The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 14, 1921, Page 1

“Only One Small Point Said To! The Weather Generally Fair FORTIETH YEAR THE BISMARC TRI BUNE | Last Edition BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14 PRICE FIVE CENTS ESCAPED CONVICT CAPTURED “5-6-9” NAVAL PLAN APPROVAL NEAR BY JAPAN Remain to be Settled For Naval Holiday CONDITIONALLY ACCEPTS i | j Japan Wants to Retain Battle-| ship of Modern Type, Bring- ing Protest Washington, Dec. 14.—(By the Asso- clated Press).—Settlement of “one; very small point” was said to remain MAKES $51 PER DAY; WORKS FOR STILL TIME 10 __ tO FER MONTH COP PRIZES IN 14—James Potteet, of Simpson county, Ken- tucky, is a dollar a day farm hand yet his income is $51 a day. Land that he paid $10 for several years ago is now yielding oil that brings Ais, daily income to what it takes jim 91 days to earn on a farm. But Potteet keeps on working for a dollar a day, board and lodg- ing. He deposits the royalty check and lives on the dollar he earns. He is married and has two children. Town Criers Club, Asks Whirl-| ; wind Finish With Hundreds | Of Suggestions |WANT BEST THERE Is! 8 R EK 108 E F Li cu Decides To Study tek | vertising Program and Take | HAIL WARRANTS, ve sates teers There is still a chance to win tne! | ; Slogan contest of the (Town Criers; H | i |elub. i as the only condition to Japan’s final | acceptance of the American “5-5-3”! naval ratio as the naval.“big three’ | of the armament conference prepared | to hold another meeting to consider | the matter. | Japan's conditional acceptance was: communicated by Admiral Baron Kato; informally last night to Mr. Hughes! and Mr. Balfour. It was coupled with | a request, however, to substitute the| new battleship Matsu for one of the: old 12-inch gun ships specified for re-} tention under the Hughes proposal. | Both the American and British | groups, it was indicated, are opposed ; to Japan’s retention of Matsu or any change in the ship specified to be re- tained. They are expected to yield however, if the Japanese are insist- ,ent although only on the counter-pro- posal that the United States on its| part retain two new substitute battle- | ships otherwise to!be scrapped and that the ten-year holiday be modified to give Great Britain opportunity to} build two ships in any arrangement | agreed upon to provide substantial ' adherence to the “5-5-3” ratio. | Japan indicated last night condi-/ tional agreement to the “5-5-3” ratio. Her acceptance was coupled, however, | with a request to substitute the new | battleship Mutsu for the old 12-inch | gunship Setsu in ‘the iist of ships she! would retain under the Hughes pro-! posal. 1 The Japanese government's deci-) sion was communicated informally to} Mr. Hughes and Mr. Balfour by Ad-| miral Baron Kato and was discussed | today by the full American delega- | tion at™a conference attended by As- | s{gtant “Secrdtary’ Roogevelt. Later the “big three” of the naval powers, | Messrs. Hughes, Balfour and Kato,| again met, this time Mr. Roosevelt, : Admiral Coontz and Rear Admiral: Platte of the general board attending | the session. After this meeting it) was stated that only “one very small; MNVOLVES ABOUT $3,000,000! is eager to get a slogan for Bismarck | {whether it is possible for that hod , es : A new call for slogans was made by | Governor Nestos Outlines Nego-! the club today, following its meoting | tiations Carried Forward Hast night. Already a large number! {have beén submitted; none have been To This End | Judged or published and the best may { {be the last one submitted. The cluv/ |that can be used in advertising the) mek GS RE | city on stationery, at conventions andj Negotiations Carried on With, im all publicity boosting the city. In| addition it wants a symbol tnat can: Trust Companies and War Da rworked into an advertising design. | “3 i} ie slogan committee reported to! Finance Board ithe meeting, which was held at the Rec ; McKenzie hotel last night and fol- The state administration is Jowed by a funcheon,* that a. laree | deavoring to evolv plan for the di number of contributions in -the con-! position of hail warrants for the year| test thus far have come from persons | 1921 to save farmers trom “di living outside the city of Bismarck. | trous discounts,” Governor R. 4 The contest is open to everyone. One| today. Negotiations! Of the slogans submitted came from} i St. Paul, many from towns 100 miles} Finance Corporation and with large|@Way. 5 { trust companies. Governor Nestos, inj . The prizes offered in the contest are} a statement, said: {$15 for the best slogan, $16 for the “During the last two weeks I have Second and $5 for the third. The qon: | made considerable investigation for| test was scheduled to close Dec. 17.) the purpose of ascertaining whether; Many boys and girls of the city have, it is possible to dispose of the 192 evidenced a desire to enter the con-| issue of hail warrants without dis-{test and the club voted an additional} count, or at least at a very small dis-| Prize of five movie tickets should a/ count. I have taken this matter up| boy or girl in the schools win the con- with the representatives of a couple; test. sf of trust companies, and an agency! President Lumry, of the Town Cri- dealing ‘in securities, and have also} ers club, spoke at the Rotary club written to the War Finance Corppra-; meeting today, emphasizing the de- tion for the purpose of ascertaining| Sire and the need for the best thought of the people in this section in the to handle the hail warrants. I dis contest to get the desired results. covered that as far as the War Fi-; The Town Criers apprpved a re- nance Corporation is concerned the; Port of their program committee | act does not make provision for ‘the| Which-called for a study of advertis- purpose of any securities outright but’ ing, following a course laid down by that with the hail warrants as collat-| the Associated Advertising clubs of eral, loans may be made to the extent! the World. The.study will begin with of 90 per cent of the amount of the the January meeting. The club also warrants so that with $4,000,)00— will take up a study of community | which is approximately the amount of Sales ‘plans of other cities in the: warrants to be issued for 1921-- country with a view of working on a $2,700,000 might be borrowed from program for the extension of trade | Regina, Saskatchewan police. ; Noah’s capture after his escape, _ FACES RETURN TO PRISON It is often more difficult fort convicts to (remain at liberty than to jescape prison walls. Reported capture of the convict in Kansas, after three 8 a striking example. Practically every con- vict who has escaped from the state\ penitentinry in the last three years has been recaptur- ed. Recently Convict Orton, who had fied to Canada over a year agd was taken up by the Big rewards were offered for but he remained at liberty un- til picked up by police jn Hutch- inson, Kansas. Zhe photographs are those of the Bertillon room of-the state penitentiary and reprinted through courtesy of Warden Stair! , su vig eAN MONEY VOTED TROOPS T0 BE | state treasurer’ to pay off $45,000 ! worth of bonds. held ip the commor | IN COAL FIELD school fund and authorized the land! j commissioner to take up $45,000 now. See | held in the capitol building interest | H end income find so as to release fundss, Four Companies of National; he board acted upon a suggesti “An : * State Treasurer Steen. ia oe Guard Are Mobolized ” iSHERIFF ASKS FOR AID! FOR NO. DAKOTE- | Unable to Handle Rioting ma Pittsburg, Kan, Dee. M— While’ the state military author- ities were mobilizing companies of the national guard for entrain. ment to Pittshurg today, the mill- tant women of the Kansas min. ing field, adherents of Alexander | Howatt, were engaged In the most ambitious campaign they had so far. attempted in their program of stopping by violent activities the | operation’ of conl mines by men who responded to the call of the international union for men to | Chicago Police Get Information’ O’Connor May Be At Stanley SWEETHEARTS ARE HELD} Chicago, Dec. 14.—Through the ar-| rest of four women and two men early today police hoped to get information which might aid in getting on the trail ot Tommy O'Connor and his} compaiilons iff the escape from: the man the mines. county jail Sunday. { ra RaRS | A squad of detectives raided a north Fittsburghy: Kans: Dec.) 14— Three ; companies of. Kansas. National Guard | side hotel and took the six into cus-j are heins mobilized for entrainment! tody. Among the women the police | suspect they have the sweethearts of fo eeu h forsaUly: inp ine coal if James Laporte and Edward Darrow. Orders for the mobilization of the The police theory is that Laporte! jaf hak at and ‘Darrow have kept the women in- companies followed a call this morn- | ) MAN SAVED FROM HANGING BY LEGISLATURES ACT I REPORTED HELD IN KANSAS D. M. Noah's Identification Reported Complete; His Escape and That of Two Others Followed By Resignation of Warden; Crime Was One of Most Noted in Northwest b i “ap ra “Hate in on Kanga mone Ho infonaatien Ravoad suede . Stair. Identification is declared positive tentiary Dee. 7, 918, ‘shortly atten te pases ween attention throughout the state and? ler ne at citrated wide Dict oe s ig his escape Warden __ An exchange of telegrams with Hutchinson, Kan., authori- Kanade autre tt gate «complete description, convinced | Sentenced to Be Hanged. PARDON BOARD | Noah was convicted of murder in IN MEETING Minot and sentenced by Judge Goss to be hanged. All preparations had been pai j;made to proceed with the execution Members of the State Board of Par-| but through reprieve until the legis- dons are meeting here today to com-! lature passed the bill abolishing the plete the work of the December ses- death penalty, Noah was saved. He sion. Hearings in about thirty cases was’ placed in the printing shop and ill be closed, this being about a third | became editor of “The Reflector.” of the number before this term of the! As time went on he became a trusty |nad been apprehended, but it proved | - Shot His Employer. FOLLOWED A +QUARREL rain and chattels. Suspicion was trial in the Ward county district Pardon Board. {and was allowed to work on the out- ee | side of the walls. One day he left and | two nights afterwards two more lifers | escaped. They were caught and it ; Was reported at one time that Noah ADMITS MURDER jto be a case of mistaken identity. Following the escape of Noah. | warden Talcott resigned as warden {and there was considerable comment ,|at the time over leniency shown to ‘those under life. sentence. Earl | The northwestern part of the state : Throst Confesses He Killed | was inflamed over the cold blooded School Teacher in Isolated ; Murder committed by Noah. He was Distri \ working as a hired man for a farmer istrict near Kenmare. He shot the farmer one morning and buried his body and proceeded to sell off the farmers’ | aroused and a search of the premises ; | made while Noah was in town, Tha Young man Confesses After| lod, of the. farmer was unearthed and ae { Noah convicted of the crime. He was Severe Grilling For Sev- ja hard prisoner to handle during the eral Hours court. Conviction was found near midnight Waukon, Ia., Dec. 14—Earl Throst, and Judge Goss pronounced the death 26 years old, confessed early today: Penalty at once and Noah was rushed | to the penitentiary as a lynching was the War Finance Corporation with) these warrants as the collatoral se-) of the merchants of Bismarck. A collection was taken up to aid tha Salvation Army's work of relief formed as to their movements and valuable clues ure expected to be dis-! closed in the event the women can Pare nsettled. :euring the loan. Pont BSN e era that both the! “Some of the trust companies with) American and British groups were op- whom I have been mopodlatlie cue) posed in a general way to changing , 8¢t 2 pose Dility oti hand ee ae the list of retained ships of each pow-; 5 ner veeat, a Nee this, Would’ beal or OMe ne erp veir ia aoe i great pete ee varie ees the dis-| [ eas : counts at which many ese war- opnosition. however, is. expected in rants have been sold but if arrange: | conference circles to give way if the ments can be made to handle these Japanese are insistent. In that case,! warrants practically at par I foel it it was learned He Laie Short prob. | should be done for the armors of our | ably would retain the battleships’ state who are now badly in need o' Colorado and Washington, in place of funds. the Delaware and North Dakota and; “I am hoping that some method can| the 10-vear naval holiday woulé of be evolved for the handling of these necessity he modified to permit Great, warrants in such a way as to bring Rritain to construct two additional. the money to our people and save them from the disastrous discounts i at Christmas time, and $10.50 will be i turned over to the Army. a 7 { Today’s Weather | ———___———_* be induced to talk. ' That O'Connor may have taken a! tectives Hughes over the long-dis- tance telephone. The sheriff of Stans | Jey, who’ is at the Maryland hotel, Mil- For twenty-four hours ending at) waukee, telephoned to Chief Hughes | noon Dec. 13. that he hi ceived a telgram from} Temperature at 7 A. M + 36 Soe ee eee in tate | Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday . Lowest last nigbt Precipitation Highest wind velocity Weather Forecast. For Bismarck and vicinity: that a stranger who resembled O'Con-| 33! nor had arrived there. He asked| him for identification, The sheri was given a description of O'Connor and promised to forward this inform-/ ation to his deputy with instructions to hold the susnect. Fair ships. British Onpose Modifications. The Japanese proposal to retain the| Mutsu in place of the Setsu is in line’ with the contention of the Japanese naval experts during the first discus- sion of the naval ratio that experts of , all nations were agreed that ships{ armed with 12-inch guns could not Ife in the battle line against -modern craft armed with 14-inch, 15-inch or! 16-inch rifles. The Setsu and Dela-: ware and North Dakota are 12-inch ‘asked in so many cases at the present/ tonight, Pittsbury a d by the Adjut- long jump to Stanley, North Dakota, | hintgwurgh was ordered by is was the information given chief of de-) panies is expected to reach Pittsburgh rested late yesterday at Postville, 30 whether to arrest the man and mold fields. ! ing from Sheriff Gould for aid in; that he had killed Miss. Inga Mag- handling the situation brought about |®Usen, pretty 20-year-old —_ school by the rioting of women marchers, |teacher, near Dorchester, Monday be- The’ mobilization of three compan-/aUse she had “turned him down ies for immediate entrainment _ to : flatly. | Throst was a childhood acquaint- nce of Miss Magnusen. He was ar- The first of the com. tonight, imiles from the scene of the crime. —— eas | Throst and Miss Magnusen attend- NOTIFY GUARD COMPANIES, | ed the same district school together as Topeka, Kan., Dec. 14. ‘Notices : children. Later Miss Magnusen was were sent to all. national guard organ-;given a certificate to teach school. 51| one, of his deputies who informed him! izations in the state comprising about Her school was an isolated one and i 2,000 men ‘to put themselves in readi- it was here that she was slain Monday ness to entrain for the Pittsburg coal | afternoon. | Throst lying on a cot in the Alla- jMakee county jail here last night is jalleged to have confessed after a four- PARLIA jhour srilling by county attorney .E. $.| } Pieper and deputy sheriffs. “I had been going with her for j feared because of public feeling at | that time. | | Supreme Court Action, { The Noah case is discussed in an ‘opinion of the supreme court filed | Feb. 3,.1910. The decision was by | Morgan, judge, who reversed the dis- trict court. The defendant, appeal H assigned four errors, relating to the | insufficiency of the plea and errors of law in giving instructions to the jury, and contended that there was a nullity for the reason that he was not re- quired to designate whether he plead guilty of murder in the first degree | or murder in the sécond degree. |The charge against Noah in the | Ward county district court was filed | April 3, 1908, ime.” day; colder“tonight. For North Dakota: Fair tonight, becoming unsettled Thursday; colder becoming unsettled Thurs- ‘ es | Grand Forks, Dec. 14.—A deputy in| i the sheriff's office at Stanley said over quite a while,” Throst said, “ana: then Otto Beer talked her out of it.! If this thing had not happened we} BURCH CASE — NEARING CLOSE Prosecutor May Conclude His tonight. (Continued on Page 3) | RRA GIVE ROTARY CLUB NAME | OF MOST POLITE CLERK; wherein Miss Magneson had indicat-j| were to have been married next Sat-' urday—Dee, 17.” | ‘He then recited recent’ instances | WES J | RG her ardor for him had cooled. < A . “I couldn't sleep Sunday night and Consideration of Irish Peace spent most of the night walking ‘ |around near Dorchester,” he contin- Negotiations To Be ued. “I went to the school house late IN MEETING \Hold Banquet at McKenzie— Elect Officers x \ | Taken Up : Monday afternoon. The children had ee gun. ships while the Mutsu and the; _ dj ! i ‘gone and Inga was alone. We quar- Colorado and Washington each carry; Case on Friday | | 'eelad te the school room. She went The annnual meeting and banquet eight 16-inch rifles. | Great Britain has no battleships ; of a type as far advanced as the Mut- su and the Colorado and Washington. Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 14—Identity | of witnesses to be called by the state. today in the trial of Arthur V. Burch, WINNERS TO GET PRIZES os, “Rotarians of Bismarck are interested in promoting the idea |consider the Irish peace settlement. London, Dec. 14.—By the Associated into the basement to fix the fire for imperial parliament | the night. Y A I followed and we quar. athered in special session today to/reled again. I picked up a stick and struck her gver the head. She turned of the Burleigh County Bar Associa- tion was held at the Hotel McKenzie last evening, Geo. M. Register, the | president of the association, presid- ing. There was an attendance, includ- The heaviest British naval guns are, charged with the murder of J. Belton} U n c ou i The session which probably will; anound and I hit her two or three ipinch, Presumably, if provision is| Kennedy, broker, occasioned much ‘of service above self in every walk of life. Realizing that thejrank among the most momentous in times, ‘Then I left. She did not fight ing guests, of about twenty. E. C. Ru- made for two additional British bat- | speculation. ‘Rotary spirit exists in Bismarck to a great extent and in order the history of Westminster was op-’ hack.” le of DriscoH, was the only member tleships to take the place of the two oldest ships of King George V class on the present retained list, vessels of the Mutsu type and armament would be added. The four super- Hoods planned by the British and to, be abandoned, are more than 40,000; tons in“displacement and beyond the 35,000 tons maximum limit proposed; in the American plan. It has been in-; dicated Great Britain did not desire to carry out any building program at this time. this attitude. There was some rea-| Assistant District Attorney Keyes | when asked if the prosecution had ad- | ditional “surprise testimony” such a: that given iy persons who said the: i had seen Burch near the scene of the | slaying merely would say: “We have j some more witnesses.” } Pnosecutor Keyes asserted ; state would not close its case before; Friday. LIVESTOCK MEN ‘could be improved and the value of courtesy in salesmanship | and come to a decision. to enthuse people who serve the public daily, the idea of a polite-; engaged in sales work in Bismarck. | It is one of the cardinal beliefs of Rotary, that he profits! ness contest was developed. Patrons are urged to make the con-| 5° ioras py. King George. est interesting by voting for the most courteous man and woman? | tended by all the brilliant display of; the! most who serves best and it is incumbent on the members to, carry that spirit into their every day transactions. | the J [eae ean gptmatard Nominal prizes of $5 to the winners in this courtesy contest Irish agreement by the Dail Eireann ried Throst Saturday. have been voted by the Rotary club. It is believed that from the, letters received in this contest and impressions gained that service ened at noon with the reading of the! Throst said he did not think Miss speech from the throne in ns noure Magneson was dead when he left her. t was at- —_——_—- Winona, Minn., Dec. 14—Magnus pageantry marking state openings. agneson, father of the murdered girl, joday branded as false the statement POSTPONE CONSIDERATION ‘ported to have been made by Earl Dublin, Dec. 14 he question of Throst to authorities at Waukon, Ia., ratification or rejection of the Anglo- | that ‘Miss Magneson was to have mar- | il 1 ay; “ yould never have any- has been postponed until Thursday ; “My daughter would re Nn v! plic session will be held and thing to do with Throst,” he_ said ae uesutiea ell “She didn’t have any use for him. He eputies will debate the matter La ara used to bother her and hang around, This was de- in attendance from outside the city of Bismarck, Postprandial remarks were made by Justices Birdzell, Bronson and Robin- son of the supreme court, Judge Cof- fey of the district court, Assistant At- torney General Charles Simon, and several members of the local bar. It was decided, among other things, that the president should call at least three special meetings each year, in addition to the regular annual meet- ing; and that at thege meetings there should be read papers on matters of The officers elected for the ensuing year were: President, E. T. Burke; Prompt British acceptance of the; , accentuated. cided upon at today’s meeting of the but she didn’t like him at all. 1 know atestnereat t ; { b : i u R Tae pelded,u it the agree- that to be a fact.” public interest, to be, followed by dis- Hee ate kone oxtent arial IN CONFERENCE: Clip out the coupon below and mail it today. Tans cult to consider the agi | ae FS i cussion of the subiects presented. son to believe tonight that British: ovinion in the sessions of the “big, three” was being exerted against any, modification of the original American | plan that would rearrange the list oF retained ships in such a way as to make it expedient for Great Britain Plan To Reduce Loss In Ship-| ping Stock Chicago, Dec .14—Two hundred rep resentatives from various organiza to proceed with capital ships con-|tions affiliated with the livestock in- struction. HOTEL FOR AUCTION. dustry opened conferences here tc consider ways and means of reducing further the avoidable loss from London, Dec. 14.—The First Avenue bruises and other injuries incurred Hotel. one of London’g large hostel- ries, will he sold at auction early next spring. It was built 38 years ago. PROFESSOR OF MOVIES! in bringing livestock from the farms to the packing plants which now amounts to several million dollars yearly The conference was called by Ev-}, VOTE FOR TWO ONLY My selection as the most courteous clerk is: (Give name and address, write plainly.) FOCH SAILING FOR FRANCE New York, Dec. 14.—(By tne ciated Press.)—Ferdinand Foch, gray and slight, but bearing with him every honor that America could bestow on one of alien enship bade farewell to cheering throngs here today and ay to France. gailed aw Since coming, to America early in November Marshal Foch has traveled NEW BANK HEAD ‘REACHES CITY, C. R. Green, of Cavalier, appointed manager of the Bank of North Da kota, arrived in Bismarck at noon to take up his duti Paris, Dec. 14.—France is willing] than 500 speeches. nearly 15,000 miles and made more BUS vice president, I. C. Davies; secretary> treasurer, Benton Baker, EMPLOYE SHOT THROUGH LUNG East St. Louis, Ill, Dec. 14—The first serious act of violence in the packing house workers’ strike oc- currel here when armed men boarded a street car carrying employes to the packing houses and shot Solomon Tart through the left lung. INE TO RIVIERA, Calais, France, Dec. 14.—New motor Rerlin, Ner. 14—A chair has been|erctt C. Brown, of Chicago, president ectahlished in the Berlin Technica}! of the National Livestock Exchange temprarily to forego cash re-rations —— buses are being manufactured in Eng- Oysters are able to move by sud-| land to start soon on a regular motor ' be ; Professor Karl Force will be the first movie teacher. Signature of voter.............. ee ganizations for the prevention of livestock shipping losses. hizh school for cinema technology. ls chairman of the association of or- (Not for Publication.) payments from Germany, a high of- route to Monte Carlo and the Italian ficial in the foreign office told the As-|denly closing their shells and ex- sociated Press. pelling the water. coast. The trip will last six days.