The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 30, 1921, Page 1

Last Edition \ THE BISMARCK TRIBUN FORTIETH YEAR BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30 PRICE FIVE CENTS |} IRISH PARLEYS NEAR BREAKDOWN MAIL THIS WEEK... IS NEW SLOGAN FOR CHRISTMAS Postmaster-general Hays Asks) ‘ Cooperation of Local People in Handling Mail LETTERS TO SANTA CLAUS, Tribune Receives First Letters From Two Little Local Girls to Santa Claus Mail this week! This is the new phase of the “Shop Early, Mail Early” slogan for Christ- | nas giving. Postmaster General Hays, | in a message to the local office, urges j the slogan “Mail This Week!” Stores in Bismarck already are be-| ginning to take on a holiday air, and | the postoffice is getting ready for the | annual rush of business. | , The Tribune has received the first! Santa Claus letters from little tots; who believe in the slogans, They fol- low: { “Dear Santa Claus: I want a doil| with curls and a set of dishes and um- : brella and dresser and two books and; some napkins and clothes for my doll,! and a dancing dress and some mits: and candy and a few handkerchieis | and that is all. Love and a Merry! Christmas, MABEL.” | The second letter reads: 1 “Dear Santa Claus: I want a lit-|weighing the lord mayor when he i tle dolly and some clothes and a lit-|the old adage “weighed and found war tle wagon and two horses, a book, ‘he will gain while mayor. This pictur dishes, ball, music -box, stoves. Love as he begins his term as lord maycr of and a Merry Christmas, from ! GEORGIA.” | | lowing Christmas, message, says: Office of the Postmaster General, Washington, November 30, 1921. Christmas is almost here. . Your great post office department Economy to Rule Construction has a big job ahead and needs your; , cae ae of New Buildings, it is ree teams, BUILDING PLAN The aid of boys and girls of the city in the “Mail This Week” slogan is to} be sought through the local postoffice.: Postmaster General Hays, in the fol- To the Boys and Girls of the United States: | help. Think. what. it means to be Santa Q Claus toot 100,000,000 peoplé and to Stated deliver Christmas parcels to every| —- i family in this great country within; Construction of the new school , the short space of a few days andjpuilding at the University of North without disappointment. iH |Dakota, main building at the Dickin- ; It can be done, and we're going to: | Dae : Aas | do it if we may have your help. }|80n normal and a dormitory at the want to enlist the Yictive assistance!institution {or feeble-minded at | of every boy and girl in the schools | Grafton probably will be undertaken | of our country in getting parcels; next spring, it was stated by Secre- mailed thig week to relieve the rush tary Liesmann following a mee ing of that comes directly before Christmas.'the board of state administration | Will you go home today and take;here. A contract, has already been this message to your parents and let for construction of a ‘building at friends: {the state agricultural college. i “Our postmaster has asked us to! The situation with regard to au-! mail our Christmas parcels this week, | thorized construction of new build- | for, unless we do, Uncle Sam’s load its’ Was gone into thoroughly at the , may be so heavy the last few days | board meeting, the first since the | before Christmas that he won’t be ‘election. Commissioner cf Agricul- able to deliver all the presents by|ture and Labor Kitchen sat on the | Christmas eve.” * {board for the first time. The parcels must be well wrapped! t The desire of the board is to avoid | and tied and addressed plainly in or-|U2necessary expenditures during the der that they may arrive in good con- |Teadjustment period and also may | dition with their Christmasy appear-|face enforced economy he of ance ungpoiled. . You can put on your | failure of payment of taxes by many | packages,.‘Do not open until Christ-; Perso The buildings at the uni- mage?" vers: your house and a mail recoptacle, top, {tion are regarded as pressing needs in or if there isn’t Santa Claus's mes-| enger, your letter carrier, may not! be able to find the house where the!ing in Fargo December 6 at which , jtime presidents of s'! educational | Present belongs. other things, too, | institutions will mect with the board in which you can all assist in improv-|to discuss problems 4 ing the mail service and in saving! our great government millions of dol: ce eee lars alydar that is tigW ‘wasted be-| cause of carelessness’— yours and; mine. i Every day that you drop a letter in| the mail box 40,000,000 other letters | are already pushing and jamming; through the postal machinery. One; letter a day for each family of five; persons in the United States is given | Two to Uncle Sam to deliver. | When you send a parcel to the post! office for mailing any day there are! about 8,300,000 other parcels ahead of | yours pi g through the postal hop- per. This is in ordinary days; ati in session today, disc those institution The board decided to hold a m normal schools of the state. Meeting times. ‘the state The meeting was held in! It was stated that the guaranty 000 half addressed letters with the’ sing ¢, 20,000,000 fully addressed letters. That ed ee te ene oe - seth | ing with banking board to dis poorly addressed letters Jet eee entire question and particularly to < larger boys and girls are delayed DY | quaint the new state officials with # bunch of “bad kids” tagging 21086-! many problems with which they will vou boys and girls can help the have to deal in the future. No con- pile: eee eee poets help (rete action was expected to result | som ip fr rst session. pay the cost of searching addresses rom the first se ona mee AED on letters‘and parcels sent out by this‘ mir one careless and thoughtless family in every ten. First find out if your family is the careless one, then bear in mind that your letters must be handled by skill- ed mail distributors standing in post offices and on swaying postal cars of | gaat HOBOES KILLED der poor light. Casper, Wyo. Nov. .— Wreckage 3 z = g 8 g 2 g ' THE LORD MAYOR “WEIGHS IN” | agricultural college, Dickin- | ‘And, there must be a fhumber on/S0D normal and feeble-minded institu- | sunshine in four da: began to thaw out today and to throw off the v {storms. The shedding process laid as t bare the damage running into millions the German war, and this was hb of dollars. State Bodies Hold Joint| companies announced their difficulties | were unprecedented. — prospe The state guaranty fund commis- | town and with thousands of telephon ion and the state banking board are|Jines out cf commission toll connec ssing the en-| tions can be restored only in days gall tur Christmas time it is multiplied many! tire problem of the closed banks in} individual service probably in weeks Aint, Aulih Aik In some sections of England they still cling to the old .ustom of publicly ugurated. Maybe it’s in iine with gz.” Or maybe it’s to see how much hows G. H. Taylor being weighed an English city. 'GOVERNOR’S JOB CALLS NOW FOR A 15-HOUR DAY Being governor of North Dakota just now is about a 15-hour-a-day job. Governor Nestos has not only had the task of attending many board meetings, but there is a deluge of correspondence and many call. The governer is usually found On the street car which takes most of the employes to the capitol for the day’s work, or has already preceded the bulk of the employes hy walking. An hour or so for lunch and he is back at his desk until aiter dark. was so great that one board meet Ing of the new industrial com- missi fovernor Nestos, Atto ney General Johnson and Commi sioner of Agriculture Kitehen— was called in the governor's of- fice at 5:30 o'clock, after prac- tically all employes had fin ished for the day. Callers seeking the governor, Mr, Johnson or Mr. Kitchen take up enough time at night to make the days of all of them easily 15 hours. All the new officials are prepared for a strenuous time at, until the reorganization of the state government is complet ed. ENGLAND “THAWING OUT ing in the [yrs Sunshine in Four Days Brings Relief Under the first New England Boston, Nov, 30- icy burden by successive Electric and telephone Further nights of darkness are ‘n for a half hundred cities an s and One family in about every ten puts’ the office of Governor Nestos, and, a badly addressed letter in the mail; ya. continued from-yesterday. { every day. This mixes up over 2,000,-| NAMED SOON ‘The state industrial commission ts erpected to name a manager of the Rank of North Dakota Friday or Sac- urday. Three or four persons are un- der consideration, it is stated, and definite selections has about been de- termined upon. Neft the borders of the state, contain- MARINE T | ling a last greeting to the Governor from the Mar: of France. AMERICAN PLAN FAMINE HORRORS GROWING THROUGH RECT MP TION OF Yesterday the press of business {Detective Guards Him On Trip’ | _ ISDISCUSSED + BY COMMITTEE | Differences on; Naval Ratio Plan | May Come to Head Soon in Washington ic: See \MUST BE? SETTLED FIRST ment Cannot Proceed Until This is Settled i i ' | j 1 \ ! » Washington, Nov. 30.—(By the A. | ?.)—Details of the American plan for jlimitation of naval armament were jdiscussed ‘today at a brief meeting ;of the sub-committces of naval ex- jStates and Japan. The session was adjourned shortly after 11 o'clock | | RUSSIA; MANY PEOPLE GOING MAD Peasants Eat What Only Camels Have Before Eaten < | Moscow, Nov. 30—(By the As- | med. some being seized with a mania! British Government Circles Ad- trict of Russia will be receiving | tants subsisted on field mice, they are "OPEN WARFARE | S | jEstimated That Total of 1,200,000 Children Will Be Receiving | ‘ if i | sociated Press)—A total of 1,200,- {that they have plenty of bread. While: i pees i mit Difficulties Appear In- | tegular food allotments from the | now reduced to eating cats, carrion Conference on Naval Disarma-, ; In the Saratov region where 389,000 | i American Food Allotment By the First of the Year— IS THRE ATENED 000 children in the famine dis- in the summer many of the inhabi-! surmountable ; American Relief } Administration | by the first of next year, it was | stated by Walter L. “Brown, di- | rector, after an inspection tour. Riga Letvia. Nov. 30-—(By the As- sociated Press)—Famine horrors in k a are growing with the. approach of winter, Bolshevik government ad- vices show. and gr would cat. ‘Dispatches to the are bathing their children in a poison- ous extract made from sheep wool hoping it will bring about their death. At Pashand, Asiatic Russia, there is an increasing flood of refugees, ac- cording to Radio advices. Two thous- and persons are starving at the rail- ss which only camels hitherto i Rosta, official ULSTER STUMBLING BLOCK news agency, suy that many mothers; Sinn Fein Also Has Many Objec- | tions to the New Proposed Plan of Government peasants are listed as starving, ever Idren have been without food] road station there and the daily deat! and many persons are going| average 70. iperts of reat Britain, the United ja ee ea ARBUCKLE ( ASE ‘and it was then, Said there would be ‘no other meeting of the sub-commit- | tee today and that it had not been: idetermined whether discussions would | ‘be resumed tomorrow. | | There also was no indication that | ithe full committee of naval experts ‘including the officers of the French | fand Italian navies had. ‘been called. | ilt is generally expected that when { ithe experts of the three powers reach | }& point where. they cannot proceed | ifurther until th¢ conference has de- | jclded the fundamental question of | | fleet ratio as between the United | 'States andthe Japanese that the full inaval expert committee will be as- ‘sembled and will then make its full! veport to\the naval committee of the conference, In American circles there had ap- peared toy be a fecling that today ! imight bring the discussion of the | ‘naval ratio\question to a head so far | las the experts Were concerned. There | was no indicat’on that such a stage ; had been reached, however, when the | sub-committee adjourned. Op<imism was pparent {members of the Bri |spokesman for! which prior to ad- |journment of the sub-committee of | jexperts assertirjy that he believed ‘some announcement along the line of | {naval armament might be expected | {next week, prtbably before the con- 'terence in plenary session Wednesday ; jor Thursday. ( | i CHARLES SILENT among | IN HIS EXILE Around Islands \ i Funchal, Island of Madiea, Nov. 30! | (By the Associated Press)—Former ; |Emperor Charles of Austria Hungary | {and former Empress Zita are living | jquictly here in exile. Their only) i guard at the villa Victoria where they | jreside is a plain clothes policeman | | who accompanies them on their jour-| |neys about the island to prevent. beg: | |gars from bothering them and to! javert other annoyances. { | Charles and Zita are treated as hon-| |ored guests by the Portugese officials. It is considered likely that the for- Pmer royal pair will engage the Vic- toria’ for a permanent residence. | Charles is taciturn but Zita is affabl jand talks cheerfully to those she [treats i INDIAN’S RED _ CROSS BADGE by GIVEN SOCIETY | The Red Cross badge of Mato-hota, | | who lives at La Vlante, South Dakota, ihas ‘beent given to the State Historica !society. Mato-hato was president of } [the Indian Red Cross in the Cheyenne | |River district throughout the time o! : badge of office. i The badge is made by stitching por- ‘cupine quills upon deerskin. The de isign is of double symbolism to the In~ dians. The cr signifies not only he Red Cross organization, but ity ignifies to them the extent of the world in all four directions, north, Also to them the color red symbolizes blood, the life of all fles! of one blood. and that we are all The yellow color sig- {nifies sunshine. happiness, good for- tune. The gr color encircling the badge signifies plant life, which sup- ;Ports all other life. | Mato-hota donated this badge to {the State Historical society Novem- ‘ber 1dth, ‘FOCH’S PICTURE IN STATEHOU { The photograph’ of Marshal Foch. who visited North Dakota Sunday, has ta place in the desk of Governor R. A. \Nestos. The autographed photograph “was received yesterday, being mailed from the Foch special train before it 1 _ [One Petition Already in Cireu-| pilin ine nstess ot une see aaea NEARS FINISH- Washington, No »— Reduced rates on coal which Henry Ford attempted to put. In effect on his railroad, the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton, were further suspended today by the Interstate Commerce Commission, The original commission's or- | G der said the rates should not be | cussed By Witnesses Call- reduced until January 1 pending | x, investigation hy the commisston ed By the State while the amendment today post- poned the effective date to Jan- wary 31. —Additional witnesses in rebuttal will be placed ‘ ‘on the stand today by the prosecu- STATE'S TAXES ‘tion in the Roscoe Arbuckle iase, it iwas asserted at the district attorney's office. The defense then will counter IS NOW 46 99 win sur-rebuttal. ‘ 1 It was apparent the case would not ibe placed in the hands of the jury be- i h delegation, a Rise of Amount of Taxation in| fore tomorrow or Friday. | Prosecution rebuttal evidence oc- :cupied the entire day in the trial yes- :terday. oe, , Milton T. U'Ren, assistant district The per capita tax in North Da-;#ttorney said that the commission of kota for support of the state govern-' three medical experts who had been ment has almost doubled in the last! selected to examine the bladder of five years. Miss Rappe, would not report before Figures of the state tax commidgion- Thursday. , This commission will de- ers office place the per capita tax, not, termine, if possible, if the organ was including special taxes, at $46.22 for‘in a healthy condition before the fa- 1920, as compared to $24.81 in 1916. ‘tal rupture, which the prosecution al- Tha figures were arrived at in the tax | !eges Arbuckle caused by the appli- commissioner's office by taking tax /cation of external force during a par- payments o all sorts or which levies |tY in the rooms of the Hotel St. Fran- were actually made, including state, | “!6. county, township, city taxes, | The prosecution's efforts to rebut A steady increase in the per capita | the evidence offered by the defense tax since 1910 is shown. For the last/CoMtinued throughout the day. The 10 years the per capita tax was‘ jmajor portion of this was introduced 1910, $16.07; 1911, $16.39; 1912, $18.77; | t contradict evidence that Miss 1913, $19.34; 1914, $21.47; 1915, $24.10; |Rappe had suffered for several years 1916, $24.81; 1917, $28.12; 1918, $31.91; /{r9m the bladder affliction. 1919, $43.68; 1920, $46.22. |. Mrs. Josephine Hardebeck, ‘house e total amount of taxes paid in/Keeper for Miss itapne, was called 1920 is divided as ollows: — General tWice during the day. It was her government’ taxes $10,335,368; road: ttird experience as a witness dur- and bridge levies $5,918,392; ‘educa- |'"8 the trial. ae tion 113,645,381; total $29,899,139. The _ Miss Catherine Cox of Chicago tes- percentage of total of the divisions tified that her acquaintance with general government, 34.57; road Miss panes extended gover sever ratte pena iyears and that Miss Rappe was al- nd bridge, 19.79; educ: 64, | ways well. ee ee one An attempt was made by the prose- cution to swear out a perjury war- rant against Mrs. Minnie Neigh- bors, a defense witness who testi- fied she saw Miss Rappe at a re- sort near Los Angeles and tried to ' relieve her during a period of ill- ness there. The warrant incident Mary the hostess of the resort, lation in Bismarck that Miss Rappe had never been i registered or never had been seen Ih by her at the place. The warrant Friends of a number of local peo- \ was refused by the presiding judge ple have begun to urge them to seek | of the supericr court and the judges appointment as postmaster tt Bis-' of the criminal department — with- marek. An examination for the place held action on it until “both sides will be held in the near future and ‘could pe heard.” The district at- appointment will be made from those jtorney temporarily abandoned the at- qualifying. tempt to obtain the warrant. Among those mentioned for the! }owever, Mrs. Neig 3 Wa act sve Henry T. Murphy, Carl R owever, Mrs. Neighbors was placed Kositzky, Charles aley, H. P. God- dard and O, Lundquist. State is Shown in Com- parison ion, 45 perjury for which, under California {laws, no warrant is required. The present assistant postmaster, is !}istrict Attorney Brady and Captain 1 by a number of persons in a ig¢ Detectives Duncan Matthews. She on circulated in the city ye8- | was released on $2,000 bond. District Attorney Brady said she would rot appear again in the Ar- buckle case “so far as he was con cerned.” Other witnesses pet: terd WEATHER REPO: For twenty-four hours noon, November 30. ending al ied also that jhealth always appeared to be good. Lowest last night +e Precipitation ... None | nhysiei: stifie a Highest wind v » 22-W | Ysician, testified that iss Rappe for a nervous disorder pee 1 Weather Fore | pete whic For Bismarck and Vicinity: Un-:qeath. His settled tonight and Thursd: y with | possibly rain; warmer tonight; cold- yshe jbelieyed Sree er Thursd AS AD MANAGER rain; warmer tonight; colder in the | west and north portions Thursday. ss Rappe healthy. A low pressure area covers the en- tire western United States and Can- in the advertising field ada. Its center is over Alberta where the position of advertising manage! the pressure is unusually low. Gen- of The Tribune, A. G. erally fair weather with moderate | having resigned to enter another bus’ temperatures continues excepting ; ness field. Mr. Brandom formerly wa: Appointment of Mr, Lundquist, who | arrest followed a conference petween | Temperature at 7 4 » 25 they had known Miss Rappe for Highest yesterday 311 Gareving loa! f ? f Lowest: yostorday = 38 ‘ying lengths of time and that her aw no evidence of the bladder resulted in her p also testified that R. C. Brandiom, who is well Known has assumed Verdolyack London, Nov. 30—(By the Associat- ed Press)—Government circles today jexpressed belief that the Irish con- ference would break almost immedi- jately as a result of the difficulty {which has arisen and that the resump- {tion of armed hostilities could not bo ‘ postponed. ; The alternative settlement plan submitted by the government to the {Sinn Fein representatives last eve- ining included the necessity for a defi- 'nite understanding by tho Sinn Feiu ‘to take oath of allegiance to the | Crown, Health of Virginia Rappe is Dis-;, The Sinn Fein has many objections {to the government’s new plan but jeven if it is agreed to discuss the [plan it will not now give its assent to | the oath of allegiance proviso, it is i stated. | ‘Thus, it appears, according to gov- !DEFENSE WILL COUNTER | ernment officials, that the breach in ithe negotiations if it comes, as is ‘feared, will take place over the alle- \giance issue. | There has been hope of prolonging |the truce and adjourning the negotia- ;tions for an additional period of two jmonths but this hope has receded. ' THREATENS TO RESIGN, Belfast, Nov. 30.—(By the Associat- ‘ed Press.)—Sir James Craig told Pre- | mier Lloyd George early in the Irish | peace negotiations that if the Ulster | parliament or people even entertained {the British proposal for-an all-Ire- | land parliament he would resign as | premier of Ulster. This was disclosec iby Sir James yesterday in the Ulster | parliament during his report on the | status of the peace movement. An all-Ireland parliament which |was the basis of the British officer j was not to be thought of “under pres- ent conditions,” he said, but the Ulster government was prepared to discuss other avenues for settlement. DOOR STILL OPEN. London, Nov. 30.—(By the Associat: ed Press.)—Refusal of Ulster to er- ter an all-Ireland parliament “under present conditions” voiced in Belfast yesterday by Premier Craig is not con. sidered here as closing the door to settlement on the basis of the semi- official plan advanced yesterday. Un- der this plan the terms offered Ire-. land would be drafter in treaty form rand submitte to the House of Com- mons, The treaty would embody pro- visions for an all-Ireland parliament but would give Northwestern Ulster, as defined by a boundary commission permission to declare itself out at once or after a limited period. AWAIT DECISION ‘UPON STRIKE Chicago, Nov. 30.—Final action on the question of a strike by employes of the packers in all of the packing plants of the country is expected 1 day or tomorrow when the executive ‘committee of the Amalgamated Meat ; Cutters and Butcher Workmen of | North America meet here. STEEN TO PAY | The credit of the state will be |maintained through prompt payment Of interest on all bonds, Treasurer i John Steen said today. He said he had involved a plan whereby, if tax payments and interest payments upon {farm loans do not provide sufficient ‘funds to meet the interest upon bonds !due January 1, he will be able to do } So. 25) “Dr. Victor La Tour. Los Angeles | he treated IS SPREADING London, Nov. 30.—(By the Associat- ed Press.)—Bolshevism is spreading through the large towns of Portugal, The Times declares this morning and OF THE TRIBUNE there have been nany outrages. As a result the powers are consid- ering intervention in Portugal and the assumption of a mandate according to The Times. France, Italy and Spain favor such a movement. r 3 BURCH TRIAL rains over the Pacific coast States. with G. Logan Payne and company, of | GETS UNDER WAY ; The southeastward movement of the | Chicago, foreign advertising represen- if, Nov. 30.—Out RAIL STATION low pressure area will cause unset- tative of The Tribune, with Lord and tled weather in North Dakota tonight | Thomas of Chicago, and has many) or package must be correct, complete,|train which piled up near Lox sta- Washington, Nov. 30.—Pending and legible, including the house num-|tion, 40 miles west of Casper, full investigation of the alleged shoot- ber and name of street, and the] being searched toda ing of Alonzo Lambrecht by M. M. | i ay ; ates The address on every letter, card,|cf a south bound Burlington freight [SEER TO CLOSE a Los Argeles, Ce « i f pea : anni ‘ai bre- ‘ : ia c la ae Hi ‘hig eaine advertisi i f the state's case against Ar- Frem” address should be in the up-|bobces believed to h Hanson. a marine mail guard, Secre: A hearing will be held by the state|and Thursday with pos ibly rain; friends in advertising work in the lining o! i cae a per left-hand corner so that the maii|It is known that between 20 and 30/tary Denby will refuve to turn the] railroad commission on December 5|warmer tonight and cc!der in the | Northwest. He has handled a numbes thur ©. Burch, charged with the mur will be returned to you in case it is|men were riding the train and onlv| marine over to Wisconsin state courts|on the petition of the Soo railway to north and west portions Thursday ‘i not delivered. Do -not., abbreviate | four of these, .whose names are uB-/| for trial. it was said today at the navy! cloge fhe station at Nicholson. Pro- ORRIS W ROBERTS, Z (Gomtinued on Page 6) | known, have been accounted for. “Habpartihent. 5 agningt @esing hasbeen filed. Meteorelegist. ‘ lof large advertising campaigns, in-|der of J. Belton Kennedy ey cluding that of Sunkist oranges aud! entation of testimony were sd&e fed Sunmaid raisins. 55 ‘for today, “