The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 4, 1920, Page 1

1 | THE WEATHER Generally Falr a THIRTY-NINTH YEAR BISMARCK. BISHOP BURNS TO OFFICIATE AT CONFERENCE Bismarck to Have One of the Twenty-six Area Meetings to Methodist Church i | | LEADERS TO BE HER | Sunday School and Church Work to Be Discussed, Public Is Invited i The Helena Area of the Methodi: t | Episcopal church, which includes} North Dakota, Montana, Idaho and| Eastern Oregon, has within it one} thousand Methodist churches. This , area is one of the most rapidly grow-| ing sections of the church. Bishop Charles Wesley Burns, for- merly pastor of,the Hennepin Avenue | Methodist church at Minneapolis, was | elected bis opin Des Moines, Iowa, ! last May"and, is now the Bishop in| charge of the Helena Area. i A series of twenty-six religious con ferences or conventions is being held) in this Helena Area. One of these! conferences will fe held at Bismarck, | Dec. 9. The churches in this vicinity are! working up delegations to attend th conference, The hedds of the depari-| ments of each church are expected to be there and a good many others w attend. The Conference Program is as fol-} lows: PQ First Day 30 p.m. Address by W. H. Neil of! Chicago. Second Day 9:00-9:30 a.m. Prayer and Bible | exposition. a | { Pressed, a] i i | i | { y Burns Bishop Charles Wes 9:30-10:15 a.m. The Sunday School ; Crusade. How to secure teachers with passion | for souls. Teacher Training . Graa- ing a small Sunday School. Child con- version. Rooms in a one-room church Rallies and contests. Conducted bY L. Clifford. special session will be ar ig the day for those spe sted in Sunday School work. institutes. Inter-district | Epwerth | League’ Forward Campaign. The new Area sub-district organization. Sub- | district. directors. Epworth League institutes. Inter-district Euworth | League activities. Commer a amusements. The recreational dire tor. Life service plans. i A special session for Epworth League workers will be arranged for during the day. The World Passion and By W. H. Nei plewarcalld, When? What? How? by L Lovejo; i A special pasto senference on the! stewardship campaign will be ar- ranged: 0 20 p. B Bible Exposition. Pp. The Local Church ; -By angelism and Efficiency Method: Evangelism that works. Unit S$ in practice. A better financial sy ‘A seven-day church and how to oper-} ate it. The one-church community What about movies? The local church | jublicity and publishing the gospel hureh and the Area Office n the church. By Geo “Round Table Discussion. strict Superintendent. 5. The New Woman of the Methodist Church A 4:15-4:45. The Cegtenary Subscrip- tions. By_the Area Secretary. 5, The Pastor, the Preacher Bishop Charles and the Pre rophet Wesley Burns. i 7:30 p.m. Illustrated lecture. Geo. Mecklenburg. $:30 p.m. Address by Bishop Charles | Wesley Burns. reception to Bishop Burns will be} A the closing feature of ihe 4 conference. ; State Mill Nears. ; Partial Completion Grand For -It rohable that the root for the state | rent and elevator being cons' ted | here will be completed before the; freeze-up. The walls have been run} up to their-full height and only the roof work remains. On the flour mill, three floors have been completed and pouring,of con- crete for the fourth floor has been | commenced. The construction of the| two wings-for the storage of flour also | is underway. More than 100 men are being used on the job just now. | | | ‘but right where it is doi j that a to; can Sit s 'a few layers of adopt a baby | : | the world. NORTH DAKOTA. § a CAPPER OFFER NEW MEASURE TO Kansas enator Announces Draft of Bill Which Is Go- ing to Congress “EF SAYS FFECTIVE Would Retain Hedving on Grain ‘per of Kan | sor a limited ¢ Dec. today 1 proposed bill to stop s and grain. x of 19 per cet e, on future and cotton except by an a sof trad Senator Washington, his lo public gambling in food igned to be ling in grain ual owners under f eval licenses is the basic feature ‘the Capper bill, which is to be intro- | ‘duced in Congress next week. The 10 per cent. end the measure | products as well. tax would epply to options. world atfect grain t | “The bill will stop gambling in 'wheat, corn, cotton and other farm Ors. ipe id Senator Capper & > ;the blackboards. it will put out of business the thousands of wire house: ‘and bucket stops making it imp: for } speculators to CLARA SMITH HAMON ARDMORE... Okla.—Police Clara Smith Hamon, wanted in L. Hamon, millionaire oil operator and Republican national commit- teeman for Oklahoma. Mrs. Hamon, distant relative of the oil man, formerly was his stenographer, tL oagon cied recently of revolver shot wounds. 2>.. Mrs. many cities are searching for connection with the death of in CHRISTMAS GLOW RISES AMONG MYRIAD OF (GIRTS IN MANY SHOPS OF THE CITY | ! Elaborate Display of Christmas Goods Offered for the Shop- U, S GOVERNMENT: oo cena ETT TIRED Putting art to “work: this the shops are doing for Chrigom | The day of the tawdry Christaas hes Has About Reached Limit of 2d. No longer the ti rd th @| ‘ Je, outside their per y legiti- Cencessions It Is Willing to ae! time honored domain of) Make, it Is Said Christmas tree. Strolling about} in the shops of Bismarck one is im-} first with the beauty of the} stocks offered for sale, and ne Washington, Dec. 4.—The American overnment has about reached the mit of the concessions it is willing their 1 usa blene: to make to the allied and associated To be sure “beauty is its own ex-! lowers with regards to the disposi cuse for being”, a 1 | on of the former German cables it mae ke own today by one of the the shops that a joners to the inter- cause we must {national communication conference. com! ioner said the negotia- had been draging for sometime > sheer have our things, does more of good in ; Withont any immediate indicaton that of life than many gifts of gold. Buty agreement’ would be reached. “usefuine is the keynote of this! phe United States has insisted that Christmas s Hardware, the cable communications between the United States and Germany, interrupt- ed vs a result of the diversion of the *\ German cables by the allies, should hoe and ieather, book and news, offices clothing, tz Hess EEOC furniture, be restored. al Britain is under- Leen een eta eetat will ood to have expressed willingne have gifts for sa Lae to restore the cables which formerly nny) Ls) Bes OF Stamp eta mene ney er ‘van from emden to New York, but jated. And the toy oot which since has been diverted to con- 1 Eee ne eee ost aande Hnect Penzance with Halifax on he suprenedar 6 het ‘condition that it, remain in I rae ‘ ;| hands. JEWISH WAR RELIEF FONDS : y many sve coming out, and it perennially {fresh and compelling it had just been thought mind of the toy w that way—other come of last yea is just a s if} § the| ‘to do their tcy shops are ready bit. Pienty for Men \ And the ¢ fothin mer women’s nd chil Neve’ ; wear! i 4 Medical Overseas Unit Is to !so artistic and the n so alluring. Be Sent to Eastern lounging robe, you ask? Europe HER! And the clothes —if only each~one of ae | out one child in the togs offe New York. Dec. 4.--A medical over- his comfort or her adornment we unit is to be sent into have fulfilled the full 1 Europe to fight ; the Joint Christmas. And for the ba | Distribution committee of the vere | wel] if any shopper can stand betore | an Funds tor Jewish War fer-! the booths rigged out in baby things it was announced here toda: nd not resolve then and there to The ur which will de dispate will of that person must month ated to the limbo sp for those who “ha be U. and phar conjunction | dren's disea sts, who will work planne 1 ‘the laugh of a child.” ially t in There are s that would i the committee’ s welfare work- mermaid to; renounce her se It will be ee forey: Th is furnitur local medic angels ‘might weep for. ‘The je conditions and to organize the r very seas of temptatio dent phy ans to most effecti ed | our grandmothers never drea carry on the work. that a hardware store could come to; Dr, Harry Plotz of this ci sfying to the artistic eye! was in charge of the de-lousing plants as an art gal If tt ere be a shop | ot the American army and who di per abroad jrd-real leath-| covered the typhus germ, is to be er on a shopping list. opportunity is} charge of the work and will head the | aplenty in the shop windows. s to he made up of phy! ve had military exper- “the world ot % While as richyin lovely books Alw to be on other Chr as ti | much to help out the holida _Fargo, Dec. 4—Trial of the e382 of] The jor of a child’s book lies i > state against Arnold Armstrong | fon jand the Page, charged with malicious slan- In looking over the there are! ger against Mrs. Sophia Dailey, also} few of the small p “Dead ¢ Page, is procecding before a jury | Vick” type, lefts Bo re coming | n district court before Judge Charl | into their own at last and it is 0/y] Cooley of Grand Forks. It was ine| fault of the dealers that book paver| pected that the case would go to the! has come to be worth its weight gold. an jury y this afternoon. The case of the state against Ed- ‘Always whewe there are books 00! ward Rutaski, farm hand charged sale there is stationery. No dainticr| with the theft of a kit of tools, tried nor more useful gift can be fos | before Judge A. T. Cole yesterday re- than writing equipment.. There are! sulted in a verdict by the jury of not probably typewriters’ for Christmas | puilty ‘There was no case in Judge (Continued on Page Six) Cole’s court today. fo women, ‘ot - government “it will eliminate the wheat pits and sible f € des. rve legi- ‘The bill anderen € { out all gamb- luimate “hedge” but ¢ ‘ling and manipulation a actual deliv- ‘sand manufacturers, buying or 5 tc g posed law Penaltie grain or cotton would not be restricted by the pro- Senator Capper said. of 50 per cent. of the pro- posed federal tax, a fine of $10,000 and one year’s imprisonment for violation of the bill’s provisions are incorporat- ed in the Capper bill. Millers of grain, grain products and cation who at the time of sale would be owners of the “actual physical pro- perty” and traders stered ae and regi nal revenue bureau would be exempt n the 10 per cent tax. Limit on Transactions Pit traders, however. would be lim ited in their dealing to three times eir actual transactions during the iP seding year and would be required ito report all dealings to ihe internal Hrevenue bureau. In a statement o¥ilining his ‘Senator Capp r declared only about 1 ‘ner cent. of “future” trading in grain and cotton was bona fide. Millions of dollars were lost by farmers % as speculators in the recent be of the grain market, Senator Capper | +declared, asserting that consumers as well as producers were the victims. “The Chicago board of trade, ator Capper said, “is the world's great- | est gambling institution. More wheat s sold in Chicago in October than was raised in the United States this ar. This year's corn crop was sold ‘14 times in Chicago before a bushel of corn had reached the market. Only about 1 per cent. of the trading done in futures is for actual delivery.” HRS. MAC SWINEY, ‘I$ CHEERED AS (SHE ENTERS U. §. Wife of Governor Smith, of New York, Among Those to Greet Her small flotilla crate Nw f tugboats and other small wung down the bay to qua ‘accompany ae harbor the Celtic, to this country Mrs Mu Collector of Cus- toms Newton is representatives of Irish or- | in this country to R0 tnrough the baggage inspection line to meet the visitors. These five, he said. | were granted out of thousands of ap- |plications. The pass holders included Mrs. Alfred Smith, wife of Governor Smith, and Mrs. John F. Hyland, wife Mayor Hyland Thousands of [rish ng crepe bands arms in mourning for ‘Mayor, assembled at’ the cheer the Irish visitors. (| ALLIES AGAINST RETURN OF KI ganizations sympathizer around the’ the late Lord > docks note to the Greel from Great = Br y was made here last | ters of those coun- France and It night by the mini: tries. The note disapproving the re- turn of King Constantine caused sur- if not consternation, here. SATURDAY, DEC. 4, 1920 HIT WHEAT PITS of! s {indicating w Farmers, deel | regularly engaged | in drawing dealing end or manufac-; with the inter-, pin! i Sen-! bona fide transaction | THE Bc anin sath TRIBUNE: LAST EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS (CAST IRON HOSPITAL USED IN BRIDGE _ GET-TOGETHER ACTION GIVEN HARD SETBACK Keen Potitics Out of Bank Situation | / DRAFT SUITS MAY COME Treasurers Held B. of N. D. Has No Right io Refuse Payments; Bank’s View The spirit of co-operation which ap- peared in the banking the tate following the ‘tions by the evecuti | {t situation in council of the ers’ association piedging ¢ with state authorities and urging local treasurers to leave fund (in the Tank of in th: was rudely shoe! state operation orth Dakota ney, present eme ied today. | Although it was stated at the Bank ;of North Dakota that there had deen {tew drafts presented by treasurers, | sp. of co-operation on their part, though the initiated law j has been effective but two days, the jFargo organ of the Nonpartisan jlecgue flamed out that “foes open jtaid on state bank.” ‘There was further evidence that al- though the initiated law regarding | public deposits is now accepted gen- _ erally as a reality and that it’ will jHov ve changed by the legislature, | that efforts of Nonpartisan 'heads, chiefly outside of Bismarck, | i Fargo oes Unable tos dopton of resolu- | CONSTRUCTION BRINGS NEW SENSATIO | | { i ! ! jteres ibridge that is to yohar Under Which “Sand Hogs” Will Work in Bed of Mi uri River—Caissons at East End | of New Bridge Are Being itors Get aste of Conditions PAYROLL BAND GRABS $1,200 IN MILL CITY One Man Shot in Effort to Halt Sealed Daring Robbery at Here's something new under the} Noontime sun—a_ ¢ iron hospital. een Not many want to enter it, but it} GET $12,000 N DETROIT and a rather in- ing one lo the newcomer. The cast iron “hospital” is a part of the equipment of the Foundation company, contractors. on the Bi marck-Mandan bridge. > the ms on pier No. span provides a sure cure, L of the biz the M i were being sealed, a reporter visited the scene After William West, who in eof the sinking of the caissons, | i ' had shown two visitors around he sug- gested a trip to the “hospital” ‘the “hospital” was - A big t iron ¢ with benches on the in {trrough which compressed aid is shot nto The visitors ed them- elves, the air began to roar and Mr. West began to. explain, Get the “Bends” “Wh a man works down the river on one of thos will get the ‘bends,’ he said. condition brought about by lir-tight, and pipes under Hearing thas in | mortally Robbery of Small Minnesota Bank Also Is Reported in Day’s Holdupe | Minneapolis, Dec. yle Neely, a | taxi-cab driver, was shot and probably | wounded when five bandits {held up his two passengers, employes of the Northern Bay company and es- jcaped with a pay-roll of $1,200 cash which the bag company men were tak- [ing to their offices. The bandits fled in an automobile. The bandits waited at the com- Pany's plant for the two employes and When the latter struck for the taxi- cab they were immediately seized and ‘the satchel containing the taken. Officer Neeley ran money to the for a period under compressed air, | id of the pair and shouted. and the pains are worse than rhen: a gomiie of here?) inatiam: i a bandit responded, and “The change from the compressed | {i"¢d pentblank at Neeley, ‘The tp. thie regular atmospheric pr bullet “entered his abdomen, sure cannot be made suddenly, so| 4 Columbus, 0., Dec. 4.—Five armed ithe man is brought to the hospital. league if compr' essed air ‘to make political capital out of the ! situation will be continued. | The Bank of North Dakota stands jin the peculiar position today,ot he- jing the first institution or branch of the state government to refuse to pay debt, is the wi view the resolution adopted by the in- dustrial commission authorizing the mark i pre some persons, managers of the bank to refuse to , honor drafts. { On the other hand, F. W- Cathro, ; director-general of the bank, declared hat the bank would make no with- ;drawals from banks other than nec- essary and that only treasurers who sought to complicate the situation by , Withdrawals, would be curbed. Those Refused Drafts from Logan and. Mort< counties and the city of Lisbon f ithe withdrawzl of funds in the bank were refused. According to state iy | | ‘locked, After he’s been in here for sometim and the pressure is gradually lessen- ed, the pains disappear and he becomes | absolutely normal.” The men who do this work are called hogs” And during his explanations he re- od that the highest amount of ire a human stand was 56 pounds, and that uir on the bridge piers will work un 3 der a 35-pound pressure. The air was roaring; one’s ears felt the pressure, and inere was some- The pressure pounds. thing uncanny about it. must be, getting about “How much. pressure is in here no the smiling veteran of bridge work was asked,” through the din, ‘Oh, about two pounds,” he an- swered, Couldn't Open Door The door to the “inospital” was not but even with two pounds} pressure one con td, not pull it open from the inside. Tle aid was ut off, the roaring ceased and the doors op- ;ened. Except for a tingling sensa- ments made in behalf of these treas- | {tion in the ears.everything was nor- |urers they merely were drawing from ‘the bank the amount of money drawn } |; by the bank of these counties. It is probable that legal action will, be taken to force the Bank of North | ‘Dakota to honor drafts made upon | it by counties. They take the posi- tion, it is said, that they were only acting in the best interests of their; -communjty in making the wididrav ‘als they sought to make. | National Bank Leit Out Another rift in the situation jthe lack of an invitation to national | bank representatives to participate in’ the bankers’ conference called for next Tuesday to discuss the situation. | Lotthus, state examiner, said that | ity he had not invited them to be pres-| he ‘has no Jurisdictiog | ent because oyen national ‘banks. was reported here today that, | | with 0 y banks present from rural | communities, an effort would be! made to force through a resolution | {asking for a?repeal,of the initiated ‘iaw. Ary such action would be an-/ | other blow at efforts to obtain co-| operation between citizens generally jand state officials at, the present time, it is held. The number of bank closings was j brought to 20 today, | The Citizens state bank, of Antler, ; was the nineteenth bank to close. ASK MONEY FOR ~ PROBE OF BANK | The State Emergency commission, | {composed of the governor, secretary of | State and commissioner of agricul- |ture, today refused the request of the | state board of auditor ; the initiated law, to transfer or set aside $3,500 of the contingency. fund; jto pay the expen of the e j tion of the Bank of North Dakota. ate Auditor | people of the state to contribute tof} ja fund to pay the expenses of the | examination, which was begun yester- Dec. 4 Judge F. 1 court today grantel| on applica- Northwestern vaukee, in feder n temporary injunction \tion of the Chicago and ilre ining the state of from. interfering jwith the putting into effect of the | |, which when tied together, | ing them. | jin the river a little west of the middle mal again. The “hospital” wasn’t necessary | for the sinking of the two caissons will form 'pier No. 1, on the east side of the river. There are two round cement cylinders, 14 feet in diameter from the outside and 9 feet from the ‘inside. | They are doughnut shaped, the rim being 2% feet wide. They were sunk jin sections, and now are 44 feet un- {der the surface of the water. ing poured into each isson, seal- After several feet of con- crete is poured, rocks and other mate- als will be mixed and the cylinders will be sealed at the top. They wil! he joined together by concrete beams. Work Goes On When the breaking up of the ice in the river swept away the temporary | bridge it did not halt work on th piers on the east and west banks. One of the cylinders which, joined | absolute: 40 feet under the river's c The end of the cement sson rests in hard clay. ;Mr. West, who has helped put eigh: | the Mi bridges across souri, says with the clos-! this is the only dry, caisson he has | ling of the Mohall Security state bank. j ever seen. Mandan side is feet. Pier No. 3 Pier No. 4 on the ‘now down about 2 jof the stream, was not damaged by | | the board of auditors would ask the | warning also-was issued for s | proposed inc in passenger fares | jin Wisconsin ordered by the inter: state commerce commission from 3 j cents to 3.6 cents on Decembr 15 } BRICK, FARMHOUSE BURNS | Beach, N. D., Dec. 4—The brick farmhouse owned near Beach by At- torney J. A. Miller is a total loss, esti- ma.cu at $10,000, from fire originating from a gasoline lighting plant. Few household articles were saved. The insurance is small. the ice flow, although all of the tem- po: bridge around it was torn away. Ice and debris is now being cleaned away form the pier and work on it will continue. > About 65 men now are working on the bridge under the supervision 2% W. Cubbage. ‘LONE SURVIVOR OF BALACLAVA DIES IN LONDON London, Dec. 4. vivor of the famous charge of Bal ava in the Crimean war, has just died at the Chelsea Pensioners Hospital of | pneumonia, aged 86. There are still over 20 veterans of ‘the Crimean campaign i Their old-fa and quaint pe to be popular with artis r John James hioned scar- sd caps used = ' STORM WARNINGS ON GREAT LAKES storm warning | , Chicago, Dec. jwas ordered at 10 o'clock this morning rn Superior, the eastern shore ot Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. outhern Lake Huron, Lake Erie and Lake On- j tario. | HARDING BACK ON U. S. SOIL: Newport News, Dec. 4.—President- elect Harding and party arrived here at 19 o'clock this morning. They will go to Norfolk from here. heen known to | the men who will work under compressed | The Was | hottom is hevelicd, and concrete is be- | | bandits secured $3,000 in cash, $3,000 in Liberty bonds and non-negotiable notes valued at $169,000 at the First National bank of Grove today and es- caped after lock occupants of the j Dank in a room. TRUCE URGED IN ENGLISH-IRISH REPRISAL WAR Republican Body of Irish County Adopts Resolutions to This Effect Dublin, Dec. 4.—-Resolutions appeal- jing to the Irish republican parliament to negotiate a truce with’ a view to ; securing an honorable peace were | passed by the Galway county council, a Republican body, yesterday. The resolutions expressed the opinion the j British government should withdraw the troops on meeting the Irish re- | publican parliament so that the lat- ;ter might appoint delegates. They {declared the present reign of burn- jing, shooting reprisals, and counter- reprisals are detrimenal to the in- |terests of both England and Ireland, ARMENIA TURNS TO SOVIET, SAYS LONDON REPORT After Russian ‘Troops Capture Capital of Country, Gov- ernment Is Taken Over 5 | London, Dec. 4—kussian soviet |troops captured Erivan, the Aremian capital on Thursday and Armen 3 declared itself a Soviet republic, it asserted in a wireless dispatch ceived from Moscow. the old Armenian re. The troops of government have placed themselves at the disposal of he Soviet administration, the dispatch Azerbaijan,” the message adds, “has voluntarily renounced the rule of his province which have been handed over to Soviet Armenia.” §, A. REPUBLIC QUITS LEAGUE Geneva, Dec. 4.—Honorio Pusyrre- don, the Argentine foreign minister, today handed Paul Hymans, president of the lesgue of nations assembly a letter, announcing that the Argentine delegation has ceased its participa- tion Th the league. OFFER AME TENT Geneva, Dec. 4.—An amendment to the coyenant to the league of nations eleminating Article X, the most moot- ed section of the pact was introduced in the, assembly of the ‘league today by Charles Doughterty, Canadian min- ister of justice. The amendment will probably be red to the committee on Bae nte if | WE ATHER REPORT i For twenty-four hours ending at noon, aturday, December 4 Temperature at 7 a. m. Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday .. Lowest jast night ‘Precipitation a Highest wind velocity. 10+ NW Forecas! For North Dakota Generally fair jtonight and Sunday; somewhat warm er in the extreme west portion.