The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 13, 1920, Page 1

7 4; ( i THE WEATHER Generally Fair THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [=] ‘” ‘THIRTY-NINTH YEAR BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA. FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1920 PRICE. FIVE CENTS GRAFT CHAR SOVIET FORCES CLOSING IN ON. POLISH CAPITAL Troops Reported Within 25 Miles of Capital With Poles Fighting Hard —_— DECLARE STATE OF SIEGE Civilians Cleared Off Streets of City by 10 O’clock Each Night Warsaw, Aug. 13.— Russian Soviet forces which are attacking the Polish lines northeast and east of. this city have reached a‘point 25, miles from Warsaw. A state of seige has been declared there. Civilans are not per- mitted on the streets after 10 o'clock at night and a cafes must close at 9 a’clock. The determjnation of the Bolsheviki to press. onward to Warsaw showed itself at various points along the battle line today, there being hand to hand fighting in many instances. ; The Poles savagely defended their} positions and contested every foot vf | ground. Fighting was reported today within! thirty miles of the capital. It was said Poltusk changed hands several times and last accounts were that fighting was going on in the streets. The Poles were holding the west bank of the Narew river at this point, beat- ing off the Bolshevili from the north} and hurling back other enemy forces which were trying to cross the river. NEAR PRUSSIAN BORDER Warsaw, Aug. 13.— Mlawa, an im- portant city on the Warsaw-Dansig railroad, about 50 miles northwest of this city, has been taken by the Rus. sian Bolsheviki, according to reports in military circles here tonight. Soviet forces are creeping along the Prussian frontier and are gradually working their way westward toward the Vistula river. POLES CLAIM SUCCESS Warsaw, Thursday. Aug. 12.—Polish successes on the southern front where the Russians have been pushing for Lemberg are reported in tonight’s of- ficial communique. si The Polish’ cavalry and‘ infantry have ousted the Bolsheviki from sev- eral towns. MEETING EXPECTED Warsaw, Aug. 13.—Polish commis. sioners with authority to negotiate a preliminary treaty of peace expect to leave this city early Saturday morn- ing to meet Russian Soviet delegates somewhere on the road between War: saw and Brest-Litovsk, the foreign of fice announced today. The meeting it was said will take place between 5 and 8 o’clock Saturday evening. COURT ATTACK IS STATED ON MINIMUM WAGE Employers, in Suit Filed in Far- go, Call Schedule “Lux- ury Wage” Fargo, Aug. 13.—Orders issued by the minimum wage commission es- tablishing minimum wages for wo- men in the state, effective Aug. 16, are attacked as invalid in an action filed in Cass county district court today. The bill filed on behalf of two telephone companies and the North Dakota Laundrymen’s association asks the court for a temporary or- der restraining the commission from attempting to enforce its award on the ground that the commission has not acted legally on the wage ques- tion and that the proposed wage is not a minimum wage but a luxury wage. No date has been set for a hear- ing on the complaint. PENNED IN BY POSSE, HUNTED MAN GIVES UP Alleged Slayer of Minnesota Sheriff Is. Captured Af- ter Long Hunt Mankato, Minn., Aug. 13.—After eluding posses of hundreds of armed men for the past four days the al- leged slayer of Sheriff Terry Mc- Call. of Worthington, was captured at 12:30 o’clock last night, two miles east of Mountain Lake. The man surrendered without a struggle. He is now held in the county jail at Jackson, Minn. He gave his name as William Rinken, transient. The man stopped for supper at the; Adolph Weber farm last night. As! soon as he left Weber called the au- thorities at Mountain Lake and a! posse of more than 100 men sur- rounded the fugitive. The man came} out of a cornfield shortly after mid- night and gave himself up. COUGHLIN BABY MYSTERY STILL UNSOLVED DESPITE ‘CONFESSION’ Suspect Caught in Many Lies —Talks Freely But Dodges Main Question: “Where Is _ the Baby?” BY JAMES HENLE Philadelphia, Aug. 13.—Tortuous, evasive, shifting, lying Augusto Pas- quale, whe has confessed to know-|» ledge of the whereabouts of Blake- ty Coughlin after the child was kid- naped, is the victor, thus far, in the strangest contest ever waged in pol- ice headquarters. Little Blakely was stolen from his home in Norristown, near here, on June 2. The tot was just 13 months old. Has Confessed Much Pasquale, under police grilling, has confessed much concerning the kidnapping. His stories, however. have varied to such an extent that officials seem as far away from re covering the missing baby as they were before Pasquale was arrested. His confessions have only deep- ened the mystery of the baby’s whereabouts. Pasquale has: Set a definite time for revealing the name of the kidnaper, but when the hour arrived refused to tell. »Played a “waiting game,” sparring for time, seeking every chance to ob-} | tain a delay. Talked of a “Russian Pole” who did the kidnaping. Confessed to having seen the child after it was kidnaped. Confessed that he wrote threaten- ing letters to the baby’s father, sign- ing himself “The Crank.” Admitted having extorted $12,000 from the father on a lying promise to return the child. Confessed to having bought,, with this money, a farm near New Gret- na, N. J. Confessed to having placed along the railroad track near Egg Harbor, the signal to obtain the $10,000 de- manded in the last “crank” letter. Where Js Blakely? Two months have passed the night of the kidnaping. Pasquale has said that during that time an-| other woman has become so attache‘ to the tot that she will not give him up. But in all of Pasquale’s confes- sions, so far, he has omitted the one main thing two million men and women here want to know—where is Blakely Coughlin now? BISHOPS URGE CHURCH UNIONS WITHOUT LIMIT 13—A union of churches is urged in an appeal to “all Christian people’ framed by bishops of the Anglican church who attended the recent conference at Lambeth, which was made public to- day in connection with a statement of the Archbishop of Canterbury cov- ering the work of the conference. The scope of the appeal, according to the archbishops’ statement, is limit- London, Aug. ed only by the limits of the Christia.! churches of the world. LICENSES READY FOR SPORTSMAN The county auditor’s office has an- nounced that the new hunting li- censes are ready for distribution and | should be obtained early, before the season opens on Sept. 16. The license fee is now $1.50 for residents of North Dakota. Non-resi- dents must pay $25 for the privilege | ; Naped from his home on June 2, and WHISKEY TRADE since ; ja case in a warehouse at Estevan, THIS 18 THE BABY who was kid- for whom a nation-wide search has been made, without result. THIS IS THE MAN who has con- fessed that he wrote a “crank” letter to the father of the baby who was kidnaped from his home on June 2, got $12,000 for a promise to return the child, and then bought a farm with the money. THIS IS THE FARM that the man who wrote a “crank” letter to the father of the baby who was kid- naped from his home on June 2, claims he bought with the $12,000 he got for the promise to return the ba by. BUT the baby has not yet been returned. THROUGH STATE BRINGS THRILL Story Told When Two Men Are Convicted in: Fargo-for-Im:. porting Cargo CAME THROUGH BISMARCK Fargo, N. D., Aug, 18.—Thrills of running the “whiskey blockade” of the United States officers was related during federal court here when Matt: Kloss, 19 years old, employed in a] garage at Minneapolis, paid a fine of $100 and his partner, Glenn R. Davis, was fined $1,000. Both pleaded guilty before Judge Charles 1°. Amidon, of the United States district court, to transporting liquor into the United States from Canada. Davis was the leader in the illicit traffic, federal officers say. Kloss is said to have been paid $50 for each trip made in a fast Hudson touring car owned by Davis and confiscatea py the federal officers. Arrested at Ellendale They were arrested at Ellendale. N.D., two weeks ago. The plan was brought to light following their ar- rest. It was. said they planned to make the first trip from Minneapolis to the Canadian line in six days, trav-! eling at night, with their cargo of 12 cases of Canadian whiskey. The plan went wrong when the sheriff inter- cepted the car, while looking for an- other whiskey, smugler. The whiskey .was carefully con- cealed under blankets in the car. While the smugglers were eating in} a hotel. the sheriff and his deputy | investigated and found the liquor. A few minutes later the fast car which they had been looking for pulled up. The deputy sheriff gave chase in his machine, firing at the men, but the officer was left behind in a trail of dust. The car sped toward the South Dakota line. i Came Through Bismarck The whiskey, officers say, cost $50 Sask. It would have been disposed ‘of in Minneapolis at a profit of $750, it is said. The route which the two traveled from Ellendale northwest to the Can- adian line, passing through Bismarck and Garrison and between Noonan and Crosby until they reached Este-j van. On the return they traveled at night and avoided Bismarck, because of fear of the Bismarck police. JOHN PETERSON 1S HONORED BY . HOTEL MANAGERS Word was received in the city yes- terday that John Peterson, one of the proprietors of the Grand Paci- fic hotel, was elected vice-president from North Dakota, of the North- western Hotelmen’s association. Mr. Peterson has been identified with the association for many years. Jerry Bacon, proprietor of the Ho- tel Dakotah, Grand Forks, was named president. This association comprises the mi representative hotelmen of the Northwest. The hotelmen have been holding their annual meeting at Milwaukee. Mr. Peterson expects to be gone for two weeks before returning to Bis- of hunting within the state. marck. 1 JEWELS ENROUTE TO SOVIET HEAD SEIZED BY U. 8, Million Dollar’s Worth of Dia- monds Sent to Soviet Am- bassador Here COURIER TRAIL UNMASKED Quantity of Communist Litera- tuer-and I. W. W. Appeal Intercepted in Raid Washington, Aug. 13.—More than 100 diamonds, supposed to have been a part of the famous jewels of the Russian royal family and addressed to “Comrade Martens,” have been in- tercepted by customs officials while en route from Soviet Russia to tho United States, according to evidence introduced at the deportation pro- ceedings against Ludwig C.. A. K. Martens, self-styled Soviet ambassa- dor to this country. Details of a regularly established courier service between Bolshevik agents in Sweden with Soviet rep- resentatives in New York by which large quantities of jewels have been transported for six months past also have heen introduced in the: testi- mony by the government it became | known today at the department of justice. Sallor Intercepted The diamonds numbering 131 in all. were seized July 22 by the customs authorities in New York from a Swe- dish sailor, named Jacobson, who at- tracted suspicion as he was leaving the Swedish steamer Stockholm. Tne sajlor-also was said to have in his possession a package containing «a Jarge amount of Communist litera- ture including an “appeal of the exe- cutive committee of the third inter- nationale of Moscow to the I. W. W.’ Martens Shows ‘Them Edward C. Marten, unrecognized Soviet ambassador to the United States today displayed a million dol- lars in diamonds, which has been sent to him. i Showing Associated “ttess diapateh- es from Washington in which it was said the jewels were part of the Rus- sian crown jewels, Martens asserted that all of the jewels of the former users were being held in the Soviet national treasury. NO CANDIDATE 1S NAMED FOR “U.S, SENATOR Fargo Meeting Puts Matter Over—Takes Up Details of Campaign Fargo, Aug. 13.— No endorsement tor United States senator was voted at a meeting of the anti-Townley Re publican state committee held in Fargo yesterday afternoon. The’ announced view of the commit- tee was that the question should prop- erly come before the new state com- mittee selected in the June primary, | and which takes office the first week | in September. The meeting was call: ; ed by Treadwell Twichell. ‘re-enacted the 1915 state bonding act, but in ad- dition indicated careful consideration to the method of disposition of these funds by the State Treasurer, because it added an alternative to which he was formerly permitted to deposit the state bonding fund with the following language: Whether a Republican condidate will file independently for United States! senator is not known. Senator A. J Gronna has not made known his po- sition. The committee gave considerable attention to the details of the forth- coming campaign. AWAIT OUTCOME the state are authorized to .be in- vested,’” OF PROBE INTO Mr. Sheets points out that the! same session of the legislature PONZI'S DEALS Financial District of Boston Fears’ Effect May Be Se- , verely Felt Boston, Aug. 13.—All New England awaited with keenest interest today further developments of Charles Pon- zi’s dream castle of finance to ‘the building of which 40,000 investors are alleged to have contributed from $10,- 000,000 to $15,000,000, and federal and state officials continued their investi- gation with a view to disclosing every | ramification of the affair. The financial districts of the city were esnecially concerned lest the in- vestigation under way disclose opera- tions that would involve institutions other than thé Hanover Trust com- pany, which was Ponzi’s largest de- pository. Ponzi was -free today under bail of $35,000, of which $25,000 was for his appearance before the federal govern- ment on a charge of using the mails in a scheme to defraud and $10,000 for his appearance before the municipal court on a three-count larceny charge. LIVING COST statistics on the tremendous increase in the cost of living from December, public today by the ment. HOLDS BONDING Opinion Sought by State Treas- | securities in which school funds of JUMP SHOWN Washington, Aug. 13.—Detailed 1914, to June, 1920, showing increas- es of from 110 to 136 per cent in ev- ery article of necessity, were made labor depart- FUND DEPOSITS IN WRONG BANK Bank of North Dakota Must Give Up Money Under Opinion Rendered TO PUBLIC DEPOSITORIES urer Olson Is Given by As- sistant Attorney-General The state bonding fund of more than $70,000 will be removed from the Bank of North Dakota and placed ws Stale depository banks, under an opinion given to State 'reasurey O- bert Olson today by Albert E. Sheets Jr. Assistant Attorney-General. The law which makes it mandat- ory on the State Treasurer to deposit the funds in state depositories is the result of another blunder of the “rubber stamp” legislature in) which William Lemke or some one eise di- recting the affairs of that body fail- ed to carry out their program. The State Treasurer had assumed it his duty to keep them in the Bank of North Dakota. The question was raised and he asked for an opinion. Law Amended. The state bonding department was originally established in 1913. The law governing it succeeding general assemblies. The legislature of 1919, which created the Bank of North Dakota, contain- ed this provision: “All state, county, township,, mu- vicipal and school district funds, and funds of all penal, educational, and industrial ‘Institutions “and” alt -otlrer’ public funds shall be, by the persons having control of such funds deposit- was amended by |” K IS HURLED WATERS: CHARGE OF FORGERY . ON RESIGNATION FOLLOWED BY ATTACKS OF N. P. LEADERS Says Waters; Lie, Is Answer Paes . ; Resignation as Manager of Bank of North Dakota was Forged, of League Men; Waters Says He Could Not Stand Transactions of Bank of North Dakota A fight for the leadership of the Nonpartisan league is in the open today. With its burst into the limelight came charges of graft and incompetency, Socialism and forg How far the fight will go is a problem. manager of the Bank of North resignation was a forgery. ery. Jim Waters, former Dakota, asserts his letter of In answer the Fargo league prints a fac-simile of the letter of resignation and the official signature of Waters. The league organ prints the They appear to be the same. story of what purports to be recent requests for money by Waters from the state league man- ager, after his boasts of what he was going to do had become known to the league manager. Waters is apparent. Waters and his associates d | record of “graft and crookedness” be | and declare that the control of the league organization has passed No decision to compromise with 4 leclare they will make a public within the league organization, from the hands of the farmers who started it into the hands of “Socialist bosses.” LEGION NAMES DELEGATES T0 STATE MEETING Special Meeting of American} Legion Here Names Eight to Go to Minot ° Delegates and alternates for the state convention were chosen by the Lloyd Spetz Post No. 1 of the Amer- ican Legion at a special meeting last night. George Russ, Jr., P. G. Harrington, | W. W. Sather, H, Broccupp, W. Mur- nane, H. T. Murphy, W. E. Cole, and R. Be Flow were ‘selected as voting delegates to represent the local post a the Minot convention, Aug. 25 and 26. ed in the Bank of North Dakota, etc.’ Quoting this in his opinion, Mr. Sheets continues: “It has been sug-| gested by the terms of Section 7 just quoted that it is now the duty of the State Treasurer to depopit the fund with the Bank of North Dakota. This conclusion, however, as will be seen, is unwarranted. “At the same session of the legis- lature that chapter 147 creating the Bank of North Dakota was passed, Chapter 158 re-amending and re-en- acting the state Banding Fund act was also passed. In the state bond- ing act passed by the 1919 session of the legislature the duties of the state treasurer with reference to the | disposition of the State Bonding Fund were again mapped out. If the legislature had intended that cne State Treasurer should deposit the bonding fund with the Bank of North Dakota it would have omitted Section 17 of Chapter 4.. Session Laws of 1915 quoted above, in the new law and would have thus indi- cated that Section 7 of Chapter 147, Session Laws of 1919, should contro: the conduct of the State Treasure: in the disposition of the State bond- ing fund. “This, however, the legislature did not do. But on the contrary not only verbatim Section 17 of that it had given the depositories in “Or he may invest such funds in (Continued on Page Five) i TREASURY,” ON FUSION TICKET Since its foundation in 1904, the Carnegie Hero Commission has awarded 110 medals to women. CARL KOSITZKY ! ‘A. A. Jones, Galvin, N. Tharelson, and R. B, Lewis, were named as al- ternate delegates to take the place of any of the others named who were prevented from attending the mecc- ing. The Minot convention promises to be one of the largest state conven- tions and plans have been made for caring for 500 delegates and over 1500 outside members of the Legion who are expected to attend. Big Welcome Awaits The Minot Commercial club is preparing a big welcome for the ex- service men, and together with the post there will do everything possi- ble to make the convention a joy- ous affair. A big barbacue, prepared by the best chefs of the northwest will pro- vide food for the visitors. Several attractive boxing bouts have been booked and the Legion men are sure of seeing a good ring work. Many Going From Here “Many local Legion men are plan- ning to ‘attend the meeting and all are urged to do so,” P. G. Harring- ton, post adjutant, said this, morn- ing. At the meeting last night blank forms were given out by the War Mothers to be filled in by those men ‘| in a Miami hotel. ‘ Prospects of the accusations of both sides being aired in the courts were strong following the statements of both sides in the controversy. The statement of Waters, which started the imbrolgio, follows: To Whom It May Concern: My resignation published in the Courier-News was not written by me at Miami, or elsewhere, was published without my knowledge and _ consent, and is a forgery committed by the Courier-News editor, Mr. Lemke, or some other employee of the League or Bank of North Dakota. The first I saw of this resignation was in the Courier-News while sitting This so-called res- ignation does not express my senti- ments and is false and an-attempt to cover up strife and friction that ex- isted in the Bank of North Dakota during the entire time I was acting as manager, in name only. It is well known to the Governor, Mr. Cathro, Mr. Townley and Mr. Lemke that the management of the bank. was never in my hands and that I was out of harmony with them at all times, and opposed and objected to numerous transactions that took place in the institution, such as the sending. of unlimited funds to the Fargo bank, the sending of funds out of the state, the putting of League paper into the institution, the payment of excessive salary and expense bills to bank em- ployees and the payment of money to League employees under the pretense of expense. I had notified Governor Frazier on several occasions that I would not con- tinue as manager of the Bank under such conditions and only agreed to stay the first year as a personal favor to him, but expected to be given the courtesy of writing my own resigna- tion, giving my own reasons for so do- ing, instdad of having the League Bosses do it for me in my absence. I will have more to say regarding this affair and the Bank’s management as soon as I have a medium through which to speak and through which I can reach League members. (Signed) J. R. WATERS. Socialists Supreme, He Says In an advertisement to boost a newspaper deal Waters declared that “the imported Soviets in co-operation with local Socialists are using the Nonpartisan league to put over on the state an entirely different program, including the ideas of Walter Thoma Mills, Carl Thompson, Victor Berger, Eugene Debs, Kate Richards O'Hare, who have not already made out their war history records. SUFFRAGE GETS SENATE VOTE Nashville, Tenn, Aug. 13.— The Tennessee senate today rati- fied the woman suffrage amend- ment by a vote of 25 to 4. The measure now goes to the house. CARL KOSITZKY, “WATCHDOG OF Upton Sinclair, Charles Edward Rus- sell and other national and interna- tional Socialists — whom the farmers of North Dakota never pledge them- selves to support. This with criminal management of the state government and the League, and with dishonest political management of the farmers’ state conventions, threatens the suc- cess of the original program.” Waters claims that he is for the original program of the league—that he is out to put the league bosses who are not farmers’ friends out of power. Appealed to Frazier A. C. Townley, who is the particular target of Waters. ran on a Socialist ticket in Golden Valley county in 1914 in opposition to the “farmers’ ticket,” according to one of the charges of {friends today when it was Carl Kositzky—North Dakota's “watchdog of the treasury”—receiv- ed many congratulations from learned that he had been named on the anti- Townley ticket as candidate for re- Waters and his associates, One of the statements made is that Governor Lynn J. Frazier was appeal- ed “in putting a stop to graft and crookedness within the organization.” Apparently having failed they say they will “now appeal direct to the league membership and demand the ousting of certain high state officials and of- ficials in the league and a reorganiza- election as State Auditor. tion of management within the Mr. Kositzky was named to fill a | league.” vacancy on the fusion ticket. His Fac-simile Shown i selection was announced here by The Fargo Courier-News, know Sveinbjorn Johnson, who was em- powered by the emergency commit- tee of the Committee of Twenty-one to act. Mr. Kositzky had been sug- generally as William Lemke’s per- sonal organ, prints what purports to be a fac-simile of Waters‘ letter of resignation to Governor Frazier. The gested by many persons and during} purported letter was written on sta- his swing around the state attending group meetings of the anti-Townley forces, many leaders, both Repub tionery of the Hotel Tamiami, Miami, Florida, April 1, 1920. at In the letter, which Waters says can and Democratic, urged Mr. Kos-| he never signed,, it is stated over a itzky’s name. signature purporting to be his that His wide experience in public af-| he had accepted the position as man- fairs, public welfare and his conscientious manner of performing the duties of his strong allegiance to the} ager of the Bank of North Dakota only in program and that he was resigning order to aid the farmers’ his office were urged by friends to-| because it called for too great a sac- day as reasons why there was a de- rifice in his personal affairs. The mand that he be named on the fu-! letter thanks the Governor for co- sion ticket. For 10 years Mr. Kositzky has held important public posts. He earned (Continued on Page Five) operation and declares the people have a “going concern.” After charging that Waters liei (Continued on Page Three)