The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 21, 1922, Page 1

FORTIETH YEAR STATE MILLING PROGRAM LOSS IS ton temnteentt mete ett tte =E|THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, ! MARCH a1, 1922 Last Edition PRICE FIVE CEN 1 $7,000 TOWNLEY DROPS HIS “BALANCE OF POWER” PLAN TAXPAYER (OST LEAGUE CHIEF WILL NOT URGE NEW PROPOSAL Makes Annouicement That: He Won’t Ask Indorsement at Fargo , THROWS THINGS Fight Now Expected to Be One on Present League State Executive Committee IN AIR Minneapolis, March 21.—A. C. Town- ley, president of thé National Non- partisan League, announced today! that he would not urge his “balance of | power” plan at the forthcoming state! conventions in North Dakota and Min- nesota. , Townley’s statement was made up- on his return from meetings in these MATHILDE AND. MAX TO WED IN MAY ‘HUGHES DENIES SECRET TREATY WITH ENGLAND Makes Answer to Contention Raised by Senater Borah ’ During Senate Debate MAKES. CAUSTIC REPLY| ; Senater Borah Had Hinted at! Secret Agreement With Great Britain. Washington, March 21.— Presenta- tion in the senate today of a letter} from Secretary Hughes: denying flatly that: any secret agreenfent exists for future - British-American led today to another effort by oppon- | Ormsby, McHarg Seeks to Elim- co-operation | the editorial page of the Fargo Forum, IL, Vy, A, HOLDIN G. FLORIDA’S BEAU | “DARK HORSE” IN 7 SENATOR RACE ? oa | inate McCumber and Gron- na From Endorsement ATTACKS CHRISTIANSON Raises Constitutional Bar| . Against Jurist—Others i Mentioned Who is the I. V. A. dark horse for | Republican candidate for the United States senate? In a letter prominently displayed on Ormsby McHarg of Jamestown, form- THUS FAR GIVEN TO COMMISSION Bishop, Brissman Report Shows Expense Involved in Mills, Elevators DRAKE LOSS IS $80,000 Grand Forks Mill Contracts Total $2,200,000, Audit Report Shows | North Dakota’s mill and elevator | Program represents a net loss to date of $187,194.17 out of a total of $1,268,- | 584.95 thus far invested, according to the Bishop, Brissman and Company | audit, submitted to the Industrial Com. missibn: and, made Dublic today. The loss is divided between the Grand Forks project, the Fargo offi¢e of the Mill and Elevator association and the Drake mill. The record of the ents of the four-power treaty to send! er private secretary to Senator Mc- it back to committee. The efforts|Cumber, eliminates Gronna and M brought on a warm debate. Cumber and seeks through legal in- The secretary’s letier characterized; terpretation of the constitution to pre-| ull and elevator program summarized Miss Mildred Ellett was recently yoted the most beautiful virl in Flo- da, ‘She presented the trophies at Drake mill—Cash advances, $142,- | 691.20; net cash investment, $13! suggestions of such an agreement as/ vent the consideration of Judge Chris- | the annual Miami neal: 506.38; original cost of mill, $20,000; a Sagetines two states and it was expected his “balance of. power” plan would be the outstanding point of contention in the| state conventions. It is Mr. Townley’s contention that | the farmer-labor vote is sufficient to constitute a balance of power as be-j tween the Democratic and Republican j parties whereas it might not be; strong enough to elect entirely inde-} pendent or league candidates. The announcement that Townley would not present his plan follows county conventions in which nearly half of the delegates were instructed against it, It will now make the con- vention of the 207 league delegates at Fargo Thursday a free-for-all. The fight ig expected to be transferred from the attack on the “balance of) power” idea to the present majority on the state committee, composed of Liederbach, Kaldor and Levang. Liederbach was put out of the race in Dunn county for re-nomination for state senator and R. H. Walker, his opponent on the state committee, was selected for the position. POOLING PLAN MAY RESULT IN The marriage of Mathilde McCormick, 16, granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller, and Max Oser, Swiss riding master Wk is thrice her age, is reported set for May. REED TO SEEK ZONE OFFICE. ***? "a fcnon IN BISMARCK | Democratic ticket, Gets New Federal Internal Rev-| “absolutely false.” Senator ‘Lodge, republican leader, and a member of the arms delegates who at the same time put into the records; a telegram from ‘Paul Cravath, New York attorney, denying the accuracy: of a statement on the same subject at-; tributed to him by Senator Borah, re-! publican, Idaho, i (Reiterating a denial] made in a for- mer communication that any secret! agreements exist with other; powers! in connection with the arms confer- ence Mr, Hughes wrote in today’s let- ter that he hoped to see “no further! aspersions” ‘wnon the “veracity and honor” of the American delegates, | It was laid! before | tianson’s name. at the epayention| called by Burleigh Spalding’s Real Re- publican Committee. The letter quotes the constitutional provision affecting the candidacy ot judges of the supreme court for any | position other than that of a judicial | nature, Coyert Slap at Christianson Friends of Judge Christianson con- strue it as a covert slap at him on the | part of certain I. V. A. leaders who frown on his possible candidacy. There hag at no time been the slight- est intimation that Judge Christian- son would bea candidate although considerable pressure has_ been brought to bear upon him to declare himself. | ACTUAL CIVIL Y WAR HELD NEAR | ON BRIN LINES Danger of Situation’ in Ireland Emphasized by Morning SUSAN OF | GROWERS FIGHT United Grain Growers Inc. Gets Under Way For Meeting in Chicago Today Chicago, March 21.—A warm fight over the 100 per cent pooling issue was anticipated as the first annual conven- tion of the U. S. Grain Growers, Inc., a co-operative farmers marketing or- ganization, got under way today. While Some members of the board of direc- tors were quoted as saying the 100 per cent pooling plan was a dead is- sue Others were, known to fayor it and in some quarters it was,expetted pool- ing would be one of the principle ques- tions before the gathering. Upon the Outcome of the pooling issue it was said depended the possible amalgama- tion with other co-operative market- ing agencies many of which are com- mitted to the 100 per cent pool whic1 the American Wheat, Growers associa- tion just organized plans to operate in jten states. ‘Some delegates professed to see slight prospect for. amalbamation, ex- pressing belief that the convention would not consider the pooling issue. The convention this morning was de- voted largely to routine matters. with the address of C. H. Gustafson, Lin- coln, Neb., president, scheduled for this ‘afternoon. The delegates hope to finish all business by tomorrow night. AUTO DEALERS TO MEET HERE Forty Overland and Willys- Knight Dealers To Be -Guests Here Forty Overland and Willys-Knight dealers of North Dakota and Eastern Montana will atend’a big get-together meeting at the Lahr Motor. Sales Company, here tomorrow. All the dealers receive their Overland and WillysKnight cars through the Lahr company. C. M. Le Reux, of Minneapolis, faction division manager, will be here. The day will be spent in the Lair plant, with inspection, sales talks and general business discuss‘ons. There will be a dinner at the Grand Pacific hotel in the evening and the visitors will be guests at “It Pays To Smile.’ the May Robson play, at the ‘Audi- torium in the evening. COLE TO SEEK JUDGESHIP PLACE Senator McCumber through influence | with the United States treasury de- partment has had established a zone, ol- fice of the treasury in Bismarck simi- lar to the one at Grand Forks. Gun- der Olson, ‘collector of internal rev-| enue announced today that the office would open April 1. Details as to personnel of the force | and the territory jn the Bismarck dis-| di trict will be announced soon. This! will bring a permanent force to Bis-| marck and persons having business, with this office on the Missouri Slope district will be spared a long trip and! ON THE BONUS | Speaker Gillette Agrees For Pre- sentation of Measure on Thursday pte Peano <i Washington, March 21—The sol- ers bonus will ‘be taken up,iby the j‘house Thursday under suspension of |Tules under a plan agreed on today at a conference between Speaker Gillette and Chairman Campbell of the rules | committee, much expense. | i Grand Forks has had an office of | means speaker, it was said, agreed to this character for some time. Some business men interested in getting an|_ Mr. Campbell said he would call a i ting of his committee tomorrow office here took the matter up with | Meet be Senator McCumber with successful WI Te fee me at which he will ask commit. ‘Washington, March 21.—Millions of dollars in income taxes collected by the government must be refunded, ac- cording to an interpretation by Inter- nal Revenue Collector Blair of the | recommit the measure to the ways and means committee. Those in, charge of the legislation could be obtained." supreme court decision in the case of | I$ U P if 0D AY a collector against the First Trust and / Savings bank, of Chicago, officials said | f 900 and $400,000 annually will be sav-| number. of civil cases occupied’ he ed to the farmers of Minnesota through {court this morning. exemption @f ppovisions of the income| ‘Frank Wood, member of the execu- salts. tee members, to yeport a Tule desigat- jing Thursday.as. suspension day with were ,confident that it would receive more than the two-thirds 'inajority. The today. ' | The supreme court held that income} fargo, March 21.—Hearing in the tax law ‘applying to co-operative a3s0-| tive committee of the National Non- ‘ciations marketing farm products, ac-| partisan league, set forth that the |a proviso that four hours debate on |rule will have to be agreed to by held and accumulated by a trustee for case of A. C. Townley, charged with cae to peanounceniene touay ¢Scandinavian-American bank was insol- ithe bill shall be provided. the majority of the rules committee the benefit of unborn or unascertained | connection with embezzlement of $3,- vent when it closed Qetaber, 1919, He | Under this procedure a two-thirds Supeeme Court Decision Neces- ana then will have to obtain a major- persons was not taxable. 090 from the Scandinavian-American made this statement in a suit filed ; majority would be necessary to pass vi h us sitates Many Refunds, Col- | ity vote in the house. Bank probably will not come up in against the bank as trustee for pur- | the. bill. No amendments would be permitted nor would it be possible to | Proponents of the bonus legislation lector Announces | were confident that both majorities SAVING IN MINNESOTA, Cass county district court’ until late ‘St. Paul, March 21.—Between $300,-| today. The case is set for today. A chasers of ninety thousand dollars of stock. J. A. Flow, “county tr treasurer, today —_ announced he would again seek the WEATHER REPORT. place. Mr. Flow has been a resident} For twenty-four hours ending at of Bismarck for many years, and is|noon March 21. serving his first term as county treas-) Temperature at TAM » 23 urer, Highest yesterday . » 33 ee Lowest yesterday . . 24 Town Criers Meeting. Lowest last night +. 22 (Members of the Town Criers club | Precipitation ...-... Trace «will meet tonight in room 705, McKen. , Highest wind velocity. 22-NW zie hotel. The meeting is expected to) Foreca Judge ‘A. T. Cole, of Fargo, judge of the Cass district court, has announc- ed he will be a candidate for nomina- tion as supreme judge. be one of much importance, as the! For North Dakota: Mostly cloudy committee on road signs will make its; and somewhat unsettled tonight and report, and other matters will be tak- | Wednesday; rising temperature tonight Newspapers of London - FORCES ARE ENTRENCHED Carters in Belfast Strike as Pro- test Against Lack of Pro- tection on Streets ‘London, March 21.—(By the A. P.)— The dangers of the situation in Ire- are emphasized by the morning news- papers, several of which take the view that little more will be needed to start actual civil war. Sniping by en- trenched forces on either side of the Ulster border has been going on for several days and yesterday machine guns were reported as having been brought into action. ANOTHER KILLED Belfast, March 21.—(By the A. P.)— James Magee was shot by gunmen last night. Military forces meta fusilade of revolver shots under cover of which the assailants escaped. Magee died. The carters failed to report for work today in protest against the lack of protection from snipers, Traffic re- gembled Sunda MacFADDEN HITS N. P, LEAGUE Milwaukee, March 21.—Disorganiza- tion of the financial and banking struc- ture of the state resulted from Non- partisan league rule in North Dakota, W. C MacFadden, of Fargo, secretary of that state's bankers association told the annual convention of the cen- tral states bankers association here last night. He spoke on the recall. “We hope the time will come when we who live in North Dakota will not be expected to talk on the Nonparti- Ba veneue at every convention,” he said. STRIKE ORDER GOES OUT TODAY STRIKE (E CALL OUT A Indianapolis, March = 21.—A formal call for a strike of both anthracite and bituminous coal miners on April 1 was. sent out today from the headquarters here of the United Mine Workers of America. STILL HOPE FOR PEACE Washington, March 21.—The government was stated at the White House today as not having entirely abandoned its attempt to bring bituminous and anthra- elte operators together In a con- ference designed to avert a strike in these fields April 1. It was added that no steps have been taken or results attempted that would justify a public announce- ment. McHarg Bobs Up. Ormsby McHarg after a long so-| | journ in New York following services | under the Roosevelt and Taft adminis- | ‘trations has come back to North! Da- kota and evidently will start to play the political game again. It will be vemembered that he was. active in| getting colored delegations to Chica- | |-60 .ad his name was more or less | ‘prominent in the Ballinger episode. t Mr. MeHarg in his eagerness to dis- | count Judge Christianson as a ¢candi- date declares that Gronna and Me-|} force judges into the senatorial race. | On this point he writes: Calls It Propaganda “McCumber and Gronna are trying | oldfashioned political methods to dom-} inate the senatorial situation. \ They! want to inject into the situation as much confusion as they possibly can. They are the men who are encourag- ing judges of the courts of the state tc become candidates for the senate. clearly propaganda in their behalf. “No unprejuced student of consti- tutional law, particularly one familiar with the arguments in the constitu- tional convention, can, read Section 119 of the state constitution and ar- rive at a conclusion other than that judges of the supreme and district the office of United States senator, in fact for any office other than judi- celal. “In’ this cotinection some lawyers! argue that the houses of congress are the sole judges of the qualifications o£ their members, as well as the means} or method of their election. This pre- mise may be accepted if the people of the state from which-the man presents himself have not seen fit to place some, to them, necessary and funda- mental limitations on his qualifica- tions. So long as the limitations are} general and are not directed solely to their qualifications for ‘federal office the legislature of the state may define the qualifications its citizens must possess in order to represent it. Is it} an act of unwisdom to prescribe that | the courts of this state shall be free} from political strife and intrigue? Cer-| tainly not. “The constitution of this state as evidenced by Section 119 is not pecu- liar or exceptional and is not ad- dressed to federal offices alone. It applies to all offices other’ than .ju- dicial to which the judge during his term of office may aspire. He cannot be a candidate for governor. He may, however, be appointed by the presi- dent of the United States to any office ag neither the legislative assembly nor the voters of the state are re- quired to express their will in order to make the appointment effective. Wisdom of Provision, “It is a bold person who would ex- press doubt as to the wisdom of this provision of the constitution, It ar- ticulates a wholesome principle, a great political Axiom. The motive, | which is finally crystalized in the ax- iom, is as pure as the wisdom which we ascribe to the framers of our fund- amental law. It is made entirely clear that the courts of the state shall not be made stepping stones for politically ambitious men. Section 119 of the state constitution reads as follows: “Section 119. No judge of the | supreme or district courts shall be elected or appointed to any other than a judicial office or be eligible thereto during the term for which he was elected or appointed such judge. All votes or appointments for either of them for y tive office except that of j the supreme court, or district court, given by the legislative as- Juniper berry takes two years to en up. dand east portion’ Wednesday. ripent. (Continued on Page 4) Cumber are behind the movement to |, | additions, $9,088.08; furniture and fix- , tures, $1,027.27. Net loss operation and depreciation, $80,25: STATE RECORDS and Elevator association, Fargo | office—Expenses, 19,273.31 Grand Forks project—Total assets, CHA NGED SAYS §1.02661387, Net expenses, $87, ry j h es, in the Fargo office and $87,667.36 on , - j the Grand Forks project. In the case ‘First Records of Mill and Eleva-| of the iGrand Forks mill the auditors ants show the expense by the difference 1:; tor Association Are Now ‘the labilities and thé assets of “ihe Missing ; mill now in course of construction and the Drake mill; expense of $19,273.31 The cost of the mill and elevator program as shown in the report is rep- resented in the deficit of $80,253.50 in account for the detailed expense in a | separate compilation The Drake mill has never*made a OTHERS SUBSTITUTED? pont excont in ‘the year 1919, accord Sete ing to the fr that “The pr Many Unusual Trai is Are Outlined in Report on Office December 31, mitted by A. to J. A. McGovern increasing the inventories. aiihat Defic They represeiits t interes! $5,000 we (aay Orig records of the Mill e net mise ly records that now aré availa M1 value the opera Dee, 31, 191 Dec. 31, 1920, loss. Dec. 3, 1921, loss. Dec. 31, 92, ‘plant and equip- ment. ‘depreciation in value. tiy were written up by the se ita if Company later, “ audit report of the assovia by Bishop, Brissman and Company for the present Industrial Commission, {made public today. The original records were denied to, 5,000.03 This judicial candidacy business is| courts of the state are ineligible for! auditors of the same concern when| employed by the state board of aud- litors previous to the legislative ses- sion last year. The audit company’s information of the missing records is contained in’ the report ag follows: | “During the previous examination, | |December, 1920, we called at the Fargo | office for the purpose of examining! their records and were told by Sadie! Dodd, J. A. McGovern’s secretary,! that Mr. McGovern was absent from the city at the time and that the of-|! fice records had een turned over to the Equitable Audit Company. We ;next inquired of Mr. Darling, repre-| sentative of the Equitable Audit Co., und were advised that part of the rec- {ords were in a suit case of his, locked | tup, in Fargo. t | “Mr. Leuhrs informed us that in July, 1919, he purchased a Journal, {Cash Book and Ledger, and that the transactions of the office were en- tered therein by him during his ser-| vice,‘and that the Journal and Ledger} on file in the office of the Industrial | Commission, were not the records in-| ; stalle? and maintained by him. The! | shown. eS Total loss . $80,253.50 The total amount of contracts madb or complete on the Grand Forks project, ig $2,288,188.92, of which $1,045,456.86 is delivered and $1,297,767.04 is uncom- | pleted. In addition to the $1,297,- 767.00 expense yet necessary to com- pletion of the mill there also is the exPeNse of trackage and adjustment of engineering and contracting costs, part of which is on a modified plus system, which may increase the cost of the | mil] considerably. ‘Because of the fact that accounts of the Mill and Elevator association, the Grand Forks project and the Drake mill were found to overlap in places it was difficult for the auditing com- panies to separate and allocate the ex- penditures of the various offices, it is The records of the three of- fices were found to be incorrect in | Some respects by the auditing company which was summarized and corrected these matters. Amount Tihus Far Spent. The construction account of the Grand Forks project shows a total of |Journal -~ file in the office of the /+g1,045,436.86 invested, either in install- Industrial Commission ig written up| ed items or in inventories on hand. in violet ink, and we were informed} The total cash advanced and interest by Mrs. Dodd was written up by the! of the Bank of North Dakota to the Equitable Audit Co. The original! fil] and Elevator association is shown records jnstalled in July, 1919, were; to be $1,062.076.22, of which amount not on file in the office of the Indus- | $142,691.02 is applicable to the Drake trial Commission.” (Continued on Page on Page: 7) KU KLUX KLAN FLOGS JUDGE, BUSINESS, MAN Records Altered The report then submits items pur- | chased from a Fargo supply ous In| July, 1919, showing record books w purchased, in confirmation of ‘the | above statements, and continues: “The 1919 invoice covers the records in- stalled by Mr. Leuhrs, and the invoice of Dec. 6, 1920 covers the records that were apparently written up by the Equitable Audit Co., and also the vio- let ink.” The charges of altered or destroyed cords of the Mill and Elevator As ation, made last winter during the slature, appears to have been sub- anti: y the Audit company in. x It is known that the Two Cases Are Reported of Ac- tivities of Masked Men In The South TPeaumont, Texas, March 21.—Judz: BE. Pelt, 63, for several years justice the peace at Sallor Lake, late night was spirited away from his h . by unmasked men. It was reported Jater that a man answering Judge Pelt’s description swung off a Gulf Coast train at midnight and that he had a coating of tar and feathers. Mrs. Pelt said that within the last week her husband had received letters signed “Ku Klux Klan,” warning him to leave the city. BEATEN BY MASKE! ceived some other reports and that the secretary has made some investiga- tion of the altering of records, which may lead to further action. Other unusual transactions in con- nection with the Fargo office that was maintained by the Mill and Elevator Association with J. A. McGovern as manager are shown. (Total salaries paid by the office amounted to $12,- 669.30, One employe drew 13 months salary in 12 months, two checks for $125 each | being issued and signed by J. A. Mc- D MEN. Govern for December, 1920. Traveling Dallas, Texas, 21—P. expenses were paid to Thomas Sander-| Etheriofe, manager o lumber son of 918 and J. H agen $49.64,| company, js at a hos; 1 & ireat- ‘ r to have been! ed for injuries rece 1 tonight when ten men ¢ red his home, | knocked down his som and took him Eight | into the country, where he was beaten. ems of travel expense were paid to| Charges of immoral conduct were (Continued on Page 7) | made against him by the masked men,