The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 7, 1921, Page 1

~ The Weather Unsettled - THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [===] FORTIETH YEAR BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7 PRICE FIVE CENTS eee RECOMMEND CUT OF 15 PER CENT BYWAGEBUREAU First Minimum Wage Confer- ence Here Make Recommen- ‘dation For One Class RULES ARE PROMULGATED Minimum Wage’ Recommenda- tions For Women in Public Housekeeping Work | | Recommendation for a 15 per cent cut in minimum wages of women in public housekeeping establishments in North Dakota is made to minimum wage bureau by representatives of public, employers and employes in conference here, it is announced today. Agreement was reached after a con- ference lasting two days. The employers moved for a 20 per cent reduction in minimums for this class of -employes, which embraces hotels, restaurants and confection. | aries serving lunches. The employes’! representatives moved to amend for} a 15 per cent cut and this was adopt-; ed. The recommendations go before} the workmen’s compensation commis- | sion, sitting as minimum wage bur-| eau, for final adoption. This class was| Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Hughes first of several to be considered in a} series of conferences here. Chief recommendations for women employes in public housekeeping es-| tablishment follow: | In towns of less than 500 (where; eight hour law does not apply), maxi-| mum ‘hours of work shall be nine} hours daily, 58 hours a week, 28 days a month, | No employér shall employ a wo-| man more than four hours without} rest. or between hours of 1 A. M. and 5 ALM. Maximum length of apprenticeship | is four months, divided into two equal | periods. i Minimum wage of $14.90 per week! for waitresses and counter girls and! $14.20 per week for chambermaids and kitchen, help. Apprenticeship waitresses’ and ccunter girls, first two months, $11.90; lily. reunion was held in celebration | second two months, $13.60; chamber- | | | Le Mr. and Mrs. Observe 50th Anniversary of Happy Married Life, with Ee are POS OS BISMARCK COUPLE CELEBRATE | GOLDEN WEDDING ANNIVERSARY D. L. Hughes. 1 DICKINSON TO. Children and? Glandcsilaeee GET REDUCED Joining in Celebration Fifty yeurs of wedded life finds Mr: and Mrs. David L. Hughes, of Bis- marck, happier than ever. - The troth plighted a half century jago was again pledged in a celebra- tion and ceremony. held on the anni-; versary of the wedding day. With them were six, children and_ their greatest vride, their grandchildren. Mr, and Mrs. Hughes were married at Randolph, Wis. on December 3, 1871. For the last 12 years they hav: charged by the Hughes-Dieters com- | bidding picketing of places by strik- made their, home in Bismarck. A fam- of the golden wedding anniversary at i production has been but slightly af-' I ITY RA K at on | Four hundred national guardsmen | Railroad Commission _ Issues ' Order on Electric and Steam Heat Rates | The state railroad commission has 'handed down an order reducing elec- jtric and steam rates in Dickinson jpany of that city. The reductions on basic rates fol- low: Electric light, first 100 kilo- | the Hughes’ hoiie, 319’ Second street. wats, 12-Cétits to 11 cénts;’ électric | PACKING HOUSE _STRIKEBRINGS - | | Was at First Anticipated in.Some of Cities TROOPS IN SO. ST. PAUL i Adjutant General Rhino Says | Orders Disregarded; Three Hurt in Ft. Worth i A‘bert Lea, Minn. Dec. 7,—En- elneers, firemen and steamfitters at the Wilson packing plant here went on strike today in sympathy with the striking meat cutters and butchers. They were declared to be acting on orders from na- j tlonal headquarters of 1 union. ed Press —-The strike of union pack: ling house employes in the larger cen-j ters outside of Chicago appeared more! {serious than was at first anticipated | |as the third day of the strike began. | The walkout has already been marked | _by disturbances in which a few men/ ;Were injured and authorities in some; places are preparing ‘to cope with any j | situation which may arise. | Union leaders insist that the strike jis 100 per cent effective’ while the packers although admitting work is ‘hampered in. some quarters say that ‘patrolled South St. Paul packing dis- | jafter Adjutant-General Rhinow said! the pickets at the Armour plant fail- jed to keep their promise to permit; } employes: to enter the plant. Mayor} | Burton of Kansas City ordered all! | Dickets-off the streets saying they not | i only would be arrested at the yards | but anywhere ‘they might be carrying | | on activities supporting the strike in! |accordance with the Kansas law for-| jers. | Three Are Wounded Greater efforts were, made by police in’ Forth: Worth; "Pexas, today to. ‘con- - GUARDSMEN OUT Situation More Serious Than| uta; | NOTE OF WAR i ( , trict today having been ordered out, |ORANGE PLATES | i Automobile license plates for 1922 in North Dakota will have an” erange background with black numerals, E., P. Crain, registrar of the motor vehicle department announces. The plates were pur- chased on contract with a St. ‘Louis firrn for 12 1-2 cents a pair, ; a reduction of 5 cents a pair from { last year. i} ULSTER ACTION - ON PEACE PLAN _ EXPECTED SOON i Premier Craig and Cabinet Con- ! sider it Before Laying it Before Parliament \G GIVEN | Chicago, Dec. 7—(By the Associat-j Circles Friendly to Irish Settle- ment Talk of Many Ob- stacles in Path London, Dee, (By the Asso- clated Press.)—King George to- day issued a proclamation releas- ing prisoners interned in Ireland. Approximately — 8,400 interned prisoners are aifected by this or- der which relates to all prisoners under interment distinguished from those who have been tried and convicted, it was stated, by trish officers. N OSTATEMENT NOW | Belfast, Dec. 7—(By the Agso- ciated Press)—Sir James Craig, Ulster premier, told the Ulster parliament today that he did. not think it expedient to make any statemenc with regard to the de- tails of the new Irish proposals as there were ambiguities here and there in the document. ‘London, Dec. 7—(By the Associai- ed Press)—Ulster’s attitude toward the establishment of ‘the Irish free state was expected to be defined to- day at a meeting of Sir James Craig's cabinet. A copy of the treaty signed FOUR-POWER PACT IS OUTLINED ! | | ror wz Autos PROVIDES CONFERENCE ON ALL PACIFIC ISLAND QUESTIONS __._ BEFORE NATIONS GO T0 WAR Proposed Agreement Between United States, Japan, Great Britain and France is Being Reduced to Form of Treaty in Consulta- tions—Many Vexing Problems Are Excluded From the Pro- posed Treaty __ RESOLVE CHINA’S NEUTRALITY Washington, Dec. 7.— (By the A. P.) —The Far Eastern delegates of the Washington conference resumed its session today after a three day recess— and adopted a resolution pro- viding for the neutrality of China in case of a war in which China is not a party. This resolution, it was said, covered point | No. 8 of China’s Bill of Right. | A resolution insuring a territorial integrity of China and providing of use of wireless stations in China were adopted | unanimously. \ Washington, Dec, 7.— (By Associated Press.) —The four- | power agreement being considered by the United States, Great | Britain, Japan and France, it was learned today from official _ American sources, would be an agreement for joint consultation ‘on any matters affecting interest of those nations in the Pacific ‘and not an alliance or quadruple entente. |, The agreement is in process of being reduced to treaty form, iit was said, and if accepted is to bd‘Yybmitted to the senate. The (agreement American officials said would not deal with fortifica- jtions in the Racific nor with questions relating to the Island of ; Yap. Nether would it deal with any matters affecting China but jonly those relating to the islands of the Pacific, | | As now under negotiation the agree- ‘ment is to be limited to the Pacific i slands. Under the tentative proposals ei h of the powers would agree to | consult each other before going to SWEEP ANADA | war on any differences that might 1 arise relating to these islands. i Questions At Issue. j ‘The questions at issue between the United States and Japan relating to i , cable facilities and other matters af- i j fecting the island of Yap are to be \ a é ‘dealt with in a separate treaty which For First Time In Ten Years! was said to be near completion. othe » The proposed four-power agreement Majority Returned Favor- | to qeai with the Pacific islands is sald ing U.S. Reciprocity | to have already been given approval | in principle by British representatives (at the Washington conference. The ' substance of the proposed treaty also, it wag said, has been cabled to Tokio and Paris, |. The formal responses of the British, & MEIGHEN IS OVERTHROWN by the British, and Sinn Fein. peace | New Progressive Party In West, Japanese and Fronch governments. méids:"and “kitchen “help, first, two delegates reached Belfast yesterday | months, $11.20; Monday night. The golden wedding | power, first 100 kilowats, 7 cents to ‘trol the situation following the seri- second two months, $12.90. een Allowance for Board, | If both board and room ate furnish- ed, minimum wage shall be $6.80 per week for waitresses and gounter girl: $5.95. for chambermaids and kitchen | help. If board alone is furnished the! shall be respectively, $8.90 and | $8.25: if room alone furnished, $12.75 | and $12.05. Women vhysically defective by age! ot otherwise can by permission of bu- | reau work for wages and under condi- | tions not svecified in rules. No employer may employ more than! 25 per cent apprentices except in! hmergency permission of the bureau. ;gold shades and yellow candles were! No woman. elevator. onerator may be! jgray satin and Mrs. J. L. ceremony was performed with Rev. C. F. Strutz officiating, . Standing before an altar in the liv, ing room, with their youngest gran4- daughter, Vivian (Hughes as_ ring- bearer, and Mr. and Mrs. J. L, Hughes, youngest son and daughter-in-law as attendants, the ceremiony was read. Mrs. Hughes wore a dress of steel Hughes, bridesthaid, was gowned in a rose taf- feta dress. Mr. Hughes wore the uni- form of a Salvation Army sergeant. Following the wedding ceremony an oyster supper was served. ing room was beautifully decorated in gold and white. Gold candlebra with mounted on the bridal table. The The din-} § 1-2 cents; steam heat, formerly 100,000 pounds condensation 80 cents iver 1,000; new rate, 75 cents for first |50,090; 70 cents for second 50,0000. The rate of 4 cents per k. w. h. now being charged to the Northern Pa~’ \cific railway company, city of Dick- | ingon for pumping and the Dickinson flour mill.shall remain the same, the }commission holding * the supply to these concerns is under control of electric company and generally off peak load, and rate to ice plant is increased from 3 to 4 cents per kilo- wat hour. The commission estab- lished the value of the property for rate-making purposes at $145,660, as of June 1, 1921. The commission tak- ‘employed between 11 P. M. and 7A. M.!bride’s boywet of Ophelia roses form-|!"& the results of operation ‘for one ‘Thirty-six to 48 hours shall constitute | “ full week's work when the woman! is. employed regularly and employ-! ment is available. { When business conditions render it | imvracticable for an emnloyer to fur- | nish employe full time emnloyment. 20 | to 35 hours reenlar employment shall sented each with a little basket, each | he paid for at the rate of one-thirty-! sixth of the minimum weekly wage per! hour, where such employment is less than 29 hours emplovment shall oj at one-forty-eighth of the weekly wage | per Nour. | Members of the conference were: | Representing public, E. A. Williams, | G..H. Russ, Jr., Mrs. C. G. Boise, Bis-| mar revresenting employers, Fred | Peterson, Bismarck: A. H. Leimbach-; er. Fargo; S. S. Clifford, Bismarck; | represehting employes, Mrs. Naomi; Henderscheid, Bismarck: Miss Myra] Wravdt. Mandan; Mrs. Wm. 0. Mead-| er, Dickinson, i FRAZIER BUSY _ ON HIS FARM Former Governor Lynn J. Frazier. has written friends here that he is hard at work on his farm near Hoople, the man who occupied his: farm while he was governor having left. Mr. ! Frazier said the thought he wonld have “a lot of muscle worked up by! spring.” i | Today’s Weather Oe For twenty-four hours ending at | noon,, December 7, 1921. | Temperature at 7 a. m. - 29 Highest yesterday © Lowest yesterday Lowest alst night . Precipitation Highest wind vglocity 5 appealed from the decision. 28! The opinion of the court was by None , Justice Birdzell, who sustained the method of¢arriving at + Weather Forecast _For Bismarck and Vicinity: Fair to- night and Thursday; slightly colder tonight. For North Dakota: Generally fair tonight and Thursday; slightly colder tonight in east and central portions. Weather Conditions A high pressure area covers the en- tire western United States and fair weather with moderate temperature generally prevails, although mostly cloudy over the Missouri and Miss- issippi valleys. ORRIS W. ROBERTS, ed the center piece. A large houquet ct chrysanthemums was. sent by friends and relatives. The little granddaushter, Vivian, gowned in a pire white dress trim- med with. yellow ribbons, marched be- fore Mr. ana Mrs. Hughes, and pre- containing $25 in gold. The celebration was the golden wedding anniversary ed in the Hughes family, Mr lyear found revenues were $98,071.55, lexpenses $79,623.52 and available for {depreciation and return on invyest- {ment, $18,448.03. . | The rates established are effective | Deb. 1, 1921 and remain in effect un- {til December 1, 1922. ' The action of the commission was aken, upon petition of John Barth and ther consumers for a reduction in ‘ates. parents having had a similar celebra- | LEAGUE NAMES tion. i Bleven children were born to Mr.{ 3 and ‘Mrs. J. L. Hughes, six of whom | are living. The names of the chil-| A dren, all who reside in Bismarck, fiol- | low: D. J. Hughes of 12th St., E. D. | ughes of 13th St. J. L. Hughes of} 2nd St. J. Hughes, Mrs. A. C. Baul- | i . ke, and Mrs. Frank Walbert. ‘Nominated as Candidate For -. 12-W | district court’ wife is 67. LANGER WINS $39,000 SUIT Former Attorney General and (Brother Win Stock Case. The .supreme court has sustained the judgment granted in district court at Fargo of $3 10 to William Lan- ger, former attorney general and his brother, Frank J. Langer, against the Fargo Mercantile company. Both Lan- ger and the Mercantile company had a yerdict for the plaintiffs through valuation of the 100 shares of stock of William Langer and 25 shares“of stock of Frank J. Lan r cent interest. med they were de- Justice Robinso: ty, held the plainti interest: from August 18, 1918. the new corporation by their work, Meteorologist. own good fortune.” Mr. Hughes is 75 years old and his stock in a reorganiza- dissenting in par- not entitled to recover more than $200 a share with He held this was the full value of the stock and added “if the managers of skill and personal credit happen to realize a greater profit it was their!Indians attended the first meeting Governor in S. D. Pierre, S. D., Dec. 7.—One of the ! outstanding features in the, meeting | here yesterday of state proposal men ‘of three political parties—Republican, ' Democrat and Nonpartisan—was the naming by the Nonpartisans of Miss Alice, Lore: Daily of Mitchell to head 'their ticket as a candidate for governor at the state election in 1922. It was the first time in the history of | the state that'a woman has been nom- |inated for governor. A complete ticket for all state of- ficers and representatives in con- gress’ was selected and _ platforms adppted by all the three parties. The recommendations will be placed be- fore a state primary election in March. | PERSONEN ENTERS 0. F. Personen not guilty to embezzlement in district court today before Judge Coffey. Jake Halyzak was arraigned on a liquor charge but did not plea. A jury rc! found against Daniel Richard O’Con- nelly in a case involving a statutory charge. _ Trial of the first civil] case on the calendar was begun this afternoon. INDIAN ; Fort Yates, N. D., Dec. 7—Good Farming \Associations, conforming in character to the Farm Bureau organ- izations of the white men are being ,|formed in each of the districts of the Standing Rock Reservation. Forty held at Cannon Ball, ‘NOT GUILTY PLEA ous wounding yesterday of three ;men, Two alleged strikers were shot | by a negro when they attempted to stop him from boarding a car and the, negro was beaten by a crowd. Little disorder wis reported from ‘the strike in Omaha. Union leaders ‘there claimed that the plants soon j will be shut down and packing house; officials said that the strike will soon | ; be broken. , ‘No change in conditions has been; ‘reported from East St. Louis, Ill, or} St. Joseph, ‘Missouri, but many addi-| ‘tional employes remained away from) |the Chicago plants Tuesday. { PIONEER FARMER OF (COUNTY DIES +George Buckley Succumbs At |“ Home in Glencoe Township | one of Burleigh | George Buckley, ! has passed! | county’s oldest ploneers, jaway. Mr. Buckley, who was 86 years | lof age, died at his home December 3! {and was buried Monday afternoon. | "The deceased was born in August,| 11835, in New York state not far from: Erie, Penn. He married ‘Elizabeth ; ‘Nichols at \alker, Mich., in 1856, and; Hlived near Grand Rapids, Mich., for) ‘a number of years. He came to Da-) | kota territory in the fall of 1883, set; jtling near Glencoe. , ' There were nine children in the | family, of whom the following sur; jvive. Ffank W. Buckley, Dan U.; ‘Buckley, Mrs. Warren Taylor, and} (Bert G. Buckley. Mr. Buckley was a, | widower, his wife having passed away | |16 years ago. 4 | The funeral services, which were | conducted by Rev. H. C. Postlethwaite | lat the reside of Warren Taylor in | Telfer tow were attended by a/ ‘large number of friends and neigh: \bors. (Mr. Buckley was one of the! | sterling pion ; who came to Dakota ‘territory, and had ‘a host of friends ‘throughout this séction of the state. \ 1 . ar CHRISTMAS SEALS SALE IN D { The Tuberculosis Christmas tered a plea of; are now on sale at Webb. Bros, Fin- Tuberculosis oth- orth ‘ney’s Drug store, C. M. Dahl's ing store and Lenhart Drug Co. | Dakota gets practically all of e penny you inyest in the Tuberculosis Christmas S Fifty, per cent of the proceeds of the sale in Bismar k will furnish a nurse for the Bismarck schools. Bismarck has paid for a ‘chcol nurse two different years with the Christmas Seals. One r we had the service of a nurse for two months and last year Miss Hutcheson was in our schools constantly from January until the end of the school year. So much for the 50 per cent that is used in Bismarck. How about the other 50 per cent? The North Dakota Tuber- culosis Association uses the other 30 , premier delayed its presentation until ‘| sured and that of the imperial parlia-j while parliament was sitting but the he had time to study it. i It ig ceriain that the treaty will ua-| dergo searching examination before) receiving the approval of Ulster and many modifications undoubtedly wili be proposed. Her consent, however, ; is not necessary as under the treaty terms she is given the option of re- taining her present status after re- vision of her boundary by a commis- tion, Wavorable action by the Dail Eire- ann is thought to be fairly well as- i | | ment which has been summoned to meet December 14 as a foregone con- clusion should the Dail approve the treaty. ‘Here and there amid the general! chorus of praise for the agreement) are sounded notes of warning that trouble may yet break out before a final settlement is effected and this warning docs not come from quarters opposing the agreement. It is point- ed out that nobody has yet drawn! 1 | Ottawa, Dec. 7.—Although returns "Wins Many Places in the ee remain to be réceived, howéver. “ae BURCH CASE TS from yesterday’s general election were | still incomplete this morning it was, years Canada has elected a parlia-' Eyidence Bearing on Murder ment with a majority favoring Fecl-| 7 . procity with the United States, ; Mostly Circumstantial In the new House of Commons W. L | Tae MacKenzie, liberal leader, will have! Los Angeles, Calif, Dec. 7.—The a clear majority over all parties. He | State’s case against Arthur C. Burch, will thus become prime minister of" trial for the murder of J. Belton the Dominion. ‘The progressives also Kennedy, broker, has reached its favoring reciprocity and a low tariff “peak” in the opinion of attaches of will rank second and the high tariff: the court where the presentation otf party headed by Premier Meighen| €Vidence against Burch was continued third. Mr. Meighen himself, was de-|'0day. | ‘teated in Portaye LaPrairie, Manitoba, | The peak’ it was declared, was his home district. | reached with the introduction of 46 The fall of the Meighen government | letters alleged to have been written with its high tariff platform was as | to Kennedy by Mrs. Madalynne Oben- spectacular as the defeat of Sir Wil-| Chain, jointly indicted with Burch. fred Laurier’s liberal administration; The prosecution, however, was still in 1911 on its policy of reciprocity | t© present -evidence tending to con- from Eamonn DeValera, Irish Repub- lican leader, a statement as to his at- | titude toward the plan. ' with the United States. nect Burch with the actual shooting The new progressive party led by | Of Kennedy and this, it is conceded, is T. A. Crerar, of itoba, swept the | Principally of a circumstantial nature. TURK VIZIE | western provinces but captured com-| BEE, oe i paratively few divisions in the east. ; | This group originally made up of far- | GARAGE AND j mers stands for tariff revision down- ! ward even more drastic than the lib-| ASSASSINATED erals proposed. Its members are in AUTO BURNED pathy with the reciprocity move- ' 1 At yesterday's election for the first | = a . Rome, Italy, Dec. 7—-(By the Agso-/ time in the political history of Canada | Early Morning Fire in Western i sym ; ment. ciated Press.)—The assassin of the! women voted on terms of equality formed Turkish Grand Vizer, Said All®; with men. Miss McPhail, progressive, ! Pasha, who was shot dead yesterday! on‘the street here, is believed by, his! secretary, who was with him at the time, to have been an Armenian. The} | assassin is still at large. } YOUNG MEN AT NIGHT SCHOOL was elected to parliament in the southeast grey district of Ontario. She will be the first woman member of the House of Commons. has been started here, three nights a week. On the first evening sixteen young men were prsent. ferent classes of instruc i fered to meet the needs of the stu- , dents. . Wee | (By the As: PLACED ON OWNTOWN STORES Association to pay for the rest spent in our own state. Our nurses have always been North Dakota girls. Our work- ers are all North Dakota people. Our open air school at Bunseith sanitarium is for tuberculosis children of North Dakota. Our traveling clini istered to North Dakota people in the drought stricken districts who are unable to have medical aid either be- cause of remote location or lack of funds. With the co-operation of our State Superintendent of Public In- struction every boy and girl in North Dakota will be a health crusader. We are of North Dakota, by North Dakota and for North Dakota. Have you bought your Tuberculosis Christ- the seals, peer cent in the following manner: mas Seals? min-| <5 ISOVERTHROWN Guatemala City, Guatemala, Dec. ciated = Press.)—The | government of President Carlos Her- ! rera was overthrown at midnight last | hight after fighting in which three | persons were killed and several wounded. The president surrendered his powers to a provisional govern- ment headed by General Jose Maria ‘Lima, General Osellana and Miguel Seals | About 5 per cent goes to the National Larrave, former under-secretary ot war. BAR BOARD TO HOLD EXAM. The state bar board, in s hej fixed the date of the next ination for licen January 24.. The held in the state ¢ ession BRIQUETTING PLANT. TO BE OPERATED Minot, N. D., Dec.—Plans to begin operations in the lignite briquetting plant here by some date in February are being made. Officials of the com- pany have already opened their pettices here, Part of City The garage and Studebaker car of Jobn Drunmeier, Avenue C and Han- nifin, were burned in an early morn- ing fire. The fire started about 1:50 o'clock this morning. The fire de- partment was called to Avenue C. and Twelfth street and was delayed in reaching the fire on this account, The garage was completely destroy- ed and the house was saved only by the use of garden hose. The fire de- partment reported the origin of the fire was not determined. LORENZ GIVES UP HIS CLINICS New York, Dec. -Dr. Adolph Lor- enz, famous Austrian surgeon, an- nounced today that in v of the op- position to his professional activities in this country from the medical pro- fession he would discontinue further free clinics and return to Vienna as soon as possible. NEW EVEREST CLIMB. London, Dec. 7—Brigadier-Genera C. G. Bruce will head a new expedi- tion that will attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest in the Him- alayas, highest peak on earth. NEW ORGANIZATION FORMED Minot, N. D., Dec. 7—Organization of an association to be known as the Minot Country Club has been formed. The purpose is to promote all forms of out of doors recreation,