The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 26, 1923, Page 1

& ig 4 Bs 7’ ae as ae es oe den in a strawpile in a coulee ESTABLISH ED 1873 - FRENCH YIELD THE BISMARCK. BISMARCK, NORTH weirs FRIDAY, OCTOBER a DAKOTA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1923 BIG DECREASE. IN ACREAGE OF LAND INSURED ey Steady Decline in State Hail Insurance in Last Three Years Is Revealed MAKES FOR HIGH RATE Situation with Respect to This Year’s Losses Under Con- sideration at Capitol ‘A marked decrease in the number of acres of tillable land insured against hail with the State Hail In- surance Department is shown by the records for the last three years. The Department, according to an an- nouncement yesterday, is facing a serious situation in that the maxi- mum tax will not pay all losses one hundred cents on the dollar. Both exceedingly heavy hail lo: withdrawais are given a8 causes. The hail loss of 1923 was exceed- ed in 1921 in the amount of the in- demnity allowed. In 1921 the losses amounted to $4,788593 as compared to $4,668,381 in the prescry year, while in 1922 the losses amounted to $3,537,000. The difficulty of the department is traceable in part to the decrease in the number of acres insured. Withdrawals by farmers from the protection of the insurance were very heavy in 1923. The number of acres of land insured for $7.00 per , aere hail insurance in the last three ~ 11,363,481 9,187,467 7/148,467 acreage in 1923 had fallen more than 30 percent below the infured acreage in 1921. The decrease in the insured acreage for 1923 over 1922, 15 percent, was due to withdrawals in many counties. In 1919 the insured acreage was 12,408,- 000. The total number of, tillable acres is about 28,000,000. The number of the losses in 1923 also exceeds the other years. The and} total number of losses for the Jast three years folow: 1921 .. 21,080 1922 . 18,300 1923. +ile, 25,680 However, the average loss for 1923 is below that of the two previous in-spite of the great amount The average loss in 1923 is $184, in 1922 it was $193 and in 1921 it was $227. It is estimated that approximate- ly one-fourth of the tillable acres of land in the state was insured in the state department during the past season. In order to prevept the hail in- surance law from becoming burden- some and to insure low rates, the legislature provided that in no year could the maximum tax exceed 50 cents an acre. Last year the tax was 42 cents acre, and in 1921 it was 44 cents an acre on $7.00 an acre insurance and 68 cents on $10.00 an acre. The 50-cent maximum tax thie year, it is estimated, will yield about 81 percent of the total indem- nity. | The situation was discussed with Commissioner Olsness by . Governor Nestos and Attorney-General George Shafer late yesterday. They spent some time considering the legal. as- pects of the case, the hail insurance department having asked the Attor- ney-General’s office to, examine the statues to see if there could be placed on the law a. construction which would permit the, use of sur- plus accruing prior to July 1, 1928 in meeting ‘this year’s losses. Until the legal question is settled it is probable that there will be no ac- tion taken in the situatic: z "Much Sweet Clover Shipped LaMoure, N, D., Oct. 26.—Sweet clover #s experiencing the greates. sale in many years and is bringing in a large and satisfactory price, ac- cording to reports reaching here. R. M, Crichton; grain dealer of Verona, declared that so far this fall more than seven carloads of clover seed have been shipped at an average value of $3,000 a car, Car Found Hidden Under. Strawstack Minot, Oct, 26.—Equipped with pitchforks, members of the Minot police force uncovereg a 1928 model Ford touring car that had been hid- short distance southwést of the cit; Ownership of the mathine was e! tablished in a long distance tele- phone conversation with the sheriff at Scobey, Mont., who announced that the car had: Detn stolen from Fred Tassa of Franksville; Mont. The automobile is in goof condition, Police Chief Dan Dougherty, said. . THROWN FROM PIG. ~ Jamestown, N. D., Oct. 26.—Panl Crawford, eight year’ old boy of , Jamestown, received a broken leg when he was ‘thrown. from a ‘pig which h arog riding 5 , The boy go astride porker but was unable to. control. its movement and was lammed against the pen, — ‘SEPARATISTS | OCCUPIED SPOTLIGHT IN NATION'S CAPITAL TSS The iong awaited commiitee t eral Hines assumed the directo! eral John F. O'Ryan, counsel; sylvania; Pp, has been appointed. Senetor T. L. Oddie of Nevada. Governors of the states met recently wita Pr ment problems and other vital public matter. the White House lawn. joto shows them gr NO TRACE OF STOLEN AUTO No trace “hat@been found*ef-the Ford coupe of: Al Pérsonius, which was stolen last Saturday night while {he ang friends were attending a lo- !cal theater. This is the second car. that has been taken on Third street. [It also is the second car Personius | lost this year. Another car, | loane@/ito a friend, was wrecked east of theleity. MURDERER IS RESISTED IN THEIR EFFORT) Germans Resort to Fisticuffs| and Blackjacks in Internal Warfare Raging Is VARYING SUCCESS Berlin, Oct. 26.—Reports from nu- merous places in the Rhineland, in- dicating that the separatists are waging their battle for a Rhineland | republic with varied success and that | local opposition by loyal Germans is becomiag sturdier as the seces- sionists grow bolder. Desultory fighting now extends from Aix La Cnajelle to Speaf, the palitinate hav.ng suddenly become the scene of Republican activities which are liberally being fost tered by the military authorities. This is said to be in.the face of native in-| dignation to a proposal thampioned by local socalst leaders that the pal-} itinate be constituted an autonomous State within the Republic. Fighting in the Rhineland as re- ported here has chiefly resolveg it- self into fisticuffs and the blackjack- ing of separatists by the German op- ponents who, not being allowed to carry weapons, ure making use of their brawn and muscle, LITTLE HEADWAY Coblenz, Germany, Oct. 26.—The new Rhineland. republic. is much where it was yesterday. The Sep- aratists (maintain with difficulty their hold* on “Aix ,La -Chapelle, Bon, Duisburg, Duren ‘and Crefeld, while the strength of their position in Coblenz which they re-entered yes- terday remains to be seen. In all. these places, however, the! Republicans are subjected to a sort of guerrilla warfare on tNe part of the Loyalists. French and Belgian troops are: trying to-restore order. Only ‘at Trierre do they seem to ena; joy * undisturbed possession. The Secessionists also say they have oc~ cupied a number of towne in the dis- trict. The city of Cologne is depend- ing on the town of Euskirchen for its dairy products and fodstuffs. Euskirchen is one of the small towns which the Reteesioniate claim to have occupied. Harry Carter Must Continue Serving Sentence For Murder of. Policeman Harry Carter gentenced to years in prison for the murder of Marshal C. L, Madison’ at Stantey, | Mountrai] county, must continue to serve his sentence. The supreme court today affirmed his conviction in the’ Ward county district court, from which he appealed. Justice Johnson, writing the opin- ion of the court, held tmit the state must prove malice to suppért second degree murder, that the jury would have been justified, as a matter of law, in finding hi mguilty of first degree murder, and that peace ot ficers have a legal.right to use force remaining in violation of an ordf- nance. Madison was shot on the night of August 18, 1921, dying an hour later. ‘The state's charge was that Carter, while intoxicated, “became in an argument and scuffle with the policeman and shot him. Carter was found later hiding in grain shack record states. the evidence was incufficient to sup- port a verdict of murder, no premedi- tated’ design or malice being alleged; that Judge Lowe in Ward district cially and that he erfoneously de- nied a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence. ‘BACK BROKEN, - i Fatgo, Oct. 26.—Edward Uhde sus- UNEMPLOYED RIOT Duesseldorf, Germany, Oct. 26.—A crowd of unemployed persons took part in a demonstration in the Stah!- strasse today. They pillaged a num- por of Stores and broke ™many win- lows, he was at work at teameter for the Union Light, Heat & Power company. Uhde was unloading timbers when the accident occurred.’ He was un- «/; |der the load, it was said, trying to loosen the chains Which bound the lumber together. -‘When he loosened them suddenly, the entire Toad fell upon him. , The timbers struck ffm full itn th; back and~crushed him: to the ore. An x-ray revealed the fact that the back was: broken, He ip paralyzed from the. hips down, ~ BANK IN.STATE HAN Park River, Oct. 26.—The ‘State Guaranty: Fund Commission: has tak- en charge of the bank at Park River'| and the bank is now open for the receipt of special deposits only. C. D, Lord is‘:president of the: jin: tion, which has a capital of $30,000 and a surplus of $16,000,- .ent Coolidge to confer about the prohibition enforce- DENIED APPEAL BY HIGH COURT, 20; reasonably necessary to, eject from | jthe street a person who’ insists on j involved | with blo6d on his clothes, the courv | In’ his. appeal Carter maintained | court misdirected the™jury prejudi- | tained a ‘broken back.as the result |, of an accident which occurred While . Mountain region we ea Orris ‘J Mids Witoosdlogielé ra SO AOA cuped about the cuief executive on ondititns in the Veterans’ Bureai which existed before Gen-| lected for American amb: Here it is-at its first meeting. Left to right: Gen- Senator David I. Wa'sh of Massachusetts; Senator David A. Reed of Penn- . PRICE FIVE CENTS O U. S. POSITIO: DR. CHARLES STEINMETZ, ELECTRICAL WIZARD, SUCCUMBS AFTER JOURNEY - FB, KELLOGG, MINNESOTA, I NAMED ENVOY] 1 Will Succeed Col. George Har- vey as Ambassador to Court of St. James, London ‘ACCEPTS THE PLACE Former Senator Will Leave November 10 for London to Represent the U. S. Washington, Oct. 26.—Frank B. Kellogg, former United States Sen- ator from Minnesota, has been se- sador to ‘London. He will succeed George Harvey, who formerly resigned and the np- nointment is expected to become ef- fective soon. Mr. Kellogg, who was one of the little coterie of ‘personal friends who accompanied the late President Harding on most of his trips away from Washington and was frequently a guest atthe White House during the Harding administration, is a lawyer by profession. During the single term he served |in the ‘senate he devoted considerable attentién to foreign affairs, wa; a leader of the “mild reservationistg,” in the Versailles treaty fight and served as a member of the foreign relations committee. WILL ACCEPT St. Paul, Oct. 26.—Frank B. Kel- logg, former United States Senator from Minnesota, whoge appointment as ambassador in Great Britain was Consulting Engineer of Gen- eral Electrical Company Ranked Among Leading Students of Electrical En- ergy ih the World; Cause of Death Breakdown Due to Pacific Coast Trip Schnectady, N. Y., Oct. 26.—Dr. Charles Proteus Steinmetz, electri- cal wizard, died at his home today of a physieal breakdown due to a trip to the Racific Coast from which he recently returned. The attending physician said breakfast was being served the pa- tient wien suddenly h.s heart seem- ed to give way an he died immedi- ately, 4 Mr, Steinmetz ranked as one of the foremost electrical engineers ot e world. He was born in Breslau, ermany, April 9, 1865. He was edu- He ‘became conaulting engineer for the General Electrical Company in 1893. He was the author of many treatises on electricity, and had made many inventions and advances in the field of electrical energy. He was ranked: with ‘thomas A, Edison Yor his work, A recent feat which attracted at- tention to the work of the electrical wizard was the production of an electrical indoor thunderstorm, in- cluding a blast of lightning. The thunderstorm which Dr. Steinmetz both produceg and controlled had ali the characteristics of its natural brother except the thunder clouds. At a demonstration of the Stein- metz “lightning generator” in the announced in Washington today has accepted the post and will leave No- vember 10 for England, it was an- nounced today. Announcement of the appointment o: Mr. Kelloggs appointment follow- ed his return from Washington where he conferred, with President N. P. To Start Coal Mining . St. Paul, Oct. production of coal will be inaugura- ed in the northwest early in 1924 Coolidge and Secretary of State Hughes and the appointmént was WALTON OUT | AS GOVERNOR, | STILL FIGHTS Aaeaan Court Refuses to Keep Him in Office and Lieut. Gov. Trapp Steps in MAY STRIKE. AT TRAPP Oklahoma City, Oct. 26.—With virtually no debate the house im- mediately after convening today, | added two articles to its im- \ peachment bill against Governor J. C. Walton, charging him with abuse of pardon and parole au- thority and with having illegially issud deficiency certif{:ates when deficiencies did not exist, The Votes were 72 to 11 and 70 to 9 | “Oklahoma City, Oct 26-—Defeated in his efforts to nullify the order | suspending -him from of! Gover- nor J. C. to be preparing a final stroke to combat the impeachment proceep- ings against him, The executive declared he would “continue to fight” although de- clining to define his future intentions. In well informed quarters, however, it was said his supporters planned to launch a counter-offensive either to- day or tomotrow by presenting im- peachment resolutions in the lower house of the state . legislature againsp ‘Acting Governor M.; E, Trapp. Some members of the senate court impeachment will try the exe- cutive and other state officials. APPROVE MORE COUNTS | Oklalfoma Gity, Qct. 26 (By the A. P,).—When the Oklahoma house re- cessed today for lunch, only tw counts on its committee impeach- ment bill remained to be considered | before the completed bill is pre- sented to the senate, Six articles were approved at the morning ses-; | sion, WEATHER REPORT For twenty-four hours ending at noon today. Temperature at 7 a. m. 26. \ Temperature at noon 42. Highest yesterday 33, Lowest yesterday 27., Lowest last night 18. | Prgcipitation T. |. Highest‘wind velocity 12, © Weather Fofecast “ a Blemarek, and vicinity: erally fair tonight and Saturday. Little chahge! in temperature. ‘Weather Conditions ‘Precipitation. vecurred' at most places over the Plains States and} Mississippi ‘Valley but fair weather prevails from the Rocky Mountain, region to the Pacific c atuzes are somewhat lower from the| Plains, States’ eastward, but changes have been.slight from the Rocky. Walton today is believed | y j been made. Gen-| was $1,044 below the $283,000 tendered him, FARM WEEK PROGRAM Van Hook, N. D., Oct. 26.—A feature of the farmer week program held in. Van Hook was a guessing contest and testing demonstration of ,dairy cattle arranged by county agent A. J. Bredvold. Four - cows belonging to. members of the local testing mae ociation were shown and pee ne far rmers. were asked to place she cows according to dairy types ea to estimate the production of butter fat in pounds Bertram Draper won first in plac- ing the cows and Peter Wallenti son was first in estimating thé pro- duction. which ranged from 191 to to 360 pounds of butter fat. . GEORGE DOLAN WELL KNOWN BARBER, DIES Succumbed to Kidney Trouble After Lingering Iliness of About a Year George H. Dolan, 47, well known barber in Bismarck for (he past 24 ears, died at a local hospital this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock after a lingering illness of about a year due to kidney trouble. Mr. Dolan was born at Ft. Buford, Dakota Territory April 26, 1876 and came to -Bismarck in 1884 after spending his childhood days at old Fort Abraham Lincoln. He and his brother John C. Dolan have been when the Northern Pacfic (egins open pit mining in the Rosebud dis- trict south of Forsyth, Mont. President Chi Donnelly of the Pacific railway, returned yester- day from tour of inspection over'the road. The new $2,000,000 line into the. Rosebud coal territory willbe completed.in. December, and. the company plans to use the fuel for motive power in Montana. RADIO ‘TALKS’ TOSHIP NEAR: NORTH POLE MacMillan Polar Expedition’ Ship Is Reached From Island off California . Avalon, Santa Catalina Islands, Cal., Oct. 26.—Direct radio commufi- ication with a s¥ip only 11 degrees from the North Pole was established here yesterday for a few moments, according to Major Lawrence Mott of the U.S. A. Signal Corps who an- nounced last night that he had ex- changed wireless messages with the radio operator of the Donald Mac- Millan polar expedition. The MacMillan exploration vessel Bowdoin, he said, responded to his nals at 10:15 p.m. and sent the lowing message: “Winter here with weather below zero and very heavy snow. The sun was up for a few minutes today for the last time. All well. We are 11 degrees from the North Pole. partners in the barber business in Bismarck since early youngmanhood. At the time of his death Mr. Dolan was holding the office of justice of the peace and prior to that had been po- lice magistrate for four years. He was well known in Bismarck, the Do- lan family being one of the best known pioneer families in this vi- cinity. For several days past Mr. Dolan, a bachelor, had been surrounded by this immediate relatives, two sisters, Mrs. John Homan of Bismarck, and Mrs. Arthur O’Hearn of Jamestown, and his brother, John C. Dolan, all of whom survive him. No funeral. arrangements have yet Bids Submitted For S. D. Bridges Pierre, S. D., Oct, 26—4The big of the Minneapolis Bridge company for construct‘on of a highway bridge over the Missouri river at Mobridge sti- mate of Bridge Engineer J. EB, Kirk- ‘ham, when the four bids submitted for the job were opened here, . The highway commission may not let the contract for the bridge for a day or so, but it is believed the bid ‘of ‘the Minneapolis concern will be. it. ‘Temper-' accepted. Their biq was $281,956. Bids, also were received for the north approkch to the Yankton bridge, which is being bullt by a cor- porati cothposed South Dakota end Stobeeeke: people, y “MacMillan, The Bowden was last reported in the vicinity of Etah, Greenland, about 1,000 miles above Baffin’s Bay in longitude 75, latitude 81. Radio fans in Bismarck are not worrying about the law. They are in Minot, however, and ina number of other cities. In Minot a newly formed Radio’ Club has asked the city commission to pass a drastic ordinance. It re- cites that because of the “education. al’and instructive” value of radi there ought to be protection. This protection ought to be an ordinance making it unlawful to “knowingly and unnecessarily electrically disturb the atmosphere, within the limits of the city of Minot by any means or device whatsoever not necessarily in- cident to the operation of machine or apparatus necessarily used in ; iness or occupation; to knowing! permit disturbances by an electric light plant, dynamo, device or ma- chinerye operation in connection therewith; makes unlawful broad- casting from Minot on five nights of the week, from Sunday to Saturday, excepting ‘Monday and Thursday, from @'p, m. to 2 B. F. Skeels he: didn't appear to be any need for such ‘an ordinance right now in Bis- cated in Germany. and Switzerland. ! RADIO LAW URGED IN MINOT DOES NOT APPEAL TO RADIO FANS HERE ACCEPT BOARD | ON REPARTION 10 BE LEVIED Would be Glad to Have United States Name Expert to Sit on the Commission BRITISH—U. S. NOTES Exchange Published Shows Hughes Demanding Clear-cut Decision on Reparations . London, Oct. 26.—-France, Belgium and Italy have accepted the British invitation for a re- parations conference with the understanding that it shall take the form of a committee of ex- perts under the authority of the present inter-allied reparation commission. It is understood the British members will be the same as the who served last year on the bankers’ committee on which the United States was represent- ed by J. P. Morgan. It ‘is thought Berlin wilh be chosen as the seat ofthe conference since the chief function of the committee will be to inquire ’in- to Germany's financial assets. Selection of the French, Bel- gian and Italian personnel is ‘expected to be completed soon. STEINMETE. laboratory of the General Electric Company in March, 1920, the fa- miliar forked tongues flashed!, _through the @ir with a deafening crash, splintering a large block of wood, hurling the fragments 25 feet and ripping a miniature tree. The bolt carried the energy of one million horsepower, about one-five hundredth of energy of a natural lightning bolt and lasted for the 100,000th part of a second. EDISON SHOCKED West Orange, N. D., Oct. world has lost one of its mathematicians and the electrica dustry will miss one of its shining light, said Thomas A. Edison today. when informed of the death of Charles P. Steinmetz at Schnectady. The famous .inventor was shocked at the news. Paris, Oct. 27.—The French gov- ernment is willing that an interna- tional conference: of experts to be named by. the reparation commission be called to consider the question of reparations in conformity with the treaty of Versailles. The French government, it ¥ said in official circles this me ing, would be most “happy if t government of the -United State»: *in -such -a ‘conference. LONDON CAUTIOUS London, Oct... 27—Official British ee STATE, U.S: 0 Governor and Attorney - Gen- eral in Conference Decide te Back Coolidge Plan: -IS yopinion concerning the response of jSecretary of State Hughes to Lord Curson's-reparations conference in- vitation is’ ‘cautious and reserved. Broadly, however, there is a feeling TAKEN ACTION international .conference of repara- tions appreciably nearer. . CORRESPONDENCE GIVEN .. London, Oct. 25,— Correspondence issued by the foreign office last night showing that the British gove:- ment had seized the occasion of th: first public statement by President Coolidge on the situation in Europe to send another formal invitation to the Washington government to co- operate ini a new conference in an attempt to settle the reparations dif- ficulty came almost as a complete surprise to. the public and newspa- Pers. The secret had been well kept, es- pecially considering the presence in London of alf the empire representa- tives, who must have been aware of the move, which undoubtedly was discussed in the confidential debates in the imperial conference on foreign affairs. Lord Curzon’s request is for Amer- ican participation in any form, either official or unofficial, or, alternative- ly, to participation in an inquiry by a-special commission appointed by the reparation commission. Whethe: the government’s move was prompte:| by General Smuts, or whether Ger, eral Smuts’ famous speech was in tended to lend weight to the gover: ment’s move is not known, but. it will be noted that General Smut< proposal was for a conference of 3!!! the powers, including the neutra!-, not merely those interested in repay ations. In his reply to Lord Curzon, Sec- retary Hughes declares that the United States is willing to take part in an economic conference in which — all the Europe: allies chiefly c cerned in German reparations ticipate for the purpose of as ing Germany’s capacity to, an appropriate plan for emphasizes three p; first, that while has no desire t~ lieved of her“ obligations. ae Conference of States Attor- neys of State to be Called in November Plans for cooperation with the fed- eral authorities in law enforcement, {as agreed upon in, the recent Gover- \nors’ conference in Washington, have jbeen developed by Governor R. A. Nestos and Attorney-General George F. Shafer. It is. planned to extend) the scope of the cooperation, which has existed heretofore in work done by employes of the Attorney-Gener- al’s office and federal prohibition agents. Governor Nestos, in a today, said: “On return of Attorney General Shafer to his office today, I had a conference with him in regard to the recommendations made by Presi- dent Coolidge at the recent gover- nors’ conference in the city of Wash- ington. As I stated to the President, the federal prohibition officer, the! attorney general's department and most of the state’s attorneys of the! state have already established co- operative work in dealing with the problem of law enforcement; the state and local officials assisting the federal prohibition officer, and the federal representatives in turn sisting the staty and local adm tration. Results have already been obtained from this cooperation, and all we need to do is to extend and (Continued on Page 3) statement marck. Radio conditions are satis- factory now and will be until about June 1, he said. “Fans are not ‘bothered here ex-| cept in the business district and thir by. nothing that could be sto; Direct current motors cause tr” but. they are used in necesy” ° ne: “That ordinance + reaching. I belie ger ih the woor