The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 12, 1923, Page 1

S meteeen “WEATHER FORECAST. Generally fair tonight and Sat- urday. ‘ i ESTABLISHED 1873 KLANSMAN ASKS SESSION | WITH OFFICIAL’ Denies that Operations of Hooded Gang Were Direct- ed by Klu Klux SEVERAL ARE NAMED} McKoin, Former Mayor of Mer Rouge and Others Are Accused Bastrop, La, Jan. 12.— States At- torneys announced early today that Captain Skipw'th exalted cyclops of | the Morehouse parish Ku Klux Klan has requested a conference with At- torney General A. V. Coco and his assistants in connection with the hooded band atrocities in this par- ish. Robert L. Dade, mayor of Mer Rouge, testified in the open court investigation of masked band de- predations in Morehouse parish «that one Ku Klux Klan which he participated he wore a black mask. He declared all the other members of the party wore white hoods, ce) party was investigating a report that a negro near Stantley, La. was operating a gambling house in which white persons were per- mitted to gamble with negroes. Dade told of the band having held “up and lectured Watt Daniel, Harry Neelis and W. C. Andrews, Mer Rouge citizens. Kelley Harp, who followed Dade on the witness stand, admitted he also was in-the Klan band on that. night and that he wore a black mask, Harp said Klan” furnis! regalia. Capt. Skipwith is said to have requested the conference in order to go into the full details of the operation of the Morehouse Klan since its organization and at the same time to establish that the op- erations of the black-hooded band was not under supervision of the Klan. Assistant Attorney-General Guyon confirmed the report that Capt. Sk‘p- with had made overtures to the At- torney-General’s staff and said that ; the Klansman’s request would be granted. No date was fixed for the conference. It is probable it wil] be soon, Robert L. Dade, mayor of Mer Rouge, today named Dr. B. M. Mc- Koin, Capt. Skipwith, Kelly Harp and\Edward Ivey as members of a Ku Klux Klan body whch held up and disarmed Watt Daniel, Harry Andrews and another Mer Rouge citizen near Gallion, La., several months prior to the k'dnaping and murder of Danie] and T. ¥. Richards last August. 1,000 MEN PREPARE 10 END STRIKE St. ‘Paul, Jatt. 12—Steps were un- der way for the return to work of more than 1,000"shopmeh of the (Great Northern raitway, whose strike started Iast July''t, has been ended by negotiations. Shopmen meeting here last night’ ratified the action of their" officials" in terminating the walk-out . after listening to R. A. ’ Henning, head of the Northwest shopcrafts explain the details of the agreement. The meeting was not open to the public. ‘ * ELKS PLAN - ~ INITATION Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler Coming to City “members of the hed him with that A large: class*will be initiated in the Elks lodge here on Fridgy night January 19, for which elaborate pre- d4parations are being made. * There will be a luncheon at the club rooms and a smoker in con- nection with the initiation. . Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler, Brown will be here for the event. The candidates will include ‘several from towns in. two or three adjoin- ing counties. * NOT JOHNSON’S INDICTMENT, SAYS SHAFER * A Fargo report stating thet the first indictment secured before the Cass county grand jury ‘by then Attorney-General Johnson was thrown out because it was improper- ly drawn, was declared by Attorney- General Shafer to be erroneous, ‘The case referred to, he said, was a lo- cal ‘case in Cass county in which neither Mr, Johnson’ or any other representative of the Attorney-Gen- eral’s pff'ce appeared, being @ mat- ter handled entirely by the local officers. a gy, \ ’ D ” raid in} that occasion Dade said the! THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1923. RCE. BY EDWARD THIERRY NEA Service Staff. Writer New York, Jan. 12.—“America } spent $400,000,000 for fake stocks last year.” That is the estimate of Charles M.j Minton, the “shepherd of Wall) street.” He is head of the Minton | Brokers’ Investigating bureau, and, his job is to keep track of crooked | brokers and stock salemen for the! big exchanges. | “The average American with a little money laid by is the biggest sucker in the world,” says Milton. | “Why? Easy — because they don’t heed warnings. They get skinned— then they holler, and when it’s too te they listen to advice.” Stock swindles are being operated | in every big city, and in many small ones, he says. He declares he can name at least 150 crooked ‘houses in| New York. Men Most Gullible “Men are bigger suckers than women.” said Minton, “More of them fall, I mean. Women are more conservative-—but when the fall they fall harder, I know one who! just lost $80,000 in a fake stock deal. ; “Oil stocks used to be the favorite | {medium of gyp artists. Next came; imining stocks. These ane pretty | well played out now. New schemes, are being hatched all the time. Rad is now being used to tap sucke ‘There seems to be as many clever crooks doing business as ever. It is! hard to get the goods on bucket; shops—the crooked brokers who ac- {cept orders and never execute them ‘They put your orders on their cuffs | —and pocket the money. “Most suckers are fleeced by gyp {houses selling handsome stock certi- | |ficates that mean nothing. They fit | up rich looking offices and if they're exposed they get a new sign painted | and move to another office or another | city. : ' “Another class of gyp artists work in what is called a ‘boiler room,’ or ‘hiyh pressure room’—with just a telephone and a telephone directory. They have an uncanny skill at pick- ing names out of the book, giving \swift, sugary canvass over the wire '—and actually hokking cash out of! at least one sucker out of every five | they call. Such a crook is known as a ‘dynamiter.’ His first cousin is called a ‘reloader’—who loads an-\ other block of stock onto a sucker in the very face of the fact that no div- idends have been paid. “Sucker lists are used by many crook salesmen. You can go to half a dozen places in Wall Strect and \buy sucker lists for a cent or two cents a name, depending on the class of stock you want to unload. Every time.a person answers a doubtful ad his name gets into a sucker list—and the name is sold and resold indef- initely. Minton has been in Wall Street 43! years and he thinks the public is! getting more guillible every day. SHOOTS SELF; ACT MYSTERY Episcopal Clergyman of New ¥ork Found Dead From Bullet Wound | i ae ‘ New York, Jan, 12.—The motive for the apparent suicide of Rev. Dr. Percy Gordon, former , assist- ant rector of the St. Bartholo- mew’s Episcopal church, whose body was found yesterday in a |bath tub in his apartment in the Hotel Walcott, remained undis- covered today. There was a bul- let wound in ‘this right temple and a revolver with one chamber emp- ty, lay beneath his right hand. The contents of the two letters found near the body and evident- ly written shortly befoire he had jshot himself was not made. pub lic. One letter was direct Dr. Parks, rector of St. Bartholoz rmew’s and the other to Dr. Gor- don’s son, an under-secretary of the American embassy in Paris. BOWLING EVENT OPENS TONIGHT AT GRAND FORKS Grand’ Forks, N, D., Jan. 12.—The first rumble from the bowlers. in the tournament of the Northwest Bowling Association will be heard touight when the annual attack made upon the maples by the pin smashers of this: patt of the country will take place. The tournament will continue, through the evening of Monday, Jan- uary 22, when the annual meeting and election of officers will be held. ee Se ACCEPTS INVITATION. J. A. Kitchen, commissioner of agriculture and labor has accepted su invitation tendered by’ joint resolu- tion of the South Dakota legislature to attend an agricultural, conference to be held at Sioux City, Ia., Jan. 24. Both bodies of the South Dakota 1. islature. will be represented’ at the meeting which’ will’try to arrive at the average costs of production of various farm crops as shown by cost surveys of the Sesinieconins states. {The South Dakota legislature hopes to, determine e sort of plan to secure for the farmers cost. of pro- duction plus a fair profit for their products, i t Lambs Fleeced of $400,000,000 in 1922; Wall Street “Shepherd” Warng Suckers | FRANCE TO FO ! CHARLES M. MINTON. DON'TS FOR SUCKERS Charles M. Minton, “shepherd of Wall Street,” ‘offers thfs advice to people with money to invest. WOULD RAISE ‘INCOME TAX; LOWER OTHER ‘Proposed to Reduce State Gen; eral Fund Property Levy Through This Method RATES ARE EXPLAINED New Measure Before Commit- tee Would Raise $1,500,000 ‘To $2,000,000 a Year BILL INTRODUCED, Senator Thorson, this after- noon, introduced in the senate the income tax @ll prepared by the state tax commissioner's of- fice and already before the joint tax committee and the house and senate for brief discussion. The bil] was referred to the com- mittee on taxes. In igcome tax law des‘gned to | bring half the amount raised by the Don’t expect to get*rich overnight. Don’t listen to promises of quick dividends. Don’t buy stock from a sa without investigating. Don’t speculate with a broker if you.aren’t sure he is reputable.. i” Don’t think you know it all; ask| adviee before you get skinned. SPUD EXPERTS | AT WORK ON MARKET PLAN Representatives from Seven Producing States in Ses- sion at St. Paul PRICE SLUMPS HEAVILY Increase in Acreage Is 18 Per Cent, Decrease in Price 36 Per Cent St. Paul, Jan, 12—Marketing direc- tors and commissioners of agricul- ture fromthe seven producing states of the Northwest are meeting here today to form a policy of co-opera- tive marketing of the lowly spud. Representatives from potato mar- keting associations in the states con- cerned and from the United States Department of Argriculture and the Federal Reserve bank are also here The states represented are both Da kota’s, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ne- braska and Montana, : “Something must be done to the potato growing branch of. the agri- cutural industry in these’ 7 north- western states,” declared Hugh H. Hughes, Minnesota director of mar- kets. Mr. Hughes, said the potato acreage of the nation has increased 18 per cent since 1920;.36 per, cent of this in these seven states. At’the same time the price of potatoes has gone down 54 per cent. TWO GAMBLING SUITS FILED States Attorney Asks Abate- ment of Nuisance “Injunction suits, to abate ‘alleged to| gambl'ng nuisances have been filed in district court by States Attorney E, S. Allen. The papers were signed by Judge Fred Ji nius at James- town. The partie days in which to answer, and ‘t i expected trial on them Wl be had by spring. ‘ SNe Those named’in one injunction are M. H. Cook,.A. B, Carley and H, 8. ‘Adams, the alleged nujshnce\being at 205 Mandan avenue. Mercia: In another suit Cleo Bryan is named and the place 708 Mgin street. WEATHER REPORT For twenty-four hours ending at noon today: Temperature: at.7 A. M. Temperature at’ noon Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday ... \Gowest last n'ght . Precipitation | H'gh wind velocity .. Weather Forecast. ~ For Bismarck and Vicinity: Gen- erally fair tonight and Saturday. For North Dakota: Generally fair tonight and Saturday; , somewhat warmer ton‘ght east and horth por- tions, ‘ et feather Conditions, The pressure is low in the north- east and over the jnorthern Rocky Mounta‘n region dnd previpitation occurred in the Great: Lakes region and in Minnesota artd 'Waphington. High pressure, central] over’ Nebras- ka and Kansas has been accompanied by a drop in temperature over the Interior States,‘ but -no- unusually low temperatures occurred in’ any section. he aad 5 ORRIS W. KOBERTS, ., d have 30) }on endowment and annunity tracts;:yalue of property. acquired |children su: | present state general property tax was before the legislative commit- | tees on tax and tax laws today, pro- lemani posed by the state tax commission- | j et's office. } The proposed law was explained in| detail to the committees in joint sess‘on last night* by representatives | of the tax commissioner's off.ce. | The proposed law anticipates rev- enue of $1,500,000 a year,to $2,000,- 000 a year, which would cut the general fund to levy of about §$3,- 000,000 in half or more, Lyman A. Baker, of the tax commissioner's of- fice, informed the committees. A tax of 3 or 3 1-2 on corporation net income and a graduated tax of 1 to 6 percent on ind:vidual income above exemptions was suggested, A 3 percent corporation tax, it was es- timated, would raise $700,000. to $800,000 in normal year and the in- dividua] income tax $800,000 to $1,- 200,000, it was est’mated. The bill follows the line of model income tax law drawn by the Na- tional Tax Association which is be- ing urged for passage in all states in order that property shal] not be taxed twice or any property escape taxation, Mr, Baker said. The individual rates proposed. in the, bill are: on all net income above exemptions and not in excess of $2,000, a tax of one percent; income $2,000 to $4,000, tax 2 percent; in- come $4,000 to $6,000, tax 3 percent; income $6,000 to $8,000, tax of 4 percent; income $8,000 to $10,000, tax of 5 percent; net income above $10,000, tax of 5 percent. Exemptions would be at present— $1,000 for single person, $2,000 for a married person with $200 for each ! dependent. | Under the bill, a s'ngle person |with an income of $2,000 a year would pay a tax of 1 percent on $1,000, or $10. A married person | with a like income would pay noth- | ing. A single person with an income of $10,000 a year would pay 5 per- cent rate on $9,000, or $450 a year. ‘A married person would pay $400 a year. | the. present income tax law of the state, the legislators were told. First there are too many exemptions, par- ticularly bank deposits, income from loans on mortgages; second, the per- sonal property off-set, by which one can pay income taxes with a per- sonal property tax receipt; third, the rates are too low compared to cost of collection; fourth, the pro- vision w'th respect to corporations clear, there now being a disputed cla’m of $100,000 with such a cor- poration, - was explained, be in addition to the federal income tax. _ Non-residents Exempt It was provided in the measure that non-resident ,indiv'duals would not be subject to the tax, the intent being not to tax income derived par- ticularly from farm mortgages made lin North Dakota by persons living outside the state. One purpose, it was explained, was so that the mort- gage rate would not’ be increased or money withdrawn from the state, i and ptoperty should be taxed state of residence. in the would be increased both by the in- crease in rate on individuals and by removing “many deduct?ons now per- mitted. } Among the items proposed to be ‘exempted are: proceeds of I'fe in- by gift, bequest ° (but from such property shall interest upon bonds, warfants, etc., of U. 8. or state or -sub-divisions; workmen’s compensat‘on; . salaries of U.'S, employes; income from de- its North Dakota banks and from ins on North Dakota real estate when payable to. a foreign corporation. ‘Sub-Committee Named Following the outline of the bill before the jo'nt~ tax committec a qub-committee of five was named, income senate committee .and Ohairman Jardine of the house committee, to work over the measure and report to the whole committee, The sub- committee began discussion of the |,bill with. Gordon V. Cax, income tax attorney’ for the state depart- ment, ans may be in: pas'tion to re- Port’ soon, a There are four main defects inj doing an interstate business is not | The state income tax would, it | also because of the theory that | including Che‘rman Thorson of the’; FOR GROWER IN House Adopts _ Resolution Stating that Wheat Grower Has Suffered Injustice SOME BILLS ARE KILLED “Robinson Bills” Are Report- ed For Indefinite Postpone- ment by Judiciary | ‘on record this afternon as favoring \| action by the National Congress for emergency f for wheat growers the concurrent resolutions offered by | Rep, Jackson, Independent, Ramsey | county. In adopting the house declared that done to the wheat gr@ver it that the fixed price of wheat during the war was less than the price it would have sold at without price-fixing while the price on things the farmer bought resolution the of government aid to industry puch as provided in the Esch-Cummins railroad law and ship subsidy was consonant with American principles, declared recognition of the fallacy of “a general policy of price-fixing in times of peace except to correct an injustice done to a large portion of our population” and memorialized Congress for legislation but declared it supported no specific legislation now ‘pending before congress. Rep. Voel, Nonpartisan, McLean, de- clared when the resolution came be- fore the house on report of the state affairs committee that the purpose of the resolution was to sidetrack and out-andout declaration in favor of price fixing by the government on wheat. Rep. Jackson denied this, asserting the purpose was to build up a case based on facts, to show Congress that the condition of the wheat far- [met of the Northeast is different ithan that of other lines of industry, jthat he has been discriminated lagainst and that it was right that people to whom he had contributed under such discrimination now con- | tribute to him. Rep. Twichell, chairman of the ‘state affairs committee, said the reso- lution had the unanimous approval of the committer, and that the ma- \jority present at’ the meeting when approval was voted were Nonparti- sans. Following action on this reso- tution dae house indefinitely; hostpon: jad a resolution of Rep. Rustad de- ‘claring in favor of a fixed minimum! price on wheat. Monument Bill Killed. The house received its first com- |mittee reports on bills and quickly {killed six of them in short order. | Several"were bills supported by for- mer Judge Robinson and introduced by Rep, Paul Johnson. Because the jjudiciary committee felt that at this itime the state could spend money to \better advantage than by placing a memorial stone in the Washington (Continued on Page 6) PRIVATE FUNDS T0 COMPLETE SHOALS DAM 12.—Funds 1 1 le ! i Washington, Jan. ‘for the completion of dam Ni and the installation of a. power unit+—all that the war department considers will be needed for sev- ‘eral years at Muscle Shoals—are provided in the army appropria- tion bill reported today to the house. The bill appropriates six million nine hundred ninety-eight thousand dollars for work during the next year and in addition authorizes the secretary of war to The revenue from the income tax/incur obligations on contracts to takeh care of partly by increased the amount of $10,501,200. MOTHER, 37, BABY BURIED, HUSBA 11 CHILDREN LEFT Devils Lake, N. D., Jan. 12.—Fun- eral services were held from the surance policies and contracts paid |Dahlen church for Mrs. James Brown ; upon death of insured; amount re-|87, and infant child, Rev. Ensrud of- more ‘employment is the settlement ceived as a return of premiums or |ficiating. The husband a farmer who and con- |lives 18 miles north of town, and 11 crown and church lands, especially ive. e taxed) | DEFER ACTION. PENDING PROBE OF HOODED KLAN When the ‘senate committee having the bill introduced by Senators Sperry and McCoy sim~ ed at the, Ku Klux Klan met this morning to take up consid-. erat‘on, Senator Sperry inform- ed the senators that he desired time to obtain information from Louisiana eud other states to be presented to the committee in its consideration of the meas- ure) before action was taken. Because of this consideration of the ‘measure was postponed, _ As complete: reports as possi- ble on the activities of the Ku Klux Klan are to be presented, THENORTHWEST; The house of representatives went} injustice wa» was not fixed, declared the principle! 0. 2) Organization Completed with If you never weye a buck private and had a second lieutenant order you around, and then when you got back in civilian life found the second licutenant was working for you—if you've never had this fun nor saw & worm turn—perhaps you'll not ap- preciate the fun the third house had when it organized in the state capi- tol late yesterday. | For the first thing the speaker of | the third house did, after the em-| jployes of the legislature who com-| |promise this body, had organized, | representatives as pages, messengers | and a sergeant-at-arms | There was dignified Senator Rusch of Fargo showing amazing speed in answerin the tap-tap-tan of a mem-| ber of the third hgase calling for a page; there was™Lafe Twichell with- out his cigar carrying a lead pencil to a member; there was Senator Frank Ployhar standing at solemn at- |tention -as sergeant-at-arms, and, to jerown it all, there was Speaker Mose | jRosenweig calling with lordly ’ gcs- | ture upon Representative Trubsha’ of Valley City to bring him a gl of water—and getting it. It was a lot of fun to turn tables Jon the all-powerful senators and rep- |resentatives. It was a triumph for |Mose Rosensweig, Mose has been page, messenger boy, assistant clerk and about everything that takes lots | of orders in the legislature. But this time he was the speaker of the third house. He demanded service, and JUDGE POLLOCK TO SPEAK HERE ON PROHIBITION On Sunday evening next at the McCabe Methodist Hpiscopal church \Judge Chas, A. Pollock of Fargo will speak on “World Prohibition ang the Conspiracy against the 18th Amendment.” Judge Pollock -has of late ‘spent six months in Europe where he investigated and spoke in seven countries on the subject of temperance. He was also a represen- tative of this state at the “World's Convention versus Alcohol,” which was recently held in the city of | Toronto. From these sources Judge ; Pollock will bring much that will in- | terest and instruct. 4 i EXPERT URGES | TRAINED MEN | TO EMIGRATE, America Offers Greater Op- portunity to Qualified Than To Unskilled Labor Stockholm, Jan. 12.—The emigra- tion from Sweden of highly qualified engineers, expert foresters and ag-} riculturalists, of especially trained jindustrial workmen rather than of | (unskilled laborers and ordinary |farmers, is recommended by Dr. Ad- ;rian Molin, an authority on the sub- iject of emigration. Since there | must be emigration of some kind,| {argues Dr. Moline, it would be bet- ‘ter for the home country, and would | | jinsure greater success for the em- \igrants themselves, if those who es- jtablish’ a new domicile in ‘America jand elswhere. were persons of pro- fessional or technical equipment. Swedish statistics show that, be- jtween the ages of 15 and 50, there ‘are now 200,000 more persons engaged iin gainful occupations than there ‘were in 1913, This surplus has been work in the industrial world, and partly by emigration, while the re- mainder, about 38,000, at the end of 1922, are unemployed and must to a certain extent be supported by the state. 2 One movement toward, providing exploitation ‘of undeveloped lin the northern districts, but the ;success has so far been doubtful, land the opponents of the plan point jout that an increase in the number jot farmers will eventually mean a smaller income per capita. 1 Dr. Moline thinks that the time is ‘ripe for government investigation of emigration with a view toward its control.) He deplores the haphazard methods mii at present obtain in most countfies. Thus, for example, industrial workers often emigrate and try their fortunes at farming, adding their own inexperienced to the difficulties of work under new conditions in a new country. He also considers it unwise for persons ac- ‘customed’to a cold or temperate cli- Mate to undertake hard physical labor in a tropical couhtry. ‘American immigration laws. will in the future, it is believed, restrict the stream of emigrants from Swed- jeu. ni GERMAN PAYMENT RELIEF ASKED — DIGNIFIED LEGISLATORS APPOINTED PAGES AND MESSENGERS OF THIRD HOUSE IN BIENNIAL FUN FESTIVAL — Log-Rolling and Hot Political Battles in which Mose Rosensweig Emerges as Speaker And Then Finds Fun in Naming Senators and Representatives as Employes got it from his bosses of every day life, who showed they were .good sports. His Triumph Threatened The day of triumph of Mose was threatened before it was well started however. After diligently campaign- ing and calling numerous caucuses in his campaign for speaker of the third house Mose was “jobbed.” the Beach Advance and now chief clerk of the house, and cunning in politics, and Ernie Warner, secretary of the board of administration did! of the Northwest; when it adopted|Was to name six senators and three |it. They put a woman—a pretty wo- man—up against Mose. They jobbed him when they rushed through the rules of the 1895 session of the third house which gave the speaker 61 per cent of the power. Mose got 25 votes to his opponent's eight, but the speaker declared Mrs. Florence Wallace elected. Mose was crest- fallen. His face dropped and he |crouched down in his seat. Mrs. Wallace ascended the rostrum—and |then did the gracious thing. She esigned and asked the third house |to unanimously elect Mose. The house could not refuse her request. Mose brightened, a smile spread from Jear to ear, and Mose was so eager to get to the speaker’s chair that he met the oncoming escort of lady stenographers with open arms. Rie Job, Says Mose. “You're here to see the first and |second house pass good laws,” de- (Coutinued on Page 2) LOMAS STORE HEREISSOLD 10 NEW FIRM Sorenson Brothers of Belfield And C. E. Vetter Take Over Business Sale of the Lomas Hardware Com- pany to Sorenson Brothers of Bel- field and C. E, Vette] of ‘Bismarck, consummated sometime ago, was for- mally announced today by the par- ties involved. The store is closed pending inven- tory and alterations, and will be opened again about January 20. Wal- ter Lomas, proprietor of the Lomas Hardware company, will continue the mine explosive business which, with the development of the lignite in- dustry has come to be a big business and which he has conducted in con- nection with the hardware store on Main street. The store will be in charge of A. C. Sorenson, who comes here with the best of recommendations as an ex- perienced hardware man and who will, it is announced, ®ve the peo- ple of Bismarck and vicinity the best service possible. Sorenson Brothers have been in the hardware in Belfield for the last 15 years and were recognized as having one of the best hardware firms in western North Dakota. C.D. ! Vettel of Bismarck, associated in the new store, has been a resident of Bismarck for 17 years. He came here in 1906 and entered the French and Welch Hardware Co., where he re- mained until 1913 at which time he accepted a position with the Mar- shall-Wells Hardware Company of Duluth, Minn., as traveling repre- sentative in this district. ‘ Mr. Lomas stated that he wished to extend to the people of Bismarck and vicinity his appreciation for the generous patronage extended his company in the past few years and to bespeak for his successors the same pleasant relations. NO CHANGE IN SIZE OF ARMY _ Washington, Jan. 12—A stand- ing army of 125,000 enlisted men and- 12,000 : commissioned officers the same as authorized last year is provided for in the army an- ropriation bill reported to the ouse. Change of Plan For Packer Control Washington, Jan. 12.—Import- ant changes in the tentative plans for the administration of the Walt | Cushing, at normal times editor of | LAST EDITION ‘PRICE FIVE CENTS PREPARED T0 TAKE MORE GERMAN SOIL Poincare Warns Chamber Not To Expect Results Too Soon BANKS MOVE RESERVES England Continues to Con- demn Movement of French Troops STATE OF’ SEIGE Essen, Germany, Jan. 12.— General Degoutte today issued a proclamation from Duessel- dorf establishing a state of seige throughout the newly oc- cupied territory. ° ie German laws, it was stipulated, would remain in force. (By the Associated Press.) Paris, Jan. 12.—France at last has a grip upon the “productive guar- antees” she has sought from Ger- many ang has served notice throug) her premier that she is prepared t | extend her holdings if economic oc | cupation of Essen does not yield sat isfactory results. : It was understood here today i) fact that another Ruhr zone woulc be subjected to “invisible occupa tion” within three days. Premier Poincare in his statement in the chamber of deputies warnec the nation not to expect the open ling of the Ruhr treasure house i would be followed immediately by 1 | flood of gold. He asserted it prob {ably would be sometime before the {control commiss.on efforts could be | noticeably productive. | Make Evas ons. | The Ruhr banks, Le Matin says |have followed the example of the | Coal Syndicate, by removing their | securities and most.of their deposit: It is reported that most of the eve sions have been foreseen gad the ‘measures have been prepared whic will punish such acts and frustrat the Germans’: purposo. |""le the newspapers reflect publi ‘opinion yesterday was undoubted! | regarded as a red letter day by th- | majority of Frenchmen. No mir- |eivings for France’s stand are nc 'tleable except among the radice | critics of the government who do nc believe that the firm policy'of M Poincare can have beneficial result: The stock markets, are nowhere a‘ fected unfavorably and the fran shows a tendency to increase i value. FRANCE CONDEMNED. London, Jan. 12.—An unmistakab ifeeling of relief that the first + ‘hours of France’s Ruhr adventu passed without a breach of the pea: was evjdent here today. Although the French moveme continued to be widely condemne ; and deplored there.is no general di ‘sire to see Great Britain’s ally it volved in conditigns which wou seriously add to her burdens ar above all which would lead to bloo. shed. “f This attitude is refleeted in so. of the comments in the grorni: newspapers which mention with a proval,the conciliatory tone of Ge: eral ‘Degoutte’s proclamation to t! Ruhr valley inhabitants, The newspapers also endorse suc! indication of British good will 1 France as this government, decisio to allow the.French troops to cros the British Rhine zone. Although a jority of the pres opposed any operation by Great Brit- ain in the Ruhr and criticizes ancy what the papers regard as a seriou French blunder it cannot be ignore that there exists \in Great Britain : strong anti-German sentiment and i is unquestionable that there woul: be considerable—if secretpopula: satisfaction if France’s contentior that Germany is bluffing about her inability to pay be proved’ by the outcome of events. ENTRENCHED TOGETHER, London, Jan. 12.—The serio spectacle of the French and Germa’ fighting a common .enemy; on.‘ frozen shores on the Baltic is expc ed from today’s developments in topsy turvy European situation, a result of ‘the Lithuanian adVance «, on Memel. The troops, composed for the mo - of Germans ang|the French troc entrenched in the outskirts of 1 city, will resist the Lithtanian ra ers, according to. agpices receiv here, ying The British government has assv- ciated itself wit the Fresch in pro- testing to Lithuania on the advance on Meme! and a British eruiser | his been dispatched .#ither. 40,000 RETURN ‘To WORK. packer contre! act are understood| Essen, Germany, Jan. 12—The 40. to have been urged by representa-| 000 loyes of the Pp plant here tive of the Big Five packers of | went. &@ work this. mornin Chicago in conference today with|sccording to “information “ representatives of the Department |suppliedto the F of Agriculture. © bgp red Ge PAPER SUES KIDDER FOR but, the $2,798 ON TAX LIST FEES/small, it Pu gana D., ee 12—The Kidder | ‘Th ‘ounty Farmera sf begun an/posts to. action to recover, saipaes trom north ‘of. Kidder county for publication of the| ive 1922 ‘delinquent tax list, The ‘case ‘will come up at Jaméstown on-a hear- ing upon an application foes writ of] © mm 8. coun ; lone the Press $1,880." William Langer iath© 1200 soldit