The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 28, 1923, Page 1

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Partly overcast Thursday. and ————$———= tonight | ESTABLISHED 1873 ASSOCIATION BACKS DRIVE FOR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE LAST EDITION BISMARCK, NOI NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1923 PRICE FIVE CEN SETTLERS STARI MOVE TO RENOMINATE HARDING _ PARTYLEADERS| ARE AT WORK ON STRUCTURE Seek Building of Machine that Will Insure Renaming of President, Standard Bearer DAUGHERTY NOT ACTIVE | Poor Health May Force Him to Yield Management to Other Hands | (By the Associated Press) Washington, Feb. 28. —; Convinced that half a dozen aspirants already are making cautious overtures to test their strength as Republican presidential possibilities for 1924, some of the friends of President Harding have be- gun work to assure him a re- nomination. i ~ Thus far the movement on behalf of the President has not reached proportions of a: closely knit organization, but it has progressed to a point; where it promises to make ite} self felt in many states before | long. j The attitude of Mr. Hard-| ing himself toward a second; term remains unknown, but it is considered improbable | that he will make any public ; statement of his intentions, : at least in the near future. | There is quite general) agreement among those in the } inner circle of Washington ; politics, however, that a pub- lic statement of his steward ship will impel him to stand | for re-election. It is upon ; this presumption, at any rate, ; that those who want to see: him remain in the White: House for another four years | are proceeding. Included in} the group at the conference’ here are some of the men who : led the successful pre-conven- ! tion campaign of 1920 and! some who came over to the} Harding ranks from other! camps after the convention; was over. i As a result of the ultimate: line-up of the Harding forces | of 1924 it is expected to re- semble only in part the or-; ganization that fought andj triumphed in the fight three: years ago. | Attorney-General Daugher- ty, who was the pre-conven- ; tion manager prior to 1920, is{ expected to take a hand in| urging his re-nomination but ; for several reasons Mr.| Daugherty is not expected by; his’ friends to be as active as) he was in 1920. His health | * recently failed him, requiring him to remain in bed for sev- eral weeks, and although he has recovered he ‘is not ex- pected to take the burden which would entail much traveling. Several men who have been prom- inent in party affaii's have been men- tioned as available fer the work of organization; Charles D. Hilles, for- mer national chairman, is one of those considered but he has made no statement so far as to what part he would be willing to take in pre-con- vention work. In the backgrou1.4 lies the question of who is to manage the Republican campaign. Supporters of John L. Adams, the present chairman, say that they expect km to retain that post regardless of the results of the Discussion subject here recently has brought to life, however, gn attempt by friends of Wilt H. Hayes, who managed the 1920 campaign to rein- state him in the chairmanship. nominating convention. of the Propose Statue For Southern Mammies Washington, Feb. 28.—Authority for erection in Washington of a monument for faithful colored mam- mies of the south was given in a Dill today passed by the senate. It was introduced by Senator Willi- ams, Mississippi. * RELEASE MISS MacSWINEY Dublin, Feb,_28.—Miss Annie Mac- Swiney was released from Kilmain- ham prison this afternoon on the fifteenth day of her hunger strike. j according to latest report Julia Arthur, s has bro age star, In 1901 her husband, Benjamin P. her with a gem cut from the Hop lowed, wiping out their fortune. CONQUERS DEMON OF DIAMOND Bad luck is 5 ken the famous Hope Diamond Jinx, pposed to haunt its owner. multimilliqnaire, presented | Financial reverses fol-| stage | Cheney, e diamond. Julia Arthur returned to the st | presentation among the counties o | vote undgunted and determined, her husband set to work anew in an effort | to regain fortune. And they are fz POLITICAL CALENDA ASL. V. A, G. 0. ~ DEMOCRATS, ' And There Is Also the Third Party Rumor in the Offing —Both Sides Beginning to Check up the Political Results of This Session en the Legislature and to Draw | Lines for Future Battles. The political calendar is just as ‘well filled as the Tegislative calendar as the assembly session nears the end. With one political meeting com- ' pleted over the week-end, another was held last night, the Nonpartisans meet Friday and Saturday and the Democratic state committee meets Saturda In addition there is that elusive |thing—a third party—flirting around on the current of politica) gossip. A lot of politicians would not be sur- {prised at anything definite that may come up. ‘ The call for the meeting of the Democratic state committee was dis- patched ‘last night by Secreta Henry Holt of Grand Forks on the authority of Chairman G. S. Wool- edge of Minot, according tp) word ere. The Democrats will settle in iN meeting whether or not the action of the state executive committee ma. jority in: opposing the non-political ballot election law will be sustained or repudiated. Fifteen members of the state com- mittee and all of the independent Democratic members of the legisla- ture had signed a petition for the call. Want. Referendum. The Republican state executive committee, as controlled by the Non- partisan League, met here last night with Chairman R. W. Frazier of the state committee. The majority “of the committee was present and favors submission of the election laws to.a vote of the people, Mr. Frazier said, They would be submitted at the No- yember election in 1924. If 7,000 petitioners ask a law be referred its effects is held up until after the vote, so. that in case of an election the ballots will not be changed in the 1924 election, “We wish to hold the referendum at that time in order to avoid the expenge of a, special election,” R. W. (Continued on Page Three) VALENTINO THINKS $1,250 A WEEK ar on the road to success. I R BIG ONE, P., LEAGUERS, ALL HAVE SESSIONS LOOTED CLAIM OF WITNESSES Legislature Condemns Federal Inspectioni St. Paul, Feb, 28—Drastic action !to bring about a reform in the me- | thods of grading grain in the north- west is promised as result of legis- lative hearing in the office of the Minnesota Grain and Warehouse Commission, Members of South Dakota, Detota expressed their sympathy with the movement to bring about a reform in the federal system fof | grain grading. Testimony of witnesses some of whom were federal inspectors said the grower has no chance at all un- der federal system. That under this system the best of northwestern wheat is graded low into the termi- nal elevators and graded out high; that wheat delivered to the elevators and mills as No. 2 or even as No. 3 i frequently is graded out at No. 1. That a loss ranging from 10 to 25 cents a bushel is caused/ the” grower 'by the arbitrary rules ‘of the fed- eral’ board of appeals and that no such loss is inflicted on the termi- nal elevator company which out the grain. ea | SHIP SUBSIDY BILL KILLED Washington, Feb. 28—The admin- istration shipping bill was finally killed today in the, senate. After refusing by a vote of 48 to 36 to send the legislation back to committee the senate voted to lay it aside and take up the filled milk bill. the legislature of A big London hotel boasts a danc- ing floor resting on 240 spiral springs, which are “tuned up” every ten years. PALTRY SALARY AND WILL TRY: - PROMOTING HIS OWN PERSONALITY New Youk? Feb, 28.—Forced by: a court ruling to stay away from the camera. for about a year, Rodolpi Valentino has decided on a nation- wide tour to show himself in. person. Exactly what Valentino will do on the tour has not been decided. He was restrained from appaatine be- fore any other camera than that of the Famous Players ‘Lasky Company which has @ contract with him for $1,250 weekly salary which. contract he tried to’ escape because he thought the’ pay Mpemuedetete: | Testimony “Before Minnesota | Montana and North} ships! ! i {ator B. F. Baker, Nonpartisan, the | votes cast his district of McKenzie} j one of the districts slated for divi |WHEAT GROWER’ !about to say?” | BILL CHANGING NAMES CRESSINGER 'WORK WOULD LEGISLATIVE TO HEAD FEDERAL BOUNDS WINS Reapportionment Measure Passed by House Is Ac- cepted in the Senate Feb, 28—-The nomin- Pation of D. R. Crissinger, comp- troller of the currency, to be Gov- ernor of the Federal Reserve Board, was reported favorably today — by the senate banking committee action was de! Jon the nomina- tion of Jame McNary, southwest- jern banker, to succeed Mr, Cri 1ker as comptroller. REFUSE BANK CHANGE © pwight Davis of Missouri, j top of the war was nominated to be assistant see retary of war in plaée of John M | Wainwright, who leaves office March | 4 to become a member of the next | congress. The president named W. Mondell, | republican floor leader of the present | | house, to suceeed Mr. Davis as direc ‘tof or the War Finante Corporation. ! Horace M. Towner of Iowa for} jyears a republican leader in the| [house of representatives was nomi- mend for passage the oil inspec- | nated today to succeed Monts Reilly ! tion, the pure food, and the bev- (as governor of Porto crages inspection acts. | The action house reconsidered its of last night when the | hill to provide state coopera- | tion with the federal govern- | ment under the Sheppard-Town- | PLAN KILLED er Maternity act was defeated | and this afternoon passed the “ IN THE HOUSE | Bills Advocated by North Da- | kota Good Roads Associ- | Washington a direc- Provision Only “Dirt Farm ers” May Obtain State Loans Is Retained The State Affairs committee of the house reconsidering three of the bills for revision of the | regulatory laws of the state this afternoon to recom- Reapportionment of legislative re- North Dakota became practically tHe [fut the senate on a party pproved for passage House ae the bill providing for such its. The mea- Bil fi ation’ Die The Nonpartisan League senators opposed the measure strongly. Ole | Ettestad of McHenry county insist- ed that the measure should be ‘held up until after the 1925 state census and the reapportionment then be ba- sed on the results shown by that} CLASHES OCCUR Solons in Brushes Over Guar- count. ; anty Fund and Other Senator Byrne attacked the pro-| _ posed law on the basis of unfair- Measures in House ness declaring that on the basis .of} ae l There is grave of and Williams county had more right! Nosth Dakatm losing tederal to demand division into two distriels! iq in road building through than has Stutsman county which is!” Gefeat of the good roads aaro- ciation program bills in_ the house of representatives, Pres- danger sion if the law passes. The majority report of the com- ; & : ident I. J. Moe of the North mittee on elections was finally ac-! fakota Good Roads Associa- cepted, and the bill will be on the| ‘ion, declared here before calendar. 5 Resolution Dies ae for his home in Valley The Nathan «resolution, designed North Dakota has been get- ting federal aid on the under- standing that proper legisla- tive would be taken in North he said. The consti- to permit farm owners not actuaily residing on the land to obtain loans from the Bank of North Dakota, and; also to compel the officials of the} farm loan department to remove re-j strictions on farm loans based on the products of the farms in ques-' tion was killed aftér a brief debate, the vote again being along party! lines, * | It was at this time that Senator Baker, Nonpartisan, clashed with Lt | Gov. Frank Hyland. Following the “aye” and “no” vote} the lieutenant-governor, as presid-! ing officer, had declared himself to! be in doubt as to the result started to call for a- division. i “Let’s have a roll call, what do} you want to waste time on a division; ‘ for?” called out the senator from! Renville. / 1 Bang went the gavel. ! “Will the senator from Renville kindly allow me to finish what I was inquired Mr. Hy tutional amendment proposed, of state creating a system highways under excl: trol of a highway bod, not be voted on before 1924, and unless submitted on peti- tion North Dakota will be un- able to comply with the feder- al road act, he declared. The federal act provides no state aid will be given after 1926 unless {he state has a_high- and} w System, for which the state as a unit, not the coun- ties, provides funds, The whole subject will be canvassed at the annual meet- ing of the good roads associ tion here on March 15, he said. The program advocated by the! orth Dakota Good Roads Asso-; land, jation for creation of a perman- The lieutenant-governor stated the ent state highways system in question, counted the votes, and an- North Dakota was_ killed in the nounced the result. thouse of representatives yesterday | “And from this time on I want it/ afternoon. understood that I’m the presiding!\ The state highway commis officer of this senate,” he concluded. | Unless appropriations are denied, The senate passed a big grist of! will continue to function as bills, including a number of house! Present, and will be constituted appropriation measures, and the|Under present law. Federal aid; conew{rrent resolutions introduced | Toads may be built with the coun- Be Monday afternoon by Senator Porter | ty paying half and the federal gov-; and Rusch, ‘ernment paying half the cost, un-! : jless there is adverse ruling from Pass’ Tabert Resolution ;the U. S. Bureau of Good Roads; The Porter resolution calls for aibecause of action of the searching probe by the state of Flor- ture. ida into the death at a convict la- bor camp of Martin Tabert, former- ly of Cavalier county. The resolu-/ legisla- | the lower house on committee re- RESERVE BOARD but, | finance corporation| at | Three bills—senate bills No. 44,| 45 and 46—were put to sleep in! —--- 6 TAKEJOBS FROM POLITICS | | Recommends Naming Post-; | masters by Department Heads Solely Experts on Farmer Shows a Commerce ISCORES EXAMINATIONS Says Present Sp stem . i 3 z a policy Detriment to Busihess | Administration Dinner of the association at evening. O. N. were H thins, Washington, Feb. 28 | Gene al Work recommended to Pres- ident Harding teday that selec- tion of postmasters should no long- be considered a political prere- ite of senators und representa- should be vested in the artment al ne time the Postmaster- who retires from his pres- ition on M h 4, to become | of the rior, —recom- re. i quiring examination of — postoffice { candidates by the Civil Service Com- mission be abandoned. The postoffice department is a strictly business organization and it ought to be aided in putting the right men in the right place, as any ; private business concern would en- deavor to do for its own advance- ment, and not be handicapped either by al consiverations jor by | the ions entailed in the pres- | ent plan requiring examination by the Civil Service Commission whi: it does not even give Civil Service | status.” Postmaster ion Burleigh county lands and farming. ou tives but postoffice de, showing the At the ) General, ent pi | Seeretary to the production of corn. GRAND JURY WILL PROBE TABERT DEATH Starts Move Before Florida Legislature to Abolish Farming Out Convict Labor h In mended that present regulatio EVIDENCE IN MURDER CASE Seeks to Weave Chain of Cir- death of Martin Tabert of Munich, , valier County Residents Parents of Boy Who Suffered Under System cumstantial Evidence 4 D., at the a of pase Lum- . | ber Camp early in 1922 will be made Around Schneider Nemeanubject erie Geeandujurya inact [gation the latter part of March it iwas stated at the governor's office, EXHAUST JURY PANEL | Gov. Hardee se months ago iforwarded to the circuit court of- jficials of Perr, ounty, documer Forty-one Persons Called Be-| jevidence of Tubert’s death gathe: by an attorney who was sent to Flor- | fore Twelve Are Obtained | ida as representative of the Nortn To Try Case | Dakota government. The executive would not go into 2 the nature of the evidence, i The state began weaving its chain; Tabert, a youngster viewing the of evidence in the Kasimir Schneider World “from an outdoor pullman” [murder trial in district court here, W9% Convicted in county court, here lees ‘in Dec. 15, 1921, on a charge of vag- oday, starting out from the first to’ yaney and sentenced to pay a fine of ldraw it tightly around Schneider so | $25 or serve a month in prison, that no reasonable doubt would bw! Subsequently he was leased to the jleft in the mind of the twelve jurorsy Putnam Lumber company (sitting in the case. At the prelim-!Florida. He died Feb. 1, a jinary hearing the evidence of the; port made by lumber company un- | state was chiefly circumstantial, and! der date of Feb. 3 gave the cause |the prosecutors have not divulged'as fever “and other complications.” jany further testimony that they may|His relatives were not known, the joffer at the trial now before Judge! report said, and the lumber buried | Jansonius. |him at Perry. The jury was secured after two} Commissioner of Agriculture W i days, during which the panel of 36, McRae, recently cited the bo: ‘regular talesmen was exhausted, andi death as another indication against i special call for five more was neces | the system of leasing county convicts. ary. The selection of the jury be-| He has made known that he would Hing concluded last night, taking of again go before the legislature and ‘evidence began today. lurge that the practice be abolished. The court room was crowded this} Gov. Hardee, too, has expressed | morning when former Coroner H. J. \“the hope” that the legislature would |Strolke took the stand as the first! do away with it. jwitness, many of the spectators be-{ Local attorneys representing the ing neighbors of the S¢hneider south family of Tabert have announced side home, where his wife died early | that they will enter suit against the last June. company growing out of his death. H Tells of Call. a |, Coroner Strolke described his call, to the house after her death, jhis| RING LOST 16 YEARS FOUND. j decision to order an autopsy because} Bowman, D., Feb. 28—J. E. no physician was present when she | Phelan has just recovered a prized | died, and the acts taken to this end| gold ring which he lost 16 years agp tion was reported in for passage by| po¥t. There was divided report ofjand the sending of the stomach to| while working with a bunch of cattly the senate committee on federal re-' the highways committee on only | lations and unanimously passed. senate bill No. 44, which called for Senator Rusch’s resolution calls|\the appointment of a new highway for an investigation. by the Gover-|commission. of three appointive nor to decide whether. or not an; members, eliminating the Gover- efficiency expert. should be called/nor and Commissioner of Agricul-' in to determine how efficiently and/ture whe now are members; pro- economically the state departments! viding for a county seat to county| are. being run. seat system of state highways, The bill for the increase of thej commissioners six years each, and| real estate loan ‘bonds of the statejseparating the positions of state | to twenty-five million ‘dollars went | engineer and chief engineer of the through sailing, although with sev-; highway’ commission. eral amendments, which must now: The majority on this bill was for be acted on by the house. Senator ; indefinite postponement, and the Walter Bond, Independent, and Sen- minority for passage. The major- ity report ‘prevailed, 66 to 26, with leading members of the two factions virtually no debate, the whole on the committee on banks ,and; question having been threshed out banking both spoke in favor of the|pefore. “Rider” Dies measure. The house bill for county di Senate bill No. 46 provided for sion, drawn to permit the formation] submission to vote of the people of a new county from the “Goosg,a constitutional amendment estab- neck” of Ward, and the greater part |lishing permanently a system of of Renville and, Burke counties was|state highways. The committee killed on committee report. Senator|report was unanimous. It also Ingerson of Burke county put up 9!agreed on senate bill No. 45, intro- fight on the action, but the report{duced in the senate to provide for of the committee recommending the pazinent of all motor ; vehicle death of the bill was accepted with.| license fees to the state bighwry out a roll call vote being taken. commission. It was ame! The senate got into a warm jangle|the senate to carry a monet de- (Continued on Page Three) (Continued on page 38.) the state laboratory at Grand Forks/in the yard of a cattle ranch. The | succeed on for analysis. |finder, now man grown, when a boy Dr. G! R. Lipp was the second wit-| was offered a reward if he could find ness on the stand. He was question-|the ring’ He returned it to Mr (Continued on Page Three.) | Phelan and received the reward. - ‘NORTHWEST BUSINESS VOLUME | ONE-THIRD GREATER SAYS | FEDERAL BANK OFFICIALS (By the Associated Prose.) Minneapolis, Feb. 28.—The volume of. business in the Northwest during January measured by bank reports was one-third larger than that of a year ago, according to the monthly. report of the Ninth District Federal Re- Serve agent made today. Regional business declines a were less.than they had been for four years, January busi- ness being only five per cent less than December. Livestock ~ continued to move in much larger volume than normal, the report stat- ed, adding that the heavy movement of hogs and calves reflects the profitable utiliza- tion of feed corn and the de- velopment of dairying. DIVERSIFICATION KEYNOTE OF BIGFORUMONSETTLEMENT OF BURLEIGH COUNTY LANDS Two Hundred Business Men Hear Vital I Agricultural Problems—‘“Jack” Da Way — Auspices of sues Discussed by ies, Dirt of Associati Resolutions committing the Association of Commerce to { along the lines of better farming and land settlement {in Burleigh county were adopted at the February Forum i the Grand Pacifie Hotel last Dunham proposed the resolutions which adopted without dissent. of the Association of Commerce to get back of the Bismarck Immigration Association in their efforts to put ‘more people They express the purpose to assist in diversification of Some convincing data was given by the various speakers rapid progress that is being made in dairying in this section and the adaptability of Burleigh county lands W. H. Webb Presides W. H. Webb, president of the As- sociation of Commerce, presided at the dinner and introduced Secretary Bradley, the new executive of the ssociation to the membe In a brief snappy address, he declared that it was the motto of the new organization to “get things done.” He declared that he was thoroughly sold on Bismarck and that the asso- ciation was at work upon two or three planks of its program as de- veloped by the American City Bu- reau. Judge A. M. Christianson was then introduced the toastmaster for the evening. He spoke of the great strides being made in the progress toward a dairying state and how im- portant the problem of immigration was to the state. He declared that the interest shown in the attendance of 200 or more at the dinner spoke eloquently for the interest in such a vital subject as land settlement Discusses Immigration Byerly, general immigration ent of the Northern Pacific, was the first speaker, He sketched the different pla of land payments, the amortization and the crop pay- ment plan, advocating the latter plan, he declared it had proved gen- ly successful although issue w taken with him by Jack Davie: dirt farmer from Wing, who gave a few hard headed facts on how to a farm without subsidy or the success of hard work and rigid application. Inquiries Active Mr. Byerly indicated that inquir- s had been active for North Da- kota land and that it was up to 2h various localities to organize to their share of the business. railroad he pointed out could do a certain service in getting settlers into a community but in the final analysis it was the businessman and general local conditions that id the community to the prospective land buyer. Never before in the history of the immigration movement had home- seé¢kers rates been so favorable and made so available and he believed that this factor would aid greatly in the movement of settlers to the west from the more congested sec- tions of the east. He compared prim- itive transportation in China and other semi-civilized centers to the highly organized and efficient trans- portation in Untied States. The cost here is 6 %mill per ton mile to 1212 cents per ton mile in China where men are used chiefly to transport freight by most primitive methods. Better Era in Sight “On all sides,” he said, “there is an indication of a better era for North Dakota. This is reflected sig- nificantly in the figures on dairy- ing. On Jan. 1, there were 19,000 more cows on North Dakota farms than a year ago. Cream shipments over the Northern Paci line sys- tem in this state for 1922 amounted to 5,226,050 gallons.” H. S, Funston, general immigra- tion agent of the Soo road, in his address stressed the fact that the immigration problem has developed away from the old idea of simply immigration, Land Settlement Better Term “I don’t like the term immigra- tion,” he said. That means going to Europe and getting a lot of people together and bringing them out west and dumping them’ upon the ground. I like to regard the problem more as land settlement. Selling them a home and service. In its broader aspects it means too better farming. Putting people on your lands who have the ability to succeed. The businessman has a great responsi- bility in this matter. A railroad by efforts can get. the settler into your midst but you must sell him your community. The old boom lit- erature will not get settlers any more. He has changed. He is not merely seeking land in a speculative mood. He is an investigator. When he comes into a community he is going to size you and your district up thoroughly and unless you sell — him yourself and your setvice he is going elsewhere. It is a home’ he is looking for where he can earn legitimate return upon his labor ave ne capital and rear his children amid the proper enviro! must be something in "yar bare (Continues ‘on ‘Page