The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 3, 1922, Page 1

ky The Weather’: FAIR HE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ' Last Edition FORTY-NINTH YEAR BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1922 _ PRICE FIVE CE. BRITISH FORCES MOVE INTO ERIN IMPOSITION OF NEW TAXES DOES NOT LOWER RATE State Tax. Levies Boosted in Last Five Years as Well as New Taxes Added MORE INDIRECT TAXES 1 Nearly One-Third of State Rev- enue Shown Derived in an Indirect Manner Imposition of new taxes within the last several years,.as well as increase in the amount of the state tax levies, has been responsible for the great in- crease in the amount of taxes paid in North Dakota, according to a table showing the tax history of North Da- Kota, prepared by Lyman A, Baker, of the state tax commissioner's office, the state now derives one-third of its revenues, exclusive of the motor! vehicle tax, from sources outside of the regular “state levy, it is shown. The imposition of new taxes, while! serving to lessen the emphasis of the state tax bill, has brought the totals to a new high figure. The state has paid $14,338,549 in state taxes between 1917 and 1921, inclusive, it is shown in the table a companion to figures recently publish- ed showing the trend of the tax levies for the various periods since state- hood. The total amount paid between 1890 to 1917, inclusive was $23,028,247. The table shows that almost half as much, actual tax was paid for the last five years as for the 26 years previous to 1917. Among the new taxes listed are the| inheritance tax, first provided for in| 1909; the incorporation tax, in 1912, replaced by the capital stock tax in 1918; the ofl tax of 1919; the money and credits tax of 1919, the income tax of 1920, the earnings tax on car com- panies and the hail indemnity tax. The motor vehicles tax is not included in the totals. An insurance tax has been} collected since statehood, as well as} the general state levy. Although the new taxes have been levied the total general state levy in creased from $4,557,083 in 1916 to its highest’ point ‘in 1920, ‘when the total collected was $3,130,477. The insurance tax has increased yearly until it ylelded $340,000 in 1921; the inheritance tax yielded $99,341 in the same year, the capital stock tax $66,145; the ofl tax $174,951, expenses of administration not being deducted from this total; the moneys and cred- its tax, $12,218; the income tax, $437,- 750; the earnings tax on car com: panies, $4,877, and the hail indemnity | tax, $301,246. The state levy for the saMe year yielded $2,281,998. ‘clubs of the state were represented. i e ‘The most bereaved man in the world tdday is William F. Buzby, Loses Wife and Three Daughters millionaire Philadelphia of! man, whose wife, Edith (right) temporarily crazed, slew herself and her three children, Mary, 5 (above), Edwina, 9 (center) and Constance,‘11, by turning on a Gas jet in the Buzby summer home at Atlantic City. 1200 SHRINERS ENTERTAINED — IN GATE CITY | 1 | Summer Ceremonial. Session of The El Zagal Shrine Was Held Yesterday INITIATED A BIG CLASS ea: if Fargo June 3.—About 1,200 Bhrincrs | of North Dakota and members of their families were estimated here for the summery ceremonial session of the El Zagal Shrine. Thirteen Shrine BINDER MUSIC _IS TUNED IN deri Okla., June: 3.—The music of ders is now being heard in the wheat fields in south- western counties of Oklahoma. MADR CITIZENS IN COURT HERE Judge Nuessle of District Court! Conducts Naturalization i Hearing 'partisan League. FRAZIER TALKS STATE ISSUES OPENING FIGHT Former Governor Makes Attack On Grand Jury Session Conducted in: Fargo ' TALKS OF INTIMIDATION Says That If He Is Elected Sen- ator He Wi!l Join Farm Bloc; Defends Himself ‘Wilton, N. D., June 3.—(By the As- sociated Press)—Speaking at a large farmers picnic near Wing yesterday j afternoon and here last night, form- er governor Lynn J. Frazier com- menced his campaign for the Repub- jlican nomination for United States Senator in the North Dakota prim- aries, June 28th next. jing the present incumbent, Porter J. McCumber: and is making the race with the endorsement of the Non- First of all Mr. Frazjer declared that he would ally himself with the work with the farm bloc in the sen- ate if elected, and reminded his hear- ers that all. of the interests of North Dakota, excepting mining, were agri- cultural. He then recounted the history of the league in North Dakota and the opposition it had met with and warned his auditors that it was not'a one day fight or a one hour fight in which they were engaged, but “that they must enlist for the duration of the war, and that that war would last as long as the present men and wo- men were alive and as long as the lit- tle children now in the audience were alive.” For such a length of time would the war against the common people continue, he declared. Upholding his record as governor and. the league program under his administration, Mr. Frazier presented the reduced rates on farm loans due to the farm loan department of the Bank of North Dakota, but charged that under the present administration few loans were being made and that up in he Red. River valley interest charges had jumped to ten per cent and that thefarmers were not able to get much money at tat rate. He He is oppos- |i Chicago, June 3 (By the A. P.) —Lieut. W. F. Reed, naval balloon pilet, whose bag is the only one unaccounted for in the national race which started at Milwaukee Wednesday, either is lost in the wilds of Canada or has met with some serious accident in the opin- ion of government weather bu- reau_ officials and aviation au- thorities here. ,, These officials explained that it is impossible for the naval bal- loon to be in the air now but whether it was brought down safely is not known. Some fear is expressed for the safety of the \ FARMERS’ CO-OP SALES BILLION BY ROY GIBBONS Chicago, June 38.—One billion dol- lars! That’s tho, amount of grain, live- stock and farm produce the Ameri- can Farm Bureau Fed- eration expects farmers will market through co- operative selling agen- cies in 1922, says J. R. Howard, its president. And the federation won’t have to make much of a leap over its 1921 figure to achieve mthis 1922 aim. For in 1921 fully $800,000,000 worth of farm produce HOWARD was sold cooperatively. “The cureall for every agricul- tural problem lies in the farmer help- ing himself,” Howard says. “We're seeking to market farm produce through the f4rmers’ own farm-controlled dairies, granaries, livestock and fruit exchanges, wool pools and other non-self-seeking agencies. “And now every farmer js pulling with us toward this profit-sharing goal.” Membership petitions are deluging enrollment clerks in Howard's office here. Delegations constantly are streaming ‘in from all parts of the country for advice. Agencics and committees through which the federation is working out its cooperative plans are: Grain committee operating the U. S. Grain. Growers, Inc., with 50,000 also presented thc .benefits .to the people of the state in the Workmen's Compensaion Bureau and the Hail In- surance Department and the progres: ; sive laws placed upon the statute | books by the League Legislature. | Refers to Grand Jury In discussing state affairs he charged that the recall was instituted aga‘nst the members of the Industrial (Continued on Page 3) i —_—_—__——_—__ i RACE RIOT IS members who will market coopera- tively 125,000000 bushels of wheat. FEAR NAVAL BALLOONIST IN ONLY BALLOON MISSING IS IN TROUBLE pilot and his aids, Chief Rigger Kent Mullenax, for they did not carry as extensive equipment as some of the other entries. The naval bag was believed to be one of the five balloons’sighted over the Lake Erie region 'Thurs- day. BALLOON REPORTED SIGHTED Erie, Pa., June 3.—A balloon carrying a bright light and flying several hundred feet above the waters of Lake Erie passed over the lake several miles off shore late last night, according to per- sons who observed it. FORMALDEMAND FOR RATE GUTS MADE BY FARGO Commercial Club of That City Starts Action With Interstate Commerce Commission Fargo, June 3.—Formal complaint attacking railroad rates into and out of Fargo as compared to Duluth and Twin City rates has been filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission by the Fargo Commercial club, it was announced today. Karl Knox Gartner, Washington at- torney, who has been retained by the Fargo organization, filed the com- plaint. The commission is expected within the next few days to set the case for hearing in Fargo within the next 90 days, according to N. E. Wil- liams, traffie expert of the Commer- cial Club. Fargo demands to be placed on the same basis as Moorhead, Minn. on rates to and from Minnesota points. Equalization of rates as far east as New England and west to Montana points are asked. SENATE WOULD | GIVEU.S ARMY 133,000 MEN Livestock committee _ operating tery he National ‘Livestock Producers’ House Limit Is Increased From Association. 115,000 in Appropriatio: Dairy committee. . Ppropriation Fruit committee operating the Bill Passed Federated Fruit Growers, a sales agency owned and controlled by Washington, June 8.—Carrying oa growers. appropriation of $3!41 000 the an- Wool committee which has co-or- dinated scattered wool pooling activ- ities into a practical organization that marketed 22,298,856 pounds last year. nual army appropriation Dill was passed late yesterday by the senate. [CROWN FORCES TAKE UP GUARD ON ULSTER LINE British Troops Gradually Re- placing Ulster Troops Along Danger Zone AIRPLANES ARE SENT British Forces Are Reinforced By Arrival of Men of Royal Air Forces Belfast, June 3 (By the A. P.) —tLarge parties of British troops, fully equipped left Inneskillen, county Fermanagh this afternoon for the border, They traveled in military and commandeered lor- ties. Many machine guns were taken along. The kitchen outfits accompanied the troops and they were evidently preparing for a long stay. Belfast, June 3.— (By the A. P.)—The British forces in Nor- thern Ireland were reinforced today by the arrival of 12 offi- cers and 97 men of the Royal Air Force. They were followed by 12 fighting planes. A battery of howitzers were also landed. Several ships bearing English and Scotch regiments also enter- ed the harbor today. The Crown Forces are grad- ually replacing Ulster specials, who have been on duty along the border. BREAK SAVED London, June 3.—With a touch of the dramatic similar to that which featured the signing of the treaty creating the Irish free state last De- cember, the negotiations between the British government and_representa- tives of the Irish provisional, regime tonight were saved from a possible break down by Arthur Griffith, presi- dent of the Dail Eireann, making a last minute answer to six questions put to him by the British cabinet yesterday. The questions the British govern- ment asked have not ,been made pub- lic, but it’is understood they concern the drafting of the Irish free. state constitution and its relation to. the treaty. They were submitted to Mr. Griffith and Collins, and after delib- erating on them it was decided that Mr. Collins should return to Dublin and take counsel with his colleagues. Later Mr. Griffith left the city for Ireland. It fixes the size’ of the army for the} | next year at an average of 12,630 of- Seven Burleigh county _ residents! ittee ficers and 133,000 men. RAIL STRIKE committee.’ Passag> of the bill, which was were admitted to citizenship in district; The celebration culminated in a fire- works display. Tobacco and cotton {9 AREHURT IN RAIL CRASH Investigation Is Begun Into Northwestern Wreck a wT Chicago, June 3.—Ninteen persons were injured, two seriously, last night when Chicago and Northwestern pas-| senger train No. 6 from Omaha to} Chicago, was derailed near Quarry, Towa, according to official reports re- ceived at the railroad offices here. The train, an all-steel one, was de-| railed at a crossover Switch and tipped | partly over on its side. The derail-| ment was said to have been caused py a bolt being removed from the heels of the switch point. A full investigation has been start- 100 INSURANCE AGENTS MEBT North Dakota Organization, Holds Pienic Today ‘Fargo, June 3.—About 100 insur-| ance agents of the state left in auto- mobiles this morning for Dunn’s re- sort, Lake Lizzie, near Pelican Rap-| ids, Minn. where they will hold their} annual convention and outing today; and tomorrow. | The whole fabric of national indus-| try is so dependent upon insurance, that it behooves the insurance men to! look on his profession as dignified and! responsible, said E. P. Dunning. i SUITOR, 50, SHOOTS to iast July 1, the date when the act GIRL AND SELF 27 ie testion meets with the Chicago, June 3.—Failure iu his ef- forts of months to gain the love of Miss Abel, 23, her 50-year-old suitor, james Dempsey, shot and seriously wounded the young woman on the ptreet today and, cornered by a crowd of pedestrians slashed his own throat so that he may die. PUBLIC DEBT CUT 51 MILLION Washington, June 3.—Reduction of $51,L.9,000 in the public debt during May has been announced by the treasury. ISTATE MAY NOT One of the features of entertainment was the saxaphone band of Lisbon, which was one of the many enlivening the session, ‘Such complicated pyrotechnics as aj picture of a camel, wearing overshoes to protect his feet from the heat of the sands, stepping across the desert were shown—fifty of them. ‘Pictures of President Harding, the flag, Mr. Lewis, a service button and the emblem of the shr'ne were among the fireworks as well as 2 “crazy wheel” and a kaleidoscope. The program for the day and even- ing was as follows: Morning: Registration, nobles and ladies, Masonic temple. Serenade by Shrine clubs. Auto tours of city. Vis- itation and inspection of El Zagal Park, | Afternoon; Twelve to one o'clock, basket picnic and flying circus, El Zagal Park. Two o'clock, pagent procession. } Three o’clock, ceremonial session, | first and third sections, Masonic tem: le, Plo. a to seven o'clock, traditional ban- | juet, Evening; Seven o'clock, second sec | ttion ceremonial session, Masonic tem-}son are at Steele today holding a' ple. | Nine-thirty o'clock, grand fireworks; spectacle, Zagal Park. | page roe North Dakota may not receive in heritance tax from a Milwaukee | tate because of a law pa ed by the j last sessicn of the | ature, ac | cording to Tax Comr mer C, C. Converse. The law provides that the! shall be no inheritance tax on fa erreasee on North Dakota farms owned by p2ople 1 g outside the state, provding the mortgages were not owned by the non-resident prior requirements of the law cannot be as- certained from information now on hand. LINTON MAN ON PARDON BOARD Eee A W. H. Johnson, of Linton, appointed to the pardon board to succeed Miss ‘Aldyth Ward, who has resided in Cal- ifornia for some months, met with the board here yesterday for the first time. There are 225 petitions to De consid- ered by the board, or practically the entire population of the penitentiary. ‘POINCARE SAYS court here in the naturalization hear- ings concluded last evening by Judge} Nuessle. Nine petitions were continued | and four who were scheduled to ap-| pear did not do so. Those admitted} to citizenship were: August John! Krause, Wilton; David Fryer, Wing; Joseph Smola, Bismarck; Stanislaus | Wetch, Bismarck; *Charles Rosen, Bis- | marck; A. C. John Sandberg, Wilton; Hilda Caroline Boe, Bismarck. One petitior was’ continued when witnesses complained of actions of Karl Friedrich Gutsche in writing to a newspaper in which he was said to have described action, of a national German society in dissolving and turning funds to the Red Cross “throwing funds into the throat of the War God.” Mr. Gutsche denied there was any disloyalty contained or in- | oti A ; tis King, and tended in the article, that. it..merely | rest orn Gibson, a negro, was a'scrap between different fac- tions of a society. Judge Nuessle and Examiner R. A. Carlson talked to the newly made ci- tizens following the examination, and a committee from the D. A. R. was present. Judge Nuessle and Examiner Carl- ; hearing. Members of the D. A. R. said the newly made citizens had not been noti- fied of the picnic supper prepared for them. They repaired to the home of Judge Christianson and had a lawn picnic there. RING SEEKS TO CHEAT FRENCH as! FEARED AFTER TEXAS KILLING Expected Clash Fails to Develop At Kervin, Texas, Say Reports Today Kervin, Tex., June 3 (By the A. P.) —Race riots of a serious nature were reported last night as being feared near here had failed to materialize early today. Armed men guarded the streets of Kervin, but according to the peace officers little further trou- ble was expected. s The report of a riot followed at- jtempts of the city martial of Kervin, deputy sheriff to ar- Gibson is said to have tried to escape and was ‘shot and captured. As the officers i started to their automobile, shots were ifired and they returned the fire. Al- \lie Gibson, a brother of the prisoner, jwas killed. 7 , H The prisoner is said to have drop-; i ped one of the officers and then was; Killed. | MARRIAGE FIGHT i ‘ABRUPTLY ENDS | { 1 | Mother Dismisses Action to Pre- | vent Mathilde’s Wedding Paris, June 3—(By the A. P.)— of Deputies when he announced that dangerous attempts were being made around the reparations commission to manipulate the question of interna- tional loans So as to further cut down France’s claims against Germany, ARBUCKLE IS _ NEW DIRECTOR Los Angeles, Cal., June 3.—Roscoe Arbuckle, former film _ comedian, whose pictures were ruled off the screen shortly after his acquittal by a San Francisco jury on a charge of manslaughter for the death of Vir- ginia Rappe, has become a motion picture director. He is directing Bus- ter Keaton in a new comedy. SPEAKS IN DICKINSON Governor R. A. Nestos delivered the commencement address of the 1922 The board will be in session all day to- day. class of Dickinson high school at Dick- inson last night, | Chicago, June 3.—The court fight) | against Mathilde McCormick’s inter-| | national marriage to Max Oser ended} | abruptly in less than two minutes pro-} i ceedings in probate court today when iMrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, | the girl’s mother, withdrew her peti-; |tion for a restraining order to pre- vent Mathilde’s marriage to the Swiss riding mast The suggestion has come from friends that the whole court action had been resorted to as a means of keeping Mathilde in America as long as possible in the hope that she might voluntarily change her mind about marrying Oser. INCORPORATED. Articles of incorporation filed with the s! ary of state include: Assembles of God, Flaxton, Burke county; incorporators, Frank W. Boet- teher, Northgate; Albert 'W. Gottwold, Bowbells; A. Calvin W. Hurlbert, Bow- ‘The Burley Growers’ Tobacco Asso- ciation has been formed and now markets 80 per cent of Kentucky's annual yield of 160,00+,000 pounds of tobacco. MAN, 66, WALKS On Long Jaunt Walter Wright, aged 66, is taking a long walk. Billings, Bismarck he had Cleveland, Ohio, August 10, 1921. He walked’ first to New Orleans, then west to the Pacific Coast, up the coast and then came east to Bismarck. He is going back to Cleveland. Mr. Wright said he was walking for his health, and that he has im- proved in_health since he began his journey. He left San Francisco Feb- ruary 4. 2 Mr. Wright makes about 25 miles a day, he said, carries a 20-pound pack and usually camps along the trail. WOULD HAVE CABINET QUIT Tokio, June 3 (By the A. P.)—Pre- mier Takahashi again suggested to his colleagues today the .advisability of joint resignation of the cabinet. RADIO LOVE IS LATEST WONDER OF THE WIRELESS Oklahoma City, June 3.—Radio love is the latest development in wireless telegraphy. Miss Dolly Smithson, of Gaines- ville, Tex., became enamored of the voice of Frank Birds, of Okla- homa City, her future husband, as it came to her through the ether seven days ago. Bird is director of an orchestra here which has been giving concerts broe (cast by a local newspaper.. Just before the orchestra played the director looked squarely into the unemo- tional chasm of the the transmit- ter and announced the name of the selections. In a Gainesville drug store Miss Smithson and a number of friends bells; ‘Hanfred Larson and John Law, Flaxton, listened in. A correspondence be- gan and they were married. to Portland, cut across to Spokane, without a record vote, followed quick- ly after a test vote, by which the Senate acepted, 49 to 21, its com-; mittee’s action in increasing the house figure on the size of the army from 115,000 to 133,000 enlisted men, The strength of 12,530 officers compared | with 11,000 as voted by the house. The senate disposed of the bill speedily, the measure being taken up for the first time yesterday andpassed 5 | within six hours. All committee amendments except’ those affecting size of the army were acted upon : : H Aged Tourist Reaches Bismarck within three hours, constituting what s regarded as almost a record by the senate. ‘Some opposition was expressed to 133,000 enlisteq strength but Chair-| man Wadsworth of the military com- He arrived in Bismarck today from! J ittes, in char; i er , ge of the bill, pressed Montana; Wien be, Tenens g | for the committee figure and was} ine va s miles on his journey, which started in! sustained as was the committee ac ‘tion on every other amendment to the house bill. The measure now goes to confer- | ence with the house but it is not ex- | pected the d'scussions will begin be- fore Tuesday. POINCARE ASKS NEW CONDITION Says Russians Must Withdraw) Memorandum mier Poincare, in a memorandum for- warded yesterday to the United States) government and to all the tend The Hague conference on Rus- government withdraw its memoran- dum at the Genoa conference on May 11 as a condition for French partici- pation at the Hague meeting with the Russians. CROSS CHANNEL PLANE CRASHES Folkstone, England, June 3 (By the A. P.)—A French airplane flying from the air station at Croyden, near London, bound for Paris, fell into the English channel this morning. A cross-channel boat picked up two bo- dies. One of these had a passport in the name of Gordon Lay. It was later learned that the pilot and two passengers on board had been powers | which have received invitations to at-| sian affairs, demands that the Soviet) jal IS THREATENED SAYS JEWELL Believes Strike Ballot Will Fol- low Meeting to be Held in Cincinnati Chicago, June 3—A rail strike threatens the nation today as railway unions awaited the impending slash by the railroad labor board in the wa- ges of additional classes of employes other than train service men. B. M. Jewell, head of the railway employees department of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor, declared the wage reductions would probably re- sult in a strike vote following next Tuesday's conference of railroad union chieftains at Cincinnati. .PAY CUT ORDER HELD Chicago, June 3.—Unexpected de- lay in the final formal approval of the shopcrafts wage reduction order for- mulated by the U. S. Railroad Labor Board prevented the expected an- nouncement today and it was said at the board that the decision would not be made until early next week. The shop men’s cut will reach a to- tal of at least $50,000,000 a year, it was said. id FORD PROPOSAL Paris, June 3 (By the A. P.)—Pre-i IS RECOMMENDED Washington, June 3.—The house military committee voted today to re- port the Ford Muscle Shoals propos- to the house and recommend its |adoption. Recommendation, however, | will be made by the committee that \the Gorgas steam_power plant which is sought by the Detroit manufactur- er be eliminated from the properties disposed of by the government, FARM CLUBS TO MEET, Maddock, N. D., June 3.—Announce. ment has been made of a large two days session of the United Breeders association and the Federation of Farm Clubs here for June 19 and 20. The special subject of the meeting will be dairying and a number of men prom- inent in the dairy work of the state have been asked to be present to help in the conferences, Tn 1921 the world’s production of coal dropped back to the level of pro killed, Iduction in 1909,