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

5 The Weather Generally Fair FORTIETH YEAR THE BIS \ CK TRIBUNE ==] BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, YEGGS BLOW TUTTLE BANK SAY: TREASURER LAST H FLOUTED LAWS ON CO. MONEY Taxpayers Petition to Undo Ac-, tion of H. P. Knappen | on Funds i MONEY ON TIME DEPOSIT: Farmers Didn’t Pay taxes to! Have Money Loaned Out, Claim The Burleigh county board of com-! missioners have under consideration; today a petition from taxpayers to) instruct the county attorney and coun-! ty auditor) to “proceed to obtain the! return to Burleigh county” of funds; placed on certificate of deposit in the ‘Bank of North Dakota by H. iP. Knap-} pen, outgoing county treasurer, on; the last two days he was in office. | The petition was prefented late; yesterday afternoon by Scott Came-, ron, of Cameron and Wattam, attor-' mey.for a number of taxpayers who; ‘madé the: petition. { In presenting the petition, Mr.’ Cameron alleged that the depositing; of general funds on certificates of de-. posit was unlawful, was in effect the’ loaning of money, and that the money: should be returned to the county. | Would Necessitate Warrants? Out of the February tax money col- lected, he said, there is owing over $269,000 to state, cities and townships. He said that all of the county funds with which to make these apportion- ments was placed on certificate of de- posit except $251,495.70. “If the county attempts to pay the state, cities and townships the county will not have enough funds available and would have to issue warrants which bear a higher rate of interest than the certificates of deposit, he as- serted. Farmers are complaining that they did not pay their taxes to have the: money loaned out and the local com- munity governmental agencies need the apportionment badly, he asserted, Claims No Authority ! ‘here is no authority under the enw) depositary law for the depositing of! money on time certificates, hd said.! ‘Knappen, ke said, should have‘ turned) over thé’ money to his successor, J. A. Flow, and declared that Knappen did this without authority to:do what: he did. without consulting the com-/ missioners. . ‘Knappen has stated previously that) he took the action he did to protect; the Bank of North Dakota, where all, county. money was deposited fearing EREDITARY CHIEF OF SIOUX SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1921 PRICE F CENTS GERMANS WANT TO BE BURIED WITH TRAIL HONORS = 79 JjcR FORCE The last hereditary chief of the Sioux Indians will be buried with ceremonies next week at Cannon Ball. . He is Albert Grass, grandson of the famous chief, John Grass. Al- bert Gtass was one of the first In- dians to enlist in the United Statcs army during the World War and was billed early in the war in France. : His body was to reach Hoboken, New Jersey, today. The funeral ceremonies will be in charge of the White Horse Cavaliers, formerly known as the White Horse Riders, a famous Sioux tribal organization. Most of-- the members of the Cavaliers are RAILROAD HIT LAUCK REPORT AS PROPAGANDA Protest Against Submission To Railroad Labor Board, At Wage Hearing DENY MOST OF CHARGES Chicago, May 7.-—The statement presented to the railroad labor hoard by W. Jett Lauck, consulting econo- mist for the railroad labor unions charging that large amounts of money are being wasted in the financial and operating management of the railroad | have no relationship to the wage question now before the board, it was contended in a statement filed before the board today on behalf of the Western railroad. It was signed pres* idents of the Mlinois Central railroad Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, Chi- cago, Milwaulzee and St. Paul, Chicago and Northwestern, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, and Chicago Great Western. To Aid Plumb Plan? “The sole purpose of these state- ments,” the Western railroad’s brief declared, “is to divert public attention ‘from matters actually pending before; the board, They are bald propa- ganda intended to discredit. private management and promote the Plumi) plan. We respectfully protest, against the board’s continuing to allow hear- ings before it to beemade a means of spreading this propaganda, “Since these statements have heen Flow would draw out all of the money | permitted to be presented to the board as quickly as possible, | we respectfully call your attention te Text of Petition. ; the fact that in addition to being ir- The petition follows: | vevalent they are gross misrepresen- ‘To the Honorable Board of County tation of railway management and Commissioners of Burleigh County, ' their tendency and purvose is to mis- North Dakota: jlead the public regarding the actual The undersigned, residents, citizens facts as to both railway managemen! and taxpayers of the County of Bur: |and railway regulations.” leigh State of North Dakota, for and} Deny W: i ! y Waste Charges. on behalf of themselves and of the | mie ataterent -then aes chavwes taxpayers of Burleigh county, respect- | fully represent to and petition your honorable body as follows: That, whereas ohe H. P. Knappen, has been from the 6th day of January, | A. D. 1921, to the 1st day of May; A. D.! 1921, the duly qualified and acting county treasurer of Burleigh county, that capitalization of the roads is ex- cessive; that the roads huy fuel, sup- plies and equipment exclusively from concerns under the same management or that excessive prices are paid an¢ that the roads have wasted immense sums by not modernizing locomotives and introducing other. improvements North Dakota, and Whereas the said H, P. Knappen, while such county treasurer and on the 29th day of April, A. D, 1921, did without authority of law loan the funds of the county of Burleigh to the Bank'of North Dakota, a banking cor- poration doing business in the city of Bismarck, North Dakota, and which said corporation has not qualified as depositary of county funds as prWid- ed by Chapter 56 of the Laws of 1921, and did without authority of law ac- cept certificates of deposit represent- | The statement answers the last jcharge by stating that the introduc- \tion of such improvements would re- | quire immense sum of additional cay ital, It closes by saying that railroad imanagers are trying to effect every economy possible, that they realize | that {if they “could raise sufficient new capital to make needed improvements i they could effect very large eaonomies ! put adds there must be added earning power to provide this capital.” CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM AS “KNOW BISMARCK WEEK” CLOSES the time when due of said pretended certificates of deposit are as follows to-wit: When Due. Rate of Int. Amount. May 15, 1921. $10,000.00 June 1, 1921. . 15,000.00 July 1, 1921.... 15,000.00 July 15, 1921. oy, 15,000.00 Aug. 1, 1921 ........4% 15,000.00 Aug. 15 1921. 15,000.00 Sept. 1 1921 ... 15,000.00 Sept. 15, 1921 10,000.00 Oct, 1, 1921 . 10,000.00 Oct. 15, 1921 10,000.00 Nov. 1, 1921 . 20,000.00 Mar, 1, 1922 ... 88,340.43 Total wee e eee ee ee 1$238,340.43 Whereas, after the amounts now due to the state of North Dakota and to the political subdivisions of Burleigh county have been paid there will not be sufficient funds in the hands of the treasurer of said Burleigh county for the payment of the current expenses and the carrying on of the various governmental functions of the county and that before said pretended loans mature, by their terms, it will be nec- essary to register warrants drawn on the treasurer of said county and to pay interest thereon. That if the sald action of the said H. P. Knappen and his said pretended loans are permit- ted to stand the said county and its officers will be seriously hampered in the performance of their duties and the taxpayers will be deprived of the benefits growing out of the normal and proper governmental functions of the county or be compelled to pay a large amount by way of increased taxes due to interest on said register- ed warrants, (Continued on page 2) With the closing of “Know Bismarck Week” held under'the auspices of the Town Criers, the club today issued a request of all citizens desiring to make constructive criticisms or sug- gestions for the betterment of the city to address them to President Phil Meyer or Secretary George N. Keniston of the club. They will be brought to the atten- tion of any or all organizations in the city for action, it was said. The Town Criers, which closely cooperates with the Commercial club, biflieve that such suggestions and criticisms would be helpful to the Commercial club in its work. The publicity com- mittee of the Town Criers, which in- stituted and supervised the week's activities under the direction of Presi- dent Meyer and with the cooperation of all club members, today issued the following statement: Bismarck’s Do-You-Know Week ends today. “Wether it’ has been of any material benefit to the community, whether it has accomplished anything really worth while for Bigmarck time alone will tell. “The object of the: Town Criers in their campaign during the past week has been three-fold: “1. To collect and supply our citi- zens with information as to what our town is doing, and the advantages it has to offer, that they may be in pos- session of such. facts when an oppor-] Indians who do not speak Eng- lish, ‘ + The Indian American Legion post will have some part in the ceremonies, however, it has been | | decided. Mr. Welch, of+ Mandan, is aiding in the funeral arrange- ments. There was some -division of opinion as to whether the young | chief would be buried at Fort | Yates or at Cannonball, but it was Political Prisoners to Aid Situation decided -he would be buried in the Catholic cemetery at Cannon- ball. i ara On advice from the War Depart- | Poles Threaten Him With Death ment the exact time of the funeral | " 5 will not be fixed until the War De- |, Germans Ask Allies to partment advises that the body has been shipped. Augment. Force | that the frontier betwen nany and | Silesia be opened and that all political OPPOSE FRENCH . ENFORCING TREATY prisoners held by, he allies tn upper i ; by the inter-allied commission here, Paris, May 7,---Communists are con-| Decision whether the use of German ducting an active campaign against | evernment troops would be permit- | French mobilization which resulted in; ted in Silesia and whether the Polish four street patties Friday, but news-! frontier would be closed was expected ! papers are silent on the affairs and} early today. = |. An armored train was run from | eit eee | ; Northeast of here by Germans last | night and was turned over to allied | | train in view of reports that the Poles | planned to attack Kreiuzsbury today. | | When Rosenberg was taken by the | details are lacking.” « i | Breslau to Kreuzburg, about 30 miles | authorities. The allies accepted the | Poles a British maior who was acting by a Polish leader who was formerly | a police officer under the major. The Polish leaders ordered that the niajor be shot. If Germany Disarms She May Ask Poland Be Disarmed \ i \ Maidstone, England,. May 7.—(By , : _ the Associated Press.)—The prime! Major said, “You do not dare to inister, Mr. Lloyd George, declared shoot,” whereupon the Poles lowered ‘oday that if Germany disarmed in: their rifles and refused to fire. cordance with the treaty of Ver-! Situation Serious, sailes she was entitled to ask that! The situation in this city which has | the allies insist on the disarmament: ben growing appreciably more tense ot Poland, | has ben made more serious by the ar- Mr. Lloyd George made this declar-; rival of hundreds of refugees. M&ny ition in addressing a meeting of 5,000; have ben severely wounded and have dersons under the auspices of the na-; excited the people with stories of al- tional unionist asso leged Polish brutality. DR AKE WILL “The refugees, augmented by resi- ‘dents of Oppeln, held a silent demon; ‘insurgent German populace: Franz a | Hutsfeld, German: delegate on the in- To Be Reopened Soon, Secretary | ter-allied commission said yesterday: i Asks Increased Force. or Commission Says | «we ‘have asked the allies to in- el | crease their forces hei From. 30,- The state flour mill at Drake, N. D.,, 000 to 40,000 soldiers are needed, and is closed temporarily, H. A. Paddock,! needed: badly if the most serious sit- secretary of the Industrial Commit ; uation is to be avoided. We fully sion said that the mill was closed only| realize what the consequences of a said operations would be resumed/ish soldiers would be and we will soon. The Drake mill has been operating! which might lead to war and would at one-third capacity, it being operat-| certainly cause wide-spread fighting ed eight hours a day as compared to! among German civilians and Poles,” 24 last fall. Mr. Paddock said the; He added that according to German mill was subjected to the lack of information there are at least 60,000 buying in flour which he said was! Poles under arms in upper Silesia. general. | They are declared to be led by a for- | mer Polish army officer and well dis- ciplined. HARDING FOR Harding endorsed the plan to plant) memorial trees along highways inj honor of every man who gave service! in the world war. : (WEATHER REPORT Warship Bearing Heir Apparent | Washington, May 7.—Weather pre- Approches British dictions for the week beginning Mon-' day are: i Empire Region of Upper Mississippi and! < Lower Missouri Valleys: London, May 7.—The Japanese war- Local rains and normal tempera-' Ship Katori, bringing Prince Hirohita ture first half. Fair and cool latter|Mechenomiya, heir apparent to the Halt. | Japanese throne on his visit to Eng- ‘land, arrived at Spithead shortly after 11 o’cloek today. Demonstrations of courtesy were made by British warships. anne i tony, to boost the city presents it- self. “2. To promote a_ spirlf of ,coy operation and co-ordination among the our citizens, and enlist them all in the work of carrying forward com- munity projects and enterprise looking toward the improvement and better; ment of Bismarck and obtaining addi- tional advantages for it. : “3. To eliminate knockers by mak- ing everybody boosters. { “Every citizen can aid and. assist the Commercial club, the Town Criers: and every other organization that un- dertakes this work by attending pub- lic gatherings called for the purpose of discussing these qust(ons, and | offering their suggestions, and criti-| cismis, “Every town has a number of sq called “chronic knockers.” The chronic knockers are not an unmixed evil. We couldn't rid ourselves of them if we would and we wouldn't if we could, What we want to do is to make’ boosters of them, and that can very easily be done. Every time you find a citizen with a “grouch” bring him to the meetings held for the pur- pose of threshin® out these griev- ances which all of us harbor in our minds at one time or another, and get him to offer his criticisms and sug- gestions and enlist his fellow citizens} in an effort to correct the condition of which he complains. He may rest assured that steps will be taken to correct it, if there is any merit in it.” All the News of the World As you unfold the pages of this paper all the news of the world is before you in brief, readable form. Everything of importance that has hap- pened in the recent hours is - presented to you. Our special services with the leading news agencies of the new and the old world make this posible. All the news that’s fit to read. Bismarck Tribune _Phone 32 TO STOP POLES Allies Grant Request to Free! | BRITISH MAJOR ht chal Oppeln,. May 7.--German requests, control officer there wag arrested | As the squad took its place the! | stration yesterday. parading up and| | down the principal streets and passed | ‘ the administration huilding officials CLOSED D ‘frankly expecting «an outbreak sx2/ they would be unable to cope with an for an annual cleaning. Mr. Paddock’ fight between the Germans and Pol-|. | spare nlo effort to stave off incidents | isettlement as that of rendering jus-| ENGLISH VISIT | i \ | i i i | 1 { i | { | | will mark the start of a campaign by | American mothers in support of the American Legion’s effort to obtain justice for disabled veterans and em- ployment for, the thousands of idle ex-service men, Miss’ Anne’ Jarvis, president: of: the Mother's. Day International Associa- tion Association with national head- quarters in this city, fs at the head {of this movement. | Bismarck Tribune. BY ANNA JARVIS, Founder of Mother’s Day. I know of no question facing the American people today that {s so com- pletely deserving of an immediaie | tice to our own American boys’ whe have become physically disabled a: the result of their service and sacri- fices in the Great War. When our country entered the war and the call came for volunteers, and later when the selective draft went ‘into effect, the boys and young men jof this country were ready and will- j ing to make any sacrifice to serve | lies. | We cheered them and patted tM\) on their backs as they marched away and told them that the whole nation | stood back of them and would repay ithem in every way that it was hu- | manly possible to repay them for the sacrifices that they were prepared to make—and did make! | But we have not lived up to our | promise, and our neglect of our dis- |abled veterans is a shameful page in jour after-the-war history over wich |we may well hang our heads unless 'we right-about-face in the quickest possible time and make good our ‘pledges and promises to our Ameri- lean boys! Official red tape, I am told, is chief- |ly blame for the delay. Well, then [in the name of justice and all that is |fair, and decent ‘and that made such great sacrifices on She has written! the folowing article especially for the: their nation and the cause of the al-} MISS ANNA JARVIS. | Philadelphia, May 7.—Mother’s Day,| ple honor and should be met before | of jWhich will be celebrated tomorrow,! any other single obligation! If emergency funds are needed, how | about the money that the people con- tributed to the various war charities? ‘That money was given primarily for the aid and relief of our soldier bo: {If any considerable amount of it re- mains unexpended taday, ‘why not use it for rendering relief measures for our disabled veterans? Memorials are al right. and I. have no objections to them, providing other ; and more important obligations have | been met. Let us do immediate and ample justice to the crippled and dis- abled soldiers of our nation and we will have erected a monument and MOTHER’S DAY FOUNDER CALLS ON MOTHERS TO AID SOLDIERS . : GET $7,000 CUT WIRES AND FLEE TOWN IN GREEN AUTO out Nearby Sleepers Be- ing Disturbed |USED ACETYLENE TORCH | Cut Wires But Make Mistake and Long Distance Telephone Wire is Open Burglars blew the safe in the First National Bank at Tuttle, | Kidder county, northeast of Bis- jmarck during the night, and es- \caped with $2,500 in cash and ' over $5,000 in Liberty and other negotiable bonds. The Bismarck police were \notified, as were police in other cities for miles around. | The story of the burglary was told |The Tribune over ‘long distance tele- Phone by .G, L. Dornecker, vice pres- | ident of the bank. Used Best Tools, The burglars were well supplied with tools for their work. They dug {through the outer cement and brick } wall of the safe,.used an acetylene torch to cut through metal and pried off doors. The inner safe they blew ; With nitroglycerine, closing outer door and using gunny sack and canvas to . ;deaden the sound. i The force of the explosion broke | two plate glass windows in the front the bank. | But so carefully was the job han- | dled that persons sleeping in the ho- ; tel across the street, 70 feet away, | with windows open, were not awaken- jed by the noise. The time of the rob- jbery cannot be determined, { Clean the. Safe. The burglars cleaned the safe, both ‘of money and bonds. Most of the se- | curities taken were negotiable Liberty i Bonds. Some of them were registered war saving stamps. | After the burglary the men fied, leaving their acetylene torch and 2 snotlight bearing the number | F.-13325-54. The acetylene outfit was | one designed for metal cutting. The burglary was not discovero? memorial of justice that will outshine Until early this morning when the st~- ‘and outlive any other kind of'memort-{ tion agent noticed the telegraph w'"e al that it is possible for human hands; had been cut, Another man saw the to construct. | windows broken. Mr. Dornecker hoa 1am grateful to the Bismarck Trib-|Tisen early and immediately invest!- ‘une for this opportunity to make this ated the burglary. appeal and especially and most em-; ‘The burglar, it was found, '1 phatically would [ urge every mother | tried to cut the town off from ovtsita |_whether she had a son in the great | Communication by cutting the wives. | war or not—to use every opportunity | They made one mistake. They cut ~n and every ounce of energy at her electric lige wire apparently in tho | comniand to urge and demand immedi- | belief that it was a long distance tele- ate justice for our disabled soldiers. (Copyright, 1921, by the. Newspaper i Enterprise Association.) MOTHER’S DAY | phone wire. | Mr, Dornecker immediately spread the alarm to neighboring cities over |the wire, i Steal Green Automobile. ! It was found the burglars had stol- jen a green Studebaker automobile | from the garage of Postmaster Alfred Wise. There was no night train out | of Tuttle, so it is certain the burglars | escaped in the green car, the Tribune's informant said. TO BE OBSERVE Pastors in Churches to Deliver’ of Bismarck said that the gang un- Jo doubtedly was the same gang that Mother’s Day Talks has been operating in South Dakota. _ The methods used last night were Many of the Bismarck churches will) similar to methods used by yeggs in observe Mother's Day, Sunday, with) South Dakota recently, he said. beautiful services. . The bank officials, because of re- iMost of the pastors of the city have; ports of, burglaries, had shipped $1- selected ‘their texts for sermons in: 350 of currency away from Puttle two keeping with the sentiment of the, days ago. The president of the bank I | day. | The wearing of “a flower for y RED; mother” will be generally observed | | TAPE AND CUT IT IMMEDIATELY! | in the city. The guide to the correct! | I know that our government is heav-| flower to w ily burdened with war debts and that} following lines: {our president and Congress are facet | | with the most perplexing problems. | i but if the interest on a Liberty Bond | is a debt of honor, then the justice | for the day, the rule being a bright) \that we owe our soldier boys, who! flower if one the | white | field of battle, is indeed a debt of tri-; memory. ar is expressed in the a For Mothers at home, flower bright; ‘For Mothers’ memory, flower white. ‘No particular flower is designated mother is living and a if in regpect to her flower Do You Know-- That our Municipal Auditorium, brings some of the highest class show talent in the country to Bismarck. That Bismarck’s wholesale grocery, fruit and packing concerns distributed over $3,000,000 worth of commodities from Bismarck during 1920. : bodies. is located here. | interest of Young America. members. That musical, literary, civic and fraternal organizations are promoting the tenets of a broader America That a splendid, Masonic Temple houses all Masonic That the head of the Cathholic diocese of North Dakota That the Bismarck Tribune plant just completed is a modern and up-to-date newspaper, book and job printing ‘| establishment, second to none in the Northwest. That a skilled expert in Boy’s Work is employed in the That our five theaters accommodate 1,500 people a day. | That Bismarck’s twelve churches provide facilities of | worship for most religious denominations and have 4,000 \is J. F, Robinson, of Steele. { { FOR BORDER USE ;Adjutant - General Distributes | Ten to Use on Whiskey | Runners | Ten sub- machine guns have been distributed to state and county offi- | cers who are hunting down whiskey runners in the northern part of the state, according to AdjutatdGeperal |G. A, Fraser. Two new guns pur- ‘chased by the Adjutant-General for ‘this work reached his office yester- day afternoon and the AdjutantGen- eral and Governor Frazier tried them | out on the capitol grounds. NORMAL HEAD VISITS CITY D. iL. H, Beeler, new president of the Minot Normal school, left here for Minot today to assume his duties, after conferring with members of the board of administration. MEXICAN IS ASSASSINATED Mexico City, May 7.—Jeronimo Mo- guel, a member of the legislature of the state of Yucatan, was assassiu- | | ated yesterday,