The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 18, 1921, Page 1

DAY, OCTOBER :18) 1921 THE BIS ce : ae uit ne _ UNION CHIEFS CAN AGRICULTURAL SOMETIMES EAST MEETS WEST © | TAXPAYERS ARE LOANS POLICY OUTLINE GIVEN PENALIZED HERE Tells of Government’s Plan ~ BY VALUE BOOST FORTIETH YEAR » TUES PRICE FIVE CENTS EL STRIKE MEETING FO ~ BOARD TO CONFER ON MEASURES 10 AVERT THREATENED STRIKE Wheeling, W. Va. Oct. 18—In land waterways transportation companies operating on the Ohio and) Mississippi riv Meeting To Be Held in Chicago—Big Five Meeting in Cleveland is Cancelled — Harding Has Data to Lay Situation Before Cabinet—Dispatchers Announce That They Will Not Strike At This Time : z : { i i | i 1 i Ing: to: completion r steamboats not already sion in anticipation of railroad men walking out, it was announe- ed last night at the offices of the Liberty, Transit company and the Shippers’ Packet company here, 7 tt was estimated ihat at least 100 additional boats wow in har hor or on the docks would be in active service before the time set tor the railroad men to strike. SPARKS FLY AT DISCUSSION OF i i i 'County Auditor ‘Advocates In-| crease on Business Struc- tures in Bismarck { 1 OTHERS MAKE City Assessor Declares Bismarck) Already Assessed Higher Than Other Cities MAKE LOANS TO BAN PROTEST; a a A a Washington, Oct. 18.— ‘The action of the railroad labor. board in summoning railroad uion chiefs to Chicago for conferences was described in high official circles today as a first step to determine whether the rail- way board is to be regarded as an efficient government agency or a failure. : : + Stockgrowers’ Finance Corpora- | tion Offers Aid to Stock- men of West ! The tax rate for Bismarck and Bur-| j leigh county will not be fixed unti} the supreme court: renders a d house bill No. .25; the tax measure. ( \ . Minneapolis, Oct. 18,—Applica- tlons for loans amounting to $115,- 000 to farmers of the Northwest from the War Finance Corporation i Chicago, Oct. 18.—(By Associated Press.)—Telegrams sum- imoning the chiefs of the Big Four brotherhoods and the Switch- imitation were approved today by the North. west Agricultural Loan agency of the corporation, the first loans’ to be approved. by. the Northwest agency. The $115,000 in leans were made on applications from South Dakota, Aid for farmers and stockgrowers in North Dakota is offered through two” agencies, the Agricultural Agency of the War Finance Corpora- tion, now functioning in Minneapolis, and the Stock Growers Finance Cor- poration, of Chicago. J. L. Bell, vice-: president of the First National Bank, a representative of both drganiza- tions in North Dakota, has returned from Minneapolis where he attended a meeting of members of the com- mittees of Northwestern states for the Agricultural Loan Agency. In referring to; the War Finance the higher education of women, and h to prepare for professional careers, < OPPOSES LAWS | | 6.0.P INSTATE Corporation which ig- functioning ir. the Northwest through the Agricul-j tural Loan Agency located at Minne-! apolis .Mr. Bell, one of the committee! from North Dakota, said that progress ‘is being made in the organization: work. Pd eietel “The War Finance Corporation’ will! loan money to banks upon showing by them of advances mate to customers; ‘for :agricultural purpnses, Approved | collateral must be offered, but consid- Chairman,of Republican Central) Committee of Richland | County. Sends Letter IS ANTI- ’ NONPARTISAN Wahpeton, N, D., Oct. 18H. H. My- | TO KNOCK OUT BLACK HILLS | Miss Clara W. Xavier De Bibadh Kosha, one of ten children, is the only | | Siamese ‘woman. to complete a course in a maternity hospital. Her ‘'ather, the Siamese minister to Rome, unlike his fellow countrymen, believes in as sent all his daughters to England | LLOYD GEORGE “WOULD-COME TO UNITED STATES) London, Oct. 18—(By the Associat- ed Press.)—Mr. Lloyd, George, the prime minister, stated in the “House of Commons fipon the reassembli ig of that body today that he hoped to go to the Washington conference on the limitation of armament and Far East- ern problems as soon as the parlia- ment and general situation renders hj possible. However, taxpayers of the city and! county may prepare to pay # pretty jhigh rate of taxation. — Bysiness | houses, in particular, wiil havé'to pay ja higher rate. i The state board. of equalization, on; | the advice; of County Auditor Frank Johnson and in spite of the protest of the city assessor others, raised the assessment on structures and im- provements uséd business pur- poses 20 per cent and on lots 5 per} cent, Bimarck being hit iiardest by the; increase. The county board of commissioners made no changes in the figures of the assessors.'”’ However, after Auditor! Johnson protested to sie state board ‘that the assessments on business} property in Bismarck were too low, the state board boosted them. Com-| pilations made by representatives! had shown that Bi k had been} paying a greater per <apita,of state ‘tax than any other city of any size in| the state, because the assessment ot Bismarck, when the law was change: to provide for assessment at true cash; NEW FIRETRUCK in Heated Conversation with. Truck Representative RECOMMEND $12,500 TRUCK Commissioners Propose’ to Pur- chase American La France Type of Fire Apparatus Smouldering fires of anger’ sizzled and burst into flames last night at the city commission meeting—all over the question of a fire truck, Sparks flew right and left, there was sputtering and popping as the conflagration grew and threatened to envelope the council chambers, and value, was: assessed according to law. Other cities assessed law required. The } Bismarck were penaliacd because of the honesty of the a or. When County Auditor Johnson pro-} tested business structures were assess- ! just’as. someone /was about to turn in a frantic alarm the hot, controversy ‘calmed ‘down into animated’ conver- sation, ( All because a representative of a Messrs. Henzler and Thompson: men’s union to a conference with the United States Railroad | Labor Board in an endeavor to forestall an actual walkout on the |nation’s railroads were dispatched to the labor chiefs today. The conference was called for two o'clock Thursday afternoon Oct. 20, at the labor board headquarters here. : All of the members of the board are in the city except the \three public members who have been in conference with Pres- ident, Harding and the Interstate Commerce Commission at Wash- ington. They will reach Chicago late today. | _ No outline of what the conference will discuss could be ob- tained, but it was said that new proposals would be presented to the labor men in an effort to prevent an actual cessation of work ion the roads. | | | i Washington, Oct. 18.— President Harding was in position jtoday to lay before his cabinet an analysis of the railroad strike jSituation and outline the government’s position in the contro- iversy and suggestions as to defensive measures to protect fed- jeral functions if and when the tieup becomes actual. EMR re In alldition to a report submitted by 10 DO BATTLE | i i Harding was understood to have the gist of reports obtained by | Attorney General Daugherty and Postmaster General Hays after surveys of the sit- uation. by \operatiyes in the depart- ment of justice and postoffice estab- hra, chairman of the Republican) i truck company was churged with hav- | erable latitude in this respect will be} County central committee of Richland} ~ TRAIL MARKED ed too low, City. Assessor Falconer ap-| ing been discourteous to the two allowed,” Mr. Bell said. - “Several hundred. requests for loan forms have gone in from North Da- kota to the Minneapo4s office, andthe completed ‘applications will 10 doubt >be’ pouring.in:within’a’ iew ‘days. The amount of detail’-in handling these will be great, and some delay will en- sue, but it is hoped that very-shortly ; the loans will be approved by the: agency at Minneapolis, accepted by the Washington office ind: funds: be ‘come available at an carly date for use in the state. Banks Can Aid Farmers. i “The banks recélving such- loans} will thus be enabled ts quite an ex-{ tent to avoid ‘the necessity of asking} their farmer customers to sell cattle, ‘not fit for the market. By the terms of. the corporation loans such stock| may be carried to maturity. It is also| hoped that additional assistance will} be judiciously granted to farmers who are endeavoring to diversify in their: farm operations and increase the hold-| ings of their dairy stock.” Mr. E. J. Weiser, president of First National Bank of Fargo is chairman} of the North Dakota committee, and) the other members are R. E. Barron, president of the Second National Bank of Minot, and J. L. Beil of Bismarck.: The North Dakota committee, works) with the outh Dakota and Minnesota committees. 'The chairman of the agency is R. &. Macgregor, vice pres- ident of the Northwestern National bank, and vice chairman C. D. Jaffray, president of the First National Bank of Minneapolis... Stéck Growers Aid Plan. Mr. Bell is chairman of the Nortn) Dakota State ,Industry committee, ,Stock Growers Finance Corporation! of Chicago, an organization perfected | ‘by leading bankers, principally of New| York and Chicago wno have combined to raise funds in conjunction with banks from other cities, to loan { i little I could against them. | He, of j county, ‘hds sent out a “circular letter | from ‘Wahpeton jon’ the subject of the initiated Jaws proposing the obolition | ‘of-party designation for state official The writer, who is an janti-/Nonpar san, says:> aya his ‘1( a Real Republican: | Among the initiated laws to be vot-. ed on at the election to be held Octo- | ber 28th; are two election laws. One of them proposes to reimove the party designation from the state tick- , which would mean that the word “Republican” could not be used on the state ticke® The other provides for a ballot for the election of Presiden- tial Electors, United States Senators, | Congressmen, National Committeeman and Precinct Committeemen, with the. designation following the name, but does away. with the “Republican Col- umn” in that ballot algo. In my opinion both of these propos- ed,laws are wrong from a republican | point of view, and will tend to destroy the republican party and, the republi- can organization in our state, and we, as republicans, do not want that to happen, In addition’ to this, it means one ex- traelection, which would he three | glections every election year, and mean a large additional oxpense. I be- lieve every taxpayer feels thatiour ex; penses are too high already. ) The argument used by: those favor; | ing these two laws is that it would be! easier to beat tho Nonpartisan League | if we had'no party designation on the ballot. Eventually we are going to trim them anyway and if we eyer get these laws on our statute books, we will never be able to get them off. It will bo on the order Of the primary |’ election law—no one wants it but everyone is afraid to oppose it. : When Mr, Nestos was down here, 1 told him.I was opposed to these two proposed laws and would do what } course, is running on the platform, | ‘Plans Made to Improve Trail} | peared before the board and declared that business structures were assessed according to law: bat toc high in, pro- ‘ portion to other cities. in Southwest North Dakota \ » | sessed. valuation “af business struc- Tho Black ‘Hills-Lake Metigoshce) from $1,196,468:00 to 31,135,761.00, 21 The state board then raised the as-| tures from ‘the ‘cotinty board figures ! \plenipotentiaries of the city, commis- , sion—C. W. Henzler and H.’A. Thomp- son—on a recent trip to the Twin Cities to investigate fire apparatus. ‘Make Recommendation, After the smoke’ had cleured away ‘formal recommendation: was, made by An Indian head is the distingushing 7 Nestea rae WHAT YOU WILL submitted to the voters by the I. V. A. highway has been marked through Bismarck. The trail comes into Bis- marck. from -Mandan, and goes north to Lake Metigoshee in Bottineau county, It is marked out Sixth street. trail mark. i i Fred W... Mees, president and Thomas H. Sullivan, secretary, of the Black -Hills-Metigoshee highway as- sociation: returned today to Mandan from. points* in the south country where they have ‘been in conference county commissioners have promised to start grading. operations in the spring from me Morton county line across the two counties. From McIntosh, 'S. D., to the North Dakota line the road was graded partly last summer and will be grad-' ed the rest of the way across Corson county in the coming spring. i | i Lh i | | CAST BALLOT ON, OCT. 28 Editor's Note—A brief explana- tion’ of measures to be voted on. Oct. 28 is to he given in daily articles in The Tribune, to aid the busy reader in summing up the arguments for and against the measures. i 7 NO. 1, One constitutional “amendment is It provides: TREATY NEARS ; complete, and is not in position to money to stock growers. — Gpenfy oppose them. “The minimum loan which will be! The Republican party tas withstood made fs $5,000, and loans are granted, severa} assaults, such as Populism, on a basis of 75 per cent of the value! pull Moose, and other attacks. It will of the stock. Many ranchers are hard) continue to, be in existence long af- prested at this time and seriously em- ter the Nonpartisan League is forgot- barrassed’ by this fall m the price of; ten; let us rot do anything now that their stock, so that liquidation now of! might lay a foundation for the future their holdings of stock in many cases} destruction of the Republican party. would put them out of business, ae I have talked with a number of Re- | publicans about these proposed faws, | ‘and in every instance where their at- tention had been called to it, they were against these two laws and will vote against them. ‘Only a fow of these letters are sent out t leading Republicans, therefore I wish you would see a number of our Bell said. “The Stock Growers Finance Corpor-' ation will carry approved loans with bank endorsement’ or ther satistac-| tory guarantee for two years, thus; permitting the stock to, mature and no} doubt improve in price. The corpor-. ation has loaned a large amount of} money especially in Texas ing. The North Dakota committee been working only a snort time, but already quite a number of loans have! sbeen placed,, principally through the: - western part of the state, where are the larger. holdings of cattle.” | All applications for icans are to be made t> some member of the commit- / tee. Those associated with Mr. Bell in the work-are T. A. Tollefson, cash- ier of the First National Bank of Dickinson,.and J. E. Phelan, president of the First Nationa Bank of Bowman. LARSON BANK IS REOPENED The First. State’ Bank of Larson, Burke county, closed last March 31, has reopened, it was anuounced at the’ office of the state hank examiner. The bank has a capital of $10,000 and sur- plus of $5,000, accorétag te &&e report on file when it’ closed. has} and Wyom-| Republican: friends in your. precinct, } call their attention to what these pro- posed laws are liable to do to the Re- publican party, and also the additional expense, and suggest that they vote ‘against them, Respectfully, E. H. Myhra, Chairman,, Republican County. Central Commit- tee, Richland County, N. D. RAILWAY SUES TO EVADE TAXES The Great Northern Railway com- pany has begun two suits, against Burke and Renville counties, asking the courts to set aside the county levies for grasshopper extermination The railway company holds that the limit of taxation allowed by a. pill passed March 6, 1919, was exceeded in the making of the levies, which were authorized at the same session. The state tax commissioner will repre- ‘sent the counties. | State may issue bonds in sum of| $7,750,000 unsecured hy mortgages.! Ronde issues in excess uf this amoant shall be secured by first mortgages ‘upon real estate in amounts not ex-! ceeding one-half value. The I. V. A./ claims this is intended io reduce limit | of unsecured bonds from $12,000,000; to $7,750,000. Opponents claim it actu: | ally raises the _ state’s unsecured! bonded debt limit. from $2,000,000. to; $7,750,000 since all bonds issued now| in- excess of thé constitutional debt; limit must be secured on mortgages. “The. I. V. A. amendment proposes! $5,000,000 of the bonds shall be used; “to pay debts of the Dank of North Dakota ;” $2,500,000 to complete Grand Forks mill, provide- working capital, | ‘and pay debts; $250.000 to wind up Home Builders association, | Provides immediztely upon: adop-} tion of amendment governor, tyeasur-; er, secretary. of state.may (determine! amount necessary ~to, issue of bond! issues. Provides state board of equal- ization shall annually levy tax on all, taxable property to pay interest upon bonds and create sinking fund. Prof-) its from state-owned enterprises shali| be applied. The same provision ex-) ists under present authorization of, constitution for issuing ‘industrial( pbonds—that ‘interest and principal! must be met by taxation if profits] from industries are Bonds may be sold for par, bearing 6! per cent. WOMAN TIES THE KNOT Brussels, Oct. 18—For the first time in the history of Belgium, a woman performed a civil marriage here. She was Mme. van Avondt, alderwoman at Beggijnendyk, nea’. ‘ntwerp. (pe eee | Today’s We not sufficient.! * Messrs.’ Thompson and Henzler that ‘the city purchase a 750-gallon com- bination pumping Amevican ‘La France fire track, bid price $12,500. It was ‘sugested by other commissioners that the recommendation be put in writ- ing, which will be done, and submit. ted at a special meeting today or the regular meeting next Monday. After Mr. Henzler, in repressed stones, announced the committee rec- ommended the La France, President Lenhart invited a representative of the company seeking to sell a White fire truck to say a few words, for which opportunity fie wis thanked. However,.soon after the Twin Cities salesman Started he was subject to ‘fire from Messrs. Henzler and Thomp-| son. The salesman remarked that the committee did not see a White truck, in action during their investigation tip. The two commissioners flared | up immediately, charged that the em- ployer of the salesman, head of the} Twin Cities firm, had been discour- | increase of'*$260,000. total as- sessment of property in Bismarck now is well above $8,000,000. ~ RATIFICATION Senate in Agreement to Vote On It Before Night Washington, Oct. 18—A final vite on ratification of the peace treaty with Germany was expected by both Republicans and Democratic leaders in the senate today. If necessary, it was) said, a night session would be heli to! assure action. oth supporters and; opponents. of the treaty were agyeed that ratification seemed assured; al-| though probably by a margin over tne | -thi an | rete tis etnies Siormot more ‘his private offices when they wei (Nearl} all amondments were dis-|the general offices, ant! that although posed of by rejection yesterday, | they were ready to witness a test of) the White, no test was provided. Claims Minds Made Up. To which the salesinan hotly re-! plied that there wasn’t “any use of| bringing the employer cut of his pri-j vate office or arranging a test, since |Mr. Henzler had told him that they; were decided on a La France. Mr. Henzler protested the employer didn’t know this; also that he and Mr.) | Thampson had told him they would! j 80 out of Minneapolis to a nearby city —— !to witness a White test but that it ‘Des Moines, Ia., Oct. 18—While no! wag not arranged for them, and also definite program has been mapped out} that the White man did not take them| for discussion by middle western! to tae company which makes the states governors who: arrived in Des} pumps for’the Whits truck. The! iMoines today for a conference at the White man in turn protested that he suggestion of Governor Kendall, of said he was willing to arrange the test Jowa, the freight rate situation.and'! i¢ they gave the-word. i unemployment are practically certain} ‘the gre'melted away and the con-! so be Cae sublerts to come up for Con- versation turned into a discussion of not be held until sometime this after-j Qyo. ‘ ‘ noon in Governor Kendall's office. Bills: were allowed as folows: re eet ae - $312.00 ! Police payroll .. 84.09 ather | oa winch Lumber 20 11.90 ‘Street and sewer department.. 138.75 ; Humphreys and Moule \C. W. Henzler (expertses him- 41! self and H. A, Thomyson to 66; investigaté fire trucks) «117.39 48} Mrs. Herman Ode . 3.53 ‘tiace! PREUS TOUR TO NW! START NEXT WEEK Governor J. A. O. Preus, of Minne- sota, will take the stump next week for the Independent forces who de- mand the recall of Frazier; Lemke nd Hagan, it is afnounced from Far- west portion tonight. 'go., ‘Monday he makes _ his opening Weather Conditions. ‘speech at LaMoure,in the forenoon A low pressure area central over’ and he will speak in Lisbon, Enderlin | the lake region has heen ompanied|and Valley City in the afternoon ‘and (by Hght to moderate rains from the: evening. Tuesday he will be in Kid- upper = Mi: ppi Valley eastwarc.|der and Stutsman counties; Wednesday | Another depression cevers the Canadi-|in Golden Valley, Billings and Stark; ian Northwest and cloudy somewhat] Thursday he will finish up Stark and | unsettled weather has resulted over| then go into Morton and Burleigh. His \the northern Plains states. Tempera-|¢omnlete itinerary will be published ltures remain moderate. ; [later.* GOVERNORS OF «WEST MEETING Confab Opens on Unemployment Problems of Middlewest 4 | Swaby Manufacturing Co. { For twenty-four - hours ending at noon Oct. 18. Temperature at 7 A. M. Highest yesterday ... Lowest Lowest last night Precipitation Highest wind velocity. . Weather Fore For Bisma tled and colder tonight day with probably rain. For North Dakota: Unsettled) weather tonight and Wednesday, prob ably rain; colder Wednesday and i y: Unset-; and Wednes-| ‘ teous to them, having! hot core’ oyt of | in| German’ chancellor, was believed here [Claim That Sinn Feiners Also Are Organizing Their | Forces 1 Belfast, Oct. 18—Rcports that the} Ulster volunteer forcé was being re-- organized were being verified at of- ficial Headquarters. today. It. was stated Ulster ex-service men were en-| rolling. “Why shouldn't they de since the Sinn} Feinerg are drilling even in Belfast?” was the comment in official quarters. At Lisburn last night i,000 men as- sembled ‘and under commandants who! are ex-officers of the British army! marched in formation along a. speci: | fied route. The men carried no arms} | during their march. i EXPECT WIRTH 10 QUIT SOON is Expected Berlin, Oct. 18—Dr. Josef Wirth today to be, prepared to submit the resignation of his ministry to Pres- ident Ebert. Official announcement of the decision of the council of the League of Nations relative to the par-| tition of Upper Silesia was expected momentarily and ‘it wa3 thought the cabinet would not long survive if the official text confirmed press dispatches | giving details of the action of the council. ASSAILS SOME | Washington, Oct. 1%:—Bluntly| charging “exploitation and resultant | destruction of the minds, bodies andi souls” of former service men placedi) in some commercial schools for vo- Resignation of German Cabinet : TRADE SCHOOLS: lishment, That President Harding does not yet view the strike as having| passed beyond the “possibility” stage was one intérpretation| placed ‘upon the an- {ndouncement that he plang to Jeave Washington tonight for sorktown and Williamsburg, 'Va., whére he will make addresses tomorrow. The presidential party is not ¢x- ‘pected to return before Thursday. Dispatchers Won't Strike Chicago, Oct. 18—Executive officials and general chairmen of a dozen un- ions of railroad employes representing 1,500,000 workers began arriving to- day for conferences beginning tomor- tow, to determine whether they shall follow. the leadership of the Big Five railiyoad brotherhoods in’ issuing « strike call, The train dispatchers have announc- ed they will not go out atethis time. ‘The telegraphers and clerks have an- nounced theit decision was still un- formed and others have indicated the question was still open, although some of the unions, notably the shop men and maintenance of way employes, have authorized a strike call by a ref- erendum vote. TO PRESS’ WAGE CUT. New York, Oct. 18—Undeterred by threats of a general railroad strike the railroads of the United States through the Association of Railway Executives were pushing plang today today to apply to the Railroad Labor Board for an additional 10 per cent reduction in wages: ; Determination to press immediately ‘for the reduction, was announced lasi night by Thomas DeWitt Cuyler, pres- ident of the association, in a state- ment which said that concurrently with the reduction “the benefits of the reduction shall with the assent of the Interstate Commerce Commission be passed on to the public in the reduc- tion of existing railroad rates except insofar as a reduction shall have been made in the meantime.” Despite the note of optimism sounded in administration quarters at Washington many railroad officials appeared convinced that the strike woud become effective and were pre- paring to meet it. Some wecomed ‘it. “This is the time and the place for it,” said F. D. Underwood, president of the Erie railroad.” Mr. Underwood declared the strike’ cational training, Director Forbes ot the Veterans Biren announced to-| Was against the Railroad’Labor Board day the cancelaticn of more than aj; ther than against the lines involved score of contracts with schools in var-| nd declared it was designed to bring ious parts of the country. ‘about government control “the desire UBER Tbe We !of all labor bodies, some part of the NEGROES TRY TO {public and some members of Con- LYNCH A NEGRO, | gress,” ‘Says Wages Inadequate Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 18—After dis- Boston, Tex., Oct. 18—Edley Hop-|cussing the wages of trainmen in kins, negro, charged with the murdér | which he made comparison of wages of his wife, today, was safe in jail at|/Paid in 1913 with those receved now Texarkana after escaping death at the | W. G. ‘Lee, president of the Brother- hands of a mob Composed principally | ood of Railnoad Trainmen, today; of jhis own race. This is said to be! the first time in, th ction that? ne-| | “The men have been asked to accept groes hud attempted summary pun-|What is an inadequate living ma ishment for one of thelr own race, | They know the railroads are taking j}unfair advantage of business depres- 'sion to force them to accept unfair | wages and service conditions. To state the matter briefly they believe that SPIRITUALISTS. ARE MEETING 1: companies are ee tor continue, EES their aggressive warfare agains em Detroit, Mich., Oct. 18—AN parts of | until they force the men to strike. {the country were represented here to- | Therefore they must reluctantly de- |day at the opening of the annual con-' cide to accept the challenge now.” vention of the Wational Spiritualist —— Association. The meeting is to con- CANCEL MEETING tinue through Saturday..‘ Today's ses- sions were devoted largely to discus- sion of the relation of Spiritualism to lestablished institutions. Cleveland, 0., Oct. 18. (By Associat- ed Press)—A scheduled meeting here today of the Big Five transportation (Continued on Page Five)