The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 1, 1921, Page 1

_ FORTIETH YEAR | vt | | at CK * MORNIN! EDITION BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SUNDAY, MAY 1, 1921 L. 158 PRICE FIVE CENTS PRIZE BEAU’ OF COUNTY IN OFFICE MONDAY J. A. Flow to Succeed H. P. Knappen‘as Burleigh Coun- | ty’s Custodian of Funds $450,000 IN TREASURY | New Treasurer Will. Have To Make. Apportionment of '.! Funds in County There will be another change in’ county offices with the retirement of; H. P. Knappen as county treasurer, § J. A, Flow, elected treasurer last: fall, takes office Monday morning. Mr.’ Knappen has been filling the office! RR RA TY TO WED NOBLEMAN BRITISH ASK ULTIMATUM TO GERMAN NATION Would Give Fer Seven Days in Which toComply with Traty FRENCH WANT INVASION ! | ' i i pd Hold With Belsians That There is No Reasm for Further Thlay London, April 30.—Information has been receivid by the French ion to th meeting of the counc) that unofficial American advice at Beriin are urging member; of the German ‘AINST MAY DAY RIOTS HARDING PUTS’ MARINE STRIKE - BEFORE CABINET | 'Presidént to Try and. Avert, | Workers Strike on all i American Ships | { i 1 May NAME SPECIAL BOARD ' Secretary Davis of Labor De. partment Offers His Ser- vice in Matter | | | | | = | Washiington, April 30.—Represen-| | tatives of the marine workers union | | were told today at the White House} ; that President Harding’ would take; | Up with his cabinet officers the mat-: i oe i munists in U. S. Also TWO MILLION, «|___Fan | i} SNOW FALLING; AT WILLISTON AID TO CROPS Snow Is falling throughout the section is about completed and i 7 paren say the moisture will ‘ elp the cropy..0°" 7 i A downnoat: rain for over | 11,000 New York Officers Held 2a wo hours(ts ‘the early h if P<) morning i led the atmosphere in Service Over May In Bismarck. The rainiall, which was heavy while it lasted, amounted to fifteen-hundredths of an Inch, according to the weather bureau reports. The local fore- cast was for snow or rain prob- Day LITERATURE WAS SEIZED , New York, April 30.—New :York’s entire police force of :11,000 men today was ordered to remain on duty continuously IDLE. 1S MAY by virtue of appointment by the board/ of county commissioners for the last) few months, since the retirement of! Richard Penwarden, elected register i of deeds, Hiram Landers, who was ES “ defeated by Mr. Flow, has been Mr. Mi ee pean ‘nappen’s deputy. i le. Agnes Souret, officially chosen the most beautiful girl in The new county treasurer announc-' France, has’ announced her engagement to a British nobleman, ed today that his deputy would be! if fo dy Miss Pearl Benson and that he ex. according to Paris dispatches. She says she’s not ‘ready to tell jer of mediation in the wage dignute! with a view to preventing a threaten- | bata jean deere is | et strike tomorrow on American this agreement he allies demand. yehee on the Atlantle, Pacific and: ed 226 billion gdd marks in addi- bigeye | cabinet to accejt the allied terms | | | | The department of labor interested | DAY PROBLEM {Situation in Densely Populated demonstration. ti “per m 1 ba Seon Sant cota one | itself in the @ontroversy early in the; Sections Becoming More eh veriman j day and it was understood that Sec-! London, April, $0.-(By the Asso-| Tetary Davis was prepared to ask, Aten. | clated Press)-—-An ultimatum to Ger-! that his department be authorized to until Monday morning—a meas- ure of precaution against possi- ible May Day violence or radical ,. Bluecoats were detailed to guard ; thé elty’s churches, public buildings | and meeting places while others were {assigned to protect private residences ‘and individuals belfeved to be in)dan- ,Pected to have the assistance of R.' his name. W. Dutton, who has been doing spe-~~ cial work, and Mrs. E..J. Taylor, who: also has been assisting in the office. To Pay Out Cash, Mr. Flow will find a big bunch of Money on the tréasurer’s books but! it will not stay, there long. No ap- portionment of eounty tax collections has been made to the cities, townships and other political subdivisions of the county by Mr. Knappen, with the ex- ception of advanees to school dis- = ON BOND SALES There is a balance of somethitg serts S i Fy . over $450,000 in the county funds, ac- Asserts Sale is Proceeding in Satisfactory Manner LEMKERETURNS cording to Mr, Knappen, the retiring; 1 treasurer. Sometime ago a warrant 4 ' for $63,430.00, being money due the — attor, city of Bismarck, was drawn but the, wag in| treasurer refused to honor the war. ney-General William Lemke jismarck today returning from the east where he has been speaking » rant. i i ‘ ‘ in the interest of the state bond sale. | In Previous years it has been cus- ‘the Attorney-General was to leave to- | tomary, officials say, to advance money) gay to begin a ten-day of two-weeks } to the various political subdivisions to speaking Gour in Minnesota and Wis- meet. bills, preceding the - apportion- ment madé when the books are act-) ually closed on the 'tax collections, Mr. Knappen did: ‘not -follow ‘this. ‘He said that the apportionment was. not legally ‘made until the beoks are closed and ‘that the books were held open to avoid taxpayer's penalties, de-, laying the work in the treasurer's of:! fice, and that the actual apportioa- ment would be made as soon as in former years. The exception made, he’ * said, was in advancing money to the, schools. Many schools in the county have been short of ‘unds and school teachers-wore receivikg oily half their pay. Pinched for Cash The entire amount of countg; funds has been kept in the Bank of North Dakota, Burleigh county having one of the largest ‘balances of afiy county, The city of Bismarck and some, other. political subdivisions in the: \ county have been.pinched for money \through inability to get their appor-| tionment, it is said, and ‘have been, forced to issue warrants to pay bills. Deputies of the office of the state ex- aminer wete checking out Mt. Knap-| pen today.” AUXILIARY OF LEGION HOLDS MEETING SOON First As nvention of Wo- men's siliary at Devils Lake May 11 and 12 ——— (Special to The Tribune) H Fargo, N, D., April 30.—Jack Wil- liams, Department Adjutant of The American Legion, announced today that Miss Pauline C. +Curnick, Na- tional Secretary of the Women’s Aux- iliary of The American Legion will represent National. Headquarters of The American Legion at the First; State Convention of The Women’ Auxiliary to be held at Devils Lake, May 11 and 12, It, is expected that) all ‘state officials of ‘The American ‘Legion will also be in attendance. Delegates representing sixty-five Units of the Aluxiliary in North Da- kota will assemble at, Devils Lake ‘for the purpose of forming their own state department, electing officers, etc. It will be one of the most important gatherings of women in the state. The Devils Lake unit, which is one of the most active in North Dakota, is receiving the co-operation of the Civic and Commerce Association of! that city. to make the convention a memorabie one, In addition to the regular progfatn, visits to the State School for the Deaf, Chautauqua’ grounds, North ‘Dakota Military reser- vation and Fort'Totten. NEW MANAGER FOR DRAKE MILL J. F. Gorman has replaced former manager Hibbard, of the State flour, mill at Drake. No reason is given by the Industrial (emmission for the naming of Gorman. The mill is now said to be worKing one shift a day. DEALERS 'TO MEET. Jamestown, Apfil 30.—A meeting of the state’s realjestate dealers will be. held in Jamestawn, May 10. i \ ; ‘ consin, after which he expects to re- turn ‘to Bismarck. The Attorney-General declared the bond: sale was. proceeding. it.a- satis- factory manner, but declined to state specific figures. He said ‘that+he ex: pected work on the Grand Forks ele- vator to be ré3umed this summer. ‘Mr. Lemke spoke in many cities in the east, including a talk before the Twentieth Century glub in Boston and in the Peopls’s Church in Cincinnati. He said the reception. given in all the cities except ome had been satisfac- tory, and asserted there were 25,0000,- (00 people’ outside the state back o' the Nonpartisan league. “vlackmailing the state outside of the state is at an end.” BANDITS SLAY WOMAN HALTED IN OPEN ROAD bile After -Bandits Rob. Hin’ % South Orange, N. J., April 20.—Four masked bandits today held up an au- tomobile in. which Mrs. Celeste Cas- sese, of Orange, was returning from a visit to a sick friend. When she screamed one of the men leaped into Meanwhile the others covered her \ chauffeur, Michael Sellito, with re- volvers. ' They bound him to the steefing wheel, rifled his pockets and fled. Sellito held his head continuously against. the button of the electric: horn, finally attracting neary resi- dents. BAD WEATHER HURTS MEET Philadelphia, Pa,, April 30.—Weath- ef conditons late in the morning were unpleasant for the second day's pro- gram for the University of Pennsyl- vania’s relay carnival and special field sports. SELLS INTERESTS. New Leipzig, N. D., April _— Frank M. Brown, Jr,, Aberdeen, S 7 president of the New Leipzig State bank, has Sold his interests in the in- stitution to M. B. Zweber, cashier, who assumes the vice presidency, and with his brothers, J. P. ZWeber, now president, and H. Zweber, cashier, now control the ban! Rann { Oelwein, Ia, April, 30.—John Meeley, 15, caused much commo- tion by taking an uninvited trip gm the clouds, clinging to the tall piece of an airplane. A pilot giving exhibition tlights with two women passengers made ready to take off.. As the ma- chine started Meeley ran and ‘he was convicted. the tonneau and choked her to death. | YOUTH TAKES AIR RIDE IN CLO ~ HANGING TO TAIL OF AIRP | FEWEST DOCTORS | IN NORTH DAKOTA | FROM TRIP EAST Chicago, April 30, — Statistic showing that North Dakota has the fewest physicians in propor- tion to population of any state: In the union were issued today by.the Journal of the American Med-cal Association, There are 1,161 per- sons in North Dakota to each physician, the statement says, while in the District of Colum- bla there Is but one physician to every 259 persons. $400 OFFERED TOTOWNLEY 10 DEBATELANGER: ‘Offer. Telegraphed to Beatrice Nebraska, American Legion ‘ Post William Langer, former attorney general, today telegraphed an offer The Attorney-General declared that to the Beatrice, Nebraska, post of the American Legion of $100 to A. C. Townley if Mr, Townley will meet him in public debate for two hours. The offer was made in response to ‘receipt of information by Mr. Langer from the American Legioh post that ; Townley would speak # Beatrice on ; May 7. “D’ve been trying to get’Townley in a debate for two years, and this {sa |’ real opoprtunity for him,” said Mr. , Langer today. Townley, whose conviction in Min- ‘Chauffeur is -Tied to Automo- nesota courts was upheld yesterday, | is in Nebraska speaking. It is ex- pected he will appeal to the United States supreme court to test the con- stitutionality of tho law under ‘which TO PLACE FUNDS IN BANK OF N. DAKOTA Bowhbells, N. D., April 30.—Consld- erabie interest is aroused here over the effect the change of county treas- erers will have on financial conditions over Burke county next Monday, when J. R, Jensen, Nonpartisan league | treasurer-elect will take the office va- cated by. Lawrence Larsen, the present Iddependent incumbent. It is quite generally known that Mr. Jensen has declared he will ex- ercise hig full authority in the matter of disposing of the county funds, and will teplace them all—about $200,000 at present—tin the Bank of North Da- kota, whence they were extracted) gome two months ago. REAL MORTGAGES ARE ASSIGNED Forty-three real estate mortgages! of Burleigh county, amounting to about $140,000, have been assigned to the state treasurer by the Bank of baie Dakota. The assignment is a e cessary preliminary to_the issuance of real estate bonds. This does not cover the entire amount of mortgages N CLOUDS LANE caught hold of a stabilizer and was off on the trip. Having aigicalty with his plane the pilot noticed the youth, A forced landing was made and the youth was given the talk of his fe. Meeley enjoyed the ride “but that guy sure is rough” he con- eluded. JOURNAL LEARNS. ; many giving her siven days from May | 1 to comply with or alae the allied reparations demard was being advo- cated today by the British representa- tives to the allied conference here. This proposal vas opposed by the {Jrench and. Belgiins oh the ground | that it was unneceisary{ that the Ger- ; man had had suffident time. | The French hed that the default | of Germany in he; tredty obligations i calls for military thd e¢onomic action ; and that the note #@ndiig should come | afterwards. | i ' Asks Immedite Occupation , The view was &prepsed in French | circles today that approval of imme- ; diate occupation ¢ the Ruhr district | of Germany woulc be asked by Pre- | mier Briand. A fw | tion would be required, and the in- terval between thi decisions and or ders directing Frnch forces to ad- { vance would givethe Germans time ‘to yield unconditimally if they were so disposed. French represertatives declared that occupation should take place in any event as a guaraitee, ‘w days of prepara: | : Supreme Council Meets London, April 3).-——-(By the Associat- ed \Press.)—The illied supreme coun- cil met here at { o’¢lock this after- noon to begin consideration of the measures to be alopted in connection with the Germar reparations situa- tion. The meeting was held in| the official residence of Mr. Lioyd George. TOWNLEY MAKES Only Reference to Supreme Court Decision is He’s Not Worrying Beaver City, Neb., April 30,—A. C. Townley, president of the National Nonpartisan leasue, denied a new trial yesterday by the Minnesota su- preme court at St. Paul left here early today in a closed automobile without making any formal state- ment. Mr. Townley’s destination was said to be Orleans, Nebraska, where he is scheduled to speck tonight. His only | which he declare: j tying about it. | Only about 5,090 stars can be seen | with the unaided eye. | i i | i Need Help? The Want-aci columns are the best medium to secure | the kind of employes you want. For every sort of business — professional or otherwise—you are certain to ‘get the right person for the right job. f Men and women, particular- ly trained for the position you offer, are daily readers of these Want-ads. And the cost is very low. Bismarck Tribune Phone 32 NO STATEMENT: | use its) good offices in the event the executive decided not to appoint a; | Special hoard of mediation. | Andrew Furugeth, president of the ‘International Seaman’s Union, and | W. S. Brown, representing the Mar- | | {ne Engineers’ Beneficial Associatfon | | conferred with Secretary Davis. They ; | were understood to. have told him! i that they were willing to leave the/ | controversy to the settlement of three | “fair-minded men” toi be named by the presijlent and that they would ac- cept the decision of such a commit- ! tee. } e sends For Secretaries, | President Harding sent out a call) ‘for Lahor Secretary Davis and Sec-' retary Hoover to confer with him at \ the White House. It was understood | Mr. Davis was. prepared to urge ac- , tion and to tell the president that ex- ‘perts of his department had estimat-' ed that the strike would cost the! country $1,000,000 a day on the sin-! gle item of ship values. Shipping board officials went ahead with plans to operate the government ‘ merchant, fleet irrespective of any; strike. PEACE TREATY WITH GERMANY | IS PREDICTED Senator Lodge, G. 0. P. Leader,| Says This Will Follow H Knox Resolution | i Washington, April 30,—A treaty) with Germany protably will follow enactment of the Lodge peace resolu-| tion, Senator Lodge, Massachusetts, | Republican leader, said today in the} senate. \ H Senator Lodge declared that the; president and state department had/| made it clear that ‘the United States | did not attend to “abandon” the al-! lies. i PRICE FIXED | BY CORPORATION Washington, April 30.—Charging! mention of the court decision was + . i { 45 that the United States Steol corpora-| are out of work. On January 1, this {made in an address last might '/ controls the price of practically all| year the government d he was DOt WOT! steel produced iu the country'the fed-| 294.243 were unemployed in Gotha: ‘eral trade commission has issued a! | formal complaint against the com- | pany and its 11 subsidiaries. | The so-called “Piitsburgh plus” plan ‘by which the price is made on the/| | basis of the Bittsburgh price plus freight charges from Pittsburgh to the ' place of purchase was one point spe- (cifically complained of. ‘CLOUDY WEATHER | FOR NEXT WEEK | Washingtoh, April 320.— Weather predictions for the week beginning ; Monday are: \ Upper Mississippi and Lower Mis- souri Valleys Considerable cloudiness, normal tem- | peratures and showers. i'BANK IS MOVED AND RENAMED The state banking board has issued a permit for the removal of the Denby ‘State Bank from Denby to Towner jand for the renaming of the bank, the Towner State Bank. The capitali- ization is increased from $10,000 to | $15,000. | | | | to know but did not? citizen in the city be-centered just what sort of a city he is i ily do away with the unemployment, ‘plus of labor will be small, Do You Know== That next week is “Know Bismarck Week That you wil! learn facts about your city That the Town Criers club invites the attention of every ger. . NEW YORK HEADS LIST, Many others were held in station | houses for emergency calls. Assign- ments of police to various audjtpri= ums and halls tomorrow—™ vat were announced and member: bomb squad augmented by were sent today to ferret ot ; ber of radicals believed to inthe attempt to cause a g onstration here, \ Arrest Two Leader: i‘ Police declared that the av: last night of Abraham Ji: ‘Jacob Amter, who were poster of criminal anar ken the spirit of commu A large percentage of those who are! ere unable to obtain’ work are in the big pik who orperee id brie -industrial sections of the Eastern and| shaceed i on tomorrow: 7 Central States, included in these 19: Charged by the police wit: states from which unemployed figures | S°Ver#! wagon loads of radi could be obtained, but reports from. ‘Ure in thelr possession, we the 29 other states where figures were Have been officers of the Th unobtainable, all. show that unem- | nationale and in ‘constant ployment exists and the estimated ui-; cation with Moscow’ employment:.of the country, made ‘by! Find Important May experts including labqp leaders, range! Maps of the United State from. 3,000,000. to 5,010,000. persona, hed ‘ statlatics ie the streng: Reports, vf much .unemployment : Sigrlbabit hatha et show up from New York, Tilinots,, Were found, ‘police ‘sald: |, (Pennsylvania, Indiana, Michigan, Wis-' revealed the total members’: consin, and Ohip while pi ctically '8Toup in every city and coin every state cast of the Mississippi Of any sie throughout t river and north of the Mason andj States and disclosed that 9 ‘Dixon line is seriously affected by the, f the members of the radi wave that has swept over the coun.| ‘zations were foreigners, try during the last year. The reports! , Russians, Poles and Italians « indicate that the situation in these found to be in the major! more dengely populated states is grow-: membership of the Red ory: : .ing more acute daily. | the police claimed. The report of the, United States| (Police claimed the statist Unemployment in Manufactur ing Centers Hardest Hit— 250,000 in One City Chicago, April 30.—Slightly more than 2,000,000 men will be unemployed in 19 states of the Union when May Day is ushered in tomorrow, accord- ing to estimates given to The Asso- ciated Press by Government, Labor State and Industrial officials. showed that on January first of this| ing districts of Pennsylvani: year the leading cities of the coun-! Virginia and in other easter had a total of 1,802,755 unemployed | and subsequent bulletins issued by, ber has increased ‘somewhat in these, ry cities during the last four honths. 1 3 While the unemployment extends to; ' iid the West and South, yet in th | Government Employment _ service! radical activities to center i: try with a population of 32,560,953 | —_— Eee) 2 this servicé Indicate that this "ty MACSWINEY dhe e re:| ports from the former a decided tone: ‘ of optimism prevails for a resumption! Peter Golden: to Occuy :’: of business activity that would speed.| at Auditorum Tue: Night Peter Golden, whois to mass meeting here Tuesde while in the South the not appear to be of @ serious nature; and reports statd that when the agri-| ultural work {s in full swing the sur-; situation does} iNew York City, (Philadelphia, Chi. May 3, was born near f ? County Cork, Ireland, the h cago, Detrolt and Clevaland stand ‘MacSwineys, He has liv out as the, centers of the unemploy- ment wave. 4 250,000 Are Idle ‘York for several years and « i ‘erican citizen. He has wr.) . ks on Ireland : In the country's largest city, re- Tous boo! ports from experts indicate that ap- numbers of poetic composi! said that he is the most proximately 250,000 men and women te he 4g cortainly..ths- mics ‘estimated that ©f those who tell from 4 m: of present-day repression f | Mr. Golden will speak a torium at 8 o'clock p. m. | and this has been: increased during the four mnths, secoring ve. pine monthly bfilfetins of @ Industrial re al Sore ihe init’! SEED OFFICE F The remainder of the state, how- ever, has not gone unscathed by any OUT $1,ouv, ut | « means, for the reports from Albany See, U show that 364,000 of the state’s 1,500-| ‘Fargo, 'N. D., April 30.—The gov- 000: factory workers including New] ernment seed loan office here had ‘dis- York City are unemployed. Other New| bursed $1,600,000 up to noon . York state cities report ‘unemployed| according to H. S, Smith, Gisbursing _ on about the same scal. clerk. This is the last day on wigch The United States Employment ser-| applications for loans can be received. vice Heures Condition White, 600 INDICT 71 IN BUILDING TRUST were unemployed in the City’of Chi- cago in January, yet the rate of in- Chicago, April 30.—Seventy-one in- traord union corporations, con- crease in the last four. months would indicate that this has been increased tractors\ unions and individuals with conspiracy to restrain building opera- to more than 100,000 by today. In the state of Illinois, however, the fig- tions were returned today by the fed- eral grand jury. ures move upward. The government puts them this way; On January 1, BOOZE RUNNERS ' TO FACE GUNS 1920, 1424 concerns employed 943,400 e The Adjutant-General has ordered persons. On January |. 1921, these same firms employed 539,312, showing a reduction during that year of £14,- 087. Chicago firms were included in this survey. No figures for the next four months on these concerns, is two light machine guns from the war department for use in chasing whisky runners, the guns to be used by state operatives of the AttorneyGeneral’s office. Browning machine guns were furnished by the AdjutantGeneral’s given but an estimate based on 107! concerns, each employing more than | office last fall. The new guns will be lighter, it is said. 500 men or women, show a decrease guonttnued on page 2) DAR RAR |NAMES MONTANA U. S. ATTORNEY Washington, April 30,— Attorney General Daugherty recommended to the president today the appofntment of John L. Slattery of Gldssow, Montana, to be district attorney for Montana. on that you ought i for one week upon finding out living in. xs