The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 18, 1921, Page 1

¥ The Weather Generally Fair, _ FORTIETH YEAR ~~ “SCOITIESOUT | a TOWINA.O.U.W. 1993 MEBTING Great Falls, Montane, and Minot and Devils Lake, North | Dakota, Compete’ i i CONVENTION UNDER WAY} Organization Work and_ Me- | ‘morial. Service During the Morning Three cities entered into an active , campaign for the next convention of the Ancient Order of United Work- | men of the North Dakota jurisdiction, | as the two-day convention got under way today. Great-Palls, Montana, Dev- ils Lake, N. D. and Minot, N. D., sought the honor, The sharp contest for the next con- | vention, regular business and anmise-' ments promised a lot of work and! spice in the convention of the visitors. | Over 250 Workmen are here from the states of, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah and California | are here for the convention. i The Degree of Honor, a ladies organ- | ization allied with but not connected in an official way with the A. O. U. W.,\ also is holding a convention. Hold Memorial Service | The grand lodge sessions of the: ‘Workmen opened this morning in Pat- terson hall—the headquarters of the convention being the McKenzie hotel ; and Patterson hall—with an address : of welcome by Mayor A. P. Lerhart and-a response by B. C. Marks. At 11 o’clock a memorial service! was held, Judge A. M. Christianson de- livering a memorial address in honor of the memory of the late Judge John: Carmody, of Hillsboro, who was 8u- preme counse] of the grand lodge. The morning was devoted chiefly to organization: work and presentation of printed reports of officers, which showed an exceptionally fine two years in the insurance field of the lodge. i The advisory board has authorized’ B. C. Marks and E. J: Moore to present , a report during the convention, con-) taining many important changes inthe! by-laws of the order. { Tells of National Order, } “phe Ancient Order’ of: United! Workmen is the first order established | in the United States providing fratern- | al insurance,” said Supreme Master! Workman W. N. Narvis, of Muscatine, Ja,, who has been head of the organ- ization since 1904, in an interview to- i day. Organized October 27, 1868, the; ‘Workmen order embraces subordinate! lodges.in all parts of the United States; and Canada. Since its organization it has paid out to widows and orphans “BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA,. WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1921 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE = _BRITISH FIRMLY AGAIN Thousands /of American, many of Polish descent, welcomed Mme. Marie Sklodowski Curie when she arrived in New York from Paris on the Olympic. Mme. Curie, world’s greatest woman scientist, and discoverer of radium, is a Polish woman. With her on the deck of the Oympic are her two daugh- | | CONVENTION RUMBLES The. Sheiks circus on the streets this afternoon and the big feature street parade at 7:30 P) M. were fea- tures of the Workmen's convention to- day. The candidates provided the*cir-., cus fun, with gtind organ, monkey, street sweepers, etc. kins, city auditor of Fargo; Minor! Boyd, city auditor of Valley. City; Jo-! seph O'Leary, of Carrington; Judge! Kneeshaw, of Grand Forks; William} Land of Valley City. i ———, i Amohg; those attending the conven-| ‘tion ‘are Mr. and Mrs, Miles A. Daw- | is gon, of New York, who are on theii) Everything was set for the Work- | way to the coast. Mr. Dawson is actu- | men’s pavement dance tonight, provid-/ ary for the organization. Mr. Dawson, ing the weather is not too cool. If s0,| sat with now-Secretary of State Hugh- | ‘the dance will be in Patterson hall, 3 as his adviser during the big insur-4to be presented at the Auditorium Fri-! ap. ance investigation in New York some The same applies to the big roof gar | years ago and during the war was con- | den dance planned for Thursday; syjted in the government In actuaria\| night. work, in connection with the estan- | lishment of the war risk insurance | The people of the city are invited ang other government agenc Mr. | Sa EI a — BURIALGROUND. | Century—-have ben closed, it was ters, Irene (left) and Eva (right) and Mrs. W. B. Meloney (center) of the American committee which has bought a gram of radium to be pre- sented to Mme. Curie by President Harding. Left is a close-up study of the famous will visit several western: cities. Albert Grass’ Funeral Will Be Held at Cannon Ball ~-OF YOUNG GHIBF | | | PRICE FIVE CENTS ST THE POLES |DRY LAW CLOSES New York, May 18.—Two famous root shows—the JZiegtield and FRANKLYN LANE, 4 INISTER SAYS FORMER CABINET) “*3iesen:nate a tose announeed, becaus: \ Thursday bev eee ' ! | | GREAT CROWD EXPECTED | 1 i w Ceremonies to be ; Mingled in Funeral of In- | | dian Chieftain i rt The body of Albert Grass, young! i Sioux Indian chieftain, who gaye his | life during the World War while fight- ng under the Stars and Stripes, was; | expected to arrive in Mandan this! | afternoon and was to be taken to Can- | + non Ball where funeral rites will be! ‘held Friday, with Indian ceremonies ‘ Thursday evening. People are eSected to come to : Cannon Ball from all over the Slope ; country to attend the funeral Utu- time residents of the section, while vv- {calling that torty-five years ag& Cus | | ter marched out to he massacred by ithe Sloux Indians, joined in peging i tribute to the grandson of a chiettats | | of. those days, who was one of the first | ; to respond to the call to the Stare jand Stripes which his people had! | fought. a | A detail from the American Legion | post at Mandan was to meet the bods, : which will be taken to Canrfon Balt , | tomorrow. Many people planned t. | ;s0 from Mandan and vicinity to the | funeral, and were advised to travel by | way of Solen if going hy,automobile. The ceremonies in honor of the ‘young chieftain were expected to be ; gin tomorrow afternoon, it is expect- jed. The funeral service in_the little ~; Catholic church will be held there | Friday. The honor and ceremony*accorded an Indian chieftain in the olden! days > will be curiously mingled with the ’ ’ ; modern rites of the American Legion fi yand the sacred ceremony of the Cath- ic church in the funeral rites, be- a oli f ‘fore the body is laid to rest on the ‘‘slones of Holy Hill. ‘ $ | Holy Hill, the last resting place of the young chief, is a spot sacred to i Q ; the Indiang. Holy Hill is a pronounced Junior Class Play “Stop Thief” cievation, She place where the last : . great sun dance of the Sioux Indians Presented on Friday Night |was held. From the spot chosen for ——— the grave of the young chief one can Seventeen characters will appear in! trace the broad Missouri's silvery ex- the juntor class play, “Stop Thief," panse for miles. I The body of the young chief was day night.» | removed from its resting place along The play is declared by those ¥%@ the Paris-Soissons road, where he fel} have watched the cast work % be! in July, 1918, at the earnest request uproariously funny, and equal or bet- of many Indians who wished the re- ter to any other junior class play in| mains of their last chief buried on many years. {holy Indian ground. sitor, She { over $300,000,000 insurance. ‘to attend the two-hour free entertain-! Dawson gave the order the presen “Naturally the organization was not! ment in the city auditorium at eight | system of a sclentific, actuarial basis founded on a scientific basis at the | o¢jock Thursday night, including mu-| of Insurance, The cast of chara i Joan Carr, Mrs.; Revive White House Riders, Carr, Ariel Anderson; Caroline Carr,’ Indians will come from the Ft. | Gwendolyn Welch; Madge Carr, Mar-: Lates agency ‘and from farms and vil- outset and when the time come to go H on a solvency basis some lodges be- came provoked and left,” said Mr. | Narvis. “In 1903. the grand lodge adopted the scientitic basis on which; the organization now is operating, the sic, dancing, movies, vocal and in- strumental music and a boxing exhi- bition by the Roberts brothers. Visiting Workmen commented ov | Three hundred and fifty Workmer | ian, Staley; Nell, Mabel Nathan; Wil- attended the initiation of candidate s| liam Carr, Tyler Kludt; James Cluney, ‘of Bismarck Lodge No. 120 in Patter-| Charles Gobel; Mr. Jamison, Ernest | son hall last night. The initiation was | Elsness; Dr. Willoughby, Cyril Grace; | followed with “eats” and a smoker Doogan, Charles Moses; Joe Rey, Mr.. Spelain, Norman Livdah};'| lages for many miles to pay their last 'tribute. The White Horse Riders, 2 famous Indian organization, has been revived for the occasion. A half century ago the White Horse | Riders was the most honored cg@the | L, Doheny. grand lodge of North Dakota adopting \the decorations in the streets ang in; The work was exemplified by Joseph | Jack it-in 1904. Most of the lodges have re- | the shop windows of the city, in their | O'Leary, of Carrington, as past master ~ turned.” ‘honor. There are representatives! workman; J. Mulready, of Fargo, Last year, he said, the order wrote hore from severa’ es. master workman; A. R. Watkins, of over $16,000,000 of new business and | Fargo, foreman; J. P Gleason, of Far-| Officer Clancy Thompson, William Nuessle;, Sergeant’ many Indian organizations and soci- of Police, John Hassei; Police Officer. eties. Composed of middle-aged war- | O'Malley, Vincent: LaFrance; Police, riors—bravery in battles being a nec- Kenneth Morris; Po- essary qualification for membership— MEMBER, IS DEAD “== : |CONDEMNS FRENCH PAPERS Former Secretary of Interior! 5 @ ort Dies in Rochester, ; Won’t Accept Responsibijty For Distorted Statements, He Says HEART TROUBLE CAUSE) Washington, May 18—(By the | soclated Press.)—Poland’s request Romantic Career of Young West-| 10" American support In the set tlement. of the disposition of w erner Who Might, Have per Silesia has evoked a formal: Been President Minnesota answer from Secretary Hughes | that the American representatives seen | abroad would takg‘ao part in the Rochester, Minn., May .18.—Frank-| discussions concerning the Sile- lin K, Lane, former Secretary of the! jeeerer, ated at a local hospital here! at 6:10 o'clock this morning, pply’. = ‘Death was due to ‘an attack of heart} erat ite heltahiaciene, aie disease. . | “so far as at pe@ient may be Operated on May 6 | seen” the Amel ‘representa. Mr. Lane was operated upon here | tives on the supreme counell, the ’ May 6 for gallstones and appendicitis! councll of ambassadors ‘and the.‘ and was said to be recovering when| reparations commission wemld not x heart disease from which he had suf-| so much as express an 0 fered rom tie to time developed.| to the settlement. spital physicians expressed belief} that the oeration would remove the} Pi oli arrest inted heart affliction but an attack early to-| to «the “traditional polle; en the day developed fatally. | United States” not to hecome Ine Immediately after he had recovered! i from the infi heres ~; Yolved in matters of purely Eur- influence of the snesthetto,! opean concern, M Fy Lane said: | — “I am: surprised to be alive. I hope! ae to be able to live a long life dding; London, May 18.—(By the good things for others without thought , ASSociated Press.) — Mr. Lloyd of money.” : \George, the prime minister, is- Leaves No“ Estate |sued a statement this morning Mr, Lane left no estate. Following reiterating the British attitude his resignation from the Wilson cabi-; toward the Upper Silesian ques- net Mr. Lane sought to recover his| ti xpress: im i i health and came ,here in January. of: tion e ed by him in his re- this year. He was advised to spend Cent speech in the House of Com- ihe: wisiter ane ware ellulate and|Mmons and'disclaiming responsi- visited in California, returning early) bili “di this month. Mrs, Lane and S Seerke ay, oe distorted reports W. Lane, a brother, were with him! bd nch newspapers. when ‘he died. His son, Franklin *| In the course of the statement Mr. fas bale snd his daughter, Mra! Lloyd George said: Phillipp uffman, of Washington,’ “The fate of npper Silesla must be en at their homes when their father, decided by the supreme council and ‘George Lane said this morning that} not by Kortanty.” He continued: his brother left no estate whatsoever.’ (“Children of the treaty cannot, be Mr. Lane's body will be taken to: allowed to break crockery in Europe Chicago tonight, accompanied by his! With impunity. Somebody must place brotherand widow. ‘a restraining hand on them; other- It “s often said of Franklin K,! wise there will be continual. trouble. Lane that if he had been born in the United States of instead of Canada, | Great Britain’s Stand, he would have been presidential tim-| “Great Britain cannot consent t» ber. After serving seven years in| Stand by while the treaty, her repre- President Wilson’s cabinet as Secre-' sentative, signed less than two years se oO the Interior, he resigned his ago is being trampled upon.” 2,000-a-year post in exensive Wash-| ri y s ington early in 1920 “in justice to his! ae Fine, ministers statement be family” to become vice-president andj “1 adh h legal adviser of the Mexican. petro- in Sener te te eee ee leum companies controlled by Edward) soot of Silesia. Naturally I can only. ‘Born near Charlottetown, Princs Ed-' 2¢cept responsibility for what I actu- ward Island, July 15, 1864, the son of @lly said and not for the truncated a Canadian doctor who. removed to| nd distorted reports in the Frencn California during the boy’s childhood, Newspapers. The almost unanimous young Lane was educated at the Uni-' approval given by the American and versity of California, from which he/ Italian, as well as the British press, was graduated in 1886. By reason of! to the sentiment that I then express- his scholastic achievements the hon-'ed showed that the great natione orary degree of LL. D. was conferred: which stood by the side of France in upon him ‘some years later by his; the war mean to interpret the treaty Poland was informed further In FAMOUS S$ MUST ADHERE 10 e slan question, ae has at this time:close. to ten million dollars reserve assets in the entire or-- der. The grand lodge of North Dakota,, he sald, is one of the leaders, last year | writing the largest business of any of the thirteen grand lodges in the United | States—approximately $6,000,000. The North Dakota jurisdiction, he said, now’ has more than $2,500,000 reserve as-; sets. Mr. Narvis said he could not say too; much for the personnel of the officers | and members of the North Dakota jur-j isdiction. | MANDAN ROTARY, Jamestown, ears Alph Ellsworth, of Grand Master Workman twenty ago, is the “daddy” of the high offi of the order. Mr. Ellsworth is as ac tive as-ever in the order. convenience of Mandan announced the ferry Yednesday and Thurs- For the Workmen it wa: would run late @ay nights, the last trip being mad2; at 1:30 A. M. The clown saxophone band of six piees,, which appears in the parad will be made a permanent orga tion in the city: Supreme Master Workman W. N go, overseer. It was an enthusiastic) lice Officer O’Brien, Dan Slattery; the White Horse Riders usually were | gathering. The'lodge members were, Chauffeur James, Orlin Livdahl. | charged with executing the orders of \Jined two deep. with locked arms,| The curtain will go up promptly the chief in his administrative work | around the entire hall. | at 8:15 Friday night. All rode white horses. Not the least wea | Miss Mabel Nathan was awarded | of their duties was that of charity K. T. Lisle, state manager of Cali-| first prize im the poster contest held | When a family suffered through lack fornia, and T. 0. McElroy, also of Los| in the high school. The best poster, | of meat the White Horse Riders pro- Angeles, representing the California} advertising the play, was picked by) vided. Charity perhaps was the key- membership at the convention. Mr. | Miss Rosen, of A, W. Lucas and com- 'gtone of the organization, for when Lisle was a Workman representative | pany, and A. C. Verdoly , advertis-! the government agency at Ft. Yatea ing manages of The Tribune. The! was established and rations were is-; in Bismarck 11 years ago and wa alma mater and by New York jand / Brown universities and the University of North Carolina. Started In West Upon leaving college he engaged in| newspaper work, becoming part owner} and editor of the Tacoma, Wash., Daily News. In 1889 he was admitted! to‘the bar of California and from: 1897 until 1902 served as corporation counsel of San Francisco. In the lat-! of Versailles fairly.” ECONOMIC BLOCKADE. London, May 18.—German. opposi- tion to the Polish insurgents who have occupied most of upper Silesia appears to have taken the form of an economic blockade. Men employed by German railroads have refused to transport foot supplies other than milk into tre district where the Poles have control, \state manager of Montana for nine | judges had no trouble agreeing upoin years, before taking over the Califor- ‘the winner, but found great merit in nia work more than a year ago, Mr.| all of the posters. submitted. Tite | Lisle commented on the changed ‘ap- | Winning prize was two tickets to the pearance of / Bismarck he lay. it 11 years ago and declared it ! i i ee an agreeable surprise to witness the | 1 great changes and steady progress of | sued to the needy, the organization | began to disintegrate. 5 i | The White Horse raiders will be in| 1 charge of ceremonies of the night be-: (Continued on Page Seven) ! ter year he was the Democratic candi-/ 21d the Reich bank has declined to date for Governor of California but, Send into Silesia the money to pay was not elected, iHe received; the| miners for work done just prior to party vote of the State legislature in. the Silesian uprising. 1903 for United States senator. Ap | pointed a member of the Interstate, Commerce Commission by President’ Roosevelt in 1905, later becoming Marvis, of Muscantine, Ia. doesn't fi A R | hesitate to declare that the North Da- |kota jurisdiction is about the livest in the order and that Bradley C. T H k R E TONIGHT Marks has made it so. _- Who are the Sheiks? / The Sheiks Bismarck Rotarians Will Insti-' tute New Club at Banquet A Rotary club will be instituted at) Mandan tonight by the Bismarck Ro- tary club. | ‘twenty-five charter members of the Mandan clubs will gather with the Bis-} marck Rotarians at a banquet at the ‘Lewis and Clark hotel at Mandan. President Burt Finney, of the Bis-| marck~club, will act as toastmaster : at the banquet, and J. L. Bell, of the, Bismarck club, will be the in@giling/ officer, acting as representative @.the district governor. ‘A Rotary club was being installed at Valley City today by the James- town Rotary club, E ENDORSE ZONE POSTAGE RATE Chicago, May 18.—Publishers of the international and Daily Press Ass0- ciation endorsed the zone postage rate which four years ago they condemned. To Grand Forks Superintendent ofSchools J. M. Mar- tin and Mrs. Martin are at Grand Forks today, where the state high school conference is being held. | | ber ‘into the lodge. lwere organized two years ago at Wil- mington, Delaware. Mr. Marvis ex- plaing they occuply the same relation to the Workmen as the Shrine to Ma- | sonry and the D. O. K. K. to Pythian- ism. However, to be a Sheik oné must have brought at least one new mem- So there is no dead timber in the Sheiks. E. J. Moore, of Fargo, Grand Re- corder; R.S. Adams, of Lisbon, Grand Treasurer, and Dr. G. Aj Carpenter, Grand Medical Examiner, have served as grand officers since the organiza- tion of the North Dakota jurisdiction about 26 years ago. Mr. Moore also ig supreme recorder. Grand officers of the North Dakota Jurisdiction took some pride in being able to report to the assembled dele- gates that the order made the largest net gain, in insurance written in North Dakota last year of any company. The Workmen writes life policies on ordi- nay ten, fifteen and twenty payment plants with cash, extended and paid- up insurance options. Many_of the delegates to the con- vention have found many friends in Bismarck. Among those present whe have many friends in the city are Andrew Hess, Andrew Blewett, Judge McFarland, of Jamestown; A. R. Wat~ the city. ze \ Great Falls, Montana, Minot and | Devils Lake are after the next bien-| nial convention, Byron Yates, of Great Falls, is leading the boosters for that city and was confident of win ning the convention. ORDER LAWYER BEFORE HOUSE Washington, May 18.—Under threat of contempt proceedings before the bar of the house, Harry Weinburger, of New York, former counsel for Grov- er Cleveland Bergdoll, draft evader. told the committee he would answer all questions and produce any docu- ments demanded. Washington, May 18.—Hlarry Wein- berger, of New York, counsel for Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, in court- martial procegdings, was ordered he- fore the bar of the house of_represen- tatives today“Yor contempt after re- fusing to testify before the house in- vestigating committee regarding fees paid him by Bergdoll’s mother, Returns From lowa Charles Liesmann, of the state board of. administration, has returned from Iowa City, Ia., where he attended a conference of secretaries of adminis- trative boards of a number af states. j chairman, Mr, Lane was serving in, | that capacity when he was made Sec-| | retary of the Interior. ' ; ‘During his service on the Interstate, | Commerce Commission he earned the] OF FINANCE Body Meeting at Grand Forks Considers School Revenue —— \ Methods for raising additional’ reve-| nues for the schools of the state were being cons: ed today at Grand Forks at a meeting of a committee named by Miss Minnie J. Nielson, state sup- erintendent, for that purpose, and Geo. E. Wallace, state tax commissioner. Providing sufficient funds to main- tain modern school systems is becom- ing more difficult, was stated by Misa: Nielson when she gppointed the com- mittee to investig&te and prepare a report for the n There are 2,0 tricts in the state. The total expend- itures for schools in the state last year amounted to $12\716,556.65. Taxes amounting to $5,671 were levied by boards, and the remainder of money expended was derived from indirect taxes or bond issue. The average rate of taxation for school purposes was 6.34 mills. 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. Uur special services with the teading news agencies of the new and the old world make this posible. All the news that’s fit to read. \ Devils Lake, N. Ds May: 19.—The Bank of North Dakota has just paia $10,490.84 to the city of Devils Lake in payment of the city’s account against the bank, including interest The settlement followed varnishment proceedings by the city. The city will deposit its money in local banks here | \, Bismarck Tribune Phone 32 | prises engaged in interstate commerce reputation of being a progressive. His; decisions in the railway cases were} said to have been almost invariably; pleasing to men of advanced ideas.! He favored for years a National Cor-| poration Commission similar to the In-| terstate Commerce Commission with} power to regulate all business enter- as the most effective remedy for trust evils, He also advocated a commis-| sion form of government for Alaska.| He was elected a:member of the per-| manent International Railway Com-; mission, organized in 1910, at the In- terenational Railway Congress in Berne, Switzerland. i Headed Mission In 1916 Mr. Lane headed the Am- erican delegates at a joint conference with High Commissioners from Mex- ico, as a result of which a protocol was signed at Atlantic City and Unit- ed State troops were withdrawn from that country, When the United States entered the} war in 1917, Sécretary Lane in a num-: ber of public speeches outlined the country’s purposes and urged business men to show “sacrifices” as worthy as those of the men on-their way to the trenches.” In numerous addresses in behalf of the Liberty ‘Loans he de- clared the defeat of the United States was “unthinkable” and that the Prison Warden Says Speeding Around Loop Must Stop Some Bismarck automobilist) who insists on “looping the loop” at the state penitentiary at 50 miles an hour may be arrested and fined. Warden Stair today said that there ‘are many automobilists who drive through the prison grounds around the loop at a fearful and dangerous rate of speed. There are many also who drive as they should, he said. “If the speeders ersist we may have ‘to make and. example of,someone,’ he said. ci NAMED DEPU ON STATE FORCE ‘Wellington Wright, of Jamestown, has been appointed a deputy inspector in the state license department.- Bert Sorbo, who had been appointed, did not qualify. Called to Kowa, O. W. Roberts, weather observer, received word today that his: father. who is over 80 years of age, is dyin2 « in Ames, Ia., and with his sons. Frank government was determined to see the (Continued on Page Seven} and Robert, he planned to leave im- mediately for that city.