The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 24, 1921, Page 1

. » , vs U i a, ae {is fe ta ' | 5 + oh hae e : : ‘ A rm q Yi ro ’ ‘i a - The Weather Generally. Fair FORTIETH YEAR COMMISSION IS ASKED 10 HELP ERIN MOVEMENT Local Body Petitioned For Reso- lution Urging Recognition ‘Trish Republic ACTION IS DFERRED Petition Signed by People Living Below Tracks Asks Garbage Be Hauled The city commission is asked by the Bismarck branch of the American As- sociation for recognition of the Irgi republic to adopt a regolution asking President Harding to recognize the republic. r The request’ wag presented by spokesmen for. the organization last night. The commission deferred ac- tion unt) next Monday night, aft¢r J. A. Roherty and P. E. Byrne had spoken and presented the resolution and Commissioner Harry A. Thomp- fon introduced it and moved its adop- tion. Commissioner John A. Larson ask- ed the spokesmen what other cities were doing about such a resolution! and suggested the commission ougnt to find out. Mr. Roherty said that Bismarck wags one of the first citics receiving the resolution but that. it would be presented to city councils and ‘commissions in practically every city having over, 5,000 inhabitants in states where the legislatures had not} acted. | Explains Association. Mr. Roherty spoke of the American Association for Recognition of the! Irish Republic, declaring “its methods are as American as any organization’: can be” and said that the United) States had recognized 14 republics, chiefly South Americans republics, be -| fore the people had won their inde pendence from their government. P. E Byrne said that it was desired that the president know what the senti-j ment of the country is, through th?! various governing bodies of cities and | states. ‘i Mr. Roherty said that P. D. Norton, ' of Mandan, who made a trip to Ireland | about two years ago, would speak to! the members of the association Thurs-| day night in. Legion hall and invited the commission members to be pres- ent. Mayor Lenhart suggested that the matter was one of importance and asked if there were objection to defering- action until: next: week. Mr.|fers to. take up residence.in a, number Roherty said he would be glad if the! commission would do this, in the meantime ‘ascertaining the public sen- timent. Ask Ashes Hauled. A petition signed by 10Q:citizens liv-| ing south of the tracks was presented to the commission requesting “that the party having contracted with the city to haul refuse and garbage be| directed: to do so regularly in that; part of the city.” | On motion of Commissioner Henz- ler the commission ‘decided to, send Chief of Police Martineson, to a St. Louis convention of police chiefs. Commissioner Thontpson objecting on the ground that the city should econ-| omize as much as possible. A letter was received from the rail- road commission, answering a request of the commission tor a test of the quality. of gas, stating that the com-| mission would have its chief engineer make an investigation, that the com-| mission had ordered the company, to/ install a testing apparatus but that it had not done so. The commission, ! however, said it did not have proper equipment for making a test. A letter was received from W. T.; Kraft, assistant manager of the Hugh. | es Electric company, in regard to! complaints of noise being made by steam at the company’s downtowa! plant, stating “this noise is being made by the steam ash conveyor system at our plant and we have been working ever since it was installed to lessen the noise and we have made a decided improvement. We will continue to dt; what we can to lessen the noise.” Petitions for paving in the north- western part of the city were renewed. ‘Test Case Suggested. ij Finance Commissioner Larson re-| ported that the city had received a/ warrant of $63,000 from the county on March 30, and did not get it cash- ed until yesterday, because P. Knappen, former county treasurer, re- fused to cash it. He said the city had! had to pay about $3,000 extra interest | on coupons and suggested that the! city treasurer be instructed to keep an itemized statement of the amount) and a bill be presented to Burleigh; county for the money, and a test cas:| made, if necessary. { It-was reported the dog catcher hac Id about 100 dog licenses and had} shot: three dogs. Unless persons} owning dog pay the license fee their! animals will be shot. | PRESBYTERIANS ELECT OFFICERS Winona Lake, Ind., May 24.—Rev.; Lewis Mudge, of Harrisburg, Pa., was! elected state clerk of the Presbyterian | church in the United States of Amer-| ica at the 133rd general assembly | here today. ! Des Moines, Ia., was chosen for the} next meeting place of the general as- | sembly. Atlantic City, N. J. was the| only other city seeking the conference. | MURDER CHARGE | IS DISMISSED: — | Paw Paw, Mich. May 24.—Charges | against Mrs. Sarah Tabor in connec- tion with the death of her daughter! and burial in the cellar were dismissed | by Circuit Jude Des Voignes. | Lest We Forget Bismarck citizens are welcoming “Poppy Week.” Over 1,000 small poppies and 400 large ones were sold by members of the Ladies Auxiliary of the American Legion on the first day of “Poppy Week.” if The flower made famous through the crimson stains of battic in the BERGDOLL 0 | KREP HOME IN GERMAN CITY. of Moving, it is Said by Friends ! BROTHER TESTIFIES ‘Mosbach, Baden, May 24.—(By the! Associated Press)—Grover C. Berg-| doll, the American draft evader, has resumed his residente in Aberbach af-| ter a vacation in various German health resorts. He declares he has no intention of leaving Germany although; triends assert Bergdoll “has had of-j of other countries.” A friend in Mosbach said today: “We have no fear of his arrest for; CK TRIBUNE & BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1921 SLEEPING IN \ IN FLANDE! In Flanders fields HAVE WE FORGOT LADS FLANDERS? RED POPPIES WILL TELL RS FIELDS. the poppies blow Between the crosses, row On TOW, + That mark our place, and in the.sky | The larks still ‘bravel: singing, fly, Scarce heard admist the guns below. We are the dead. Short days ago we lived, Felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, And now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe; To you, from falling hands, ye throw the torch— Be yours to hold it high. If you break the faith with us, who die, ' ‘ We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields. poppy fields of France glowed from the button-holes of hundreds of citt- zens. Some busines establishments found the larger ones an excellent and in decorations. = ‘The sale of the flowers will continue all week, andt he auxiliary expects to distribute 5,000 of the smaller poppies and hundreds of the larger ones dut- LIBERTY BONDS HIT LOW MARK —McREA. ing the week. Everyone is asked to kep the poppy to wear on Memorial day, next. Sunday, and on Monday, when the decoration of soldiers’ graves will take place. , ) The proceeds ofthe sale are divided. Part of the money will go to the Amer- ican Legion and part of it for the re- lief of war orphans. FIRE HAZARDS f (GOVERNMENT TO | AID, NOT RUIN Address Opposed to Govern- ment Ownership {SQUARE DEAL FOR ALL Farmer Entitled to Help From Administration Without Injustice to Others New York, Nay 24.—The coopera- tion of*every factor. of American busi- ness and industry to put the nation’s house in order after the dislocation of war was bespoken by President Hard- ing last night at a difiner here cele- brating the 125th anniversary of the New York Commercial. Agriculture, labor and business management, the President declared, must stand together in the confident Purpose of reconstruction. He assert- ed’ that although the United States did not want to live in isolation and self- ishness, its duties to the rest of the world could best be performed by giv- ing its attention first to the rehabili- tation of its own resources. On the part of the administration, Mr. Harding promised that govern- ment interference with . business | would be reduced to a minimum, while government cooperation with all prop- erly conducted businesses would be expanded and broadened. He declared his purpose to reverse the tendency ANY. BUSINESS President Harding in New York, ‘the stock, market today extended to: | bonds. in #®me quarters: “to regard business New York, May 24—Heaviness in} as dishonest until it should prove itself GROW INNORTH | exempt were freely sold down to 87.90, the lowest price ever recorded for that issue. RESTORE QUIET IN ALEXANDRIA AFTER RIOTING Participants’ in Uprising Are Flogged by the Police , Catro, Egypt, May 24.—Quiet has been restored in Alexandria after the serious rioting of Sunday and Sunday ‘inight. A number of persons have been arrested and several who engaged in the riots which resulted in the death | Liberty 31-2, which are tax i Railroad Train Wrecked When Heat Spreads Rails lee | Duluth, May 24.—Heavy southwest j winds prevailed throughout the for- jests of northwestern Minnesota to- jday and unless there is'a change of ‘weather conditions within 24 hours |the fire hazard in the north woods will be as great as last week when a series of costly conflagrations oc- curred, officials of the Superior Na- {tional State Forestry department said today. “ Local officers of the Duluth, South {Shore and ‘Atlantic railroad. reported the destruction of a freight locomo- tive and damage to several freight cars in a forest fire near Saxon, Wis. the whole néjghborhood would rise up; of upwards of 30 persons have been) Heat from the flames kinked the rails to defend him.” BROTHER TESTIFIES i Washington, Braun, of . Philadelphia, brother of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, told the/ house investigation committee that he! never advanced one dollar to help his! brother to escape. H Declaring he had changed his name because of the notoriety attracted to his family as well as his name, Braun | testified that he had: persuaded Erwin,! another slacker brother, to surrender | and had tried to get word to Grover at Governor's Island to make no effort; to escape. | Braun said that until recently he| {had not spoken to his mother or other | |members of the family for four years.) “I know nothing about Grover’s es-| cape and less about the buried gold| than this committee knows,” he said.; Two weeks ago I’ received a letter! from Grover in Germany but it was s0| antagonistic to this country that I! threw it away.” i Asked about a check for $5,000 given: it was the first payment on his home; which he had sold to Mrs. Bergdoll. | FOREIGN TRADE | PAPERS FILED. The Foreign Trade Finante corpor- ation, of New York, incorporated for; $100,000,000 by leading American bus- iness men, has filed a certificate with, the secretary of state. | The other day a long line of -say that parade was arranged by —of every boy and girl there. well, if not anything with water installation of a swimming pool menace to the boy that it now is. pool. If the project undertaken by the E ject must not fail. No one will May 24.—Charles A. | HOPE TRANSLATED INTO ACTION IN PLANS FOR SWIMMING POOL (By Judge A. M. Christianson.) streets carrying tags inscribed, “We want a swimming pool.” You words written on the tags voiced the sentiments—the real sentiments Of course, they want a swimming pool. Every child wants to “go wading,” or “go swimming.” And, if a “swimming hole” can be found, the children, and especially the boys, are going to find it. If a desirable place is available, good and is always beckoning in the distance. At times the boys yield to its call. Sometimes, some boy who yields fails to come back. Then the community bends its head in sorrow, and says: be done about a swimming pool,” for we all realize that with the In the past, there has been more or less talk about a swimming Now the talk has become action. The hope is about to become a reality, The dream is about to come true. A plan has been formu- lated for the immediate construction of a swimming pool, and every inhabitant of the city is afforded an opportunity to aid in executing it. I for one am glad of the privilege thus presented. It is well to remember that there is only one plan. It is either that or nothing. will again be relegated to the realm of hopes and dreams. The pro- pool will not only gladen the hearts of the youth of Bismarck, but will ‘proclaim to every passing tourist that Bismarck is interested in the citizens of tomorrow as well as the citizens of today. flogged at police headquarters. Warning has been issued that the peaceable inhabitants of the city go 0 their homes at the first ‘sign of a demonstration. OFFER 10 AID the engine was derailed and the eng! neer and fireman barely escaped in- jury when they jufnped. The train ‘erew attempted to put the train back on the track when flames closed in on them and they were: forced to re- treat. While guards are reported to have made marked headway since Sunday smothering remnants of fires which were partially smothered by rains, |forest officials said large brush fires With the wind blow- | Jamestown College Players To Give Half of Gross, Receipts A voluntary offer to aid the swim- ming pool fund came from an unex- pected, source today. 2¢.;:, ‘The management of the Jamestow2 College players, who appear at the auditorium Saturday night in the an- nual play, informed the Elks’ commit- worthy cause, they wiil give fifty per cent of the proceeds above expenses to the swimming pool fund. The offer was received gratefully by the committee. A good audience is ex pected to see thé play, which is sald to be one of the best college produc- tions In the state. ‘ The Foundation company, contrac- fered to contribute some cement for the pool. boys and girls ntarched down our “grown-ups”? It was. But the in it will do. Here, the Missouri “Something must the Missouri will cease to be the 1ks should fail ,the swimming pool deny its merits. The swimming | were numerous. ing at such a stiff rate there is dan- ger of new fires being started from these sources. MRS, STILLMAN REJECTS PLAN New York, May 24.—Mrs. Anna Stillman refused to agree to a profered him by his. mother about the time of, tee that since the players were not out settlement which did not specifically Rergdoll’s escape Braun asserted that’ for profit and were glad to aid ajacknowledge the paternity of her youngest son, Guy, and provided that she stay abroad for five years. SLOPE BANKERS TO MEET HERE The Missouri Slope Bankers asso- ciation, which concluded its sessions ‘tors on the Missouri river bridge, 0:-| a¢ Dickinson, decided to mect next year in Bismarck. Autos for Sale! May is one of the biggest automobile months of the year. The new season gives everyone the fever. Whether you have an auto to sell or want to buy a machine our Want-ads will bring the desired results. Try them. For a few cents you may put over deals that will yield considerable profit. Bismarck Tribune Phone 32 WOODS FORESTS; honest, and to regard bigness in busi-; ness as a crime.” 5 H Importance of Agriculture Emphasizing the fundamental im- portance of agriculture, the President | adserted that the farmer was entitled ‘to “all the help the government can. | give him without injustice to others.” |. For the wage earner he asked suf- ficient compensation for comfort, ed- ucation, and margin of savings, while for every other element in industry he j urged a fair opportunity to do its ‘part in the reconstruction task. Mr. Harding aléo suggested that the nation’s loans to the Allies be put in & more tangible form, that facilities of exchange be bettered and that all the financial policies of the recon- struction period be so formulated as to protect the gold standard. “Assuming that these things may 'be lafd down as fundamentals,” he sald, “it is for us all to get back to work. ‘We myst have confidence that things’ will come right. We have dealt with the greatest problem that humat- ity ever confronted in carrying on the war. We will have no problem hereafter’ greater or more difficult than that was. Therefore, we are en- titled to every confidence that we will cope successfully with the problems that lie ahead of us.” The $ext of the President's address follows ‘in part: “The New York Commercial was founded in the time when the young republic was distracted by a division of opinion concernnig our relations with’ Europe. The noble Washington was being harpooned and traduced be- cause his administration was commit- ted to the lay treaty with Great Brit- ain, first of the nation’s commercial covenants, It represented .an effort to escape embrollment with the Old World system, and in the period when we were too weak to sustain a foreign conflict, it served to postpone that dis- laster. But only to’ postpone it for, with every wish to preserve the peace, it was impossible. We fought wars with France and England, as incidents to the French revolutionary and’ Na- poleonic upheaval. . | An Old Story. “It haé been too often assumed that our recent involvement in the troubles of Europe marked a new development in our affairs. In fact it was an old story. We never were and never will be able to maintain isolation. But (Continued on Page Seven) | What is a swimming pool worth to @ town? The question is answered by H. W. Randall, a business man of Grand |Forks, in a letter to the Bismarck Elks’ committee. Excerpts from his letter follows: ; “As £ happen to be the ‘Father of the Grand Forks Swimming Pool’ Mr. Frank Brown has handed me your let- ter with regard to a swimming pool iin Bismarck. Sometime ago 1 wrote {to some people in Bismarck and gave \them particulars and I am very sorry ‘o hear that nothing has been done. ‘an it be possible that there is even one man in Bismarck so small as to ‘think more of his dollars than the jlives of the boys in Bismarck? | “Our pool here has been in opera- tion for four years, and I say with all reverence that I thank the Lord in i these four years we have not lost one ‘boy from drowning, which means we jare about eight boys to the good to |say nothing of the benefits derived ‘from keeping them healthy, clean and |happy throughout the summer vaca- | tion. | “While I am not an Elk, I know that bs they get behind it that it will go and | i go big, and if you value the lives of your boys for Heaven’s sake get be- ihind it. I found when I started this ‘movement that it met with about. the same response that Noah met with his | Project, but when business men really jsaw what it would do they came across in.splendid shape. “Our pool. is fifty feet wide, one hundred and fifty feet long and was “WHAT'S SWIMMING POOL WORTH” IS ANSWERED BY MAN WHO LEAD FIGHT FOR POOL IN GRAND FORKS NATIONAL CLUB PRESIDENT TO SPEAK TONIGHT ‘Mrs, Thomas G. Winter, of Mine neapolis, president of the Wo- men’s Federation of Clubs of the United States, embracing » mem- bership of several hundred thous- and ,will deliver an address in the elty Auditorium at 8 o’clock to- | night. | Mrsv Winter will tell of some of the great movements undertaken by the national federation, which | are national in scope and far- reaching in effect, ‘The meeting will be free, and a cord:al invitation Is extended to all cltizens,‘both men and women, to be present. SITUATION IN | SILESIA HELD ' TO BE EASIER | Dispatch of British Soldiers and German Action Tend to Peace i i | GERMANS CLOSE FRONTIER London, May 24.—(By the Associat jed Press.)—Germany’s reply to the | representatives of Great Britain and | France for an embargo for the entry of troops or ammunition into Upper Silesia is generally regarded, in of- | ficial circles here as satisfactory. A disposition also is noted on the ; part of Poland to attempt to control ‘the insurgents occupying the disputed ! area, These considerations, together with the dispatch of three thousand and four. thousand British troops from the | Rhine, which are preparing to move are inspiring a more hopeful attitude toward the Silesian problem. A final ‘settlement however’ awaits the meet- jing of the supreme council which : probably will be held at Bologne at \the end of this week. GERMANS REPLY. Paris, May 24.—(By the Associated Press.)—Germany replied today to ;the French communication of yester- i day on the Silesian’ situation, the re- ! ply declaring in effect that Germany | had taken: the most rigorous measure ‘toward ‘he closing of its frontier of Upper Silesia. NOT TO OCCUPY RUHR. Paris, May 24.—(By the Associated Press,)——-Premier.. Briand, questioned, by a group of desputies -before the meeting of the chamber’ today, said there was no reason for the occupa- tion of the Ruhr region because the aspect of the Silesian question had been changed and if the Ruhr wers occupled without the support of the allies it would be equivalent to aban- donment of the treaty of Versailles. 2,800 WOLVES ARE KILLED IN MONTH OF MAY Over 2,800 wolves have heen killed in North Dakota during May, it is indicated by payments from the wolf bounty fund made by the state auditor. A total of $4,537.50 has been paid out to date, the rate being $2.50 for each pelt turned into a county ,auditor. The business is proving profitable for some hunt- ers. During May and June hunt- erg frequently capture dens’ con- taining several.cubs. Most of the pelts turned in are those of coy- ottes. Ward, Billings, Bottineau and Rolette counties are said to have turned in more claims than any others. The state appropriation for payment of wolf bounty is $40,000 for two years from next July 1. intended to be two feet deep at the shallow end and nine feet deep at the deep end. “T might say that last year the small charge we made for locker rent, bath- ing suits and towels exceeded the ex- pense of operating the pool by over $100.00. “If the people in Bismarck who are so short-sighted that they object to this, could just see our pool on a hot afternoon, full of youngsters having the time of their young lives, I think; they would come across in good shape. | We had just two business men that | turned us down, and I know even to- day, they ure ashamed of the fact. “I have corresponded with a num- ber of different cities regarding this and will have theirs finished by the} swimming season, I believe. | “Now if there is any information that I can give you or any help in any way at any time I want you to be sure and call on me. In referring to the pool I have spoken of young- sters using it. I want to say that young and old, rich and poor, male and | female, have used our pool to its ca-| pacity and enjoyed it immensely. | “For the sake of the. lives, health | { and happiness of your boys in Bis-} marck go after this and go after it! hard.” { Rev. W. J. Hutchinson, of Grand} Forks, formerly pastor of the Method- | ist church here, in speaking of the; ey PRICE FIVE CENTS IRELAND HOME RULE ELECTION - IS HELD TODAY Rush to Polls in North Ireland Marks Opening of the Voting FIGHTS ARE REPORTED Bricks and Stones Are Thrown —Child 2% Years is Voted —_— Belfast, Ireland, May 24.—Elections for the new parliament under the Irish ome rule bill were carried out throughout Ireland today, but only in the north of Ireland were ballots cast as nominations for the southern Irish . Parliament were made without con- at. Ulster was astir early this mornin; to vote for the members of its ie parliament under the system of its Proportionate representation. The streets of Belfast were alive at dawn. Motor cars, horse and jaunting cars and the humble donkey-drawn cart moving from one side of the city to the other with voters both men and women, It is possible the Belfast results will be known tomorrow but the others will not be in for several days: Fight for Polis. Thus far the election has been more of a fight to get to the polls ahead of opponents than a stand-up battle, but. this rush led to some incidents, espec- ially in the Cork street and Old Lodge cistrict near the docks. As soon as the military were withdrawn from tha streets at 5 o'clock this morning when the curfew ended the rival factions apeared at the doors of their homes wit their women folks to proceed io their homes. Bricks and stones com- menced to fly across the street and 2 few shots were fired before the police arrived to disperse the-disputants. One constable was seriously injured by he- ing hit by a brick. Block Opponents. Doneh! Pass, one of the polling sta- tions for unionists in West Belfas:, was crowded hours before the time for voting by Nationalsits. Another long line of Nationalists waited outside, thus blocking the way to their op- ponents. One woman who arrived at the qpolling station half an hour after it opehed found ‘her vote already had been''cast. .* 3 There-also were a large number of children, votes whose‘votes:could not be refused. They ranged in age from 21-2: years, who were just able to lisp “I vote for Mols,”a candidate of South Belfast, to boys and girls of 16 and 17 years of age. BRITISH WILL JOIN AMERICAN POSSESSIONS Plan Confederation of British States to Include Canada, Report Washington, May 24.—Establisment of a confederation of British America to include Canada and the British colonies of the Bahamas, Barbardoes, Bermuda, Jamaica,! the Leeward lands, Trinidad, the Windward Is- lands and possibly British Hondutas and British Guines was reported hero today in official circles to beunder consideration in the British positions of nortb. south and central Americ: The idea of a United commonweaith of British America was represented in the report as a further develop- ment of the Union which began with the confederation of the far provit\:cs of Canada in 1867. Reference was made to the con- ference wich was held in Ottawa in June, 1920, and attended by repre- sentatives of all the British colonics of the Americas for the purpose of drawing up a trade agreement since ratified by a majority of the colonies concerned. BREWERIES ARE SEIZED BY U.S, Charged with Making Beer With Too Much Kick Chicago, May 24.—One large Chi- cago brewery and two other smaller ones in Illinois have been seized by agents from the internal revenue. of- fice it ig announced, on formal com- plaints charging them with making and selling beer contaizing more than one-half of one per cent of alcohol. The locations of the three breweries seized are, the North American Brew- ery, Chicago, the West Hammond Brewing Co., West Hammond, III., and the John Riefsfeldt Brewing Company, Thornton, Ill., this action followed an order isued by Judge J. M. Landis yesterday restraining two breweries at Joliet, ills from further business. It was alleged that they had becn selling “real” beer in Chicago. The new raids were made by rep- Tesentatives ofthe department of in- ternal revenue. With only eight pro- hibition agents left in Chicago, this was taken as an indication that me.: pool, said that it had proved an im-j|from other government departments mense benefit to the youth of Grand| were taking up the task of enforcing and Crookston has finally come across Forks. prohibition here.