The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 19, 1921, Page 1

poems THIRTY-NINTH YEAR \ BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA. WEDNESDAY, JAN. =| THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE LAST EDITION 19, 1921. PRICE FIVE CENTS COL.GILBREATH | DIES SUDDENLY TUESDAY NIGHT Former Commissioner of Agri- culture Identified With State Activities S SEVENTY YEARS OLD —t Funeral and Burial Will Take, Place in Minneapolis— Long Public Career Col. W. C. Gilbreath, for many years! one of the most prominent men in) public life in North Dakota, died last} night at the McKenzie hotel of a sud_/ den attack of heart failure. He had not been well for a few days, but the} end came unexpectedly. | Prayers were said this afternoon at) faur o'clock at the home of his daugh- | ter, Mrs. Frank E. Shepard, No. 3.) Avenue B, and the body will be taken; to Minneapolis tonight for interment.) After services in Minneapolis, where | a son resides, tomorrow, the body, 0°; Col. Gilbreath will be laid to rest ‘be-| side that of his wife. Services will be! ‘simple in atcordance with his wishes. | Commissioner of Agriculture. | Col. Gilbreath served as Commis: | sioner of agriculture in North Dakota) for five successive terms, from 19 to 1914. During his period of public service Col. Gilbreath did much [| spread knowledge of the resources «} North Dakota over the entire country | Deeply interested in the development | of the state, he arranged expositions | at various places throughout the; country in which the opportunities | and the accomplishments of the stare | were impressed upon hundreds of) thousands of people. | Born in Tennessee. | Born September 9, 1851, in McMinn county, Tennessee; Col Gilbreath came | west when the family moved overland | to Oregon, where they remained untii 1864, returning to Illinois in that year. His early education was acquired in the public schools, followed in 1869 by a course ii} the Weslyan university Illinois, from which institution he graduated in 1874. For the next five years he was engaged in the mercan- tile and banking’ business, during which time he also served as 2 mem- her of the Illinois National Guard, at- taining the rank successively of cay- tain and major of the Fifth regiment. In 1878 he moved west again, this) time to Iowa, where he was engagesi in mercantile pursuits and hec: owner of a newspaper. Conducted Newspaper. After,a short residence again in U- linois, Col, Gilbreath came to North Dakota and located at Mandan where, | as part owner and joint editor of the Mandan Pioneer, he assumed a prom- inent position in/the development o% the western country and its political life. For four years he was a mem- ber of the Republican state central committee, two of them as a member of the executive committee. He en- joyed the reputation of being a pol ished and forceful orator. The first state position held by Col. Gilbreath was that of deputy commis- sioner of insurance, to which he was appointed in 1901. He was elected commissioner of agriculture in 190? and was re-elected to that position four times. During his period of serv- ice in this office a part of his duties was the promotion of immigration. which branch of his office he develop- ed extensively. Col. Gilbreath wag married in 1874 to Miss Lillie D. Lyon, of Pontiac, III. He 4 survived by three children, Mrs. Frank E. Shepard, of Bismarck; J. R. Gilbreath, of Minneapolis; and Dr. Frank M. Gilbreath, of Grafton, North Dakota. FATHERS-SONS BANQUET WILL BEGIVEN HERE Rotary Club to Sponsor Com- radeship Movement in City The Rotary club will sponsor a 2 Fathers aud Sons banquet to be given in the city next ‘month. A committee named to make pre- liminary arrangements for the ban- quet reported to the club at its reg- ular luncheon today. The banquet will be limited only by the accomo- dations available, according to’'pres- ent plans. and it is expected that prob- ably 100 fathers and 100 sons will be present. The (Father and Son movement has been pushed by the Rotary clubs all over the country, as a part of an en- deavor to bring boys and their parents STRICKEN BY HEART FAILURE COL. W. C. GILBREATH SENATE WILL ASK INCREASE IN STATE FUNDS Committee Introduces Senate Measure Giving Officials More Money OVER ONE MILLION ADDED Some $239,000 Needed fo Meet Departmental and Insti- tutional Deficits The appropriation bill introduced by the appropriations committee in the senate sterc d for propriation of $1,481.957-85 more than the amount appropriated by the 191) session for the biennial period The amount is $8,506,794.85 and the ippropriations two ye were $7,024,837.10 and in 191 However, appropriations ago ot are for deficits in state institutions and state de; follows: T 3000; state audi- tor, supreme court, : state treasurer, $900; superintendent of public ins ion, tural college, 1,000; North Dakota, $76,610; department oi public health, $2,680; — tuberculosis sanitarium, $20,000; institution for the minded, $20,000; capitol main- tenance, $20,000, and others. A comparison of some of the de- artments for the biennial periods follows: Valley City .. Minot ... Mayville 15 00 Ellendale 90,000.00 Science School 51,000.00 State Transpor- tation Legislature 090.00 Tnsurance 22,900 Forestry . 78,810.00 Dickinson 4 262,100.00 Budget Boa 2,000.09 2000.00 1919 1921 Governor .... 21,400.00 50.00 Supreme Cour 3,300.09 76,100.00 Sec: y of 37,200 200.00 00 4$3:130.00 19,300.09 | 79,100.00 | + 17,23 33.4 Fire Marshall Atty. General.... appropriation committee aiting for the report of the acting on any ap- The hou has been w budget board befo! propriation measur FEW FLAGS IN GERMANY OF \ heard Judge A. M. Christianson, into a dloser spirit of comradeship. Several (Mandan men were guests of the club at luncheon, at which they ce} the supreme court, talk on Rotary.” The (Mandan men, it is understood, may make application for a Rotary club in that city. Few flags were | played in the city despite the move- ment ofthe past week, to replace the} LANGER TALKS colors of the Republic with the black, | Topexa, Kan., Jan. 19.—William » White and red standard during popr-/ Langer, former attorney general of lar observance of the founding of the | North Dakota, started today on a tour German empir es fees | of the state to give information to The annive y has afforded the the people regarding the activities of press of the country oppertunity for Townley in North Dakota, speculation as to the future of the Langer talked Tuesday night to a tion. Nationalist journals joint session of the legislature. He primary need of the countr scored the management of the state leader and the ‘Republ lin. Jan. 19.- a an fore bank and the other stute indusiries ply is that the vernmient must re-| in North Dakota and especialiy the ject eve! political method which refusal of the state officials to Iet wonld tend to conflict with the carry- ie people know waat was being done ing out fully of the obligations of the with their own moiey, j Versailles treaty. ‘WEWREGINE, BRITISH WOULD RESTRAIN TRADE OF Washington. Jan. 19 e Institute of Am an Meat Pac called the attention of Congress to-«proposals submit to the British parliament to restrain American packers from fur- ther extending — their which, it charged, was a consequence sion” of the comr ion’s report on its investigation of the “Big Five” packers, HOUSE SCORES “TELEGRAM OF AUDIT BOARD Declares Duplicity and Effort to Smother Report Is Shown RAGERNESS FOR AUDIT House Independents Declare They Will Have It—Ex- planation Given The house today by a vote of 59 to 42 passed a resolution condemning the majority members of the state board of auditors for alleged underhand methods in attempting’ to prevent it trom getting a copy of the audit re- port of Bishop, Br nan & Co. The resolution was introduced fol- lowing the reading of a telegram from the accountants stating that they had been instructed by telegraph by D. C. Poindexter, secretary of the state board of auditors,to turn over als three copies of the report to him and that they had replied asked again for permission to obey the orders of the house and the senate demanding each a copy of the report, or Speaker Twitchell stated that Thom- as 1, minority member of the board of auditors, knew nothing of the in- structions forwarded and said that it was in violation of an agredment reached'at the senate fer with it. “You are entitled to know what is being done to keep the house from getting the report,” he s: and add- ed, “We are going to get i rv. Poindexter, in an interview |. ply wired the company to send a man with all three copies of the report to his office, and that he would call the audit and senate and house ecs to the office to decide fur- ion, He said he had tried three 's to get definite word as to when the report would be available, but had been unable to do so. Shipley Resoration, } resolution “deplores the action of the ma- dof auditors and the i ending that tele- m and in si ng to keep and withhold from the house and from the people of the state of North Da- this ation to which they are entitled regarding the state bank and the stute industries,” Iso states that the t after an agrev- ad been reached to have the », one to the house, one to the iid not clearly of the Sherman of Kid understand the warmest debate the hov over the audit report took place but (Continued on page 2) fi | bonds,” provision is made for refunding them. ‘The big bond houses do not keep the, world trade, meeting of the board and , committe appointed to cou- | jared that the board had sim-: ——|SENATE WARNS [ALL THEY NEED IS INDEBATEOF STATE FINANGE | Proposition for Bond Sale Is Giv- en Airing by Both Sides THE BODY. GIVES VOTE Senate Votes 24 to 24 to Uphold the Industrial Com- mission Is the refusal of the state indus- trial commission, composed of Gover- nor Frazier, Attorney General Willian Lemke and Commissioner of Agricul- ture John N. Hagen responsible for the financial plight of the state in- dustries? e independents in the state think it is; the Nonpartisans deny it. ' The subject of state finance was de- bated at léngth in the senate yester- day afternoon when the resolution of- jfered by Senator Leiderbach, giving a “vote of confidence” to the indus- | trial commission. to “counteract” the i“vote of lack of confidence” of the house, was debited. The’ vole was 25 to 24 for the resolution, Senator Rusch, of Cass county, save his explanation as to the difi-) culty of the sale of bonds to finance the state enterpr “No maturity is provided for these ”" gsiid Senator Rusch. “No orn bonds—they sell them to customers And they want a guatantee that tney ! will mature and will be paid.” Senator Leiderbach asserted the “42 taxpayers suit” was responsible for ; the situation. He said that the Bank fof North Dakota had sold a million dollarg worth of bonds and could have sold more, when the suit was insti tuted. i Engage in Tilt. Senator Rusch and Senator Lieder- bach engaged in a little tilt. “If you people will help us, we can ' soll the bonds,” said Senator Rusch, who declared that the program laid before the industrial commission by the bankers’ committee which was en- deavoring to sell state bonds was sim- ply the guarantee :sked by the attor- neys for the eastern bond houses. Senator Liederbach challenged this statement, saying tnere was no bond market\ now- Senator Rngah) said ponds were be- ing sold every day—that the city of Fargo sold $100,000 worth of bonds only last week. | “Until North Dakota bonds ara | made legal in the eyes of the attor- neys of the big bond houses they can’t ‘be sold.” said Senator’ Rusch. Says Program, Blocked. Senutor Liederbach said that the in- dustrial program had been blocked but that the people demand that it , be carried out, and he was going to fight to see that it was carried out. He said he didn’t believe the bank- ers were sincere wken they said they could sell the Bank of North Dakota ‘bonds and industrial gommission bonds, at this time. They cannot be sold until normal times return, he said. i “We are not here to say 118 yummy 1) he a howling sess,” said Senator Liederback, r ing to the industrial | program. “We're not claiming that- | but unless we try this out we are lia- ‘ble to get something a lot worse, and I;don't want to be here to see it, come.” He said he thought a much better , showing would have been made by | the industrial program if the “42 tax- payers’ suit” had not blocked it. He said that only $60,000 of honds| ‘for the mill and elevator at Grand Forks had been sold when work was | started, and that had it not been for the Bank of North Dakota it could not } have been financed, CRIERS, DINING, GIVEFUNDSTO AID CHILDREN | Collection Taken Up at Monthly Dinner Given in Hotel Members of the Town Criers c!ub, at tue monthly dinner of the club at the McKenzie hotel last night, gave $21 for the fund being raised in Bis- marck for the relief of suffering chil- dren of central and eastern. Europe. The plight of these children was brought before the diners by a mem- ber of the Town Criers who has serv- ed on the committee seeking funds for the children. Several proposals for community entertainments and development were talked over by the Town Criers in the meetin and committees were named to develop the ideas approved. The orgat ion expects to hold an initiation soon. SUBMARINE SINK WHEN WRECKED BY "USE OF GUNFIRE San F isco, Jan. 19.—The naval seaplane ! which was forced down and wrecked during the naval sea- plane flight from San Diego to Balboa, Canal Zone, has been, “sunk by gun- fire,” Cl ved by the No explanation of the message was re- i ceived. TEXAS LEGION ‘SCORES N. P. LEAGUE: FARE 10 THE MOON |. .. IN RESOLUTIONS Dallas. Tex,, Jan. 19—The South-; | western Conference of the American Legion, organized here yesterday by (Legionnaires from Texas, Arkansas, ! Oklahoma, Louisiana, ‘New Mexi Arizona and Colorado adopted ‘lutions opposing the Nonpart league and declaring the league as a body wes “un-American ideals.” _ RELIEF FUNDS GIVEN; APPEAL © DISCONTINUED Committee Aiding European Kiddies Collects Money in Record Time SENT Total’ Fund About $1,500— Chairman .Thanks All for Their Help $1,000 IS AWAY Persmnneseny i Burleigh county has done its bit) toward the relief of gyifering children} of central and eastern Europe. | J. N Roherty, county chairman, af- ter checking up today, found that the fund solicited for the European Re- lief Administration had been obtained, , and the women’s teams, which began | Solicitation in Bismarck under the di-| | rection of Mrs. D, N. Register, were! | directed to discontinue their appeal at! noon toaay. One thousand dollars was dispatch- ed today to New York for immediate use of the European Relief Adminis- | tration, which is in great need of, | funds to provide medical supplies and food for the children of the war rav- | aged areas. $1,500 Collected. It was estimated that not less than $1,500 had been collected in Bismarck ‘alone. Reports have not been received from the county, outside of the city. : It was the plan to have the men team make the canvass yesterday an the women’s teams today. The European Relief Administr: tion did not set a quota. Herbert! fessor of physics at Clark Univer- Hoover, who issued the appeal through sity, is ready to. start the excursion, the Literary Digest, estimated the All he needs is a passenger able to | fund needed to tide the children of pay his passage. | central and eastern Europe over un- Goddard proposes to shoot a rocket | til the next harvest at $23,000,000 and, to the outer rini’of the universe. it | $10,000,000 for medical supplies. It would contain instruments to record | was estimated by local committeemen temperatures, air pressure, humidity, | that $1,500 was about the proper pro- wind velocity and other data of the portion for the county. mysterious regions. But he needs someone to finance the experiment.: Captain Charles N. Fitzgerald (above of New York air police, who is the most recent volunteer to offer to ride in rocket: of Prof. Robert 'H. Goddard (below) to the moon. Worcester, M: Jan. 19.—-Wanted: A millionaire who is tired of this earth end who would like to travel to the moon. There are many ‘who would like to leave the earth, but they haven't the money to pay the fare. - Robert ‘H, Goddard, Ph. D. pro- People Liberal. Many Vorunt Me. Roherty said that it was found samen ie etree Binguneed that | that many people already had con- it won be Neeaibio to shoot a man ‘Tibuted to the fund through the Lit- | | in the rocket and that it might travel Thais: tines oe ena aaa tt to the moon, 220,000 miles away, he diet hear pene share was besieged with volunteers for the ; Word of appreciation for the teams % which made the successful solicitation trip, (But—- in such a short time. ! IN WINONA ing and going, nobody knows where— | but many are willing to take a chance. There's Captain Charles 'N. Fitz Interstate Packing Company Employes Go on Strike Over Wage Reductions gerald, commander of the New York City air police. ‘He says he’s anxious to make the trip. “The journey promises to be a rough one,” says Goddard. Boosted By Blasts “The rocket would be shot from a long-barreled gun. dt would contain | auxiliary charges to boost it along ag the initial yelocity decreases. “Each boost would be a .terrific bump.” The rocket rider would have a dif- ; ficult time making entries in his note-book. ‘When the rocket reaches the moon, if it does, there will be a great ex- plosion to inform the mundane ob-, servers that the trip is ended. The nose of the rocket is to carry a chamber of, photographic flash powder, Just what a fellow reaching the moon is not known. But if he should land safely, others might be rocketed there to keep him com- pany. -HUNDRED MEN WALK OUT Fracas Results in Minor Injuries to Several Persons—Rocks and Missles Hurled Winona, Minn, Jan. 19.—Adjutant would do after General W. F. Rhinow arrived here to- day from St. Paul to investigate the strike situation at the Interst Packing company, where a riot last night resulted in minor injuries to : several persons. LOCATE CAUSE OF |;,c20ct Batey immetetal or CORN “ROOT-ROT” and the management of the packing Des Moines, la n. 19.—-Discovery plant to determine whether it would be necessary to place state troops in by chemists of the United States De- | command of the situation. ‘ partment of Agriculture of the under- Labor leaders declare the strike lying cause of the destructive corn was caused by a reduction of 10 cents disease, “root-rot” will enable corn ‘an hour in the wages of the workmen. producing states to increase their, About 100 men are reported on strike. crop probably 10 per cent, Ke. J. Mer-, The riot last night occurred when edith, secretary of agriculture, an-'a crowd of several hundred persons. nounced today. including a number of women and a dren, intercepted autos contain- GRAIN GROWERS ing employes who did not join the walkout. While the police riot squad wag re- moving obstacles that had been placed in the road. rocks and other miss were hurled at the persons in the au- ‘tomobiles. Three employes of the packing plant, it wag stated today, were slightly in- | Dakota Wool FOR LENKE Fargo, Jan. 19.—The Tri-State Grain Growers association passed 4 resolution urging the North Dakota legislature to provide funds asked for by William Lemke, attorney-general, in carrying cut his department until the first of July. The resolution was signed by (. Slegerman, of Bathgate; C. P. Peterson, of Bisbee: Charles Berch, of Denseith; Louis Noltemeier, of Valley City; H. P. Halvorson, of Sheycene, and F. B, Wood, of Deer- ing. SET HAMON TRIAL Ardmore, Okla., Jan. 19.—Trial of Mee Clara Sr Wamon, charged “ith shoot ng Jake %, Hamon, Repub- lic.n nauonet comnutteciman, was set | for March 10. jured. The police force decided the situation wag beyond its control and turned it over to Sheriff Huck. who! immediately commun’ ed with Gov- ernor Preus and Adjutant General Rhinow by telephone. President Wilson Nominates 2,000 for Postoffice Jobs Washington, Jan. 19.—Nomination of approximately 2,030 postmasters were sent today to the senate by president Wilson. This swells the al- ready enormous list of nominations made this season and on which Re- publican leaders have determined not to act, except where an emergency | exists. i ‘ TAKING CARE OF MARION IS HARDEST JOB President-elect Harding Reluct- ant to Sever Ties for Offer of Chief Executive HE RENTS HIS RESIDENCE Matter of Ownership in Marion Newspaper Still Undecided —Leaves for Florida Soon Marion, Ohio, Jan. 19.—For the first time in weeks, President-elect Hard- ing’s engagement calendar was blank today and he turned his attention en- tirely to personal affairs in prepara- tion for his departure tomorrow night for a weeks stay in Florida. It really will he a leave-taking for period of at least four years, for if he returns to Marion at all before inaug- uration it will be only for a day or so- His residence here has been rente:l | and it will be vacated at the end of the week when Mrs. Harding goes east to shop and to attend to personal bus- iness in Washington and New York. She will join her husband later at St. Augustine, which will be his head- quarters during February. One question in regard to Mr. Hard- ing’s personal plans, which remains unanswerable, is expected to be the proprietorship of his newspaper, the Marion Star, during his occupancy of the White House It is known that al- though he expects to have no oppor- tunity to participate in’ the paper’s management during the next four years he is reluctant to sever connec- tions with the institution. EQUITY ELECTS NEW BOARD OF EXCHANGE ‘J. M. Anderson Reports That $80,000 Is Due Stockholders— Payment to Be Determined VISITS THE WOOL MARKET Farmers See 800,000 Pounds of North Dakota Product in Storage Fargo, Jan. 19.—Three outgoing irectors of the Equity Co-operative ‘xchange were re-elected this morn- ing at a session of stockholders meet- ing here in conjunction with the Tri- State Grain Growers convention. They are: J. M. Anderson, of St. Paul, president of the exchange; J. C. Berg, ef Hendrum, Minn., and F. B. Wood, of Deering, N. D. The tenth annual eonvention of the Equity stockholders will close this afternoon with the adoption of reso- lutions prepared at a meeting of the resolutions committee held early this afternoon. A visit by convention delegates to the wool warehouses of the North Growers association, where close to 800,000 pounds of North Dakota who is stored and ready for market was the important feature of the second day’s meeting of the Tri-State grain growers this after- noon. Following the inspection of the | wool warehouse many of the conven- tion visitors attended a livestock sale at the Fargo stock pavilion. The grain growers program opened this after- noon with an address by John Brac en, president of the Manitoba Agr cultural college on Canadian seed growers associations. Following this address the business meeting of the North Dakota Improved Seed Grow- ers association was scheduled. At the meeting of the Equity Ex- change this forenoon, stockholders voted unanimously to leave the time of the payment of the 1920 interest on capital stock to the board of di- rectors, President Anderson explained that at the present time $80,000 is due the stockholders. WORCESTER CITY HAS FIRE LOSS OF MILLION Worcester, Mass.,; Jan. 19.—This city was spotted by fire early today with a loss that ran upwards of $1,000,000. Two business buildings on Main street were burned ‘out a few blocks south cf the city hall. A score of tenement structures were overrun by sparks that caused roof blazes and guests at the Bancroft and New Park hotels prepared to follow the tenement dwellers into the zero temnerature of the street. While this epidemic of flames en- gaged all the city’s apparatus another fiery spot developed several blocks northeast of the city hall where the wood making plant of the M. K. Smith corporation was burned with a loss of $100,000. The origin of the principal fires was not definitely determined, but police said they had only the faintest suspicion of incendiarism. FORTY BELOW. Toronto, Can., Jan, 18.-Fortr de- grees below zero was the temps ut Lroquois Falls, Ont., this morning. 4