The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 17, 1921, Page 1

| “The Weather. ‘Unsettled FORTIETH YEAR CK TRIBUNE (z= CLAIMS WALL STREET PLOT GOOD FELLOWS OF CITY WILL SPREAD CHEER Plan to Prevent Sad Child-heart in the City of Bismarck on Christmas Day XMAS’ SHOPPERS _ BUSY! Stores Filled With People Seek- ‘ing to Avoid the Last-min- ‘ ute Rush of Buying Good Fellows of Bismarck are busy planning for Christmas. | Stores and shops were filled this af- ternoon with those who are neither early nor late in their Christmas shopping, but who, wanted to get their | shopping:finished by the middle of the | week at lesst sq@ they could sit back, serenely ‘while others are scampering through the stores: ‘Plants are under way by many in-! dividuals and organizations to make sure that no child-heart will be sad on} Christmas day. The central relief work is conducted through the Salva- tion Army. In addition to its regular relief, the Army is plapning to give a big Christmas dinner to the needy. A speciah fund, is:being created for this, and the familiar Salvation Army ket- tles were on the streets again today to receive contributions for ° the ‘Christmas dinner. fs The Rotary club members -will be. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER y PRICE FIVE CENTS | SHALL T personal realization of the Christmas BUREAU DELAYS SEATING WEHE; The answer is “No,”—if you aid the S@ivation HERE BE’ ANY CHRISTMA spirit, You can iurn homes like this contribution to the Salvation Army or dropping something in the kettles. | TURKEYS CAUSE | : COMMOTION AT: R. R. STATION There was commotion galore at the Northern Pacific railroad station yes- terday afternoon following the arrival ' S LIKE. THIS? ; t f Army Santa Claus Club. For its purpose: is to put Christmas| the way of advancement toward en yan seoubeat joy where otherwise there would be but gloom, arid to give those who essay the role of Alias Santa Claus actual | agreement among the five powers on; est would be continued uiftil one into places of joy, by sending your) relative naval strength and reduction! Do it today! ‘PRISONERS IN ~ CHIGAGO JAIL SEEK WAY OUT "FROM FRANCES ~ NAVAL DEMAND ference in Secret Session Hears France’s Position jITALY” ALSO i INVOLVED $200 im cash from the Super-Clark! drug ‘storé here last night. The! Northwestern ‘Fuel Company’s office! al) was entered and $200 taken. | Minneapolis, Dec. 17—Robbers took! {23 quarts of prescription whiskey and} WHISKEY, CASH __-| -. ROBBER’S LOOT ARREST T0 END BOMB MYSTERY, BURNS ASSERTS Committee, of | Armament com SLOGAN CONTEST ie of Bureau of Investigation : STAYS OPEN FOR Declares Radicals Institut- ied the Plot \ BP Nicaea oneness Demands That She Be Given Ad-| is Granted Demand Washington, Dec. 17.—(By the “As-| {sociated Press).—The naval commit- {tee of 15 of the armament conférence ‘ONE MORE WEEK one ARRESTED IN EUROPE | aididnal tosnaate if France iTown Criers’ Club, Announces! Wold Lindenfeld Said to Have } |. That.Contest Will Close on Confessed * Their | Interna- tionale is Responsible Nici cant * ry COME FROM MANY TOWNS), /sninston, Dee. 17.—(By Saturday, Dec. 24 jresumed’ consideration today of the! {French and Italian ratio problem but| with little prospect that the day! jthe Associated Press.) —The ar- The Town Criers’ club has decided to| ee oo Warsaw of Wolf Linden- give everybody another chance to| feld will clear up the entire mys: WAnrnn~nrn~rr~ | ready, reached by the “Big Three” | would show any materia! results in, Write a slogan for Bismarck, Saturday, December 24th. The action lin fleets in harmony with that” al-| ; naval countries. | The committee again was en- !trenched behind its rule of silence; adopted yesterday and no further in-| | formation was available as to the: ex-! jact nature of the into the contest. There are ‘French group is making as to France’s i Criers’ club. These have not been ex- ji J amined, so that the extension of time; 40d “the only man that we know needs in naval tonnage on the basis of her national security. i ! | The American group in the commit-| Satisfactory. It was annouced today that the slo- was taken because & large number of j / slogans have come in during the hale just |few days, indicating an increased in-| terest, andthe club desires to give! everybody. the opportunity of getting! Teported to the department by | probably 150 slogans in} seyi } statement!’ the, the hands of the secretary of the Town} erubed by Mr. Burns ee bey | tery of the Wall street explosion ’ of September 16, 1920, it was stated positively by William J. Burns, head of the department } ice bureau of investiga- tion. i Lindenfeld, whose arrest was jthe Associated. Press, was de- |to the solution of the mystery is not granted because they are un-/in the world that knows all about ° R | ; The clubs wants many! it.” come Big Brothers to a lot of kiddies ONE D | N § E N TS ct No, 8. ! STAGE MUTINY e int | More slogans, an re is “ about that time, plans now being un- & A crate of turkeys came for the, ie Jornuieting osu oe week in evhieh contents a eee Mr jpurns declared that Lindenteld der way to carry out the annual event. o = | Northern Produce company. — The} & i 3 3, it|them in. ¥ get) himself, was not implicated in the ex- A committee of the Town Criers is; named to search out means for pre- venting sad hearts at Christmas tide. (While many organizations are plan- Take 30 Days to Decide Compensation Commissioner. To crate was broken in the unloading and ja number of turkeys got away. Em- | ployes of the produce company, rail- {road emploves and others. joined in | Uproar Follows Taking Away of Privileges Because of | to’ French and Italian naval ratios, it 7d jis understood, Whether developments} Already slogans have been submit- in the committee will make such ;ted by people living in St. Paul, Bil- American initiative advisable remains | lings, Mont.; Linton, Mandan, Dickin- Ploston, but so close ‘to thef radical |element who were its perpetrators | that he knew all about it.* The Third | Internationale, Mr. Burns said, was ning for relief for the needy, there. on Appeal the chase. Somo were caught a block O'Connor Escape yee De Been eeeaa ie ae! Minot and many other! the moving “pirit behind the plot. are hundreds of ‘others looking for- ;away from the station. ei] Age ADOPT SILENCE RULE Dakpta. Fully as man: Lathe oe nh i "Went Over ward to joyous Christmas in homes.| The workmen's compensation hu-| ON@ 0f the turkeys flew against 2/ Chicago, Dec, 17—Prisoners in the | Washington, Dec. 17.—British ; Me Ft tla Uae nt Over as Agent. ‘Many emp’pyes at the state capitol ewill go to their homes on Christmas day. Many Bismarck people living in other cities will be here for the holi-| days. Plenty of Trees There will be:no dearth of Christ- mas treeg:in the entiré slope country. A carload of Christmas trees, about 4,500 in number, were bnought in_ by. the Stacy Eruft company to serve ‘the neeis of a large territory. Most of! the trees dre spruce, and.come from: reau will take 30 days’ to decide| whether or not.to appeal from the or-| der of District Judge W. L. Nuessic) restoring L. J. Wehe to office as-a’ commissioner of the bureau. witha’stay of 80 days in the case, M. Spencer, the member: whom Wel: the bureau ratified the action of C. A.j ‘seeks to oust, in applying to Judge; window in the station and broke it. Three perched high on the station, pany shot them down. ! | Ata specially called meeting, fol-j j lowing the serving of the order of} | Judge Nuessle on the bureau together | OMISSIONS OF and an employe of the produce com- | Ceok county jail shorn of their priv- ileges since the escape of Tommy | O}Connor and two confederates last ;Sunday, mutinied early this morning and for an hour pandemonium reign- fed within the stone walls of the Dear- born street prison. The incarcerated men shouted de- fiance to, the guards: and beat theit tin:.cups. and-cahe. ofthe cell. walls come from outside Bismarck as from | people in: the) city itself. “Every loyal booster of the city ‘spokesmen hurled a bomb shell into | conference circles yesterday with the | Eetted betere? that Wrance had 28 |should submit a slogan,” said an an- jof fifteen her intention of building | NoUncement of the slogan committee jbetween 1925 and 1935, ten capital | Of the club today. “The very first slo- | ships of 35,000’tons each. igan submitted may have been the best; It appeared that a French ‘pro- or the last may. win the $15 offered for posal are submitted at the first |S'St Prize. The committee has not meeting of the committee after Séc-|€xamined any of the slogans as yet retary Hughes had announced the }20@ will not, until the contest has agreement between. Great Britain, Closed on Dec. 24. Within the next Japan and. the ‘United States’ to: Week every booster of the city shoutd IAndenteld, according to Mr. Burns, | went abroad. originally on behalf of the department of justice to obtain in- ‘formation which would lead to the ar- rest of those responsible ‘for the ex- | Plosion. When no reports were re- | ceived from*him, Mry Burns said, Sil- _ Vester Cosgrove, one of the depari- | Ment’s agents, was sent over to find out why: Lindenfeld. was not sending the information fromised and the ar- rest foNowed. \ Radicals ‘in’ Europe as well as in‘ ~ northern Minnesota. A surplus from| Nuessle for the stay. Commissioner - ‘and clangeil the bars ‘of their cell! abandon projected building programs, | knit his brow and write a slogan that! the Uni s Pee . H iy ited States were under surveil- Jast year also was reported. It is] Kitchen voted against approving the} id ins a fa aye ig) tal 4-ag-, Will be a by-word for Bismarck’ i a exvected that 5,000 Christmas trees; request for a stay, Mr. Spencer did 5 oors against’ their fastenings. scrap sixty eight capital ships jj ag. ore aor: arck’s Com-| lance by ie department for suspected will be sold through local dealers in the Bismarck trade territory. Sunshine Club Helps. ! The members of the Sunshine club, have made stockings which they will} fill with- candy and popcorn, for the} children in the hospitals. Dolls and{ cats have also been made by members! of the club and will be distributed) among the children in the hospital at Christmas time@¥ The regular two bouquets of flowers and the scrap books, which this club sends to the hospitals each week will be gent for} Christmas. The club members are now making a quilt which they will sell to replenish the treasury so that they may keep their present charita-/ ble work up. | proval. not vote and Commissioners McDon- ald, Elliott and Olsness voted ap- The order of Judge Nuessle restoréd Wehe to office and ordered salary paid during the time he had been ousted} on the alleged illegal action of former{ Governor Frazier in removing him. Mr. Spencer, acting as attorney for he bureau, requested Judge Nuessle; who is holding court in Jamestown,) of deciding whether or not an appeal would be taken. Mr. Wehe declined to comment upon what action he may take, if any, when informed of the action of the bureau. drawn Judge Nuessle said he quite positive about Wehe’s right to [ASK FOR | Reparations Committee Com- plains of Her Failure To Give Details . INFORMATION Paris, Dec. 17—(By The Associated | for a stay of 30 days for the purpose; Pregs)—The allied reparations com- mission has refused to consider Ger- | ;Many’s request for an extension of | Residents of the nefghborhood fear- ‘ing another jail delivery assembled around the jail and joined in the up |roar, | “Police froma nearby station an- |swered a riot call and dispersed the ‘crowd in front of the jail, but they \\were not admitted inside as Jailer Pet, I : ~ jer Lawrence informed them his | guards had quieted the disturbance. The ‘mutiny was said to be a result of O’Connor’s escape. Jailer Lawrence has sought to punish the remaining prisoners by depriving them of matches and their mattresses. The gregating nearly two million tons and set their navies in ten years on a five-five-three ratio basis as be- tween themselves. The one action|and $5 for first, second and third disclosed at.the meeting of the com-| places, respectively—and in addition mittee of fifteen was the agreement: suitable award will be made for a not to talk of what was going on un-| symbol jif selected from the entry of til a conclusion had been reached. one’who has not submitted the win- The British statement as to! ning slogan. French proposals preceded the com-| mittee’s “no talk decision.” munity advertising throughout the Northwest.” Three prizes are offered—$15, $10 In a letter directing the order be|-can pay on these was | gives, time on her January and February | mattresses were returned last night. reparations payments until the Ger-| nae rie, “atau any QUIET XMAS AT , WHITE. HOUSE other information demanded. ! Thig developed when the text of the; pointed out that they were with- out any official knowledge of what was in progress in the “Big Three” naval negotiations culminating in the triangular. agreement. They receiv- ed the. official announcement of the agreement Wednesday and ‘it ap- peared possible that when the French government had taken time to study French spokesmen have repeatedly: the slogan, “Where the West Begins, | not,” Mandan chose from a_contes' | Fargo advertises as ‘The Biggest Lit tle City'in the World.” arly ever: | big city in the country has sought Zz ‘connection with the explosion and i° ; the information to be obtained: from | Lindenfeld proves {p be as expected | arrests are in immediate prospect. | SAY HE CONFESSED. | Warsaw, Dec. 17.—(By the Associ | ated Press.)—Plots and counter-plots | reading like a chapter from: fiction Minot has the slogan, “Why Not Mi-! were involved in the search for clues in many parts of Europe by Americar ecret service agents which resulted in the arest here yesterday of Wolf¢ Lindenfeld, alias William Lind, in ‘onnection with the Wall street bomb | Slogan in the last few years. Detroit, | explosion in New York in September, | Michigan, chose the slogan, “Detroit—| 1920. Linderfeld has fully eonfesseu, | Where. Life is Worth Living.” lithe authorities say, naming the rine The slogan committee believes that| leaders in the plot which he declared ‘there is plenty of opportunity for one/ was aimed at J. P. Morgan, the in- . ing, | to write a slogan for Bismarck which fernay machine exploding premature- Sem atice i ck eGne Cpe | wil be a wonderful aid in advertis- | ty, , might be forthcoming. Vague hints | ins the city. H oar eae carers a 5 of such possible developments were!” aE I | NAMES FIVE PRINCIPALS. on 3) e M | ; _ According to Silvester Cosgrove anc in elrenlation last Bight ‘ut. pvnether| CONFESSION OF | Paul Altendorf, who: trailed: Linden- i feld, the suspect has namedifive prin- u | - cipals in the plot now in Europe who 4 | HEATON BRINGS Third Internationale through the New ' ; York Communists. Lindenfeld. has ) ; declared his willingness to return to ‘ 0 HOT DEBATE = York as ‘soon as possible an:l i | turn state’s evidence. The Polish au- | thorities say he was exposed in 1905 as a Russian secret agent and. fled to Out | America at that time, returning to The Sunday school of the Presby-| the office but had some doubt about| commigsion’s note to the Berlin gov-/ a : terian church will vbserve their 8e-) whether he was entitled to the salary.| ernment was made public today. | Washington; Dec. 17.—A quiet Xmas , ond: White Christmas. They have re. eT Ot The reply expresses surprise that|in the White House will he observed « \. ~ celvedda’ list of reedy from the coun- Germphy failed to tell exactly what) by the President and Mrs. Harding, ty welfare worker, Miss Kolling, and ELKS PLAN FOR i one of the divisions ‘plan to” supply} {tarnished it will be impossible to even | b] {examine the requests of the German | i a (s egovernment, the note declares. | chejentiveyetaisvand) that each preety.) | The commission expresses THAT CHE WILL HOLD BABY potatoes. | suggestion for balancing the budget, | Episcopal church tomorrow during} The Elks lodge, af a meeting last received $30,000 from the Moscow ! foreigniexchange she would be able to | It was announced today the president Christmas dintiers. “At the recent IN I T | A T | 0 tery take care of the needy in its dis | regret |deliver, what delays she desired and} will hang up his stocking “at home.” ‘what guarantees she would offer | Synod held in Fargo it was dedidel, that this work should be under athe ; ‘ ‘Another Class To Be Taken In! that Germany has not replied to its; ec cab ies i previous queries as to what action sho! In January meanwhile. Until these details are} supervision of the church throughout; Sunday, scloot shave :deciied a | proposed regarding the commission's , Santa Glaus will call at St Geos igen | preventing the exportation of German; the Sunday school session, it was an-| nounced today. The members of the; Sunday school, who have collected! toys and clothing for, the needy can} give them to Santa Clhus, himself, to- morrow. This Surday school is also} looking aftera list of people furnish-) ed by the county welfare worker. The} teachers of the different classes will| meet at the parish house on Monday, night and pack the donations. | Pack Toys ‘For Kiddies. \ ‘The Epworth League of the Metli-1 odist church has gathered donations| from members of the congregation. At a meeting held at the church Friday! night the toys were packed and will} be sent to families in Bismarck and} surrounding community. a | A number of Catholic societies are; doing active work in helping to re-! night, discussed plans for the next} initiation of the order. It will be held] on the third Friday in January and it}, is expected that there will be a good | class. ing for the deficit in the Salvation Army budget, so as to make Bismarck 100 per cent complete in the raising of the Army budget for the year. . The lunchroom of the club will he {opened up shortly after Christmas.| tighest yesterday . with Gus Scholte in charge. MINIMUM FOR LAUNDRIES IS RECOMMENDED A recommendation for a minimum} wage of $14 per week for women laun- i | dry workers is made to the workmen's lieve the suffering, and give as pleas ; Gry r 1e ant a Christmas as possible to needy; Compensation bureau, sitting as a families here. The Catholic Daugh-| minimum’ wage commission, by a con- ters of America and St. Mary’s Sew-; ference of representatives of employ- ing Circle are taking care of a num-| ers, employes and the public. The her of families and are furnishing | scale adopted, including a scale for fuel, clothing and groceries for them, The Knights of Columbus are also do- ing much along this line to alleviate the poverty in Bismarck and com- munity, apprentices, represents approximately a 15 i cent decrease from the pre- viously established minimum. } The recommendation provides | where the mimimum wage is | the laundries may deduct 50 Mo task in the note for this situation. | The order formulated plans for ears | Today’s Weath: *ltures are mear normal, capital and measures to obtain for- | eign exchange from German holders. | The German government was-taken | —_—e er 4 For twenty-four hours ending at noon Dec. 17. Temperature at 7 A. M Lowest yesterday « Lowest last night Precipitation Highest wind velo Weather Fore For Bismarck and vicinity: ably snow tonight and Sunday; temperature tonight; colder Sunday afternoon. iN _ For North Dakota: Probably snow tonight and Sunday; rising tempera- ture: tonight; colder in west portion Sunday afternoon. Weather Conditions. WHILE MOTHER DOES BUYING merce sects nue Bismarck has some courteous clerks as revealed in the an, | jswers coming into The Tribune in response to the politeness drive | under the auspices of the Bismarck Rotary club. That the Rotary | spirit abounds in many institutions is becoming more and more ; Europe last spring. Alleged Admissions As Part orevdewe FIRING BREAKS Fargo, Dec. 17—The entire morning : | session of the trial of Frank C. Hea- ton, former bank teller, charged with! -| TOO.” That’s real service. to the anti-grouch club for she What is your experience? Vote today. Just remember they are in The Mississippi Valley storm area has advanced to the Lake region, accompanied by rain or snow and fol- Jowed by a cold wave over Minnesota and Iowa. To the west the weather has been generally fair and tempera- excepting somewhat above normal in western VOTE FOR apparent daily. This from one letter: | : : “Gets anything in the store to suit you even if she has to) to argument over the admission of un! tear down everything and she WILL EVEN HOLD THE BABY From another letter regarding the same clerk: “Very accommodating, willing and patient. She must belong, ” always greets you with a smile. Every clerk voted on up to Friday evening is a woman. Who! will put in a vote for the men clerks? the race too. Only a few more days left — every clerk voted on will get ered. | honorable mention, Two of them will get prizes of $5 each. —_—$—<—<< $$, TWO ONLY My selection as the most courteous clerk is: : (Give name and address, write plainly.) jembezzlement of $78,000 was devoted | ‘alleged confession by Heaton as evi- | ‘dence. Judg® C. M. Copley overruled ! | objections of the defense to admis-! sion of the confession and it will be; | placed in evidence. Court adjourned at noon until 2 p.} jm. when N. J. Brevig, assistant. cash- | ‘ier of the defunct Scandinavian-Amer- ; ican bank of Fargo, was to resume the | | witness stand. \ ! Brevig yesterday identified certain | records of the bank which he testi- {fied were in charge of Heaton before | |his alleged defalcations were discov- ‘Gold Is Smuggled | Out of Argentina, ‘Buenos Aires, Dec. 1 Sertwith | standing the legal prohibition against the exportation of gold from A /tina, the visible supply has diminish- ed -since the first of the year by ap- The conclu- OUT AGAIN IN EAST BELFAST Rioting Continues and Car Ser- vice is Suspended—Dail _ « Postpones Decision } ‘ Belfast, Dec. 17—(By the Associat- ed Press—Fierce firing broke out in the Newtomards road section and east Belfast today. The firing was so in- tense that tram car service was sus- pended. Machine guns were used against the rioters by the Crown forces. An employe of the city tram service was shot dead and at least, six persons are known to have bee wounded DECIDE NEXT WEDNESDAY Dublin, Dec. 17—(By the Asgociat- ed Press)—Final decision on the Irish * From 60,000 to 100,000 shea nuts are| case laundry privileges are given the annually rotting along the Gold Coast employe. Two-periods of apprentice- of Africa. fs ship are provided, one of three months | peace treaty by the Dail Eireann can be expected Wednesday but not be- fore, according to information ob- Montana and the western Provinces. ORRIS W. ROBERTS, - Meteorologist. | sion Among bankers | smuggled out of the country ar ” iSumatra is rapidly supplanting the| wage for the first period recommend-; tobacco industry with the culture of, ed being $11 per week and for the rubber. ‘New Yorker has developed a new form of electric heater that may also de used as a toaster. First successful overhead trolley line was installed tn” Richmond, Va., in 1887. and one of two months, the’ minimum second period, $12.50 per week, with’ no privilege for deducting pay be- cause of laundry privileges. One more conference is schedulec to be held before all recommenda- tions on classes of women workers for which it is proposed to establish min- imum wage scales, are completed This is for telephone workers. , $40,000,000 FOR CRIMINAL — INJURIES London, Dec. 17—The total com- pensation awarded under the criminal injuries Ireland Act during the period from June 1, 1920, to Sept. 30, 1921, was approximately $8,000,000 pounds. The figures were given by Sir Hamar Greenwood Chief Secretary for Irs- land, to a questioner’ in the House of ~~ >, Commons. , Signature of voter. . (Not for Publication.) 6 |the destination of most of it wis the United States. Reports concerning this clandes- |tine exportation have been made to Finance Minister Salaberry who is un- |derstood to have ordered an investi- gation although nothing has been ‘made public as to the result. Codfish in Iceland are dried and ground into flour for use in making tained from authoritative Sinn Fein circles. 4 statement signed by Eamonn De Vafera and Arthur Griffith: was_ is- sued last night announcing a public session of the Dail for 11 o’clock Mon- day morning at which a motion for ratification of the treaty will be made A meter is one ten-millionth part of the distance between the equator | bread. and the pole