The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 19, 1921, Page 1

The Weather FAIR FORTIETH YEAR SLICK SYSTEM TQ BEAT AUDIT SAYS HORMEL “Cy” Thompson’s Peculations Have Been Going on Over Period of 10 Years MISSING CHECK CLUE Suspicion Aroused When $5,000 Item Fails to Show Up— TITLED BEAUTY’S TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1921 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE/=] BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, PRICE FIVE CENTS WAR | i | { I i <a i AVISIONARY BY ULSTER LEADERS | No Irish ‘Settlement Possible} Until He Alters Views, Is Their Idea CRAIG BACK IN BELFAST: | Not An Indication That Negoti-| | ations For Peace Are | San conservative. | FACTS FOR CITY TAXPAYERS | _. Only a few more days intervene before the people of Bismarck will express themselves upon a $30,000 bond issue for the pur- chase of a fire truck, for an addition to the pest house and for the purchase of an incinerator. The Tribune has been marshaling figures to show that now is no time to add to the public debt and that through the prac-! tice cf economy in the operation of the city, a fire truck can be; purchased out of the general funds and what repairs are neces- sary can be made at the pest house without recourse to a bond issues As for the incinerator there is no pressing demand at this| ime. While investigating the tax charges in Bismarck, the Tri-/ bune finds that some of its figures on the tax load have been too Records at the court house show that the school | budget is $125,940 as aganist $80,000 as originally quoted. This; takes in every item including interest. For all purposes exclusive of state and county taxes, the OWNERSHIP BY “U.S. OF SHIPS ~ PROVES COSTLY Astounding Deficit is Revealed in U. S. Shipping Board - Operations LASKER READY TO TALK Chairman Says That Astounding Discrepanciés Are Found Busy Checking Defaulter Broken, However — people of Bismarck pay annually $352,214.88. In addition to this} In The Books Se i eee ithe taxpayers of the Capital City must pay their share of the| Ie Ee A.W. Wright. counsel for Thom- Belfast, July 19.—(By the Associated|state and county taxes. County taxes aggregate $233,155 a! Washington, July 19—With the son, announced today that no ef- fort would be made for the pres- ent to obtain his cllent’s release on bail as he has learned the Prosecution would cause his re- arrest on new charges until his total bail reached $100,000. This amount, Mr. Wright said, could not be ralsed. | the members of his cabinet whu have tion. with the Irish peace conference | the negotiations, {t was declared to- | Press.)—The return to Belfast of Sirjyear, so it is apparent that Bismarck must raise more than $400,- James Craig, the Ulster premier, and| 000 a year in city, county and state taxes. been with him in London in connec-| increasing that amount they should vote No to all three propo- | must not be taken as a termination of | Sitions. day by Col. Spender, secretary of the} Bismarck citizens: If the people want to voice a protest next Tuesday against Here are the items which must be met solely by a levy against publication today of revised estimates of the shipping board's deflict tor the last fiscal year showing a totel of $380,000,000, approximately $280,000,- 000 more than previous estimates, Chairman Lasker, of the board, said he was prepared to appear before Congressional committees to explain the condition of the board’s finances pane sal i delegation, on its return. It is thought,/ $ and ask f ‘Avin, Mina Jay, tua [Indeed thatthe delesston wiltbere)| oat Pol eee se tty a Perea oh aad of account of R, J. omson, called to Mare est WOR | ee . if : re year. crea former comptroiler of George A. Eamonn DeValera is regarded by thc| Sewer and Water 16,870.84 seuluaior of the dora hese ne Hormel and Company, local pack- Ulster Unionists as a visionary and | Sidewalks ...... 3,641.93 operation of the government fleet ers,so far show a shortage of the feeling in Unionist circles here is! Cluster Lights .. 1,498.70 Chairman Lasker declared the books $470,000, it was announced today that no discussion among all the par- | School 125,940.00 of the shipping board were in “a de- by Jay C. Hormel, vice-president ties concerned in the Irish settlement egies AY plorable condition” and that they of the company. {will be possible until he considerably Special assessments 86,061.36 “could not have been kept in much Thomson, who has confessed to modifies his position. | ee different shape had they been kept ia ee gta! teaehe. conn Total ... $352,214.83 hee a view to cheating and decelving For State $ 65,286.00 ongress and the country.’ furnish $25,000 bail. The auditors have practically finished their work, Mr. Hormel sald. A complete statement de- tailing the manner in which Thomson worked will be announc- ed at a meeting of the correspond: ing banks of the Hormel compary to be held at Chicago tomorrow MRS. O'REILLY, PIONEER HERE, SUCCUMBS TODAY Necro orDERED For County +.» 283,155.00 Grand Total (City, County and State Tax load) .......--.. fe $650,655.83 “I know and want to explain,” the chairman added, “that Admiral ‘Ben- son (former chairman of the board) and auditor Treedale had not the re- motest thing to do with such gross misrepresentation.” Deception to Public In stating that an examination of the books showed that $380,000,000 morning. The shortages date back to - AWAY FROM CITY funds of the shipping board last year, January 1, 1916, the auditors Had Lived in Bismarck Since Mr. Lasker said that this “revealed found. The heaviest single item disclosed thus far is $15,000. 1884 — Death Due to UNTIL YEAR 1950 TN HAIL STORM Carl Smith, 56, negro, has a date an astounding case of absolute decep- tion to the country and congress.” “The president was astonished and Austin, Minn., July 19.—“He had the VISCOUNTESS UFFINGTON | Pneumonia In Bismarck In 1950. ae e : ; ! Bis) . a ayed that such a condition could . ondon, July 15 ‘ountess Uf-| daughter of the late Bradl artin, T elaihle tat ore him this afternoon but he wanted if See ee pea ea eer ae | to discern any visible means of | peer me to give the public the facts,” he Thus did Jay Hormel, vice presideni of the Hormel Packing Company, to- night answer the question which mys- tifies the city: “How did R. J. (Cy) Thomson, company comptroller, steal upwards of $150,000 from the company over a period of ten years, and avoid discovery so long?” The huge defalcation was accomp- lished by transferring receipts of the Hormel Packing company, which does a businegs of nearly $3,000,000 a month, to'the account of the Oakdale Farms, Thomson’s greatest agricultur- al enterprise. When the books of the packing company underwent their periodical audits by accountants, the amounts would be placed by Thomson among the assets of the corporation. It was an unbeatable system for years. Missing Check Brings Exposure. The shortage was discovered a week ago by Jay Hormel, when he failed to fington, beauty bride of the son of the late Earl of Craven, has just filed a petition in the divorce court here ask- ing for a decree for restitution of con- Jugal rights. This, in English courts, is the usual first step in application tor divorce. The father-in-law of the viscountess fell from his yacht recently off the Isle of Wight and was drowned. Her husband. inherits the tille and estates. The viscount had about everything that society and good luck can give, aman. He was handsome, and he had a good stack of American dollars, for PLANS PROGRAM | OF ATHLETICS — find a $5,000 check remitted to the company. Hormel traced the check to Thomson, who admitted his guilt, and ‘by the Interstate Commerce Commis-} New York capitalist. War came and the viscount enlisteG, joining up as a subattern ag soon as he reached the age of 17. He was.sent to Scotland for training. There he met the viscountess, whu was Mary Williamina George, daughter of the town clerk, of a Scottish village. They were married soon after. The bridegroom was sent to France for. active duty. Shortly before the armistice he was wounded so badly sthat,one-leg had to be amputated and his left arm was permanently crip- pled. LEMKE OPPOSES RAILROAD SUIT Argument on a motion to dismiss the suit brought in United States, district Mrs. ‘Bernard O'Reilly, one of Bis- | marck’s best known pioncer mothers, | passed away at 4:30 o'clock this morn- \ing in a local’ ‘hospital after an ill- | ness of but a week with pneumonia. |The news of Mrs. O'Reilly's death | came as a great shock to her host of friends in the city, Mrs. O'Reilly, whose maiden name | was Margaret Burbage, was 66 years { old, having been born June 12, 1865, in County, Leitrim, Ireland. She was married there in 1873 to Bernard: O'Reilly, and in 1884 the adventurious young couple came to America. Three | years after landing in the land of pro- mise they came on to Bismarck. | This was in 1884, when ‘Bismarck was | one of the frontier towns of the great | western territory, then being opened to a steadily increasing stream of set- tlers. Mrs, O’Reilly had made her home in ‘Bismarck since that time. During her long residence in Bis- CLAIMS ARMY obtaining three square meals a day the police charged him with vagrancy, “pl give you 30 days in jail,” said Police Magistrate Cashman. “You may pay the costs and Pit suspend the sentence if you will promise to stay away from Bis- marck until 1950.” Smith scratched his head, agreed and ashe left suid: “See you all in 1950.” State Hail Insurance Depart- ment Hears on Burleigh County Storm FREAKS OF THE STORM: The mails were burdened today with claims of hail losses from Sat- urday’s storm in Burleigh. Kidder, Stutsman and other counties. The | storm is believed to have been the most severe hail storm of the season. Approximately 10,000 hail losses have been reported to the state hail, insurance department thus far this OFFICER TOOK year. The number exceeds the num- ‘ber reported at this time last year i) 000 GRAFT by about 1,000. The percentage of 5 !loss claimed, however, is smaller, it is | stated at the department. Recent losses have been most sev- added. MANY FARMERS AND ROTARIANS 10 GO ON TRIP New Salem Dairy Tour To Be Big Event in Western” North Dakota Between 50 and 75 Burleigh qounty farmers and members of the Rotary club of Bismarck ‘will leave the city at 7 a. m. ;Wednesday for the tour of Mrs. Emma Bergdoll Tells U. S. ere in Burleigh, Dunn, McKenzie, Sheridan, Morton, Divide, Renville, the New Salem Holstein circuit with hundreds of other business men and farmers from western North Dakota. court to restrain the state railroad | : commission and state officials from in-| ee UIPaTT It ciate, Gonttoatiery wn | terfering with the railroad rates flxed| OReilly died July 6, 1916. (Stutsman and Kidder counties, ac- cording to (Martin Hagen, depart- ment manager. Losses from Burleigh The most losses reported from Bur- leigh county were from Menoken town- Committee She Paid This Amount Over 50 farmers had registered with the Rotary club today for transpor- tatton. The party leaves the Tribune and ‘Lahr Metor Sales corner, Four and Thayer streets, at 7 a. m. “came clean” with other embezzle- j sion will be heard in Fargo, Wednes-| marck Mrs. O'Reilly had been a de-| ments. . ,day, according to Attorney General j yot, emb f the Catholic chufch “Thomson fs, or was, I'll say, comp-| J- J. MacLeod, Boys Work Diree-| jenke who made the motion, He said yored my very active In St. Mary's at- troller of the company, promoted from tor, Has Plans For Fall and | dismissal was asked on the ground| fairs. She was known for her char- cashier,” said Hormel. “When he was # ; that an appeal was pending in the} itable and kind disposition. Funeral | ., DENIES CHARGES. furnish its cashier he had a comptroller who checked him. When he became comp- troller hedid his own checking. That's the whole story. But for our search for this $5,000 check, he might have continued his peculations for some time yet.” Thomson's nerve remains unbroken. “Expects No Prosecution. ‘An intensive pnogram of winter athletics for the boys of tne city is being planned by J Leod, boys’ welfare direct | MacLeod left today for Lake Geneva. | Wis. to attend boys’ work camp ane | ’ rts from there will go to Toronto, Can-} “Why, it’s all fixed up,” he told ada, where he will have charge of the | newspaper men. “I have turned over! advanced physical instruction work | more than enough to make good. The/ for the Canadian welfare insiructors. | settlement will be ample. I do not) Mr, MacLeod will return about Sep- | expect to be prosecuted.” tember 1 with his family. i Asked how he kept the shortages! the work thus tar done by Mr. Mac: | from accountants, Thomson first re-/jeoq has been somewhat in the na- | plied he had not taken any money) ture of a survey. He became acquaint: | prior to the last audit, which he said/ oq with most of the boys in the city was in November, but later admitted! through the summer camps and five shortages did not appear in the! other ways, is pleased with the pos books, when the accountants were} sibilities in Bismarck and especially | there. pleased with the assistance rendered | Thomson indicated he had put most! by some of the older boys of the city. | of the stolen money into his farms.| ‘Track athletics will be introduced | blooded stock and city property. He! in the grade schools with the opening | was unwilling to answer further ques-/ of school. Mr. MacLeod hopes to in- tions and referred interviewers to Jay| terest every hoy over 12 years of age Hormel, who accompanied him to Le-} jn healthful, clean, outdoor sport. roy, Saturday, and brought him back! soccer will be played when thé weath- to Austin today. Thompson went tO! er becomes too cold for track athle- | his home, where he refused to see|tics. Basketball leagues will be or- i callers. ganized in the winter and indoor track They rode in a $5,000 automobile-| meets conducted. Mr. MacLeod is a | which Thomson bought a week ago,| lover of bdseball and next spring he; and for which a garage is under cou-| hopes to have a score struction at his city home. lated that a Minneapolis automobiie} whtch will continue all summer. dealer brought down a handsome car,| Mr. MacLeod also would like to see similar to the one Thomson had, for| the high school gymnasium opened on another Austin man. Knowing Thom-| certain evenings during the winter son, he invited him for a ride. They| for the use of business men. went into the country, and the agent,; it is sald ran the car up to seventy| NUMEROUS CALLS mthat cat | FOR HARVESTERS “That car looks good to me,” said| Thomson. “Mine is too small. Have; another one like this down here to-| Nymerous calls for harvest hands morrow at 2 o'clock, and get your) were to be filled by lie state employ- money.” ment bureau today. About 40 calls The agent did. Mr. Hormel drove! were received yesterday, most of them the car today. 5 : | from McLean county. It is stated that Checking Thomson’s Assets. an effort is to he made to enlist far- Jay Hormel is the son of George) mers in drought-stricken districts in A. Hormel, president of the packing’ the army of harvesters needed in sec. company, and is devoting his entire|tiongs where the crops are good. The time to trying to learn whether Thom-| number of transients seeking jobs ap- | fail and! Winter Sports | U EXPLAINS STATUS of baseball | C880 White Sox, testified for the state! It is re-| teams among the boys of the city, | U. S. Supreme Court from the com- merce commission order. OF SOX PLAYERS IN BIG SERIES Chicago Club Officials Claim! Men Were Still Under i Contract BURNS TESTIFIES. Chicago, July 19.—71l] Burns, for- mer major league pitcher, took the | stand in the trial of the indicted White Sox today to tell his first hand story of the alleged conspiracy to throw the! 1919 world seri Burns was indicted as one of the conspirators but agreed to turn state’s evidence. William “Kid”! Chicago, Gleason, and Harry Grabiner, manager | and secretary, respectively, of the Chi- today in the baseball trial, telling of the contracts between. the indicted | players and the club. Their testimony | was designed to prove the prosecu- tion’s contention that the men were} | under contract to the club during the} | world’s series and not only during the| :regwar season as the defense con-| tends. Both men said the players were un- {der contract in the series and cross- | examination by the defense failed io} shake their testimony although they! | could not point out any clause in the; ‘contracts which were admitted as evi-; i specifically mentioning the! ' ; dence | world’s series. HOLDMANAS services will be held in the church in which Mrs. O'Reilly was so devo::d, St. Mary’s, Thursday morning at 9 o'clock, ‘Father Slag will officiate. . Mrs. O'Reilly leaves to mourn her loss three brothers, John and Barney Burbage, of Bismarck, and James, of Livona, N. 'D.; Peter Shier, of Linton; Mrs. Baker and Mrs. Marcella Hines, cf Bismarck; one daughter, Mrs. A. H. Barrett, 710 Avenue A, with whom she made her home, and four grandchild- ren, besides a wide circle of friends. RETAIL FOOD COSTS LOWER Decline of Three-Tenths of One Percent Shown Washington, July 19.—The retail cost »f food to the average family! declined three-tenths of one percent in June as compared with prices in |May while wholesale food prices declined “slightly less than one per- cent, according to statements today by the department of labor. Declines were noted in retail prices of sugar, plate beef, cheese, butter, rib-roast, bacon, canned salmon, fresh milk, bread, macaroni baked beans, canned, tomatoes, coffee and prunes. Among articles which increased in retail prices were potatoes, flour and ham. Wholesale prices of farm pro- ducts showed a decline of 3 1-2 per- cent. Wholesale fuel prices decreas: ed equally while declines in the wholesale prices of clothing and mis- cellaneous' commodities were less than 1 percent. TO RETURN EAST ON BOND SALE George M. Webb of the Bank of North kota, who has ben in charge of the | Little Rock, Ark, July 19—Major | Bruce Campbell, director of education | and formerly counsel for prisoners at/ Governor's Island, New York, denied today charges of Mrs. Emma G. Berg- doll before a house investigating com- mittee at Washington that he had ac- cepted money to help her son, Grover C. Bergdoll, to escape. Washington, July 19.—Mrs. Emm2 C. Bergdoll, of Philadelphia, today told a house committee investigating the ;escape of Grover C. Bergdoll, her | slacker son, that she gave $5,000 to Major Bruce Campbell, an army of- ificer at Governor's Islands for use {“among high officials at Washington” | to help obtain his freedom. Campbell, she said, demanded $100,000 but she refused. Mrs. Bergdoll said she took the |money to the island and handed it to ; Grover, hy whom it was turned over {to Campbell who, she said, told Grover {he handed the money to another offi- icer. Major Campbell recently told the committee he did not receive one dol- ilar from Bergdoll's. He had been} | summoned from Camp Pike to answer| the charges of Mrs. Bergdoll. Mrs. Bergdoll said she did not know} ‘the mame of the man mentioned by \Campbell as having received the money but asserted he “was an agent |of the government.” | “Campbell told me ne could not ac- |cept any money for himself.” said Mrs. Bergdoll, “but that he wanted the $100,000 for the higher-ups at Wash- | ington and New Yor! OFFLEY CASE ~—GOBS0 JURY Hettinger, N. D., July 19.—The fate lof D. R. Offley. charged with the mur- jder of M. K. Bowen, Golden Valley | county rancher, was expected to be | in the hands of the jury early this aft- ship. Many of the claims from this county were for 100 percent losses. Many peculiarities of the storm were reported by travelers in the eastern part of the county. An autoist noticed a heavy binder tipped over in a field on the Watkins place five miles east of Menoken, and a header was turned over on the farm of Oscar Boren, near McKenzie. The storm took the roof off of the Boren barn and iMr. Boren told the traveler that he could, find but one board that had not been splintered. The roof was caved-in and the barn twisted on Sam | \Hood’s farm near Francis postoffice. | At the Matson place a wheel blew off | the windmill and went through the roof of the barn, ‘Hail Breaks Windows At Charles McCormick's _ place, north and west of Menoken, hail broke in the windows, and while Mr. McCormck was holding a nobe against the windoor to keep the hallstones | out of the house, he was struck in the | jaw by a hailstone and painfully hurt. ; Six pigs were killed by hailstones on | this farm. | A number of small buildings were The Rotary club will share of the entertainment. A jaz* band will be taken on the trip. Bands from [Mandan and Ashley will help make the tour a success. The ‘Bismarck party expects to be in New Salem by 8a, m. (mountaia time) and to return to the city about 8 o'clock in the evening. The club will endeavor to pivvide transportation for any farmers who appear at 7 a. m. tomorrow who lave not previously signified their inten- tion of going. N.D, BANK MAKES $50,000 LOAN Amount of Registered Checks Shown $215,000 The monthly report of the Bank of {North Dakota, issued today, shows among other things that the bank has blown as far as a quarter of a mile by the wind. | Joseph McClusky, who was in the | city, reported that wind blew down | practically all buildings on his farm | but the house, and that the granary lk " of the | * was blown against the side house, crushing in the walls. Mr. Mc- | ‘Clusky's farm is four and a half miles 5 north of McKenzie. He lives in Mc-; Kenzie. Barn is Burned { Visitors to the city today also re- | ported that Agnew’s barn, in Menok- en township, was struck by lightning { and burned. wind moved his barn a quarter of a | mile. S. K. Hood said that he was | three of his 50 turkeys were killed by | 218,658.89. recently borrowed $50,000. Officials of the bank declined today to say where the money was borrowed, but it is understood to have been borrow- ed from a bank outside North Da- A. The statement shows registered checks amounted to $215,510.89 on une 15. Profits of the bank are listed as having increased $4,705 in the past month, Total footings of the bank are $11,- A decrease in public de- Elie Pais said that the ; Posits from $7,924,813.99 on June 15 to $7,673,173.92 on July 15 is shown. | the hail. i PROPERTY TO | BE REASSESSED IN MANY TOWNS OF U. §. DROP Washington, July 19—The total government expenditures during the fiscal year just ended dropped off by Reassessment of property in the ‘4 towns of Carrington, Grace City, Juan-| tine billon collars. as sombared. with ita, McHenry, Melville, Bordulac.| {154.709 ago in ordinary. dieburse. FARMER FINDS RELICS Prandord, Dundiae and, Barlow has! ments and a reduction of $7,846,009 CLAUS-NEUSSEN, Germany, July| been aw line ei Ca towns oe in payment on the public debr, 19-—While plowing, a farmer un-| George E. Wallace. All of the towns’ s-cording to the annual statement is- son’s assets are sufficient to cover his | pears to be smaller than usual. shortage. | oe While it is claimed he has property) WEATHER REPORT For twenty-four hours ending at) | state bond sale in the east, will return | ernoon. Following the introduction of | | to Chicago or New York in a few days | two witnesses each in rebuttal state | | to continue the work, he said last even-| and defense began long arguments, ing. Mr. Webb declined to say any-| followed by Judge Berry’s charge. worth close to $1,000,000, he has in-j S.D. July 19.—John | thing about the progress of the bond) debtedness of between $100,000 and: noon, July 19. | Sioux Falls, $200,000, it is claimed, for building ma-| Temperature at 7 a. m. .. 62 Blair, alias James Weston, taken in- | sale. terial, construction and other work | Highest yesterday . 821 to custody here ‘last Thursday, today | A total of $540,000 of bonds executed | The value of his famous herd of Hoi-! Lowest yesterday 57| was identified by postal authorities | by State Treasurer Steen was delivered steins is problematical, because of de-! Lowest last night 57| as the man who held up a mail truck |to the Industrial Commission last\covered a skeleton. He called the] re in Foster county. The tax com-; sieq today by the treasury. creased value of live stock. His other Precipitation .... . None} in Jefferson , March 1, and escap-! svening. All are real estate serie: | police. The police called a brigade of missioner said that the regseceement sea ES farm property also is affected by low-: Highest wind velocity. . .16-NW| ed with $36,5 He will be taken to,, Whether all of the bonds have been sv!d| university professors. They found| Wa ordered upon complaints that in-| Twenty miles north of Las Cruces. y er prices. aii | Forecast Jefferson City. for trial.. is not stated. ‘three more skeletons, and several| edlalities existed in the work of the x yf, is a mountain of Mme. “Thomson has mage big mesey from) For North Dakota: Fair tonight — —— —_— ‘swords and lances. The professors local assessor. E. K. Schaeffer, of Car- URED LO Cau The inner. ring of the planet Sa-| Game is pursued all year round|say it is the best collection of bronze The first tannery in America was rington, was named to do the reassess- | ing. his enterprise,” sald [established in Virginia in 1630. lormel, “but | and Wednesday; slightly warmer to- (Continued on page 2) night in the west portion. age relics in Europe. turn ha® @ thickness of 2000 milees. by the inhabitants of Kamchatka.