The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 29, 1923, Page 1

the presentatiqn of its case. « WEATHER FORECAST. eae fair tonight and Fri- di ———E_ Colder tonight. | ESTABLISHED 1878 i BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE LAST EDITION THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1923 [FRANCES SCHEME IN OCCUPATION OF TOLLS. RHINE RARISREELEDDY LAS COREL ES ARMY P AYMEN ‘Tells What It Is Hoped to! '» Accomplish Through the 2 Occupation of Great Ger- man Industrial Region America’s Bill Is Delivered, Declares Paris Newspaper | y MILTON BRONNER. H After Confab oa Special Cable to NEA Service, Inc., and The Tribune. Copyright, 1923, hy NEA Service, Inc. Paris, Murch 29.—What is France's game in the Ruhr? Her only game is [to get the money Germany owes her | Nothing more; nothing less. It was-Stephane Lauzanne who told me so, and he ought to know. Not | only is he editor-in-chief of Le Matin one of the most influential papers in | ‘France, but he is in most intimate | ‘terms with Premier Poincare und ali “America’s bill iS! the men who now compose the gov MAKE NO PROTEST Allies Determined Bill Shall Be Paid Out of German Reparations, However s, Mar. epted by the allies as delivered,” j lernment. i s Le Matin, newspaper, today 11 «ston cher Raymond” (Poincare) | commenting on yesterday's confer- uihosoms himself to his “cher! ence between Elliott Wadsworth and resentatives of the allies who voring to reach an agree- ment on the reimbursement of the United States on the cost of Amer ca’s Rhine army. The allies neither examined the \French officials advised m¢ to sce | : basis of the demands, the paper CoD |Tauzanne; he would speak with full | tinues, nor do they protest against | ynowledge. | | one American soldier costing more|~ tire away,” said Lauzanne, “and | than three French, nor the fact that! make your questions just as hard as! the cost of football messages figures |\ouy jike.” umong the expenses. is 'Stephane,” so that he may know ju what's what when he writes his pow- | erful editorials, i T came to Paris to find out just) ; what Poincare me:nt to do in his | leritical and crucial Ruhr enterprise. | STEPHANE LAUZANN ON { ii . The c ence was adj J QUESTION NO. 1: It is charged named fire marshal by Governor i Aaneenag Tate EO jby the enemies of France that, tak- a Frazier in 1919 and 1921, but was Mr. Wadsworth of the American |iMg advantage of clauses in the Ver- |, i in Trial That Hi not reappointed at the expiration of te department’s reply to the ai-[Sailles treaty, she has made d Tells Jury in Trial That He) the latter term. oeonk imands upon Germand so high she, Mr, Reade served for twelve years | Quit I. W. W. Because of Disagreement Hee ee relengeiserter? The {can't fulfill them and that France) determined that the United |@0es not expect she will fulfill them. KS ‘Is this true or false? i made b allies Pete only out of Gere" said Lauzanne: “The demands - y Mey Pape made upon Germany for reparations! St. Joseph, Mich. 29. - William 7A E WAT. | ($34,000,000,000) were not made by Foster, charged with criminal syn- | France alone. The figure was fixed! dicalism, took the stand in his own | lin London in May, 1923, and the! defense today to describe his work ischedule of payment, which was 88 Secretary and Treasurer of th then adopted by common Union E.ucational League. | AS ADVANCED =: signed by Great Britain, Italy,’ testified he ue u ena iJapan and Belgium, as well as by of the 1 Ww. aman’s | \ Beane. iu Carmen's Union and _ other He quit the Ll. W. W., | eed tions. organi: he said, “because I no longer with the policy and program. | 4Nobody said then that the sched- Ls. s » q.jule of pdyment was exaggerated U. S$. Supreme Court Peti and Lloyd George declared in the, Attorneys for both sides were | tioned by State (House of Commons that it Was’ sored today that there was no hope SESE [FeatonePle he xcheduler of pays! Of, commlstine the: trial, now) in iste Application for advancement on | ments ren ee at ee as before adjournment Fri- the calendar of the United States | oan we be certain that 2 new sched- Cuades Huiiediere, nest defense Supreme Court of the North Dako- ta grain grading case will be asked on April 2, Attorney-General George Shafer announced. The formal ap- plication was forwarded to the court today, for presentation by the clerk | on Monday. ne application an affidavit from stating that the question is import- ant to North Dakota people and urg. ing that it be submitted as early as possible so that a decision may be had prior to the raising and market- | ing of the grain crop of 1923. Attorney-General Shafer said it ule, reducing the original figures, will not be thought too high in 19257; And what is the schedule of payments Germany will not deent too high?” QUESTION NO. 2; Taking Advan-} tage of Germany's failure to pay, it, is charged France has marched into the Ruhr intending -to stay there, either annexing the Ruhr and the FLOOD DAMAGE | HEE On Pee rea Babee tip CASES GO UP, \leave the Ruhr? { i Lauzanne replied: “France wil Result of Deaths in Western! never annex the Rhineland or the i Ruhr; but France will remain in the N. D. in 1921 was at least hoped to get the case) Rhineland and the Ruhr as long. as urgued before the summer adjourn-| Germany will not pay what she owes & a ment and decision immediately | to France. thereafter, if the woole matter can-! «In other words, the Rhineland not he disposed of before the sum-{and Ruhr are considered by the; vacation of the court. 1 witness to face his fifth day on the* stand today, will be through before noon. i pee by supported Two cases growing out of th flood which followed a cloudburst im western North Dakota in June 192 in which four lives were lost mer French as a mortgage guaranteeing i -———_-——_— {Wieaig Se sa are, Much property destroyed, were hey mente. Miben jibe Lae te ‘placed before the supreme court to- made, the mortgage will have to fay on appeals by the Northern ‘he released and the bailiffs will leave |the premiscs. ‘A jury in Golaen Valley “Germany did exactly the same! yaq awarded the administratrix of | thing to us in 1871 and the whole} the estate of Thomas Everetts, rail. | WITNESSES IN fworld, including America, approved) road employe who was washed off | Germany did. The last Ger-! 4 gasoline car near Rider, Billings | j what = iman soldier left French soil in Sep-) county, on June 18, 1921, and drown- | ! ‘tember, 1873, eleven days after the! ed, a verdict of $16,299.80. A jury | |last French million had been paid.” | had awarded Andrew MeNeer, fath- | QUESTION NO. 3: The charge has: er of A. O. McNeer, drowned at the | j been publicly printed in England that/ same time, $1,035.90, both verdicts | Pa ilroad company. Wauke, deff-' the French march into the Ruhr was} being directed against the railroad | uty sheriffs s for Michael | a¢ first inspired by a French syndi-| company. In the first case the wi- | Boyle, busi gent of the Elec-|cate of steel masters which desired 1/ dow was left with three children | trieal Workers union and Ben New- {union with German coal and stcelj While A. 0. McNeer was not mar-| mark, former chi State’s: count. f investigator for masters, in which the French woul | ™ to ans’ for id. Attorney Growe of Cook control 60 per cent’ of the stock. Is; ear amre | the grand jury called to in-|it true that French big business eet H ges of jury tampering | Poincare to go into the Ruhr? | during the 1 and acquittal of (Continued on Page Three) | . el Governor len Small was in a_re- | { F Both Boyle and Newmark fajled'! THE WEATHER |: SATIS | wer subpoenas to appear he- o_O the grand jurors'as witnesses, i Ey ehica sl ‘d sheriffs with bench warrants|. For twenty-four hours ending at, Federal Reserve District; for their arrest so far have been,|noon today. | A 5 unable to locate them. Boyles was! Temperature at 7 a. m . 34! Shows Gains, Rich Reports | said to be a patient in a hospital, | Temperature at noon - \ Mar, 29—Business in orthwest despite the usual seasonal decline Reports were current here that ant | Highest yesterday other true bill,had been voted he. | Lowest yesterday .. is very satisfacto fore the recess of jurors. Lowest last night .. om + ols OWN DEFENSE: ‘in the Bismarck jas Burleigh county in the legislature for | succeed 0. T, Haakenson. H, L. READETS- APPOINTED AS FIRE MARSHAL Will Resume Place: He Occu- pied For Two Terms on April 22 sue ISTANT IS Devils Lake Man to Take Post in Office Under Mr. Reade } A NAMED Henry L. Reade of Bismarck will A. Middaugh as state tl on April 22 by appoint- estos, it was announced today, The appointment is for a two-year term. Mr, Reade was fire marshal at the time of the; appointment of Mr. Middaugh by Governor Frazier two years ago. He has been secretary of the North Da | kota Firemen’s Association for 26 yeurs and in that capacity interest- ed in building up fire departments in all parts of the state. Mr. Reade was appointed assistant fire marshal by Governor Hanna in 1923 and 1915, R succeed fire mars: ment of yovernor y council, one term and represented city treasure one term. Mr. Reade has been a res- dent of the city for 40 years. | At the same time it was announc- | ed that James D, Stenson of Devils | e will be appointed assistant fire marshal for the same period, of Garrison was | appointed by the Governor to the Livestock Sanitary Board for a term of five y beginning April 1. J. W. Robinson COMPLETE PLAN __BANKERETTE Mrs. H. D. Reed, shown here, is the first woman elected to the board of governors of the Amer- ican Institute of Banking. She's chairman of the Washington (D. C.) chapter of the organization's woman’s committee. ALLIES MEET TURKS SOON IN NEW PARLEYS Probably Will Begin sanne on April 15, It Announced Lau- i \ Geneva, negotla- ‘tions between the allies and Turkey { time: betw a i WU) the Secretary whieh the por at Lausanne at the conclusion of the Growers Agree Upon Plan of Operating — Duis Named on Board Is for fi ational market. plan is now the and dy to be voted upon by eleven ng system. ns all of whieh While the Wichita conference of state delegates and directors of state ns did not headquarters or the d that both quarters office! organization it the officers and the h proposed | recent conference. The announcement said that the opening session probably — will - be held on the first named date. Inasmuch as the Secretariat re- feently was notified to be prepared to leave for Constantinople the sud- ge is sidered indicative of the conciliatory attitude of the Turks. It is understood there that the negotiations will be resumed at the point where they were dropped where \the Turks and allies failed to reach an agreement. The forth coming deliberations are not ¢x pected to be of long duration. JURORS CALLED den ¢ will he selected soon since the pro- posed national marketing system Is for handling this year's wheat! New Jury Tampering Headquarters ‘will prob- | : ably at Minneapolis with a Opens in Denver southw branch either at Wich- a ita or Kansas City, it was said, this | 29 afternoon, ; Three state organization George Duis, of Xorth Dakota; W H. McGreevy, of Oklahoma; and G. C, Jewett of Oregon, were appointed as members of a national commit- ; tee on organization to attend 2 con- ference of representatives of the U. S. Grain Growers, Inc. in Kan: n the near future. McGreey, present Texas and Oklahoma North and South Dakota; Jewett, Colorado, Oregon, Washing- ton, Idaho and Montana; W. michael of Cunningham, ind Nebraska will be rep: by J. L. Hull, W. J. James Thomas. COURT TERM AS ented and Following Colo. Mar. conviction yesterday of 20 members of an alleged confidence ring which loperated in several states interest leentereq in the county grand jury | before which the jurors were sum- moned to appear this morning. Sub- poenas were served on the jurymen |immediately after they had given {their jury verdict and had been dis- arged shortly before 6 o’cl it {night. The grand jury investigation believed to be in connection with | alleged attempts to influence jurors during the trial. i} er ‘Gloria Swanson Sued for Divorce i Los Angeles, March 29— motion | Swanson, picture AFTER TRIAL | : raw Ty CONDEMNED OWNS AUTOS S priests sentenced 1 SAYS TARIFF NOTCAUSEOR SUGAR BOOST Congressman Fordney Blames Others for Forcing Up of The Price BLAMES THE INTERE tional Commtitee Asks Immediate Action | Tacoma, March 29.—Exist-| ing tariffs on sugar have nothing whatever to do with the present high price of that commodity, Jos. W. Fordney, former Michigan congress: | man and coadjuster of the Fordney- , MeCumber tariff law ve tariff commission whieh the president has directed to make an inquiry into the sugar situation wili find that the present tariff of 1.76 | cents pound upon Cuban raw | and 2.20 cents on other imported - cannot possibly justify the in- declared her crease of seven cents a pound which ay | marked the advances of the su; market in the last few weeks,’ Fordney said, “Even under the emergence riff of two cents per pound on Cuban raw, which was in effect until the ‘present tariff law was enacted, sugar ‘fell tw Mr. The riff commission will find t the real reason for the advance jth hi ‘York or other eustern vanced 11° cents a pound on 1, tons of Cuban sugar, that the gotten control of the new now manipulating the ; that the consumer, paying th ‘prices now quoted, can save from going on the rocks.” WANTS ACTION NOW. Washington, tariff commis an inquiry to determin with President Hardin; bankers ad- 0,000 have; are price sq higher ar, 's instructions “were even partially responsible” for high sugar prices, Cordell Hull, chairma of the Democratic national commit- tee, declared in a statement published today that it become the duty ;the commission to report “immediat ly” to the President that “it was pa tially responsible.” Chairman Hull said that on a “buy- 50 per cent reduction Presi- ers’ market a jin the sugar tariff which the dent would be authorized to m det the flexible provisions of the tar- iff act “would certainly reduce the lretail price between two and three cents a pound When the government gets in dis- a result of this tarif infla- n sugar, as well as other com- nodities it should do something e the situation and not subm Mr. Hull concluded. SOVIET GRANTS STAY TO PRIESTS Moscow, Mar, 29—The appeal for clemency of the Catholic prelate for st Monday will ‘be considered at the first meeting of the central executive committee ito be held either tomorrow or next jweek, the government amnesty de- partment committee announced to- id Meanwhile the f | stay of sentence for the condemned s applicable and they will remain in prison. The revolutiona Kamenetz-Podolsk, sentenced to death a group of 84 [persons, chiefly tradesmen and members, of the Intelligent | victed off assisting the anti-holshe- |vik commander Petlura by jattacks on the red tribunal at n Volhynia, has Moscow ‘Here's Hint, Girls Chairman of Democratic Na- in the fact that a group of New crop and) them; ( in accordance | i y continue to take its share of the! con-'| armed | vices had indicated that! “Men like ’em ligh good- Fulche: nd Pauline linn, ex- plaining her popularity with men. She's been seized in San Francisco, charged with having four husbands at once, 1,000 GERMAN MINERS STRIKE AS A PROTEST Will Not Return to Work Until the La Soldier Leaves, They Declare Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Mar, 2 Vif thousand miners are on | strike in the Gelsenkirchen district at all mines occupied by troops, ac- {cording to estimates made in Ger- man quarters. The men quit work as a protest against the occupation. ‘ive thousand men are out at the Westerholt properties, four thou- sand at Reinbaden, four thousand at the Concordia mines and two thou- and at the Blumentha} plant. They While the n Was preparing for | have served notice that they will! {not return to work until the last soldier leaves. From Reinbaden comes report that the sirens blew so long in protest that was threatened unless th 1s stopped, ‘The i emi-officially that the occupying ‘ are -h Jing difficulty in operating the Lo ing devices at these mines and that so far the ve succeeded in load- ing only three or four daily Before serted, a fuel force noise mans. assert rees it repar minutes is us- tions ach the occupation, trainload of rolled e ten Germans charge « impression of he ‘ments the French have in order to begun a daily shuttle » between Ludwighav- en and L berg, Iways using: ‘the same loads of coul NATIONALN. P. Townley Says Act in | braska was Premature | Pipestone, Minn., March 29.—A. C. Townley, former president of the | National Nonpartisan league, who is here today in the interest of the Pro- ducers Alliance of the Northwest, aid he knew little of the activities jof the Nonpartisan league in Nebra ika at present. An injunction ‘granted in court there to prevent | withdrawal from the state of automo- jbiles and cash. ‘The automobiles in Nebraska, | Kansas and other states belonging to the organization department of the j National Nonpartisan league,” he aid “were taken to do work b agreement of the state committees, “Mr, Lux, I think, has acted, pre- maturely and without knowledge and Sa jBrestpliation: - the monthly report of John H. [has heen made defendant in lthe execution of Archbishop Zeplinh,|consent of the national executive | Highest wind’ velocity... ad federal reserve bank agent vance suit filed Ne eee K. Som-| head of the Roman Catholic char nicommittee and the state committee. | WEATHER FORECAST. ssing crop and business cond born, her husband. The complaint | in Russia and Vicar General Butch-|I have not been in Nebraska for some [2 ee Blpparecane vicinity: Geners|itions in ithe northwest for Febca- charges desertion. \kavitch, who were condemned to death | months, but I do know that the work < ; jally fair tonight and Friday. Colder} ary, ‘There have been unsually ean ee ea eNPUREL EET eae oe ae ase aaalal| late heba fb Gederciheraisecriontat > SNOWDON § BILL tonight, Cold wave east portion with | tarye sales of farm implements the | present husband in, December, 1915, | be carried out today if no action was|the national headquarters of the Fe ee a Ona feport states. Bank loans have been \just a year aft t Huaband?| taken: extending.amnesty or granting, league.” goes he qeassucel ies ight pear Gis ecce ce ane sheng | Judge Miller Soon to Hold| Wallace Beer: tor obtained |# stay of sentence. i poe eed London, Mar. 29.—The tezt of| northwestern Rocky Mountain region}. Prices of the principal northwest. | z ‘i |a decree of divoree on the ground of pagers! | St p ANSI i Philip Snowon’s “anti-capitalis@” bill; ‘d gion! ern farm products showed mixed | Court in Minot {desertion. Plan to Merge | Inspection ofthe Kenmare batallion and temperatures are somewhat low- er over the Canadian Northwest. Tem- peratures are higher over the north- ern Plains States and upper Missis- pi Valley due to low pressure cen- tered over the upper Mississippi Val- ley. The weather is generally fair in all sections. 4 ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Meteorologist. 1,250: BARRELS FLOUR OUTPU' Grand Forks,’ N. D., March 2! Approximately 1,250 barrels of Da- kota Maid flour are being | milled daily at the state mill and elevator, according to C. E. Austin, general manager. | As: flour is ‘milled only as, it is sold the foregoing figure represents the daily sales. To turn out this amount of flour requires the ‘opera- tion. of ‘one of the two white flour units. full time,-24 hours per da; - The durum unit, which recently was “ PROSECUTION RESTS tried out/for the first time, was Marion, Ill., Mar, 29—The prose- | found to be fully satisfactory, and cution in the secon Herrin riot trial | Mr, Austin said that this unit would rested today after having called | be operated as the demand for this thirty-two witnennes since the tak- | kind of flour dictates, tne of testimony started on March The elevator, which for a time bth. c was used only for the storage of The defense immediately began | wheat for the mill, is now ready for public use, Mr, Austin satd. tendendies during the month of Feh ruary. The majority of grain, pri ingreased and the majority of | which is to come up fof debate in the house of commons after. the Easter re-| cess was published today. The bill provides for “the nationalization’ of land the abolishment of private prop- | erty in Great Britain.” , states, Lack of normal buying power in the farming communities has’ been offset in large urban centers of the district, by very active building op- erations Receipts of grain at Minneapolis and the head of the lakes showed a seasonal decline between January | and February, but compared to the «110 Sear average the receipts were above the normal amount, and rye receipts were four times as large as | this dverage. TO BE. REPRESENTED The North Dakota department of education will be represented “at a conference on literacy to be held in Detroit, Mich. on May 1 and 2, State Supeyintendent Miss, Nielson said today.) Who will represented the department is undecided, The conerence is one of five called by Mrs, Cora WijJson Stewart, chairman of the national commission on liter- acy, LAND OBTAINED AFER 15 YEARS, Sutton, N. D., March 29.—After a lapse of 15 years without a claim- | ant, Harry Goodman, buttermaker of Lastrup, Minn, has appeared to claim he is rightful heir to the farm of George Goodman, which reverted to the State of North Dakota after the owner George Goodman was kill- ed in an accident in 1908, The dead man was a bachelor and nothing could be, learned as to whether he had any relatives or heirs. Harry Goodman claims he is a nephew of the former owner. A cow, a sheep, and a pig are be- ing added to the Zoo” of St. Louis, have never, seen these animals: Judge Andrew Miller of federal i 4 * court, accompanied by Mrs. Miller, stock prices declined, the report \jeft for Fargo today after having |S completed the March term of federal Court here. After disposing of soine matters in Fargo Judge Miller will jhold court in Minot. U.S, Marshal James Shea, Clerk of ;Court J. A. Montgomery, and others cf the court staff left last night and today for Fargo, The last. case before Judge Miller was taken under advisement. It w: Ft. Yates, in which the latter resisted collection of about $160 demurrage on jcoal cars incurred during the war. At that time coal wa: reservation, Labor was, scarce and time elapsed before loading: The rai! refuse to charge demurrage, would be liable to fine under federal lawa if it did so, There are numer- ous other similar claims. FILE U, 8. JOBS The federal civil service cmmis- sion is placing on file in the office Labor Kitchen a complete file of ex- menta, Persistent rumors that their m: ‘ried life was troubled culminated ifinally in an announcement by Miss wanson, in September, 1921, that |the “report that my husband and 1 ihave separated is true.” Trish Irregulars Dublin, |Irish Nationalists army troops. in | which ‘a number ‘of-irregulars cap- between the Northern Pacific Railway | tured and others killed or wounded | ;company and the First State Bank of | ang an ambushing affair by irregn- !lar forces are announced in official | statements, | “Troops from Castle Island, coun- ; shipped to Bis-| ty Kerry captured five irregulars and | marck to be loaded’ on boats for the| shot and killed another who refus- | ed. to halt. ., | wounded some of the soldiers. One | Clash with Regulars Mar. 29.—Operations by | ‘A detachment of troops returning , road company contended it could not |to Kenmare was ambushed by irre-) . it |gulars who killed a seargent and/émployed by the city government ' Evangelical Church { Gincinnati, Ohio, March 29—A po- itential merger of the Evangelical {synod of North America and the ‘Evangelical Protestant church of | America was indicated today at the close of the Lenten services of the Third Protestant church here when Rey. Richard R. Fillbrandt, pastor of the Camp Washington Evangeli- jeal church announced that he had ‘taken steps to that end. headquarters company of the Nation- ial Guard, for federal recognition, \ will be held soon, it was announced by Major Harold Sorenson, of the Adjutant-GeneraPs office. TANK EXPLODES; MAN HURT. Hazen, NX. D., March 29—John . mechanic employed by the Wernli Motor company here, tried to solder a line tank | without thorougl ying it. It lexploded. Physicians say he recover his eyesight despite severe cuts about the optics. ve ‘NEW YORK MARRIED EMPLOYES New York, Mar, 29.—-Married men | were informed by Commissioner Mur- | irregular was killed. Six irregulars|phy that hereafter their pay checks | were surprised in a house in Nen- orh area, three escaped, two were killed, and one wounded | i ane RR. ‘would be mailed to their home ad- idress instead of being handed to them }in person.” “Every the city employe from | Girls. of schoo} age’ should play, mayor down is going to get his check of Commission of Agriculture and | for a shorter period than boys, and/at home,” Commissioner Murphy said. hockey, . latrosse.’ tennis, i i them, J 00 ana|“The money belongs in the-home and as 8o many children in that city| aminations for Civil Service appoint- | cricket are all suitable Seite Tor am going to do my best to put it there and then if some of the wives WILL GET PAY CHECKS AT HOME cannot keep it there‘it is their own fault.” One than called on Mr. Murphy and} said that he had received an increase in salary a year ago and had not told his wife of the happening. 4 “I asked commissioner how in the world I can explain this thing to her when she sees the check,” he said. One city employe’s wife called the commissioner on the telephone and said: she had heard the “good news” and was sending him a box of candy. small trains | PRICE FIVE CENTS ‘DENIES CHARGE OF CRUELTIES TON. D. INSANE Dr. A. W. Guest Asserts That Steib Charges Without Foundation WELCOME A PROBE Glad to Have State Board Look Into Affairs of the Institution Jamestown, N. D., Mar. 29.—Dr. A. W. Guest, superintendent of the State hospital for the insane, James- tor and who has just — returned from months absence, when inter- viewed relative to charges made against that institution and its management in a communication by Ed. Cleveland, a former employe, si “L know nothing ‘the proposed investigation; that is up to the board of administration. to their charges there is nothing | to them and this institution wel comes the invesigation.” he charges made by Steib were that insane patients had been sh fully mistreated at the institution, declaring that employes had beat many witnout any good cause what- ver, Steib, of foreign birth, work- 1 at the institution a comparative- short time. STATE'S BANK ~ GETS VERDICT FOR $84,429 Jury Decided in Favor of Bank of North Dakota in Lawsuit Here whatever about Verdict for the {Dakota inst the bank of asselton nk of North Peoples for representing the claims of the jand the terest: whieh ysuit started, in district y afternoon, ko oof North Dakota claimed this amount due bi Se of obligations incurred by the Iselton bank in loans and redeposits. The Casselton bank admitted lia- bility for approximately $31,000. of the amount, but denied liability for the dif contending that it had merely as agent for the | Bank of North Dakota in handling used capital stock notes of the argo bank. The Bank of North D: a took the position that the defense could after ndered by ecrued i yurt here late not be relied upon because if it were admitted the bank had en- tered into an illegal contract and could not eseape indebtedness through an illegal contract and also claimed that the ards showed that the officers of the selton bank had admitted the claim of the Bank of North Dakota on their ree- oncilement sheets. The Bank of advanced &42, orth Dakota had 6 to the Casselton bank at a ti late in 1920 when it was under Nonpartisan regime and was seeking to collect all the money possible from various banks because it was hard pressed for any and at a time when the Bank of orth Dakota had been seeking to collect from the Peoples State bank but had failed to obtain much of the money due it. The capital stock e notes in the case ha ed in the Peoples elton which re- from the Bank nd in tu Ame of Fargo, accotding to the evi As a result of the! ver ppealed and reversed, the owt ship of the notes presumably with the Peopl ¢ bank at € elton. A number of note-holders ‘had employed an attorney to resist tempt to collect them, either by the Casselton bank or the Bank of North Dakota. ASSET SALE HELD INVALID Judge McKenna Rules Coggswell Bank Case Sale of the assets of the closed Coggswell State Bank to R. W. Craig and the Bank of Coggswell made | by the Banking Board and Guaranty Fund Commission on bids has been | ft aside by District Judge McKen- i tla who held the sale was without authority, the Attorney-General’s of- fice has been advised. The Bank of Cogeswell was establisheq by Mr. | Craig, of: Lisbon, and others, The court, it is understood, will appoint a receiver for the closed Coggswell State Bank. | TO URGE MORE WHEAT USE _ Norh Dakota people wil} be’ to join in the “Eat More campaign, Governor Neston is ex: pecs ip sue os Lda 5 - en orsing the campaign end of the week): Governor ree ‘of Minn- exota, who endorsed the ci >| alfo asked the assistance of Gi ‘| nors in 17 No . :