The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 30, 1920, Page 1

‘ : ; OT : & ' oe :. + = K TRIBUNE LAST EDITION CHECKED WHEN ‘SUPPLIES+F AIL Resistance on Trans-Siberian Railway Disappears— ‘ So Does Food BOLSHEVISM IS SPREADING Agents Working Among Czecho- Slovak Troops Spread Propaganda London, ‘Thursday, Jan, 29.—Ditti- culties of supply have probably stop- ped the advance of Bolshevik troops along the trans-Siberian ‘railway west of Irkutsk, accoding to advices to the war office. All resistance seems to haye disappeared, ‘Detachments are reported to have reached the Chinese frontier sotuheast of Blisk, Latest reports seem to show that re- lations betweeen the néw government and the Czechs-Slovaks have become worse and that Bolshevism appears te be gaining ground as a result of the arrival of red agents working in frogt of the Bolshevie. army. | Encounters between Semenoff troops and Cecho detachments ‘are reported and it is stated Admiral Kolchak and his staff have been imprisoned at Irkutsk. UKRANIANS TAKE ODESSA Vienna, Thursday, Jan. —Rhe capture of Odessa by Urkanian’ forces is announced by the Urkanian press bureau. aes RESUMING ADVANCE @N SOUTH London, —At Irkutsk and Piro in ssia the. Bolsheviki have resumed théir advance against General Denekine. On the western *halt. of the front the. soviet. troops have reached the northern end of the Chimea and have cnptured Genichesk and Perekop, On the eastern half of the front the threatening red advance along the ern shores. of the Caspian | sea have been checked and thrown back. Jn the center General’ Denckine's unit has fallen‘ puck. In the central Gen- eral Deuekine’s unit hag fallen back, But. in the Don region’ the anti-Bol- heviki are ‘maintaining their pesi tion. AM] reports concurr in saying the | ~ Russian retreat 4s. being, caried out in an ordérty Manner. and \that the pur- suing soviet cayalry ix gainlng ground only step by step and 1s loosing ye- verely. 5 ath In western Russia the Lettish ‘ad: (7 yance“along the 90 milés front has at- tained a maximum = penetration of about 65 miles, “Difticulties between the Poland and Lithuania’ continue and threaten to become actite owing te acts of aggression by partizan de- tachments. ‘a KKOLCHAK MAKES ESCAPE. Honolulu,’ Jan. 80—Admiral, Kol- hak is reported to have escaped from the Bolsheviki and to be in hiding in Manchuria, according to a Tokio dis- patch to.a fapanese newspaper here. COURSE TO BE TAKEN BY FRIENDS OF TREATY CANNOT BE PREDICTED Washington, much ‘discu: 0.—There was what course of friends of the treaty should take if the bi-partizan negotiations without agreement. Senator’ Hitchock of Nebraska, the administration leader, has, told the republicans that in guch an eventuality he proposed to move to take the treaty in the open senate, but said today he would no: do that until all hopes of ‘compromise by private nego: tiations’ has disappeared, ended For twenty-four noon, January 30. Temperature at 7 a, m. ‘Temperature at noon Highest yesterday Taw yesterday Lowest last night Precipitation ...... Highest wind velocity Forecast For North Dakota: tonight and Saturday with rising tem- perture. Lowest Temperatures hours ending at Nag * —2 ston 2 St. Paul... 16 Winnipeg —10 / Helena . thicago : Swift Current Kansas City Oe 7 ORRIS W. ROBERT: Meteorolcgist. RED CAVALRY ADVANCES Soviets: Horsemen Ford Rivers Into Manych: London, Jan. 30.—Russia soviet cav alry commendéd by General Dumenko has forded the rivers in the Manych valley in the lower Don region and captured 5,000 prisoners, after a two’ day battle the red forces then contin- uing to ,advance says a Bolshevik communique received today. Further eastward along the same river the fiercest fighting is proceed- ing against another force: the state- ment adds. THIRTY-NINTH YEAR | ‘ REDS’ ADVANCE ty, a Today’s Weather i —= PRICE FIVE CENTS DROP. TO 1,442 IN WINDY CITY Sixty-eight Deaths From In- fluenza and 83 From Pneumonia « es FLU CASES Chicago, Jun. 80. — New influenza cases reported to the health depart- ment during the past 24 hours. dropped, of the present epidemic, Sixty-eight deaths from influenza were reported and 83 from pneumonia, New cases of pneumonia reached 443 the highest mark for any 24 hour per- iod since the epidemic appeared. LAND BOARD IS HELPING MANY STATE FARMERS More Than Million Loaned to Needy on Seed and Feed Bonds to Date The state board of university and school lands now owns well over a million dollans Worth of seed and feed bonds, through which medium ‘the, board has loaned the income from fle lands with which the state was dower. ed by the federal government. tq’ farm: ers in drouth-stricken sections of the state wlio have been compelled to bor- row. At its meeting yesterday the board purchased $60,000 worth of secd and | feed bonds from Slope county, an ad- i ditional $10,000 in Hettinger county, from which the board purchased $85'- 1000 worth January 19; $200 00 worth 000 worth January $200,000 worth from Billings and $125,000 from Gol- den Valley county. The board had previously invested $995,000. in ‘seed and feed ‘borids under an act of the 15th assembly. . In December the board made $188.- 000 worth of straight farm loans, an amount equal to the aggregate that had been loaned to farmers up_ to that time by the Bank of North Da- kota, The farmer’ pays five percent for this money and has a long term in which to pay b&ck the principal. SHARON WANTS. ARENA TO KEEP “0S HANDS OFF Little Nelson County Commu- nity Says Neighbor Is ' Stealing Its Mill The,blue. sky commission fs calle? upon to act as a Solomon in. a squah- ble between Sharon and Aneta, over ‘in Nelson county, over the owner- ship of a milf which is now located at Sharon, bat which recently has been purchased by a company which Proposes to move it to Aneta, The mill was recently scld to the Sharon Mill Co., after the plant had been in operation about fifteen years. The Sharon Mill Co., in turn, sold it to the Grain Growers’ Co., of Aneta, which is incorporated for $60,000. Sharonites: claim they ‘have been double-crossed’; that they invested in stock of the Sharon Co, under a misapprehension, aud that Aneta or ‘the Grain Growers’ Co.. or some person unknown, has slipped. some- thing over on them. One thing positive ‘which they do know is that they want their mill left‘ where it is and not put on wheels Aneta, According to reports made to the capitol] the: Sharon mill has been appriased at about $15,000. The An- eta company is said to have provided from its. $60000 capital, $12,000 for promotion and $14.000 for the moving vf the mill, leavipg $34.000 for operat- ing purposes. Sharonites are said to eontend.that the control of the. Atieta and Sharon. companies is’ yested in one head, who bought the Sharon mili and then sold it to his new company, and that somewhere along the 1 Sharon has been left out bf consider ation. 4 The squabble was ‘to. have been threshed out before the blue sky board yesterday, but the parties concerned were not ready, and the hearing has gone over for a week. The blue sky board | mitted the Merchants) Di of Chicago, which propo: to operate a chain of stockholder stores iti North Dakota, with distributing headquar- tens in Minneapolig; and the Master Oil Co. of Fargo. esterday ad- : OF GORDON Bank Robber, Murderer and Bandit Goes to His Death with Smile on Face—Autopsy De- velops Fact, That Brain Was “Normal” Ossining. Y.. Jan, 30—The body of Gordon Faucett, Hamby, notorious murderer and bandit who was electro cuted in Sing Sing, prison late last night for the murder of two officials of a Brooklyn savings bank in Decem- ber, 1918, will be buried in a local cemetery today. No one claimed the body and the mystery surrounding his to 1.441, just over half the high mark]’ and, toted away over,the prairie to) Sas d BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1920 WHOLE COUNTRY No Marked Increase in Any Par- ticular Locality Noted at Capital Washington, Jan. 30.—Steady spread of’ influenza oyer the country was in- dicated by reports to the health ser- vice today from state and health ofli- cers. No marked increase in any par? ticular locality, however, wais note: Jases reported? from 23 states and District of Columbia for the week end- ing January 24 numbered 27,241, an increase of more- than 23,000 over the week before, Officials explained that actual number of cases totaled 467, an increa: the week before, while deaths from pneumonia were 947, a decrease of 75 from the total of the week before. MANDAN STOPS DANCING Mandan, N. D., Jan. 30.—The health authorities here have prohibit ed public dances because of the fn. crease in the number of new cases of influenza reported durling the past 24 hours. , Recent cases of the disease have brought the total up to 85. None of the patients are in a dangerous condition. NINETY (AT JAMESTOWN Jamestown, N. D., Jan, 305-Ninety cases of influenza haye been reported here since the epidemic first broke out and although all of the es are of mild character, there have been no igus of any decrease in the number of new Cases. NEW YORK DEATHS INCREASE New York, Jan, s influenza und pneumonia increased to- day but the number of new cases de- eveased. There were 100 influenza deaths, an increase of 33 over yester- day’s figure, and 136 from pneumonia, an increase of eighteen, New _ influ- enza-cases totaled 4,706, a decrease of 883. Pneumonia cases reported today totaled 649, a decrease of 37. HIGH MARK PASSES AT FARGO Fargo, No D., Jan, 80.—The high mark in the influenza epidemic. in Fargo has been passed according, to Dr. A. A, Nichols, city health officer. Sixty-seyen cases of influenza, were Feppbdted ‘teday~ and: seven of pucanio- nia while no dedths’ occured in: tht 24 hour period ending at \noon to- day. i ABSENCE OF SNOW Is AID TO’ SIOUX COUNTY STOCKMEN Very Little Has Fallen. This Winter and Cattle Are Able to Graze. Aided by an exceptionally open\ win- fer permitting stock’ to graze rpractically the entire ¢ tle in Sioux and adj counties are in excellent condition and are fét feneugh to kill for beef. There have Deen a/number of shipments to eas'- ern markets. by stockmen there who have realized a good price for them. Dr. A. McGaffuey Beede, Indian missionary and at present owner of the Sioux County Pioneer, published at Fort Yates, left here erday af: ter attending the convention of repub- licans here Wednesday. | Dr. Bee'le vs that there ias been very Ittle snew in the southern part of the state, and that not only Sioux, but Hettinger’ and Adams counties as well, are able to graze their cattle all of the time. MOONSHINER AT. GATE CITY GETS JAIL SOJOURN Fargo, N. D., Jan. 30--Andrew Ol son, avho was arrested laét week witi Hans Molstead for operating a whis key still, today pleaded guilty in fed- eral court here and was sentenced t¢ four months in the C county jail by. Jiidge J. W. Wooarow. Olson ad- mitted that he owned the ‘still, but saic that. the liquor which was estimate to be worth $5000, was made for hi personal use. Molstead reserved his plea. : The liquor, poured into a s tion this morning. raisin whiskey, was rat the police sta- “GOOD-BYE, FELLOWS -I LIKE TO TRY ANYTHING ONGE.” FAREWELL _. HAMBY FROM CHAIR parentage, which he had studiously guarded, remained unsolved. An autopsy disclosed that the brain of the youthful criminal was “normal’ and well developed. SMILED UPON DEATH Hamby maintained his composure to the last smiling as he was strapped to the chair and making a brief ora! just before life was snuffed out. (As he left the death house he called out to his companions ; TRIES ANYTHING ONCE | “Good-bye fellows, I always like to | try everything once The murderer gave three letters to the warden, asked him to mail them and keep the addresses secret. OF FLU GRIPS | the total reported was far below the |. -|present, representing 25 counties, All , increasing the pay roll approximately | {100 per cent and in employing large | | | |private interests, and statement to the warden and witnesses | STEADY SPREAD | YouTH GIVEN HIGH HONORS: FATE ALSO FAVORS. HIM | | New York, Jan, '50.—"Probably one of the greatest honors ever given to a-man.of his age, has been received {by Spruille Braden, who is but 24 years old and yet was selected as one of the financial. representatives of New York to’ the second American financial conference held’ at Washing- ton, January 19 to 24. Since the oth- FEDERATED FARMER: Imported Socialists Declared in| Control of North Dakota’s In-| visible .Governmenivetgricu! tural Representative Demand Unity in Fight Against Whole- sale Corruption ea was condemned | in passed by farmers state-wide conference held at Bis- jmarck Jan. 28, called by the federated farmers committee, J. W. Evans, Car- son, secretary. | Most of the farmers | present were insurgent leaguers, mem- bers of the farmers union, grange. | Two or three delegates were invited: from evéry county. Some counties! had other farmers besides their dele- | gates present. One hundred | were Townleyism resolutions of the western counties where the league has been strongest were rep- resented. i WHEREAS, there exists in North | Dakota, a government controlled and | operated by non-resident’ radicals, ni WHEREAS, the state government ‘elected as a farmer adniinistration ; ;on a farmers program has become janti-farmer and ignored the farmers ; program in the interests of revolu- 2 ‘with. the I. W. W., and jciates in the inner circle have used the credi¥ and the good name of the farmers of North Dakota to float! jquestionable, business enterprises jwhich are no part of the farmers pro- gram and which have brought di {eredit and suspicion upon the farmers and that they have done this solely | ‘for private gain, \and ° WHEREAS, the state administra- !tion has been unduly extravagant in; jnumbers of men at exhorpitant sal-' laries paid by the state who devote) their time solely to propaganda in | the interests of Townley and his WHEREAS, this extravagance has theaped upon the farmers of this istate“a practically unbearable burden | jin this time of stress which together | with the so-called reform of the tax) ilaws, which, according to the figures Wallace, has shifted the burden of taxation to the farmers so that al- though in 1918 the proportion of the total taxes of the state the farmers paid was 54.89 per cent, the propor- tion of the total 1919 taxés which! the farmers will pay is 70.36, making ; a\tax increase on the individual far- | r for 1919 over 1018 of from one to/200 per cent, and : ‘WHEREAS, although up to Janu-/ jary 15, 1920, according to the report | lof the state bank applications for farm loans totaling $8,236,474 have been received, only $892,189.04 has} been loaned which means that through | red tape and inefficiency thousands | of farmers who ‘have' actually paid | their appraisal fees have been unable} to get their sorely needed money, and WHEREAS. there is absolutely no excuse at all for this inefficiency and useless extravagance nor for the tionists and the element sympathetic | ; WHEREAS, Townley and his asso- | compiled by State Tax Commissioner Ci n) 5 er representatives are Paul M. - burg, Andrew Fletcher and John ate Hammond, his standing in financial circles is happily emphasized, By a queer turn of fate, Braden was selected ‘for conference with the Chil- ean representatives and his wife was formerly Maria Humeres del: Solar, Chilean beauty and ‘social favorite. : S CONDEMN BOSS RULE OF TOWNLEYISM AND COMMEND INSURGENTS FOR THEIR HONESTY wan, Glass Recommends Big Reduction in «Loan For. Poland. Washington, Jan, 30,—Recommenda- tion of reduction of $25,000,000 in the $150,000,000 loan proposed for food relief, in’ Poland, Austrian and Ar- was made today by Secretary appearing be fore the hot ways and means committee. MEETING WILL BE HELD HERE TO AID | SOLVE TAX TANGLE Bankers and Business Men of Missouri Slope Invited to Conference Bankers and business ‘men of the Missouri slope district will. be given an opportunity to learn at first hand the intrics of the state and federal iuceme tax laws and the proper meth- ods. to. follow in filling out th blanks. \ Meetings will be held here Monday and Tuesday in the, community room of the public) library under tac spices of the North Takota Bankers ation, Invitations \ have been ‘nt to all the bankers in the Missouri slope district by the association to attend these meetings and indications are that there will be a big attend- ance, The meeting Monday will start) at o'clock at night and the s re gontinued all day Monilay. George KE. Wallace, state tax commissioner, will explain in person the state in- come tax requirements while Mr. Nordstrom, expert from: the internal revenue department at St, Paul, wil ve charge of the federal tax dis- ion, i FORMER NORTH DAKOTA NEWSPAPER MAN LANDS Rex Lampman, a popular North Da- was editor of the North Dakota Lead- to span the Missouri river between} natignal army, with which he served terday. 1 in France, is now on the editorial ,;and location proposed for the bridge| staff of The Stars and Stripes, row jhave been endors r jpublished at the Walter Reed hospi-.|V. Abbott, acting chi¢f of engineers, | tal at Washington, D. C. Mr. Lamp- man_ wrote forthe Stars and Stripes iin, France, when it was the official organ of the A articles are now being given first jeral bureau of roads, which must be| by the American had before federal aid, which will page prominence successor to the newspaper of our boys over there. Y..W. C. A; HAS TO RESORT TO MALE CHAMBERMAIDS: MORE SATISFACTORY THAN GIRLS, DECLARES THE MATRON | Chicago, Jan. $0—Men sup- planted maids as house servants at the Y. W. C. A. hotel here to- day. A shortage of housemaids shady business enterprise owned | or| controlled by Townley and his asso:! ciates in the inner circle, and that) these are no part and parcel of. the} (Continued on Page.Three) forced employment of men said Mr . M. Sharp, a matron of the hotel, who declared the substitu- "tion proved yery satisfactory, [DEMAND RETURN | { i i . E. F., and his signed awaiting for the approval ‘of the fed-| | ya art atl the public ion will | jpartment for the construction of the kota bred young newspaper man who million-dollar highway bridge which is | MERCURY TO RISE FOR NEXT DAY OR TWO, SAYS BUREAU Warmer Weather. Can Be Ex- pected For the Present With No Snowfall The weather will gradually become warmer for the next few d: and as fas as can be predicted at. this time by the weather bureau there will be no material drop in the temperature tor the present. Yesterday the mereury claimbed to its highest point for some time reaching 86 degrecs above zero The lowest lust night was one degree above zero. The lowest temperature reporte the state for the past 24 hours was at Fargo with two degrecs below, Win- nipeg reported ten degrees below zero There has only been a slight precipita tion of snow during the past 24 hours and. the weather bureau does. not pre- dict snow, exceptlug trace Lin FARM SOCIETIES OF RAILS NOW Five Great Agricultural Organi- zations Memorialize Presi- ‘ dent Wilson Washington, J 30.— entatives of five big farme ganizations met here today pare memorials to Presi son and congress asking for the immediate return of the railroads to private ownership and control and the prompt enactment of legislation to meet present coudi- tion: Protests against the representa- tion heretofore: made that the farmers favor continuing gover nent control for at 1 were made by delegate Organizations repr ted in- clude besided the International Farm — congress, the | National Farmers’ congress, ;{he National Grange, the American Federation of Farn) Bureaus and the Na- tional) Farm union. Delegates said that these organizations have a membership of 4,000,000. COMMISSION GOES TO DICKINSON: TG: HOLD WAGE QUIZ Work is Completed Here: to Dis- “cuss Minimum Wage for Women and Minors Hearings conducted the state minimum wage commission to obtain facts on which to base the minimum wage for women and minors in this state were completed here and the commissioners left yesterday for Dick- inson where hearings will be conduct- ed today and tomorro The commission consists of $.. 8. MeDonald and LL. J. Wehe, both mem- f en’s compensation . Following the hearings pu for employers and em- the commi: gs at Jame: Fargo, Grand I Minot. Although the commission las not decided as what the minimum Wage will be for women and minors in North Dakota, from a suryey made of living expenses in Bismarck it is believed that the amount will be in the neighborhood of $15 a we The | commission will make its decision fol- | Jowing a meeting in the eastern part of the state after the preliminar hearings are held, to which employ- ers, employes and representatives of, il be ted. AUTHORITY GIVEN BY WAR SECRETARY TO ERECT BRIDGE Formal Approval “Received By Highway Department— \ Bureau Hasn’t Acted Formal authority from the war de- i received ion yes- The plans and specifications d by Col. Frederic; and countersigned. by the assistant secretary of war. : ae The highway department is _ still) | amount to about a half million, can be obtained for the project. Mrs. Sharp expressed the opin- | ion that: “General substitution of house- men .for housemaids is the only solution of the servant problem.” s. Sharp said housemen KUROPE MUST BE FORCED TO FINANCE SELF Further Aid From United States Impossible, Declares Glass OPPOSED TO CONFERENCE Declares Hopes Would Be Raised Doomed to Disappoint- ment Washington, D, (., Jan, 30.—Europe insofar as the United States is con- cerned must rely upon her own re- sources in regai financial equili- brium. This is the interpretation here gen- erally of the letter Secretary of the Treasury Glags has sent to a commit- tee of the chamber of commerce of the United States, which sought a goy- ernment expression oi the proposed conference of senators and commercial, leaders to discuss financial reconstruc: tion, “Thel American government — has doi it. believes ad. ble and ye rable to aid Wurope,” said Mr Gl The conference he added “would serve to ¢ to revive hopes wh to disappointment.” e confusion and hh must be doomed LOUIS W. HILL RELINQUISHES 6. N. MANAGEMENT Ralph Budd to Succeed Son of Empire Builder in Control of System St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 30.—Louis W. Hill, chairman of the board: of diree- tors of the Great Northern d railroad and son ef the late James J, Hill, an- nounced this afternoon that he will retire from active management of the Lroad storthy, after ats. is .restoxed. to. private: ownenship. .sHill’ stated thet Ralph Budd would direct the manage- ment. Several months ago it became known ' that eastern interests had obtained. control of the Great Northern and Nerthern Pac roads, It was rumored at that time that Mr, Hilt intended to ‘retire’ from active con- nection with the properties which were developed by his father, Jt is expected that Mr. Hill will devote his attention to the Hill bank- ing and ore intere BAR ASSOCIATION ELECTS OFFICERS FOR PRESENT YEAR F. E. McCurdy Heads Organiza- tion With Benton Baker as Secretary \ Officers were elected and an inter- esting program featuring some of the most prominent jurists of the state were the important portions of the annual banquet of the Burleigh Coun- ty Bar association at the Grand Paci- fic dining room Wednesday night. The new officers of the association are I’, E, McCurdy, president; George M. Register, vice-president; Benton Baker, etary. Mr. Baker was the only officer re-elected. Theodore Kof- fel, outgoing president of the organi- zation, acted as _toastmaster. Justice H. A. Bronson spoke on the work of the national bar association and dwelt at some length on what the supreme court had accomplished last year giving a statistical resume of ‘s decided, number affirmed, num- ber modified and other interesting data. He also covered some of the mew rules which the supreme court will probably adopt. Justice J. E\ Robinson used as his topic “The Present Democratic Situ- lation of dhe State Supreme Court” following in a measure the style of his Saturday night letters published exclusively in The Tribune. Justice L. E. Birdzell urged the members of the bar association to use their utmost influence in helping to solve the pres- ent cconomic unrest in the country and illustrated how extensive the in- fluence of attorneys was. Judge W. L. Nuessle of the district court spoke on the relations of the bar association to economic conditions. Attorney Kelsh of Mandan, John Wil- liams of Washburr, J. E. Nelson of Garrison and several local attorneys responded to toasts. {RICHLAND COUNTY WANTS MAN. NOW IN MINNESOTA John A. Nelson, also known as J- A. Nelson. wanted in Richland for forgery, will be brought back from Minneapolis, where he is now sojourn- jing, if Governor Burnquist recognizes a requisition issued yesterday by Gov- ernor Frazier. Quick action was de- manded because Richland authorities had information that Nelson was thinking of decamping for Salt Lake could be employed for the same Wages us housemaids, City, which is more distant in several respects that. Minneapolis.