Noy. 11,,1918. MULLIN Portland, Oregon, is the birthplace end Seattle, Wash., and San Francisco, Cal., were the home-at different per- icds, of Mullin, who is as famous as’ a “one-man army” as Corp. York, of. Tennessee, is in the United States. Mullin cqptured and killed more Ger- , Mr, Vanderwater's HURT IN AUTO RACE ACCIDENT Word was received at the local office of Jim Jam Jems that M. 8. Vander- water had his skull injured in an automobile race spill in Washington. Mr, Vanderwater has been visiting in Wenatschee, Wash., for several weeks. It is not known what the extent of the injuries*4s, but his friends believe that condition is very serious. radicalism in this region, It is said that his utterances today were influenced not a little by the spirit of revolt as represented by the Farme on-Partisan League and the I. W. W., which is strong in North Dakota. | -Deploring the spread of radicalism land the teaching of class hatred that) uany of the Nonpartisan league lead- ‘ors constantly ferment, the president in his Montana speech, with the league programm in North Dakota fresh in mind, said: There can be no democracy with the control of a few of whatever Minutes; Leaves Tomor LEAD BOMBING PLANE | Fargo, N. D., Sept. 19.—Col. R. 8. Hartz left here this morning at 10:45 o'clock for Bismarck continu- ing his 8000 mile flight around the rim of the country. It is under- stood that Col. Hartz will make a continuous flight tb the capital city. The big Martin bomber. carries a crew of four men and in addition one passenger, J. E. Rockwell, newspaper man of Fargo, will be carried to Bismarck. | | | | a row for Glendive, Mont. “Just getting away. Ground is soft and we had to taxi farther than usual as the 9500 pound machine was making deep tracks in the soft earth, “Circled around Fargo and then headed straight west along Northern Pacific track. “Climbing steadily. We are register- ing 1,000 feet, now 2,000 and now 3,000, |This seems to be the altitude chosen for the flight. “It is now 11:15 and we are passing over Casselton. I am in the front seat with Dobias. “Look at the ducks,” he today following a meeting: of the state | increased this year while the mill lev i a half years h eee bare! Kind or class, there can be no board of equalization. The total as-| remains the Ramey schools will rebel weaecint the foul ae ay) tates PREPARE FOR REVOLUTION democracy of any sort. And we yells, and I turn just in time to see sessed valuation of the state might be Amsterdam, Sept. 18—The com-| have not yet finished with the Completing the 200 mile jump from| half a dozen mallards flash by far to increased about $5,000,000 when all of the telephone, telegraph and other utilities are finally assessed. According to Carl Kositzky, state auditor, the $8,800,000 for general ‘purposes will not be sufficient to meet the expenses of the state’s operations for the present fiscal year and that at least $200,000 or $300,000 more will be necessary. Mr. Kositzky bases this on the fact that some of: the larger corporations in the state are fighting their taxations in the court, and there is a possibility that the cases will not be finally disposed in one year, or that the courts might find against the state. There would be a resultant decrease ‘for school purposes in this state this $1,510,810. The way the law stands it is impossible to reduce the school levy below one mill, it is said, and therefore more money will be raised year than ever before. The 1919 legislature appropriated for this year $7,251,855.43 wHich in- cludes a few small standing appropria- tions while the 1917 legislature appro- priated $4,123,854.99, or almost, one- half'as much The appropriation for this year, together with the $755,155 soldiers’ compensation will bring the amount up to more than $8,000,000. Included in the $3,800,000 for gen- eral purpose is the interest and sink- ing fund requirements on the $2,412,- men in his battalion, the famous Prin- cess Pat’s. He is credited with having brought down more than 300 Huns, mostly snipers, and with having cap- tured gt least one-third that number. The specific deed for which he was awarded the V. .C. was his capture, single-handed, of a master “pill-box” tiat was preventing from. breaking through the final de- fenses in the Cambrai region, He crawled up to the “pill-box,” under in- tense fire, climbed. to the top and through the “air-hole” shot and killed the man manning the machine guns in- side. He slid off the box and reached the entrance in time to accept the sur- render of the remainder of the garri- the Canadians | * munists of Westphalia are planning a revolution for this autumn under the leadership of Russian bolsheviki the Rheinische Westfaelische Zeitung re- ports, Red companies now are arm- ing themselves secretely it is declared. High School Burns ‘ Down at Jamestown, No Lives in Danger Jamestown, N. D., Sept, 18—The explosion of a alcohol stove in the janitor’s part of the building. de- monopolies. The world is finding that out, like what is responsible. for conditions in Russia, i I find wherever I go in America an infinite pity for that great peo- ple. Everybody who has mixed with the Russian people tells me they are among the most lovable people of the world—people who easily trust you and accept you to be as trustworthy as they are. And yet this people is delivered into the hands of an intolerable tyranny. It came out of one tyranny to get into a worse. A little group of some thirty or forty men are the Fargo in just two hours and 45 min- utes flying time, the “Round-the-Rim” flyers made a perfect landing.on the Fort Lincoln flying field at 1:40 o’clock this afternoon, and the four members of the crew and one passenger climbed down from theshuge Martin bombing plane. “It was the longest, continuous flight ever made by an airplane in North Takota, and the first time that an airplane has made the trip from Fargo to Bismarck, The time made was much _ slower than expected, for the big machine has a maximum Speed of 120 miles an hour or better, but throughout the journey the left. “Below us is a freight train that looks like a long garter snake, “The sensation is one of just craw- ing along, but I realize that we have passed Casselton, ~ “Lieut. Harmon is piloting the ship and Col. Hartz is sitting beside him reading the maps, while Harding is in the rea of the fuselage with some ‘bombs’ to drop on Valley City and Jamestown. “ ‘Getting rough’ shouts Dobiag in my ear, “Here’s Valley City in sight. Pass i at 11:45 and drop a message to the mayor. Are Still flying at 3,000 feet, although we dropped down to 1,000 in the amount of taxes raised if either /909 four per onds and the $2,-|son, 10 men, who fell over themselves|| stroy high School here > of these actions materialize. 500,000, avag err bonds issued Bs jin their eagerness to do the “kamerad” peered He sneer ec m The masters oF sub ueople at present the machine bucked a stiff 40-mile| while passing over the city. q The assessed valuation of the state! summer for mills and elevators out of tict. building was insured for $20,000 a ae Gene ag ee the wind. “Some more ducks. e under the new Nonpartisan league |the $5,000,000 authorized by the state HUTCHESON and the contents for $3,000, ‘The || maintain thelr power by the | ‘The crew is composed of Col. R. S.| “Away ahead of us on the road is afi h % laws is almost four times as great as | legislature. Capt. Hutcheson was born in mt. ! loss on the contents is considerable. sword, Hartz, Lieut, E. E. Harmon, and Mas-|aato, probably making 30 to 40 miles } \ it was last year phen ee coe te Ses Carmel, Ill:, graduated from North-|| The school was the only frame pub- They youl ora ieee symptoms fen soaeinests Jack Harding eat Jer-|an eo We pass ib apparently y aba 5 b levy last a P i of chaos spread to other countries? |ry Dobias. The one passenger who ar-|as raj as we e st a ‘ ‘was the total. The mi 'v SPURGEON’S AUNT western University, at Chicago, and | lic bnildihg in the city and was DP) xiceah thle alone ae eee mates La ly go by th Ty year for gereral purposes was 4.3 mills, while this year it’is 3.02 on an assessed valuation that is almost four times as great. It is pointed out that on this valuation, the milllevy. this London—An aunt of the late Charles H. Spurgeon, famous preach- er has just celebhated her 100th birthday anniversary. The king sent, her a message of congratulation: | was a practicing physician at Mound City, Il., when he enlisted in 1915 in the medical section of the 75th: Toronto. battalion. 5 (Continued’on Page Two.) originally built in 1879. ‘The school children’ formerly occupying — this buiding are crowded in class rooms dn: other. schools, \ . If you had been -across the sea with me you. would know the dread in the mind of every thoughtful well, ‘editor of the Fargo Forum, Following are some extracts from man in Europe is that that dis- | (Continued on Page Two.) ke kept during the trip: the notebook of Mr. Rockwell, which | fair. “The farms-look like model farms. that you see on exhibit at the state * (Continued on Page Bight) «:-*