The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 15, 1921, Page 1

q HE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Last Edition FORTIETH YEAR ASK WCUMBER 10 SHOW HAND IN RECALL CAMPAIGN; PROPOSED NEW DATEFO Inependene Aenosbitag com- MOTHER paign Plans, Call on Senators and Congressmen BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 PRICE FIVE CENTS R ELECTION IS FRIDAY. OCT, 28 | OF YOUNG MURDERER HEARS | CONFESSION OF SLAYING REPEATED PETITIONS ARE RECEIVED) Harvey W. Church Tells Again Details of Slaying of Automobile If Checked So They May Be Of- ficially Filed Friday, Recall Will Be Oct. 28 The formal opening of the I. V. A. campaign is set for next Monday, it was announced at headquarters in Fargo. R. A. Nestos, beginning Mon- day, will deliver speeches every day during the week. Among the places at which he will spexk are Wahpeton, Lisbon, Oakes, Ellendale, Valley City.! J. F. T. O'Connor and Thomas Hall will go on the stump for Nestos, it is stated. The campaign committee in a statement declared that 337 pre-| cincts in the state had turned in re-| call petitions signed by more voters! than cast their ballots for J. F. T.j O'Connor, i Ask Definite Stand The committee in a statement, call- ed upon Senator McCumber and Con-} gressmen Sinclair, Burtness andi Young to take a stand for or againnst| the recall. In a statement the joint campaign committee said: “We call attention to the fact tha the present contest in this state is not a political fight in the ordinary sense of that term. It is not a contest for the possession of public office. Only three out of more than a dozen state; officials are involved.’ In this recall) election the people of \North Dakota will settle the question of whether or not such conduct on the part of pub- lic officials as the accused men are guilty of, shall be approved and the peoples’ conception of honesty and faithfulness in public service be/ measured by the same standard when dealing with the people states. thy superintendent of public. instruc- tion, Minnie J. Neilson, a fight be- tween civilization and Christianity on \thing to say. | Crimes Without i i Chicago, Sept. 15—-Harvey W ;Chureh, confessed slayer of Bernard Daugherty and Carl Asmus, automo- bile salesmen, ‘early today was brought face to face with his mother !tor the first time since his arrest and jin her presence in the state attorney's \cffice, repeated details of the crime. \Ho reverted largely to the fi ry his many confessions and indi officials declared, that he planned : executed the murders without a ance, Q ton complices, ither Clarence Wilde nor } alker, named by Church as ac- Mflicials said they had been convinced, had any part whatever in the crime and they also expressed doubt whether Leon Parks, 3 Church despite a detailed conte jon by Parks. Officials pointed out that Parks stoutly maintained his innocence until confronted ‘by Church who then supplied most. of the answers to questjons put to Parks by the investi- Church, who collapsed when informed of Chu first con several days ago, sat apparently un- moved today throughout her son's re- 0 Mr [citation of the details of the murder, At the close wf his story she shook her head when asked if she had any- Later she remarked: “T cannot understand why ‘Harvey GIRLS START the one hand and Socialism and athiesm, masquerading under the, guise of a ‘farmers’ program on thej other. y All Must Give Ald “In a contest that involves not only ; the fundamental principles of popular! government but of civilization itself, we believe it to be the duty of the/ citizens, of every profession and occu- | pation to actively take a stand ‘for’ or ‘against’ and noting that Dr. E. F.! Ladd, one of the members of the U. S.' senate frofi North Dakota has already | actively entered into the’ contest, we feel free to call upon the other mem- ‘bers of North Dakota's congressional representation namely, U. S. Senator P. J: McCumber, and 0. B. Burtness, Geo. M. Young, and J. H. Sincliar, members of congress to likewise pub- licly take a stand ‘for’ or ‘against’ on the issues involved in the recall elec- tion and thus help to get the facts to the voters so that the uncertainty that now prevails with reference in North| Dakota's political and economic fu-' spring on the outskirts of the village! ture may be determined by a substan- tial mapority and thus settled for, years to come. We ask the friends of! good gévenment to help us in this! campaign to the end that every citi- | Jewell Clipper, young daughter of | zen shall become personally interest-; ed and that every voter will go to the: polls on election day and calmly and intelligently cast a ballot that shall’ help to decide the fate of his or her state.” 1 Petitions said to bear over 74,000: names, asked for the recall of Gov- | ernor Lynn J. Frazier, Attorney Gener-} al Lemke and Commissioner of. Agri-/ culture and Labor John Hagan are on) file in the office of the secretary of} state today. The petitions are being checked by employes of the office, | and will not be recorded as officially | filed until this checking is completed. Secretary of State Thomas Hall ex-) pected that the checking would be, completed by Friday. | “If the work of checking is com- pleted the election will be called for| Friday October 28,” Mr. Hall said. It had been previously announced Independent headquarters in Fargo that the recall date would be November 1. The law requires the| secretary of state to call the election! not less than 40 no more ee 45 days al firing of the petitions. ater te ane oe date fnom Nov. 1 to Oct. 28, is made so as to give travel- ing men and school teachers a better! sopportunity to vote, an Independent; announeement ale mediately after gure received, O. B. Tewes, of the at-! torney-general’s office, made in- quity as to when he could put a force of stenographers to work copying the names. The Nonpartisans have an- nounced that they will publish the names of those signing the recall petitions in the various counties. at the petitions NCHER’S GIRL RANC O'S KIDNAPED Bisbee, Ariz. Sept. 15.—A band of Mexicans raided the home of Ralph Champion and kidnapped his daughter after she is said to have discovered them in the act of stealing cattle. WEATHER REPORT. For twenty-four hours ending at noon Sept. 15. Temperature at 7 A. M. Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday . + 49 48 J owest last night ‘here. Precipitation .... : -15| Mr. Gregg spent the latter part of Highest wind velocity .........12-NE|jast winter in Europe, visiting a num- Forecast, ‘ber of countries. His business is that For North Dakota: Mostly clear injof manufacturing cars for narrow sales are ex- rorth portion, showers in south por- SOUTHERN TOWN After Many Shots Are Exchanged Chattanooga, Tenn. Sept. 15.— miles east. of here, the scene late yes- terdayof'a race riot, was completely | deserted by its negro population to- day and no further truuble was anti- cipated. About three score. miners with their families were rounded up and the negro population fled when the trouble started, leaving their -sse-sions behind and declared their intention of never returning. The riot. was precipitated by the shooting of three white girls by a negro girl. Henry Clipper, negro, it was said, claimed ownership of a jand had purchased a shotgun with; which to keep others away. When Ednar Barnett, 12, and_ her two vounrer sisters went to the spring, Henry, fired at them, wounding all vee, took up the affair and a number of shots were’ exchanged without dam- age. even a sheriff’s posse from Chattanooga arrived they found all the negro cabins empty except that of the Clippers who were barricaded in- doors and surrounded by a mob of about 150 persons armed with all sorts of weapons. 1 own protection. Authorities are con- tinuing the investigation and arrest of a number of white men was expected. HARDING STEAMS TO WEST POINT New York, Sept. 15,—President Harding continued his yachting cruise today by coming from Southamption, L. I., where he played golf yesterday and going up the Hudson to West Point. MANUFACT William C. Gregg, of Hackensack, . J, manufacturer, traveler and writer, has been hunting cause for pessmism in North Dakota and is un- able to fined it. “You have this advantage over us in jthe east,” he said. “When our work- jmen are out they still must buy food | and pay rents bassed upon war-time itaxes, while your farmers raise musi of their own food, and though they may be hit by deflation they do not face the problems that we face in con- igested eastern centers.” | Mr. Gregg is returning east from a trip through Yellowstone park, during which he spent some time with Secre- tary Interior Fall and Governor E. He found evidences in North Dakota, he Davis of Idaho. of prosperity 54\said, and that theree did not appear 50/to be any need of wasting sympathy i ‘gauge railroads, and tion, tonight or Friday; somewhat cooler in the east portion tonight; frost in north portion tcnight. clusively in foreign countries. ; “Central {! Church, Uider member of both races; 2 negroes we-2) arrested and placed in jail for their] WHY WORRY HERE? ASKS EASTERN European countries are still cursed with war inflation,” he Salesmen—Police Now Believe He May Have Committed Any Assistance garage. There is a vacant lot next door where all the dead cats and dogs in the neighborhood are buried. Why didn’t he burry shim there? Then they never would have found him.” [ee the man (Carl Asmus) in the LODGED IN, CELLS Chicago Sept. 15.—Harvey W. Leon Parks and Clarence “Bud” Wilder, the trio held in connec- ard Daugherty and Carl Asmus au- tomobile salesmen were lodged in po- lice station cells today “to give them a taste of jail life.” gator for the states attorney’s office, said, after another night and half of; today had failed to unravel the mur- der mystery. night Church retold his story before the morning. Mr. Newmark declared { he believed neither Church nor his} mother had told all they know. | Investigators were still working on; a theory, that Mrs. Church may havej known of the murder before she drove, with-her son to Adams, Wisconsin, ; where he was arrested. | Grand jury action has been held up! temporarily until more definite details! of the killing can be obtained. i MRS. KABER GOES | | i Marysville, Ohio, Sept. sentence for the murder of her hus- band, Daniel Kaber, weat on a hunger! strike following discovery of an al-/ | leged plot to escape. i | Negro Population Deserts Village “HIGH JACKERS” GAIN NEW VICTIN | | i | Waldensridge, a little mining town 20|Laborer Reports to Police He; Lost $48 Another victim of freight train! “high jackers” appeared in Bismarck today. He is A. Van Ness, harvest laborer, who says he was robbed Sunday night fot $48 on a. freight train about a mile and a half this side of Jamestown. (He said he had notified a railroad {station agent, and he went to the jpolice station here to report his loss. Van Ness, a Hollander, said he was jon his way back to Oregon. He said tthat after he had been robbed’ by three men, who poked guns in his lribs, he was held up on the same train by some others, but his money was gone. According to word received by authorities here the two men who | were held at Valley City suspected of jbeing implicated in the robbery of eight men on a freight train near Medina Sunday night have been re- leased, authorities being unable to connect them with the crime. 'WILL CASE IS ARGUED BEFORE SUPREME COURT | The Richard H. Murphy will case, | involving an estate valued at $180,000, | was argued before the supreme court here, the case coming to the high eaten 31> court from Grand Forks county. The|, ATTEMPT AT BRIBERY | appellant is Mary B, Kelly, as execu-| San Francisco, Sept, 15-—-"One of | itr the girl witnesses in ;the Arbuckle rix of Anna Murphy, widow of the | deceased, who is contending against! jmumerous legates, many of whom llive in Wisconsin, S. Johnson, of \Grand Forks, represented — the lexecutrix. while Koen Minaha, of | iGreen Bay, Wis. appeared for the| {| respondents. URER ON VISIT IN CITY said, explaining that all were spend- ing more money than their revenues amounted to and making up the dif- ference by ussing paper or bonds.. The United States is doing this to some extent, he said, which would ultimately laid to the same, serious, situation. The two counties which are trying hardest to deflate to a pre-war basis nave the greatest unemployment, he said. They are England and the United States. The spending of so much; more money than is received by central European countries tends to keep values inflated and prevent non- employment, he said, but the bubble must burst sooner or later. In Austria, despite the desperate food situation, the government reported only 1,500 unemployed last February, he said. Mr. Gregg found German people rather hostile, but said that he under- stood that because of developments since that time the attitude of a coun- and sentiment was somewhat differ- ent. Mr. Gregg visited Governor Frazier and discussed the North Dakota political situation with numerous persons while here. tion with the double murder of Bern-! “They’ve had it too easy in the! hotel,” Bennie Newmark, chief investi-| ments are being competed today for | Grilled through much of another | in four charges agiinst Roscoe “lal- his mother during the early hours of; | Rappe’s home. Jaurag is t i were scheduled to return to the man-j | ON HUNGER STRIKE: slaughter true, bill voted by the ais {ty grand jury, the I of other 15,—-Mrs. | It is in the words of our. wor: | ' Eva Katherine Kaber, serving a lite! RAPPEFUNERAL WILL BE HELD ‘Motion Pictare Director Takes Charge of Alleged Victim of “Fatty” Arbuckle FOUR CHARGES PENDI | | | Arbuckle Faces Two of Murder and Two of Manslaughter by New ‘Actions Hl "Francisco, Sept. | threat of violence against Roscoe | Arbuckle “if justice is not done” | in his case was contained in’ an | anonymous special delivery. let. ter received from Sacremento 0- | day by Harry Kelly, secretary of ; the Kelly grand jury, The letter | Was turned over to the police. San 15—A San Francisco, Sept. 15.—Arrange- the funeral of Miss Virginia Rappe, | motion picture actress whose death in a sanitarium here last Friday resulted ty” Arbuckle, two of murder and two of manslanghter. i Herr Jaurag, motion picture direc- | tor of Los Angeles, is expected to ar-| rive today and take charge of the re-j mains to be taken to Hollywood, Miss acting at the| request of Henry Lehrinan, fiance of! Miss Rappe. The undertaking estallishment hav- ing the body announced that it would hé sent south today or tomorrow, Four, Charges Viled. Proceedings against Arbuckle today igning of the ease to one of the tiree criminal courts and.a conference between Dis-| trict Attorney Brady «nd police officials to determine the charge on which Ar- buckle ghall be tried. A telegram from Mavor L. C. Hodg-| son, of St. Paul, which thanked him for! hig announced intentions that he will | prosecute the case without fear or favor, was received by brady. Brady | replied that “in spite of Arbuckle’s money and influence the case will. be prosecuted most vigorously.” Fiance Asks Prosecution, Another telégram from Lehrman, who is in New York, to Brady also was made public, It said: “For the:sake of God and justice to men don’t let justice be cheated. It brought tears of rage to my eyes when I read your. speech that influence and | wealth are brought into play to har} justice. I eried because you told the truth in spite of the pressure of gold to stifle it. “You are convinced trom facts and I from knowing him that Arbuckle; killed Virginia Rappe as a result of! hig attack. “Now don’t let them cheat justice— for God’s sake don't.” Manslaughter Bill Voted | A county grand jury. indictment | charging Arbuckle with manslaughter was returned to Presiding Judge | Shortall of the supreior court today. The indictment was voted on the early morning of Sept. 15 Bail was} st at $5,000 cash or $10,090 bond and the case was assigned to the court of Superior Judge Harold Louderback in the Hall of Justice. F While the city authorities busied; thenselves with the case federal pro- hibition enforcement officials under | the direction of Robert McCormick, | assistant United Stated Attorney-Gen- | eral in charge of prohibition viola- | tions continued «un investigation of charges tHat a considerable quantity of liquor was served and consumed at tthe hotel party in Arbuckle’s rooms in which Miss Rappe is alleged to; have received her fatal injuries i case has admitted to me that she was) approached by a friend jf Arbuckle | with regard to her testimony,” Cap- tain of, Detectives Duncan Matheson ; declared today. ‘Matheson refused to say who the witness was or to give any further information. “To do so would endanger a pos- | | | | | | | | ! i ROSCOE: ARBUCKLE, NOW HELD F THE } D F - citer A D FOR THE MURDER OF VIR. Witnesses’ in Murder Probe. To Be Questioned About * Hollywood High Life By N. E. A, Service ‘Los Angeles, Sept. 15.—“High life,” | as it is lived by some members of the film colony here and in cther cities along . the coast, probably will be bared at the murder of-Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle, the screen comedian, under arrest in San Francisco. Arbuckle is held in connection with the death of Miss Virginia Rappe, movie actress, who died following a riotous’ party in Arbuckle’s rooms at a San Francisco hotel. i Possibility that other members of the film colonies may be drawn inio | the ArblcFle scandal as witnesses is: expected to bring about several hasty ! departures \from the coast: | Any companies planning to “shoot! pictures” on distant locations these{ days have no, difficulty in rounding} up volunteers. Many New-Rich Hollywood, the film colony near} Los Angeles, is. typical of the rest. | It abounds with those who have, prung into fame and wealth almost: overnight by means of the silver, sheet. Also it abounds with girls whose! visions of, fame haye burned out, | who are without resource and who! become easy prey to men of much; means. and low morals. | It is largely because of this type! of screen actor and the sycophants | who trail them that Hollywood and; other film colonies along the coast) have become widely known as places; where they “hit only the high spots Movies Boom City The movies “made” Los Angeles. When the film influx began ‘here a decade ago, Los Angeles had a popu-) lation of only a little more than) 300,000. Today it has jumped to near- ly 600,000 and is the tenth largest , city in the country and far above fhe average in wealth. z Yet the golden-handed movie men} always have found opposition among the Los Angeles old residents. : H When the mushroom movie mil- lioniares applied for cards at the old Los Angeles clubs, they were tuned; down. When the wealthy stars/tried to pry their way into Pasadena, the exclusive section in which are lo- cated the homes of many rich famil- | lies of secure social standing, they} found progress impossible. So the movie men built their own clubs and formed their own circle of ciety. They built their homes in another suburb, Hollywood, which is today almost an exclusive colony of movie people, and which is. as well, VIRGINIA RAPPE 10 KNOWN DEAD IN A BIG FIRE Philadelphia, -a., Sept. 15—Ten men are known to € been killed and more than a score injured in the second big fire to visit the Point. Breeze plant of the Aduntic Refining company in a month. sible arrest,” he explained. " Matheson said he favorel trying! Arbuckle for manslaughter instead of first degree murder WIFE TO AID “FATTY” New York, Sept. 15--Mrs, Roscoe Arbuckle, who was known profession- | ally as Minta ‘Durfee, left New York: today for San Francisco, to help her! husband if possible, although she has) been separated from him for five years, to “I am going to him because I think it is my duty to be near him,” she said. “I want to help him in every way I can. I don’t know just how 1 can be of service to him, but many things will turn up that I can do. “When we were married, [| was 17 and my.husband was 21, That was back in 1908. Five years ago we agreed 1 disagree and J received a separate maintenance. A\ reconcilia- tion? That depends on \whether 1) find that my place is with him and whether he finds that he is ready for a return, to the life we lived when ‘we were married. ‘that I am going to a friend who needs every bit of help he can get.” BAR ARBUCKLE FILMS. ; The Killdeer Commercial club and try having won a war had melted!management of the community audi-: soon. torium went on record us favoring the exclusion of Ri ckle films. Jazz music discovered by a dog with a can on its tail chasng a se- \cond-hand auto. ‘able to do so often playing for high All I know now is) if not better, known the world over than Los Angeles through the work of the film companies. Revels Figure in Suits Certain resorts and roadhouses and hotels within automobile distance of Hollywood became noted—or notori- ous. Revels, f the presence of girls, These revels have figured divorce suits, which have in Los Angeles and elsewhere— away as New York and Paris : Gambling, too, has run wild, those BOLSHBVIKISBE FRENCH PLOT Riga, Letyia, Sept. The Russian Bolshevik foreign offic: announced it as authoritative information that th nearly always marked by were numerous. in many- been tried ted a note to the Polisii government proposing Poland and Roumania seize the Russian famine a3 un opportunity 8) to press maximum demands on Russia and offering France's help. Se a YOUTHFUL JAIL BREAKERS PICK LOCK AND STEAL WAY OUT OF COUNTY JAIL and ward. ed. The two boys sometime ago broke into a grocery on the South side and also into a freight car. They were released on good behavior and “bummed” their way to Minneapolis. There they were p: dup and put in a detention home. They escaped from there and made their way back to Bismarck, where officers again picked them up. Arbuckle has had quite stakes. (Continued on page 2) so put them in the women’s Two boys 13 and 14 years of age They picked a lock and escap- escaped from the women’s ward of the county jail yesterday afternoon. They were still at large today, with officers expecting to find them | The boys, whose names are not made public, had been brought be- fore Judge Nuessle and were being {held for further action of the court. Deputy = sheriffs had not desired to confine the boys with men prisoners as far) French ambassador to Warsaw submit-! DBVALERA INSISTS REPRESENTATIVES MUST GO INTO CONFERENCE AS REPRESENTING REPUBLIC nnn nen IN HOLLYWOOD arevce TRIAL TO BARE MOVIE REVELS IN COURT | pi | Replies to Letter of Lloyd George | Accepting Invitation to i Conference :CONFAB SET FOR SEPT. 20 ‘President of “Irish Republic” Accepts Invitation Based Upon Portion of Note | Dublin, Sept. 15—-Eamonn DeValera, in his reply to mier Lloyd George, | accepts the invitation to the pnoposed | Inverness conference in. the terms of i the final paragraph of Mr.. Lloyd ; George's last letter but reaffirms Ire- jae independence as a sovereign state and declares that only as repre- i sentatives of such have the Irish ne- | gotiators any authority. | The text of (Mr, DeValera’s reply Ys: | “In this final note we deem it our ‘duty to reaffirm that our position is lana can only be, as we have defined \ jit through the correspondence, the ; Principle of government by the con- ; Sent ofthe governed must be the hasis of any agreement which will achieve a final reconciliation.” “We hope that these representa- j tives (the Sinn Fein negotiators) will ; find it possible to be at Inverness on |the date you suggest, Sept. 20. i “Our nation has formally declared its independence and recognizes that | state. Only as the representatives of | that state and as its chosen guardians have they authority or power to act on behalf of our people.” i | padi | LLOYD GEORGE REPLIES | London, Sept. 15—(By the Associ- tated Press.)—Premier Lloyd George ;has replied to the latest communica- jtion of Eamonn De Valera on the | question of an Irish settlement, it was announced late today. The reply, it | Was stated, will be given out at once. ! | RIOTING IS RENEWED | Belfast, Sept. 15—(By the Associ- j ated Press.)—Rioting was renewed in ; North Queen street area here, this , afternoon. Two women were wound- {ed. Troops were called out and soon {the whole district was swarming ‘with |. them, | ,The area which is about equally di- | vided between Loyalists and - Sinn Feiners was ‘affected .by the truce agreed to last week. (OUSTED, CHARGES BUREAU LAXITY Illinois Employe Assails Small Regime Springfield, 1., Sept. 15—Isadore Levin, chief examiner and secretary of the Illinois Civil Service Commi: ; Sion, was discharged by the commis- sion today after charges of “ineffic- iency, and uncontrollable temper and cruelty. to your child,” had been filed against him. Following the ‘ouster order . Levin said hc would demand a trial. He j made sensational charges against the ‘operation of the commission. under the Small regime in an alleged ex- pose of methods used during the past few months, t GAIN BENEFIT FROM RATE CUTS | Livestock Rates Affect Shippers i In State ' ‘The , reductions authorized by the Interstate Com- ;merce Commission apply to North ;Dakota in many instances, according |to information received by the local joffice of the Northern Pacific com- | pany. “We are publishing reduced emer- | gency rates, livestock, effective Septem- {ber 20 to our livestock tariffs. These jfates result in reduction of 20 per ;cent under present figures subject to |@ minimum rate of 50 cents per hun- | dredweight and are published in com- pliance with suggestion made by In- | terstate Commerce Commission in doc- | ket 2146 and will expire December i in livestock rates | 81, 1921. Similar reductions will be _ made under remaining tariffs effective | Sept. 21,” said W. Q. McDonald, North- ern Pacific agent. With reference to Bisinarck, Mr. Mc- Donald said, on business to South St, Paul it makes a reduction of one-half cent per hundred on hogs, other live- stock not being affected. It is also un- derstood that this does pot cover horses or mules in carleads. With reference to shipments to Chi- cago of livestock the reduction of 20 per cent will apply from Bismarck ‘nd all points at which the rate is higher than 50 cents per hundred. Portions of western North Dakota having a rate to South St. Paul high- er than 50 cents per nundredweight will gain a reduction. BAR SCHOONER FROM BIG RACE Halifax, N. S., Sept. 15—The Bos- ton schooner, Mayflower, was debar- red today as a contender for the In- ternational fishing schooner races by the trustees of the (Halifax Herald #rophy, won last year by the Glouces- ter schooner, ‘Esperanto.