The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 27, 1922, Page 1

re mat li | Ny | The Weather Generally Fair THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE FORTIETH YEAR BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1922 és \ ‘ Last Edition PRICE FIVE CENTS RAR AAA HARDING WIRE HAR ASKING ATD 70 AGRICULTURE State Officials Dispatch Tele- gram Asking that Emergency . Legislation Be Enacted TO STABILIZE PRICES, GOSSIP IS. WHAT RUINS YOUNG GIRLS. SAYS JUDGE LINDSEY’S “LADY COP” , NLEY TO NATIONAL LAND POLICY IS HELD Vv ence Goes on Record For ‘Naming. Commission NATION'S NEED | National Agricultural Confer-' TOWNLEY OUT. ' Jackson, Minn, Jan. 27.—A. C. Townley, president of the Nation. onpartisan League, will be re- ed next Monday, January 30, from the Jackson county jail upon comp:etion of his 90-day sentence imposed on conviction of violating the Minnesota espionage act, PLAN FARMERS’ BE ARRESTED — of sant Jan. 30 WILL BE HELD ON RELEASE FROM MINNESOTA JAIL WITH AIDING IN COMMITTING BANK EMBEZZLEMENT Hastings Affair’ in Scandinavian-American Bank of Fargo is Made Basis For Charge Brought Against Head of National Non- partisan League — Brinton and Waters To Be Witnesses DEBATE IS STIRRED: UP Against Former League Chief AID IN BUYING | SEED AND FEED Urge Also That Agriculture As Basic Industry Be Aided.To Arthur C. Townley, president of the National Nonpartisan League, is charged in a complaint by William C. Green, states attorney of Cass county, with having aided and abbetted the com- Resolutions Dealing with Union’ Labor and Adamson Law ! Ke Aid Other Lines Bring Fight Nestos Asks Information For Mission of the crime of embezzlement, it was announced today by \ Cc ittee Working Joint! 1 Attorney-General Sveinbjorn Johnson, 1 North Dakota state officials headed ; REJECT WATERWAYS, ommittee Working JoInuy Townley will be arrested as soon as he is released, after Jan. by Governor R. A. Nestos today dis- patched a telegram to President Hard- * ing and Secretary of Agriculture Wal- lace declaring the ibelief-that emerg- | s ency legislation is necessary to sta-| bilize prices of the 1922 farm crop. Officials asked thoughtful consider- ; ation of various proposals made for stabilizing prices of farm products, | bd though not committing themselves to any particular plan and expressed the | { belief that ,emergency _ legislation should be supplemented by “such oth- | » er enactments, economically sound, as Washington, Jan, 27.—Comnit- tee conclusions which would have pat the National Agricultural Con- ference“on reeord as endorsing | H icy Great hee Lawrence rf | waterways project ‘were stricken Governor R. A, Nestos ‘today issued out when: the, committee report {4 letter to all count \ sae . r a g y auditors in the came up for discussion by the con- \state asking for information to aid in ference, aes { plans under. way to provide seed and FOR &-HOUR LAW. ieee Or farmers stat areaunable to . i - 7 put in the 1922 crop without aid. eee are aa Sikes t aloe ye eit is very apparent that in many al Agriealtural ( in the Nation- | cdunties of the state the farmers will | Agricultural Conterence have great difficulty in providing the} on Problem |31, from the Jackson county, Minnesota, jail where he is serving |a jail sentence for violation of the Minnesota war-time act, He DIVERSIFICATION URGED will be required to appear in Fargo and answer to the charge. Sige Aig 1s alleged that ‘lowntey aided and HE’S INNOCENT IN BANK CASE {for the Nonpartisan League, in com- jmitting the crime of embezzling $3- {000 from the Scandinavian-American bank. A warrant was issued by the state’s attorney of Cass county for the arrest of Hastings and ‘he slipped into hiding after he had been notified today shall tend to stabilize the prices of farm products and insure to the farm- ers improved and fair marketing con- | ditions for agricultural products to the ‘end that the producer may re- | ceive fair return for his labor and investment.” e The position is taken in the tele- gram that agriculture is our basic industry and that as long as it is in a depressed state there can be no permanent revival of business, Text of Message The telegram follows: “It.#s conceded that agriculture is our basic industry. The conditjon of agriculture and the problems that confront our farmers today are so serious that if American business is to ‘become rehabilitated and the. process of reconstruction hastened, emerg- ency legislation must be enacted that will insure a price for farm products that will pay for the nineteen-twenty- two crop the cost of production plus 4a reasonable profit. We most earn- estly invite your thoughtful. consider- ation of various solutions proposed, such as the revival of the United , .«Sitates.,Grain. Corporation, the {xing of a reasonable minimum price on wheat, the creation of a foreign mar- ket for the surplus wheat by. the ex- tension of additional credit for that purpose -to the countries needing our wheat, or by a combination of the soundest elements of these suggested , remedies, with such others as may be thought wise, and that you urge upon congress the necessity of supple- mentinge such emergency legislaticn, with such other enactments, econom- ically sound, as shall tend to stabil- ize the prices of farm products and insuce to the Farmers.improved and fair marketing conditions, for Agricul- tural products, to the end that the producer may receive a fair return for his labor and investment.” MEAT WORKERS VOTE T0 KEEP -ON IN STRIKE Official of Union’ Claims Over- whelming Vote in Favor 4 of Strike BY EDWARD THIERRY, | New York, Jan, 27,— | more girls’ lives than anythiyg else.” That’s Miss Ruth Vincent's opinion, 'She knows, for that. is her business— | helping girls. to unravel the tangled | SKeins of their lives. | She has been called Denver’s “Lady. ssp ruins {Cop.” But she is not’ merely a po- !licewoman. -Her title “Chief Of ficer for Girls of Denver.” Often she is also court judge and jury. |. “Public courts hurt rather than help wayward girls,” Miss. Vincent {said, while on a vacation in New York, MISS RUTH VINCENT when that body by a yote of $8 to Gt struck out oi a committee re- port a recommendation for re- peal of the Adamson S-hour law. Washingten, Jan. 27.—Recommend- j ation for the appointment of a federdl committee to form a’ national land policy in the question of reclamation the austerity and the publicity of aj and irrigation were adopted today by |has the National Agricultural Conference. } court room, “I talk with her in my small office. She knows it is confidential. Theré- fore she always tells the truth. Out The conference also went on 1cc- ord as opposed to the opening of' any more land for farming purposes un. ina public court room in a delicate] til normal economic conditions ar case involving sex she will lie 9|restored. Immediate cessation of de-| times out of 10.” | vastation of forest lands; was recom- Miss Vincent is an sistant tO} mended in the report of the commit: Judge Ben B. Lindsey of the Denver ujvenile court. She has held her job tour years, ! She good-looking and smiles she talks. She is slim and} has a. gentle ‘voice. She does not look, more than 22 to 23, | My youth helps me in qny work,” tee. ‘The report also recommended ef: fective matters of. fire prevention,’ for-| est research and increase in nations; forest reserve. _ | Heated Debate Evolved. ee Prospects of a fight appeared in! the conference as delegates became aware of a report prepared by one of “A. woman’s court should not be a public room, Where morbid-minded {people can sit and listen to testi- mony abont’-agirl’s’imnermost ite: That breeds gossip. 4 Privacy Is Needed. “When a girl meets misfortune she is ‘not ruined—-as people are fond of using the word ‘ruined’—unless other people know about it. “We need privacy in the court room !in cases of this kind. All cities should adopt this method. “In’ Denver there is as much pri- !vacy as in a doctor's office. A girl is arrested—or perhaps she comes in ‘voluntarily. Shejis not’ frightened by GAS FROM MOTOR CAUSE OF DEATH Walley City, N. D., Jan. 27—Word |has been received here of the death ifrom asphyxiation of William C. | Suter, 37, of Minneapclig, whose wife, jformerly Miss Beatrice Sorum, at one ‘time resided here. Mr, Suter had ap- varently, started his engine while, it was in his garage and .had. been overcome. by gas fumes, given off by the motor. Noise of the running {engine finally attracted neighbors. who opened the garage and found Suter dead at the wheel. NAMED HEAD OF she said. “Girls who comé to court are surprised. They usually say they expected a severe, matronly, woman with spectacles and-a- shirp tongue.” tonditions Worse. “Are conditions worse now than in the past?” “Undoubtedly worse,” Miss Vincent paid. “The chief reason, I think, is; the greater freedom that girls have BOWS the Esch-Cummins law, improvement} ‘The efeatest eat harm ig the \ of the farm market roads and devel-| automobile. Jazz dances? No, 1 opment of inland waterways, especial: | don’t think jazz dances do so much|1y the gt, Lawrence deep waterways harm. It is greatly exaggerated.” | project, the committee involving legislation} affecting railroad labor. Advanced copies, of the zeport. ca ried ‘recommendations as follows: Immediate repeal or amendment of the Adamson labor law covering the! national agreement, the savings thus! effected to be immediately reflected in reduction of freight rates. Repeal of the guaranty clause of! thing Miss Vincent's office deals im. | olution calling upon the miners and| \ NEW WITNESS IN Wm. H, Stackhouse, of Illinois, of the} Barnes District Court > | $21.000 were purchased by W. F. Reko} prisoner in the Cass county jail, will jhe total: purchases; atic ‘face ‘value the trial of Wiliam Gummer, char, | Thursday evening. {railroad labor to. readjust wages to 5 National Implement and Farm Ma- GUMMER TRIAL ae BUY: AT $300,000 . in the final day he remained at the be a witness for the prosecution in| °f 97 close to the $200,000! mark.s Hur ed with murdering Miss Marie Wick. ! Nice ist LOOKING UP A prison sentence, is the rarest) jfeated debate was evoked by a res-; ater itiving costs, which was presented by cinery Association. | Roy Murphy Will Be Called In Hail warrants to ‘the amount of Fargo, Jan. .37--Roy , Murphy, a Bank of North Dakota. This makes ‘chases by Mr. Reko were completed | / Murphy’s name was noticed in the district court of Barnes county yes- terday, the ‘prosecution heing’ given the privilege of calling him as a wit-| Chicago, Jan. 27.—(By the ‘nasoet | ated Press.)—Striking packing house | MASONI 0D workers in the 13 great meat packing | centers have voted by an overwhelm-} into. the case,at this late hour as a witness H i ness, the defense making no objec-j| i tion, | The introduction of Murphy’s name | ivi ing majority to continue the strike | started Dec. 5, 1921, Dennis Lane, in-! Judge A. M. Christianson of the {North Dakota Supreme bench was (for the prosecution, ‘has! aroused speculation concerning the necessary seed and feed during the icoming year to insure the planting, | proper cultivation and raising of a {crop,” the Governor said. lis to be brought, we must work out a solution of this problem without de- lay.” The commission on rural problems recently appointed by ,the Governor appcinted a sub-committee , of three to consider this question, and the recent convention of the county commissioners at Jamestown appoint- ed a similar committee. Stating that it is important that the committees be furnished with inform- ation on the matter such as will en- able ‘them to work out the best pos- ibfe solution of, the problem, the overnor called upon county auditors to furnish the following information: How many acres are to be sown in small grain? For how large a portion. of this acreage is the owner in a position to feed and seed, or to secure private help in furnishing same? Is. the county as such, in a position for this purpose desirable? The Governor, in his letter, con- tinued: ‘ “It is. of course, very desirable that every farmer who ‘can furnish the feed and seed himself, or can secure privately the needed money should do so, and leave the public aid for those who would be unable, otherwise, to sow their lands. “I also believe that it would be rendering vour. people a real service if you would unite in urging upon your tarmers the need of greater diversi- fication. In the long run the raising :of more cattle, hogs and chickens and the planting of corn, potatoes, and garden truck will make ~prosperity more certain, and the prcblem of fur- nishing seed and feed will thereby be ‘materially lessened.” The Governor urged the necessity of early action in the matter, DEFEAT FIXED PRICE REQUEST Action. Taken By Implement Dealers at Fargo Fargo, Jan. 27.—An-amended reso- lution favoring a temporary fixed price of $2.20 per bushel for wheat was lost today in the convention of the North Dakota Implement Dealers. A substitute resolution adopted en- dorsed a reasonable and_ profitable “It relief | ; to bond for seed, and contemplating | doiag- so? 4 | Do’ your people regard: Federal: aid ‘in Seattle that he was to be arrested. Hastings Charge. ;. The specific charge against Hast- | ings was that he had borrowed $3,000 j from the Scandinavian-American bank | for “U, S. Sisal Trust, J. J. Hastings, So i trustee,” while he was vice president raf IO = leution” is latied by eee roe aloy | o hs hank end (petoresthessiesairucy for the warrant issued in Fargo for | The | Selene: ‘i ‘ |the arrest in Fargo in connection with ' br a oN ans oe which the) charge, a8 jthe ‘embezzlement charge brought; rought against Townley: is Section against him. 9218 of the North Dakota penal code ‘From his cell in the Jackson, Min-|Whih makes it an offense for “all inésota, jail, A. C. Townley told the; Persons concerned in the commission Associated Press by long distance | Of a crime, whether it is a felony or |phone that he had absolutely nothing !@ misdemeanor, and whether they di- ‘to do with any loans J. J. tings rectly commit the act constituting the might have ‘made from the Scandi-| offense or aid and abet in its com- jmavian-American bank and had no/| mission.” previous knowledge of any loans in- | The penalty for embezzlement is jvolved in the embezzlement charges. jone to five years in prison. One aid- | This is merely another attempt | ing and abetting in the commission hy enemies of the Nonpartisan league | of embezzlement is guilty of this crime, puclals, the’ gool the! otganlzeiion. in|") Seated By omelits 1 a B. organiza 3) ¥ wots " 4 doing, It ig simply. more political], Sisal ‘Trust “Ownership, persecution,” he said, i “I know nothing of any loan Hastings | Company formed to purchase land in may have made. either for himseif | Florida for the growing of sisal, used or others. I had nothing to do with in “making binder twine. The vom- the Sisal Trust and never personally! pany sold a great deal of stock to Nave borrowed money from the Scan-| North Dakota farmérs*and is said to dinavian-American )ank.” {Own 22,000 acres of land in Florida. He did not want to say anything as’ The Sisal trust was assailed in North .to what action he might take if arrest-! Dakota as a “league enterprise” and ‘ed‘on the warrant and did not say if; it was alleged it was a method where- ihe would resist going to Fargo. |by Townley and aids fleeced the far- Trust ‘ig somewhat in doubt at the 1S RECOMMENDED J. R. Waters, former manager of the 3ank of North Dakota, claim to hold i Senator Kenyon Urges Similar Board to Railway Labor ; Declares He Never Borrowed Any Money From Scandi- navian-American Bank St. Paul, Jan. she Sisal Trust land as trustees, and ‘n the legislative investigation held ast winter maintained they held it .n trust for Townley. Note Matter Raised, The history of Sisal Trust dealings was gone into during the house legis- lative inquiry: last winter, including the particular. item’ of $3,000 involved Board 4 {in the Hastings and Townley charges. ¢ Brinton exhibited notes marked ex- Washington, yan. 27—A_ govern-; hibits 84 and 85, Brinton declared nent tribunal for regulat.on of the, that Townley -had complained Hast- coal industries under a statutory code| f industrial laws enforced only by| power of public opinion was recom- mended in a report presented to the! enate today by Chairman Kenyon, of! the senate commission which recent- ly investigated conditions in Wesi Virginia and Kentucky coal fields. i The reports alleges that both coal; | operators and miners were responsi-| ‘le for the recent fatal conflict and; oroperty destruction in West Virginia. ! Othe members of the investigation | ings had:taken $3,000 out of the bank. A note for $3,000, dated January 20, 1919, was exhibited. It Was a 90-day note to the Scandinavian-American hank signed by United States Sisal Trust, J. J. Hastings, trustee.” Brinton swore that Hastings told him he was acting as Townley’s trus- tee. Brinton, in answer to a ques- tion, as to whether or fot the com- ! mon law trust for the Sisal Trust had been entered into at the time said that in justice to Hastings it was a ommittee did not sign ahe report but; proposed company that, was about to ‘eserved right to submit individual re-! be entered into, He said that the ar- Representatives of Department testimony he may be able to give. price for farm products and a work- ternational secretary of the Amalga-j A elected Grand Master wf the Grand mated’ Meat: Cutters” and Butcher! Council of the Royal and Select Mas- Workers. of America, announced to-'ters of North Dakota at their meet- Sayre. ‘ fi ‘ing at Fargo yesterday. He succeeds In Chicago, Mr.’ Lane said, the ma-!qVaiter L. Stockwell. Seven councils | th ern i ae ce gn the referendum which was ordered} . after government mediators advised the union’ not to hold out any hope of successful intervention by the gov-| ernment. P i ‘ In St. Paul and Albert Lea, Minn.,| Judge Coffey, after hearing evi- reports show a 100 ‘per cent vote to/dence in the case of Mahlon Cordon continue the strike, he said. ‘against Pearl Cordon, asking for di-| !vorce on the ground of desertion, OFFER CALF j granted {te divorce. It was said the | FOR BEST SLOGAN tas” was now living in Mon-j tana. Judge Coffey sentenced Norman New Salem, becoming known na-| Dybvik or his plea of guilty to grand tionally as the district that won com-! larceny to service in the state train- petence from the dry prairies of North| in schocl at Mandan until he is 21, Dakota through aid of the dairy cow,;or until released by law. Dybvik, it has offered a purebred registered| was said, will be 21 in the spring. Holstein bull calf for the best slogan! Dybvik\ was represented by Theodore and trademark suggested for the)Koffel. Judge Coffey declined to ac- town. The contest will close March| cede to pleas made for a suspended ‘ sentence, EDGELEY CLUB IS BOOSTING Edgeley, N. D.,-Jan. 27.—Good roads immigration work and development of GIVEN DIVORCE IN LOCAL COURT In the announcement the rules de- clare the slogan and trademark must be in “black and white” the Holstein color and must not exceed six words and must be suggestive of Holstein cattle and coal industries. SIX TO BE SENTENCED. Grand Forks, N. D., Jan. 27.—Six men convicted of or pleading guilty to bootlegging or unlawful sale of lianor are to be sentenced in district local industries are’ now heing pro moted by~the Edgeley Communuity Commercial club, which plans month- ly meetings with luncheons to keep interest alive and efforts constantly conrt here Saturday morring bv| directed to the objects sought. Boost- Indee MJ, Englert. They are: Wil-| ers of this section point to Edgeley’s liam Fishman. A, R. Hilsabeck, Jess| flour mill, creamery and railroad Hilsabeck, Edwin A. Jackson. May-) facilities az evidence of the possibili- | it Murphy was in the jail during a) Come to Bismarck part of the time that Gummer was| Tae confined there, from the time he was! TWo represonatives of the United Hadanting part Reriey Shoemaker and Inspector Hugdahahl Brown, Gummer's room. Of St Paul, Minn. were in Bis- Si oath risop «<7 Marck = today investigating the ap- mate, was also being held An the jail. , plicants for the position of postmas- We eee a tet ter. It is customary for the postof- the t ar ines Caton i ne fice department to take this step, their AE Ue Ea ReRU OM aY: report to be considered in Washing- ceived from Valley City. Mrs, re ee ea tatiiea Bs Peecacnart! A eae ant last. night and ment quietly interviewed a large Physicians who attended Mr. Green | Number of citizens concerning the ap- feared the development of pneumonia Dlications for the position, as to their delay in is impreving, according to word r last Saturday evenirg, when they. eonetal hd suid sbusin pxperhy were first called,’but at this time he| ~~ Lae ‘ is getting along satisfactorily, and the! % Ney danger of such ‘complication appar-| eat N. oun entyehas peeurevenel: iin F, Blank, ¢ditor of the Dunn | County Farmers Journal, has resign- , (ed his position in charge of that pub- hange hank of Vall | lication, one of the string of Nonpar- City has eaten ne old onney | tisan league weeklies, Blank former- M. Mortenson, H. E, Taylor and Dr. | !¥ edited the league paper at Beach. S. A. Zimmerman. were re-elected di-: sistant cashier. The year's financial NK ELECTS N.D.. Jan. 2 report showed a substantial profit. FOUR POTATO MEETINGS. Bowbells, N. D., Jan. 27—Four po-} tato meetings are: heing held in differ-| 5 ent parts of Burke county this week! in an effort to arouse the interests of the farmers in the growing of more potatees. Henry Finke, one of the mst prominent growers in this sec- tion of the state. whose home is at Berthold; will address the various Pittsburgh, Jan, 27.—Five hand- its today robbed the First National Bank of Craiton, a suburb, of $11,- 000 in money and $20.000 in Lib- erty bonds, after killing Harold Moss, assistant cashier, who tried Powers Lake. Bowbells, Columbus,) “to defend the institution, nard Claypool and Dave Helmar. ties of the city’s development. meetings, which are scheduled “| The men escaped in an automo- Flaxton, and Portal. \able price to stabilize wheat prices. H. P. Amoth, of Thompson, was elected president and among the di- rectors elected was J, P, French, of Bismarck. The directors will select the ncxt meeting place JUDGMENT IN SISAL TRUST SUIT Default judgment has been taken ir district court here against L. A. Simp. son, Dickinson attorney, by the Bis marck Bank, the case growing out o’ the loan by the bank to the U. S, Sisa Trust. The loan, amounting to $5,000, wa: made May 1, 1920; for four months t the U. S. Sisal Trust, J. R, Waters ani J. W. Brinton. The note was endors 2 by Waters and Simpson. *Judgmen had préviously been taken against the makers of the note. Lions and tigers’ in captivity re quire one day a week without fooc to keep them in good health. HIER, ESCAPE OF BANK’S MONEY hile but were intercepted on the north side by a party of city detec. tives on their way to the scene of the robbery. After a spectacular pistol bat- tle the men abandoned their car and sought shelter in a house, which was surrounded, but the bandits escaped, ports. The proposed coal board would be; organized, under the sugestions, like | the railway labor board with three; representatives each of the employees, | he employer and.public party ap-! pointed by the president. | HARVEY CONPAB IS POSTPONED Paris, Jan, 27.—(By the Associated | ress.) — The conference between; eorge Harvey. American ambassador o Great Britain, and Premier Poin-| sare, which had been scheduled for yday, was postponed until Monday. tyron T. Herrick, United States am- assador to France, will participate n Monday’s meeting. OVERNMENT TO - RENT HOSPITAL Washington, Jan. 27—The Veterans’ ~ureau is prepared to purchase mod- ‘n, up-to-date fireproof hospitals lo- ated in any district where many di: bled ex-service men are located, Di- !ticles of association and trust agrec- ment were filed on April 7, 1919. Witnesses for State Witnesses for the state include J. R. Waters, J. W. Brinton, Receiver Engen of the Scandinavian-American Bank and an accountant who has been working at the bank. The complaint filed in Fargo says that on January 29, 1919, at Fargo Mr. Townley “feloniously advised and encouraged” Mr, ‘Hastings to commit the crime of embezzlement: that Hastings appropriated the $3,000 cbtained on a note for the U. S. Sisal Trust, alleged not to have been in ex- istence at that time, to thd use of the defendant, A. C. Townley, and un- known persons. The filing of the charges against Hastings and Townley recalls the old Valley City and Scandinavian-Ameri- can Bank deals which late in 1919 be- came the burning issues in the fight against ‘the league. Alt that ime Brinton and-Waters were with the league, holding important positions, and were assailed in various matters. Charges Against Bank. A letter became public, written June 10, 1918, by Roy M. Halliday on the stationery of the office of state examiner, held by Mr. Waters, in which he let out the famous “shoot it to other banks” admonition. There was an examination of the Scandinavian-American ‘bank on, it being charged the bank had made ex- ector Forbes said. He said the brreau was anxious to remove its veterans from contract ‘snitals to government-controlled in- stitutions. cessive loans, most of them to so- called “league enterprises.” In that letter Halliday said that “Mr. Waters wishes me to advise you that if the examiners object to any of the Rentals for district and field offices vf the Veterans’ Bureau will be re- Wuced by more than a half million paper carried there, you are to tell them that it will be removed at once. The plan for taking care of objection- dollars during the next year, Director Forbes estimated, able matters is to ‘shoot it out to the (Continued on Page 7)