The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 23, 1922, Page 1

The Weather Genorally Fair FORTIETH YEAR BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1922, PRICEFIVE CENTS J. J. H GS HELD SUB-COMMITTEE URGES MI ON RR Nn ee STATE FIXES HOUR OF WICK MURDER - i LATE PICTURE OF POPE BENEDICT NOISES HEARD BY WOMAN TOLD Woman Says That She Heard First Noise About Midnight; ' Others at 4 a. m. ‘ADJOURNMENT EN, Case Goes Over Until ‘tuesday \. Morning; State Does Not. Finish its.Case” TAKEN | 1 { ! ' | eS i Valley City, Jan. 28—At the fore-| Noon. session today in the trial of) Wiiliam Gummer, charged with mur-| dering M.ss Marie Wick, Mrs. John, Vorst testi that she was awaken-'! ed shortly after she went to sleep ‘at | ~12:3@ A..M. on the night of June 6 and 7 by noises emanating from Room ; 80 of the Prescott hotel. x | Mrs. Van Vorst said the noise; sounded as if someone was “ihrow-| ~ ing a ball against the wall” and that, “ there was a_.“glinking” as thouzh! scmeone was walking on a tin roof. Also she testified that it sounded like someshe jumning up and down. =| Mrs, Van, Vorst testified thet exper- iments conducted later in which of- ficials participated “resulted in the production of the same kind of noises. : e| ‘ Court Adjourned. | The testimony was not cwicluded today When court recessed today at 11:45 A. M. until Tueslay at 10 A. M. on account of the illness of W. C.| Green, state's attorney. j Several minor witnesses were on the | stand during the forenoon session to-| day. ‘ The state will use(Mrs_ Van Vorst’s testimony in attempting to. establish the théory’ that the original assault | ‘ on M.ss Wick was made at 12:30 A. M. J on June 7 and it proposes to. intro-|' duce further testimony to show: that! ‘ noises came from room 30 at 4 A. M. ~ HOTEL AT 4A. M., USING WOMAN'S TESTIMONY POPE BENEDICT XV . INFARGO : ASKS PROTESTS, |Report is to the Effect that Ac-| tion of Sub-committee. was - Unanimous peta | TO_JUDICIARY COMMITTEE| i i i i ii ={ 1 Fight 4s Expected in the Full! Judiciary, Committee, on Nomination | BULLETIN | Washington, Jan. 23—The nom. ination of Andrew Miller to be a- federal judye for the district of ‘North Dakota was recommitted by the senate judic:ary committee to its*sub-committee which. “a few hours earlier had recommended a favorable report. Further charges were understood to have been fil- ed at the full committee's session. Washington,’ Jan. 23.—(By!/ the Associated Press.) — The! senate sub-committee headed by Senator Cummins, Iowa, today recommended to the senate judi- ciary committee that the name ;of Andrew Miller, nomiriated by \the President-to be the federal | judge for the North Dakota dis- trict, be reported favorably to ,the senate and that objections, ‘to confirmation of the judge be disregarded. : | , understood to have been unani- ;mous, | Opponents of Mr. Miller were said to have given notice that they would make another effort to defeat con- firmation. Senator McCumber, who recommended selection, believed, how-} ever, that a favorable report on the nomination would be made. The nomination developed a_ hot fight in North Dakota ,and. several hearings were held by the sub-com- mittee ‘to hear objections and deter- mine his fitness. It was deemed un- likely that further hearings-would: be held by the full committee although —9 HEARING ENDED, “RMSANEESS. BE DISREGARDED {nd the industrie: , The sub-committe’s action was] : IN LLER C MILE TO SHORE ‘Port Wing, Wis., Jan. 23—Car- ried out into the ice-cuated wa- ters of Lake Superior tate Satur- day when a severe gale sprang up, Alfred Peterson, a fisherman, of Knife River, Minn., reached here last night after his wife had per. ‘ished in an open rowboat. His legs and arms frozen, Pet. erson leaving the body of his wife in .the ice-locked boat, crawled from one ice cake to another until he reached the south shore of the lake, one and a half miles eaat of here at 6 p. m. yesterday, 27 hours after his boat was taken from his control by a storm. SEATT ONFIRMATION FORMER VIGE-PRESIDENTOF _ SCANDINAVIAN BANK ARRESTED ON CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT Alleged That He Embezzled $3,000 in Loan Made to Him For U. S. To Be Made at Instance of Attorney-General’s Office in Con- nection with Scandinavian Bank and Other Deals Involving Former Leaders‘of the League 1 ! i Sisal Trust—Regarded as “Touch-off” For Further Arrests | AT CONFERENCE Tells National Gathering to Dis- cuss Farm Life That it Would Aid Interior is —_ i CITES EUROPE’S EFFORTS. President Tells Gathering Called by Secretary Wallace that | Cost Is Not Too Great ; Washington, Jan. 23.—Attended by ipproximitely 3800 delegates repre- senting agriculture in ali its phases related to farming, che Yational Agrictltural conference s convened here today by Secretary lace and immediately heasd from resiuent Harding a declaration of in- srest and sympathy by the adminis- on in the present plight osvtae ; vi’g farmers together with’a ser- | ies of ‘suggestions for remedying ex-| sting cO“uttious. { Feasibility of the St. Lawrence- | Great Lakes waterways project is| ‘unquestioned,” President Harding de-| lara] today before the conference.* | “t Lave spoken,” the President said, “of the advantage which Europe eit- oys! because of its easy access to the as, the cheapest and surest trans- ion facilities. In our own coun- ‘ry is presented one of the world’s‘ most attractive opportunitiés for the HARDING URGES » WATERWAY PLAN OTHER ARRESTS TO FOLLOW? Arrest of J. J. Hastings, former vice-president of the Scandinavian-American bank of Fargo and one of the former leaders in the Nonpartisan league, in Seattle, Washington, is generally expected in statehouse cirtles to mark the beginning of searching investigation and possi- ble prosecution of several former league leaders in con- nection with various deals in North Dakota. Hastings, who was arrested on an information of States Attorney Green of Cass county, is the result of dis- closures made during the legislative investigation con- ducted last winter in which Scandinavian-American bank affairs were prominent. ifs Attorney-General Johnson, asked if the reported arrest of Hastings was the beginning of a series of ac- tions on the part of states attorney Green or the attorney- general’s office, said: . “I have nothing to say. Our term is short—one year, one month and seven days, . Our orders are explicit from approximately 113,000 citizens. During our short term this office expects to do all in its power to make corrup- tion and disregard of the law in public affairs unpopular in North Dakota.” piv Arthur LeSueur, St. Paul attorney and former league leader, has been assisting auditors of Bishop, Brissman and company in auditing the Bank of North Dakota. Though LeSueur has refused to make any statement as to purpose of his employment it is understood that he has been engaged in ferreting out matters which might be the basis of or evidence in criminal prosecytions: J. R. Wa- ters, former manager of the bank, also has been aiding the auditing company. : J. J. Hastings, former: vice-president of the Scandinavian- American bank of Fargo and chief financial agent of A. C. Town- ley and the Nonpartisan league, was arrested’ at-Seattle, Wash- ington, on a charge of embezzling funds of the Scandinavian- American bank, according to word received Saturday night in Valley City by William E. Green, state’s attorney of Cass county. Hastings, it is said, will return to Fargo for trial without ex- , The state will maintain that this was Today ’s Weather i] some senators said it probably would| the time that Miss Wick was clubbed _ to death. i Pursue “Mystery Man.’- Further testimony: is expected on the “niystery man” introduced in the case Saturday, when H. J. Hagen, on} cross-examination, was asked“ if he! had had conversation with a man named C. L. Thomas, either in the lobby of the hotel or in agen’s room, No.wal. rea Hagen replied: ‘Absolutely hot.” | Hagen was expected to be called again. Who “Thomas” might have | been or the significance of the ques: | tion was not elaborated upon. | Two witnesses whose testimony has ! been eagerly awaited by the public | were put on the stand by the state; Saturday. They were Andy Brown, Gumiief's roomiiite, and H. J. Hagen, A formerzpresident, of the Scandinavian- American Bank of Fargo, who on the night of the crime occupied the room jn the Prescott hotel next to that in which Miss Wick was done to death. { Hand Writing Identified \ The examination of Bnown was con- | SUCCESSOR T0 POPE WILL BE ! Meeting of Sacred College To Be For Bismarck and Vicinity: Fair; 6 1 ‘tonight and Tuesday with slowly ris- Held Either on February 1 | Haten contin or 2, Announced Fair tonight | For twenty-four hours ending at Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday . Lowest last night Precipitation . . For North Dakota: ‘and Tuesday with slowly rising tem-; j perature, ! CROWDS. VIEW THE BODY; Weather Conditions 4 | The-crest of the high pressure area | with its accompanying cold wave was | ‘over -North Dakota~iast night with! minmum temperatures 28 below to 36! ‘below, and zero temperatures have éx- | , tended eastward to Chicago and south-! ward to Des Moines. The pressure is | {somewhat lower jover the extreme? ‘northwest and will begin to fall in; North Dakota today with rising tem- ‘perature. The weather in North Da-/ Remains of Late Pope Benedict XV Are Placed in Famous "St. Peter’s Cathedral ELECT SU Rome, Jan ejated Press) — dred mileg inland. The heart of the continent with its vast resources in both agriculture and industry would be brought in communication witb all jthe ovean routes by the execution of ithe St. Lawrence waterways project. carefully review evidence gathered by | the sub-committee. The sub-committee was composed of Senators Cummins, Ashurst and Ernst. upon the industrial life of the con- \ Y tinent’s interior, eh , f | Cost not so Great | | “Tha feasibility of the project is un-' jau joned and its cost compared with Forty ‘Below Reported ‘There; some other great engineering works |would be small. Disorganized and Thermometer Goes to 32- [prostrate the nations of Central Europe | Below Here jare éven now setting their hands to! ee eS j Waterways whigh, connecting the; The entire Northwest was feeling! Rhine and Danube, will bring water | teal winter weather today, and Bis-).trangportation from the Black to the ‘marck was no exception. Th2;Norti Sea, from the Mediterranean to thermometer sunk to' 32 degrees be-!the Paltic. If nationalistic prejudices | Yow zero at 4 A. M. today. : and: economic difficulties can be over- | “Phe coldest weather reported in the; come by Europe ‘they surely should: Northwest was at Prince Albert, Can-/not be formidable obstacles to an} ada, where it was 40 below. Other hievement less expensive and yet cold spots were Calgary, 22; ag greater advantages to the peo- the development of great continental ' HELD IMPROPERLY BRO’GH1'| extension of the seaways many bun- tradition papers. NORTH DAKOTA'S ¥ !To enible ocean-going vessels to have RAILROAD CA Ni) NCE ALB jaccess to all ports of the Great Lakgs ; Would have a most stimulating effect’ OUT OF COURT Supreme Court of United States | Dismisses Action Instituted | | to Bring Down Rates Court Says that Injunction Suit / Should Have Been Brought In District Court 4 —— /: Waghingotn, Jan. 23.—The suit of | the state of North Dakota to prohibit * Hastings was arrested on informa- tion furnished by the office of Attor- ney General Sveinbjorn Johnson. Tie specific charge against him in the in- formation filed by\ State’s Attorney jreen is that Hastings borrowed $3,000 from the Scandinavian;American bank in Fargo while he was vice president of the bank for the U. S. Sisal Trust when the U. S. Sisal Trust was not in existence, and that he signed the note “U. S. Sisal Trust, J. J.’ Hast- lings, trustee.” 5 Information Filed, The information of State's Attor- ney Green charges: “William C. Green,, state's attorney in and for the county’ of' Cass; state of, North Dakota, as informant, in tie name and by authority of the state of North Dakota, gives’ this court to understand and be informed that here- fined to the identification of specimens | cf his handwriting. Later the state ex: | pects to put oa the witness stand a: handwriting ,expert to \prove that it) was Byown Who yrote ‘on the Pres- cott, Hotel register the name of James | Farrell, Willmar, on the night of the | crime: had besti Sacred College in cone elec ecessor to the late Pope Benedict will open. Februa fut was stated today. It is shlered doubtiul whether A ean cardinals will be able to reach Rome for the opening the time No trace of any Farrell is short. found and the state’s theory is that | i no such person exists but that the z namg was put on the hotel register to - Pre: e Bas St. FA —divert suspicion from the real perpe-) his q trators of the crime against Marie | ogict Te The hantiwriting specifications were | throngs passed reverent introduced in evidence over the ob- | catazulque. jectons of tke defense. Browh, who! arly in the day the has been v jail since shortly after; late Pontiff, whose death ¢ the crime, “seemed very, nervous on. day plunged the hroughout the stand. ithe world into dcepest m , Was Hagen Tells His Story ~ | taken f the throne rc the Hagen’s testimony dealt with the | Vat.can. -After it was carried+to St. ‘actions of the hotel clerk who ‘took’! Peter's, attended by a solemn proces- him to his room in the hotel early on' sion or cardinals, priests, ~nembers the morning of June 7 and his own ac-| cf the diplomatic corps ‘and digni- tions in the hotel. He claimed that taries of the Vatican and placed on he had not left the room ron the | the catafylue surrounded by votive time he went to bed vet the ote ij candles word Wag given that the pub- o’elock a. m.\until aroused Oy the er lic of Rome would be admitted to St. sicars fhe next ee The room with | Peter’s up to 11 o'clock and an im- elated tee elatk left. y ; | mense crowd immediately. began en- "The teptutony of these two witness. | tering the chapel and passing by’ the es_and the two doctors who examined | catafulue. i Marie Wick’s body made.up the morn- seraee bis Lene ee jarie ick’s bot NORTH DAKOTA BOOK NOW IN ciated ing session of the court today. The, me’ cal testimony dealt with the| cause of Miss aaekes death and es: tablished the fact that she had, been! vE\nTAY ravished before being killed“ This) 9th EDITION established the motive for the: crime. —— ; Physicians Testify | The ninth edition wena Siorygot Physicians who examined the body | the Prairies now of{the press. ie ot Bbrig Wick after the discovery ef | book publi: red several years ago her murder were put on the witness | by Daniel E, Willard, formerly con- stand by the state at the opening of |nected with the State Agricultural Col- the session Saturday morning. ‘lege, and is‘a valuable book about Dr. Harry Fortin of Fargo testified| North Dakota. It is in simple lan- that he was called to the Prescott|guage that anyone can understand, and hotel about 7:15 a. m. on June 7 and!is as interesting as,a novel. taken to the room of Marie Wick. He| Many inqyiries are made as.to where felt for the girl's pulse, he said, and |this baok ¢an jbo obtained. j It can be determined that she ‘was dead but|had from the Korthern Schoo! Supply (Continued_on Page 7) Company, Fargo, , Special Services To Be Held In kota will be fair tonight and Tuesday | with rising temperatures. i —ORRIS W. ROBERTS, { Meteorologist. | BISHOP'S RETURN IS AWAITED The City H i | Rending return of Bishop Wehrle | Who is in Chicago, no special servic! ‘f had—becn arranged for St. Mary’ church here because of the death of} | Pope Benedict. Bishop Wehrle is ex-! pected to retern from Chicago tomof-} row, Father Hiltner said today, and services then will be arranged. u Official word of the passing of Pope; Benedict did not reach Father Hilt- ner until Sunday evening. Prayers were said for -his recovery at the! morning servic t St. Mary's. FIRE CAUSED ~ FROM FURNACE | Fire started about 2 o'clock this af- ternoon in the home nf Jathes Pearcy, \ on Tenth street, from an overheated furnace pipe which ignited the poists. T h ec fire department responded promptly. The damage was not great. There is less than 1.5 acres of culti- monton, 32; Havre, 2; Miles Cit: 28: Moorhead, 28; St. Paul, 16; Wil- liston, 36; Winnipeg, 32. ! While’ the Weather was calm here there was wind at some other place: An east wind in excess of 10 miles an hour was blowing at Prince Albert, the coldest spot. The thermometer rose ty 27 above here at 7 A. M., and to 22 above at 10 A. M. ‘ The forecast is for rising tempera- ture Tuesds SBEK FURTHER “CHINESE AID Washington, Jan. 23—(By the Asso- ciated Fress)—As one means of giv- ing effect to its declaration last week in favor of reduction of the Chinese army the armament’ conference As considering another resolution looking to prohibition of the importation of into China. ovrull discussion was deferred, how- ever pending presentation by China of-a full list which she was asked by ; the committee to make. f The Japanese disclaimer of a Russian territorial ambitions were said ta include Saghalion as well as r port s of Siberia. other portions ALL NORTHWEST IN COLD WAVE St. Paul, Jan. 23—Practically the entire northwest today experienced the coldest weather this season, ac- cording to J. Ryker, U. S. weather ob- servér in St. Paul. ‘The coldest spot in the United vated land for every person in Eur- Fone. : Black billed cuckoo is sometimes called “rain crow” from the tradition |the next few days, Mr. Ryker said no|into the new quarters and are open that is forecasts rain. ae) States weather map was 36 below ai Williston, N. D. x nen While there may be a slight rise in preak in the cold wave is in prospect. yreclamation, rehabilitation and ex-| North/America. Not only would | jthe cost of transportation be greatly {reduced but a vast population would be brought overnight in immediate touch with the markets of the entire | world.” The president in an addres touch ing on the agricultural situation in| | detail but without attempt to dictate ithe course of conference discussion, | | outlined a half dozen broad questions {to with consideration might well be \given by the conference. These in- | eluded: Development of a thorough code of ‘aw and business procedure with aj | Proper machinery of finance through ‘some agency to insure that turnover} capital shall be as generously sup- plied to the farmer and on as reason-| jeblesterms as to other industry. - | Férmation of co-operative loaning, {buying and selling agencies. + Creation of instrumentalities for’ ‘collection of useful and true informa- tion so as to prevent violent fluctua- tions of market. = Practical development of the water! +resources of the country both for! ‘transportation and power including | ‘plans for electrification of the nation’s railroad. Methods for bringing about fyrther ‘tension of the agricultural areas. | | Prometion of a new conception of! ‘the farmers place in the natfonal, so-| | cial and economic scheme. ‘NEW LOCATION OF FAIR STORE The Fair Store, which has been lo- cated on West Main street for several years, has moved into its new loca- tion in the Little building, corner of Broadway and Third streets, across [fom the postoffice. A. Boutrous, pro- prietor, and his force, have been busily engaged in moving the stock ! should have been brought in the Unit-| AUTO TURNS the Chicago and Northwestern and | other railroads in that state from| charging increased rates within the state was dismissed. The court in dismissing the pro- | ceedings declared ‘that the suit! tofore, to-wit, on the 20th day of Jan= uary, 1919, in the city of Fargo, county of Cass, state of North, Da- kota, one J. J. Hastings was the vice president of the ‘Scandinavian-Ameri- can bank, of, Fargo, North Dakota, a i banking corporation . organized and ed States district court and that the} qoing business under the laws of the federal governmen should have been | state of North Dakota; that at said made a party to the. suit. time and place the said J. J. Hastings ‘North Dakota sought to restrain the | wag the duly elected, qualified and railroads from increasing rates, fares | acting vice president of the said cor- and charges on their business within’ poration, the’ Scandinavian-American 4 his et of January, , the Ing the increase could be reviowen | oo eee ee eee ott acting in by the ete court. ane railroad | the capacity of vice president of the contended that the proceeding was not ‘said bank, did.commit the crime of properly brougy ue sale nol devine | embezzlement, pominitteg as tollogsy MATS CPO NC wettest - S- i to-wit: At the said time and place a party to the suit or brought the suit ee oe J. Hastings being then in accordance with the interstate | .nq there an officer of said S. A. B., ee dismissing the ca: | did) feleniously, Pe ey we ss . Mu ‘aS€' tully embezgle and convert to his o also held that the Le . ‘a enous have, use the sak of three thousand ($3~ been made a party to the suit, | 000.00) dollars, in money bank notes, The raiiroud rata: ease: was institut: | 274 other: valuable sacdritles. a0 an e railroad rate case wa bret ig, a stea ed in the supreme court of the United | COTY FW Cr Sere at iareror States by Attorney General ‘Lemke + "of the ,Scandinavian-American after the Interstate Commerce Com- ‘hank banking corporation of Fargo, missicn had overruled the North Da- North ‘Dakota; that the defendant did kota railroad commission and ordered heskethe money as above alleged while that the rates become effective. ue fhe uoney was in his official custody see Ne ue cairn and control as an officer of the said cena ua state in its suit, | bank, this contrary, tothe stetuicigrt attacked by the state in its * such case made and provided, against the neace and dignity of the Note Jn Question. i h ‘It will be further contended byethe state that the loan was made on Jan- OVER IN ROAD uary 20, 1919, and that although the note for the loan was signed by Hast- ings ‘as trustee of the sisal trust. ee i iding | mm we in existence a Carmichael, mail carrier, was riding | concern was not even on the penitentiary road east of the j that time, its charter not having beea city, turned over when a wheel broke. | igsued until some time during the The car was badly smashed up,. bvt | following April. Mr. Carmichael ‘escaped serious hurts.! The note on which the-illegal loa2 The automobile in which William for business in the new location. ‘A substitute was on his route today. | (Continued on Page 3) gtate of North Dakota.” Ay