The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 24, 1920, Page 1

| ; THE WEATHER «; cloudy. THE BIS 4 LAST EDISION: THIRTY-NINTH YEAR BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1920 TRIBUNE PRICE FIVE CENTS TOWNLEY PAYS CITY VISIT IN TOUR OF STATE Nonpartisan League Chief Vis- its City Airplane and is Off to Meetings REPORTED GOING ON WEST Campaign Now Underway in North Dakota to Boost Mem- bership-of League“ A. C. Townley and his airplane, after paying Bismarck a brief visit, departed today far Ellendale, con- tinuing Townley s’tour over the cen- tral and eastern sections of the state. Mr. Townley is said to have come to the city only because he could not obtain accomodations at Burnstad. He conferred with a number of Non- partisan league leaders while here. A drive for members and contribu- } tions is now under way in the central and eastern parts of the state par- ticularly by the Nonpartisan league.’ The partial defeat of the league can-'. didates and issues in the recent prim- ary and the prospects of a hard cam- paign in the fall are said to have prompted the personal campaign 0: Townley by airplane. Big Contributions f According .to reports from various counties where the head of the league has been, a plan has been evolved to solicit $100 contributions from a large number of men east of the Missouri river for the campaign chest, as well as a campaign for two-year member- snips for the league at $18, dating from next: December. : The campaign of Townley is not to end with North Dakota, it is said. According to reports from the Twin Cities headquarters Townley will visit Montana. Washington, Oregon an Idaho. The league campaigns in Washington and Oregon are said not to have been entirely satisfactory. In Oregon in particular they have found it hard-sledding and in Wash- ‘ington the Teague decided to put a third ticket in the field in the state campaign. Considerable progress has been made by organizers in lumber camps, where the I. W. W. has been strong, it is reported. Claim Great Victories Copies of Oregon papers announc- ing the impending visit of Townley have been received here. “League organizers who have re- turned’ to>Portland after a brief trip east to assist in the recent primar- ies in Minnesota and North Dakota Yeport overwhelming victories in both states,” says a Portland newspaper article. “They aver intensive cam- ‘paigns will be paged this summer in both Idaho and Washington. Presi- dent Townley will bring. west both of his $10,000 airplanes and will cover the two; states by air, speaking to farmer audiences in all the principal towns,” it continues. x : Details of the “overwhelming vic- tory” in Minnesota or in North Da- kota are not given. In Minnesota the league has lost its entire state tick- et, and lost 25,000 votes as compared to two years ago says a Minneapolis paper, commenting on the reports. GOVERNOR OFF FOR TOUR OF ~ YELLOWSTONE Executive’s Family and That of John Hagan Make the Trip by Moter Governor Frazier and John N. Ha- gan, commissioner of agriculture and labor, and families, left this morning on a motor trip to Yellowstone Na- tional park. Both were attired for a camping life both wearing old clothes. The governor had on an old blue shirt and Mr. Hagan’s shoulders were decorated with overall straps. . In the governor’s car was his wife and four children, Unie, Versie, Ver- non and Willis and in Mr. Hagan’s car was his wife and sons Stephen and John. The governor’s car, with license number 1, led, followed by Mr. Ha- gan’s car with license number 2. They will be gone two or three weeks. The partys will camp along the way. AGED FATHER OF THOS. HALL DEAD OF HEAT AILMENT Jamestown, N. D., July 24.—Richard Hall, father of Thomas Hall, secretary of state, died of heart failure at his home here this morning. Mr. Hall was 81 years old and leaves a widow and several children. He was born in England, moving to Jamestown 32 years ago. He was an employe of the Northern Pacific for many years. GONDOLAS NOW | GAS-PROPELLED oo VENICE—“Signor, your gas- gondola floats without!” That’s they way they say it here now. Before the war no one traveled\ the canals of Venice, says a Red Cross worker, except in the time- honored man-propelled boats. Now it’s rage to chug-chug along the sleepy waterways in gas launches. > a crime for which his father was Love, 22, a Ceylon, Ont., farmer, declared to the evangelists that pany.” Sound, Mont., seven years ago. mostly circumstantial. story. FARM BUREAUS CONSIDER WORK OF MARKETING Groups in Chicago Divide Ef- forts, One Taking Grain and Other Livestock NOT GOING INTO BUSINESS Chicago, July 24.—Two groups ot delegates gathered today for the sec- ond day of the convention of the American Farm bureau federation. One meeting: took up the problem ot | marketing grain, the other that of ‘livestock. Delegates represented grain grow- ers and meat producers of the United States and Canada, organized agri- culture was represented by farm bu- reaus, farmers unions, granges and equity associations. J. R. Howard, president, explained that the bureau did not intend to go into the marketing business, but that the aim was to help form the market- ing organization in order to “encour age production, stabilize culture and get a square deal for the farmer and consumer.” The new plan will eliminate the broker and sad. Pass Resolution A resolution endorsing the ap- pointment of a committee to considur ways and means for the co-operative marketing of grain and! livestock for the best interests of all concerned was passed by the American Farm Bureau federation in the convention. The resolution recommends that “the President appoint a committee ‘of 17 to devise a plan, subject to ap- proyal of the federation, for the maz: keting of produce through~'one or more metropolitan outlets. Another resolution was passed en dorsing the deepening of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence waterway. ~ BISMARCK GIRL IN PRIZE AWARD COUNTY WINNER ;Rosemary Lomas Takes Win- chester Prize in Competition With Many Others Rosemary Lomas, daughter of Mr. ‘and Mrs. W. P. Lomas, of Bismarck, won the Winchester prize, amounting to $25 in cash, and the honor of be ing the best matnematician in Bur-| 1eigh county. Announcement was ; made today by W. E. Parsons, county superintendent of schools that Miss Lomas has received the highest grade on the examination papers which the ‘six contestants handed in Monday at ternoon. The other contestants for the prize jwere: (Mary Ellison, of Sterling; +Uaura Rupp, of Baldwin; Henry Swanson, of Canfield; Eva Johnson of Menoken; and Edward Lenihan, 0: Burnt Creek. The Winchester prize is awarded annually to the eight best graduates of the Burleigh county schools who possesses the best knowledge of arithmetic. Their ability 1s tested by competitive examinations. The prize is paid from a trust fund | éstablished as a memorial to the late ! Judge Winchester. During his life the Judge took an active interest in} educational work tuiroughout the county. AUTOBANDITS _ STEAL $6,000 i Kansas City, July 24.—Charles | | Ayres, paymaster of the Nicholas In- ‘yestment company, was held up and robbed of $6,.-0 by four motor car ‘bandits here this morning. The money was in a grip. He was on his way fro 4 down-town bank to jthe Country club to pay workmen. | ‘QOD PASTURE: | THROUGH STATE Dr. W. F. Crewe of the Live Stock !Sanitary Board stated this morning jthat conditions were very favorable ‘for live stock this year. The pastur- age is good, on ‘account of the com-} paratively large amount of rainfall this year, Last year there was not sufficient put this year, throughout the state generally, there is plenty of good grass. No outbreaks of disease have been reported lately and stock in all sec- CONFESSES MURDER OF HIS MOTHER FOR WHICH HIS FATHER WAS HANGED Toronto, July 23.—A self-confessed muderer of his mother, > ° middlemen that go be-} tween the farmer and consumer, h -pasturage to keep stock in good shape, | tions is coming along in good shape. hanged seven years ago, Arnell lies in jail here today. During evangelistic services in his home town, Love went forward and he had. clubbed his mother to death, because she had reprimanded him for “keeping bad com- 7 sLove was one of the principal witnesses against his father, Henry Love, who was convicted by a jury and hanged at Owing The evidence against him was . On the scaffold he made what was be- lieved to be a confession of his guilt. On advice of the evange- list, Love gave himself up to the police, who gre investigating his STAY HOME AND AVOID DIVORCE < | | ¢ San Antonio, Tex., July 24.— “If people stayed at home more there would be fewer divorces,” says Judge W. S. Anderson here who has granted 7,000 divorces in seven years on the bench. “We need new divorce laws but what we need most is the, education of folks to what marriage means.” MILLION LOAN NEGOTIATED BY STATE'S BANK Placed in Chicago on Bonds in Hands of ‘the Bank, Accord- ing to Official REFUSAL STORY DENIED The Bank of North Dakota has bor- rowed $1,000,000 of Chicago financial ‘interests, putting up $1,200,000 of bonds as collateral, it was said today vy W. A. Anderson, secretary of ths 3tate industrial commission, the loan being authorized by the industrial commission, Denial was made by Mr. Anderson hat any visits had been made by mem- vers of the industrial’ commission to Minneapolis to borrow $2,000,000, or hat banks in the Twin Cities had re- ‘used to loan money to the bank. Matures in March The bank will pay 7 per cent inter: 3st on the loan obtained: in Chicago, and the loan matures on March 15 920, he said. The bonds: which were out up as collateral are part of the 52,000,000. bonds. authorized -by the itate forthe bank and’ for which the yank is obligated to the state, the vonds being «authorized as capital itock for the bank, it is said. The secretary. said 7 per cent is the re- discount rate of the Federal Reserve bank. The bank will suffer a net loss of 2 per cent on the loan. Recently there nave been heavy withdrawals by sxounties from the Bank of North Da- cota, it is stated, because of payment of sums for roadwork and other bills \fter the end of the fiscal year. In urn the Bank of North Dakota has withdrawn money from banks through- out the state where the money is re deposited. The million dollar loan is made to replenish depositaries be- cause of these withdrawals, it was stated. é Denies Reports Referring to an article in a Fargo gaper that members of the industrial sommission had been refused loans in Minneapolis on North Dakota bonds. Mr. Anderson said: “These reports are absolutely false in toto. No member of the industrial zommission has -been in Minneapolis in connection with this matter or had a refusal, and the story is a fabrica- sion pure and simple.” GRAIN SHIPMENTS IN ABOUT SEPT. 1 Shipents of grain will begin to ar- rive here about Sept. 1 according to a statement made this morning by the Russell Miller Milling Co. of this city. Montana grain generally starts to come in about that time, but local re- ceipts do not start usually until about Sept. 10. Preparations are being made for the handling of an extra large quantity of grain this fall. Whenever a large town in the Brit- ish Isles changes its source of water supply, a sample is taken by the tea blenders in order that the right blend of tea may be made to suit that par- ticular water. Chicago.—A group of big railway union chiefs, w! Board. Left to right—Vice President M. C. Carey. Order of Railwa A ‘hood of Railway Trainmén; President! Li‘E. Sheppard, Order of Railway Gonductors; Acting President Timothy Shea, WOUNDED WIFE ASKED HUSBAND. 10 MURDER HER Vancouver Murderer Says That He and Wife Discussed Death After Wounding PUT FLOWERS ON GRAVE Wife had Endeavored to | Ar- range Reconciliation, Ac- cording to Story Vancouver, B. C., July 24.—An in- juest was schedule to be held today over the body of.Mrs. W. G. Robbins, whose husband has.tonfessed, accord- ng to the police, that, after mortally wounding his wife Monday night, the ‘wo discussed a plan to make it ap- dear that Mrs. Robbins had committed uicide, but rejected it “for the sake of the children.” They decided instead that Robbins should end his wife's life at once, he is alleged to have confessed. Where- | pon he fired three shots through her head and concealed the body in un- lerbrush and made daily visits to the pot with flowers until he gave him- self up to the police, Lived ‘Apart The pair had been living apart and quarréled during a meeting arranzed in the hopes of effecting a rece reconcilation, Robbins told the police. NATIONAL AND STATE ISSUES KEPT SEPARATE No Nomination is Made For United States Senator or for Congress Grand, Forks, N. D., July 24.—-The committee of 21, ending jts session here, decided not to.endorse any .can- didates for United States senator in} the fall, or for congress. It was held that national issues are involved, and that the state and national. campaigns should be conducted separately in North Dakota. In addition to persons endorsed yesterday for election, the committee endorsed J. ‘T, Nelson, of Glenn’ Ullin, ‘or commissioner Of riculture and Nabors 389 2 Ear citi oa ‘she committee yesterday endorsed J. F. T. O'Connor, of. Grand Forks, Democratic nominee for Governor, and a mixed ticket of Republicans and Democrats to opposed. league candi- dates in the fall. WILSON GEVES © COAL PROMISE NEW ARMY PLAN PROVIDES WAYS OF EXPANSION Will Revolutionize the Military Methods in America, Accord- ing to Experts GUARD IS STRONG FACTOR Bill Broadens Scope of Reserve Officers Training Corps at Universities Washington, July 24.—America’s military establishment is being prac- tically revolutionized under the terms of the new army reorganization bill which became effective July 1. Army officers say the work will not be completed for some months becaus: of the broad scope of the measure passed at the last session of congress to place the land forces on a perma- nent peace basis. * While the regular army will con- tain only 295,000 officers and men scattered over the country and the insular possessions, it will be so ar- ranged in conjunction with the Na- sional Guard and the Reserve that capid expansion of the nation’s fight- ing forces in time of emergency will be possible, National Guard Strength. The National Guard will have about 140,000 officers and men, but the strength of the reserve has not yet yeen worked out and will depend .argely on the enlistment of eligibles. rhe regular army reserve as it form- erly existed, composed of former en- listed men furloughed to the reserve vo complete their enlistment period ceased to exist as such on July 1. In its place there is established the en listed reserve corps and the officers reserve corps. The members of the former, except velerans of the world war, are required to enlist for three years. Veterans of the world war may enlist, for only one year. The officers reserve corps is com- posed of ofticers who held temporary or reserve .commissions during the war emergency and graduates of the student officers training school. Reserve Plans. To accomplish the reorganization of the National Guard and the initial or- ganization of the reserve, the army bill provides for a general committee to be composed of regular army gen- eral staff officers and an equal num- ber of reserve or national guard of- ficers. In addition, ae other conn: tees, representing each state and ter- Titory Mr arrange the’ Nationa? Guard organization in each state and territory. Some of these committees have. not been appointed by the gov- ernors and consequently this work has not yet been put under way. ; While no full plan of organization has been made_ public, a tentative plan to be placed before the commit- tees would divide the country into nine dittricts with an army corps in each. This corps would consist of one regular, one guard and two reserve divisions; so organized that in an emergency the two reserve divisions, which theoretically would be the only ‘ anes much below war strength, could be filled un with selective service Says Sufficient Quantities Will be Sent Into State for Win- ter Needs Sufficient quantities of coal will be lelivered to North Dakota for the win- ter sunply, according to a telegram re- ceived today by Governor Frazier from I, P. Tumulty, secretary to President Wilson. .The telegram follows: | “Answering your telegram with ref-| erence to the coal situation in North Dakota, the President asks me to say} that he has kept in ‘touch with the! various departments handling this im-| portant matter during the past weeks and he is now able to state that as a! result of these conferences coal in sufficient’ quantities for thé needs of North Dakota will be delivered. The President wishes me to assure you that everything that can be done in this vital matter is being done.” [MADE GOOD SALE j | BUT GETS PINCHED | ‘ o— SEATTLE. Cops had Mrs. Ma- rian Perkins arrested _in | Spok- ane for selling a house here. ‘The trouble was that she didn’t own the house. They’re looking up Mrs. Perkins’ past. RAILWAY CHIEFS DISCUSS WAGE AWARD Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers. men, A full quota of officers drawn ruin the gaulcers’ reserve corps would be available for these divisions at all times. 17,000 Officers. The new regular army strength pro- vides for approximately 17,000 com- missioned officers. To provide this number about 7,000 reserve and tem- porary officers have been kept on duty and it is the plan to reach the full officer strength by commission- ing about 7,000 such officers and en- listed men in the permanent army. Officers and men to be so commis- sioned will be selected by a board, known as the Pershing board, headed by General Pershing and including six other officers. i The bill broadens the scope of the reserve officers training corps at the various educational institutions over the country, provides instructors and material for the schools and also au- thorizes summer camps to last six weeks for advanced training of the student officers. Graduates of the training corps may be commissioned in the organized reserve. Abolish Two Offices. The reorganization measure fur- ther provides that the head of the militia bureau of the War Depart- ment, which under the reorganization has jurisdiction over national guard and reserve affairs, shall be a nation- (Continued-on Page Three) ho met here to consider,the new wage awards of the Labor y Conductors; President W. G. Lee, Brother- ma, HEADS CZECH | CABINET | ~ ts ——— MMISIER TUSAR A new portrait of Tusar, Socialist prime minister of Czecho-Slovakia. RESOLUTE 10 BE FAVORITE INLAST RACE Yacht Series Now Stands a Tie, With Yesterday’s Victory by American Sloop DECIDING RACE MONDAY Sandy Hook, N. J., July 24.—The fifth international cup race, upon which hangs the. fate of America’s cup, today was declared off by the regatta committee. The reason given was heavy weather. As the yachts started back to the shelter of the hook the regatta com- mittee signalled that the race would be held “Monday. The first notice that the race had been postponed when the cup sloops were three miles northwest of the Ambrose channel light ship and were heading in the direction of Sandy Hook.. With a 15 to 18 knots breeza blowing it was inferred that skip- pers did not care to take a chance of being dismasted' or wrecked in heavy, seas or squally blows. Tossed Handicap Away Defender Resolute tossed her six minutes and forty seconds handicap overboard and defeated the British challenger Shamrock IV, boat for boat, in the fourth race of the 1920 regatta for the America’s cup. yes- terday afternoon. The series now stand at a_ tie. Shamrock won the first race last Thursday when an accident to Res- olute’s rigging forced’ her out while far in the lead. The second attempt, last Saturday, ended in no race, the yachts being unable to get sufficient ‘breeze to take. them around the course in the specified six hours. Shamrock scored the second vic- tory last Tuesday. Resolute came back on Wednesday, running a dead heat with the chal- lenger and winning by her handicap of seven minutes and one second. Yesterday’s race was the fastest in the series so far, Resolute completing the thirty-mile trangular course in three hours, 37 minutes and 52 sec- onds. Shamrock ‘IV (followed three minutes and 41 ‘seconds later, but the actual difference in sailing time was only three minutes and 18. sec: onds, Resolute having led across the starting line by 23 seconds. Resolute will be the fevorite in the race Monday. MINESTRIKE 1S IMPENDING Pittsburg, Kan., July 24.—A strike of the Kansas coal miners next week is impending. Alexander Howatt, president of the Kansas miners, as- serted today that the miners would start a clean-up of the mines Monday preparatory to a walk-out. The strike, it was explained, would be in protest. on fines alleged to have been assessed for not working on Sat- urdays, —— (WEATHER REPORT | \ WEATHER REPORT For twenty-four hours ending at noon, Saturday, July 24. Temperature at 7 a. m.. 58 Highest yesterday . 87 Lowest yesterday 62 Lowest last night. 56 Precipitation .. None 25-NW Highest wind velocity. Forecast For North Dakota: Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday; probably showers extreme west portion; somewhat warmer Sunday. Lowest Temperatures Fargo 5 Williston 58 Grand Forks . 54 St. Paul ... 58 Winnipeg « 42 Helena . 56 C ABO. 66 Swift Current 56 Kansas City . 18 . ROBERTS, Meteorologist. ORR! Queen beth suffered from many ailments, including swooning, gastritis and bronchitis, says one his- torian. SOVIET GRANTS. POLISH APPEAL FOR ARMISTICE Supreme Command Instructed to Begin Negotiations to End the Fighting GRODNO IS CAPTURED Bolsheviki Pressing Southwest- erly Toward Polish Capital, Says Statement London, July 24.—The soviet gov- ernment today notified Poland that Soviet army command had been ordered to begin immediately negoti- ations for an armistice, it is announc- ed in a wireless from Moscow to- day. The follow{ng telegram was dis- patched: ‘by the Russian soviet for- eign minister to the Polish minister Jat 1:15 o’clock this morning. “The Russian soviet government has given orders to the supreme com- mand of the red army to commence immediately with the Polish military command negotiations for the pur- pose of concluding an armistice and preparing for future peace between the countries. Will Advice Time “The Russian command will advise the Polish command as to the place and date of beginning of negotia- tions.” Another message from chief head- quarters staff on the revolutionary military council was sent to the high- er military command in Warsaw as follows: 2 ‘The supreme command of the red army has received the orders of the Soviet government to enter into nego- ro.s with the Polish military com- mander on the question of an armis- tice and peace between Russia and Poland, The supreme commander will send representatives furnished with full powers to a place which will be indicated to you by the command of the Russian front who will inform you of the place and the date when the Polish representatives will be in- vited to attend.” Russia’s reply to Poland's applica- tion for armistice negotiations brings in sight a possible solution of one of the most serious crises which Europe _ as a whole and the allied nations in particular have had to face since the signing of the.armistice with the Ger- mans in Noyémber, 1918. The otic world of allied Europe has been ajlarmed over the sweep of the Soviet ‘aimies through territory held by the Poles to the very border of Poland proper. Furthermore the close approach of the Russians to the German border gave additional cause for uneasiness, there existing great uncertainty and apprehension of the effects a ‘touching of German and So- viet frontier lines, might have upon the political future of Europe. OCCUPY GRODNO London, July 24,.— Occupation of Grodno, 80 miles southwest of Vilna, is announced in the official statement of yesterday on fighting operations, received. by wireless from (Moscow today. The statement says: “Our troops occupied Grodno July 23. We have started to force Mie- men.” CAN’T STEM TIDE Warsaw, July 24.—The Bolsheviki advancing in the direction of Sokolka west of Grodno, have crossed the Polish ‘boundary line set by the coun- cil of ambassadors. Along the rail- road in this region the Poles are re- ported to be fighting to stem the momentum of the southwesterly drive which is swinging the reds towards Poland’s capital, but in many cases the tired Poles are compared with the tired Poles are compelled to with- draw without much. resistence in the face of overwhelming numbers’ of fresh Bolsheviki troops. FRENCH POSITION EXPLAINED Paris, July 24.—‘The role of the Franco-British mission now on_ its way to Warsaw,” said Premier Miller- and, to the senate today, “is to get an accurate idea of the situation to sup- port with every means within its power the newly-formed Polish minis- try and to advise us as to the army’s needs in material, munitions and in structors. “The mission will do what is possi- ble, even what is impossible, to come to the help of our allies the premier added. SOVIET FALLS BAC K Paris, France, July 24.—-A wireless from Moscow says that the Soviet army is falling back, under orders from the Bolsheviki commanders. NINE TAKE CIVIL SERVICE EXAMS Examinations fre being held by the civil service board today for the position for carrier-clerk at the Bis- marck postoffice. Nine candidates are taking the examinations, both men and women being included, among those desirous of handling the mai * WRITING ON WALL i | TO FREE PRISONER | “ a a PARIS.—“At 60 years I die a murderer.” That confession scratched on a wall by M. Racaud, found dead by his own hand will probably free Jerome Ribes, sen- tenced two years ago to 15 years for the murder of Racaud's daughter-in-law. Racaud’s_ testi- mony sent the youth, who has al- ways protested his innocence, to jail. 31