The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 8, 1923, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT ~ NAVY COURT HEARS FIRST DISASTER CASE Disposes of Case of Capt. Watson, Commanding De- stroyer Fleet in Wreck DECISION GIVEN San Diego, Calif., Nov. 8.—Having disposed yesterday of the of Capt. E. H. Watson, destroyer divi- sion commander charged with culpa- ble inefficiency in the Point Honda disuster in which seven destroyers were wrecked the court-martial ap- pointed to try cuses growing out of the accident proceeded today with charges against Lieut. Commander Donald T. Hunter, commanding offi cer of the destroyer Delphy, flag shin of the ill-fated squadron When Capt. Watson's case was contiuded laty yesterday, Lieut. Com- | mander Hunter at once took the place of his senior. The judge-advo- cate said that he was well satisfied with all members of the court. Commander L. G. Weyler, appear- ing us counsel for Commander Hunt- | er, however, challenged every mem- ber of the court. He said that his challenge was on the ground that} they had all heard the evidence in the case of Capt. Watson and had formed an opinion concerning it.) ‘The evidence in Commander Hunter's case, he said, would be virtually the same and the Qersonnel of the court| was objected to as being unable to; give un impartial hearing to Com- mander Hunter's case. In each case the court overruled the challenge but it had not ruled on the challenge of the court as a whole when it ad- journed until 9 a, m. today, NO No. 68 REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF BISMARCK BANK at Bismarck, in the State of North Dakota, at the close of business a Bist, 1923. RESOURCES : Loans and discounts $523,540.36 | Overdrafts, secured and un- ol secured .- 751.35 | Warrants, stocks, tax cer- tificates, claims, ete. ... Banking house, furniture and fixtures ... ‘ Other real estate . Checks and oth- er cash items $ 1,374.38 | Cash and due from other 60,089.78 57,739.65 | 64,149.92 44,395.30 45,769.68 -$742,040.74 | - $100,000.00 | 25,000.00 | TOTAL .... LIABILITIES Capital stock paid in Surplus fund . Undivided profits, less ex- penses anq taxes paid... Individual de- posits sub- ject to check $136,365.00 Guaranty fund deposit 3,723.60 Time ce cates of de- posit Savings depo: Certified checks 510.00 Cashier's checks outstanding . - 239.68 526,094.01 Bills 67,000.00 Due 28,350\00 0.74 ty of Burleigh—ss. . I, E. M. Thompson, Cashier of the| above named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true, to the best of my knowledge and ‘be- lief, | E, M. THOMPSON, | Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 6th day of Nov. 1923. A.C. WILKINSON, Notary Public, Bismarck, N. D. My Commission "Expires ‘August 14th, 1926. Correct, Attest:— 1, P, BAKER, G. H. RUSS,’ JR. 696.73 367,753.45 3 17,502.28 payable ava 5 ‘ar. Finance Corpor- Directors. No. 615. Report of the Condition of THE STERLING STATE BANK | at Sterling in the State of North Dakota, at the close of business| October 31, 1923. RESOURCES Loans and discounts Overdrafts, secured and un- secured’. Warrants, stocl tificates claims, etc. ... Banking house, ‘furniture and fixtures '.. : Other real estate 4,147.50 Checks and oth- ercash items.$ 78.98 | Cash and Due ; H from other 6,397.04 $136,257.58 1,023.94 8,418.88 3,700.00 | TOTA LIABILITIES Capital stock paid in . Surplus fund Undivided profits Tenses ond tax Andividual de- posits subject to check . a PIBROAL 761.10 «$ 12,500.00 5,500.00 leas ex- paid .. 1,823.05 8,530.62 it. 67,842.67 ings pace 9,615.67 aided 5 nance Corpor- A + 16, . Bills payable esa STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA,” saeaty of Burleigh—ss. IH. Wildfang, Cashier of the named bank, do solemnly | eupar att se above statement is: e be: ities st of my knowledge | ied HE. WILPRANG ‘ashier. ‘Sal bed and sworn to befor. thie th day. of Nor. 1928 heeds C. ELLSWORTH, Notary Public. ‘My Commission Expires Nov. 23, duction of corn, sw falfa has incres North Dakota in the last ten figures compiled in state s PLAX ACREAGE, | | domestic requirements the price was) above n@med defendant: rN edie 1... .$160,023.92 | : B Here's Alvin Owsley, American Legion, co fornia, just before r left, reti tulating his after Quinn had becn acclaimed the inquishing the reins. on the platform at the legion convention in San Fra rin; ational commainder of the s John R. Quinn ot Cali- he picture was 8! pad isco, immediately newly elected chief. The number of cows and the pro- et clover and a ed in proportion in| years, | i al Cows used Year For Milking 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 298,138, 315,115 385,830 incomplete Estimated by as: ors. There are now, according to asses Dakota. ‘CORN ACREAGE DOUBLES IN N. D. | DURING THE LAST TEN YEARS, ( departments ‘show. The number of cows has doubled, the corn, acreage increased in like porportion and sweet clover and sifalfa show even a larger increase. shown as follows: ‘ Corn Acreage Sweet clover Alfalfa 372,896 operating. expenses of the city will! interior not complete be defrayed as the years go on, by! charged” Arthur -P. Davis, director not complete interest accumulating in a two-fold | o¢ the Reclamation Service, who for 338,679, 491,230 361,762 443,410 19,788 674,906 ‘715,820 *176,756 45,000 50,550 92,540 107 143,096, *155,843 3,616 silos in North sors’ reports, PRICE BETTER INNORTHWEST Federal Reserve Agent Cites Comparison of 1922 and 1923 Prices Nov. 8.—Flax acreage | increased per cent in North and } South Dakota, Minnesota and Mon- tana in 1923 over 1922, and the pro- | duction of flax increased more than 7,000,000 bushels .and yet because ot Minneapolis, higher in September in Minneapolis this year than last, John H. Rich, agent of the Minneapolis federal re- serve bank, said today. “©The four states are the natural home of flax,” Mr. Rich said. “Last year they produced 11,385,000 bushels or within 285,000 bushels of the en- tire production of the United States. | This total is far short of domestic | requirements which have caused an| annual importation of flax that aver- aged for 10 years ending in 1922 more than 14,000,000 bushels for the | vear ending June 30 last, was more | than 28,000,000 bushels. i “Flax is protected by a 40 cents a bushel duty. At Minneapolis, Sep- tember price, the value of the flax | of the four states advanced from! $25,611,000 in 1922, to $44,606,000 in SUMMONS STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA, Coun- ty of Burleigh. In District Court, ‘ourth Judicial District. { Willis H. Cawley, Plaintiff, vs. | Elizabeth E. Cawley, Defendant. ‘The State of Noyth Dakota to the! i You are hereby summoneg and re- quised to answer the complaint of | the plaintiff in this action a copy of | which is hereto annexed and here- with served upon you and to serve | a copy of your answer upon the sub- ber at his office in the city. of marek, in Burleigh County, North Dakota within thirty days after the service of this summons upon vou,| exclusive of the day of such service, | st LIVER AND BOWEL LAXATIVE, If Headachy, Bilious, Sick! Ursula ho has, .jetug store. ace ee and bowel cleans: pp be ‘Cas Sick. Hi 7 Biliousness, Gases, Indigestion, ‘and all such distress ‘gone by imorn- Most:-harmless laxative for ‘Women. and boxes, also 25 and 50¢ sizes, any ing. Men, W Our New i} and in case of your failure to 80 ap- peur and answer, judgment wil ve} taken against you by default for the; relief demanded in the complaint. Dateq Sept. 24, 1923. F, E, MeCURDY, | Attorney for Plaintiff, | Residence and P. 0. Address: \ D. Bismarck, N. D. ' 9-27—10-4-11-18-25—11-1-8 CORN CROP i ESTIMATE LESS, i Washington, Nov. 8—Preliminary | estimates of this year’s Tarvest an- | nounced today by the Department of ; Agriculture placed the corn crop at} 3,029,192,009 bushels, compared with | a forecast of 3,021,450,000 a month ago. | zs cae \s DEVELOPMENT | COMPANY SPLIT! New York, Nov. 8.—The Ottoman- American Development company, the American holder of extensive conces- ‘sions in Turkey including the Ches- ter concessions which has been a hone of contention at councils in Europe, was split open by the resig- nation of several of its most influ- ential and powerful trustees because of an attempt to sell $1,000,000 stock | to the public at $100 a share, the New York Evening Post declares. Cured His Rupture I was badly ruptured while lifting a trunk several years ago. Doctors said my only hope of cure was an { operation. Trusses did me no good. Finally I got hold of something that quickly ang completely cured me. Years have passed and the rupture has never returned, although I am doing hard work ‘as 4 carpenter. There was no operation, no lost time, no trouble. I have nothing to ell, but will give full information about how you may d_a complete cure without operation, if you write to_me, Eugene M. Pullen, Carpenter, 447K Marcellus Avenue, Manasquan, N. J. Better cut out this notice and show it to any others who are rup- tured—you may save a life or at least stop the misery of rupture and, the worry and danger of an oper-| \ | i DR. R. S. ENGE , Chiropractor Consultation Free’ , Lacas Blk. Bismarck, N. D. Phone 260 ; Constipated | | = TAXI -* DAKE A TAXI HOME | | Cars equipped with 4 best ‘and safest: Bs "Just Phone 888 and we are there... \) <2. DAY AND NIGHT SERVICE. <. PHONE ~ 888. Inclosed assure, you. the <Bismare! jing interest on the city’s’ bank: ac- jent THE , SEES FUTURE WITHOUT TAX Sees First Hundred Years as! Hardest, But Expects to Unshackle Feet CIVIC FOUNDATION Interest Derived: From City Funds Will Be Re- _* Invested By NEA Servico Milwaukee, Nov. 8.—No taxes to pay} : Shacks Utopian and too good to be true. i But under a novel plan in munici- | pal finance just gotten under way | here, this city hopes to realize the | visien a century hence. | True, the first 100 years will be | the hardest. | But after they have run their} course, Milwaukee expects to un-/| shackle all tax fetters forever, and thus provide ‘a nice little altruistic | present for its progeny. vi Between 20 and 50 years from, now, the city will no longer have aj bonded debt, und taxes even then, will have started on their downward | All this will be brought about | through the medium of a gradual The increases are #mortization scheme, aimed to retire! volve Secretary of Interior Hubert all the city’: it a munici decades. As the plan has indebtedness and make | al Croesus, in a fer been conceived, | fund invested in conservative secur- ities. | Two-Fold Plan | One is the Civic Foundation, es- | tablished through the efforts” of Mayor Daniel Hoan, with Oliver C. Fuller, president of the First Wis- consin National Bank, appointed as its head. This organization begins to fune- tion Jan, 1, 1924, It provides an opportunity for the wealthy to make bequests and dona-| ations to the city for the benefit of | future taxless generations, in a per- petual private gift to remain intact. | The second souree is a public trust | fund, accumulated from surplus city revenue, | This fund has been given a start | of $400,000, which will be increased by about $250,000 a year, represent- count. ~ 1 For the first 25 years the eity:will| receive annually 26 per cent: of the |™ interest from the fund of the Civic Foundation; 50 per cent durthg the next 25 years and 87% per cent after the first f°. years. Albvinter- est held back“will remain in- the fund to be compounded. Let Money Grow Interest from various city funds in banks has heretofore gone into the general fund, to help lower taxes a little. Now, this interest is to be re-invested, to help, through accrued interest, the amortization fund. Diverting this integest from the general fund will not increase pres- taxes over 35 cents per $1000. assessed valuation, so no protest is expected from Mr. Taxpayer, in view of the fund being created. The present generation, therefore, will pay a trifle more in taxes, but: it will postpone some of the heavy expenditures through the issues of bonds for the future generation to pay. The plan will be a guarantee of lower taxes each year as the fund accumulates and the future genera- GOOD, YE Se ryice Bede Ears Gesdpoer Lahr Motor Sales Company GoopFSYEAR “2 + 888 : ‘PHONE + ¥ . heel brakes | whatever. | ting $250,000 into the fund annually, | as topographer to head of the Regla- | planation was that what the service. | man.” | His civil service ‘MILWAUKEE ition will find-itself favorably situat-j-him in bis job except on proof of in- ed through the aniortization plan. | competency or | Has Good Start | fund, which starts with $650,- {900 on Jan. 1, will pass the million mark in 1926. In 10 years, it is es- it will reach $3,500,000, ander of geclamation” created. r nearly $16,500,00. Account-le To this “commissionership” he ap- ing officials predict the city then| pointed former Governor David W.; will be without any indebtedness| Davis of Idaho, who admittedly wasn’t a reclamation expert but who | was said to be a competent “business man.” Investigate Commission When friends of the former di: | rector protested at the procedure, a “fact finding commission” was ap-! pointed by Work to inquire into the needs of reclamation and the status of reclamation projects. Hardly had the Work of this com- mission got under way when the di- rectors of the Society of Civil En- gineers filed a vigorous protest against the change from Director | Arthur Davis to Commisiioner David Davis, charging that the whole maneuver was a subter-| fuge to put a competent engineer out | und a politician in, Other protests | stated that Commissioner Davis’ re- | cord as a “business man” was chief- | ly notable for his having organized a { bank that went broke | Davis versus Davis seems certain to be the most interesting phase of | the situation to be combed by the commission seeking facts. The method of Director Davis’ dismissal and the manner of “Commissioner” Davis’ elevation to office merely set the stage for the conflict of charge and countercharge. that seem certain to force % further inquiry by Con-| gress itself. And while the fight goes on Di- rector Arthur Davis is acting tech- nical adviser to the pecuniary arbi- tration committee hearing certain claims British firms have brought | against the United States. Forty years from now the tax rate will be one-third what it is now. Some years fater there will be no taxes at all. After 50 years: ef put- this may be stopped and merely the interest turned back. Fifty years more of this and the total fund will amount to $432,143,478.21. ‘The interest on this tidy little sum would pay all the taxese’So in 2023 lwadkee won't be such a bad place in which to live. OF DAVIS AND DAVIS COMING Davis the Topographer Dis- charged to Make Place for | Davis the Business Man By Harry B. Hunt NEA Service Writer Washington, Nov. 8.—Firing one Davis by abolishing the title under which his job was held, and hiring another Davis to fill the same’ job under another title, promisesato in- Work in an investigation which may become, in thé west, one of the im-| . portant issues in the 1924 campaign. Shortly after his transfer to the Department, Work “dis- f DESERVES TITLE. Babe Ruth certainly .was entitled to be selected as the most valuable player in the American League for the 1923 season. Here are just a few of the many feats he performed: Played in every game. Scored 151 runs and made 205 hits for thé re- 40 years had been a government em- ploye, rising from a $720-a-year_job | ation Ser at $7500. The ex- needed was not an engineer and re- clamation expert, but a “business Then it was discovered Davis couldn't be let out on such grounds status protected Relieve Piles Do It Now Write. for Free Trial or Send t Nearest Drugs for 69 Cent Bex of Pyramid Pile Supposi- ir Soothing Ia- Destroy Soot | In Your | Heating Plant Flue Brushes $1.00. No machine can operate’ effici- ently without occasional clean- ing. Likewise your heating plant. Reduce your coal con- sumption and obtain maximum service by cleaning the boiler flues and destroying soot col- lections. We have flue ‘brushes or soot compaund which burns otf all accumulation of soot. tories—Th: fluence are one of those unfortu r Supbvos Take no substi- tut Reet should come so quickly you will wonder hy one should fer th ain of such ditigne © ae Fora fv “Burnsoot” : 25e. FREE SAMPLE COUPON PYRAMID DRUG COMPANY, 62 Pyramid Bids Marshall, Mich, Kindly send me a Free ¢ oi Pyramid ‘ile Suppositories, in plain Frank 6. Grambs | 304 Main Bismarck, N. Name .. Street City TTT] ‘It’s time to SERIOUSLY consider the condition of your. Wardrobe for winter. f 4 . (If ‘you’ye ‘already “filled your wants” you're a i “jump, ahead” —If you haven’t—you'd better get busy. ". Quality at KLEIN'S always remains the same — “One Hundred Per Cent.” ; ‘Ss Prices—they’re right. Suits........$30.00 to $65.00 | __ The first thing you'll notice when visiting this store will be “SINCDRITY.” It’s worth @ lot to-you. ef REMEMBER—If you haven’t a “KLEIN” label in your ./ suit or overcoat—we both lose. } ~ THINK IT OVER: es Pj het. “ unfaithfulness, and) 171 pases on balls no such grounds existed. Work! he played he reached fivet base {ust finally solved the question by hav-| 4 fraction under three tier ing the office of director abolished | ‘coring vans, hitting homers and te and the new office of “commission | voiving passes Habe led his league NOVEMBER 8, 1923- ‘Coal ta Best. $4.75 per ton, Order now, Wachter Transfer Co. Phone: LAN THURSDAY, rkable average of AAA Reveived Tw every paiie ath) NEW STYLES All the new styles, all the new fabrics, all the new patterns, unusually big values in our shipment of suits just received. $35 $45 Extra Values in Overcoats Fine warm coats latest styles $35 $40 5.6. BERGESON & 50N Tailoring Dry Cleaning LOW EARNINGS OF THE WESTERN RAILROADS The Interstate Commerce Commission made the fol- lowing statements in its Report of October 11th, 1923, in the case which was brought to secure lower freight rates on grain, grain products and hay. The words enclosed thus () are inserted by us: “The (fair) rate of return as fixed by us is shown. at 5.75 per cent, and the 1922 return of carriers in the Western Group averages less than 4 percent. For the first four months of 1928, the average was about 4.1 per cent (ona yearly basis.) (Later figures show that for the first eight months ending August 31st, 1923, the earnings of the Western Railroads were at the rate of 414 per cent per year.)” “Carriers in the Western Group have been and are now earning considerably less than the prescribed return, and apparently less than the fair return to which they are entitled under their constitutional rights entirely in- dependent of Section 15 a (Transportation Act, 1920).” “Seemingly,/from the record, it is improb- able that a reduction in the present rates on the commodities in issie would so increase the movement of these commodities as to en- able the carriers to make up to any appreci- able extent the loss in revenue should a gen- eral reduction in these rates be ordered.” “Of prime importance to the. agricultural industry and to the country in general, is an adequate and efficient transportation service. The extent to which a marked rate reduction would disable the carriers generally or par- ticular carriers in the performance, of this service is of great consequence.” The above-statements by thé Interstate Commerce Commission show that the present earnings of the grain carrying railroads of the West are low, and that_ these roads are not prospering at the ex epse of the farmer. is 2 G. R. HUNTINGTON, ; President.. WINTER STORAGE - FOR AUTOMOBILES _Reasonable Rates. Space Limited. OLSON GARAGE ~’ Phone 925 3 Expert Battery and Radiator Repairing. | Big Saving in Having - One Murphy Bed and Steel Kitchen in Every home. Saves ™ saves