The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 27, 1919, Page 12

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No Army Food for Drouth Farmers Montana Republicans Succeed in Killing Measure for Re- lief of Stricken Producers—Sinclair Denied Hearing Washington Bureau, Nonpartisan Leader. ONGRESSMAN JAMES r H. SINCLAIR of North Dakota, whose district includes the % drouth- stricken region in the western end of the state, has been making an attempt to secure for free distribution among the more unfortunate of the drouth sufferers a share of the surplus food supply which’ the war department is now selling to the public. Politicians who waved the banner of super-Americanism during the last campaign have blocked his efforts. Montana farmers suffered from the drouth of this year, of last year, and of the year before that. Thousands of them suffered severely. Many were forced to leave their homesteads and go away to seek jobs as day laborers, so complete was the havoc done by the three dry summers to their crops and their livestock. Because of this condition, a proposal that congress authorize the president to distribute—under rules he should™ prescribe and to the extent he might see fit—some of the surplus army food to the actual drouth sufferers, was introduced and passed by the senate. It applied only to Montana. Representative Sinclair knew of the suffering among many farmers in his own district, and he wrote Chairman Kahn of the house military affairs committee that he wanted to have the $10,000 Gone From (Continued from page 4) the property in his possession. At- tempts were made by him to have some of the correspondence photo- graphed by a Bismarck photographer, but this man, who knew of the su- preme court ruling, refused to handle the work. Without waiting for the return of the property by Langer, Lofthus made preparations to check the $2,- 500,000 worth of collateral supposed to be in the bank vaults. He had, up- on taking charge of the bank, invit- ed Langer, Hall, Halldorson, Sheets and Pollock & Pollock, who had been in the bank during Halldorson’s pos- session as pretended receiver, to have a representative present or be pres- ent in person during his examination. He now asked Halldorson to act with him in checking the securities. Halldorson refused to act. Pressed for a reason he made the remarkable admission that he did not know what had been taken from the bank by Sheets and others during the time he was presumed to be acting as receiv- er. As he did not know what had been taken he naturally did not know what was left when Sheets and Pol- lock got through with their removals. Mr. Lofthus had determined that the ordinary business and banking rules-should be met, in spite of Hall- dorson’s refusal to act, and called up- on“the directors of the bank to make '| the check with him. They designated Spurgeon Odell, an experiedced bank- er, one of their number, to act with ‘| Lofthus. Lofthus and Odell began thelr check. They came $0.the securities held as collateral for the Hagerty loan.” Remember, when" Halldorson had checked them before there were 85 of these bonds, of $500 each, or $42,600 in all. Lofthus and Odell counted the bonds. There were only 65 of them, or $32,500 in all. Twenty $500 bonds, worth $10000 had. been abstracted somé time be- ‘tween the date when Halldorson - % rAun TWELVE leaders finished the job. The resolu- tion is dead. hearing on it. Bank—Who Got It? resolution amended so as to apply to western North Dakota as well. ‘He asked that he might be given a hear- ing on the resolution when the com- mittee should take it up. Weeks passed, and no action follow- .ed in the military affairs committee. Inqulry developed the fact that some- body in Montana was out to kill the } resolution, It had originated with a Montana sénator—a Democrat. A Montana Republican = congressman paid a visit to Mr. Kahn’s office to say that the people of the state were not willing to accept “charity.” He offer- ed no alternative plan for helping these homesteaders to keep food in the mouths of their families, but he was sure that.they didn’t want any army supplies at the hands of Uncle Sam. This same congressman will work for months to get a postoffice building, a bit of federal patronage, or any of the usual variety of bounties that the government is constantly unloading at the front doors of fortunate real es- tate dealers, committees or individ- uals, But to actually offer some food to people whom the dry season has ruined—that’s an insult! Anyhow, Chairman Kahn promptly assured the congressman that if his constituents did not want the resolu- tion reported, it would not be reported. A few letters and telegrams from Montana Republican organization Congressman Sinclair will get no made his check September 27, preliminary to closing the bank, and October 8, when Lofthus took charge! Lofthus did not lose his head and raise a hue and cry immediately. He waited to see what Langer would send back. Later in the afternoon of Saturday, October 11, three days after the supreme court had denied Langer’s petition, Assistant Attorney General Sheets delivered a package to the bank that was supposed to con- tain the property that had been in Langer’s possession. It was too late to count it then; the package was sealed in the presence of four wit- nesses and put in the bank vault. The following Monday, October 13, the package was taken out and open- ed, again in the presence of the wit- nesses. It contained stacks of rec- ords and correspondence taken from the bank vault—but not the missing $10,000! Still no public announcement was made. An extra thorough search went into every corner of the bank. The bonds were not to be found. A day later, when Mr. Lofthus had com- pleted his investigation, he wrote a letter to the Fidelity & Casualty com- pany of New York City, stating that it was reported that they had gone on Halldorson’s bond for $100,000 (though no record of the bond could be found locally). and stating: “I wish to inform you now that there is an apparent shortage of doc- uments and valuable property be- longing to ‘this bank, the amount of which has not as yet been ascertained, and that you will be held responsible under your bond if there should have occurred any loss due to the negligent or wrongful actions of the pretending receiver, P. E. Halldorson, during the time that he had charge of the bank.” Who got the missing $10,000? If you can not answer that ques- tion, here is a simpler one: . Who is responsible for the loss? i to ter—write today fot particulars, . 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