The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 9, 1922, Page 1

\ t Rp . which has been held up by the treas- ’ The Weather Generally Fair a FORTIETH YEAR we BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1922 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Last Edition PRICE FIVE CENTS THREE CONVICTS SCALE WALLS USED LADDER TO MAKE EARLY ~ MORNING ESCAPE FROM PRISON; EXTEND AUDIT AND PROBE 10 ALLINDUSTRIES Industrial Commission Auditors Nearing Conclusion on Bank Work MILL WORK IS DISCUSSED Industrial Commission Meets | Engineer on. Contracts Entered Into i Investigation and audit.of North Da- | kota state industries by an auditing | firm employed by the Industrial Com- | mission is being extended to include | all industries under: the commission | ‘The work and the commission itself. of auditng the Bank of North Dakota is nearing conclusion, and auditors | this week began pushing the audit of the Drake mill, Grand Forks project, Mill and Elevator Association, Home Builders’ Association and the books of the commission itself. It is proposed by the administration to lay before the people of the state a complete record of the condition and management of the state industries.’ ‘The audit is to be more thorough than any heretofore made and will, with; reference to the Bank of North Da-! kota in particular, go into the ques- | tion of valuations in order to determ- ine the losses of the bank accurately. | Previous audits made under the! league adminstration have been un- satisfactory. There was sharp con- | troversy between officials of the Home Builders’ Associations and the audit, company, the league representatives | failing to agree in many respects. J. B. Adams, former manager of the; Home Builders, charged the Equitable | Audit Company with inaccuracy. Dif- ferences also obtained as to the Drake | mill. A complete investigation by an! impartial firm was held necessary by the administration. Asks Payment by Bank | In connection with the deficit faced ‘by the Bank of North Dakota, Trea: urer John Steen, it is understood, will | make a new demand for repayment by the bank of $100,000, interest on thé | bank bonds issued to provide capital ; stock for the ‘bank, for 1920. This | interest, paid from taxpayers’ funds, | was not repaid by the bank, although it paid for two following years. This payment in itself would almost de- stroy the “profits” which have been listed by the bank and is declared by | the treasurer, who previously made a demand for it, to be a valid obligation of the bank. i | Another item which the bank prob-; ably inust shoulder is $20,000 advance commission paid to a New Yorker dur- ing the bank’s bond sale efforts in the! east. This was listed as “commis- sion” on bond sales. Since the su- preme court held that no commission may be paid by the state on bond sales } it is held that no commission may be it is held the bank must shoulder this. | The amount was part of bills allowed by the retiring administration on the next to last day in office, payment of | urer. A representative of the engineering mission in the Grand Forks mill: work { MPS. ISA THOMPSON AND MRS. ANDREE FULLER. By NEA Service Washington, Jan. 9 — American newspapermen were having a heap of trouble getting news out of the French delegation because of the, difference between French and English. And then- Entered Mrs. Isa Thompson and ‘Mrs. Andree Fuller, two American girls. They are skilled interpreters, experienced in international confer- ence publicity work. And they short- ly made the difference in language and the occasional misunderstanding of temperament between American re- porters and French statesmen neglig- ble. FLAG WITHSTAR OF ND. 18 ON “WAY 10 PARIS Is a Gift to Paris By The La- “newsrareren ” FORMALLY NAME (ABOVE), | MCUMBER HEAD OF SENATE BODY | Suceeds Late Bosie Penrose As Chairman of Financial i Committee of Senate To Fill Vacancy Created on Finance Committee ‘ <= / Washington, Jan, 9—(By the Asso- ‘ciated Press.)—Senator Porter J:.Me- | iCumber of North Dakota, was select- | ;ed today by the committ ‘man of the senate finance committee | ‘to succeed the late Boies Penrose. | Senator Frelinghuysen, Republican, het New Jersey, was selected to fill the} vacancy on the finance committee. | | Elevation of Senator McCumber to! !the chairmanship of the’ finance com- imittes will leave vacant the chair-| fmanship of the pensions committee | i but the committee on committees de- | ferred selection of a chairman of that; | | ee as chair-{ < | ~ LEADERS ! | Washington, | ERENCE Jan, 9.—A_ general} agreement for the enactment ofa pill for former service men fearly in the pres session of con-| jeress, it was indicated, had_been} reached at the conclusion of a White dinner conference Saturday House | night between President Harding and; la number of senators, representa- i tives and members of the cabinet, | The plan contempletes, it was un- l@erstood that the cost of the bonus] {will be defrayed, if possible, from re-| jceipts from the Allied debts to the! | United States. If these are not suffi- | ‘cient, it was said, it was: tentatively | | suggested that a sales tax might be! } supported by the administration for | the purpose. | All the agreements reached werej | provisional, it was emphasized by [oss who attended, and subject to| ;ment among Republicans in house and senate makes it necessary. Other items of legislation under dis- !cussion included the permanent tariff | ‘ond. the refunding bill for’ the allied debts. Conierence Last Five Hours | The conference lasted from 7 p. m. until midnight and those present said {that every possible detail of the legis- | lative situation was discussed, al- | ADVANCE FRELINGHUYSEN TRANSFER OF POWER SOON | ‘ |New Jersey Senator is Named’ Administrative Powers Will Be tonn DeValera president of the Irish | Republic. was defeated in the fayette Birthday Associa- i though it) was not the intention to| tion of America ‘Worked iin silk on a star of white, the name of North Dakota is speeding eastward, to take its place with forty- seven other stars on a silken flag that will eventually go as a gift to the capital of the World War, Paris. The kilk of blue that forms each letter on the field of white was placed there by the wife of a man who was under a similar flag at Chaumont, where Gen- eral Pershing had his headquarters. ¥he flag upon which this embroidered and representatives of contractors were to have a conference with the In- | dustrial Commission today. | with contract for about $570,000 worth | of machinery for the Grand Forks; mill, espe city that had a king a thousand years before the world war was. fought. | The flag, upon which the star of; cut. The new commission has been faced! North Dakota will be placed, is a gift | Gillett, to Paris by the Lafayette Birthday Association of America, of which J. ly made months ago and| CaMhpbell Gilmore is president and/of satr will be placed will cross the ocean} firm employed by the Industrial Com-{" the name of Pershing to take its) place in some age old building of the draw up definite plans or a definite program until other conferences had {been held, It was indicated 'tatives and senators later to give a i broader scope to the discussions. The bonus bill, it was said, would probably be brought up in the senate in the very near future as a result of the ne- gotiations Saturday night. | As a prelude to the dinner President |Hadding had called to the executive office several members of the senate and also at cabinet gather- ings the general situation, principally with reference to the tariff legislation, has been taken up. Sen. McCumber Present. Representing the senate were Sen- ators, Lodge, of. Massachusetts; watson, Indiana; MeCumber, North Dakota; | Curtis,’ Kansa J; Brandegee, Connecti- | From tie house canie Speaker Majority ‘Leader Mondell, Chairman Fordney of the ways and }means committee; Chairman Madden the appropriations committee; | BEAT DE VALERA NOMINATION 10 HEAD REPUBLIC |Movement to Reinstate Leader, Who Resigned Fails By a Close Vote } \ Turned Over to Ireland By England | Dublin, Jan. ¥—(By the Associated Press)—The motion to reelect Eam-} Dail Kireann today by a vote of 58 to 60. TRANSFER SQON fos) London, Jan. 9—-(By the Associat- ed ‘Press)—-Transfer of the adminis- trative powers to the new southern heland government created under the | treaty ratifiol Saturday by the Dail! Kireann in \Dublin is to be arranged ! immediately. It is. understood that ! the committee of British ministers ap- | pointed under the chairmanship of | Secretary for Colonies Churchill will | today resuma its work. |r The ministers are expected to pro- claration of general vanling over the administration de: | partments in Dublin to the ‘new gov- | Ireland and the progress made in { stalling the provisional government | of the Irish Free State. HOLD ATTORNEY | ACCEPTED BRIBE ae | Jan, 9—Peter Fisher, | (Kenosha, Wi: Jr., former district attorney of Keno: revision if a further canvass of senti-!£ha county, was found guilty of brib- Seen areca Mea the |ery by the jury late Saturday after- ; i} noon. \ The defense immediately filed an | appeal which wil]'be heard probably early this week, .when sentence will be passed ona niimber of other cases. growth of exposure of a liquor smug- gling ring which involved many public officials and prominent men in south- ern Wisconsin cities, who are yet to be brought.to trial. Fisher was specifically charged with | accepting remuneration for protecting the ring. FOR COAL MINE) F. L. Anders is Appointed Lucky Strike Receiver F. L. Anders, of Fargo, was ap- pointed receiver of the Lucky Strike Lignite Coal Company, which has a mine at Zap, Saturday afternoon in Mandan. The appointment of Anders as tem- porary receiver follows a petition of miners employed in the workings and on the part of stockholders. The stockholders asserted that the mine was unable to compete with other ceed immediately with arrangements | working. for evacuation of British troops, de-'are birthday greetings from disabled amnesty and | soldiers she has aided. ! enn HER BIRTHDAY Miss Alice Robertson, the only wo- n in Congress, celebrated her ty-eighth birthday anniversary by Those papers on her desk ernment. | Transfer of the powers depends up- | on the events of the next few days in! SAID CAUSE OF GIRL'S SUICIDE Estelle McNulty Daughter Of, Prominent Resident of Y Oliver County ‘Center, N. D., Jan, 9-—Miss Estelle —_BLOODHOUNDS | Dragnet Is Spread By Prison Three Men, Who Obtained Three convicts scaled the w here at 7:10 o’clock this morning by use _ Their escape discovered a short time later, penitentiary were put on their trail and bloodhounds sent out in SENT AFTER THEM Officials In Effort To Capture Ladder, Scaled Prison Wall and Escaped—Two of Them Serving Terms For Bank Robbery est wall of the state penitentiary of a ladder and escaped. guards from the | charge of a keeper. The three convicts were trailed to the Soo jline freight yards here where the trail was lost but the blood- { hounds picked up two other trails later in the morning. RAIL GAPITAL ~ STOCK TAX IS KNOCKED OUT t i Supreme Court of United States Holds Against State of North Dakota ‘DECISION IS GIVEN TODAY Washington, Jan. 9.—The excise imposed by North Dakota upon | railroads within the state were held | by the supreme court today, to be in- j valid. Taxes of approximately $125,000 for the year 1919 were levied against the railroads under the capital stock tax law, according to Former State Tax Commissioner Geo. FE. Wallace. The i i | The prisoners who escaped are: | Arthur Smith, 24, entered prison | Nov. 29, 1921, sentenced from Ramsey j county for. 1 years for numerous robberies. 4% | George Thewles, 28, entered prison Aug. 30, from Wells county sentenc- ‘ed to 18 years for bank robbery. Louis Meadow, 19, entered prison Aug. 30, sentenced from Wells county for 12 years for same robberies 14s Thewles, ' The prisoners had gone to their , morning work, and were in the prison | yard inside the walls when they con- | trived to make their disappearance, | They are believed to have obtained a j long ladder from the twine factory, ; Which they used to scale the west | wall of the prison, | Missed Early Train, | The prisoners missed the early | morning Soo passenger train, and are believed to have missed a freight train ; Which left shortly afterward. After the escape was discovered a dragnet ; was spread about the city and ad- | joining towns. All trains leaving the | city during the morning were care- fully searched. It was the opinion of prison officers at 11 A. M. that the law levying a stock on the capital | prisoners had not gotten out of the stock was passed by the 1919 legis- j lature. | . The first method used by the tax commissioner in levying the tax was | to allocate the capital stock to North Dakota on a basis of the mileage of the railroads within the state. This{| was attacked by the rairoads and the case went to the U. S, supreme court, the railroads winning. Part of the city, The prisoners’ flight from the pris- On could be traced easly in the snow until they reached the Soo freight yard. One trail picked ‘up by the bloodhounds later led toward the riv- er-down West Main street. None of.the prisoners had caused any trouble thus far in the peniten- tiary. Thewles and Meadow worked i MeNulty, ‘whose body. -was.-reported, state wae beld invalid. Miss Another method’ of levying the tax Fisher’s pnosecution was .the out- \ifouna in San Francisco Bay Saturday, | was used, this being based on an allo- was the daughter of County Judge! cation of capital stock represented in |C. F. MeNulty of Oliver county, who; North Dakota on a basis of thd rail- jtoad property used within the state. also is editor of the Center Republi-' The state was victorious in the United jean, jStates district court, but the tax is now eld invajid by the United States Su- McNulty went to Californi seven years ago because of ill health. ; Preme court. | She was about 40 years old.) On Jan-!_ Mr. Wallace asked the legislature luard 2 her brother Charles'F. Mc-| St wirter to repeal the capital stock gram from the Oakland, Calif., police q Ff stating that she had disappeared. The MAR vIS OKUMA | when a cofrespondent- of the Asso- ciated Press reported that the body re had been found in the bay. i The suicide theory is accepted by} | tion, believing that despondency| caused by ill health led to the act. Nulty, of Ft. Clark, received a tele-|'@W, but it falled to do so. next word received by the family was friends, based upon meager informa- t | State of Coma Causes False Re- : port of His Death | } Tokio, Jan. 8.—Marquis Okuma, the . ts ‘aged statesman, whose condition of } R coma led to reports of death, was still ! sJLy alive at five o'clock this afternoon, | A Tokio dispatch on Yanuary 6 ‘stated that Marquis Okuma had died E. M. Thompson Home Gutted that day. Honolulu dispatches of the | 7th stated that the Marquis’ physician in the twine plant regularly. \Thewles jis said to, have just finished a term lin prison in Stillwater, Minnesota, be- | fore entering prison here. GEORGE HARVEY IS INJURED American Ambasador. in Auto Accident in London Cannen, France, Jan. 9—(By the As- sociated Press) —,George Harvey, American Ambassador to Great Brit- ain, was injured in a collision between his automobile and another machine this morning. He was immediately taken to his hotel where it was an- nounced that he was only slightly in- jured but that he would not attend the meeting of the allied supreme council today. Physicians found him suffor- ing from shock and severe bruises on his: back where he struck the road when thrown from the machine. They expressed the opinion that he would be confined to his bed for several days and said that he should not attempt to attend any official parties. | mines of the district due to the fact! on which storage now is being charged! Charles W. Alexander is secretary. ; Chairman Anderson of the joint con- By Fire against’the state. This machinery | The flag, which will be given in the/8Tessional committee, which ig inves- and other equipment was purchased/ name of General Pershing, will fol-/ “igating the agricultural situation, and at the peak of ‘prices, according to|jow a similar one, but with thirteen!Representatives Darrown, Penneyl- the secretary of the-:commission, al-, en five years ago in honor} vania, and Saunders, Indiana. that it was forced to pay approxi-; jat Tokio announced that the state of mately $1.10 per ton fou late. coal}, coma, into which the patient had fallen |‘under a contract with the miners’; Fire which started in basement of | had been mistaken for death and that ion, which wa var time; the E.M. Thompson home, 623 Thirdi he had regained consciousness and union, which was based on war time a D was still breathing. NESTOS NAMES ROAD DELEGATES though the mill at that time had hardly ie ia A Th Beslaering tee wages and was exorbitant. The com-} street, late Saturday afternoon badly | Jovernor Nestos has named the fol- irly Q i imated | Of; Lafayette. The embroidering of; pany is said to haye' liabilities total- Z i se. | lowing delegates to the Congress of Deon fairy, started, ‘I¢ is estimated | oh, ue was the isk of soe © FARGO POULTRY |?" [damaged the interior of the house. glee one that the price on,this machinery has! | ing $153,000. |The fire started around the furnace Good Roads Advocates, to be held in » Whose hus- since dropped 30 to 40 per cent. ; Mudgett of Valley C + Diseuss Mill Work, - | Pershing at G. H. Q. at Chaumont, | band was a lieutenant colonel under) SHOW JAN. 16-20 The present commission will inves- | tigate to determine if it is necessary to; assume all these obligaticns which, it} is qlaimed, will increase the cost of | the mill many thousands of dollars | over the cost that would have been} entailed had the machinery not been} ordered at peak of prices and many! months in advance of the time it could possibly be used. The commission also was to dis- cuss.the question of resuming work on the mill during ‘the spring. FORMER DULUTH EDITOR DIES Washington, Jan. 9—Charles F. Mitchell, editor and chief of the Washington Herald, died at his res dence here. Mr. Mitchell, who for-| merly wa§ editor of the Duluth, Minn., News-Tribune, is survived by his, wife and three children. FRAZIER SERVES ~ AS A JUROR Cavalier, N: D., Jan. 7—Develop- ments in the trial of Sam Kalil, ped- dler on trial for the murder of Ann Storey, are very slow. Four witnesses have been examined thus far and all the testimony offered has been detri- mental to the defendant. Mrs. Storey, mother of the murdered girl, was on the stgnd Saturday. The case is ex- nected to gd to the jury Tuesday. former Governor Lynn J. Frazier is BURCH TRIAL ‘Taking of Testimony May Be | Fargo, Jan. 9.—The 28th annual ex- jhibtion of the North Dakota State Poultry Association will be held Jan- uary 16 to 20, inclusive, in connection with the Tri-State Grain Growers Con- f , Yention. Secretary Hatcher predicts ; the biggest show in the history of the j Association. All: poultry entries must \be in by the 13th, and birds must ar- N.PLLEAGUETO HOLD MERTINGS| rive by the 14th. Liberal cash prem-|. iums are offered, and there will be educational demonstrations which will be of great value to all breeders of poultry. ‘ROBBERS TAKE BUILDING; HOLD’ ‘ALL OCCUPANTS! Chicago, Jan. 9—Five armed men who last night posed as po- licemen took control of the Great Lakes Bu‘iding, making prisoners of the men they found in the building and looted the storeroom of the Arend Drug Company, were still at liberty today. The bandits roamed the building | for more than an hour and hauled out liquor which was valued at $4,000 on a freight elevator. They Placed it on a truck and drove away before the eyes of many pedestrians. One of the robbers released the Prisoners before they departed. SERVICES AT MOVIES. Finished Before Night Los Angeles, Calif, Jan. 9.—The trial of Arthur C. Burch, charged with the murder of J. Belton Kennedy, en- tered upon its eighth week today he- fore Superior Court Judge Reeve. Cross-examination of Dr. Louis J. Weber, prosecution alienist, called up- on to combat the defense that Burch is insane, was expected to occupy most of the morning session. District At- torney Woolwine said he expected al- so to call Dr. V. H. Parkin, alienist, but was hopeful that the taking of testimony would” be finished hefore night. kK ALADDIN UP TO DATE. London, Jan. 9—A mania for col- lecting bicycle iamps resulted in the appearance hefore the Kingston mag- | istrates of Edward Stradling, 15. The! policeman said Edward had five lamps at home and had decorated his bicycle: with lamps. He was placed on pro- bation. , ———_—_—--— Richmond, England, Jan. 9—Sun- SCOTS WITHOUT WHISKY. day evening services hereafter will Glasgow, Jan. 9.—Scotland is threat-| be held at the local movie house. Most ened with a rtage of whisky. liquor was distilled from March, 1917 one of the jurors sitting on the case, to March, 1919. tany place of worship. ‘membership a farmer to Precinct Gathering to Elect | Delegates to State Con- vention Fargo, N. D., Jan. 9—Precinct cau- cuses of the National Nonpartisan League, North Dakota branch, have beca called throughout the state, Washington's Birthday, Wednesday, February 22, at 2 o’clock p. m. Members of the League in every ecunty and aity precinct in North Da- kota are aske to meet on that day at their usual voting place and will elect, from their own. membership, a dele- gate to represent them at the conven- tion of their legislative district. Six years ago in North Dakota this plan of the Washington’s Birthday wuectings was started. On ‘Washing: ton’s birthday, 1916, some 30,000 North ‘Dakota farmers went to their polling places. They organized by selecting a chairman and a secretary and then proceeiled to select from their own represent ‘hem at the legislative convention. The time of holding the state con- vention has not been announced. Dundee, Scotland, Jan. 9.—Miss Vic- toria Drummond of Megginch tle, ,Perthsire, has just completed her ap- No| of the inhabitants of the town, say | prenticeship at Lilybank foundry. Her the church authorities, do not attend; ambition is to become a marine engi- | neer. in the basement, during the absence of members of the family. The fire, went up through the cold air ducts, to the attic. It was necessary for the! firemen! to cut through floors and walls in order to get to the blaze in) many places. | Mr. Thompson is unable to estimate ; the damage. which, however, ex- pected to be not less than $1,800 to $2000. The loss is covered by insur ance, It required about two hours for the ‘remer to extinguish the fire. The house was so badly gutted on the in- terior that the Thompson family has moved out temporarily. ARBUCKLE TRIAL IS POSTPONED San Franc Roscoe C. v was to have come up in court her day, was postponed, it was announced, Washington, Jan. 9—A sweep- ing declaration of his innocence was made by Senator Newberry, Republican, Michigan, in the sen- ate. Taking the floor in his own de- fense in the ouster proceedings brought by Henry Ford, the de- feated Democratic candidate, Sen- ator Newberry emphatically de- nled personal knowledge of the NAMES PEPPER U.S, SENATOR Philadelphia, . ¥—George Whar- ton Pepper, Philadelphia lawyer, was appointed United States senator today by Governor Sproul to succeed the late Boies Penrose. Under the law the appointment stands until a suc- cessor is elected at the November election to fill the unexpired: term ending in 1927, MOST SUMPTUOUS TRAIN, Bombay, Jan, 9—A train more sumptuous than any in which a king of England has traveled has been con- veying the Prince of Wales through Gold decorations prevail. The bedstead is of oxidized silver his bathroom tiled with porce- lain. . SEN. NEWBERRY MAKES DRAMATIC ‘DEFENSE OF HIS ELECTION collection or expenditure of the large campaign fund spent in his behalf. “As God is my witness | am not to this day and hour conscious of having done in connection with either the primary campaign or the general election of 1918 in the state of Michigan a_ single act that was or is in any way unlaw- ful, dishonorable or corrupt,” Sen. ator Newberry said. Chicago Jan. 18 to Jan. 20, at the re- quest of the Congress: N. B. Black, Fargo; Ira T. Hall, Hettinger; S. T. May, Dickinson; A. T. Kraabel, Clif- ford; L. L. Russell, New Rockford; ;R. E, Barron, Minot; Harrison Gar- nett, St. Thomas; A. J. Ross, Stanley; Geo, Sidener, Lansford; J. L. Bell, Bismarck; W. N. Wimmer, Halliday; I. J. Moe, Valley City. SETS FLY’S SPEED. Maidstone England, Jan. 9.—Stan- ley Henson, scientific investigator, has determined the flying speed of a house-fiy to be up to 30 miles an hour. He made tests with the insects in a | fast moving car, | Today’s Weather | 9 ee ee For Twenty-four hours ending at noon, Jan. 9, Temperature at 7 a. m. ++ 33 Highest yesterday . yesterday . ast night . Precipitation . Highest wind velocity ... Weather Forecast For Bismarck and Vicinity: Fair tonight and Tuesday; slightly colder tonight. For North Dakota: Fair tonight ; slightly colder tonight. Weather Conditions \ The pressure is low over Canada and the northern States and increases toward a high pressure area in’ the Southwest. Fair weather is general and temperatures are moderate over the Northwest and Central Valleys, but are rather low in the Southwest. ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Meteorologist.