The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 1, 1920, Page 1

THE WEATHER Unsettled. ee ——————————————— THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE LAST EDITION THIRTY-NINTH YEAR BISMARCK, NORTH PRICE FIVE CENTS DAKOTA, MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1920 _ i ly "| dea i -. SPALDING HOLDS WOOD PETITION; f |, INSURGENT REPUBLICANS WONDER WHAT JIM SHEA HAS BEEN DOING Unusual Twist in Presidential OKLAHOMA LINES i Politics Has Both Factions; | UP ON SUFFRAGE ‘ay Guessing—Johnson Completes Oklahoma City, March 1.—The League Brand to Last—Low-| ‘atifying the federal women’s suf- { Hl frege amendment by a vote of ! den Coming—Chase Osborn i¢ io. 4, with 24 not voting, Rat- | 5 : ca vill ‘be c 3 when | i to Speak for Former Bull Governor’ Robertson. places, ms Petitions nominating Leonard Wood COURT RULING pending advices from Wood’s nation- E | ‘Supreme Tribunal Refmses to Set | al campaign headquarters were with- | drawn this morning on’ instructions) . i Aside Precedent for Non- | partisans from Chicago, General Wood stated he withdrew out of deference to the recent repub-j lican state convention’s request. ‘The presentation Saturday evening of nominating petitions for Leonard Wood by Judge Burleigh F. Spalding | of Fargo, a man who would not ac- cept the nomination of the fext to the last republican state convention for delegate to the national conven- | tion. because. he explained, -he haa!MUST FILE INDIVIDUALLY heen chosen by Will Hays as one of the repuldican national committee's executive board of 25, to which posi- tion he wished to go with his hands free, has further complicated the com- plex politica) situation in North Da- kota, \ It had been expected 1 Expected Townleyites Will Com- ply With Accepted Rule Before Midnight that Wood) would file, but v few were prepared! Dectining to set aside precedent | for the initiative in this respect to While fime yet remained for the league | come from Judge Burleigh F. Spali.: republicans to comply with the ae; ing, one of the leaders of the antis, cepted practice of filing individual | who met here to repudiate the first Nominating petitions for each candi: | republican state convention, popularly date king favor in the presidentia. | conceded to have heen u Wood con. Preference — primaries. the supreme yention. Jim Shea of Wahpeton, for. court administered the Nonpartisan mer United States marshal, and the Organization another rebuff Saturday Pd ” Sy man whom Judge Spalding and others evening when it refused to issue a writ directing Secretary of State. responsible for the second republican state convention charged with hay: Hall to show cause why he had not | ing been principally responsible for accepted blanket petitions for ‘the no the first meeting of North Dakota re. 1! tion of national delegates and { publi¢ans, to which they fook sveh P dential electors, which the leagu . sought to file last Friday. ba Poe ounreme court ruled that sutti; cient. regson ‘had ‘tut been” shown: for strenuous exceptions, has been rec: ognized generally as Major /General Wood's: North ~ Dakota dampaign manager. the necessity og going into the question ae mp ee - of whether the established practice was HENDRICKSON STARTLED correct, inasmuch as time still remain- Because the first state convention, eq for the league to abide by .this called hy National Committeeman Gun- precedent in circulating and filing be- der Olson, but which the dissenters pore midnight tonight individual peti- insisted wes stage managed by Shea. tions for cach of its fifteen candi and to which they have referred a8 qutes for places on the primary ballo:. | “the Jimshea” convention, appeared | REIKI SIGNATURES to be committed to Wood, the second’ 45 y yesuit the leagne managers convention was popularly accepted as immediately began the circulation of | a Lowden gathering, Judge Spalding individual signatures, to each of which took a very prominent part in that 509 signatures must be attached. In-| meeting and in the arrangements asmuch as the same elector may and which preceded it. At what point Jim probably will sign each of the fifteen Shea and Judge Spalding of Fargo. petitions, the task. except for the man representing two factions of republi: asked to sign his name fifteen times cans which had seemed radically any jy not so stupendous as it might ap-| tagonistic, united in support of Gen- pear. It is expected that individual eral Wood is a puzzle which has petitions will be completed and filed Staale Hendrickson of Coteau and within the allotted time. and that the other prominent republicans stepping jeague wil not ask é¢he supreme court sidewise Hendrickson was endorsed ‘o formally rule upon the legality of by the Gunder Olson convention as the practice which it sought to adopt. delegate to the republican nati | In denying Attorney rie Ke Pos: conyention. The Treadwell Twichell ter, representing the Tengu the alter- convention, called to repudiate the native writ he requested, works of the Gunder Olson meeting, Jyoi¢e James E. Robinson w endorsed four of the Gunder Olson indignant in his condemnation of a nominees, but did not include Hen- yeturn to the old convention system drickson in the quartette. Since that. o¢ nominating tickets. time Hendrickson had camped here it pect primary. Vawa dor: Bismarck, militantly and opeiily 0, jeen] right to’a place on the ticket, the warpath. When he learned Satur gaiq the judge. lay evening that the nominating pet The nec of filing indiviaual tions of General Wood. whom he hud petitions never before has heen regarded as chieftain of his clan, were ¢mectioned. In 1912 when a condition handled by Burleigh Spalding, of the similar to the present one existed. enemy's camp, instead of by Jim with a Lafollette republican Shea, leader of the Gunder Olson for- Roosevelt republican set of delegates ces, the Burke county leader was left, and electors in the field. a separ: speechle: | petition was filed for each candidate. JOHNSON ENDS TOUR The same practice has been adopted Senator Hiram W. Johnson of Cat in the present campaign by the Gun- | fornia left North Dakota Sunday fol-, der Olson republicans.’the Young re Jowing a four-days tour with a sub- publicans and the regular democrats | stantial slice of the Flickertai] vote' and the F n democrats, each of tucked away in his pocket. Johnson | which will have a ticket on the March spoke at Grand Forks. Devils Lake, | 16 primary lot. Minot, Bismarck and Fargo, and every: | WOMAN QUESTION OPEN where he was received enthusiastically | One question raised by, Hall left! by large crowds. Saturday evening he undecided in the supreme court's; addressed 4.000 people at Fargo. Hav- refusal to take jurisdiction is whether ing repudiated any connection with the a woman under North Dakota's limited | league hefore enfering the state, and franchise act can qualify for delegate, | having reiterated in every address, for which she has no vote, made in, North Dakota his opposition | to socialism, Johnson today probably has a larger conservative following | here than he did before opening his} campaign, In spite of his repeated declara- | tions that he did not wish to be tagged} Menkato, Minn., March 1.—Repre-; with a league brand, the North Dako- | sentative Franklin F. Ellsworth ot | ta Noupartisans twice embraced Jolin- | Mankato, the first republican to form | son as their presidential candidate— ally-announce his candidacy for gov-| once in informal convention at Hills: | ernor, today withdrew from the race. | boro and again when the Townley | It is believed that Etlsworth will seek} element of the republican state cen- ‘tral committee met here on the day of the Californian’s Bismarck meet ing. A direct cut which Johnson ad-| ministered the league when he refus \e ed to accent the hospitality tendered | by an “official” reception committee | named by the Townley members of the state cenfral committee appears to! have ‘had No effect on the league. for its Fargo organs remained enthusiastic in their support of the former Bull Mooser to the very end of his tour. LOWDEN COMING yovernor F. O. Lowden of Illinois, has announced his intention of invad- ing North Dakota on a speech-making tour. General’ Wood recently visited South Dakota, put is not expected in North Dakota. It is understood that former Governor Chase S. Osborn of i i MINNESOTA RACE totreturn to congress from the sec-| ond district. MANCHESTER EDITOR SEES NO DECLINE IN WILSON’S MENTALITY e Manchester. England, March 1. —President Wilson’s letters in the Adriatic correspondence just published are considered by the Guardian as a refutation of the “report that his illness has caus- ed some loss of mental force and balance.” It adds “It President Wi'son is suffer- ing from any malady or political judgment, could not some Amer- ican bacteriologist convey us a ‘court ordered such dismissal “with-; }actually resorts illegal, wrongfei or} ST. PAU EIGHT 7) PULLMA POARS CARS. NE. A, Staff Special | Washington, D. C., March 1—The! most vatuable aggregation of proper-| ty in the’ world today goes back to | the hands of its private owners after two years in the hands of Uncle Sam. The railroads of the United States, whose book value is approximately $19,£20 000,000, includd almost one- third of the total railroad mileage of the whole world. Out of 729,845 miles nf rail on the earth, the railroads of the..United States comprise 233,899 intfes, é : ‘ ‘Compared ‘to this, Russia’s mileage of 48,955 (1916) is inconsiderable, and | yet Russia has the second largest rail- road mileage in the world. Canada, ! STEEL TRUST 0. V GIVEN BY U.S. , SUPREME COURT Corporation and Subsidiaries Will Not Be Dissolved, Says High Tribunal NEW JERSEY IS UPHELD No Injunction to Enjoin Re- straint. of Trade Will Be Issued—Day Dissents Washington, D. C., March 1—Thel supreme court today upheld forma- tion of the United States Steel cor- poration and subsidary combination in the iron and steel industry. Refusing to dissolve the so called!) “steel trust” the court dismissed the federal government's Sherman law suit for dissolution. ‘NEW JERSEY UPHELD ! Affirming the New Jersey federal] court’s dismissal of the government’ prosecution the supreme court declin- ed to enjoin the restraint of trade| charge and also denied an order to break up the super combination said to be the world's greatest industrial organization with assets exceeding two billion dollars. In dismissing the suit however, the} out prejudice” permitting the rovern-| ment to sue again if the corporation renressive practices. Justice Day in a dissenting opinion! said the majority opinion virtually | annulled the Sherman act. WINDOW - SMASHING | ROBBERS LOOTING: STORES | Minneapo! Minn., (March 1.— Window smashing robbers ob- tained loot valued at $800 from two Minneapblis stores last night according to reports made to the police early today. Hurling a brick through the window of the store of Morris London, robbers stole a fur coat valued at $200 and other clothing estimated at $309 more, A jewelry store was robbed by the same burglar, police believe. ON WAY TO DICKINSON J Johnson, of Fargo, retired captain of the Patriarchs Militant. Independ- ent Order of Oddfellows, was in the city Monday on his way to Dickinsor: | few germs that we may innocu- late our European premiers?” Michigan, a strong Roosevelt man and (Continued on Page Eight) where he will muster in the newly formed canton of the organization. N 2,000,000 RAILROAD EMPLOYE Le ath \ fi Ly “1919 ‘gtr ae le AD has only 37,434 miles; France, 31,958; Germany, 29,600, while the British Isles have only 36,286 miles. Uncle Sam hands back to the priv- ate owners a total of 200 railroad systems, with a vast equipment of locomotives, and eauipment. These include ) locomotives, 53,- 515 passenger | cars, (060) Pullman cars, and 2,299,840 freight cars of all kinds. On these roads in 1919 Uncle Sam collected a total of $5,181,000,000 in revenue. After p ¢ their operat- ATS, Thg eXparses! ahd taXes pr '$4.666,000,-) 009, there was Jeft a net operating in- come of $515,000,000. This amounteg to 2.74 percent of earnings on the book values of the railroads. * SHERMAN ACT DOESN’T BAN RETAIL UNION | Washington, March 1.—In- interp- eting the Sherman anti-trust act to- day the supreme court reversed fed- erl court decree which held that tne statute did not prohibit retail price fixing unless there was intention of j creating a monopoly. WISCONSIN BEER CONTAINING 2.05 PER GENTISO.K. \Federal Judge Rules State Pro- hibition Laws Take ‘Precedence ‘ MIGHT AFFECT, DAKOTANS| Milwaukee, Wis.,’ March 1,—Manu- facture and sale of 2.05 percent beer in Wisconsin was legalized in a decl- sion handed down today by Federal Judge Geiger in the testcase brought hy the Manitowoe Products Co. ~ Judge Geiger upheld/the Milberger law thus assuming that state prohibi- tion laws. take preference over fed- eral regulation. ‘ VOLSTEAD ACT FAULTY The court held section one, title tw2, of the Volstead act unconstitutiongt. | The court also held: that inasmucl as | the constitutional xmendment prohib- | ited only intoxicating liquors either | congress nor the sfute legislature have | power to define the word 4itoxicating | jiquor 80 as to inglide beverages non ) intoxieating in fa¢ter~ | The court held that the dunendment | does nof prohibit the state from. fixing ; andard wider its police power | is the first-court adjudication ou | the question in the United States. | DAKOTA. NOT DRY | If Judge Ge ruling sfands, | North Dakela will not be bone dry un- | der fede prohibition, for, while the te prohibition amendment to the stitution prohibits the manufacture, | sale or barter of intoticants as a be erage within the state it does not pre- ; vent anyone who is thirsty from buy- ing the statr elxewher and Db: ig it into the fe. The federal prohibtjon a prohibits he hanili in interstate commpre, but North D: kota ha more oleis damp dominion horder to which sme who haye botb the desire and theflisposition are look- ing with hopeful gaices, w.¢.'T. (10 MEET The Wome Gristian Temperance union will meet infhe Community room at the city librag at 3 o'clock Tues- day afternoon, | DEMOCRATS TO [cdoperate in an effort to end debate RAILWAYS BACK HOME UNCLE SAM TURNS BACK TO PRIVATE HANDS MOST VALUABLE AGGREGATION, OF PROPERTY IN THE WHOLE WORLD, 234, Re MILES OF ROAD. /, E.R. The receipts from freight and pas- sengers increased 43 percent, $200,- 000.000; a total of $4,666,000,000. The difference between $515,090,000 the amount earned net—and the government guarantee to the railroad owners was $390,000,000, which deficit Uncle Sam made up out of the treas- ury. The 1918 deficit was $215,000,-! 000--the total defiat for, the two | years of government — operation! amounting to $65,000,000, The roads ‘go back to approximate: ty, (£48,000 stockholders, _w! own uléfn. “OF these, a Técord. of the” 26 largest stockholders in 23 of the country’s largest railroads, shows that these few control more than half the stock issued, i AGAIN BLOCK | RATIFICATION: Enough Senators Committed to| No Reservations to Prevent Adoption a” i 1 WILL .GO INTO CAMPAIGN | | Majority Agrees to Stop Debate and Take Burning Issue to People | unfavorable yote on ratification of the | peace treaty was forecast in the sen | ate today when republican leaders, replying to demands, of the treaty’s re- publican opponents, reaffirmed their de- termination not to accept any change of substance or of language in the re- publican reservations to Article 10. DEMOCRATS WITH WILSON Both sides conceded that enough | democratic sehators to defeat ratifica- | tion are determined to stand with President Wilson and yote against the | treaty umfess the Article 10 qualifica- | tion is modified. The republican decision today was followed by decision evidence that all the elements in the treaty fight would and let the treaty issue go under un- decided into the campaign. Some of the leaders predicted a fina (i ARENAS, REBEL Representatives | shev RETURNED road administration, the gover: than two years has controlled 23 28) passing at midnight the 230 li what was practically one giga traveling public there had been roads: during the government’ Hines alone remains. He will matters left pending when the Under the so-called railroad state commerce commission is rates and compulsory arbitratio The government also retains a their bond issues, but at the s centage of profit and makes it WHAT WILL the measure in congress and Wilson veto it, will test the con: LEADER, TAKEN, | SAYS DISPATCH Governor of State of Puebla Ad- vises Mexico City of Capture | P (a VILLA NOW STANDS ALONE! All of‘ Chieftain’s Aides Have, Been Made Prisoner or Quit Mexico City, March 1.—Cidilo Aren- as, a rebel lei has been captured | at Puebla, according to a telegram} from Governor Cabrera of the state; of Puebla, received here. Arenas was taken into custody when he attempted to enter the city of Puebla after leav- g the gulf coast region. Semi-oflicial reports announce the! capture also of Caravo_ in! the state of Tamalidas. This bandit has in recent years attained consid- erabe notoriety for his exploits. The capture or surrender of more than a score of nocorious bandits and | lesser outlaws during the year leaves only Francisco Villa, who is ope ing with a small force in the distric in the north, and ‘Manuel Relaez and Felix Diaz, who are vi in the gulf coast region. ii lo | | | BUSINESS MEN DECLARE WAR ON RADICALS of Eighteen! States Act in Convention at St. Louis Mc arch 1.—Bus 18 states m St. | louis, i men from. uled by the a tion of California iscuss plans for combatting Bol- m and kindred doctrines and o rouse apathetic and indifferent cit-| izens to a relation cf their patroitic| fede yote by Friday but others thought it would not come before the first of next week. GENERAL STRIKE jtidates for _Bublie ‘ofice who stand | FOLLOWS CLASH | states represented include , North | WITH OFFICIALS Milan, March 1—As a result of a! col between a crowd and police | « here yesterday in which 5 fired on the mob and two civilians mortally wounded a general str: was declared at midnight. e e | LEYLAND STEAMER WITH 184 ABOARD GOES AGROUND OFF HALIFAX COAST; S. 0. S. CALLS BRING SHIPS TO AID Halifax, N.S. Mareh 1.—The Leyland line steamship Bohemian ‘ound for Liverpool from Boston with 184 passangers on board went on the rocks 40 miles east of Sanbro early today according to a radio from the steamer pick- ed up here. ! {duty as Americe i through tomorrow. ted action would be taken again: and South Dakota and Minnesota ha jh th favor of Dicki The will continue | Delegates assert- n- conference C | MANDAN DEFEATS DICKINSON Mandan, N. 1.. March 1.--Mandat ated the fast Dickinson high schori | the fi son, ya e end of S. 0. S. calls said the vi was held fast on » iedge in need of immediate as i} Several ships have gone to_her aid. The Bohemian is of 5,544 tons. 1 Later messages said that tugs had taken off 63 passengers and were bringing them to port. ] AMERICAN CARRIERS railroad system, teday passed out of existence. Whether union labor leaders. ater sought to have President “| the country. ally power- t | sel AIN TODAY TO PRIVATE OPERATION Washington, March 1.—The operation division of the rail- nment agency which for more the operation of the nation’s With its nes that had been merged into ntic system again went under control of private interests free to operate in compétition' as of old. The transfer from government to private control was without incident: and there was nothing to indicate to the a change. HINES ALONE REMAINS Of the staff of directors and executives who controlled the 's operation, Director General have no authority in directing the operations of the systems and remains simply to clear up government gave up control. d reorganization bill the inter- given greater power to control n of labor disputes is required. certain amount of control over ame time insures a fixed per- possible for the companies to secure loans from a federal fund set aside for that purpose. UNIONS DO? s, who are stubbornly opposing stitutionality of the bill in the courts will'be decided here today at the conference of execu- tives of the railroad brotherhoods. 650,060 WHO OWN RAIL | STOCKS ARE DELIGHTED | cea ee ee LY FRANCIS 1H. SISSON, Vice President of the Guaranty Trust Company of New York. New York, March 1.—The 650,000 Ametican investors who.directly own railway stocks and the millions of thrifty. citizens who have their sav- ings in banks and insurance companies iavested in railroad stocks and bonds, are not guaranteed against loss by the new rairoad bill, but they are assur- ed of a large measure of protection. A carefal reading of the new rail- road Jaw makes it, plain that it is the p to eucourage the in meut of new ratiroad capital by giving a fair deal to the nearly $26,- 300,000,090 of capital that has thus tar been devoted to the upbuilding of our transportation system. Hundreds of millions—yes billions of new funds must be put into rail- road’ building if our industrial growth is not to be stunted by a failure to provide adequate transportation fa- lities. This new capital can only come from the savings of the thrift investors and these savings can only be attracted by making railroad in- vestments attractive. ‘There is no Aladdin’s lamp that can be rubbed to bring forth the dol- jars needed to build railroads. Bank- ers have no magic touch whereby th can bring dollars out of their vaults for the development of the country. Banking institutions are merely part of the machinery where- by the savings of millions of people are collected for the upbuilding of If the new law makes it possible to provide this flow of new capital for railroad upbuilding, it will be one of he most constructive measures ever placed upon the statute books. in an increase in expenses far beyond the increase in revenues, The increas- ed cost of operation is very largely the result of the great rise in prices for labor and materials, The first task of the government under the new 1ailroad law will be to readjust rail- road rates to provide for this increas- ed st so that the railroads will be f pporting. Until they are self- supporting, it will not be pos:idle to attract new investment capital for them UNDERWORLD IN CLASH WITH ST. PAUL'S POLIGE Marked Increase in Crime Im- puted By Saintly City Press to Break March 1.—Mar iner p erime in St. Paul during the past ten days was today declared by a local newspaper to be a_conse- quence of a war between the leaders of the Jocal underworld and the St. Pant nolice department. Chief of Po- lice O'Connor has been Hl, It has heen it is claimed that gun- men and other criminals living here | have charged that Chief O'Connor was responsible for the conviction of “Big Chris Dawling, recently sentenced te an indeterminate term at Stillwater. Dawling was alleged to have been a ; leader of the underworld. Holdaps and heen steadily house robberies have increasing it is claimed WESTO RECOVERING Weston Baker, youngest son of Capt. T. Pp. Baker. who was operated on last at St. Alexius hospital, is show- ing considerbale improvement and is recovering as rapidly as possible.