The Washburn leader. [volume], October 10, 1919, Image 1

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•VOLUME XXX NUMBER 16,
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weather which intervened.
The soldier boys gathered at the
Legion Hall yesterday at 2 P. M., the
parade, which was to take place at 4
P. M. and led by the Washburn Band
ha i to be postponed on account of the
coia-vrSathier^hlch •towwighfr
some disappointment to both the boys
and everyone else.
At 5:30 P. M. over one hundred
coaples assembled in line at the Ban­
quet Hall.
Three tables cach extending the
length of the hall were crowded and
thoughtfully decorated with large
bouquets of Astors, while the large
Service Flag made a most suitable and
pleasing background in the Banquet
•Hall'.
A most proper and fitting address of
-welcome was given by Hon. John E.
Williams to the Soldier Boys and Sail
ers, followed by a most interesting
response by Hugh H. McCulloch.
Karl Klein told of the good work
done through the Victory Liberty Loan
and Professor Thompson gave a vivid
and realistic description of the bar
rage seen from his point of view.
Mrs. J. T. McCulloch spoke in a very
interesting and conscientious manner
of the good and great work which has
•foeen carried on by the Red Cross and
the Mothers at home.
Lieut. Homer Wallin gave an inter
esting speech and mentioned the fact
that his old friends were the best
friends and how good it seemed to
come back to them again and renew
old acquaintances. His listeners ap
preciated his most illustrious re
marks.
Sergeant Tellefson performed his
duty as toastmaster with efficiency
and there was no lapse of interest dur
ing the whole banquet. The Ruby
Ladies Orchestra offered "some very
choice music.
The ladies of the city are to be high
ly commended for the most bountiful
two-course dinner, which was so
charmingly served. Not only did the
ladies work but some of our notorious
citizens assisted in a very amiable and
clever manner, in the commissary de
partment which reflected good train
ing..'
Many of the Soldier boys and Sailors
•were down from Garrison, Underwood,'
Turtle Lake and other towns up the
Une, to take in the days activities, but
ihe weather prevented a great many
more from cowing.
Everyone deemed the entertjsiin
ment a rare success and went home
•with the grateful feeling of^its being
st -grand finale.
A datoce,i followed the banquet, with
music bjr-'tfce Ruby Orchestra and at
whifch flfty^ali Returned soldiers were
present.
S A E E N
•jr, making public this letter. Attorney General William Langer made the fol
lowing statement:
The courts, the governor, the state bank examiner, and some other state of
ficials can line up with crooks and use their official positions to protect them
if they wish. As for myself, I shall keep on trying unfalteringly and faithfully
to serve the people—farmers, bakers, bankers and boot-blacks white or black
.alike.
I was not born to be a subservient tool of a political boss.
The banking board is the people's protection against thieves, embezzlers,
crooks and scoundrels and No. Dak. never needed an honest administration
of banking laws more than now.
The report of the two deputy bank examiners states that even aside from the
"farmer" enterprises, the bank is insolvent.
The state's banking laws have been continuously, openly and insolently
flouted with contemptuous defiance.
The time ha§ come for a show down! If Townley and the men whom he has
caused to be appointed*to office, am above the law. let us And it
Ordinarly I do not make any evidence I have in criminal cases public 1 will
make no more public in this case, if I can avoid it. When the crooks are be
fore a farmer jury and-the facts are presented, the jury will do the rest.
I will not discuss the action of the supreme court in removing Mr. Halldprson
as receiver of the Scandinavian-American bank—to do so would be unethical,
but the people of North Dakota should know these facts: That Lofthus was
sent to Florida at the request of Waters and Bnnton, and that Governoi Ha
zier voted to send him that Semingsen, who was next in charge, was, in my
judgment, unfit to act as shown by the Halliday letter that the banking board
then picked Mr. Halldorson, the oldest man in service, a man who served under
nAvoinr\r Hannfl n.nH fiovfimor Ffcizi©!*, 3 Tlltill WilOT.l 1 06*
when we
Governor Burke, Governor Hanna, and Governor Frazier, a man
lieve to be honest, the man whose' word Mr. Hall and took
made some of this same outfit return $15,026.91 in cash, and fix up some MO,
000.00 in rotten notes to the farmers in the notorious, smelling to heaven
Valley City bank deal. The people will remember that in that deal too, Gover
nor Frazier voted "no."
MING DAY
GRAND SUCCESS
"Homecoming Day was a most suc
cessful one in spite of the disagreeable
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WILLIAM LANGER,
Attorney General.
A FINE COLLECTION
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iFi'SOKYT Qr
C. G. Forbes has a fine collection of
war trophies at his drug store which
were brought home by four of the lo
cal boys that were over seas. The
boys that, brought the relics home
were Carl Knudtson, Jim Holkup, Roy
Whitlock and Fred Benn. Nearly all
of the articles belonged to German
soldiers. They' consist in part of a
German officer's helmet, and a regular
German helmet. An automatic revol
ver, of German make, German water
flasks, knapsacks, coins, stamps bul
lets, .and shells etc.
of anyohetogo arid'see tiontoldan offlciSI of the bank liowto
and what makes it still more interest-! proceed in outwitting deputy bank cx
ing is that nearly every article has aj aminers, is extremely significant.
little personal history connected to it. "Shoot it to the Other League Banks"
It remains however for Archie Fahl
gren to have about the best souvenir
of the wan He has a piece of shrap
nel that was taken from his foot where
he received a wound and a machine
gun bullet that struck him in the
hack. It is an interesting story about
the machine gun bullet. On the match
one day Mr. Fahlgren felt a sharp
slap on his right shoulder blade and
the boy marching behind him pulled
the bullet out of his army overcoat
which it had pierced and said "here's
a .souvenir for you." The bullet had
spent jits strength when it reached Mr.
Fahlgren and just had force enough to
enter his coat. (Continued on Page 8.)
WASHBURN, NORTH DAKO
ADVISED BANK OFFICER
Halliday, the confidential man of J.
R. Waters, advised J. J. Hastings that
'the plan of taking care of objection
able matter (in the Scandinavian
American bank) is to shoot it to the
other league banks." Quoting Halli
day again: "Anything that you send
them could be taken back later on."
Again, Mr. Halliday, deputy bank ex
aminer, is quoted: "Of course we
don't want you to move any more than
is absolutely necessary to get by with
a clean report."
Says Waters is Satisfied.
GEIVINGEXAi'ERSl ROTTEN IIND-UP
TO
LANGER ASKS ARE APPOINTEES
WITHIN THE LAW
The banking department of North?®leason
Dakota, in June, 191S, prescribed a1 ."
course of procedure for the Scandi-jj
navian American bank of Fargo,
v^hich the officers of that
were expected to outwit deputy bank,
Letter Bares Whole Transaction
A letter written by Roy M. Halliday
former deputy bank examiner, to J. J.
Hastings, former vice president of the
closed Fargo bank, made public today
by Atty. Gen. William Langer, bares
the details of one of the most sensa-,
tional transactions yet brought to
light in connection with the state ad^
ministration's conduct of the banking
department.
Following, as it does, the action of
the North Dakota supreme court in
ousting the banking board's receiver:
from the Scandinavian American bank:
of Fargo, and the turning of the affairs
of the institution by the court over
to O. E. Lofthus, the present bank ex|
amir-er of North Dakota, the disclosures
that the banking department of tha:
Further, Halliday wrote to Hastings
"Mr. Waters is satisfied that with
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T-fiJAfNS
DON'T attempt to crow without first
mating sure that it can be done safely.
DONT tryst ?!ooe to the car to get
warning of approaching trains,. without
looking in both directions, especially when
the noise .of the auto engine, drawn curtails
or conversation in the car make hearing
difficult,
DONT fail to realize that maximum
train speed carries it half a mite in three"
fifth* of a minute.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10,
1919.<p></p>TO
IEDS UN WORLD
FOE DE-IPENNANT- SOX IN
|.Cincinnati
"SHOOT OBJECTIONABLE MAT- jf, Champs
TER TO LEAGUE BANKS" ,(
National
Take Eighth
From Chicago
Game
WILLIAMS
by
institution
examiners who conducted an inquiry
into the bank's
to its admission to the North
guaranty fund commission.
condition preliminary:j
Dakota'
iftgtjffigg:
E 3MSSME CJJTT ©OP
RAN
Gleason made the fatal mistake of
saving Kerr, who pitched his second
winning game for the Sox yesterday,
and sending in Williams, who has been
Chicago's prize loser of the present
series. The first inning gave Cincin
nati four runs.
Williams was succeeded in the box
by James, who did no better, and
James in turn gave way to Wilkinson,
the youngest whom Gleason sent in
the opening contest of the series in a
futile attempt to save the game after
Cicotte had thrown it away. The Reds
scored another run in the second,
made their sixth run in the fifth,
boosted the tally to nine, in the sixth,
and made ten in the eighth.
Cf?0SSihi SKSA1S"
"IT IS BETTER to WAIT at the CROSSING THAN in a DOCTOR'S OFFICE"
DON'T Race With a A SAFETY AT CROSSINGS A A Motor Car or Train
Train for a Crossing
A record of 233 recent crossing accidents, show 30 were cases of
machines stalled on the rails and were hit by trains 111 were attempts
to cross directly in front of trains 59 ran into trains 1 skidded into a
train 19 ran into and broke down crossing gates, lowered to protect
them 3 ran into and injured crossing flagmen 4 ran into cattle guards
or crossing signs, and 6 ran over track ends, or were not sufficiently in
the clear.
Drivers often fail to realize that the actual speed of their machines
is seldom as great as that of trains in motion.
The average passenger train at maximum speed seldom obstructs
a crossing for more than seven seconds. Better stop, than try to beat it
across, even if the time seems ample.''
Impatience is responsible for many crossing accidents.
Let Your Slogan Be
RN LEADER
League
LOSES SERIES
Uses Poor Judgment
Working Pitcher Already
Twice Loser
HOW THE SERIES WENT
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Cincinnati ..9 4 0 2 5 4 1
CINCINNATI, 10
The score:
Cincinnati 410
Chicago 001
10
5
C,licag0 1 2 3 0 0 5 i
CHICAGO, 5
R. H. E.
013 020—10 16 2
000 040—5 10 1
Batteries— Eller and Rariden Wil
liams, James, Wilkinson and Schalk.
Chicago, 111., Oct. 9—Cincinnati won
the world's championship today when
it batted two White Sox pitchers out
of the box and took the eighth game of
the series by a score of 10 to 5. The
game was loosely played, on both sides
The White Sox made ten hits off of
Eller and the Reds were charged with
two errors, but the Sox did not suc
ceed, in turning these advantages into
rruns, while Moran's men completed
the circuit' ten times during the nine
MR. J. J. HASTINGS.
Vice President. Scandinavian American Bank. Fargo. N. I
Hear Mr. Hastings:
ATTENTION MEMBERS OF THE
AMERICAN RED CROSS
Notice of Annual Election of Direct
ors of McLean Cour-ty Chapter Ameri­
AUa!
10 8l?OK£ "DCftN/i LOWERED INTO AMD
CC?oSSINGr 5AT£3 FLAGMEA1
ILLUSTRATION* COUM1R*V wlSNlAMJiH OA1L* NCOt
can Red Cross.
Notice is hereby given that the An
e,McLean. Count)" 1 -v,
Moving at
10 m. per hour travels 14 ft. per second.
15 m. per hour travels 22 ft. per second..
20 m. per hour travels 29 ft. per second.
23 m. per hour travels 37 ft per aeccnd.
30 m. per hour travels 44 ft per second.
40 m. per hour travels 59 ft. per second.
50 m. per hour travels 73 ft. per second.
60 rji. per hour travels 69 ft. per second.
Chapter of the Ai^r^n1S^^fe^ssi^i^^l^E^* i"CrSit€^TN, i
will be held in the court rooms of the
Court House in the City of Washburn,
McLean County North i)a:s-ta the
22nd. day of October A. D. 1919 at the
hour of two o'clock P. M. of said day
for the election of fifty (50) Directors
of said Chapter. All members in good
standing will be entitled to vote at
said election, said election should not
be confused with the Annual Branch
Election held October, 28th. 1919.
O. F. McGray, Chairman.
Hattie M. McCulloch, Sec'y.
There is only one safe way to be
rated as a wise man—agree with ev
erybody and tell him he knows more
about it than anybody you ever heard
talk.
.«
LETTER REVEALS INSIDE DETAILS OF
THE DEPARTMENT PROTECTIVE WORK
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absolutely necessary to get by with a clean report. Mr. Waters is satisfied
that with this information, you and Mr. Semingsen will be able to handle t&ia
matter satisfactorily to all.
If anything further developes. kindly write me.
Very truly yours.
ROY M. HALLIDAY.
The original of the foregoing letter is in possession of Attorney General Wil
liam Langer, he announced today. He says in a statement published in connec
tion with making the letter public, that he doesn't care to make any other
evidence public at this time, unless forced to do so.
The "commission" referred to by Mr. Halliday is the guaranty fund com
mission At the time he wrote the letter Halliday was deputy bank examiner
Since then he has been made a confidential man of J. K. Waters, if. Lank of
North Dakota. The Mr. Semingson he refers to in his letter is the present
chief deputy bank examiner.
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Largesc and oldest pa
per In iVni.ean County—*
Establish-*! as The Times#
•{•on May ii. 1883.
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Stale of North Dakota
ISi*nan-k. N ,hn l'l. 1018.
Mr. Waters submitted to an operation at the hospital here today. While it
i'-- not serious, yet. he is not very well and will bo laid up for awhile This
is the reason that you and Mr. Semingson were no: ili|« to get iiui! nvr Ihe
phone.
He has asked me to write you regarding extra helj. you hav. ai your bank
just now making an examination. He has been sick .since last Thursday, or
l,e would have headed the thing off. Being tin Mr. Schoregge. Mr. Semingsen
and Mr. Halldorson are there now to make an examination on behalf of the
commission, he does not care to create any animosity and antagonism over
this matter at this time and get as good a report for i.hem as possible, so ttiat
they won't have anything to hand the opposition parties over !"ague finances
and business methods, or criticise the amount of paper carried there It ap
pears quite evident that this a political play for thunder, ou see the opposi
tioin parties are a little short on real sensational thunder, and they are trying
to scare up something for the last act. and I don't suppose the other banks in
Fargo are just what you would term "crazy-about you." Mr. Waters wishes
me to advise you that if the examiners object to any of the paper carried there,
you are to tell them that it will be removed at once. The plan for taking care
of objectionable matter is to shoot it out to the other league banks—Grand
Forks, Lisbon, Hillsboro, Buxton, Hatton—these banks are practically all new
banks, and have been passed by the commission, which will leave thein in
a
positioin to do this. They would not have anything that the commission
would object to just now. Of course we don't want to move any more
a
than
is
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SECRETARY
(Chief inspector of the licensing dept.)
With J. Hagen
man, president and
and P. R. Sher
cashier of tho
Scaiidinavian-Amerkan Bank of Fargo
closed Thursday last, under arrest for
making false reports to the examiners
with J. R. Waters, manager of the
Bank of North Dakota, cited as having
tipped off to the officials of the ioaol
vent hank when examinations would
he made' and this while acting as state
bank examiner with action taken
by
State Auditor Carl Kositzky to learn,
if
possible, just how far the State Bank
of Nortii Dakota is "mixed up" with
the Scandinavian-American, the sen
sation sprung last week when the
state banking board closed the Fargo
institution is allowed a breathing spell
but the tenseness is not in the leaut
relieved.
Three weeks ago, P. E. Halldorson,
deputy state examiner, who was in
Fargo, discovered irregularities in
tho
Scandinavian-American Bank and re
quested Attorney General William
Langer to send aid. Assistant Attor
ney General Albert E. Sheets, Jr.,
went to Fargo and continued with tho
investigation. The report filed Thura
day was acted upon by the closing of
the bank by the state banking board
on the grounds of insolvency, and be
cause officials of the bank had made
excess loans to the amount of
$734,
194.S2 for which "liberality and optim
ism constitute the principal security."
P. E. Halldorson was named as tem
porary receiver. Further investigation
proved that among the debtors to
the
hank were the Consumers United
Stores Company $170,000 National
Non-Partisan league $148,824.28
League Exchange $66,182.28 and the
National Service Bureau $47,950.06.
This is a total of $432,956.60 loaned U*
the various enterprises of the Non
partisan League, just $372,956.6®
more than the combined capital and
surplus of the bank. The 3tate lawn
provide that not more than 15 percent
of a bank's capital and surplus
shall
be loned to any one individual or com'
pany, which In the case of the close#
bank, would have been $9,000, a
total
of $36,000. Thus the excess loans
made to the political party and
its
commercial affiliations is $396,956.6#
more
than
x&y
the
"1100
are entitled
per
to or just-
cent excess. This
bjr
ia
the
point on which the bank was declared
insolvent,
Attorney General,Laager
and Secretary of State Thomas Hall
(Continued on page 8)