The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 31, 1920, Page 1

my | ‘THE WEATHER | i Unsettled AN THIRTY-NINTH YEAR ~== |THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [== BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA. _PRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1920. PRICE FIVE CENTS LEAGUE NOT 10 PROPOSE MANY LAWS, SAYS WOOD Lieutenant-Goyernor Says Pro- gram Is Already in Effect -- and No New Laws Needed FINANCE IS BIG- ‘THING Sale of Bonds Most Important,’ He Believes—Prater Favored for Senate Secretary Practically no important legislation | will be proposed to the forthcoming | legislature by the Nonpartisan league, ; in the opinion of Howard Wood, Lieu-| tenant-Governor, who is in Bismarc making preliminary arrangements { the session. The same view is expressed by many Nonpartisan league leaders. The; league leaders, it is, believed, will} adopt a “stand pat” policy, believing that with the independents in control th theBenate and the Nonpartisans in| control of the house, that little party, legislation could be’ accomplished. It) is Delieved, also, that the league he-! lieves that it will be-called upon co withstand gssaults upon the present method of organization of the state industries. “We've got our program in opera- tion and all we want now is the coop- | eration of the people of the state to PLAYGROUND IS HELD PRESSING NEED IN CITY Serious Street Accident. Causes Discussion Among Cit- izens : DISCUSS Action Expected to Result— { Roping Off of Street Is Suggested MANY IT ildren is want A playground for ed in the city. Expressions to this effect were heard | on ail sides yesterday and ‘today, in | discussions of the accident at Second: \street and Avenue A, which nearly [cost the life of little Dale Brown and , his companions. wvuring the present week children ave becn on the streets in all parts of the city. They have used many of | the hills for tobo8gan slides, and uaNyY ualtOW cotayes trou inyury have been reported. chiaren must have an outlet for their eng! and Bosmarck kiddies are not use to a hot-house life, but the danger of playing im tne szi'eet: >on im revs'n= menace ae the use of trucks and automobiles bene increased. Speeding has increas: too, although the most careful drivers declare that they are in daily make it a success,’ said Mr. Wood. fear of running into a child playing ' “We believe it is workable, and we want an opportunity to have it tried, and.to find out if we are correct ia our belief. “The bigest thing, to my mind, is the sale of bonds to provide funds for the carrying on of the work of the state industries. Two years ago legis- lation was the big thing. We enacte] the necessary laws. Now finance is the big thing.” Mr. Wood declared his belief thai the/legislature probably could better serve the state “by passing the appro priation bill and going home” than by remaining in session the full 50 days. the Lieutenant-Governor _ favors “Bill’ Prater, as secretary of the sen- ate. Prater heid this position two years ago, and has ben employed by state home building ‘association and as Burleigh county manager for the Nonpartisan league. Ben Ockert, who was sergeant-at-arms of the senate two years ago, is with the home builu- ing association, and is not a candi- date for the position. There are about 15 or 20 applications for the job. THe number-of employes will not be large, the Lieittenant-Governor said. He \declared that he favored eriougn employes. to accomplish the neces- s@ry work, and no more. An employ- ment conimittee-is expected to~select the senate employes. HALF OF CITY IS QUARANTINED 12,000 Persons Indluded in East Chicago Ban Chicago, Dec. 31——Half the city 0 Fast Chicago, Ind., is under quaran tine today following the outbreak o an epidemic of smallpox. Seventy-four cases were reported yesterday and about 12,00) person are included in the quarantine area. Five cases were ®vorted at Ham mond, Ind., another Chicago suburb, at pubuc guuiecngs were forpiadei - and theatres were closed at East Chi . cago. Congested; housing conditions ar blamed by physicians for the outbreal/, of the disease. The quarantined are: is inhabited mostly by foreigners. WOULD CHANGE ~ SEAT OF COURT Judge McKenna Wou'd Hold Court at Napoleon The supreme court Has been asked to change the seat of one of the judges in the Third judicial district from Kllendale to Napoleon. ‘The ap- ph ion is favored by many attorneys living in the western part of the dis- trict and! is endorsed by Judge Mc- Kenna, who w: elected in November over Judge Graham, incumbent. At present,Judge Allen sits at Lis- bon and Judge Graham at Ellendale It is proposéd that Judge McKenna’: chambers ; be at Napoleon, Logan county. Attorneys ng in the western pari of the i have. to travel too great ‘distances court in Ellenc# le BOLSHEVIKI » DEMOBILIZING \London, Dec, 31—Pa 31—Partial demobili zation of the Russian Boisheviki has begun following the completion of the sora important military operations, says a Moscow wireless dispatch. STATE SPENT OVER $56,000,000 Madison, Wis., 5, Dee. | — Total re- ceipts of the state government during 1920 amounted to $56,000,000 w qi 509,000, according to the report of He Johnson, stat? urer. Included in the receipt: the regular soldiers’ bonus of 6.290 000 and the educational ‘bonus of $1,488,300. lursements of ) Kenzie New Year’s eve ‘to attend) m the street. waa her Work of prep: nk \ ag an ice skattnt cink is univer way but the Chinool winds of the week have practically wteexed the plan, and it is found dif tert to mai nan ice skating rink during the winter. Suggestions have been made tha the Country club hill be flooded an: mece into a toboggan slide. The chie objection to this propesal has been the distance from the city. Another sug gestion is that one of the c ty street e roped on to ferm.t use of a ¢ Ie s a tobeggan slide. es that the cit: should ha round, where chil dren could romp to their heart’s con ent {t is probable that the subject of a naygroand tor children will come be- the city commission in the form ot a petition ora request from a dele- u be taken up for gen- om throughout the city. att 'VALIANS FIND -- RADICALS PLOT Rome, Dec. 31. “Discovery of a oe n the land in which the Sacisti, creme nationalist party, and anarchiatd ive alleged to have been preparing a ont attack on the Italian army oper- ating against Fiume is reported py the newspapers here today. oe-enteen persons have been ar- vested in connection with‘ the plot newspapers say GREETING FOR” THE NEW YEAR Dences and Parties Chief Enter- tainment Plans Bismarkians will greet the New Year tonight in countless ways. There will be two big parties and many small ones. The annual Mc-, ball will he given, and the Elks will have a party at their ha 4 The rei tions at the McKenzic gro unusually large and several hun- dred couples are epected to be pres- There will be some watchnight services in churches and many small | old-time | parties in homes. The street celebration will be with all its carnival features. celebration will be confined to par ties and dances and services. The hotel management has gone to considerable expense to make the par- ty the largest New Year's eve party yer held. Decorations and novelties which merry-makers can use at midnight will be distributed. Many people from other cities are expected to be present. Although the party entails a heavy burden for many em- ployes, and great expense, it is stated that the managemgnt wants the city to have a real New Year’s party and has prepared for it. werroeneersesreees THO) MURDERED portion of the main floor tically installed and we a paper depar tments. fe te a te tee Ae ee tat ee ee The main offices will TO PATRONS OF TRIBUNE The Tribune will opeif offices in the new heme, Monday, Jan. 3, 1921. During the last two weeks, The Trib:ne Com- pany has been moving into the basement and a of its new home at the corner cf Fourth and Thayer streets. The mechanical departments are now prac- re \preparéd to; give ef- ficient service to all patrons of the job and news- Jan. 15, but temporary quarters will be arranged in the structure and the public is requested to use the Thayer street éntrance until the building is completed. Temporary business offices maintained jin the Dakota Block for nearly a yaar following the ee a + This issue is the last and the Tribune faces the ticn to serve its patrons th’ old quarters following There will be no iss: Years Day fcllowing a lon: : that the employes of the to ovserve the day. The Tribune takes this opportunity of wish- fire will be discontinued af ‘been no changes in the telephone numbers. old calls, Nos. 82 and 31 will reach The Tribune. zeal to serve the community bettor thin in the past. Equipped in its new home with many labor seving devices, the Tribune com gveatsy volume of printing tian :e of The g established custom so ter today. : There have The not be completed before + + ‘GET | president and Cine A + BY BANDITS IN FACTORY OFFICE Pay-Ro'l Bandits in Cleveland Kill Two Heads of Foundry Concern »200 IN CASH :Daring Robbery Follows Crime Wave Through Big Eastern Cities Cleveland, © , Dee, - 3L—W. W. Ely, ‘annem, vie president of the !W. W. Ely Foundry company, were murdered by five pay- roll bandits who escaped with $4,200 in cash atter holding up the two meu in the company’s office. Sly and Fanner died instantly. Soon after the murder took place calls were sent out and police dis- patched emergency automobiles ta round up the bandits. First reports of the murder said that the two mex were beaten and shot when they show- ed resistence. Robberies Prequent one for the year 1920, Pay-roll robberi.sy nave occurred N at frequently in, the last three mont New Year with greater % here. Clevekind, as other big. citie in the cast, has suffered a “crime pany is in a posi- beter and to handle a ie possible in the fire of last Janu: ary. C . Tribune New company may he able K ing its patrons a Happy and Prosperous New Year. BISMARCK TRIBUNE COMPANY, oe Fourth and Thayer Streets. : zt eben Le deeedecTsconde besdoneodeedeooc antecedent eedenduel one Zee foe donfegertoofote Mab bbbeeep TOTTEN TAKES LEAGUE REINS of Administration Head Succeeds Ray Craig George A. Totten, Jr, son ofj George A. Totten. president of the State Board cf Administration, who arrived in Bismarck today, informed his friends that he had been made manager of the Nonpartisan league \for the state and took active charge of the organization of the League forces for the session. The resignation of Ray Craig, who has been manager of the League the past year, was announced yesterday. Rumors have been in circulation for some time that Mr. Craig, had in- curred the displeasure of some league leaders and would probably not be re- appointed after the completion of his year. Mr. Totten has been close to Mr. Lemke ever since the organization of the League. CAPITAL STOCK CASE SUBMITTED The capital stock ‘tax case, one, a2} the two big tax cases between ihe| railroads operating in North Dakota and the state, has been submitted to | Judge Woodrough, now holding fed-! eral court An Fargo. Son REDUCTIONS IN WAGES TAKEN, Chicago, Dec. 31.— Representatives of the 9,000 persons employed by the Pullman company in its car shops at Pullman, [l., have notified offic of the company that they are willing to submit to wage reduction ranging as | high as 2 per cent, TELL TOWNLEY ©. Ww)? rth \) ve TO QUIT COUNTY ina, -Kan.. Dew 31—Follow- iseunnee ‘of a demrnd by the local vost of the i Legion last night that A. Icy end his aids cease activities and Ie, the county, E.'T. Swan. son,’ sheriff. issued a public state. ment warning against any. vio- ‘Tenec. NAVY'S PLANES ON THEIR WAY N. €. 5 Is Disabled in Flight Toward Panama San Diego, Dec. 31.—-Thirteen plan of the navy’s aerial San Diego-Panaai <pedition were ready today at talnme hay, 400 miles sonth ¢ here, for the second “hop” of the‘: journey: southward, This morning a weary crew of me- chanics, “carpenters’ mates” and oth- ers were ending a night’s labor on tu NC 5, which yesterday crzs\ed into : heavy swell off San Diego harbor in trying to take off, springing a leak in its hull. The crew hopes to overtake the flest »¢ Maedalena Bay or across the Gulf of California, at Bandaris bay. Today the main fleet’s objec Magdalena bay about 650 miles fro» here making the day's flight about 250 miles. FAIR WEATHER FOR NEXT WEEK Washington, Dec. Weather pec- dictions for the week include: Upper Miss‘ssippi and lower Mis- souri valle Generally fair and mod- erately cold. PRR APR A ARR | | by taany Varo ena | orcement wave” In the last few months, Special precautions have been manufacturing plants pncerns ta prevent The Ely company its men off be Alifacturing aay-roll robberies. fore the New Year. ENFORCEMENT OF DRY LAW DURING YEAR I$ PLANNED ew Issue of Licenses Would Hold Them to Minimum— Other Measures Washington, Dec. 3i-—Plans for reducing the number oc federar p mits for handling of Jiduor next year. were: announced yesterday by Prohibition Commissioner Kraemer, wio saa the new issne of Neonses would be held to a strict minimum 10 cnerk ror Stet The greatest reduction will be {a wholesale permits. under, Mr. er's program, but other dealers en- titled to, operate under the Volstead t will also be affected. missioner to reissue “between 50 *nd 75 per- cent,” of the wholesale licenses now , in effect. The enforcement staff hasbeen en- gaged for several months in) study- ing the records of the 77,000 odd per- mit holders to ascertain who have committed overt acts under prohi- bition statutes with the view of elim- | inating them from the list of those who may handle intoxicants next{ year. Atlantic seaDoard areas apparently | have provided the prohibition en- forcement agents with their great- est problems and it is expected those districts will lose the largest num-| ber of liquor dealers under the plan. Great Lakes cities and border dvints, both Canadian and Mexican. | ‘also have given trouble for the eii- corns, according to the bureau’s records, and Mr. Kramer said he planned to see that fewer permits would be granted in these regions hereafter. The prohibition bureau was said to be giving some attention also to the sale of liquor by retail drug- gists. DEVALERA SAFE IN IRELAND New York, Dec. 31—-Hammen De Valera, “president of th republic? has or Tre'y nd. Harry Boland tary, announced here today. IOWA’S TWO-CENT LAW IS INVALI Des Moines, 18, Dee. 31.-— Io v was held to tdge Martin J. States district bew Wade, of court, the United Kram-} The. com-.| said he intends to refuse, IN COURT AGAI N it Thaw Clifford is in the le is shown hes 3 Side Court, New, Yo ed hi th un- la 30 due her on’a ¢ an. She sad it her son, who is living with her mother in Pittsburg. TENNIS LAURELS ARE WONBY U.S: CHAMPIONS | Cup Iy Brought Back 1 From Aus- tralasia by American | Contendeis | Auckland, ‘New Zeatand, ' \ Australasia lost her laurels. here this afternoon before the strength and craft of American Chal- lengers,. who won the Davis cup, em- of the world’s team tennis chaitpionship. For the next year | past the cup will repose under ths | Stars and Stripes.. This is the fourtt ‘a has won the cup.- Aus- | time Amer tralia has won it six tim while the Dec. ole tennis British les have been victorious | five time: ; Rallying after losing the first sot Jot toc doubles match /Williem Tilden II, of Philadelphia, and Wil- |liam Johnston, of San Fran LO, 1re~ vealed the same tennis wizardry that matches. yesterday. Auckland, } Dee 31.—Ameri- j can tennis~players yesterday scored ja double triumph o greatest | Australian net scars i st night held the position of f es in the tournament for the Da cup, the historic championship trophy of the ‘tennis world. William T. Tilden, 2nd, of Philadei- Phia_ batted’ down Norman Brookes, captain of the Antipodean |team, while William. T. Johnson = San Francisco, virtually smotheret Gerald Ie ‘Pattersor{ \the bnililiant ‘young star who won the Englisa championship from hig Brookes, in 1919. | WOULD PERMIT | STATES JOINT |. WATER ACTION Wa | authori Wisconsin, braske, to | for the stitute parts of tween them wa roduced by Sena | Sterling, Republican, South Dukota, hington, ‘Dee. ing North Minne mete reams ‘and bodies of vrater he boundary HIGH SPOTS OF OLD YEAR REVIEWED Jan. §.—President treaty reservations. Wilson opposes ' don. 12—President Wilson author- | izes the withdrawal of American’ troops from Siberia. 17—Paul Dechanel elected ipestaant of France. 2.—E. T. Meredith | peace tre March 13.—Seven I. W. | found guilty of murder at Centralia, Wash. March March 20—Senator Truman H. New- ! berry (Mich.) found guilty of election! appointed fraud; sentenced to serve two years. ee of agriculture to succeed, in prison. David-F. Houston,- resigned. Feb. 14.—Germany reopens embassy off in London, first since war- Feb. 20.—Rear Admiral Robert B.| Peary, discoverer of the North Pole, are expelled hy New York Assembly. dies, a8ed 69. * Feb. 22—Rum rebellion in eae Michigan. 25.—Bainbridge Colby appoint- a Set of state. Feb. 27-—Major R. W. Schroeder | breaks altitude record at-Dayton, O.,! height 36,020 feet. March 1.—Railways returned to pri- vate owners. Iron | cides U. §. Steel Corporation not s trust. March 28.—Tornado in middle west and south kills 166, $16,000,000 dam- | | age. April Socialist members 1—Five April 7—The “outlaw” Switchman’s strike becomes of national importance. { | Fifty thousand men out. April 13—President Wilson appoints | | Lahor Board of pine to deal with | railway labor disputes. | April 14—President Wilson presides lovee fst cabinet meeting since dept. | 2, 1919. April 19.—Sir , Auckland Geades, | —U. S. Supreme Court de-! British ambassador to’U. S. afrives in| New York. April 25.—Indemnity to be paid by 5 —Senate refuses to ratify | : en Be * socialist party as candidate for presi- | | dent. W's are’ Germany fixed at about $22,000,000,000. May 3.—Tornado in Oklahoma kills May 13.—Eugene Debs nominated by | May 21.—Carranza, dent of Mexico, assassinated at Tlax- calamkongo. May 24.—Adolfo de la Huerta named | provisional president of Mexico. June 12.-Senator Warren Hard- ing, of Ohio, nominated. for president , by Repu%li¢an convention. Governor Calvin Coolidge, of Massachusetts, nominated for yice president. June 18.—George W. Perkins, finan- | cien. Ajet at Stanvasd! on June 18.—Samuel Gompers clected president of American Federation of Labor for 39th tim July 6.—James M. Cox of Ohio nom- inated for president’ by Democrats: Franklin D. Roosevelt for vice presi- dent. July formed. July 15.—Four army airplanes start 13.—Farmer-Labor party fugitive. presi- | on 9000-mile trip to Nome, Ala from Mineola, Long Island, arriving at Nome, Aug. 24. Aug. 18.—Tennessee House ratifie! amendment to federal Constitution | ffrage to women, being the, te to ratify. etary 6 sigrs proclamation promulgi yet the woman suffrage resolution as Nine- teenth Amendment to Constitution. Sep yen. Alvaro Obregon elect- ed president of Mexico. rst transcontinental air- an Francisco. 16. — President Deschanel of Mata Ap Sept. France resigns. Sept. 16.- by bomb shatters Explosion believed caused Wall . 23.—Alexandre Millerand el- ected bres dent of France. Sept. 25—Jacob H. Schiff, New York barker, dies. Sept. 29—Frederick W. Galbraith, Jr. of Cincinnati, elected national commander of American Legion. Si Oct stret, New | Oct. 16.—Strike of British coal min- ers begins with walkout of million | men. Alexander of Greece bite. King dies from monk Oct. 25.—Tetr e MacSwiney, lord Al Tnavor of Cork, dies in Brixton prison, London, after hunger strike of 74 ay: 2 —Warren G. Harding and | calvin Coolidge, Republican nominees for president and vice-president of the U. S., are elected. tions holds first session at Gene Paul Hymans, of Belgium, — ele | president vec. 1,.--Cen Jipoee presto | Dec. ©18.- of League of Nations ends session at Geneva \with 48 countries members. Dec. 19.—Constantine returns to Greece as king, chosen by the peo- ple. { Dec. 29. ume. ed o Obregon swern ssembly D’Annunzio gives up Fi- teammate, | DRY AGENTS 70 WATCH PLACES ON WHITE WAY’ Chicago and New’ York New Year's Enforcement Is Planned ONE CHIEF REFUSES Fitzmorris, of Chicago, Says His Business Is to Get Criminals Chieazo, Dee, Although the stait of ank D. Richardson, supervising prohibition agent, Is too limited to keep wateh on all places where celebrators — will guther tonight to welcome the new year every effort will be mide, he said, to keen the lid down. Fifty agents, men and women, have been mustered into service. Chief of Pollee Fitzmorris, i ig aid to Richardson, said “i believe a gun in a mans Ket is more of a menace to society than a flask. Hf anyone wants {0 celebrate the passing of the oll year ond the beginnine of the new with a headache and a durk brown [ cant? stop him. Of course E will entoree the to the hesi of my ability but sider it my urine daty to crime and arrest crime I dete: inuls, Ore, Dee 31 he ear 1821 will be ushered in’ at Portand with unaccustomed de. corum, according to orders issued by the city council and posted at the nolice station. Unusual noises will be barred. ‘There must be ne ringing of or Diowing of y be dis. Portlind wed ar explosi confetti may be threwn, New York Dee One buns dred prohibition agents — will mi pmong the crowds hotels and vestaurants along Uh “White way” and “assist” cele. Drators to extend a dry welcome to the New Year. ‘The agents, who will be split up in small fly- ing squids, have been instructed to enforce the law. New York, Decy New Year's Day isn’t what it used to be. ‘This i3 in-a small way attributable to the addition to the Constitution of some dry reading matter: In still greater part it is because the international obsession for ‘celebrating whenever Father Time takes a fresh. start piloting the earth around the sun is thousands of. years old. The manner of observing the day has’ changed greatly through the centuries. The urge to give presents at least once a year was felt even before Christmas and Santa Claus came into the scheme of things, and the, ancient ireeks, Chinese, Egyptians and Ro- mans tendered their &ffts to one an- other on the first day of the Kings got into the habit of rece extra gifts from théir subjects on these days and liked it so well they began extorting larger and larger sums. The practice got so bad in Rome under the Caesars that Claud- ius called a halt. It spread to other countries, how- ever, and the English had their New Year’s celebration spoiled annnually by rapacious sovereigns until Queen Wlizabeth's modest demands of her subjects cut gifts down to a mini- mum. In those days the celebration of New Year’s Day had betome world wide. With variations to suit all na- tionalities, it consisted everywhere of eating, drinking and motley merri- ment. First to Celebrate Christopher Colum2us, so far ag is known, was the first white man to e on New Year's Day in the ern Hemisphe While his were undergoing repairs on Jan- 93, he enjoyed a sumptuods dinner with two savage monarchs on the island of Haiti. After this meal, , the discoverer of Amer- first smoke of tobacco. Whether he enjoyed it is not recorded, but he left it to a later generation— Sir Walter Raleigh is generally cred- ited with the function—to introduce tobacco in Europe. The Pilgrim Fathers and the first families of the older states of the un- ion enjoyed a quit holiday as each year came around. They feasted, but not until they had attended religious services. In the 19th century people with big houses and flowing side- boards held open house on New Year's Day and from all over friends came afoot, on bicycles and in surreys and stanhopes to pay short visits and simple the contents of wine cellars. Then they went off to call on other friends. Popular maidens in those days witnessed traffic jams in front of their homes, so prevalent was the penchant for short calls on young wo- men during the afternoon of the year’s This custom began to pass out quitely with the dawn of the 20th centu automodiles, and cabarets. It was succeeded by “nothing but wine” habits amid the thousands who fyequented cafes and grill rooms in the cities on New Year's Eve. For 25 years up to the dawn of 1920 and the‘era of war-time prohi- ‘ition, the celebration in New York became noisier and more expensive each year. Thousands used to crowd into places of merriment while Broad- way V packed with a surging throng of merrymakers with squak- ers, clappers, bells, ticklers and co- fetti. Jamed With Diners y hotel and most of the res- were jamed with gay diners. it was estimated that $1,000,- 000 wag spent in the white-light dis- trict on New Years Eve. After that (Continued on Page 3.)