The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 10, 1921, Page 1

. Whe Weather FAIR FORTIETH YEAR BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, ’21 PRICE FIVE CENTS LIBRARY GROWS ANNUALREPORT TOBOARD SHOWS| Circulation of Library During Year Just Closed Reaches 16,803, it is Stated NEW CHILDREN’S ROOM Separate Room, is Planned For Them when Library Opens Again September 6 | The city Mbrary has just closed a successful year, a8 shown at the an- nual meeting of the library board. From a beginning og 1,212 books! taken over from the library room originally installed by the women of the city ina room adjoining the Com-| mercial Club rooms, the new Carnegie; building was opened to the public on January: 6,:1918. With books donated by patrons of the library during the first year in the new building, added to those already on hand, the circula-/ tion was 3,750 during the eight months | remaining of the library year. From| this small beginning, the library now; reports 4,700 books owned by the li-| brary and somé loaned by patrons for! the reference shelves. The circulation! this year was 16,803. i _ RUSSIA BEGINS RELE. THE RACINE PL mi AN IN PICTURES |REDUCTION OF 600,000,000 Rather Than Increase _ Taxes is Decision Revision of Taxation For More Equitable Distribution is Promised Washington, Aug. 10.—Repeal ‘of the excess profits tax and in- income surtaxes above 32 per cent effective as of last January 1, and of all. the freight and pas- senger transportation taxes as of next January 1 was agreed upon - today by Republicans of the house ways-and means committee, Chairman Fordney announced. The. commtittee majority ‘ agreed ‘to increase the normal in- come tax on corporations five per cent making a:total of 15 per cent. gested at the White House con- ference last night. A $2,000 ex- emption on corporation incomes was understood to have been re- tained. i H While agreeing to repeal all the | freight and passenger taxes, com- ~ DBCIDED UPON Government. to Cut Expenses} | MANY CHANGES PLANNED, instead of 12 1-2 per cent as sug- | With illegally trying, to give the con-| able‘ monthly, and each of them shall ; .W. H, Stutsman, attorney for the] commissioners.” complainant, alleging illegal abuse of] question the appearance as an attor-| } power is a colleague on the railroad] ney for a private litigant of Mr. Stuts- EVERYTHING IS TOPSY-TURVY IN CASE | INVOLVING PRINTING IN LOCAL COURT ‘Political Friends on Opposite Side of Scrap to Get Business — League Commission Tries to Give Business to Anti- | League Concern — Plaintiff Formerly Printed | League Newspaper Here Mr. Stutsman sold the Mandan News to BE. I. Conrad, head of the Quick Print, who sold out to the Nonpurtt- san League. All the lawyers but one are on the state pay-roll. Two attorneys from the attorney general’s office represent the commission, Mr. Stutsman is 4 i SUSTAINS COMMI ON. | Judge’ Berry ended the farce suit against the printing commis- ! sion today without leaving the bench when he sustained the print- | ing commission’s award on third | class printing to the Normanden Publishing company of Grand Forks. railroad commissioner.’ C. L. Young iy, appears for the Normanden Publish- Everything is topsy-turvy! ing company, defendant. Geo ix. A Jaw suit involving the state gov-| Foster, employed by the state, engag- ernment these days frequently draws} ed in a tilt with Mr. Stutsman, em- political supporters of opposite} ployed by the state. ; camps to opposite sides: Mr. Foster said he wanted to know ‘But im the printing case now being] if Mr. Stutsman had any interest in heard in district court everything “is} the Quick Print and Mr. Stutsman re- all mixed up.” torted it was “none of his business” ! The state -printing commission,| and ownership had no connection with dominated by Nonpartisans, seeks to| the case. : give the printing contract to probably The law of 1919, raising the salary of the most violent anti-Nonpartisan con-| railroad commissioners provides “the cern in the state, commissioners of railroads shall re- The printing commission is charged! ceive an annual salary of $3,000, pay- j tract to the Normanden Publishing} devote his entire time to the duties company. and work, of the board of railroad Mr. Foster did net! commission with Frank Milholland,| man. The railroad commission went president of the printing commission,| on vacation yesterday. EMPLOYMENT DIRECTOR H. G. PRESSER, HIS ASSISTANT, | Reference Room Enlarged. ; MISS NELLIE OLSON, AND A GROUP AWAITING JOBS AND RELIEF. In “order ‘to meet the rapidly growing patronage, the reference room| is being moved from the quarters as- signed it in the north end of the gén-! eral reading room to the east side of the children. This entire section will i tee “atic =! RACINE PLANIS ("FATALLY HRT room for patrons. The large reference| table, all shelf material, and the large collection of magazine material col-) lected since the opening of the buil/-| ing will be made more conveniently} available to’ patrons for research andj} study. Joining this reference room,| a file of the state papers and the New; York Times: is easily accessible in the: private office shelves north of the new| reference room. During the coming} year it is desired’ that several im-| portant reference works be added, inj order to make more useful the refer-! ence department for the public. | The change of location for the ref- erence department will enlarge the; floor space of the general reading room, where:the leading state papers, and five large dailies from outside the state are found. The reading room now has: about 112 weekly, monthly and, bi-monthly periodicals, ‘making probably the largest periodical group of any public city library in the state. Children to Have Separate Room. After three years of caring for the children and adults on the same floor, under the entire charge of but one! person, the board yesterday directed that. the children be given quarters on the lower floor where an entire room be given over to all children froin the second grade through the 8th. After passing from 8th grade, all patrons | will use the main library. This year, because of a temporary arrangement} permitting the 8th grade children to use the shelves of the main library: since the mid-year promotions in the! schools went into effect, the 8th{ grade A student will continue to use the. main library, as they enter high| scHodl?in ‘the middie of this year. All others ‘will use the young people's | room*on the lower floor. | This room, about to be prepared for) children’s use, has heretofore been used by the public as a community room. While the accommodation ten- dered the public during the past three years has been greatly appreciated and enjoyed, all residents of the city will be delighted to know that the children are to have their own room! at’ last,’‘under the charge of an as- sistant in the Mbrary. Here will be found the best equipment possible to give the children with means at hand; the hours will be the’same as those! of the main room, including the even- ing hours (the last named privilege} could not heretofore be granted the children, as the evening hours are} primarily the study hours for adults} at the library and the children could} not be accommodated during the eveu- ing. Week-End Story Hour. One of the delightful features of the children’s room will be that of a.week" end story hour for the first four grades. The librarian will conduct the story hour. R September 6 is the date set for the formal opening of the children’s room, The librarian, now on vacation, will INSET IS THOMAS M. KEARNEY, CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE ee FATHER OF THE RACINE PLAN FOR AIDING UN- ber of one.of the most prominent families in California, died yesterday | Bakersfield, Cal., Aug. 10—John D.| ' Spreckles, Jr., of San Francisco, mem- ESET | A | afternoon in‘a Jocal hospital following Bond Issue, Ration Cards andj an automobile accident near Taft, land $520,000,000 in government ex- mittee members decided to retain the tax on Pullman accommoda- tions and express shipments, Rep. Bachhart, of New Jersey. was understood to have proposed that the exemption on individual Incomes ‘be Increased $500 for both single and married mow or that the tax rates on incomes helow #5,000 be reduced irom 4 per cené to 3 per cent. Action was deier- Wasington, Aug. 10.—Reductions of | approximately. .$600,000,000 in taxes penditures this fiscal year were agreed and is a close friend of Thomas Hall, j another member of the commission. The Quick Print company, which ; seeks the contract by court action, un- til some weeks ago, printed the Non- much other Nonpartisan printing. J. E. Melton, manager of the Bia- marck branch of the concern, was em- U. S.-BRITISH ‘London, Aug. 10.—(By the Associat- ed Press.)—Negotiations between rep- partisan newspaper here and did) der and the contention of the print- ployed in a Nonpartisan state office] two printing companies and the state! before assuming his present job and| commission are involved. CONFAB IS orr ALLIES REFUSE The trial of the case, which opened; yesterday afternoon, may be finished today. Several witnesses were on the stand. It is the contention of the Quick Print company that it is low bid- ing commission that it is not equip- ped to do the work, which involves printing of state reports. Only the} TO TAKE SIDES ; Cal. All Satisfied Bratton en relat and Mellon and Republican leaders: of the By Norris Quinn Racine, Wis, aug 10—Up_ here} they’re naming cigars, streets and babies. after Thomas M. Kearney. Kearney, a Racine lawyer, is the fa- ‘ther of the Racine employment plan; --€.plan.. any... progressive. cikyfeaR emulate. i The fruits of the plan. have been: FEEDING the needy among 12,000} jobless men and their families. j ROTATING men in jobs .so_ that everyone is employed part of the time. STIMULATING municipab improve-; ment and private enterprise with a! view to making more jobs. Last year Racine, the biggest in- dustrial city in Wisconsin outside of! Milwaukee, was faced with a serious] problem. Bighty per cent of its working people were thrown out of their jobs. Some employes who had served 30 years were dismissed. Study Made A Committee of 15 citizens was form- ed to study the situation. Kearney! was chairman. Kearney and his as- sociates worked out the Racine plan and presented it to Mayor A. J. Lunt and the city council. The aldermen said the plan looked good but inquired mildly where the city could get money to put it through. Racine bankers answered ~ that question. They told the council they would take up a $150,000 city bond is-| sue, each bank taking a portion pro-| portionate to its size. So the city, council passed the bond issue, got the money and the Racine plan started operation. How Plan Works Here’s how it works: H Relief of needy cases is handled by the Central Association, formerly | a charitable organization. Families! in need of food apply to Miss Cath-; erine Mehder, director. Miss-Mehder, a trained social wurk-! er, makes a personal investigation. If the case is worthy, a ration card is given to the family. i Any tradesman in Racine will hon-| or these ration cards. | The cards are renewed from week to week. The butchers and grocers| are paid from ‘the fund created by) the bond issue. The task of finding jobs was turned over to H. G. Presser, head of a local employment agency. ‘ Now Presser is! the supreme employment dictator of Racine. He tells men where to go to work and tells them when to quit their pobs to make room for someone else. Presser systematically rotates i] | men 'ship’s brokers, here. house of representatives. SHEE Specific tax reductions on which it was certain agreement was reached! included: i | Repeal of the’ excess profits tax,| retroactive to last January 1, $450,- . ARE , KILLED nape of Hult ft the t al cae! | 4 = sone-} of the transpor- add tation | hy effective next January 1, a $130,000,000. = Rattle After Attempted Rob- “Repeal ofthe higher income sur- berry Results Fatally s taxes, retroactive to last January 1, $90,000,000. : | ae Repeal. of the fo-<alledl clothing lux. | Memphis, Tenn., Aug. 10—A tele- a Cgc this cut of! phone message from Collierville, a $720,000,000, it was agreed to increase | suburg of Memphis, shortly after noon | the income tax on corporations by stated one Memphis policeman was probably 2 1-2 per cent instead of five killed and three others were wounded per cent as heretofore proposed, ef-! by a posse of sheriff deputies which | fective as of last January 1, to yield) resentatives of American and British shipping interests.on the question of rates on Egyptian cotton have. been broken off, according to a dispatch to the Central News agency from Alex- andria, quoting an official source. ‘SMALL FINALLY: ARRESTED; ASKS VENUE CHANGE Illinois Governor Wants Case! fired on them by mistake for bandits | an additional $125,000,000. who earlier in the day shot and kill-| Decision was had it was said, to! ed two police officers and wounded] abandon all new taxes suggested to} another, after an unsuccessful attempt! the house committee last week by| to rob an employe of the Ford Motor | Secretary Mellon, including a license ¢ompany here of a bag. containing | on automobiles, a bank check stamp; $8,500. and an ‘increase of one cent in the} The men killed .were: first class postage rate. Polk Carraway, policeman and How- | Republicans of the ways and means ard L. Gamble, a special agent of the|committee are to meet tomorrow to Ford company; W. C. Harris, a po-|draft a new revenue bill on the basis liceman, was. wounded. of the’revisions agreed upon and lead- Taken Out of Sangamon County Springfield, [l., Aug. 10.—States At- torney Mortimer today proposed con- ditions under which he will agree to jgrant Governor Small a change of venue outside of Sangamon county for a trial on charges of embezzle- governor was arrested by: Sheriff Mes- ment of state funds for which the ngiand yesterday. ‘The experts inform- Gamble and E. McHenry, clerk, were confronted by- four men when they reached the entrance to the plant | and were ordered to hand over the bag. McHenry darted into the build- ing without releasing the satchel and was fired on. Gamble and the two policemen returned fire, and the bat- tle continued until Garhble and Car-d raway dropped. A posse took up the chase of the robbers in outlying districts, Memphis, Tenn., Aug. 10.—Two men, one a policemen; were killed and an- other was seriously wounded in an ex- change of shots with four masked men who attempted to rob an employe of the Ford Motor company of a bag con- taining $8,500 as he was entering the assembling plant of the compuny here | with the money shortly after 10 o’clock this morning. \ GRAIN TRADING. BILL PASSES Washington, Aug. 10—The Capper-| Tincher grain trading control bill! passed the senate in record time late! yesterday. It took less than two ers said it was hoped to have it ready S for a conference of house Republicans ter yesterday. next Monday.. Hope for its passage } were: by ne house on August 20 was eX-/ ‘phat the governor's counsel file a Preteen i petition for a change of venue and + confer with Mortimer in an effort to reach an agreement on some county acceptable to both the prosecution {and defense. That both sides agree to a speedy : _ Commissioners Meet. The county commissioners held their ; August meeting yesterday with Com- missioner Malone, of Regan, ab@nt. wee | teal, { Governor Small, after resisting ar- rest on indictments charging embez- jzlement and conspiracy, for three weeks on the plea of executive immun- lity or that “the king can do no | wrong,” as stated by his counsel, final- ly submitted to Sheriff Mester after | the latter had besieged the state cap- | itol with deputies for several hours. | Though the governor protested his larrest until the last, charging im- | munity, and asserting his innocence, ithe sheriff of Sangamon county was ; adamant and insisted on taking the {governor from the executive marion j to the court house where Adianam | Lincoln used to practice law, before | accepting the bail. The governor. | gave surety for $50,000 and went his | way to await trial on the charge of | defrauding the people of the state of i some $2,000,000 while state treasurer | through alleged failure to turn over ‘to the state the proper interest on SMILE WITH TOM SIMS The states attorney's propositions! embodying the complete frontier line give the greater part of her vacation} oy jobs. A man works one week, then days to preparing the room for the) another man takes the job. The next opening on September 6, and sh€| week the original man is put. back hours, most of which was devoted to| a speech by Senator Capper, Repub- lican, Kansas, and now goes to con- promises the board that the room| ggain. shall be as gay and homey and happy) time. as it is possible to make it under the trying finaftcial stress of the times. GUN IS PULLED ON'N. P. OFFICER Dickinson, N. 'D., Aug. 10.—When “George Nolan, special N. P. detective, was going over a train looking for a thief suspect, a transient whom he or- dered to submit to search, pulled a gun and ordered him to hold up his hands. Nolan, shielded by darkness, jumped to the top of cars on a track home: So everybody’s working part Married Men Preferred ‘Married men are given preference. The bigger a man’s family, the more days he’s allowed to work. Single men are given restaurant meal tick- ets every_week, entitling them to three ference. As it passed the house, the bill im-} posed a prohibitive tax upon puts and; callg and other speculative transat- tions and upon exchanges which he not become “contr: ment supervisipn. It also admitted co-operative associations to member- substantial meals daily for seven days. Here are some typical cards from Presser’s files, showing the type of men he has to deal with: si A Polish moulder, 30 years old. laid off at Christmas. Worked off and on at odd jobs since. Given part time work. An American janitor. Is buying Laid off at Christmas. Has adjoining. The train pulled out, but suffered pneumonia, influenza and Nolan notified’ Mandan authorities, | »ndergone operation. Given light work. and they arrested the transient de- scribed. Nolan identified him as the|cince May, 1920. He gave his name as} Underwent William ‘Cox and is being held for a} work. “guntoter.' hearing. Out of work in debt. light A Danish machinist. Ou Heavily operation. Given (Continued on page 4.) WEATHER REPORT. For twenty-four hours ending at noon, Aug. 10. Tenipergture at 7 A. M. 54 Highest yesterday .. 93 Lowest yesterday 64 Lowest last night 53 lone Precipitation 22-NW Highest wind velocity . ‘ Forecast, For North Dakota: Fair tonight day and in the southeast portion to day; cooler Thursday and in’ the southeast portion tonight. ” under govern-! ship on exchanges. i Short sentences. that speak volumes — these are the daily product of Tom Sims, who writes for The Tribune. “Smile a While” with Tom today. ‘Tom's words, like .60 many nimble servitors, trip about him at command. Here are some of Tom’s pert, perky punches.” J “When a girl tells a man she likes. to see him smoke a pipe he might as + well start’ looking for houses for rent.” Some men’s pet peeves are hard times and not being able to find a place to park their cars.” || was gored by a bull. state funds. WOMAN GORED BY ANGRY BULL Mrs. Elizabeth Kary, aged 60, is in critical condition in the Deaconess hospital in Mandan suffering from wounds sustained yesterday when she The horn of the animal penetrated her abdomen before her son drove the animal away. She lived on a farm about 18 miles west of Mandan. SCHAUER PITCHES WELL. Milwaukee, Aug. Schauer, Minneapolis pitcher, showed great form here yesterday. After | and Minneapolis got a big lead he pitched Richards’ AGAINST TURKS Adopt Neutrality in Fighting Between Greeks and Turks COL. HARVEY IN ACCORD American Ambassador Says That Action on Trading Sim- ilar to U. S. Views Paris, Aug. 10. (By the Associated Press).—The allied supreme council put the Silesian, now near a definite settlement, temporarily aside today while awaiting the experts’ reports. These experts are engaged in drawing the new boundary lines between Po- land and Germany in this area agreed upon in principle between France and ed the council that they expected to be ready to present their conclusions by 7 o’clock this evening. Thereupon the council decided that it meanwhile; would discuss, the Greeco-Turkish situation and Germany disarmament questions. In taking up the former subjects! the council decided unanimously to} adopt an attitude of strict neutrality in the Greeco-Turkish war without in- terfering with trading by private! firms with either of the belligerent countries. Ambassador Harvey said this decis- ion was in conformity with the pol-; icy of the United States, prevous to its | entering the World War and he con- curred in the council's findings. GIRL RENDERED UNCONSCIOUS BY FALL FROM AUTO Mary Ashlock, aged 5 years, daugh- SE OF"AMERICANS SIX AMERICANS RELBASED FROM. SOVIET PRISON First Americans Are Free In Conformity with Agree- ment for Food Relief NEGOTIATIONS ARE OPEN American Relief Director Meets Official of the Russian Soviet Government Riga, Letvia, Aug 10.—(By the Associated Press.—A guarantee that all Americans remaining in Russia will be given an oppor- tunity to leave that country if they desire was generally given by M. Litvinoff, Soviet represen- tative, at a conference held this afternoon with Walter L, Brown, European director of the Ameri- can rellef administration over the question of American relief for Russian famine sufferers, Riga, Letvia, Aug. 10.—(By the As- sociated Press.)—Soviet Russia has released six of the American prison- ers who have arrived at Narva, Es- thonia, but the fact that only this half-dozen of Americans were sent out of the country was said here today to threaten a long delay in and perhaps the abandonment of the negotiations for American famine relief for Russia. Preliminary negotiations between Director Brown and Mr. Litvinoff were opened this afternoon, notwith- standing the earlier indications that the two men would not meet, the American representative asking M. Litvinoff what the Saviet government's intentions were regarding the freeing of other Americans in Russia, The conferees were introduced by the Let- vian Premier. The prisoners released under the promise made by the Soviet. author- ities at the time help was accepted from American relief organizations for famine-suffering Russia reached Narva last night. Of the released men, Capt. Emmett Kilpatrick, of Uniontown, Alabama, was captured while on duty with Gen- eral Wrangel’s forces in South Rua- sla. William Flick ant~ Dr.” Weston D. Kstes, of: New York, are, moving pic- ture ‘photographers who’ went into Russia‘and were imprisoned last year. X. B. Kalmetiano, of Racine, Wis., has been a Rusgsian prisoner for nearly three years. Henry J. LaMarc is a New York man, and Russell Pattinger’s home !s in San Francisco. ' BRING AMERICANS OUT. Reval, Aug. 10.—(By the Associated Press.)—A special Bolshevist automo- bile carrying the six Americans re- leased from Russian prisons arrived here at 6 o'clock this morning when the American Red Cross will supply them with comfortable clothing to re- place their discarded Cossack unl- forms and other queer habiliments, This nondescript garb gave them a strangely foreign appearance so that they could not be recognized as Amer- icang as they rode in on the Bolshe- vist conveyance. All six were in fairly good health and appeared to be delighteioto).be freed. Most of them said they:were going to Riga, whence they expect to said for America as soon as possibic. None of them know the exact where- abouts of Royal C. Keeley, an Amer- ican engineer, other than that he was “running a factory somewhere for the Bolsheviks.” TALK RELIEF PLANS. Washington, Aug. 10.—Plans for American relief administration in Soviet Russia were discussed with President Harding today by Secretary Hoover. Secretary Hoover said relief work would hegin when American prison- ers confined in Petrograd-and Moscow were out of Moscow and when other prisoners confined in the interior had been released. ‘Transportation facilities were avail- able, he said, 80 Americans can get out of Russia quickly from Moscow, but those detained in ‘the less acces. sible regions might take a month to cross the border. Administration of the relief work in | Russia, Mr. Hoover said, would be en- ter of J. C. Ashlock, of Regan, Is in| a local hospital in critical condition, | tirely American in personnel. suffering from a fractured skull sus-| tained in a fall from: an automobile. ‘The accident happened last evening, between 5 and 6 o'clock. The little girl had been unconscious for hours, but was reported in a semi-conscious condition this afternoon by Dr. M. W. Roan, who is attending her. The little girl was with others in an automobile. It is believed a door flew open. She fell, striking her head on the running board. | SINKLER ASKS BOND FORFEITED BUILD BRIDGE Fargo, Aug. 10.—A_ delegation of Moorhead people and the Cass county North Dakota hoard of commissioners passed a resolution in joint session to- day asking permission of Congress to build half a million dollar bridge across the Red River between Fargo and Moorhead. —_—_@ Minot, N. D., Aug. 10.—F. R. Sink-|@- ler, attorney for H. B. Hanson, re- ceiver in charge of the Crystal Springs State bank at Crystal, N. D., has in- stituted a civil action seeking $10,000 10 — “‘Rube”| bond for George D. Richards, former cashier of the bank who was convicted sentenced for embezzlement, according an easy game. Minneapolis won, 12|to the plaintiff's petition in this ac- tion, aggregated $48,000. | RUTHGETSHIS | | 42nd HOMER al Cte New York, Aug. 10.— Ruth embezzlement. | made his 42nd.home run against Chicago, with one on in the third inning.