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

4 CK TRIBUNE THIRTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 2 oi 36. BISMARCK,.NORTH DAKOTA TUESDAY, OCT. 14, 1919. ’ HEAD OF NATION-WIDE ‘BOMB PLOT IN CUSTODY TWELVE OF ORIGINAL STARTERS IN TRANSCONTINENTAL AIR DERBY ARE SAFELY ACROSS FIRST LONG TRAIL Dozen Machines Have Flown Ac! ross Continent From Mineola to San Francisco or From Golden Gate to Long Island Sourd— Only Two of Western Aviators Remain in Race—Contestants Finishing at Eastern End Show Little Enthusiasm. Mineola, N. Y., Oct. 14.—With twelve of 62 original ‘starters safely across the continent and preparing to start.the return flight the first half of the army’s air service transcontinental race be- toeen Mineola and San Francisco entered its final phase today. Sap By sun down it was expected srg contestants would have checked in at the two seaboard control Only two of the fifteen original San Francisco starter still in the race remain to check in at Mineola. Five already hg arrived and the other eight haVe been forced out along the reac. stations. by accidents. Contestants: who finished the first, that the majority of the remain- pat Mineola displayed little enthusiasm foy the return-flight. All-were severely fatigued by the trip east which was made and several .expressed' the belief be served by continuing the race. under trying weather conditions that no practical purpose would ll stated they have contem- plated starting back if it is proved possible to get their planes repaired within the 96-hour time MAYNARD STARTS BACK , San Francisco, Cal., Oct. 14,— Lieut. Belwin W. Maynard, who blazed the trail from the Atlan- tic to the Pacific in the first lap of the army’s transcontinental air race, was prepared to start at 1:12 p. m. today on his return’to Mineola, N. Y.,*in the same De Haviland airplane in which he made the record-breaking flight. The only new part the machine required was a tire to replace one which blew out when he landed here. ‘The hour set for Lieut. Maynard’s,..departure. was..the earliest possible under the rules governing the race 990,000 MEN ON STRIKE: FAMINE ~ IS THREATENED Gotham’s — Starvation | During Winter BUT ONE RAY OF HOPE rt ! Head of Longshoremen’s Union! Announces Referendum Vote Will Be Taken New York, N. Y., Oct. 14.—With, at Jeast 220,000 workers either on strike or idle as the ‘result of strikes, ac- cording to uniop estimates, New. Yo: today viewed: with increasing, concern the prospect of a.serious food’ shortage rendered imminent by the refusal last night of the longshoremen to, return 10 work and continuance of the teamsters’ strike. The only ray of hope was the: ar-! nouncement by President O’Connor of; the. international Longshoremen’s as- sociation that various locals woul now take a referendum vote on the question of returning to work. The industria} unrest’ in the city is shown by Ernest Bohm, secretary of the centrat federal union #f greater New York in which he says, 120,000 workers afffiiated With, the ‘American Federation of Labor are on strike, In addition Mr, Bohm states that there are 50,000 “unclassified strikers” and 50.000 nonstrikers. that are out of Work, 1 ARBITRATION;DEMANDS IN Washington, D. C., Oct, 14.—Labor’s demand that. the nation, wide steel strike be arbitrated was reported . to the national industrial conference to- day by the steering committees of fif- teen without recommendation, but with the suggestion that if arbitration is] undertaken the proposed committee of six be choosen by the three grouyy in the conference from members or %t0"- members of the conference. Thomas L. Chadbourne, chairman of the committee, announced that two groups in the committee opposed the resolution proposing arbitration but that a majority of,all the members cf the committee also favored it. IMPORTANT HEARINGS SET BY RAIL BOARD ’. Three important hearing have been set by the railway commission for this month. October 22 the board will hear at its office petitions from citizens of Drake and the state flour mill at that point who believe the Soo line should instal a track scales , there; October 27 the adiourned hear- ing of the Bismarck Water Supply Co, will be held at the commission {commend limit set by the air service. HEARING SET T0 TAKE UP BRIDGE “OVER MISSOUR* District Engineer at Kan3:- to Hear Opinion: October 2¢ MAY LOWER. Curt Chief Ready to Uua-ise: tion of Plan iiver 4 ghany at atybare. A hearing vw R. 1. Ward, a's posed million doll: across the Missouri ri ma Major Ward advises that th proposed aye in accordance wi >> usual ctice for bridges on the souri river’ as to location and of spans, The plans differ from the usual practice as to vertical clearanc: The vertical clearance proposed is feet above the extreme high water of the navigation season, or 37.6 fe2t above the mean June high water, which is 14.4 feet lower than has been re- quired in the past. Under past requirements, states Major Ward, the bridge would be 49.t feet above extreme high water, or 52 feet above the mean June high water. The: chief of engineers is willing to rc- a minimum clearance of 82 1-2 feet above the extreme high water of the navigation season, or 35.4 above the mean June high water, pro- vided that the: needs ef navigation as presented at’ the hearing do not) show a necessity for greater vertical clear- ance, This clearance is based on :the opinion of the secretary of war, dated March 23, 1917, in the matter of the elevation of the bridges over the Al- Jeghany river at Pittsburgh, in whicn it is held that “boats suitable for use on the’Alleghany river néed a clearance of 32 1-2 feet with their stacks down.” As the decision in.this case will form a precident for’ the vertical clearances of future pridges on the Missouri, States-Major Ward, an expression of opinion-is desired as to the necessary yertidal: clearance for bridges on the Missouri. A questionaire has _ been prepared for thé benefit of interestel parties who may be unable to attend the hearing in person. : The proposed bridge will be the drst wagon bridge to span the Missouri in North Dakota and the only wagon bridge of a'really permanent nature between Sioux City. and Great Falls Burleigh and Morton county, the state and federal highway department pro- pose to cooperate in its construction. TRUCKS CAN’T FLY SO PATHFINDERS ARE, BEHIND SCHEDULE “Unfortunately trucks’ cannot fly,” remarks the officers in command of the, All-American Pathfinders, in ad- vising military headquarters here that the expedition, its trucks delayed and disabled by mud en route to St, Paul ‘cannot reach’ Bismarck in time for the state convention of the American Legion, Thursday and Friday, as had|co been hope: ‘ LOFTHUS FINDS THINGS: \ LOVELY IN GATE CITY O. E. Lofthus, ‘state examiner, re- turned Monday to Fargo, where he is acting as temporary receiver for the Scandinavian - American bank, under. ‘appointment-from the :sup¥enie:. gion, willl } hi eins’ “of pat ns, “of the Overland: ‘élephone Co.-of Westfield. against: pervice rendered, comune court, i ‘He spent: Sunday with his family here| Because of’the growing accumulattoa! ‘and’ reported: that matters ‘were pro-' of city. ceeding smoothly at Fargo, AL ming opinion from the attorney ral’s office appended: The second her calls for $100,000, and Mr. .us'tzky ‘reckons it is up to him to day There have been several Smith of Beach, formerly secuce, a Mayor. street.”,’ a foot vl VERN 0,000 | ATE TREASURY { McGovern, ' aver of the state mill and eleva- j ssociation, whose draft for $50,- i un the.state treasury was rejected { 4uditor Kositzky last week on the | nd that, warrants could’ be drawn | upon the presentation of item- | expense~vouchers,-came -back at | state auditor Monday with an 0. | voucher with: the state auditing |: d’s ‘seal attached and with an i | | | s/ between Kositzky and u + | astm over the size of the latter’s ‘transportation oflicer o1 4 nse items, The attorney general’s on the charge of obta Tice holds that the act creating the ture of Harry A. Dunb: .nd elevator association provides ment by which the said Seaman A.i attempted ta te of North the fund appropriated for this Smith is alleged to } | purpose be paid to the association in obtain money from the such chunks as it may request, with-|Dakota under out itemized vouchers. CITY DADS WAGE | WAR ON YOUTHS HUNTING BEASTS |Bad Enough to Take Shots at Mayor and Commissioner, But Must Leave Globes Alone It is bad enough when young nim- rods of Bismarck take. pot mayor and the city comn when they star globes on it downtown section, the city commission feely that it is time to put a s' the practise before the youngsters start towing French 7 and do more serious.and costly damage. At .their meeting last night, Larson, the jovial city commissioner, wanted to know if something could not be done to stop the practise of using the frosted globes for targets. missioner Larson did not Kornet’s nest he was stirring up when he made that si sided ‘with Larson on the matter and aded: “The other day some young huu- ter, thinking he (as stalking: buffalos on the North Dakota prairies took a shot at me with an air rifle and I have been limping ever since.” And then Commissioner John French seconded, or thirded, the motion, ad- ding: “Why it is getting so bad: that a man can not be/safe even in his of- fice: The sother day some youngster, taking a flock of ‘files on my __ offic2| screen for a flock of geese, fired a volley With .a 22-calibre rifle and only luck prevented a mortality in .the office. can understand Mayor Lucas’ feelings when he was hjt in«the—well in the, So any younthful hunter who expects: to find: beasts of prey within the cor- porate limits ‘of the good city of Bis- marek wants to be sure that the afore- méntioned beasts of prey are not city r issioners. shooters, air rifles and other weapons of defense and offense will be comman- deered by the police department. ‘AWARD SEWER CONTRACT Besides this importdnt matter, \city commissioners awarded the con- tract to build a sanitary sewer on First Street to Frank Grambs. will be 110 feet long running from Ave- nue D to Avenue E and will cost $1.40) preperty, the ‘commissioners | balati Wontinued on Page Five THESE ARE THE MEN WHO GO </ ,anner, seized at a strikers’ meeting. Srrom SEAMAN A. SMITH, FROM $5,000-per-year That Receint for Attorney General Willi m Langer to- ordered tlie arrest of S aman A. herift of id later acting orth Dakoti, gna Mc- Golden Valley county, punishment des is imprisonment in the penitent not less than one and not exceedi: three years, or, in the county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding three times the value of the money or property so obtained, or by, both such fine and imprisonment. Some months ago Hi A. Dunbar {was appointed, state transportation jagent, with the du f Ing insane patients to, Jamestown. convicts to the penitentiary, and delinquent boys to! the reform schogl. at Dui $260 a month. said to ha Townley for,collecting for the Unit Consumers’ Stores and doing organi tion work, and he appointed: Smith to hots at the jioners, but e city’s Sa) nts in the} TODAY BY COMMIT breaking plectric © 1i; p to SCHOOL CHILDREN WILL SING HERE AT CELEBRATION Chorus of 200 Voices Composed of Pupils. of, Local Institu- : ttons for Homecoming through ‘the. street John Com: iow what. tt imple request. . Lucas immediately One‘of the chief. features of the px gram to be.given Wednesday <after- noon at the Burleigh county homecom- ing celebration will be the chorus of 200: voices. composed entirely of students of the city’s schools, | The stndents are being trained by Miss Mary A. Boysen, supervisor of music ir the schools, and have perfected them- selves in a number of pleasing songs. Miss Boysen made up the © chorus from aiong the students who are the best. singers and has practised "with them for Some time. They. will sing at the exercises in the Northern Pacific, park’ immediately preceeding the, ad- dress of welcome to the former service men which is;to be delivered “by ‘Rey. George Puzzelle. \ In the community singing, the chorus of, school children is expected to tak the leading part.” The community sing- ing.will be-Jea. by Spencer Boise of the high school faculty and besides the chorus Of school children all of those present are expected to participate. BANKS TO CLOSE FOR HOMECOMING HOLIDAY I f All flippers, bean the The sewer Biamarek: banks: will: close wat ra ty Wednesay’ afternoon ‘for’ the: the daysin honor of: the center, seated, Col. W. S. Mapes, military commander; beside him, Captain John R. an intelligence officer. They are examining weapons taken from strikers. CHARGED WITH SEEKING MONEY ON FALSE PRETENSES FROM THE STATE Arrest-of Acting State Transportation Agent Made This Morning Under Orders From Attorney General Langer—Alleged ROUTE OF HOMECOMING PARADE GIVEN REQUESTED TO ASSEMBLE AT ARMORY} VERN GARY Behind TOWNLEY FRIEND, Hire Was -Kited do the work of transportation for him! while he w d for Townley. Smith candidate of Townley. for the| ip Of the state penitentiary, | and by bringing the convicts in he} would be getting some experierce in General Langer charges Edward B, Cox. assistant at- torn 1, that Smith when he went after a convict at; Amidon-hire-1 automobile and paid therefore the m of § aking a blank receipt at this receipt was signed by) one MeLadghlin; that said Smith] willfully and unlawfully and feloniou ly wrote in the words and figures He later obtained 5 a Dunbar on a vouth- er and filed the same with the state auditor. it is alleged. It is alleged by the attorney general that this is not the only stance that Mr, Smith di this, each time being a separate of- Smith was arraigned — before, ofthe peace William A. Harr! this morning. He reserved his plea and was placed under bond in the sum of $1,000 for his appearance O«to- ber 21, thr ce TEE; PARTICIPANTS Big Procession Will Start Promptly at One O’clock To- morrow With American Le- gion Leading, Every Organi- zation in the City Requested to Be in Line. ~ The route of the homecoming cele- bration parade tomorrow — afternoon Was announced today by Capt. E, G. Wanner in charge of arrangements. The route is as follows: From the armory on Broadway and Second street, south tq Main street, east on Main street to Seventh strect, north on Seventh street to Broadway, west on Broadway to Sixth street, north on Sixth street to Thayer street, west on Thayer street to Fourti street, south on Fourth street to North- ern Pacific park on Main street. All units that will take part in th> parade, with the exception of the Am- erican Legion are requested to assem- ble at the armory before 12:30 so that they cag be. assigned their proper places in the parade. The members of the American Legion, and all other service men in uniform, will moat at the- Elks: club on Main street at 12:50 where they will assemble, forms ranks and Jead the parade. Raymond ,Bergeson, who has charge of the parade, announced today tht all organizations must be in line ready to. march before 1 o’clock as the parade will start promptly from the armory jofa trust are disclosed in the arre! tributed. GUYER GANG ON WAY BACK FROM SOUTH DAKOTA Story of Tracking Down of Al- leged Rustlers Reads Like -Wister Tale AGENTS WITH THE BUNCH Operatives of Montana Associa- tion “Pals”’—Woman in the Case Peaches Late Monday ¢evening Attorney General Langer was advised by wire that’ Goveroor Norbeck of South Dakota had honored requ eturn to t! charged with whol ttle-rust: ling, and that State’s Attorney Johnson and Deputy Sheriff Jacob Forelich of Sioux county were en route to Bismarck with their pris- oners. The Guyers are brought to Bismarck because of jail facilities superior to those of Sioux, Grant and other counties, in which the tharges preferred against them or; iginate. With nine sections under fence as 2 | . ‘ range for their stolen cattle, with a gang of daring men and women oper- ating on both sides of the state line, and with the larg stockyards of the niddle west as a market for their booty, Neged cattle-rustiing operations on a tupendous — scale—a cattle rustlers’ combine which approaches the dign Mobridge, 8. D., by agents of Attorney eneral Langer, in cooperation witn state’s attorneys of the Slope, of Jack, Ben ang Sam Guyer, This trio, it is alleged, heads the combine, whose mert- ership is alleged to extend over pri every county west of the Mis- souri river in North Dakota and to a number of the northwestern counties i: South Dakota. The operations of this gang, it is alleged, have North Da- kota cattlegrowers during the last year more than $30,000 in horses and cattle, known to haye been stolen, and they may, it is claimed, account for the my:- dred head of cattle which never hive been traced. A PLOT FOR WISTER. The story of the capture of the Gay- gang, as unfolded in the attorne eneral’s office today, reads like a plot for an Owen Wister novel. It brings in “Moustache Maude” Black, female cattle rustler and ace high with the gang until it made off with head of her cattle, for which unprofes conduct Maude. peached, pleaded gu ty, and turned state’s evidence It brings in Jack Guyer, four times in jail under various’ charges, and once sentenced to the state’s prison on a conviction obtained by this same Wil- liam Langer, then state’s attorney of Morton county. It brings in, oper tives of the Montana Cattle Growe: ociation, Who ate, slept and rode and stole cattle, it is alleged, for days with the gang whose rounding up they fin- ally secured, and it tells of the opera- tions of brand inspectors in great stockyard centers all over the middle west? whose ability in detecting tam ering which had been done with exper with the iron, contributed to the final yictory of Attorney General Langer ani the dozen or more Slope State’s attor- neys who cooperated with him. OPERATIONS EXTENSIVE The operations of the Guyer gang are said to have extended from Sionx county, in the reservation country in the extreme south of North Dakota,, to ‘McKenzie county, the vast cattle range which adjoins the Montana bo:- der far to the nortwest. Havre Severin of Sioux county, where the gang an- at that time regardless of what organi- ations might not yet,bein-line..Thoss, pears to have been most active, lost $3 - 000. worth. of.) es... Harty Sea- terious disappearance of several hun-| FEDERAL AGENTS AT GARY ARREST MAN BELIEVED TOHAVE ATTEMPTED = TO BLOW UP A. MITCHELL PALMER Evidence Obtained That Gives Clue to Entire Terrorist Organiza- tion, Military Authorities Believe—Disclosures Come as Re- sult of Establishment of War Control at Hoosier Steel City by Major General Wood—Proclamations of Communists Dis- bs Chicago, Ill., Oct. 14.—Federal authorities at Gary, Ind., where military control was established by Major General Leonard Wood after the situation growing out of the strike of steel workers be- came threatening for state authorities to handle, have arrested the alleged maker of the bomb exploded on the night of June 3, last, in the doorway of the home.of A. Mitchell Palmer, United States attorney general, at Washington, and have obtained. evi- dence clearing up the terrorist'tomb plot of May day and,June 2, according to authoritative information here today. _ Evidence has also been obtained that revealed the entire ter- rorist organization responsible for the attempt againgt the lives of law enforcement officials throughout the country who have been active in the arrest and prosecution of radicals. ;| thorities at Gary announced today that .j;method of the individual who they |connection with the nationwide | terrorists’ plot followed the find- Head of General Bomb Plot The man held in connection with the Palmer, bomb plot is be- lieved, it is said, to have been the manufacturer of the 86. bombs sent through the mails.in Boxes | wrapped in paper from the Gim- bel Bros. departmént :store in New York and _timed’:to’ reach their intended victims on May, 1. The peculiar style of manufac- ture with the ingenious contriv- ance of the explosive has linked them unmistakably with a base- ment radical factory. raided. at Gary by the federal troops, it is said. 6 Ro Since the 1,600, soldiers of'the Fourth and Sixth divisions took control of Gary,. investigations have been shrouded insecrecy. There have been many arrests made and a strong stockade was built to keep the prisoners. i Others Implicated How many men. besides the al- leged bomb maker ‘are held in plot has not been revealed by the federal authorities, civil or mili- tary. Revelations of the arrest of the alleged bomb maker and the uncovering of the details of the ing on a striker at Gary yester- day of four copies of a handbill purporting to be a proclamation of the communist party of Amer- ica advocating overthrow of the military forces at Gary. ARREST TO BE MADE SOON Chicago, IL, Oct. 14,—Military au- they hoped to have the makers of tlie imbel and other bombs which have startled the country in the past, year, under arrest within a few hours, Secret service men said; they knew the name, habit and manufacturing claimed have made most of these bombs. They announced also, they had uncovered a plot to. assassinate the mayor of Gary, discovered great stores of dynamite nearGary and trace] the printing of red circulars to-India- napolis. They said theyhad arrested the man who blew up an entrance of the Chie: postoffice a year ago. MINOT COMPANY MUST WAIT FOR ITS RATE BOOST - No immediate prospect of a hearing on the Northern States Power Co.’s petition for a temporary increase of 22 percent in rates charged for. ser- vice at Minot seems probable, advises the state. railway board.*-In railway parlance, the Northern States is 16 times out, there being 15 cases al- ready set for hearing which must be disposed of before the Minot. matter. is taken up. The Northern States has made application for. a permanent increase in rates, and it has petition- ed for a. temporary increase pending the completion of an investigation which the public utilities commission ’. must) make before it jconsiders the ~ original application.’ “An” arbitrary 20 per cent increase in’ rates made effective by the power. company was knocked out in United States district court, where it was held + the company’s five-years contract with the city of Minot, which does not expire until next May, was binding. Now the company contends that without a 22 percent increase it will’ suffer a heavy financial loss:during the next Months and that even, with such in- crease it can pay but two per cent interest on its actual valuation. * FRAZIER BACK _ Governor Frazier will return this evening from Sioux Falls, where he ad- ressed,an educational gathering. ea he charge. of ea organization sve]man has Jost -80.chead: that he 1s-conk4 \ The is ecounaete itt fluent went.Jacrogso:the’line (with the lreveal: sked. to coopéfate with Aft Bergeson | (Continued on Page ht) pucd op Page