The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 2, 1924, Page 1

WEATHER FORECAST Generally fair and bid tonight and Thurs continued THE BISMARCK STABLISHED 1873 we v4 OUTLOOK HELD GOOD by $ad Experience of Agricul- * ture During Past Year BY GOVERNOR Sees Recovery From EW POSSIBILITIES iversified Farming, Coal and Clay Pointed to as Future ePotentialities Ithough 19 akota, Nestos, the outlook for th n the state is good, he sai New Year's statement Governor's statement follot The outlook for 1924 th Dakota had a rather a ion, Needless to say, this brot it a condition which seriously teq the prosperity of our peo- i ‘all of 1923 and will s difficult until the 4. Unfortunate ion is, it nevertheless p 192. Its that will prove of last- to the state.) We had al- plendid pr s in di- ming and had | ience of a ve! rge riners in every part of} it the farmer who en- y elligently in dairy, beef, } VE and peultry business and who | & cor falt . potatoes | # 2 garden and cutlivated — his ‘id with care was, in most cases, isonably prosperous even during $ and now when it has n so conclusively establisheg that tate, and that oth very fine, quality in North Dakota, ifigition will he ‘ne crop © productia h cne of these If the general “for hon I) the works the farm,” becomes n of at least 75 peccent of mers, the prosperity of the ite und the welfare of the farmers thereby insured. “This fact, together with the eady inerease in the use of lig- ite coal and the awakened interest 1 this fuel, in our’ inexhaustible y deposits of fine quality, and in HE ne general industrial possibilities } \ ’ state, m the utlook for the years following very | ost of birth contr: 923 was not,a good year in the opinion of today. is good. unfor- arned ie d Pere e a IBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1924 Outraged Love Makes Repentant of Mother Who Contracted Sale of Her Unborn Baby ’ Principals in Baby-Contract Sale ite experience during 1923. pro- ny a ve hort crop of wheat other iets and receiving for | 1 a price below the cost of-.pro- as | dangerous to continue so large- | can our pro- speed- we may on diversified pro slogan of the “To raise ch farm, out- of th pall ¢ ns, not only a of divereified pro- use, but enough to living expenses of the * RATESONSORT COAL HELD UP Railroads Proposed Advance on Coal Moving From Illinois Mines Washington, Jan. 2.--Increases in rates on soft coal moving to points Northern railroad n South Dakota, which railroads proposed to 2, were suspended today by the Interstate sion until May 1 to allow in- on the Great Towa, Minnesota, North and make effective on January Commi: vestigation. complished by a revig Mlinois, Hy Fington and Quincy Lines. Present i rates from Chicago to Watertown, S. qq 1, are $3.52 per ton but would have EY. ecome $3.89 by the revision, From g some $4.37. These changes aid to be typical of those tire {territor) affected fOUNG FARMER * lowing an attack of appendiciti ‘The! body was seat to Washburn for ‘Durial. > a ae ‘The increases would have been ac- jon of ‘the ex- isting rates between the Northwest- ern territory described and producing Indiana and ssouri located on the Ohicago Bur- Shicago to Aberdeen present rates are $4.13 per ton and would have be- were which would have been brought in the en- ‘DIES IN CITY “Art Guhring, 23, farmer ‘of Wash? ve, died in p local hospital here ‘Year'sgeve of complications fol- is. 4 IDLE MEN IN COAST COUNTRY -Killdeer,?N. D., Jan. * y) ast several weeks. \: nd in Seattle the papers ¢ ' : 27,000. without work. rT. ron, laborer was out of luck. ree’! tit x4 2.—Fred | Worsch returned Inst Monday from >ortland where ho ‘had been for the He said that t Portland there are, 6,000 idle men laim there | grandchildren, seven living children ‘These men | of 12) born to them’survive Mrs, Ju- re mostly from the logging camps|lian Heinle, Which have closed down for the win-| and was buried in a Ve said that a man with a miles rade was all right but that a com-| Year's afternoon. arms at birth into the | slip from her little toes had been deeded to the other woman by the mother, who, with three other babies to care for, | | feared there would not be enough | left to care for Mike out of his| daddy’s $68 monthly salary Advertised Baby for Sale And so it happened in this strang- became the bargain” vert! Maher, who now says she was distracted and un- aware of what she was doing w, telling the world of her willing? to barter unborn Mike away. The “bargain” went through agreed, with M bed following Mike’s arrival to sim- ulate visit of the stork to her home In another part of the city, Mrs. Maher, the real mother, lay with aching heart and awakened con- science and with her arms empty— arms that were beginning to feel the | urge for Mike's departed caress. In beclouding mercy she had con- sented to the better cared for and spared possible privation consequent | upon a fourth mouth to feed from the father’s meager salary as an army bandmaster at the Presidio But all this solemn calculation dis- | persed like chaff when the surge of mother love mounted to claim its own. For, like Rachael of old, the heart of Mrs’ Maher sobbing for her baby, would not be comforted.” To court then she came.| likewise did Mrs. Fleming. SEES LOAN BILL GAINING. en as . Fleming taking to And Plans for the Measure Expressing optimism over the pro- gress being made for the “accelerat- ed diversification” plan and the pro- posed $50,000,000 loan by the federal government to aid Northwest wheat growers ‘to buy livestock, was ex- pressed here today by Dr. John Lee Coulter, president of North Dakota Agricultural College, who discussed the plan with the state board of ad- ministration. Dr. Coulter also plan- ned to go over it with Governor Nestos who, with other Northwest governors, had given it his approval. PIONEER OF MORTON DIES 19 Twenty great grandchildren, 70, who died Saturday cemetery 11 outhwest of Hebron on New Ske was a pioneer, of western Morton county. ik xv AND JUDGE W FOSTER-MOTHER, By NEA Service San Fra n, 2.--Cattle are traded. Chattels are sold. But cold words of the law are not sufficient contract. sole right to or experience Mrs just learned y she heeded ber brain and not her heart when she let Mike { yearning embrace of childless Mrs John Fleming “for a price.” | Even before the angels broughy him, Mike with his dimples and pink a Dr. Coulter ae Over | sABY MIE ‘ t JOHN FL ARD (LOWER RIGHT) ve months old, was f contention. The apple of their eye Other Woman Claims Him. “He is mine,” said Mrs. Fleming | “Under rule of land and law.” “L contracted for him, Paid for him. 1 fove him and want him. His mother did not.” Judge Louis MH. Ward sitting as Solomon heard the plea. He listened | in silence But the silence was broken by a |heartrending sob as with Madonna- | like mein Mrs. Maher reached forth her hands in supplication. “Give me my baby, judge. | Tiwho suffered for him. I who gz ita What right then has the jlaw with words to take him from j me? “Contracts are nothing with lov® [I parted with my baby, judge, be- | cause I was not in my right mind ~| from agony of brain and body. Let me have him. My arms ache to hold | him—for Just a little while.” | Back as Love's Lesson. | To such entreaty the court waived | adjournment to take the matter un | der advisement. ; -Mike, in the arms of the “other eae slept contentedly through it all | But late that night—as a Christ- | mas present—the law-protected right jof Mrs. Fleming was erased by her consent and she turned Mike | own back to his mother. Nor has any further mention been |made of the money expended by the |Flomings in behalf of Mrs. Maher's | hospital bills nor any other part of jthe contract which included care of | Mrs. Maher's sister, Hawii Mike is back. That is all Mrs Maher can say or cares about. And the smile on his cherubic face | which she bartered away before iv |eame to glow upon her is at once a | Christmas boon and a lesson— A lesson to teach her, she says, that baby smiles cannot be sold. + For love won't countenance such | trades. ae | COURT AGAIN IN SESSION 2. Washington, Jan, 2.—The supreme | court reconvened today after a three weeks’ recess but handed down no opinions or orders. For twenty-four hours ending at noon today. Temperature at 7 a. m. . Highest yesterday .. Lowest yesterday . | Lowest: last night | Precipitation .... Highest wind velocity, Weather Forecast For Bismarck and vicinity: Gen- erally fair and continued cold tonight and Thursday. For North Dakota: Generally fair and continued cold -tonight and Thursday. | Weather Conditions High pressure, accompanied. by cold weather, prevails in all sections. Minimum temperatures of 20 degrees or more below zero occurred in west- ern North Dakota and over Montana and the Canadian provinces, It is snowing in the Mississippi Valley curred in the southern Plains States and over the northern Rocky Moun- tain region. Orris W. Roberts, Meteorologist. S| business houses Snes \ i 4 z | Washington, Jan, 2—The revire- | ment of Mexican federals from Te- | The Weather || naucan was announced in a telegram = @| received here today from revolution- this morning. Precipitation also oc-| OBREGONISTS SEE AID FROM ACTION OF U.S. Already Have Received Ship- ment of Rifles and Expect Airplanes ALSO GET WARSHIPS? Mexico City Says Armored Cruisers Will Be Brought; Impossible, Says Wash. | (By the Associated Press) Vera Cr today reported revolutionary forces have be- gun an encircling movement to cut off Mexico City from out- ide communication with Gen- anchez, operating near + a east of the capital. Generat Estrada in Jalisco on the west and General Figueroa advancing from the south, Mexico City reported that | Gener Sanchez had concen- trated 1,200 men at Esperanza. Meager government advices from Jalisco state only that the enemy was retiring without giving battle. Washington war department refuted reports from Mexico City that arms already had been shipped to Mexico fos the federals. The state dep | ment at Washington denied i United States was ing the sale of war veasels to Obregon. Jan, 2.—(By the A. P.) ’ Sanchez, the rebel leader, has concentrated 1,200 of his followers from the garrison at Bocha-del-Mont® and E plans a counter-offens Marcos, according to reports, trans- | mitted to General Eugene Martinez, {commander-in-chief of the Vera Cruz neral F, Popete, federal} at Tehuascan, news dis-| patches from Gencral Martinez’ head- quarters say. | sneral Higinio, according to Gen- Popete, is holding San Andreas with 600 men, General J. Garza ij garrisoning Perote with 600 with 300 olutionaries stationed at Oriental while very ull garrisons hav been le aba and Vera Cr Quoting refugees front Vera Cruz Popete added that yhel moral has reached its lowest ebb, revolutionary funds are (exhausted, heavy ex tions are being made on Vera Gruz nd industry and Cruz are at a [commerce at Ve standstill _ An attack on Vera Cruz from the| the revalution continue, accord, to an officinl war department st ment relativg to arms shipments from theaé Med States which speaks of the $.Sfble use of four armored cruisers “which it is virtually cer- tain the federal government will secure from the United States.” After asserting that 5,000 rifles already have been received from north of the Rio Grande it was added that 10,000 more with adequate; ammunition are coming this week} with bombarding and cruising air- planes and artillary While an ar-| rangement involving / four armedj cruisers is “practically assured.” Washington, Jan. 2—(By the A. P.)-Statements made by Mexico} City officials that an arrangement is being made to procure four cruis- ers for the Obregon government for use against Mexican revolutionists along the sea coast created surprise here. The authorized statement’ was made at the state department Mon- day that the Washington Naval Treaty specifically forbade the United States and other treaty powers from selling war vessels to any government. Article 18 of the treaty is manda- story, it was said at the department, and makes any such transaction im- possible so far as the United States is concerned. The treaty would not prevent the construction by American shipbuild- ing concerns of war craft for Mexico. MEXICANS RETIRE ary headquarters in Vera Cruz. The message said that where the revolu- tionary columns are preparing to ad- vance agianst Puebla the federals are reconcentrating. TARIFF BODY. HEARINGS SET 2 Washington, Jan. A formal eall was issued by the tariff commis- sion for a public hearing February 18 in Washington in connection with its pending investigation into the cost of production of wheat and wheat products. The commission is acting upon a request to increase the Aariff rates on these commodities. The swiftest winds are encoun- tered in temperate latitudes at an altitude of from five to seven miles, ‘sea it not beyond a possibility should 3 eee eee) JOBREGONISTS ~ [DAVISURGES IMMIGRATION | CHANGES MADE Would Examine Immigrants Abroad to Cut Down Rejec- tions on This Side { i | | BROAD POWER URGED Would Give’ Secretary Au- thority to Restrict Immi- gration in Hard' Times Washington, Jan. 2.—The senate: and house immigration committees | are expected to begin consideration shortly of a new immigration bill on the busis of proposals submitted yes- terday by Secretary Davis of the Labor department. Mr. Davis’ recommendations bodied in the draft of a proposed measure include selection of imma | grants road through examination and certification by American, con- | suls, extension of quota restrictions to Canada, Mexi¢éo and South an Central Amer suspension of fir tations under certain conditions and the reckoning of quotas on a month- ly instead of a yearly basis. The secretary advocates the con- sular examinations as a means of reducing the number of rejections at American ports where the aliens} would continue to be examined as at present and would be udmitted ac- cording to certain preferential classi- fications. 0 Suggestion as to a new em & hb for computing new quotas contain- ed in the proposed bill but a number of aliens would be admitted as non- ASKS MEETING | FOR REFORMS Issues | Cacanaine For Con- | press to Disband or Change Organization all for « national congress of the u Klux Klan to meet in Atlanta on february 26 to “gather together and rayerfully consider methods to elim- inating existing evils or else to follow the example of the founder of the original Ku Klux Klan and have the courage and manhood to devise and means for the immediate bandment of the organization.” The proclamation or Mr. Clarke calls attentipn to the organization of the Klan on July 4, 1916 by Wal- liam Joseph Simmons, now emperor, and says that “these’ laudable aims, ideals, principles and purposes have apparently been abandoned by the Klan ané@ the organization became one with lawless tendencies ‘and political design,” and that “the end of the ‘bitter war’ between the em- peror and the imperial wizard is not in sight.” “With the above conditions exist- ing, with the federal government and the courts of the land becoming in- creasingly alarmed over the situa- Mr. Clarke’s proclamation ys, “it behooves Klansmen of all ranks and station tq gather together and consider means ‘of elinfinating existing evils’ or else disbandment a of the organization. City Commission Takes Off 35 Per Cent Increase Effec- tive Dec, 1 The 35 percent surcharge which has been added to water bills of consumers for the last several months under federal court order was for- mally removed by the City Commis- sion in meeting Monday night. The removal is effective from December 1 and will apply on December bills for water service now being made out, The Commission named Commis- sioners Thompson, Larson and French as a water committee to conduct the affairs of the water de- partment. TO HAVE TOURNAMENT. Carson, N. D., Jan, 2.—Prepara- tions are being made here to enter- tain at least ten basketball teams 0 the district. early in February at the annual tournament of the secondary j high schools. All secondary high hools of the southwestern section “the. state will compete at Carson, While other district tournaments will while above that the speed of the wind decreases. Tee cream was introduced into France about 1550. be held at Larimore, Jamestown, Casselton, Hazen, Devils Lake, Minot and: Williston. The state title will MABEL NORMAND, SCREEN ACTRESS, Courtland Dines Injured But V Recover, Hospital Reports; Chauffeur Says He Shot Man Because Wouldn't Let Miss Normand Leave His Apartment When Chauffeur Called For Her Los Angeles, in. 2—(By the A S, Dines, 34-year-old oil operator and dicted he would recover from a bullet wound flicted last night by Joe Kelley alias H. A. Greer, been used in the shooting ing to the police, even going out of and announced “I just shot a man.” spending the afternoon and evening of a chilly New ¥. sisted Miss Normand leave with him he told poli An argument is said at first refused to go home. the chauffeur, to have arisen and Mis: , and allowed him to lead her to the door Pasi Grabbed a Bottle. was s on asec think, and It fired three immed ."" ASKS RESGUE OF U. 8. TRIO | Dines proving finger at him and said: Promise of Demand Upon Provincial Authorities | gt the it of this,’ more. Look going to get notoriety department. tod: Minister Schurman of the capture by Chinese at Tsao-Yang of Julia R, Kiler the wounding of Mr. and Mrs. Purviance reports that Miss Dines were engag: intimated that. this ‘had anything |do with the shooting from at Peking bandits and ared for Life —— {about it but 1 saw what Knew Them Ving to do all right He was going {from her home and shot him | Dines version was ZAP MERCHANT =: DIES IN CITY Philip Kamins Well Known in North Line Country visited them in Minot. “We came in and démanded Then ting.” he said. s and Kelley terrupted us. He Miss Normand leave. | whipped out a gun and shot ey any reason why | tried to ‘get me’ a Wod hostile move toward him | JEALOUSY HELD CAUSE | Los Angeles, Jan.) 2.--(By the 'P.)—The infatuation of a chaufle Philip Kamins, 62, of Zap, the most widely known merchants in the North Line country, died in a Jealoi quaintanee, illness of Kelley alias H. A. Greer An operation | Courtland S. Dines of Denver i (Continued on Page 6) morning following an more than two weeks, had been preformed to relieve him of bladder trouble. fn ne ake tee| PROTESTS NEW 22 a aiatavesialbusivcentin IMMIGRATION PROPOSA Buffalo, N. ¥. For the last nine years he had conducted a big general 2.—Italy through store at Zap, under the name of Kamins and Son, which business will] Washington, Jan. be carried on by his sons under the made representations same name. All stores in Zap and the mine were closed today in honor of his memory. Surviving are the widow, one | daughter, Rebecca, who is visiting her brother in Los Angeles; and gration quota revision now tion committee. The Italian commun The body was taken to Regan for | With anotier burial in the Hebrew cemetery there. | strict each natie K. OF P. HEAD lcent of their n COMES HERE | this country This stip A. W. Patterson of Grand Forks, | he Htalian g grand chancellor of the Knights of | Justied dise Pythias lodge in North Dakota, will | M¢nt of? be the honored guest of St. Elmo] wort he ¢ lodge tonight at 8 p. m, at the an-| jmigratior nual installation of officers of thelas high ac lodge. | number adi A large number of members of the | years. but order are expected to be present for | quota to 19.1 the exceptional program urranged. | her, | committee study. | The Johnson bill nves sed to, MERCURY HITS SEASON’S LO} MARK IN CITY; TRAY Suh-zero temperature ruled the| The fo: Northwest yesterday and today. | much mo i Bismarck kept up with the pro-| atures in cession ‘of cities repérting low | Tho « temperatures. It was 19 below at) heavy sno 7 o’clock this merning, and the | service h mercury sank to a new low record | west. for ‘he season, 24 below, here yes-| No. 4 on ¢ terday. The highest temperature} to go east |: yesterday wag .6 below. in Bismarck t The weather report gave among | hours late. be decided at a tournament at Val- ley City in March. the ‘sub-zero temperatures: Win-! this morning, » nipeg, + Williston, —20; Sheri- | ind No 4. 1 dan, Wyo., —16; Swift: Current, | held fairly clos: Saskatchewan, --16; Moorhead,| Monday ‘and Ti —14; Prince Albert, —36; Milesj Heavy holid City, Mont. —16) Havre, --28;| the difficultie Calgary, —18. roads, | CLUBMAN SHOT BY CHAUFFEUR OF WHEN SHE REFUSD T0 GO HOME According to P.)—Surgeons attending Courtland clubman of Denver early today pre- thich police said was in- chauffeur to Miss Mabel Normand, screen actress, Whose 26-calibre pistol is alleged to have Kelley freely admitted the shooting, accord his way to bring them the pistol Normand and Miss Edna Purviance, motion picture uct ar: day in the Denver man’s apartment: here when Kelley appeared and in He had been sent to take her home. Normand Then she changed her mind, according to | “But Dines got up and started to U.S. INI ER | grab a bottle,” Kelley told police, , ‘ual there where the trouble start- nervous the gun kept shots, the apartment endeavoring to render in @ hospital and shook a re- um not going to play with you any Tan Later the three were ‘confronted by and d though no one was g0- somewhat dif- We were sitting in the apartment had a few im that T don't |b he should have I positively made one of for his film actress employer and his y of her wealthy Denver ac- according to the police local hospital about 3 a. ms yesterday Were the motives that, prompted Joe to shoot last has the state department opposing the immi- under |consideration by the house immigra- tion was forwarded to the committee today draft by Secretary PRICE FIVE CENTS (SMITH STARTS NEW DRY LAW FIGHT N.Y. EXECUTIVE WOULD CHANGE VOLSTEAD ACT Asks Legislature to Tell New York Congressmen to Take Action CALLS LAW ‘SENSELESS’ Says Modification Can Come Only Through Action of | The National Congress Albany, N. 2.—Further ef- forts for modification of the Vol- stead act. were suggested in Gover- nor Smith’s message to the New York legislature today. WHe urged that New York representatives be asked to lay-before the present Con- gress a memorial to Congress adopt- ed by the last legislature, 1 Hoth Miss Normand and Miss Pur |, ta Phe ae Weber iviance were much distressed over ae i ata Chen Mesa mire) cero: the shooting. Police found them at | /2¢ la bles dM isch ee change the pre Y nt narrow, s€nscless definition of what constitutes an first aid to the injured man, Both | Geom G ‘ot the young women were held for EReeUaIEG Rvceee rate sie ea {questioning and later released le Volsvent 76 e ico) Benacnu genau Minister Schurman Gets)“ yijcc Normand also looked in upon |there may be permitted the manufac- ture und sale of light wines and beer under the careful restrictions set forth in our legislative enactment of (This enactment was a law zing the manufacture and sale percent beer which was de- red constitutional by state courts.) “1 of “Subsequently the legislature to| further defined the policy of, the state in relation to the subject by j the repeal of the state law which in immigrants under labor department | hardt Hoff, American Luther A deter ee ee ee ced Kelley | ect left enforcement of the Vol- regulations and the department could | sionarigs. The minister said he had | hehe dk e Boat ras eR « Bu stend dct with: bothistate and feder suspend all immigration in times of made representations to, Foreign! jity or desire to protect his em. | #! Kovernments and left the proseeu- industrial depression. Minister Wellington Koo who had ex-! jiover that he shot Dines. | 48" for violation of the | Volstead — preased regret and promised to com. | MOYer Whee he. seer eown life,” | Het entirely with the federal gov- munieate immediately with the pro-| svid'the chauffeur; “T_knew Dines | ¢™ment. It must be remembered, |vincial authorities and insist upon was going to take that bottle ana|owever, that this did not and ean- | prompt action for the rescue of th mash me. I shot him to protect {et and will not bring about a missionaries myself. He didn’t make much fuss | change 4n the present defini what constitutes an amend to the intoxicant. to Volstead act is nsign and Mrs. Shirping of thé| do it nice and easy. y possible by the Congress of the Salvation Army, Bismarck are deep-| “Mabel Noritand is sick with ap- United State ly interested in the fate of Mr. and] pendicitis and should be in the hos-| “Inasmuch as we have a new Con- Mrs. Bernhardt Hoff and Mrs. Julia’ pital. I tried to get her away from | &Tess now in session I suggest that ki Northwest missionaries, Mrs./ Dines and when he wouldn't let her | by resolution properly adopted you Shirping knew the Hoffs at the pd with me I took out | call the attention of our representa- Wahpeton college and Mrs. Kilen pistol which I took |tives from this state to the action at Ta. last winter and request them to it before the bi nt eee COR BECEE ‘REPUBLICS PROCLAIMED WITH SHOUTS Greece Deputies Enthusiastic as Revolutionary Govern- ment Is Turned Over he \ ur Athens, Jan. 2 (By the Associated iB: Amid shouts from the de- puties and the galleries of “Long Live the Republic Down With the King,” Greece's revolutionary gov- ernment was turned over to the new- ly elected assembly today by Colonel Plastiras, head of the revolutionary committee, Col. Plastiras opened the session with a speech in which he enumerat- ed the achievements of the revolu- tionary government which took pow- er with the abdication of King Con- stantine in the fall of 1922. Premier Gonatas followed with an announcement of the resignation of four sons, Nathan, in Los Angele, by Secre Hughes. It is aimed|his government, which held office Jacob and Abe in Zap, Louis at a provision of a ‘bill drafted by|under the revolutionary #wegime. Dodge. | Chairman Johnson which along The cabinet withdrew from the session after its resignation. The Republicans and the Liberal Demans* > “ined in the house > form a quorum to LION PMENTS TODAY worth of silk morning. being on two » silk trains from Seattle n off boats vast. nade up of Lat a fast