The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 16, 1920, Page 1

ssptienany: BISMARCK TRI { - THE WEATHER ' Snow and Colder. U | N | LAST EDITION | IVIL WAR IMPENDS IN GERMANY ) HEADING NEW GOVERNMENT DEATH SENTENCE pei IN IN GRIP OF GENERAL Flint-Like Snow Borne in Teeth of Howling VERDICT AT POLLS TOD AY: FEW | FOR LEADERS OF) gTRIKE; EXTREME MEASURES 70 Northwester—Barometer Engages in Unusual ae] Bo 2 See WOMEN'S VOTES TO BE COUNTED RED INSURGENCY BE ADOPTED BY DR. VON KAPP 4 Pa ets Ria A eC ON OLS New Government Declares Pick- pears Dvided in Support Between Two Administrations— rf Tie worst blizzard in many years, demoralizing train service on both the Northern Pacific and ov ‘railroads, accompanied bya high wind reaching a TWO PROMINENT Impassable Condition of Country velocity in excess of GC milcs an hour at times with an eight inch snow ‘ail { Roads Will Result in Small ets and Agitators Will be Shot as Rebels Fighting Reported at Various Points—Bloodshed Occurred in Suburbs of Berlin Yesterday—Laborites and Socialists Adopt- pilling up. in ‘deep deitis greeted people in this section this morning as they EDUCATORS T0 Proportion of Farmer ing Syndicalist Measures and Resorting to Sabotage BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1920 ha “worst recorded ky the jocal, weather bureaus. With a wind averaging between 40 ard 45 miles an hour, and frequently exceeding that velocity, pedestrians | were almost unable ty make progress againsnt the gale. Represented at Polls—Anti- Townley Victory Seems As- sured—City Balloting Light LE AVE DAKOT A Strength Being Registered To- With the exception oF a storm in 1888, or 1889, the present blizzard is th: day—Fair Sex Very Poorly 4 AAILROADS HANDICAPPED ‘ie Whipeing the enow into deep drifts in every depression or cut, or in| Hy, G. Arnsdorff, Deputy State i i BERLIN PARALYSIS TOTAL sheltered parts of buildings, rail traific out of the city was virtually sus+/ Superintendent, and A. L. elie. | % pended. No trains were run on the north Soo either yesterday or today, but; A “ i ' x ‘ < ( ed Schafer Going As a result of one of the worst (By The Associated Pr : y sninitag Hoechedins toa lake Ried ae neo nae lives —- storms in the memory of pioneer No Capital in World Probably il war ‘seems imminent in Germany as a result of the re- The Northern Pacitic schedules were badly disrupted. No. 1, which was QFFERED FINE POSITIONS North Dakota it is likely that not more} Has Ever Suffered Such —_|fusal ot ane Bbert Soyer now sitting at se to carry a due her? ahout midniaht Most ninht. did not get in until after 5 o'clock this | i A : than fifty percent of a normal vote Demoralization on negotiations Wi e reac lonary regime, whic seized power merning and was held at Mandan today and up-to the time of going to press'One Goes to University of Min-|was:cast in the presidential prefer- ‘ suddenly last Saturday morning. ' Unconditional surrender of the was stili being neld there. No. 7 due here at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoor ence primary today. -In the countr: i men directing the new government! is demanded by President 4 until ab ii ; ' nesota and Other to Wash- ence pI 9 y. oIn untry} Berlin, Monday, March 15.—Mea s is : y 4 J (it \r Parashat Halal ae ua note rep tg Mott i statles a tl ie | any listricts, where hundreds of precincts} who act as leaders or pickets in the|Ebert, who announced he would continue to direct the affairs of ts of Mal i a S e a7 ington Red Cross made no effort to open their polling| general strike called in this city -as-&]/the troubled country from Wurtemburg. The German national A snow plow, sent out from Mandan, was stalled this morning in a snow cut) a short aistance from thet city. LOWEST BAROMETER 3 The barometsr ‘ll tc the iowest mark in the history of the local weather bureau yeateriay reacting 26.66. state. this morning went to 9 degrees below. Colder weather, no snow and lower wind velocity are predicted for Wednesday by the weather bureau. The storm area exienas from Montana to Wisconsin and from Manitoba 1 is believed chat tne farm loss, due to the death of live stock, to Nebraska. will be large and ihot other damage, due to the high wind, will also be great. COMMUNICATIONS HOLD UP ’ + Wire comm snicat ons in this vicihity have held up fairly well. Wires be- tween. Fargo and Devils Lake were down and there wag only one telephone eee wire between Furye ana-the Twin Cities. Telegraph-and. powar-wires wert somewhat damaged oy the storm, but not.as heavily was as originally antici- pated. ~ A number of narrow escapes parts of the city yerterday and today. streets with heads bowed dcwn to protect the faces from the whipping wind, almost can into, or, almost were run into by automobiles and wagons, the dviers of which were partially blinded by the swirling snow. A large sign This ig the lowest ever reported in the ° Tre thermome'e: jast night was as low as 15 degrees beiow zero and from accidents were reported from various Inhumerable persons crossing the | North Dakota soon is to lose two | prominent and popular young educators fin the depature of A. L. Schafer. ate high school inspector, for Wash- ington, PD, C.; to take the post of ., director, of the bureau of school en {rollment with ‘the Junior Red Cross. and the departure of H. G. Arnsdorff. deputy ‘superintendent of public ‘in- struction, for Minneapolis, where he | will assume the post of assistant regis- i tmyat the University of N i Is WESLEY N GRAD - AL L. Schafer is. y- graduate of Wesleyan college of the University of North’ Dakota. “He: ldid some >rist- ‘graduate work at the University, of Miinesota prior to taking up his career as an educator. in this. state. He had held the post of superintendent of » schools in Carrington for xX years | when. he resigned in the early stages of America’s participation in the “ board on the corner opposite the Bank of North Dakota was broken from its world’s war to take up Y. M. C. A. mocrings by the howling wind and whipped across: the street, narrowly work as n secretary. ‘Later he was missing &n automobise and its driver. \ transferred to the Red Cross service, places, it is doubtful whether there will be 25 percent of the average vote. The result is expected to be a viciory tor the anti-Townley tickets of boti the: republicans and the democrats. Even in the cities the vote was very ight. In. Bismarck, taxicab servic was practically suspended. Hundreds of citizens, taking advantage of, the holiday, remained within doors! all day, not even venturing out to the poi: ing places. Up.to noon there had been | practically no women’s ballots cast. The. vote in the down-town precincts was fairly large, but in the outlying districts, the. polls. were practically ; deserted... WEATHER, FURNISHES ALIBI The intervention of ‘the elemenis: probably will prevent the decision on its merits: of a very interesting con: } ‘test between: Townley and anti-Town- | ley forces within both parties for con trol in national affairs within the state. Qn both the democratic and! the republican ballots there were two! protest against the reactionary revolt are threntened with the death penalty in a proclamation jssued today by Dr. Wolfgang Kapp. The order will be effective after 4) O'clock Tuesday afternoon and is based on the decree prohibiting a trikes or passive resistence in any al ser- vice, which was issued early ‘in’ the of defe anxiety over the prospects of a continuance of the strike with a possibility of famine and epidemic resulting from the lack of sanitation and stoppage of the water supply. COMPLETE PARALY! No world capitgl probably ever be- jernment’ is still holding’conty 5 ? st complete !tions. while the Kapp regime is rather firmly intrenched in north- fore experienced such a paraly cial facilities as Berlin did today, hotel Adlon, made heroic efforts to pi vide food for the American, British and French missions and newspaper | correspondents, but it gave up the task at 10 o'clock this: morning when the } last of the kitchen force walked out. It was a comma pectacle subse- | assembly will meet in Stuttgart tomorrow afternoon. BERLIN IN GRIP OF STRIKE Berlin is in the grip of a general strike called by socialists and labor leaders as a counter strqke to the assumption of power of the government headed by Dy. Wolfgang Kapp, who has issued a de- cree threatening,all strike leaders-and pickets with death if there is interference with vital public services. Extreme measures will be taken under the decree from 4 o’clock this afternoon and it is possible the crisis of the new revolution will quickly follow. DETAILS ARE OBSCURE | ; ; Details. of the. situation. throughout Germany are somewhat obscure, but there seems to be reasons to believe the Ebert gov- inethe’ southern: and: western ‘sec- of all dts feng and commer eastern Prussia and Silesia, where many towns and cities are .re- ported to have declared adherence to the new government, FIGHTING AT VARIOUS POINTS Fighting is: reported at various points throughout Germany ‘and it is said there was bloodshed in the suburbs of Berlin yester- day, but it would seem the clashes so far reported have’ been be- Trees in several parts of the city were blown down ortwisted until they, with a first licutenant's commission, | Complete slates, one presented by the | t military units and disorderly crowds. So far as is known POR ‘ 1 s Sy ree 7 i tly to see fro ‘ted diplomat {tween military a s : Hie cracked: In certain parts ot the city, the snow drifts were as high as a per | Upon the close of the war he returned | "esular party organization and the , quently & nat & Rye = ee havi ion. son's head ad nracteally every street was almost impassable in certain spots ; te North Dakota. aiid jest ‘july Miss | other by the Nonpartisans. It had ists returning to the hotel from forag- ‘armed forces of the two governments ‘have not come into collisi been anticipated that the race in each ing expeditions, cn brown paper Fargo, tharen 1€.—A blizzard was eweeping eastern North Dakela today, aviv! insyecton ty succeed Ib: Re Tal, | Might be very close, although the anti| MIcel. food stulls, ofl “stoves” aud | -R ED, | ane ‘argo, fAarc! re i was sweeping eastern No: oday, ; school inspector to succeed KE, R. Ed- close, e rexsitics i ji i E ME operaing ‘to reduce in the atate's presidential preference electon. The storm; wards of Jamestown, who resigned to| ToWnleyites were confident of victory. | other necessities. NEGOTIATIONS RESUMED, IVON HINDENBERG commenced yesterday afternoon and covered’a large area. Folling places were open at 9 a. m. and will continue open until 9 o’clock itendent of schools ston. In his new éapacity ¥ i become city super jat Yank Inasmuch - as whi the terrific blizzard has raged for two days wili | WATER SUPPLY SHUT OFF : Guests of the hotels learned that XS tonight. Because of the bad highway conditions it is not likely that returns | Schafer has made an enviable record, | Militate principally against the rural the water would be shut off at noon vay sat he a | ) , will be available in sufficient numbers for several days to indicate the outcome | and his friends feel that his. talents | Vote, which is most largely Nonparit-|and filled the bath tubs and wash | March 16.—Dispatches re) ie daw. ef, * Copenhagen, urday, March 13. oo , neure! him a bright future in the | an, the Townleyites, in the event of] sti ds, hut defec stoppers gradu- | ceived by the French foreign office toy ane hace ieee vd eed ie ae MINNEAPOLIS STORM ABATING national educational field which he is| efeat, will have a valid alibi, and] ally let out the précious fluidyand the | day aflirms truth of reports that nego: | Field Maret Vor AWE en ee in le i eh 3.—The + “ ae to enter. nothing will have been satisfactoriiy | guests thereafter had to rely on wines | tiations are oging on between the | mer commande hief o he Ger sists ie wate pelea ea an Min: il INTERNAL REVENUE | i ; ARNSDORFF WISCONSIN Mu AN determined. ' a and table water. 0 are usual-| Ebert and Kapp governments in Ger- | ane eat h made a public ee sixty mil | wed | ‘ ARNS SCONSIN MAD de ne nee res ee 3 és P . jation that he is not connected wi he nesota last night abated considerably | MAN HELD UP AND 1y Ht We Amador, eputy state si qareetng tual Tusedays woman F aoaetie ie arbre are in ae many. iol [counter revolution. of whieh he disap: this forenoon and telephone, telegraph |} }{tntendent. of instruction, graduated | | Z ; =) crel patinuas: the s fie 7 | proves, says a rlee commen wan toveal|| $20,000 IS TAKEN fa the Unicare of Wien In| a Bonu tt ge alas | oie nance, NUMBER KILLED OR 1" en widespread damage and overcome seri- \ 2 and then came to the Valley City) ° Ore qAN shila : if ' . | woe’ Landianeanrulving: many, (how | —— |Inormat school, first ag publicity agent, | appointing. With more than 500,000| ‘The clty this afternoon had the ap- HURT | AT LEIPSIC ONLY FOOD TRAINS “A sands of dollars lgss.—- || “Seattle, Wash. March 16.— | |later as institutional secretary and | official ballots distributed, it is prob-| pearance of another Sunday hollday, = | y z ‘ “Ngouthern Minnesota sustained the|| Two masked men early today || finally as registrar, which post he| able that considerably less than 100, sauntering crowds filling Unter Dey] Berlin, Mai al RUNNING TODAY 1 t of the bligzara and most of the|! held up the internal sevenue { resigned in January, 1919, after seven | 9099 votes will be counted, and it is Linden. At. intervals troops: with | curred again yesterday afternoon in} Gig i cities in this district were cut off from || oltice here and escaped with | |years’ service with the normal school, |20t Ikely that more than 20,000 oi hands and accompanied by artillery | various parts of Le especialy | T :. March 16.—The gen- F communications with the Twin Cities. ih $20,000. i to) jhecehag: Libs Niclaong deputy, in | these will have been cast by women, } £u!!s paraded through the. streets. jens the ‘Senéral pontolfiee tind. 8 ney ke effective. throughout Wire communicaton between Mnneap- Vs CAPT See ——— | which position he has served fifteen 5 Sees eee 2 rer of EBON mis oe ge srmany and only food trains are run- olis and St. Paul were sharply reduced | Montlis. stein es) HSDNO eee eee a trISET grata EGITIMIZATION a ,tispately een fe Peaa sikirely j ning. according” to advices. Severe from midnight until 10 o'clock this Wo0D LEADING a At isiortt cuore : i wider sacs LadaéasoMarch 16 ~eMBeyond eee OF CHILD MADE ea " e! | setting reported from Dresden, morning. i j quaintance. in gll- probability, than | | " dust: c . x ’ a | Leipzig. Brandenberg and Chemnitz, i s * ma i canoe ae at ; m none of my property shall go to 1 poe .. Farm property damage in the storm ayiy man of his years who ever has eae Ay said . | = i $$. area was not heavy. No casualties | HI thie educations} por North the Brack Se ean end wrote LEGAL BY COURT WORKERS INCENSED ‘EBERT DECIDES TO @ 4 ; ke is blessed with a ic : . . F —— ; ; have heen reported. : | ite eigaging personality. and those who | Provides that his money shall be glv-'First Action Under New NorthiBY BERLIN DEATHS, E APP TOMILE WIND ATFORKS | know him best regard the Minegow | @n'to foreign humane societies or ii} 1 | aa! : ma aa IGNORE DR. KAP Giaid SROs rch AGIA IN MINNESOTA U as fortunate in securing hig services ils is not feasible, that it be thrown Dakota Statute Completed London, March 16.—The working ——— ¥ Korks, N. D., ) - i Hi 3 assis registrar. into the sea. le provides that tha * e lelacs’: an f inst the a vue ae rch 15: ae wind velocity of 70 miles an hour was [yin Messrs’ Schafer and Arnsdori| Man who seals the’ money. in a box| nisislanss eee Gear us hcormpoqulicd | Gaeta nceae ara tl te reactlouar reported this morning at the weather | —— } land thele families have made meny e $21 and the captain of the ship | . ar the shooting of a young girl in the feet s headed by Dr. Wolfgang, heart buréau at the state university. | yas en Saye neg ee lig thie | Fargo, N. Maret) 16.—The first | of the shooting ot x 8 ? | factions headed by Dr. Wolfgang, head Freight services on railroads in the |Major General Has Several ; warm friends during their residence | 920°: ; ae under North Dakota’a: law .en- South, Berlin raily tation aud the] of the new government at Berlin, was ; i i ! in the capital city. Platina 4 ak stablis - lest Yo killing of a four persons in the nortit | gecided upon here today by the counc! northera part of the state i at: a; ... Thousand Over Cali- Miss Nielson has not as yet an [Is NEXT BLOW TO mS jacted fo establish the legitimacy Of erlin industrial section by guards. ac | of the old cabinet over which President standstill and all passenger trains are | A nouticed tite names. of the nev deputy | HIT THE POOLROOMS’ | Children horn out of wedlock has been cording to a Rerlin dispatch to the | hert presided. Uheonditional resig- 4 hours late. ys { | + fornian [Rtate stporintendent. did state hig) “Toledo,’March 16—Ho, humt ‘The |c?™pleted in Cass county court and ay i nine News inati “the Jeaders of the new gov- C The Oriental limited. westbound ob \s Sur my oy ‘aap } a # | child so born has received its fathers | ’venne > ve ination of the ers Oe tne 53 the Great Northern, which left here; | Monday night. was reported stalled at) , Nt. Paul. 3 1 Devils Lake. All telegraph and tele- | Sota’s republican preference —primai phoné communications with west_of Grand Forks have now ceased, MICHIGAN DECISIONS ‘blizzards, and | Major Gen ‘al Leonard lover Senator Hiram Johnson of Cali Latest totals show MADE THINGS OF PAST ; fornia on the face of available returns, | votes: Referee’s | Wood 2.627; Johnson Detroit. Mich., March 16. March 16.—Miune-| points | held last night in rain storms, sleet. howling gales gave Wood a i plnarality of several thousand votes the following 7: Hoo- school inspector, Messrs, Arnsdorff and Schafer will retain their present post- tions until their successors are pre- | pared to take up the work. ‘HUNT DECLINES TO MAKE RACE Senator George F. Hunt of Golden Valley county will not ‘return to the senate as a member from his district. | 1 { i ‘ pool rooms and moving picture shows are worse than the saloons, says the: Rev. A. L. Benze, here. “The pool rooms are 100 times worse than the Protecting them, he says. WHIPPING GETS THE SCHOOL BOARD IN BAD London, March 16.—Ralph Picker. ing, 12, wrote a letter in a newspaper contest saying he had too much school barroom and the office holders are , ‘natural parents, as such is entitled te support. shelter and education equally with other children born in Jegal mar riage and is entitled to share in any estate jointly legitimate | ed by the name and meen declared h heir. The legislature in } { Under provisions of this act. which j id to be the first of its kind in| the country, a child born out of wed lock is declared to be the child of it with all other legai| mment was demanded by the Ebert cabinet. which ¢ ed here this after- hoon ina special train from Dresden. Me national assembly will meet in this city Wediesday afternoon, THIRTY KILLED IN| HAMBURG RIOTING Copenhagen, March 16,—Thirty per sons were killed, including som nen and children, in ng in Hamburg hetwe nd Baltics troops advices from that city state. ‘Hamburg Dispatch Denies Compromise en guards oy ¥ t ey decision in boxing bouts in Michigan ver, 4486; and Lowden, In the league convention at Beach|work to do at home. His teacher | pyernme! » reac- ian: will not be permitted, the state boxing RPS S —— ; Hunt was nominated to succecd him-| whipped him. Now, Pickering, senior, to establish the natural mr- | FIFTEEN KILLED Ce ee ecete Hy commission ruled at a special mecting ! 20 REPORTED DEAD { self. Townley press reports of th2/sues the school for damages. y provides IN BERLIN RIOTS ig toa telephoné dispateh from here recently. } London, March 1 uring a dem-j meeting state, but he declined to ac: ———_ must he instituted within a year afte: | Lambut: to the Social Demokraten at The commission's ruling was given i onsfration at Leipsic yesterday, troops | cept, and Gus Wog, a young Belfield | WEATHER REPORT i in the i : a t. said these rumors on the petitionof a local club that pro-| fired on a crowd killing more than 24 | farmer who was elected a league mem-| For 24 hours ending at noon March as in ‘any other legal action.) Berlin, March 16. Ffteen persons adherents of. Dr. 4 posed to stage matches in which the)-persous and waunding about 60, s | ber of the house two x ago, was | 16. ‘ mistrued ns ing the burden | are reported ‘to have been killed ‘ yp. the new chancellor in Berlin, to referee instead of the newspapermen| the! Copenhagen, correspandent of the | chosen to succeed Hunt. Wog is from | Temperature at 7 a. m.. of proof upon the plaintiff, j many wounded in fighting yesterday Wy decide the publ would determine the victor. | Commercial News. i ; Billings county. His successor as re-| Temperature at noon --~— — — | Steglitz, in the southwest outskirts of Workers at Kiel Ir surpressed an . It was also announced by the com-| , Reports received in Copenhagen, the presentative on the league ticket wiil| Highest yesterday .. THREE MOODS WAS TOO + Berlin. attempted counter revolution there mission that in the future no ciubs| correspondent adds, states that fight-! be C. W. Heckaman of Golden Valley | Lowest yesterday , MUCH OR TOO LITTLE) At Charlottenburg. a western sub} 74.9 the situation is well in hand say would be permitted to offer bonuses for) ing continues im many parts of Ger-| county. Hunt and Wog named Uele- | Lowest last night - London, March 16.—Mrs. Phyllis | urb of, ii four pel sony ares advices to the Social Demokraten from knockouts. i many. yates to the Nonpartisan league con. ; Precipitation Fagen told the judge her husband only | have heen killed and six wonuded as 3 iat city j vention from -their respective coun-| Highest wind velocity . had three moods. “He was either} result of collisions. a < - ai . | | ties. FORECAST sneering, violent or completely si-j; = HAROLD BREEN, WELL KNOWN YOUNG \ _ Logan county leaguers have renom-| For North Dakota: Partly cloudy] tent,” said she. “Divorce granted, AL. OFFICER KILLED BOLIVIANS ATTACK € va | reed 4 ! inated Herman Hardt as a candidate | amd colder tonight, snow east portion, } announced the judge. ne, March 16.—Hmcounters at | PERU LEGATION Au @ Vv i FARMER, BELIEVED MISSING; SAFE | | for representative, and Kidder county | Wednesday fair and colder; strong ——_———_—_—_ and Madgeburg are reported im v og | a uta 4 u ! | Nénpartisans have renominated J. C.| northwest winds diminishing. HUBBY PROMISES TO i wuns from Berlin, In Kiel seme | ee Y | After being missing for 24 hours, having been compelled to spend || Sherman aud R. V. Weld, members LOWEST TEMPERATURES i BEAT BETTER HALF} naval officers have becn killed while a. Pern, March 16—The Peru- | the night at a farm house where there was no ’phone, Harold Breen, || of ‘the present assemb!: Fargo . vseeen 3} Spokane, March 16.—“If she tries|in Mazdelurg there has been fire ) legation at Lapaz, the Bolivian ; returned home safe and sound this afternoon. Uae } ——— St. Paul . ls|}to get drunk again before 4 o'clock) fighting about the central postotfice. pital. was attacked last night by a ; | Mr. Breen, a ‘son of William E. Breen, who has a fine farm north |] Erie, Pa., March 16.—There will be! Winnipeg . 2] this afternoon, I'll beat her, judge, 1} --- | mob of 1.000 men, acording to official : | of the city, set out at 2 o’clock Monday afternoon to round: up some || 96 teams playing in the Twilight In-|Helena .. 1s aid John Timothy, Indian. “In| SOVIET REPUBLIC 2 ' advices received this afternoon by the | young stock, and he had not returned home this forenoon. i || dustrial Baseball league in Erie this| Swift Current 2|that case,” replied his honor, “I'll iet} Amsterdam, Peruvian foreign office. The Peruvian ; News of the young man’s absence circulated about the city and ||summer. The players are made up} Kansas City . 40| Mary go.” Timothy took Mary, his} to the Handels! ¥ consulate and private residences of : { caused his friends much anxiety. ‘lof workers from the shops and ‘fac j ORIS W. ROBERT: wife, home. Lemon extract brought! says that a soviet republic has been Peruvians were also attacked, the dis- | Meteorologist. her to the bar of justice. j proclamed at Hos, Bavaria. patches declared, j tories. 4