The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 27, 1923, Page 1

Se andaieniatiaainenmmenammenl WEATHER FORECAST. Party cloudy tonight and Wed- nesday. NE ESTABLISHED 1878 THE BIS CK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1923 LAST EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS FARMERS FACE WORLD CONDITION CLAIMS STATE MONEY WENT T0 DEFUNCT BANK Former Cashier of Casselton \Bank Says His Bank Were , Merely Agent BAND RECORD: of Bank of North Dakota | Are Incomplete ‘Testimony that a “deal” was made reby money from the Bank of North Dakota would finance an in- crease in capital stock in the now defunct Scandinavian-American Bank ! in Fargo lute in the year 1920 was given in district court ndre today lis, former cashier of the Bank of Casselton, ng an attempt by the | ment of the Bank of | to collect approxi- | 78,000 from the bank. | red that P. L. Arrhus, | n League business j manager; F. B, Wood, member of the league national executive com- | mittee and Louis McAnaney, credits + department manager of the Bank of North Dakota under the league ad- ministration, with him made the deal. | Under the terms of the deal cap- ital stock notes given by farmers d th mately His dee! for sing the capital stock of the § dinavian American k were delivered to the Peoples State Sunk of Casselton, the bank receiv- ed over $40,000 from the Bank of North DaRota ang the ndinavian- Amer Bank was permitted to draw on it, he said. He told the jury the account was to be carried for a time as rede-! posits from the Bank of North Da- kota, and that the Bank’ of North | Dakota was to protect the Peoples Stute of Caselton against with- drawal of one-third of the amount. The Peoples State never delivered the ni to the Bank of North Da- kota stead the Bank of North Dakota credited that bank with a| redeposit and then permitted the ; bank to place the same amount to its credit as erve in the Bank of North Dakota, subject to withdrawal ; by ‘the Casselton bank, { ‘That many letters which passed be- tween the Bank of North Dakota and the Peoples State Bank of Casselton had disappeared from the files in the / Bank ot Notth Dakota and that a) search made by present officers of | the bank and others failed to locate; them was disclosed in district here in the first part of the suit of | REAL-LIFE I Love of Home Impels FREDERICK ASHTON AND HIS HOME.” SARG’S DOLLS MIRTH MAKERS, IN NEW YORK “To be Given April 2 at Audi- (ji: torium Under Auspices of. Community Council ;ROSINANTE IS FEATURE: ;; Funds to Aid in Juvenile Work Among the Girls of Bismarck Tony Sarg’s “Don Quixote” and urt| “Rip Van Winkle” will be presented ; at the auditorium under the auspice the Bank of North Dakota against the | of the Wopien’s Community Mond selton bank for $78,576. It also’ April 2-The money obtained in this was brought out that a part of the! way will be used for the development records relating to the reserve ac-' of juvenile. work among the girls of count of the Casselton bank had dis- | the city similar to that being done for appeared. | the boys by the Rotary club under the The defense made to the suit by the | direction of J. J. M. MacLeod. In the Casselton bank is that the transac-| girls’ work Mr.° MacLeod will co- tion with respect to over $50,000 was | operate. a “shady” deal through which the! Something of the way in which Bank of North Dakota was to furnish|“pon Quixote” was received by a funds to bolster up the Scandinavian- | Jarge New York audience is indicated American bank of Fargo when it had | by the following dramatic review by been closed by the banking board and| reopened on court order back in 1920 and 1921, ‘The start of the case also was marked by an altercation between | Theodore Koffel of Bismarck, attor- ney for the Bank of North Dakota, ! and J. F, Callahan of Casselton, of counsel for the:bank, in which the| word “liar” was passed when both nted erent versions of an ent whereby certain record | testimony would be admitted without the necessity of producing witnesses. !though that is mu: It was finally smoothed out. | Hunt Fails. In testimony on questioning by A. G, Divet, attorney for the Cassel: ton bank, A. Johannsen, audits de-j partment director, of the bank, said, that C, R. Green, present manager of | the bank, himself and others had gone; through the bank files to find certain correspondence which .was said to | have passed between the two banks, | and that no correspondence between ; May 11, 1920, and Feb. 5, 1920, was found. The files, it was stated, were in charge of a girl employe. Mr. Johannsen said that a page with ref- | erence to the reserve account of the} Prosper bank was lost or had been misfiled. He said that he had seen! the file during the legislative investi- gation of 1921. This period was dur- ing the time the Nonpartisan leagu administration was in power and * W. Cathro was manager of the ank, Mr. Johann was on, the stand to identify cegtain papers and; records, the transactions involved not being in his department. Mr. Divet served a demand upon counsel for the bank to produce the correspondence. The Bank of North Dakota in the suit alleged that $77,502.82 was the balance of various sums placed in the Casselton bank at various times, be- tween August, 1919, and March 10, 1921,. which aggregated a total of $106,591.42. The amount had been re- duced to $77,592.82 and interest was to be added. Bank’s Answer. The Casselton bank, in, denying lia- bility, seid that part of the amounts claimed were items of $20,000 on Dec. 2, 1920, and $22,225 on Jan, 20, 1921, and that the arrangement was that the People’s State bank would take notes given for stock in the Scandi- na American bank, the Bank of. ' North Dakota would advance. money tothe People’s State, and’ that it would not be withdfawn before the (Qontinued on Page Three), | John Corbin of the New York Times: Very few or none of the marionette plays that have made Tony Sarg fa- mous among the children of all the ages can have been as well adapted to his peculiar artistry as “Don Quix- ote” proved itself yesterday afternoon at the Punch and Judy. It is not merely that its tiltings at windmills and tossings in a blanket, the cavort- ings of Rosinante and the anties of Sancho Panza’s ass work like magic upon the childish imagination, In one very im- portant respect this puppet play o the melancholy Don is more intimate- ly in keeping with the spirit of Cer- vantes than a play with real actors jcould possibly be, We have here a character and a story upon which modern psychology (Continued on page 3.) PROCLA HERMIT Love of a Woman Drives Him Into Suicide— Him to Fight City By Nea Service. St. Paul, Minn, March 27.— This i ‘the true story of a real-life hermit. | the meets | Its here is in fiction —a been hapless love affair and who has. cv- live human fellows and li till more a oman (ees home great that he has fought the city of hero one whose soul has seared by solved to alone, But this hero is whose love is ;St. Paul to a standstill, for the right) 8, mud-covered own hands, is aid to live in a floor hut he built with hi St. Paul's hermit Ashton, With the chick of ground, the eked out an exi: summer and fall, But when the e, the aged man, worn with privation, slipped on the “mud floor” of his shack and lay unconscious w til he was removed to an infirn When consciousness returned, came back. He found neighbors h removed his scanty possessions. sued for ta movi on his “ He won the battle. His chattels » restored to him. He returned home, happy to be independent of a fe white-haired ence through the jagain. Now Ashton stands with in the door of his hovel and regrets he cannot xsk newspaper representa fens are the in itives inside, His a pctions of a cultivated Englishman, is bearing distinguished. “As a young man,” Ashton con fesses, “I was foolish enough to love a git! whom my family considercd | Salles but inasmuch as this is to This was in! the week preceding Easter there can beneath me. “One morning I came down breakfast and said, ‘Father, I am ‘going to marry Jenny.’ He said ‘could pack my trunk and get out. ‘did. Did Ashton aged man_ shakes ay no more about a romance that! has been buried—who knows for! (how many years? marry Jenny? FEDERALJURY IS DISCHARGED i | i ' |Many Noted Artists Go a ee Daugherty’s FRANCEMOURNS HUNT SON OF DEATH OF HER) OFFIGIAL OF | | GREAT ACTRESS \ t U. §. CABINET Home To Pay Tribute to “Divine Sarah” i of Keenan Case { | FUNERAL ame picturesque! man! shunning his | ng in the past. ! he 1s] so} Frederick! vy; “Divine and a barren-looking patch | many; Minnesota winter! ; Included in the number also He’ recovery, presenting. for the right to live; dignity | to} I, 1 The; his head and will] | Son May Know Something | , “UNCERTA ‘ Ni i i Son Removes Valuables 'rom’ New York Inspector Hears House to Vaults For i That He Has Knowledge Safe-Keeping of Plot Made BLACK MAILING HEARD? | | | Paris, March AN France| New York, March 27.—Assi ‘mourns today for their well belov- |torney General Pecora and Police In- cd dxugnter Sera Beroheradl: ispector Coughlin today joined in an| Paris is stunned believing that she [zctive seurel for Draper M. Daugh- bas erty, only son of the Attorney gen- who was regarded as almost immor- | oral of the United States, to question , tal is so in more than one sense of {him concerning reports that he was It scems not too. much {a close friend of Dorothy Keenan, ‘murdered model, and that he might know of a blackmailing ring using her} as_a decoy. ' vas pointed out that Daugherty | s reported, at Atlantic City,! Pl y. Fla., March 27, A care Hugo jcould fot be compelled to come here |! d letter, sent by one to tell his story but the inspector de-| resident of this city to another, has lared that he would be glad to lis- YELED a distance equal to ten to Daugherty’s story. cress the North American Daugherty, who served for two, continent years with the British army and then! CAUSED worry to the became a major in the American ex- of two Ko one of the greatest ambassadors of ; peditionary forces was quoted as say-! HT three postal clerks un rench art and literaturé who ever} ing he knew Miss Keenan well, had! der police surveillance. lived. After midnight when the {visited her apartment several times) REACHED finally its destination theatres were closed came t#® peo-jand on one occasion had given her a aw point few blocks from the spot ple of the state to pay tribute to |check to pay a bill she told him was! where it was posted! their illustrious comrade among ! pressing. ' It all started when them was Sanche Guitry, the play-{ He began to suspect last Thursday | Japes posted a letter to he (wright who had a filial respect. for , aft iving a telephone call at a! Fred Fischer, enclosing /B J Rachel |New York club thut he and the mys-' payment of her milk a Boyer ae 1 £ Gta ou eae i Eau asi ‘Theft Suspe $\ John K. Mitchell, wealthy and soc fischel i peeiveatheclatten James Hackett who according to L. | }y prominent Philadelphian w marie fay ene Hite eg J ae sents I’ Clair cabled President Harding !eq for plucking HilaCiimnelllbre VGH | eeeuMi UERUAE RO CARE UOENTHOTES She requesting him to announce officially | yas quoted as saying. pcred iL a iy ae case vot theft. She to the neore of the United States | ‘This call he said, eanie from a man SO imnebeutnibetecregeuaniie tate ot Borchardt lies on her bed cover: /!Be speaker said he asked him, how ‘The other two were new employed danty dweldowereseheulovedeeorwell jabout the job he had promised to get reen hands.” ¢ een é , {for him in the United States depart-; All three were tant av! , the word. to say that not since the death of Victor Hugo has France been stir- red so deeply, As the Academician De Flers observes in Figahro, “Bern- hardt probably shares with and Pasteur the distinction of being | the most illustrious person in the last hundred years of French his al au- tory.” p Sarah” was undoubtedly | ernments. Mrs, Sully milkman, $5 bill in ount. ed. ecile Sorel, and a host of other placed under the be novhigh mass. Madam Berhardt’s. most valu- jable personal effects are being ta en out of the house by her son, Maurice. and sent elsewhere for | safe-keeping. ! | ASK 2 STATES OF OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City, Mar. 27.—A bill was introduced in state legislature yesterday to separate Oklahoma in two states. One state would con- tain the oi] region and to the other the wheat and livestock areas. SYSTEM TO BE ENDED? Plans for the funeral had not yet | 1°" Fete _ eh Leen made at noon today inasmuch ment of justice which Attorney Gen- eee jeral Daugherty controls. SE may have been expressed in her will jmiust be learned. 4 Easter in Augusta, Ga. Prelimi- ‘nary arrangement was being made G. Grimson Named Special) here of a week, and for a removal ; : jearly Sunday into. the Georgia Assistant Attorney-Gen- | y \cision been reached of other steps ‘enroute from that city back to is the French cabinet may decide to make it a state ceremony. Further- ae TET . more Bernhardt's wishes as. they | { | "The funeral probably will’be held {” F 41 INTO GEORGIA ut the church of St. Francois de F LAL HAND. ibaa: j 4 St Augustine, Fla, Ma Mrs. Harding expects IN FLOGGING +=: for departure of the. prest din ee \dential vacation party from. St. ‘Augustine Saturday after a sta Jeity.| How ‘long Mr, and Mrs in Ti cas \Harding will stay in Augusta ha eral in Tabert Case Inot been decided nor has any d | Washington. if ‘FARMER GETS \ To aid him in seeking the prose- cut.on in Florida of the alleged slayers of Martin Tabert, Munich boy who was alleged to have been! flogged to death in a lumber camp j to which he was sent as a prison- | Directed Verdict Ends Jury Cases For This Term <The jury in the March term of federal court here has been dismiss- ed by Judge Andrew Miller, follow- ing disposition of the cases of the First National Bank of St. Payl and the Midland National Bank of Minn- eapolis against the Farmers Cooper- ative Elevator Company of Kintyre involving $10,000 on notes given by the latter company to the Welch Grain Company of Minneapolis and sold to the plaintiff banks. Judge Miller directed a verdict for the plaintiffs. Several other cases in- volve somewhat the same questions. For the next two or three days the court will be engaged with mat- ters not requiring a jury. MATION ARBOR, GARDEN AND NATIVE LIFE WEEK Our citizenhip, I am sure, appre- ciates the added beauty and value that comes from a luxuriant growth of trees, shrubbery and flowers, the utility of the garden, and the value of an increased interest in the birds and other native wild life. Nature ‘has been lavish in the gifts bestowed upon our state, and we are so rich in the beauty and variety of the birds, grains, grasses and flowers that may be found on our prairies, that we have much for which to be thankful, but unfortun- | ately trees and shrubbery of beauty and utility are largely lacking. They must be planted and cared for by willing hands and loving hearts to give is the pleasure which comes fron’ having the vast expanses of our’ prairies dotted and broken, by the beautifal green of the clumps and undulating lines of ‘trees and shrubs. Much has been done along this line already but it is very desirable that the men and women of today, and especially the youth about to become the men and women of to- morrow, shall emulate the example of the pioneers and become inter- ested in the planting of trees, shrup-| bery and gardens, and in the protec- tion: and care of our native wild life of every character. Now, therefore, I, R. A. Nestos, Governor of the state of North Da- ' kota do hereby designate aside the WEEK OF APRIL 50th to MAY 5th {closed and the period of exemptio1 as ARBOR, GARDEN and LIFE WEEK May fourth, special given to the planting of trees, shrubbery and gardens and to the study of the best me the native wild life ‘of our that every person in North Dakota |tion or shelter, and that both in our schools and in all public gath- erings the chief thought be the de- belopment and care of trees, shrub- bery, flowers, ‘gardens, birds and everything of this natute that con- tributes to the beauty, and enjoy- ment of -life in‘our state. In witness whereof, I have here- unto set my hand and. caused the Great Seal of the State of North Dakota to be’ affixed at the capitol at Bismarck. North Dakota, this twenty-fourth day. of March, A. D. 1923. . (Signed) ~- R.A. NESTOS, Governor. (Seal) By the Governor. and“sct|on a farm after a mortgage NATIVE | thods of under- | standing, fostering, and protecting | state; | 4 be urged to, plant and care for at | least one tree for fruit, ornamenta- | contract laborer, States Attorney G. m@stant attorney-general. The appointment was Governor Nestos upon request of At- {appointment by the Governor stat- ing that Mr. Grimson is appointed a § ssistant “in the prosecution of any and all criminal cases now pending in the state of Florida, or | whi h may hereafter be instituted, larising out of, and in connection i with, the death of one Martin Ta- ert, formerly of Munich, N. D.” “The death of Tabert and the county convict lease system have been given much publicity through- out the jcountry to the extent that it is generally believed that the lease sysem will be abolished by the leg- islature when it convenes in Talla- | hassee on April 3,” reads a dispatch from Florida. There apparently is no objection by any member of the legislature to ! the abolishment of the system. It is | said that the death of Tabert and j the publicity caused thereby have | brought victory to those who favor ithe abolishment of the system. ; system af leasing state prisoners | was abolished several years ago. mer Sheriff Wilbaum appeared ; Leon County Ends System to serve an order of éviction ob-' - Another result of ‘the Tabert case Jury Figures Daylight Clos- ing and Finds For Defendant Stanton, N. D., March 27—An ancient law passed by the first i North Dakota legislature for a time promised victory to David Gunsch, farmer of near Beullah, in his suit for $5,000 damages against | Edward Walbaum, former sheriff ; of Mercer county, for alleged un-} jlawful eviction from a farm. The almanac’s record of hours \of sunlight turned the scale much! ‘as it did in Abraham Lincoln's fa-{ | mous. moonlight case. | According to the testimony, ;Gunsch had been allowed to live e ihad given on it, had been fore- ; expired. He was away when for- and do hereby urge that throughout | tained by the mortgagee. Gunsch’ is the announcement that the com this week, and more particalaclly oa |¥eturned ‘in the afternoon and was | merce commision of Leon county in ‘3 attention be ‘Florida hus ordered that no addi- attorney, | tional prisoners in that county shall recentiy| be leased to private companies | Leon county is the county in which i Tabert was arrested.and sentenced to 90 days in jail, the sheriff of which county returned to’ Tabert’s parents a letter ‘containing money j evicted by the sheriff. ;_ In court, Gunschjs ' Josepl’ Coghlan, until state law librarian and/ supreme court reporter, produced the old law which says “no person shall be evicted from any premises at| night.” Gunsch admitted he had jto pay, his fine, notwithstanding the een evicted about 6 p.m. fact that the sheriff knew that Ta- The case began to look favorable | bert hag been sent to convict hfor the plaintiff. 5 + camp. Then John Moses of Hazen, at-}, Additional information received terney for the defense, produced an| concerning the arrest of Walter-Hig- almariac and weather records show-| genbotham, the private convict guard ing that on August 28 the sun set| who is charged with the murder in at 8:17 p.m. connection with the death of Tabert. \The jury considered the more] disclose that he was arrested on an than two hours of daylight and—| *Midavit signed by the state's attor- found: for-the’ defendant, ~~ | ney ‘of the circuit in which Tabert ——$-—_—— died, This. procedure was taken “in BULLET JUST MISSES BRAIN: | lice of krand Jury action. Dodge, N. D.,\March 27.John,| oiciats of Leon county Were: in young ‘gon of Peter Hendricks0m)! quenced to abolish the lease farmer near here escaped death bY|'tom. not only by the Tabert case but ae Ei with a by the condition of prisoners re- dischar; 1 ee Jan. 1, last pallet -going throughthe check eaglcurn ttit of the Pornae Lomita out at ‘the ear, just missing the from a camp of the Putnam Lumber a campany in one of which camps Ta- brain, The boy will recover, . bert met his death. y made by! torney General George Shafer, the | he | $24.45 Added to His Return For Car of Potatoes » 27—As a re- ation of the Minne- sota Potato exchange of the pay- ment of $1.30 to N. P. Nelson, a farmer near Leo, N. D., as his net return on a load of potato which sold in Chicago for $ A. M. Dunton, general manager of the exchange, announced today that Nelson has received a draft {for $25.45 in payment of a freight jovercharrge of the Soo Line. ! Mr. Dunton declared that Nel- json failed to receive a larger re- iturn because his own grading, | packing and loading of the car was jat fault. SLOPE DEALERS OF HARVESTER ~~ COMPANY HERE FOR CONFERENCE OPTIMISTIC OVER PROSPECTS | One of the fargest meetings in ithe history of the Ipcal branch. of {the International Harvester Cocpany 1 of America was held today at the {Company's sales and service rooms jat 23 Main Street. Representatives ifrom practically all dealers in this branch, which comprises South- western North Dakota and south- jeast Montana, were present to hear ‘the talks by the Company experts. | Mr. P. R. Fields, branch manag- [em opened the mecting with a few ‘remarks of welcome and thanked the dealers for their interest shown in coming to Bismarck. The meeting was then turned over to speakers who were authorities on their subjects, . P. D. McKee, from the Chicago of- fiee, spoke ‘in a general way on the: plow industry. ie told how the plow is the basic implement of the whole power farming industry. He told how the proper preparation of the land by the use of the correct plow, changed the whole success or failure of the crop. He also spoke of knowing how to sell the plow. which is the tool the farmer consid- ers fhost important of any on the farm.. As a result it receives more wear and tear and has to be re- It Worries Two Governments and Brings Trio Of Postal Clerks Under Police Scrutiny ' j the world. - _ MYSTERY LETTER ‘BUSINESS MEN, FARMERS AND BANKERS MEET R. Mitchell, Member Federal Reserve Board, and Others Speak EFFECT J. of WORLD FEL? Reduction of Wheat Produc- tion to Avoid Unsaleable Surplus Urged Spending time alloted for a vaca tion instead in making a triy through the Northwestern state | studing the needs of agriculture at TCHES SHOWING ITS =| and all eye ‘of dectives. Their going mings were checked up and were relieved of suspicion. Meanwhile here's what pened: Mrs. Japes addressed Plant city matter of “Fred Fische Si zi had hap- believed she'd red Fischer, U.S.A.” But, as a . she's addressed it, Milk Man,” nt to Manitoba. Postal clerks thought the “Man” meant Manitoba i sent it to’that Canadian provin ! But there's no such Manitoba city aus “Milk” so the letter found its way to Milk River, Man, But there's no Fred Fischer there, so the letter was consigned to the dead letter of fice at Ottawa. m Ottawa it was sent back vo Plant City and found its way into the hands of the milkman to whom it originally was sent Fischer has his snd everybody’. happy. | “And V'll be more careful im the future,” says Mrs. Japes. firmly WITNESSES IN CULTCASECRY ITS FRAME-UP Assert Others Seek to Get Property of the Israelite | House of David | Is ¢ 2D! TRIAL on. Grand Rapids, Mich., March 27— Further testimony to charges of | fraud and immorality — brought against the Israelite House of Da-! vid by John W. Hansell, a former! member who seeks a financial set- tlement in the sum of $50,000 was | offered in federal court here today. | { Up to today the defense had called a dozen witnesses each up- |! holding “their faith” as followers! of Benjamin Purnell and some ob-j} jecting to the charges made and} called them an attempt at black- mail by disgruntled ex-memh i One declared it was an outgrrowth | of the “hooded band” activities at | Detroit at which a plot was laid to | get possession of the house prop- crty and to set up a new colony of which Hansell was to be the head at Nashville, Tenn. Shingling church sp is an al- most extinct industry There are 2,000,000 Boy Scouts in placed more often. Owing to the number of makes and styles of plows, it is of importance that deal- ers and sales force thoroughly know the plow. There -are four basic that all should know Quality, Lightness of Draft, Strength and Durability, Ease of Handling. Study Needs He mentioned that while the com- pany had not actuafly been engag- ed in handling plows as many years as some, there had been opportun- ity to become familiar. with the needs and wants of the farmers through organization. They have been able to study all makes and designs of plows. “When we finally went into the plow business we picked a line which we believe mea- sured up to our ideals ‘of the plow best suited to meet all eonditions.” He‘also spoke of the part the culti-packer takes in the prepara- tion of the seed bed. He stated that there is no tool used on the arm which plays a larger part or is more indispensable, with excep- tion of the plow: For years the farmers have felt the need of a tool such as the culti-packer. This tool (Continued on page 7) 4 | western first hand unofficially as a privat: citizen, John R. Mitchell of Wash ington, D. C., member of the Fede Reserve Board, spoke to a larg group of bankers, farmers and bus iness men in the Rialto theatre her: this afternoon. Outlines Farm Conditions Although interested chiefly in ob- taining information in the Ninth Federal Reserv jet, compris ing Northwestern stat Mr. Mit- chell on the is delivering speeches in which he outlines broad view of the business and ag cultural situation. The trip was Federal RB with ant federal resery ing that bank, There was an unusually large pi centage of farmers at the meet tnis afternoon, Gov, Nestos int duced the speakers. Mr. Mitchell, in speaking this von at the conference, held t the consumption of wheat must so increased und the production decreased taut there will not be exportable surplus which cannot purchased, as the plain busing remedy for the situation now o fronting the country, in which thq is a large surplus of wheat, " The war-time habit of eating bread is’ evidenced in a le consumption of flour, whic is felt by tae wheat growe Mitchell said. He expressed hope that organization and ecg tion could help sclve the situatis both in increasing the consumpbfg of wheat and the lessening of production. 'Q Program Develops ’ As a result cf conferences held the party accompanying Mr. Mitel Crookston, Minn., Grand Forks (i Fargo there had developed a g al program of readjusting the cultural situation of the North to meet changed conditions world markets, in rranged by tl k of Minneay Mosher, assi agent, represe| lis, hing in @ which the Now products are sold, program includes the wheat production, incre sumption, gréater diver; farm products and dev cooperative marketing. Mr. Mitchel] emphasized thai American farmers are faced with } same economic laws and cond that governs all other busine the nati Wind declared that sheer’ folly for American fara under present high costs and @egif mic conditions in the United Stabe to attempt to compete with thé rr wheat growing nations df rid, with their low costs. ‘American farmers cannot only business people in the (Continued on Puge 2) VIOLENCE 194 PARTY'S J State Balked “Expert Wit- nesses” in Foster Syn- dicalism Trial DENIES REVOLT x PLAN St. Joseph, Mich., March 27- Charles E.*Ruthenberg of Cleve land, testifying in defense c William. Z. Foster of Chicagc charged with the violation of th: Michigan syndicalism law, toda awaited resumption of cross ex amination by attorneys for th state, Ruthenberg, who qualified as’ an expert witness on commun- ism, was arrrested at the Com. munist convention held near her: last August ‘and held for trial o: the same charge as that agains Foster. The state on crross-examinatio: tried to get an admission from Ru- thenberg that the Communist pay ‘ty of America is dedicated to viv: lent overthrow of the governme):t _ Two and a half hours of ques tioning only elicited testimony tha‘ the witness did not know that th: Ccmmunist program offered in evi dence was the party’s program an! that if it was the statement of violent aimg set forth in this were ‘an over-statement” of Commu ? ist. philosophy. Ruthenberg admitted that Cov munist organization was function- ing as late as a week ago lalc unday when he attended a meeting of. more 40 dele; in New. York. , He L al action was discusy”~