The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 24, 1922, Page 1

The Weather CONTINUED COLD THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Last Edition FORTIETH YEAR BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1922 PRICE FIVE CENTS ART JUDGE suLou.e0 UP [GREAT NORTHERN FLYER CRASHES INTO SNOWPLOW WHILE SPEEDING TOWARD MILL CITY; § ARE DEAD iInvestigation Under Way To Determine Responsibility For The Accident to Winnipeg Flyer of Great Northern Which Takes Heavy Toll—Steel Mail and Baggage Cars Save Passengers From Death in Crash 30 Miles West of Minneapolis CUMMER CASE WILL G0 T0 JURY “ff .- INBARNES DISTRICT COURT YET F TODAY; ARGUMENTS NEAR THE END y : Accused Hotel Clerk’s- Attorney Pleads That State’s Evidence) ‘ Shows Gummer Didn’t Commit Crime at The Time Stated— ; Youth May Know His Fate at Hands of Jury Before Night | 4-POWBR PACT RESERVATION TN COMMITTEE New Reservation Laid Before Committee Said to Have O. K. of Harding uy Valley City, N. D, Feb. 24.—The last day of the William Gummer murder trial opéned today with H. W. Swenson; counsel SOME SHEPTON TO utr 4 ited to between 12:30 and 1 a. m. on June 7, and during that time Swenson contended, Gummer was in the hotel (office. Gummer, night clerk of the hotel, accounted for all his actions un- til 12:10. Soon thereafter Andy ‘Brown, his roommate, came into the hotel and a few minutes after 1 a. m. another guest registered, he said. ‘Mr, Swenson, arguéd: that solutely impossible forthe fary to ac- ‘cept the state’s theory. as ta the time of the crime without freeing the de- fendant. y Says State Fails Swenson argued that the defense had shown that there is a James Far- rell in life in contradiction to the state’s contention that the guest registered in the hotel -under that name is a fiction. Swenson spoke for an hour. Judge Barnett, who followed, as- -serted that in cases wherein the state) relies upon circumstantial evidence for conviction, every fact developed must be “consistent with guilt and in- consistent with innocence,” and he cited points in the evidence that, he! asserted, were at variance with that rule of law so far as they apply to Gummer. ATTITUDE IN FUND CASE IS GIVEN LEAGUER Attorney General Sets Out Rea- sons Department: Will Sue For Accounting Suit. is expected to be filed soon in the Lemke Fund case by Attorney General Sveinbjorn Johnson, in an ef- fort to gain an. accounting of the fund and have it applied to paying expenses of the railroad rate cases. ‘ Answering .a. letter of W. H. Van Woert, a Nonpartisan contributor to the fund, the attorney general set out his attitude in the case as follows: Answering your letter of February . 4, I beg to advise that you and I agree entirely as to the Lemke fund. You say the fund was raised for the pur- pose of carrying on the ‘litigation in the rate case, also grain grading case, etc’ That is just exactly the point. The fund was raised for that purpose and I want it used for the purpose for which it was raised. It has not been used for this purpose. I have a bill from the lawyer Mr. Lemke employed and whom I continued in both these cases which amounts to about $3,000 and which I want paid out of this fund. You and I agree entirely on that. “As to your statement as to rotten politics, I am not able to discuss that with you as you did not give any spe- cific facts. It may be in your judg- ment rotten politics to enforce the law against those who break it, who have embezzled, who have stolen, and who have misappropriated public money, but I will tell you now so that there may be no misunderstanding on the point, that I expect to enforcé the law while I am here against all law- breakers even if they should happen to be members of the party with which you are affiliated. I intend to make it uncomfortable for all viola- tors of the law insofar as it is within my power to do so.” RUSSIA USES MANY SCYTHES Moscow, Feb. 24.—Soviet Russia manufactured 1,307,000 scythes and imported 4,300,000 last year. Grain- raising is carried on in such a prim- itive way by the majority of peasants that the scythe is in general use for harvesting, especially since the short- age of labor-saving machinery began. oo |. Today’s Weather | o—_—_—_____—__—_—_—_"“—_-_-* ending at For twenty-four hours noon February 24. Temperature at 7 a. m.. Highest yesterday . Lowest yesterday Lowest last night . —21 Precipitation ...... None Highest wind velocity - 1ONW Weather Forecast For Bismarck and Vicinity: Fair tonight and probably Saturday; not so cold. For North Dakota: Fair tonight and Probably Saturday; not sogcold. Weather Conditions The northwestern high pressure area has spread’eastward over the lake region and the temperature has continued to fall over the northern states. Readings this morning are considerably below zero over Mon-~- tana, the. Dakotas and Minnesota. it, was ab- | CONVENTION BE HELD IN CITY Declare For State Meeting In ‘Bismarck Instead of In ‘Fargo as Planned PROTESTS ARE BEING MADE A strong demand among Nonparti- Sans in the western part of the state for the holding of the forthcoming State convention of the league in His- marck instead of Fargo is being voiced by many leaguers. The exact time of the state con- is said by some of those advocating the holding of the convention in Bis- Marck that leaguers ui 32 counties have demanded it be held here. The Farmer-Labor Record, of Bis- Marck, says this week regarding the matter: “The personal representative of A. A. Liederbach, P. L. Aarhus, has caused it to become known that the demand on the part of western coun- ties for a state convention to be held at Bismarck is not to be granted. In an interview with Mr. R, H. Walker, minority member of the executive committee, Aarhus is quoted as saying that the agitation for a Bismarck con- vention was simply an/ effort on the part of western counties to con‘rol the convention. Aarhus ‘was given the right to represent the majority members of the executive committee during-the absentée of Liederbach, and doesn’t intend taking any chances on the’ control of the coming convention slipping through his fingers, which would probably happen, were the meeting place of the convention changed from Fargo to Bismarck. Neither Aarhus nor Kaldor will admit designs upon the organization they presume to represent, but their inten- tions cannot very well be misunder- stood in view of the fact that Aarhus has seized the Courier-News, with the approval of. Kaldor, and is publishing exactly what he pleases and only what he pleases. Numerous cases have been reported where letters and protests sent to the Courier-News dur- ing the last 60 days have been prompt- ly consigned to the wastebasket. Everything appearing in the paper is apparently censored, and only that which jis creditable to the present management is allowed to appear in print. . Meetings Postponed. The state executive committee, ac- cording to a statement made over the! signature of A. A. Liederbach, state chairman, ‘has set Saturday, March 4, ks the time for holding the precinct; caucuses, because only a few cf them were held on February 22, the storm! preventing meetings. i The precinct caucuses will select | representatives to the county conven tions to be held on March 16, which; in turn will select delegates to the; state convention. ' The Courier-News asserts that the | meetings held by John N. Hagan over the state have resulted unfavorzbly for the “balance of power” plan pro-) posed by A. C. Townley, and asserts | that he has ings. Townley’s idea to put up but one can- didate, for Commissioner of Agricul- SUBDIVISIONS | PASK INTEREST? Watford City, N. D., Feb. 24—Ac cording to information received heré several school districts of McKenzie county will soon make a demand on the board of county commissioners for payment to them of their respec- tive shares of the penalty and interest paid to the county during several years past on delinquent taxes and which the county has retained. | It is expected that townships and villages will also demand their respective shares of accumulated penalty and in terest. It is believed the board will order payment on demand. HANKINSON TO Hankinson, -N. D., Feb. 24—Hankin- son’s new $150,000 high school build: ling is expected to, be ready for occu pancy about March 15, possibly sjson- er. It will house about 118 high 7 the seventh and eighth grades. eee building, which has been | greatly overcrowded, will house grades up to and probably including tthe sixth grade. The new building is modern thnoughout and houses a ‘vention has not been Cetermined. It} | postponed. ‘of, Jamestown, came here for the reeting, as did R. C. Morton of Car- rington. discontinued the meet-|tended to come would be able to be The organ asserts it is Mr. | here. school students and probably mem-} Snowfall has continued over the Lake | roomy gymnasium, domestic science region and portions of the Rockyjand assembly room with etd Mountain region but elsewhere the| Classes will be called by the electric weather has been fair. bell system. The total enrollment is —ORRIS W. ROBERTS, |525. Many from the country are at- Meteorologist. ' tending high school. “ “Mrs. Laura Knight will represent | England on the jury of the Interna- tional Art Exhibition ‘to be held at} Pittsburg, Pa She is the first woman r the nm it tee. Her assoc 1 be a French man and two Americans.- ASK TOWNSHIP STATUS CHANGED Citizens of Naughton Want. to} Elect Officers A petition is to be filed with the; boards iof county commissioners. by | citizens of ighton township, north- | east of the city, asking that it be made:a civil instead of a congressional toWashl pein ah In\a’ civil. township the people of the township may elect township of- ficers and make their wn’ township. tax levies, while ‘the county commis- sioners make the levy for the congres- |: sional township. ‘ x It is proposed, if the: commissioners make the change, to hold the. first township election on March 21 at the same time the other civil township elections are held in the county, WEATHER CUTS ATTENDANCE Meeting of Fourth District Bar Association Scheduled For Today Members of the Fourth District Bar association were scheduled to meet in Bismarck this afternoon. Because of the uncertainty of train travel from some points and impossibility .tu travel from cthers, it was thought this afternoon that the meeting might be President John Knauff and Secre- tary Oscar Seiler, of Jamestown, were here for the meeting. S. E. Ellsworth, A. Y. Alymer and J. A. Jorgeson, all The Washburn attorneys were un-| able to come and it was doubtful if lawyers from other towns who in- NGRESS TIES U.S, HANDS idey’s discussion, both to President Harding and to a majority of the members of the senate foreign relations committee, was de- bated by the committee today and an agreement reached to vote on the treaty itself and all propesed reserva- {tions at tomorrow’s session. Tho new reservation was laid be- fore the committee by Senator Bran- degze,, Republican, Connecticut, atf- ter a conference with President Hard- ong. The Connecticut senator was said not to have represented it as embodying the ‘president’s views but the understanding of committee was that it would be acceptable to the ex- ecutive. The text of the reservation follows: “The United States understands thet under the statements in the pre- amble or under the terms of this treaty there is no commitment to armed force, no alliance, no obliga- tion {9 join in any defense.” Although apparently acceptable to most of the Republican and ‘Demo- cratic reservationists on the commit: | tee the reservation according to to- will not receive | unanimous committee approval. Sen- ator Johnson, California, was said to havo shown ovposition during the | meeting and>-it was expected that Senatcr Borah, Idaho, who was ab- sent, would take a,similar posit‘on. BELIEVE BURKE WAS A VICTIM ‘Many friends of former Governor John Burke here believe the reports which accompanied that of the fail- ure of the New York brokerag2 firm with which he was was connected, that he was the victim of others whom he trusted. Former Governor Burke ‘said that he lost overything in the crash. _ Immediately foliowing t.h.e ~an- Towicément’ 6f thé “tathute of the firm. of which he was a member, Mr. Burke ; resigned the position cf pr2sident and | alrector of the Progress Bank, of New ork. z SENATE PASSES FARM LOAN BILL Washington, Feb. 24—The sen- ate passed the Lill introduced by Senator McCumber, Republican, iNortti Dakota, to appropriate $5,000,000 for loans to United State farmers to buy seed grain and feed for livestock. Of the fund to be secured by chattel mort- gages, $1,090,000 would be avail- able for livestock purposes, which were said to constitute an emer. gency. SALES TAX IS | Washington, Feb, 24—A |proppsal to finance the soldiers’ bonus by a sales tax is understood to have been re-| jected by the special sub-committee of the Republican members of the house ways and means committee. RUGBY ADOPTS DANCE ORDINANCE Rugby, N. D., Feb. 24.—Rugby has} just passed a dance ordinance pro-| viding that all public dance halls must be kept clean and sanitary, pro- hibiting smoking on the dance floor or in hallways or areas leading to the! dance floor, prohibiting any persons} under 18 from attending public] dances unless accompanied by-a par-| ent or guardian, prohibiting loafing | Washington, Feb. 24. — Declaring| ithat congress tied the hands ‘of the} ‘administration in dealing with the! reparations question, President Har-} ding, in ‘a letter to Senator Freling |huysen, Republican, New Jersey, has} suggested that some legislative action| ibe taken to permit the United States | to get the quota of German repara-| tions. | Hide of a cow produces about 35/ \pounds of leather. | ‘BUSINESS SUSPENDED Investigation By Army Board In’ Proceeds, With Definite i Newport News, Va., Feb. 24.—All business in Newport News and Nor- folk and other surrounding communi- ties will be suspended today during the public funeral services to be held jhere for the 34 victims of the disaster | which befell the army dirigible Roma. | During the brief services to be con- jducted by army chaplains and several jof the local ministers, airplanes from or loitering in dance halls or opening areas, requiring all public dances to close at 12:30 A. M. of the morning | following the evening of dances, pro-| ibiting Sunday dances, and emow- ering any police officer to vacate dance halls in case of any violations | fof the ordinance. Violations are made | punishable by fines df from $5 to $23, | or imprisonment of not more than 30 days. The provisions of the dance ordinance are made to apply in every detail to skating rinks, i RA IN VIRGINIA | OoouryscHoou’ CITY ASROMA’S VICTIMS ARE BURIED to Cause of Disaster to Dirigible | Conclusions Expected To { Go To War Department Soon Langley Field will fly over the grounds to Casino park to drop flow- ers on the row of flag-draped casket: Meanwhile the army board presse: j from Canada.” SAID REJECTED = results from tho present wave of by Mike Holm, secretary of jon the railros trains stalled along the way. INJUNCTION IS | ISSUED ENDING |Justice Thistlethwaite Resigns: Following Decision In District Court DED re CASE MAY BE APPEALED, George Harvey, American ambas- i sador. to London, going to doll out in the get-up pictured above when he|against H. G. Brissman, of Bishop, | attends Princess Mary’s wedding | Brissman and company, were ended in Ain’t he grand? district court today when Judge W. L. z Nuessle issued a permanent injunc- ion directed against Justice of the t | Peace R. H. Thistlethwaite. The injunction forbids further ac-| tion by the justice in the three cases | a instituted by Joseph Coghlan, charg- ing Brissman with violating the state Haw in signing a\rzport of the audit | ir Proceedings in the cases instituted | of the Bishop, Brissman and com- pany of the Bank of North Dakota, and two charges of violating the false advertising law by representing himself as a certified public account- ant under the laws of the state. The defense has contended Mr. Brissman js a certified accountant in Minnesota and that his firm has a Fargo. office ahd that ‘the ‘resident manager and.member of; the: firm, J: A. Cull, is a member of the North Da- Kota state board of: accountancy. North Carolina Executive Grows Wrathy Over Case Raleigh, C.,' Feb. 24—Governor } Morrison of North Carolina in a vig- orous message sent to the acting Soc- betary of State Fletcher declared the stats of North Carolina would not spies any Sesto eaa produce, witnesses to testify before Judge Sny?)""y ‘ - “aks . Judge’ Nuessle, in issuing the in- der at pean tou Ontanioy tay the ee junction, referred to cases hero in the r ae : past in which he said, a justice may rolinag to tee? ue gure ShaTee have. een imposed upon and Bareohe haere! or ets de ay bnog thie unjustly dragged into court,| and r2- haty ih Cenaca’ would . |ferred to tho, possibility of “spite” extradition in the regular way and if| 2... being filed if there were no re- the ip Doperinen could nou Cae strictions upon filing matters without vince the Canadian authorities that approval of the states attorney. they should, “then I hope you will not The defendant was represented by hereafter request North Carolina OF | Oyyie and Cox while Theodore Kof- any other self-respecting state of the | Fo) appearell for Thistlethwaite with un‘on to in any way honor a request Joseph Coghlan. It was said that the case would be appealed to the supreme court. Following disposition of the case, yunty auditor’s' office and filed his resignation. The’ Brissman cases were his first and last. MOTOR VEHICLE TAXES BRING IN $3,000,000, St. Paul, Minn, Feb. 24—Approxi- Soe ELy ‘| mately $? 00,000 has been. turned There probably will ‘be no very seri- over to Henry Rines, states treasurer, state, NOT SERIOUS Time For People To Take Care of Themselves, Physi- cians Say mild influenza or grippo in the city if rrom collections of motor vehicle peopl2 take care of themselves, ac- taxes end in aid from the Federal ’ ae a gov- cording to physicians. Most cases, tt /crnment for highway construction in és said, result in the victim being Minnesota to date in 1922 very sick for about three ‘days and|” «“anout two-thirds of the dutomo- then recovering rapidly. bile registrations have been complet- No cases of pneumonia have been| oq mr. Holm said. “Progress is be- officially reported, Dr. C. BE. Stack- in sete g made on the remainder, but a house, city health officer said. Many pications will have to pour jn ata cases have becn reported by relatives | more ra, - pid rate from now until March ‘of pneumonia wh: have proved not', if persons are to avoid the ponalty to be so serious, it is said. a - There is not an unusual amount of or J atte day thats will; attach: Af. contagious disease in the city at this time, it js added. SEE BUILDING * BOOM IN LAKE Devils Lake, N. D., Feb. 24.—A SLOPE COUNTY STOCK IS LOST ins building boom here in the spring is southwestern North Dakota, will ve| i™dicated by a -survey of projected lost as a result of lack of feed and| improvement operations. They in- the storm of Tuesday and Wednesday, | “lude: in the opinion of States Attorney C.| The Farmers Co-operative creamery, P, Brownlee. jof that county. Mr./to cost’ about $50,000; the Farmers Brownlee, called at the Governor's of-| Mill and Elevator is to be remodeled fico to discuss relief measures which | at a cost of about $25,000; the Sons have been taken to provide hay in the | of Norway will build a temple with a district where cattle have subsisted | modern theater on the first floor, the chiefly on the range. ‘| total cost to be from $50,000 to $75,- 000; two modern garages, to cost FOLLOWS STORM and dollars; scores of new residences —_ - are projected, and two lumber com- The coldest weather of the year panies may enlarge their plants. has followed the storm over the north- | _ <a vi ‘ e weather bureau reported the | STORM DEATHS mmeretiny seank to ie below in Bis. IN NORTHWEST marck, equalling the record for the | FIXED AT FIVE winter, and some points reported still | colder weather. It was 28 below at| EE he St. Paul, Feb..24.—The north- west was recovering somewhat Miles City, Mont. today from the effects of the se- yere storms of Tuesday night and Wednesday which left a toll of 12 known deaths and several hun- dred thousand dollars’ damage to property. The casualty list includes: Helf the cattle in Slope county, | TO ADVERTISE TOWN. | Watford D., Feb. 24.—Towns | in McKenzie county were represented at a meeting here at the office of M. B. Johnson, count: agent, at which stens were taken to/ | publish 10,000 or 15,000 copies of a i page naimphlet advertising McKen- Five persons killed in a train county. Tt will be profusely illus-| collision near Delano. ated with half tone ents of farm! Four men were frozen to death scenes in McKenzie county, and every, in the Twin Cities. its investigation into the cause of the! page will carry accurate descriptive | disaster today, hearing more wit-; matter, | nesses behind closed doors and was! | A woman was frozen near Langford, S. D. A woman was electrocuted near ‘expected to be ready to report its con-| (Certain area near the western clusions to the war department within! coast of Cuba grows the costliest to- a few days. {bacco in the world. Rochester, Minn. A boy was frozen at Dilworth, Minn, ; re . fo a ata Minneapolis, Feb. 24.— Railroad official today planned for the defendant, arguing before the jury that the state has i rood tole ficials today planned to failed to prove its:case against the accused man. Senators Johnson and Borah start an investigation to place responsibility for. collision of a Gummer, charged with the murder of Marie Wick, of Grygla, Exsected to Stand. Out snowplow and train No. 10 of the Great Northern, also known as Minn., in Fargo on June 7 last, may know his fate by tonight, for Pe ‘ an ju the Winnipeg Flyer, in which five trainmen met death and a dozen a it is expected the jury will be charged this afternoon.” Against Treaty persons were injured late yesterday. #: Mr. Swnson manintained that’ from; jcaaeeteninay _ The wreck occurred between Delano and Montrose, Minn.,. 30 A the state's evidence and the ior ot | a Washington) pes oh a modified miles west of here. , ii the/case,, thatthe: time ofthe orleing LE AGUERS A Sk lanket reservation to the four-power The flyer was 11 hours late and was speeding toward Minne- L assault upon Miss.Wick must be lim- Pacific treaty, said to be satisfactory apolis from Winnipeg when the smash occurred. It carried an extra heavy load, having picked up passengers from two other _ Train No. 10 had two engines pull- ing it. Two heavy steel mail and baggage cars followed and this fact, trainmen said, undoubtedly kept the death list down. All the serious casu- lalties were suffered by trainmen, the passengers being shaken up and some slightly bruised. The three engines and mail car BRISSMAN CASE plunged down. a, 10-foot embankment ,and early today four of the dead were still buried beneath the wreckage. The dead were: R. A. McDonald, St Paul, engineer, flyer. : Hollis McDonald, Willmar, Minn., engineer,-snowplow. — Hugh Johnson, St. Paul, engineer, flyer. t ——— _ McCloud, fireman, flyer, G. Pelton, Minneapolis, ’ fireman, flyer. Pelton was rescued from the wreck- age but he was so badly scalded he died six hours later. Relief trains were sent from Minne- apolis' and Willmar. BELIEVE MURDER STORY A HOAX Officials Show Disbelief in Story Told in Detroit Los Angeles, Feb. 24—Growing dis- belief in the story of the murder of William Desmond Taylor, film direc- tor, here February 1, related in De- troit within the last’ three lo Harry M. Fields, in custody there, was expressed today by Los Angeles officals. vf They pointed out two changes Fields made in’ his original story. One was the reduction of a $1,000 bill to a $100 bill in connection with his statement that he was paid $900 for having driven a Chinese, a white wo- man and a>white man to the Taylor’ home. The other was his changing the lo- cation where he said’ the pistol ‘with which Taylor was shot would be found: A The officers said they found i neither place he named>, supe Hat “BLUEBEARD” 0 DIE THIS WEEK Paris, Feb, 24—President, Millerand has refused to commute the sentence of Henrj Landru, the “Bluebeard of Gambais,”. as petitioned by Landru’s couse mie culliohiog of Landru for © murder of ten women set for this week, see wre IOWA TOWNS IN ATH OF FLOOD Edgewbod, Ia. Feb, 24—The towns of Littleport, Elkport, Garber and Os- terbock, along the Turkey river, and northeast of here, wore severely dam- aged by floods Wednesday night and yesterday, according to. reports reach- ing here. So far as is known no lives were lost. SHOOTS MAN IN COURT ROOM Waco, Tex., Feb, 24—Miss Matthews, 17 years old, shot ane stantly killed J. S. Croslin today dur- ing proceedings in the district court here. He was charged with crimjnal- ly attacking the girl two years ago. N. D. BOY MARRIES GIRL PERFORMER Grafton, N. D., Feb. 24.—V. c, a aviator in the World War, in ot Mes 0. M. Omlie of Grafton. has just mar- tied Phoebe Jane Fairgrave, 18-year- old St. Paul girl, who last July jump- ed from the plane piloted by Omlie in her 15,200 foot parachute drop, which set the women’s world altitude record. The ceremony was performed at the home of the bride’s parents at St. Paul. After the wedding, Mr. and Mrs, Omlie left for Chicago, where they will appear before the International Association of State Fairs in an ef- fort to obtain a booking for a Twin City flying circus in which Mrs. Omlie will be featured. ASKED $2,5 CIVEN $1. inot, N. D., Feb. 24—Suing for 0 for alleged slander, Louis Bald- fers was awarded $1 in district court {against Mrs. W. F. Meyers. Baiders alleged the defendant accused him of stealing a window. $ From 20 to 25 gallons of 95 per cent alqohol can be obtained from a ton of dry pine wood.