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

| BANK ROW REACHES COU . < Pye 2 \ The Weather. FAIR 4 THIRTY-NINTH YEAR | nw THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Last Edition BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1921 _ PRICE FIVE CENTS DESPERADO BANDIT HOLDS UP NUMBER TWO NEAR MINNEAPOLIS AND ESCAPES WITH MAIL WORTH THOUSANDS Boards Northern Pacific Train at St. Cloud and Shoots Mail Clerk Who Fights Him Off with Iron Bar—Stronge in Hospital and Not Expected to Live—Suspects Captured Near Little Falls After Gun Battle With Officers. Little Falls, Minn., Feb. 19—Two suspects were arrested here shortly after 3:30 today following a gun battle. with officers and are being held in comection with the hold-up on the mail car on Train No. 2, Northern Pacific Railroad. One of the men was wounded in the head and a deputy sheriff suffered a minor wound. ee Shot Clerk Minneapoli: the bandit who h Ott mets ver met anes ROBS M IMMIGRATION AGENT SOUGHT FEE FOR MAKING CAND SALE WHILE PAID BY STATE, CHARGE Senate Hears Reading of Letter Purporting to. Have Been Written, by W. J. Mozley, in Charge of Immigration at Mitchell, South |" | i i i | | | | ' i Dakota—Dr. J. H. Worst { i Senator Baird of Dickinsen, terday when during a quiet moment just after Senator Bowman, | | presiding had disappointed the | missed for Making Speeches but That Letter Was Surprise | to Him—Effort Is Made to Have It Read Into Senate Journal eer CLAIM CAMPAIGN MONEY OBTAINED THRU B, OF N. D. Valley City Matter. Is Aired Be- fore House Investigation Committee THATCHER IS ON STAND AIL CAR ON ‘ Declares That Agent Was. Dis-; | Witness Is Questioned About | Representations to Supreme Court e took the senate by surprise yes- large and growing audience with | (information the there would be no industry hearing, he pro-' ‘duced a letter from W. J. Mazley, deputy immigration commis. | \sioner located at Mitchell, S. D., asking $10 as commission for selling land through the state department. | The bill under consideration Feb. 19—Authorities today were looking for estate commssions an acre. Senator Baird wanted to know. how | eld up three mail clerks on mail car of Train the leaguers considered this sufficient when the Mr. Mozley, state | ; campaign workers in Buticigh county was divulged at the b investig: | tion hearing in the court house this | morning. ; \ The testimony bore on charges made before the fall campaign, when the Valley City Times-Record alleged placed, a limitation of $5 on ‘real ee N. P. LIMITED RESTRAINING | | | | | | Attorney General William nks on the ground that ect to such a ley : ‘subj | . . . . jluctance to assume jurisdiction LEMKE APPLIES FOR ORDER OFFICIALS FROM TYING UP FUNDS Lemke applied to the supreme court late today for an order restrainiug the officials of Golden from garnishecing the Bank of North Dakota funds, in | they were state funds and not No action was taken by the court and there seemed a re- . Mr. Lemke stated that if the petition were not acceptable, he planned_on ‘taking»an appeal lfrom the local court in Golden | i began. f the state in deposit in other ; North Dakota so as to prevent a {into the state bank. No. 2 Northern Pacific railroad, bound east early this morning, official, fuond it necessary to charge $10, over and above the! One clerk was shot and possibly fatally wounded. The bandit money-furnished him by the state. escaped with registered mail worth several hundred thousand | dollars. Joseph Stronge, Minneapolis, shot three times when he ai t- tempted to frustrate the robbery by throwing an iron bar at the! bandit, is in a hospital here with but little chance of recovery. Le Makes Escape ‘ e { The bandit boarded the train at St. Clud, the last stop; before Minneapolis. He presented a pass believed to have been the Nonpartisan league. He was for-! forged and entered the mail car. He conversed with the clerks: merly farming near Dickinson. Falls to Pass. | Senator Baird’s motion to have it printed in the journal failed by one; vote to pass. It was then read by the: lerk. eat Mr. Mozley was formerly state or-! ganizer for the Farmers Union and, was at one time strongly opposed to I Re LEGION DRIVE SCHEDULED FOR NEXT THO WEEKS until the train got within 35°miles of Minneapolis. Mr. Christianson, an assistant clerk, @as ordered to bind its alloged to have secured a loan of| This is the same Mr. Mozley wh Stronge an dother clerks and when resisting was shot. He was/ $12,000 from the state on land the as-| Rouncement of Membership then ordered to open a registered mail sack. The bandit put) sessed valuation of which is $7,604.) the registered mail into a satchel and as the train slowed down at Northwood junction, he dropped off and disappeared. Minneapolis, Feb. 19.—Postal au-! ay TREATHENT OF ~~ ENLISTED MEN robbed the mail car of the Nortir; Coast Limited. They did not make any estimate of amount. SHIPPERS ASK FOR REDUCED. CATTLE RATES et oe Representatives of Stockmen| the man charged with robbing James . A | McKenzie, a messenger in the Chemi- Attend Hearing at Chi- cal National bank of New York, of cago, Ill. Philadelphia Commission Pro- tests to Congress Regard- ing Action N | $149,000 in money and securities last | December. : : The prisoner who is known as John Chicago, Feb. 19.—About fifty ship-|‘Tennon, and also as John Thompson, pers and representatives of shippers| was captured yesterday. He denied from many states attended the hear-| the charge. MAY BE HAD | | | | | Feb. 16th. This case was brought by; the National Livestock Exchange. The} - American Farm Bureau Federation, the Meat Producers Association, and! the National Federation of Co-opera- | tive Livestock Shippers intervened in: behalf of the complainant. | M. R. Myers, manager of the Na-; tional, Federation of Co-operative Livestock Shippers introduced testi- “mony showing that 27 shipping a3 |Can Obtain Copies of Taxation | ’ i i FROM OFFICE: j Mozley Dismissed. Dr. Worst, after having been shown 1 phatographic copy of the Mozley: {letter by a Nonpartisan senator, said that the signature was without doubt ; that of Mozley’s. “I feet mighty badly about this, | said Dr. Worst. ; the ‘senate state affairs j about it.” |. Dr. Worst said that Mozley had ; been given 30 days notice of dismis-| | sal on February 1, and that he wou'd ibe out of the service March 1. The| | dismissal, he said, was made. because! | he heard Mozley was making politicat | speeches in South Dakota. He de- clared he haf cautioned his, field/ agents against political discussions and against taking commission, and | said this was the first occasion of this kind that he knew of. The Letter. The letter follows word for word; as the original: | | J. H. Worst» Commissioner; Lorne! ; Wilde, Deputy Commissioner; G. G. | Boise, Executive Secretary; Beatrice! McQuillan, Chief Clerk State of North Dakota Department of Immigration , Bismarck Mitchell, 8. D., March 11, 1920. | - Office of 2° ! W. J. Mozley, Deputy Cotmissioner Crow building N. Hartung, Dickinson, N. D. Dear Ted:— | How are you at this time. I am! getting along fine, and hope you are O. K. Can you direct me to four sec- committee v, “I am going before | ‘tering its third year, has made re- Campaign 1 ‘MAKE GOOD RECORD! [Over 13,000 of 28,000 Ex-Ser- vice Men in 1920 Mem- bers" argo, "N. D., Feb. 19.—Ex-service men-and women in North Dakota will be asked to join the American Legion during a membership campaign in this state, February 20 to March 5. Offi- cers of posts in the state have been} given blanks and all information nec: essary to the success of the clean-up| drive to be held under supervision of Jack Williams, Department Adjutant. | Has Good Record, The American Legion, which is en- eres a i i | markable progress and accomplished | many beneticial results for its mem-| bers and the community. Department | headquarters has handled: thousands | of claims for compensation, insurance, | government bonds. education, disabil-| ity, etc. ‘Hundreds of men were pli djutant Williams Makes An-! ' i that the Bank of North Dakota had: been used to help finance the Nonpar-| tisan league campaign, The Tribune) Pass Resolution printed the statement of that paper, | and a denial by F. W. Cathro, direc-:. tor-general of the bank. Several of the anti-league campaiga| speakers in Burleigh county referred! A er) to this deal in their speeches, and at Carlson resolution providing for one meeting held at Painted Woods! the publication of the testimony an employe of the Bank of North Da- in connection with the House in-' kota appeared neying he wae. ¢ Ten vestigation into the industrial! feat te: dectare the anti-league speak- | program. The vote was 77 to 35, ' | ers were mistaken. \It is understood that the senate, The deal, according to the testi-' will take like action in regard to! | mony, was in this manner: ‘publishing the testimony in con- ‘nection with ifs hearing on the Same issue. SOLDIER SHOT WHEN HE WILL NOT TELL FACTS Lieut Kendall Shot by Germans Because He Would Not Divulge Secrets To Print Testimony | j The House today passed the! ‘Six Nonpartisan league farmers living near Valley City signed notes for $2,500 each and received certificates of deposit from the Se- curity National bank, which cer- tificates they turned over to A. C. Townley or other Nonpartisans. | The Security National bank was | assured that the Bank of North ! Dakota would keep more than $15,- | 000 in the bank during the life of i the loans, and the president was said to have authority et refuse to honor drafts of the Bank of North Dakota on this money. The bank paid the Bank of North Da- kota 4 per cent interest for the public funds, and got 10 per cent interest on the loans to the farm- ers for Townley. The bank pres- ident, who is said to have arrang- ed the deal was not present to deny or affirm it. No one from the ‘Bank of ‘North Dakota was 02 the stand. §. Ellis, Lee Cowell, chairman of the bank's board of directors, and John E. Staube, one of the farmers who signed the notes, testified. | i | Chicago, Feb. 19.—Official records ‘and Red Cross reports brought to | Mrs. Frank Kendall, the story that her son, Lieut. Oliver Kendall was shot by the Germans at Cantigay, be cause he would not reveal to his Ger- man captors the plans of the Amari- can forces, The execution took place despite the fact that Kendall was in full uniform when captured. Kendall crept out of the American trenches to investigate American Objection to Loan. (Ellis, said that the objection to the loans had raised in the bank that the men were not customers of the bank, ed in employment last year. | and the bank should care for his cus- ‘North Dakota has made one of the, tomers. He said he was informed that best records of any state ia the coun- | Joaning $15,000 wouldn’t lower the try. National headquarters of the| runds any because he gathered from Legion reports that ‘North Dakota is) ynat Grady, president of the baak, the second state in percentage of Po8-| said, that the Bank of North Dakota sible membership enrolled. Over 13,-) youig deposit,-money to more than 000 of the state's 28,000 service men} equal the amount loaned. were members of tho Legion last year.) ““iphe gix certificates-of deposit were North Dakota is 19th state in number’ 4.4 They were dated July 12, 1920, of posts and is the 21st state in total for $2, 500 each, for six months, to the membership. On January 1, there following men; ‘L. ‘Noltemeier, John were 200 posts in state and six char-) staupe, William Olson, John Melntyre, ters have been issued since. | George iN. Rasmussen and C. H. Nol Au ig: | temeier. lines. SMALLPOX GETS ONE SOLON AND ONE EMPLOYE Representative Frank ‘Lazieit, of McHenry county, is following the sessions of the legislative as- sembly closely-—but only through the newspapers Rep. ‘Lazier is in the local deten- tion hospital with smallpox. | Uons of land that is all in the native} There are 59 units of the Womaa's “t hope to be out of her rr. ‘Lee Cowell, on the stand, said that sociations in Hlinois averaged during the past year, ‘shipping 77 cars on stock of which 21 were:mixed cars, 15 associations-in Indiaa averaged | wild state, three of these sections can ‘be sold for spot cash, the other sec-' jtion can be sold for one-half ¢ash; Guide, Says Byerly. The following statement has been Auxiliary in North Dakota and appli-| president James Grady of the Vank had cations for charters are being made! (Continued on Page 3.) daily. Membership in the Auxiliary) ise ae AT VARIES is limited to wives, mothers, sisters) WHE, * shippers was that mixed cars are ne-} ota. shipping 86 cars of which 45 were); 2 mixed cars; 17 associations. in Mich- Pee ey eer of Internal Rev, igan averaged shipping 75 cars of) “copies of the Income Tax Primer. which 50 were mixed; 6 association: ,ocently issued by the Bureau of In- in Colorado averaged shipping 47 cars ternal Revenue, which contains ques of which 28 were mixed; Minnesota.| tions and answers relative to the fii- 20 associations averaged shipping 74 Ang’ of income tax returns, are ava cara of which 36 were mixed. able at the office of the Collector o The basis of the testimony of the; jyternal Revenue, Fargo, North Da- 7 Copies may be obtained only cessary to co-operative livestock ship-| through collectors’ office, and are not ping associations, of which there are jeing mailed from Washington.” now 5,000 in the country, as well as| “Numerous inquiries have reached to the farmer who does not produce} the Bureau of Internal Revenue rela-; a great number of livestock. It is; tive to the decision of United States unfair to those small producerse to. district court of Connecticut in charge a’ high rate on mixed when shippers of straight cars ‘are! that gains and profits realized from the! cars! Brewster case, in which it was held! charged a lower rate. the sale of capital assets is not tax-; | able income. , The shippers are asking that mixed The United States at-| cars.containing cattle should not take | torney for Connecticut has been au-} above the cattle rate, with the cattle thorized to perfect an appeal to the! minimum. supreme court of the United States! Among those in attendance were] for a review of the decision. Since} jand the balance on one and two ypars/ | Ume, | This land will all be wanted for | flax raising, and will be wanted ‘for| the springs use, try and find out all about the lay of the land so I can} fully describe same to the parties/| wafting same. | How far from railroad, how much| | tillable, lowest cash price to owner: | and a special letter stating how muca| {can be added for commission as the | real estate men will have to get $3.00 for getting me the buyers and I will want to protect you $1.00 per ‘acre and then add $5.00 for other mat- ters. I can handle all of the deal through one of the banks here that is very friendly to the league here. You get the very best lowest casi! price from the owners and be sure and have that kept on the Q. T. I will not have to show any of the let- ters at'this end of the line but want to have the understanding with the and daughters of service men honor- ably ‘discharged from the army, navy! and marine corps. ' The state adjytant of the Legion! will issue a call for a caucus of the) Auxiliary to be held in April or May. i The caucus will be held' in time that | delegates may be selected to repre- sent ‘North Dakota at the National | Convention. Service men in all sections of North | Dakota are invited to membership in! the ‘Legion. Fifteen honorably dis-, charged men from the army, navy and) marine corps can apply for charter in- the Legion. ff there is no post in the | service mans community he is re-, quested to communicate with state’ ON EXCHANGE Chicago, Feb. 19.—Reports that the southwest wheat belt is well watered continued to have a dearish effect on the market today. After starting un- changed, there was a rallyy then 3 sethack after which prices started to advance. The upturn in wheat was caused by talk of export business. The close was firm 2 to 2 3-4 cents net higher. WANT TO BUY A JAIL? Jackson, Mich., Feb. 19.—For sale—|_ one court house, good as new, $7.87; headquarters as to his nearest post. one slightly used jail, a bargain at Men who were in service of any ally $9.61, They appear on the delinquent of the United States eligible to mem-| tax list because assessments for the Knute Espe, president and Martin congress, under the proyisions of the Sar, secretary of the National Fed- eration of Co-operative Livestock Shippers and L. E. Willets, secretary of the Michiga Livestock Exchange. VOLUNTEERS FOR - BUREAU DRIVE Linton, Feb. 19.—Eighty percent of the townships of Emmons county have responded to the call for local soli!- itors for the Farm Bureau drive. The remaining townships will be taken care of by outside men. Prospects are splendid for a paid- up membership of over 600. When money becomes more free it will eas- ily be increased to 1,000. A county meeting of the bureau will be held March 4 to effect a per- manent organization in harmony with| priation bills, the postoffice, diplo- the state and national federation. It} matic and efficiency measures, were will be held at Linton. “| rushed through the senate yesterday. income tax acts of 1913, 1916 and 1918, hag directed the taxation as in- comes of such gains and profits, the bureau will contigue to cogllect the preme court shall hold that provision of law to be unconstitutional. “The same questién is involved in the Eldorado and Ryerson cases which were argued in the supreme court some weeks ago. A decision in these cases undoubtedly will settle the general question. In view of the severe penalties provided by law for false and fraudulent income tax re- turn, taxpayers are warned not to omit from their returns for the year 1920 such gains and profits. Pass Appropriation Bills. Washington, Feb. 19.—Three appro- tax thereon, unless and until the su-; owner that the price they make will | include $9.00 and in some cases $10.06 | so if land igs to net $25.00 the price | will be $35.00, keep a line on all the good bargains in your country, keep me posted on different parcels of j land, and you can depend on me for | some business. I don’t think -I can ;get home for the spring, am getting a line on business in this section of the state and when spring opens will have several men lined up for North Dakota. J intend to go with several | parties that I will have my hands full looking after the-main work here. I received your telegram, regarding money by wire, and thank yoo — for same, also received the affidavit for delegate which I filled out and re- turned to Fargo in time. I thank you for your interest in me. ter your immediate attention, Sincerely, W. J. MOZLEY, t bership in the Legion if citizens of} this country. GUARDSMEN GET Grand River drain were not paid. MOVIE CENSORSH Trusting that you will give the mat- PAY CHECKS FOR | THE FIRST TIME: The first pay checks from the gov-, ernment for North Dakota national! guardsmen under the Bear aneety plan of the army have reached tle of- : eas 4 fice of Adjutant General Angus Fraser. board of ater He ssn OUIn Ae The check: re for members of tures, Was up for discussion this a Company M, First Infantry, Grand) ermoon in the house. Dike Forks, N. D,, and the payroll for one This bill is becoming one o he month for the 62 men amounts to be- most discussed measures in the hotel tween three ad four hundred dollars. lobbies. The majority of the stare Formerly members of the guard, affairs committee voted the bill, out were not made for drills. Under the, for passage, with amendments trans- new-act of Congress members of the] ferring the place of business of the guard company are paid $1 a drill, pro-| board from Bismarck to Fargo. The viding they attend 60 per cent of the| minority, which included seven mem- drills. Sixteen members of.the Grand] bers, recommended the bill for inde- Forks company failed to do this. finite postponement. The Grand Forks company will re-| A number of women appeared be- ceive federal inspection on March 17] fore the committee in favor of pas- by Major Alfred Brandt, of headquar-| sage of the bill, which would create ters Seventh Corps Area. a state board of censorship, to pass | House bill No. 132, providing other week,” said Mr. Lazier, over the telephone, “They tell me I've had about the third werst case in the hospital, but ! think | will get out before a number of others.” Rep. ‘Lazier doesn’t know just how he contracted the disease. He is a Nonpartisan, and repre- sents part of McHenry county. As the Independents have steadily held the majority in the house Representative Lazier’s absence has no political effect. Mrs. A. B. Toner, of Fargo, proof-reader for the senate jour- nal, also is in the deteution hos- pital with smallpox. Other em- ployes of the senate are rotating in this work, so that Mrs. Toner does not lose her salary. FOOD PRICES DROP. Washington, Feb. 19.—Retail food ‘ices declined three percent in Jan- Wary, the department of labor an- nounced. IP BILL: CENTER OF HOT FIGHT on all films shown in the state and to license them. Members who oppose the bill vig- orously di re that it would provide jobs for about 20 people, and would mean & big expense to maintain. It is: “lobby talk” that two Bismarck people are very much interested in the bill, with the strong hope that if it went through they would find = fortable jobs on the board or as at- taches. Chairman Martin Olsen, of the com- mittee, who signed the minority re- port. declared that he believed it would mean jobs for about 20 people, such step at this time. and that he was against taking a | Valley or in some other county where such action has taken place. This action marks another step in the fight which has waged Information of particolar interest to'around the Bank of North Dakota ever since the House probe Many counties plan starting proceedings to tie up the funds banks other than the Bank of withdrawal from the local banks PUBLICITY FOR INDUSTRY PROBE IS DISCUSSED House Resolution Calls For Pub- lication of the Trans- script \EXPENSE PAYMENT UP Attorney-General’s Office Bears Expense of Counsel for ‘ Senate Committee The: question of giving. the widest | publicity to the house investigation {of state industries was before that | body this afternoon. A resolution before the body wants | thé transcript of the house investi- | gation and the conclusions of the | committee printed as a public docu- | ment anff placed in the hands of or- ficlals‘of the state and political sub- | divisions. ; During a brief discussion of the ; Tesolution yesterday afternoon, after | it was offered by Representative Carl. | Son, Speaker Twitchell remarked that he understood the Industrial Commis- sion was paying for the senate in- vestigation. | Senator Liederbach said the attor- | Rey-general’s office was bearing the ; expense of the special counsel for the committee. The house committee em- | Dloyes have not been paid, and it is | the intention, it is understood, to pay | them as a part of legislative expense, | Attorney-General Lemke’s _ opinion | that it would not be legal.’ Lemke {has held this cannot be done. | Resolution Offered. | The resolution offered by’ Represen- | tative Carlson states that F. W. Cathro | said in his testimony before the house | Committee that the report of Bisho, | Brissman and Company was substan- tially correct and says the minutes of the house committee show that “Mr. Lemke agreed in the presence of thu committee thaty:.the | ‘figuras—every- thing in the Bishop, Brissman report. | except the commentations and conclu- lons, are substantially correct.” The resolutions would authorize th: brinting as public documents the transcript of the evidence given be- fore the house committee and the find- ; ings of the committee based on the | evidence. It says that “the people of the state are demanding to know and by right. of law, are entitled to know the re- sults of the examination made by said state auditing board, as well as the findings of the house audit commit- tee and the authentic evidence sus- taining such findings” and that “the officers of the several political sub- divisions of the state, including cities, villages, counties, towaships and School’ districts, have a peculiar in‘ terest in the administration and man- agement of the Bank of ‘North-Dakota, in that they are the custodians and trustees of the public funds belonging to such political subdivisions, which funds have heretofore been required to be deposited in the Bank of ‘North Dakota, and that the officers of such political subdivisions should have, and of right are entitled to have for their informatiop, and for the information of the taxpayers and electors of such political subdivisions, an authentic re- port of the results of such examina- tion of said state industries, and par- ticularly as it relates to the Bank of North Dakota.” Give Members Copies. The resolution would have the doc- uments placed on ‘file with the clerk of all townships, villages, school tricts, auditors of all counties and ¢ } ies, in all public libraries and ea¢ | house member given five copies. Representative Girdell Patte’ Nonpartisan, immediately moved t the resolution be referred to the affairs committee. Representa'ivr Walter Maddock, Nonpartisan, speak- ing in support of the motion, said that (Continued on page 3)