The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 24, 1921, Page 1

“ \. three weeks before he went out of of-| * acres, THE WEATHER Unsettled # THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [==] THIRTY-NINTH YEAR a BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1921 PRICE FIVE CENTS HAGENWILL = URGE NEW BILL . ON WARRANTS Insurance Department” Wants Treasurer Ordered to Pay Immediately TO ASK FOR AMENDMENT) z T Proposed Measures Would Cre-| _ ate Revolving Fund to Meet | Hail Indebtedness ' department, according to Martin S. Hagen, manager of the state hail in- surance department, asked six months ago that the hail warrants be paid as! soon as the money was available.“ | Obert A. Olson, former treastrer, declares that ‘the letter was received | Officials of the ring hail insurance | fice and that the reason he did not cail | them at that time‘was because of the} effect it would have had on the state's | financial condition. ‘ | . Wheat Down. “At that time,’ ’says Mr. Olson. “wheat was way down. If I had called them many of the farmers would have | been forced to sell their wheat im-/ mediately and I would have forced | the closing of 100 banks in ten hours. | “I discussed this matter with many | of the bankers of the state and all! agreed with me that right at that time) it was better to withhold payments. | Many of the warrants had aleady been ! sold to eastern financial interests, and | therefore much of the’ money’ woul | have gone outside the state just as the, time the situation here was the most! critical.” Pays Warranis. When Mr. Steen took over the tre: urer’s office there was on deposit i the Bank of North Dakota $772,000 of the hail insurance fund. Mr. Steen be- an at once to call in the warrants: and all of the 1919 warrants have now been called. Mr, Hagen says that his department favors an amendment to the hail law which willmake it mandatory for’ the | State treasurer to pay the warrants as soon as the money is available. ; The past two years, according to of- ficials of the hail, insurance depart-) ment, has developed many’ weak; points in the present statutes. The most important of’ the changes which the department will present to the legislature will he the jcreation of al permanent and revolving hail, insur- } ance fund which would be permitted | to. accumulate..through - four...or...fiv2} years and thus provide money with; which to pay hail losses immediately | after aiijustment, and to be replaced) in the fund when the tax money is} paid. * *- | Under the: present law at flat three! cent tax is imposed upon all tillable, land in the state, some 27,000,000; This provides about $800.00 yearly. Approximately * 12,000,00 gcres of cropped land was insured in| the -state department at a cost of; twenty-five cents per acre. ‘Hail loss es in 1919 were $3,492,000 and the| cost’ of operation of the department | was over $100,000. | : May Fix Rate. \ The department already empowered | to fix. the rate for hail insurance, | which for two years has, been twenty-| five cents an acre. Now it will ask | that the proceeds from the flat, three | ‘cent tax on all tillable land be sct| aside for a period of six years. The | department then proposes to increase | the hail insurance tax on insured land | about seven cents an. acre thus pro | viding sufficient mouey to pay losses | and\ maintain the department, but withdut touching the $800,000 year-| ly from the three cent tax. | “South Dakota has a similar law} and we need it. It would make the} department more efficient,’ explained | Mr. Hagen. | / May Increase Sum. | . Another amendment to be‘ asked of the legislature would make it possi- ble for a farmer to apply to the de- | partment for an increased indemnit; by paying an increased x. At pres- ent the maximum ind@mnity allowed is $7 per acre at the rate of 25 cents per acre charge. It is proposed to Jet a farmer increase this to $10 or $12 an acre by paying a pro rata in- crease in indemnity tax. Further changes would be made so that all withdrawals by persons wist.- ing to be assessed the indemnity of State protection tax, shall be made to the stat office instead of to the coun- ty auditor. Delays in transmittal and lack of co-ordination under the pres-! ent system would be obviated by ‘a direct withdrawal, say the officials,’ | The proposal of Tax Commissioner George E. Wallace for the creation of the office of county assessor, to be filled by appointment and civil service START BOOSTING TOUR TODAY FOR. FARM BUREAU Twenty-three Meetings ‘Sched-' uled in Burleigh by Fed- | | eration Men CITE RESULTS i Wheat Marketing Big Problem on Organization’s Pro- gram ATTAINED An intensive campaign will be in- | augurated today in Burleigh county to carry the message of the American | farm Federation to every precinct of; {the county. It is in charge of George |W. Gustafson, former county agent. | The speakers besides Mr. Gustafsou | will be Dr. Don McMahon, extension | farm bureau expert, and G. W. Rand- | lett, director of extension, North Da- | kota Agricultural College. Ne | i Ks Campaign Slogan. The slogan ot tue campaign will, | ‘make wheat worth the cost of pro- duction, plus a fair profit.” | | “The plan being put forward by the| American Faym Bureau Federation is} | easible,” declares Mr. Gustafson. “Mr. Sapiro, chief legal adviser for the) | Fruit Growers Exchange of California, | " x jtold the ‘Tri-State grain growers at) her twentieth birthday and she played | Fargo what Washington is already do- “20” on the wheel. ‘ng and said that we shouid be able to; ee | market our wheat crop by 1921. MRS. HARRY SCHWARTZ Mrs. Harry Schwartz of New York played a hunch while honeymooning at Monte Carlo and won, she says, $100,000. She and her husband have just returned to New York. It was | broken. 95 DEAD; 50 INJURED IN EXPLOSION Spark from Workman’s Chisel Believed to Have Ignited Tank Car of Gasoline HOUSES ARE BLOWN UP Glass in Windows for Radius of Fifteen Miles is Shattered by Vibration Memphis, Jan. 24.-—Police estimates place the dead at twenty-five and in- jured at 50 as the result of the ex- vlosion ‘here today of a tank car 3t gasoline. A row of dwellings. most of them occypied by negroes, was burned. A number df residents are missing. A spark from the chisel of a work- man caulking is supposed’ to caused the explosion, which occurred in the center, of a densely populated district and a short distahce from a gas plant which was endangered by the fire. The nearby frame houses were liter- ally. splintered ty the force of the ex- plosion and set a fire while windows within a radius of 15 blocks were Two of three negro work men caulking the car were killec while the third escaped without in- jury. Every ambulance in the city was rushed, to the scene and volunteet rescue parties were formed to aid the | police in removing the dead and in- have | 1 | / HARDING'S VACATION PALS | Sek Bota we ‘ST. AUGUSTINE , Growped about President-elect, Harding here are the men in- examination, is | enthusiastically “en-' dorsed by the hail insurance depart- ment. Under the present system there are many flawg in the method of list- ing lands for hail insurance taxation. say the officers. The county asses- sor would and should be made respon- sible for the correct listing of all tilla- (Continued on Page 3) IN WEATHER REPORT | ———-% iFor twenty-four hours ending at noon, Jan. 24. Temperature at 7 a. m.. 3 ‘Highest yesterday . Lowest yesterday . ‘Lowest last night .. Precipitation ...... Highest wind velocity : sees tees tere Forecast 21. sees eee for North Dakota: Partly cloudy, and somewhat unsettled tonight and Tuesday with provably snow in the east apd’ south portiogs; rising ,fem- perature tonight. | No | “In that state they are pooling the! jyred. ‘The fire was checked before | E | grain and selling it through a selling | it spread ‘beyond the dwellings. | association. : ‘ SEL 3 U.S. 1S PREPTY | Suguests Amalgamation. | ( “Mr. Sapiro, suggested that all the; ; rganizations unite and make use of} I] the avaflable warehouses, these tion va tion. yacht for a cruise (in the waters indicated by the half-circle) where job-hunters can’t reach hin, Frelinghuysen is shown in ition. The map shows St. Augustine, Fla., first destina- vited to accompany him to straw-hat land for the pre-inaugura- ; Here Harding will board Senator J. 8. Frelinghuysen’s | GOOD COUNTRY | | * | Prefers U. S. Jail to Bolshevik | | Freedom, After Seeing’ Russia VIEW OF THE S IET! BY MILQON BRONNER Londpn, Jan. '24.—-"Emma Goldman told me she. would rather $pend 10 years in an American jail than five years in so-called free Russia.” ““Phis» comes” from” Motris Schwartz, | of Oakland, Cal. who went to Russia to study conditions with a view to re- porting them to the American ‘Social- ist party. He is homeward bound, a lecided: anti-Bolshevik. Schwartz and his wife were impris-' oned for several months because he| ‘oiced sentiments not to. the liking f the Bolshevik government. Mrs chwartz died at Reval, Dec. 20, as a} result of hardships. Schwartz told of dining with Emma toldman and Alexander Berkman, who were deported from /America for pro-Bolshevik activities, in their ho- tel. “Are you sure you are quoting Miss Goldman correctly?” 1 asked ‘Mr.j Schwartz. “Positive,” answered Schwartz, “I have known her fora long time and she spoke quite freely with me. Wish to Retarn. | talked with many other} anarchists who were deported by} America and all ished they were! hack in the United States. “Some still insisted they would like to try an experiment of real anarch- | ism or communism, — but “I also they com-| plained ‘Russia is a land of Leninism) and Trotzkyism, where few are mas ters and millions are subjects. “Just what sort of a government | has Russia, then?” 1 inquired. “A monstrous tyranny, ruled by} those on top, who force’everybody else | into the army or the workshops. | “Wow is the food supply?” | “Well, Miss Goldman and- Berkman seemed well2 fed. Each draws two! pounds of bread and two meals a day and are given their clothing. This is because they ate working as propa- gandists. They travel about telling the people why they should support the soviets. “But while the soviets and their agents get the best, the mass9s get the worst. Look!” Three Grades oi Soap, Schwartz drew from his grip three! samples of soap. One was of good quality-—the soap of the commissars. | One was the mediocre quality the soap of the commissars’ assistants. The third was not worthy of the name of soap—it was for the common peo- le. How aid you find ‘Trotsky and Len- in?” I asked. “Trotsky and others who had lived in the United States semed in as pro- found ignorance of true American ' | conditioms as were Lenin and others E. days of soapbox agitation who had never seen tie United States “Usually their first question was whether Eugene V. Dehs was still in prison.; Then they would ask when America was going Red. “Wher I told’ them the American ' workmen were neither gommunists nor anarchists, but solid: cNizens and supporters of the republic, they wouldn't believe me. Ul Trotzky’s Pet Peeve. “Tretzky has vast power and, didn’t like it when-T reminded him of the in New York. “Neither Trotzky or the others ex- pressed hate of Americans. It is like- ly that the thing uppermost in their minds is that some day they might (Continued on Page 3.) | work on a. scientific, workable plan | products, ‘! work of the Committee of Seventeen, | Northern railro§d detective, today 15 varehouses issning receipts on which! money probably up to 75 per cent) sonld be raiked “But before this, he suggested, five- vear contracts shonld be made with the farmers to sell their wheat to the; sellingy association ar else be penal-! ‘zed 25 cents a bushel.” Has Commiitee. | No memberships will be taken. This | ‘ampaign is only to give the people of the county a complete knowledge of the aims of the federation. / Posters which have been circulated announcing the meetings set forth | that the federation has a permanent) narketing committee of seventeen at} ‘or marketing the nation’s wheat crop. 4 similar committee of fifteen’ will work out the live stock marketing |’ roblem, and another will handle the wool pool. “In Congress and the Legislatures,” 1S ROBBED BY AUTO BANDITS | Get Goods Valued at Over $1,000 from Kremenetsky Brothers POLICE CALL IS SENT OUT Reward of $150 for Capture of the Thieveg is Offered by Proprietor : (Special to the Tribune) Tuttle, N. D., Jan. 24,—Robbers got between $1,000 and $1,200 worth of clothing and dry goods from the recording to the poster, “the federa~kKremenesky Brothers general store tion will push the claim of the million ‘nda half farmers who are members and who demand protection for farm just tax laws and fair sail rates.” - Tells of Work. The Farm Bureau News, published monthly by the Burleigh County Farm Bureau, summarizea the work to date of the federation as follows: Since its organization less than one yoar ago the American Farm Bureau Federation has already accomplished much for the farmers of the country. Through this organization Congress was prevented from passing the Nolan bill, which provided for a tax of one per cent on all farm land valued at more ‘than $10,000. Passage of this act alone would have cost the farmers of Burleigh county more than their membership fee in the Farm Bureau would have amounted to for the rest of their lives. Of great interest at this time is the; of which Dr. E. F. Ladd and Mr. JM Anderson are members. This commit- (Continued on Page, 3) NOLAN IS FREED | OF CHARGE OF MURDERING L. W. W.: Fargo, Jan. 24.—F. W. Nolan, Great free of the charge of murdering Joseph | Bagley. The jury reported late, Satur-| day afternoon, after being out three hours and 45 minutes. The trial was before Judge A. T. Cole, of district) court. Nolan shot Bagley, an I. W. W- when he found him on a freight train after the I. W. W. convention at New} Rockford last summer. The detective | pleaded he shot in self-defense. SHIELDS HOLDS A MARKET DAY | here Suf@ay night. No clue was left by the thieves, who are believed to have been in a big automobile. Police in several cities were notified. i The exact time the robbery took place is not known. One man said he saw a couple of men running through the residence district about midnight, another said he heard pounding be- tween 2 and 3 a. m. and a third said he heard a car going at a fast rate of speed about 4 a. m. Specialized. on Silks. The robbers broke through the front door with a big bar. Jacob Kreme- netsky said today that the following goods was missed: £everal men’s suits. N All the silks in the store. i ‘All the ladies silk and serge skirts in the store. Several wool blankets. All the men’s fur caps in the store. Several pairs silk hose. _ One or two automobile tires. N A double-barrel shotgun. At least one sheep-lined coat. A few pocket knives. Between $12 and $15 in cash. | The exact loss cannot be determined until a check on the inventory is made, Mr. Kremenetsky said. Left a Note. The money was taken from the cash drawer. The rcbbers placed a note in the drawer reading: “Who Knows?”” When the robbery was discovered early in the morning a general call was sent out. The owners of the store offered a $150 reward for the capture of the robbers. No other store in town was both- ered. This is the largest robbery that has occurred here. Last fall one mer. chant was robbed of $700 worth of auto tires. | CLOTHES SCHOOL WILL BE HELD IN DICKINSON Dickinson, N. Ds» Jan, 24.—A cloth- FOR FARMERS | ing school arranged under the aus- ——_ | pices of the home demonstration de- Shields, N D., Jan. 24.—Shields wil! | partment of the Stark County Farm bu- hold a farmers’ Market Day in Shields | reau, will he held in the basement c on Saturday, Feb. 19, to which the | the Methodist church, January 27, 2S farmers of the Shields, Wade, Schal-|and 29. An expert from the state ag- ler, Freda and Raleigh vicinities, and | ricultural college at Fargo will hoyin those of reservation country are in- vited to attend, and bring with them anything they wish to dispose of. The | club will have a free auctioneer to} cry their wares. | ‘All the old officers of the club were re-elected as follows: i President—L. L. Brown. V.-President—Jas. McCormick. Sec.-Treas.—P. E. Rasmussen. Executive Committee—L. E. Robin-| sop, David Fuller, P. B. Rasmussen, }to death by a mob following a clash |W L. L. Brown and James McCormick. | between whites and aegrov3 in which| name. CRARY HAS COMPLETED. | Crary, N. D., Jan. 24.—A new mod- | ‘ern and fireproof brick, school house | has been completed nere at a cost of} | $75,000. The new structure will re- place the building destroyed by fire. ‘ charge and instruction will be given in remodeling. making over of old clothing, short cuts in sewing and many other practical pointers. Two Negroes Taken - By Mob and Shot ne- -shot Norlina, \N. C., Jan. 24.--Two groes were taken from jait aad six persons were wounded. STATE DIGS ITS OWN (Haynes, N. D.—Just across the state ‘boundary South Dakota owns 10 acres of coal land. It has started to take coal from it for state institutions. the center below Harding. A. B. Cummins, Miles @. Cahill, tor Frederick Hale. George B. Christian, Harding’s FIND SKELETON 0 MISSI Washburn, N..D. Jan, 24.—The hody ot Arthur Herred, world war veteran. missing since last March, was found in the brush along the bottoms of the Missouri river near here. The finding of the body ends a long search instituted by the father, Nels Herred, and friends, following the dis- appearance of the boy. During the war Herred suffered gas and other wounds. He had never re- covered entirely and it Is believed that his mind was affected hy his injuries. He left home one evening last March. No word was heard of him until the ‘nding of the body. Last summer. when the body of a man was found in Right, Senator A. On the left (top to bottom) Senator secret setvice guard, and Sena- 3. Fall (above) and secretary. . F WAR VETERAN NEAR WASHBURN; NGMANY MONTHS thought perhaps it was Herred, but it proved to be another person. The theory had been held that he fell ried away. The skeleton of the war. veteran\was found face down, one glove and his cap gone. The theory is advanced here that he lost himself in the brush trying to reach the railroad at Hens- ler across the river from Washburn became exhausted and froze to death A check book and letters identified him. Herred had heen married about one month when he disappeared. Funeral services will be held in Washburn, and military tribute wilt S500L0SSIN COTTAGEFIRE A defective chimney is said to have been the cause of a fire which badly damaged ‘the W. M. Bartleson home at 212 Rosser street, Saturday after- noon, Congiderable water was thrown by the fire department before the fire was extinguished. ‘The house is a one-story cottage. The loss is esti- mated at $500 to $600, The house is owned by J. J. Huber. ‘The fire department was also called to Person court Saturday evening, but there was no work to do. A roast hag been a little too long in an oven and filled a room with smoke. ‘FARMER KILLS HIMSELF; FIND | HIDDEN MONEY | | Bowbells, N. D. Jan. 24.—A_post- | mortem examination on the remains of Eric Lindquist, a bachelor farmer | whose body was found in a chicken house on his farm eight miles west ‘of Bowbells, disclosed that Lindquist | had committed suic:de. Coroner Gro- | gan of Flaxton deemed an inquest un- necessary. The body showed several ‘cuts about the throat and wrists but | when the knife with which the cutting had been dope was not found near the {body, relatives suspected foul play. ; Some peculiar incidents have d2- veloped in connection yith the trag- edy. Several hundreds dollars’ worth lof government bonds were found hid- ,den in an automobile and the victint’s ‘best clothes were found stored in a | granar He was secretary of the | Bowbells yeomen lodge and all the |tunds for which he was responsible | {were found in the house. Officials be-| | lieve Lindquist became demented. | CONVICT ACK, | £.H. BreWington. who escaped from |the penitentiary here early last No- |vember, is back in prison today. He was brought back from Black Foot insane asylum in Idaho, where he was orking as'a guard under an assumed Brewington still has two years his term for assault, and | was brought k under the addition- al charge of sping from the peni- ‘tentiary. which may be placed against him at the expiration of his term. Ray Stair was the guard who brought him , back. i | to serve on be paid by the American Legion. ARR ‘CRIME WAVE’ IN DICKINSON IS A MYTH, CLAIM Dickinson, N. D., Jan. 24.—Dgspite reports that sometimes go out to the contrary Dickinson is maintaining its reputation as one of the most orderly cities in the state. This statement is corroborated by the 1920 report of Police Magistrate Walter Sterland which is given below. During the year just closed 21 were hauled into the police eourt on a cha rge of being drunk and disorderly. With but few exceptions these paid fines or were given jail sentences. Six were arrested for violating the auto- mobile ordinan on ch ges of assault and” battery; «three were held on riot charges and ten for gambling. Of the 44 cases that were brought before Judge Sterland in police court an appeal was taken in but one, that of the state versus Jacob Peterson, which was carried to the district court. During the month of December not one nder was brought into court. January, however, promises to be a busier month for the judge as several have already stepped outside the pale of the law. LOSES LIMBS BENEATH TRAIN Dickinson, Jan. 24.—Anton Ander- son, 35, a workman employed by J. H. Pip ‘¢ contractor for the North- ern Pacific at the company reservoir west of the city, had his left hand and foot horribly crushed, when he was thrown beneath a moving freight car on the switch at the dyke. He was hurried to St. Joseph’s hospital, where it was found that amputation of both members would be necessary in order to save the man’s life. He is now re- covering as rapidly as can be expect- ed ‘ HARDING STARTS VACATION ON LINKS Rockledge, Fla., Jan. @4.—A game of golf here and possibly an hour or two of fishing in the afternoon on the Indian river today gave the first real vacation of President-elect Hard- ing’s houseboat trip down the Florida cous? The boat, Victoria, on which he if making his cruise spent the night at anchor, north of Rockledge. through the river ice and was car-| ; four were arrested | Jinvestment as ‘PEACEISSUES — “BEFORE COUNCIL FOR DECISION | Allies Meet in Most Important } Conference Since Signing of | Versailles Treaty TO CONSIDER INDEMNITY Reparation, German Disarma- ment and Turkish Questions Are Chief Issues | | | | | Paris, Jan. 24.—Representatives of | Great Britain, France, Italy, Belgium |and Japan gathered here for a con- ; ference which seemed second in im- portance only to that which preceded | the signing of the treaty of Versailles. | The principal figures were David | Lloyd George and Aristide Briand,who | last week became the president of the j council of the French republic. It was | believed that when the conference has | finally adjourned the allied world will | have settled questions which have | long threatened serious complications, ;not only between the allied nations and enemy countries, but between the allied nations themselves. QUESTIONS AT ISSUE. In importance the subjects to be | discussed ranged as follows: ; Reparation, disarmament of Ger- ;Mmany, enforcement or altprattion of the treaty wih Turkey, relief for Au- stria and policies to be pursued in dealing with Russia. All are qusetions on which the dif- ferent participant. nations are more or less divided. The first session to- day contemplated discussion of Ger- man disarmament by allied military experts which are understood to have | agreed on a plan which would grant a Short period of grade to Germany to fujlfill engagements she made at the Spa conference, The program for the day called for | consideration of coat deliveries, the arrangements made at Spa expiring {on January 31; German financial and economic experts may be summoned. Premier Lloyd-George contends that {the conference should fix the amount of indemnity to be paid by Germany, ind Premier Briand holds the amount reparation to be paid the allies should be determined only on what Germany can be compelled to pay. In regard to the Turkish situation, thore has been a rumored desire on the part of the allies to deal directly with the Turkish Nationalists at An- gora, that regime being dominant. Che Turkish sultan’s power is a mera shadow. Bi Oe “ ‘ OCCUPY CITY ‘Constantinople, Jan. 24.—Reoccipa- tion of this city by allied forces to guard against threatened outbreaks between (Nationalist and Bolshevik el- ements is imminent. h DORMITORY IS NAMED'AFTER , MAN AND WIFE Dr. and Mrs. V. H. Stickney, of Dickinson Are Honored Dickinson, N. D., Jan. 24.—As a tri- sute to two who put forth their best forts to secure the state Normal chool for Dickinson, the new Normal school dormitory was, by a vote of he faculty, christened The Stickney lormitory, in honor of Dr, and Mrs. V. H. Stickney. The choice was made after thought- ‘ul consideration. Many names had {veen suggested to the faculty with | Wguments as to why they should be | selected but as stated above, the fa- |sulty could think of none more fitting than the one chosen. During the closing years of her life Mrs. Stickney labored long and un- ‘ingly for the welfare of the Slope ;country institution. No one was |more interested in its success than | she and the tribute to the departed as’ | well as to Dr. Stickney, whose inter- ast in the school has never abated, is . fitting one. It is doubtful jf further. construc- |tion work on the’new dormitory will jbe undertaken during the remaining | winter months. With the coming of | spring, however, work will be rushed |and the building completed and ready for occupancy at the opening of the | tall term. |BANK SENDS OUT | CIRCULAR FOR | SALE OF BONDS | The Bank of North Dakota is mak- | ing an effort to dispose of state bonds j to individuals within’ the state. | In its latest circular offering bonds | for sale he bank points out that North | Dakota has a lower public debt rate than nearly all the states in the union and carried a dissertation on the In- ‘dustrial program of the Nonpartisan | league. “These bonds constitute as safe an n be found in the entire country.” says the circular. The circular contains an attack on the “42 taxpayers suit” as having blocked the industrial program. TWO BOYS WOUNDED ‘Cork, Ireland, Jan. 24—Two boys , Were wounded, one of whom later diel when troops enforced the curfew or- dinance and fired at some persons in the vicinity of Shandon street lat | evening. The curfew began at » | o'clock,