The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 16, 1922, Page 2

PAGE TWO *Nestos Committee” Which Made Investigation in Washington Reports on Re- sult of Its Findings | —_— U. S. DEMAND LESSENED Changes in the United States grain grading rules, whereby a farmer will receive full benefit when his wheat is bought on a low grade at the ele- vator and later sells at a higher price “on sample” at the terminal, are be- ing worked out by the United States department of agriculture officials a8 a direct-result of the tivities of the special committee consisting of | Gov. R. A. Nestos, L. B, isnna_ and Walter Rv Reed, who went to Wash- ington for the purpose of investigat- ing.the marketing and price condi- tions of grain. The report of the committee, re- leased “in Fargo Saturday, was re- ceived by The Tribune in the mails Saturday afternoon to be printed, but is given in full today. The committee was named at the recent ‘Fargo, conference called bj Governor Nestos to consider the! ions, The report of the commit- made public today brings out the fact that in addition to getting the department working to change this grain grading rule, the committee has algeady been successful in getting durum wheat segregated from hard spring wheat in the government crop| reports and that the committee urged que tee that it start a campaign to induce the people of the United States to eat more macaroni and spaghetti so that more durum wheat will be used. The committee \called attention to the fact that Europe is now eating | more corn and coarse grains, that France and Germany are curtailing their use of wheat much below the normal prewar basis and a warning ig issued that if the United States and Canada continue to raise “the vast amount of wheat which we are now doing, disaster must result.” There should be a material reduc- tion in the acreage sown to wheat in orth America, in the opinion of the yaimittec, which reports that Eu- rope is buying in small quantities not because of the lack of funds but CHANGES ™ULS,GRAINGRADING RULBS ASKED BY COMMITTEE Ipartment of agriculture that they | upon the department of agriculture | active campaign ‘was entered into to pecause it is eating more of other zrains*and making its wheat supply Igo: further by economies. The com- mittee found that ‘because of these facts an appeal to the War Finance corporation for ‘additional funds to inance Europe would be useless. The Report — Following is the report in full: Dakota: were appointed a cot Washington to confe! now and in the future. The committee spent in Washington and New York and Iwas given to I Dakota, Minnesota, South Dakota ‘and Montana segregated in the crop} ference in grinding will mean that estimates and acreage, from the hard} the French will require 20,000,000 or spring wheat and in this matter the} 25,000,000 bushels less wheat than committee was given a careful hear- they otherwise would be compelled to by Wallace, secretary of nd we helieve that steps bushels and acreage, will be segre- Kind of grains are. We were advised that there is but} to finance the exporting of wheat and little durum wheat used in the mak-| jt is not necessary for the American ing of flour for bread and that the} exporter to call upon the War Fin- larger part of the durum is exported ghetti. This year there has been produced | son that foreigners are not buying some 75,000,000 or 80,000,000 bushels } quantities, but are buying more from ‘of durum wheat and if this durum | hand to mouth. wheat was deducted from the amount ‘of hard spring wheat grown it would | government figures, is one of the show that there is a limited quantity of. hard spring wheat, which is used for the best patent flour grown in the ‘United States. The tariff which has been put upon wheat under the re- cently passed traiff bill will make it possible to keep Canadian hard spring wheat out of. the’ ,United States and in the future with the hard spring wheat, together with the tariff on wheat should help material- ly,in making for a better price for hard~spring wheat than we would otherwise receive. In the tariff bill recently passed president, the president is given more power or latitude than ever giv- en’ in any previous, tatiff legislation in that certain discretion is lodged witl im.by which he is adthorized in’ co-operation’ with the tariff com- mission, :to arrive at the difference ‘nthe cost of production of: articles jn the United States and similar ar- Sicles in foreign countries and to oroclaim the changes in classifica- ions for increases or decreases of ‘ates of duty necessary to meet such difference in cost. Therefore, the aew tariff law authorizes the presi- jent if rates are too high or too low so raise or lower them in order to yratect American producers, and when in the judgment of his advis- ors and himself it shall be for the vest interests of our country that | changes shall be’ made. This is along whe line that has been worked out | aefetofore in France where a tariff | may be raised or lowered upon cer- | ‘egislature authorizing it. Is Second, consideration was given by ind with the department of agricul- sure with reference to the grading of “rain, our committee feeling that the armers were not given proper treat- ‘nent under the present system of grain gradihg in that if wheat grad- td below No. 1, say No. 2 or No, 3, hat much of the wheat that was sraded No. 2 or No. 3 would sell by c 9 No. 1 price but the ‘armer would lége the advantage that ne Bhould have by reason of the grain ‘ample close t elling by sam, yecause he sell by grade and gets the grade price for i t, The agricultural’ department at’ state that they have endeavored t»/ i Washington is giving consideration | consider and to report upon every | To the Press of the State of North | ty but are buying only as their actual There was recently held in Fargo @/ for this being the financial situation conference of farmers and business-| in Europe; and we also found that men who had under consideration our} the European countries are, using “rain situation and the undersigned} many cheaper substitutes for! wheat. mmittee to go tO] In other words, that they are taking x with the fed-| more corn, more oats and more rye pal auchorities and to, see if some-| than ever/before and less wheat. thing could be done to improve the, price and marketing of grain both} where their requirements for grain t several dayS| ernment has ordered the French went into the proposition as thor-| wheat upon the war basis which pro- oughly as was possible in a rather) vided that 88 or 84 per cent of a limited time. First, ‘tonsideration | hyshel of wheat should go into flour the question of having] instead of about 70 per eent as has dhe Eucum wheat s raised in North! been done for the_past couple of Will’ be taker! by which in future esti-| European countries, it might be said nates of the wheat grown in the] that it is estimated that Germany is spring wheat area of the United} consuming about three and six-tentns | States, that durum wheat, both as to| bushels of bread grain’ against a Heated from the,hard spring wheat} tenths bushels and is making up the the same as rye, barley or any other | difference by the use of potatoes. from, the United States voing.to the | they can get what funds they need Mediterranean countries, and ‘espe-| from commercial banks at a rate as cially to Italy, to be made into the] low, or lower, than they could from flour which is especially adapted to] the War Finance. Further, it is not and is used for macaroni and spa-} taking as much money- to handle the ‘segregation of the durum from the, ny’ congress and approved ‘by _ the, tain commodities coming into France, ny the government, without a new specific act being passed by their to this problem and’ will take active | steps to endeavor to bring back toj the farmer and to the country eleva- tor the exact price that particular wheat sells for in Minneapolis, or wherever the terminal point may be so that if No. 2 or 3 wheat shall sell for higher prices by reason of it be- ing sold by sample, this infor- mation shall go back to the farmer and elevator for adjustment. We were also informed by the de-| were experimenting with a new disc! cleaner which is to be attached to! threshing machines and which will! separate from the grain wild oats and | other foul seeds with the exception of | so-called “inseparables.” It is claim- | ed that this new cleaner will clean | the grain nearly perfectly. It has not | quite passed the experimental stage! but if it proves successful, as the | department hopes and believes that it | will, it will mean much in helping the ‘farmers to clean theirgrain at the time that it is threshed. This will keep the wild oats and stuff of that ind on the farm where it can be ground and used for feed, and will} help raise the grades, on grain at the | country elevators and at the termin- als, Further it will save immense sums which the farmers now pay in| hipping screenings in their wheat and on which they pay freight and | get practically nothing for. Third, North Dakota especially has gone into the raising of durum wheat because it rusts less than the hard spring varieties of ‘wheat, but as previously stated, there is not the wide market for durum wheat this committee feels there should be. Only a few years ago comparatively little corn was used in Europe but an teach the people of Europe to use and eat corn, and the result has been that we are now exporting a‘ot of corn each year to European countrie: ‘And further, a campaign was put on in the United States by the Corn} Products Co. and others, to teach the people of America how to use corn in many ways in which it was not previously used, and the consequence has been that there has been an in- creased demand, for corn, and corn today is bringing a fair price. In connection with this, we asked the agricultural department a& Wash- ington to put on a campaign in the United States to. teach our people to use more spaghetti and macaroni and if this is done it will without ‘doubt develop a larger demand for durum wheat because from durum oni flour is manufactured. Fourth, relative to the exporting of wheat out ‘of the United States, ‘very careful consideration. was given to this both in Washington in New York. We found that European countries are not buying in quanti- needs require, the principal reason We also found that in Frartce foods are large that, the French gov- mills,to go back ‘to the grinding of years. It is estimated that this dif- import. To give an idea as to one of the pre-war average of six . and ‘five- There seems to be plenty of money ance Corporation for funds because export of grain as usual for the re: The 1922 wheat crop, according to largest that the world has ever pro- duced and on top of it all has come the enormous wheat crop which has been produced in Canada and if the estimated figures gotten out by the various governments.and by the crop experts are anywhere near right, thete has been more wheat produced in the world this year than can be consumed in the year, and all of this has a tendencywto hold atfd to keep prices low and makes a condition which is especially bad for us in. the northwest, for the price of our wheat is based upon its value for export. In, other words, the American customer for wheat pays no more than the European and this means that the American wheat is in competition with the wheat grown all over the world. The World War and war prices stimulated the production of wheat in | the United States and- our people have not gotten out of| the habit of raising wheat, and the committee feel they should call the attention of our farmers and businessmen to the fact that if we continue to grow in“the United States and Canada the vast amount of wheat that we are now do- ing with our high priced lands and with the high cost of labor, high freight. rates and higtg cost for farm machinery, disaster must result because probably within the next year or two Russia will again be if the market with wheat and other grain and we can not with our costs compete with their labor costs and their lower cost of production. In other words there should be a ma- terial reduction in the acreage. sown to wheat in the’ United States and Canada and if this is done without a doubt a crop of 600,000,000 to 650,- 000,000 bushel of wheat will bring ‘o the farmers of the United States as much money as an 800,000,000 bushel crop and will save the farmers a expense. The committee was accorded every courtesy and consideration from Sec- retary Wallace; Secretary Hoover, the War Finance corporation, the Bureau of Markets and from men in CHARLOTTE MILLS RAYMOND SCHNEIDER BY BOB DORMAN. NEA Service Staff Writer. New Brunswick, N. J. Oct. 16.— Who will write the last act in the tragic drama of the famous,.Hall-| ¢Mills murder mustery? It waits the skilled and, ingenious playwright—a super-detective, a superlative Tangled: threads, tic. together these chief characters in the drama Rev. E, W. Hall, rector. of a New Brunswick church. ohe of the vic- the double killing. Mrs. Eleanor Mills, choir singer in Rector Hall’s church, the other “vic- Mrs. Francis Hall, widow of the murdered man. husband ,of the mur- dered woman. Willie Stevens, brother of Mrs. Charlotte Mills, 16,daughter of the murdered woman, who has taken thé role of Nemesis of the murder.: Raymond Schneider. 21, informer and jailed as a-witness. Pearl Bahmer, 1§ held, \as a wit- wheat the best spaghetti and macar- | Clifford Hayes, 19, jailed on a charge of murder. These people all appear in the séenes of the drama already enacted. The tragedy had its opening Sept. | *16 ‘on a farm in Somerset county, | just across the line from Middlesex county, in which is. located New Brunswick, the home.of* the dead rector and choir singer. A great question mark’ stands | where the climax should be to these acts in this drama of early life : ACT 1. Early morning; a deserted farm house; a meadow tinted with the colors of gutumn. Through the meadow stroll a boy and a girl, Schneider and Pearl Bahmer, hunt- ing for a mushrooms, I the shade of a bush they find a man and a woman who seem to be sleeping, the man with a straw hat over his face and the woman’s head covered “by a shawl. Several hours later the boy and girl pass by again, and, looking closer, find the man’ and, woman are dead, Police are notified. The dead pair are Rev. Hall and Mr@. Mills, both shot, and the woman's throat cut, too. ACT Il. The breath of scandal. But the. slain church peopfe are held blame- less. The mystery \ grows. Officer of the two counties make little progress. Mrs, Hall and James Mills are questioned; also Willie Stevens, MRS. ELEANOR MRS. FRANCES HALL PEARL‘ BAHMER CLIFFORD HAYES _and young Charlotte Mills. [earned that Mrs, Hall visited her brother-in-law of the dead pastor, | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE QUESTION MARK HIDES LAST TRAGIC ACT OF CHURCH MURDER DRAMA husband’s' church at 2 o'clock on the morning the bodies were found. Mills also visited the church about that time. She sought her husband; he wats seeking his wife—but they did not meet. Mrs, Hall says her brother, Willie Stevens, was with her. But a watchman says he saw her return- ing home alone: that fatal morning. ACT IH, Charlotte Mills, the, daughter of the murdered woman, becomes the pur- suer; she appeals to the. governor of the state for aid in solving the mys- tery. Governor Edwards ‘orders out the state police. Searchfor‘the mur- derer begins in earnest. The bodies are exhumed and an autopsy furnish- es clues. Willie Stevens is subject- ed to an all-night> grilling—without Tesult. a : , ACT VI. Raymond Schnetder appears in a specatacular role, “It is ford Hayes, young ex-sailor—by, mis- that Hayes accompanied him to help phase of the grain situation that was referred to them for consider- ation by the conference. Respécttally submitted, L. B. HANNA, WALTER R. REED, Appended note: Since was written the government has is- sued its estimates of the production of wheat in the United States and for the first time shows in its re-| segregated from spring wheat and the fig- ures are 78,016,000 durum and 135,- 899,000 of hard spring wheat. — MANDAN NEWS Strichynski Takes Case to High Court neys tor the defense moved that the verdict be set aside on: the grounds that the information did not. war- rant the charge. This was denied. Notice of appeal was then filed, cer- tificate of cause being signed by Judge Thomas H. Pugh, | | = Funeral for Baker To be Held Today age 40 years, who passed away at the local hospital following @ long prolonged illness were held this afternoon at 1:30 o'clock with Rev. R. Thatcher of the Methodist church officiating. | Many friends and . neighbors of Mr, Baker’s from Mandan, New Salem, and’ Morton county paid their respects to their old friend this afternoon. Mr. Baker's father Nick Strichynski, sentenced by Judge Thomas H. Pugh in the Dunn court at Manning Tuesday to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary after his convic tion of the murder of John. Shabi farmer at Gorham, Billings county, on Jeme 17, last, has, through his attorneys, appealed: his case to the supreme court. be held in jail at Medora until a de- cision, has been handed down as thi filing’ of the appeal-stayed the ex- ecution of judgment. Before judgment was passed by Judge Pugh Tuesday morning attor- county district tura, Russian was for many years’ gardner in there. As a boy, Mr. Baker Jr., re- |ceived his school training in Man- idan, and later moved with his par- ents to a farm. near New Salem. "Some years after this he took una |farm of his own which he conducted until about three years ago when-he came to Mandan and has been mek- jing his home with his sister, Mrs. \Mattie Morrow, Second Ave. N. E. since then. His death was due to a +malignant growth in the stonyach, which has gradually’ grown worse | during the past three months. | “He leaves two children, William large bill for labor, twine and other | charge in the various departments | of the -government in. Washington | le close to No. 1 price | and from those in New York who are | s to his local elevator : interested in the exporting of grain. In closing the committee wish to| First picture to reach: Amer! Carolath in home in November, is showa ‘ica of Princess Hermine von Schoensich dings. The princess, who'll wed the ex-kaiser with her’ eldest daughter in her castle Gardena Funeral services for Eli Baker, Jr., |’ | charge of the Northern Pacific park | and Ella; both of whom now reside} vention of their own—the conVen- in Spokane, and a father and three] tion of the American Legion aux! iary, which was formally organizea ldst year at Kansas City. There was much business to be Baker who recently left for Los | crowded into, the five days. of the convention, but there was time, too, sisters and one brother survive him. They are Mrs. F. L. Dow, Mrs. Mattie Morrow, of this city, Mrs. Don Stevenson, of Carson, and Ernest Angeles. : SATURDAY FOOTBALL Wisconsin 20; South Dakota Agé gies 6, A Minnesota 20; Indiana 0. Columbia, 16; Wesleyan 6, Wooster 27; Case 6, U, of Pennsylvania 12; U. of Mary- land 0. 4 Brown 0; Syracuse 0. Ze North Dakota 7; South Dakota 0. Carelton 29; Gustavus Adolphus 0.. Notre Dame 20; Purdue 0. Centre 10; V. P. I. 6. Army 19; Alabama 6. Vanderbilt 0; Michigan 0. Harvard 15; Bowdoin 0. Chicago 15; Northwestern 7. North Carolina 10; South Caro- na 0. Oberlin -0; Ohio State 14. _° Illinois 7; Butler 10. Princeton 10; Colgate 0. Wabash 26; Michigan Aggies 0. Navy/14;) Bucknell 7. at Marquette 27; Carroll College 0. Towa 6;. Yale 0. ' Macalester 14; St, Olaf 14. St.. Thomas 27; St. Johns 0. Hamline 27; St. Johhs, 0. Yankton 0; Sioux Falls 20. Alexandria 14; Moorhead 0. Crookston .0; Thief River Falls 20. Georgia Tech. 33; Alabama 7. Ripon, Wis.,/0; Lombard, II)., 6. Penn State 32; Lebanon Valley 6. Johns Hopkins 40; George Wash-|. ington 6, A Drake 6; Kansas 0. Dartmouth 21; Middlebury 0. Kansas Aggies 22; Washington 14. Swarthmore 7; Dickinson 27. Towa .Wesleyan 7;, Creighton. 21 Cornell 63; New Hampshire es ec 1 e Rutgers 13; Lehigh 6, Holy Cross 14; Villanova 0. Beloit, 64; Yankton 8; Morningside 0. ‘trinity 26; Omaha U. 3. Wahpeton, V. D., high 39; Park Re-|' gion College, Fergus Falls, Minn., 0. BIG WELCOME FOR BUDDIES IN NEW. ORLEANS (Continued from Page’ 1) bespeak the. support\of the Legion in opposition-to “government by in- junction” and to the administration’s course in, the coal and railroad shop | men’s strike remained to, be deter- mined. i The Legion’s Constitution prescribes a “strict neutrality” in disputes between capital and labor, but it was believed that some refer- ence would inevitably be made -by}: Mr. Gompers to the industrial strug- glues of the past summer. . General John J, Pcrshing! chief of the general, staff of the United States army and commanding gen- eral of the late A. E. F., was in at- tendance as was Major General John J. Lejeune, head! of the marine corps and a native gon of Louisiana. With the Legionnaird:, who. came] by railroad, steam and automobile— | som of them afoot and some in air- planes—to the annual meet, were | scores of women, ‘young and old, the mothers, wives and sisters of the! j Veterans, * They were holding a con- Tete JAMES MILLS WILLIE STEVENS, <’ UNKNOWN... It iy} las Balmers-and that Hayes, shoot- ing at the pair thought they” weré Pearl and” her feathers Hayes. arrested on 4 MUr-| Through all the last-minute sur-|™> GQ canny pho y der charge; denies hie guilt. Pouel| pests, charges andgcounter charge:,|| RS, ENGE, D. C. Ph. C. elder ae as witnesses, Clara ‘Phillips, 26, who pleaded not Chiropractor guilty, sits tight-lipped but with re-!] , Consultation Free assurance in her_cell, awaiting trial, Suite 9, 11 — Lucas Block meadow, der charge, denies his guilt. Pearl and Bahmer is arrested on a serious charge made: b; This is: the “last act—but it has mark” stands’ “hére—mi marks, ‘such: ‘as! thes How conld:Rev. fall and Mrs. Mills ‘be ‘mistaken for Bahmer and a 15- yeak-old’ girl at a-three-foot range: Why was. Mrs. Mills ’throat cut after the shooting? , Where are the pistol and knife— and /the' rectors’ ‘missing watch? hy “were the bodigs ‘arranged carefylly * in the mead hat and shawl hiding the faces? How could Hayes attempt to kill Pearl when, Schneider himself says they sought to protect her from her any question with the ‘Why should Rayriond Schneider an-] join another man in a murder froit nounced that he has made al ambush and then, knowing a mistake statement charging that Rev. Hall} had been made, take Pearl to the and Mrs. Mills were killed by Clif-} scene% Why .were letters of Mrs. Mills take; A case of mistaken identity,| scattered. about the place of the kill- he says, Schneider informs police! ing? And. the big question: protect Pearl from her father, Nicho-| kill Rev, Hall and Mrs, Mills? Who DID Northwestern College 0. Tarred Felts Insulating Papers Paints of All Kinds Linoleum ¢ FroonTEX—the Economical, ; Sanitary, Attractive FlorCovering ~ Cerigin-teed Pian. ' “<= MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1922 for play. Afternoons are to be ‘de : voteds to organized athletics, track Over 30 Million and field work, rowing, swimming,| Bottles Sold golf and tennis championships of thy _ a different state departments of the << c Legion being at stake. » Streets were to bé roped ‘off in the Vieux Carre, the old French quarter, for, dancing at night, and |within the shadows of the halls ot the departed, French and Spanish re- gimes, the veterans’ of the world war will trip it over the’time worn cob: blostones, It is: undeniably picture- sque, this old Latin quarter. There is the ancient stucco. arch of the building that once served as Spanish military headquarters, through whic: the troopers of the King of Spain rode into a courtyard, where they dozed and swore, gambled, and ex- changed reminiscenes of girls in Spain and other§ in America, after e the immemorial habit of soldiers the ists world \over. E At all good Druggista ‘There is the ancient calaboz, where |< stout doors of oak, reinforced with iron ates, ‘guard only’ the’ shades of departed prisoners today, One} | fancies that the ghosts of departed | Sixth annual convention Inyigorating | fect 1 soldieds may join the veterans, of , 10 and 11, - (SPRUNG AT TRIAL , ttfiework will be taken up. of establ. (Continued from Page ni i count of the murder, The state re-| newly establ plies that Phillips’ confession is un-| Pailrozd_ traffic. S. true. = her husband's alleged vagrant affec- y tions now eons again, as he Phone 260 Works for her acquittal. 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