The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 17, 1921, Page 1

Last Edition _TRIBUNE THE BISMARC BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1921 _ D ACTS TO HALT RAIL IMPERIAL WIZARD FACES PROBERS N P, PL ACED IN TO pLEAK HERS | aed -FIRSTGROUPIN . | - RATLWALKOUTS | Bunch of Railroads on Which Strike Would be Started FORTIETH YEAR U. S. BOAR ASSERTS NESTOS | BVADES TALK ON PROPOSED LAS Commissioner of Agriculture Hagan Speaks on Results of Tour in the West PRICE FIVE CENTS STRIKE THREE PROPOSALS ADVANCED BY OFFICIALS; UNION MEN _— GONTINUETTHEIR PREPARATIONS : Indications Are That Opposition May Arise Among: Some of Lesser Groups of Rail Unions to Proposed Walkouts. This is William Jj Simmens, of ay! Ga., Imperial | i DECLARES HIS CONFIDENCE Wi of the Ku Klux Klan, | snappe.l as he was en-| SECOND GROUP HITS EAST) tering ‘he House offiee Washington, Oct. 17.—The government ‘through its various departments today began a survey of the situation as developed by the call of the railroad union leaders for 2 general strike béginning Oct. 30. : j Officials from President Harding down to depart- mental bureau chiefs and secret service agents were known to be watchine the situation closely. The whole range of possibilities was regarded by officials as so nebulous at present as to make it prac- tical to await developments before taking action. Postmaster-General Hays, in the only public state- building” in Waching-) Proposal of Union Men is to Con-| ton, where he went to! i appear before the con- tinue Progressive Walk- outs Until Finished in Slope District Shows More Interest in League sressional probe of the! K. K. kK. Note Sim-! mons’ ontfit—not the! Chicago, ML, Oct. 17.—The second | flowing white robe ot | group of railroads in the waikout of: ious order,! the Big Five Brotherhood strikes into{ been sold to: the east, ! | Are eae eee | Declaration: that his opponents in | the recall election refrained almost entirely from discussing the initiated laws in their speaking trips west of the Missouri river was made today by Commissioner ‘of Agriculture John N. Hagan, who was in his office at the capitol for a brief period this morn- ing before resuming his’ campaign tour. A 3 “They seemed to be evading dis- cussion of the initiated laws,” said Mr. Hagan, referring to the tours of Nestos and Johnson, “and in my opin- ion the laws are the most important part of my campaign talk.” i \ Mr. Hagan, speaking of his tour, said that he was in every Slope coun- ty except Sioux county, speaking two members, but an “of- ficial Washington” cutaway. He col- lapsed on the stand and did not finish his tes- timony. These roads, whose names| ! were learned here tod included the; | New Haven lines and the. Delaware | and Hudgon, i Like the first group tue walkout on! j the second division of roads will af- i tect every section of tne country but! [hits the “east the hardest, a section | j left practically untoucied on the first; ) day, i | ‘The second group waikout will come! (at 6 A. M.,, local standard time, Nov. 1.} { Three of the ining largest! included on| h the strike | MRS. EVA CHILDS Mrs. Eva Chlids of Jamesville, Wis supreme oracle of the Royal Neighbors ot America: will be in Bismarck | Wedhesday for the district meeting , of the Royal Neighbors here. The | Royal Neighbors is, the women’s | auxiliary of the Motlern¢Woodnien of | America, which is’ thérfoutth largest ; fraternal organization in the United | States. They now have a half mil- 3 ment issued up to noon, declared “the mails will be moved.” Washington, Oct. 17.—Official Washington’s interest. in the f railway executives and -labor jimpending national railway strike centered today in the reaction leaders to the proposal of the | public group of the railroad labor board of “one feasible plan” to prevent the tieup of the country’s transportation systems. In brief the board proposed: That the railways immediately put into effect freight rate reductions equivalent to the wag e reduction authorized Jast July. That requests for further wage decreasés be withdrawn. That the employes withdraw their strike order pending action to three tmies a day, and only at two meetings did he have less than 100, people. His” largest crowd, he said,| was at Lefor, Stark county, where he | spoke to 2,500 people. In_ several) other places, he said, the halls were: not large enough to accommodate the crowds. “In comparing the league crowds to} those of the opposition, he said that! at Center where Nestos and Johnson | ‘both appeared he was informed the hall was a third filled. He talked | there Saturday night, he said, and the | hall was filled, planks were placed; along the side and 50 or 60 people! stood. i “If Mr. Nestos, and Mr. Johnson BURTNESS PUTS — OUT LETTER TO ALL THE VOTERS | The entire Burlingtoa system, the; New York Central (lines east and west), and the entire system of the! | Baltimore and Ohio are among those| which will feel the strike blow Nov.! | 8.. The balance of the third and fourth | | groups include the remaining roads of | | the country. i | 50 Walkouts nned. i The .roads include all those .an-j nounced as definitely grouped with the | remainder of the third group the rail- | roads affected by the first three walk. outs will ‘total approximately fifty Several of the large roads with thej| designation “entire tem” or “lines east and west” including numerous} smaller lines. HOTEL, SCENE OF FARGO MURDER, | FORCED TO QUIT, Fargo, Oct. 17.—The Prescott hotel, | Seventh street south, the building inj which Miss Marie Wick of Grygla,! Minn., was found tied, gagged, as-| saulted and murdered on the morning ‘ Barnes will sing. Following this pro- | out of members ‘of his organization and Mr. L Hans members: {of the board upon any requests for further wage reductions which The meeting will begin here onjthe carriers subsequently might file. Wednesday with a school at eae tign at the Masonic Temple at 2:30) RAIL CHIEFS CONSIDER PLANS See iat Mecano: ingmi{ Cleveland, Oct. 17.—First conference on plans for carrying 8:30 the meeting. will be called to ; forward the general railroad strike intended to tie up the nation’s order. ees ‘ | transportation system were begun here today. ein ie Ane Program will be: Warren S. Stone, president of ihe Brotherhood of Engineers, piano selections and Mrs. B, B, Wil- {W&° conferring with the vice-oresidents of that organization who kinson of Mandan and Mrs, Frank |are to be in direct charge on the job directing plans for the walk- ee conferring with gram. the/ Supreme lady, Mrs. Eva | hig g i ‘ eg Childs wif aildress the. members, ihis subordinates. The three leaders of the other Big Five transpor- Fifty afdidates from this district | tation organizations were expected to arrive during the day for will he“initiated.: A fuvenile class of [the general conference of the Big Five leaders Tuesday. :The three other ‘leaders are: of June 7, last, has been closed. : The hotel which gained notoriety |in connection with the murder and the ‘preliminary examination of William ;Gammer, clerk-on duty at the hotel on (the night cf the crime and charged ith the murder, has been a losing |proposition..since the murder. Tie’ place was operated’ by Mrs. Anna'‘E. Lawrence, who did notére: new her lease on the building on Oct. 1, the date of its expiration. ' Since that date the hotel has been closed. received” encouragement in their tripiCongressman From First Di west of the Missouri river, I failed to i find a reason for it,” said Mr. Hagan.' trict Addresses Message to People of Entire State His crowds, he said, were two to ten} times as large as those of Nestos and! Johnson. f Refers to Own Loan, { Mr. Hagan said -he devoted much; time to a comparison of the Present & rural credits arrangements and the) coneressmia 4 - proposed Rural Credits initiated laws. , Lie a oo Bus pees: ne He said Nestos and Johnson seemedy First district, elected with anti-Non- to have spent most of their time! partisan endorsement, has added an-| criticising individual members of the} other note to the recail campaign in a ee his farm’ loan and: 4 jetter “to the voters of North Da- Regarding his own_farm loan from | Kota.” He says in part: the Bank of North Dakota, he said, he) “I have read with interest the press had been old Nesies fae nis applies: | reports that the industrial commis- ion number was 1, and his farm: ., i Sak loan-was umber’ 36. Mr. Hagan sai sion has sold some state bonds of he did not remember about the app each of the real estate and mill and| cation number but his loan was num-|clevator series. I also note that the; per 36. jae said tat when he msde League newspapers are loud in, their! his application there was no mort-| .. 3 HEUER z no liens. On most of the applications; 8 WONT EELU teat ane from farmers there were back taxes,| ‘at they claim that with it all DOR mortgages or liens to be considered! sible Areuments in favor of the recall} me 5 jg | have been eliminated. by the Shanes eer eer “I feel certain that upon a little there were no complications. It re-| reflection such reasoning will not ap- quired two to six months to put many, Lee to. he foteigents “ our pet pear 4 applications in, shape before a loan Pile. aC k te Ponds have; London, Oct. 17.— «By tl sociat- q could be made, he said, explaining | Probably been sold and that the state, Peers ine a Whe! Assoctat, why his loan was among the first. | will receive the proceeds from suf ie BP s¢.)--Upon the simply inscribed “Mr. Nestos said I violated the law sales aggregating, as the Leagye) Slab? of _Wéstminister Abbey which in getting my loan,” said Mr. Hagan. newspapers claim, upwards of four|marks the tombs of Great Britain's “Evidently he had not read the law, million dollars is but an added rea-j “unknown war hero” was laid today for the law gives any citizen a right | son why each taxpayer should see to! the highest decoration within the gift to get a loan. _ | it as'a business proposition for him-| of the American people. {It was the Governor Frazier came into Bis-' self and his state that the, present} Medal of Honcr voted by the ‘Congress marck to spend a few hours before’ visionaries constituting the industrial| of the United States in reaffirmation TALKS ON SALE. OF BONDS. he remodeled by its owner. It is on of the oldest business ‘blocks in Far. o. For years it was the home of the Daily Argus. BRITISH HERO GETS U.S. HONOR Pershing Bestowes Medal On Grave of Unknown Soldier It is understood the building will: resnming his sneaking tour. He went commission be remeved and men whoj ‘to Braddock this aftersoon. | will conduct the affairs of the’ state} in a sane business-like way take their| | places. | |. “I am glad some of the bonds have {been sold. The monev is sorely need- ONE CENT RATE ed-to release the funds of school dis- | tricts, villages. townships and coun-| ties now tied up in loais of doubtful} Extended to Include Travel on Pullman Cars | value that such municipelities! | may continue to function. It is also ‘needed for the completion of the state | | mill and elevator. After almost three | | vears of effort about 25 per cent of! | the authorized issue.has finally been| 4 Ss iS {sold by the state administration not} Ie is jexbected) tual 25 American) 5, ecause it is in contro! Dut in snite} Legion members of Bismarck and) of the impediment to the state of such | other towns in this section of the! control. t state will leave Bismarck for the; “This has been accomplished at | American Legion convention in| enormous expense for advertising and! Kansas City. | publicity, for traveling expenses of | Definite information has been re- | tate officials, for galavies and office ceived that the 1-cent-a-mile rate; expense of numerous agents of the has been extended so that holders of, state bank and the like. } tickets can ride on Pullmans. Certifi- é cates to enable Legion men to get the, , Refers to South Dakota, one-cent rate may be obtained from) .. In the meantime South Dakota has P. G. Harrington, adjutant of Lloyd | lisposed of ten times that many of Spetz Post. i her securities practically without ex- A. A. Jones, of the local delegation, | pense. pee says that the Northwest special wiil| “North Dakota is just as wealthy a3 leave Minneapolis at 8:30 a. m. Sun-| Ler sister to the south. Why the di day morning, Oct. 30, and over the ference? Can it be accounted for in} Rock Island and arrive in Kansas | ally ee way than lack, ee confidence ‘i ‘1: in. and misman: ment by, our state Rote eaeeaes 22: < | offi have held them- ials—men wl selves above the law ana accountable not to the people but to self-appointed political dictators?” JEWELS STOLEN Paris, Oct. 17—Madame de Wendel of this city, left a package of jewels worth 1,000,000 francs in a taxicab while driving from the Gare de l'Est to her home, the other day. The police still are looking for the chauffeur. A case is on record where a chauf- MANY STARS FALL Toronto, Oct, 17—The Northern skies, during clear nights this Autumn ha feur found a packet of jewels worth |large number of “falling stars.”- Tho 125,000 franes, which had been left in | displa: had the striking feature his taxicab and returned them to the |of sho’ ks and smoke or vapor loser. in the trails of the meteors. At the observatory her the phenomenon is being made. The inhabitants of Abyssinia were converted to Christianity in the fourth — oe century. Siam is one of the three greatest rice exporting countries in the world. 4 e101 IvE''1000-foot piers are being built for ocean liners in New York Airplanes are being uso in connec- CUBBA been streaked with an unusually j of the comradeship which united the United. States and Great Britain in the World War. The official presentation was made by George Harvey, American ambas- sador. The act of bestowing the medal was performed by General John J. Pershing, commander of the Amer- ican armies in France during the war. ! GB LEAVES, BRIDGE WORK | Superintendent Completes Most | of Foundation Co. Work The Foundation company will vir-| complete its work on the Mis-| uri river bridge by ihe end of the} pek. C. W. Cubbage, superintendent,! id today. i There will remain as part of the! company’s. contract the laying of a concrete slab on the steei and putting down a:phalt piving after the steel is! erected. The steel erection is in the} hands of the American Bridge com-} pany. Mr. Cubbage, who came here short-! ly after the bridge project got under yay, may return in the spring to com- plete the Foundation company’s con- tract. He expects to leave within a week or so by automoiile for central Missouri, to take his first vacation in many years. E. S. Deal will remain in charge of the compa office. IN 107TH YEAR Hartford, Conn., Oct. 17—Mrs. Frie- da Katz in her 107th year, spry as a woman a generation her junior, danc- @1 three old-fashioned dances at a Talmud celebration here and did not appear tired by her exertion. She said the figures of her dances were those sho had learned 80 years ago’ ‘ind i which must be furnished where need- j ed. | Temperatur: It is expected that all the principal | roads of the country will feel the ef- fect of the walkout by November: 3, when the inen on the taird group are scheduled to leave work. The re- maining roads of the country will be included ,in the pwalkout Nov. 5. PAN FIRST GROU! Chicago, ‘M1..° Oct. ‘The country , Was divided'4nto four groups, in which | the men were authorized to walk out progressively, one group every twen- ty-four hours. The first group inclu id some of the contry’s greatest 1 1 systems, from coast to coast andgfrom Canada to the Gulf. hese “were: Chicago and Northwestern; ‘Texas and | Pacific; Kansas City Soudfern; Penn- | | i sylvania; Missouri Pgeific; Interna- tional and Great Northern; Southern Pacific (Atlantic: and Pacific lines); ; Southern Railway; Louisville and ~ Nashville;., St. Louis Southwestern | (whether. Texas lines included, not} stated); /Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul (lines east and west); Northern) Pacifie; Chicago, Rock Island and Pa- | cific; }Seaboard Air Line; Virginia Railway and Chicago, Great Western. GEORGE YOUNG j i | "Nl! Congressman Announces H Come to North Dakota Congressman George M. Young} will leave Washington. tomorrow for ; North Dakota, in order to take part | in the recall campaign to help the; Independents according to a Fargo; announcement today, Mr. Young of- | fered his services about the same time that a request for them was sent} from headquarters. Mr. Young wired this reply. ; i “Your telegram inviting me to help) in speaking campaign was not de-; livered to me until twelve hours af- | ter I had handed gut a statement to the | ress that you hdd not invited me but hat it was upto every friend of | sound government to volunteer for service. Will go wherever you think | { can do most good. I will stand my! own expense, except automobiles Congressman Young will make two speeches daily until the end of the campaign’ if the situation in connec- tion with the threatened railroad | | Strike does not necessitate his return to the feapital before election day. ot Today’s Weather |; For 24 hours ending at noon, Oct. 1 Tam... Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday . Lowest last night . Precipitation ... Highest wind velocity | a 5 Weather Forecast ; ‘For Bismarck and Vicinity: Fair tonight and probably Tuesday; cooler tonight: For North Dakota: Fair tonight and probably Tuesday; cooler in east and South portions tonight. Weather: Conditions The pressure is low over Canada and high pressure areas cover the Rocky Mountain and Pacific coast re- gions. Excepting a few light scatter- ed showers the weather has heen fair which were sanctioned by her relig- harbor. tion with fishing on a large-scale. ions faith. 4 ARRESTED FOR ! Copland, cashier of the Union State} 15 will also be in‘tiated. The juvenile | class contains members from three } years old to sixteen years. Towns trom this district sending delegates and candidates are: Man-|the Switchmen’s Union of, North. America. dan, Mott, Hebron, Glen Ullin, Wilton, Hazel, ‘Linton, Dawson and McKenzie. ' BANK CASHIER ALLEGED THEFT Cashier of Bank of which North’ Dakota Man is Part Owner is Taken in Custody Davis. Junction, Ill, Uct. 17.—L. N.! Bank of Hanover, Il, was arrested! here today on a warrant charging em-| j bezzlement sworn out at Savannah i fail | Copland and a companicn were taken| ment on the durati from a train. He is wanted at Han-| over for the alleged embezzlement of | more than $120,000 frora the Hanover | {Union State hank, of which he has! not tie up transportation wh i ; ‘IN CAMPAIGN ! 5 i Twin Cities prior to going to Han-'little surplus on hand and would have to close been cashier for the past. year. land is 25, single,.and lived, in’ the/no chance of a serious food shortage although th over to take the bank position. The bank is owned by a stock com- pany of which Jourgen Olson, of Mi- not, N. D., is the principal stockhold- er. The rest of the stock is owned by HEADS OF L i ! the ‘ L. E. Sheppard, president of the Order ‘of Railroad Conductors; W. S. Carter, president of the Brother- |hood of Firemen and Enigneers, and T. C. Cash en, president of ‘ ESSER GROUPS TO MEET Chicago, Oct. .17.—Whhile heads of the Big Four Brotherhoods and of Switchmen’s Union prepared to meet in Cleveland tomorrow to eom- |plete plans: for the railroad strike which they have called for October. 30, ‘union chiefs said toda their men from joining the five or; mitted, themselves to a strike. The chie ; y that leaders of some of the 11 other railroad labor organizations still were opposing a walk-out and would attempt to prevent ‘ganizations which have definitely eom- Big Five membership numbers only 400,000 of the 2,000,0C0 railroad employes. 5 Whether the opposition of these leaders will result in a break between: the two groups which have not cooperated whole heatedly on any question will be voted on formally. iwill not be fully revealed until the meeting of the general chairmen of ihe :11 unions here sometime this week when issuance of a formal strike cail Majority Rule Expected the Several railroad labor chieftains today said, however, that they believed : majority would rule and that it would be a case of “ ! strike.” They professed to see little chance of a break. ‘majority strike, all Leaders of those 11 unions at a meeting last week informally pledged themselves to support the Brotherhoods in a strike and since then hi ave been going ahead with their plans for a walkout although deferring {ssu- ance of the actual strike call. lure of the Brot Differences over the advisability of a strike have risen primarily through therhoods and the other 11 to reach a satisfactory agree- ion of the strike, labor leaders said. No Tie-up Say Executives From the railroads star! ille and Nashville roads. he first walkout. The walkouts are scheduled to take place in four groups, surance continued to come that a strike would ! ile industrial leaders of the middl Cop- that there was little danger to the rest of the lar; see hoeens ‘ger industries and virtually e packing plants have very within three weeks after the t of an effective strike, according to their officals. __, The Brotherhoods made known last night that they had revised the st of roads to which the first of a series of proposed progressive walkouts ould start so as to exclude the Penns: ylvania lines, the Erie and the Louis- This leaves no eastern roads to be affected by } one every _ standard time, October 30. Conse- ike until at least November 1. residents of Hanover, principally re-' tired farmers. | e f Officials of the bank have made no! forty-eight hours starting at 6 a. m. official statement regarding the situa-; quently the east would not feel the stri ion, i — /KU KLUX KLAN | VOTE NEARING IN WISCONSIN? ‘ | Racine, Wis., Oct. 17—A recent | rumor that a branch of the Ku ; Klux Klan had been organized in ilommran re | Racine county was given color Senate Limits Debate on Pro-| Sunday when John H. Miller, | farmer, living near Caledonia, was * posed Pacts : | Served with an ultimatum to leave Bele ss | his farm or sufier injury by the Washington, Oct. -17—With a final, leader of five capped and gowned vote expected not later than Wednes- | men who drove up to his barn ina jay the senate was prepared today to| large touring car and, after de- gin consideration of the German! livering their threat, sped away. peace treaty to the exclusion of all; a ther business under an agreement) JOHN LIND IS imiting each senator’s time to one’ }:ur on the treaty and te minutes on | NOT COMING TO reservations. A vote might: be taken A late today or tomorrow, leaders said,| as a number of senators did not plan! NORTH DAKOT. to consume the full time alloted, them. || stinieapolis,’ Oct Lind, former Governor of Minnesota, todey i denied that he is going to make cer. tain speeches in North Dakota for the ‘Nonpartisan League as ann sometime ago by league publi Mr. Lind returned today from a vac: ition trip to Western Canada. |’ “I am not. going to make = any Chicago, Oct. 17.—Wheat took jepeecnes e North Dakota, a pind = re 5 ve (said. “I have never agreed to nfake ae betas Seing. peice jany, though I did say to one North pectation on exchanzes here that | Dakota man who asked fae fotane the threatening railroad strike Part in the campaign that I might do would take place instead of he jf. It would be impossible for me to ing settled beforehund. Se j8et away. 4 Bal As much as 7 cents a bushel was slashed irom values before LOUISVILLE IN | the fall was stopped. Something of a raliy was wit- SUNDAY VICTORY nessed at the finish, which, how. —= ever, was ata net decline of 55-8 Baltimore, Md. Oct. 17.—Louis- to 61-4 cents. ville won the Sunday game of the “little world series, 7 to 6. Louis- There is only one school, with about | ville now has 4 victories to Balti- $1,000 REWARD IS PAID CHIEF Martineson Given Money For Tracking Down Henry Layer A $1,000 reward for his efforts in tracking down Henry Layer, serving a life sentence for the murder of eight persons near Turle Lake, was paid to Chief of Police Chris Martineson, of Bismarck, today by Governor Frazier. Nelson A. Mason, secretary to the governor, said: “The payment of the reward was delayed because the case was in the courts. As soon as the governor came to hig office today aft- er the supreme court had finally dis- posed of the case he was glad to make the payment of $1,000 to Mr. Martine- son. It could not be done before the courts had finally acted.” Other officers in the case signed a statement to the effect that Chief Mar- tineson was entitled to the reward. 1,000 MINERS BACK AT WORK Pittsburgh, Kan, Oct. i7—One thousand coal miners of district No. 14 who have been idle since Alexander Howatt and August Dorchy went to jail, are back at work today, accord- ing to an official announcement at the and temperatures are moderate, in all sections. more’s three. Wright, Cullop and 100 pupils, in the whole state of Ab- Tincup hurled for Louisville. yssinia, headquarters of the Operators Asso- ciation this morning,