The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 14, 1922, Page 1

The Weather. Partly cloudy: ESTABLISHED 1873. BISMARCK HOST TO K. OF P. OF TRIBUNE [==] BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1922 (Leased Wire of Associated Press.) PRICE FIVE CENTS ! SIX MEN HELD SUSPECTED OF CALLS U. S. THE “BIGGEST BOOTLE 300 PERSONS ARE DROWNED WHEN RIVERS INUNDATE SALVADOR CITIES San Salvador Republic of Salvador, June 14.— (By the A. IFORMER BREWER WILL OPPOSE LA FOLLETTE mmemernit: GER” —_—_— OPENS ATTACK ON SHIPPING BOARD FOR SALE P.) — Three hundred persons are known to have been drowned and many others are missing, following an abnormal rise in the Acelhuate and Arenal rivers which overflowed their banks, inun- NORTH DAKOTA’ BOND ROBBERY 100 Visitors in City for 33rd An- nual Convention of the Grand Lodge GREETINGS ARE EXTENDED Mayor Lenhart Extends Courte- sies of City to Visitors, and I, J. Moe Responds Bismarck today is host to the al annual convention of the grand lodge of Knights of Pythias, with 100 rep- resentatives of 34 lodges in North Da- kota present. The convention will continue until tomorrow afternoon. Greetings were extended to the vis- itors at the opening session today by Mayor A. P. Lenhart: and response was made in behalf of the visiting Knights by Ingram J. Moe, of Valley City. Mrs. Lucy M. Lewis responded on behalf of the Pythian Sisters. Dr. W. T. Shrake, of Neche, then extended |’ greetings of the grand lodge to the Pythian Sisters and Mrs. Jennie _M. Turner, of Dickinson, responded. Fol- lowing the- public meeting the grand lodge sessions got under way. Only the grand lodge delegates par- ticipate in the business of the con- vention, but there will be play and pleasure in addition to the business | meetings. Tonight there will be a banquet at the Grand Pacific hotel at} 7:15 p. m. for members of both the grand lodges of Knights of Pythias and Pythian Sisters. Late this after-| noon there was an automobile ride | planned, Tribute to the memory of the de- parted was paid at 1:30 this after- noon in a public memorial service. Following a solo by Ed C. Anderson there was scripture reading and| prayer by Rev. H. C. Postlethwaite and a memorial address by Charles S. Ego, of Lisbon. ‘A. W. Patterson, of Leith, will pre- side at the banquet tonight. The pro- gram includes the following ad- dresses: “The Tenth Senator,” by G. W. Wolbert; “The Four Keys to the Temple,” by Mrs. Nellie G. Evarts; “The Duality of Pythianism,” by Carl Bach, of Minot. The Mandan Pythian quartet will sing. John L. Bowers, of Mandan, grand chancellor, -presided’at- the grand lodge. sessions. Gertrude Rowan, of Minot, presided‘ at the meetings of the Pythian Sisters, Greet President A message was dispatched by the grand lodge to President Harding, who has been a member of the order since he was a young man. Shortly after his inauguration he visited one} of the Washington lodges as a mem- ber and in the course of his remarks that evening said that “if fraternal- ism, as taught by the Knights of Pythias, could be made the guiding principle of nations, wars would cease ; to distress the world, and attending | misery and suffering would end.” A message of greeting also was sent to the state G. A. R. and W.R.C. convention at Wahpeton. One of the important questions to be considered by the grand lodge is legislation authorizing employment of a all-time secretary for North Da- ota. WCUMBER FOR EARLY ACTION Against “Stalling” of Soldiers Compensation Measure fi (By the Associated Press) Washington, ‘June ''14—Opponents of the plan of Chairman McCumber of the senate finance committee to sidetrack the tariff bill for the sol- diers’ bonus will have the support of} President Harding when the question is brought to a decision in shaping} the majority plans for consideration! of the bonus bill. It was stated offi- cially at the white house yesterday that President Haring regards tariff legislation as most important and worthy of the undivided attention of dating the Candelaria district of this city. fall. 17-YEAR-OLD SON OF WEALTHY GOPHER FARMER DROPS ACCIDENTAL PLEA, ADMITS KILLING FATHER VOICE AGAINST | His Parent MAKES FULL CONFESSION 1 (By the Associated Press) St. Cloud, Minn., June 14.—A verdict of murder in the first de- gree was returned today by the coroner’s jury which held an in- ation Devotes Day of Pro- The bodies of 300 men, women and children, already have been found. The flood was caused by a two-day torrential rain- SO HE COULD USE AUTO CHILD LABOR Convention of American Feder- quest over the body of Thomas Stiller, who was shot to death near his home west of here Sun- day while hunting with his son. Jacob Stiller, his son, will be ar- raigned in justice court tomorrow on the charge of first degree murder. St. Cloud, Minn., June 14,—Jacob Stillor, 17 year o'd son of Thomas Stiller, wealthy Brockway farmer, who is being held at the city jail fol- lowing his confession to the murder of his father in a lonely wooded spot near the Stiller farm Sunday after- noon, dropped his ‘kind of accidental” tactics and made a clean breast of the murder when grilled by County Attor- ney Paul Ahles on the scene of the shoot‘'ng, “I took the shotgun, point- ed it at the back of pa’s head and gram to This Subject (By the Associated Press) eration of Labor here today against child labor, coupling with this an ob- servance of Flag Day. The program for the entire day’s speeches was, de- voted to child labor, with reference to the supreme court’s decision holding a child labor law unconstitutional. Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin was scheduled to make the principal address, Delegates favoring radical change inthe American trade union move- ment made their first move in the ton- vention today by introducing a reso- lution for the amalgamation of exist- LA FOLLETTE A_ VISITOR Cincinnati, Ohio, June’ 14.—Orga- nized labor again raised its voice at the convention of the American Fed- jraigned in justice court tomorrow on shot. I wanted to kill him,” was his blunt statement “I buried him early Monday morning.” : The coroner’s inquest is being held here today Mrs, Stiller and neigh- bors testified that father and son had ‘aq several arguments regarding the use of the Stiller automobile. The son has admitted. that he murdered his father in order that he would be the" sole user of the car. St. Cloud, Minn., June 14. — The coroner’s jury at 12:30 p. m. today found Jacob Stiller, 17-year-old Brockway youth, guilty of the murder of his father, Thomas Stiller, in an isolated spot a short distance from the Stiller farm home Sunday after- noon. , Death resulted from the in- tentional firing of a 12 gauge shotgun held by the son, following a series of arguments regarding the use of the Stiller automobile. Stiller will be ar- ing unions by industries into single organizations, Senator LaFollette’s arrival at the convention hall brought him a rousing welcome from the delegates. The demonstration continued a few min- utes as Mr. LaFollette was escorted to the platform. SPECIALIST IS SUMMONED FOR LENINE’S AID Washington Report Says Condi- tion Is Serious But Not as Critical Now a charge of first degree murder. SHIP SUBSIDY BILL 1S LAID BEFORE HOUSE Redraft of House Merchant Marine Committee Is Submitted (By the Associated Press) Washington, June 14.—The admin- istration ship subsidy bill re-drafted by the house merchant marine com- mittee, was introduced today by Chairman Greene of the commitee, The bill was referred to the com- mittee which will meet tomorrow with the expectation of reporting it as specdily as possible, Democratic mem- bers of the committee saw a draft of the measure today for the first tims, and it is understood they plan to file a minority report opposing it in toto. LOVE LETTERS (By the Associated Press) Berlin, June 14.—Another German specialist has been summoned to at- tend Premier Lenine of Soviet Russia, it was stated here today. Professor Flechsig, a leading brain authority has been asked to leave im- mediately for Russia. CONDITION SERIOUS Washington, June 14.—A_ message from Riga which reached Washing- ton today said the illness of Lenine, head of the Russian Soviet govern- ment, was serious, but nothing in the cablegram indicated whether his con- dition was as critical as _ reported within the last few days. The mes- sage dated yesterday warned that re- ports that the Russian premier’s mind was deranged as a result of his phy- sical condition should be taken with reservations. THINGS QUIET IN CAMPAIGN TOWNLEY FINDS (By the Associated Press) Fargo, N. D., June 14.—A. C. Town- ley, founder of the National” Non- partisan League was in Fargo this morning on his way to Valley City the senate at this time. Although Senator McCumber has given notice that he will call up the bonus bill in the near future, plans for its consideration remained inde- finite today. FIRE DESTROYS SCHOOL HOUSE St. Thomas, N. D., June 14.—Fol- lowing the destruction of the St. Thomas public school building by fire Tuesday night, citizens of the town today called a mass meeting to be held Friday to make plans for erect- ing a new building. The loss on the building destroyed Monday night was $30,000 with $10,000 insurance. Spon- taneous combustion is thought to have caused the blaze. NO SIGN OF RUST Jamestown, N. D., June 14—Men closely connected with the farming in- terests at Kensal, twenty miles north of here declared today that they had not heard of the apeparance of rust near that town. County Agent R. S. Goodhue, also declared that he had not heard of the appearance of the rust in the county and said that the information would be likely to come to him first of all jn the county, if rust had been de- tected, AGAIN FIGURE where he is to address a meeting this eaters fe afternoon, his first public address of (By the Associated Press) the. pre-primary campaign. The meet- Los Angeles, Cal. June 14.—Ex-| jing will be held at about 2:30 o’clock pert testimony that the now famous|he said, adding that he will give eithe: “love letters” written to J. Belton|an organization talk or a campaign Kennedy for whose murder Mada-!gneech, according to the size of the Ivnne Obenchain is now on trial for | crowd ‘present. the second time, were in her hand- “Things are quiet in the state po- writing and expected to be given} litically,” said Mr. Townley. “So quiet when the trial was resumed in the|that we don’t know what to make of superior court here today. ite? HOPPERS APPEAR IN GREAT FORCE (By the Associated Press) Park Fa:ls, Wis, June 14.—Grass- hoppers are proving to be such a serious menace to growing crops throughout this section that meetings are ebing held. by farmers in many} places to discuss ways and means for their extermination. County agent / (Rahmlow is taking an active part and Vig doing all possible to stimulate in- [terest in the work of destruction of} the pests, { This js the f' FOUR KILLED IN EXPLOSION Detroit, Mich., June 14.—Explosion of an ammonia tank Packing Com- pany shortly before noon yesterday resulted in the deaths of four em- ployes and damged the plant. (By the Associated Press) Jackson, Mich, June 14.—Use of tear gas to repel the advances of more than a thousand angry citizens of Jackson who sought to take George Straub, confessed slayer of Miss Alice Mallett from the custody of the sheriff is large- ly responsible for Straub's safety in an unnamed Michigan city to- irst time in many years | that grasshoppers have appeared this early in the season in alarming num- bers. pike Ee Damascus, Benares and Constanti- nople are among the oldest cities in the world. In Twin Cities Make Two Arrests BOND MEN Solution of . $2,000,000 Bond Robbery Is Thought Near (By the Associated Press) Minneapolis, June 14.—Six men were being questioned here today by postal inspectors investigatin, tl $2,000,000 bond robbery at the New York City postoffice last October The inspectors havo been centering their inquiry in the Twin Cities since the discovery in Minneapolis several weeks ago of some of the stolen bonds A small bondng company with offices here sold blocks of the stolen bonds to several large firms. The officers are going on the assumption that the purchase by the small company was sold the bonds to the latter firm is being sought, Minneapolis, Minn., June 14.—Two arrests in connection with the inves- tigation of the disposition of stolen bonds here and in St. Paul were an- nounced today by postal inspectors. Arrests of other members of the syn- “dicate responsible for the disposition of bendy ‘stolen in the $2,0C0,000 rob- bery in "New York last October were declared imminent. Postal inspectors of Minneapol's reinforced by special forces of inves- tigators.from New York, Chicago and Philade‘phia were said to be near a solution of the case. Inspectors said they found that the whole case involves a number of bond houses, The men arrested are Edward J. Ritter, former teller at the State Savings Bank and Clarence A. Coch- ran, his partner in. an automobile sales agency, both of St. Paul. Rit- ter was taken into custody by postal inspectors abt the middle ‘of May ‘and Cochran Was arrested a few days later. FLAG DAY'TO BE CELEBRATED Tribute to old glory will be paid this evening at 7:30 o'clock at a public gathering at Custer Park. Celebrating Flag Day, the Elks have arranged a program, which includes bard music and a talk by Father Slag. Members of the American Legion are urged to cooperate in the ob- servance and the public generally is urged to be present. Mayor Lenhart made a formal request that places of business be closed between 7:15 and 8:15 this i so employes can join in 8. 1,000 RECRUITS BEING SOUGHT FOR REGIMENT Party Will Visit Bismarck in Re- cruiting Men for the Third Regiment One thousand recruits are sought by the Third infantry, United States army. A recruiting party will visit Bismarck and other cities in the northwest_soon. Capt. H. C. Tobin, U. S. cavalry, was in Bismarck yesterday confer- ring with Lieut oCl. Quain, Maj, Geo. Russ, Maj. Frayne Baker and other reserve officers on the campaign. Conversion of the Third infantry from a training center to a combat regiment was authorized by the sec- retary of war. The regiment now is stationed at Fort Snelling. Under the new order the regiment will be re- eruited from 555 to 1,582 men. Selection of the Third infantry as one of the combat regiments is re- garded a recognition of the high merit as it was revealed at recent in- spections, It is the plan, it is indi- cated, to leave the Third, oldest regi- ment in the United States army, per- manently at Fort Snelling. BIG FIRE LAST NIGHT (By the Associated Press) Fort Worth, Tex. June 14.—Fire starting late last night destroyed more than half the business district of Oil City, Texas, causing damage estimated at $150,000. TEAR GAS IS USED TO REPEL AN ANGRY MOB SEEKING PRISONER day. The prisoner was rited out of Jackson last night. Early today the city was quiet with several units of national guardsmen, police reserves and state police officers assisting the local authorities in guarding against any: r€currence of dis- order, Postoffice Inspectors Operating IMPLICATED Football fight and teamwork. These are counted on by Dr. “Fighting Bill” Canfield, president Carroll College, Waukesha, Wis. (above) to win him a seat in the United States Senate, He is opposed to Robert M. La Follette (below), who is now senator from Wisconsin. Dr. Canfield was president of Centre College, in Kentucky, when it sprang to fame overnight by its football prowess, LASKER MAKES HOT REPLY (By the Associated Press) Washington, June 14.—The ship- ping board holds that “neither the Volstead act nor the Eighteenth amendment apply to American ships outside the three mile limit,” Chair- man Lasker declared today in a let- ter to Adolphus Busch III, vice presi- dent of the Anheuser Busch. Brewery Company of St. Louis. Confirming re- ports that alcoholic drinks were being served on American ships at sea, Mr. Lasker asserted that the shipping board has approved this custom “both from the standpoint of legal right and from the standpoint of the life and security of our national merchant marine.” “The shipping board has permitted and will continue to permit the serv- ing of liquor on its ships” he continu- innocently negotiated. The man who| ed. “So long as foreign flag ships are allowed to enter and depart from our shores exercising that privilege.” Mr. Lasker’s letter was in reply to a communication addressed by Mr. Busch to President Harding with re- ference to alcoholic drinks being reg- ularly served on shipping board ves- sels at sea. The matter had been re- ferred to him, the shipping board chairman explained since “the presi- dent is unacquainted with the subject you cover.” Opinion Not Sound While it was true, Mr. Lasker said that an assistant attorney general “in the prior administration” had held that the prohibition laws were effect- ive on American shipping whenever operated, the present general counsel of the shipping board, his two assist- ants and the chairman himself, were convinced that such an opinion was not soundly based and had approved LAFOLLETTE IN BITTER ATTACK ON JUDICIARY Tells Federation of Labor Con- vention We Are Ruled By “Judicial Oligarchy” Cincinnati, Ohio, June 14.—Assert- ing that by a “process of gradual en- croachments” the federal courts of the country have “wrested sovereignty from the people,” Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin in an address here to- day before the American Federation of Labor convention proposed an amendment to the constitution deny- ing the power of lower courts to set aside a federal law as unconstitutional and providing for the nullification of any such decision by the supreme court, by re-enactment of the statute. Citing the recent decision of the supreme court holding unconstitu- tional the child labor law as “typica! of the conduct of the federal judiciary, and particularly the supreme court whenever congress has sought to enact progressive and humane legis- lation which was offensive to great financial interests,” Senator LaFol- lette declared the supreme tribunal of the country was “today the actual ruler of the American people.” Claims They Make Law “The law is what they say it is,” the Wisconsin senator continued, “and not what the people through congress enact. Even the constitution of the United States is not what its plair terms declare, but what these nine men construe it to be. In fact, five of these nine men are actually the su- preme rulers, for by a bare majority the court has repeatedly overridden the will of the people * * *.” It cannot be denied that “we arc ruled by, a judicial oligarchy,” thc senator asserted adding that while many of the minor federal. judges “sharing the sovereign power” of the supreme court, were “excellent and enlightened men, some of them, not- ably Judge Anderson of Indiana, and Judge McClintick of West Virginia have, in my opinion, shown them selves to be petty tyrants and arro- gant despots.” Never Faced Issue “Heretofore the people of the United States,” Senator LaFollettc said, “have met the difficult situations created by the court’s decision on con- stitutional matters by dealing with the particular question upon which the court was at variance with the popular will. We have never facec the fundamental issue of judicial usurpation squarely. The time has now come to do so. It would require a dozen constitutional amendments to correct the evils of the decisions which the court has handed down within the past three or four years. “The time has come when we must put the axe to the root of this mon- strous growth upon the body of our The usurped power of the federal courts must be taken away and the federal judges must be made government. responsive to the popular will.” the inclusion of wine lists as regular equipment of boats operated under the boards supervision, for use how- ever, only beyond the jurisdictional coast line. Mr. Busch attached to his letter to the president, the copy of an editorial printed in the Chicago Tribune of May 6, 1922, “following a visit to the editorial offices by an official of the United States shipping board.” _ Declaring there was an_insinua- tion that the editorial has been “in- spired by that visit,’ Mr. Lasker said: ‘I was the official who visited the Tribune on Mav 6th and I wish to record my emphatic denial that-I in any way knew before or at ‘the time of my visit the views of the editors of the Tribune on this subject. I did 1ot_discuss the subject of prohibition with the editors of the Tribune at that visit or at any other time before or since. The fact is that’ I had no more advance knowledge than any other reader of the Tribune that it was going to publish such an edi- torial. Assails Insinuation “Your mean insinuation regarding uncorruptible officials and editors re- flects on_you alone. (Continued on Page 3) DUNES “DIANA” DYING, RESULT OF AN ATTACK Giant Husband of College Grad- uate Recluse Is Injured In The Fight (By the Associated Press) Chicago, June 14.—Mrs. Alice Gray Wilson, University of Chicago graduate who forsook society in 1916 ‘or the life of a beach dweller on the Indiana dunes, was reported dying n a Gary, Indiana, hosiptal today as a result of injuries received in a fight on the sands last night. Mrs. Wilson, known along the In- liana shore as “Diana of the Dunes” was said to be suffering from a frac- tured skull. Her giant husband, Paul Wilson, was wounded. Their adver- sary, Eugene Frank, a boatman was held by police. A long feud between the beach combers and jealousy over “Diana” saused the trouble, authorities be- lieved. Mrs. Wilson is believed to have been wounded when she leaped into the fight after her husband and Frank clashed. Alice Gray, the college ‘girl, met Wilson on the dunes several years ago when she became a recluse. She befriended the young giant after he returned to the dunes from a_ six months jail sentence following a fight. 1,000 SOG NINGS IN CONVENTION (By the Associated Press) Albert Lea, Lea is all de 1,000 nightfall. Mnin., June 14.—Albert ed out today to wel- come Sog Nings from all over the northwest, who are meeting here in annual convention today and Thurs- day. The committees expect to have isitors assigned to their places in private homes of the city before OF LIQUOR ON AMERICAN SHIPS August A. Busch Asserts Sale On U. S. Shipping Board Ves- sels Is Law Violation URGES CONGRESS PROBE Letter of Anheuser Busch, Inc., Demands Congress Inquire Into Law Enforcement HAYNES’ STATEMENT, Washington, June 14.—Prohibi- tion Commissioner Haynes de- clared today in a formal statement referring to .the “prohibition afloat” pamphlet issued by An- heuser-Busch Company that he would “act in a vigorous manner to enforce the law” as soon as the department of justice and the courts have determined whether the Volstead act applies to vessels sailing under the American flag. He added that he would:not break one law to enforce another. (By the Associated’ Press) St. Louis, Mo../Jane:14.—A letter charging the United States is “in- comparably the biggest bootlegger in the world” written by August Busch, president of Anheuser-Busch Inc., while enroute to Europe aboard the steamship George Washington, and which has been forwarded to President Harding was made public here today, together with an accom- panying letter by Adolpus Busch III his son. A third letter by Anheuser Inc. addressed to members of congress requests an investigation into,the en- forcement department of the govern- ment in relation to the prohibition act. Says Harding Approved The announcement amplified that “if the government decides to make an investigation of this matter, we will establish, by a reliable witness that Mr. Lasker has said that he went to President Harding with this whole matter, and told him that the sale of liquor on the ‘shipping board ships would help to solve the board’s financial problems, and that he said that President Harding replied to him: ‘Mr. Lasker, you are chairman of the shipping board; you know what to do.’” 3 The letter of August Busch says in part: “We are now approaching the coast of France. As this vessel is operated by the United States shipping board I was amazed to learn that the ship- ping board vessels are the ‘wettest on the ocean,’ “T learn that passage on these ships has been sold with a positive money back guarantee that the bars for the sale of intoxicating liquors will be thrown wide open as soon as they pass outside the three mile coast ine, “This makes the United States in- comparably the biggest bootlegger in the world. Unlawful Competition “As manufacturers of legal pro- ducts we have been forced for more than two years to meet unfair and unlawful competition in practically every town and city in the United States. For the United States to set aside its constitution {and Jaws in the operation of its own: business enter- prises, increases ‘our ‘difficulties many fold, because it encourages vi- olators of the law to renewed and greater activity. “I understand that the shipping board has brought to the notice of high officials of the government. the fact it could not compete on the’ high seas with the ships of other nations and obey the constitution and the Volstead act. And either by direct or indirect means the shipping board is permitted to do in-the dark that which it is illegal to do—in order that it may make money.******#**** “We should submit to the president that the governments’ toleration of the violation of the law by the shipping board is proof that prohi- bition laws as now written are either impractical and non-enforceable, or are, being : disregarded deliperately. Demand Liquor The fact that citizens of the. Unit- ed States would not buy passage upon ships of the United States so long as the Volstead act was operative up- on these ships gives us a real senti- ment of a considerable part of the American people with respect to pro- hibition and we believe that a great majority desire a modification of the Volstead act.” The letter of Adolphus Busch III, which accompanied the letter of his father to the president written from this city under date of June 8, 1922, says in part: “I am transmitting herewith a let- ter we have just received from my father, August A. Busch. Kindly note that he expresses astonishment that the prohibition iaws of the United States are violated openly upon steamships owned by the United States and flying the United States flag. A copy of the wine list enum- erating intoxicating liquors of every character is enclosed for your infor- mation. “Because it is axiomatic that Am- erican ships wherever they float are American territory and under the jurisdiction of the laws of the Unit- ed States. the government’s liquor policy with respect to the ships of the United States shipping board consti- tute a violation of the constitution (Continued on Page 3)