The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 20, 1919, Page 1

= : : MONDAY, OCT. 20, 1919. HALT CALLED ON PROFITEERING IN NATION'S SUGAR Beet Mills Advised That They Cannot Charge More Than Ten Cents Per Pound E IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS WOULD GIVE TOWNLEY COMPLETE CONTROL OF STATE FOR TWO-MONTHS’ TERM Real Motive Behind Threats Against Langer, Hall, Kositzky and Olson Said to Get Them Out of Way Temporarily and Fill Places With Hand-Picked Substitutes Who Will Help Big Boss Out of His Present Difficulties. a THIRTY-NINTH YEAR, | “TF YOU WANT THE LEAGUE 10 LIVE, (YOU'LL HAVE TO MOVE QUICK,’ SAYS “{) PRESIDENT TOWNLEY IN LAST PLEA | Head of Nonpartisan Organization Admits That Fate Depends 1 Upon Saving of “Wrecked” Bank at Fargo—Special Train to Carry Capitol Crew—Check-books or Ready Cash Will Be } Expected to Tide Machine Over Crisis—I. V. A. Headquarters | Issues Statement. , | NO. 241. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA IN PUBLIC EYE TO VISIT U. S. REFINERS GIVEN NOTICE Official Advice of Compliance With Orders Asked by Justice Department An ambition upon the part of the Townley administration to secure complete control, even for a few weeks, of the state govern- ment is said to be the real motive behind the proposed’ impeach- ment proceedings, in which State Treasurer Obert A. Olson, Attor- ney General William Langer, Secretary of State Hall and State Auditor Carl R. Kositzky are to be convicted. The league has no real hope of holding in line, the 83 senators whose yotes would be necessary to the conviction of these state officials, all of whom are leaguers who have erred only in their insurgency to Boss f Townley, but by initiating impeachment proceedings, however hopeless or unfounded they may be, the Townley administration will at once secure to Governor Frazier the privilege of appointing temporary successors to the state officials attacked. The statutes provide that during the pendency of impeach- ment proceedings, the office attacked shall be held vacant, and “If you want the league to live, you’ll have to move quick,” shouts Townley in heavy black’type in « two-column boxed state- ment which appears over his signature in the last issue of the f North Dakota Leader, Townley’s personal North Dakota press f organ. Townley’s statement, addressed to league members, is as » follows: “The Scandinavian-American bank has done more to build the league than all other banks inside and outside North Dakota. “The wreckers are out to crush it. “If they can destroy the bank, they can kill the league. “The gang is at work now. : “If you want the league to live, you’ll have to move quick. “Get ready to LOAD UP Tuesday morning and come on in to 13% CENTS LOCAL PRICE There is to be no profiteering in sugar so far as this district is concerned, announces O. W. Rob- erts, district food administrator. Complaints have reached his ears, states Mr. Roberts, and, in order that the public may be fully in- formed as to when it has:a legiti- mate protest against prices charged by retailers, the district administrator advises that the food administration allows re- MAJ. D.A. FORBES LONDON—Major D. A. Forbes, a prominent figure in the ill-fated Dar- danelles operation, twice decorated for bravery under firey will make an ex- aetna MILES POINDEXTER This latest picture of United States Senator Miles Poindexter, who is much in the public eye just now. tended visit to America. He is the heir of the Earl of Cranard. state treasurer, who would draw warrants on the state funds as directed; his own confidential state auditor, and his own especial secretary of state. This, it is said, would be of great advantage to the socialist dictator in cleaning up the mess into which he has plunged the affairs of the league through his manipulations of the Scandinavian-American bank. legitimate local price for sugar 13% cents. Twelve and one-half cents per pound would probably be a fair price for sugar delivered: to the doors of local wholesale houses. HIS REFUSAL 10 ergarecrc™ TALK TO BOSSES freight added, there would seem ra 7 ae © to be a marked‘discrimination in \Head of Steel Corporation De-|~ favor of the general distributor clares He Will Negotiate With Own Employes Candid Admission “Tf they can destroy the bank, they can kill the league,” is the most candid and most damaging admission, friends of the movement here feel, that ever has been wrung from the lips of A. C. Townley. ; If the Nonpartisan, league has come to such a pass that its future is all bound up in the fate of a bank which is admitted, even ,+ by its own attorney, William Lemke, Townley’s chief legal:advisor, to have violated the state’s banking laws in several very impor- tant particulars, it is in a bad way; say. conservative leaguers. These same leaguers insist that it is not the league, but | ilers a profit of one cent per that this vacancy shall be filled by the chief ti Thi ( Fargo. Seund on sugar above the, whole- GARY REAFFIRMS : y the chet executive. 1S ( Oe 4 p o u would mean that for a few weeks Boss Townle: Id install i ho a \which he stat b n 4 y could install at ‘ ‘Let’s close up the bank wreckers ang open the | pan RUSS ¢ APIT Al, IS 124, bents, “This would haere the capitol his own personal attorney general, his own private | ISOLATED BY ALL RUSSIAN FORCES Fall of Petrograd Hourly Brought Nearer, Say Today’s News Dispatches Majority Needed to Start Under the North Dakota laws merely a majority vote in the house is necessary for the adop- tion of a resolution of impeach- ment. That would mean only 57 ng TEN CENTS AT MILLS IS BEET SUGAR’S LIMIT inasmuch as the new price at the mill, fixed: today by the govern- ment, is but ten cents per pound for beet sugar. Townley that is at stake. They declare the result of the Fargo meeting will be to retire Townley and his socialistic assistants and to advance the farmers to the actual management of the organization. _ Whatever the result of the meeting at Fargo tomorrow may be, it seems to be admitted on all sides that there will be a merry row, in which neither faction in the league fight intends to spare the feelings of the other. \ Townley, who told in Bismarck a couple of years ago how. “he had to drive the farmers to the polls” with a particularly virtlent variety of elm club, is said to have that same shileighle in pickle for the Gate City meeting tomorrow. - A special train will leave Bismarck at 7 o’clock tomorrow for Fargo. It will carry all of the elective and appointive job- holders and file-closers at the state house who are loyal to Townley. They will make a most impressive showing, as the state’s salary list is three. times as large as it was before the state was turned | over to Mr. Townley’s economical and efficient stewardship. There will also be some bona-fide farmers, signed up by league managers, office-holders and job-owners. The job-holders will be ready to dig, whether the farmers are or not, for the former feel that they actually have something at.stake. ; : of coffee and a smell of molasses has Secretary Nelson of the I. V. A. on the eve of the Fargo meet- ing issued from state headquar- ters in the Gate City the follow- ing statement, which is given here for what it may be worth: “‘What will happen in Fargo on October 21?’ I don’t know,and I don’t see that it makes any particular difference so far as the Independent Voters association is concerned. “The meeting is a splendid move on the part of the leaders of the Non- partisan league to collect post-dated checks and past due notes. It should, however, not be necessary to work. up a great condemnation demonstration in order to get people into the mood of paying their honest debts. But then, that’s one way of collecting money. “Of course there are many who have given notes for store certificates and newspaper stock who have al- ready discovered that in reality they do not control the newspapers iand that they have‘not gotten value re- ceived for their store notes. Many 6f these are demanding their notes re- turned instead of offering to pay them. When these notes are returned, itis pretty-good indication that Town- ley realizes that the people have not; gotten value received for them and never will and that they would, there- fore, be pretty hard to collect in the regular way. Chain Store Camouflage “The Consumer Store certificate stunt is only a camouflage way of raising a campaign’ fund. Member- ship fees are getting scarcer for Townleyism. That'is why some sam- ples of cloth, a pair of shoes, a can Nelson Makes Statement | | been brought into use as a means by which to get $100.00 instead of $16.00 out of each prospect. Every $100.00 they get out of one man, makes up for the membership fees that they used to get out of five men before. “Townleyism’s preaching and prac- tice of hate and prejudice will be just as threatening and damaging whether the Scandinavian-American bank is opened again or not. Townleyism’s standard of honesty won’t be any bet- ter. The industrial commission law will still be the same certificate of political autocracy that it is now. The Bank of North Dakota law as it now stands interlocked with other laws, is still a means by which worthless citi- zens can come into possession of money and property which they have never earned and the pioneers of the state who have worked and_ saved, thus be made to divide up. The re- opening of the Scandinavian-Ameti can bank will not restore to’ Minnie Nielson the powers that have been taken away from her. What Facts Show x “Whether this bank opens or does not open, or its officers are punished or not punished, it must be admitted that the facts brought to light show almost as brazen.a disregard for law and for right and wrong as the. Le- nine and Trotzky Bolsheviks of Rus- RED RADICALS | FEDERAL JOBS ASSERTS WATSON Senator From Indiana Charges Administration Is Packed With Bolsheviki ATTACKS TRADE BOARD Declares That Socialists Pre- dominate on Staff of Fed- . eral Commission Washington, ‘D. C., Oct. 20.—Sen- sational charges that socialists, reds and other radicals are “intrenched” in the government departments and particularly that the investigating forces of the federal trade commis- sion contain men hostile to the gov- ernment and American institutions were made in the senate today by ‘Senator Watson, republican, Indiana, who introduced a resolution for an investigation by the interstate com- merce commission. z Disclaiming any defense of the great meat packers Senator. Watson de- clared that the open records of some of the commissions employes on that investigation showed them to be re- spectively outspoken anarchists, par- ticipants in red parades, pro-Germans, admirers of Lenine and Troskty and avowed exponents of soviet govern- ment. REGULAR ARMY TO TRY TO END GOTHAM TROUBLE Five Hundred Troops Landed at New York to Relieve Freight Congestion New York, Oct. 20.—Five hundred Soldiers of the regular army were landed here today from the transport George Washington to attempt to end the congestion at the army piers in Brooklyn caused by the longshore- men’s strike. The men are under orders. to “shoot if necessary” ac- sia have ever displayed. In that re- spect the Scandinavian - American bank affair does make a difference to the people of North Dakota. There is now all the more reason why those . who believe in government of, by and (Continued’on Page Two.) , cording to a statement made by Brig- adier, General Peter Davidson, chief of troop movements at the port of embarkation. “The troops will aid in moving transports or whatever else is neces- sary” said General Davidson. ~ RED DIVISION WIPED OUT Reinforcements for Leninists in Defense of City Anni- hilated En Route (By Associated Press) The Bolshevik hold upon Petrograd, which although repeatedly reported captured was still in Bolshevik hands at last reports from accepted sources, is fast weakening, and the fall of the city seems imminent according to today’s official advises from the Brit- ish. war office. Kronstad, the great island fortress defending the old capital from the sea side, capitulated Friday, and there is nothing, now to prevent the ad- vance, of the Esthonian troops along the shore to Petrograd, which the fortress ‘guns ‘thug far held up. Bolsheviki Shut Out Bolshevik reinforcements which {Troskty announced were being rushed to the defense of the city now must be detrained a full day’s march from Petrograd and if approaching from the south must fight their way into Pet- rograd through serious opposition as shown by the destruction of a Bol- shevik division in the vicinity of Krasnoe-Selo. Nothing is known of the fate of the battle fleet the remnants of which have been lurking in the shelter of Kronstad but if as seems possible from the dispatches the fortress fell not. as the result of a assault and landing but by surrender from within the spirit of the Garrison probably is shared by the ship’s crews com- posed of the same element. Fall of Kranstad The fall of Kronstad is vastly im- portant not only strategically but also for its effect on the Bolshevik morale. It has been considered impregnable from attack from sea or land and the members of its sailor Garrison have been from outset of the revolution the stoutest supporters of the cause. Now that its formidable guns are silent the allied destroyers can pass farther up the bay toward Petarograd about 20 miles away and can support the advance of troops along the coast to points directly in the rear of Bol- shevik forces defending Petrograd from the south. London, Oct. 20.—Petrograd is vir- tually isolated the war office an- nounces today, anti-Bolshevik cavalry having cut the railroad leading from Petrograd to Vitebsk, Moscow and Vologda. The Petrograd-Vitebsk road is out at Viritza and the Petrograd- Moscow railway at. Tosna south and southeast of Petrograd respectively. The line at Velogda is out south of Lake Ladoga. RED DIVISION WIPED OUT “London, Oct. 20.—A Bolshevik division which was being rushed to Petrograd from the interior to defend the city against threatening advance of General Yudenitch was virtually wiped out at Krasnoe-Sele when Gen- eral Yudenitch took that outpost to Petrograd according to wireless ad- vises. / KROMSTAD GIVES UP London, Oct. 20.—The white flag was hoisted over the Russian fortress of Kronstad Friday it was announced by the British war office today. Pskov Under Bombardment The war office further announces that Pskov, the important railway junction town about 80 miles south of Petrograd, is under bombardment by the Esthonian troops, Petrograd is réported to be preparing for a siege. Machine guns are posted to command the prititipal streets and supplies of food are being brought into the city. REPORTS CONTRADICTORY _ Paris, Havas Agency, Oct. 20.—Con- tradictory reports are received from Russia: and it is impossible to confirm rumors that Petrograd has been taken by the northwestern Russian army under General Yudenitch. It seems certain, however, that the Yudenitch troops are advancing and must be at the gates of the: city if they have not| already entered it. However this may he, the 'pres- ent government price for sugar in North Dakota would appear to be 13% cents, and Food Adminis- trator Roberts invites complaints from any consumer in this dis- trict who is required to pay more. Washington; D. C., Oct. 21 to prevent an abnormal’ inc the price of sugar because of the ¢ ing shortage were taken today by the department of justice. Attorney General ‘Palmer notified beet sugar refiners who have been withholding their product from the market until the price situation be- came more stabilized that the United States sugar equalization board had determined that 10 cents a fair price to be charged the wholesaler and that any charge in ex of that amount would be regarded in viola- tion of’ the food control act. Refiners were asked to télegraph their concurrence in this price which would mean they would. put their supplies on the -market* thereby’ re- lieving the present stringency. The price to the wholesaler here- tofore has been nine cents so that the new price means an.advance to eleven cents a pound for “controlled sugar” under the old prices. While the de- partment of justice and the sugar board did not state ‘what the new retail price would be it was assumed that the increase would not be greater than the wholesale price. PAN MOTOR HEAD 10 BE PLACED ON TRIAL THIS WEEK S. C. Pandolfo Must Defend Charge of Using U. S. « Mails to Defraud Chicago, Ils., Oct. 20.—S. C. Pan- dolf head of the Pan Motor Co., of St. Gloud, Minn.,-and twelve other of- ficials of the corporation charged with conspiracy in using the mails to de- fraud in the sale of $7,000,000 worth of stock in the concern, will be placed on trial before Federal Judge Landis October 23. The trial was set for to- day. but postponed by agreement. The indictment charges the defend- ants with having sold the stock to 60,000, persons in all parts of the countty, HOBOKEN—Five thousand I “over.” They’re too late for the fighting but they’ll get in on the|| bring farmers to Fargo. “Watch on the Rhine,’”and this detail seems happy over it. ANYHOW THEY’LL GO TO SEE THE RHIN STANDS FOR OPEN SHOP Washington, Oct. 20.— Beet sugar refineries were notified by the department of justice that a charge for sugar in excess of 10 cents a pound wholesale would be considered in violation of the food control act. The United Declines to Recede From, Belief That Workers Should Have Equal Rights Washington, Oct. 20.—Reatfirming his refusal, to negotiate with repre-|| Stat lizati sentatives of labor unions , not em- Ae 2euean edu ization in the plant of the. United|/ board has held that 11 cents Seel corporation, Elbert. H.|| a pound was a fair retail chairman of the corpgrations|| price for sugar. Qn ary, board of directors informed Chairman }Lane of the National Industrial con- SOVIETS UNION 1S BOLSHEVIKI’S. AMERICAN GOAL Plan of Organization Similar to That Practiced in Russia Is Unearthed ference and Frank Morrison, secre- taty of the American Federation of Labor, that he would not recede from {his stand for an open shop. Judge Gary was understood to have expressed the fear of the consequence of further recognition of labor unions. The .affect of his ‘announcement on the industrial conference remained. to be developed. The capital group’ re- mained in session all morning forc- ing a postponement of the conference ;meeting until 2:30 p.m. Investigation Resumed Resuming its, investigation of the steel strike, the senator labor com- mittee today examined Jacob Margolis of Pittsburgh who said he was an attorney for the I. W..W. and dicalist anarchist.” He refused to] yg take oath but made affirmation as to BEHIND STEEL STRIKE the truth of what he would tell the Sa Radical Element Has Backed Great Industrial Disturbance in Pennsylvania nt to have a talk with you about the st man Kenyon informed him “as to whether it is a straight forward labor movement for better wages and con- dition or a demonstration of radicals who wish to establish a new govern- ment and economic system.” Margolis said he had been opposed to war, that he would not advocate resistence to any army invading the United States and that he did not be- lieve in government. Pressed as to personal applications ot his views he told senators he would not resist the action of a marauder who wanted to take his coat or attack his wife. SECOND BIRDMAN TO COMPLETE BIG RACE IS THROUGH Mineola, N. Y., Oct. 20.—Capt. J. 0. Donaldson the second aviator to com- plete the trans-continental flight from here to San ancisco and return landed at Roosevelt field at 10.03. Washington, Oct. 20. — Russian unions which have been organized in the principle Pennsylvania and Ohio steel districts are seeking to organize “an industrial soviet” in the United States, the senate committee investi- gating the steel strike was told today by Jacob Margolois of Pittsburgh, who identified himself as an attorney for the I. W. W. Frankly stating his belief that or- ganized government is unnecessary, Margolois told the committee it had been the purpose to make Moorhead hall, Pittsburgh, the headquarters for all radicals of all types and that he had lectured there on “Industrial Pro- duction Organization vs. Revolution.” He explained that he believed the ends sought should be obtained by peaceful methods. * Margolois said William V. Foster, secretary of the steel strike commit- itec, had sought to keep the radical element behind the steel strike. He conceded that after a conference he had with Foster one night last May the I. W. W. anarchist syndicalist and the Russian union threw all the sup- por tthey could behind the strike. Cut Attendance Fargo, N. D., Oct. 20.— Rain today which will put | the roads in bad condition if long continued may reduce | attendance at the Nonparti- san league interstate rally to be held here tomorrow. The rally called by leaders of the league to meet the sit- uation they declare has been created by the closing of the Scandinavian-American bank of Fargo through which the state banking board charges much of the league’s finan- cial activities have been han- dled depends largely for at- tendance upon good roads, as numerous “automobile par- | ades” are being organized to ) Bad Roads May | | army regulars are on their way o— oa votes, and it is said that the league may count on that num- ber, altho there is some doubt on this point. Once this resolution is adopted, the offices of. the state treasurer, attorney gen- eral, secretary of state and state auditor automatically become jvacant. The governor will have ready his slate, which will con- sist of a state treasurer who will do as he is told, and an attorney general who will advise the leg- islature and the other state offi- cials to do the “right thing,” and a complacent state auditor and an obliging secretary of state. Impeachment proceedings are tried separately. It would be necessary for the senate, which does the trying, to arraign each ‘state’ official individually. It-is estimated that at least two months would be required to complete the four trials. The cost to the state would probably be a half-million dollars, but in j the meanwhile, for two whole ;months Townley would have had all the reins of government in his hands, and a great deal could be accomplished in two months with no one to object or to pro- test or to really know what was going on within the inner circle. Wants Treasurership Townley wants the state treasurership especially, it is said, because Obert Olson, altho a good leaguer, insists upon re- fusing to pay out state money on ja treasurer’s check or warrant except when a voucher is pre- sented through regular chan- nels. He has committed the su- preme offense against Townley- ism of consulting the attorney ‘general and of assuring himself of the legality of each step be- | fore that step was taken. Town- ley discovered during the last session that he could not drive this big farmer boy from Bow- man county, and he has had fre- quent reassurances of that fact during the last six months. There is little doubt that im- peachment proceedings will be attempted, and if they are there is just as much certainty. that the four offices temporarily ren- dered vacant during the course of these proceedings will be filled by men who can be led_as easily as Governor Frazier has been and that Boss Townley, Doc Mills and Bill Lemke will do the jleading, either.by long distance from St. Paul, or from league headquarters here on the ground. A great many things could then be done with the six- teen millions which are in the Bank of North Dakota, consist- ing principally of public funds, and with the school moneys and with other resources of the state which the offending state offi- cials have insisted upon safe- guarding. WILSON MUCH BETTER Condition of President Shows Great Improvement Today Washington, Oct. 20:— President + Wilson had a very good night and \ has recovered from the attack of in- ‘digestion which he had yestefday, Secretary Tumulty said today, after a talk with Rear Admiral Grayson ,the president’s physician.