The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 29, 1921, Page 1

"The Weather | Unsettled THIRTY-NINTH YEAR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1921 Last Edition PRICE FIVE CENTS KARLY MORNING FIRE DESTROYS OLD STRUCTURES Frame Buildings on Fifth Street ; Scene of Fire 1 FIND KEROSENE BOTTLES! | | | | i | Deputy Fire Marshal Declares: Fire Is of Incendiary i Origin Fire Which early this morning dam- aged three old frame buildings on} Fifth street opposite the McKenzie hotel was of incendiary origin, O. T. Haakenson, deputy state fire marshal; said today. The blaze practically destroyed~two frame buildings and badly damaged a, third, and was not conquered until) after three hours effort. | About daylight Deputy Haakenson,/ accompanied by fire chief Jager and county Judge Davies investigated the origin of the fire which was at the} head of a stairway between the cor- ner building occupied by the R. C.; Rosen clothing store and a building until receatly occupied by the Herman: Lasken stationery atore, f Find Kerosene They found four bottles which had: ,;contained kerosene or other inflam- able liquid. Two were milk bottles: and two were glass jars. In two there was found some kerosene. Another bottle, empty, had contained gasoline, | it was believed. There is no doubt but that the or- igin of the fire was at the landing of the top of the stairway leading to the second floor, the deputy fire marshal said. Studding and walls had been burned which were not burned farther in the building. The deputy fire marshal said that the upstairs rooms were all vacant. Recently parties lived in them, and he said he had ascertained that none of them left any kerosene there. The alarm was sounded about 2:50 a. m., the fire being discovered by Night. Policeman Ed. Randolph. The firemen poured water on the flames until daylight. \ The frame building at the corner of Broadway and Fifth streets, occupied by the R, C. Rosen store, was left a: shell, with’ the roof ‘caved in and the; contents practically destroyed. i Fixes Loss at $18,000 © Mr, Rosen said this morning that} he estimated his loss on _ clothing, shoes, etc. at $18,000 or 919,000. He. said that about $1,000 worth of goods was saved. He carried $13,000 insur- ance, he said, having cancelled $7,000 of insurance a short time ago. The second building which was va- cated by the stationery store also was almost wholly destroyed except for the front and side walls, It was en- irely vacant, The third building from the corner occupied by John Bortell’s store was less seriously damaged, but the store was virtually flooded with water. John Bortell said that it was diffi- cult to estimate what loss he suffered in his hardware store. He thought! it might be anywhere from $2,000 to $4,000. f The fourth building from the corner a one story frame building, was saved from the flames, although the slight wind carried the blaze toward the north. The first three buildings were own- ed by E. G. Patterson. Two lots had peen.sold to Herman Lasken and the buildings were to be moved soon. Night policeman Ed Randolph, de-| scribing the start of the fire, said that he and William Markham were standing! across the street on the Northern Pacific railroad corner when they saw smoke fssuing from the building, followed by a burst of flames. The alarm was immediately souhd- ed and the fire whistle sounded its long, strong blasts, so long, in fact.) that most everybody in the city was) awakened and several hundred people who could see black smoke and some flames shooting above the structures; came down to watch the fire. ights flashed, on in the McKenzie and Northwest hotels, as anxious ho- tel guests watched the direction of the flames and smoke. There was no excitement among them, however. There was little wind, and that a kindly one, for it carried the smoke due north, over a line of one-story buildings, so that the hotel guests: were not annoyed by smoke. All dur-| jing the fire faces peeped from behin:1| hotel curtains, looking down on the! seething furnace. Hunted Origin of Fire. Randolph said that he was certain | as to where the fire started. because} he returned to in front of the build-| ings and saw the fire issuing from a/ place on the north side of the roof of the corner building just above a stairway between the two structures. The flames had gained headway when the firemen began turning lines of hose on the buildings. Five lines of} hose were stretched, four and five! streams playing on the building at various times from all sides. ! Firemen devoted attention to cor- fining the blaze to the three frame buildings through which the fire had spread. By frequent changing of the position of the streams of water they accomplished the task. The fire burn- ed for nearly an hour in the upper stories of the buildings, flaring up} through the roofs at various times and) spreading below embers dropped through the ceiling. Hose Bursts. A bursted hose put one line out >t} éContinued on page 4) if DUBLIN CASTLE OFFICIAL SHOT. BY FOUR MEN’ Dublin, March 29.—(By Asso- ciated Press.) —Capt. Rees, one of the officials of Dublin castle, was shot dead this morning‘ outside his hotel, it was announced an an al statement from the easile. Four men. comprised the party which did the shooting. DELEGATES 10 ANTI- LEAGUE MEETING LEAVE Travel from All Parts of State! tc Devils Lake for Inde- pendent Convention TALK OF REORGANIZATION! May Over Shadow the Recall—' Langer Comes from Kansas. - for Convention Delegates to the Independent state convention at Devils Lake March 30 and 31 were traveling from all direc- tions to that city today. A The announced purpose of the call! of the convention by the joint caum- paign committee of the Committee of twenty-one is to decide whether or not there will be a recall election in June, or perhaps at a later date. With reports from, various parts of the state showing that there was divid ed sentiment on a recall, both in the eastern and western |purts of the state, it was generally expected that the con- vention would decide against a recall election at.this time, The convention to last two full dayg, ang a full dis- cussion of conditions in the state is expected. Many delegates to the con- vention are’ pronounced in their atti- tude either for or against a recall. Reorganization Question The recall matter may be — over- shadowed, it appeared, by a movement to form a new campaign organization of Independents in the state, either for a reorganization of the Republican party campaign committee to rehabill- tate Republican organization and prin- ciples in the state campaign or to pro- ceed upon a policy of having an Inde- pendent committee for all factions ap-' posed to the Nonpartisan league, and: to make, it indenendent of the Independent Voters’ Association or Republican or Democvratic organi- zations. ; Delegations from the western part of the state because of the long distance to Devils Lake and the difficulty in reaching the city are in most cases small in number, many of the dele- gates being represented by proxy. Grant county is an exception. With Claude Lackey, representative, a3 leader, six of the seven dejegates! selected at the county convention ar- rived at Bismarck last night. They; left this morning on No, 2 and will go’ across from Jamestown to Devils Lake. Member of Delegation Those in the delegation beside Mr. Lackey are: j J. S. Wright, J. W. Bristow, Henry! Bellman, L. ‘L. Brown, and E, J. Saun-; ders, | Among those in'the Stark county’ delegation were George Brown, D. E.| Shipley and Claude Turner. Represent Burleigh The three delegates who went from Burleigh county were Judge E. T. Goddard and Charles Anderson, H. P. Burke. Dunn county was well represented. Frank Ostrander, Henry Cline, Tom Johnson and Tom J. Anders were on the delegation, E, A. Tostevin, W. F. Reko, P. D. Norton and several other delegates left last night for Fargo and will go to Devils ‘Lake by way of that city. Mcr- ton county is about equally divided in regard to the recall. The delegatiois from all of the other western counties | are solidly opposed to it. Delegates Meet. | Stutsman county delegates and also the delegates from Kidder and coun- ties to the south met the delegates, WARARA AR ARAARRR RRn. (REN By Newspéper ‘Enterprise. Clevelana,' March 29,—More than 1900 Gelegates will be in attendance when the second annual convention of the Natioanl League otf Women Vot- ers opens here April 11 for a week's /ession. | Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, honor: ary chairman of the league, will out- line improvements in American elec: tion methods and urge the adoption by the league of her measures for .elc-| - 2 ott tion reforms. a i 4 The work done during the year by | Mrs. La Rue Brown, left; Mrs. the seven standing committees will) Kdward P. Costigan, Right and be explained and the mpaign to bei _ 3 i if followed ly each in the future will be| Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, be- decided upon. mer Interest centers in the reports to be low. made by two of these committge chair- men, ‘both from Washington: Mrs JaRue Brown,.of the Committee on | Costigan, of the ( OOOO WEHEIS AGAIN = “"NS No BREAD ORDERED FROM BUREAU OFFICE Governor Serves Notice of Re- moval on Commissioner of Compensation Bureau s no bread line in Bis- marck, or any place else in North Dakota, Eyen “floppers” are not nume: ous, according (o police official: “Floppers” are itinerant work. ers, out of jobs and money, who seek the shelter of police stations for a night, with 2 bite to eat in the morning. “We may haye averaged three aid Chiey Martineson, is fs not anything um . have been times ‘when there \were a lot more. Most of them are men on their way back east from the west coast, where they couldn't find any work. Bread lnes have been reported in Seattle and Portland on the west and in big eastern cities but there fs no such thing as a bread line in “the bread basket of the world.” \. ACTION IS ASSAILED Wehe’s Friends Assert Governor Has Flouted Courts of State Laureas J. Wehe is again removed, as commissioner of the Workmen’s Compensation Bureau, the order of removal having been handed to Wehe; about 6 o’clock last evening. The action of Governor Frazier means another legal battle over the position, which has been in contro- INJUNCTION versy since April 19, 1920, when Wehe_ , was suspended from the position. !” Judge Rooth of the Federal District The governor, Wehe asserted in Court, Minneapolis, Minn., issued an saying that he did not know just what! order temporarily restraining the action he would take, is in a position! Minnesota’ Railway and Warehouse of refusing to abide by the orders of) Commission from enforcing existing the district and supreme courts. The' yates in the state of Minnesota on cage now is between the district court.| grounds of confiscation and granted supreme court and the governor as/ temporary: relief pending final decis- to whether the governor is in con-} jon before an enlarged court of three tempt of court, Wehe asserted. | judges George K. Foster, assistant attor-; This ‘BOOTH ISSUES . decision was a result of a de- ‘ney general, who acted as attorney in! nial on the part of the Railwdy ana the case for the administration, de-! Warehouse Commission to grant in- clared that the supreme court had, creased rates to the Northwestern merely held the hearing granted! Bell Telephone Company in Minne- from the west at Jamestown and went) wehe last April insufficient and a new | sota and the increased rates are to he with them up over the Jamestown Car- rington, New Rockford line to Leeds, and then by way of the Great: North-) ern to Devils Lake. | The joint campaign committee late! yesterday sent to the press a tele- gram, denying rumors that the conven-; tion had been called off. The telegram is as follows: ‘Some thoughtless’ fellow who can-| not see the difference between a joke| Deny Rumors | and a serious problem has apparently | gone out of his way to start a rumor to the effect that the independent con-/ vention to be held at Devils Lake has been called off. Three inquiries from different parts of the state reached I.| V. A, Headquarters this afternoon. | The convention has not been called off and what is more there will be} delegates there from every lagislative| district in the state unless our effort) to counteract this rumor should fail] to reach some of the fartherest out- lying districts. JOINT CAMPAIGN COMMITTEBR LANGER LEAVES SALINA Salina, Kan., March 29.—William Langer, formér attorney general of North Dakota, who has been campaign ing in this state against Townleyism, left Salina last night for Devils Lake, N. D., where ‘the state convention of (Continued on page 4) i (his advisers today were h s hearing was given. Clash of Authority. appears to be a ditect clash and executive authority, Judge sle having isued an order prohibiting’ the hearing and the gov- érnor having proceeded to hold it. The allegations on which Wehe and sailing the pension, hearing and all pro in connection with the attempind re- moval last April void. The supreme court district court and res office. Immediately the governor notified Wehe that the order of suspensidn of April 19, 1920 was still in full force and effect and setting Saturday as the time for a hearing on cha Se sle’s Wi i Judge Nuessle issued rit on Fri-, day prohibiting the hearing, but the | a affirmed the ored Wehe to {hearing was held and evidence taken | without the presence of Wehe, who} relied on the court order prohiLiting | the hearing; at a time when his at- torney. Theodore Koffel was a that witnesses were introduced as G ing the character of Wehe as well as | hs (fficial acts without ‘hid ‘being there to controvert them. (Continued on page 4.) put into effect. FAR M WO RKERS “HO State employment officals have been confronted with a farm workers “strike” which they assert has been fomented by the head of a private em-| ployment agency in Farmers over the § to employment ugenci he been | offering $35 to $40 per month and board and lod fo single men on farms for the son. Some farmers have heen ling to go as high as $50 for the right kind of a man, but ‘these offers have been fe It developed that at Fargo there were approximately 300 men who h: signified willingness to go out farms for the nm, but they began their “s' ‘hold out” for WOMEN VOTERS PLAN ELECTION REFORM | 'makets, abattos, Child Welfare, and Mrs, Edward 1’. nmittee on Food! CHICAGO EXPLOSION KILLS SIX ‘DAWES TO HEAD . BODY TO PROBE YANK TREATMENT Washington, Mar. 29.—A_ com. mittee of I headed by Charles Dawes, who was brigadier-zen- eral with American expeditionary forces, was appointed (o conduct. an inquiry into the administra. then war risk bureau board for vocational training and treatment of wounded service men, FAMOUS NATURE "STUDENT DIES AT AGE OF 84 John Burroughs Succumbs on New York Central Train in Ohio PANIG ENSUES — ~ AS WINDOWS OF STORE SHATTER Clerks and Shoppers Are Startl- ed as Big Building Is Rocked i\BUILDING WRECKED | , | Warehouse Only a Shell After the Explosion Occurs | | _ Chicago, March 29—At least 13ix and perhaps twice that num- 'ber of persons were killed and iscores of others were hurt when an explosion destroyed a ware- house about 2 1-2 miles south- west of the loop district today. | Police theories of the cause 'ranged through bombing, faulty ,|2as main, starch and flour dust ,and fire works. Utica, N. Y., May. 29—John Bur- Was roughs, naturalist, died on a New| The building, a one-story York Central train near Kingsville,jbrick structi i Ohio, on his way home from Califor- | areas: Slled ‘with nia at 2 o'clock this morning. He hag | Srocery stock. Fireworks had been very ill for six weeks with anjbeen stored in the basement. parecess on the chest and heart and; Effects of the explosion were felt : udney complications. !for blocks away. A big department aitively working fora year for the en-' fe was so eager to get home that! store at Twelfth and Halstead streets actment of the Shepard-Towner bill; the long journey was undertaken with! was the scene of a panic when the providing federal aid fdr mothers and! the hope that he could survive. concussion shattered plate glass win babies. ! je ! dow: Z “We will recommend at the conven-/_New York, Mar. i29—John Bur-| ory" ARG parece clerk and 2b0D: tion endorsement of standards — in} roughs famous naturelists, died at 2! ; o'clock this morning on a New Yorki The neighborhood confusion ham- child welfare to be attained by state) C 1 . s legislation where necessary Yand by| entral train at iXingston, Ohio, | nered Baer here uae are ished. non-legislative means where possible,”! Word of his death was received here | . saya Mrs. Brown. | by New York Central officials, where, Of the building where the blast Mrs. Costigan says her committee’ @ was reported having been slightly | OTiginated there wag left only a pile will recommend cooperation with fed- He was in his 84th year. ‘of broken timbers and plaster. eral agencies to obtain the proper) production, distribution and use of} John Burroughs, known as an «| Halt Many In Hospital. food, the enactment of state laws for-/ Sayist and literary naturalist, was! , jalf an hour after the explosion bidding profiteering and. improper born in Roxbury, N. Y., April 3, 1837 | ‘ree odies were taken from the hoarding; the establishmont of public! He taught school in his youth, be-; uuins and four persons badly injured milk depots, and) came a government clerk in, 1863 Iragacs Sent to the county hospital. A legitimite cooperative associations of later became a national bank examin-| \°2e" others were treated at a netgh- producers and consumers ‘er, but soon developed his taste for poring drag aore. Two ore bodies bee é ruins. brought. the i G. FROM WES _RETURNIN (Had Spent Winter at Pasadena, | Calif. Where He Was | Taken II Supply and Demand. Mrs. Brown's Committee has been| Sees wi /literature to #uch~ate extant ‘that he} | began devoting all of his time to it.! ‘from the center of Rotarian fun and | Ford's personal frieud and camp-matc | go for the convention created a zen-| Wilk begin phifosophizing again a: | sation when they marched frorh the} 80on as he gets his bearing.” , ments in the special section. month. Evidence that propaganda for a “hold out” for $50 had been ereg. ' spread in Bismarck also was discov-| has said that farmers cannot afford to pay more than $35 or $40 a month for farm worke Wages last year ‘avereged about $70 per month, PRISONERS LINEIN SIGHT BISMARCK MAKE: LD-OUT” FOR HIGHER WAGES TRACED TO PROPAGANDA OF PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT AGENCY, IS CLAIM ; In 1873 he built “Riverby,” his home | {at West Park, on the Hudson, where | ihe lived the rest of his life, devoting | | himself to fruit culture, nature study and literature. He traveled much) | during his life, visiting many parts | of ‘the United States, twice visiting | Europe, the West Indies and other! countries. | He was a great friend of the late | Theodore Roosevelt, and made a trip {with him through the Southwest and , Yosemite, and visited the Yellowstone , National park. In recent years he ihas made many camping trips with Henry Ford and Thomas A. Edison. j te | | John Burroughs visited Bismarck Bismarck Rotarians created a real, when with Roosevelt he visited Yel splash in Fargo when they marched , }owstone Natioffal Park, through the downtown streets in their| FORD'S REMARKS, prison uniforms, according to reports! Detroit, Mich. Mar. 29.—Henry HIT IN FARGO Local Rotarians Are Highly Complimented Upon Their Showing at Conference | Forum! of John Burroughs today said; or! learning of his death: | “Well he used to wonder what it was like beyond and I suppose he business today, The ‘Fargo said: Dressed in penitentiarv garb, more, than 30 Bismarck Rotarians in Far- Gardner hotel, convention head-} — quarters, through the streets of| Fargo to the Commercial club and| then to the convention hall in the; Masonic temple. With P. R. Fields, the International dealer from Bis- marck, carrying the large sign bear-| ing the inscription, “Shades of) Frank Talcott,” the striped-suited; visitors held the attention of spec-/ tators wherever they went, singing; their “prison songs.” i The Bismarck uniforms proved at-, tractive’ to the eyes of photographers, | who snapped them at every corner. | Nearly 1,000 Rotarians were in the city. The Farzo Forum carried a spec-| jal Rotary section yesterday, describ-| ing the work of Rotary and, as a; the Associated Press.)—The minorit special feature, carried news happen-' faction of the Independent Labor pa: ings from the Rotarians’ home towns,| ty, the extreme wing of the Britis’ All business houses who were repre- labor party, decided at a meeting t sented in Rotary membership carried! secede from the Independent Labc the Rotary symbol in their advertise- | | BRITAIN JOIN THE COMMUNISTS Minority of Independent Labo Party Votes to Secede Southport, England, Mar. 29.—(B Party and join the Communist Part) The propaganda, it is said, was traced to the head of a private em- ployment agency in Fargo, who is said to have visited Bismarck last week. The situation led to meetings in Fargo in which state federal employ- ment officials sought aid of others in handling the matter. The effect of the propaganda did not last, however, it is said, as there has been a brisk de-| mand for farm jobs in the last few days at $35 and $40 a month, which employment officials assert is more than men are paid for the same class of work in cities and towns, if board and lodging is figured in. , Commissioner of Agriculture and Labor John Hagan, in a statement, The seceding element was defeate in the Independent Labor.Party's con! vention Monday when it presented a report favoring acceptance of Mos- cow’s conditons for affiliation with the Third Internationale. The vote against affiliation stood 521 to 97. FARMERS MEET ONU.S, PROGRAM Washington, March 29.—A confer- ence for formation of a farmers pro- gram for presentation to the next Congress was called for April 14. 80-MILE GALE | HITS NEW YORK 'New York, March 29.—A eighty mile gale accompanied by lower temper- atures swept New York state, ST. LAWRENCE OPEN TO SHIPS Montreal, March 29.—The St, Law known dead list to five. SOLDIER'S BODY BROUGHT HERE _ FROMOVERSEAS Lieut. Wallin’s Remains Remov- ed from French Grave— Burial at Washburn KILLED ON LAST DAY The body of Lieut, Victor B. Wallin, who was killed in action on the laat day of the World War. arrived in Bismarck at 11:30 this morning on the Northern Pacific. The body was buried at Poulilly and last autumn Mrs, Wallin, the mother vf the deceased soldier, together with her son Lieut. Homer N. Wallin of the U, 8S. N. went to France and made arrangements to have the body brought home. Lieut Victor B. Wallin was com- manding D Company of the 356th in- fantry and was advancing at the head of his company crossing the River Meuse on the morning of November 11, 1918 when he waq struck with shrapnel and instantly killed, just 4 lours before the Armistice was signed Funeral services will be held at Nashburn in charge of the Victor B. Wallin Post. No. 12. of the American vegion, which post was named in honor of the Lieutenant’s memory. vhe remains were accompanied by he mother from Hoboken, New Jersey A uniformed military escort of the aloyd Spetz Post American Legion, of 3ismarck met the train. The escort was headed by Commander Paul on, of the local post, andthe body was -aken to the Perry Undertaking par- lors, where it will lie until tomorrow morning when the body will be taken on the Soo line to Washburn. The same military escort will accompany the body to the train. Ben Everson and H. E. ‘Wahl, of- ficers of the Legion post at Washburn, arrived in Bismarck last evening and will accompany the body to Washburn. The funeral of Lieut. Victor B. Wallin will be held at Washburn, on Thursday, March 31,'at 1 P. M., un- der the directions of Victor B. Wal- lin Post No. 12, of Washburn, assistel by several Legion Posts from McLean county. The Victor B. Wallin Post respectfully requests that all service men as well as citizens throughout McLean county be’ in attendance at the funeral on Thursday. The body will be buried at Riverview cemetery, Washburn, N. D. $800,000 BID FOR BIG SCRAP New York March 29.—Tex Ricard. received an $800,000 offer for the rence river is open to navigation at earliest period for years, Dempsey Carpentier bout from a Nev- ada silver mining camp.