The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 11, 1921, Page 1

("ihe Weather | ‘Weather CONTINUED EE on | TH THIRTY-N NTH YEAR BISMARCK, NORTH “DAKOTA, F RIDAY, ASK BISMARCK i] TO TAKE LEAD FOR HIGHWAYS Good Roads Association Cam- paign Begins in Few Days PLANS ARE ENDORSED Far-Sighted Men Approve Plan to Give State Network of Roads The North Dakota State Good Roads a tion was not.organized for the period of a year or two, as some peo- ple may imagine, but the officers and directors of the association realized at the start’ that it would take sev- eral years to carry out the objects of the organization, and therefore they are preparing for the future right now. That is the principal rea- son for the membership campaign in this city next week. It takes a larg, number of memberships to finance the organization so that it can do el- fective work, and ev effort will be f made to have a sufficiently large treasury so that the work of the or- ganization will not be hampered in any way. That the objects of the assoc with the approval of the peo- evidenced by the following ex- ret from a letter received at the ciation office yesterday: de “] heartily endorse your state- ment that you are in the good roads game to stay until every county and township in the state inaugurates a system of highways connecting with the state and federal highways. It will make North Dakota a better place. and if you heat. the other states to your good roads millenium it will he the best state in union. ‘There ia no questi atsoever put that roads tates they make nations, as ’ Investigate Plans, re is no doubt but that the pec- rh mah- The $ ASsO- a plans ting the es in the union, and, is in Bureau of Public Roads at Washington. Wh all. the data is at hand it is believed that a comprehensive and workable con- stitutional amendment can be prepar- ed that will meet with the hearty ap- proval of the majority of the voters in the state. Sure it is, that under the present highway laws in thi § ible to complete an given road across the state and the same time take advantage of fed- eral for the highwi We are “working under what is practically county out in plan of building high- ¥ v with state and federal aid, and any one county can make it impossi- ble to complete a highway that will be of any great use to the stale in general. This winter has been an exceptional winter for ‘North Dakota, the first of jts kind since 1897,and it may be a decade before we will have a similar winter. Motor vehicles have been able to run in nearly every part of the state all winter long, but- next winter we will find it different. The chairman of the county commission- ers of Golden Valley county stated to the writer the other day, that they had built a graded road north from Beach for several miles, and last win- ter it was possible tu use th piece of road all winter long with wheelpil vehicles. He is heartily in favor of a plan that will give to all portions of the state 365-day highways, start; ing somewhere and ending up somd- where, instead of a short piece he and there throughout the state, seems to be the rule at this time. Asked to Set Pace. Bismarck is being asked to set the pace relative to the number of mem- berships in the North Dakota Sta Good Roads association. The goal t at 200 life memberships, and these should be easy to secure, for there is no other city in the state that wants good roads more than Bismarck. When the committee wait on you Monday morning do not make cuses. but back your wishes 5} your money and thereby mi it possible to resure nk system of highways as. real the Let us make North Dakota the a for tt state in the union, We can ¢ we ly ip the only organiza tion in the that is pledged to securing this trunk system of higi-| Let's Zo. LBAGUERS ASK | MODIFIED PLAN: Members of the new state executive |”. committee of the Nonpartisan league in North Dakota is called. upon to con- sider a demand for a complete reor- ganization of the gue in North Da: kota, it became known here today. A_ petition, kno as ‘the petition} of 61,” signed by. numerous Nonparti- sans, chiefly from Morton county, has 1 to the league leaders. resentative Strain, of Morton county, is one of the’ signers of the! petition, They want the league man agement decentralized. of JOB HUNTERS NEEDN’T. HURRY Washington, , Mar, 1b--Job hunteb: for places in the departnient of j tice must wait, “Attorney General Dougher id today, ing but few places would be filled in) the near future, HARDING TAKES UP PROBLEMS OF OTHER NATIONS Chief Executive Discuss bassadorships to Foreign Land: s Am- HERRICK FOR POSITION Likely to Return ‘to France— Mexican Aspects Are ' Discussed —As the new ation settles down to a work- ing bas resident Harding and his chief advisers are giving increas- ing attektion to the country’s foreign relations. for the moment, selection of a new set -of diplomatic — representatives abroad, ions with Mexico, the Rhine situat the league of nations and the Pana sta Rican contro- versy are sudjects demanding consid- eration, although there are no indica- tions that any of them ‘have reached a stage forecasting immediate action. Herrick for Job. So fur as diplomatic appointments are concerned, it was ita tively that no final selections been made but that in several cases the field of lable toward a decis ¥ Washington, March 11.- adiminist stood to be Myron . Herrick of Ohio, for an dar to France, a post frov whieh he r in the firs: Wilson adv nother is regarded as Vv turn to the Henr Wilson of Indiana, former amba: to Mexico, who is mentioned most ien in connection with the ambassa- gorship to ttaly, "The question of Gan rel eee Hiuges upon thevanility cf the new administration: of” President Obregon | to establish a regime that will win! Amerjcan recognition, ‘ Much as the White’ House ‘ahd the | ate department hope for a full res- Lane Jor teration of diplomatic. relatio: vith | the southern republic, there little; evidence of confidence that a forma recognition be possible. in the near future. Hears Mexican Talk. may gested for amb dor to Mexico i se of ultimate recognition, and la Mr. Greager hed a talk with Un- etary Fletcher of the ate (de patment, himself a former ambassa- dor ut Mexico City. No announce- ment followed the conference, but the impression was given that conditions to be required for recognition were under earnest discussion, i The holding of the Ameican troop: on the Rhine is one which has bee: brought forcibly to the attention of the new president by the recent ad- vance of the allied forces into Ger- many to enforce provisions of the Versailles teaty. The only announce-; ment made ‘here has been that the state and war departments were in ac- cord with the policy of the previous administration insofar as it provided for nonparticipation in the allied ad- vance and that on the other hand, withdrawal of the American army was not immediately under consideration. League Talk Up. Related in. some degree to the Rhine situation question of American participation in a modified League of Nations. Dispatches from Paris saying that the French embassy here was reported to have approached the state department on the subject, were the first public intimation that! friends pointed -to the military record! negotiations regarding the league had} of Major Russ, who served overseas heen received and the general attitude! and was decorated, and his business of officials indicated that the conver- sations had not yet passed a prelimin:| miss: ary stage. BEARS OBTAIN AN ADVANTAGE. ON WHEAT MART Prices in Early ly Trading in Chi-| cago Make Declines in the wheat mar general commi: based largely’ on dis ho urbed ‘industr B put some str howing total stock: 1 were ten mi of private ¢ h ranged f lower .were y setback and then som thing of a rally. SEAPLANES ARE BACK IN U.S. + San Diego, Cal, Mar. 11.—The five ; army eee returned from th round trip flight to Panama. into balance increased in A Ba: of value 50,000 resident Harding discussed the} problem today with R. B.- ger of Texas who has been’ sug. MS ARCH 11, 1921 | Last Edition PRICE FIVE CENTS RN RRR CONDEMN CITY PESTHOUSE AS FILTHY PLACE Former Patients Address Com-. munications to City Boards , MONEY ASKED Want Statement As to Why Charges Are Made and Where: Cash Goes TALK OF [interne i SHOOTS BROTITER Bitter condemnation. of the condi- ren dantield, aged IL, tions at the city detention hospital ally shot his brother, This is Wa who acciden Clair, aged 9, was voiced today by*a number of While. playing “ west” at their former patients in a communication home in Pontiag, Mich. Clair died. to the city commission, .which also, ~~~ nS was gent to the board of county com- missioners. The former patients ‘eclare hey “expect to see some action taken) the matter. The petition follows: Gentlemen: . Having been smallpox patients at the Detention Hospital in the city of Bismarck, N. D., ffom February 12th to March 5th, inclusive, we would ‘ike to call your attention to the fol- REBELS DEMAND CITY SURRENDER TO AVOID FIRE lowing facts: 1. The place is absolutely unsani-' Dispatches Say Kronstadt Au- tary and not fit for human habi tion, There is no water in the hou thoriiies Demand Petro- The slops. have to be carried out and emptied in the rear of the grad hospital, Water has to be carried up ‘ for the patients’ sponge bath and then DENY SOVIET led out. REPORT The rooms are so small that os just cne patient should be in eac of the four rooms available, althougs reat “Anti-Bolshevik Movement three patients were in each of the Reporied i in South two larger rooms at one time, and ~ two in each of the two smaller rooms Russia while we were there. There is no sors dining room for convalescents but London, Mar. ‘J! Revolutionary food is carried up on trays and then anthoritics at the fortress at Kron- ro. of the sm: ' | | cal business administration,” sarvied, back. There is no opportun-. ity to be segregated during any stage lpox, but patients are com- pelled to sit around in one bedroom with absolut no privacy whatever. 3. The, building heated by meang (Continued on page | 3) 3 ARE ENTERED IN COMMISSION RACK IN CITY stadt have sent-an ultimatum ‘to the Soviet authorities in Petrograd de- manding the:surrender of the city be- fore March 2% If;the city is not given up, the tl timatum declares, there will be a gen- eral bombardment, it is asserted in an Abo, Finland, dispatch to the London ‘Times. Whi workin le arrest: and executions hes to have Occurred. Kronst: ue sent out a wil Jess dispatch saying that the “Soviet statement that the fortress was with- out food was false. . “Arti fire from @xtremely -fi from Kronstadt as been ext wel directed,” the wireless d quoter sayin f as eK gr hevik movement in| | E wy the vicinity of Minsk, White Ru: George H. Russ, Jr. Harry is reported ina Renters dispatch from Thompson and E., A. Brown aera ye . Soviet troops are said to have In Field mutinied and murdered Bolshevik there, commis REDS REPULSED. Lety Mar. 11,--Bolshevik were repulsed in an attack on adt when shrapnel broke the ice PETITIONS ARE OUT A complete city commi: was entered in the city elec paign today. The citizens proposed are George H. Russ, Jr., for president of the city commission; Harry Thompson, Say missioner, for re-election, and KE. / 3rown for commissioner, Friends of the three men brought them out and distributed petitions in j the city. It was emphasized by those who urged the men to be candidates that none of them sought to enter’ New York 1. 11—Brewers an- the campaign, but that friends placed’ nounced the: ention to start mak- them in the race and expected that ing real beer in line with the ruling they would not withdraw, although which may permit its use on prescrip- they probably would not make an ac-' tion by physicians. tive campaign. The program is the same of the three men. It js: “Reduced taxes, parks, playgron prety lunpoliti- ion cam- ing 800, BRUISED IN COLLISION. ‘New England, N. H. E. Schroder and three companions escaped with only minor brujses, when in avoiding a collision with another car on a grade, the auto in which they In addition their friends said they were for better disposal of garbage; and for a proper detention hospital rge Their Merits. Urging, the merits of the three men. | and overturned in the ditch. All four | were able to craw! from the weckage the car being badly damaged. 1 experience, the record on the com- THIS IS ¢ sn of Harry Thompson, and the! * life-long residence of Mr. Brown in the city and his business experience aus a grocer. The men may become known “Independents,” their friends emphasizing the point that they represented no faction. With A. P. Lenhart entered by friends for the presidency of the | commission, and Chris. Bertsch, Jr.. and Ch Henzler also in the field. there now are two candidates for ach office. All of the men entered thus far for the commission are representative, citizens and well known business men, 4 3 N. &, A. Staff Special Ineene: city. ae i Ge Man tl —“This i th r abl ther I've NEW BUILDING - errant ree certainly different hat is used to be FOR. DEVILS LAKE ‘Vor sei ii often, haven't vou? articniarly ibis winter. Devils La Mar. 11.—Flynn,{ Oia ‘Tom Jeiferson beat you to it. Traynot & Traynor, local attorneys,| Ag fay back as 1:81 he took his quill have announced that they will erect! jen in hand and proclaime in’ the near future a modern oflice “A change in cli taking place | building on the corner of Fourth! very gensibl and colds ore moderate within ven the middle-aged. street and’ Farrington avenue, WATER STILL j are becoming m the memory of + Snows are less frequent and less deep. 4 The elderly inform me that the earth SAYS MARTIN) asea to pecovered® with snow about! —_—_— three months every year.” Fargo, Mar. 11.--Martin Brickson of Jefferson's weather report, however, Wahpeton, ts free. He told Judge} doesn’t rank as high the Declara Woodrouzh in federal court that the of Independence, of which he tion sy manufacturing plant dlely for the production ter the well water on his farm was not fit to drink withont being subjected to the process of dis- tillation. the ee alleged wh | i | |¢ mentary proof tha at the winter’ chiefly myth, “It’s like telling a child there's no on which they were crossing, drown: | BREWERS START MAKING BEER D., March 11.—-} | were riding ran off the embankment! THAT WEATHER ISN‘T: ‘old-fashioned YANKS FOLLOW ALLIED ORDER IN OCCUPATION | Major- General Allan to Make Commission ee His DEAD HONORED French Commander Places Wreaths Upon War Dead French M Headquarters, May- ene, March 11.--(By Associated Press) Major General, Henry T. Allen, com- mander of the American forces of oc- ADMITTED TO BAR AT 81 YEARS: ‘Helena, Mont. Mar. 11.- .R. H, Copland, of Big Arm, yesterday took the Montana ‘record for age on being admitted to the bar, when he entered papers here. He is 81 years of age. He has practised all his life in North Dakota and has just moved to this state. STOCK TAX IS UPHELD; STATE GETS $120, 000... Judge Woodrough Hands Down Decision in Fargo SECOND TIME IN COURT START GENERAL WAGE CUTS ON RAILROADS LINES JOINING IN EFFORT IN BAST AND WEST Affects Only Unskilled Work- ers at Present Time, It Is Said WOULD BROADEN SCOPE Is To Include Skilled gene in the Near Future New York, March 11—A gen- eral movement by the nations railroads to cut war-time wage cupation, will follow ‘the same policy Railroads Carried Case to U. S. scales, long forecast by rail of- with regard to collection of customs, along the Rhine as on dther problems | ; connected with the occupation, making |the decision of the Rhineland commis- sion-his orders to his army, according : information received here from Cob- lenz today. General Allen, it was stated, is awaiting notification of the commis- sion’s decision. ' DECORATE GERMA) AVES. Allied Military Headquarters, Neuss, March 11.—(By the Associated Press.) —General Gaucher, commander of French troops along the Rhine, yes- Supreme Court Once Judge Woodrough, in in federal court at Fargo, this afternoon handed down a decision upholding the state capital stock tax law. By the decision railroads who were taxed must pay about $120,000 to the state, being taxed for 1919 and 1920. They will be assessed for about the same in 1921. This is the second time the case has been in federal court. The railroads took the matter to the ficials, appeared to be in full swing today following the lead of a few lines which had earlier announced proposed cuts. Sev- eral railroads in the east and virtually every railroad in the west announced proposed wage reductions yesterday. Further statements from lines that have announced proposed cuts were predicted today. Officials of various lines today were terday placed wreaths on the graves United States supreme court, the first arranging conferences with employes of French and German soldiers who time on the ground that Tax Commis-! in an effort to reach an agreement on died in the war of 1870 and the World, Sioner Wallace had erred in including;a proposed reduction. The plans as w ‘As he placed his tribute over the Germans he said: “These died in obedience to military order,” while at the graves of the French he said: “They were our pioneers.” German civilians who had stood bareheaded during the invocation im- mediately put on their hats as the band struck up the M eilles. ‘AMEND CHARGES : AGAINST HAMON GIRL.ON TRIAL Pleaded Not “Guilty Before Case Starts in Court Here | Ardmore, Okla. March 11—Clara ,{ Smith, Hamon went on trial for tie alleged murder of Jake L. Hamon un- der an amended information to which j she, through her attorneys, entered a plea of not guilty, ft became known | today. The original information, which in | Oklahoma has the status of a grand j jury indictment in other state: serted that Clara Hamon did dake L, Hamon. ill . DP. WOMAN, Sioux Fal D. March 11—The ‘y trying Mrs. Anna Matheson, harged with complicity in the mur- der of her hushand, Martin, last July, found her not guilty this morning. | CLEAR trial, ordered that contempt proceed- jings be instituted against George W. ; Egan, newspaper publisher. During the trail Egan’s newspaper published | 'a story in which it was said it was a foregone conclusion that Mrs. Math- eson would be acquitted. She was accused of giving her hus- | band poisoned peaches. | MOBILIZE MEN FOR PLEBISCITE Terlin, Mar. 11—-Mobilization of men and women eligible to vote in | the Upper Silesia pelbescite has be- gun throughout Germany. Santa Claus to ; ‘explath to any old- ; timer the deep snows of yeste isted mostly in his imagination,” he said, as he turned to his records. If you had an idea lilacs were blcom- 3 ing in March, 1885, you are mistaken. The cherts say {he mean tempera-; for March, 1885, was would bloom at that degre’ ture lilac No ion to inno geod old- ent youngsters, about ioned winters, the the records will not bear you out. There's the winter of 1873-74. Mr. Weather Man says that in December, 3, the temperature 1gi4, 40. /The next winter was cold, but) the mercury sonra in the me three. h period, ng 38.1. Oo one ys Marv “why we have weather some years, and cold weather in otners. ‘The only certain thing about the weather is that it is uncertain.” ‘ino mild Judge Fleeger, who presided at the: If you've been handing out conver- | | nation of D. R. Crissing 0. in valuations the Minneapolis ajnd Seattle terminal values, land grants and some other non-operative proper- ty. A new essinent was made and the railroads obtained an injunction, declaring that during the period for which the assessment was sought to be levied, the railroads were under federal control and that the state was in effect taxing the United States gov- | ernment. The case was styled Walker iD. Hines director, general of railroads, George 1, Wallace, state tax com- issioner. In the decision today Judge Wood- rough upholds the law and method of assessment. ‘The: railroads may ap- peal. PACKING PLANT: MEN 70 BALLOT ON STRIKE PLAN Activities Are Transferred from Omaha to Chicago Omaha, Neb., March 11.—The scene of action in the packer-labor dispute . shifted today to Chicago where inter- national headquarters of the Amalga- mated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmens’ union were preparing bal- lots for a national referendum strike vote. The vote was authorized at the conference of union delegates which ended here last night. Complete returns were expected hicago by next’ Wednesday. CABINET CONSIDERS. Washington, March 11.—Secretary Davis went to the cabinet meeting today prepared to take up with Pres- ident Harding the impending strike {in the meat packing industry due ‘to wage cuts. He carried with him jdata regarding the industry which |has been assembled by government’ agencies since 1917. It was regarded as likely that the department of labor would order mediators to Chicago soon in an et- fort to prevent a strike. BASEBALL WILL BE DISCUSSED HERE TONIGHT in Ch Members of Several we tions Invited to Be Pres- Plans for the 1921 baseball season will be discussed at a meeting to ud held at the: Commercial o'clock. Members and ofti Knights of Columbus, Elks, United Commercial Travelers, Town Criers and Commercial club are especial invited to attend. Important matte will be discussed and arrangements made to insure financial success of the team, it is announced by the base- ball committee, which wants a team for Bismarck second to none in the state. “DEAD,” COMES 7 LIFE. Newport, Eng., Mar. A school- girl at Pengam was Wat ‘oat dead | On the third day the coffin arrived. A. ‘light was carried into the room, The up. “Where is dad?” she 1 i | CONFIRM CRISSINGER, Washington, March 11.—The . of } i Marion, to be comptroller of the currency confirmed today by the senate. Oxford Universi y is organizing a geographical expedition to Spitzber- { gen. nomi- | announced affect only unskilled and semi-skilled labor. Men engaged in the actual operation of trains, telegra- phers and station agents, are not in- cluded, EFFECTIVE APRIL 15. Boston, March 11.—The New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad an- nounced a conference of additional classes of employes to discuss a down- ward revision of their rates of pay ef- fective April 15. Employes affected include supervisory forces, mainte- nance of way, shops, offices, station forces and dining car and restaurant employes. The date of the conference will be set later. TOCUT UNSKILLED WAGE, Philadetphia,.Mareh ‘11---A_confer- ence ‘with’ represetitativeS of unskilled Jabor. on March 15 to discuss “the necessity for making reductions in the existing rates of pay” was called by ®. M. Flack, general manager of the Philadelphia and Reading railway company. ‘ Twenty-five classifications of un- skilled labor are affected by the pro- posed cut, according to circulars out- lining ifs purpose SWING IN LINE. Chicago, March 11—Virtually all of the larger western railroads tou: had swung into line in the polisy started a few days ago by severul (Continued on Page 3) COLD WEATHER REMAINS OVER THE NORTHWEST Temperature in Bismarck Drops to Below Zero During Night , N ‘The cold wave which descended up. on Bismarck last night as scheduled nt in the weather bureiu announceme: was checked somewhat by the fick) elements, The thermometer, however, fell to 3 3 below zero, and stood at that figure at 7 7 o'clock this morning. othe anew stopped little earlicr than was" expected, but only after a deep blanket had covered the entire Slope territory, The thermometer sank to 12 below | in Calgary, 18 below in Edmonton and | 22 below in Prince Albert, and the weather prediction is for colder weath- er weather tonight, with a cold wave in the northwest portion of the state. | Bismarck was the coldest weather bu- reau point in the state last night. HOOVER PLANS TO AWAIT NEW CONGRESS PLAN Statement Issued esued: by Secretary Indicates. Deferred Action i Se dees Washington, March 11.—Indications ‘that the governmentai reorganization proposed by the new administration | may await congressional study of the matter were seen in a statement to- day by Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce. Mr. Hoover said the fu- ture of his department “in its ability to meet the needs of our industr and trade must await the thor reorganization of the whole le ve machinery now being vigoro: taken up by con: ; His statement jas significant. The congressional study of denver mental reorganization is being by a joint committee of the sent: and the house. “regarded hore was