The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 12, 1921, Page 1

‘The Weather FAIR HE BIS BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, CK TRIBUNEE« TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1921 PRICE FIVE CENTS | HARDING ASKS BONUS POSTPONEMENT FORTIETH YEAR L.- BONDSALE NOT | ENOUGH T0 MEET iMrs. ae ~~ ae Murer Of Her Hus-| { —_ STATE EXPENSES a Bank of North Dakota Unable i e To Meet Check For Payroll, Of State Institution BLUEBEARD OR TYPHOID CARRIER? IRISH LEADERS | START JOURNEY. 10 CONFERENCE | f \ De Valera avd ‘Griffith Head| Harding Receives Favorable Party Which Will Talk Peace | Word From All But One Of With Lloyd George Nations Addressed i ARMISTICE DAY CQURDNTT Pay TELLS SENAY SUGGESTED FOR, BOY.RUNS away PXPENSES UST NATIONS CONFAB tise sceom | BE CURTAILED Huff, 15-year-old boy who lives near Montpelier, IN. ., 30 miles south of Jamestown. Franky got off the train at mid- night last night ang was taken in custody by Chief of Police Mar. | tineson. His father had called from Jamestown saying the boy was on the train. The father | arrived by automobile this morn- ing and after a hsari to heart talk the two went back iiome, The boy had been driving a cultivator, and left. it and the team in the yard when he left home. The horses, tert alone, fan away, dashing into a wire ‘ ence and injuring one of 5 Washington, 12.—Favorable| The father had opposed sonany responses are understcrd to have} baseball. i been received today from all but one | of the powers to which the United NT States suggested a conference «| GUGGESTS CITY INSPECT ME ATS ial the financial __ stabil- ity of our country,” Pres- reduction of armament and related jident Harding told the sen- SOLD LOC ALLY today in the second address he has made to that body during questions. Although so far there has been ; roathing in the negotiations as to his administration. Every obligation is to the dis- abled and dependent, the Presi- President Says Nation is Im- perilled Unless it Reduces Taxes TO ISSUE $540.00 OF BONDS ANXIETY IS STILL FELT) FRENCH DEPUTIES CHEER ae i as | Renewed Rioting in Belfast is| | Disquieting Feature of the | Situation REFERS DISABLED > Bonds Now Being Distributed— First Official Statement of The Bond Sale The return of a check for $11,017.23 to the state treasurer by the secretary of the Agricultural College at Fargo with the information that payment on the check, which was for the institu- tion pay-roll, had been refused by the Bank of North Dakota prompted in- i eat quiries which disclosed that a great number of. checks of public treasurers | now are being turned down by the bank. The situation that the bank finds it- self in at this time, according to Di: rector-General F. W. Cathro, is that | the sale of bonds is not keeping pace; with the withdrawals from the bank, which are heavy at this time because of the last month bills of the various Chamber Applauds Announce-| ment of President’s Move | For Disarmament i Says That Nation Owes First Duty to Disabled and Will Not Neglect Them es teeiees | Dublin, July 12.—(By the Associated | July | Press.)—Irish Republican — leaders; chosen to participate in the confer-| ence to be held’ with British govern-| ment authorities in London on Thurs- day left Dublin this morning for Lon- don. They were Eamonn DeValera, | leader of the Irish Republicans; Ar-! thar GriMth, founder of the Sinn Fein; | | Austin Stack and Robert C. Barton, the; last two being Sinn Fein members of) questions asthe dates on which the British parliament. ; the meeting will begin. One sug: } ! BELFAST RIOTS CONTINUE. | 8estion prominently under considera- tion is that Nov. 11, Armistice Day, London, July 12.—Sutisfaction felt} be selected. . : Washington, July 12.—Enact- ment at the present moment of adjusted compensation legisla- tion for veterans of the world war would greatly _imper- details administration officials have; been so encouraged by the attitude | of other nations that they have al- | ready given some attention to such | City Bacteriologist Makes Re- educational institutions and schools. Money realized from the sale of bonds has been placed in the Bank of North Dakota to be used for general purposes. Mr. Cathro expressed the opinion that within the next two o: three months the sale of bonds will have been sufficient to place the bank in a position to meet all of its obliga- tions. The’ bond money has been counted on to meet obligations while the bank is unable to realize from de- posits in various private banks, in closed banks, in farm loans and loans to state industries. School Checks. A number of checks given to the county treasurers for the counties por- tion of the state school aid fund have! not ben paid. Among these are Mor-! ton county, Burleigh county, Caas. Stutsman and Ward. During the emer- gency State Auditor Poindexter is hold- ing bills which are not regarded as pressing before issuing warrants. Yesterday the state auditor prepared a certificate that $1,235,661.85 of farm Joan mortgages were on deposit in the state treasurer's office: : This was necessary in the’ issuance of $640,000 of real estate series bonds which have been sold'and which are being delivered. The bonds are cou- pon bonds, although they can be regis- tered, and the names of the purchasers can not therefore be ascertained. This is the first official figure as to the sale of bonds by the state. How many more have been sold is not known. New York Difficulty. The sale is proceedings. In addition to the New York and Chicago offices solicitors are engaged in other places, particularly in the northwestern states, The Bank of North Dakota, acting as fiscal agent for the bond sale, found in its sale in New York that every bond agency must be licensed. The Bank of North Dakota office was withdrawn and the sale is being con- duced in New York in the name of the state of North Dakota without a license, it is stated. BILLY SUNDAY AT VALLEY CITY Evangelist to Appear at Chau-; tauqua There Valley City, N. D., July 12.—Billy Sunday, the great evangelist, will ap- pear at the Valley City Chautauqua on Tuesday afternoon, July 26. Rev. Sun- day is enroute west to his fruit ranch j at Hood River, Washington, but has} agreed to spend one afternoon at Val-| ley City. Secretary Moe believes that this will prove the banner day in the history of the Valley City Chautauqua. Billy Sunday is an old Barnes county boy and has a brother living in the county. MEXICO TAKES | STEPS TO RELIEVE | UNEMPLOYMENT Mexico City, July 11.—Energetic | measures to relieve the coniition of unemployed laborers pico Oil Lields are being pushed by the government, president .Obregon directing the work, which is in ac-! tive charge of Gen. Cesar Lopez Y. Lara, governor of Tamaulipas. Although the situation, according to the governor’s report to president Obregon, is “the same,” advices from the oil regions tell of impending further shutdowns, with the possibil- ity that more thn five thousand workers will be dismissed tomorrow. Many are in desperate circumstances and are being cared for at the gov- ernment’s expense until transporta- tion can be obtained for them to other parts of the republic, where public work is being provided. CHINESE IN BALM SUIT. Singapore, July 12—Chia Gin Neo, an 18-year-old Chinese girl, never saw her fiance. But she’s suing him for $2,500, alleging breach of promise. A matrimonial agent representing Lom Teck Sim visited the girl's parents and arranged a match, aceording tu Chinese’ custom. Then Lom backed out, By Newspaper Enterprise ' Twin Falls, Ida. July 12.—Lyda | Southard deliberate modern Blue-} beard, or— | Lyda Southard, afflicted typhoid | carrier? | The question will’ be answered | here in the fall term of court when | Mrs. Southard goes on trial for mur- | der. Prosecution and defense ere | marshaling their evidence. The trial; promises to be the mst bitter that | the west has seen for years. All) Idaho is aroused over it. | Mrs. Southard was arrested recent- ly.in Honolulu, charged with © the murder of her fourth husband, Ed- ward F, Meyer, a ranchman who liv-! ed near Twin Falls. Three wther of her former hus- bands had died as wetl as a daughter | by the first husband and a brother of | the first husband who lived with the couple. Good sized insurance poli- | cies were carried by all four of the ; husbands who died, Married Fifth Time At the time of her arrest, Mrs. Southard was living with her fifth husband, Paul Vincent Southard, a; naval officers They, were married in | Los Angeles, and Mrs. Southard | went to ‘Honolulu with him when he | was transferred a short time later. | This is the unusual matrimonial | history of Mrs. Southard that the | state has dug up—in impersonal ; facts, uncolored. by the charges of the | prosecution: i March 17, = i Dooley. Daoley’s brother ! to live with them. On May 3, brothers | took out joint insurance policy for | | | 1912—Married Robert Ed came! $2000, naming Lyda beneficiary. On Aug. 9, 1915, Ed died and Lyda_re- ceived face of policy. Next day j Robert and Lyda applied for joint | $2500 policy, to be paid to survivor. On Oct. 1, a month and a half later, | Robert died. Certificate showed | scarlet fever as cause. On Nov, 15 | Ldya’s d aughter died. Scarle. fever j was given as cause. June, 1917—Married william G. McHaffie, place unknown. On June 12 MoHaffie applied for 35090 in ance policy, payable to Lyda. Si: teen months later he died. Lyda re- ported flu and black diphtheria as cause. MoHaffie’s policy tapsed just before his death. March 19, 1919—Married Harlan C. Lewis. On June 14 Lewis applied fer $5000 insurance policy. Twenty- GREEKS START _ON OFFENSIVE Athens, Greece, July 12.—Official confirmation of the beginning of the Greek offensive against the Turkisn jernment statement late last night. The in the Tam-| Greeks advanced 15 miles occupying ; several towns. No resistance was en- MRS. LYDA SOUTHARD AND HER FIFTH AND PRESENT HUS- BAND, PAUL VINCENT SOUTHARD. | policy. -bequeathing $12,000 worth of proper- ; stated he had applied for | from fly-paper. | chapter in her strange matrimonial | Nationalists was supplied in a gov-| six days later he died. The doctor's certificate said cause was acute gas- tro-enterritis, yda collected the August 10, 1920—Married Edward F. Meyer. ext day Meyer took out a policy for $10,000 and made a will | ty to Lyda. Twenty-eight days later he died after an illness of a few days. ‘Typhoid fever was given as the cause in doctors’ certificates. Two at- tempts were made to collect the $10,- 000 policy but the money was heid up. ‘November 26, 1920—Married Paul Vincent Southard, her present hus- band, at*Los. Angeles. Telegraphic advices from Honolulu, where Mrs. Southard was arrested, say Southard a $10,000 insurance policy, but that his applica- Hon for so large a policy was reject- | ed. State's Statement This is the unbiased record. This is what Prosecutor Frank L, Stephen has to add to it: “We do not credit Mrs. Southard’s claim that she thinks she is a typhoid carrier, and that it was this that | may have caused her husbands | deaths. Regardless of what docturs’ certificates showed, we have tound proof of arsenic poisoning. What is more, all the men revealed the same symptoms, and they were not the symptoms of typhoid. “We will claim that arsenic was | obtained by an extracting process And the evidence | will show that quantities of fly-paper | were found hidden near where two of the men died.” | Bodies Exhumed After the state investigation was | begun, the bodies were exhumed and scientific analyses made. ‘Lyda appnoaches = tice climaxing serial cheerfully. Whatever her in- ner thoughts may be, she views the coming ordeal with outward caira. | Physically she shows the strain, of | course, but she greets callers and | jailer with a smile. Against the amazing chain of cir- cumstantial evidence that the state has drawn up, Mrs. Southard thus far has submitteed only her claim of | having doctors’ certificates as pnoof of the cause of her husbands’ deaths. She had made only one public state- ment. That was given out through her attorneys and declared her in- nocence. 12,000 HOTEL MEN GATHER Chicago, July 12.—About 12,000 hotel and resturant men and women of the! United States and Canada are sessions of the American hotel as- sociation of the United States and countered. | | which are meeting here this week FINAL APPEAL IS ISSUED TO AID | IN COMPLETION OF SWIMMING POOL The swimming pool is nearing comnietion. While the concrete in the big pool is setting and plans are being made for .the opening, the Elks committee is getting ready to go after the money nec- essary to complete it.. The fol- lowing statement was made today by S. W. Derrick, general chair- man of the committee: To the men, women and children of Bismarck: You have seen that the swimm- ing pool is a go and nearly com- pleted and ready for the kiddies and grown ups, but there is still money wanted to. complete it. ‘While nearly every one solicit- ed donated, it is necessary to make a second call for money to complete it. While we will make a second drive, it would save a lot of time for the Committee if those who have not donated and those who are willing to donate a second time would either make a deposit at the First Guaranty Bank or mail their check to L. K, Thompson, or myself. Cilecks ; should read “pay to Swimming Pool Fund”. We need three thousand dol- lars. Yours truly S. W. DERRICK, Gen’l Chairman | by the people of England over the ar- rangement of eeting Thurs | Totwean Eamonn DeValera, Ine ne | have received detailed considera- publican leader, and Prime Minister | Lloyd George was tempered by appre-| hension today over the situation in The rioting which began in Belfast. that city, on Sunday continued yester- tion but officials were said to feel that there was no'reason why the conversations might not lead to a plan for the association of nations advocated by president Hard- The exact subjects to be taken upat | the conference are understood not logically | 'terday forenoon in various parts of reductions amounting lo approximate- day with diminished severity and{ while there were acts of violence yes-} Ireland the center of apprehension was in Belfast. It was felt that today might be criti-; cal, as it was “Orangemen's Day,” long celebrated as the anniversary of the battle of the Boyne, fought in July, 1690, There were fears that extrem- ists on both sides in Ireland could not be held in restraint by the Irish lead- ers and would: violate the truce which! became effective yesterday. | HEAVY CUTS IN WAGES ARE MADE Kalamazoo, Mich., July 12—Wage mo ‘ ly $20,000,000:a year went! into effect T yesterday in all paper mills of -south- western Michigan. About 3,000 work- ers in the ten mills here and 5,000 workers in other plants are affected. The cut, which was protested by the; employes, amounts to 13 per cent for} skilled workers and 30 per cent for! unskilled laborers. { Premier Briand ing. FRANCES APPROVES. Paris, July 12—(By the Associated Press.)—The French government will! accept with pleasure and without re- serve the invitation to a conference on the limitation of armaments. stated in a letter sent to the American! embassy here by the government this} larly of the condition of one killing rnig for President Harding, ULSA CHIEF PACES TRIAL Police Head. in Race Riot City is Given Hearing uspended Tulsa chief of This is! later announced publicly in the Chamber of Deputies that the government would eagerly ac- cept such an invitation. /e rhe. premier: expressed thanks to resident Harding for “his noble init-' made inquiri conc s tates while the Chamber broke into aed aie ee tat ate noes cheers, Makes a Reduction \ ARE DECREASED, tafson is the first of three police of- | tafson is the first of ehree police of- Electric Company Voluntarily | tense. police, faced trial on charges of dere- Uetion of duty during the Tulsa race | fieials indicted by the “race riot” ; grand jury and charged with that of- | Conviction of Gustafson would car- ry with it dismissal from office, his ! attorneys stated, but not a jail sen- port to the City Commission on Conditions DISCUSS RAT CAMPAIGN! | Suggestion that the city undertake ; meat inspection was made to the city | commission last night by E. M. Stan- ton, bacteriologist. Appearing before the commission Mr. Stanton asked that | body to purchase an instrument to bo! used in testing meat. Mr. Stanton said that there ought to be inspection of meat sold, and he complained particu- | place outside the city limits. It was decided to invite a representative of the State Livestock Sanitary Board to} appear before the commission next Monday night. Mr. Stanton also reported he had ridding cities of rats. There now is a | representative of the United States | Biological Survey in Fargo in charge |of the campaign against the rodents willing to come to Bismarck and make a survey without expense to the city. Some commissioners expressed the opinion that they are not so numerous here as they were recently. Mr. Stanton reported 17 pieces of property not having sewer connec- tions, as required by ordinance. He| still has to inspect Avenues A and B, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th streets, he said. Robert Jager was given an extension of time until Sept. 15, in which to fill up a street sandpit in the southeast- ern part of the city and he was to put up a bond. Jager’s Inspection. A report on an inspection of the fire fighting apparatus in Glendive was made by Fire Chief Jager. In a let- ter to the commission he said: “On a retent trip through Montana there and Mr. Stanton said that he was| The Mandan Electric company haz notified the state railroad commission ; charge authorized three years ago and is giving the usual discount of 21-2) i cents per kilowatt on residence light-; ing, making the lighting rate 121-2) i cents per kilowatt for the first 50 kilo-| waits and 10 cents per kilowatt tor} the balance, With the receipt of this informa- tion yesterday there also came a let-! ter from B, L. Surface stating that in} view of the voluntary reduction made tence. | that it voluntarily has discontinued, | effective July 1, the 20 per cent sur- First of Dozen Character Wit-|. “The chief advised me that upon the nesses Placed on the Stand now desire the petition dropped. FACTS FOR THE Valley City, one of the pretti | ' | electric light and central heat debtedness of only $120,000. In: | plants. icity owned utility. |. No budget appropriation for LABOR DAY CELEBRATION AT ‘interest or principal is to be in-| \eluded, but the entire obligation ‘will be retired from the income jae ihe city utility. | | Included also in the $120,000; bonded indebtedness is $10,000 of park bonds. Valley City ha several nice parks where th people can go for recreation. Valley City has a very low overhead expense for city opera- tion, but a very high record fo’ being a clean, progressive city where the tax burden is kept within reason. : Just remember when votin, July 26, that results obtained do not always depend upon the amount of money expended. Let us deflate public expend tures July 26. the citizens of Mandan who petitioned | for a hearing and reduction of rates i| CITY TAXPAYERS > est cities in the state, with aj told him that Bowen was. park system, a city owned water, | or Bowen by E. J. Taylor, a constable. ing plant has a total bonded in-! cluded in this amount is a bond expected here by tomorrow for the | $8ue of $60,000, a first lien ON ed with interest. ithe electric light and water!a madman cutting a throat, the real/a resolution protesting against mili-| This issue is being re-| madman drew a knife and slashed a Canada and affiliated organizations | tired from the earnings of the! spectator heside him. Hettinger, N. D., July 12.—A dozen; | character witnesses will be placed on! ‘the stand by the defense in the Bowen murder trial in an effort to show that iM. K, Bowe, Golden Valley county [i rancher, had a reputation of being a ;man who carried a gun. Charles G.; | Huffman was put on the stand as the} ‘first character witness of the defense. | |He declared Bowen was a dangerous| |- | man, and said that twenty persons had | The de- i fense is trying to justify the shooting REEL AND REAL MADMAN. | Paris, July 12.—A Paris movie house; | was showing “The Madman’s Dream.” An escaped lunatic entered and watch: As the film showed { | The joint committee of Mandan andj Bismarck Central Labor Unions held a meeting on Sunday, July 10, in the Moose hall at Mandan, and discussed S| plans for the Labor Day celebration e| which will undoubtedly be the most widely attended of any celebration of that holiday ever held in the state. The committee appointed to secure grounds for the celebration reportea r|that they had procured the fair grounds from the fair association and the Mandan Commercial club. The management of the Mandan baseba!! team which had a lease of the grounds Z| for the season, generously waiver their claims for that day, and the sec- retary of the Commercial club, Mr. Sullivan, pledged the support of the | might. MANDAN TO BE BIG AFFAIR, the fire chief of Glendive was kind enough to demonstrate the fire truck which they have in that city. Glen- dive has a 750 g. p. m. American La France truck, and the chief informed me that it was four years old, and that outside of the cost of oil and gas-; oline there had been no expense what-| ever connected with it. The pressure! attained was capable of boring a hole} in a hard dirt road. purchase and putting into use of the! truck that the fire insurance rates inj the business district had been reducec 25 per cent and the rates in the resi-| dence district had been reduced 30 per} cent.” i dent said, and the executive branch owed it to the country “frankly to state the difficulties we daily are called upon to meet and the added peril this measure would bring.” “This menacing effort to expend bil- lions in gratuities will imperil our ability to discharge our first obliga- tion to those we must not fail to aid,” he said. World Depression Exists, “Our land has its share of the finan- cial chaos and industrial depression of the world,” the president said. “We little heeded the growth of indebted- ness or the limit of expenditure dur- ing the war because we could not stop to count the cost. Our one thought then was the winning of the war and the survival of the nation.” After a four-months survey of con- ditions “which would stagger all of us were it not for our abiding faith in America,” the president said he was “fully persuaded that three things were essential to restoration.” “These are,” he continued: sro Revision including reduction ef our Internal taxation, the refund- ing of our war debt and the ad- justment of our foreign loans.” It is vitally necessary to settle these problems before adding to our treas- ury any such burden as is contemplat- ed in the pending soldier bonus bill. Mr. Harding said it was “unthink- able to expect business revival whiie maintaining the excessive taxes of war” and “quite as unthinkable to re- duce the tax burden while committing the treasury to additional obligations ranging “from three to five billion dollars.” Says Debt Would Stagger. “The precise figures no one can give,” he said. “If it is conceivably true that only $200,000,000 will be drawn annually from the treasury in the few years immediately before us the bestowal is too inconveiveable to be of real value to the nation’s defenders; and if the exercise of the action should call for cash running into billions the depression in finance and industry would be so marked that vastly mor? harm than good would attend.” “No government fiat will pay our bills,” the president said. “The ex- changes of the world testify today to that erroneous theory.” Mr. Harding pointed out that the government now was. obliged to pay 63-4 per cent interest on short time loans that definite obligations of seven and one-half billions are to mature within two years following. LAFOLLETTEIS — VOTED THANKS Mexico City, July 12.—International | relations were discussed at a secret) session of the Mexican senate last| The meeting continued until) quite late and during the proceedings there was a vote of thanks to Unite States Senator LaFollette, of Wiscon-| sin, for having on July 6 introduced tary action against Mexico without ex-; press authority of Congress. A program of sports will be pre-| pared, with suitable prizes, a fine pro-| gram of speeches, a parade of the dif- ferent organized bod: which togeth- er with a big dance and other amuse- ments and attractions will make the day an enjoyable one for the families and friends of the union men and wo- men of both cities. An effort will be made to procure a special train to leave Bismarck at 10 A. M. and return at 12 P. M.. Mandan time, which will give the Bismarck people plenty of time to stay for the dance in the evening. The complete program of speeches and sports for the day will be pub- lished in the papers of both cities soon, and a large delegation is ex- . | club to the committee to make the day l-! a memorable one in the history of that city. pected from Wilton, Zap and other points where the United Mine Workers | many millions. “Overburdening of the treasury now means positive disaster in years immediately before us,” he said. “Mere prudence calls out in warning.” ' Trying to Reduce Cost. The executive branch, he said, was “driving toward that decreased ex- penditure which is tne most practica! assurance of diminished taxation.” “I can make you no definite prom- ise in figures today,” he said, “but I can pledge you a most conscientious drive to reduce government costs by It would be most dis- ouraging to those who are bending their energies to save millions to have Congress add burden to our burdens at the very beginning. “The president said that while tha United States participated “in none of the distributable awards of the war,” the world “owes heavily and will pay when restoration is wrought.” “If the restoration fails world bank- ruptcy attends,” he says. Mr. Harding said he would not urge recommitment of . the compensation bill to committee if it “bore the merest suggestion of neglect of a hint of na- tional ingratitude.” Some of Things Done, He recapitulated “some of the things which have been done for the veter- ans,” saying that more than 700,000 claims had been adjudicated by the war risk insurance bureau to July 7 at an expenditure. of $471,946,762. Nearly 900,000 applications for medical examination had been received, and less than 14,000 awaited medical ex- amination while on July 7, 26,237 dis- abled soldiers had been “hospitalized” in government hospitals which con- tained 6,000 unoccupied beds. In ad- dition, Mr. Harding said, more than $500,000,000 had been paid out in al- lotments and allowances and nearly are organized. (Continued on Page Six)