The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 30, 1921, Page 1

ry 5 , 1 y u , 4 q eas) q . q iS ‘ ’ _ . ‘ f 4 ¢ , MANY WITNESS PAGEAN1 S$ __——_—_—. FORTIETH YEAR THE BIS PSR a rt AES SN HR BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, MAY 30, 1921 .IRPLANE CRASH _ SEVEN DIE IN “GRAND OLD LADY” TELLS HISTORY OF TRIBUTE PAID NATION'S DEAD. IN CEREMONIES Overcast Skies and Rain Fails to Lessen Warmth of De- votion of Citizens Graves in Three Cemeteries Are ‘Decorated Today by ” Veterans Overcast skies and intermittent rain only emphasized the devotion of vet-} erans of three wars and citizens of. the city to the nation and to the mem-: ory of: the, heroic dead, Sunday after- noon. '#¢*! ‘A long procession’ of gray-hatred |! i Civaa ‘wai ‘Veverans, who occupied! - honor seats in automobiles; veterans| of the Spanish-American was in the blue-dark uniforms and nearly 300! soldiers and sailors of the war of yes-| terday marched through the streets in; solemn procession to the Auditorium,! with hundreds of citizens of various! lodges,» members of the Woman’s Re-| lief Corps, War Mothers, Ladies Aux-; iliary, and Nurses in the line of march; Included in the linet World War; veterans were one or two who served’ in the Wanadian forces in the common! fight: Overseas stripes were numer-; ous among: the veterans, and one or! two walked with halting steps, a re-} minder of the price paid by some who! fought in Flanders fields, and nurses in their blue ‘uniforms took their Places with the soldiers clad in olive’ drab uniforms. The pageant at the Auditorium was | witnessed by a crowd which filled all seats in the building. The simplicity of the pageant added to the warmth! of the tribute paid to fallen heroes, and with it was a note which tyvought -,@ mental renewal of the vows of fealty, to the flag and nation and a promise of a united and firm nation in the | future, Painting in Background The background of the pageant set-’ ting was a painting of a sectgon of! the American cemetery at Belleau} Woods, France, where thousands of: ‘American soldiers were buried. The scene was painted by H. H. Pilmoor,: “xacveteran of tee Canadian forces, and It has heen. her custom to decorate} gated- the graves oftheir heroes.~ ‘was a faithful reproduction of a part) of the cemetery. The painting was. made ‘from a postal card photograph! of part of the cemetery and,Mr. Pil- moor was aided by a Prizma motion nicture, shown at the Eltinge, from which he gained the needed knowt- edge of the coloring. The film was run several times by the Eltinge man- agement to aid: him. The central figures in. the pageant: were Mrs. dward Bannon, voicing the ‘spirit of the nation, representa- tives of the North, East, South and West, who were Misses Julia Weber, Esther Taylor, Anne Atkinson ana Mary Parsons; ‘William C. Paulson, voicing the spirit of the‘dead and Mrs. M, W. Roan as Liberty in the tableau) which closed the pageant. Soldiers of three wars were on the stage. Steve Welch, W. 3B. Hibbs, Wesley Baker and Mr. Kistner, Civil ‘Wer veterans; | L- M. Parsons, E, G. Wanner, J. L. Kelly and Rudy Patzman, Spanish-Am- erican war veterans, and Herman Bro- copp, ‘Elmer ‘Lilleskow, A. Bernstein,! Fred Butler Alexander, Drysdale, P.G. ‘Harrington, Arthu? Biwn, Ray Bur. man, Lesionaires. John Slavick, bu- gler. % Gravee Decorated ‘An orchestra and chorus of the Thursday- Musical club, under the di- rection of Mrs. A. G. Jacobson, fur- nished music. in keeping with the enirit of the pageant. The pageant itself was written and directed by G. H. Russ, Jr. This, morning representatives of the patriotie societies visited Fairview, St. Mary’s and Ft, Lincoln cemeteries and the Missouri river, decorating graves and paying a soldier’s tribute to he- roic dead. The Legion firing squad, the members of which were on the stage at the pageant, assisted in the services ab the graves. The Legion post had recently received new rifles for the firing squad. More than 100 graves were decorat- “ed by the committees. Among these was a grave in the American Legion plot in Fairview cemetery, where a bronze Legion marker recently was placed, PROWLER GETS TERM IN PRISON Arthur Schroer Goes Up For 3% Years Arthur Shroer, “the prowler,” is now in the state penitentiary, to serve a three anda half year sentence for breaking into’ Bismarck homes. The - home mentioned in the information to which he pleaded guilty was the Growlers’ club. Schroer was brought before Judge Nuessle Saturday night to receive his sentence, after inquiries had been made concerning his record in the St. Cloud, Minn., reformatory and Red Wing, Minn., school for boys. Schroer had been in these two institutes since he wag a boy. He now is about e eyears old. The young man informed the judge that he did not want an indetermin- ate sentence, but wanted a fixed term. MEMORIAL DAY MRS. JOHN A. LOGAN . ~_ 2 ® * Widow of, General John A. Founding National Ld ee # | Logan Recalls Her Part In| Holiday Z | ‘By Newspaper Enterprise. ‘ Washington, May 30.—The mausole- um where lies the body of Gen. Johu A. Logan, hero of; the Civil war, wil! not be’ visited today “by his widow his grave each Memorial day. Instead. she fs to address G. A. R veterans at Arlington National, Ceme ! tery. She will tell how Memorial day ‘hecame a permanent holiday in Amer- fea. Mrs, Logan, called “the Grand Old Lady of Washington,” is 83. She. mar- ried Logan, a country attorney tn f1- linois, when she was 17. His dash and bravery as a Union general earned for him the sobriquet of “the Black Eagle” and the hero worship of school boys of today. “General Logan issued the procla mation setting aside Decoration day as a day of tribute after I returned from a trip through the historic hat- ! tlegrounds of Virginia,” says Mrs. Lo- gan. “That was in 1868. He was com- mander-in-chief of the G. A. R. “I told him how the grave of each Confederate soldier at Petersburg was decorated with a wreath and a Con- federate flag. “‘Now, that’s a capital idea!’ he exclaimed. ‘We have heen neglecting 10 STRENGTHEN ' CROWN FORCES London, May 30—( 30.—(By ‘Associated | Press.)—Mr. Lloyd George, the prime minister, announced in the house o1 commons today that it was Proposed | to strengthen the Crown forres ani | that a statement would be made to! parliament on the subject when the arrangements were complete. WEATHER REPORT Generally fair tonight 4nd Tuesday; warmer Tuesday. “100 PER CENT CLUB” FOR FUND FOR SWIMMING POOL IS CHOWN The hundred per cent club is growing. Six organizations, business and fraternal, have joined the charter list, showing every employe or member of the organization con. tributiig to the swimming pool fund, Many organizations which have meetings this week and many voluntary workers in business or- ganizations are expected to join in finishing the swimming pool campaign by Joining the 100 per cent club. The latest to join Members of U. (. T. Washburn Lignite Coal Com. pany. Junior class high sehool. Carpenters’ Union. Webb Brothers employes. Bismarck Tribune employes. * The “charter members” of the club were employes of the Inter. national Harvester company, Lahr Motor Sales company and the Soo line freight employes. The term was fixed at three and a half years. Many voluntary contributions are being received since the drive our dead, while they th have honored Ve thave to sec to it that the | grave of every Union soldier is prop-|/ cared for and decorated. The 6 and the Romans always dec-. “Tm commander-in-chief of ‘the 9. A, I. and I'm going to issue an or- der setting aside a special day for that purpose and calling upon all~com- rades to observe it.’ ‘ The: eyes of the Grand Old Ladyj beamed as she recalled her husbant’: 2 words. “That order was’ issued from heed-! quayters of the G. A. R. May 5, 1868,’ she said. “It was signed by General | Logan as commander-in-chief and by; N. P. Chipman as adjutant general. ‘Chipman, as adjutant gener: ‘probably did the physical work of get- ting out the order. But the. idea was/ General Logan's and the order was! General Logan’s. That I know.” In some posts of the G. A. R. a re- port has been circulated to the effect that Chipman, not Logan, was the au- thor of the order that makes May 30! a great national holiday. | That’s why the Grand Old Lady will; put on the littfe bonnet that makes} her a distinctive figure on Washing- ton streets and go to Arlington to tell her story today. MAY CONDEMN | | OLD BUILDINGS: An inspection trip for the purpose WJ ot ascertaining if there ‘are old build- ings which should’ be ordered torn down will be started this week hy 0. T. Haakenson, deputy state fire marshal. Mr. Haakenson expects. to go to Grand Forks first, he having re- ceived complaints concerning a num- ber of old frame buildings there. Un- der the state law the fire marshal has authority to order buildings depreciat- {ed more than fifty per cent torn down. Mr .Haakenson expects to visit a num- ber of cities in the eastern and north- tern part of the state, including: Devils Lake. of Taub is | of Friday and Saturday. Several thousand dollars was pledged in the drive—the exact a int seit be announced In a day or two—hut Fa | chillis produced over a | r n from residents of the | Van Horn hotel and expected to have the hotel in the 100 per cent. cub by tomorrow. Among those who contributed to him were Soo line railroad men of Minot and | Hankinson, who were in Bismarck hetween trips and who contribut- ed because they wanted to do the kiddies a good turn wherever it mizht, he. W. PD. MeComber, of Wilton, mailed a liberal personal dona- tion. The Washburn Lignite Coal company, of Bismarck, voluntarily mailed a check for $50, and come mittee.expects the iund to grow all week. Canvassers have yet to whom they could not reach last week, The building committee will be named within a day or two and plans made for; an immediate start on work on} the pool, TRIBUNE PRESIDENT URGES CARNIVAL WILL, FEATURE CLOSE. never failing to measure up to the OF CONVENTION} Street Dance and A Fete is Plann | i ed for Thursday Evening | By Odd Fellows’ American heroes of every war, plished more than the immediate e they had helped erect and preserve every race. “Our country,”. said Mr. Hardi up to the demands presented to it will, When it comes to meet these |GRAND LODGE. SESSIONS! i ; | : In equally emph that this duty to civiliza could took care of its own integrity . “I counsel no selfishness,” he Several Hundred Odd Fellows | Bebekahs and Cantonment | | } artes Coming Bismarck tomorrow entertains one | | of the largest conventions of the year, Hundreds, of ‘members of the Odd Fellows lodge, Daughters of Rebekal ;and the T. O;°0. Cantonment com- posed of ‘the! utliformed rank will be | in the city for.a convention which con- | cludes Thursday night. The number | of visitors’ ‘had been variously est! | i CONVICTED OF - ARSON; COUPLE SEEK FREEDOM | expected. Delegates and visitors wil) reg!ster at the Hoskins ‘building, across from | mated. Not less than 800 to 1,000 are} the Grand Pacific hotel, where airest; The state pardon board, which meets } June 2, will hear petitions from a large number of persons seeking free- dom from the penitentiary. Among those are Mr. and Mrs. Geo. i: 00—Derartment Council of Patriarch fi son. Meuchel, who were convicted of ar- son in, the burning of the shoe store of which Mr. Meuchel was manager in Mott. Meéuchel got one to three years and his wife one year in prison.’ * MAN CONVICTED room also will be maintained. The’ sessions of ‘the grand lodge ‘will be held in Fike’ hall. The convention program follows: Tuesday Morning—Moy 21. , 8:00—Reristration of all delegates at Hoskins building. 9:00-—Grand encampment TI. 0. 0. F. 1 auditorium. | Address Rie sr see wee de H, J. Rowe | In memory of Robert M. Pollock. Hl A P.G.M. | XN Tuesday Afternoon, LOSES APPEAL i Militants. 1. 0. 0. F. hall. '2:00—Grand encampment. Auditori- um, i 4 Effort to Get Freedom Fror Tuesday Evening. 7:30—Special session Rebekah asser- hly at the request of President | Maud Stanley of’ Casselton. Odd: Fellows’ ball. \ Conferring of assembly.degrecs| An attack on the constitutionality on Pagt Noble Grand and Past | jof the law-of 1919 reducing the num- Nie An | ber of judiclal districts in the stale —h ‘ ‘olson Lodge No. 40 opens’ trom twelve to six and providing for for achoo! of instruction. Odd) the appointment of new judges failed Qellows’ hall . win Iberty for Frank Koonce, con- LW Morning. od in the district court of Ramsey | Joint’ Session Grahd Lodge and As-| county before Judge. Buttz on a charge sembly. :Auditorium.at 9 o'clock. of selling intoxicating liquor. (The public is invited.) | The supreme. court, before. whoin | the merits of e cons utional ob jec- Adress of ‘Welcome—A. P. Lenhart, tion, but held the defendant was not President City Commi: \ Response—Grand cece arn aslon in a position to raise the objection. ident of Assembly. ; “The contention is,” said Judge | America, the Beautiful—Audience. Birdzell, who delivered the opinion, Memorial Service—Nicholson Rebekah | “that the legislature possessed no pow- Lodge, Bismarck. jer under the constitution to decrease Music—Selected, |the number of judicial districts by ' Memorial Address—Harold P, Thomp j increasing the boundaries of each so ;as to embrace more counties and to j increase the number of judges in each | | district. We express no opinion what- ‘ever on the merits of this constitution- jal objection to the judicial redistrict- \ ing act. We are satisfied that the de- j fendant is not in.a position to raise the question.” The court held that Koonce was not High Court Fails For One 8:30. Music—Selected. ' Benediction—Grand Chaplain. Conferring Decoration of Chivalry— . M. Council. Wednesday Afternoon. 1:30—Grand lodge, business, auditori- um. Rebekah assembly, business, | ‘in a position to raise the question be- Elks’ hall. | awa in this sane the judge who pre- s sided was the judge who, in the ab- atts Wednesday Fvener. i sence of such legislation as the re- 8: tho Ger.y Re uaiton a i e- | districting, would have beén the de- orapenuve TOO WOK, jure judge in the county. hekahs. Auditorium. ‘The defendant also raised the ques- 8:00 — Competitive Degree (3rdi tion of newly discovered evidence. Drees: Subordinate Lodge. the defendant was arrested July 11, 13, 1920. Thursday Morning. ee: and convicted on Nov. 9:00—Grand Lodge, business. +0 AA acy “att PARK FAR FARES ARE REDUCED Elks’ hall. (Auto trips anh be arranged for the| Railroads to Stimulate Travel To Playgrounds delegates—Courtesy of Bismarck | Town Crierg club.) } Thursday Afternoon. , (A group photo will be taken at the Federal building, time to he an- nounced later.) (Continued on Page 3) Washington, May 30.—An averag? ; reduction of one-third in round trip {summer excursion affairs to the vari- ! our national parks of the country will | be made effective June 1 by the rail- | roads, it was announced last night by | the Interior Department. | The reduction, the department ‘said, was a contribution by the railroads to j efforts, of the government to make the nation’s playgrounds accessible to a3 jmany persons as possible. HEBRON'S PLAN FOR What is Society | ' Doing? ! i Citizens of the town of Hebron, The social activities of your | Morton county, who proposed to abol- friends naturally . interest |ish the public school and form a pri- every woman. What Mrs. i vate high school corporation a: 2 way have out of their financial difficu held informal conferences with state officials, it is understood. Sentiment is not unanimous on the Proposed plan, and it ts expected that shonld the majority of citizens seek to put in effect. the “luxury higa school” plan it would meet with op- position in the courts. The proposal was to form a private corporation and sel! shares of stock to patrons who would send their chil- dren to the high school maintained by the corporation. The public high school property vould be turned over to the corra n and the elected school boasne is show, the directors of 1, brough. Smith is doing or what she- is planning to do are told in an interesting Way in our so- ciety columns. You'll enjoy the news, for this paper makes a specialty of society events. Every- thing that is interesting is to be found here. Bismarck Tribune 5 Phone 32 ‘BRITISHNE! NATION LOYAL FIRST OF ALL TO OWN PEOPLE Washington, May 30.—A nation loyal first of all to itself. but demands of an advancing civiliza- tion was pictured by President Harding as an American ideal ioday in’a Memorial Day address at Arlington National cemetdry. , the President’ said, had accom- nds for which thay fought because a shrime for the liberty-loving of He declared the whole mission of America would become an unrealized dream if this heritage were ever sarificed. jing, “has never failed to measure in behalf of humanity and it never drafts it will-be, if that time ever comes, the wretched and degaying memorial of another civilization that has crumbled, of another ideal which has failed, of another ambition for man’s happiness which has somehow gone awry.” ic language the President asserted his conviction be accomplished only if the nation said. “No little Americanism; no mere parochialism, when I urge that ‘our first duty is to our own and that in the measure of its part performance we will find the true gauge of our capgcity to be helpful to others.” CAUCUS FIGHT — ON TARIFF IS YOUNG'S PLAN North Dakota Congrssman Opposes Ways and Means Committee Washington, Towner of the house Republican con- ference, issued a call for a caucus nex? Wednesday night at which decision as to party action is expected on the res- olution of Rep. Longworth, Ohio, to make rates of the general tariff. bill effective from the date of introduction | Ld for the bill. Rep. Young, North Dakota, the only Republican member of the ways ana means committee who opposed the resolution in committee, said today he would carry his fight into the caucus and it was understood Chairman) Towner would advocate killing’ the plan because ‘of oppusition it had de- veloped. Supporters of the resolution had difficulty in obtaining the call for; AGR EMENT ON POLE QUESTION Differs With France On Som Points and Wants an Early Meeting Paris, May 30.—(By the Associated Press.)\—A note from Great Britain received in reply to Premier Briand’s recent communication with regard to the meeting of the allied supreme council insists upon the desirability of a meeting of that body this week. Great Britain accépts the principal laid down by France of an examina- tion of the Silesian question by a spe- cial mission of experts, but holds that the council should meet first and not delay its session until after the ex- perts have reported as France sug- gested. TO SWEEP SILESIA, ppeln, May 30.—Instructions have beén issued by the commander of the German volunteer. forces in. Upper Silesia that there, be no offensive against Polish insurgents until the ar- rival and disposition of British troops who, it was said, will sweep Silesia clear of rebellious Poles. SURCHARGE IS HELD INVALID Fargo; N. D., May 30.—The order issued by the state railroad and war2- house commission Sept. 2, 1920, au thorizing the Union Light, Heat & Power comany of Fargo and the Red River Power company of Grand Forks to collect an emergency coal surcharge of 25 per cent on electricity and gas, and 35 per cent on sieam heat, was-held invalid by Judge Mc- Kenna at the conclusion of the argu- ments at the trial held in the Cass county district court. ABOLISHING PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL MAY CAUSE COURT BATTLE IF CARRIED OUT the corporation. The tuition fee .in the private high school thus created would be the actual cost per pupil. The citizens who sought out state Officials were not for the plan, but were trying to find a way out of the financial trouble. According to one official the district maintaining the high school, consisting of a township and a half, embracing the town of He- bron has an assessed valuation | of well over a million dollars, but has Not increased the school tax levy to provide sufficient revenue. A new law limits the increase and the disrtict faces a lack of sufficient funds to meet its obligations. This situation’ gave birth to the plan to treat a high school somewhat as a “luxury” and have only 2 private high school. May 30.— Chairman | PRICE FIVE CENTS PROBE FOLLA FOLLOWS | PLANE'S WRECK ‘DURING STORM |Five Army Officers and Twe Civilians Meet Death in Ambulance Plane | DECLARED WORST WRECK \ Army Officers, Unable to Ex plain It, After Seeing i Wreckage Washington, May 30.—Army officials were preparing today for an official invesigation of the crash during a’ storm’ Satur |day evening near Indian Head Maryland, of the ambulance air plane in which ‘seven man—five army officers and two civilians —met death. The fact that every ‘occupant of the machine was killed, making it necessary therefore, for a board of inquiry ito depend largely on the obser- vations. of distant eye-witnesse: in forming its conclusion made it :doubtful that the exact cause of the disaster could be developed The plane a Curtis Eagle, which thad. been divested of its ambulance equipment, was making a returr |.flight from Langley field, Virginia to Washington, when it encountered a severe electrical storm accompanied {by winds estimated to be blowing at {100 miles velocity. 5 Couldn’t Make Headway Eye-witnesses say that the plane ‘unable to make headway in the wind j:descended apparently in an attempt ito land but after dro} fe to end i about, 100 feet of und ap- | proached a clump of trees ond swerv- ed upward. The trees were cleared but as the plane started toward an | open field nearby it was seen to quiv- ‘| ote turn and dive vertically to the earth. |_ Those who reached the wreck first |found all seven men dead. All the {Seep weliy, Subsea by: os fengtae some ly mi which had been torn from its bed end thrown backward, cutting the men down like a scythe as it plowed through the narrow passenger com- \, partment. Worst Ever Seen A watch later found had, stoppec at ede showing the time fof the tragedy. ‘Army officers. who viewed the wreck said it was the worst they hat. ever seen and were at a loss to un- derstand how, it, could, hav it could have rasulted LENINE SAYS COMMUNISM IS WRECK, REPORT Return of Capitalism to Russiz Is Said’ to, Be Invited ’ / prea soit Riga, Letvia, May 30.—According to a direct Moscow dispatch received to- day from independent sources Nikolai Lenine, Soviet Russian ’premier,'‘de- clared yesterday that Communism was in complete bankruptcy and asked the presiding officers of the all-Russian central ‘executive committee to ap- prove the unlimited return of capita.- ism and the recall to Russia of the constitutional democrats atid other parties to aid in rebuilding the state. COMMUNISTS WEAK. Washington, May 30.—M .O. Zino- vieff, minister of communication in the Lenine cabinet, in reviewing progress of the Third Internationale declared that the Communist party in America and Great Britain was “very weak.” GRAIN TARIFF BILL. SIGNED BY PRESIDENT Has Provision to Prevent Dump- ing of Foreign Goods Washington, (May 30.—President Harding late Friday signed the emer- gency bill, which, became effective Saturday and which will affect for a six months period most farm prod- ucts. It also has a provision designed to prevent dumping of foreign goods in this country. In the event of passage by congress of the Longworth resolution under which new import duties would bo- come effective immediately upon in- troduction of the permanent tariff bill, house leaders said it naturally would supersede the emergency measure which carries only a few items com- pared with thousands in the general bill. House Republicans plan to meet Wednesday night to decide whether the resolution shall be made a party issue.