The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 14, 1921, Page 1

“ The Weather Uneettied. THE BISMARC BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, | MONDAY MARCH 14, 1921. K TRIBUNE | Last Edition | PRICE FIVE CENTS INDUSTRY BODY | TO FORMULATE | BANK’S POLICY Action Expected to Be Taken as) Result of Garnishment Decision MILLION LOAN IS DUE Bank of North Dakota’s Obliga- tion to Chicago House Matures 15th The policy to be pursued by the! Bank of North Dakota in view of the| decision of the supreme court that the! bank is separate from the state gov-; ernment and that it is subject to gar-! nishment is expected to be formulated! by the Industrial Commission within! the next day or two. ef Two of the three members of the! commission, Governor Frazier and At-; torney General Lemke, were not in}! the city today, but an early meeting! of the commission is expected, | ‘Many problems of the bank are to; be discussed, it is expected. The mil-| lion dollar loan made by the bank! with a Chicago financial house several | months ago is due tomorrow. Mr.) Cathro said to day that no arrange} ments had been completed with re-! gard to either paying or extending the| loan. The action of the bank in the matter is expected to be determined immediately. Other Obligations. Among the heavy obligations of the bank in addition to this loan is thc} state apportionment fund for schoJls,) amounting to $300,000. This appor-; tionment was certified by the depart-! ment of education on the third Mon- day in February, it usually being pay-) able the first of March. ‘Mr. Cathro declined to make a statement as to the effect of the gar-! nishment case on the Bank of North Dakota, until he had time to consid-| er the matter thoroughly. He indicat-/ ed he might prepare a statement dur-; ing the day. ‘An interesting phase of the discus-| sion arising from the garnishment | case is whether or not the Bank of! North Dakota, if, as the supreme court | has decided, the state imparts to it/ none of its prerogatives, it is taxable under the federal income tax law. A corporation is taxed 20 per cent upon; its earnings if they do not exceed 2(\) per cent of the capital investment and 20 per cent additional on earnings be- yond that figure. Mr, Cathro said that~he did not think the bank was liable to the tax, and if it were, he said, there would be no tax to pay because the income is derived chiefly from tax-free money; and securities of political subdivisions. Say It Hits Banks. It was pointed out by some Nonpar- tisans that the decisions of the su- preme court might re-act upon private banks, as counties instituting garnish- ment proceedings would call upon the local banks to pay the counties. ‘On the other hand opponents of the bank pointed out that it offered a way for the counties to cease doing busi- ness with the Bank of North Dakota and to avoid the order of the Indus- trial Commission to the effect that checks of counties which do not con- tinue to make deposits with the bank would not be honored. ONE-HAN POWER) PLAN IS KEPT BY GT. BRITAIN \ Naval Estimates for Year Based | Upon Supremacy on the Sea London, March 14.—(By the Asso-! ciated Press.)—The British naval es-| timates for 1921-1922 amount to 91,-/ 186,869 pounds sterling gross and 82,- 479,000 pounds sterling net, it was! announced today by Lord Lee of Far-| ahem, First Lord of the Admiralty.’ in a statement explaining the esti- mates Lord Lee said they were based | on the government policy of main-: taining -a ore-power standard. POST‘ ASSAILS. RADICAL ARRESTS, Cleveland, 0., March 14.—Most of| the arrests for alleged radicals sinde the war-were made by private dete tives unlawfully in the pay of the de- pattment of justice, said Louis F.| Post, former secretary of labor. | GERMANY PAYS SHIP OWNERS. The Reichstag | Berlin, March 14. appropTiated four billion seven hun- dred million marks to repay owners} for vessels taken by the allies, mak-| ing a total of twelve billion marks/| appropriated for this purpose. j CUT GASOLINE PRICE ONE CENT New York, Mar. 14.—The Standard| Oil Company of New Jersey today; reduced the price cf gasoline 1 cent) a gallon, naming the wholesale price, 26 cents a gallon. | VALLEY CITY WINS. | Valley City, Mar. 14—The- high! school is celebrating today the vic-) tory over Fessenden in the district de-| bating contest. The verdidt was two} to one in Valley City’s favor. | SOLDIERS ARE _, ‘CAUGHT IN AN IRISH AMBUSH Mohill, Ireland, Mar, 14.—Thirty men of the Bedfordshire regiment, while roczeding from (Hanieck-On- Shannon to Ballingmore Friday even- ing were ambushed and attacked with rifle fire and bombs. The military returned the fire with the result that six of the attackers were killed and one was mortally wounded. The six men killed were attired in the uniform of the Irish Republican army. H JUDGE REFUSES CONTINUANCE OF BASEBALL TRIAL: Chicago Jurist Orders Another Hearing ‘in Mat- ter CICOTTE,|. JACKSON TURN: Attorney Says He Learns They; Will Not Be Available as Witnesses ' a age Chicago, Mar. 14.—Judge William E./ Dever today refused to comply with| a motion by the state that the trial of Chicago White Sox players and others indicted for the alleged throw-| ing of the world series of 1919 be tak-/ en off the court call. He ordered an- other hearing for next Tuesday when it is believed a date for the trial will) be set. Attorneys for the defense moved! that an immediate trial be held Thurs-| dzy and Judge Dever said he would announce his decision on this matter later. Judge Barrett, American League at- torney, in pleading for postponement} said the prosecution had learned that! Eddie Cicotte, Claude Williams and) Joe Jackson, who confessed to the) grand jury, “would not be available; as witnesses.” * Consequently, he said, the state) could not obtain conviction on the evi- dence it now had and would have to have’ time to seek additional data. ‘GETS VERDICT. Mohall, March 14—Dr. Fitzmortis| bas been returned a verdict in his fa- wer in the case brought against him| by the Northwestern ‘National Insur-| ance company, alleging damages of) 08,000 on a policy alleged to have been issued on erroneous reports. FRAZIER UP FOR CARRYING CONCEALED GUN Divide County Clerk of Court Gets Mixed in Another Affair Minot, March 14.—R. W. Frazier, clerk of court of Divide county, was given a preliminary hearing yesterday onthe charge of carrying concealed weapons. C. J. Clark, Crosby banker, signed the complaint. : Mr. Frazier claimed he was carry-| ing the weapons because he had been} deputized to transport W. E. Vadnais, | former county auditor of Divide, to| Bismarck to serve a five-year sen- tence in the penitentiary. Governor Frazier cancelled the parole of Mr. Vadnais, on recommendation of States | Attorney Braatelin, who claims tilat he had not kept his agreement to; correct the records. Mr. Clark alleges that Frazier) pulled a gun on him in the Ward county courthouse, during an alter-| cation following denial by Judge FARMBUREAU TO OBTAIN COST OF PRODUCTION Willard Has Worked Out Plan) _to Get Accurate Figures | on Crops WILL GATHER STATISTICS Inventories of Buildings and Lands Will Be Taken By Experts Fargo, N. D. March 14.—Plans to; secure accurate data on the cost of} production of farm products in this} state are being submitted by the North Dakota Farm Bureau Federa-| | Plan Worked Out. The plan, which was worked out cultural college contemplates several | SICK CHILDREN men, each of whom will make weekly | or semi-weekly visits to 30 or 40! farms in one or more counties and; | | ee tion to the county farm bureaus of| ~ the state for their approval. | by Rex, E. Willard farm management specialist at the North Dakota Ag! | | | secure the exact figures on cost 91 board, horse labor, | labor, manure, | machinery, Yeed, threshing, seed| ictii q i | treating, pasture, fences, taxes, in-| Little Victims of Chronic Dipth-| surance, management, depreciation! theria Dependent on Tube and repair of buildings, road work,, ditches, waste land, etc. | Inventories will be taken of all! ae property including livestock, machin-| iy, buiidings and land, at the begin-|" Noo ete atiee: Genie the keart| ning and end of each year, and all) of ‘New York, overlooking the North other figures will be taken which are| River, 26 children play and never say) necessary to accurately determine! a word that rises above a whisper—| wat each bushes of grain costs ‘the! 26 children who know some of them} ‘armer to raise. | are doomed for life. Will Have Statistician. | "These 26 wear 26 gowns of checked! “It is,obvious that few farmers are| gingham, they drink from 26 identical able to keep records in the detail| white and blue mugs, they sleep on| necessary to compute costs,” declares; 26 cots as like as peas, and. they know Mr. Willard “and it is therefore ne-| that they are liable to be there for the cessary to secure this information by | Test of their years. i in Throat ‘| Lowe of the writ of habeas corpus asked for by Mr Vadnais. | Mr. Frazier is the man who got) in several, heated affairs duting the; last day of the cession. At one time! he was ordered out of the house by Speaker Twitchell. BUILDING WORK _| AT STANDSTILL, St. Paul, Mar. 14.—Despite a 22 per} cent reduction in labor costs and 18! per cent cut in building material, gen-| eral construction work practically is| at a standstill in the Northwest, it! was declared at today’s session of the) Northwestern Association Genera Contractors convention. Unsettled} jabor and financial conditons are the cause for inactivity, it was said. | } FILES SUITS TO. COLLECT PREMIUM | Suits against the Northwestern Tel- ephone company for alleged failure to/ furnish information required by the) ‘Workmen’s Compensation Bureau and against the Bismarck Gas Company| for alleged non-payment of the com- pensation premiums have been filed) in the Burleigh district court by the/ Workmen's Compensation Bureau. | | TWO NAMED TO | GOVT. POSTS| - Washington, Mar. 14.—J. Mayhew Wainwright, a ‘New York lawyer, was nominated today by President Hard- ing to be assistant secretary of war. The senate confirmed the nomination. Elliott Wadsworth, of Boston, Mass.,| was nominated by the president to be assistant secretary of the ‘treas- ury. He wil be in charge of foreign loans. « the use of a man to go from farm to farm weekly, to secure the necessary tacts.” | LYON FUNERAL HELD TODAY IN PASADENA, CAL. Russell-Miller Mills Suspend Op- erations for Hour in Honor All of the Russell-Miller flour mills today suspended operations from 1 to 2 p. m., central time, cut of respect to H. R. Lyon, vice-president of the company, for whom funeral services were. held in Pasadena, Cal. at 11) v'clock, western time. The body of Mr. Lyon, it is under- stood, is to be taken from Pasadena to Minneapolis for burial. Mr. Lyon lived in Mandan until about 15 years ago when he removed to Minneapolis. NONPARTISANS IN BED AFTER KANSAS FIGHT Two of Them Said to Have Been Tarred and Feathered Salina, Kan., Mar. 14.—C. O, Par- sons, a Nonpartisan league worker, said’ to have been tarred in Barton | county Saturday night is confined to! his bed here today. J. O. Stevis als@ said to have ben a victim in Saturday, night's trouble is also here but it able to be up. The heads of both men are matted with tar and they exhibited bruises| and black eyes. | Details of the anti-Nonpartisan lea-, gue demonstration in Butler county) yesterday and late last night which; reached a climax in the escorting from! Great Bend of J. Ralph Burton, for-! mer U.S, senator from Kansas, and the tarring of J. C. Stevic, and A. A. Parsons, officers of the league, reveal ed that Stevic and Parsons were com-; pelled' to apply a coating of tar to themselves after their clothing had been removed. After they had been} forced by the crowd of several hun-; dred men to roll on the ground thcirj clothing was returned and they were; told to leave the county. | Burton and Wilson were on their to Ellinwood, a small town in this} county where they were to address a meeting yesterday afternoon. When they did not appear Stevic and Par- sons came here to learn what had be- come of them. The latter pair was, then taken out of the city and told/ not to return. Later when they ap-| peared again in Ellinwood they were! taken in hand by the mob and tarred. | — "WEATHER REPORT | oF For twenty-four hours ending at noon, March 14. Temperature at 7 a. m.. Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday .. Lowest last night . Precipitation Highest wind velocity Forecast. For North Dakota: weather tonight and Tuesday, proba- bly snow tonight in east portion, somewhat warmer tonight; colder Tuesday in the west portion. ' Unsettled | GERMANS ASK They.are “prisoners.” Their crime? Chronic diphtheria! , And their punishment? A little hole cut below “the voice box” in the| throat, into which a tube is inserted—j so that they may breathe. i Yet they seem healthy and happy.} They romp about, but it is an awe- some, noiseless romping. Strange, Weird Call. When they want to be heard very much, they place the forefinger of the right hand over the little hole in the} tube, and a hoarse sound, not unlike the cry of some strange bird, issues forth. They then smile—because they know it’s “funny.” These children are mostly from well-to-do families. In some cases,; however their families have dropped out of sight, and the child never hears from them. { Over these children a death watch is' kept. If one -of the tubes slips, if some- things covers the opening, the child cannot cry out, it can only choke— and die. ‘So they are guarded as one might} guard the most precious orchid. They go to school.in the hospital and they spend their summers on a; farm in Otisville, near Middletown. Not Homesick. _ i They are not homesick because they; came here when they were babies. ‘On girl has ben there for; 10 years. She is about to leave. “But this is my home,” she said and’ tears came; into her voice. i ‘Before intubation was discovered,' children died from the closing of the! membrane, which cut off the air sup: ly. | : in the near future, Dr. Ri J. Wilson, | director of the Bureau of Hospitals of the Department of Health, hopes to have a building erected as a separate, “home” for these youngsters. | i Dr. E. Giddings says that the pros- pects for a permanent cure cannot properly be estimated. Some cases have been of 10 years’ standing, others recover within a few months; still others seem to have but-a slim chance of-returning to the outer world. LEAGUE'S AID Berlin, Mar, 14.—The government - has addressed’ note to the secretariat | of the League of Nations protesting | against the penalties being enforced! ‘ARMOURS CALL ‘three members by the entente for Germany’s non- fulfillment of her reparations and obli-! gations. . i FIND $200,000 OF POSTAL LOOT Toledo, March 14.—Postal inspect: ors here today announced the recov ery of $200,000 worth of the loot in the million dollar Toledo postoffice | robbery of Feb. 17. More than $145,-/ 000 of the bonds were. recovered in| New York City, $27,000 in Detroit and) $14,000 in Philadelphia. FVEDIEN ~ BIG STORE FIRE | Richmond, March 14.—Five known dead, two missing and a scote in-| jured was the toll in the destruction | by fire ofj a furniture store. 1 OPTIMISTIC OVER VOTING Berlin, March 14—Special dispatch-t es from upper Silesia reflect opti-| mism on the outcome of the ballot- ing for control of the territory a week! hence. i Here are shown the hospital classroom where New York’s lit- tle victims of chronic diphtheria study; and a nurse making her daily inspection of the tubes in the patient’s throats. WHILHELM SAYS |] ARBOR [JNIONS HE TRIED TO pavent WaR DEMAND RAIL he has prepared for private distri- | Say They Can Not Proceed With bution the former German emperor declares he tried to maintain the Hearing Unless They Are “ There peace of Europe for 30 years but was foiled by Great Britain, France and Russia. BOARD CONSIDERING Chicago, March 14—The Fall- road lnbor board today reqested AN ELECTION | BY EMPLOYEES ie etd." | testify in the hearing over the na- Plan to Have Committees of! tional agreement, The men sume moned were: T. DeWitt Cuyler, Workers to Discuss Con- | chairman of the Association of dition | Rallroad Executives, W. W. Atter- bury, vice-president of the Penn- : sylvania; Carl R. Gray, president | of the Union Pacific, and R. 8. ARBITRATE DIFFERENCES, Binkerd, assistant to Mr. Cuyler. | The decision to summon the men | was made in executive session and) after Frank Walsh had refused to o on woth the rebuttal testimony unless the witness was called, Chicago, March 14.—Armour company today called an election in| all of its plants for Lomorrow for its! employes to select representatives to Ghicaga; Mareh 14.—Railroad labor form an industrial decomracy in’! unions today notified the United which employers and employe$ will | States failway labor board that they have an equal representation to set-| could not proceed with the hearing tle all working conditions, wages and} over national agreements unless the hours, in the Armour plant. | board compled with theit requests to The representatives selected to-| Subpoena various railroad executives morrow will form a temporary board| ‘© appear before the board. i hich wi kK out permanent plans.! Frank P. Walsh, attorney for tho; vee ouncement of the. packing railroad brotherhoods. told the board company said that it was planned to! at the opening of today’s session that eventually have a plant jhe was “greatly srprised” that his re- conference | , board.of five members in each plant: quest for subpoenas has not been and a general conference boar | complied with and that it was useless selected from ft aut for the labor side to go on with its plants. | testimony. The outline of the proposed plan! The testimony of the railroad heads ag given out by Atmour and company | W8S essential to a fair heating, he said that when representatives of em-! said. ployer and employes could not be! Mr. Walsh referred to the labor reached the question could be re-| Situation in the packing industry, and went into executive session to i varia alone protesting. ferred to an arbitrator. | charging that the packers had joined | consider Mr, Walsh’s statement. Hen- GERMAN GUARDS | RAMSON WILL i 'o Damage Reported in Distur-, bances at Terre Haute, Ind. . with the Morgan and Gary and rail- {road heads” in a concerted attempt ,to ruin Jabor unions forever.” The board adjourned at 10:25 a. m. | N F E L i | N ity T. Hunt, of the public group of | the board, said he believed subpoenas . | Would be issued but that the board! INDIANA CITY wanted to do it “in a cautious way.” —— | i DISBAND ALL Terre Haute, Ind, March 14—-A| Berlin, March 14—The federal cheavy earth shock was felt in Terre council adopted the government's | Haute and vicinity at 6:15 this morn- draft law providing for dissolution ing. No damage was reported. of all German civilian guards, Ba-| REGISTER A “BLUR? Chicago, March 14.—The seismo- graph at the University of Chicago registered “a slight blur” about 6:14 a. m. today, it was said, but it was impossible to say whether this meant an earthquake. Lisbon, N. D. March 14.—Follow- ing a talk by President Usher L. Bur- dick of the North Dakota Farm Bu- reau Federation given in this city SHOW STRENGTH IN WHEAT MART Chicago, March 14.—Considerable strength developed in the wheat mar- ket today owing largely to Word of export buying at the seaboard. Open- ing quotations which varied from w changed figures to 3 cents higher were followed by reactions from ini- tial figures. ing displayed a county unit of the organization. H. L. Finke of Berthold will talk at a county-wide meeting to be held a temporary organization will formed to direct a membership cam- paign. ‘ FORM BUREAU, ‘WITNESS GIVES HAMON’S STORY OF HIS MURDER | Quotes Dying Man as Telling How He Was Shot by Girl CROWD IN LAUGHTER Attorneys Threaten to Demand Clearing of Oklahoma Courtroom Ardmore, Okla, March 14.— Clara Hamon, defendant, will be the last defense witness to take the stand, her counsel said today. ' Their list of witnesses numbers only nine, exclusively of impeach- ing witnesses they may Introduce to controvert state witnesses testimony. Ardmore, Okla. March 14.—Brett Dunlap, a business associate of Jake L. Hamon, was called as the state's tirat witness today in the trial of Clara Smith Hamon, charged with Hamon’s murder. He said that on | Tuesday after Hamon was shot on Sunday night, Nov. 2y, the wounded man had said he never would leave the sanitarim until you boys take ma out.” > “He told me he went over to his room Jate in the evening, threw off his coat and vest and lay down on the bed for a rest,” Dnlap testified regardinf the day of the shooting. Pantep quoted Hamon as having said: . “I had been there only a short time when I heard Clara come in. She laid her left hand on my head and I felt her right on my sholder when she shot me. “Of course, I have been looking for ae Dunla quoted Hamon as having sald, The reply was objected to and sus- tained. “He said he did not have a chance to protect himself; that she walked up to the foot of the bed and shot him.” Dunlap further quoted Hamon, after counsel had argued the propri- ety of the testimony. Crowd Laughs. A wave of laughter spread over the courtroom when Dunlap denied that Hamon had presented him the home in which Dunlap lived ahd Attorney General Frailey said he would on the courtroom heing a the next demonstration of He said he was not present, when Clara Hamon wag furnished $5,000 with which to leave town. Mr. Dunlap said he had not gone to the county attorney to discuss the case saying “there is nothing to it.” He said he had asked that a stat- utory charge filed at the same time against Hamon and Clara be dis- missed. Frank L. Ketch former business manager for Hamon and administr: tor for the estate, was the next wit- ness called. PETITIONS ON PROGRAM LAWS WILL BE FILED Being Sent to Secretary of State Today, It Is An- — nounced */ Petitious for the initiated “program laws” of the Independents were to be sent from Fargo to Bismarck for fil- ing at the office of the secretary of state today, it was announced in Far- go. More than 40,000 signatures wer: obtained to the petitions, it is said. About 12,000 signatures were to ac- company them. The required num- ber is 10,000. It was explained that the time in which \to get the.signa- tures was very short. The Committee of Twenty-one is proceeding with its plans for the con- vention to be held at.Devils Lake March 30 and 31. This convention, according to the committee will de- cide, the question of a recall. Re- call petitions are now in circulation. If there is no recall election an. elec- tion to vote on initiated laws can be called only by the governor. The district conventions, for the purpose of selecting delegates to go to Devils Lake are to be held March 23. The district conventions are to take up the question of the recall of legislative members in the various districts. The fact that recall peti- tions are being circlated, docs not necessarily mean there is to be a Te- call, it is stated. Sin (COMPANY ASKS INCREASED RATES IN SIX TOWNS The Central Power company, of Washburn. N. D., has filed with the railroad commission an amendment last Thursday, much interest is be-|to its application for an increase in in the farm bureau| rates. movement by the farmers of Ransom| minimum on power rate be made $1 county, who are now planning to form! per horsepower i | minimum charge, and that a five per The company asks that the Per month as ths cent discount on all bills paid before the fifth of the month be granted. at Lisbon March 22nd, at which time | The company’s application for in- be| crease in rates affects Washburv.. Underwood, Coleharbor, McClusky, | Max, Turtle Lake and Mercer.