The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 7, 1921, Page 1

~The Weather * Unsettled ” FORTIETH YEAR § THE BIS RI BUM ~ Last Edition BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, AP RIL 7, 1921 PRICE FIVE CENTS ENGLISH RAIL MEN VOTE T DIRECTOR FOR | BOYS WORK IN CITY ENGAGED Rotarians Bring Experienced Worker to Organize Boys of City | i | | TO AID ALL THE BOYS) Cooperation of Every Agency in City Will Be Sought Plans which have been carefully de- | veloped by the Rotary club for the promotion of boys’ welfare in the city were consummated today in the an- Nouncement that an experienced di- rector of boys’ activities has been engaged. | The director, who is J. J. MacLeod, has wide experi€nce in this work, and members of the Rotary club feel sat- isfied that they have obtained the best man in the Northwe$t to inaugurate an organized boys’ movement in Bis- marck,. Mr. MacLeod will come to Bismarck not later than April 25, and with him him family, cansisting of a wife and two daughters, one 11 and one 13 years of age. ‘Mr. MacLeod comes from Canagla, where he has been sup- ervising 1 large district for a men’s and. boys’ organization, To Seek Co-operation, In Bismarck Mr. MacLeod will seek the co-operation of every agency in the city and men and women, without any distinction or discrimination, in' promoting the activities of the Boy Scouts and of other boys’ organiza- tions and individuals. He will be ex- pected to organize boys’ play, promote their welfare in every way, and direct their energies into the right channels. The Rotarians feel that Mr. MacLeod ' will enter Bismarck under especially favorable circumstances, because his work cannot conflict with that of any other agency. Mr. MacLeod addressed the Rotari- ans at their weekly luncheon Wednes- day and also talked. to high school boys. Local Rotarians while scouring the Northwest for a man learned that Mr. MacLeod had had several flatter- , ing offers from organizations, whicn necessitated traveling. He was secut- ed'for Bismarck because he said that | he wished to live in a city of this’ . size, where he might come in. direct contact with the boys and see thg re- sult of his work. Was In Cuba. Eighteen years ago Mr. MacLeol went to Havana, Cuba, as the first ahtletic director brought to that coui- try by an organization promoting the welfare of men and jboys. In announcing the employment. of Mr, McLeod, President Fred L. Conk- lin, of the Rotary club, explained that while the Rotary club fathered the movement to engage a director of boys’ work it is hoped that Mr. Mac- Leod will receive the co-operation of all organizations in the city interest- ed in the Welfare of boys. Mr. Mac- Leod, hé said; would be a representa- tive of the community at large and as such would have the entire commun- ity as hig fleld and feel responsible to all of the people in the community. REFUSE WAGE GUT PERMISSION CHICAGO, April 7.Permission to make provisional reduction of unskill- ed labor on ‘the New York Centra’ railroad was denied by the railroad labor board here today. The railroad recently requested permission to put cuts of from 17 to 31 per cent in effect ; LITTLE PEARL LOSES , AS OUT WHITE HOUSE BABY Pearl Harding and (Left to Brother, “Cousin Everett.” By Newspaper Enterprise. CHICAGO,: April, 7.—Little Pearl Harding: will not, after all, ‘be “the White ‘House baby.” : The police have brought a sudden, stop to the climb of the Chicago Hardings who became celebrities through a bogus relationship with the | president. “Cousin, Everett,” pearl’s brother, according to Dr. W. J. Hickson of the municipal psycopathic hospital, is mentally unsound and his claims to relationship to President Harding are based on a delusion. Meanwhile, so convincing has been “Cousin Everett's” story and so well has he profited by the national adver- tising, that the discovery of -his im- posture is a shock to; The Hamilton Club of Chicago, which urged a life membership oni Everett and gave him “the keys to tHe clubhouse.” The Pennsylvania Railroad, which| furnished the ‘Hardings a private car to and from Washington and accepted a worthless check for $1,999.90 in pay-! ment. | Twenty residents of Chicago who) have been watching the mails for the, federal appointments promised them by Cousin Everett. William: L, Koehne, a fashionable ‘photographer, who gave elaborate sit- tings to Pearl and Everett and their parents. ‘Mayor Thompson, who was harass- ed by friendly overtures. President Harding himself, though he had_no recollection of “Cousin Everett,” nevertheless ac- pted his claims and invited him and who, -his immediate family to the inaugura- tion and met him cordially. Pearl's picture was spread broad- Cast as the little girl who would spend ie Right) Her Father, Mother and DESCRIBES 11 NEGRO MURDERS ON PLANTATION Negro Boss Says That Fear Prompted Carrying Out of Slaying Order Covington, Ga, April 7—John 8. Williams, plantation owner, on trial for the murder of one of 11 negro farm hands, alleged to have been killed through fear of ex- posure ef peonage conditions on his farm, took the stand in. his own behali. “Like most farmers,” he said, “I have bonded out Negroes and worked thom,” adding that “most Georgia farmers were technically guilty of peonage under definition of that term given him by federal agents.” Covington, Ga., April 7,—Fear for his own life was -the motive that promoted Clyde Manning, Negro farm \ picture to newspapers and officers in HALF MILLION ‘ROBBERS LOOT EXTEND SEARCH | { | OVER NORTHWEST FOR MISSING BOY | | | [No Word Received of Harold Svendsgaard, Who Disap- peared on Feb. 1 Hold-up Go as High as $750,000 (FRIENDS LEND THEIR AID Send Con-|Robbery Is Staged in Record tribution to Ald Extension | Time at Dearborn Street of Effort Station ' Search over the entire Northwest; CHICAGO, April 7.—Currency and | now is being made for Harold Svendss | Negotiable securities amounting | disappeared on Fébruary 1. i ! No trace or word of the missing boy ; bandits Who rovbed a government has yet been found. His family, ex: mail truck at the Dearborn street sta- i tending the search, plans to send his! tion here yesterday. : | The registered mail pouch believed {many cities in the hope that he might | to, nate contained -the loot was found ! be recognized or might see ‘the picture | by police this morning. | Various conflicting stories are told imself and: respond {of the hold-up by eye-witnesses ‘but Harold disappeared atter'going to a| oad Thoyonts eee, Wer ent not more than a minute and a half. iner of his leaving the city was that} A “Movie” Robbery. !a boy answering his description was; ‘Scores of pedestrians gazed walking east from Bismarck, and} what they believed to be a “movie” when near the penitentiary was pickea | robbery and 50 railway and postal em- ‘up by @ passing autoisis who took him | Ployes obligingly stood around with to McKenzie, Where he went from! their hands in the air, while five arm- ‘there is a mystery. He had but $4{ ed bandits siezed the mail and escap- or $5 in his pockets at the time. ed in an automobile. one ss | Homeward bound crowds filled the Give a Social, - station and streets when the automo- The Svendsgaard’s formerly lived in; bile drew up beside the loading plat- Bowdon, Wells county, They were} form late in the afternoon. A, mail | surprised this week to receive word! trick, was unfoading its contents ‘that a supper and: dance was given by, which were to be placed aboard the ‘friends in Bowdon to raise funds ¢>|Monon train known as the Hoosier | aid in the search for the boy. The re-; Limited, Four men leaped out of the ceipts totaled $65, which were for-; machine and one of them shouted: | warded to the Svendsgaard’s here, “Stick up your hands, everybody.” | More than 50 railway ‘and: postal é A Model Hoy. employes’ who were around the truck Harold Svendsgaard was a musician’: complied in the belief that.a motion of ability, and in the search effort hag pletnrs aver was being iskish Three aiciaue: or ottatlelion, “Hac olgo) ei] Se ceca atns haere Peas : : papal i | were thrown into the machine when | ntenented an Bey Sepa Mclaren one of the bandits became alarmed at it and was an excellent student. seeing a policeman and fired a. ghot is said he had_ not. fissed Sunday pat him. All of the robbers’ |. School but once or twice,in five years.| leaped into the machine and sped 1 His relatives are unable'to account ‘away, at top speed pursuedby five }for his ‘sudden disappearance, unless! bullets fired at them by the police he may have been worried from over-} man. ONLY $50 IN STATEBANK i | | ~ IN MAIL SACKS ‘Estimates. of Loss in Chicago , 10 | all agree thatthe robbery consumed on! ‘ELLWELL MURDER | MAY BE SOLVED i | | Roy Harris, alias G. E, jhad not deviated from tne original | story of his alleged part in the mur- ;der last June of Joseph B. Ellwell, | wealthy New York club man, the But: {alo police today pointed to certain | discrepancies between his sijned con- | fesgion and known facts of the mur- {der. He confessed last night accord [ing to police i Buffalo, N. Y., April 7—--Although au. IN Lie wisues WARNING-GIVEN LAW VIOLATORS | Declares All Violators Will ! Be Prosecuted ‘MAY USE ANTI-TRUST LAW ' Daugherty Points Out It Is a | Weapon Against Pro- fiteers Washington, April warning to business that the depart- ment of justice will countenance no | Violations of the law was sounded to- ‘day by Attorney General Daugherty. i The country, Mr. Daugherty said, ‘ should “take notice of new day and a new sway,” and that those who have ; been guilty of illegal practices shoula not “close their eyes.” His statement, he added, was a “modest but emphatic warning to those for whom it was in- ; tended and could be regarded as an | opportunity for any of those who | should mend their ways to\do so, Points.to Sherman Law. / | The attorney general said the de- partment of justice did not intend , to harass business in any way but that it did intend to enforce the law. |He pointed out that while the prof- iteering section of the Lever»act had been declared unconstitutional the, de- then,’ partment still could proceed unjler’tHe *{ subsequent debate when J. R. Clynes, Sherman anti-trust law.< ° iMry Daugherty was discussing. spe- | effically the situation in the ‘building ; Materials industry which he declared | reports to the department showed ‘0 ‘he “intolerable.” He said the depart- ment of justice would ask for more ald from the outside than it had ‘re- ceived heretofore and that lawyers representing firms should regard O ST BY CONFESSION B. Leonard, | TO ‘MEND WAYS" | gaard, 17-year-old Bismarck boy, who ; between $500,000 and $750,000 are be-; Attorney - General Daugherty | lieved to have been secured by four} i 7--A general | RIKE COAL STRIKERS "MENACE GROWS - WITHNEW TURN | | Miners, Rail Men and Transport | Workers May Join in Strike : Pact ig ‘SCOT MINES BOMBED ) | Efforts Made to Prevent Giving Protection to Mines From | Flooding London April 7—(By the As- sociated Press)—The National Union of Railyway Men today ‘unanimously decided to support ‘the coal miners in their strike. ; The executive body of the rail- |way men’s union decided to con- ‘ sult immediately with the trans- crt workers organization for the ‘purpose of taking the most effec- |tive and immediate steps to as- | sist the miners. F Fear Industrial Stagnation London, April 7—(By the As- | sociated Press) — With the | breakdown of the conference be- | tween the coal owners and strik- ,ing miners concerning the wage |dispute this morning and the al- most immediate decision of the ‘rail men to join the transport ‘workers and the miners of Great ‘Britain was trembling on the ‘edge of an industrial precipice. The prime minister, Mr. Lloyd | George, who had. attempted media- ‘tion, in the house of commons at mid- afternoon, made the significent state- + ment that the issue raised was much wider than that of wages. This inter- | preted generally as meaning that the | government and the miners, to all in- ; tents and purposes, were again at grips over the old question of nation- ; alization of the. mines, | A Ray of ‘Hope. Some ray of hope appeared in the jchairman of the parliamentary Jabor party, and others, pleaded with the | prime minister to call the miners and ; owners again together. with neither : side offering conditions as the basis | for reopening of negotiations. ! (One of the members of the miners’ executive body, Samuel Finney, de- clared the miners were willing to ne- | | Rugby, N. D., April. 7.—Withdrawal of $29,000 worth of sinking funds ot | Pierce county from the Bank of North | Dakota, of which $20,000 was used to | | retire county bonds and the remainder deposited in local hanks, leaves the !county with only $50 in the state | bank which is on a checking acgount. |The county also has $650 in claims | | against the Bank of North Dakota. VETS SERVICE ‘BUREAU URGED ~ BY COMMITTEE: | « | i | 1 | | | | Dawes Investigation Body Sub- | | Taits Reports to President |RYE ALSO | —_— ) WASHINGTON April 7,—Forecast gotiate on this basis. CROP ESTIMATE ; themselves as agents of the depart- lel Army and Navy Ready. BETTERS { 990. ment of justice in upholding law. Meanwhile, the representatives of | Indictments Returned. ‘ the’ railway men, the transport work- | The attorney general announced: &'S and the miners were conferring . [that it is the purpose of investigating ie ececide one smnieaate He us ae Paro conditiong in the building. matertais | Should be taken to enforce the miners’ Condition on April First 91 Com- trade when ever an inquiry was ware Both the railway and ‘tras- | ranted. port men have stated their intention pared to 75.6 Same Date iiGictments already have been re-/ to give the miners, tall support but Last Year | turned in New York and Chicago, he whether nis, would vk ea ng sah | Said, and complaints have come from! wide strike. é Seep trees I ETTER! other cities. | ‘The government, on the other hand, is B | WASHINGTON. April 7.—Investiga-| continued its preparation to meet any is ; tion of illegal practices in the build-| @mergency with tre amployment o* : | ing material trade is to be under- ll the facilities of the army and the State of Washington Wheat, taken at once in all parts -of the Ravy. country where necessary, Attorney! | CONFERENCE BREAKS UP Condition Reported to Be |General Daugherty announced. a Hundred Per Cent Reports trom some sections of the} UVONDON, April 7. (By the Associ- j country are that the building mater.) ated Press).—A complete break-up of ‘jal situation is “intolerable,” ‘Mr. | the conference between representa- : cel | Daugherty said, and’ the department! tivs of the miners, the owners and of a winter wheat crop of about 621-) of justice desires to ‘contribute in any, the government with a view to settl- 00,000 bushels was made today by! way it can to improving it, ing the coal strike waa announced in ‘here today. hand boss, to half kill 11 Negro hands | Harding employed on the Jasper county plan-, a] tation of John S. Williams. the negro; WASHINGTON, April 7.—Organiza-, told the jury in the trial of Williams’ tion of a veterans service.administra-| in Newton county superior court) tion, consolidating existing govern- He said he did not want| mental bureaus having to do with to help Kill them but was afraid to, treatment of disabled service men, is disobey Williams who, he declared,; recommended “in a report submitted was trying to do away with the Ne-| today to [President Harding by Chas, groes for fear they might testify re-| G. Dawes of Chicago, chairman of the crop April 1. which was 91 per cent] of normal. 1 There was an increase of 3.1 points ; in the condition from December 1. last. to April 1, this year, compared | with an average decline of 4.8 pointy! between those dates in the last ten! ‘The production forecast is based| upon average production last fall,| the department of agriculture, basing; the house of commons by Premier its estimate on the condition of the| BENNY KAUFF | Lloyd George this afternoon. CHICAGO, April 7.—Benny Kauff, star outfielder of the New York na- ‘Leaders of the miners’ union who conferred with Prime Minister Lloyd’ George this morning refused to order engines and pump men in mines af- fected by the coal strike to resume work pending negotiations with the | mine owners. . | As a result of this refusal the min- ers and their employers will not meet The conference lasted up- | today. April 1. ars a Vhite i fs ;, a c —___—. Se ee rescues, suaiegs Vand. garding alleged peonage conditions on special * comm ‘ Tete investigating sol- with the assumption of average harm-; tionals, today was declared ineligible wards of two hours, MARMARTH MAY ings from lonesomeness. the Williams farm. j dier relief. problems. | ful influences on the crop to harvest. | to.play in organized baseball by Com- hires President Harding brought about, he Negroes met death shortly after; | | 7 oa | Production of rye was forecast as, missioner Landis because of the in-/ “HOLD NAVY MEN READY the downfall of Everett, After he federal authorities started an investl- RAISE FUNDS 66,386000 from a condition of 90,3 per; dictment returned against him in New| QUEENSTOWN, Ireland, April 7.— cent of normal j York charging him with the theft: of} Naval units here and at other home ‘HAVE LANDING MARMARTH. N. D.. Avril 7—Mar- gation of alleged peonage on the farm. | six of them, according to Manning, he- | ing chained to rocks and thrown alive learned that the check tendered the railroad company was worthless, he April 1; an automobile. 1 } ports have been instructed a3 a,re- normal. | ‘Winter wheat conditions last year was 73.6 per cent o | sult of the strike of British miners to FOR BASEBAL marth may be designated as one of a askd the secret service to investigate )/ H . | number of landing Paces on the pro- “Couin Everett's” claims to relation- into rivers, and five knocked on the} aMoure, N. April 7—The four- “Rye conditions a year ago were 86.6/ MERCER TO j hold’ themselves in readiness for posed aerial route from Seattle to ship. head or shot and buried on the farm.!act comedy “Assisted by Sadie,” per cent of normal. mene 2 |emergency service. Shore. leaves Throughout a hour of cross examin-! brought a sum of $160 for'the pros- | Winter wheat conditions by princl-) HAVE CONTEST have been curtailed, even oftic2rs be- Chicago, which will follow the Yel- lowstone trail as the result of con- sideration of the project at the re- cent meeting held in Miles City, ‘Mont. ‘Landing fields are marked by a huge white circle, ‘With the instal- lation of telephone connections be- tween Marmarth and a landing area near town, a class “A” field is said to be attainable. A pathfinder plane will fly over the proposed route this summer and marks euitable landing places as a tentative guide to permaneat designa- tion. ALL WOMEN ON BOARD Grafton, N. D., April 7—When vot- ers from the First’ ward entered the court room Monday to cast their bal- lots they were puzzled at the feminine atmosphere. Gathered about the table were five women, one doing a bit of hand sewing. There wasn’t a man in sight. Then came understanding. The ~quintette was the regularly appointed, legally qualified and acting election board for the First ward. Mrs. H, H. Mott_was inspector, Mrs. Thomas Mil- ler and Mrs. John Larson judges, Mrs. 4 B. Stewart and Miss Maud Miller clerks. ‘ About 15 players have been checked "they reported the claims false and found Everett had a police record as a forger. Mr. and ‘Mrs. Ephriam. Harding, Everett's parents, and Pearl are said by the police to have been the dupes of Everett, MOTT TO HAVE BASEBALL NI Mott, N.“D., April 7—A meeting was held last night at the onic ball for the purpose of organizing a baseball team. The American Legian post here will take the management of the team. up here from which a strong nine can be picked, WILL RAISE FUNDS. Devils Lake, N. D., April 7.—Devils | Lake business and professional mea} will be solicited next week for funds to maintain a winning bas¢batl team here this summer. HAIR-CUT QUIETS SEA. New York, April 7—Ole Bull, skip- per of the lingr Bergensfjord, is here with a bald pate. That's because he and ship officers had their hair cut to quiet the stormy seas, in accord- ance with an old Viking superstition. It worked, Ole says. ation, ‘Manning, who was_ indicted jointly with Williams, denied any pressure had heen brought to bear on hind to make him tell the story. Four More Witnesses. The state put on four other witness. ; es besides Manning—two federal agents, Clyde Freeman, a Negro farm hand, and a Negro woman cook, and was expected to conclude its case tomorrow. The* defense indicated it would conclude its testimony in about one day and that the case should go to the jury~Saturday. Manning was the state's chief wit- ness. He is unable to read or write, he said, and about 29 years old, but does not know where he was born. During some three\hours of direct examination, the Negro told in detail of the alleged murder of the 11 Ne- groes, giving his description in sim- plest words, He was not asked to describe the alleged binding of the Negroes who were drowned, but told how they were thrown off the bridges by himself and Charlie Chisholm, an- other farm hand, whom he said he later, helped Williams to drown. “Théy were stubborn and a-heg- gin’,” Manning said simply in his ver- sion of the death of Peterson and Willie Preston, ‘“‘and me and Charlie rolled ’em over the banister of the bridge.” | pective baseball team to represent La pal producing states was: Pennsyl- The play will also vania, 97; Ohio, 87; Indiana, 89; Illi- be presented at Verona and Marion, nois 96; Michigan 90; Missouri, 93 and the receipts turned in towards the Nebraska, 93; Kansas, 83; Texas, 88 ; local hall club. Washington, 100. RUM RUNNER NOT SO DANGEROUS- UNLESS YOU'RE ONE YOURSELF The whiskey runner is not such a dangerous man for an officer to meet “on the road as many people imagine, according to F. L. Watkins, state i enforcement officer. : “These men may have $3,000 or $4,000 invested in an automobile and $2,009 or $3,000 in whiskey,” he said, “and they are not looking for a trip ta the penitentiary especially if there is more than one officer in a party.” This doesn’t mean that a whiskey runner is a particularly pleasant man to mect on the road, however, according to Whtkins. -Many of them come from far off and have records which stamp them as dangerous men. They seem to concentrate on fellow rum runners, howéver. “High jack- ing” has come to be the big ‘sport on the border, Watkins says. “High jacking” is the term applied to the robbery of.one rum runner by another. A short time ago, near the Canadian border, is is said, several men drove up to an alleged whiskey runner whose car had broken down, claimed \they were federal officers and confiscated his automobile. Watkins and another officer will work exclusively in the Minot territory. Minot itself is said to be rather quiet-now, with visible evidences of whiskey runners missing. | Moure this year. | | Zap, N. D. April 7—The farm bu- +! reau and the county commissioners | ‘of Mercer county, recognizing the j value’ of good corn for the county, | have. planned a corn contest with the \aim of increasing the corn acreage ‘and bettering the’ yields and variety, ' according to County Agent Poe. “There are several ways this can be done,” said Mr. Poe, “but the most | feasible and successful way has been ‘ found in other counties to the through !a corn contest. | “We believe it wise to ask the bus- | inessmen for donations to give prizes following basis: Cleanest field, 25 per cent. Best 10 ears. County fair, 25 per cent. Largest yleld,,.25 per cent. Best report, 25 per cent. Total 100 per cent. “In some of the other county con tests, banks have. given $25 apiece as cash prizes. Other businessmen have given $20 in trade, which appeals to most businessmen, “We recommend that the prizes be raised by bankers as follows: First, $150; second, $75; third, $25. Prizes to be given in trade by merchants from surrgunding towns $5 to $25. for the best 20 acres of corn, on the; | ing required to return to their ships by 8:30 o'clock in the evening. Naval officers view the situation as | being filled with the gravest possibil- ities, 1 The question of shifting large num- bers of the Crown forces in Ireland to England has been fally considered, | it is understood, and. if such steps shonld be taken it is stated she forces transferred there would probably in- ‘clude many auxiliary regarded as es- pecially qualified to deal with the ele- ments seeking to stir up trouble in Ireland. - BOMB THROWN. London, April 7.—Reports from many mining centers say that the strikers were adopting a more aggres- sive attitude to make volunteers stop keeping the colleries free from water. In numerous instances force was used. At Borrowstounnes, Scotland, miners today threw bombs 4@t a pit head lo intimidate volunteer workers in‘ the mines. No material damage was don>. WRITES IN “WEEK.” MINOT, IN. D., April 7.—-The Maren number of the Journal of the National Educatinoal association contai an article written by A, G. Crane former president of the Minot norm:' The subject is “Teachers’ Week in North Dakota.” ‘