The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 20, 1921, Page 1

et Ogg THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE THIRTY-NINTH YEAR BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA. THURSDAY, JAN. 20, 1921 LAST EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS LEGISLATUREIN 5-DAY RECESS: IN HOT FINISH Audit Board Resolution Again Before House—Independents Win Leaguer A COMMITTEE {S: NAMED Nine House Members .to “Di- gest” Report and Ascertain Its Cortectness There was fireworks again in the house of representatives yesterday ai- | | NDEL_BEILIS BEILIS COMING — Mendel Beilis, ‘famoug throughout the world during ternoon before the house agreed with| the days of Czar ‘Nicholas as the de- the senate to adjourn until next Tues- ‘ day at 1 P. M., to permit many mem- bers to attend the grain growers con- vention at Fargo. The fireworks was on the audit re- port, the independents carrying the resolution of Grangaard, of Barnes. gaining one league vote on the meas- ure declared by the author to be for the purpose of getting the account ants’ report on the state industries “unsullied.” The Grangaard resolution created a committee of nine members to study | the report as soon as it is received, | and to call for officials, accountants ; or anyone for the purpose of ascer- taining the correctness of the report The vote was 58 to 50, with 5 absent Del. Patterson, Nonpartisan, im- mediately offered an amendment call- ing for a committee of three to act! with a similar committee of the sen- ate. Speaker Twitchell called Watt of Cass, to the chair and taking the floor, renewed his charges of attempts at obstruction by the majority mem- bers of the state board of auditors. Makes Charges. “We can hope to get. no-where,” he said; “in the investigation or the con- sideration of the audit report if we call in a committee of the senate. The first thing to do to make a report possible was to get the money and the money was not forthcoming from an’ of the representatives of the men who ure now trying to amend this resolu- tion. No money was offered from the contingent fund. Everything was done to prevent the old board of auditors from making the audit and now these men are telling us that they want the report. You have an idea how inter- ested they are. We want expert ac- countants to appear before this com- mittee and they will not be all Bishop. Brisuman: either. “We want’ a fair audit and we are going to have jt. Mr. Patterson charged Mr. Twitchell with attempting to convey a wrong impression of his stand and said he was going to fight for the amendment to the last ditch. Kitchen of Golden Valley, insisted that the house had initiated the idea of getting the report and was entitled to a separate consideration of it Maddock of Mountrail, said he didn't care much .whether the amendment passed or not but that he disliked greatly all “this old stuff insinuating dishonestly and I don’t care from what side it comes.” Made No I uations. Speaker Twitchell here declared that he had not made any insinuations | but that they were charges, and that! he thought he had made that clear. | Ona roll call the vote was 59 against | the amendment and 50 for it. | _ Olson Disgusted. Harding of Emmons, then moved an amendment to provide that five of the majority and, four of the minority be} appointed on the committee. Olson! of Barnes, leaguer, voted against this) amendment because although he didi’t agree with everything in the Gran-| gaard resolution he was disgusted | with all "the wrangling back and} ferth. He felt sometimes he said as| though if he had a pocketfull of stones he would throw the rocks at every- body.+ Mr. Kitchen moved question while” Patterson amendment he wished to make giving each member of the committee the right to call witnesses. When the previous question was put Shipley and Starke of Stark, Johnson of Cass, and other Independents voted against it. and Miller of Bottineau, and other leaguers voted for it, and thus in dis- regard of party lines it was carried. Appoints Committee. Speaker Twitchell appointed the following members on the commit- tees: M. O. Grangaard, Rogers. Barnes county, chairman; John Free-; man, Grand Forks, Grand Forks county; Theodore Hanson, Leeds., Benson county; Andrew Johnson, | Douglas. Ward county; Adam Nagel. | Jr. Lehr, Logan county; S. W. John-| igon, Colgate, Steele county; P. F.; Doyle, . Charleson. <en- the previous Williams-Mc zie; D. E. Shipley, Dickinson, Stark county, and C. L. Olland, Mayville. Traill county. The resolution was as follows: Whereas, the house is advised that| the audit of the state bank and the state industries prepared by Bishop. * Brissman & Co. under the provisi H of the initiated law passed at the, November, 1920, general election, will, shortly be available to the house; an i Whereas, such report will necessar- ily be voluminous and comprised of hundreds of pages of printed matter and figures, needing and requiring ex- amination and verification; and. Whereas, many. matters disclosed by ich audit will undoubtedly re-; quire other and further information and data with respect thereto. to a/ clearer understanding and apprecia- tion of the exact condition of suc’ state industries by the members of this house and the people of the state: and Whereas, it will be entirely imprac- tical for the house as a body to make such further investigations as shall (Continued on page 6.) EXPECT AUDIT had an! A ‘fendant in the ‘Russian -“ritual mur- der” case, has sailed from Patestine for America. RRR eet REPORT EARLY © IN NEXT WEEK 'Heu-e Committee Organizes to Receive Document from Accountants | The report of Bishop, Brissman & 'Co., on the audit made by the state | Doard of auditors on the state indus | tries is expected to arrive by Mon- | day. , With this in mind, the committee lof the house appointed yesterday af-! }ternoon by Speaker ‘Twitchell met} last night and made plans to begin ‘its consideration immediately upon ‘its arrival and possibly it will have ;a report ready on a portion of the eudic when the house convenes again Tuesdey. Chairman Grangaard, who lives at the Northwest Audit company. Stock- will go home. Rep. Loyle, leaguer from Williams- | MeKenzie, is not in good health and for that reason he is going to request that he be relieved. WOULD DEPRIVE — 2,000 OF JOBS AS TREASURERS | Proposed Measure Also Would Permit Money to Be Kept at Home Two thousand school treasurers in | North Dakota would lose their. jobs) lif a bill prepared for introduction in the ‘North Dakota legislature would) pass. The proponent of the measure ‘is J. H. Phelps, county superintend- ant of ‘Divide county. ‘TH bill authorizes the school dis- rict boards to handle the fundg through local depositories, to be local banks designated by the boards. This would remove the option now held ay school treasurers of depositing hool funds in the Bank of North Cakota or local banks. There are many school officials who favor the abolition of the office of school treasurer, at least in the rural school districts. Often the treasurers ure inexperienced in handling books and they fail to provide the statistical and otier information needed by school authorities. While the treas- urers generally are‘ inexperienced in nook work, however, state officials y that it ig a very rare thing to ind a school treasurer short in his accounts. OHIO PROPOSES LAW TO KEEP — GAME CLEAN Columbus, Jan. 20. — Professional baseball payers accepting bribes to throw games would, if convicted, be imprisoned one to five years and fined $10,000 under a bill submitted to the legislature. YOUR INCOME TAX When, How, What to Pay BY GRAHAM B. NICHOL Every single person—the term in- cluding widows, widowers, and per- sons not living with husband or wife whose net income for the year 1920 was $1.030 or more, and every mar- ried person living with husband or wife whose net income was $2,000 or more, mu file a return. The exemptions are the same as for 1919, $1,990 for single persons and 2.009 for married persons and heads of families, plus $200 for each person dependent upon the taxpayer for chief support of such person is under eight- een years of age or incapable of self- support because mentally or physic- ally defective. The tax rate also is the same for last year, 4 per cent on the first $1,000 of net income above the ex- emptions and 8 per cent on the re- maining {net income. The surtax rates from 1 per cent on net incomes between $9.00) and $6,000 to 65 per cent on net incomes in excess of $1,000,000, | ers. | ; the Equity Cooperative xchange at PRICE DECLINE REASON GIVEN FOR LOSSES P. M. Casey of Equity Plant Ex- plains Situation to 1,500 Stockholders A PROTEST IS_ RAISED Investors in Plant Have Wordy Battle Over Management of Packing Plant Fargo, Jan. 20.—P. M. Casey, p dent of the Equity Co-operative Pack- ing plant at Fargo, against whose management a fight has heen started’ at the annual meeting attended by about 1,500 stockholders, this morn- ing laid thé plame for the present critical financial condition of the ,company to declining prices for the past year, the employment situation which required the training of inex- verienced men for the work and the management of L, C. Hoopman, who wag removed several months ago and in whose place Hy M. Wilson w named. He declared that the future of one; of the greatest cooperative bodies in the nation was at stake in the present) meeting and told of plans of the fu-! ture to organize on the departmental | plan and put experts at the head of} each department. { bv. M. Casey, head of the Equity plant at noon today held Control of} the stockholders convention. i Exetted Gathering, { ‘At an excited gathering the, 1,500) stockholders howled down a. thotion to defer consideration of the financial, statement made by Representative C. W. Reichert, of Carrington, who led} the opposition to Casey against whom! a campaign of removal had been aimed. = The financial statement footing of $2,886,975 shows a deficit of $771,216. according to the audit report made by | holders opposing Casey said that the. “nanagement was so poor “that a fool; with a glass eye could see it” and charged Former Manager L. C. Hoop- nan ‘with gross mismanagement and Iso charged that the board of direc-, jal situation as long ago as last March. Critics were howled down by the majority of the stockhold. | ... +-Protest Raised. i When Reichert again attempted to} ‘ake the floor against Casey and his} followers a protest was raised and he! was denied the privilege of the floor by a rising vote. i He said that 2,203 carloads of live-! stock had been handled in the past} vear and that about half of these were; killed at the plant and the others sent! to other markets, 84 per cent going to i South St. Paul, He said the plant had} cost about $1,000,000 and that about | $3,000,000 had been subscribed, some} $2,000,000 being paid in and about! $600,000 being due on notes being un-! able to collect, making the financial situation critical. [nnn © vuru NONPARTISA SENATOR HITS 8-HOUR BILL ‘Says Farmers Tired of Shorter Hours for Others, and Longer for Selves SENATE NEWS Farmers of North Dakota are not at all in a mood to sce all other classes of trade and labor'jinut:their worl to eight hours while thty must slave fourteen to eighteen hours, according to a communication presented to the upper house of the legislature yester- OTHER |day by Senator Church, a Nonpartisan! leader. It is signed by A. M. Johnson and twenty-four other members of the North Dakota Livestock association of Benson county. “We protest.” they assert, “against the proposed legislation for an eight hour day on public and other work. We feel that labor should shoulder the full work. shorten our fourten to sixteen hour jay and do our work.” The measure introduced by George Lakie, Williston, a league member of Tea We as farmers cannot} the house of representatives, calling ‘for a limitation of eight hours wor's ; by employees of the state is the par- ticular measure attacked. “Dory Blame Farmers,” | E Senator Church declared t there | \is “getting to be altogether too much jof this kind of legislation. I don’t ' | blame the farmers.” . | Three new bills were introduced in | the senate on Wednesday. | S. B. No. 26, Kttestad, leaguer, is a | bill for an act limiting the debt limit lof organized towns and villages. This ; would permit a town to issue bonds | Question of Surplus. in Work- , men’s Compensation Fund equal to the amount af any utility) | Discussed ‘which it proposes to install, within Sone {consideration of other indebtedness tidenendents are considering the! Referred to committee on municipal introduction of a resolution asking} corporations. | for a more detailed report from the | S B. No. 27, W. Workmen's Compensation board than j increases the granted election | that contained in the document print-) boards from 25 cents an hour to 40 |ed and submitted to the governor. ‘cents an hour, or an increase of the The surplus has been computed on} maximum piy from $4.00 to $6.00 a the basis of March 1, instead of June day, and creating a sliding scale ac- 30, the end of the fiscal year as it) cording to the number of ballots poll- pile i eaorant a eines and counted, Referred to elections out, because it may show ‘that the | eam ee icy rates are too high. | New Grain Bill. S. B. 28, Bowman, leaguer, is an act; which describes and places a penalty ion bargaining for grain deli | designed to prevent “future” deliveries ‘by grain warehouses or elevators. Re- ferred to committee on warehouses and grain grading. Senate Bill No. 8 introduced by P- J. Murphy of sh county at the re- quest of Supt. Wylie of the Grafton institute for the feeble-minded was passed unanimously by the senate on (Continued on page 6.) J. Church, leaguer, BOLSHEVIK T0 BE DEPORTED Washington, Jan. 2.—Deportation of Gregory Weinstein, chancellor of the Russian Soviet Bureau in, the Mited States was ordered today by ane Secretary Wilson of the labor depart- ment. RECALL GETS | N UNDER I PAEMPLOYES SIGN DIVIDE COUNTY Winona, Minn., Jan. 20.—Announe2- officials elected Nonpartisan league | ment was made this morning that a candidates last fall, according to in- week’s armistice had_been agreed on formation received here. in the strike of the Interstate Pack- The situation started with the for ing company employes here. ed resignation of Sheriff Otto Peter- The compavy will refrain from em-| 500» it is said. The county comm: ploying strike-breakers or hiring ad-| Sioners called Peterson to the mut and ditional men by that time while the demanded his \ ignation bi union will do its utmost to keep or-, financial difficulties in his o der and used pickets to that end. An, said. Peterson resigned and another ‘attempt will be made at the end of Nonpartisan was named to his place. the week to settle difficulties. Peterson’s friends are said to fh oe started the petitions against ates sAttorney Olaf Braatelin and Clerk R. W. Frazier and two others, and 2 serts he will not consent to withdraw- a Visitors Here William Olson and Mr. Thompson, of Kintyre, were business visitors, in Bismarck this week. They also heard Theo. Karle at the Auditorium, al of the petitions unless the two of- pacts named, resign. WOMAN PICKED TO LEAD WORLD AIR DERBY Ruth Law, the American avia- trix, will lead the ’round-the-world air derby, if present plans go through, the French squadron will have as its leader Captain Mare- chal, who distinguished himse during the war by bombihg Es- sen and by making a round trip between Paris and Berlin. {8NATIONSTO PARTICIPATE IN THE FLIGHT It’s Myron Herrick’s Job to Fi- nance America’s Share of the Cost Stait Special.) New York, Jan, 20—Around world by air! The Internati Aeronautic Federation ‘expects to ac- complish this by 1922. The Aero Club of Am ticipating in the plans ented by a squi the flight. One of Myron T. Herri jobs as the new president of t! Club of America will be to finance America's share of the cost. This 33 estimatec 100,000. 3ut Hert former governor Ohio and ambassador to France. is used to big jobs. The total cost will he $10,000,000, of which $1,000,000 may be awarded in prizes. the is par- and will be of birdmen in 18 Nations in Derby. Eighteen nations that are members of the International Aeronautic Fed- eration have prot ed to make en- trie: Forty-nine cs of the United States also have promised to enter representatives. Those — reportins, i ans include: Rochester, But. Cleveland, Cincinnati, De Milwaukee. Chicago, Minne aul, St. Lonis. Omahe + Memphis, Topeka, Den- ver, Cheyenne, Los Angeles, San Di Memphis, Portiand, Tacoma, ttle, and San Francisco. Tentative routes for the derby have been mapped by the Aero Club of America, which last yea ent around the world as pathfinde composed of Major Ch: den. Louis D.. Beaumont, Alan Hawh and Henry Woodhouse. hese routes now «re being con- sidered by the Acro Club of France. Route ‘Tried Out. Fliers already have a laps of the lines laid ception of the hop acre which might, be accomplished e an and Alask idway and Hav to San (Fran Here are the prospective routes New York to London: by w: the Azores, Lisbon. Borde (Continued on page 6.) R and 'The following day, of) pa sotiated all) | here. LV.A, PREPARES. FORITSSTATE NEBTING FEB. 1 Demonstration to Be Staged at Auditorium—Banquet to Be Held ‘TALK CAMPAIGN PLANS ‘Preparations are being made for | the special state meeting ofthe In- | dependent Voters Association to be held here on February 11. The meet- ing will consist of the state execu- tive committee and delegates from various local units of the association. Lincoln's birth- day, a celebration will be staged in honor of the men who are still living who were members of the North Da- kota ‘Constitutional convention, as well as the members of the 1917 leg- islative assembly who opposed the passage of house bill No. 44. The association's regular biennial meeting. at which the election of com- mitteeinen and’ officers take place is held in even numbered years and therefore will not be held until the winter of 1922. The celebration in honor of the makers and defenders of ‘North Da- kota's constitution ‘will be in the form of & program of speeches and appro- priate music to be given in the Bis- marck auditorium on the afternoon of February 12, and a dinner banquet to be given at the Grand Pacific hotel in the evening of the same day. ‘Those who will participate in the ( benqnet are the guests of honor (the Constitutional ‘Convention delegates and legislative members) the State ‘Executive committee of the I. V. and all regularly elected delegates from local units in good standing for the 1921 and 1922 campaign period. All others who are interested in the purpose of wish to part te may do so by ar- ranging for admission tickets in ad- vance. Tickets can be had by apply- ing to the I. V. A. state headquarters at Fargo till b. 1 and at the Grand Pacific hotel at ‘Bismarck un- til Feb. 10. The program to he staged in the Auditorium will be open to the pub- lic without any charge. Tickets to the banquet will cost $1.00. An- nouncement as to the details of the program will be made later. TAYLOR PAYS TRIBUTE T0 COL GILBREATH aise for the service rendered the state by Col. W. C. Gilbreath, who died Tuesday night, was voiced by KE. J r, deputy state superintendent of public instruction, who served in the state fiouse for fourteen years with Col. Gilbreath. During this period Mr. Taylor and Mr. Gilbreath were in different offices, but were closely associated. “He was a good officer, a loyal friend and he made the office of agri- and labor really count,” said The Farmers and Merchants Bank .| of Robinson, Kidder county, is closed, according to information received The bank had $10,000 capital and $10,000 surplus, the records of the State examiner show. he celebration who may | | MINOT WHISKEY “BATTLE MAY BE PATALFOR THO | Lee Fahler and H. E. Erickson Suffer Serious Wounds in Pistol Fight | BOOTLEGGER SHOOTS FIRST | Magie City Policeman Fires Sev- eral Bullets Lying on His Back | Minot, N. D., Jan. 20.—Lee | Fahler, Minot policeman, and | Harvey E. Erickson, alleged whiskey runner, who says his | home is in Chisholm, Minn., are |in a hospital here following a | pistol fight at 5:30 a. m. today. i They are not expected to live. |The shooting occurred when Fahler, making the rounds of his | beat, encountered Erickson, who | had stopped his car and was jlooking for a filling station. Erickson failed to give satisfac- | tory answers to Fahler’s ques- | tions and the policeman, it is \elaimed, drew his revolver and started to take Erickson to the police station. : Shoots Three Times When the officer looked into Erickson’s car to see if anyone else was with him Erickson drew a revolver and shot Fahler through the breast. Fahler fell 'to the ground and while lying there fired three times, each bul- let taking effect in Erickson’s body. After the shooting Erick- |son walked a block and crawled into the basement of an apart- ment house where the janitor found him a few minutes later | and was forced at the point of a revolver to call a physician to at- | tend the wounded man. . Find 20 Cases Fahler had been found and was taken to a hospital. Twenty cases of Canadian | whiskey which he said he had stolen in Canada were found in Erickson’s automobile. Fahler, who has been on the Minot po- lice foree two months, is mar- 'ried and is the father of one child. K. OF P, LODGE ~ INSUCCESSFUL | _ MEETING HERE New Officers of Lodge Preside at Ceremony Last Night | | ' |MAKE PLANS FOR YEAR The first meeting of the year con- | ducted by the new officers of St. Elmo Lodge No. 4, Knights of Pythias, was }® real success. The meeting was j| held last night in the lodge:hall and was under the direction of the new Chancellor Commander E. M. Thomp- | son, The meeting was enlivened by the of the revised flag ceremony, dur- | ing the execution of which the nation- js anthem was played by the new pian- ist of the lodge. Angelo Holta. Onc of the delightful features of the meet- ing was floral offerings ‘by Frank G. |Grambs, past grand chancellor of the ‘domain of North Dakota. Mr. Grambs provided bouquets of carnations and | roses for each of the officers’ stations {and the altar. During the business meeting there | was a discussion of the plight of chil- | dren in the Near East’ and the lodge us a part of its policy of brotherhood, adopted an orphan, and will contri- bute funds for its support for one year. Committees were named by the , chancellor commander to conduct the program for the year. The next meet- ing will be held on February 2, and it promises to be fully as successful as the meeting last night. $75,000 IN BONDS TAKEN BY CHICAGO MAIL ROBBERS Chicago, Jan. 20. — Police an- nounced the value of bonds and se- | curities obtained’ in the mail robbery at the Union Station Tuesday will total $76,000: NSPECTS TWO GUARD COMPANIES Major J. W. McDowell, U. S. A. w inspect a national guard company * Jamestown tonight and will inspect 2 company at Williston Saturday aight, it was announced at the adjutant “eneral's office. Company H. James: town, which seeks federal recognition has 58 men and three officers and Com- pany E. Williston, has 62 n@n avd (three officers. ‘