The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 22, 1924, Page 1

WEATHER FORECASTS Partly cloudy tonight und Wed. Warmer tonight. Colder Wed. ESTABLISHED 1873 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE |_™ BISM ARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1924 EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS | COOLIDGE FAVORS NEW PARLEY QUITS PARLIAMENT FOR FAMILY - VANGUARD NOW |, MOVES T0 MEET "AT JAMESTOWN J Conon, With With Most Dele- ; gates Uninstructed, May Do Almost Anything NO SURPRISE SEEN Indorsement of Present Of- ficials Expected Without Much Opposition The vanguard of the delegates and others who will attend the state “Real Republican” convention at Jamestown tomorrow is arriving in Jamestown today. Probably 50 will 0 to Jamestown from Bismarck for the convention, including Governor Nestos, who goes tonight, and many state officials. ‘ ‘Additional reports from various counties in the state show that the majority of alelegates re uninstruct- ed in the convention, and therefore anything. may happen, The indorse- ments given to Governor Nestos in many county cenyentions and the ab- sence of any, avowed candidates, ur indorsements lexcept for L, L. Rus- sell, implement dealer, by Eddy county, makes the indorsement of the Governor certain with little de- lay. There will be a lot of conferring -efore all other candidates on the ticket are named. It ig known that Morton county will present a can- didate for Secretary of State, wRose name is being guarded closely. ready M, W. Duffy and D \ Attorney-General, for which George Shafer will be reindorsed; Commis- . sioner of Agriculture id Labor, Treasurer, Auditor, Commi Insurance, Railroad Commissigners. Walter Worner of Bismarck and John Steen, retiring state treasurer, tre counted candidates for state au- litor while John Lyngstad, deputy tate treasurer, is the only avowed vandidate to succeed Mr. Steen. F. . Friis of Kenmare is a candidate ‘or Commissioner of Insurance, The attitude of the convention on n indorsement for the sypreme hench and state superintendent of ublic instruction! must be defined e the delegates. It is generally pre- icted no indorsement will be made. There will be indorsement for con- ressional candidates. No opposition o 0. B, Burtness, incumbent, has een shown in county. conventicn: hile in the second district candi cates include Thomas Hall, Bis- iarck; J. E, Davis, Goodric Ed. : mith, Ellendale, and E. A. Williams «f Bismarck, The latter is not ex- ected to enter a convention fight. It is probable that a fight will be »iade by some for an indorsement or state supéyintendent. Miss Min- vie J, Nielson ig’ a candidate for :eindorsement, while it is expected tiss * Bertha R, Palmer alxo will ‘ek the place. DIVET’S POLICY If A. G. Divet, prominent Fargo ttorney, is ‘elected to the, legisla- ‘are, to which body he will seek clection, a strong effort toward tax »eduetion is anticipated. In a recent satel w Mr. Divet said: “I shall stand for a policy of real :nd substantial reduction in public xpenditures, both local and state. to the state, the most vigorous ind direct reductions to be enforced iy limitation of appropriations will 4 lave my support. I believ@ the state rust also lend a steadying hand in he local communities, “I havé no sympathy with make- helieye economies that proceed upon the theory that if the tax burden: is decreased in one place and _ in- creased in another, something has been accomplished. It makes no dif- ‘erence from what pocket the tax is paid, whether it be levied on a horse or @ wagon, or upon a dining room table or a gasoline can. If in dollars ind cents the aggregate tax is not re~ «duced, nothing has been accomplish- od. 4 Suggests New Law | “An initiated law might well ve enacted that would meet the needs of the rural communities and small towns, but that would be destructive of the-interests of the-cities, and pre- vent their governments functioning in a reasonable way. Relief could not be had from such a law even by way of amendment, except by a two- thirds majority, in a subsequent legislature, while any oppressive fea ture of a legislative measure can be corrected~by a majority vote of, a succeeding legislature. “The coming legislature should en- deavor—and every: community should help it—to find solution, in part at least, as will remove the demand for initiated act. Reasonable reduction of ‘expenditures, voluntarily and cheerfully by the communities, or drastic, and jn some cases ruinous reduction by initiated decree, are the only alternatives. “I belieye the legislature, with the cooperation of the communities, can find a solution which, if not entire- satisfactory at first, can be bet- d by amendment, and that arbit- and destructive initiated meas- ures can thus be avoided,” APPORTIONMENT MADE The apportionment for the forth- coming: state Democfatie: -ouvention (Continued on page x) | jonet ofle Mrs. Hilton Phillipson, one of British Parlisment, who has dec! in order to have time to ¢ for pictured. ROTARIANS HERE IN Rotary ference fun during the time, today, ineludes many Rotary ethics in bu District Governor O. Governors address ‘Thursd Auditorium, followed bs leans, director of Rotary Governor R. A. Nes at the session Thursday fornia, North Dakot Mine,” Rotarian S. T. Aubrey Lawrence of H. Pryor of Duluth will speak on A. Prosser of Minneapol addres B. will de DIVIDEND ON CLOSED BANK I$ DECLARED Depositors of Leith Bank To Get 20 Per Cent Cheeks Depostiors ‘in the Peoples State ank of Leith, Grant county, closed, ill receive a 20 percent dividend, it announced today by L. R. Baird, general receiver of closed’ banks. Depositors will be paid upon presen- tation of receivers’ certificates, he added. The total dividend, which amounts to $10,918.04 is the first to be made in this Kank, and it is prob- able another dividend will be made yet this year, the general receiver stated. The Peoples State Bank closed February 14, 1921, but came under the jurisdiction of Mr. Baird Ms general receiver only a few months ago when he assumed the position. Irrigation To ° - Continue This Year, Belief Williston, N. D., April 21—No ac- tion affecting the operations for the present year is likely to be taken by the federal department at Washing- ton, to which bas been submitted a committee recommending that the Williston reclamation project be abandoned, according to a telegram received here from, Manager W. S, Arthur, who is in the twin cities se- curing beet workers. Instead, Mr. Arthur states, he future will depend largely upon résults in the hig] degree for operation this year, quot- ing F. E. Weymouth, chief engineer of the reclamation service with head- quarters af Denver as the source of. this informatien. A pumping unit and sluicing outfit has recently been petitioned for and is now believed to be enroute. It ts generally recognized here that the abandonment of the project at this time would mean the cancella- tion of the most favorable prospects the farthers of the district have ever had beforé'them. The beginning of the effort on sugar beets last year developed that this area is especially well fitted. for their production, and since arrangements, have been pro~ vided. gar" “kbeir ? marketing, the initial eight acres of last season are being expanded to nege 500 acres this year. 4 yy ared that her children, y nroraing an address. by International. os will*speak on afternoon, James ¥V s poet laureate, will May of Dickinson o will talk on “Boys Work.” , president iver one of the principal addresses of (Continued on page 6) the eight women members of ,the she will have to quit polities with whom she is here CONFERENCE WILL HEAR MESSAGES OF SPEAKERS Ethics in Business to Figure in Business Session Programs in the City Auditorium Thurs lay and Friday clubs of Minnesota and North Dakota, who throng y and Friday of this w will find a serious program The program for es by Rotariahs d ness conduct will McClintock of Minnea annual district awaiting them as well.as a round of the conference, as announced others, in which the for the be stressed W business Setni@w 4m rhe city Benjamin C, Brown of New Or- “The Spirit of the Northwest” Foley of Pasadena, Cali- speak on “Boys and Girls of will speak on “Our Country, “The Community” and William of the Dunwoody Institute, the convention on the sub- 50 CARLOADS OF SHINGLE A special train. of 50 cars of shingles passed through Bismarck yesterday on the Northern Pacific, coming from Vancouver, B. C. and destined for St. Paul und points east, This is said to be the largest single shipment of shingles ever made from the Vancouver terr JAPS FLIRTING WITH RUSSIA}: American Exclusion Blow Ac- celerates Negotiations Tokio, April 22. solutions pro- testing against the proposed exclu- sion of Japanese from the United States and appealing to the Amer- ican people not to permit enactment of the immigration into law were passed at mass meetings held at Osaka and Nagoya today. The Yomiuri Shimbun, considered one of the mildest of Tokio news- papers, today professed to see a re- action from the immigration contro- versy in the progress of Russo-Jap- anese negotiations at Pekin where Japanese minister Yoshicawa and L. M. Karakan, Soviet representative in the Far East, are conferring. “Since the demonstration of un- friendliness by the United States Senate the impression has become rooted in every Japanese heart that America is not Japan's friends,” the publication said. ‘‘Whether,due to this impression or not it is undeni- ably true that Russo-Jtpanese nego- tiations show signs of smooth de- velopments. “This turn in the situation is gen- erally regarded as heralding a re- orientation of Japanese diplomacy in the near future.” Inspection of Guard U! Unit Made Col. *Hemmond, U.S: U.S. A., last night inspected the Quartermaster .detach- ment of the North Dakota National Guard, the inspection taking place in the Eppinger block. Col. Ritchie of Valley City, commander of the North Dakota regiment, and Major Boyd were here. Tonight Col. Ham- mond will.inspect Company. A. The Quartermaster detachment, which is under Major Harold Soren- son, has 19 men enrolled, and is fill- ed up for the annual National Guard camp at Devils Lake in June. con-| jolis will deliver the | SAYS LIGNITE BOOST IS BLOW. 10 MINNESOTA Rate Expert of Minnesota, Hearing in City OULD SHUT IT OUT Broad Grounds Urged by Min- ¢nesota Commission in De- cision of the Case Proposed increnses asked hy the railroads on lignite coal produced in Dakota mines would have an effect on the pocketbooks of ” Minnesota consumers, A. L. rate clerk of the Minnesota d and Warehouse Commission, aminer W. H, Wagner of the ate Commerce Commission and d Commis- sion, sitting jointly here in the case in which the railroads propose to in- crease lignite coal rates approximate- ly 50 percent. The interest of the mission in the case is on behalf of cit of Minnesota, “who reside, roughly speaking, within a radius of 150 miles of the North Dakota-Minn- esota state line, excluding the lines reaching the wooded sections of the state,” Mr. Flinn d, “If the proposed rates a ed to become effective it will result in increases on this low priced fuel (lignite) which will, we believe, re- sult in shutting it entirely out of the small section of the state where it can now be used in competition with n coal,” said Mr. Flinn, reading a statement of the Minneso- ta railroad commission as an Hie venor in the case, For Good of Consumers “For the good of -the citizens of the state of. Minnesota where fuel is vitally nece ,” the statement continued “the Minnesota coimmis- sion has s tuken the position that no increase in coal rates should be allowed to go unchallenged, and we believe thitt in the instant case the burden is on the carriers to make positive. préof-of the reasoaahleness of the proposed applied to a low priced fuel as lignite, ared with the same rate applied stern coal of high quality. The existing interstate rates lignite are the result of lengthy ne- gotiations between the railroad com- sions of Minnesota, North and s ota, and the Railroad Ad- ministration, extending from May 1918 until November 18th, 1918, when a scale of rates was made effe@ive, which w. lower than any of the state commissions h: ever asked the carriers to publish, either for single line or two-line hau It wa how r, the same scale as had been published for application in 'T both state and interstate, and it was satisfactory to all concerned.” Mr. Flinn reiterated! the Minnesota commission’s belief that the conten- tion of North Dakota, that if the pro- posed r go into effect, lignite will be virtually barred from Minn- esota, is correct. Investigation re- vealed, he said, that 92 towns villages of Minnesota received 680 tons of lignite during the 1923. It sold at an average p' $6.64 per ton, while the price of ern bituminous co: at the same stations was $12.72 per ton, he said. Other lignite doubtless was consumed for which no reports were available, he said. Urges ‘Broad Grounds “The Minnesota Commission is fully convinced that the case here before the Commission is one which cannot be decided by the Interstate Commerce Commission on the single grounds of reasonableness of the proposed rates percent,” the state- ment said, “but is a case in which the economic features of the case should’ be fully considered, taking the status of the commodity itsclf as a fuel, and the lignite industry on the one hand, and the limited pur- chasing power of the-consumers who do use lignite on the other. “If this is done we believe the In- terstate Commerce Commission will require the cancellation of the sus- pended tariffs or else prescribe some reasonable rates on lignite which will permit the industry to live and grow and at the same time permit those citizens of Minnesota who de- sire to do so, to make use of tiis low priced fuel.” Attitude of South Dakota The attitude of South Dakota, chiefly 2 consuming state, toward the proposed increase of about 50 percent in lignite coal rates from North Dakota mines, was laid before Examiner W. Wagner of the Inter- state Commerce Commission and the North Dakota railroad commission here today in testimony and cross- examination which took the entire first day's session in the coal hear- ing. Mr. Kelley's opposition to increase the lignite rates to an equivalent of the Holmes and Hallowell scale on which coal is moved from Duluth and Lake Superior docks was baséd on the many grounds, the chief of which was that as a broad principle coal of lower quality should take a lower rate, lignite being, he said, of lower quality than. the coal shipped from the docks, The railroads themselves have al- ways had a general policy of giving consideration to the’ principle that (Cohtinued on page 2) innesot# com- so on Nn nn nnn nn nn nnn nn nn nnn nnn SHOALS BIDDERS Figuring prominently — in Muscles $ s hearing before Fenate investigating committee H, Hooker (above), president the Chemist ¢ ed States and (below) J. G. hydro-electric plant — builder © been opposing the Henry SEWER COSTS ASSESSED IN CITY UPHELD Supreme Court Hands Down Decision in Case Invol Numerous Lots the ssoc White, who Ford NO RE GROUND ERVAL The supreme court handed down today sessment levied by the city of Bis- marek against property for construc- tion of a storm sewer, said the court “has repeatedly held that the own of property affected by a special a sessment are precluded on the ques- tion of benefits by the action of the special assessment commission as re- viewed by the city council or com- mission, and that there is no relief fram their determination unless there exists some one of the usual grounds for equitable interference such as fraud or mistake or by some defect in the proceedings the special assessment in The suit was between the Bism Homee Builders Company, several lots in the Weatherby Addition, 1916 the city ordered storm sewers constructed, and one constructed in the lower section of the city. prin- cipally in the business district, on city the plaintiff's lots sessed, $13.97 each. The sewe rita 1,000 feet from the plaint property and is free from storm wa- ters, the court said. The home builders company that the a nent was invalid cause the sewer w: within several sewer proper' in each was assessed for constr jon work carried on in an- other; the costs were not properly apportioned, the constructed covered different drainage ar that the property assessed was not benefitted.” The evidence at the trial in district court was wholly concern- ed with the question benefits and proper pro-rating of costs, the ion said. ince the appellant has failed to establich that any ground for equit- able relief from the assessment, not other judgment than that which was rendéred by the district court would be “warranted under the numerous ions and adjudications of this court,” the supreme court decision said, The case was appealed from dis- rict court when Judge Nuessle was its judge. In the high court, Judge Pugh sat in place of Judge Nuessle: The decision was written by Judge Birdzell. in a decision firming an as- owning Flannery and Bimarek. In is Vagrancy bands In Forks Arrests Grand Forks, N. D., April 22,—Vag- rancy, accounting for 22 cases, lead the list of causes among 255 arrests made in Grand Forks during the fis- cal year ending February 29, 1924, according to the report of J. w. Lo- wed, chief of police at the organiza- tion meeting of the Grafid Forks city commission, Of the arrests, 219 were males, and 36 females, minor offenses total- ed 190 and 65 were state offenses. the! are! of} tion of the Unit-} GURL BANDIT SURRENDERS IN FLORIDA ' Bob-Haired “Gun Girl” Whol Terrorized Brooklyn For Several Weeks Is Caught HUSBAND = ACCOMPLICE 3oth Planned and Executed Robberies — Baby — Born Shortly After Last Holdup Jacksonville, Fla, April ‘the A, P.)~ Brooklyn's daring —bob- haired bandit, known now as plain 1 Co y York City today to face charges growing our of her spe holdup — exploits which terrorized the metropolitan | district for three months. With h in the custody of two New York de teetives, was her husband and ac- complice ‘d_ Coone Trailed through twelve states in her dash to find solitude in a haven of safety in which to give birth to her child, the slender, 20-year-old gun girl, was arrested here late Sunday night with her husband just after they had buried the 10-day old baby which was born less than a fortnight after her last “job” in Brooklyn. For a few hours they were kept in the loca] jail where they made detailed confessions of nearly a score of, hold- ups. Then they were placed on 2 train which will arrive in New York late this afternoon. Surrenders Easily The bandit queen surrendered | without a fight, although she exhi- ‘bited a flash of her nerve when, standing be band, both with drawn revol halted the officers as they swept in- to their quarters in a rooming house and cooly compromised with the promise not to shoot if they held| | their fire. “The death of my baby loved, somehow softened iny | she said. .I did not want to figh!. all looks different now.” She told how her husband had‘beg- ged her to let him shoot her te save her from eppture and then kilf him- but observed smiling! “We couldn't quit that Blames Herself Cooney's baby was born in a| April 11, ten days after she and her husband attempt- ed to hold up the Brooklyn plant of the National Biscuit Company during which the com er was shot and seriously rd. The baby, a girl, died last Saturday and] was buried the followirg d | Both assumed blame for the shcot- ing of the cashier, which ‘s expected to produce a+ charge of attempted murder against them in addition to alleged robbery and grand larceny, according to the detectiv Cooney, 26 years old, declared that he was the “brains” of their opera- tions and that it was he who did the shooting. The bundit-mother con- tradicted him by declaring “if it hadn't been for me Edward would have gone straight. I was the cause of all the trouble. He never did any of the shooting.” Both willingly waived extradition’ PLEA oo oe ee aS | Weather Report — e For noon, Temperature at 7 a. Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday ... Lowest last night Precipitation , Highest wind velocity ... WEATHER FOREC ST. For Bismarck and vicinity: T° cloudy tonight and Wednesday Warmer tonight. Colder Wednes- day. Fors North Dakota: Partly clondy tonight and Wednesday, Warmer east and soutg portions tonight. Cold- er Wednesday, - GENERAL WEATHER CONDITIONS An area of high pressure, ac/om- panied by cool weather, is centered over the lower souri and upper A low pressure 4 “accompanied by warmer weath- co tre overspread the northeastern Rocky, Mountain slope. Precipitation | occurred over the Great Lakes region and in Minnesota but elsewhere the |weather is generally fair, ROAD CONDITIONS. The main highways of the State are in good condition but many of the cross roads are impassable due ts the rain and snow during the past week, North Dakota Corn and Wheat Stations, Amenta .. | BISMARCK Rottineau Bowbells Devils Lake Dickinson Dunn Center Fessenden .... Grand Forks . Jamestown . Langdon . Larimore .. | Lisbon Minot ..... Napoleon .,.. Pembina , Williston , Moorhead . a) { ORRIS W. -( By Mrs. local ‘hospital on twenty-four hours ending m, . Clear ROBERTS Meteorologist. ;PLAN BOMBED Rev, L, cru by Home of Buffalo been bombed suspect members of ab vice ring on whose trail was camping. fter it ad Po.ice and pastor vice nemies, otleg the ASK BOULEVARD GARDENS HERE BE ABANDONED City Commission Hopes zens, Will Cease Practice Growing Up in War LAW RATE City Commission Later on Will Provide Special Induce- ment. to Keep Lawns Ty people houle- The city comni will not plant vards this year. sion hope rdens in the Discussing this last night, members of the commission took the position jthat it is unsightly to have potatoes, and other these spaces, and formal request to abandon the pr It was pointed out that the boule- vard garden idea grew up as a war emergency, and that this emergency is passed, there being plen gar- ace available in the city. commission is not likely to tion to stop the sving that citizens gen- iring to have Bismarck an 10 city, will heed the request. 1s planned by the commission later on, it was said, to establish a water lawn rate which will enable citizens to keep up fine lawns at much less expense than under the regular water rates. The rates will, of course, be in the nature of an emergency, but it is hoped that. it will prove not only a benefit to the citizens and the city generally in beautifying it but also will provide fair revenue to the ¢ water work It was said by City Engineer At- kinson at the cor ssion meeting last night that work on the intake for the new filtration plant will resumed Wednesday by the Wood- rich Construction Company, he r ver has dropped several feet — r cently. It is expected that the in- take will be in by the middle and about that time the tion plant may be used. A delegation of property owners ap- peared last night asking that the hill on Ninth street, between Bowen and Ingalls, be cut down. CANDIDATES OF KLAN VICTORS Win Out For School Board in Grand Forks products growing in united in an in- ‘the people to corn The de Grand Forks, N. D., April 22.—Two candidates for the board of educa- tion having the indorsement of the local unit of the Ku Klux Klan were s erie} bitterly A. Arhart had the’ high vote, tending the field with 3,427, while Leslie Stinson had 3,245. The defeated candidates are Mrs. J. G. Moore, who polled 2,729, and Mrs. ©. Haagerson, who polled 2,584, The fight was one of the hottest Grand Forks has known as is indi} cated by the record vote that was polled. During the last 48 hours of the campaign, several big meetings were held, including one on Saturday night held in the interests of the defeated candidates, and two. on Sunday, addressed by Rev, F. Halsey Ambrosé, paston of the First Pres- byterian church, who recently ” re- signed as exalted cyclops. of -the North Dakota Klan, and whose let- ter to klan members in Grand Forks in support of Messrs. Arhart and Kelsey precipitated the fight. ed election. WOULD FOLLOW REPARATIONS SETTLEMENT Would Look With Fayor on Further Arms Limitation Efforts, He Says PRAISE DAWES WORK President Says It Is The Most Important Work Since he Armistice York, April announced in the nual luncheon the Associated Press t establishment of a settlement of the German reparations que tion he would favor steps looking toward the calling of another world conference to consider further limitation of maments and the codification of in- ternational law. Disclaiming any nounc formula that antee the peace of the president declared there ever, certain definite things which should be done to relieve the world “of much of the burden of military armaments and diminish the proba- bility of military operations,” « The Wachington conference did a ait deal to restore harmony and good will among the nations,’ the President said. “Another purpose of a conference the further limita- tion of competitive armaments. Much remains to be accomplished in that direction It would cable t w Coolidge President ah address at here tod: of it with firm ability to an- would guar- world, the were, how- appear to be impracti- attempt action under pres- ent conditions, bat with a certain and definite settlement of Germay reparations firmly established, — I should favor the calling of a similar conference to achieve. such Jimita- tion of armaments and initiate plans for a. codification sof international law, should preliminary inquiries dise close that such a proposal would meet with a sympathetic response. The United Statee the president said, stands in posi’ > 0 take the lead in such an addition | move to ward world pence because -America holds the respect of other nations and “our position is such that we are trusted and our business institutions and government be considered to be worthy of confidence Mr. Coolidge ha the Dawes commission as passed in importance to that had transpired since the Arm- istice and d rd there appeared to be every reason to hope that the report offers for a practical solution of the reparations prebiem. I trust that it may commend it- self to all the European governments interested as a method by which, through mutual concessions, they can ar ut a stable adjustment of the intricate and vexatious problem of reparations, and that such an outs come will provide for the restora’ tion of Germany and the largest possible payments tp other he added. Would Make Loan Pointing out that the plan proposed by General Dawes and his a sociates ontemplates an immediate loan to Germany for pressing needs financing of a bank, he expr hope that private American would be willing to the making of such «# loan. ‘Sound business rea.ons we should participate in the cing of works of peace in Europe, though we have repeatedly asserted that we were not in favor of ad- neing funds for any military pur- pose,” he continued. “It would bene- fit our’trade and commerce, and we specially hope that it will provide a larger market for our agricultural production. Besides ‘this, there is Ee humanitarian fequirement, which ies such a strong appeal, and the nguledes that out of our abundance it is our duty to help where hglp will be used for meeting just re- quirements and the promotion of a peaceful purpose.” The president devoted his address, delivered to the leading newspaper publishers and editors of ‘the coun- , to the country’s foreign relations in the main, although he reminded those who heard him that “Our first duty is to ourselves,” and that “American standards must be main- tained. American institutions must be preserved. The whole address was based on the general theme of service—the service that the American govern- ment might render to the people and the service the, American nation might give to the world. He drew the theme from the work of the As- sociated Press. “The work of the Associated Press, both necessary and logical,” he said, ‘indicates that the true method would appear to lie in recognizing the broad principle of our iddividual and national dependence, calculating the requirements which flow from that condition, and governing — our- selve:’ accordingly, Complete inde- pendence means complete ¢oordina- tion and cooperation. From thit principle arises the oft-repeated law of service—we can help ourselves only as we help others, Law of Service “One of the pre-eminent require- ments of our country at present time is to re-establish and emphasize inthe public, mind the Jaw_of ser- vice. The danger of America is net (Continued on page 2) ‘ led the work of unsur- anything a basi capital ticipate in t_ why coun-!