The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 30, 1919, Page 1

_ &==|/ THE BISMAR THIRTY-NINTH YEAR AUDIT BOARD IS PAYING BILLS IN FAGB OF VETOES + Insurgents Refuse to Recognize; Acts of Governor in Hold- ing Up Claims MAY MEAN EARLY ACTION Fact That Bill Lemke Is at Capi- ; tol Thought to Pressage Court Pleas ‘BINS incurred by the attorney eral in the employment, of assistant and in the operation of his Hcensin; departinent subsequent to December 21 ‘vere passed by a majority of the mem bers of the state auditing board ove: Goyernor Frazier’s veto this mornin and were ordered paid, ‘The items a fected, amounting to sev ral hundred dollars, were approved by the board in its Monday. session, but Governor F vier, who served notice on the boare at the beginning of its session that the y general's extra and specia sistants and licensing depart: ment and the stite auditing board as originally constituted were abolished December 21 by acts of the special w sembly, declined to sign the voucher their payments. . Premio of the state auditing board who met this morning and passed these pills over the governor's: veto claim that their proceedure ts regular and supported by precedent, inasmuch as three members of the board have ways constituted a quorum for the transaction of al! business. Two of the three members who met ted: 0 yemoved by. an act of the special sion which Governor Frazier insists became effective December 21. W heth- "er the governor Js correct in his con- tention will depend upon the interpre tation which the supreme court puts cn House Bill 60, which was passed at the close of the session, witheut 9% emergency Clause and without the trvo | thirds vote required by the constitutic to pass an emergency claus. This declares all acts of the special se emergency acts, effective ten days from late of massage, : “MONDAY BROUGTIT CRISIS __ Monday's meeting of the state audit ing hoard brought the first, officia] test of House PU) '60. No previons action had been taken by elther side whit would sdvance the controversy to 3 crisis... When Secretary of State Walt and State Auditor Kositzky, insurgent officals whom the administration: ma jority removed from the board. appear. ed to take thelr places tithe aneeting: the governor informed them that. thes ayere ont of order. inasmuch as their jobs as canditors hid been abolished Derember 21. Bol Hall and Kositak: insisted on serving and declared thes would protect. their places. on the board by Jeval action. Bach declared that \ the pill removing them from the board }ad not passed as an emergency meas wre. and that it would not hecome ef fective under the constitution unti! next July, Each of these insurgent supported by Attorney General Tan- gor. the only anti-Frazier man left on the hoard, contended that House Rill 60. presuming to give all laws of the special sesston immediate effect. even if coustitutional nended hy the filing of netitions frow 15,000 clectors asking that it be re: ferred. at the March. primaries. TRMKR SAYS ITS TT William Femke. viee president of the National Nonvartisan league and the man who engineercd much of the legis (Continued on Page Three) CITY REFUSED TO PAY DEMANDS FOR DAMAGES MONDAY One Claim Not Legal While Other Was Excessive, Attor- ney Pointed Out At Two claims on the city for damages amounting to $1,042.90 were referred back to the claimants by the commis- sioners at their weckly meeting last night’on the advice of the city attor- ney. One claim for $482.90 was not a legal claim in the attorney’s opinion, while the other, for $610, the city ate torney declared was excessive. The Northern Produce Co. asked the city to reimburse it to the extent of $432.90 for repairs and expenses inci- dental to a clogged sewer in front of its property: December 1918 and Jaan- ary 1919. Mrs. Bertha I. Ricker asked the'.city, for $610 as damages in con- nection: with injufies reccived when She fell on the sidewalk on Broadway between Fifth afid Sixth streets Octo- ber 4 last... In her claim, Mrs. Ricker asked $60 for loss of service, $60. for medical sorvices ‘and $500 damages. ‘This last amount, the city attorney do- clared, was excessive. i ; WHATHER REPORT: For twenty-four hours ‘ending at noon, Dec, 30. \ Temperature at 7 a, m. Temperature at noon Highest yesterday .. Lowest yesterday .. Lowest last night..... Precipitation ....... Highest wind yelocity. Forecast For North Dakota: Unsettled ana colder tonight with a cold waye iu the west portion; temperature zero by Weduesday morning; Wednesday fair and colder...” Lowest’ Temperatures Fargo . Williston’... St. Paul. Winnipeg - Helena ...,. Kansas Clty..). 0.54... . 36 : ORKIS W. ROBERTS, vey Meteorologist, is temporarily sus | LAST EDITION. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, DEC. 3 SUPREME COURT LEAK EVIDENCE TO GRAND JURY Report That Advance Informa- | tion Is Given of De- i cisions Probed Washington, ~ Dec, Bathered by the department of justice relative to the alleged leak: in cisions of the United States suprome court will be submitted to a federal Brand Jury here in January, it was announced today at the departinent of justice The government's a ly complete officals The nature of the evidence obtained was not dis- jelosed except that officlals. predicted iL would be “couchusive. | Charges that there bad be |Yanced information on the dec’ of the court in the Southern Paciti -Lividence land case and the prohibition through which certain) men {large sums in Wail strect have been under investigation ment for two weeks. POLICE RAID ON by the depart- | COMMUNISTS 1S BEGUN IN EAST | ey {Membership of 400 Shown on | Roster of Buffalo, N. Y., | Organization ;LINKED WITH THE I. W. W. | Buifalo. XN. ¥ j wide a roster of the communist party police today began a round-up of all | here showing a membership of 400 the j the members not Guken in tie rai on (the organi headquarters Jast under direction of the Lusk legis ive committee, ' The pri s today included Prank j tin P. Brill, who ran for congress 1918 and polled more than 7,000 votes three men who were candidaies tion's ithan a score of oth } The literature: si | alleged to show connection with the L. rs. j sia, A letter in possession of the Lusk ‘omnittee from LC. K. Martens, sell | styled. ambassador of the sevict gov ernment, is said toxcompliment the lo- ts on their “Werk fur the | cituse.” ; FOR BIG BRIDGE FINISHED MONDA Million Dollar | Missouri River Advances | Another:Step —« | The “Million Dollar Bridge" was {brought one step nearer completion afternoon when the fifth i i was completed. This leaves {but one more hole to be drilled to ce Herminc at what depth sound fornda- Htion can be found for the coverete ‘piles on which the huge iron and steel {structure will eventually rest. The drilling on both 3 o€ the | Missouri er have, bee mpleted ‘several weeks and the one hrou, in y was in the middle of the After passing through sand, and quicksand a firm cl a was fYound at idepth of the other four holes. The final hole will also be drilled in mid- am which will complete the pre- ‘liminary engincering, Engineers Here Cc. AJP. Turner, head of the Turne Construction Co. of | Minneapol which has the contract for the pre- liminary r and District Federal Engineer Charles of Minneapolis, rep- resenting the government, were out ‘to the proposed location of the “Mil- ‘tion Dollar Bridge” yesterday after- noon. Both Mr. Turner and Mr, Charles were satisfied with the prog- ress that has been made. When the final sounding is .com- pleted, which should be by the mid- dle of next month, the preliminary engineering Will be completed. The figures will then enwble the’ state highway commission‘-to prepare a sketch of the proposed bridge, com- putation of costs, method of construc- tion, materials and the many other. details incidental to the erection ‘of ridge. ? the eVashington Deecldes After the state highway commission has prepared its plans and_ specifica- tions this information will be forward- ed to Washington to the bureau of good roads. This bureau will check the data supplied and have it con- form with the governnent’s provi- sions. After this has been accomp- lished, the plans and_ specifications will be ready to present to bridge en; gincers for the purpose of bidding on the contract to build the structure. REAR ADMIRAL PILLSBURY SUDDENLY STRICKEN DEAD Washington, Dec. 30.—Rear Admiral John 1B. Files role dropped cu ig home here today. dead at Asbury Was born in Mas: sachusetts in 1846 andreceived a presidential appointment to the naval acadomy in 1862, He was retired tor age with 25 yoars sca service to his crodit in 1908, having attained the rank of rear admiral the same year. During the Spanish: war Admiral Pillsbury commanded: the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius off Santiago, Cuba. \ i doin the raid: ist i | { 1 | | | Me which pa (U local offices last November and more} {W. W. and sovlet govertiment of Rus-istages of school teaghing | FIFTH SOUNDING ' | Structure Over place H | | i i i 1 1] Yet it is hardly dawning on the public { ito moet, York, where Lowden was a recent vi 7 0, 1919 \ PRICE FIVE CENTS Who Will Be Our Next President? LOWDEN STANDS FOR CHEAPER GOVERNMENT No. 1 was sitor; No. 5 is the governor when he was a new congressman, 12 years ago. BY LEE J. SMITS, N. E, A. Staff Correspondent. », WL, Dec. 30.—The high of government has supplied the} + of Frank O. Lowden, gov- with the platform on} » more than hopeful; elected president of the; owden has the tradi- | utions for candidacy in perm on a farm and] s way through the cl: and OH tice of law. In addition he has eveit had-—a concrete rec chief executive of a great! Ch cost PPO ernor ef Mlinoi will he be i pr what Re ord as the tate, Boom Organized and Operating. I found the Lowden boom organized und-Operating. The governor had run up from Springfield for inrportant con- feronecs aud his persona) quarters, a suite in the sumptuous | sto was the scene of much activ made the national convention close at hand. In the Congress hotel, a block or so} away, are the “Lowden for President” headquarters. Literature setting forth the, governor's record and qualifica-j tious kept on hand, dan air of optimistic diligence pervades the | seen Friends of the governor explain Unat! he had to be dragged inta the candt- dacy. Certainly. he doesn't seem to} worry about the matter in the least Mayor of Chicago Fights Him Bitterly It is an open secret that he — is opposed bitterly by William tale Thompson, mayor of Chicago, Their views as to what constitute! Amori-| capism and republicanism have been} squently in contlict. Thompson will The can to combat Lowden ip and, Lowden. is i do the convention, Fr lo regard Thompson's opposition an asset. Governor Lowden is graci st ily intervie no me: little or | He is of stocky, yet by bulky figure-—more than a > embling Roosevelt in physique... ‘The farm life) which he still prefers, endewed him with a superabundanc of vitality. * Governor Lowden’s holdings include numerous miles of rich bottom lands in’ Arkan: Despite the fact that! s aversion in parts of the south ntee landlords, Governor Low: ; looked upon as one of the; Strongest backers of the Southern Alluvial Land association, H knewledge ef cotton and oth southern crops has enabled him to} | hold the attention of — red-hot democrats in the heart of the! south. He has no elaborate platform, but would much rather permit his show- ing as governor, his activities in sup- port of the United States during the war and. his general record. to speak for themselves. “Nation's Need lis For Stronger Amer- icanism.” When?l asked him what he regard- ed as the greatest need of the United States today, he replied; “That really is not a question. Wel all recognize the need—it is for a stronger, finer, happier Americanism, We can compel aliens to respect our forms of government, or get out. dud that we must do. At the same time, wo are under the profound necessity of earning that respect Crom all right-} thinking men, “We are hearing strong preachment against profitecring and extravagance: mind that we can be paying excess! ly for government, as well as for} sugar, meat or fucl, Hi “A government made up of a large number of bureaus, departments and] commissions, each one eager to make} a showing, cach bent on getting and} spending a$.much as pos le of the public funds, has been the rule. al “In Mlinois We Have Simplified Gov. ernment.” “Any Jarge corporation followiug| the example of a state or nattonal governuient in its internal manage- ment, would promptly go kankrupt. Inj Illinois we haye undertaken nothing wildly ‘theoretical; we have not in- dulged in the pyrotechnics a ‘re- (Continued on Page Six) —- oe | HIGH LIGHTS IN FRANK LOW. as}, - IN CUBAN CLASH WITH THE POLICE ‘Cecil Beatrice Vester, Charged I DEN'S CAREER, | Born in Suarise, Mian, Jan. 26, |! S61, { Father a village blacksmith, | Krank Lowden, at the age of 7 || trudged bes' prairie schooner || as the family moved to Hardin || county, lowa. | Taught school, worked) on a farm, and at 20 was graduated © University of fowa. | clerk in Chicago. | av $8 while he read | Graduated from the Union Col lege of law in 1887 and admitted to Married in 1896 to Miss Florence Pwdnin,-daughetar of George M. } Pullman of the Pullman company. |{ Hiccted to congress: in 10 from || the Thirteenth UWlinois distri E ae Called ont meeting of || of | in war work, troops to preveal the the “Peoples? Council for Lemoc cago, after N had declined to inte: r his it taxe per administration, state n reduced azout 2) He is His residence is Sinnis Farm, Ogle county, MN, He also aétively inte: ed in farming and + Arkansas and Texa He has one den, and ‘three Harriet and Frances. 33 BADLY HURT n Low Florence, | ‘Pulk: i | | ij Attempt to Quell Disorders Re- sults in Wholesale Havana Shooting | Dee. 30: — Provideu | MAN OF DESTINY? Five photos of Governor Lowden of lilinois. ! there to tell. congress about the budget system; No, 2. in Chicago at the coal strike conference; No. 4 is a recent studio photo, said to be Lowden's favorite, and BIG BIZ BUNK jJimmigration agents who had come to ; from.” cy "BURTON RESIGNS | | AS PRESIDENT OF || GOPHER VARSITY NF ste Minneapolis, Minn, Dee. 80.-+ Resignation ef Marion 1, Burton as president of the University of Minnesota wius oflicially amnour ced today. Burton wired the Joeal \niversity authorities from Phil- ; delphia that he has aeeepted an 4 offer to become president of the 4 University of Michigan, It is expected that President Burton will remain at Minnesota until the close of the collegiate year. Reports nersisted today in uni- versity circles that Dr. Harry L. Williams, for 29 years coach of the football team, also is to resign to accept a more lucrative offer from an eastern university. Dr. Williams is at New Haven. Conn. Small salaries and shortage of funds at the university of Minne sota are said to be responsible. WOMAN KILLED IN TROOPS’ BATTLE WITH BLACK MEN Louisville, Ky., Matron Dead and w NEGRO WAS AGGRESSOR | Louisville, K liam FE. Lynet ‘instantly killed and Privy; | ger of the First di fatally wounded during a_ fight tween a negro and soldiers that start- ed last night on a street car near Camp Zachary ‘Taylor. After he had been reprimanded by soldiers on the car for cursing in the taken in Washington when he was No. 3 in New presence of women pa ng negro. drew a re and shot Private IHa- ger. A fight ensued during which the negro jumped from the car and ran three miles to Louisville closely pur- DOKS BUSINESS, let through her breast. Police arrested J. L, arge of killing Mrs. 1 id he appeared on h shot at the negro as he He does not kelieve he sai he shot the woman. The negro escaped. d with a bul- Governor at Noonday Luncheon Tells How to Quiet In- quisitive Ones Hudson on a Hudson ch and in the state industrial’ program Were discussed by speakers at the regular weekly lunch- eon held by Governor Lynn -J. Fraz' at his office in the ¢ capitol. Among those attending were a number of the i Migration and STATE GOOD! ROADS ASSOCIATION WILL INITIATE BONDING the cily for a conference with Con- missioner John IH. Worst. Ss : ; Tax Commissioner George i. Wal- Bill Along Lines of Liederbach lace announced in the course of Measure to Be Submitted ’ to the People 1 the Juncheon that the publi tanding. invitation to ask ment anything about the state and the queries would be of gladly. Referring to He complaints relative to t Mr. Wal- hone lace declared those of North Dakota did not compare unfavorably with th public burdens of other states. 1 serted prevailing high taxes w h of state ) ruction in North Dakota, will be proposed int bill which the Goods Re tion y due Of the site plins to i for highway ¢ fiate for vote ‘largely to low purchasing power of of the people, by petition, it was an]; the dolar. Mr. Wa the gdiminis { nounced today. The bond issue would be designed to nittch federal aid, the state being en: aid the opposition to jon had t its! campaign against the SIX title ie one. nnn hs too erly sand Ie eG Pa a period before the next election would fay {hig purpose. ‘The proposed le enable the public to get the “cold tation, it was said, would limit to * regarding the situation. ve - 000,000 the issue for \ r would set 30 years as the period wich in which the total issne would be mead». Under the plans for ure of the 0 tion, 5.0000 miles of 1 will be improved. Especial attention will be given to highw: between coun seats, thongh some branch roads wil! be built up. ‘Phe improvement would he gravel construction with hard) sur Moxley, immigration agent at D.. recounted incidents in which he said he had found false impressions cirenlated about North! Dakota. Tle told {he manner in which he had overcomé “poisons” in the minds, of people in other states and had obtained) immigrants. Governor Fr » commenting on problems mentioned by the immigra- tion agents, said he had “not found anyone who was not casily set right! when fold where the ion come He declared * jx finetne Dee. 30.-~Thi i ns, were injured, several! in yesterday's encounter be- tween the police and a_ disorderly, crowd during a funeral proc ion! through the city according to an offi- cial estimate issued edrly today by} the authorities. The gravely wounded include three policemen, one soldier, and three laborers. ' When the police attacked the crowd the rush to escape s so disorderly that plate gla whidows were :brok-! en in many of the principal stores! along the street, damage amounting to many thousands of dollars, resulting. Fully 200 shots were fired during: the disorder, the police estimate. GIRL SUSPECTED | IN MURDER CASE WILL SURRENDER Havana, Cuba, three pe Ous With Killing Brown, Discovered Chicago, Dec. 80.—Cecil Beatrice Vester, for whose arrest on a charge of having murdered J. Stanley Brown at Mount Clemens, Mich., a warrant} was taken out yesterday, has been located ‘by. reporters. and will sur- render to Mount Glemens author: some time today the Herald and Ex- aminer announced today. Mrs. Vester denicd that she wag implicated in the killing of Brown.” "The Rewspaper re- cently solved tivo murder:mysterics. _ The Island Bormosa is regarded. by some scientists as the remaining link in a chain of volcanic islands to the east of a former Malayo-Chinese con- tinent. 1 vic interests” to be the chief opponents to North Dakota projects both because of the effect these enterprises might Lee. have on the business of separate com- OF DRILLERS T0 panies and firms and from fear that the movement would spread to other BE HELD qf ERK states. He said the state's. projects would prove themselves and if not . suceesstul would “die a natural death.” eae ‘Governor Norbeck of South D: j ANY CANADIANS | kota Will Attend Conven- CLAIM N. D. BONUS tion Next Month Men Who Served With Dominion; ‘rhe annual conven i Fares Cotilakorshane [bea Well Drillers i on of the North sociation: will be heid at the Comme bb January 27, 28 and 29. An interesting Many Canadians are among the ap- program has been arranged under the plicants. for North Dakota's soldier ayspices of the University of North honus, it was announced today from Dakota extensive div the adju eneral's eflice, A num- geological survey. her of them are men who went to the, The program will ‘include actual Canadian forees aiter= rejection. for) well drilling and , demonstrations of various reasons by the enlistment scr) the us Kites s of the United States, it was stat ‘driller ed. Among the Canadian applicants is. of Januar an aviator who served four years with the British. His application shows residence in North Dakota before snd GOVERNOR NORBECK HERE since the war and the attached papers! A banquet will be tendered the visit- include an cfliceys’ commission signed ing members of the association ‘at a by King George. local hotel. on the evening of January wae 28 at which time. there will be speech- AUDITOR KOSITZKY |, {200 tulit het ca TO MAKE ADDRESS and approved well appa On the evening 27, there will be a moving States government geological survey. tion will be Governor Peter J. Nor- * beck of South Dakota, known as the AT NEW ENGLAND “Wen priter-Govgrnor.” J. R: Chal- excl Imers of Mott au€k. Jaszkowlak of State Auditor Cart R. Kositzky an Ithis city are the two directors of the nounced today that he had accepted an association for this district. invitation tos on North Daketx| Howard S. Simpson, assistant state state affairs” w England D.,' geologist of the University of North on the afternoon of January 18. The Dakota, will deliver several addresses invitation, signed hy Rey..M. J. Webbe to the convention during jits three of New England, requests the auditor days session and will also conduct to address the town's men's club and round tables discussing subjects of yotets. generally, interest to the members. © Karl Ha-! blin on Was probably; Most common cries of the bolshevist be- picture exhibit furnished by the United | POLISH FORCES MARSHALLED ON WEST BORDER Republic Is Forming Barrier Against Western Spread of Bolshevism CARDINAL ISSU! EDICT Declares True Trend of Soyiet- ism Is Not Understood Even By Reds Rome, Monday 29—Poland has marshalled her entire army along the. Russian frontier to form a barrier against the spread of bol- according to an interview | with Cardinal ‘Karkawski, archbishop jot Warsaw, printed in an Italian news- paper, The cardinal says, however, jthat Polish detachments are too weal ‘to withstand the pressure from the east which, he says, may last from 20 western shevism, j by social ‘Socialists Private of the First | identi nlttsia, Pen | Which Maximill- Division Hurt fism is m of govern- ment. aiming to the securing of the {inaximum claims of the proletariat. | Bols! i has no_ positive faim, being negative, namel. everything, like n nihilism, Tho only cf bolshevism is .the brutal ness of ignorance One of tho lis, ‘down with all who know how to { i understand our ygland does not. [ believe the ¢ of anarchy and up jheaval in Russia may last from 20 to longer.” K situation, ROLL OF DEAD — GROWS INWAR ON MOONSHINE Gun-Fighters Give Battle to Pro- hibition Forces in Vir- | ginia Hills | Charleston, W. Va., Bec. 30--Moon- |shiners and officers of the state pro- ‘hibition department are “carrying on” jin the desperate warfare which thuq \far has resulted in four killings. | The latest battle in the Panther creek region, waged when two stills | were raided, the lives of Preston | Mullens, a noted hill country charac jfer and Beputy Sheriff John D. Ken- |nedy, The stills were destroyed. | On Hart's creek, two. stills have ; been captured and four moonshiners | arrested. | Press McCloud, brother of Albert | McCloud, an army deserter, who is ‘a fugitive with a heavy price on his head. js a prisoner. Albert ‘McCloud is charged with killing two prohibi- tion offi Se | National prohibition has served to | increase vastly the profits of moon- shining, The products of illicit stills peddled over hundreds of miles of territory. One of the prisoners ar- the prohibition forces is is, a news butcher on_a train, He is said to have been one of the distributors {for the moonshine gang. | W.S. Hallanan, state prohibition , commissioner, has asked for help from the state police and federal au- | thorit In the moonshine district ithe officers obtain no aid from tao natives who are either in sympathy ith the moonshiners, or else terror: lized by them. Everyone goes armed {these d including preachers mak- \ing their pastoral calls and school | teachers, Middle Class In — | Great Britain Is Ground to Powder yers, Writers and Peda- | i Civil Servants, Doctors, Law- \ gogs Suffering London, Dec. 30.—Lord Buckmaster, formerly Lord Chancellor, declared in the. House of Lords the othey day that the people of “middle class” in Great Britain were being “slowly ground ‘to ‘powder under present conditions.” “There is a large body of people | whom,’ he said “for want of a better definition, I will call the middle class, the people engaged as civil servants, doctors, 1a 8, Writers, and school- | mas: the people who earn fel- jatively small incomes, say from £360 {to £1,000 and who are the most thrifty and the most Self-sacrificing \class’in the whole country. : hey are people who stint them- selves sometimes of almost the neces= sities of life in order that they may give their sons a better chance. at schcol and at college; they are the class which has recruited all our fin-, est people ull over the globe, “What is the result? Wyery time the currency is inflated the hand ef the State is put into their pockets, and from their small, hard-won earnings sums are taken away in order that other people may have more. So These are the people who are being slowly ground to powder under the present conditions, and I say it is the class which represents the life-grow- ing point of the nation. If that is once destroyed it will be im that it should ever be replaced.’