Evening Star Newspaper, July 21, 1923, Page 4

- 4 BULKIEST LAW SUIT OF MCHGAN ENDS All of Attorneys But One Worn Out in 12 Years’ Fight Over $2C0,000. By the Axsociated Press. DETROIT, Mich., July 21.—The state supreme court late yesterd load off its mind when it rende; decisfon in Michigan's longes| bulkiest law suit. and ©lyde Webster in circuit court here | four vears ago, awarding $200,000 to Samuel A. Wilson and assoclates in thelr action against Chester G. White and associates. Sturted in 1911 The suit held its inception in 1911 Its climax was reached in 1919, when it was tried before Judge Webster. Outstanding features of the trial e: A full court year—138 days equired for the taking of te mony; 10,000 letters were offered in evidence; testimony covered pages of typewritten copy drays were used to take law books and e hibits to and fromr the c wher the case neared completion Webster had before him two trun one safe and four suit cases full of evidence, besides a card index that re quired nine months in the making; attorneys spoke for as long as eight- een hours at a time. When the case was over of the participating couns the count.” One of them ha our months ut a sanitarium, recupe ating; another dropped twenty-five pounds, and a third has not been a well man since The ¢ involved the hase in 1583 of 000 acres of Alabama timber land by seven Mich n men, including Wilson and White. The up later sold its holdings for $2,000,000. While ent in th ith for the group on made ividual purchases and the other members of the group sought a share in these profits Under an injunction granted n 11 the entire fund d up and several vears later pa settlement was ma under which Wilson was given §240,000. By the decision affirm- «d yesterday he is given an additional 0,000 and the case is closed BOOTLEG DOLLARS IN GERMANY TODAY Arbitrary Exchange Set by Reichbank Causes Business to Flourish in Berlin. all but one had “taken d to spend in BY GEORG is vour bootlegger?” is a question which is being asked by foreigners in Berlin who run up against the arbi- trary rate of exchange which has been fixed by the reichsbank July 1 Today, for instance, the rate of e change in New York was in the neigh- borhocd of 370,000 marks to a dollar and in Berlin it was only 254,000 to & dollar. The ult of the German government's prohibition law against the of foreign money in Germany rk rate of ex- ehange n that the bootlegging busin dollars has be Imost as widespread inside of a few weeks s bootlegging in booze in Ameri, American business men doing busi- ness over here had no trouble market- fng their dollar checks at only a few points less than the New York rate of exchange. Even travelers who rere spending only a few d, in Germany have caught onto the trick and are doing their buy of Gel man paper money through these boot- leggers. Like Brethren Here. An American detective, who is here on official business in an extradition case, told the writer that bootleggers of German paper n ¢ bear a strong resemblance to their 3 can breth- ren in the booze busir “German mark bootleggers, who I have observ in the princi as un- the United the detecti Th, i run across ean citize have since rome n 1 in the last few days | hotels here, look just booze bootleggers = 100k un-Amer! ral naturalized Ame; who are doing a flourish- ing business in buying American dol- lar checks and bank notes by offering a few thousand marks more than the German rate of exchange. One of them alone has made more than $3,000 in five days. But unlike the Ameri- can bootlegging, this German epi demic of illegal trading in money will last but a few weeks, as the Ger. man authorities are sure to take such drastic measures to curb it that it will not be worth the ris End In Few Weeks. The Berlin Tageblatt today prints &n article predicting that it will be only a matter of a few weeks before the whole German financial will be placed on a gold m Al financial transaction government deals will be i gold marks at the pre 4 marks 20 pfennigs to the dollar. The railroads, posts. telegraphs and other government controlled organ- izations already have announced that sthey will begin doing business on gold mark basis September 1. It is generally belie that by this fall Germany will be figuring on a gold mark basis all around, and as a result will be one of the most expensive| countries in the world. e — KLAN SUES HEARST. i Ask Series of Articles in Magazine | Be Stopped by Court. NEW YORK, July 21.-—Asserting that the International Magazine Com- pany, publishers of Hearst's Maga- zine, printed a series of articles by Norman Hapgood which were based upon records unlawfully taken from the office of the Knights of the Ku war rate of | BY FREDERIC WILLIAM W d alan econom |the monetary as wel South Dakota, on the other | - | $6.000 | North Dakota Judge | iof socialistic i | peopl tof dy HE EV. South Dakota Staving Off Pest | Of Unrest That Bit Sister State E NI N {Non-Partisans Still Menace Her Border, Bui Fiasco of Ruined Banks and Millions Lost Is Lesson. FARGO, N. D, July 21.—Though cally, ethnolog! and in ¢ respect as as two North und South Dakota present stung hard, in s the metaphori- gue bug and |cal sense. and, has escaped the blight. Town- 1y anc the same s that ng men, at mrie the Townleyism held out to them re and get- seven Peak 1 ting ve ces fo {own produce. leyism stopped at her northern border, | and, while the Ladds and the Fraziers were bleeding North Dakota white with visionary socialistle schemes, South Dakota remained sane, stalwart and republican, State Not Sure. her two northern meizhbo and_ Minnesota, now r the United States Se: armer-laborites of the :d, South Dakota is not he wa ago. ' aming star of May Johnson had not yet burst upd laftrighted northweéstern horizon. day, tomorrow, n nobody even in South Lukota, might not happen. ' 1 on the for governor in 14 : |to 48,000 for the democratic and 60,000 for the victorious {can. There are South Dako wio quietly fear that if farm conditions do not improve, ler muy {arise and exploit rural discontent to |the undoing of the existng political order. With sented Utop! . Foll s ot | re: i Sterling Frees Test. | Semator Sterling, republican wart, comes up for re-election {South Dakota i 132 De his goud standing in the community, he feould hardly withstand a tarm-labor {tidal wave set rolling into the circum- |stunces that have just swep [nus Johnson into the Senate. {ling voted for the ship subsidy. the seating of Newberry and for the Fordney-MeCumber tariff {are not the best recommendati {in these times umong the embittere fand embattled farmers of the west If Senator Sterling survives the radi- hurricane now blowin sruss s region, he mainly will ¢ to A uncompromis- the saving of life. The drys are in uth Dakota, as ! stern country. Per- without “method in stal- in political addle ir where in the haps it was n his madness” that Senator ch the very day of the farmer- labor blizzard” in Minnesota to nounce that he would oppose any a tempt to. let down the prohibition bars in favor of foreign shipp In proclaiming that w tern politician now ve. Like Kansas and Colo Dakotas are sternly de remain_ dry and to do Imost toward keeping the re fcountry dry. Believe Pest Has Run Course. North Dakota, the soil from which the dragon’ cth of the Non-Parti- san ng, is confident th st has run its cours That contention is stoutly maintained even in the f of the emer across the state line, of Ships plus Johnson. Jerry D. Ba Grand Fork ploneer against the non-partisanites, they “through.’ patriotic republicans and | need to remain on the wateh 3 because farm discontent is rife and raw material for political inc. diaries is plentiful. But North Kota, according to Bacon. has full o of non-partisan j has paid a tment, and never again w! » State over to the element which brought it to the verge of ruin. Frazier Won b 1t ap election to due to local no wise denotes that has re-embraced the tor McCumber might nominated certain un ments which has up his spr i bred cos Senate in circumstances and in orth Dakota league. S have 1d re-elected, »pular federal appoin he instigated and fe his firtations with the non-partisan crowd. Then the democrat made an unfortunate nomination in opposi- tion to Frazier, who had wrested the regular repub n nomination McCumber. The religious note en- tered into the campaign and, because of a combination of factors t had little to do with the non-partisan movement, Frazier was elected, At the same election the state admin- istration was recovered by the stal warts, Nestos, a_republican, -being chosen governor. Thus, the phenonfe- non, inexplicable to the ast, of “recalled” non-partisan governor, Frazier, being promoted a year later to the senatorship, is in reality, not what it appears to be. Belleves “Bolshevists” Licked. “Tell ‘e in Washington,” Jerry Bacon's parting sally to writer, “that the North bolshevists are licked boots.” If Bacon's ery of triumph is justi- fied, North Dakota may well chant halielujah, for her little fling at the millenium, via the non-partisan rout. cost the state anywhere from $15, 000,000 to $18,000,000 in hard cash. Tho: figures may not impress the plutoe tic east, but to a state with only sent real money. n was the out of their Of the entire group ventures in which the s treasure was squandered only the state flour mill and elevator at Grand Forks remains as an asset upon which the taxpayers eventually may cash in. Wasted are the millions put into the “Bank of North Dakota,” now in inglorious liquidation. Gone are the fortunes invested in state- financed homes and dwelling hou: To the land where the woodbine twineth have vanished the subsidies for “consumers’ stores.” In dismal aclipse and bankruptcy are the scores semi-state banks, farmer-subsi- dized newspapers and all the other fantastic projects which were to turn North Dakota Into a commonwealth drenched with milk and honey, with roubles for farmers banished forever more. $3,000,000 in State Mill. As has been said, the state miM and elevator alone survive the non- partisan deluge. They comprise a remarkable plant, comparing in size and equipment with the finest.pri- vate-owned milling properties = at Minneapolls. Three million dollars Klux Klan in Atlanta, the Klan today asked the federal district court to stop publication of further Klan| articles and to order the return of; the papers. According to the complaint, the papers were taken from the Klan office by Rhodes McPhail, a clerk, who, through Samuel N. Castleton of Atlanta and Louis R. Glavis, sold them to the International Company for $3,000. The purpose of the purchase, it is asserted, was to discredit the Klan with the public and to discourage Pprospective members. HARDING’S AUNT DIES. COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 21.—Mrs. Clara Van Kirk Mitchell, aunt of Presi- dent Harding, died yesterday at the home of the President’s brother, Dr. George T. Harding, Jr., at Worthington, near here. Mrs. Mitchell was born in Washington county, Pa., ninety-five Yyears ago, and came to Morrow county, Ohfo, In 1832, She was stricken with paralysis two years ago. of public money are invested in a plant that has a capacity of 3,500 bar- rels a day and storage room for 2,000,000 bushels of grain. The prop- erty was only completed a year and a half ago. It only recently began to function on a full scale. Some say it has turned the corner, and hence- forward will operate at a profit, while fulfilling its purpose of giving the farmer better prices for grain and cheaper flour. Among the mill boost- ers is Jerry Bacon, whose model farm, Lilac Hedge, abuts the state mill, Down-state 'they're less confident, and fear the mill will turn out to be, like other non-partisan projects, an _expensive and hopeless’ experi- ment, conceived in’ folly and destined to fail. Conditions Still Continue. Although' one is assured on many hands in North Dakota that the non- partisan league and the farmer-lab- orites—they are practically synono- mous, politically—are “through,” the conditions in which they were born and thrived continue, to a very large extent. The farmers are “up against it" in North Dakota, as everywhere else in the west. They have precise- Dakota | 50,000 population they repre- | They the g cultural ha ernmer the nrily a to i supply-and-de | tour -publi- | | sal in |a | to the ! terest | kota teriing | ! repubticans [ fident { there { maries. | the | { cement j though st e i1owa, i ple m }itle from | {1t requi { year round, ma { | o 1if | time i aftermath are to peased b, tional: condlt} hek-bottom product period and then explanations blame. The T nec it prices for bitter grudge nt fo tod have the that mand and all t They urances ons United States g ative en nize thém distressed An farmer has been all he minist the of ation his fix. further excuses and extenuations. action. ugh Pr the nort Al paramou actment for the merican hard and he and Con stim during tting the: conomies, Th. lat] inces—the griev- aused them to grasp, ke radical straws six_or paying thelr ainst not ha overnme They are not minded to 11 world unre. w sort of thing arc that uch ment denly little interna- at no by benefit of the farmer. sists ress The That is hat the b job of getting him le is fmpatient with esid hwest on n. nt Harding his the pr i taxation and lak 1 quite as he traversec ing. encounte v of completely west Soldiers' in the popularity President ted in d, the irred = crops—and cident the speeches o 1ska rding, an it} he view t the grip « to Hard northwest was country ) Lowden n o i uutry st i the ng way He did not to world ib! rowe Minn ! Towa regions | wus not for Wood Yet it voted it has liked 1 amazing e ev Pre is tisfactory honus the we northwe they people R st fold him al too. t broadly though univer- > much to be dent Harding’s veto of some | The Te- It to roubles lette Only Rival. and South Da- North expect gations convention in will have no t Rober in they ¢ is Wh Dakotas a Henry . spee would, far democe of - South ad | staved off by tin acted a syst public treas plant state coal min had the adva pta s able example f the most small-ci imy; ‘ountry farm to th ulation Dakota to send 1924, serious t M n both an beat h. w y Harding republi n The val national Pr 1o Folle are con Hette states La ¥ in ther Hardin La t least, itions in 1 ette sho the for ter: th esident th and . te he pri- can didat je ne exsions. ppears an 1 nely and e. It h nta . e ty ex res ar many for intere Hments, fa from being do Not Dep. South. Da ially w o Diversifi reh in the think it i v the on one or twe to brood gene In the Spry may lie hidde: f the northw not the lea from the e mers are wn or endent ed Dakotas. s destin, agricultu ) crops. over his troubles ally makes for improved morale, ad of dlversified farming ution of many | n the s est's p f the ils of polit pyright, 19: even 1, f f tropolitan communities, t ague s i f 1 the ix F r quent, ower and m farming Ma is a ma Presi opa Uly D his | dele- HIBERNIANS FAVOR DRY LAW CHANGE Temperance Rather Than Prohibition and Irish Prison Inquiry Urged. Ry the Assoctated Press. MONTREAL, July 21.—Resolutions favoring temporance rather than prohibition of alcohollo beverages, |urging an fnvestigation by the United States Into the treatment of women in Irish prisons and renewing al- leglance to the Roman Catholic | Church were adopted yesterday by &lhn- Ancient Order of Hibernians in | America at thetr fifty-third annual ! convention. Though urging the Irish people to ! continue to strive for “abgolute free- | dom,” the Ladfes' Auxiliary in a reso: {1ution on Ireland declared that those {now in power give the people an op- | portunity of expressing their gov- choice by yote without ¢ of reprisal Sympathy for Vietims. Sympathy was expressed for the ne and children of Ireland, “the »eent vietims of present condi- and aid In their behalf was i denunciation of ecutions of men ense love atos was »ndition of sons. vassed jointly pledges 4 renew: ! devotion to our holy the astic jent church erded and whe B |of ¢ {urg the dead of six % men and women conseerated to the emained unshakable in il its attachment an ubmission to its divine authority.” - es its name r on a indelible ink GARAGES Special Offer $99.00 END UpP e bolts together. urlay afternoon nent_and Txinch clear period | > have radi- in the Ttoer rom the L stat lucts £ mid on the y author- d to be the s 1l community gives h »blems, pr a farmer to keep busy the | s him less dependent | im les and nd, as vation al radicalism. - In Poor Luck. From the Associated Newspapers. A month ago “I haven't i I bought a dream hook and I ha had a single ny luck dream since the -n't OUR GARAGES a Best Shiding Door=! EARS, ROEBUCK AND CO. 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C., SATURDAY, ‘FATHER’ OF 57 GIRLS ARRESTED IN WEST Held on Mann Act Charge in Con- nection With Removal of Adopted Daughter. By the Assoclated Press. - LOS ANGELES, Calif, July 21— Dr. H. B. Allen, sald to be the founder and superintendent of a girls school at Sabot. Va.. was arrested at his Hollywood residence yesterday on an Indictment charging him with XXX Everybody Likes ZERO 'ZERO Ice Cream has taken Washington by storm. Just three weeks ago ZERO made its first appearance on the market. Today it is known as the best and most popular ice cream in the city. JULY 21, 1923. violatfon of the Mann act in trans- porting one of his fifty-seven adopted daughters from Sabot to Pittsburgh. Department of Justice agents who arrested Dr. Allen, also took Into custody a woman who sald she was his housekeeper and two Yyounger women who stated they were his adopted daughters. According to federal offlclale, Dr. Allen founded a school for girls in North Carolina fourteen years ago and later moved the institution to Sabot, legally adopting the girls in his care. “When Indicted, they allege, Allen fled west and his wife departed v York with seven of the Allen declared the {ndictment was the result of spite work and sald he was willing to return te the east to fight the charge. ORGANIZE STEEL MEN. CHICAGO, July 30.—Organization of the 375,000 steel workers in the foun- dry centers of the country will be directed from here following the ar- rival tos v of Willlam Hannon, gen- eral organizer of the Americal Feder- ation of Labos Operating with Mr. Hannon. he sald. will be John Turner of the -Mine, Mill and Smelting Workers: ~ Charles | Glover of the Blacksmiths' organi- | fon, and Tl of the Iron, | teel and Tin Workers. 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