The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 16, 1921, Page 1

* ry ” “ de ” ? ~CRIERS 10 ROLL _ Bismarck Boy Makes Sacrifice) The Weather Generally Fair ‘e in FORTIETH YEAR UPSLERVES AND GLEAN UP CAMP Will Visit. Auto Tourists Gamp Monday Night With Neces- sary Tools TALK CITY ADVERTISING| Several Propositions Considered By Town Criers For Boost- | ing Blamarck Town Criers of Bismarck will roll up their sigeves next, Monday night and clean up the tourists auto camp at the penitentiary grounds east of the city. © psa \ At a dinner meeting of the club last night, on the McKenzie roof garden, it was reported that the camp was be- ing used nightly by tayrists traveling through Bismarck on warioigs auto fails. The cainp-is supported by the club a8 an advertising feature for ‘the city, and i is said by tourists to be one of the best camps found on the transcontinental National Park High- ways. | 2 The club members will drive to the camp equipped with hammers, saws. rakes and hoes-and thoroughly clean the camp and put it in excellent shape. A wiener roast and visit with the tour- ints will follow. the work. | Members of the club and many citizens have made a practice’ of visiting the camp at various times and,cxtending a wel- come to the tourists on behalf of the city, ’ . Talk City Adertising. The club members discussing ways of advertising and boosting the city. talked over a number of propositions A committee was named to offer the Elks pand the club co-operation Ji working out the band’s problems. Al- though the band has, loyally given services for many civic affairs without any compensation it is a difficult prob- lem to finance the organization. The club also had been asked to take up @ proposal to’have a boys’ band in the city as a “feeder” and a city orchestra, with the high school orchestra as the nucleus. ~ Ke « The question of -agitatiig. a “trade extension trip to various towns not covered in the trips last year was dis- cussed, and will be considered by the club board of governors. Most of the Town Criers are expected to go.to Mandan next Tuesday night to attend the state convention of Town Criers clubs Syalk T.\E. Allep, representative of the American College of Surgeons, which will hold a mass meeting th Bismarck at the auditorium on June 24 to dis- seminate information regarding public health, spoke to the Town Criers of the importance of health in the city. He mentioned that recently it had come to his knowledge that a large Chi- cago cOncern was planning a branch factory in a seuthern city about the size of Bismarck(, and that the city which was most favorably considered} at first and which appeared the logical place, lost ‘the fatcory because it had a bad health record due to general lack of interest in sanitary conditions. Eleven new members, elected to meimbershtp in ‘the organization, were initiated! 1ast ‘night. 'They are: : P. A. We ichter, ‘Wm. C. Paulson, M..B. Gil- man, F. A. Knowles; Obert A. Olson, F, J.Grady, Phillip M.,.Webb, R. M.| Gross, Dr. W: E, Cole, Dr. R. 8.} Towne, and Benton Baker. : GIVES SAVINGS 10 POOL FUND | For Swiming Pool Children of the city continue to.add money to the swimming pool fund. A splendid case of self-denial is re- ported by a member of the committee, One little boy gave §3 to the fund.! His brother was drowned while swim- ming in a stream near the city a couple of years ago. The boy was saving his money to buy a saxophone, but he parted with $3 af his savings/ to help build the swimming pool, and perhaps save the life of some other) boy's brother. | Ten dollars was contributed to the! fund by Imogene Ward, 8 years old,j and her brother, Steven, 6 years old,, son and daughter of Mr. and Mrs.: R. D, Ward, of Minnewaukan. They) were visiting with their parents at the} home of Mr. and Mrs. Burt Finney and they, becoming enthused over the idea, wanted to do something to help! the boys and girls of Bismarck. BOY BANDIT SENTENCED | Minnewaukan, ‘N. D., June 16.—Lo- Trane Nolan, the 18-year-old Tokio “bank robber” who, masked in a white handerchief, rode up to the State bank of Tokio and in broad daylight held up; the bank with an antiquated revolver, and secured a small sum of money, only to be traced and captured a few hours later at his‘home south of To- kio, pleaded guilty to the bank rob- bing charge gainst him at the. regu-! lar term of district court for Benson| county here. He was sentenced.to the; state training school at Mandan until) 1924, when he will be 21. i ‘He was remanded to the charge of} his ‘father and his attorney to be: de-! livered to the Mandan school. ~ MOTHER KILLS BEAR AND SAVES TWINS BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, | THURS MRS. RAINWATER AND HER TWIN SONS. e 2 By Newspaper Enterprise. Marion, Mont., June 16.—“I had to kill the bear or lose my ‘babies—so J killed the bear.” . That is Mrs Agnes Gerlach Rain- water's explanation of her success in firing three rifle bullets into a black bear which appeared suddenly where her twin sons were pfaying on her homestead at Lost Prairie. “The -bear came out of the brush’ and scrambled. over the fence into the yard, cutting off the children from the house. I ran inside and seized a rifle which my uncle had left, CATTLE LOANS WILL BE MADE. “SAYS MELLON Secretary of Treasury. Annoan-; ces Success of Confer- } 7 ences : | Washington, June 16.—Arrange- ments under which eastern and. west: ern bankers will provide a $50,000,000 fund for loans. te-cattle raisers: probs: ably will be completed within the next few days, Secretary ‘Mellon said| today. The western bankers agreed at a meeting at Chicago yesterday to) Provide '$25,000,000 to the fund, he!’ added. woe A committee of bankers will ad-) minster the fund and advances prob-| ably will be made through bankers from the cattle growing section who are familiar with conditions. With the completion, of the pool- ing arrangefnents, Mr. Mellon said, the, government’s part in relief measures for the cattle industry, would cease, BOND SALE COST 18 $32,32442 Amount Paid Out in Three Months By State ‘ A total of $32,324.42 has been patd out of. the Industrial Commission funds in the last three months, by state officials in the bond sale cam- paign. The amownt increased yester- day when warrants for the “Bank of North Dakota, George Webb,” date1/ June 11, were paid. There were two warrants, ohe for $7,050.67 and $4,- 214.04. Mr. Webb is the representa-/ tive of the Bank of North Dakota at| its Chicago bond Office. The expenses include advettising,| expenses for payments to bond. sales~/ map, office rent, traveling expenses and salaries. Sometime ago the Bank of North Dakota assigned real estate mortgages of various counties to the state treas- urer, preparatory to issuing bonds. No bonds have been issued as yet and state officials decline to make official) announcement on the progress of the! bond sale. q ARMY CONTRACTS | ARE ANNULLED, Washington, June 16.—On advice of the Attorney-General, President Hard-| ing has annulled war department con-| tracts with the United States Harness) | adding that one of the difficulties of ;SOUTHERN MAN ‘I had never used it, bu I knew something of the way-it worked from seeing my uncle ‘fire it. J knew it was loaded. “when I got back to the yard the boys had backed into a corner, so frightened they could not move. The bear had risen on its hind legs and was walking toward them. “I.ran around in front of the bear, pointed the rifle.at its, middle and be- gan to shcot, while my boys clung to my skirts. When my uncle came he said any one of the three bullets would have killed it.” ASKS GUARDING OF U. S. ACTIONS) Providence, R. 1., June 16.—Secre- tary of State Charles E, Hug,ee told) @ gathering of fellow alumni of Brown! university yesterday that it was not! desirable that, America’s help{ul inttu- ence should he frittered away ‘by re- lating ourselves unnecessarily to po- litical questions which involve rivalry; of interest abroad with which we have| no proper concern.” | BANKERS TALK TIVESTOCK AID Secretary Mellon Confers With Chicago Financiers i Chicago, June 16.—-Bankers of Chi- cago and the middle west conferred to- day. on a proposed loan fund of $25,- 000,000, sought to finance western stock raisers. The financiers were walled together by Secretary of the sreasury Mellon under the leadership of John R. Mitchell, of the Federal Re- serve Board. Chicago bankers ex- pressed the opinion that the proposed pool was a financial venture. “Banks cannot gamble,” David RB,. Forgan. head of the National City Bank. said, the proposal was that the collateral Offered by cattle men were usually not liquid. WOMAN SPEAKS ON POLITICS, Secretary of Committee of 48 ~To Visit Bismarck (Miss Melinda Alexander, national! secretary, of the Committee of 48,/ which is behind the organization of a new. politica}. party, in America, will speak in Bismarck Friday night at 8:30 at Patterson shall, 3s Misa Alexander will discuss nation- al issues of the day. She formerly was ‘secretary to Miss Jeanette Ran- kin, of, Montana, first woman con-|, gressman, and was active in the Com- mittee of 48 convention in Chicago last year. ( The meeting will be open to the public and no charge will be made, it is announced. / HEADS SHRINE, Des Moines, Ia., June 16.—Ernest, E. : Cutts, of Savannah, Ga., chief-rabban of the Shriners organization, was| elected imperial potentate for the! coming year at yesterday's session} of the imperial council. He succeeds Ellis L. Garretson, of Tacoma, Wash.,| company. - FIND 5,000 MACHINE GUNS ON "SHIP DESTINED FOR IRELAND PORT; INVESTIGATION IS BEGUN ‘New York, June 16.—An investiga- tion was under way today to deter- mine how and why more than 5,000 machine guns, with hundreds of parts, were received on board the steamer ide while-at her pier in Hoboken awaiting departure for an Irish port. Officials of the customs have, with the department of justice and the United States Shipping board, begun check ing up on the facts in an effort te discover to whom the weapons were intended to be shipped and ordered {them to be placed on the vessel. ‘who became past iniperial potentate. sab 4 The arms were seized yesterday by. United States customs officials. and: + ay reins DAY,: JUNE 16, 1921 BU DUNNCO.GETS HEAVIEST RAIN REPORTS SHOW Two Inches of Rain Fell There, Weather Bureau Re- "ports } aor S ¢ COVERS: A» WIDE AREA Rain General Over State But Heaviest in West and South \ Rain has fallen in ‘nearly all parts of the state in the last twenty-four hours, but was particularly heavy in. the western part of the state, in sec- tions where it was most needed, ac- cording to detailed reports of the Unit-) ed States Weather Bureau, today. The heaviest rainfall of: yesterday reported by the bureau representatives was at Dunn Center, where two inches of rain fell. At. Dickinson the. rain- fall amounted to 1.52 inches, in a short period, ahd at Napoleon, south of Bis- marck, the rain Was 1.60 inches, © © <7 Slightly ‘Jess than a half inch of rain- fall fell. at, Blamarck this morning. This rain has avgmented the rainfall of yesterday in most sections of the’ westert: part of the state, it is beltey-, ed. q Neo Hall Is Reported. According to weather bureau ad-' vices the heavy rain of yesterday was not accompanied by hail or by an ex ceedingly high wind. , The rainfall for the various stations in the state up to 7 A. M. today fol- lows: . 4 Amenia, '.62; Bismarck, .34; Botti- neau, .36; Bowbells 1.29; Devils Laké;} 66; Dickinson, “1.52; Dunn “Center, 2.00; Ellendale, .15; Fessenden, .86; Grand Fork Langdon, .11; Lari- more, 1.00; bon, 18; Minot, .16; Napoleon, 1.60; Pembina, .16; Wahpe-| ton, .09; Williston, .06; Moorhead, Minn., .12. General Conditions, The weather bureau report on gen- eral weather,cOnditions today said: The Dakota low pressure area: has advanced to Manitoba accompanied by general rains in North Dakota and por. tions of the adjoining states. The rains in North Dakota vary from ligh: to excessive, the heavy falls being quite general over the west portion of the state. It is cooler over the Plains Staes but it continues warm over-the Mississippi Valley. The weath- er in North Dakota will be partly cloudy and somewhat unsettled ;to- night and Friday: with somewhat cool- er in the east portion tonight, The Missouri river stage stood at 8.3 feet today, a rise of a foot in two days. POLICE SILENT, ON DETAILS OF MURDER ARREST Will Not Divulge Case Against William Gummer, Hotel — 1 Clerk Wargo, June 16.—The case against’ William Gummer night clerk of a local hotel where Miss Marie Wick, 18, Grygla, Mion., was murdered early JTuesday, June 7, will not depend on finger prints, Wm. Green, states at- torney for Cass county, said toda: Gummer was arrested yesterday char ed with first degree murder in con- nection with the case. Finger prints found in the room in which Miss Wick was murdered have; proved to be unsatisfactory, Mr. Green! said. Authorities are withholding de-| tails of the case against Gummer un: til.the hearing is held. ‘ CLAIMS BREAD ~ NOT REDUCED Senator Capper Charges Profi-; * . teering Washington. June 16.—Profiteering on the part of the bakers of the na- tion’s bread_w4s charged” by “Senator Capper, Républican, Kansas, in a speech at last, night’s session of the! senate, during consideration of the) packer’s regulation bill. A vote on the bill wil be reached late today. “With; nearly 38 per cent decline in the year ending May 15 and maximum decline in the price of flour of 40 per cent,” said Senator Capper, “the size of the| crust the makers of ten of the lead-| ing cities of the country hand the pub- lic varies remarkably from a measly decrease of but 6’per cent in New York to a maximum reduction of only 21 per cent in Boston. “But I note that in New York where the decline in the price of bread ‘is least the reduction in the price of flour is greater. Boston, far removed| frém the wheat belt, is the city show- ing the largest decline in the price >f; | witness stand the following witnesses: | sale o' IS DISCUSSED REP. MASON, OF ILLINOIS, DIES . IN- WASHINGTON ‘ Washington, June 16.—Representa- tive W. E. Mason, Illinois, died here early today from heart trouble. Although Representative Mason had been suffering: from a heart attack for (several days his condition yesterday was feported as showing improvement and/death came unexpectedly after & sudden relapse. The Illinois represen- tative was 71 years old and formerly was a member of the senate. JURY 1S GIVEN MITCHELL CASE THIS AFTERNOON Former Hotel Steward Charged with Assaulting E. G. Patterson POSITION OF DEFENSE formerly:ateward of the McKenzie ho- ‘tel, charged with assault on Edw. G. Patterson, hotel proprietor, with a dangerous wéapon, was to go to a jury in district court late this afternoon. . .The hearing of testimony in the case, which began yesterday, was virtually finished at noon, and State's Attorney F._E. McCurdy and Theodore Koffel were to aubmit arguments. State’s Attorney McCurdy put on the ‘The. case against R. P, Mitchetl, | E. G. Rat ‘Mts. \ Patterson, Lil- lian, Hubbard, Minnie Halzenbuler, John Brittin, Clara Olson, Arthur Pet-} masters in Civil Service and remove erson, Francis Feldman, Carl McGrath, Mrs. Thomas Poole, Mr. and Mrs. Wim- mer, Mr. and Mrs. William Holbein, William O'Hare, Dr. C. E. Stackhouge, Geo. H. Dolan and Gussie Peterson: No Irons Used, Claim, Koffel, Mitchell’s attorney, maintain- ed that while Mitchell had hit Patter- son he had not hit him with pastry irons, as charged. The irons and a felt hat worfi by Patterson, through Which a neat cut was made, were exhibits in the case. Mitchell, J. Galloway apd Morris Paul were placed on the stand for the defense by Koffel. | A jury in a district court case, which! reported Tuesday evening, found J. W. Pauley, and his son, Pearlie, guilty of manufacturing intoxicating liquors. The trial was short. The Pauleys were arrested by the police last winter, it being alleged by the police that they found-them in the act of making alco- holic liquor in their home here. Sen- tence was deferred. _ In the case of Axel Johnson, charged with manufacturing Mquor, the jury; found the defendant not guilty. There -was question in’ the jury’s mind, it) was understood, that the beverage| which Johnson was said to have given away. was intoxicating liquor. Acquit Woman. A jury also acquitted Mrs. Willis Bryan, charged with the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor. ‘When Robert Mitchell, charged. with rape, was called in court he was not present. It was stated he had put up bonds of’ $2,000, part in cash) and part with an individual as surety. The surety was ordered to bring the defendant into court.or default'on the bond. An information( was filed against Leo Schafer, charging him with the intoxicating liquor. He was given time to get an attorney. The assault and battery case against Ar-| thur Desmond and Charles Stearns| was continued. until afternoon. Several other cases are on the crim- inal calendar, but pone of ae are expectei e any length of time to try Scopl\te Hi ‘W. Brinton case, starting: June 23. HEALTH MEETING Luncheon Held Today to Discuss Mass Meeting ° Representatives of civic and husi-! ness organizations, and members of) the clergy and the press attended a luncheon at the McKenzie hotel today, given by North Dakota members of the American College of Surgeons. The gathering was for the purpose of ex- Miaijing the®coming public hhealth masé meeting to be held at the audi- torium, June 24th at 8 P. M. “As soon as the people of this com-! munity realize that this is their meet- ing; that practical talks on_ better health will be given in simple lan-; guage, the auditorium will not hold| the crowd,” declared Judge A._ M. Chrigtianson. “Bismarck is to be con- | gratulated on securing such a gather- ing of surgeons, and should show their | appreciation by filling every seat in| the house on the night of the twenty- fourth.” BRITAIN WARNS | mi of WEEKS HONORED New York University honored Secre- tary of War Weeks with the degree of doctor of law, at its 89th commence- ment. t POSTHASTERS - BNDORSE CIVIL SERVIGE, PLAN State-Convention For Townsend Bill Removing Term ' Limits GREET POSTMASTER-GEN. A; resolution endorsing the Town- send bill, pending in Congress, to; place first, Second and third year post- the term limit was adopted by the state convention of postmasters, in session here today.’ Postmasters were placed in Civil Service by an execu- tive order of President Wilson, but the terms were left at four years. The chief aim of the Townsend bill, ac- cording to the postmasters, is to re- move the ferm limit. A telegram of greeting was dis- patched to Postmaster-General Will H. Hays, in which his proposal to “humanize” the postal department was praised? . Dr. Redmond A. Bolton, of James- town, gave the president’s address at the morning session... He highly prais- ed the new postmaster-general, and urges all postmasters to have service; to the public as their watchword in! handling the affairs of postoffices in North Dakota. J. F. Boylan, dean of postoffice in- spectors of the St. 'Paul division, who; was sent to the meeting as repre- sentative. of the . postmaster-general, gave a chart lecture and presided when the question box was opened. Mrs. L. L. Diehl, of Dunn Center, gave @ reading. A greeting was sent to the Tri-State Postmasters’ ‘convention \in the Twin, Cities. Announcement was made that the national convention of postmas., ters would be held in’ Washington, Oct, 12, 13 and 14. M, L. Vick, of} Sheyenne, secretary of the North Da- kota association, is chairman of the executive committee of’ the national association. Governor Frazier was on ‘the pro- gram this, afternoon, and following: other talks and election of officers a banquet was to be held at the Grand Pacific hotel. STOLEN AUTOS ‘BEING SOLD BY U. S. GOVERNMENT P.\J Doyle, United States marshal, in Bismarck today, said he would com- plete the sale of all automobiles cap- tured in North Dakota from booze runners who are held on federal charges, except in two or three cases where parties intervened, claiming the machines were stolen Mr Doyle sold a Buick 1918 roadster for $250 here yesterday in an auction sale in front of Lahr Motor Sales Co. There weret hree bidders, the car being purchased by J.C. Anderson. A deputy U. S marshal is selling one car at Jamestown today. Mr. Doyle will sell five at Carrington Friday and there will be sales at Lidgerwood, Bottineau and Crosby this week. CONGRESS LOCKS ON NAVY BILL Washington, June 16.—Conferences) between the senate and house on the! naval appropriation bill ended today in a deadlock and the $494,000,000) bill, with the ‘Borah disarmament con- ference amendment, was taken back’ to the house for action. FOUR CULVERTS -WILLBE BUILT | _ IN THE COUNTY Bids will be received on four con- crete culverts in Burleigh county, the TURK FORCES { H Constantinople, June 16.—The Brit-| ish warned the Turkish nationalists | bread: Even out in the wheat coun-/ that any attempt to take Constaftino- government agents expressed bellef try itsei¢ the bakers are still exacting | ple will mean war with Great Britain they were destined for Ireland. Sub-) sequently they were taken from the customs officials, who were preparing to. cart’ them away, by Hoboken police, who acted under a search warrant sworn out by Frank “Williams, who! said the guns had been stolen from, him. The investigators also turned| their activities toward Williams in an effort to determine now he came possession of the arms: ba | high prices.” COMPOSTTORS BACK AT WORK) Boston, June 16.—Newspaper com- MAY NOT BRING ‘ UP LANTZ BILL | * Springfield, Ill, June 16.—Advocates of the: Lantz grain exchange bill to; positors who walked out Monday vot- conditions as when they struck. county commissioners decided at a meeting here. . One is at Christiania, another be-; tween Trygg and Sibley Butte, an-| PRICE FIVE CENTS: TRAIN CRASHES THROUGH: BRIDGE [5 ARE KILLED / Passenger Train Hits Structure Weakened By Cloud- burst CARS PILED TOGETHER All Dead Are Found in Smoker and Baggage Car of Train Omaha, Neb. June 16.—Five per- sons are known to have been killed and 27 injured, a number seriously, when. Chicago and: Northwestern pas- senger train \No. 606, Lander, Wyo. ; to,Omaha, was wrecked last night by the collapse of a bridge over a creek near Whitney, \Neb. S A cloudburst caused the bridge to give way, General Superintendent Dickinson, of the Northwestern, said, The engine cleared. the bridge but the baggage and maij cars plunged into the bank while ‘the chalr car was thrown into the water. i’ The number of known dead, at first reported as four, was later increased to five, when B. Schuyler, mail*elerk, of @hadron, died ‘of injuries, All of the ‘dead and injured, Shad- ron advices said, were found in the Smoker and baggage cars, ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE OPENS FIRE ON BILL Hits at Wisconsin Measure Per- mitting Making of/ Home Brew . a i —_——— 2 ‘Madison, Wis., June 16.—The Blaine dry enforcement bill is attacked by the Anti-Saloon league today in an official statement which declares that “without the Olsoh amendment it is weaker than the present Mulberger law,” and ‘may serve “as a camouflage under which liquor is made afd sold.” Governor Blaine Monday attacked the Olson amendment prohibiting tha manufacture of home brew as “intol- erable espionage on the home which fritters away public money on citi-. zens who haye no wrongful intent.” He called ‘on the assembly to kill the amendment when ‘it. ts’ voted on. to- qnorrow. ~~" ‘Two little words are the cause of all “the” trouble. The AntiSaloon League said: ‘The Volstead act for- bids the manufacture, the Olson bill does this also, this bill simply forbids the ‘manufacture for sale’ of moon- shine liquor.” ‘ LABOR DEMANDS. CONGRESS ACT IN SHIP CASE Want Investigation of Alleged " Lockout ‘of Seamen Denver, June 16—The American Federation of Labor today by resolu- tion called upon. the United States sen- ‘ate to ‘adopt the: LaFollette s.bill;, to make,an investigation of the ‘nation- wide lockout ‘of seamen.” The eonvention adopted g:resolution calling for a congressional investiga- tion into conditions in the cotton’ mills of the south. Every assistance was pledged by the Federation of United Textile Workers, now conducting a strike of more than 15,000 workers in these mills, . The resoltion introduced by the In- ternational Seamen’s Union declared that a “combination of European and American ship-owhers, aided by the United States Shipping Board, have up to this moment been busy thwarting the American people in their legiti- mate desire and purpose to share in the overseas comiperce and in build- ing for America’s power compar- ing to the American seaboard.” NAY PROSECUTE ARMY OFFICERS _ Washington, June 16.—Criminal pro- ceedings against a number of former ‘larmy officers may follow President Harding’s' action in cantelling war de- partment contracts with the United States Harness company at Ranson, W. Va. PEOPLE RUSH TO GET SEATS FOR AL JOLSON other between ‘Naughton and Croft,| and a fourth between Harriet and) Wing. Bids will be received on July 5./ The commissioners, at their meet-| ing, decided to open a road in Naugh-; ton township, beginning on the north: side of the township, between sections) miles. Speaks at Hillsboro, Governor Frazier spoke at Hillsboro yesterday at a Nonpartisan meeting. There was a big rush for the best seats for Af Jolson at $3.85 per, when the seat sale opened yesterday at Harris and Company. Al Jolson has ben reported as say- ing that “there is one town in the west that I'll never mise, Bismarck, because ‘4 and 5, running due south for six, I like to play to the kind of audiences they have there.” Inflications from the early seat sale were that he will have a packed ‘house. There were still many good seats left this afternoon, although a big hole fegulate the Chicago hoard of trade; He was to return here to address the| had ben made in the center seats in into, ed to return to work under the same) are sald to have announced it probably state postmasters convention this aft- would not be brought up in the house. ernoon. the lower;floor. A long line was waiting when the seat sale opened.