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

HE BISMARCK | FORTIETH YEAR 5 : BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19 PRICE FIVE CENTS UNIONS START SUIT IN JAMESTOWN 10 CRIPPLE BANK Governor Frazier Served With! Papers to Halt Deposits in Bank of North Dakota ‘ FURTHER HEARING NOV. 3 Judge Goffey Issues Injunctional| Order in District Court In the Case Jamestown, N. D., Oct. 19.—Gover- | nor Frazier was served with papers| here last evening in a lawsuit brought by a number of taxpayers and resi- dents of Stutsman county and an in- junctional order signed by District Judge J. A. Coffey restraining the Tn-} dustrial commission, poard of audi-| tors, Doard of university and school lands, state treasurer, state auditor and other officials from depositing any funds belonging to the state of North Dakota in the Bank of North Dakota} or any further tax money in the Bank! of North Dakota, restraiming the bank | or industrial commission from accept- ing or receiving any more deposits} untis further order of tne court. Judge Coffey set the date of hear- ing on Nov. 3. Those who brought the suit claimed -it was to prevent “further misappro- priation” of money and: also to pre- vent county treasurers depositing tax money due Oct. 15. in the bank and to protect records of bank in the event the recall carried: What. Is Charged ; The suit was filed by Oscar J. Seil- er, attorney. There are 17 plaintiffs named with the statement that other names will be inserted. The plaintiffs charge: | That the defendants failed to nego- ‘HA DING A K tiate the sale of $2,000,000 of bank' bonds. . That the bank has loaned money in| . excess of one-half the value of- real; ’ estate. | That they have failed to detiver to! ENGLISH NATION BY N. E. A. Service. Waukegan, Ill., Oct. 19--Thousands of folks, all over the country are agreed that knickerbockers are the only thing for girls at work. This is indicated by the flood of lot-, ters that have poured in upon Miss the state board of equalization an exact written statement of all bonds as required by law. 2 That the defendant officials have _ MISS MARION LARSON. : = SENATE PLAGES APPROVALUPON ~ GERMAN TREATY / Also Ratifies Administration’s Pacts with Austria and with Hungary EXCHANGE FOLLOW SOON | | Appointment of Diplomatic Rep- resentatives May Not Be i Made For Sometime - Washington, Oct. 19—Exchange of ratification at Berlin of the “Treaty }of Berlin” finally establishing peuco between the United States and Ger- many is to be the next step ending the nation’s war. Following ratification by the senate last night of the German and also tue Austrian and Hungarian peace trext- lies the state department was in posi- tion to proceed with the last formal- ities. } ; Appointment of diplomatic officers, | however, is not anticipated for several weeks at least. ‘Negotiation of commercial and oth- er trade treaties providing for ex- change of consular officers are sched- | uled to follow the peace treaty. i FARMBUREAU'S © HEAD DEMANDS LAWS REPEALED, Howard Declares Congress Should Repeal Esch-Cummins and «Adamson Rail Laws ‘Marion Larson, of: Waukegan, who, a month ago,. first donned knickers and became their champion. Her picture was printed in hundreds of newspa- pers, ‘Since then letters have comé in every mail, Many indorse her stand while others propose marriage. |SCHEIDEMAN IS } ; | Berlin, Oct, 19.—Philipp Schelde- | | |. . FIRED UPON: CALLED WAR MEASURES| man, former secretary of foreign | affairs, was fired apén during a | meeting of the German People’s | Party in Ludenscheid, Westphalia, | last night. The bullet flew wild Chicago, Oct. 19.—-The American Far Bureau Federation, with a mem- bership of 1,300,000 farmers, announc- ed today it had decided to ask Con- | and: Herr Scheldemsa: was unine . | 57°28 immediately for repeal of the my, PARIS DAMAGED B ‘containing it. the bomb blew up. , | STRIKE PLACED ON LABOR BOARD | labor board will be given the full sup- port; of federal authority in its en- | deavor to avert the national railroad strike and will be expected through the results to justify its creation. With the problem definitely assign- ed to the labor board for solution and each interested branch of the gov- ernment réady with with a defensive program in the event of the strike materializing no important local de- LUDWIG, FORMER BAVARIAN KING, CLOSES CAREER King Who Lost Throne When German Armies Were 'De- ,| feated Dies in Hungary | TOOK THRONE, IN 68TH YEAR London, Oct. 19—Ludwig III, _ for- mor King of Bavaria, whose throne crumbled whan the German armies were defeated, died yesterday at Sar- var castle, in Hungary. His .. death BEGIN CONFERENCES ON STRIKE THOUSANDS LAUD KNICKER GIRL AMBASSADOR HERRICK’S HOME IN Y BOMB EXPLOSION * Paris, Oct. 19,— (By the Associated Press.) —A bomb|/ exploded today in the house of Myron T. Herrick, the American | ‘ | ambassador, seriously injuring the valet who opened the packeze % | The room, in which the explosion occurred was wrecked. H Ambassador Herrick arrived at the house 2 minutes after | ‘RESPONSIBILITY OF ENDING THE ‘ \ Washington View -is That Organization Must Through Results Justify its Existence or Lose Confidence of Officials— Military Areas Taking Precautionary Measures Washington, Oct. 19.—The railroad| velopments were expected today. ! Reports from military are at hea@- quarters that steps were being he to list men now in the service who have had exeprience in various phases of railroa dwork are under- stood not to be the result of a general order from Secretary Weeks. It was said, however, that the generral staff! or any of its subsidiary branches might undertake such survey on its own initiative as a matter of routine. | POISONED CANDY SENT ‘NURSES; | SIX MAY DIE; Chicago, Oct. 19—An exhaustive search for the sender of a box of Poison candy responsible for the critical illness of six nurses at the West End Hospital was being con- ducted today by postoffice inspec- tors. * The box came through the mail and was addressed to Miss Helen. Rosenfeld, a 17-year-old student nurse. It contained home-made “fudge,” analysis of which was said to show that the supposedly deadly poison permeated the can-* » Miss Rosenfeld came to America nine months ago from Austria and has been a student nurse in the hospital since that time. In the candy box was a type- written note bearing the follow-, lowing: CALL LESSER GROUPS TAKEUP ORDER OF “BIG FIVE” Outcome of Strike Call May Be Settled Through Confer- ences |RAIL EXECUTIVES CALLED Will Meet in Chicago to Con- sider All Phases of Strike Situation TO MOVE NECESSITIES Chicago, Oct. 19—In the event the threatened railroad strike is called the roads are prepared to “do our utmost” to move neces- sities, utilizing to the fullest pos- sible extent the man-power avalil- able, Charles H. Markham, presi- ‘dent of the Iilinois Central Rail- road, declared today in an address before the American ‘Mining Con- gress. CONFER ON 'PHONE Cleveland, ©., Oct, 19—The scheduled conference today of the Big Four Brotherhaods and T. C. Cashen, president of the Switch- men’s Union of North aie and a representative of it L. E, Sheppard, of the Order of Railway Conductors, were confin- ed to telephone conversations be- cause of Inability of Presidents ‘Cashen and Sheppard to be pres- ent. Chicago, Oct. 19. (By the Associated Press.)—The first of a series of con- ferences in Chicago at which repre- sentatives of all factions in the rail- road strike situation may decide the outcome of the strike call issued by the Big Four Brotherhoods for, Oct. 30, began here today ‘to continue over the week-end. Three group meetings scheduled ar@:) 1. ‘Executive of the shop men main- enance of way workers, clerks, tele- graphers and others meet today, to- morrow Friday and Sunday to decide their attitude toward the announced strike of the train service employes with indications of:a final decision at a joint conference Mondey. 2. Brotherhood leaders are on MAS : Esch-Cummins law and the Adamson q ‘i failed to conduct the Home- Builders! q: 5 jured. Five persons were ar- #00 | closed ‘a mogt picturegque career. ; By a patient who was an | their way hereto hedrthe govern- association. in accordance with>law by. Say: ‘3 War Between Two English-| rested. - * : bs See al : pH R Pao sega ardent udmirer this candy was | ment’s aikitade througp the euisdad building ‘homes coxtifig over $5,009. Speaking Nations Should Be Jo Ss | “These were-war-time measures ‘and | Ludvig Il, as King of Bavaria, was| falthfuly made. labor board tomorrow, That they have failed.to carry out is Lanna they were preventing a speedy return | ruler of a kingdom which, next to The girl‘ invited six other 3. Railroad executives of the provisions of the laws for the issuance | “Unthinkable”. fe. ROSS J H AN 0 to norms! conditions,” said J. R. How-| Prussia, is the largest state in the| murses to share the candy with | centeral division meet Friday in Chi- of bonds’ necessary to provide funds | i | U1 5 jard, president of the American Farm | German empire both in area.and pop- Ler and within a few minutes all | cago to discuss’ all ‘phases of the ix for ldans-on real estate. | ep Ar : 2 i | Bureau Federation. ulation. When, in his 68th year, he} of them hecame ill. strike situation while executives of That Frazier, Hagan and Lemke| have svent money for political pro- ‘tf enduring friendship between the paganda. ‘ é | United States and Great Britain was vhat the Bank is insolvent: ; prqnounced by President Harding to- That no information can be secured |day'at a ceremony commemorating the ag to the condition of the state school! ginal surrender of the British: expedi- fund held. in trast. | tionary forces over the British in @iy Accompanying the petition is | Revolutionary war. « statement in afildavit form by Ormsby; Surrounded by high officials of his MoHarg setting jout the charges, and| sqministration and standing within asking the Bank of North Dakota be | sight of the spot where Cornwallis laid adjudged insolvent. | down his sword in 1781 the President OFFICIALS HERE AWAIT ve ; declared in deliberately chosen words ( DER| 2 sentiment of peaceful relationship COPIES OF COURT ORDER ‘between the two great English-speak Yorktown, Va., Oct. 19.—A ea OF TURTLE L AKE, f “The Esch-Cummins transportation act of 192) was the! Is vehicle through which the railroads: i ‘were returned to their owners,” Mr. | ; Howard: said. | | He added that the act and its in- i 4 terpretations has been found to take | from the states the power to regulate i ‘i + Fy j rates and practices of the carriers ; Well. Known in Masonic Circles relating to intrastate transportation | in This Section of the State | and distribution of cars. i A x as “The American Farm Bureau Fed- | —Funeral in Minneapolis —_| eration believes that the Esch-Cum- a mins act should either be repealed in its entirety or at once amended to | ‘Ross Joseph Hanson, of Turtle Lake, law, or the; ascended the throne on November 5, 1913, he was the first full-fledged king ‘that’ this big south German iinason' BANDITS BREAK had known since 1886, for in the in- terim of 27 years the Bavarians had} recognized as their nominal rulers two insane sovereigns, the extravagant palace- builder, Ludwig II, who drown- ed himself, and his brother, King Otto, known as “Mad” Otto, who was de- ed because of his mental infirm: ities, ' { The regency of the Bavarian throne, ; hands of Prince Luitpold, a cousin of VAULT; OBTAIN ONLY $60 Loor from 1886 to 1912, had been in the | Defeated’ in Purpose, ‘to Robj other divisions meet simultaneously in their own regions. EXPECT RATE CUT Freight rate reductions approxi- mately equivalent to the 12 per cent wage reduction ordered last July 1 by ‘the railroad labor board were in- dicated as the probable basis of sug- gestions the labor ‘board will pro- pose with the backing of the ad- ministration to avert ‘the strike. President J. R. Howard, of the Farm Bureau Federation, today had on file before the Interstate Com- Officials of the ‘Bank of North Da-}! A y cj aa fe ” .|the two insane monarchs, and ypon merce Commission here a petition for -kota or of the state had received no! ing melons kee me aurea N. D., a nephew of (Mrs, C. W. iMc=} cornea defects,” its pres-1 1, death, in December, 1912, it passed Vaults ‘of Bank of Pleasant a! 10 to 20 percent freightvrate re- official information concerning the law| Sains: the other must be “unthink- | CTY of Bismarck and 'well known in|” Relative to the Adamson act Mr. to Ludwig III. A movement was im- Lake, Benson County duction, on necessities of life and at suit started in Jamestown, they said| today. . State Treasurer John Steen, who is| gen a ian pr ar enero? the largest single depositor in the Bank of;North Dakota, said the filing) of the snit:;wag: news to him, except / that he had heard rumors of such ac- tion. He said he would do nothing or) epress no opinion of what action he might take until’ he had received a! copy of Judge Coffey's order. | . ‘ i A. Johannsen, director of audits of}Town Criers Discuss Question the Bank of North Dakota, said that! a Fi he did not believe that the suit would| at Meeting Last Night ‘be carried through and declared that; “if they claim we are insolvent they'll have a hard time showing it.. We have| of Bismarck was discussed by, the $1,200,000'in cash en hand.” He said! Town Criers, meeting last night at he had heard only press reports of the| the Grand Pacific hotel. epee filed. Mr. Cathro was out; Few of the streets in the western e city. part of the city are properly marked, Geo. K. Foster, assistant attorney! jt was reported. Houses also lack general, said no information had been| numbers, it was stated. ~The effect Teceived at that office concerning the| of lack of proper designation, of both able,” he said. Clear and definite marking of streets 1S DISCUSSED i this section of the state, passed away | Howard said: in a@ local hospital last evening suf-) , We ,have long been on record ifering from a complication of dis- Tavera its arenen. Gur, execute ea ‘3 committee w: representative: i ee dir, Hanson) had Deed tn ine rai sections of the country declares {hospital for twelve days. ae that it is responsible tor the unrea-/ | For the last three years Mr, Han-) sonaple transportation rates and if} continued will affect al: industries in- cluding agriculture toward increasing the cost of production beyond an eco- nomic basis.” {son had been in the drug business in Turtle Lake. He was born in Ren- iville, Minn., in which city he was | | Feared and educated. He was a mem- {ber of the Woodmen lodge of aa city, a member of the Masonic Blue ainesanG a | Lodge at Garrison, N. D., a member of TRUTH OF IMAGINATION?» ‘the Tancred Commandery No. 1,|. Osaka, Japan, Oct, 19.—Stories cont Knights Templar, Bismarck, and E1/ing from Tsuruga appear so improb- | Zagat Shrine Temple, Fargo. Mr. Han- able that newspapers have been cau- bron was active in Masonic work, He| tioning their readers against them. | also was a member of the Sons of the | 00€ story, for instance, told of a hail- | {American Revolution, and during the} storm with stones as big as a man’s} {war Mr. Hanson served in the Y. M. head. 1C. A. at Camp Logan, | Mrs. Ruth Hanson, of ‘ Renville,! ‘Minn., mother of the deceased, arrived (in Bismarck on word of his serious ill- The Chinese government: will es- tablish an air service betwoen Peking | {and Tsinan, capital of Shantung Prov- ‘ions, unfurled his royal standard on {their new King when Ludwig ascend- mediately begun to make this new re- gent the actual king in place of the |. demented Otto but it was not until) ‘November 5, in the following year that Ludwig consented to accept the crown,, provided a bill changing the constitution passed the ‘Bavarian diet. ‘This act was speedily passed, and ‘Ludwig, in pursuance of its provis- the ancient Wittlesbach Palace in Mu- ; nich, while the inaompetent Otto was | placed in restraint. The transfer of | the throne met with general approval. One thing the Bavarians were re- | ported to have hailed as favorable ‘in ed the throne was that he was believ- ed to be far less amenable to Prus- sian influence than his father, the re- gent Luitpold, had been, At a ban- quet in Moscow, when the present Em- peror ‘Nicholas of Russia was crowned, it was remembered he had made a speech that was thought to define his Fargo, Oct. 19—Burgiars who yes- terday attempted to blow open the vault in the bank of Pleasant Lake, at Pleasant Lake, Benson county, ob- tained only $50 in silver and currency, | according to word from Minnewaukan. The robbers defeated their object by placing the door of the vault in| such a condition that they were un-| able to gain entrance. Neither were! the: bank officials able to get inside; today. ies Before beginning their operations the robbers cut the telephone and telegraph wires and communication was not restored until today. No trace has been found of the! bank robbers nor the en who looted ‘the store of Granitts Brothers at Oberon. Loot estimated at $12,000 was obtaited from the store at Oberon, 2 small station on the Northern Pacific branch line from Jamestown to Leeds. ; the same time he telegraphed union leaders and railroad executives urg- ing them to join him in a conference _ here. ; Failure of the Brotherhood ‘chiefs toi: join a strike agreement at conferences here fast week with the 11 other rail- road ‘unions has made uncertain the outcome of their strike conference here beginning today.’ Referendum votes have authorized © the leaders of the maintenance of way men and shopmen. who meet here today and tomorrow, to call a strike at their discretion but shop- craft leaders have summoned their executive councii and executives of. the maintenance of way union have called general chairmen of their 12 divisions. ) DECISION (BY END WEEK Memberships of , these two and others of the 11 organizations which have not issued strike notices num- suit. H, A. Paddock, secretary of the! streets and houses is to make it diffi-i ness and will accompany the body to! ince. {disposition in this matter. He had | per 1,500,000 as compared with halt Industrial Commission, was out of the cult for strangers to get about in the!Penville on No. 4 tonight for funeral | then declared that the states of ithe ° EY o ee failifon in the train service group city. jelty and also causes’ much loss of! services and burial. 1 5 ‘German contederation, were, faa | Today’s Weather | now under instructions. for the walk- pax ra a SPST A time te business men m making deliv-| Mr. ‘Hanson. had one brother, Rod- | WHAT YOU WILL Peete laa 0 rae ne in ag : at {out beginning Oct.:30. eries with new boys. iney, a lawyer in St. Paul, Minn, He; they were allies, and not vassals/ Se TET YS OEE TTA ; 5 | “Officials of the telegraphers have Another: proposal disqussed. was; was not married. } Wort hours ending at noon Octo- | scheduled a meeting here for Friday marking of all trails within 100 miles} ber 19. and the clerks fof Sunday. No de- finite decision leaders. of these 11 unions indicated, will be made before | the end of the week. 3o-xw |FLOUR BREAKS Temperature at 7 a. m, . Highest yesterday . Lowest yesterday . Lowest last night . Precipitation ... ‘Highest wind velocity . ‘ River stage, 0.3 foot; 24-hour change | i “ox,ocr.28'~ | ODD FELLOWS BS. HOLD MEETING a steel plate hearing the‘ name of! “Bismarck” on their license tags. | re! relate of Organization; The Criers elected M. G. Gilman to! Sup! me Pre 8 fill the place of director made vacant; ‘| ‘Two constitutional amendments Washington, Oct. 19.--Favorable re-!| not political in character are sub- , port authorizing the creation of a| mitted to the voters,and may be i commission to arrange for funding | lost sight of because discussion is ‘ Is In; City by the elevation of W. R. Lumry to ‘ sie Satiea ies the presidency of the: club. Rey. Frederic S. Atwood, of Minne- sae nara cea ‘i apolis. pea Pela of the Knights} Philadelphia is experimenting with of Pythias lodge, is in Bismarck to-;# Vacuum street cleaning machine that day to attend a meeting of St. Elmo does twice as much work as a motor lodge tonight. Rev. Atwood is one of) eweeber the most noted speakers in Pythianism | ~~~ and -will tell members of the local lodge of the national organization’s forward movement. He was in Man- dan Monday night, wi!l be in Wash- burn .tomorrow,,. Center Friday, and next week will visit lodges in Leith and Carson. : The meeting tomight will be an open imeeting, “and, all’ Pythians in the vi- cinity are urged to be present. Washington, Oct. 19—The box containing private papers stolen from the office of Rep. Johnson, of Kentucky, Monday night was found early tcday on the “fifth floor of the house ofice building, broken open and with important documents missing. Employes said they located the box in an unoccupied storage room OLD TAVERN REOPENED London, Oct. 19—Ye Olde Dr. But- ler’s Head, believed to be the\oldest licensed tavern in London, has been redpened, It was founded in 1616 by Willam Butler, on whom King James 1 bes ewe@ the degree of “doctor” 4! | ALL DOCUMENTS RELATING TO _ BERGDOLL PROBE ARE STOLEN and returning of the foreign debt was | centered upon other measures on ordered today by the house ways and/| which there are political differ- means committee. The measure is a!| ences. substitute for the administration bill: The first is regarding compen= which wouldghave given the secretary || sation of membors: of the legisla- of the ‘treasury blanket authority;| ture. It provides that the consti- over foreign debt negotations. \" 1] tution be amended by increasing n || the pay allowed members of the legislature from $5 a day, or $300 for a 60-day sesston, to $1,000 for each. biennium. The usual 10 cents _a mile for travel going and coming is provided for. Another constitutional amend- ment proposes that in counties having 8,000 population or less the county judge shall also be the clerk of the district court. This measure was advocated in the leg- islature by some representatives of smaller counties in the state as a measure of economy and effic- iency, { Both these proposed amend- ments are submitted to the peo- ple on concurrent resolutions of the last general assembly. a ————————— eA covered with rubbage. Mr. Johnson announced not a single paper relating to the Berg-° doll investigation was left. Speaker Gillette stated he pro- posed to go to the bottom of the matter and Mr. Johnson called up- on police to obtain finger-prints of all office building: police and svorkimen of: the pffice building. District Representatives Gather in Bismarck o—— ‘A district meeting of the Odd Fel- lows lodge, embracing the lodges of Bismarck, Wilton, Baldwin and Hazel- ton, was held here last night at the 1. O. O. F. hall. Theodore Koffel, district grand mas- ter, presided. An address was given by Grand Master A. H. Armstrong, of Hazelton. All of the lodges were rep- resented. E.S. Thompson of Wi!ton, was elect- ed secretary of the district associa- tion. Rebekahs served lunch. WHEEL GOES ON SPREE London, Oct. 19.—A taxicab wheel became detached from the machine on Regent street, bowled through a line of cabs, crossed the street and smash- ed’ through a store window, cutting a neat round hole, No one was injured. 6.0 foot. Weather Forecast { For Bismarck and Vicinity; Fair tonight and Thursday; slightly cooler } tonight; rising temperature Thursday. For North Dakota: Fair tonight and Thursday; slightly cooler tonight in the east and south portions; rising temperature Thursday in the west portion. Weather Conditions A low pressure area covers the up- per ‘Mississippi Valley and the, Lake region while a high pressure area is central over Montana. Light rain has fallen from eastern ‘North Dakota eastward and over the Lake region but elsewhere the weather has been fair and moderate temperatures continue. The weather in North Dakota will be fair tonight and Thursday. with slight- ly cooler tonight in the east and south portion followed by rising temperature Thursday in the west portion, ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Meteonologist. TO NEW LEVEL Minneapolis, Oct. 19. —Following yesterday’s decline in the wheat market flour broke to new low levels here today touching $7.00 a barrel for the first time in about six years. Mills posted prices of $7.00 to $7.15 a herrel for family patent today, a reduction of 40 to 45 cent from yes- terday. ect i san JOBLESS GET RELIEF Mile End, Eng., Oct. 19.—Beginning a week from November 1, unemployed in Mile End will get 100 pounds of coal weekly, their rent, and a money grant according to the sizes of their families, all free. City guardians have decided on this relief. BANDITS HOLD WOMEN Shanghai, Oct. 19—Bandits in the Sun Wui district are ‘holding more than 30 women and girls whom they captured after raid They are now offering the women/for sale at prices in accordance with their beauty.