The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 20, 1921, Page 1

it THE BISMARCK TRIBU eaeanscsnerars seine adeaehenrad aanearscates carte E _ Last Edition FORTIETH YEAR BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1921 y PRICE FIVE CENTS a ‘ae OF SUCCESSFUL DEBT-LIFTING DRIVE \ | LElks Show How to Pay Your Debts and Have a Good Time Also in the Amusements Offered During the Two-Days’ Drive to | Thomas Marshall, Oakes Banker, | Well Known Throughout Finish Paying the Swimming Pool Debt State, Succumbs ! Gee! i never inewyon ould pay a debt and have fun at the same time!” ‘exclaimed a member of the Elks’ committee today. HAD OPPOSED McCUMBER That $2,000 debt on the swimming pool began to melt as the warm sun brought hundreds to the swimming pool and the ball games and the brisk evening | air put life into the street dance last] night. ‘The judges at the swimming pool carni- | val didn’t have as hard a job as the crowd, Which was the funniest stunt— L. H. Langley falling into the pool, | clothes and all. | Or W. A. MacDonald strolling in his rved as Member of House of; Representatives For | Eight Years | Fargo, Aug. 20.—Thomas Marshall, | of Oakes, N. D. former congressman from North Dakota, died early today at his summer home at Detroit, Minn., ecording to word received in Fargo. Heart disease caused death. Mr. Marshall was president of the| First National Bank at Oakes and was extensively interested in other banks and business interests of that section He served as member of the house; bright green bathing suit? There was no decision. The incongruity of the usually liberal Elks snag- ging every penny they could to help lift that debt brought smiles to many. : And the liberality of the Bismarck people brought smiles to the faces of the | Elks’ committee. ese Sere Leas i The conclusion of the two-days’ carnival is tonight and the Elks’ committee hopes that by the time of the finish most of the {$2,000 debt on the pool will have disap- , peared into the nebular regions. There of representatives from North Dakota} remained for the finish the big ball game for eight years, beginning in 1900.|between Fargo and Bismarck this after- In 1908 he was u candidate for United}noon and the local talent show at the States senator. being defeated in the|Rex theatre at 8 o’clock, at which 25 local SINKLER PAID KING OF SERBIA | FUBL PROBLEM kixeors FOR SERVICES OFNORTHWEST. -—2=<=2=* INSTATE PROBE IS DISCUSSED |” Minot Attorney Draws $1,197.39; F. W. Cathro of Bank of North From the Industrial Com- Dakota Urges Extension of mission Fund | State Development CAUSED POLITICAL FIGHT; NEED TO USE LIGINTE \ | “ Expenses of Bowen Murder Case’ Says Annual Over-charge To Amount to Several Thou- | Northwest Through Failure sand Dollars | is Huge Sum KE. R. Sinkler, Minot attorney, has; The fuel problem of the Northwest j ) for services ren-|is discussed by I, W. Cathro, director} te and house com-|general of the Bank of North Dakota, : mittee investigations last winter, thejin the August bulletin of the bank, | bills having been recently } Twojcarrying the monthly statement as of | hundred and fifty dollars of the amount! August 15, which was published yes-{ was advanced by the Bank of North |terday. | Dakota toe Mr. Sinkler, the Industrial! Declaring that North Dakota and ion having reimbursed the/other Northwestern states are paying | bank, according to records made pub- la huge and needless amount of money i lic in the offices of the state auditor |for coal because of failure to develop! and state treasurer. Another bill of! the lignite coal fields of North Dakota, | $977.39 was iillewed. \Mr. Cathro discussed the relation of} Considerable controversy arose over/the Bank of North Dakota and the! Belgrade, Aug. 20.—King Peter, who the question of the ‘cost of the inves-| gt; ‘ u i ‘S-|state government to the si jon. rec y, he . s ruler tigations conducted by the house and! Cs situation. j died recently, has served as ruler of KING PETER OF SERBIA. i i 1 * AMERICANS 10 RUSH FOOD 0 AID STARVING Agreement for Russian Famine- relief Work Signed by Soviet Representatives | i i | A FAR-REACHING PROGRAM Americans to Enjoy Diplomatic Rights and Have Free Hand in Relief Work _ Riga, Letvia, Aug. 20—(By Asso- clated Press.)—The agreement be- tween the United States and Russia providing for American relief for the famine-stricken districts of Russia was signed at 11:30 o'clock this morning by Walter Lyman Brown, Nuropean representative of the Amer- ican relief administration and Maxim Litvinoff, of the Russian famine com- mittee. Hope that the signing of the agree- ment would lead to further relations between Russia and America was ex- pressed in speeches made by M. Lit- ies until the case is decided. | pt for showers Tuesday or | case, this amount. being paid out of |its immense volume of field crops. The Republican primary. In 1896 he was artists will appear in various stunts and Blackie Reid and Kid Brown will box the a i Sach te i d resse yi defeated for the United States senate |three rounds with Frank Roberts as referee. In addition to these stunts a! the senate committees. Bills submit- inganteeattie coal fala one o ae ince 1903. His election to the} vinoff and M. Meirovitz, the Letvian i in the Republican legislative eaucus|Mack Sennet comedy and the Oliver Thomas picture are on the program. jted by John F, Sullivan and Francis! ing through the same pic th 1 aac | Alea followed the murder of King| premier. that chose U.S. Senator Porter J. Mc-! A parade from the Auditorium to the swimming pool preceded the water | Murphy, attorneys for the house com-| mills and elevators en gested infa Seok and he entered Belgrade} | Mr. ‘Brown confined his remarks to Cumber by’a margin of ‘one vote. sports this afternoon. Qualifying events| mittee, were attacked. ‘They were al-| the bulletin as a method of si iat lied lef x Just 44 years after he | formal words of thanks and the ex- —_—_—______— ' were held yesterday afternoon and the fin-| lowed in the house but have never! my, Cathro argues: oman: | jaa ‘ee mere with his father, why | pression of the hope that the agree- | als were on this afternoon at the pool. | been paid, the supreme court having on a a Bu oe. j had ben deposed as prince of Serbia.} ment would result in saving of lives. é A 3 ps 3 x “ a‘ Behe ‘2 shen 4 prevailing price of coal a} During the World War King Peter th y H Everything started off in great shape} held in the case of stenographers <f|ryq year’s supply costs th h took the field Ing Given Free Hand. | for the two-days carnival. The Elks’ band! the committee that there was not aul: | overt ie tiie conte the nowt west | ol he field at the head of his army,| Russia is, by the terms of the con- i enlivened the proceedings by playing} ficient authorization for their hire. nea bon dollars.. bag Sep. jon the side of} the allies, tract, made the beneficiary of a far- H downtown before the events of Friday af-| tember, before farm prices had reac! i In the early days, when his coun-| reaching program which includes not (heute . tember. Those who followed the parade | Payments on Ri ed anywhere near their lowest level, ; try was overrun with Teutons, he fled| only providing food for the people of a i Z to the pool had difficulty finding places} The closing of the in the) the Northwest National Bank Review! in an oxcart. the famine stricken Volga region but i : —---! $5 see, because an immense crowd, various. | stite capitol for the fiscal r, which jestimated the value of all field crops; In 1919, he returned to Belgrade in| the combating of epidemics. ‘The task ‘ly estimated at from 1,000 to 2,000, gathered around the fence to witness the ended June 30, shows man: payments !in Minnesota, North Dakota, South| falling health. ‘The affairs of state} of preventing the outbreak of conta- i | events. of bills out of appropriations for the | Dakota and Montana at a little over; and court were turned over to his| gious diseases among the fugitive 1 f ; | Langley in a “rube” make-up and Rudy Patzman dressed as a woman| Previous biennium. Among them are $1,000,000,000. It appears then that| son, Prince Alexander, and the king| thousands who have fled from their ; pelawned pele way, through the streets. Langley amused the crowd at the! payments of 0) to Karl Knox Gart:| 86 my aaah cea nat of wish we wis romaven to a quiet retreat near | homes is considered great. Cholera Fy ray -y;; Pool by his antics in the water. He ner, who assisted in the trial of the; obtain for all our field crops for coal ns, Greece. has appea: Question Whether Decision Will stepped to the edge of the diving board state railroad rate cas ‘one tinie|enough to run our plants and railroads{ ‘Late in 1920, he was brought back | there Ha foun Gletacia aeeeeE Come Before Levies For Next | and posed in his “rube” make-up but the land other payments making a total{and to supply our domestic needs. It| tO Belgrade an invalid, to meet his| epidemics such ‘as have in the past | pose didn’t last long, for he was pushed lof $1,432.51 paid to Mr. Gartner out|is entirely probable that the people| Wish tat he might die on his native | swept away victims and reached dis- Year Are Made into the water headlong while the crowd jof the attorney general's regularjof the northwest could have cut wood | Soil. & jtunt parts of the continent i q F ‘Yoared. He disappointed everybody, how- funds. Mr. Gartner appeared both inj enough out of their forests to supply’ .. He avoided society and kept aloof! Send Food Orders. eee eal Sega oth Dies decision ot overs by showing that despite the heavy [ajemerce and in Washington. Payment! themselves with fuel at a far less cost | rom all court and public functions. | It is understood orders have al- Judge Cole, in district court at Fargo.' While Patera he could come up for air. | of about $320 to nine clerks for workin labor and money outlay. It is cer-/ eres | ready gone to Hamburg, Danzig and i holding the 1921 limitation of tax evs Mapai ame Daraded the beach, ‘Mac | done in St. Paul in gathering evidence! tain that they could have mined out} New York directing that relief ships jen statute invalid, may reach the su-{prean pate ata damous resplendent : : lin the rate case. This case was alenough lignite from their tremendous | | he loaded with food and medicine for ’ preme court early in September. paar a es asked rye e sun ane suoyed the approbation off the | storm center in (the legislature, it be- | deposits at less than half the cost of | Rus Actual work in Russia may ‘Attorney General Lemke stated lor aeas ate (Continued on Page 3) taithaniaiee: au jane teptetig wore | the coal they bought. i ie bly commence in a little more day the state would join with the city | a Seco ee ee ins : Mercere ends ELON ZN ‘Ad + | an a week, : 2 i AOE | jtorney General Lemke and the Inde- vantages Cited Political and commercial supreme ehicta Upnoid the tase in | 96 WOUNDE {FORECAST SAYS ‘pendients charging that the money) “It appears then that in many ways will be outside the realm ot fegeltey that it probably would be taken up in FAIR WEATHER) would be paid out of regular funds. A} it would be of tremendous advantage ers duties and any violation of this if the first part of September. | | “Lemke fund” was raised for the case. to the engire nore if it could} i cialise st the agreement may be cause ¥ . : a | t oe aT ToLe . | Re aaa adopt the North Dakota idea of the! of expulsion from Russla.on proof. be- ion inquire to the possible: aay’ i Z are cpa aaa Pena _ | resources. It would be able to hold) ,, if 4 relief work. All Americans engaged ] tion ere ipa ede a a a 5 oes bts ae Moai ates ee ae | prosechtion jnmgdnted a A ouster for its own uses an amount of money | Correspondent Describes Situ-; int feeding. and caring for famine-suf- siring to refrain from making tax lev-| TENNESSEE MOB Missourt valleys—Generally fair | 956.31 for his firm -for services in the| Nore than half stat atraterbaa rh | __ ation as Very Critical } will euoped Slgmaulc: Fgts: $ ‘ j a j as , 1g oe) Aaa | Wednesday. ‘Temperatures near } Or somewhat below normal. i In stating he would seek to uphold the law Attorney General Lemke de-) , ‘s clared it made for much-needed econ-' Sheriff Shoots When More Than omy in expenditures of public money, 200 Men and Boys Cross | night between a guard of deputies | Canadians Plan to Ship in $600,-' ._/ and state troops and a crowd demand:/ . Auditors of State in Session ing « negro held in connection with| 000 Worth of Liquor : ;a criminal asault on a county school; pon Sees) | Here Ask Valuation Cuts teacher in which 26 persons were} Duluth, Aug. 20—A plot to smug-/ | wounded, six seriously. | gle more than $600,000 worth of liquor A general exchange of shots occur-jinto the United States by way of| red when members of the crowd com-, Rainey river and Baudette is being | BIGSMUGGLING — A general plea for the reduction of yaluations was made by county audi- tors from various parts of the state, r i i in session here with the board of, crossed a “dead-line” beyond wh ich | cording to word received at the United | equalization, The plea made was not) Sheriff Cate had given warning they) States ‘customs office here today. | limited to any particular section uf, should not pass, ; . Wapning has been sent to officials! the state. Twenty-two county auditors | —_————_—_——_ } were present, and after the state! | board of equalization had heard ans TAX REVISION by the auditors, Tax Commissioner! Wallace discussed various phases of tax laws with them. The state board! will be in session for several days. FUNDING BIL GETS FAVORABLE SENATE REPORT Washington, Aug. 20.—The_ admin- lalongiithe border to use every pre- ‘caution to prevent the carrying out of ithe alleged plot. The shipments, said | !to consist of five \carloads of beer, whiskey, alcohol and brandy is now at | ‘Rainey river, and is being guarded | + by several men. | | Owners of the liquor, it is said, | jmade no secret of the fact thee: it is | ‘intended for shipment into the Unite heduled To Get House Ap-'States. In fact when it was shipped | , {by the Canadian authorities the own- | proval Before End of Day ers are said to have stated that the/ Ev ICS jconsignment was presented: for de- Washington, -Aug. 20.—The repub-| portation. lican tax revision bill was to come to! —————— | istration’s allied debt funding bill was a vote today late in the house with its! | favorably reported to the senate to- passage by an overwhelming major- AGREEMENT ON { day by Chairman Penrose of the fi-' ity conceded. A number of addition-) BEER BILL Is | nance committee. Senator LaFollette,!ai amendments were approved today| | REACHED TODAY} Republican, Wisconsin, submitted a'by the ways and means committee | minority report. ae {which worked practically up to the! ‘An amendment requiring the fund- time the house met this afternoon.| Washington, Aug. 20 ing to be completed within five years Meanwhile the Democrats moved they| agreement on contested was added by the committee major-' would move to recommit the bill with! the anti-beer: bill wi ity. next January 1 of the income sur-' taken by Volstead for presentation to: FIND ABANDONED ‘taxes above 32 percent. | other ‘house couferen Both the! BABY IN BUSHES i . = | Stanley senate amendments designed | IN JAMESTOWN GREAT BRITAIN ; to protect homes from indiscrimin- | jate search for liquor and the house ; cS a i substitute were rejected, portions of} Jamestown, N. D., Aug. 20.—A ACCEPTS BID tach being retained in the compro-} baby girl was found in the bushes ae Pas mise which would require warrants| near a residence on North Eitth ave London, Aug. 20.—(By the Asso-' for search of homes but not for other | nue last night by a young couple who ciated Press)—Great Britain’s formal! property, including a bil were out walking. The baby was well acceptance of the official invitation of , Seer ene: sutoro. ce dressed and was .wrapped in a blue President Harding to participate in) K blanket. It was taken to Trinity hos- the convention on Far Eastern ques- | PIONEER OF pital. Physicians said they thought tions and disarmament in November, NAPOLEON DIES the baby was three or four months old. has been forwarded to the American Word was received at Napoleon from | There was no clue to indicate the par- government, it was announced today. | ‘Alfred McCalmont at Worden, Mont.,. i that his father, Robert A. McCalmont ; ssed away there and that the fun-| wol ents of the baby. pa: eral would be held on Friday after-| | ions of; is ; s reached today! instructions to the committee to el-! hy Senators Sterling, Nelson and Rep-| \iminate the provisions for repeal on| resentative Volstead. The report was, | | | FARMER TAKES HOLD OF LIVE the governor's special assistant attor- ney general fund. S. L. Nuchols, of Mandan, first employed by Attorney General Langer, was paid $807.97 out of the attorney general’s fund. Sea- man Smith, former sheriff of Golden Valley county, was paid a total ot; $661.54, it being understood he acted as an investigator in the case. One of the amounts, for expenses, was $37.77 shared with K. E, Rimbach. J Krause was paid $35.00 for work sr expenses in the case. The state treasurer’s hooks show a balance in the governor's special as- sistant attorney general fund at the end of the 710.50, which was pretty well ex: hausted by August 1 by payments t Simpson and others. The hooks sho’ posed of more than 200 men and boys’ engineered by Winnipeg shippers, ac-|_ palance in the attorney general’s,ants of the northwest, regular fund of June 30 of $5,304.30, which was reduced to $2,862.28 on August 1, It is not known if there are warrants outstanding. MOORS ATTACK SPANISH TROOPS Melilla, Aug. 20.—(By the Associat- ed Press.)—Spanish convoy and ad- vance posts have ben furiously at- tacked by the Moorish tribesmen, says a@ dispatch dated Thursday. The wloors were driven back by artillery | fire with great losses. ISSUES REQUISITION. Governor Frazier has honored & requisition for the return to Texas of GC. Pendergrass, held in Cass county, on a forgery charge. Fa aaa READ ’EM TO THE TOTS In every home where children play there’s always a happy half scal year, June 30, of $4,-} development of its coal resources, as; already shown, would greatly facilitate: the local manufacturing of farm pro-| ‘ducts, thus further diversifying its in- dustrial activity and conserving its’ agricultural resources. It has been jestimated that by handling and manu-! ‘facturing all its farm products, North! Dakota would receive about one-third} net more for such products than it has; jbeen getting. Ifa like advantage! jcould be gained by the localization| {of the manufacture of all farm pro-; ‘ducts in the northwest, there would ine a gain of approximately half a bil-! |lion dollars. And this does not in- clude what might be saved at the con- umer’s end. With an equal saving 0 consumers the 4,000,000 inhabit- presuming ! | that it requires $400 per year each for! | their maintenance, would have more} |than another half a billion,’ making; ‘one and a half billion dollars in all./ | “There will be a still further ad-| vantage, from the fact that greater ex- | penditures at home and less expendi-| ture outside would increase the a-| mount of liquid capital, and render the; ‘entire section less dependent upon; other financial centers. On the other | hand, no injury would be worked to; legitimate interests outside the north-; j; west. With its greater production of; wealth, the northwest would have | more to offer other sections in return; for the surplus products. With its; {more highly developed industrial and ; financial strength it would be better} able to negotiate its trade and its fin ancial relations with others; there! would be greater certainty and stabil \ity all around; and losses both for the! northwest and all those having in-; dustrial or financial relations with it would be minimized. In the matter: of credit jt would then be more a pro- cess of give and take—of mutual ac-' commodation—our surplus flowing out at certain times of the year and’ the surplus of other sections flowing | in at other times, than it is now, when’ the northwest is in a position of gen-; eral financial dependency upon the greater money centers. Need for Development “The need for the development of northwestern lignite in the interest of the industrial and business pros- | perity of the entire section ought to be obvious to everyone. There re- mains the practical question of how the development is to be brought about. There will be required a large initial expenditure of capital. How is this capital to be assembled? The North Dakota idea of state financing, ownership and operation of such en- terprises is even more disliked than the idea that a state should render it- self industrially and financially inde- {still exists. ;who refuse to support the Republi- , Would propose any bargain as to fu- | London, Aug. 20.—Dis Dublin to London ne flect pessimism over the Irish situa- {tion in view of latest developments. | Henry W. Nevison, war correspondent | a a and author, telegraphing the Daily! Herald says the situation is “undoubt-| edly very serious” and that he is “un-| able to see hope as brightly as some! do.” He admits, however, that hope! “If the truce be broken, war, in its| Solicitor Says it is Economically most terrible form, will sweep through | Ireland,” Mr, Nevison said. “Civil war| Better For Country will be added to national war and all from ture legislation. 8. S. McDonald, who has been i Quebec at the typographical conven- tion, was to go hefore the carmen with presidents of labor federations of four other states and urge the sale of bonds, Attorney General Lemke siid. POSTMASTER IS ALLBGED SHORT i Oriska, N. D., Aug. 20.—Albert Hol-' linshead, 60, a farmer living near this | town, was killed instantly when he} grasped a live wire in his barn yester- | day morning. Following a seyere el-| ectrical storm early Friday a son of} Mr. Hollinshead entered the barn to find, that\a wire had been torn from i noon. Mr. McCalmont came to Logan! i N ,county in 1887 and has made that his! WIRE: KILLED 4 jhome until a few years ago, when, fol-| Charleston, W. Va. Aug. 20.— A body of men said to number be- tween 300 and 400 assembled to- day at Marmet, east of here, for the purpose of marching into Mingo county where an industrial controversy has orevailed for more than a year and which is now witransformer in the building. The, under martial law, according to transformer was burning.. He call-; reports reaching Charleston this ed his father who picked up the wire.| afternoon. hour just before the sandman comes. . Then comes the time when little children beg for a story. pendent, to the extent possible, by the complete utilization of its own re- sources. Presumably the larger fin- ancial interests of the northwest, by lowing the death of his wife he went) to Montana to live with a son. He [res a veteran of the civil war, hav-! ing been wounded in the battle of ‘And you have no idea how ‘i ‘Antietam. Bf many thousands of children pooling their ettoris,, could develop The pall bearers were: John G.\ ff look forward to hearing of the these tremendous industrial resources Kroeber, Charles J. Hoof, Fred W. “Adventures of The Twins,” without the aid of either the state or | Hoof, Orren T. House, George A. Bry- the daily Bed-time story ap- national government. Such enter- lant and James H. Fitch. Mrs. Flor- i prises have been carried through pearing in The Tribune. You may start reading these clever little stories to your children today. purely as a means of private profit. Examples are not wanting of the for- mation of great corporations for sim- (Continued on Page 3) jence Fitch, Davenport, has charge’ of ithe music and decorations Rev. Kof- |fack of Wishek will have charge of| |the sermon. Deputy United States Marshal C. Scott visited Harmon, 12 miles north of Mandan, in Morton ' county, armed with a warrant for the arrest | of A, H. White, postmaster at that place, according to information re- ceived here. It will be charged that White is short about $3,100 in his ac-| counts as a result of a checking made of the postoffice. The postoffice was discontinued and the mail distributed !not convention. from Mandan several days ago when Washington, Aug. 20.—Abandonment can army will be driven the!of western farms now should not be The Dublin correspondent of the !¥ears ago in New England states, John Daily News says Prime-Minister Lloyd| ©. Benton, solicitor for various state ing the saber” in his address yester-; before the Interstate Commerce Com- day in the House of Commons. | mission in the hearing on rates on y fers had been able barely to live on i |the worked-out land by producing Hittle else when they left their farms |for the west, Mr. Benton said. If con- , ditions forced western farmers to a | try will suffer and there will be a loss Officials Comment on Report '° the railroads of a great volume of jditions in a large measure to high ee ‘freight rates. State < oMclalsiextressed smh in ot New England farms and those in Toronto, Canada, stating .that the | tle west was injected into the hearing Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, hold- | ing an international convention, had} taken up the advisability of support-| the agricultural products in the ter- investment of union funds in bonds; Population was not being done in this and that a committee was to come to|country at a “great waste of trans- return for the enactment of labor | Production of the waste involving even legislation. ‘as it does long transportation has thought perhaps the wrong idea had|omic standpoint. een gained from the convention. He; chased bonds had done so because of; the labor legislation previously enact-| EFFORT IN BIG his attempt to rob.the auditor of the Ryan hotel of the payrell re- this morning, a dapper gun-man ran through the hotel lobby, howl- patrons and escaped uninjured atter shots had been fired at him Iinta chapter of the American Society of Engineers met here last night to vention in Minot. Plans were laid ia motor Secretary \Drayer, of national on September 4 and 6 and also to en- tertain him here on Sept. 6. Engineers The Minot meetin? will be open to all engineers and arch- country or shot.” ;compared with abandonment a few George is being charged with “rattl-! railroad commissions, testified today eae grain and hay. New England farm- | practically everything they needed and ‘bare living basis, he added, the coun- traffic. He attributed present con- From, Toronto Convention The comparison of the abandonment terest in a telegraphic dispatch from} |by Commissioner Esch,- who asked ;whether the growing of the bulk of ing the state of North Dakota by the|Titories remote from the consuming North Dakota to promise support in| portation.” Mr. Benton said the vast Governor Frazier said that he|proven to be the best from an econ- said that many unions which had pur?/ BOLD ROBBERY ed, but he did not think the union! St. Paul, Aug. 20.—Failing in ceipts of $6,000 here at 8 o’clotk ed .over a porter, several of the by the hotel clerk. The state directors of the North Da- consider plans for the September con- headquarters, to and from Bismarck fnont this section will motor to the Mi- itects, the alleged shortage was discovered.