The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 22, 1919, Page 1

THE WEATHERS Snow and Colder. THIRTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 243. es “BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA WEDNESDAY,~OCT. 22, 1919. FARMERS NOT QUICK T0 RESPOND TO GREATEST PLEA TOWNLEY HAS VER MADE 10 SAVE FARGO BANK Big Boss Admits in Impassioned Address That He Used Séan- dinavian-American to Keep the League Going—Nonpartisans Crowd ‘Auditorium and Cheer Their Leader,*But Few Come Forward’ to Pay $210 for $100 Shares in “Wrecked” Institution. Q Fargo,N. D., Oct. 22.—When President A. C. ‘Townley yester- day afternoon closed the supreme effort of lris‘life, addressed to a Nonpartisan‘league audience of 2500 farmers who had crowded | into the Fargo auditorium expressly to hear him and because they believed in him he declared a recess and called for.the farmers to arise in a mass and come forward to'the tables at the front of the auditorium where employes of the Scandinavian-American bank were seated to receive the farmers’ subscriptions at $210 for the $100 shares of the bank. The result was a general stampede for the door. A newspaper man who waited until the auditorium was almost emptied counted 51/ subscribers who went forward to the mourners’ bench. Spurgeon Odell of the league organization, advised a corres- pondent last night that it would be impossible for.days to State what success the league plan of recapitalizing the Scandinavian- American bank had met wtih. If the response at the auditorium was typical, the Nargo meeting was a terrible failure and a terrific / blunder. There is no question that thousands of dollgrs were de- posited’ by the farmers with the Scandinavian-American bank to enable that institution to pay off its city depositors, but the claim is made that the investment in the $100 shares of the bank, offered at $210, through which the real was expected to come, was negligible. ~- Townley Under Restraint Townley evidently spoke under restraint. salvation of the “wrecked” bank His address was much along the old lines, but something’ of the old spirit was lacking. He calmly advised his:hearers at the close of his talk that the league had been preparing.for three years to face a crisis and that crisis had come. ‘He candidly informed the league farm- ers that the Scandinavian-American bank had been used to save the league’ when its finances were tottering, and that the present condition of the bank was due to that fact. Now, he declared, if the farmers wanted to save ‘the league, they must save the bank. The Big Boss had little to say of Kositzky, but he frequently scored the attorney general and the sectetary of state during the course of his address, which he closed with his appeal for subscriptions and his declaration 6f-a recess. Townley spoke for two hours and was. enthusiastically cheered at many points. Overflow Meeting The-auditorium could not hold the.afternoon crowds, and there was an overflow meeting. In the eyening there was another meet- ing at the auditorium, which was again crowded. At this session Governor Frazier spoke. A feature of the afternoon was a big parade of leaguers from league headquarters to the auditorium. The marchers car- ried many. bar been designed” league headquarters and which derided Hall, Langer and Ko- sitzky. * p From a standpoint of enthusi- asm the mass meeting was un- questionably a success. Farmers came from both sides of the Red river, in the valley, and there was a fair sprinkling from the hinterland. :Those who came, however, were already Townley converts. So far as the Scandi- navian-American bank is. con- cerned, the effect of the meeting is still to be determined. ° The Courier-News,} local Fargo or- gan, today heralds in large head- lines the fact that, the bank has been saved, but it refrains from quoting -actual figures. Deposits in Trust;Continue « 0. E. Lofthus, state hak’ ex: aminer, continued today, i$0,.2e- ceive “deposits in.’ trust’ of farmers who are making cash deposits in anticipation of the reopening of the Scandinavian- American bank of Fargo, closed recently by the state banking board. sag The bank’s quarter's were used for receiving’ such ‘deposits: Re- ceipts are given in:the name of the state bank examiner, and he pledges to the depositors that the money will be deposited to their credit in thé bank on the day it is reopened. No announcement was forth- coming today as to the. amount of money realized in yesterday’s Nonpartisan’ league rally, Mr. Lofthus announcing that the to- tals would not be available until tonight. : ; ; Mill to Grand Forks In the course of his address President Townley awarded the first. state mill and elevator to Grand Forks. gel The Courier-Néws-_tells of the mill decision as follows: “This is a story of a fact: Grand Forks has beaten Fargo in the race for the main terminal of the state mill and elevator system. If indeed it could have been called a race. Grand Forks boosters came to Fargo yesterday to urge upon the farmers of the state the advantage of that city as a location for the big industry. “As much to ‘the surprise of the boosters themselves as to anybody ex- cept the members of the industrial commission, A. C, Townley in his after- noon speech told the crowd that Grand ‘Forks was to get the industry and that he had received word from the indus- trial commission to that effect. Both Governor Frazier and Commissioner John'N. Hagan of the commission were on the platfornhet that time. (Continued on Page Three) \ J TEACHERS UNITE IN DEMAND FOR HIGHER * SALARY Schoolma’ams Getting as Little ‘ as $85 Per Month Want “Living Wage” TO BE DECIDED. TONIGHT Bismarck stands today, face'to face with a threatened strike of its school- ma’ams. Eighteen teachers in the grades and the junior high school will this evening file with the board of educa- tion their demand for a flat increase of $100 per annum. If it is denied the determined young women do not state just what they will do. They are leaying that to the imagination of the board of education and Bismarck papas and mamas who have young hopefuls in school. “Personally, I< don’t give a darn,” was the concensus of opinion among a dozen boys interviewed on the way to school this morning. 3 They didn’t mean that they didn’t want teacher to get-more money, they explained, but that they didn’t care whether ‘school kept or not. As Low as $85 “Some of us are getting as little as $85. per month, for only nine months of the “year,” explained, one of the organized teachers today. “That isn’t even ‘living wages. ‘ We do. not feel that our demands are exorbitant. There are only eighteen of us in the grades, and the entire increase in the school budget would be but $1,800 per year.” i Bismarck teachers’ salaries in the grades range from $617 for assistant insttuctors who: finished high school last year or the year before to $1,000 for the older and most experienced teachers. Grade school principals are receiving from $1,057 to $1,256.50. In the high school, whose instructors are not concerned in the present “strike,” salaries run from $1,000 to $2150. An organizer of the American Fed- eration of Labor has been at work in. Bismarck for the last two weeks. Whether this has anything to do with the teachers’ demands for more pay is‘ not stated. schoolma’ams have interviewed a large number of taxpayers and pa- trons of the schools and have urged them to meet with the pedagogs sind the board of education this evening. The teachers state that practically everyone who has-been approached feels that their demands are entirely within: reasort ‘andXthat the city can well afford to pay’its teachers enough' to enable ‘them’ to live decently. | Today’s Weather || Lowest, 24 hours ending at noon. Temperature at 7 a. m. Temperature at noon. Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday Lowest last: night.. Precipitation ..... Set Highest wind velocity,. Forecast for North Dakota: ably light snow tonight and Thursday ‘old fresh northwest winds. TEMPERATURES with Fargo Willisto: St. Paul Helena . Chicago BABAR ORRIS W. ROBERTS, : Meteorogolist. pat this point. A lower span than has :|vantageous. to navigation gn ‘the up- The. eighteen organized |- FRAZIER SCENTS PLOT AGAINST N, D, STATE BOND Governor Declares Bank . Was Closed to Injure Sale of Securities THREATS AGAINST THREE Burleigh County “Farmers” Ask Removal of Hall, Lan- ger and Kositzky Fargo, N. D. Oct. 22—Governor Lynn J. Fragier addressing a‘mass gathering of four thousands persons in the audi- torium last night, charked there was an “understanding all, over the state that the ‘Scandinavian-American ‘bank would be closed,” and that it was “to hurt the sale of our state bonds.” He declared he voted against the closing of the institution, knowing well the credit of the bank and the calibre of the directors and that they weuld clean up'and loaded paper. He said he voted for a receiver and for placing such officer under’ $100,000 ‘bonds. ‘And it was well that such re- ceiver was placed under such bond” he added. Governor Frazier intimated that State Auditor Kositsky had juggled his ‘books, in explaining s¥atements em- anating from the Capitol that ‘the state was bankrupt. ° “I don’t mean to say that there was anything criminally wrong, but never- theless he keeps books differently this year than he did last year,” said the Governor. ‘He declared, that. if the State Auditor had kept books this year the same as last there would have been a balance of $206,159.42 on Aug. 1 instead of $8,024.11. “It seems strange to me that a par- ticular corporation attorney, repre- senting United States Railroad Admin- istration, should yolunteer his $1,000 advice for nothing that the state sale of ponds was illegal and unconstitu- tional,” said the Covernor in touching on this phase of state matters. “He lauded the. work of Attorney William, Lemke to whom this matter "was" referred after being taken away from Attorney General Langer. He decried the “tremendous ex- pense” to which the state had been put |in the matter of the referendum peti- tions, the case of the 42 taxpayers and jthe referendum «campaign. Youmans Financing Townley At the evening meeting Grant You- mans anid Anthony Walton of Minot wired that the farmers there had rais-; ed $25,000. toward financing. the re- opening of the defunct bank. Telegrams ‘were read from. some who offered |to. “toss in” their liberty bonds anf a télegram from some Non- partisian League organization in Idaho, was to the effect ‘that “not all crooks live in ‘Nort? Dakota for we have a few in Idaho.” Telegrams from ‘a farmers’” organ- ization in Burleigh County asked the removal of Langer, Halland Kositzky. When this message was read, a loud voice ‘in the auditorium yelled out “darn right.”. A second or more pass- ed @nd then another voice cried out “damn right.” That the Administra- tion is after Langer, Hall and Kositzky was indicated ‘by a banner in the par- ade which read “Fargo, N. D. Oct. 21— On or about January 1, 1920, we pro- mise to pay to Langer, Hall and Kosit- zky the sum of their just deserts with interest at the rate of one hundred percent in their office at Bismarck. Hiram Rube.” DELEGATES COMING BACK FROM KANSAS CITY BRIDGE MEET Frayne Baker, a member':of the state highway commission, J. E: Kaul- fuss, assistant state engineer, _and Capt. I. P. Baker, representing Bur- leigh county and the Benton Packing Co., chief among local shipping inter- ests, are expected home today or to- morrow from Kansas City, whither they went to attend the hearing to be held before the United States district engineer to determine the heighth of the prospective: mililion-dollar. wagon bridge which ‘is to span the Missouri been customary in this district ‘ is proposed, and the hearing’ was held principally to determine whether this reduction in height would be disad- per Missouri. FIRST ONE IN. LEAGUE N.E, A. Special to the Tribune. Paris, October 22.—To Leon Victor Auguste Bourgeois’ belongs the his- torical honor of being the first mem- ber appointed to the council of the League of Nations. M. Bourgeois, former premier and minister of for- eign affairs, was a member of the league of nations; commission. France, as the first nation to ratify the league, is priviledged to appoint the first rep- resentative. / M. Bourgeois, who is 68 years old, is frank in his opinion that the league will not automatically bring about an international Utopia. He will be in favor of strong armed forces to protect league members. “Before Germany is admitted to the league, sheanust undergo a moral as well as a (political revolution,” he has said. He,,has been,in public life since 1877. He attended the Hague Peace | Conferénce and has held many high offices. In 1910, years before the world at large was agitated by the league project, M. Bourgeois pub- lished ‘a book entitled “For a League of Nations.” PARIS HOPES 10 RATIFY TREATY BY OCTOBER 30 Delay Said. to Have Been Due to Great Amount of Neces- sary Preliminaries Paris, Oct, 22—Formal ratification of the German peace’.treaty probably will be accomplished Cztoper; 30 and a call issuéd that day for the first meeting of the council of the League of ‘Nations to take place within ten days. The French foreign office explains that the delay was due entirely to the gr#it amount ‘of preliminary work before the convention could be yput into effect. WILSON HAS BEST: NIGHT Washington, D. C) Oct. 22—The President’s physicians reported that Mr. Wilson last night had one of the best nights since he became ill. | LANGER SEEKIN MODIFICATION 0 COURTS ORDER Attorney General Declares He Cannot Get Men to Make Affidavits WANTS THEM ON STAND Believes Under Oath and Ex- amination They Would Testify to Truth Attorney General Langer today filed with the supreme court a petition for modification of the court's temporary restraining order in the matter of the Scandinavian-American bank, the state examiner: and others versus the state banking board. The attorney general cites the following as his reasons for making this application: “First, that by the order of October 15, 1919, respondents were given un- til October 23, 1919, by yéur honorable court in which to file additional af- fidavits; that since that time: affiant and his assistants have been endeavor- ing to secure affidavits which would present material facts in the above en- titled matter to your honorable court, but that such efforts have been un- availing; that there are some five or six persohs whose testimony under oath ig material, and that some of these persons have refused to give affidavits and, still others have indi- cated that they would refuse to give affidavits; but. this affiant has reason té believe and does. believe if such per- sons if subpoenaed before any district court of this state will tell the truth and will testify to material facts which this affiant verily believes should be in the possession of this honorable court. “Second, affiant further believes that as a result of obtaining such testimony additional evidence will be adduced which will make the conviction of H. J. Hagan and P. R. Sherman, officers of the. Scandinavian-American . bank, more certain; and further affiant has reason to believe and does believe that if such testimony were taken upon order of this honorable court that evi- dence will be given which will justify other prosecutions arising out of the facts relating to the condition of the Scandinavian-American bank.” Upon the strength of these presen- tations the attorney general prays the supreme court for a modification of its order ‘of October 15 to provide for oral testimony to be taken before some proper’ court designated by the su- preme court. The attorney general makes affidavits that the representa- tions made are true to the best of his knowledge, information: and belief. FLIVVER PUNCTURE PROVES GOLD MINE ‘Missoula, Mont. Oct. 22—Here is Montana’s latest flivver story. J. Carmichael and Roy Doens were bowl- ing along between here and Bonner when one of the tires was punctured. Upon investigation they found that a jagged piece of quartz was responsi- ble. Were they downhearted? They certainly were not. Said quartz con- tained a consideratle quantity of gold. HEART-BREAKING PICTURES OF OLD MUSCOVITE’S CAPITAL ARE DRAWN IN PARIS PAPER BY RUSSIAN PRINCESS Paris, Oct. 22—Heart breaking pictures of Moscow's hunger are given in the Figaro by a Russian princess arriving from Russia. “L will not speak of the terrible revolting and odoreous things that passed in the streets of Moscow,” she id, “but only of the hunger incidents ksaw with my ownveyes: and which were repeated day:after day. | metidowoman and a-child ragged and thin as skeletons the child crying constantly. The mother said the child was hungry and asked for.a piee of bread as they had not eaten for 24 hours. | opened my purse but the woman turned away saying, “not money— but bread.’ P “Another, time |! saw a blonde- haired young girl with arms out- streched leaning like @ crucifix. against a wall and murmuring “I am hungry.” Next day she died.” “I have seen in the middle of a INO side street a great yellow-haired, hollow-sided dog carrying a bone with a little meat attached while a ten year old boy a few steps away with the palor of long mis- very on his face wached the dog as if hypnotized. ‘With neck out- streched, mouth open and fist clenched he looked at the dog with hate and ferocity, Children Like Shadows ’ “| have seen children hardly clothed hollow-cheeked and with -forms like shadows on their knees in the street trying to pick from between the stones’ grains of wheat that had fallen from a torn sack. | have seen. before bakeries men. women and stretched on the cold stones awaiting three days and three nights their turn to get their meagre ration of bread and then often falling exhausted and ‘dying at the doorstep before they received it.” SECRETARY DANIELS “TRIES OUT” THE NC-4 WASHINGTON—Secretary Daniels made. his first inspection of the NC-4, the first trans- Atlantic plane, and tried a seat in the cockpit, when it s brought, to Washington to be made ready for a tour of Atlantic coast and gulf cities... Lieut.-Commander Reade also is seated in the plane. After its exhibition tour the NC-4 will be brought back, dismantled and placed in the National Museum. ; me |ROME SHAKEN BY tof North Dakota, I hereby set aside and MORNING TREMOR Second Shock in’ Two Days Throws City Into Panic: Rome, Oct. 22—Rome was shaken by an earthquake at 7:05 o'clock this morning, the tremor waking up the population still in bed and lasting a few seconds. ‘No reports as ta the damage done have as yet been receiv- ed This is the second shock experi- enced within two days, one being felt yesterday. Todays shock was of con- siderable strength. LABOR COMPELS THE READING OF WILSON’S LETTER Sick-Bed Note Declares Public Expects Conference to Stay Together UNIONISTS MAY WITHDRAW Heads Seem Impatient With Re- sults of Round Table Ses- sions to Date Washington, Oct. 22.—Organized labor’s representatives in the rfational industrial conference today forced the reading of the letter to the conference which President Wilson yesterday dic- tated from his sick bed and in which he declared the public expected the conference to stay together until every possible means ‘had been ex- hausted to establish a “surer and hearty co-operation between all the elements engaged in industry” or until it was revealed that the “men who worked and the men who managed American industries are so set upon divergent paths that all efforts at co- operation are doomed to failure.” The letter urged the imperative necessity for some action by the con- ference to insure industrial peace dur- ing the reconstruction period. Labor Group in Session Immediately after the letter was read the conference recessed and the labor group went into private session to determine its future course. The members plainly were impatient and some of the public’s and capital’s delegates seemed doubtful whether the labor representatives would con- tinue in the conference. If the nation’s industrial leaders and workers are to be without faith in each other, constantly struggling for advantage over each other and doing naught but what is compelled, the president said, the situation thus created “would be-a national disas- er. Declaring that his mind ~ turned’ away from such a possibility, the president said the conference should stand together for the development of a full program by which a measur- able ‘co-operation within industry might be secured. and not break be- cause full agreement could not be had on each proposition or method sug- gested. FRAZIER MAKES OCTOBER 27 T. R. DAY IN DAKOTA Governor Officially Proclaims| Anniversary of Great Rough Rider i October 27 is designated as Roose- velt day in North Dakota by Governor Lynn J. Frazier, in a proclamation issued today. The governor says: “Inasmuch as the Roosevelt Me- morial association has made a request that October 27, the birthday of Theo- dore Roosevelt, be observed. through- out the United States in honor of the memory of this great American, and that meetings be held devoted to pre- sentation of ideals of strong, clean Americanism; and “Inasmuch as Colonel Roosevelt was at one time a resident of the state of! North Dakota and also a former presi- dent of our country, and was a man of excellent personal qualities and high ideals; and “Inasmuch as it is fitting that a me- morial be erected and dedicated to his memory as a token of appreciation and in recognition of his services to his county; “Therefore, as governor of the state designate October 27 as Roosevelt day and urge that this day be appropriately observed both in the schools and in such public gatherings as may be held on this occasion.” ORIENT TAKING KINDLY TO OUR | WESTERN SPORTS San Francisco, Oct. 22—American football and baseball have been suc- cessfully introduced at Tsing Hua College, Peking, China, according to Ming S. Lowe, registrar of the college, who was here recently en route to China after a tour of the United States. Eight years ago Lowe left for China after having graduated from the University of California, where he was known as an all around athlete. After his arrival in China he ob- tained the services of an American coach and physical director, D. K. Brace, a Reed College graduate, to coach the various teams then organ- ized in a tentative way, in baseball, American football, soccer, tennis, track and swimming. American football and Yankee base- ball are among the most popular sports at-Tsing Hau College. A golf course is soon to be laid out near the college. YUDENITCH ARMY HALTED BY REDS AT PETROGRAD Stubborn Resistance Brings All- Russian Advance to Tem- porary Standstill GERMANS FIRE ON BRITISH Artillery Reported to Have Opened Fire at Mouth of Riga Harbor Sunday London, Oct. 22.—General Yuden-/ itch, commander of the northwestern Russian army, seems to have been brought to a virtual standstill by the stubborn defense of Petrograd, which is almost within sight of his men, Soviet forces are even reported to have taken the offensive north of Krasnos Selo, but details of the fight, ing have not been fully reported. East of Pulkovo the Yudenitch army appears to have encountered strong Bolshevik columns. Pulkovo is about three miles from the only remaining railroad running south from ‘Petro- grad, and the importance of retaining control of this road may explain the savage fighting in that sector, Late reports state that heavier artillery is peing brought up by General Yuden- itch, y: Soviet Troops Scattered Soviet troops reported to have, been concentrated close to Gdoff, near Lake Peipus, ‘are said''to have been scat- tered by the anti-Bolsheviki. The presence of this force, on the left flank of the Yudenitch army consti- tuted a seeming menace to the whole movement against Petrograd and also appears to indicate the Bolsheviki ar still quite strong. Kronstadt has not been surrendered to the anti-Bolsheviki and has_not been attacked, according to the Brit- ish admiralty statement.’ Official reports issued from soviet. headquarters at Moscow admits the loss of Kiev but makes no further mention of the claim that Orel, 120 miles south of Moscow, has been re- captured from General Denekine’s Cossacks. HUNS SEEK TO CROSS DVINA Copenhagen, Oct. 22—The Lettish press bureau under date of October 19, reports stubborn attempts by the Germans to force a crossing of the Dvina river near Friedrichstadt. Four attempts are said to have been re- pulsed with heavy enemy losses. Fire on British Warships German artillery at Riga fired on British warships at.the. mouth. ofthe harbor on Sunday, according to a dispatch to the Lettish general staff and on Monday the British ships re- turned the fire, shelling German posi- tions near the city. Riga is being bombarded by heavy German artillery which is using gas shells. Great damage has been done in the city and many civilians have been killed or wounded. KRASNIA GORKA TAKEN Helsingfors, Oct. 22.—The capture of Krasnia Gorka, on the Gulf of Fin- land nearly opposite Kronstadt, by the northwestern Russian army, is announced from that army headquar- ters today. The capture was effected on Monday after severe fighting. The battle for Petrograd is still continuing with a heavy engagement six and a half miles south of this city. RED TORPEDO BOATS SUNK London, Oct. 22.—Two Bolshevik torpedo boat destroyers were sunk in the Gulf of Finland, when they at- tempted to attack.-Esthonian vessels and British .destroyers on Tuesday, the admiralty anounced today. Six survivors’ from’ the’ Bolshevik vessels were picked up. The British and Es- thonians sustained no casualties. STATE HIGHWAY CLOSING SEASON R. P. V. Marquardsen, bridge en- gineer with the state highway com- mission, has returned from Williston, where he inspected bridges in com- pany with L. T. Charles of the bureau of public roads district headquarters at St. Paul. W. W. Moyer, project engineer, an- nounces the completion of project 45, eleven miles, and project 1672, five miles, in Foster county; No, 21, 18 miles, in Bowman county; No. 14, 18 miles, in Stark county, and No. 10, five miles,’ in Pierce county. Six war trucks and a gravel-loading plant are engaged in LaMoure county in transferring material for the sur- facing of federal post roads. When finished there the outfit will move to Eddy and later to Ramsey county. New Postoffice Inspector Takes Over Local District P. McGregor, the recently appointed postoffice inspector for the Bismarck district, has returned to this city after a brief inspection trip. Mr. McGregor has offices in the federal building and his territory includes fourteen counties east of Kidder’ county as far west as Montana and as far south as South Dakota. The new postal inspector comes here from the St. Paul headquarters. ~ His original home is in Anderson, S. C., but he likes this part of the country, especially Bismarck, so well that he hopes to make the capitol city his permaneht home. Mr. McGregor* spends most of the time visiting the various postoffices in his district and / only returns to Bismarck over the week-ends. BALDWIN BANKER HERE bank of Baldwin was a business visitor in the city today. A. G. Higgins of the Baldwin State | Chas. ‘Colburn in City ‘Charles Colburn, well known. farmer: near Driscoll was in Bismarck today ‘ and visited officials at the court house.