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

/ The Weather 1 Unsettied. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Last Edition THIRTY-NINTH YEAR» BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA,SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1921 MANDAN FALLS | TRIBUNE EXTENDS INVITATION BEFORE VALLEY TO PUBLIC TO VIEW ITS NEW District Champions Eliminated From High School Tour- nament FINALS ON TONIGHT Four Teams Eliminated in Yes- terday’s Contests at “Minot Minot, N. D. Mar. 19.—Grand Forks and Valley City will play here tonight for the North Da- kota high school basketball cham- pionship, Scores in the semi- finals, this morning were Grand , Forks, 40; Wahpeton, 19, and Val- ley City, 16; Mandan, 13. Mandan high school, champion of this district in basketball, fell before Valley City in. the semi-finals at Mi- not this morning. The score was 16 _to 13. | company practically completed, “the offices were occupied today after hav- ing been installed in temporary quar- ters in several and widely separated portions of the building. While the decorating and other details have not been finished, the building is now in condition so that each department can function better and more efficient service can be given to the patrons of the company. The Fourth street entrance is now open for public use and the officers .of.the company extend a general in- vitaton to the public to, visit and in- | ‘spect the new plant. Work upon the new Tribune home was started nearly a year ago. It is a fire proof structure housing one of the most modern pubiishing plants in ithe weg. In the basement are locat- |ed the newspaper and job pressrooms, the bindery and mailing room. Pa- pers are conveyed from the basement to the office floor and the newsboys !and carriers are served in a special | room on the Thayer street side of the | building. | The main entrance is on Fourth | street. Over this entrance is a copy Mandan went into the semi-finals | in terra cotta of the famous painting: after beating Hettinger, and was tout- | ‘ ed a probable winter of the state, ti-/ tle. The game this morning with Val-| ley City was hard fought throughout, | but the superior team” work of last! year’s champions told, and the Val-| ley team nosed out the victory by the! harrow margin of three points. i Valley City will play the winner of; the Grand Forks, Wahpeton game to-| night fgr the state high school cham-| pionship. | Beats Hettinger. | . Mandan was the first team to wii) a game in the Minot tournament, meeting Hettinger yesterday after- noon after the drawings had been made. Mandan had an easy time romping; away with the southwestern district champions to the tune of 28 | i | | “The First Printers.” The printing art was developed in the cloisters of WALSH ASSERTS RAILROADS TRY TO KILL UNION Charges Paid Publicity Agents Used to Create Senti- ment , to 3. Valley City, last year’s state cham- | pion, beat Egeland, 30 to 18. Ege- land was the unknown-quantity of the tournament, having won the right’ to compete by beating Devils, Lake, and the team was touted as a probable; winner. Wahpeton and Bowbells played the hottest game of the Friday afternoon series, Wahpeton winning out 24 to 21, Grand Forks won from Minot, 30 to 16. 4 t Fans at the tournament over the! playing of Mandan and Grand: Forks | ‘in the first games, both teams appar-! ‘ently playing in their best form. When the playing was started to- +day Wahpeton, Grand Forks, Valley) City and Mandan were competing in| semi-finals, with Bowbells, Egeland,| Hettinger and Minot, eliminated. | K. OF C. MAKING EFFORT T0 LIFT PROPERTY DEBT | Plans to Also Have Nucleus To-| ward Future Building | Plan | ——- | Knights of Columbus of Bismarck | are now engaged in a campaign to} pay off the indebtedness on the prop-; erty their own at Thayer and Second: TRAM AT MINOT, HOME ATFOURTH AND THAYER With the new home of The Tribune| the monasteries during the middle ages. The monks were the first print- ers and the church for years was the chief patron wf the plastic art. This sketch shows.a shop of the early are at work upon the cases and a very ancient hand press is in use to make the impression. The colors have been worked out as ‘nearly as is feasible to conform to the painting of. the “First Printers.” On the first floor is located’ the business offices, the editorial rooms and the composing room with its bat- rear of the building is the stereotyp- ing department where the newspaper cuts are made. Adjacent to the stere- The second story is devoted to ten modern fireproof apartments. A of the building. Those who desire to’ see the plant in operation will be welcome to cail between the hours of 9 A. M. and 5 P. M. Just call at the office and you see the building and view the machin- ery in operation and if you desire the various processes in the craft will be explained. ‘SINGLE MEN IN “MONTANA BATTLE Miles City, Mont., March 19,— Organization of an association of unmarried adult males was in- | augurated here today for the purpose of raising a fund to em- ploy counsel to contest in the i supreme court the validity of the ‘so-called bachelor’s tax now be- fere fhe Montana legislature. The movement met quick financial response. days of the printer’s craft. The monks! tery of five linotype machines. At the; otyping room is the company garage.; laundry, for accommodation of apart-} ments, has ben built on the roof slab; will be given ample opportunity to} j labor union through public opinion ‘MUST BANK OF NORTH DAKOTA. ah sites FURINISH BOND? were made before the board today Question Arises From Wording by Frank Walsh, attorrey for ine ‘g unions, in his cross-questioning of of the New Depository railroad officials. . L Mr. Walsh ‘renewed \his_investiga-, aw tion of railroad publicity, despite the! Pea a, objections from Judge R. M. Berton, Whether or not the ‘Bank of North chairman of the board, that the mit- Dakota is required to give a bond ter was irrelavent. He called T. De- tor public monies of political subdiv yl n of the Associ- 2 ath ot Reliceal wyscwsives to tke)Sions deposited in the bank since th stand and resumed questioning along! enactment of the depository law is a the line which yesterday brought state; matter of doubt. ments from Mr. Cuyler that publicity; parold Hopton, manager of the articles supposedly written oy MT. state bonding department, while tak- Cuyler really were written by Ivy. ing the view ‘that the bank would not Lee, a press agent. be required to give a bond said that “Wasn't Mr. Lee appointed an attorney-general’s opinion or even agent of the Association. of Ratread 4 court decision ‘might be necessary Executives because he is an expert 1 settle the point. at breaking down unions?” Mr. Wsleh One provision of the new depository asked. . ilaw says that before any depository “No,” replied Mr. Cuyler. shall furnish a bond payable to the “Don't you realize this matter i3) public corporation making such di entirely outside the matters to come! posit.” There is no specific exemption before the board?” Judge Barton of the Bank of North Dakota, except asked. | that the bank’s name is omitted in the “ft think if you will allow me to: penalty section. continue I'll prove my point,” said. The depository act automatically Mr. Walsh. |! has vacated the order sent by the “With the case partly tried the rail-| bonding department to all public of- roads hire a publicity expert to help, ficials during the session of the legis- out. This board has no powers to en-| lature warning them that their bonds | would be cancelled unless they de- QUESTIONS EXECUTIVES Chicago, March 19.—Charges that the railroads knowing the railroad labor board had .no power to enforce its decrees were trying to smash the and were attempting to ii streets. The North Dakota Knights of Co- lumbus Holding association, formed i force its decrees. The roads know ithis and try through their paid pub- | licity to influence public opinion.” last year when the property was ac-; —e quired, has issued one share of stock} to each member, of value yet unde-; termined, and through the sale of this stock it is expected to realize $15,000; to $20,000 to take up the debt on the) property and leave a nucleus. Betause of general conditions it is) not planned to go beyond this at the! present time, according to J. A. Roh- erty, head of the Knights of Colum- bus. a model club house and home, one floor of which would contain a gym- ¢ nasium and club rooms and would be managed by a non-sectarian board. The present property will not be oc- cupied as a club house. $00 WANTS T0 BUY RAILROAD 10 POLL BOOKS Books Drop Out of Place In ; Auditor’s Office Vault Eventually the plan is to build’ The city election poll books caused a lot of trouble in the county auditor’s office. The books apparently dropped through the back of a compartment in the safe of the auditor’s office, | jwhere they were kept, and it was ne-— | posited money in the Bank of North Dakota. No bonds were cancelled, Mr. Hopton said, although several offici- als in various parts of the state a swered the circular of the department by a request that their bond be can. ! celled. | Instead of cancelling, he said, he | notified them that they must protect! ‘their funds by requiring bonds from | depositories. GOVERNOR PUTS NAME ON BILL /—LINITING TAX Bismarck Levy Must Be Cut Several Thousand Under The Bill | struck by a train. NBW BUILDING FOR ST. MARY'S SCHOOL PLANNED $75,000 Addition \to Be Com-| pleted During the Summer | —_— ‘EIGHT CLASS ROOMS \Purpose of Building and Need| | of Structure Is Ex- plained A new $75,000 addition to St. Mary's Catholic school is planned to be built! during the coming summer. While building plans still are some- what indefinite, the general plan calls | for an addition of two stories on the east of the present St, Mary’s school on ‘Ninth street. Anew entranceway | to the school from Broadway would | be provided, | | The new addition,’ fire-proof anu | modern in every respect, would in- | clude eight new, large class rooms, | The entire school, when the addition | is completed and the remodeling is | completed, would include also a mod- jern gymnasium and an auditorium. | Complete by Fall It is hoped to start work on the ad- | dition this spring and have it complet- | ed in time for the opening’ of the new school; year in the fall. (Both grade and high school courses are now and would continue to be offered. | The-proposed addition is necessita- | ted, it is stated, by the increasing en- | rollment of the school, which has in- cluded nonCatholics. This is an undertaking in which , every citizen should be interested, as as it would effect a saving to every tax ; | payer in the city,” said Father Hilt- | ner today, discussing the proposed new school. Relieves City | “If built the school relieves the city and the’ taxpayers of a tremend- ;ous burden because as soon af it is! ‘built the parish will maintain the | school, relieving the city of an annual maintenance cost of $30,000 to $35,000 |a year. | “All citizens should be just as much {interested in this school as in any ‘other public school building, because | the school serves the: children ‘of this icity, Although nott a public school, the children who, attend would have ‘to be taken care of in public schools, ‘Ie our school were closed it woutd ‘necessitate immediately the expendi- | ture of $130,00 in building cost to pro- ide schools for them. “The, patrons of this school contri- ‘tbute to the support of all the public | schools and pay their school tax for their children into the public school | fund but get no ‘benefit from it.” | “The entire plans for the building of the new addition are expected to be | completed shortly anda full statement | will be made. KILLS FRIEND " DRAWSBODY 10 RAILROAD LINE Virgil Decker, 19, Confesses to Killing Another ‘Warsaw, Ind. Mar, 19—Offictxts o!| IF DOCTORING HARDING WERE HIS JOB, “DOC” SAWYER WOULDN’T HAVE ONE > HE LOOKS AND } ACTS JUST AS | YOU WOULD EXPECT A DOCTOR TO LOOK AND ACT CcC.E. ! wie fe} INOUGH,TO PLAY — \ im ONLY SIXTY-ONE® BLT, HUMORIST WIDELY KNOWN, QUES AT HOME PLAY GOLF? M NOT OLD | President Is Healthy, and Wants! Us All to Be Same i BY H. B. R. BRIGGS. | Washngton, March 19.—One of the | biggest jobs in Washington, in poten- ‘tial’ good, has- been undertaken by | Dr. C. E. Sawyer, the president’s fam- \ily physician, now by special appoint- | PRICE FIVE CENTS IRISH AMBUSH CARRIED OUT: SIX ARE SLAIN Battle Between Republican and Crown Forces Is Pro- gressing IN THE COUNTY CORK Heavy Casualties Reported Suf- fered on the Attacking Side Belfast, March 19—By the As- sociated Press—A great ambush by Irish Republican forces near Kinsale, county Cork, this morn- ing in which six crown soldiers were killed and five wounded is reported. The attackers suffered heavy casualties and the battle still is in progress, AMBUSH VATROL, Dublin, Mar. 19.—A police patrol was ambushed by 150 men last night in Castletown Roche, in county Cork, eight miles northwest of Fermoy. A constable was mortally wounded and some of the attacking party also were wounded, A police and military patrol was ambushed near Dungarven and 2‘ fight lasting five hours ensued. One constable was killed and a police ser- geant is missing. Several of the at- coors are believed to have been led. LEMKE DIVIDES STATE FOR THE ment a brigadier general of the Re-| serve Corps, U. S. 4. He will direct a}health survey vf | the nation, and a co-ordination of the; various agencies, federal and private, {now working in the fields of public | health, education and social welfare. ! Dr. Sawyer at 61 has the physical | ERLY IN DULUTH vigor and alert mentality that evi-| dence he practices his own rule for he: : a _|health—hard work and open air ex- Chicago, Mar. 19.—Bert Leston Tay: ercise. He is straight, wiry, and crisp lor. noted humorist and conductor of; of manner. the column in the Chicago Tribune’! Recipe. for. health “A Lin-o-Type-or-Two.” died of pneu- wet monia at his home. early, today. after (rreataeae Neneh teey an illness of two weeks. | physician.) Mr. Taylor was born in Goshen.| 1. A job, and the necessity of i i ! ‘Conductor of Chicago Tribune Column Succumbs to . Pneumonia Mass., in 1866, and received his early; working at it regularly. newspaper training on a paper in 2. Sufficient food—but not too Plainfield) New Hampshire. In 1896) much. 1 he “came west to edit the Duluth, 3. Daily exercise in the open Minn., News-Tribune, where he re-;. air. mained for three years. Coming toj Chicago in 1899 he went to work onj Too Young for Golf. the Chicago Journal and remained for! “I don’t play golf—not yet,” he! two years, when his hent for the hu-! says, with a dry smile. “I am too! moristic side of journalism led himi young for that, but I walk a great to start the column for which he be-| deal and work on my farm.” came famous in the Chicago Tribune.|_ Dr, Sawyer comes from_ President In 1903 he left the “Line-o-type” col-: Harding’s home town—Marion, Ohio— umn and the Tribune to’ contribute; apd has built near there.a large sani- for several years to the Puck, New|tarium for the treatment of, mental York Sun and other publications. In| and nervous cases. \1909 he returned to the Tribune, re-| “Most emphatically NOT - alco- sumed his famous column and con-| holics,” he says. “I do all the drink- tinued it until a few days before his!ing for,my patients and employes,” death. | with a frinkie in his gray eyes. “And Among his better-known writings; I’m a Methodist!” are “The Well in the Woods,” the, Then, seriously, he pictures the “Pipe Smoke Carry,” “The Charla | public health work committed by the tans,” “Monthly Measures” and “Aj president to his direction. Line of Verse Or Two.” | “President Hardng believes, as I do, that the health of the American peo- ‘osciusko county today continued) heir eorts to draw from Virgil, Decker,.19 year-old farmer oy, of At) wood, further information as to why: he hit his chum, Frank Lenett, on the! head with a gas pipe and then ‘drew | his body to a railroad whore it was} “Phe devil drove me te it” Decker | said, after signing his confession, and | would add no other explanatiun. i He denied that his transfer of his; own clothing to Loveet 3 body had? been part of a plan to collect insur-! | ance totaling nearly $30,009. This) had been suggested as possible be-; cause of a remarkable resemblarce | | ple is of utmost importance, vitally j affecting the future of the nation. | “There are now in operation in thia | country many agencies and associ: GOVERNOR GOES irene public and some unof- ; fical—dealing with dfferent phases of (health, health education, contagious | diseases and things commonly desig- ‘nated as social welfare work. Working at handom. LIQUOR FIGHT Watkins to Have Headquarters at Minot Under the Plan Attorney-General Lemke has com- pleted plans for operating the state enforcement department, to carry on a campaign against illicit liquor traiffc. Under the plan F. L. Watkins, of Bismarck, will have“headquarters at Minot, and will have charge of a force of men operating along the Canadian border. The men will be armed with high-powered rifles ‘and Browning machine guns. 1 B. O, Serbo, of Grand Forks, will have headquarters there, operating in the eastern and southern counties in the state, coming as far west as the west line of Stutsman county. ‘H, B. Dunbar will be in charge of the western and southern portions of the state. , The attorney-general has issued cr- ders to his men to break up the tiqu- or traic or resign. HIGH SALARIED OFFERS MADET0 CLARAS, HANON Takes Them Under Considera- tion—Statutory Charges Dropped 1 | Ardmore, Okla., March, 19.—Clara | Smith Hamon, acquitted on a charge |of murdering Jake L. Hamon, spent | a day resting from eight days in court ‘and reading nungreds of letters ani jad two conferences Executive Finds Wording Mixed and Says Bill Un-’ necessary Governor Frazier's first vote of bills between the young men. After hitting Lovett during the fore-) ! noon of March 12 Decker said he went to the home of his brother and return-| ed about 6 p. m. He said he found Lov-| ett on the floor leaning aginst the; | wall and he “litse1 him, led him aut) | of the cottage door and helped him in-) | to the buggy. ' of the Seventeenth legislative assem- bly was applied to senate bill No, 71 introduced by Senator Murphy, by re- hail insurance taxes. In disapproving the bill the Gover- nor said that he did so “for the reas- on that the wording of the bill is so mixed as to make it absolutely mis- “Some of these are doing excellent | telegrams. She work. Othrs are inspired by desire, with attorneys, who later said nothing \ for personal agrandizement. Nearly! had been arrived at regarding the jall are working at random, without! possibility of a suit against the Ham- | helpful co-operation. ‘ |on estate and that, while Clara had “Broadly speaking, we hope by in-: before her a number of high salarie | vestigation to determine existing con-/ offers she was not considering their jditions and needs. Then it will be! acceptance. | possible t» bring together under some! She herself said she was more in- i bureau or department of public wel-! terested in making a new start in fare the knowledge of the facts and) life and establish herself with respect | quest. The \bill provided penalties on} the necessary agencies to operate; to the people in Ardmore where she with a common purpose on a system-| will remain for the present. In a atic plan. ‘ |few days, she said, she probfoly “The field is very wide, for it in-, would go to El Paso, Tex., where her cludes everything pertaining to the| father is very ill, and later to Cali- - physical welfare of the people—con-| fornia, where a married sister lives. leading and for the further con es, ditons o work, food, recreation. At the office of the county attorney | that section 10 of senate bill ‘No. ‘cessary to have a workman’ cut ; approved Mar. 10, 1921, provides for |through the safe wall with a hammer, “To promote this physical welfare! it was said there was no intention 7 Prazi igned | " p Governor Frazier today signed | is President Harding's determined de-! to prosecute’ Clara on the -statutory » Railway company asked authority There were japon 3700 Persons T registered at the last election, and a Says That It Would Save Com- heavy vote in the ty, ggizetion of i i Loca! |April 5 is expected. ‘here were munity Paying Two I {latout 2,000 men registered and about Rates lheavy as the registration. ARGENTINA NOT TO TAX WHEAT Buenos Aires, Mar. 19.—Wheat ex- Washington. Mar. 19.—The Minne- apolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste Marie of the Interstate Commerce Commission today to purchase for $3,339,500 the 1.700 women, but the vote was not as g Wisconsin and Northern railroad, * 1331-2 miles in length, and described ‘as a short line serving a district hav- ing heavy traffic but unable to pro- vide a market on its own lines for the products it originates. “Traffic must, therefore, move out over connecting lines and is gener-| ally subject to the sum of two local rates,” the application said. CALIFORNIA FOR BEER, WINE Sacremento, Calif., Mar. 19.—A res- ‘ported during the present year will not be subjected to an additional’ ex: | port tax, President Yrigoyen declared | today. An agreement has been reach- ed, he said, between local exporters | and the government to fix the mini- ; mum prices in Argentina. | |FAIR WEATHER | FOR NEXT WEEK House Bill No. 25, which limits the | tax levies of all political subdivisions ; of the state to one-third the amount) jof the maximum tax levies for the} ‘years 1918, 1919 and 1920. Hk Representatives of Bismarck, Far- | o and Grand Forks had protested | against the bill, saying that the maxi- | mum tax levy would not be sufficient | to enable the cities to operate as they | should. The law will have the effect of redueing taxes in Bismarck sev- | ‘eral thousand dollars next year. | Counties and all other districts are effected. ¢ ‘tion, the tax levies may be increased 25 per cent, and school districts may jincrease taxes beyond the limit 30, per cent without an election. However, by special elec-| RUSS-POLISH - PEACE SIGNED Riga, Letvia, Mar. 19.—Peace was signed by representatives, of Poland, Ukrainia and Russia, the latter agree- ing to pay Poland 30,000,000 gold ru-; les. “| | U.S. MAY HAVE | ‘TO RETURN CASH Washington, March 19.—The Unit-| collection of hail taxes and for penal- ties when they become delinquent, and | Sire. : chapter 67 of the specia session laws| ,, A Healthy Family. of 1919 provides collection of real es-| “If the medical care of the Harding tate taxes and for penalties when such family were the main purpose of my taxes become delinquent.’ being here—why I simply would’t be \here! The whole family is remark- j ably healthy. “The president himself has not spent a day in bed or away from his bsiness because of sickness Qn a quarter of a century. I expect to see yhim daily, but this will be a very small part of my work. “The war left the average Amer- EXTEND AREA OF OCCUPATION | charge filed against her and Hamon, | with whom she lived for 10 years at {the hotel where she shot him. | It also was said at the county at- torney’s office that information ‘against Frank Ketch, formerly Ham- |on’s business manager, now admin- istrator of his estate, charging him with being accessory after the fact of Hamon’s murder would probably remain in the pigeon hole, never to be served. Ketch testified that he gave Clara Hamon $5,000 and told her to leave Ardmore and remain away Duesseldorf, March 19.—The occu- @ation area has been extended to within two and one-half miles of Es- sen along the railroads leading from , The Governor was to issue a state-'ed States court of claims held that Duesseldorf. | ment this afternoon explaining his ‘attitude on the bill. 'TROTZKY LEADS | SOVIET TROOPS Washington, March 19.“ Weather| London, March 19—Leon_Trotzky | |predictions for the week beginning/is leading the attack of Bolshevik Monday are: | Upper Mississippi and lower Mis-|nese and women with heavy loss of |21,482 to 207 forces on Kronstadt including Chi- olution to memorialize Congress injsouri valleys—Generally fair with|life among Trotzky’s followers. favor of light wine and beer passed the legislature. temperatures considerably lower than during the week just passed. Yesterday the Bolshevizs claimed capture of Kronstadt. | federal estate taxes were deductable \from income taxes so that the gov-| ‘ernment may be forced to return a} large amount. $ | (MEAT WORKERS VOTE STRIKE | Chicago, March 19—By a vote of | union packing house | workers voted to strike if they are junable to induce the packers to re- jstore the eight hour day. | NAVY HEAD TO MAKE LONG TRIP Washington, March 19.—Secretary Denby will leave Washington tonight on an inspection trip to Guantanamo, Cuba, and Haiti and San Domingo. The water trip involved will be made on a destroyer on which the Secre- tary and his party of naval and ma- rine officers will embark probably at Key West. ican in better physical condtion than ever before. It took millions of men out of smoky offices, badly ventilated factories and tight-shut homes, into the open. It compelled them to prac-' said the cost would probably run be- tice regular habits, to work systemat-| tween $3,400 and $3,600. ically, to eat plain food, to get up) early and exercise in the clear morn- PERSHING HITS PROPAGANDISTS “That is a good foundation upon’ which to build this new work of ours. It is too early to outline defintely how’ New York, March 19.—General we will go about it. Why, I haven't) Pershing bitterly denounced persons even an office, yet, in which to work,!of foreign birth who seek the free- nor an appropriation, thank the Lord! !dom of this country to spread “poli- But there will be no time lost in, tical and war like propaganda «t getting started. The results must|the mass meeting protesting against speak for themselves.” the recent “Rhine horrews meefing.” on the day she left. At ‘the county building today the , distret court clerk was busy paying the expenses of the Hamon trial. He