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

FORTIETH YEAR PRICE FIVE CENTS TODAY FRAZIER AND NESTOS BOTH MAKE | PUBLIC VIEWS IN RECALL FIGHT rei INESTOS WOULD (ASSERTS RECALL NAME BODY 10 BALLOT RORCED STUDY MILLING BY POLITICIANS Recall Candidate For Governor!Governor Frazier Declares ‘Peo- Proposes Naming of a Com- ple Did Not Demand It mittee in Speech Today BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, ’21 OPENING GUNS OF CAMPAIGN FIRED TO HOLD UP GRAIN NATIONAL UNITY COUNCIL FORMED BOMBING RING [08% 70 coast FINANCE PLANS TO COMBAT THEKLU KLUX KLAN Jc (JNCQVERED: oF coup Hi UNTIL MERTING error otis Dect | ‘FIVE CAPTURED OF COUPLE HERE War on Secret Organization | Great Dynamiting Plant Found! From Phillips, Me, to P Ore, Is the objective of me and By Chicago Police After Arrests Are Made rs. Homer D, Tubbs, of Boston, lass, who passed through Bis- mares; en route on horseback to- day. Mrs. Tubbs fs in stage as Florian Wheeler, a musi cal comedy star. Her husband is a druggist in Boston and they \ have been on the road since June S. Grain Growers Inc. to De- cide Matter at Meeting to be Held in March, 1922 (By Roy Gibbons) Chicago, Sept. 19—Ku Klux Klan- jism is expected to be dealt its death blow by a new national mrganization ‘being perfected to fight racial ani- 2 mosity and religious bigotry and to GRAINS SALES UNAFFCTED; ae pare: two saddle horses ; and two pack ponies and carry a | police dog with them, Most of tho time they have camped out, but when the weather has been un- tavorable they have put up at ho- tels. ‘he couple make trom 20 to 25. miles a day and believe that it js the only way to see the country. KILLS KENMARE MANY ARE INVOLVED Promote comity and unity. | This organization is headed by Bd- A fs {ward F. Dunne, former mayor of Chi- j War Finance Revival’ Aids In; cago and governor of Illinois, and it will conduct a membership drive Solving Credit Problem, throughout every state in the union. | Dunne and his aids expect 1,000,000 ‘enlistments within a short time. | Its name is the National Unity Council—‘name that expresses ex-| yactly what this organization stands} for,” says Dunne. ! Attack on Kian ! \, | Operator of Bombing Shop Al- i leged to Confess He Sup- plied Labor Unions i i { | saa | (Special to The Tribune.) Chicago, Sept. 19.—Development of! the Farmers’ Finance Corporation, the financial subsidiary of toe U. S. Grain Growers, Inc., and the consummation of permanent contracts with selling i ! ! Chicago, Sept. 19.—Fourteen hund-! ived sticks of dyanmite three inches lin diameter and ten inches long and 100 sticks of TNT were seized today by police today following the capture i SAYS PROGRAM AT STAKE HITS THE ADMINISTRATION Administration, He Says, Will is ‘ fe Formation of the National Unity | * on lan that has air shop, ii / s U. S. Grain Gowers, Inc. in March.} heen steadily developing in the past | One of the prisoners "was wounded POLICEMAN IN i Administration” and Leaders fore People q | 1922, it was announced here today by! two months. 'by police who surrounded the shop President C..H. Gustafson and Secre-j tary Frank M. Myers. This policy has been adopted be- cause it apparently meets with the ap-| The principal charge against the| Klan is that while advertising itself} as the agency of 100 per cent Ameri-/ EDWARD F. DUNNE ‘for hours following a tip that it was{ {to be bombed. Richard Burke, 23, :the wounded man, was carrying the! Governor Lynn J. ifrazier, in bi F . , 8 first public statement on the election in which his recall is asked, declared | “Drunk with Power” | | (Special to The Tribune.) canism it has proved itself totally proval of the majority oi grain grow-! ~ ers of the middle west as represented | by officials of state farmers organi-| zations, sai these officers. “It does not} represent a change in pelicy so much! as it indicates a strict adherence to} our policy a a co-operative company, to follow the wishes oi the farmers} who aeady are or will become mem-; bers. Financial Plans Unnecessary. “Revival of the War Finance Cor-! poration with an agricultural relief amendment has made immediate ac- tion on the farmers financial plans unnecessary and will give time for a more thorough consideration of such plang and a formal expression of the; membership. | “Sales of grain for U. S. Grain) Growers members will not be affected by the fact that permanent contracts; with selling agencies are not to be; consummated at this time. Vice Pres- | ident J. M. Anderson, acting in the) capacity of chairman of our sales com-| mittee, already has handied more thin two million bushels of grain for U. S. Grain Growers ‘members on the St. Paul market under authority given dy, our executive committee. This ar-) rangement will be continued and sir- | jlar arrangements will soon be per-! fected at other termina: markets. | “The result of conferences | with farmer representatives in several states and an expression of the policy to hold these two matters in abeyance! for-further consideration and council; promises to clear away the apparent | misunderstandings which have existed. Organization work is now in progress jin Indiana, Illinois, Nebraska, Okla-, homa, Missouri, Kansas, Coloradv,| North Dakota and wi!l be commenced at once in Minnegota, Iowa and prob- ably. Ohio, Montana and Texas.” Chicago, Sept. 19. (By Associated | Press).—Development* of the Farm- ers Finance Corporation, financial | subsidiary of the U. S. Grain Growers Inc, and the consummation of per- manent contracts with selling agencies will be held in abeyance until the first convention of the growers in March, 1922, it was announced today. This policy has been adopted be- cause it apparently meets with the ap- proval of the majority of grain} growers of the middle west, says the! announcement. | sutit-adds “‘reyival of thé War Finance | Gorporation with an agriculture relief amendment has made immediate ac-| tion on the Farmers financial plans unnecessary and will give time for a more thorough cosideration of such | plans and formal expression of the membership.” ACTIONDELAYED | ~—ONU.S, JUDGE No Appointment To Be Made) Until After Election, Report Here Although Congress will be in ses- sion soon again, it is not expected that the name of a North Dakota man for federal judge will be sent to the Senate for confirmation by President Harding until after the recall elec- tion, according to information reach- ing political circles in Bismarck. | Just before Congress took a thirty-| day recess, a North Dakota man vis- ited Attorney-General Daugherty in/ Washington’ to discuss the appoint-| ment of another federal judge in this state. The Attorney-General told him that several candidates were be- ing considered for the position. Within the done until after the recall election. U. S. COST ON RHINE SHOWN Paris, Sept. 19—Statistics of the re- Parations committee show the cost of maintaining United States Forces of occupation in the Rhineland has been $278,067,010. Corn Brought In. The annual corn display of the First National bank has opened, with Ole and Gilbert Sather as tie first exhibi- tors. They have placed a half dozen - ears in the rack, raised on their farm northwest of Bismarck. One ear meas- ing the habiliments of the Klan have, last several days has, come information that nothing will be| un-American in its every aspect and action. The result has been that definite; steps of an official character have been taken in various cities and; states to so restrict the Klan as to; put it out of business. 4 “My information is that the Ku} Klux Klan is largely a commercial enterprise exploiting sectional and racial hatreds for its own enhance- ment,” says ex-Governor Dunne. “In the south, like its post-bellum; predecessor, it is autt-Negro; on the! Pacific coast, it is anti-Japanese; in many other places it is anti-Catholic, | anti-Jew, anti--foreign-born — anti- anything, in fact, which will appeal} to private prejudices and seem t+ af-| ford the person holding them a chance to do something outside the law against those toward whom he is prejudiced.” | Reply to Attacks i The Ku Klux’ Klan, however. has} not let these attacks pass by unno: ticed. In five years this organi: tion has grown from\34 charter mem- bers to a total variously estimated at| from 500,000 to $00,000. In the south it has attracted most attention, for there night riders wear- tarred and feathered, lashed at the) post and otherwise mistreated men! and women against whom their wrath | was directed:: os { In a recent issue of the Searchlight, | the official organ of the Klan, printed at ‘Atlanta, Ga., the national head- quarters, the founder and head of the organization, William J. Simmons, known as the emperor of the Klan, says: * “For the edification of thoso who do \not know allow me to say that the ‘Knights of the Ku Klux Klan has not‘yet started to work, and may not do so for at least one year. “We are merely organizing at the present time and we do not intend to start any definite activity until we have sufficiently organized to make sure of success.” jed by the Ku Klux Klan as not con- jing a feeling of brotherhood. he formerly taught, which is to be the ; ing buildings surrounded the bombers center of propaganda fior the order. j|and ordered them to surrender. In- The National Unity Council, on the | Stead Burke threw the bomb and the council is to be supported by volun-|the store, threw David Krenan, the ‘tary contributions. Following are its; owner and his family, from their beds aims: and broke windows for blocks around. To solidfy into one group all the; Micheal Hughes, chief of detectives, racial and religious elements challeng-| Caught Burke and the other four sur- rendered. Search of a house where the prisoners lived disclosed the bomb-making plant and explosives. Burke, who is believed dying told police he supplied bombs for several Tp make disclosures against the|!abor unions and also the men to Klan following proper investigation |throw them. Police said he made a and to bring such legal action against |detafled statement of bomb outrages it as may be deemed advisable. jundertaken for the shoe repairmen’s To promote universal cooperation | and janitors unions. throughout the country among mem-! Pete Hughes said the arrest would hers of all creeds and races by instill-;clear up scores of bomb explosions during the last six months and involve a number of union officials. stituting 100 per cent Americanism. To dissipate prejudices already formed against these elements by the Klan. “I have no sympathy for the Ku lux Klan,” Dunne said, “because, by; its very tenets it stirs up predjudice; IN FATTY CASE BEING SOUGHT very roots of our national life. Federal Officer Believes Inves- Name of the Klan “The name Ku Klux Klan was pick- tigation Will Uncover ed solely because it has been asso- clated in history with lynching, vio- lence and mob rule. “The Ku Klux Klan admits the pro- scription of millions of fellow citizens | because they happen to worship God in a different way as permitted un- der the constitution, or because their ancestors were born during recent years. without the borders. of the 7 United States. Smuggling Ring “Jews, ‘Catholics, Negroes, are plainly discriminated against by the} Ku Klux Klan, by barring them from) membership. “The black man is placed outside the pale of law. “America is for all people who be- come citizens and abide by our laws,” Dunne added. “America is for every person who honors and reveres Old Glory and who is willing to fight for it. 'FATTY’S WIFE IN FRISCO San Francisco, Sept. 19.—Federal indictment under the prohibition laws in connection with the party staged at the hotel St. Francis here by Roscoe C. Arbuckle will not be asked today as intended, Robert H. McCormack, special assistant to the United States Attorney-General announced. Charges of Profit ‘The charges are made that the or- dz: has made large sums for those on the inside through commissions paid for enlisting members and through the sale of the Klan’s regalia. It is said the Klan gave Simmons a DE VALERA ASKS A CONFERENCE WITH BRITISH | Willing to Meet Delegates With- out Prejudice, He Says London, Sept. 19.—(By the Associ-| ated Press.)—Eamonn De Valera tele-| | graphed to Premier Lloyd George to-) day asking whether Lloyd George’s letter of Sept. 7 was intended as “ai demand for surrender on our part Or; an invitation to a conference free on both. sides and without prejudice, should an agreement not be reached.! Mr. De Valera says that if the, latter is meant the Sinn Fein con-| firms its acceptance of the invitation | to a conference and its delegates are! ready to meet the British represent-' atives in the immediate future. LLOYD GEORGE ADAMENT, | London, Sept. 19.— Premier Lloyd! George in another message to Eamonn De Valera remained firm in refusing | to meet the Irish Republican delegates as representing an independent na- | tion. | iroom of a white woman, was taken| McCormack said he had decided on |delay ‘because he expected “startling new developments.” McCormack is conducting an ex- haustive investigation into the sources of the liquor supply alleged to have been consumed at the Ar- “Our fight will be carrted on to the very end, to maintain the civil, relig- ious and racial equity to which every loyal American is entitled, whether he be Negro, Jew, Catholic or the member of any other race or creed.” buckle party. FREEDOM OF TRADE | Belice that his investigation will lunearth a system of liquor smuggling IN GRAIN GRANTED | trom Mexico to Los Angeles and _—_—— |San Francisco was expressed by Mc- Sofia, Sept. 19.—Freedom of trade|Cormack. Examination of persons at in grain has been granted by the/Los Angeles who may be able to government, as the result of pressure/divulge information concerning the by the Reparation Commission. \party’s liquor is being continued. In return, the Allied military com-; mittee has relieved Bulgaria of her i embarrassing inability to maintain aj _ San Francisco, _ Sept. 19.—Mrs. respectable army under the treaty re- | Roscoe Arbuckle (Minta Durfee) ar- quirement for 12-year enlistments, by|tived in San Francisco today from agreeing to permit a certain number! New York to assist in the defense of of two-year volunteers tobe recruited. her actor husband, against murder LE A GUE PASSES [sat oy nie apne mee ON DISARMING Mrs. Arbuckle, while denying her- self to interviewers, gave out a state- ment in which she asked the people of San Francisco tobe “fair” with her husband and to give him a “square deal.” “I know and his friends know that Geneva, Sept. 1%—(By Associated jhe is innocent,” the statement sald. Press)—The final report of the League ; of Nations commission on disarma-| ment given out here today intimates that the Washington conference in| the commission’s view would be bet- | ter able than the league to deal with naval disarmament since this may! best be accomplished through com- mon agreement among the great pow- ers. j LYNCH NEGROIN | SOUTHERN TOWN) Greensboro, N. Sept. 19— | Ernest Daniels, a young negro! alleged to have been found in the; MRS. ARBUCKLE ARRIVE: Named Deputy Prosecutor. Charles C. Wattam, who recently joined the law firm of Fowler, Greea and Wattam in. Fargo, has been ap- pointed by the Cass county board of commissioners as assistant state’s at- torney. Mr. Green, onc of his part- ner, is state's attorney. The Big Dollar ; bomb when five approached the shop. | $25,000 home and also a qollege where; Forty detectives hidden in neighbor-: other hand, has no initiation fee. The | XPlosion tore the entire front out of; ‘Day Sales to be} vor. REVOLVER DUEL ; Charles Welling Held For Mur- | der of Julius Nielson, Two i Companions Held [HELD UP A POKER GAME! j —— H (Special To The Tribune) | Kenmare, Sept. 19.—Juluis A.| | Nielson, night police in Kenmare was | |shot and killed early yesterday morn-! j ing by Charles Welling, 25, transient who, with a companion, Harry Butler, 45, had held up a poker game and! were attempting to evade detention; |by_the offier. | Welling engaged in a revolver duel ‘with chief John Kinser following tae shooting ot Nielson and was wounded through the leg but escaped. iHe was found hiding in a barn on the Frank Hyatt farm five miles from! Kenmare at 7 a. m. yesterday by chief | Kinser, deputy sheriff Over Walstead and attorney Perry Clake and ap- peared before. Justice Evan Griffith yesterday on a charge of murder. He was held to the district court and was | taken to Minot early today by Sheriff A. H. Scafteld aud Chief of Police | Larry M. Byrne of Minot. | Harry Butler and John Munson who were with Welling when he shot Neil- son, also John Ward, transient, and JN. Longer, of Kenmare, were also jtaken to Minot. Butler is charged with robbery. Ward and Munson are held as witnesses and Longer is hel on a bobbery charge in connection ;with the stealing of an automobile several weeks ago. Officials believe {he was a party to the holdup of the poker game. Neilson is survived by a wife and | seven children. He homesteaded near Kenmare and had lived in this section for 20 years. | i i CONDITIONS TN "INDIA SERIOUS ~ REPORTS SHOW Rebels Found Difficult to Con-; | trol by British Troops Ce | London, Sept. 19. (By The Associ- |ated Press).—Official investigation of {conditions in India show the situation! is more serious than was at first ‘be-{ |Heved. Military forces sent into the; jtroubled district of the Malabar coast tare experiencing difficulty owing to the rebels and the nature of the coun- try. Formidable bands of rebels are jot : in the resolutions and in the constitu-; 4 acter and had not properly managed | onstration. | tday until October 28. Christine, N. D., Sept. i9.—“For the} purpose of intelligently carrying out the program and the platform promul- gated by the Devils Lake convention; representatives of Independent forces of North Dakota as embodied tional] amendments and initiated laws, | { shall first of all make the appoint-! ment of a non-political committec} made up of taxpayers who are thor- oughly familiar with the raising, mar- keting and selling of grain and who have the confidence of che farmers of! our state, and have them make a sur- vey of the mill and elevator situation! at Grand Forks and Drake, determin- ing for the Grand Forks plan the} proper amount needed for the com- pletion of the project, the amount re: | quired for working capital, the best method of creating a market for and seling the flour and to inake such rec- ommendations for the running of the! mill at Grand Forks as shall, make it less expensive and of the greatest} service to the farmers and taxpayers of the state,” said R. A. Nestos, recall! candidate for governor in a speech here today opening his pre-election campaign tour. Denounced Administration, Mr. Nestos said that for this com- mittee to honestly and intelligently} perform the functions he would as-| sign to it if elected governor, would! be an essential preliminary to the de- termination of the amount of bonds to be sold and “also in securing the money already invested.” Mr. Nestos, in his speech, denounced} the Nonpartisan league administration vigorously, declaring the administra- tion had been wholly poiitical in char- | i 1 the business affairs of the state. , “Drunk With Power” He talked about some men “wh) are drunk with power,” said it was a “bad form of government” and de- clared the recall was intended as the cure. In attacking the aciivities of the league administration he especially; scored its leaders for aileged deceit) of farmer followers in ‘ine state in that they led farmers to believe, he said, that it was necessary for them is good leaguers to pour money into the various organizations that were start- ed by the league leaders, such as the Consumers’ stores and newspapers. A Busy Campaign. Mr. Nestos will campaign during the week in southeastern North Da- kota, concluding with xn address at Valley City Saturday night at which Independent forces propose a big dem- 8. Johnson, candidate for attorney general, will be on the stump within a short time and J. A. Kitchen, can- cidate for commisioner of agriculture} and labor also will be ou: neary every Mr. Nestos while here cxpressed sat- isfaction over the prog:ess of the In- dependents. j scattered through the forest covered hills. Two thousand rebels are said to be massed in the Pandalur hills north- east of Calicut where an action is imminent and another band is en- deavoring to join these rebels. A Simla dispatch to Reuters Limited says that at a council of states held there it was declared that the lives and pro- perty of non-Moslems were unsafe ex- cept in the vicinity of garrisons and near railways. It was said the insur- gents controlled certain acres and that immediate reestablished of authority is impossible. RRR RRR RRR eee TRADING POST DAYS RECALLED BY neta "PLAN OF BIG DOLLAR DAY SALES|30 CHICKENS IN | Many people want to com? to Bismarck from great distances, and STROKEFATAL here today that the demand for the recall did not come from the people. “It came from the politicians seek- ing ozce and perhaps from the finan- cial interests,” he said. “No doubt they expected the publicity attending the circulation of petitions and a re- call. campaign would tend to block the sale of bonds and the carrying out of the industrial program.” Asked if there was any change in séntiment noticeable to him in the state the governor deciared his beliet that “the supporters of the industriai Program are more determined than ever to support the program and give it a fair trial, If it is blocked now the people would never know whether it would be a success or not because the opposition would not give it any- thing like a fair trial.” Doubts Nestos’ Statement. The governor, in answering a ques- tion as to his belief in the statement of R. A. Nestos, his opponent in the election to be held Octover 28, that the program would be tried gave an em- phatic “no.” “Not when it is so evident that the whole purpose of the recall election and the opposition program 4s to block the industrial program,” he said. “It would not get a fair trial any more than the government operation of rail- roads during war-time when the gov- ernment put im men tO operate the railroads who were opposed to federal control.” “Would the proposed constitutional amendments and initiated measures affect the ability of any administra- tion to carry out the program?” the governor was asked. “The proposed initiated measures. , would absolutely tend to make the program inoperative and defeat the very things the people of the state have been fighting for,” he said, and characterized the initiated measure proposing a rural credits board to make farm loans a “camouflage” in the at- tack on the Bank of North Dakota. “The administration will defend the record they have made in office and show the benefits that have come to the state by the iarrying out of the industrial program as {ar as possible,” the governor said, and also the vastly greatly amount of benefit that would have come to the state if it had not heen for the tactics of the opposition in fighting it by court action and blocking the sale of bonds. . Says Expense Burdensome. “If we had had the co-operation of the opposition the same as;we have had their opposition the whole pro- gram would have been carried out.” the governor continued, “and the peo- ple of the state would have been in a position to Judge whether or not it had heen a failure or a detriment. In ad- dition to upholding the industrial pro- gram we are going to show the record of the opposition and. the record of their leaders during the last session of the legislature. “The unfortunate pari of this recall campaign coming on at this time of financial depression low ptices for farm products and poor crops in some parts 10S. D. BISHOP: of the state is that there should be co- operation among all classes to get over and give assistance where need- ed, a general conservation of resources and the cutting down of expense in- Funeral Services for Bishop) steaa of stirring up natred and pre- O’Gorman Tuesday Sioux Falls, S. (D., Sept. 19—Funeral venting aid to those in need and in forcing the taxpayer to the expense of the election.” The governor said ine believed the arrangements for Right Rev. Thomas} cost of the election would average O'Gorman, Bishop of the astern] anout $2,500 for each county, or about South Dakota Diocese of the Roman} $195,900, not including any expense of Catholic church will be held Tnesday-| the campaign organizations. ‘Bishop O’Gorman. died Sunday night following a stroke of paralysis Tuesday. TWO HOURS, KILL OF “DEAD-EYE SIX” TROUBLE IN BELFAST from the Pittsboro jail and lynched. Belfast, Sept. 19—(By the Associ-: ated Press.)—The Vere street district was today placed under special curfew | regulations as a result of recent dis | turbances there: Persons found on! the streets of the district between the: no9n September 19. hours at 5:30 p. m. and 5:30 a. m. wil | Temperature at ie ee Sept. 19—Assurances Forecast Washington, interests” that “legitimate Russian ures exactly one foot long, is large and especially well filled. Other ears _ measure approximately the same Q&Jensth. ment and Far Eastern conference|ers tonight; | people by the state department. winds. —_—___—_—. Today’s Weather For twenty-four hours ending at - 60 be arrested, it was announced. ‘Highest yesterday . ul lonely prairie posts when neighbors LAS Tih Lowest yesterday . were far distant. U. S. TO GUARD ‘Lowest last night -.59| On the Dollar Days it is expected | Precipitation none | that hundreds of people from Jong RUSS INTERESTS: Highest wind velocity . 36 SB} distances will visit in Bismarck, take For North Dakota: Partly cloudy will be carefully guarded at the arma- | tonight and Tuesday; possibly show- cooler Tuesday and in have been conveyed to the Russian] west portion tonight; strong shifting held in Bismarck September 28 and 29 brings back to an old resident here Pictures of old trading post days in pioneer times, when settlers used to flock into Bismarck, then more of a trading post than:a village, to pur- chase provisions, swap stories of their doings and enjoy a real com- munity day before returning to their advantage of the special sales offer- ings and meet old friends whoia be! haps they have not seen in years, and spend a real neighborly day in feel that they cannot complete all their shopping in one day. By having the two days they are offered plenty of time to make all of thei: pur- chases and to visit and enjuy them- selves in the city. Dollar Day pennants were to be ready in a day or two. They will be | ‘the salés flag and will be seen in all cf the merchants windows. ‘Special decorations are being prepared by the merchants. The Dollar Day sales will open with the blast of whistles. The special advertisements giving: in detail the message of the Dollar Day will be ready soon, so that all people who -are coming to the city for the sales will be able to see in Thirty chickens in iwo hours. This is the record of six Bis- marek men, made sunday morn- ing. They got them in Morton county south of the Heart river. The hunting party was composed of Ed. Erbe, Elmer Adler, Jack Gurlling, A. C. Drysdale and Ray O’Brien, The bunch, know the “Dead- Eye Six,” also went out last week, but when they reo:ted the stories of their kill to their friends, they found many disbelieyers. So the “Dead-Eye Six” has had a pho- tograph taken of them and their 30 chickens—the limit—and prom- addition to profiting in their trading. The plan of having the Dollar Day sales on two days bas met with ta- ise to prove their prowess to their black and white just what opportun- friends. ities are offered. at Says Moral Issue Foolish. Referring to the quotation by the joint campaign committee of a state- ment purported to have been made by Minnie J. Nielson, state superintend- ent of public instruction, to the ef- fect that the battle is one between civilization and religion on the one hand and atheism on the other the governor said that such statement is “absolutely absurd and foolish.” “It is a well established fact that morals and christianity are of a high- er type in the rural districts than in the cities. I cannot uaderstand why anyone with average intelligence should make such a statement.” URGES PURCHASE OF BONDS Atlanta, Ga. Sept. 19—Carl D. Thompson of Chicago, special repre- sentative of the Industrial Commis- sion of North Dakota, today address- ed the seventeenth convention here of the Amalgamated ‘Association of Street and Blectric Railways Em- ployes of America, asking the asso- ciation to indorse the North Dakota (Continued on page 3)’ 2 7