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

——— WEATHER FORECAST. ===-] THE BISMARCK. TRIBUNE | LAST EDITION STABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1923 PRICE FIVE CENTS MAN Y REPORTED DEAD IN TORNADO 8 GERMANS, 2 FRENCHMEN, DIE IN RIOTS "si! MOST SERIOUS OUTBREAKS IN OCCUPIED AREA Town of Recklinghausen Put |. Under Martial Law Fol- lowing Disturbances Pol SARE IN REPLY Declares Germans Want to Renew War of 1871 and Occupy France Recklinghausen, Germany, Mar. 12.—Kight Germans are the result of clashes with French troops in various parts of the Recklinghausen district last night. One at Dortmund. A state of siege has been de- ed in the entire Recklinghau- district in ecneeaucnce of these urbances. Two Frenchmen, one an officer and the other a civilian railroad men, were assassinated Saturday night in the streets of the mining town of Bouer, near Recklinghau- sen, Each body, when found, had five! photo above was taken as the body bullet wounds in it. One of the ictims was Lieut. Col Tim of the curs and the other M. Joey, chief of the Suer railroad station. Unrest and discontent among the population of the Recklinghausen dist have been smouldering for several days. Feeling was run- ning high on both sides Sunday. The slaying of the Frenchman is considered the most serious affair rench general commanding the} district ordered the arrest of the} Burgomaster of Suer, his assist-| ant, the chief of police and two} other town officials. All are being held by the French as hostages. The today that a penalty of at least one hundred million marks would! be, imposed on the town of Sue: that all of the cafes, moving pi turg shows and other public places! would be closed and that German; civilians will not be permitted on the streets after 7 o’clock in the subsides. No trace of the Slayers has been found. Indicatios of resumption of ac-| resistance among German of- | was reported by French in- teligence officers during the last | Several German secret or-} ia izations are said to have been; oy formed to oppose the French inj every way. One of these is known; as “The Young Germans.. ‘‘Sev- eral of its leaders, have been ar- sen district, three of which are! state mines, are in operation. READY ‘TO RI RESUME Paris,‘ Mar 12.—Premier, Poin- , answering Germany’s com- ait of the French invasion of. the | 1871. ORDER PROBE ewe pmietiosel A rench soldier and three | Germans were wounded in a riot | {police rushing to hold back the jens GERMAN MAGNATE. nce the occupation began. The{ rench authdirties seaecta| Most of the leaders, the; French say, are young ‘miners or! factory workers. ie The mines in the Recklinghau- | yyhon's | beginning of a sunny day is tnat! the itragic Dublin is still tragic. But j “tragic” would not accurately de {State today, Ruhr, declared yesterday that Ger-; many wished to reinforce her | urmy of ocqupation in France andj ‘was ready to resume the war of | 1 While his bride looked on Har S. Young (inset), famous “Hun Fly.” fell ten sories from the of the Martinique hotel to his death in Broadway, New York. Young was aged in a publicity stunt when he met his death. On the right, Young is shown midway in his climb. he i struck the sidewalk and shows the IRELAND IN. - REPORTED ASBACK ; London, Mar, 12.—Wholesale rum q j running into the United States by four or five ships registered unde the Panama flag, is’ being financ |b by a prominent German magnate, a Only Members of Cabinet Are! cording to information ree Truly Optimistic in Face | jcre, Stri The fleet, it is declared, is being } Of Strife ed chiefly from the United | i TRE end by a former German cap- ze BUT IRISH DON") MOURN)! of @ Hamburg American liner. lmeaniricncony ar wane LIQUOR CASE ning until after the excitement : Business Slumps and Idle Increase { | INU. 8. COURT Defendant in Liquor Case NEA Staff Correspondent. Dublin, March 13.--Boom! | Tells How Incident Is Sup- It's the blast of high explosives. A few minutes later « congenial official enters the office of the Free penises State cabinet minister with whom I, Charles Root, farmer, who attend- am conversing. ‘ed a dance at the Fort Berthold Maybe) yous heard} the explosion.| yeservation, was tried in federal © ” he “I just wanted to tell | am & | court on a liquor charge today, when { you that they have blown up Paddy he didn't even get a drink, according | printing works.” to his testimony. Ones first impression after this! “rho explanation given by Rott to jury was that a man at the dance suggested there was a drink in a bottle along the fence and % | and another man went out and ki | ‘ed in tae dark along the fence Kish: | posed to Have Happened \scribe the capital of the new Fr Two Sides to Picture. The situation is two-sided; | Indians jumped up: and declared , Throngs of pretty, well-dressed! they were arrested. young women shopping in fashion-| Government attorneys, however, | able Grafton street; gaunt, timorous| told the jury not to under emphasi | Women following you a block on; the importance of the situation, | Sarrotk street begging a penny. | stating that Congress had provided ! Young squireens in’from the coun-! very severe penalties regarding 1i- | | try on perfectly groomed horses and| quor on Indian reservations,’ The | themselves in perfectly tailored! case was given to the jury before | noon today. cold pavements in bare feet. Root, said by his attorney to it ON TAXATION newsboys walking the ice-| A handsome new department store|a respectable farmer. had gone to Cpunty Commissioners Ask! Infgrmation on Omitted Property Investigation to learn if there has ven property gmitted from the tax r has been ordered by the Bur- leigh county board of commission- ers, The action followed reports to the board that this existed in large ree in one or two instances, it is , and the states attorney was ordered to conduct an investigation. GOVERNOR PREUS REPORTED ILL St. Paul, Mar. 12.—Governor J, A. O. Preus was unable to come to tis office in the capitol today because \of an attack of throat trouble and cold. Although not critically ill Governor Preus’ condition is some- what serious and attending physi- ‘cians ordered him to remai: bed. The governor has been confined to his home since last Friday. | TRIAL OF RADICALS. STARTS. St. Joseph, Mich., Mar, 12.—More than. a score of radical leaders, al- leged by the state to have attended a convention of the communist party near here last August,’/were gather- éd here today at the opening of the * tgial of William Z. Foster. opening its doors jon wide O’Connell| a dance with his wife and with an-| street; a stone's throw away a wholy| other man and his wife. Root said | block of artillery-smashed and fire-| they took no liquor and did notj twisted wreckage of hotels and bus-j| drink any at the dance. He then re-/ iness houses. ¢ | lated the incident of how a man! 1 A committee meeting to fear re-) Suggested they Ko out and kick a- | ports of damage wrought to farm-| long the fence for a bottle supposed | houses by torch plied by Irregulars; | -© contain liquor. another commission meeting to cong _ The government attorneys had not sider how to improve Ireland's canal | furnished attorneys for the defense eaten’ this morning with -a bill of partic- Stern suppression of British news-| Ulars in the C. R. Jones case, but papers which print Irregular propa-| Were expected to do so this ‘after- ganda; walls Of public buildings de-| "0%, There may be other prelimin- faced by defiant sentences painted] ®Tes before the case starts. there at night by daring bands of young women opposed to the Irish Free State. ‘People complaining about the. high LOANS REPAID cost of bread; others about how dear eee violets are, Grand Forks, March 12.—Of Employment exchanges crowd¢d| seed loans amounting to $3, 549,- with men an@ women seeking jobs; |962 made by the government in fashionable hotels and restaurants|five Northwestern states dhring crowded with men and women drink-}1921 and 19: $1,954,406- ‘have ing tea and eating fancy cakes. been collected according. to figures Despair Takes’ Hold. made public. today at the district It seems a mad world, but in es-|seed loan office yep Idaho leeds sence is the same as New York or|in the percent intane of of loans repaid, Cleveland or Los Anggles or ary |having ‘ret percent of other city: There are the same con-|the money loan rab Percentage trasts of rich’ und poor, of the com-|of loans repaid in other states fol- fortable and the ‘camfortless, the|}lows: South Dakota 69.9; North law abiding and the lawless, of good Dakota 58.0; Montana 47.9 and, and évil. Washington 45.2 percent. Still there is in Dublin, and in ———a much of southern Ireland as well, RESCUED BY FIREMEN. somethi: like black ' despair—ex-| Minneapolis, Mar, 12.—Overcome cept-in the ‘cabinet; where optimigm by smoke whilt she ‘slept Mrs, Mari- rules! « on F. Brown today 01 her life to People are wondering whether the|two firemen’ who broke down the ‘country door to her room ‘and: carried. her to « the street early bah morning. OVER $2,000,000 BLACK DESPAIR OF RUM RUNNERS ed at! | American prohibition headquarters statement on his candidacy toda “A CANDIDATES IN FIELD FOR CITY PLACES :Two Incumbents and Twé Others to Seek Places on * City Commission MUST PETITION Filing of Petitions for En-| trance Into City Race Ends on Wednesday Four candidates were in the today for city commissioner as time for filing of petitions for the election, April 3, neared. Petitions must be filed not later than Wed- | nesday night of this week. There; will be two registration days before the election. Candidates for city comm |that they had been very patien jand had worked hard. He explain. | led that the case had required sev- JON |eral days for trial, that the de- | ‘ONE iiROR IN MURDER CASE BARS VERDICT HT. MURPHY 10 BE MADE POSTMASTER Foreman Reports in Open! Recess Appointment to be} Court That Jury Stands 11 to One VEN MORE Morning, Other Court Busi- 2 ness Goes Ahead JURY DISCHARGED. <The jury in district court in the Kasimir Schneider murder case was discharged about 2:45 o'clock this afternoon. The jury stood at the finish, it was under- stood, 11 to 1 for conviction. One juror was today preventing | | agreement among the 12 men hold- | ™*ck. Jing the Kasimir Schneider mur-} der case This report was made to i District ‘ing, after the jury had been out! Judge Janonius this morn- from five o'clock Friday afternoon, and the jury was to deliberate a few more hours before its final, ‘and © W. MeGray were named on report was accepted. The jury stood 11 to 1 for con- viction almost from the start, ity jis understood. When Judge Jansonius called the jury in at 9:30 o'clock this | RT Foreman Davis reported he situation to the court, but did Ine say whether the jury was in |majority for conviction or acquit: ital. He reported that there did} jnot appear to be any chance of anj; agreement, He did say, however, ‘that there were a few points the ‘minority member had debated over, and was not quite clear on. Foreman Davis said the discussion | throughout had been free from*an- er. Emphasizes Importance Judge Jansonius told the jury fendant was entitled to be relieved {from strain if the jury could agree | upon a verdict of any kind, that. the county was put to great ex- pense, and that while, of course, there should not any forced ver- ‘dict, it was right and proper that |the jury should take as much time ‘as necessary to consider every jangle of the evidence which re-; quired several days to produce inj open court. He explained that the} | jurors would not be required to sit | in any other cases during the term, | but that in view of the importance | jof the case and the mass of evi- !dence before the jury, he believed ; jthey ought to ponder a while more yner! before being discharged. The | two places to be filled—included | court offered to give any advice on} J. P. French and John A, Larson, | law points but said he would not | offer any opinion as to the facts, | | whose terms expire, A. C. Hinckley | 2nd said the court had no opinion | and F, W. Murphy. It is possiblelas to the facts. there will be no other candidates | before the time for filing petitions | other cases on the calendar chief- | 1 Two cases which | {were for trial Saturday were settl- | ed out of court. They were that ed the bottle and as he did this, two | been put forward. The newest note ! ;of the Sam Darbarian against the | ends. No outtanding issues have as yet} ily civil cases. The court prepared to take up| thus for is that the two incumbents; Northern Pacific railroad and P. state in their platform that they favor municipal ownership of all! ‘public utilities, which are the clec-j tric light plant, water works and | the gas plant. Each candidate was asked by tao Tribune te make a statement as to} what he stands for in the election. | Mr. French said that he had no} particular statement to make regard- ple know me and what I ‘stand for.” W. Chubb against Alexander ARREST MANY IN IRISH RAIDS; TIME! FOR After Report Is Made Monday i Appointment Would be Sub- jer than March 15, which is Yaurs- Made by President, Is Word Here ' : = | 4-YEAR TERM! ject to Confirmation of Next Congress Henry T. Murphy will be named j acting postmaster at Bismarck with- ‘in the next day or two, according so {information reaching the Tribune jday from Washington spur ‘information was regarded as authen-| tic, but was ‘not confirmed jin Bis- The appointment, it is understood, | will be made by the President. Be- ing a temporary appointment, confir- mation by the next Congress will be necessary. Several days ago, it was announc™ that Mr. Murphy, Oliver Lundquist the eligible list, after the withdrawal | of H, P. Goodard from the list. | Mr. Murphy, who is the head of | the H, T. Murphy Insurance com- | pany, is well known in Bismark. He | is exalted ruler of the Elks lodge, member of the Rotary club, Knights | of Columbus and prominent in othe n the Spanish-Americak war, being in the Phillipine service for a year} and also in the World War, being a | captain. Mr. Murphy would succeed Frank | Reed, postmaster for the last eight ar are made for # fott-year period. The salary of the Bismarck postmaster is | $3,700, the salary varying according | to the amount of receipts. A Bismarck attorney received a| letter from Congressman Geo. i Young in which he said that he had | decided to support Mr. Murpay for the position of “acting postmaster,” taken to mean for a recess appoint- | ane subject to confirmation of the FINAL FILING Both Federal and State In-| Be in By March 15th U. S. OFFICE OPEN HERE) Three more days to report to | make your income tax retarn! All taxpayers subject to the in- come tax, both federal and state, are required to file returns not lat. | day. The local division o'fice of the | | United State Interna! Revenue Bur- | ; eau announces that for the conve n- | | ience of taxpayers wao finds :t im- | London, Mar. '12.—More than 60; possible to call at the ‘ocal office, | j ing his candidacy, stating that “peo, | Irishmen and Irishwomen were ar-| in the postoffice building, during | 'rested in raids conducted in Eng- His platform, he added, speaké for} tand, Ireland and Scotland yester- itself, It is on petitions as follows: | guy, “Cleancr, better,” larger city; a} square deal for all, municipal own+ | ership of water works and all public | utilities.” A. C. Hinckley said that “my plat- lower taxes.” He said that if he went on the commission he would’ be expected to be given charge of the strects, a place he occupied be- fore on the commission, and added that “everyone knows how the streets were taken care of when I was on the commission F, W. Murphy said today that ‘ae ions being cit- of city com- missioner after some consideration of requests made, and that having decided to permit circulation of pe- titions he-was out to do the best ne | could to be elected, “I believe generally in nalleel taxes is possible,” he said, “in ob- taining some adequate water works, and that the city’s business ought to ! be run just the same as any other business concern.” Mr. Murphy has been a resident of the city since 1905, and ‘is owner of the Rose apartments. Mr. Larson had not prepared a Candidates dn the field for police magistrate include W. C. Cashman, incumbent, pnd ‘Justice W. S. Cassel- man. Anton Béer, candidate atthe last election, said he would not be a candidate. \Nick Peters is a candi- date for city Justicd of the peace, _ om form simply is better streets and | Fears Decline of Army Air Service Washington, Mar. 12.—-The ‘itau- tion in the Army Service is | “most critical” with its war surplus of equipment disuppearing and the! war-time aeronautical industry fac- ing extinction, Representative-elect Wainwright, Republican, New York, | retiring assistant secretary of war, has declared in a partial report to Secretary Weeks. CALIFORNIA VOLCANO SUDDENLY te CEASES ERUPTIONS, IS PEACEFUL Dairy Circuit Reorganization Being Planned A at wh which the Bismarck In fact Saturday’s outpourings Holstein-Friesan’ dairy circuit will were less violent than most of the crater’s effusions. The only signi- fieance attaches to them was they seemed to have been omitted from a new fissure east of the main cra- San Francisco, March 12—Vul- can’s pipe was out again today and Lassen peak, after RnOuMiRe ‘smoke and steam for more than two hours Saturday, had resumed the same peaceful exterior it has borne for many months. Residents in the vicinity of Cal- ifornia’s only active volcano watched the crater for signs of| ter. resumption of yesterday’s erup- tion. aura the day was clear not.a whiff thealstantence as one of the Beare smoke or steam hoe historians ‘ |a steady stream of persons to the | i office here to file their income tax | | returns. | made to the state tax commissioner, | Returns also are required to be int this off ly 200 witnessed since 1914 whe Teste ncpesk began spouting steam and mi ‘the regular office hours, Deputy | Collectors Hitchcock and Riley will keep the office open from 7 p. m.{ to 9 p.m. on March 14 and 15. | For the last week there has been | State income tax returns must be not later than March 15, although it is stated that an ex-! tension of time will be granted in| cases of necessity. | Penalties attached: for failing to file promptly income tax returns, both to the national and state gov- | ernments. | Whether the volcano has broken in’a néw place or whether wind played a part in the direction tak- en by the smoke and steam re- mained to be determin: ‘ $1000 A WEEK » $1,000 a week Sy | 1 than keep Clarabelle PROBE DEATH OF A-FORMER LOCAL WORKER ganizations. Mr. Murphy served! $4, Paul Police Believe Vartan | Bedozian, Séetion Worker, Was Murdered Appointments as postmaster leone FOUND FROZEN) Discovered Along Jamestown in January Paul are investiguting the death - | se body was found | tracks of the near Jamestown on Senate when it meets again. | of jmarck man, DAY NEARS FOR oe investigation,’ from the Fir: Bismarck a few days before he left | jals of the bank confirmed the {that Bedozian had an account taere ‘and closed it when he it being understood St. Paul on business, come Tax Returns Must | disclose the the Nortaern ' to Chief of Police Martinson, work. n and living with a cousin in a ction workers’ hou: ¢. He was about on the south years old and | St. Paul police dozian was killed ais body transported to Jamestown to cover up the trail of the slasers, dispatches say. T! i ting reports of several quart is said to have had before bir Paul and | Tae money he withdrew from the bank was depo: ai and polie ted in al yg with him when he Altnough the body was found on! January 7 it was not identified until rooming house in St. Paul FARM LOAN GIVE RELIEF Washington, Mar. {Farm Loan board shes that the credits system ‘to give financial aid to farmers be- ioe spring planting begins, ~The Federal | new nized will be held at the of Commerce jorning. A committee here Tuesday will meet with rep-|said in a statement to.the Ass: of the A. of is of or-|mever expected thatjor him: extension | should .assume cialist of the Agricultural Coll-| loans ae the ege, will be here a little later to/to all a ‘ Great 5 aid in the work. CITIES OVER MIDDLE WEST Chicago and Iowa Sections Expereince Severe Winds and Snow 23. KILLED IN SOUTH Tornado Sweeps Over Ken tucky and Tennessee— Train Wreck Reported Chicago, Mar. 12.—Telegraph an telephone communications were tensively crippled today by the heav snow and rainstorms that swept ov« the Mississippi Valley and Centr: Western states last night. Chicug experienced one of the worst storm in its history. Telephone wires ar jthe power wires carrying half th: electric light supply of western st ‘burbs of the e demoralized Des Moines, Ia., was cut off fro Davenport and other eastern Tow: towns, Communication from tha states was demoralized early toda; | WRECK RB REPORTED. | Cincinnati, O., Mar. 12.—Destru tive winds which tore down the tel phone and telegraph lines today ir terfered with officials of the Soutl ern railway here when they endea lored to ascertain the extent of dam {age when a train from New Orlea» jran into the rear of # passeng j train at BULL, peneny: THREE "KILLED. Richmond, Ky., Mar. persons were killed, twoff jured and a number se: | by a tornado that swept ove section of the Madison-Fayette cour jty border shortly before midnight « | 24 REPORTED Jackson, Tenn., Ma persons are injured near Picon, Tenn.,/12 mil: south of Jackson by the storm, whic’s swept over that section last night. A | freight. train was blown from the { track. IN TIED UP. | Milwaukee, M Jentral an: ‘southern Wisconsin points are tied up by a blizzard which continuec | this forenoon. Transportation wa jcrippled. Street car service wae stalled here and in Madison, which reported 18 inches of snow. WISCON THREE IN | St. Paul, Mar. ‘3 OF SNOW. 2.—Between two Northe ™ fand three inches of snow accompa- nied by an east wind well in south- jern Minnesota towns this morning and hampered train service to some extent. South Dakota also reported | snowfall. ‘ CARRIES ROOF AWAY. ct | Portsmouth, O., Mar. 12.—Denn | Foggs, aged 9, was instantly kill and five other children were injure two seriously, when a high wind v | roofed the high school building | South Portsmouth, Ky., opposite h« worker {and carried it over into the sche yard where children were play.ns FIGHT CASE ‘| { -; Will Raise Between $5,000 a and $10,000 in Cavalier Co. | | Langdon, N. D., March 12,—Ac ork on collection of the fund for | prosecution of the Tabert case Florida has begun in Cayalier coun- i ty. Martin Tabert, 22. Manich, N. 2 |boy, died as a result of floggir received in the Putnam Lumber co: pany camp, while a prisoner of Le county, Fla., it is charged. Two or more solicitors had be chosen for each precinct in 1). county. n | The costs of litigation and prose cution of the case in the Florid courts is now estimated at fro ‘litigation and of transporting wit nesses from various parts of th United States but also of publicity in putting the case before the peoni' of Florida, it is pointed out. One of the aims is to obtain, peal of the law permitting leasing o! county prisoners to private com | Panies in addition to securing da: tages and criminal conviction of thx persons alleged to be responsible fo- | Tabert’s death in the Putnam Lum- par company stockade, near Ci ja. McADOO SPEAKS | ON LOAN MATTER ~ Los Aare liam G. McAdoo, resentive farmers and officers of | ciated the circuit to devise mi ganization and it Max Morgan, Lord ‘that Great |