The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 19, 1920, Page 1

v THE WEATHER Generally Fair THIRTY-NI INTH YEAR. PRICE FIVE CENTS TRUCK TOUR ‘MAKES ASHLEY; GIVEN OVATION Poor Roads and Car Trouble De- lay Motorists—Lieut. Cam- eron Entertains Crowds (HERA CINES NEED FOR GOOD HIGHWAYS Trip Best Proof of What Must be Accomplished to Make Trucking a Success (By Staff Correspondent.) Ashley, N. D., May 19.—Preceeded by Lieut. above, the crowds gathered on the streets of Ashley to welcome the good roads ship by truck boosters from Bis- | marck, who arrived here last night shortly before sundown. The citizens of Ashley living up to the reputation of the town tendered the caravan the most enthusiastic and complete reception received on the first lap of the two day tour. The welcome given here was the best the Bismarck boosters received | Mr. Cameron; since leaving Bismarck. carrying L. Toppin as _ passenger thrilled the crowds, the majority of: which had never seen an airplane be- fore. The tourists were greeted by Mayor John D. Lammle in warm hearted speech in which he turned over the . keys to the city to the Bismarck boos- ters. P. R. Fields, director of the tour, responded on behalf of the caravan after which the crowds insisted that Cameron be brought forward and given! a rousing cheer. C. J. Cameron flying high! 60 VANS WILHELM HATES | | MOSQUITOES! | ‘Herr Hohenzollern hates mos- | | quitoes—and mosquitoes have al- | ways been thick about Doorn | House, the new home into which | the ex-kaiser is now moving at | Doorn, Holland. They breed on | the stagnant water of the old moat | that surrounds the house, so Wil- | helm is having this moat filled in. + Band a Feature The Elks band which after the air: plane was the hit of the tour played a number of selections and then the rush for the restaurant was started. Unfortunately the schedule was too ~stiff for the heavy trucks and the ma * jority of these were forced to fall be- hind. : Word was received here short- ly after the tourists arrived that the truck detail would come through to Ashley even if they had to drive all night, two of the trucks -lighter in weight than the cthers made the en- tire trip to Ashley on scheduled time. Several automobiles were forced to drop out during the trip to Ashley. Frank McCormick stripped the gears on his car while one or two others were forced out of the runing because’ of overheated engines and other minor mishaps, Practically the entire distance ‘from Bismarck to Ashley was a bumping. rutty, and constant reminder of the need of continual insistent boosting for good roads. There was very little choice: in the condition of the roads in Burleigh, Emmons or McIntosh! counties. DEMOCRATS GET FARGO CONVEN- TION UNDER WAY Motion Made by F. O. Hellstrom, of Bismarck, Race Causes Discussion Fargo, N. D., May 19.— The demo- cratic convention for the endorsement of a ticket of congressional and state office candidates for entry in the state! primary June 30, was opened here today. H. H. Perry, of Ellendale, national committeeman, was prominently men- tioned among the delegates as a can- didate for United States senator,’ while a field of prospective candidates for the gubernatorial race included J. F. T. O'Connor, of Grand Forks; George Duis, of Grand Forks; Scott Cameron, of Linton, and Wesley Mc- Dowell, of Marion, and D. L. A. Platan, of Fargo. The temporary organization of the} convention was perfected this morn-' ing with George E. Duis as chairman, and John 1D. Fried of Jamestown. as temporary secretary. A motion was made by F. O. Hell- strom, of Bismarck, proposing an in- formal ballot on the gubernatorial can-, didates had not bee acted upon when’ the convention adjourned for noon luncheon. two high c®hdidates. cussion being ended when a motion to, adjourn was made. Auditor, Short in Accounts $7,500, Enters Guilty Plea Bowman, N. D., ), May | 19.—T. E. Aus- tin, former treasurer of Bowman county, pleaded guilty yesterday io the charge of embezzlement, sentence being suspended by Judge Frank T. Lembke of the district court at Het tinger. Austin was arrested several weeks ago following an extended examina- tion of his accounts by state exam- iners, the shortage, it is alleged, be- ing approximately $7,500, created dur- ing Austin’s term of two years in the county treasurer’s office. Austin, politically, has been identi- led with the ‘Nonpartisan ‘League. GUILTY OF FRAUD Minneapolis, Minn. May 19.—Elliott Stevenson was today found guilty by a Hennepin county jury of attempting to swindle Theodore Verlinden, of Pin- gree, N. D., out of $15,000, last Janu- ary. Sentence.-will be pronounced later. Hellstrom’s: motion con-, templated that the convention endorse; Opposition was} voiced by several delegates, the dis-, Left—A new photograph of Doorn | House showing the moat (indicated | by. arrow). Right—The private {| | chapel on the Doorn House estate | where the former [wv “All-Highest” | | 1, V. A. SUPPORTS VICTORY TICKET, SECRETARY SAYS Will Go Down the Line iKeaivot| Townleyism ‘in Primaries and in Election i STAND Fargo. 'N. D., May 19.—Theo G. Nel- son, secretary of the North Dakota In- dependent Voters’ association, is a signed statement to the Press yes-! terday. outlined plans that the being formulated for the campaign prelimin- ary to the Republican primary elec- tion on June 30. It is the purpose of the forces sup- porting the “Victory Ticket,” as the Republican convention ticket has al- ready been named, to make a thor-| oughgoing campaign in support of the entire ‘ticket, and to begin im-! mediately the task of acquainting tl voters with the importance of sup- porting the ticket. Mr. Nelson's ‘statement follows: “The state executive committee of the Independent Voters’ association {met at Minot immediately after the| j adjournment of the Republican con-j vention. The purpose of the meeting | was to pass on some of the. plans that are under way with reference to} speeding up the campaign for the ;anti-red flag law and against the | ‘smelling committee, the state sheriff | and the absent voters’ laws that are | to be voted on on June 30. A num- ber of interested persons met with the committee so that a fairly gen- feral state-wide expression of senti-| ment was obtained. The importance | of pushing the precinct organizing | was emphasized. It was pointed out that thousands of people do not yet understand how seriously important | jit is to have the three referred laws | rejected, and that it would be advis- able to raise a special campaign fund in order to carry on the necessary campaign of education in those tions of the state where the majo! of the voters are not yet aware of how dangerous it would be to let these laws get by. Meeting Today “The question of carrying on the campaign for the ticket endorsed at Minot was brought up. I was in- structed to call a special meeting of} the emergency committee of the 1.| vy. A. on May 19, and to request the (chairman of the anti-Townley Re- publican state central committee to] call a meeting of that organizaton at the same time and place. It was also suggested that all the candi- dates that were endorsed at the Mi- not convention should make it a point to be at that meeting so as to have a thorough understanding with each other and with the cam- paign forces as to what it was thought best to do in every respect |to put the whole ticket over as well as all of the laws that are referred. Ready to Support Tic! “The 1. V. A. is alread the anti-Townley legislative and county tickets. and it is ready to get behind the Republican ‘state ticket as soon as a vlan of campaign- ing can be arranged that will be sat- isfactory to all concerned, and all ofj those who were endorsed at ‘Minot have agreed to get actively into the} race for the nominations at the pri- maries. “The ticket endorsed is fairly rep- resentative of the Langer and anti- Langer factions, and the platform 18 (Continued on Page Seven) PRAISES “LANGER behind EX- KAISER MOVES 2 TRUCKS j behind. -been a mosquito-breeding place, erect- | Hohenzollerns will move in. May first OF FURNI Dutch Pay No Attention to Lim- ited 3-Hour Visits of Former “All-Highest”—Workmen Put in Baths and Fill Moat -to Rout Mosquitoes! By ZOE BECKLEY. N. E. A. Staff Correspondent. Doorn. Holland, May 19.—Herr Wil- helm Hohenzollern has been moving for weeks now—and he is only begin- ning. A couple of wagons, ‘with maybe mother carrying the cat and parrot and sister of the parlor clock, sees the average family out of the old place into the new. But consider the once “an High- est”! Between fifty and sixty huge van loads have already arrived at Doorn House, not counting two frank and unconcealéd open trucks laden with stock for the wine cellar. A big maroon auto-van races back and forth several times daily besides, sometimes to Amerongen, sometimes to Arnheim or Utrecht, bringing good- ness knows what. Still—when one has a dozen castle- fuls of stuff to weed out and sort over, it is a problem to know what to leave Barn Filled with Furniture. A big, old, concrete barn being piled with gilt-and-brocade furniture and huge amorphous bundles done in bur- | lap, evidently bibelots and curios. These await the kaiserin’s bestowal within the house which is‘ now filled , with painters and decorators: who are being prayed to hurry, PLEASE, and let the family move in. | Workmen, indeed, are all over the | place—remodeling the main doorway, draining the ancient moat which has ing artificial hillocks planted with rhodadenrons wherever too clear a view of the mansion is had from the highway. doing a hundred ond one things toward the comfort and adorn- ment of the estate. For consider also in the moving troubles of the ex-kaiser that this is | probably his final move. | Whether he likes Doorn House or! not, whether the ghost of the girl who drowned herself in the moat years ago ects to visit him, whether the climate prove unsatisfactory or sightseers too numerous, at Doorn: House. he must | live, and likely dic. Expects to “Come On” Soon. | To the end that all shall be done | right to start with. the Dutch govern- | ment recently granted permission to! the so-called “prisoner” of Ameron- | gen to visit Doorn several times al week. Usually he comes alone, but several | times lately when the weather has} been fine, the kaiserin has accompan- | ied him. Despite the frequently ¢ culated rumors of her ill health, she shows no tracts of it. No one knows defin ely when the was the original date. But the car-| penters and painters are’ taking her | own time. !t is now said by some | that the family will ‘come on” late in May. by others that they can’t get in until June. One guess is as good as | another. | The people of Amerongen and Doorn | show almost incredible indifference to to Hohenzollern movements. Nobody cares when they move, or whether) they ever move or not. Nobody in stolid little Doorn takes the trouble to go out and watch for the kaiser’s | car, or scarcely to speculate on his; comings and goings, the state of com pletion of Doorn House, or the pros pects of change its new ownership will bring the slee} Mage. Doorn’s Pretty Village; No Railroad! Doorn is larger and more interest- (Continned on Page Two.) OF BOOZE AND | ALL RIGHT! | You wouldn't Iniow the ex-kaiser today if he were to walk up to you | on ((MAIN) street and say, Hello! Not that you were ever on speak- ing terms with him—but if you | think you could spot him from his photographs, you're all wrong. The sketch on the left shows how he | looks today. It was drawn from the last photograph snapped of | him. Doesn't look much like the | | old pictures ofthe kaiser, does it? | But take a pencil, turn his mustach | up and make a spiked helmet out : | of his soft hat—pretty good “dis- eae eh? nr) HEAVY RAINS ENDS FEAR OF FOREST FIRES Flames Start Noxth of Ely But) Blaze is Soon: Brought Under Control Duluth, Minn., May 19.—It is be- lieved that the night’s heavy rains in northern Minnesota put an end to the forest and brush fires north and west} of Duluth. Reports received today say that fires in the Swallow and Hopkins hold- ings north of Ely, in grave danger yes-! terday, were due to the flames getting | out of control of a company crew burning winter slashings, A thousand acres were burned over. A fire start- ed near the holdings of George H. Good, east of Ely, but was controlled. Falmes wiped out a sheep ranch on Stony road south of Ely. Fire destroy-| ed Minnesota Cedar and Timber com- pany’s holdings and the saw mill of the Minneapolis Lumber and Fuel company and its entire summer run of | logs was destro; Fires near se extinguished. ion thirty have been Mother Mortgages Property to Defend Honor of Dead Girl Chicago, Tl. . May J 19.—Mrs. Wiebeck. of Pawnee Rock, Kan., the first wi morning in the trial of D. Chambliss. negro policeman, and Mrs. Emma Ross. negroes. charged with abducting Bertha. 16 year old white girl. The girl died as a result of her ex- Mary j periences in a negro resort operated by the Ross woman, the state con- tends. In a deathbed statement she ac- cused Chambliss of luring her to the} place. Mrs. Wiebeck, the mother, mortgaged her cows to come to Chi- cago to aid the state, she said on her arrival. He husband is an invalid and the mother said she had done all the | spring plowing and other farm work with the assistance of four sons, the oldest of whom is 8 years old. CHICAGO EATING MEAT IMPORTED FROM AUSTRALIA “May 19. Chicago, Il].. ‘Chicago, meat center of the world, is eating meat; | imported from Australia and New Zea- land. The price of lamb has been forced down 2 cents in the Chicago market, packers said. by from the ‘Antipode GERMAN SUPREME COURT SUMMONS WAR CRIMINALS Berlin. May ed to the government by the allies have been summoned by the chief im- perial republic prosecutor to appear before the supreme court at Leipzig between June 7 and June 20. according to the Tageblatt. INSPECTS COMPANY. Deputy A. R. Aslakson, of the state hail insurance department, and Har- old Hopton, are in Valley City to con- duct an examination of the Mutual ; Fire Insurance company of that city. was | for the state this| large importations; 9 ‘he German war/ criminals on the list recently present-, SEEK HIGHWAY TO CROSS STATE ON PARK TRAILS Business Men of Bismarck . See Road in Future as Sequel to New Bridge TO UNITE ALL SECTIONS Thousands of Tourists Now Seeking Trail Thru Northwest Would .be Increased The building of the Bismarck/Man- dan Missouri river bridge. which is now assured with the letting of the contracts by the state highway com- mission, is but one step in a great road project which should be carried on by North Dakota and other north- western states, in the opinion of many Bismarck business men. The spanning of the (Missouri at Bis- marck makes feasible the construc- tion of a great cross-state, hard-s faced: highway, as a part of the Na- tional Parks highway stretching from Milwaukee, Wis., to the Pacific coast, they believe. The building of a road across the state, from Fargo on the extreme east to Beach on the west, passing through Bismarck. the state capital, would ! be a means of uniting the eastern and western parts of the state in an in- dustrial and economic way, it is pointed out. Already tourists are beginning to use the National Parks highway, form- erly known as the Red trail, in trips 'across the continent, and especially j to visit the Yellowstone and Glacier national parks, The secretary of the National Parks highway association estimates that 11,000,000 Americans were “seeing America first” in automobiles in 1919, Approximately 120,000 of these, he es- | timates, travelled 1,000 miles, or more, ‘over the National ‘Parks highway. He predicts that during the present sum- mer no less than’ 180,000 motor tour- ists in 60,000 privately owned cars will tour this popular road. “The ‘benefits of a hard-surfaced ‘road across the state of ‘North Da- kota cannot be measured in dollars and cents,” said Mayor A. \W. Lucas. “Such a road would be a great for- ward step in the development of the resources of the state, permitting clos- er intercourse between cities and the country and bringing to our state thousands of people who would travel oe Toad-in’ trans-continefital* motor’ rips.” George N. Keniston, secretary of the Commercial club, believes that no time should be lost in constructing ;the highway from Bismarck west to Beach. “The construction of the Bismarck Mandan bridge closes the final gap in the proposed hard-surfaced road between ‘Beach and Bismarck on the ; National Parks highway,” he said. “The progress of road construction is as inevitable as the demand for per- manent roads is pressing.” | “Now that trucks are being brought ‘into this country among the farmers it is the duty of the business man and the merchant to see that some steps are taken whereby we can have the main roads through the state pav- ed so that the fullest use can be made of our new transportation facilities,” said P. C. Remington, president of the City National bank. “Referring to the main road across the state, through Bismarck, which 's made possible by the building of the (Continued on Page Eight) OHIO STORE IN BIG PRICE SLASH Youngstown, O., May 19.—A reduc- tion of twenty per cent in the price of nearly all goods was announced to- day by one of the large downtown department stores. FUTURE WARS MENACE FRANCE DECLARES FOCH Has Little Faith that Germany Will Renounce Use of Sword for Conquest Paris. May 19.—Warning that France must in the midst of peace make preparations for future wars was uttered by Marshall Foch, who presided at the Polytechnic school for army engineers at the annual meet- ing today. Discussing lessons of the great war he said the present economic struggle is the first part of the peace program but the preparation for war is the sec- ond nart. “Which of us,” he asked, “dares be-! lieve Germany is renouncing war on the morrow of her ruin—Germany,! which inspired by sheer ambition, took up arms in 1864, 1866, 1870 and 1914 on the plea of historic necessity. Germany's neighbors, whether they wish to or not will be forced to keep tp armies and maintain strong fron- | iers.” CLAIM ODESSA Constantinople, May 19.—Odessa is still claimed by the Russia Bolsheviki, and rumors of its capture by Ukranian forces have not been supported by sub- sequent messages. Allied commis- sioners here are without official in- formation as there is no means of communication between this city and ; southern Russia. Capture of Odessa b} by the Ukranians ; was reported on May 11, and what pur- | ported to be official confirmation re- ceived in Paris and Londan the next day. On May 14, however, the British war office, issued a statement declar-| ing that the report that the Ukranians had occupied Odessa was untrue. WIN SUCCESSES London, May 19.— The Bolsheviki | won important successes over the; Poles on crossing the Dvina in the province of Vitebek, according to an official announcement by the soviet government at Moscow today. ‘ The Poles were forced to withdraw, the statement added. and the popula-|, tion received the Boisheviki-with en- thusiasm. Orders a New Trial of Fargo Bank Case Fargo, N. D., May 19.—A verdict of | guilty in the case of H. J. Hagen,j| president of the Scandinavian-Ameri- can bank of Fargo, charged with ex- hibiting false records to the state bank examiner in the closing of the bank on October last, was set aside by Judge ... J. Englert in the Cass dis- trict court today and a new trial or- dered. Judge Englert, in setting aside the verdict, which was returned last No- vember, upheld the contention of the defense that the state’s attorney show- ed discrimination in presenting “the case and that papers presented in evi- dence against Hagen were obtatned by “unwarranted and unreasonable” means, The new trial probably will be held in October. STATE CAMPAIGN ISSUES: | BANK OF NORTH DAKOTA Policies of the Bank of North Da- kota in the matter of handling public money belonging to school districts, counties, municipalities and other | political sub-divisions have worked a real hardship upon the state. was heralded from one end of the state ‘men that the money now deposited in the money centers of the east, Ne York. Chicago and the Twin Cities by state banks and other fiscal agents would immediately become available to the farmers and the businessmen of the state because THE BANK OF NORTH DAKOTA WOULD, KEEP ‘THE MONEY AT HOME. Soon Forgotten But that was a campaign promise quickly forgotten. It is an open secret that the Bank of North Dakota has kept excessive balances in the money centers of the east—the Big Biz coffers that were going empty when the state hank started to function. \It is impossible to secure accurte data on the daily balances kept in ; eastern banks. The fact is well estab- | lished, however, that when money in this state was hard to get many of the drought stricken districts had been {drained of all public funds by the state bank and that healthy balances were doing duty in Twin City banks. One high in the councils of the bank has informed The Tribune that from $8.000,000 to $12,000,000 has been car- ried in banks outside of North ' Dakota: Bank Operations Secret | Just what Cathro’s idea was in keep- ‘ing such balances, he only can answer. The books of the bank are closed to the tax payers of the state. No disin- terested person —not even the state board of audit can go into the bank and analyze the transactions or scrutinize the management. It is a closed book to fair and just examina- tion. The monthly bulletins of Cathro are When the bank was established it; to the other by the Townley ballyho! 'at the Minot convention to learn how; all the taxpayer gets. He must take the director general's word for the book profits. Farmers and businessmen, however, know that whatever the pro- fits are—and there is grave doubt of any substantial profit—the Bank of North Dakota is one agency that has done more than anything else to make money tight in North Dakota. One had only to listen to delegates detrimental to the state’s best inter- ests is the handling of state funds un- der this new soviet bank, run andj manipulated by the red junta compos- ing the state administration. The Minot platform contains the; following planks on the Bank of North ; Dakota: Invariably Failures “They enacted a law providing for a} state bank wherein all public funds are required to be deposited, thus with- | drawing from each locality its own! funds and placing them where they | can be misapplied to maintain and} conduct monopolies and enterprises competing with legitimate private in-| dustries; and have deposited large} sums of money outside the state. thus ; depriving our farmers of money neces- sary to carry on their farming opera- tions. “The Bank of North Dakota as or- ganized and managed is a menace to the welfare of the state. Past experi- | ments has proven that banks ganized upon such principles have in- variably been failures. We therefore favor the amendment of the law so that the bank may become a farm loan bank and furnish first mortgage farm loans at a minimum interest rate to} the farmers, and that the same be placed under strict regulation and ex- amination by at least two elective de- partments of the state and that school districts. townships, villages. cities, municipalities and counties shall be restored to the right of handling their own funds.” (Continued on Page Seven) | could not be found, ALLEGED EVADER OF DRAFT ACT IS LODGED IN JAIL James Herr, Linton Man, Caught by State Authorities After Three Years HELD IN THE COUNTY JAIL is Fraser Says Campaign Against Draft Evaders to Continue After three years alleged evasion of the draft, James Herr, 26 years old, of Linton, is in the county jail here today, and will be taken to Fort Snell- ing, Minn., tonight to be tried by mili- tary court-martial. Herr was arrested after ex-soldiers of Linton had reported to Adjutant- General Fraser that Herr had come back from Canada, where he was said to be in hiding, and was to be seen daily. After Herr is said to have registered he was called in August 1917, but according to the Adjutant-General. He is said to have fled to Montana and then to Canada. Herr, when he talked to attaches of the adjutant-general’s office, had noth- ing to say in his offense, and did not seem to be badly worried, Other draft evaders will be appre- lender the adjutant-general said. “This fellow thought that he would be safe in coming back now that the war is over,” said Adjutant-General Frazer. “Such men all are subject to arrest and trial by military court-mar- tial as deserters from the army, and sentence to hard labor at Ft. Leaven- worth, “The prosecution of these men has jnot stopped simply because the war {is over, and will be continued.” Herr’s father: is a farmer. C0. AUDITORS FIND FAULT WITH STATE TAX LAW Mysteries Explored at Annual. Session of the County Aud- itors’ Association” ~? County auditors éf (North Dakota explored the mystéties. of ‘the 'Now: partisan League tax law, at the “six- teenth annual convention, which con- vened in the courthouse today. After a long discussion, in which George E. Wallace, tax commissioner, was asked numerous questions, many of the county auditors shook their heads in disgust, unable to understand the many inconsistencies of the meas- ure. Charles E. Fouts, of Towner, presid- ed at the session, as President Ole ide failed to arrive in time for the opening session, and 'P. A. Spellum, of Rigby, acted as secretary. ‘Some of the questions are so clos? that it almost takes a Philadelphia lawyer to decide them,” Tax Commis- sioner Wallace admitted, in trying to explain to the auditors how some pro- Perty shall be taxed. Mr, Wallace, admitting the inconsis- tencies of the law, said that when the new laws were put into effect many of the troublesome questions which now arise never entered anyone's head. Several of the auditors were strong in their demands that the next legis- lature eliminate many of the features of the law. One of the questions which bothered the auditors was cases in which the owner of a building lives on the sec- ond floor and rents the first floor. The question was asked. “Shall the build: ing be taxed as residence property, and the deductions allowed, or shall it all be taxed as business property? Under the state rule it cannot be as- sessed two ways. However, in’ the case of the ‘Elks home at Jamestown, where the lodge occupies the upper floor and rents the ver, the assessment was divided. “You didn’t follow the rule, but you used good sense,” said ‘Mr. Wallace, _ “The other may be the rule, but it isn’t just,” said another auditor. Mr. Wallace mentioned one case in which the owner of a hotel lived in the hotel and tried to have his proper- ty assessed as residence property. Wallace told the auditors that the single tax is a failure. He said it had been tried in Edmonaton, Canada, and the law had been repealed. The sin- gle tax does not contain sufficient elas- ticity, and the people should support the government who have the means to support it, he said. It is unfair to place all of the tax on land, he said. in condemning the socialistic scheme of taxation. George N. Keniston, secretary of the Bismarck commercial club, welcomed the auditors. He urged the proposi- tion of two state highways, predicting that the Townsend bill now. pending in , Congress, providing for federal con- struction of trunk-lineroads, will pass. The two highways he proposed are ‘from Bismarck to ‘Beach and from Grand Forks to the Montana line. SEEK TRANSFER OF FUNDS TO STATE The state industrial c commission an- nounces that it intends to institute legal proceedings against E. C. Eddy, Cass county treasurer, to compel hi to transfer $154, 020. 04 of found funds to the bank of North Dakota. The commission alleges that ‘ony has this amount of money on deposit in two banks in Fargo.