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

WEATHER FORECAST Fair tonight and Tuesday. "Warmer tonight. ESTABLISHED. 1873 DEMAN STATE STREET CAR LINE T0 | BE DISCUSSED Franchise For Its Operation Will Expire During Mid- dle of September TO BE CONTINUED? Some People Object to Con- tinuing Car Line, While Others Favor It The franchise for operation of the street car line from the downtown section to the state capitol will be before the city commission in the near future. The present franchise under which Main anf Fourth Streets are used by the state in the oper- ation of the line will expire about the middle of September. and the question of whether or not the line should be continued in the future is being discussed in various quarters. There are some property owners on Fourth street who would be very glad to see the line discontin- ued altogether. Although the street has been paved, money has never been provided by the state legisla- ture for paving between the tracks. This has been the cause of some ob- jections raised by property owners who feel that since they paid heavy assessments to get part of the street paved the state ought to pave be- tween the street car tracks. There flso- has been some objec- tion raised because of the frequency of near accidents, especially in col- lisions between automobiles and the car, On the part of the state there is said to be a desire on the part of some officials to seek some other method of transportation, since there is an annual deficit of $6,000 to $8,000 in the line. Should the line be abandoned it is felt some method for transportation by motor cars or buses would have to be arranged for state employes. There has been ad- vanced a suggestion that the car be not operated in the summer but be operated during the winter. A great number of employes who walk or use their own automobiles in the sum- mer depend on the street car dur- ing the winter. While there appears a deficit each there also are some who be- that the state ought to maintain the transportation service for the. employes and visitors to the city, and argue that #ince the capitol must maintain a power plant for heating and lighting it can without great additional experse in the win- ter operate the car line. The new Memorial suilding was wired for electricity by the local electric utility. The electricity for the capitol building now is furnished by the state’s own power plant. A bill was passed by the legisla- ture two years ago intended to make possible a consolidation of the elec- tric and heating plants for the prison and state capitol, and also to permit the state to maintain a White Way system on the’ Bismarck-Memorial bridge paved road and to light the bridge. Under the ' governmental regulations, federal-state highways must be maintained by the state. FIND $40,000 THEFT FROM GRAIN HOUSE). Employe, Not Named, Work- ed With an Accomplice, Company Head Asserts - Minneapolis, Aug. 27—Theft of at least $40,000 in the accounts of the McCarthy Brothers Grain Company has been revealed by an audit of the concern’s books, according to an announcement of J. H. McCarthy, president of the company today. The audit was made following the dis- appearance of an employe of the firm. Search for this employe has been instituted by the Maryland Casualty Company but as yet: no warrant for his arrest has been ask- ed. The audit is being continued by Mr. McCarthy and he said the short- age may amount to between $60,000 and $75,000. . ‘According to Mr. McCarthy the employe worked with an accomplice in the Chamber of Commerce, éelling grain at the highest quotations of the day’s business and entering the transactions on the company’s rec- ord as the lowest of the day. -The difference, it was said, probably was divided between the men. 69 Students To Finish At Minot Normal August 31 Minot, Aug. 27.—Sixty-nine stu- dents will receive diplomas from vhe Minot Normal on August 31, when graduating exercises will formally close to the 923 summer term, it bs announced today by President George A, McFarland. , Hon. R. B. Murphy, ® member of the state board of administration, has accepted an invitation to be present, give the commencement address and present the diplomas, Further details of the'program afte under consideration at the present time. The exercises will be held ti “ras lla. m i- ¢ DSCOA THIS PICTURE MARKS HISTORY IN MAIL DELIVERY. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1923 RA Scene at Curtiss Field, Long Island, when the first plane landed in the trials of the government to establish 28-hour mail service between San Francisco and New York. FINDS DETROIT WORRIED OVER M. 0. DEFICIT Editor of Jim Jam Jems Also Hears Magnus Johnson Dis- cussed Freely in Chicago Detroit is all “het up” over a de- ficit of $20,000 in the July operat- ing expenses of the municipal street railway, ® cording to Wallace Camp- bell, editor of Jim Jam Jems, who returned this morning from a trip ts the Twin Cities, Chicago and the Michigan mcteropolis. The deficit in the municipal street car lines of Detroit is claimed to be caused by a recently raised wage scale of em- ployes, he said. Mr. Campbell found many people in Chicago and Detroit much inter- ested in the Magnus Johnson victory for senator in Minnesota. There, he said the victory is regarded as a precursor of elections in other states, a sort of a hand-writing on the wall. The farm bloc is taken more seriously than ever before, and there is a more general recognition among big business men that general prosperity cannot last unless the middle-west farmer is prosperous, he said. The agricultural situation is now taken seriously, he added. “ Mr." Campbell found much talk of Henry Ford for president, he said, but added that no one knew what Ford would do except Ford himself, and Ford is now on a camping trip in the wilds of Michigan. There is much sentiment for Ford in Detroit and throughout Michigan, he said. While in Chicago Mr. Campbell and Sam Clark visited Mr. E. G. Patterson at the Pr hospital. Mrs, Patterson was very cheerful and hopes soon to return home, he said. Mr. Campbell reports the publish- ing business as optimistic. He went to Detroit to attend to the proposed third cdition of their Federal Re- serve book being distributed from there. The third edition will make a total issue of 80,000 copies. HOTEL REPAIRED, Washburn, N. D., Aug. 27.—Repairs are being made on the Hotel Wash- burn, which was badly damaged by fire last week. Joe Tauer, the pro- prietor, has given up his duties. August Wahl is owner of the eatab- lishment. ] The Weather i > For Bismarck and vicinity: Fair to- night and Tuesday. Warmer tonight. For North Dakota: Fair tonight and Tuesday. Warmer tonight, south- central portion, Weather outlook for the period August 27 to Sept. 1, inclusive. Moderate temperature and general- ly fair except for occasional local thundershowers. a General Weather Conditions An area of low pressure is center- ed over Iowa this morning and pre- cipitation has occurred at most places from the Rocky Mountain re- gion castward to the Great Lakes region. Fair weather prevails west of the Rockies. Cool weather con- tinues over the Plains States and Rocky Mountain region. . Road Conditions The roads throughout the State are mostly in good condition but they are muddy in places this morn- ing inthe eastern part of the State. North Dakota Corn and wheat Stations. High Low Preci. Amenia ,.. 80 47 0 C BISMARCK . 80 45 056 C Bottineau, . 79 49 0. C Bowbells . 80 49 0 C Devils Lake 7% 43 .16 C~ Dickinson . 16 48 03 C Dunn Center . - 71 48 22 © Ellendale .« ‘ Cc Fessenden c Grand, Forks cl Jamestown c Larimore . ch Lisbon. - c Minot .. c Napoleon PC + Pembina PC | Williston . c Moorhead . +. 1% 50 48 F The above record is for the 48 hours ending at 7 a. m. today local Orrlg Wy Roberts, Meteorologist. / ROBBED HAIR TO BE PASSE, DECLARATION New York, Aug. 27.—Bobbed -hair must go, the National Hairdressers’ assoeiation, which will hold its third imnual convention in this city Sep- tember 10, because the style was ruined when it was adopted by wo- men over 30, it is declared. The bobbed hair flapper is all right but the present long skirt de- creed for older women do not har- monize with trimmed locks. LIGNITE MEN AREPLANNING GATHERINGS Would Impress Upon Busi- ness Men of State Import- ance of Industry A series of. educational meetings will be held by the North Dakota Lignite Coal Operators Association of September or first week in Octo- ber, at the same time district meet- ings of the operators are held, ac- cording to James Milloy of- Minot, secretary of the association. State officials, including Governor Nestos, Railroad Commission Chajr- [man Milhollan, Commissioner of Agri” culture Kitchen, President Coulter of the Agricultural College, Dean Babcock of the state university and Commissioner of Immigration De- vine, will-be invited to attend part or all of the’ meetings. The purpose of the meetings, ac- cording to Mr. Milloy, is to reach business men with complete informa- tion as to the problems of the lig- ite coal’industry so as to gain more general cooperation in its develop- ment. The operators’ association, he added, was formed only for the pur- pose of developing the industry gen- erally. GRAND JURY ASKED SOOK Shafer Tells Plan After Con- ference With Bangs Grand Forks, Aug. 27.—After » conference with George A. Bangs, special assistant attorney generai, Attorney General George Shafer said today that a petition for a grand jury in Cass county to probe the a: leged wrecking of the Scandinavian- American bank of Fargo would prob- ably be presented to District Judge C, M. Cooley on or about September 1, This action has been made neces- sary. by the action of District Judge George: McKenna in dismissing in- dictments . returned by the recent grand jury in C. county. 1923 WHEAT | - FINE QUALITY Some Yields of 12 to 15 Bush- els an Acre Reported Near Here Wheat delivered to the Russell- Miller Milling Company's elevator in Bismarck is generally of very fine quality, H. C. Bjerke, manager of the mill said today. gluten content is reported unusually high not only in this vicinity. but in other parts of the state. Most of the wheat, Mr. Bjerke said, graded from No. 1 to No, 3. : Practically all. wheat delivered to the mill thus far has . been : early- sown wheat. Some. yields of 12 to; 15 bushels an acre of Marquis wheat have been. reported. The average is {expected to be less. The late-sown wheat will not come in much before September 1, it is expected. ‘ \ in the state, probably the last week} i JUDGE HOLDS BAR BOARD ACT 10 BE VALID Supreme Court May Appoint) Members and Lawyers Fund May Be Used The act of the 1923 legislature taking power of appointing members of the State Bar Board from the Governor and giving ‘it to the su- preme court is held constitutional, in a memorandum opinion of District Judge Fred Jansonius, made today. The court also held that the l of the legislature appropriating $10, 000 from funds of the Bar Boa: to be used in the purch: and re- pair of books for the supreme court library was not unconstitutional, The State Bar Board, composed of C, J, Fisk, S. E. Ellsworth and R. Goer, had obtained an order restrain- ing E, J. Taylor, librarian; J, H. Newton, clerk of the supreme court, and the state auditor and treagurez from expending the money appropri- ated. The bar board fund is created from the annual license foe paid by lawyers, Judge Jansonius found that since it is provided the supreme court shall appoint members of the Bar Board from lawyers of the Bar asso- ciation the question naturally. arise whether the district, court has any jurisdiction in the matter. For tha purpose of permitting the case to be finally decided, however, he put aside questions of jurisdiction. The court held that the Bar Board is really an agency of the supreme court and therefore the constitution- al provisions which prohibit appoi ive power being lodged in the su- preme court does not obtain, DR. GILMORE 10 FT. BERTHOLD Engaged in Work for Museum of the American Indian Dr. M. R. Gilmore, former curator of the State Historical Society, has gone to the Fort Berthold Indian re- servation, after stopping in Bismarck for a brief time on his return from McGregor, Iowa, where he has been an~instructor in the summer school in Indian lore at the American School of Wild Life Protection. Dr. Gilmore’s work on home economics of Indians on the Missouri river, which he is engaged in for the Mus- eum of the American Indian, will carry him into many states along the Missouri river. At Fort Berthold Dr. Gilmore will continue work he had already started while in the state. Among other things he will -collect pottery, ar- ticles of clothing and hpusehold de- coration, dyestuffs and perfumes, and gather information about the home life of the Indians whom the first white men to ascend the Miss- ouri river found living in villages and tilling cornfields along its banks. FORKS FARMERS BUYING SHEEP. Grand Forks, N. D., Aug. 25.— Grand Forks county farmers are buy- ing sheep in considerable numbers, according to D. B, Morris, county agent. The reason for this is the,at- tractive prices which the anit bring and their value for cleaning up farms, &. ® Slope Field | Yields 30 Bu. To The Acre 4 With threshing just started. indications are that the wheat crop will be much better than expected, says A. P. Nyden of Hebron, writing to The Tribune. Herman Glass, six miles north of. Hebron, reported 20 bushels an acre average. Leo Reetz threshed 30 bushels of wheat to the acre on some ground. “Not so. bad,” opines Mr. Nyden. . LSTRIKE BEAVERTED SHOOTING IN DUBLIN WHILE PEOPLE VOTE Election of Members of Free State Parliament Is Being Held Today MOTOR CAR ATTACKED Two Cabinet Members Escape —Free State Forces Are Expecting Victory Dublin, Aug. 27 (By the A. P.)— A lively outbreak of rifle and mach- ine gun fire occurred in Dublin early today. The shooting was not ex- plained. Balloting in the Dail election pro- ceeded. with National troops patrol- lling the streets. 6 A motor car carrying James Crow- lev and the Minister of Fishermen Finnian Lynch,-both of whom are \candidates of the government for Kerry, was attacked by a crowd while passing through Liniaw yes- terday. Shots were fired and one man was seriously injured. Voting in the Dail elections began throughout the Irish Free State at 9 o'clock today with an electorate of more than 1,760,000 eligible to cast their ballots. Nearly 500,000 of this | number are new voters, most of them being young and of both sexes. The day is a public holiday and makes possible the closing of the polls at 7 o'clock, In Dublin there are labor candi- dates of both the regular and Lar- kin wings. The Dublin sheriff does not expect to be able to announce any results before Tuesday night and possibly not even then unless all candidates waive formal comparison of all votes cast with voting papers issued. It is likely to be Wednesday night before Dublin returns are ta- bulated and delay in the scattered country constituency is expected to be even greater. Supporters of the government par- ty have shown increased confidence daily and it is now believed this group will constitute the largest bloc POLICE HALT in the new house. The Renublicans rely on the new vete to better t sbowing maue vy them in the last election when they took 36 seats. GEORGE JOHNS DROPS DEAD George Johns of Mandan, 57, dropped dead this morning at 8:30 o’clock while on his way to the Northern Pacific railroad in Man- dan to go out on his run as con- ductor on the helper car. Mr. Johns had been suffering with heart trouble, physicians having adviged him that his heart was weak. He ‘had been employed on the railroad for many years and was well known not only in Man- dan and Bismarck but along the line where he worked while per- forming his duties on the railroad. He leaves to mourn hig death his wife and three children in-ad- dition to four ‘brothers and one sister. Most of his brothers and sisters reside in Newcastle, Pa. Funeral services will be held in Bismarck @nd interment will be in the family lot. The time of the services have not yet been decided upon. HUNT MEN WHO SPREADTERROR IN SAVANNAH Trio Rides Through Negro Settlement Shooting Wild- ly — One Is Killed Savannah, Ga., Aug. 27.—City and county officials were. combing East Savannah, a negro settlement, in rch of a number of white men in three aytomobiles who drove through the settlement and fired more than 100 shots into houses, killing one ne- gro according to reports and wound- ing others. No motive for the firing is known. The men appeared suddenly and com- menced shooting -without warnin; it is said, County policemen we: ‘rushed to East Savannah bit were , able to learn very little from the \ terrified negroes other than thatthe mien in the three automobiles (were ‘ white. ¢ MILLERAND SEES OWSLEY Rambouillet, France, Aug. 27.— President Millerand today received the entire American Legion delega- tion headed by Col. Alvin M. Owsley at the presidential summer chateau. He chatted for a few minutes with each ‘of the delegations and. had a eed private conversation with Ows- ley. PLAN PROGRAM | FOR CONGRESS TO AID FARMER Representatives of Four States Gather in Minne- sota City for Conference ASK SPECIAL SESSION Committee Probably Will Be Named to Carry Request to | President at Washington Wheaton, Minn, Aug. 27.—Repre- sentatives of the four grain growing midwest states gathered here today to prepare a program of agricultural legislation and to appoint a commit- tee which will call upon President Coolidge with a view of urging him of enacting laws to aid agriculture, The meeting is the crystallization of the price stabilization meetings held in North Dakota, and Minnesota the past two months and was call- ed by F. V. Anderson, chairman of the voluntary state committee. The meetings were opened at 10 o'clock and will continue until late tonight. Magnus Johnson, senator-elect from Minnesota, was scheduled to make the principal address of the meeting late this afternoon. Other spenkers will include J. F. Reed, president of the Minnesota Farm Fed- eration, Mr. Anderson and W. J. Murphy of Wheaton. one of the lead- ers in the organization of the price stabilization commit : ATTACK UPON RICH YOUTH Crowd Threatens Son of Chi- cago Business Man, Accus- ed by Girl’s Relatives Chicago, Aug. 27—Police were on guard today at the home of Max Ad- ler, vice-president of the Sears-Roe- buck Company, whose 24-year-old son, Cyrus Adler, narrowly escaped harsh treatment at the hands of angry re- latives of a 15-year-old girl he was charged with attacking. Policeman Redman Gibbons waved his revolver threateningly at the crowd until a patrol wagon came with reinforcements and took the young man to the’station. Young Adler, a few minutes before, had backed out of the home of the girl’s aunt with his own revolver pointing at the girl’s relatives, who chased him for three blocks. The girl’s aunt, with whom she had been on a visit from her home in Milwaukee, filed charges of catry- ing concealed weapons, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and statutary offence. Saturday afternoon Adler callad up the girl and Mrs. Liebermann asked him to come over. Fearing trouble, it is said, Adler carried along his re- volver and narrowWy escaped ser- ious injury from the girl's relatives. Last Wednesday the girl’s aunt, Mrs. Julia Liebermann told the po- lice Adler and a girl invited the girl and a friend, strangers to them, to take a ride in Adler's automobile. The girls accepted. . CHARGE DISMISSED. Chicago, Aug. 27.—Judge Samuel Trude today dismissed a serious charge made against Cyrus Adler, son of Max Adler, weathy vice presi- dent of Sears-Roebuck and Co., by an aunt of a 15-year old Milwaukee! school girl. Relatives of the girl from whom young Adler had fle. with a revolver in Katia from whose anger he was prdtetted by a policeman failed to appear in court. Relatives were unwilling to press the charges against Adler. The judge continued a charge of carrying con- cealed weapons against him pending further investigations of the case, Since Adler fled from the home of the girl’s aunt with her relatives and friends in pursuit, a police guard has been on duty at the Adler home. COAL F. R. Wadleigh, federal coal dis- tributor, photographed following a long discussion with the president on plans for substitutes if the an- thracite miners strike. Clyde Aitchison, acting chairman of the Interstate Commerce Com- mission, has been called by Pres- ident Coolidge to plan fpr the im- pending coal strike. ' FEATURE CORN ATSLOPEFAIR OPENED TODAY Main Exhibition Building Is Turned Into.a Corn Palace At Exhibition With corn featured as one of the great crops of southwestern North Dakota, the Missouri Slope Fair op- ened in Mandan today to continue for four days, . Nearly 200 prizes were offered in various classes for corn growers, and the main exhibition building was vir- tually turned into a corn palace. More than 1,000 exhibits were plac- ed in it by noon. Dairy livestock also is being fea- tured. It is said the value of live- stock exhibited is $500,000. Prospects were good for a large at- tendance the opening day in spite of the fact that farmers generally are in the midst of threshing. BRIDE LEAVES NO, DAKOTAN When E. L. Smith returned to his home in Minneapolis Saturday night he learned that his 81-year-old wif had disappeared, said a dispatch from Minneapolis, adding that Bis- marck authorities had been wired to be on the lookout for her and a man vho went to Minneapolis from Steele, N. D., about the same time that Smith and his bride went to; the Minnesota city to live. She left a note saying she was “sorry things had tarned out the way they have; I cannot be happy.” The couple only recently went to Minneapolis. Loea] authorities say they have. re- ceived no information concerning the woman’s disappearance. BURLEIGH COUNTY ABOVE AVERAGE ~ OF STATE IN PRODUCTION OF CORN Burleigh county ranks fifth in corn production and 11th in popula- tion among the counties of the state, according to figures prepared for the Assogiation of Commerce by D. T. Owens, who is an ardent booster of the future of this and adjoining counties in corn, cattle and hog rais- ing business. Total production of corn in Bur- leigh county is given as follows: 1920, 710,976 bu; 1921, 720,000 bu; 1922, 750,000 bu. The 1920 acreage .of corn in the county was 29,624 as compared to 72,036 of wheat. and a total’ acreage og 246,154. The average yield of corn in the state forthe last five years is given ‘as follows: 1919, 33 bu; 1920, 30 bu; >] 1921, 28 bu; 1922, 27 bushels an acre. i Mr. Owen made a comparison of the value of wheat and corn produc- tion an acre inthe state, for the. years from 1917 to 1922. He figures -alue of wheat per acre as follow: 1917, $16.00; 1918, $27.61; 1919, $16. 1920, $11.70; 1921,°$7.22; 1922, $12.69. For the same years he figured the value of corn production as follows per acre: 1917, $23.59; 1918, $24.70; 1919, $46.20; 1920, $17.28; 1921, $9.52; 1922, $13.75. - The comparison shows corn ‘has all the best of it as » money produc- ing crop. The values per acre of corn in the comparison does not take into account the value of stalks: for fodder or value of: cultivation to the land, it is added, \ é ===] THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [miso PRICE FIVE CENTS PINCHOT TELLS CONFERENCE IT MUST SUCCEED Governor of Pennsylvania Meets Participants in Ef- fort To End Dispute HEAD ABSENT John L. Lewis Is Represented by Vice-President and District Presidents MINERS’ 27.—Governor leaders of each side in’ the anthra- cite controversy around his office ta- ble today and told them bluntly that the proposed suspension of mining September 1 could not be allowed. Declaring the crisis now had been reached, Governor Pinchot asserted “we must do in this eleventh hour what should have been done befor y effective spirit of common counsel so that this com- mon danger may pass, with due re- gard to the rights of all and with due credit and honor to all concern- ed.” With the exception of John L. Lewis, president of the United Minc Workers, all participants of the At- lantie City negotiations were here today. - Philip Murra: of the Union, was h absence with the three district pres- idents, WATCHING OUTCOME, Washington, Aug. 27.—Governmen: officials today were watching wit: Profegsed confidence the outcome c: efforts of Governor Pinhot in his conference with miners’ and opera- tors’ representatives at Harrisburz to finda basis for settlement in their dispute that will avert the threateneq shut-down of anthracite mines Sep. tember 1/ Although the Pennsylvanta execu- tive, it was said, was proceeding with a free hand in the situation cf ficials here were keeping in close touch with developments. The government not only h: aid to the settlement efforts by Pp plying Governor Pinchot with vari. lent jes but is p: tion spokesmen said, to give strong: er support to the mediator if th+ force: of figures yields no settlement Despite the absence of any sign of a last minute recession of either sidv from its position on the demanat Presented by the miners officials her: still believe that the self-inte: of the parties to the dispute alon, would sufficient motive to bring about a settlement. New York, Aug. 27—Thi million tons of hard coal ae tic sizes will be in the bins of con. sumers or in storage awaiting dis- tribution by September 1, the date of the threatened suspersion . of mining the anthracite bureau of information estimated today. This figure represents, roughl: 45 sporesnt of the 70 million eae of fresh mined anthracite consum- ed by the 48 states, Canada and Mexico each year. It represents 85 percent of a total annual pro- duction of ninety million tons, in- cluding coal used at the m e*, sold to the government or to rail roads; or mined by the Hudson Coal Company, which does not pub- lish data on its business. Since April 1 the mines have far exceeded all records for pro- duction, according to the anthracitu bureau. Since June 1 they have averaged 2,000,00 tons a week, or at the rate of 104,000,000 tons 2 year. The northwestern group of coai using states, and western Canada {are considered in the most fortun- jate position in view of the possi- {bility of a stoppage in production. |Ten million. tons have been shipp: jed up the great lakes. Distributoi: believe this assures qufficient coai to all the .commonwealths serve. by the lakes, including reins hard coal ane states, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and th Dakotas. ; P Impassively the men gathere< around his coynicil table listening t- his words,. They were Samuel, War riner, A. B, Jessup, W. W. Inglis ani W. J. Rich of the operators po! icy committee, and Philip Murray vice president, and C. J. ‘Gelden. Rinaldo Cappellini, and Thomas Ken nedy, district president of the U. S Mine Workers whose orders are ou for closing down the mines Sept. 1 There was scarcely a sound to ‘in terrupt the governor as he read hi: address, R “In my opinion the wisest thing. * can do is to deal separately with ch side,” he said. “To learn the basis for demand ax fully as I can, I request you to give me these interviews.” “We will be glad to grant Your re- quest,” Mr, Warrier ‘ “The miners will also,” said. Mr. Murray. . : “Thank ‘you gentlemen,” Gov, Pin- chot rejoined. “We'll adjourn then ‘until: o'clock when the miners will come te-my. Governor - Pinchot declared K- treat each discussion. as would wholly