The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 8, 1921, Page 1

ve FORTIETH YEAR i THREE BAND Enter Mill City Bank; Escape in Automobile War Finance Corporation = Run by Fourth Bandit NORTH DAKOTA IN BEST SHAPE MEYER ASSERTS tor Astonishes Bankers in - Iowa By Statement _ GIVES N. D. THE PALM E BIS BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOT) ESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, ’21 | | | | | i i : Minneapolis, Noy. 8.—Three rob- bers entered the Republic State Bank BANK SOLVENC HELD IMPORTANT MATTER IN SUIT |Attorneys on Both Sides in Jamestown Suit Suggest It Be Determined i i \COURT. HEARS ARGUMENTS Washington, Dring: ways of postal robberies throughout the H Means of i j country were discussed today by President Harding and his cabi. net and It was indicated after the meeting that Postmaster General Hays probably would have a state. ment to make in the near future on the subject, WESTERN RAIL i | | | Burned. Passengers Assist Train Crew Only Receive Bullet Wounds. S GET $15,000 RR RAR ARR AAA ARR, HOLD UP CHICAGO-NEW ORLEANS LIMITED NEAR PAXTON Burn Mail Car After Hand to Hand Battle in Which Dynamite. Bombs and Flaming Torches Play Part. Value of Loot Secured But Everything Not Taken Was No Estimate of in Battle, None Are Wounded. Declares Financial Stringency Aided Rather Than Hurt North Dakota Fargo, N. N., Nov. 8—North Dako- ta banks have asked for two and a half million dollars from the War Finance Corporation up to and in- cluding the end of the first week in November, according to the state- ment of E. J. Weiser, chairman of the North Dakota committee assisting in handling the money of the Cor- poration. Money is awarded upon the: loans within six days of the tim the requests leave the Minneapolis) office or headquarters for Washing-; ton, so Mr. Weiser is of the opinio: that most of this money already is within the state. Great efforts were made by Secre- tary Waljace'of the National Depart- ment ‘of Agriculture to make certain that the loans to agricultural sections should be handled expeditiously. Mr. TRIBUTE WILL BE PAID HERE © AT 14 O'CLOCK ‘Hour of Observance of Arnis: tice Day is Changed at Re- | | quest from Washington i vault and escaped with $15,000 in cash. They fled in an automobile kept ready by a fourth bandit. The bank is located on Hennepin avenue just at the edge of the ‘ downtown business district. Wallace, from his long residence in'TQ : the middle of Iowa, and his frequent | BE SIMULTANEOUS, visits there since he took office, as; —_—— | well as to other sections of the) Gj i middle West has made him very |ilent Prayer to be at Same conversant with the need’ for immediate action for relief. That other states of the ' middle west are in worse financial condition than North Dakota is the opinion of! Eugent Meyer, Jr., chairman of the War Finance Corporation, as reported in the Des Moines Register of Satur-/ simultaneous with the burial of the day, November 5th. The article in the! unknown soldier in Arlington ceme-! Register follows: “Meyer Astonishes Bankers” “Eugene Meyer, Jr., chairman of the War Finance Corporation, at a re- cent conference with Des Moines bankers, is reported to have made ® tary conveyed the President's request statement which the bankers deciere! proves: conclusively that circumstances cannot be considered wholly. .responsible for the present; The Legion committ bh > plighf Of farmers, “When asked which | charge of the oe eauichschas agricultural state in the middle west is inthe best state, Mr. Meyer is said ito Ihave astonished the bankers by giving the palm to North Dakota. It! had been ‘supposed that the political turmoil centering in the activities of the nonpartisan league in North jthat North Dakota observe the day external ‘and that the time of silent tribute be | Time in all States as Burial | in Arlington _The silent period of prayer Friday, Nov. 11, in honor of the hero dead of the World War will be at an hour| |tery. The time is 12 o'clock in Wash- | | ington, 11 o'clock. in (Bismarck and 10 jo’clock in Mandan. i A telegram fnom Secretary of State | Hughes was received last night’ by Governor Frazier in which the Secre- the same in every state in the union, rogram today changed the time for Bismarck. ~ ¥ The new program for tho day fol-| lows: (Parade, or pilgrimage, will move at 10:15 a. m. sharp. Line of march will be announced later. General assembly will be in ' GUNMEN TO SEE MAN HANGED IN CHICAGO JAIL Chicago, Nov, 8—Frank Lig- i regni, convicted of the murder of his school teacher wife in a farm house near Bartlett, . Illinois, last December will be hanged to» morrow afternoon at 4230 o'clock, this being the first time in the history of Chicago that an execu- tion has been set for the after- Sheriff Charles W. Peters an- nounced the time today and said ‘that he had set the afternoon | hour so that every gunman con- fined in the county jail could get | tied moral effect of seeing a hang- ng. 3 BANK ROBBERS’ BAND BELIRVED 10 BE BROKEN Cass ‘County Sheriff Says Band| is Rounded Up Which Exe- cuted Many Robberies NEW.. HOLDUPS PLANNED 4 Declares He Is In Possession | of Plans to Rob First Na- tional at Leeds i neon. ! | turn. to High Court on Order. to Show Cause | | today, drove officials and patrons into a palit Judge Coffey Makes be LINES ASK PAY | GUTOR 40 Por. | | | ;Northern Pacific Included in| | Roads Which Decide to | . Press Reductions TEST BOND CONTRACT. Not'ce’ of commencement of it in the’ Barleigh county dis- triet court im an effort to have the bond sale contract of the Bank | | of North Dakota declared Ilegal | has heen served hy A. J. Gronna, | Pea Keng, Caan Xerle™ | INCLUDES ALL BRANCHES, Me Kelly; Charles Peterson, | John Thelin and (. H. Olson. The } taxpayers ask Juige Nuestie t mige Nuessle to |Win Be Brought to Attention of pratt the Seal commis- sion from completing the contract i with Spitzer, Rorick and Come | Railroad Labor Board Im- | pahy. Judge Nuessle refused to ii ii Issue a restraining order but Ise | meoesiehy, It ts: Sald i sued order to the industrial commission. to show cause on November 9 why the contract should not be set aside. Attorney. General Lemke will Tesivt the suit. He declared to- day the: bonds were sold to the Bank of. North Dakota at par and the bank sold them at tie dis count, and that bond attorneys ‘Chicago, Nov. 8—Managers of the western group of railroads met here yesterday and decided upon the im-| ; Mediate serving of notices of wage! | veductions of 10 per cent, according! to an announcement today. The roads} represented at the meeting include; the ‘Sante (Fee, Great Western, Rock | Tslend, Northern Pacific and Great} Chicago, Nov. 8.—E. A. Germer, chief postal inspec- tor at noon announced that the loot obtained by six rob- bers who held un an Illinois Central train near Paxton, IIL, last night fourht a 45-minute battle with the train crew and passengers, wounding five men, dynamited and burned the mail car, will total approximately $400. “They got two pouches of registered mail and over- looked two others,” Mr. Germer said. “One of those overlooked” he said, “had contained $100,000.” In the two they took, Mr. Germer added “there was nothing but the ordinary run of registered letters—no bank shipments or other packages of especial value. It will take a week to see each individual sender rl gae up the exact loss but I estimate it at about Paxton, Ill., Nov. 8.—Officials were searching toda t E ‘ y for ten bandits who held up and robbed the Chicago-New Orleans limited of the Illinois Central near here last evening, wounding four train employes, stealing two pouches of registered. mail and. setting fire i ie mall ak tne to the men had been found) today e battle wi e highwaymen w: = tacular in the annals of train robberies, ee eee PASSENGERS NOT MOLESTED The passengers were not molested although one got three ‘ {new officers-wauld take charge of the | had approved. the arrangements i before it was made. Suggestion that the supreme court take steps to ascertain the solvency of the Bank of North Dakota was ad- the hearing before the court today on the question of the order of Judge Coffey in.district court at Jamestown holding the bank insolvent and re- straining it. from accepting. deposits. The order was dissolved by the su- preme court.- I Ormsby MeHarg, attorney for tax-| payers, suggested that the. matter should be referred to District Judge Coffey for hearing and decision on the question \9f solvency or insolvency, or the court could namo a referee to take testimony. Attorney-General. William Lemke, representing thé stile, said ‘he believ- ed the question of the solveacy or in- solvency should be determined, a3 & banking instjtution cannot continually be under attack, and suggested one! judge or a referee hear the matter. | Judge Robinson, after these sugges- tions, interposed the remarks that | Northern. y ; In the proposed cut all departments ion the bandits while they were fighting the train crew. A ne; will be affected and committees were appointed to draft the notices imme- diately so that the roads may go be fore the labor board and ask an early bullet holes in his coat when h jtrain porter was injured as he jing car. He was seriously inj e and three other passengers fired stood in the vestibule of the geek: ured. One fireman was hit in the vanced by counsel on both sides m| bearing. reduction efforts so that these might | {be brought to the attention of the! BILL FA board immediately, it was said. The labor board has announced that wage reduction questions will not | be considered until after it has passed |'}! on working rules and schedules but the roads decided to press their wage strike ! FINAL PASSAGE Settlement of the railroad was voted by the railroad brother-} hoods for Oct. 30, following a state- ment by the railroads that wage re- | ductions would not be passed upon ; until after’ questions regarding rules | i and working conditions had been de-| Senate Early Today Passed Bill, cided. By Vote of 38 to 24—Goes’ “| oe DURING FIGHT oe BILLION REVENUE ; between Chicago and Paxton. ‘shoulder, a mail clerk was shot in the hand bed over the head with a revolver. aia! ig oe Cover Train Crew Two of the robbers boarded the Chicago-New Orleans flyer somewhere‘ They covered the crew according to. rail | officials as the train ulled out of Paxton. They ordered the train to proceed to a small bridge two miles south of hove where the train was stopped so. that: the passengers could Tot come forward... The hafdits! then jordered the train crew to cut the train and the engineer was forced to pull the mail car up the track, Eight More Robbers Appear ‘When a certain point was reached eight more bandits came out of hid- ing. Automobiles were parked ‘near their. hiding placé.. The robbers or- dered the mail clerk to open the door, but it had been slammed tight and the guards inside prepared to give battle to the robbers. (Fargo, 'N. D., Nov: 8—Capture of} bank within 20 days, officers who are! Dakota, and the financial stringency! Northern Pacific park. Space will Dynamite Used the state experieneced in conse-| quence had brought its farmers and! business alike to the verge of in-| solvency. Exactly the contrary effect; resulted from the so-called financial} be. reserved for service men, | school chiléren and autos and for |; those who march in the parade. At 11 o’c\xck the whistle will sound. (Each person in the city is asked to bare his head, face the boycott, Mr. Meyer is reported to have said. “What the financial stringency, | did, the. war finance chairman is re-| ported to have declared, was to make} North Dakota farmers stop spending west and remain perfectly still until the second blast of the whistle announces the end of the two-minute period. Speakers at Theaters American Legion speakers will and -borrowin, full bet an: like Melt aera! bette oriucta iy | make addresses in the various thea- other middle western. states. The/ ters tonight, speaking directly after result was that, when the bottom fell|the ‘first reel of the second phe An out of things, the net position of | each, explaining the plan of observ- North Dakota was relatively good, |#Nnce of Phe Day and Satine or d Ate: I6 4 *| cooperation of all people in the ob- despite’ tiie-léssés ‘its farmers had suf-/ GH. Russ, Jr, will speak ‘ st servance. 1eeed thiodeh-having held wheat on alee the Eltinge, Frank Henry at the Ta Eng eek |Rex, and P. G. (Harrington at the “Grain Ofisets Loss” | Bismarck. “What they lost through the wheat! It is asked that all stores close not rice crash they made up in substant-| later than 11 o'clock. The Legion Tal measure he the tock that, while committee urges the further following they were holding their grain, they|Teminder if all would pay this short were not increasing their commit- ; tribute to the makes cea iid ae ments or engaging in land specula-| “Those who do no! ray ath tion. In consequence, Mr. Meyer is;2de but watch from the sidewal credited .with having'said the posi-} Please remember the respect due the tion of tHe North Dakota farmers, asColors, when they pass Met stand ag far'as ‘possession of ‘quick assets OT tie eran the things raat Curren slab lies: Goee 18 Hoey, bet! pave been a part to the building of ter than that of farmers in any other| this great nation. middle west state. . | npes parties remember to stop “Conversely,. the present situation; _ n the whistle in Iowa is attributed in no small de- | pews aie Saha us, and pay gree to the fact that during the boom| ? propor tribute to this unknown the state had no such difficulties to! soidier, representative of all the ‘sol- contend with as those which were! gier dead.” thought to be badly hurting North| ‘i Dakota. In Iowa. bankers point out, | ¢——_________-___—_—_-* inflation and speculation continued || Today’s Weather { in full career for months after de-;, 1! flation was _well under way in the} east. Readjustment difficuties now,/ they say, will necessarily be propor-| For ‘Twenty-four hours ending at noon’ Nov. 8. Temperature at 7 A. M.. 14 time was left too free of restrictions ; on borrowing and spending for its: own good, and that its potential! wealth was discounted to such an ex-; tent as to have been temporarily; transformed from an asset into a; liability. The inference is that some-; times for communities, as well as, tioned to the degree of unsoundness; ,*© that marked the transactions of the; Highest genterdey - a8 inflation period. Another way in| Lowest duets Et 134 which the same point is made is by! ee tation ne iS chee the statement that Iowa in the boom! Highest wind velocity . 16 NE| | Weather Forecast For Bismarck and vicinity: Fair) to-night and Wednesday; rising tem-| perature. i For North Dakota: Generally fair| to-night and Wednesday; rising tem-! Perature. Weather Conditions five men near Hannaford by a rosse! last night and interception of three! others near Casse!ton Monday night/| is believed to have ended the opera- tion of a band of alleged robbers that | has been playing on North Dakota banks, postoffices and general mer- chandiso stores, according to Sheriff | ‘Kremer. The band made its headquarters in Fargo, according to the sheriff, who} claims to have a complete program of | future operations planned by the rob- bers which included the holdup of the First Netional ‘Bank of Leeds and the Cragness State Bank of Cragness, Clay county, Minnesota. The three men taken near Cassel- gens and Pobert Benton of Fargo, and Alfred McElroy are held in the Cass county jail. They are believed to have been implicated in the attempted robbery of the internal revenue of- fice here about a week ago which was frustrated after a gun fight. The five men held at Cooperstown will be taken to Devils Lake today. ‘They said their names wére Joe Beil, William Richey, Edward Wilson, Al- bert Smith and Arthur,,Smith, Bell was suffering from a gun shot wound. FOR PUBLICITY Washington, Nov. 8.—The American delegation to the armament confer- ence was requested in a resolution; pffered by Senator Harrison and) adopted by the senate to use its in-; fluence for making public the record} of proceedings and for admission of! newspaper men to all meetings of the} full conference. H COMMUNISTS IN ITALY BATTLE i + London, Nov. §.—Sharp fighting be-| ‘tween Italian communists and ex-| treme nationalists in which most of) adverse to the present management, | and-that the court ought not to take | any hand in the matter. bs ~ “Conspiracy of Silence” i "4 i Charging that there has been a/Kentuckians Engage in Fight) “conspiracy of silence” upon the part i < i officers of North Dakota controlling} Over Election From Which Six Deaths Result | affairs of the Bank of North Dakota and other funds, Mr. McHarg declar-! ed: { ‘Nobody knows in this: state today | 1 just what the conditions are—I have SPECIAL TRAIN IS) SENT AT THE POLLS “em Two Hundred Million! 8 Less Than the Present Law, |, S02" hereof, azemi a }and there ensued a hand to hand bat- itle which only stopped after the rob- 'bers had thrown two more bombs in- Washington, Nov. 8—The tax re-!to the car and overpowered the mai! vision bill now faces its final passage, |Clerks and the train crew. The measure was passed by the sen-| The registered mall. was thrown out ate early today by a vote of 38 to|@nd the bandits escaped {n their au- 24. This followed a continuous ses-|tomobiles. Everything that was not sion lasting nearly sixteen hours. It|taken was burned. The mail car was Ready For Signing Soon ton who gave their names as Joe Jer-; AT ARMS PARLEY pleaded to the best of my knowledge] jas a taxpayer upon the best informa-, | tion J could secure from officers of; this state whose duty it is to give me; information,” he said, “and I have; | alleged a conspiracy wf silence existed as to affairs.” that body reconvenes tomorrow. Re- Jackson, Ky. Nov. 8—Six men] Publican leaders plan to send it ut were killed and five others’ were|Once into conference Thursday. It! wounded {n an election fight shortly! may reach the president for his ap-| after the polls opened at Clayhole|proval late in the month. The bill; voting precinct on Troublesome creek, | in its present form provides for $3,-| In detailing the motives which ani- mated! taxpayers in. so-called James- | ‘town case he referred particularly to; \school funds which, he declercd had | { not’ been handled in accordance with; ‘law and had not been peoiccted in} that they had been placed in the in- | solvent Bank of ‘North Dakcta. Mr. | MoHarg declares plaintiffs spoke for | school children of this state or, “if! | you please, for protection of unborn) \ generations of this state for whom | | thee funds must be kept inviolate. i Coffey Makes Return : District Judge Coffey, in making re-; ‘turn to the court’s order to show why | ‘its dissolution of the injunctional or- | {der should not be made permanent, | declared he had told Attorney-General ; |Lemke he could have a hearing be: ‘fore the district court on a motion by ‘Lemke to vacate the order. This! \ statement wag denied as false by Mr. ‘Lemke in a statement to the court. 18, 30, | —_____ | | French ‘Combs, 35; Tom ie THANKSGIVING 30. i A special train has been sent from: | | wounded.) | Breathiett county, about 15 miles| 250,000,000 of revenue or about two} from here today. hundred million less than the present | The dead are: Cleveland Combs, law. It is urged by treasury officials! 35; Leslie Combs, 27; Echern Allen, that it is the least that the govern- 35; George Allen, 31; John Roberts,/ ment can manage on to meet ex-' 30; George McIntosh, 30. {penses of the government for the next| The wounded are: William Barnett,! fiscal period. 50; Ed. Davis, 36; Will Dav! Jackson with physicians to attend the | The story of the affray as it reach-; ed Jackson was to the effect that Ed! Combs, an uncle of the cont hove and defeated Democratic candidate in} thanksgiving services will be heid| the Aug. primary for county judge! }y the protestant churches of the city/ was active in support of the Republi-| in the morning at 10:30 at the Evan-| can nominee for the same office./getical Lutheran church. Rev. Half- Combs, it was said, entered the poll-! yarq will preach the sermon. Action | ing place today and attempted to give| tayorable to holding union services orders to the lection officers. His | was taken Monday at a meeting of the relatives according to the story Te-) Bismarck IMinisterial association. SERVICE PLAN |clared it al ed to be contradictory ; f ——— ppeare Ory | and ‘he was unable to determine which i fe A | side the treasurer was on. E. B. Cox | as y | F. B, McCurdy appeared for Treas: | onstrated with him and out of the Steon asking that the case ut of | Heeeadea to district court for trial | argument erew a tent in whl] 4 8, Attorney-General pistols were drawn and the 5! g! gam tGeemere i" | beeame general. Lemke, in referring to the motion, de- | was in court as representative _ for | State Superintendent Minnie J. Niel- | | son and Secretary of State Thomas | Hall who filed a motion to quash. | ! The Jamestown Seae should. have scale in Burleigh county, At-; ! | a Lea ‘ euike Soriteaded, He; _Wavhington, Nov. 8.—American pro-| ores mn under the law all such hibition officials and Canadian officia Hered Aa be brought in this coun-| have entered into a “gentlemen’: | actions must Ov rized the suit as aj agreement” designed to reduce smug-; aliing oupedill political lawt gling of liquor across the border to| “fishing expedition,” a 1 ‘Most of the churches of the city will It was announced that the Episco- | pal church would hold special ser: vices Armistice Day morning. Both} morning and evening services will be held at the Evangelical Lutheran. keep open all day as requested by President Harding. THREE KILLED IN AUTO SPILL Cincinnati, Nov. 8—Three persons for individuals, edsy credit is not an advantage. The northern high pressure area covers the northern States from the Pacific coast to the Lake region and a general drop in temperature. has resulted over this section. Light snow has fallen over Montaia, Airoming, | western Dakotas an the upper Grand Forks, N. D., Nov. 8.—Presi-| Mississippi Valley. A moderate low dent Thomas F. Kane of the Univer- pressure area has appeared over sity of North Dakota, is now at New Alberta and its southeastward move- Orleans, where he is to speak at the| ment will result in generally fair sessions of the Associations of State| weather in North Dakota to-night and Universities. His subject is “Uniform Wednesday with rising temperature. Metheds of Calculating the Per Cap- ORRIS W. ROBERTS, ita Cost of Education.” The subject of Meteorologist. one the association has been working upon for years, in an effort to arrive at a basis which all schools will ise PRES. KANE IN NEW ORLEANS Lions and tigers are too weak - in (the combatants were wounded, some jseriously, occurred near Novi, in Alessandria province, northwestern Italy, yesterday, says a Central] News dispatch from Rome today. Revolver firing lasted a considera- ble time with many casualties, ANTI-BEER BILL VOTE NOV. 18 Washington, Nov. 8—An agreement to vote on Nov. 18 on the anti-beér. bill was reached formally by the sen- ate with the measures’ supporters predicting its enactment with a large lung power to run more than half a in their cost accounting. mile. 2 a suit and declare] i it was not brought a minimum, it was announced today at federal prohibition headquarters. | were killed and five others were in” good: faith. SUCCESSOR TO NESTOS NAMED Minot N. D. Nov. 8.—Vernon. E. ati sh district of} Steenerson has been appointed by A representative of each dlstiit g| State's Attorney 0. B. Hergistad to the Methodist chruch im the state has! -veceed Governor-elect R. A. Nestos been appointed to attend a represet:| 45 assistant state's attorney of Ward tative conference of the church to be| county. ‘Mr. Nestos resigned the po- held at Detroit, Mich., November 14th-| sition when he decided to make the The North Dakota representatives|yace for governor in the recall elec- tion. Mr. Steenerson, who {is one of Mi-. .- REPRESENTATIVES ARE APPOINTED are: : Bismarck district, J. D. Smith; Fargo district, W. C. Hodgson; Grand seriously injured when a car plunged down a_ seventy-five foot embank- ment near Cleves. John Sullivan, owner of the car, was killed ouright and two women passengers died shortly afterwards. Five others had their skulls fractured or suffered from internal injuries. LIGHT PLANT CHANGES HANDS Steele, N. D., Nov. 8.—Michael Zeck: of Enderlin, N. D., has purchased the not’s most active citizens, will assume Forks district, C. L. Wallace; Minot majority to spare. office at once. district, W. P. Jinnet. jready is in possession. Steel Light and Power plant and al- will be returned to the house when|“estroyed by fire. Cutting out the ruins of the mail car. the train crew hooked up the train again and pnoceeded to Champaign where the injured were taken ta a hospital. CHECKING UP. LOSSES |..,..., Chicago, Ill, Nov. 8—Offielals jwere checking up the loss today: but, were not prepared to give any ‘estimate. They had no idea as to the value of ;the packages in the registered mail. The entire contents of the car evi- dently are lost as the bandits ‘burned everything they did not take. MISSED VALUABLE POUCH Champaign, Ill, Nov. 8—Belief that $100.000 in cash was in the mail car of Illinois Central train ‘No. 3 held up near Paxton last night, prompted the hold up according to opinions of railroad men expressed today. The bandits missed the most valu- able pouch in the car, a railroad of- ficial stated, and it was his opinion |that it was this particular. pouch that was sought. : The pouch, believed to contain a fortune in cash, was thrown out of the car, carried a short distance from the train and was for some reason dropped and later recovered by the trainmen. ULSTER KEY T0 IRISH PEACE London, Nov. 8.—Members of the Ulster cabinet have been summoned to London by their premier to con- sider a proposal made by the British government in connection with the Irish peace negotiations. It would indicate that the peace conference was approaching a climax. The situation, it is frankly admitted, is now critical. Success or failure rests with Ulster in the opinion of Sinn Fein delegates here who declare that their proposal to the British premier with respect to Ulster are liberal enough to effect a settlement if Ulster chooses. NEW CHURCH DEDICATED Kennedy, N. D., Nov. 8—A new Catholic church was dedicated here the last Sunday in Ocober. Bishop Werhle of the Bismarck diocese had charge of the services.