The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 31, 1919, Page 1

Generally Falr THE BISM ARCK TRI BUN BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, EDNESDAY, DEC. 31, 1919. Happ |. 1919 HAS BEEN fae GOOD YEAR FOR ‘CAPITAL CIT Launching of Many Projects For ‘ Civic, Betterment Mark Twelve-Month 1920. CONTAINS PROMISE Period Ushered In. Tonight Should Witness Unpre- cedented Progress The year which we will bia farewell tonight at 12 with clanging of bells and blowing of whistles and tooting of horns has brought to Bismarck much of good and little of ili, In some re- spects Bismarck in common with othe: clties the country over has marked time, but if comparatively little has been executed, much has been initiated during the last twelve months, and the city, the county, the Slope and the state havo little to regret. The whole state will profit in 1929 from an unprecedented program of construction which will follow the re- turn of the railways to their private owners. Railway executives in the Twin Cities have announced that wil- Mons must be immediately expended in yepairs, improvements, extensions and expansion in the northwest. With this renewed act the completion, of projects surveyed years ago. but which were held in abeyance during the five years of, war. and which will give parts of North Da- kota. not now served lon? needed transportation facilities which will mean for these sections a remarkable era. of development. THE NEW MISSOURI BRIDGH The Slope particularly, but the “whole state, dfrectly or indirectly, will : henegt from the completion of the mil- lon dollar wagon bridge over the Mis- ‘sour), for which'a foundation was Jaid hy unremitting tol! upon the part. ‘of Mandan and Bismarck boosters during 1919. Two or three years will he re- quired. to finish’ this’ big project, but the .very fact that a start has been mado will glvo thie Missour! valley new impetus in 1920. A- Dew. grade school to cost $75.000 and.to serve the populous east side and relleye the pressure on other schools in the central part of the city will be among the early developments of the new. year, Nincteen-nineteen paved the way when in a recent school clec- tion but two votes were cast agains. the pyoposal and the people of Bi marck lined up unquallfiedly for a pro- gram of progress. Lots have already heen purchased for a similar school on the west side, ind among other things suggested in the way of public strne- tures for the new year is a comty building which might perhaps he made of sufficient. size to permit the rental of a large amount of office spece to the state, which is so sorely congested in its present quarters, and which might thus produce cnouzh revenue to almost if not entirely pay the interest on the honds which would ‘be necessary to} 4 finance the building. BIG APARTMENT MOUSE Probably the biggest local. building project proposed is the Hughes-Tatley apartment honse on Broadway, which is to contain 87 modern apartments and which will do much to relfeve the housing shortage. As planned, this anartment house will he the finest thing of its kind between the Twin Cities and the Coast, and the financial investment will be very large, _ The Bismarck Construction Co, al- yeady is at work on the first of a series of eight modern duple: just north of the junior ‘high school building, which will form a splendid improve- ment for that section of the city. Bismarck's third“large paving pro- ject. partially completed in 1919, will he finished in 1920, making the capital the best paved clty of 10,000 in: the northwest and furnishing every. resi- dence district with beautiful, modern streets. ~ * s NEW DISTRIRUTING PLANTS The coming of the Deere-Weber Co., with plans for the immediate erection ‘of a splendid distributing plant at the corner of Main and Second which wil! employ scores of high salaried men at ~ bis point; ‘announcement that the Aultman-Taylor Tractor Co, of Mans: field, O., will:make Bismarck, instead of Fargo or: the Twin Cities, its dis- tributing point for the Slope and east- ern Montana, and the probable expan- sion of Bismarck’s new flax mill are among the favorable commercial ana industrial factors for the new year. Bismarck territory never was put to such a test-as during the last year, and never has it responded more satisfac- torily. In spite of drouth and short Crops and. other unfavorable factors, Machinery houses, automobile dedlers| nnd other distributors here report an excellent, volume of business, and all are agreed that there was a larger pro- orton of cash business and. better Mections than in any other year since Blamarek assumed its present import- ante axa jobbing center. _ RETAIL BUSINESS Good = rom business has the sime report fo make, Sales have been good, col- Jedtlons have been better and there has been a fay larger volume of cash’ busi- ness than’ eycr before. Never was there a better Christmas trade than that for the holidays just past. Tho ttle cream check, no longer little, and the fact that in Bismarck itself there (Continued on Page Six) \ ity is expected to come REDS SMELLING COMMITTER HAD 14,000 KILLED Tip For North Dakota Soviets May Be Found in Russian Success Ss sand pi Wao eae fee n vere shot by Bolsheviki of Ru ‘tuted the first three months of 1919 by order of the extraordinary committee at Moscow according “to an’ official note published in the Bolshevik organ Isvestia of Moscow says a dispatch received here, i CLEARING HOUSE! BREAKS ALL OLD RRCORDS IN 1919 With Bank of North Dakota Us- ing Service All Previous Figures Smashed. { DECEMBER BEST MONTH| Exchange of Items on Monday Amounted to $213,175.40, | Largest For One Day With the total monthly bank clear | ings during 1919 falling behind the} 1918 totals in only two instances, the} final figures for the year ending tod v | cross the $14,000,000 line and reach} the highest in the ¢ history. The total clearirgs for 1919 amount) 76 compared with $10821.-; 500 for the pr ear. The larges: iy recorded wer for December 1919 with a total of $1- 4,861 and the largest daily amount er cleared was on Monday when $218.175.40 changed hands among th ) BANK CLEA & The hage increase In the daily quit, monthly clear s due to the faet that the Bank of North Jakota, while not @ member the Bismarek Clear-: tion, clears its items) house, "The resutc! has been thai the total clearings hare practically heen Gonbled. i The present month hax been a record Wreaking one as far ns the clearing house yecords indicate, ‘The daily y and monthly clearanee total, records have been shattered this | menth. The clearings hy week in De- cember were as folle thru the ¢l Third wee Fourth w during 19 Ss MONTHLY € ATEN IMs TOLSO0 $ 119,600 January Februa March . s June . 087 § July zt 900 < i August September October . November . December . 8,160 Totals 10, 0 $14,596,276, STATE TO HOLD UP JOB OF XN. P. BANK EXAMINER| H. O. Paulson’s: Appointment to Succeed Halldorson Never Approved Contending that TI, 0. Paulson's ap- Dointment to succeed P. F. Halldorson as depnty state hank c: aminer, after the latter Nad heen discharged /for his activities in unearthing evidence Against the Scandinavian-American bank of Fargo, was never approved by the banking hoard. as required by law, Attorney General Langer today began action in the supreme court to enjoin Paulson from attempting to. serve as deputy examiner. The banking board following ‘the selection of Paulson, who hails from Drake, by State Examiner Lofthus, refused to approve. the ap: Pointment. Regardless of this fact, Paulson proceeded to qualify, igs said to haye examined a number of banks, and to have presented vouchers for his salary and traveling expens These ‘youchers have heen rejected by the state anditing board. PHILADELPHIA HAS. Woop ALCC Philadetphia, Pa., Dec. 31. — Potter oder investigating the death of thres women and a man belleved to have heen victims of wood alcohol. Their hodies were found last night in lie tooming house and it is believed they died ‘Saturday ‘when they, were ast * seen, i NOT PAY BILLS bi NO \Custodian of Money Bags Asks LCOHOLITIS) i a ll OLD TIMERS MEW YEARS EVE, EM WoT? > SorrrEREIELD cars FRAZIER SERVES OLSON NOTICE TO Governor Informs Treasurer He} Will Be Held Responsible For Warrants ACTION YET RESULTS Chief "Executive How He Gets That Way ® Warfare between Governor Frazier! and the state auditing boad wa fered to the of Olson today, when, fresh from a local hospital where he had spent a «week, the state treasurer found a note from Governor Frazier advising the treas- urer that he would be held responsible by the governor should he pay any of issued for payment of tant attorneys general and the licensin, rtment in the at- torney general's office, claims for which the governor stated were illegally ap- proved. After consulting the attorney gen- eral's office, which advised him that the — governor was without legal grounds for his contentions, inasmuch as the attorney general held House Bill 60, which would immediately make effective the bill passed -hy the special session. removing former members of the state auditing hoard, to be uncon- stitutional, the state treasurer wrote Governor vier for the source of his authority in ordering the warrants held up, None of the warrants in question has yet been issued, altho a majority of the members of the ti hoard as it has always ex approved the claims of thi general's department and the w: haye been drawn. oh Action to determine the constitution- ality of House Bill 60, which the minority holds to be in conflict witn the constitutional provision relating to the passage of emergency clauses. siv- ing acts immediate effect. is predicted within the next three d: MERCHANTS AND HIGHWAYMEN IN Wichita Falls, Texas, Dec. 31.— One man is reported dying and two others are probably fatally wounded as result of a skirmish jbetween merchants and highway men last night along the princi- pal street of Waggoner City, the oil town, 14 miles northwest of here, f OES SSE moth Sa sh At_ first table forks had only two prongs, later three and four only, to- las the va ve} all pooled their iss .{ thought to the t , the Honse and the Senate; and the FATAL BATTLE “NEVER AGAIN!” Yi WPRILLE, Z Y/, Ys Y yy 1920—NEW YEAR’S LET US THEN B By JUSTICE J. | E UP AND DOING WITH A MIND FOR ANY FATE TAX LETTER—1920 | FE. ROBINSON | Money does not grow on bus es a necessity, down tay concerns all the people. not from any mere politleal standpoint for the high taxes just whe majority nor the minorit why the pot should not r—In 1919 under heeo adoup the tup thus: The total of all proper FRAZIER GIVEN BLAME: That was about. five times as much) ation in 19 Then my went all the 1 x levies because | the enormous sed yaluation re- moved) all limitations, ‘The several boards and the grafters who levy t handle and dispose of the money \ collected and for some reasen, you may all seek to handle a Jarge sum rather than a small sum. ‘The result is that all the tax levies for 1919 are i And who is to blame; who was responsible for marking up the asse all the proper billion ‘dolla hers ef the that did the ind a hale} the mem-} ization They were Soard of ng up? ate Tagan and K who alone yoted no. In ten minutes they could have reduced to a normal figure all the as-} s valuations and thus put a:proe- itation on all the tax levies | Will they stand up and tell why they did not do it? If not. we must do some guessing, and I guess the reason was that every member of -the Board was looking out for his own big and) unheard of appr ution and so they and gave little rs. ‘The rest s that levied the ies | was done by the bo: local taxe: To undo: the wrongs I drafted and submitted to the extra session a bill to reduce all the tax levies, fifty percent. but not below the tax of 1918. Howj was. that measure received by the} press and the lawmakers? By a vote of 52 against 48 in the House, I was permitted to discuss the’ same before state tax levy “for the general, fund” reduced twenty-five percent. Now t is sald that the eut amounts:to noth- ing and that the cost of figuring is {more than it is all worth, If the eut had been twenty-five percent on the state tax levy, it would he easy to fig- ure in a fraction of a ‘moment, for, of course, It is mighty easy to figure twenty-five per@nt or one-fourth from any stated amount. HUMAN INCONSIST! However, human being are inconsistent. The minority that pro- tested most. fondly and justly. against j the excessive taxes voted against, cut- ‘ward the end of the seventeenth cen- tury. {4 » it belongs, i arty is without fault. he rule of ssed valuation aue of the pr tion met and marked up the values about f ting down the: exorbitant appropria- (Continued or Page Four.) When crops fail and private economy wv public economy and for, question’ is one whic ly and honestly and ; the responsibility pen that neither the There are good reasons The high tax comes ahout in Commissioner and Deputy HL property as returned by ss much its in 191s. Then, in August the ‘oper JUSTICE T. THREE SURVIVORS OF BELGIAN SHIP ARE SAVED TODAY St. Johns, Newfoundland, Dec, 31.— Three men were rescued today from the wreok of the Belgium steamer An- ton Van Driel, which struck the rocks at the entrance of St. Mary’s bay at midnight Sunday. They aré the only survivors of the crew of 29. All were frost bitten from long exposure. WIFE OF A MEMBER E. ROBINSON ‘(OF LENINE-TROTZKY CABINET ARRESTED Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 31.—Dr, Anna Reinstein, wife of Boris Reinstein, a member of the Le- nine-Trotzky cabinet, and said to be in charge of propaganda in for- eign countries, wag arrested here today by officers acting under direction of the Lusk legislative investigating committee. After being questioned: by District At- .torney Moore she was taken to | the connty Jail. Vl way will be 26.6 feet, with a sidewalk NO NEWSPAPER ON NEW YEAR’S Following ia custom | nearly half a century, The | | Tribune will observe aM of | Year's day as a holiday, and no paper will be issued. The Tribune trusts that its friends everywhere may have the happiest and most pros- perous of new years, and it pledges its best efforts to the | making of this hope a reality. | FORD WILL GIVE GlV AWAY $8,000,000 70 HIS WORKERS Elaboration of Profit-Sharing | Plan Announced By De- | troit Jitney Plant | —_—_——- 190,000 MEN ARE AFFECTED ‘Bonuses Will Be In Addition to Earnings Employes Make on Stock Shares 31-—An elabo- sharing plan Detroit, Mich., Dec tration of its profit | whereby all employes will be enabled jto, purchase certificates of invest-| ments in the company guaranteed to! i eturn 6 per cent a year and a dis- ribution of bonuses that will total be- ween $$,000,000 and $10,000,000 was nnounced today by the Ford Motor! 1 Co, 1 Approximately ithe Ford Motor Co. and other inter- a und his son, Ed- will be eligible} i statement accom- tpanying details of the new pol it jis announced that ihe two steps out- lined “constitute only, a . beginning” ahd that “oth or enlarging the} jincome and incr ing the purcha ing | | power of the dol of our employes! {are under consideration.” The amount of the bonuses which will be in addition to the ribution | of profits under the original profit, j sharing plan will be based on an em-| vape and length of serv- ge trom $50 in the in the company’s | and rei lice. | c f a worker st ce three months the minimum wage of 270 in the % of a worl and receiving a wage aried employes re- ng more than a month will ipate proportionately on the of the length and value of serv- of $10.80 a day. i i i Some Idea of Magnitude of the Undertaking Gained Front Project Statement Some sense of the magnitude of the million-dollar highw bridge which fis to span the Missonri between. Bis- marck and Mandan, and which will be the biggest éngineering feat of its kind in this section of the state, is gained from a project statement which the state highway commission is now pre- | paring for submission to the federal! burean of roads, which is expected to} | provide about half the capital. The project calls for three 476-foot spans, four reinforced concrete piers { and reinforced concrete approaches at either end. The clear idth ef road- jat each side. The length between the centers of the end and piers will be 1.448 feet: the approach on the east | will be 486 feet Jong. on the west 630 foet, and the length over all 2: feet, The maximum clearance over. high na- vigation Jevel of the river will be 38 feet. Material to be used will be 6,420 cubic yards of concrete for the piers; 3,800 cubie yards for slabs and col- umns; 831 cubie ya for the bridge pavement ; 2.370 cubie yards of rubble, and $298,090 worth of steel trusses, There will be 90.700 peunds of cast- ings; 10,800 pounds of rollers; 46 tons of corrugated sheets; 20,000 feet of piles; 2.016 feet of brick railing and 20,000 of piles, and S,680 yards of ex- cayation. The bridge is designed to carry four trucks of 25 tons each at a time, AGAIN DEFER ACTION Paris, Dee. 31—Although the su- preme council today fixed January 6 as the date for signing the protocol and exchanging ratification of the Ger- man peace treaty, complications are developing which, it is thought by some persons in council circles, may again cause the’ postponement of the ceremony of putting the treaty into effect. employes of ii TO USE UP TONS. OF MATERIALS NEW YORKERS T0 ‘CELEBRATE WITH OLD TINE ZEST Traditional Pranks Will Usher In New Year at American Metropolis ONE LAST BIG HEADACHE | PAD Those Who Like Theirs. With Kick in Them Will Ignore Revenue Officers New York, Dee. $1 will celebrate in itional fashion the hour tonight h the ringing chimes and shrieking sirens wlth an- nounce the arriya! of 1920. Reyelers and wine bibers, of whom there still seemed to be an appreciable number left, announced that regardless of prohibition, consequences, expensea or revenue men, théy would have one last eclebration of their own sort. Unnumbered thousands planned to throng the “great white way” and send showers of confetti through an atmos- phere agitated by the din from as’ many as thousands of tin horns and cow bells. Church goers planned to attend one of the many night watch services Forty revenue agents some of them in evening clothes will mingle in the gay restaurant throngs and be on the alert for violations of the liquor law. A special watch will be kept for possi- ble distributors of wood alcohol. In the big hotels it will cost from $5 to $15 merely to sit down at:a din- ing room table. One chain of hotels, however, has announced that much of the stock of rare liquors, wines and other cordials i 1s cellars will be presented ‘ i st at midnight. y all of the restaurants and caberets reported that ninety percent or more of their available space had been reserved. New Yorkers POSTAL RECORDS SMASHED DURING YEAR NOW ENDED Business in History of Capital City The postal receipts at the Bismarck pestoffice were greater during the year 1919 than ever before in the i With the month of estimated at $15,000 the 3h, A detail which makes this increase even more interesting is that during 1918 the three cent postal rate s in effect, while during the last months of the present year the rate was turned ba to two cents. If the three cent rate had been in force during all of 1918 the total re- ceipts for the year ending today would have been well over $145,000, al of x jit is estimated, Quarters Beat Record. Each.one of the quarters for 1919 exceeded in total receipts tho corre- sponding quarters for 1918. The fol- lowing gives the comparison for the four quarters during 1918 and 1919: 1918 1919 First quarter. $32,611.58 $27,148.86 Second quarter 33,! 36,012.78 Third quarter. 26, 31,307.59, Fourth quarter 25,080.76 95,416.56 Totals ....$117,870.25 $139,885.79 The various classes of receipts for each quarter during 1919 and the amounts are as follows: ‘First quarter: Stamps, $27,240,583; permits, $8831.83; . newspapers, $598 84; box rentals, $459.15. Second quarter: Stamps, $33,464,54; permits, $1,439.75; newspapers $645.91; box rentals, $459.50, Third quarter: Stamps, $22,612.54; permits, $7,458.68; wspapers, $758.54. box rentals, $458 LEONARD WOOD FORMALLY HAS HAT IN THE RING Pierre, S. D., Dec. $1-—Major Gen- eral Leonard Wood today filed 4 for- mal announcement of his candidacy for the republican presidential nomination with the South Dakota secretary of state. In his. message of acceptance Gen- eral Wood said: 3 “I do hereby declare that if nomi: nated and elected I will qualify.” Governor Lynn J. Frazier of North Dakota, who was endorsed for presi- dent by the Nonpartisan league state convention December 2, has not filed a notice of acceptance, Major General Wood gave his home city as Bourne, 'Mass., and his present _ address as Chicago, Probably the first attempts at de- fense consisted of fences or palisadés of wood, interided to serve as an ob- struction to the advance of an ing force. , t