The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 8, 1922, Page 1

ny > The Weather ‘Probably Showers FORTIETH YEAR Shot, Denies Any Knowledge Of Extortion Plot KU KLUX WARNING GIVEN Bert Offley, of Murder, Is Ordered to Leave Community Beach. N. D.,:May 8.—Beach Was Acquitted BISMARCK, MARCK TRIBUNE | Last Edition NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, MAY 8, 1922 CANDIDATE ~FARMER NEAR BEACH : BLACKMAIL PLOT CAUSES SHERIFF TO TAKE ACTION ‘Henry Yunker, Farmer Who Is HARDING’ PLAN | OFU.S. BUDGET | President’s Commission Saves $1,600,000,000 Republican Administration Plan Succeeds Washington, MAKES SAVING Director Dawes Report Says DETAILS WORKINGS Director Explains Plan by Which ‘May 8.—Government; FORMAL PLEDGE “BY MEXICO IS DEMAND OF-U. 8. FEDERATION OF | ~ TS UNDER WAY © tls Stated Convention Opened Sunday in Patterson’s Hall With 100 Delegates Here 2 MAY NAME COMMISSION Appointment of International Commission Is Suggested As Way Out Washington, May 8.—The Anterican MASS MEETING HELD PRICE FIVE CENTS | SHOT BY SHERIFF ALLIES OFFER RUSS LOAN FOR RECONSTRUCTION; LLOYD GEORGE URGES ACCEPTANCE OF OFFER ACCUSED Foreign Minister Schanzer of Italy Joins in British Plea To Soviet WOULD UARD LOAN Offer Conditioned on Allies Be- ing Allowed to See Money Actually Invested AWAIT U, 8. ACTION. ‘Paris, May 8.—By the A. P.)— “France,” said a high official of the government today, “will not recognize the Soviet government was stirred today by two events, : t y exenditures for the fiscal year 1922] government ig*standing unalterably one a shooting which grew out ‘will show a reduction of more than|for the guarantee requested of the| Various Phases of Labor Move- unit thet Pe ee tinae and in , : of an’ attempted blackmail and $1,600,000,000 ‘from the actual expendi-|Obregon government and his advisers} ment Touched on ih Public this matter and it makes no dif- (> @n anonymous warning signed by “50 K. K. K.” ordering Bert Off- j iley to leave the county and state. Henry ‘Yunker,''a. farmer liv- ing near here, is ‘in’ the hospital tures for the preceding fiscal year,1921, Congress was informed today by Pres- ident Harding in transmitting the re- port of Director Dawes of the budget on economies, and savings in govern- mental business. ference what action the Genoa have given on definite assurance that conference may take” the guarantees would be given in or- der to take formal recognition — of RTE their government possible. The second day of the convention of Many intimations that the Mexican] the State Federation of Labor got un ' Meeting at Auditorium HARVEY L. STEGNER. ‘Bismarck is the home of the candi- dates, Genoa, May 8 (By the A. P.)—Prime ij |Minister Lloyd George of Great Bri- here following his shooting by Sheriff Stockwell Saturday night. T. B. Hudson, president of the Farmers and Merchants Bank, had re- ceived two letters demanding money. The second was received Saturday, be- ing mailed on the railroad train. It demanded the banker place $2,000 in. cash in a tin’can at a fence post two miles from’ town. Shegif Waits in Bushes Sheriff Stockwell was notified, He and his son went to the place and hid in the darkness, A man drove up in an automobile, got out and looked around. From his hiding place in a clump of Russian thistles the sheriff could see the shoulders and head of the man. The sheriff called to him to throw up his hands. The man made a motion which the sheriff says caused him to think he was reaching for ‘a gun. The sheriff shot the man through the shoulder. The man shouted for help. Hg prov- ed to be Henry Yunker, a farmer liv- ing in the’ neighborhood. He denie, any,knowledge of the alleged black- mailing. scheme. He said that he had turned his horses out in that section and was fixing a wire fence to keep them from straying. He had not put this horses ‘out that night until he could fix the fence, he said. Offley Gets Warning The circumstances of/the Offley af- fair follow:..- ee et ‘Bert Offley, who was acquitted of murder. in the famous Bowen murder trial which stirred the entire western part. of the ‘state, received a letter signed “50 K, K. K.’”” ordering him to Jeave the county and state within thir- ty days and threatening dire Gonse- quences if he did not. Offley was a! constable when a party went to the Bowen home and although he was not the man who fired the shot which kill- ed Bowen, according to witnesses, he was the ifrst tried of several ‘accused of the crime. ~ Offley lives in Bull Run township about 20 miles south of Beach. He does not expect to leave. WHEAT AGREAGE IS INCREASED Stark County Farmers Increase fl ‘Slope county. Here he continued ‘With most of the state officials here is contributing several other candi- dates to the Republican and Demo- cratic primaries. The latest to announce himself is ‘Harvey Stegner, Bismarck insurance man whose announcement is be'ng commented on generally. Mr. Steg- ner takes the Fargo Forum slogan, “Turn the key to.the Bank of North Dakota,” as on? point in his plat- form; charge of Twin C‘ty financial domination as another, assails both the i, V. A. and the league as having socialistic platforms, says he is for a j constitutional convention against state socialism and one-party rule. | Harvey L. Stegner, was born on a ‘farm in western Minnesota, His edu- cation was had in the begintjng in ‘the public schools of that state and \the completion in the University at Valparaiso, Ind. ° f In 1906, Mr. Stegner adopted North Dakota as his future state, locating on a homestead in the southern part of the then Billings county—now to farm ‘successfully until 1913, when he entered **» business of life insur- ance, with offices in New England, N. D. Later, in 1916, he moved to Bis- marck, in the position of General Agent of the Equitable Life Insurance Company of Iowa. é PROTECTION OF Director Dawes estimated that gov- candidates for re-election the city also | ernment expenditures for the current fiscal year which were given) in tho December budget estimates as $3,- 967,922,366 will bo at least $45,550,336 less, or approx'mately $3,922,372,030. As compared With 1921, he contin- ued, there has been a reduction of $907,500,000 in expenditures for the operation of the routine business of the -government subject generally to jexecutive control. Of this sum he at- tributed $250,900,000 to the imposition of the executive plan and pressyre on the routine business organization of the governm2nt under the new system inaugurated by the Budget System. Report of Director, The report of ‘Director Dawes was submitted to the House Appropriations committee by the president in con- nection with a pending resolution by Representative Byrns, Democrat, Ten- nessee asking the president to in- form th2 house in what ways direct savings of $32,000,000 and indirect sav- ings of $104,000,000, previously an- nounced by -the president as ac- complished by the Budget Bureau dur- ing its first six months of operation, {had been made, Director Dawes, presented in detail with accompanying tables and state- ments the’ comparative expenditures {for the past and present fiscal years divided into items rapregonting those which were charged \to executive con- trol and others su ‘Stniflar accounts which were consider- ed‘at apart from the subject of routine government expenditure, He also sub- mitted exhaustive reports of the gov- ernment savings accomplished through inter-departmental tranfers of surplus as public.debt-and | authorities might be favorably dis-| ger way here today with about 100 posed toward the American requests have reathed the state department delegates and Jabor men present from but officials here will not be satisfied | Other cities in the state. The conven- with anything less than a formal| tion continues through -tomorrow. pledge by the Obregon government it-| Welcome to the city was given by self, it was said at the state depart-|Mayor A. P, Lenhart when the con- ment today. Consequently the situa-| vention opened its sessions Sunday tion remains just where it was when| morning in Patterson hall. Response the terms of recognition were submii-| vas made on behalf of the federation ted to Mexico City in June, 1921. and there were informal talks. Lee Camegeopes Brundage, of Minot, president of the MAY NAME COMMISSION federation, presided. Appointment of an international] Meetings were held yesterday after- commission to consider all the issues|roon and evening and sessions will involved in the recognition of the Ob-|be held today and tomorrow. Meet- vegon government in Mexico has been| ings are open to the public, it is an- suggested in'some official quarters as] aounced. : 1 solution of continued failure of the] A mass meeting was held in the city United States government and Mexico] Auditorium last night, to which the City authorities. to agree on a recog-| public was invited. Several hundred nition program. people were present. President Brund- _Although the United States still in-| age, introducing the speakers, thank- sists that a positive guarantee against| 2d the city commission for use of the confiscatory ‘provisions of the Mexi-| Auditorjum and the people of Bis- can constitution of 1917 must precede| narck for courtesies extended. recognition it was intimated that a committee to continue negotiations Mass Meeting Held Stephen Ely, president of the Mon- would be agreed to here if it were sug- ‘ ego | ana Federation of Labor, B. G, Hall, allege has confessed to the slaying of John T, Brunen circus man at Riv- erside IN. J. EXTENSION OF C, B. SOCIETY. 18 OUTLINED Field Secretary for Three States Will be Employed for Organization OFFICERS ARE CHOSEN Mrs. W. E. Butler, Re-leected gested formally by General Ob n, ian, pbrese ,|2£ the Minnesota federation and Paul Smith, of Illinois, representing Pre- FIRE CAUSES sjdent Gompers of the American Fed- $1,200 LOSS boar poral aration of Labor, were the speakers. Mr. Ely spoke of the movement in Early Morning Blaze, Damages McElvain Home zeneral and of the nation-wide mine 3trike Now in progress in particular. He declared the mine strike was -jus- sified because the, mine owners want- 2d the union to surrender a ‘fair’ wage and asserted that the wage scale the minerg asked was declared by impar- tial investigators to be such that the income would be sufficient to pro- Fire which broke out-at 3 o'clock | perly maintain a family of five. He supplies and other economy methods put into effect by the budget bureau, POLICE ASKED : all the many articles and commodities this morning caused damage estimat- ed at $1,200 to theshome of 'E. A, Mc- | Zlvain, 601 Fifteenth street. The fire originated from a kerogene oi] heater, the firemen report2d. said the miners were accused of seek- ing to preserve an jnflated war scale, but asserted that the mine wage scale ‘signed in 1919 prevailed during 1920 when prices rose to the peak point War Veteran Said Uetectives Tried to Railroad Him ’ For Love Affair ‘Newark, N, J. May 8—A request that the ‘British embassy send an agent to escort him from the station tomorrow so that he would not be molested has been made by Alexander B®. Robertson, British war veteran, who planned to go to ‘Washington to press his charges that private detec- tives attempted to railroad him out of the country because of his efforts to win the hapd of Miss Mary Cul- bertson, daughter of Senator Charles Amount, This Season !4 Culbetrson, of Texas. Dickinson, N. D., May 8—Despite tho late season which Slope farmers have experienced this year the wheat acreage in Stark county will (be great- ef than that of any other scason for tl past several years, according to farmers, bankers and other business mga bib are in cl ich with the sitdaliba) through: thiif jactivitios in financing the planting of the present crop, says the Dickinson Press, The general opinion is that every farmer has stretched ‘his resources to the utmost in his endeavor to stage a comeback and is staking all ‘is hopes on favorable crop weather. Only one criticism has been offered and that is the expressed fear that be- cause of the late season the crop has been hurriedly planted wtihout proper preparation of the soil. Virtually all seeding in the county has been finished. With the excep- tion of late smal] gsain and forage crops, planting is at an end and much of the wheat is already up. Reports from different sections of the county tend to show that more corn and other fed crops will be plant- ed than ever before. High winds which prevailed during the past week have Deen anything but beneficial to the crops. These were checked, however, by a heavy shower Thursday night in which .17 of an inch of rain fell. « WILSON MAKES THIRD ATTACK ON SEN. REED St. Louls, May 8, (By the A. P.) —Reierring to United States Sen- ator James A. Reed as a “mar- plot” former President Wilson in a letter to Governor L. V. Stephens asked the defeat of Missouri’s senior senator to “redeem the reputation” of the Democratic par- ty. "ht was Mr, Wilson’s third letter on the race for the Democraite nomination for United States Senator between Mr. Reed and Breckenridge Long, former third assistant secretary of state In the Wilson administration, Robertson is. seeking to, have the embassy assist him in obtaining the arrest of John Rhuland and .T. Ander- son on charges of impersonating fed- eral officers. ‘He already has caused the arrest of John His, another de+ tective, on a charge of kianapping. The friendship between Robertson and Miss Culbertson was said; to have started. at the University of Texas three months ago when they were both students there. e DENIAL IS MADE. New York, May 8.—Denial that at- tempts were made to drive Alexander Robertson out of the country because ‘of a love affair with a daughter of Senator Culbertson was made by the Burns detective agzncy which was re- tained to gather information about him. ‘Robertson’s own movements have been of his own accord, the head of the agency said. The head said that charges that two detectives had impersonated federal officers were all bunk and that John Ellis was not with the bureau. SENATOR REFUSES INTERVIEW. Washington, Mav 8—Sdhator Cul- bertson, Texas, today refused to see newspaper men to discuss charges that private detectives had sought to get Robertson out of the country. GUARD PASSES 4,000 MARK The North Dakota National Guar hag passed the 1.000 mark in its Te- cruiting campaign in the state, it is announced by the Adjutant-General’s office. There are now 1,006 men and 37 offjcers listed on the guard roster. The latest detachment to be approved after both state and federal inspection is the medical detachment, of Edgeley, Major Lee B. Green, commanding. Dr, the detachment. a mjmeographed news sheet called “The Bulletin” has been established py Adjutant-General G. A. Fraser and Cecil 0, Ferguson is dental officer of To stjmulate ‘interest in the guard utilized by the government together with the amount of saving realized in each case. Details Savings. The budget director further reported that the savings reserve against cur- rent appropriations of '$112,000,000 set un by the departments and establish- ments in August, 1921, in response to executive request, had been increased, notwithstanding reappropriations by Congress of more than $7,000,000 of this reserve for other purposes, to the approximate sum of $136,009,000. Only such part of these reductions as are real savings, and not postponed expen- ditures were included fn the goneral estimate of savings he added. As a still greater reduction, Direc- tor Dawes declared that the present estimatcl expenditures for 1922 for the operation of the routine business of the government, after eliminating expenditures of $7,500,000 authorized by Congress after the submission of tion of the United States at the Bra- zilian centennial exposit‘on, seed leans, and fulfillment of the theaty with Columbia, as compared with the December budget estimates, showed an excess of only $25,767,457, on a to- tal of $1,758,375.672 or a discrepancy of only about 11-2 per cent. LIOUOR SEARCH IS MADE HERE still Found in Operation in One Place, Report of Officers A still-was found Saturday night in \ search of the home of Lawrence 3chneider, 500 Fourteenth street, the search being made by State’s Attor- ney McCurdy, F. L. Watkins and feder- al officers. It was said by Mr. Wat- kins that a complete still in opera- tion was found, three quartg of moon- shine, 50 gallons of wheat mash and a pint of whiskey. A previous search, it was reported, resulted in finding a still at Rapheal Mossbrucker’s home, the still being in operation. Three gallons of moort shine and 30 gallons of wheat mash .were found. ‘Charles Walters’ plage was searched Friday night, part of a'still and a,bot- tle containing a.gallon of moonshine was found ina bed, This was at Elev- enth and Thayer. ‘Several other places were searched for liquor but none was found. ~ BANK STATEMENT Washington, May 8—The the budget providing for representa- |' CALL IS ISSUED comp- S A troller of the currency today issued| to a national meeting of Lutheran stu- That muck of the value of a firel}and the wages were inadequate to truck is in getting to the fire quickly } meet the Hee a the cost of living. was shown by this run, firemen siy.| Mr, Hall; who said he made cigars The run was made in a very few min-lin Bismarck in 1889, spoke of the utes with the now truck and chemical | ynion Jabel and its importance to the only used in extinguishing she fire. trade unionists, and Mr. Smith spoke Had horses been used the house prob- | ofthe labor movement from the aspect any would have burned down, firemen | of the American Federation. Mr. Ely ., denounced the “American plan” of aun interior of the house was gut-| nen shop operation and declared that g since the close of the war there had ris been a gigantic war waged upon the COUNTY SEAT trade unions, Yesterday afternoon Rjchard Jones, of Kansas. City, representing the United States employmenft service, Explaing Compensation Law spoke of the ‘work of the service, J. A. Kitchen, ex-officio of the Workmen's Compensation Commission, talked briefly on the work of the bureau and was followed by S. S. McDonald, who went into detail as to the operations ID Mee. of the ‘bureau. Mr. McDonald asserted Selfridge, N. 'D., May 8.—Solen and] the compensation act was much ‘mis- Selfridge will endeavor to win the] understood. He referred to the com- seat of Sioux county away from Fort ‘pensation act of the province of On- Yates at the coming primary elections.| tario, Canada. He said it was a foot- Selfridge thas continuously contested | yall of politics there for several years the right of Fort Yates to the county} put now is accepted by all parties. seat which was originally designated} Mr, McDonald declared that the by Governor Hanna's appointees a8} majority of employers are not against commissioners when the district was} the law, He sajd that during his ser- organized, .. | Vice as member of the bureau some of Recently passed statutes provide) the biggest employers. in the _ state that a county seat contender must| had become his very good friends, and receive petitions from five-eighths of|that some of them had assisted the the number of voters who cast ballots] bureau materially in carrying out the at the last preceding general election.| law. He said there ig a compeNsation The situation provides a race between (Continued on Page 8) 00, HEAD DIES tures needed, the law itself precluding Atlantic City, N. J., May 8—Ar- the possibility of a three-cornered rangements were made today to take fight on a removal question. a Selfridge has named a campaign the body of John H. Patterson, found- er and chairman of the board of di- Solen and Selfridge After Scalp Of Ft. Yates committee composed of B. L. Smes- tad, J. A. Nagel, Fred Rott, W. O. Ord- way and A, E. Spencer. HAD $2,000,000 rectors of the National Cash Register ' NCE Company, to his home at+ Dayton, Ohio, for interment. Mr. Patterson’s valet was his only companion when the man tactlree was stricken with New York, Mav 8.—It has become|heart disease on a train hound for nee tat the late Henry P. Davison| this city in search of health, He dicd carried $2,000,000 in life insurance.| yesterday. The policies are spread over some 20 companies. . It was estimated that the premium on the insurance amounted to about|&! 80,000 annually. . MUUS TO REPRESENT “U” Grand Forks, N. D., May 8.—Jal- mar Muus of White, Earth, N. D., a member of the senior class, was elect- ed a ta meeting of the Lutheran stu- dents of the University of North Da- kota this week as their representative Chicago, May 8—Ring leaders in a riot in the Cook county fail last night were taken from their cells early today and whipped by Warden Wesley Westbrook and 30 . guards before the disturbance was President and Miss Beach Re-elected Secretary Plans for extension of the work of the inter-denominational 4 Protestant Christian Endeavor Society evolved trom the state convention which end- ed here last njght, it was announced today by state officers. It is planned to employ'a secretary to have Charge of exteNsion of work in the states of South Dakota, Montana and North Dakota, ‘Rev. E. P. Gates, of Boston, Mass., general secretary, informed the state officers he would assign a field man for this ‘work. Mrs. W. E. Butler, of Bismarck, was re-elected president of the state s0- ciety for the ensuing year, and Dick- Charles M. | Poweil who detectives | {tain and’ Foreign Minister Schanzer of Italy addressed today a strong ap- peal to the Russian representatives at the conference here urging them to jaccept the allied memorandum in its jmain points and promising Russia an ; international loan. This was with the understanding that the leading countries would thus provide funds for the reconstruction of Russia. The allies would claim the right to make sure, however, that the money loaned was actually invested in the work of reconstruction. It was asserted that although ‘the proposed loan would amount to 300,- 000,000 gold frances it has been declared that the ‘Russians were’ asking for three billion g-'* rubles or 25 times as much ag the allied offer. The Russian delegation had previ- ously ‘issued a statement denouncing ‘the efforts it alleges France and Bel- gium ‘ad made to wreck the confer- ence. The statement called attention that these powers were predicting that Russia’s refusal to accept the memorandum would break up the con- ference when they had not themgelv’s signed the memorandum. M. Tchitcherin, it was learned, had received instructions from Premier Lenine which are reported to embody an emphatic order Not to accept clause one of the allied memorandum which forbids Bolshevistic, propaganda abroad, virtually restricts. Russia to her. boundaries and asks Russian neu- trality between the Turks and the Greeks, 70,000 PEOPLE HOMELESS ARTER inson was voted the next state con- vention. Other officers chosen are: Vice-president, Clarence Johnson, Jamestown; secretary, Miss Henrika Beach, Bismarck (re-elected); treas- urer, ‘Reuben Teichman, LaMoure; junior superintendent, Miss Margaret Bradt, Fargo; intermediate superin- tendent, Ethel Hauser, Jamestown; Quiet Hour and Tenth \Legion super- intendent, M, W. Smeltzer, Beach; nlissionary superintendent, Dorothy Brenton, Wilton. i SOUTHERN FLOOD Red Cross Looking After Most Of Refugees Held in Camps In Lousiana New Orleans, May 8 (By the A. P.) —Approxjmately 70,000 men, women and children are homeless in Missis- sippi and ‘Lousiana as a result of the ‘The convention here exceeded tie) Mississippj floods and of this number expectations of the officers. Although } 40,000 are being fed, shéltered and the rajn kept a number of persons} clothed by the Red, Cross aNd other away who intended to motor to B'3-| organizations, it was officially an- a call for the condition of alll Nation-| dents at Toledo, Ohio, May 9-13. Mr. al Banks at the close of business Fri-|Muus expects to leave for Toledo next will be published regularly. day, May 5. Sunday. stopped. The riot started because of an order limiting the prisoners’ rights to receive visitors to once marck the ‘attendarlce was larger than was expected. Young people from all parts of the state were pres- ent. The meetings were enthusiastic and helpful. The Christian Endeavor Society had languished in North Da- kota until Mrs. W. E. Butler took charge ag state president. Under her guidance the organization has shown new vitality and the conventjon rec- ognized her work by choosing her again for the place. Rev. E, P. Gates spoke Sunday morning at the First Presbyterian church to an audjence which fil'ed every seat in the church. Rev. C. H Hetzler, field secretary for West Virginia, spoke in the evening to a large audience, The afternoon mee%- ing also was well attended. Thanks Those Who! Aid. Mrs. Butler made the following re- port for the resolutions committee last night: “I did not care for this report be- cause of the nice things that they might have said of us here in Bis- marck but I did not want to thank the people and the interests that made it possible for us to to da what we did for the Christian Endeavor of North Dakota. First, I thank the convention committee that helped me so loyally during all the work, “Then I want to thank the citizens of Bismarck for opening up their homes for us to entertain these peo- ple and I thank the many kind friends that helped us to finance this conven- tion. “I thank the business houses and hotels for thoir courtesy in entertain- ing and for decorating so splendidly (Continued on Page 8) ING LEADERS IN RIOT IN CHICAGO JAIL ARE WHIPPED AS PUNISHMENT Instead of twice a week. The riot started on the fourth tier. Flaming blankets set afire by prisoners were dropped to the ground floor, Dense smoke almost suffocated many. With steel strips torn from the bunks the prisoners beat, upon the bars of their cells, the bedlam being heard ior blocks, nounced today. No''provisions have been made to aid the 30,000 persons. who have not reached the refugee camp, the statement said. FOUNTAIN PENS ARE RETURNED Harris and Woodmansee Get About Half of Number Stolen ‘About half of the fountain pens and pencils stolen a few we2ks ago from the store of Harris and Woodmansee are back in the case today. The articles were received by parcel post through the Bismarck postoffice, they being mailed in a candy box also taken when the store was entered. The pens and pencils stolen were val- ded at about $500. Four dozen foun- tains pens and three dozen pencils were returned. DENY FAILURE TO AID LANGER Frjends of Governor Nestos deny assertions made by friends of William Langer to the effect that the Govern- or did not aid the Langer campaign after Langer had ‘been nominated at Minot. They pointed out that although he was tied up in court term3 at Minot as state’s attorney Mr. Nestos spoke in the campaign and did not leave for Norway until August 5, after the primary. Langer’s friends.reiterate, however, phat Nestos gave his candidacy No real ald, PRIEST ORGANIZES COMPANY. Lankin, N. D., May 8.—Father Miko- lasek of Lankin, has oranized the Com. fort Manufacturing company, with a capita] stock of $100,000. The com- pany will manufacture automobile ac- cessories on which Father Mikolasek has obtained patents. Oldest operated mine in the world ig said to be in north Sweden.