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

FORTIETH YEAR BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, SE PTEMBER 20 PRICE FIVE CENTS CITY BUDGETS | FIXED FOR YEAR. AT $406,690.00 Annual Appropriation Ordinance For Fiscal Year is Intr duced in Meeting SALARY CUTS ARE MADE: Chief of Police Only Full Time Man Not Cut—No Action on Fire Truck The annual budget ordinance of the! city was introduced in the commis: | sion meeting last night by Finance | Commissioner John Larson. The or- dinance calls for appropriations of! $106,690.00 as compared to $116,3: 5A | ) EMPEROR OF THE INVISIBLE EMPIRE, on a year ago, The ordinance as it now stands ex- | ceeds the limit allowed by house bill No, 25, the tax limitation law passed | last winter by the legislature, in which it was provided no county or! political subdivision could raise more, money by taxation than the average! of the years 1918, 1919 and 1920. The! constitutionality of the law was ate} tacked in the district court at Fargo} and now is pending in the supreme! court. A decision upholding the con- / stitutionality of the law wuld neces-! sitate further cuts in this city and in the budgets of some of the other larg- er cities of the state. Salary Cuts Wiade Some salary decreases are made in the ordinance introduced in the com- mission last night which was intro- | duced after it had been considered by the whole commission. Salaries are cut as follows: City attorney, $1,800; to $1,200; city auditor, $1,800 to} $1,620; custodian of fire hall, $1,500 to $1,200; assistant custodian of fire hall,! REASSESSMENT OF CITIES IS | HEADS VETERANS OF ’98 HELD INVALID Judge Coffey Rules Against State: Tax Commissioner in Jamestown Case SIMILAR ACTION—MANDAN. ‘Judge Declares Law Giving Pow-| er to State Officer Interferes With Local Government Jamestown, N. conclusion , Wlectric ; county Htaking {ment di cympany to restrain the board of equalization from any action on the reassess- of the city of Jamestow D., Sent. 20,—At the | ¢ t of arguments in the in-} ; Junction case brought by the Western; n by} ict tax deputy Burgster, Judge WILLIAM JOSEPH SIMMONS, HEAD OF THE KU KLUX KLAN, IN CIVILIAN CLOTHES AND IN HIS REGALIA AS EMPEROR OF THE ORGANIZATION. DOUBLE PROBE OF KU KLUX Minot, N. D., Sept. 20.—Charles Welling, held at the county jail Lere, charged with muder in con- nection with the death of Julius A, Department of Justice And Congress To Investigate al DRINKING “HAND HEAT” LED HIM T0 SHOOTING POLICEMAN, MANSAYS county officials here. “Hand heat,” it was explained, is an al- coholic preparation ased for fuel in small Stoves, /Coffee of the district court announced :his decision continuing the injunction. | Oscar E. Carlstrom of Aledo, 11. has been elected commander-in-chie of the United Spanish War Veterans at the Minneapolis convention. He was formerly department commander MINERS ASKED — “10 FIGHT CUTS IN WAGE SCALE President Lewis Tells Mine Workers to Resist Attempt At Decreases | { ‘ROW WITH HOWATT IS UP j Lewis Asks Backing in Action of Board Against Kansas Miners Head Indianapolis, Ind Sept. 20—No | wage reduction of coal miners must \be permitted and all resources of the miners union must be made available to back up the policy in opposition to wage cuts, John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of ‘Amer- ‘a, declared here today in his report made at the opening of the bennial convention of the international union. The injunction having been made | permanent no further action will be | taken unless there is an appeal to the ‘supreme court and in case there is jnot, the entire case of the pretended | ;Veassessment of the city will hdve a | hearing on its merits probably not un- | ‘til the December term of court. | The Judge announced that he would jcontinue the restraining order on! {several grounds, one ‘based on the -be- | jliet that the law is unconstitutional | H iof the Spanish War Illinois, He is 42 and a lawyer. PROBE STARTED INTO COSTS OF HOUSE ‘EXTRAS’ Industrial. Commission Orders Joint Investigation by As- sociation and Auditor ias it interferes with local self-govern- | ment. Another.reason is based on the fact that the title to the law creating the} tax commissioner is defective. ‘It is| |stated that this view has been taken; ; by Judge Robinson and a_ further ground on which the law is believed ito be unconstitutional is that in the! |matter of assessment and eqalization {the law is no notice to taxpayers and |no provision for due process of law; OWNERS MUST PAY COST Veterans of Invisible Empire $1,500 to $1,200; street commissioner, | H $1,800 to $1,500. The salary of the! Wo Sou cee aM ERTS | city treasurer, $480 per year, fire chief) Washington, Sept. 20.—Federal au-| of $660 per year, and that of the chief | thori es are going to fire two shots! of police, $2,400 per year, were not, into the whiterobed ranks of the Ku! cut. i Klux K The wrdinance as introduced fol-j Site ud Pas , 1 The f probably, will be a thor-) lows: BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of | ough investigation of the order by City Commissioners of the City of! the department of Justice. Bismarck, IN. D.: ha ene ; Acca he eanet \ ‘That there are hereby. appropriated |_ The second will be a Congressional | the following sums of money for the | !0uUr William Joseph Simmons, known (Continued on, Page 8) SR a Taran eal as emperor of the Invisible Empire, jmay be summoned from his head-! jquarters, at Atlanta, to Washington | VALUES CUT. to present his case, pieces ‘Heads of the American Federation of Labor are warning their thousands State Board Corrects Action’; adherents to steeer clear, of the | he Postoftice department is scek- jing to determine whether the Klan has {Klan Based on Erroneous {elon Figures iviolated postal regulations. i | | | i 500,000 Members ! The Klan claims a total member- ———— 'ship of 500,000 and says it is calling ; The state board of equalization, after | 1000 fresh recruits to the colors every! hearing protests of city officials of Mi- | week. | not, reduced the valuation on struc-| Its officers it is a fraternal | tures used for business purposes in! pati based on the Ward county to the figure at which| tradition of the Ku Klux Klan which they were sent to the state Moard by itlourished in the south during the; the Ward county board of equalization.! reconstruction period following the} This valuation js $2,636,039 as com-j Civil War. ! pared to $2,750,717 last year. | They say it is dedicated to loyal! It was stated by Governor Frazier) Americanism, white supremacy and Nielsen, Kenmare policeman, who died after a pistol fignt with Well- ing, declared here \cday he did not remember anything that oc- curred in Kenmare except the pis- tol fight. “Thad been drinking ‘hand heat’ and I guess it-put me out of my head,” he is Said to have told Welling was arrested by Chief of Police John Ki mare, who was f him in the leg before he would surrender. A man who gave his name as Harry Butler was also arrested charged with robbing a poker game and is said to have been in company wilh Welling. DAIRY CIRGUIT SALE PLANNED ORGANIZATION OF UNEMPLOYED IS BROKEN UP | New York, Sept. 20-—-Urbain Le- doux, whose attompt to sell the ser- j vices of unemployed at tuction last | Might wasiblocked by police, today i distributed meal tickets to 40 hungry arck | followers and announced he would "armers in Vicinity of Bi Meet Business Men and Dairy Experts FLASHER RECORD © GIV I {to hold his auction. ‘He also distrib- j uted” newspapers containing account of police: activites yesterday to throngs of jobless men. ‘Ledoux. claimed he had dispersed large numbers of unemployed. \Ledoux declared that by feeding the jobless he believed he was keop- mers at Meeting Informed; ie them from becoming violent. FEAR BALLOONS How Farmers of Holstein Circuit Keep Records { = ation of a dairy circuit in| Organizi ;march to Bryant park and again try | and Treasurer Steen, members of the board, that an error #2. been made last year by the county auditor of Ward county in returning figures to the state board, his vaiuation being placed, at $4,999,512. This figure wad: later corrected in the tax commission the protection of American Woman-| purjeigh county in the vicinity of Bis-| hood. {marek was disc ay ata | But the opponents of the Klan ‘de, mate was discussed today at a meet- ing of farmers and wives of farmers CARRIED 70 SEA iguaranteed to everyone as a constitu- {tional right. The reassessment was ordered by |George E. Wallace, state tax com- missioner. He also ordered the re- lassessment of Mandan, Oakes, Drake ‘and other cities and towns. A deci- sion ‘by the supreme court in the Jamestown case would affect the re- assessment in these other places. The reassessment was ordered on the ground that the assessment re- |turned by county authorities was too ‘low and therefore was discriminatory against other property in the county. | Charles Crum, who represented the ‘state tax commissioner in the matter, said later the case would be appealed to the supreme court. BRIBERY CHARGE IN “FATTY” CASE IS PASSED OVER Grand Jury Investigating Al-| leged Tampering Continues Its Probe AUTOPSY WAS ILLEGAL?; San Francisco, Sept. 20.—After hear- ing testimony concerning alleged tam- | of the Industrial Comi State to Insist on Payment of Actual Cost Said to be 25 Per Cent More than Estimate Te cost of “extras” in houses built in Bismarck and other cities by the state home-builders a jon will be checked, it was stated following a meeting. of the Industrial Commission here. All changes in original plans made by the association ate to be gone over by J. B, Adams, manager of the association; and- an auditor of the Equitable Audit Sociely. Contracts with individuals for whom houses were built will not be made by the association until this checking is completed. It was expecied that costs would be arrived at several weeks ago and the contracts signéd. There was some delay occasioned by differences between the figures of Lie office fore? of the association and ue auditor of the Equitable Audit society, which was employed to put the accounts of the homebuilders association in shape and to install a system a considerable time after the association had beep in oper- socia | | ation. It also is stated by the members ion that ald persons for whom hou were buiii will be required to pay the actual cost of building of the homes. It had been reported that contracts would be sign- ed at the estimated co It was stated clare that it is an anti-Negro, anti-j Catholic, anti-Jewish, anti-alien body | and that it plans by insidious propa- ganda to stir up racial and religious with the agricultural committee of the Commercial club and representatives Five Entrants in International { Race Heard From sometime ago by the manager of the association that the erage cost of the house would be pro ly 25 per cent higher than the original esti- pering with prosecution witnesses and of an autopsy on the body of Miss | Virginia Rappe, which is declared t6; i | i offices but the incorrect figure was in the tables before the voard of equali- zation when it took action at its re- cent meetings, and resulted_in a fig- ure being adopted whici was said to z ) be about 50 per cent higher than the! Williams J. Burns, chief of the Bu-; actual value of last ycur. \veau of Investigation, Department of | _ ONCONFERENCE ‘do so as soon as he is authorized by Attorney General Daugherty. Has De Valera Broken Relations or Preserved Status? hatred and internal strife. | It is upon these charg feral action will be based. , Burns Ready to Act ' Daugherty is not now in Washing-| ton. Burns says it is probable he will order a probe immediately upon | i ! |his return. Representative Peter F. Tague of |Massachusetts has drafted a resolu- tion demanding an investigation of ‘the Klan which he will present soon |after Congress convenes. London, Sept. 20—(By Associated | Planning Pogram ‘Press)—A decided diversity in view! Representative Leonidas M. Dyer is prevalont here today regarding the!or Missouri, member oO fthe House effect of the latest program of Eam-! Judiciary Committee, is studying ora Devalers Me ch comler rupteya) statutes and precedents to ostermine jeorge—whether i é | what action Congress can take. or a step toward a conference looking 4 “It's probable that we'll pass a to an Irish settlement. This division ...ojution empowering some com- of opinion is notably apparent im mittee to. make an investigation,” newspaper comments. Dyer said. “That will enable the com- WOULD ENTER CONFERENCE : | mittee to subpoena officers of the Klan (Belfast, Sept. 20—(By Assoc’ jated and force them to appear at hearings Press)—Sir James Craig, the Ulster here.” " Laie eter explaining to the northern | Representative Benjamin parliament today Ulster’s position | child of New York said: a with regard to the proposed confer- “IT don’t know of any federal law ence jooking toward peace in Ireland | under which we can prosecute. But maintained that while it would be im-/it's possible that new federal legis politic to refise to enter a confer-|lation will be enacted to cover this ence in order to protect the interests | particular case.” of Ulster, nevertheless Ulster had_ nothing to give away in such a con- ferenco. J. Fair- DAMAGES ASKED Dickinson, N. D., Sept. 20.—Damages DEPOT DESTROYED in the sum of 000 each, are asked Flasher, N. D. Sept. 20.—Fire,jof the Northern acific railroad, by starting from a gasoline stove ex-| Mrs. Thomas Everetts, widow of plosion in the living rooms of Agent}Thomas Everetts, who was washed F. L. Colgrove, completely destroyed away from a speeder and drowned by the Northern Pacific railway siation|the flood of at Flasher this morning and threaten-|Medora region,. and by Everett ed destruction of the village. The Roberts, former serviceman, who loss to the railway is approximately claims injuries in his alleged ex- $6,000. ‘ \traordinary exertions to save his life. All of the freight was removed, ‘but rding t statement given out by all express was destroyed. jthe plaintiff's attorne: The village, located 35 miles south- | west of Mandan, has no waterworks. Citizens, by -means of buckets and | cannot be effected, suits will be begun hand chemicals, stationed on adjoin- | soon. Such su probably would announce that if private settlement es that fea." June 18 which swept the]2 Attorney for the damage, claimants | of the state agricultural college and the Flasher Holstein dairy circuit. The meeting opened in the American | ion hall in the morning, and the} visitors met with business men at a} noon luncheon at the Grand Pacific | hotel at which talks were made. Max Morgan, livestock extension re- | Brussells, Sept. 20—Tidings from five of the groat balloons which start- ed from here last Sunday in a race for the James Gordon Bennett trophy were anxiously awaited twday. Pre- ‘ ing balloons over southern England presentative of the agricultural col-| and ‘Wales and there was danger, it Bismarck Commercial club, states cattle, A barbecue, sport events and speeches are on the all-day program. EMPLOYMENT IS Sent. lege, spoke to the farmers on the or-| was said, that some of the missing intendent of the Flasher circuit, gave; and Spencer of England, came to dairying. A record is kept ‘by members | American, landed in northwestern tion of every day, the daily record | ly. being charged $1 per month for whether or not the cow is profitable, | MORTON PICNIC success of Sawtell and Cottner, of} | Town Cries, together with the farmers YANK BALLOON jtend the Morton county farm and city the Flasher road on Thursday, tional balloon race whic started | Upson, one of the pifots, cabled this‘north will leave Mandan at 9 o'clock 420 miles in 27 1-2 hours. Minneapolis, Sept. 20. --- Operations “dark northern Marquis wheat was This flour will be sold to state in- over July. Gladstone, N. ppt. 20.—-Mrs. Washington, ntomaine poisoning, after a month’s ganization of a circuit, the availability had been carried out to sea. a demonstration of the Babcock test| earth on/ the extreme western coast England but has not reported official- sheet being hung in the barn. A tow INVITE LOCAL pasture and charged for feed, etc. In| Members, of the Bismarck Com- Flasher, in breeding dairy cattle was; ‘picnic to be held on the Oak Coulee New York, Sept. 20—The Belgica I, | September 22. from Brussels Sunday, has landed at} information to the Aero Club . of'on Sept. 22. The purpose of the event OPERATION OF ‘e begun on the new state expe: fed into the hopper to make the first of persons employed in the major in- stitutions at the regular market price. a HOME BREWING Charles W. Brown, 32. of are ilnesss. She leaves her hushand and ing buildings, saved them despite ajcome up at the January term of dis- 40-mile gale. trict court’ for Billings county. of good sows,, and G. H. Ritter, super- |’ ‘Balloons piloted by Valle, of Italy, and spoke on methods of keeping up | Wales. The city of St. Louis, an of the Flasher circuit of the produc- | fit and loss account is kept, the sow | : PEOPLE TO JOIN this way the farmers can determine; and if not they get rid of her. The} mercial club, the Rotary club and the outlined. ; 40 i \ot Burleigh county, are invited to at- IS LANDED ' ranch 26 miles southwest of Mandan jon an American entrant in the interna- | sraichy Pwell, North Wale: America today, The balloon traveled jis to arrange for demonstrations to en- ul mill today. A carload of No. state-produced flour in Minnesota. dustrie: E POISON died at a Dickinson hospital of | four small children. tion Commissioner Haynes, vailing wind carried the 14 contest- | The invitation, transmitted by the! Mandan Commercial club through the!eq with first degree murder in con | Ralph | that automobiles from the east and} ON INCREASE Washington, Sept. 20—The number} showed increases in August HELD ILLEGAL. 20.--Warning that the making of intoxicating home- brew is illegal was issued by Prohi- j have been illegal, because it lacked} the sanction of authorities, the county; grand jury investigating these phasca} ‘ofthe Roscoe Arbuckle case adjourn- ed early today untii next Monday; night. No action was taken. The grand jurors heard the testi- mony of four witnesses concluding w: that of Dr. M. E. Rumwell, the phy: jcian who attended Miss Rappe dur-! ing most of her illness and who was} subponaed, District Attorney Brady ex plained because he is accused of hav- \ing performed an autopsy without of- ' ficial. permission. The other three were Miss Joyce| Clark and Dr. Gabor Kingstone and | Reggy Morely. These three were in-| ' terrogated concerning aileged tamper-! jing with witnesses. ; | At the conclusion of -xe session Dis- | trict Attorney Brady issued a state-| ment in which he declared it was dis-! closed that these three witnesses had | | discussed the probability of “making, | money out of the Arbuckle case by; ‘traming’ Miss Joyce Ciark to impeach | the” testimony of Miss Zey Prevost, a most mportant prdsecution witness.” Liquor served by Arbuckle at his party in the Hotel St. Francis is to be the subject of investigation by a United States district court judge here |tonightt. Arbuckle continues to be held in the city jail without bail charg- nection wth Miss Rappe’s death. Robert H. McCormack, aSsistant United States district attorney for the prosecution of liquor cases announce) witnesses would be calied who were | mack said he will not seek indictment {at this term, waiting until other fed- jeral officials have completed inves gation now. on in the motion picture colony of Los Angeles and Hollywood. BOND MARKET IS SAID IMPROVING F. W. Cathro, director-general of the Bank of North Dakota, who has re- turned from Chicago where he has been for several days, reviewing work done in the bond sale campaign. He said that there was some improye- ment in the bond market in the east, but said business conditions generally seemed unchanged. sale campaign, he said, was generally satisfactory. The state hond| mates. When the time arrives for the sign- ing of contracts, according to expres- sion of some of those fur whom houses were built, they will refuse to sign and wil go into court to settle the question. The present program of home build- ing is virtualy completed. There are no plans on foot now [or the continu- ation of the work of ike association, no bonds having heen sold and the ap- propriation made by the last legislature being very small. There still is con- siderable material on hand. ON PRINTING OF ELECTION BOOK Secretary of State Hall was in- formed this afternoon that the emergency commission would, ina meeting today, vote money for the printing of the publicity pamphlet. The request of Secreiary of State Thomas Hall for $10,000 for the print- ing of a publicity pamphiet before the as placed before at- Governor Frazier. i ei | coming election wi | torney general by {and Commmissioner of Agriculture i Hagan who, with Mr. Hall, comprise the emergency commission. The opinion of the attorney general as to whether or not it is legal to | make the appropriation from the emer- | gency fund was ed. ; The secretary of siatc has begun! courage the breeding of purebred heeft! guests at the alleged sevel. McCor-! the collection of copy to be used in the ‘ printing of the pamphlet, which he said | today was a step necessary in the event funds should be provided for the printing. All copy should be in his hands by Monday, Sept. 26, it is stated. CROSS COUNTRY RATES ARE CUT 1 San Francisco, Sep 20—Trans- continental livestock rates on all lines *are to be reduced 20 per cent from September 20 to December %1 to help stock raisers tide over until settled jmarket conditions. KELSO POSTOFFICE ROBBED Kelso, N. D., Sept. 20—Thieves en- tered the Kelso postoffice and ob- tained about $70. (‘He also recommended a_postpone- ment until next February of the min- ers’ adoption of definite wage de- mands and declared that with all wage agreements expiring on March 31, 1922, “the full influence and economic power of our great mem- bership may thus be utilized to the advantage of our people for the achievement of our ideal . Deals with Wages Much of ‘Mr. Lewis’ 40,000-word re- port related to the wage question, apparently indicating that this would be among the most important busi- ness of the convention which brought together between 1,500 and 1,600 rep- resentatives of local unions scatteret through the ‘United states, Western Canada and Novia Scotia. Mr. Lewis asked the convention to endorse the internatonal board which he said <Al- exander Howatt, president of the Kansas miners organization, had, de- fied in not complying with the board's order for strikers to return to work. Other essential points of ‘Mr. Lewis’ report included: A recommendation that the conven- tion reaffirm its declaration of two two years ago favoring nationaliza- tion of coal mines, A declaration that “the Mingo county, West Virginia, must be won" and that “there can be no com- promise of the principles involved.” A recommendation that legal pro- ceedings be instituted to make a full test of the constitutionality of the Kansas industrial court law. WOMAN, 84 YEARS OLD, MURDERED Aged Grand Forks Lady is Found Dead in Bed Grand Forks, fight | in N. D,, Sept. 20—Mrs. Bloona Seliger, 84, was murdercl here (Monday night. Her body was discovered this morning in a bed in the rear of a small grocery store which she had conducted for 20 years. The woman's hands had been tied behind her back and the bedclothes and pillows piled over her. A rifled trunk near the bed indi- cated that robbery was the motive for the crime. LLOYD GEORGE TOSTAY HOME |British Premier Not Coming To Disarmament Conference | { | i | | London, Sept. 20. (By the Associa- ted Press.)—It has heen definiteiy j decided that neither Mr. Lloyd George jthe prime minister nor Lord Curzon j the secretary for foreign affairs will {tend the Washington conference on dsarmment and Pacific problems in !view of impending developments in domestic politics, it was learned this afternoon. WOMEN MEET POR CAMPAIGN |\Discuss Plan of Independent | Organization | | | i i Discussion of the Independent or- | ganization of women in the recall |election campaign was held last night. H. P. Goddard, who managed the ‘Independent campaign in the last. selection, talked to numerous women workers, and plans were made for the immediate organization of the women of the city. 'N. D. BOY IN PEN FOR KISS GIVEN HIS FREEDOM Madison, W) Sept. 20—Condi- tional pardon was granted today by Governor Blaine to John Truesdall, serving two years in Waupon for “putting his arm about and kissing a girl.” Truesdall, a young man, is to return to his parents in North Dakota and qonduct himself as a good citizen under conditions of his reléase. CORI ELEVATOR ROBBED Corinth, - D., Sept. 20.—Yeggs entered the office of the Corinth ele- vator here, blew the safe and obtain- ed about $25 in cash and a bunch of notes. Most of the notes were re- covered, ‘being found along a road north of Corinth. No trace of the jyeses has been found. nt