The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 16, 1922, Page 1

The Weather Unsettled ! THE BISMARCK TRIBUN FORTIETH YEAR BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16 Last Edition “PRICE FIVE CENTS GUMM ESCAPE SHOT IS FIRED BY GUARD WHEN TRIO IS FOUND Sawed Way Through ; Dining Room Walls But Failed to Get Over Outside Wall | FOURTH IN THE ATTEMPT? Prison Officials Say That Clar- ence Orton Was in Gang But Got Cold Feet A daring escape .of ithree convicts was thwarted at the ‘state peniten- ; tiary enrly today by prompt discoy- ery of their efiort. . _ One shot was tired ‘before the con- viets were brought under control again. They now are behind the “screens” for saie-keeping, The three convicts sawed their way) out of barred dining room windows, according to statements of the peni- tentiary authorities. Ole Hanson, # guard discovered the escape, and the convicts were rounded up before they | had a chance to climb the prison| ta tae tt tates OF 3 CONV BIRTHPLACE AND PARENTS OF POPE | walls. x The three who attempted to escape | were: John Longer, serving 20 years; for robbery from Ward county; Joe| Bells, serving 17 years for robbery| committed with a gng at and near} Devils Lake; Ed Wilson, serving 17i years for the same Offense, from Dev-| Pope Pius XI born in the m Ce mal CTS THWARTED ® hown above. That was od ett tte tert FAILS IN WISH TO LIVE TO 100 Los Angeles, Calif, Feb. 16.— The wish of J. Martin Peebles, physician, scientist and author, that he lives until March 23, in order to round out 100 years, failed of gratification, He died at his home yesterday. Dr. | Peebles wrote a large number of books among which was entitled “How to Live a Century and Grow Old Gracetully.” For the past 60 years he had eaten no meat, HARDING ASKS SALBS TAX FOR ‘SOLDIER BONUS Executive Tells Congress That Is Only Practical Means of Raising Money SUGGESTS | ! | i 1 aurennanive COMMERCE CLUB HOLDS ANNUAL | MEETING TODAY i iif Congress Not Ready To Ac! cept Sales Tax It Should Defer Bonus, He Says Washington, Feb. 16.—President Harding informed Congress today he considered a general sales tax the only feasible method of raising: funds Business Men Hear Address By ER UNDER CROSS-EXAMINATION AT ee a a od PENITENTIARY ADINITS MISSTATEMENTS, HE DENIES MURDER, AND CHARGES SHERIFF OF CASS COUNTY TESTIFIED FALSELY | Young Man On Trial For Murder Answers Questions Fired At Him | By States Attorney in Barnes Circuit Court as Trial Reaches Its Climax Today—State to Assert He Tried To Throw Sus- picion on Others TRIAL ADJOURNED Valley City, Feb. 16.— The Gummer trial was ad- journed for today without reopening after the noon recess because of the illness of Juror Kane. Valley’ City, N. D., Feb. 16.— William Gummer, accused of the murder of Miss Marie Wick, went on the witness stand again in the Barnes county district court today. : The first part of the forenoon session was given over to the he soldiers’ bonus. The executive, in » letter aldressed | to Chairman Fordney of the House! | Ways and Means committee and Chair- Ways and Means committee suggested | ' z | th gress saw fit to enaet | I (a age of bonus legisla. DIRECTORS ARE ELECTED: tion should be temporarily postponed, | i | | “I believe,” the president wrote, “the Reports Are Made Upon The; a American people will accept the levy of a general sales tax to meet the pro- Work of The Club in City \ ie ‘ in Past Year | Curtis Mosher of the Federal | i Reserve Bank \ posed bonus payments and we should} contribute thereby no added difficul- j ties to the problem of readjustment. | If Congress will not adopt such a plan it would be wise to let the legislation igo over until there is a situation which | will justify the large outlay.” | Puts Matter in Air Curtis G. Mosher, a: reserve agent of the Minneapolis di i trict, spoke to more than 100 b ness men gathered at the Open Forum| luncheon of the Commercial REDUCED RATE continuance of the direct examination but Gummer was soon handed over to the state for cross-examination, He denied under the questioning of his own counsel that he murdered Miss Wick. He did not use the nozzle with which the state says he killed the girl, he said, and denied having been in the room at any time until she was discovered dead the next morning. Various exhibits, the nozzle and bloody gag, were shown to the witness and he denied having used either of them. Gummer on cnoss-examination said ithat he had made misstatements to |the oflicials. concerning the presence of John Myers, a roomer in the hotel, being in the lobby when Miss Wick registered and also that he had made | The president’s letter was regard- “FOR HAY GIVEN held in the Grand Pacili¢ hotel today.} misstatements concerning conversa- ils Lake. i 3 5 i i s A i May 81, 1857, at Desio, outside Milan. neesco A fourth prisoner, Clarence Orton,! weaver, His mother was Teresa Galli Ratti, Buth parents are now dead. a lifer, planned to escape but got “cold feet,” prison. authorities said.} 3 RECEIVER FOR Ratti, his father, was a|ed generally as leaving the bonus} y $ i i areal 4 j | situation even more complicated than| my oshet, A pulling of whose ad: {before. The senate and house sub-| wy, (oh wen veds its AOL GEY ceo USN | | committees were to meet late in the} went into suhe tyarious factors which | day’'to ‘feeelye and eotisidauitiie: white have disturbed the financial situation | jaa e " in the last two years. ltion he had credited to Myers in the early stages of the investigation. 1 ;, The state was seeking to lay foun- _ jdation for the argument that Gummer = itriel to shift suspicion from himself Orton recently was captured in Can-| ada after having escaped several! months before. | Prison authorities are investigating to determine how the convictssobtain- ed the saws with which ‘they neatly| sawed through the bars. After they} were discovered free and outside the| prison building but still inside the walls gunds were drawn by guards. Warden Stair has instructed guards not to hesitate to shoot in order to prevent “escapes: from: the institution: RUSSIAN HELP 10 CRASE NEXT YEAR, IS PLAN American Relief Should. Not Be Necessary After Next | September i —_— | ~ Washington, Feb. 16—The Ameri-| can Relief Administration’ expects to! withdraw from its undertaking in the! * BRADDOCK BANK G. H. Naramore, of Braddock, has} ‘been named received of the Farmers @ ‘State Bank of Braddock. The bank “SISAL TRUST” has been in charge ofa deputy and Hastings. Told Governor of Cali- is so isolated from other closed banks that it cannot well be included in the fornia Company Was Start- ed in 1918 district receivers’ territory, it was) stated by Gilbert Semingson, bank ex-j aminer. | PEOPLE SHOULD BACK OFFICERS, FEARS AN UNFAIR TRIAL ‘The United States Sisal Trust was ! coi house communication. When the sales tax was discussed in the sub-committee last week it was understood that senators were inform- ed that less than 100 Republican votos in the house could be mustered for a sales tax as a methed of financing the adjusted compensation. Such a tax had been considere? by house leaders as a possibility but virtually had been discarded. CONGRESSMAN: G Washington, Féb. 16.—Enactment of a sales tax, as the only practicable means of raising money for a soldier bonus was stated to be the view of President Harding by Representative Longworth, of Ohio, Republican mem- ber of the House Ways and Means mmittee, after a call today at the ES*VIEW The meeting also was the annual gathering of the club, for hearing re- ports and election of new directors. President C. L. Young, presiding, ! gave a short talk upon the club and] its future. He spoke of the past year | {as the most depressing and discourag- at ! ling for club work bat with improving | FOR SOUTHWESTERN N. D. | conditions more tangible achievements | | should not be impossible. i Directors Chosen Five..directors..of. the. club , were . | elected as follows: Charles J. Ander- | son, E, B. Cox, P.. W. Lumry, Roy Lo- | gan and Carl \Nelson. The directors | Will Pold a meeting later to elect of- ; ficers. Multplicity of Organizattor Mr. Yeung spoke of the Commercial club’s position as a community clear- ing house. He referred to the multi- Governor Receives Telegram Bint Stating Rate Will Be Given Under Conditions | | | i Range Cattle Hard Hit By Heavy’ Reports Say Steps were under way to secure im- mediate relief from trying conditions in southwestern North Dakota where | heavy and qontinued snow has caused a serious shortage of feed for cattle ; on farms and ranches. Governor Nes Snows and:Continued Cold, ~ | : to Myers. ‘Gummer said that when Officer Nel- son, of the Fargo police, testified that he, Gummer, had said that Brown was with him at the hotel Nelson was-not telling the truth. The defendant also said that A, H. Leimbacher, a Fargo hotel propri- etor, and Fred Kraemer, sheriff of Cass county, had told an untruth with refe) nce to statements they testi- jays Sheriff Swore Falsely Also Gummer insisted that Sheriff Kraemer had not testified truthfully when he said that he (Gummer) had told him that on the night of the murder he had met Andy Brown at the depot near the Prescott hotel. Also that the sheriff testified falsely when he said that he (Gummer) had id that Brown was in the hotel only entirely the enterprise of A. C. Town- ley, president,of the National Non- partigan League, adcording to the declaration made by J. J. Hastings at the extradition hearing befare the! Governor of California, according to! @ report submitted by Assistant \t- torney-General George Shafer to the department -here by letter. Extradi-| tion of Hastings to Fargo, N. D., to face a charge of embezzlement involv-| ing a Sisal Trust loan made when! Hastings was vice-president of the 6 ; White House. The Ohio representa- \tive said he understood such a view | would ‘be set forth by the President in ‘his letter to members of the finance j committee of Congress. Attorney General Declares Sher-| Such an executive view also was i FS « ‘ | reflected by Senator Felinghuysen, Re- iffs, States AttorneyS = j publican, New Jersey, who called at Ready to Act j the White House while the President's j letter was in course of preparation. States Attorneys and Sheriffs in 7 North Dakota generally are anxious W RDE and willing to enforce the law, and} desire the cooperation and the back- , blicity of organizations in the city, | Saying that the club is somewhat} ; handicapped by the increase in the! | number of organizations making more ‘of a social appeal. A co-ordination of activities is not only desirable, but is necessary, he said. Mr, Young ‘said that the club could do nothing | { without co-operation. and urged mem- | bers not to wait for the board or sec-} Tetary to act, but if they knew of ! something the club should do, say so to the responsible parties. They do hold their places from choice, he | tos, advised that the Northern Pacific ' five or ten minutes. railroad would cut tho rate on hay| Gummer admitted that he had not shipments one-half providing state !ingormed the officers correctly when and county authorities made arrange- | he told them’he had gone to the train ments that would insure the benefit | at 1 a. m, the night of the murder going to the consumer, was corhmuni-janq that he had not informed them cating with county commissioners | correctly when he told them that and county agents. eorge O'Brien was in the hotel A telegram received from Henry out 12:40 and took a letter to the Blakelee, of the Northern Pacific rail-| depot for him. road, said: ‘In matter of supplying! Gummer also said that 'E. Kincaid ,hay in southwestern portion of tho| had testified falsely when he quoted state the Northern Pacific will apply | Gummer as stating that he (Gummer) one-half tariff conditional on some ar- ‘had a friend with him until 2 or 3 in A : A ‘ a ti, t,. « fi famine stricken district in Russia by| Scandinavian-American Natiowal bank,| ing of the people of their commun- rangement through state or county the morning of the murder. next September, Edgar Rickard, of) that organization; said today, after he} had.conferred with Secretary Hoover. | By that date Mr. Rickard said the Russians should be able to feed them | selves with the proceeds of their har- vest. The American Relief Adminis- ' tration is sending to Russia 112,000 | tons of seed wheat for planting this | spring, he said, which is expected to! insure an ample crop. In addition be-| tween five and six million adults will | be given the daily supply of corn meal | or grits sufficient to feed them until | the new crop comes in. More than 1,600,000 children are be- ing supplied with a balanced ration now, ‘Mr. Rickard said, and this num-j ber will have been increased by the) middle of’ March to 2,200,000. | | | COUNTIES WILL _ BOND FOR SEED Bowman County Bonds Sold! Here For Par Value | Several counties are preparing to issue bonds or warrants to provide loans to farmers for planting the 1922 crop, Commissioner of Agricul- ture Joseph A. Kitchen said today. Bonds of Bowman county, amount- ing to $40,000 for five years at 6 per) cent, were sold to Sidney, Spitzer & | company, of Toledo, O, at par, the} ids being received at Mr. Kitchen’s | office yesterday. Hl Morton county commissioners are} considering the issuance of warrants | to obtain’ money to make seed and feed loans; Emmons county will bond | for $100,000 and McLean county may obtain $125,000 through warrants Or) Cass bends, according to the commissioner. | General George Shafer. | M. E. CONFERENCE HERE IS ENssep AP. OWER PACT The Bismarck conference of the ‘Methodist Episcopal church closed last night at the McCabe Methodist church here with a large attendance.. The three-day meeting for ministers and laymen has been extremely pro- fitable, the church officials _ believe. Bishop Burns, Secretary Mecklenburg and others of the Helena area party went to Fargo from here where the Fargo district onference will be held. the sufficiency of the North Dakota has been ordered. \ities in their efforts, Attorney-Gener- “He gave a long explanation of his,al Sveinbjorn Johnson declared today, connection with the Sisal Trust,” said|in summing up replies received by him Shafer of Hastings’ testimony, “dis-|/to his letters to states attorneys and claiming any ownership or personal|sheriffs calling upon them for law en- interest in it, asserting that it was en-|forcement, announcing the decision tirely Townley’s enterprise—claimed! not to expend the state’s money in trust was actually organized in Oct-j hiring special assistants when it can ober, 1918, in Minneapolis, not in Ap-jbe avoided. ril, 1919,,and said he had authority tol “All the replies have been very; borrow money in its behalf, claimed | friendly end the officers express them. ; that collateral security in the form of|selves as anxious to enforce all the Nonpartisan League notes and check luding the prohibition law, | were put up to cover these Sisal and I believe they can do so if local notes and that Townley financed the|sentiment is favorable to them,” said | trust largely from league funds—/the attorney-general. | claimed that Townley had become his} Mr. Johnson appealed generally for | enemy in 1919, but that they both)@ strong public sentiment in favor of were victims of persecution in North/the law-enforceing efforts of the of ‘Dakota now.” jficers of the various counties. The ownership of the Sisal Trust} “The most eifective law has often been a matter of debate, A/™ent is in those places where the receiver now holds Florida land of the People most actively support officers Sisal Trust. It has often been’ in their effort enforce- | to enforce ‘the law,” | Minnesota Man Assai erty’s Accusations s Chicago, Feb. 16—H.*°E. Hart, of Long Prairie, Minn., speaking before the Interstate Merchants Council here today said that there seemed to be fonly one class of merchandise dis- | tributors that have had “a good’stand- ing with either the Democratic or Re- publican are the mail order houses. terests,” he asks, “by whom were | they inspired? What would it be worth }to the mail order interests to have the public educated by the Attorney-Gen- charged that Townley was the real said Mr. Johnson. owner of the corporation. Hastings has been engaged in the brokerage business in the west for a couple of years, it is understood. He was dressed in height of fashion at his extradition hearing, according to the reports, and told the Governor of Califor. faiithg to ple them: ihelp them b |demanding honest, competent fearless jurors and in every way sus- taining efforts at law enforcement at home.” : not get a fair trial in North Dakota} “because feeling against league lead- Pad ers is so intense that juries are forced to convict Aeaguers and always do.” | Hastings’ lawyer did not question) petition, it is stated in the report of; Mr. Shafer, but relied on his allega-| tion of political persecution to avoid having to return to North Dakota. Hastings on Way Back The governor of California honored the requisition late yesterday and word was received that tings gave | © up his proposed application for a writ | °" of habeas corpus, and is-on his way | “4S back in custody of a deputy sheriff of | county and Assistant Attorney-| 1 .jaers of the company throughout the northwest. 10 BE MOVED Fargo. Feb. 16—The executive com- j mittee of the Equity Cooperative Ex- jchange has decided to move the C operators Herald to St. Paul, it was announced here. The action was tak- at a meeting here Saturday. It not decided whether to sell the FORT RICE BUILDING BURNED Fort Rice, N. D., 16—Fire yes- iterday de “It is unjust for } ly to blame officers for | nia he was afraid he could lin Chicago by 'H. E. Hart, Washington, Feb. 16—The resolu- tion asking President Harding for full information regarding the nego- tiations for the four-power Pacific treaty was adopted by the senate to- day after a debate in which the arms conference policies were discussed for the first time on the senate floor. ihere with s of $4,500, which is iN DISCUSSE ,covered by insurance. PIONEER EDITOR DIES. Sanborn, N. D., Feb. 16. Vv landigham, pion aWS: | Barnes county, died at Deming, N. M.. | where he was editor and publisher of the Deming Headlight. He worked in j various Barnes county newspaper of- | fices, and for a time was publisher of the first newspaper in Wimbledon. DENIES INTENT ‘Washington, Feb. 16—Charges made of. Long iPrairie, Minn. before the Interstate |\Merchants Council that the justice de- ea jpartment’s retail price investigation | | Today’s Weather |was reacting favorably to mail order houses to the injury of other busin was declared today by Attorney-G |eral Daugherty to be the first intima ‘tion he had had of such result from ithe government's activities. The government in its price inv ‘tigation, the attorney-general said, S- had no intention of hurting anybody rest. ef , he added, is pro-) or of aiding any particular int The investigatio ceeding satisfactorily with the expe: tation that within a week the depart- | Z = printing plant or move it to St. Paul. ment will be able to make a full state- | ereacing cloudiness 4 : The Herald goes to all the stock- mane of the price situation through- creasing cloudiness and somewhat un- WOULD out the countr, TOCUT FORCE . TN GERMANY Washington, Feb. 16—An immediate further reduction of 203 officers and 3,000 men in the American forces in Germany was announced today by the Wer Department. There will be re- maining in Germany after this reduc- i mot 9: said, and should have the help of all | members. 44 Keniston’s Report Is Daugh-| port on the uctivities of the club dur-' advanced at Dakota points, predicted | administration and these! “If the accusation of the Attorney} General against the retail merchants! were not inspired by mailorder in-| eral and their radical newspapers to! believe that every time they make a; the law as the peo-| purchase at a retail store they were; ther fail or refuse to j being robbed? It would mean millions ; boards that will insure consumer ben- efit of concession we make. We are already advised that prices are being Secretary Keniston presented a re- jing the last year. He said the civicion distress of people. Think hay | | activities of the club are suggestive! should be consigned to state and coun-! more frequently than promotive, and ‘ty officials on proper certificate of referred to the work of some of the | these officials. Reduced rate effective ; organizations, such as the Elks work|to March 31.” | jin obtaining the swimming ‘pool, the; Governor Nestos is calling upon the} | Town Criers, Rotary club, Lions club,!county commissioners and county! | Women's Community Council, Bwsi-|cgents in the territory affected to} jness and Professional Women’s club;make ‘arrangements in accordance} {and others. with the conditions of this offer. | He said the committee on civic} The Governor condemned any at-| | affairs reported substantial progress |tempt by any person having hay co| jin the sentiment for a city survey,-a | sell to take advantage of conditions to city plan and eventually a park board. }force the price to an unreasonable He said the good roads committee ! figure. i cooperated with state, federal and The continued cold has made the! | municipal Officials for the building of | present winter an exceedingly hard | gocd roads, Jone on range cattle. The feed which } | The club paid the expenses of five the cattle can pick up on the rang: prize winners from Burleigh county |under present conditions is not suf- to the Agricultural college to study jficent. Some reports have been re-} the particular matters upon which/ceived that cattle are dying for lac The western part: of the} lreferred to the various activities in-|state is covered by. two feet of snow, | cluding the Holstein circuit, freight|a condition auguring well for the 1922; ‘rate work, and reported on the gen-|/crop but making the winter a hard} eral. development of the city, includ- one on cattle. ling many improvements and building! The territory most severely are | prejects. ‘ed, according to reports, is along the | Northern Pacific main line from Man- ————@ | dan to Sims and Almont, Mott branch | and New England branch of the »Mil- | waukee, Commissioners of the (they won prizes in farm activity, andj of foed. {ties of | For twenty-four hours ending at) Stark and p | noon Feb. 1 and Slope are }'Temperature at 7 A. M .. —109) ed in the | Highest yesterday g Ther | | | Morton, Grant, Hettinge ibly Adams, Bowman xpected to be concern- hipments of hay. id to be need among uals, and these agencies will bute clothing and food, the Gov- said. This need aid not to be el because several agenci given attention to needs of fam- Lowest yesterday .... Lowest last night Precipitation Highest wind velocity .. ilies. ste ‘inity: Weather Fore: For Bismarck and v Is MUSCLE SHOALS Washington, Feb. 16--The senate agriculture committee today asked the senate in a resolution for authority to visit the M lj Shoals Power and In- | ettled tonight and Friday; rising } temperature. H | \ Weather Conditions, | The center of the western low pres-j sure area is over British Columbia this morning and ng temperature has resulted eastward to western: North Dakota. From the eastern Da- kotas eastward the temperature has Gummer was still under cnoss-ex- amination when court adjourned until 2 o'clock. Second Day on Stand Today was Gummer’s seqond day on the witness stand, and he was given a hard grilling by the states at- torney today. On the witness stand yesterday af- ternoon, he denied that he opened the door of Room 30 with the key that had been given to Miss Wick. He said the key he used was given to him by Fred Lawrence as nearly as he qould recall, Gummer described the condition in the room when he and Richard Pick- ering, of the Fargo police force, ar- rived and said that it was Pickering and not himself, who first advanced the theory of suicide, and that Pick- ering and he afterwards agreed that it was murder. Gummer told of searching the hotel with Deputy Sheriff Milligan and oth- er officers. ‘ Gummer said he did not change any part of his clothing at any time dur- ing the night. Gummer said he originally told of- ficers that he went to meet train No. 4, at 1 a. m., and did not correct that (Continued on Page 3) LOAN DEMANDS SHOW DECREASE More Favorable Position Re- flected, Says Grangaard Minneapolis, Feb. 16—That the northwest has moved rapidly to a bet- ter financial position in the last few months is shown in the drop in the rate of applications for loans from 75 to 100 a day to 20 to 25 a day at the Agricultural Loan Agency in Minne- apolis of the War Finance Corpora- tion, M. O. Grangaard, s@cretary, said today. For the first time since the early week of its organization the commit- tee forming the Agricultural Loan Agency for Minnesota, North and fallen and readings below zero are reported ¢rom the eastern Dakotas, Minnesota and the northern Lake re- gion. Precipitation has occurred over the Pacific coast states but none else- where. tion a total of 169 officers and 2,217 men, ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Meteorologist. | te pnoject in connection with the |South Dakota is “caught up” in its committee consideration of Henry | work, said. A total of $46,405,427 Ford’s offer to lease the property. in applications have been approved | Their resolution which proposed}and forwarded to Washington, Mr. that tho whole committee of 17 make |Grangaard said, and of this amount the trip was referred to the auditing |$21,796,206 has. reached the final committee because of the expendi-|Stages of cash disbursement by the tures which would be imposed. ‘Minneapolis federal reserve bank.