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THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [ FINAL EDITION ,
ESTABLISHED 1873
BRITISH PUBLIC BACKS DEBTS POLICY
RESOURCES OF
STATE’S BANK
ARE INCREASED
Success in Meeting Trying
Situations in Three Years
,■ Shown hv Heads
REDUCE HAD PAPER
Hank Management Pilots In
stitution Through Period
of Small Hank Closures
The* Bank of North Dak eta. on
December 15, will have been under
its present management for three
years, and because of the excellent
record of the bank during that per
iod it is expected that pressure will
be brought by the majority of the
Industrial Commission on C. 11.
Green, manager, to retain the posi
> tion. Mr. Green assumed the posi
tion of manager of the Bank of
North Dakota on December 15, 1921.
following the recall election.
During the period the bank has
been faee to face with many trying
situations, particularly in the field
of protecting the lax funds in the
bank with scores of private hanks
closing. The close of the three
year period will find the hank re
porting a profit in its statements as
compared to a deficit reported by
auditors who examined the bank
when the new administration took
office.
The Bank of North Dakota was at
its lowest ebb about three years ago,
with resources listed at about £7.
"<OOO,OOO. The * resources now are
about $18,500,000.
Cash resources three ago
were about one million dollars, and
now are listed at about $10,000,000.
The bank was reported to have a
deficit as high as $142,000 in 1022
and in its November 15, 1924, state
ment reports a surplus of about
SB,OOO.
Reduce Bad Accounts
During the period the amount of
redeposits and loans in closed banks
has been decreased. On March 10,
1922, the first independent statement
of the bank under its new munagp
j nient, there was listed $907,903.7:1 of
redeposits in closed banks and $491,-
740.40 in loans, a total of $1,499,-
044.13. The statement of November
15, 1924, shows this amount has been
reduced |to $1,418,377.48. The reduc
tion of $81,200.65 was accomplished
by the bank in the face of the fact
that upwards of 200 banks closed
during the period, and considerable
money which was tied up in them
when Mr. Green assumed manage
ment of the hank remained “frozen."
Some of the money has been secured
on collateral. It is in the final liq
uidation of closed banks that the
Bank of North Dakota ultimately
will suffer a heavy loss.
One of the chief tasks ol’'the pres-
W ent management was conducting the
farm loan department and protecting
the tax (Funds. Reversing a loss of
$142,000 and reporting a profit and
reducing the amount of "frozen"
N .funds, "represents a gain for the
bank of over $225,000 during the
period. Other gains Jiave been made
which are not reflected in the state
ments. *
The administration of the bank
was not without difficulty. While
there were appeals from many pri
vate banks which were tottering for
funds, the Bank of North Dakota
was faced with the necessity of ad
vancing huge sums of money to the
farm loan department, with which
loans could be made pending comple
tion of bond issues. To do this it
was necessary for the bank to keep
funds in depositaries where they
could be obtained at any time.
Bad Check Situation
One situation met by Mr. Green
caused some unfavorable comment,
but he believes the protection af
forded the public money in the bank
has justified the means. As explain
ed by bank officials, if a check were
taken by the Bank of North Dakota
and sent direct to the hank on which
4 it was drawn, and that bank closed
in the meantime, the Bank of North
Dakota was “stuck" for the money,
t regardless of the fact that the check
might have been taken for collec
tion. Mr. Green issj ed an order ha
would not accept checks from county
treasurers, requiring drafts, under
i which arrangement the Bank of
North Dakota could protect itself.
There was complaint, but the rule
kept, and Mr. Green asserts there
is little objection to it now. With
respect to other classes —individu
als, school treasurers, etc. the rule
was not enforced, since the-Bank, if
it lost, would lose little. However,
protection was afforded by the mak
ing of individual contracts under
which it was agreed all items taken
by the bank were taken conditional
k. to final payment.
The situation which the bank met
probably will result in recommenda
tion by Mr. Green to the legisla
ture for a change in the law making
a bank responsible in such cases’. It
is held by him unfair to the bank,
and leaving the banks almost help
less.
K, The condition of collections in the
farm loan department, too, is a mut
ter of satisfaction to - bank officials,
and they believe that they will be
r able to make a reassuring report to
* bondholders. There is about one
million dollars of loans tied up. in
foreclosure proceedings, but bank
(Continued on pngo I)
THEY’RE AMERICA’S HEALTHIEST
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Introducing America’s liealthic • hoy and girl Uoe F ITiJr. atnl
In*/. Harden, (oc i 17 and - iv-in I’raitville, .Mich., and Inc/.,
who is 17, calls Marigold, .Mi —.. Dine. I n,r were luvii and bred on
farms. Each scored 99.4 per cent , . rise In-aiiliiesl ( hil Iron's show at
the International Livestock Kxp'oiii a in < haago. Ami they had a
date together the very m \l i'jy!
FORT UNION
PARK GIVEN
Site Is Donated To State
Historical Society
Five acres of land, embracing the
site of old Fort Union, North Da
kota’s most famous fur trading post,
has beln acquired by the State His
torical Society for a state park. L.
F. Crawford, superintendent of tin
society, said today. Half of the pur
chase price was donated by Col. C.
B. Little of Bismarck, president <u
the association, and half by res
idents of the vicinity of the place.
Old Fort Union stood at the mouth
of the Yellowstone river, where it
empties into the Missouri, on the
line between Montana and North
Dakota, Mr. Crawford said. The
military post was Fort Buford, and
the town was Mondak, a name cre
ated from appreciations from Mon
tana and North Dakota, since the
town was partly in the two states.
Fur traders went up the Missouri
to old Fort Union, thence on
up the Missouri, up the Yellow
stone or across to Canada. Mr.
Crawford said. It is the society’s
hope, he said, that the site may be
made an attractive and historically
interesting park in the future.
FIGHT ON RATE
ISJPLANNED
Week’s Campaign Will Be
Conducted in Bismarck
An anti-rat campaign will be con
ducted in Bismarck, December 17 to
n ans for the extermination cam
paign will be made following a visit
here Sunday by R. Scott Zimmerman,
leader of rodent control. Bureau of
Biological Survey. United States De
partment of Agriculture. He will
use information obtained in a survey
made by Scouts of the prevalence of
rats in business houses and residents,
and suggest means for carrying on
the fight. • "
A two-reel film, “The Modern l’ied
I’ipeiV showing means of fighting
rodents, will be displayed at moving
picture houses.
The Association of Commerce is
cooperating with the government,
and J. J. M. MacLeod has been named
organizer of the campaign.
A big fight to exterminate the
house rat is being made in many
parts of the country, the government
learning that house rats are disease
carriers, cause fires and other great
damage.
GRAIN POOL
IS PLANNED
Winnipeg, Dec. 11.—Preparations
for the formation of a coarse grain
pool, similar to the Manitoba wheat
pool, will be discussed at a meeting
of directors and members of the
Manitoba cooperative wheat pool as
sociation, at a date to be announc
ed later. The pool would provide for
the cooperative marketing of oats,
barley, rye and fin* if the scheme Is
approved.
Coolidge Gets
Careless and
Drops a Dime
Washington. Dec. 11. <By the
A. I’.J President Coolidge was
described dining the campaign by
his running mate, Charles (!.
Dawes, as “one who watches the
nickels'’ but a letter received at
the White House today showed
that he not always watch
the dimes. The lcttei, adii'es-ed
t<. .the President, and dated Ha
cine. Wisconsin, said:
“I >ear Cal:
"Wishing you a Merry Christ
mas and a Happy New Yeai."
• You do not know me but mu*
day before you were elected I was
walking in back of you. You
d opped dime but you did not
native it. 1 picked it up and kept
it in cause I was hungry. I got
me a hot cup of colVee and rolls.
Well, I hare plenty of dimes now
so I am ret inning one in place of
you i s.
Yours truly,
A FRIEND.”
YOUTH, 16. HELD
FORSLAYING
Confesses He Killed School
(iirl Sweetheart
Camden, N. J., Dec. 11.- Sixteen
year-old Stanley Curtiss, alleged con
fessed slayer of lii.s school girl
sweetheart, Betsy Ross, also 10, was
held without J>nil hv the coroner to
day for giand jury action. He is
charged with murder. The girl was
found dead on the floor in the home
of her sister in Gloucester Tuesday
night with a bullet wound through
her abdomen. At fiist young Gur
us- said tlu* girl bad accidentally
shot herself while playfully twirl
ing bis pistol around her finger.
After an all-night examination,
the authorities said the youth ad
mitted that during an argument over
some improper pictures she had
found in bis possession, he placed a
bullet in the pistol with the inten
tion of I'iightening Miss Ross, but
that in some unexplainable manner
the weapon was discharged. They
were alone in the house.
Jury Disagrees
j In Arson Case
l Bottineau, N. I)., Dec. 11. After
26 hours of deliberation by a jury
I which beard the evidence against
Mart it) Rollofson of Willow City, a
!barber charged with arson in the
1 first degree in connection with a
j fire which brought death to three
l minor children of Mr. and Mrs. F. J.
! Warner, Judge W. J. Kneeshuw in
i district court here at noon yester
| day dismissed the jury.
The case will probably be tried at
a future term of district court,
State’s Attorney J. J. Weeks said,
Rollofson is at liberty under bonds
of SIO,OOO.
Transfer of the criminal cases
against August Sutherland, former
cashier of the Maxbass bank; F.
Rinkle of Antler, Paul J. Nordberg
; of Newburg and I). B. McDonald of
Maxbass, all former directors of the
institution, to Ramsey county was
ordered by Judge Kneeshaw late
! Tuesday.
j An Eskimo from Baffin’s Land
, caught a cold on the first day of his
j visit to London recently.
BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11. 11)21
GOMPERS SAID
BETTER AFTER
SERIOUS TIME
President of American Feder
ation of Labor Taken 111
in Mexico Citv
ON A SPECIAL TRAIN
Rushed to Lower Altitude to
Improve His Condition.
Better
Fargo, N. I)., Dec. 11.
—Oompers, President of
the American Federation
of Labor, died near San
Louis, Potosi. according
to unconfirmed dispatch
to F)l Paso. Spanish
paper.
Mexico City. Dec. 11. — ißy Hie A.
I*, i - "President Compels is standing
up better than expected," said a
message sent in the early hours this
moiniiig from the special train on
which Samuel Compels, head of the
American Federation of Labor, W
traveling borne from this city. It
wa> sent to President (Titles who
during the night insisted on receiving
reports on Mr. (lumpers’ condition.
“Mr. Compels is improving and
everybody is asleep except the doc
tor at the bedside," said the porter
of Mr. Coyipers’ ear when question
ed by tile, station master at La Riga
as the train passed that station ear
ly this morning.
"The report of Mr. (Junipers* death
is erroneous, lie was ill but now is
much improved; in fact better than
expected," said a special bulletin for
tin- Associated Press, issued at 3:05
a. in. today by J. K. Giles white the
train was side-tracked for a short
time at the station of Kmpalnie de
< ionzales.
WILL REACH I . S. FRIDAY
San Antonio, Tex., Dee. 11.—(By
the A. P. i Samuel Compers, presi
dent of the American Federation of
L-tibor. w.II arrive in San Antonio
Finlay nl'-.ei'iioon from Mexico City,
accompanied |> v 27 other laln-i- lead
ers. They will depart the following
day for New York via New Oilcans.
Reports fiom Mexico City are that
the labor chief became suddenly ill
because of the high altitude and that
bis condition at one time was seri
ous. He was brought out of the city
on a stietcher aiqj a special train
speeded bun into a lower altitude.
CO-OP MARKET
LAWS ASKED
Bureau Opened in Washing
ton Foster Legislation
Washington. Dec. 11.- Heudquar
ters were opened today by the Farm
er-Consumer League, a national non
partisan association just organized,
under the chairmanship of B. K.
Yokum, former president of the Rock
Island Railroad, lo foster cooperative
marketing and work for legislation
beneficial to farmers.
In a statement announcing open
ing of headquarters of the League,
formation of which was announced
recently in Now York, where eastern
headquarters will be maintained, the
oiganization committee declared that
organization of the farming interests
on a broad scale on economic lines
lias yet to be undertaken and the
hope for the future in this respect
lies wholly in federal legislation.
LOWER ‘GAS’
RATE ASKED
Southwestern Refiners Would
Cut Hauling Expense
E. M. Hendricks, traffic expert of
the railroad commission, who has
returned from St. Louis where he
attended a hearing before an exam
iner for the Interstate Commerce
Commission in which oil refiners of
■ southwestern territory protested that
I railroad rates to the Northwest are
■ too high, said today that under the
refiners proposals the freight rates
on gasoline would he reduced to
North Dakota points 5 to 40 per
cent. The reduction asked would
range from one to eight cents per
gallon, the heaviest reduction in
western North Dakota. The south
western refiners want to be able to
compete for business in the North
west with the Wyoming and other
producers, he said.
■* Mr. Hendricks submitted data for
the state railroad commission sup
porting the plea for lower rates.
G REABE ON POSTS
Rome, Dec. IL--Gentlemen in an
inebriated condition will not be al
lowed to hang onto the Linn*
in front of a large department store
here. The posts are greased and are
kept greased for the express purpose
of making drunkards move on.
JURY FAILS TO
REACH ACCORD
IN MILLS CASE
Discharged at Linton. Unable
To Decide Fate of (i«irge
Corbin For Shooting
WAS OUT FOR 56 HOURS
Corbin Alleged to Have Shot
Joe Mills in Argument
Last Summer
A jury in Emmons county district
rout;, which heard the evidence in
the case of the state against George
Corbin, charged with shooting with
n shotgun with intent to kill, Joe
Mills, was discharged at 10 o’clock
tliis morning at Linton following 50
hour- of deliberation.
The jury reported its inability to
reach an agreement in the case.
Corbin last summer shot .fine
Mills in the jaw following an argu
ment in Emmons county near the
Burleigh county line. A charge was
made by Corbin that Mills was using
n net in fishing in a creek on tile
.Corbin property. Corbin’s defense
was that MilL crossed the creek in
a boat and armed with a club was
approaching him and f orbin, fearing
bodily harm, used the shot gun.
Mills, in his testimony at the trial,
claimed he was sitting in a boat,
when the shooting occurred.
At the time of the shooting la<t
summer, Mills was rushed to a local
hospital, with shotgun wounds in his
ehest and head, and it was not ex
pc,ted be would recover for a few
days. He pulled out of it. however,
and recently had an operation which
aided him considerably.
;CONFESSES HE
! SHOT BUSINESS
j MAN IN OFFICE
Henry Emrich Charged With
j the Murder of Harvey Dan
iels. Business Man
I
I
I RESULT BUSINESS DEAL
I
i
| Disappointment Over Result
! Caused Emrich to Start
Quarrel, He Says
*
j Minneapolis. Dec. 11. Henry
I’hilip Emrich, Roseau, Minnesota,
I was formally charged with first de-
I
gree murder today i> i connection
■with the shooting of Harvey Daniels,
president of the Northwest Mortgage
Company, in his office today.
Emrich, in a signed confession
which police say he made to Andrew
Crum, captain of detectives, de
dared he went to Daniels’ office
with the intention of killing him
should Daniels fail to pay him mon
ey which Emrich say> was duo him
in business transactions covering a
period of four years. Emrich claim
ed lie lost a hotel valued at $15,090,
money and furniture worth $ 1,200
and other articles valued at $525 in
business deals. Daniels, the prison
es declared, was responsible either
directly or indirectly for all these
losses.
He went to Daniels’ office about
5 p. m. yesterday, Emrich said, on
Daniels’ promise that be would lie
paid at that time. The money, lie
said, was not forthcoming and dur
ing their talk a letter fell on the
floor when Emrich reached for some
papers. Daniels, he said, picked up
the letter and read it.
“Looked kind of funny to nu* and
I pulled out my gun and shot him,”
Em rich’s alleged confession reads.
Emrich fired five shots, one bullet
striking Daniels nhfn-e the heart,
two in tlie right hip, one in the leg
and the fifth going wild.
The shots were heard by other
tenants who disarmed Emrich. He
made no resistance, saying later
that he intended to go to police
headquarters and give himself up.
OLD FIDDLERS TO COMPETE
Wahpeton, N. D., Dec. 11. A coun
try fiddlers’ contest, featuring old
tunes, will be the principal attrac
tion of the third of a series of public
entertainments being given by the
commercial club this winter. The
entertainment will be given Dec. 29
and thfcre will be S3O in prizes for
the fiddlers winning first, second
and third prizes.
AUSTRIANS SIC.II FOR MEDALS
Vienna, Dec. 11. To appease large
numbers of citizens who crave dec
orations, abolished with the estab
lishment of the republic, it has been
decided to create a medal of the
federated republic of Austria. There
will he ten different classes.
Parasol ants derive their name
from a habit of biting oft’ pieces of
leaves much larger than themselves
and carrying (hern over their henda.
BIG COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS BEING
PLANNED FOR BISMARCK; TREE TO
BE ERECTED IN DOWNTOWN SECTION
NO FIRE ESCAPES
FIVE KILLED
JHKw
Five \w*iv k I'ed and i.ianv burned
tnl iitjni *- < i v lien tin- rooming
oust' at 113 Wi-t 63rd street. New
nrk, burned. Roomers were forced
') jump from windows.
GOOD PROGRAM
IS_PLANNED
School Entertainment To Be
(>iven December 15
Plans are progressing steadily on
the program to be given at the city
Auditorium on December 18 by var
ious organizations nf Bismarck High
School.
The program, which is t*> be given
for the benefit of the piano fund, is
planned to lie entertaining, and at
the same time to give the school
patrons an idea of the many and
varied acti\itie.- of the schools of
the city.
There will be interesting physical
training exhibitions, presentation by
the Junior Play makers, music and
other entertainment features.
Doubt If City
WilL Get Cash
For Playground
No word has been received by
Bismarck school authorities from
tin* Harmon Foundation. New York,
which investigated a sit,, in Bis
marck. for the possible appropria
tion of $2,000 for playground pur
poses. It was announced in Willis
ton that that city hail been given
one of the donations, to Ik* made
several cities in the country, and
there is considerable doubt if Bis
marck will get it.
George M. Register, member of the
school board, said that word bad
been expected, but that in tlu* ab
sence of word, the prospects ate not
favorable to Bismarck. The hoard
has an understanding, or short-time
option on about six acres of land
just west and south uf the Fountry
(Tub which, according to Mr. Regis
ter, is the best, site available for a
public playground. It would In* an
excellent memorial to some citizen
who felt able and desirous of donat
ing the site, he said.
One giant tttduood tree, felled re
cently in Oregon, provided sufficient
lumber to build 50 ordinary five
room bungalows.
NEW RECORD IS ESTABLISHED IN
CRAIN SHIPMENTS FROM DULUTH
Duluth, Dec. 11.- (By the A. P.) on a rising market, so returns to
Movement of grain at Duluth and Su- i farmers and dealers ot the Northwest
• , . . . were greater per bushel than thev
perior elevators inning the. present , . ' •
. were last year.
crop year from August 1 last up to' In wheat the 1924 prices have
the loading of the last grain carry- i been approximately 50 cents the bas
ing steamer of the navigation season, hel higher this year than last, and
which left yesterday, established a j n other grains the gap )ins been
new high record in bushels for all proportionately large. The ship-
American ports. ments of the local harbor for the
It was more than three times the j 1924 crop year totalled 140,763,649
1923 volume. In spite of their torri- ! bushels as compared with 37,990.889
fie volume, which caused two rail ! bushels last year, and the 1924 re
embargoes to be put on iail ship- ceipts were 160,926,013 bushels com
ments to the head of the lake, dur- J pared with 45,.728,97l bushels the
ing the summer, the. grain was sold | preceding year.
Head of Orguni’/utirn and
(Ymmitke (' h a i i* m t* n
Named to Plan Celebration
and To Look After the
Needy of Bismarck During
Christmas Time
A < 'mu limn ity i It list inn.-, will) al!
tin- nimmiiißs. In- boh! .n Bis
111:1 it),.
’! 1101 t*’li In- :t liip t ommnnit;, tree,
proj. tains, sonys, candy* for tin:- kids
unit tin- Histnaivk "Good l-eliows”
acp yoing to >op that the •'hristncis
loncinp.- of many m 0«l\ families arc
sat isfied.
I ln- Community Christmas j»)an
was formulated in yeneial at*a mit-i
--iiiy of heads of 20 different <-ry:m!«
zntinns. at tin- Association of Com
merce office.-, !at«- yesterday ufiev-i
noon. Tin- yroup elected 11. O. Sa.\-
vik, superintendent of schools, us
chairman. and named committee
chairmen as follow:-: I-inane*-, .lohn
l'litkifihon; publicity, Mio. ( K.
St:u khousc; program. M.-v. \V. S.
Stratton; tree and decoration*, lark
Runyan; music, .Mis. ft. A. Ti&uy;
(iood Fells, 11. Ward. The chair
men will select committee members
and will make repott* nr another
meet mp Fiidii.v afternoon at <;dO, at
1 Ik- Association of t‘omtneiee offices,
ami n final program formulated.
A b.y in foot * hristniiis tree has
heeii purchased. unri i!w- wi rk before
1 h 1 ist iiiin it will he placed in the
\ 1 11 In-rn I'aeific Paik, -ortH-r
Main and l-'ourth streets. Ir will he
elect riea!ly lighted. «-v* ry night. un
til a! t «•; the holidays, aml may he
hy travel*-ts <»n Northern VaeiT'ie
liauis as well as local people.
A systematic effort to help the
•irOtly of tlie city is planned. The
(iood Fellows will operata it, conjunc
tion with tli** Social Regist ration
Bureau. which will ieport on needy
*ases. This, it is expected, will pre
vent duplication and also prevent'
needy ones lT».|n being mis&od, since
a systematic survey will he made.
Seine details, me yet to l»e planned
whether there will he a kiddies
p/ultratn and an adult.- ’’fU.rjg'jTih! on'
of <loois nc in the Auditorium, wliat
will he doiii about Santa ('lnns and
similar questions.
BOTTINEAU
CHARGES F ALL
Bottineau, X. Ik, Ih-c. 11. -Crimi
nal eh a rites atraitist the county
hoard of Bottineau county were dis
missed hy .1 udge Knepsliaw. wlu-n he
sustained ilemurrcrs interposed to
indictment.* charging the hoard
mc-mhers with “failure to supervise
the conduct of county offices’* and
“failure to superintend the fiscal
affair* of the county."
Sentence was passed late yester
day or probably today on Henry < .
liana, former treasurer of Hottim-au
county, who pleaded guilty to de
positing county funds in the First
National hank of Bottineau, now
closed, in exce** of the depository
bond furnished by the hank.
Criminal Work of the term has
been completed.
ASK RECEIVER
BE REMOVED
Petition Filed in Farmers
Insurance Company Matter
Removal of I.yall It. Merry as re
ceiver of the Fanners Insurance Cnni
pany of Dickinson is n*kcd in a pc
tition of Commi.-sione of fr.sr.runee
S. A. Olsite-s. foiwarded to the Stark
county court by the Attorney-Gener
al's office.
The Insurance Conunissionc), in
asking that a new reeeivet he nam
ed, says that the receiver has made
no effort tu collect stockholders
notes, including; those of lus father;
that he has insi-ted on c.aiu-ciling all
outstanding policies against the com
pany upon a short term basis, failed
to file required reports and other
wise has not conducted the receiver
ship to the best interest of the com
pany and policy holdeis.
Affaiis of the insurance company
are scheduled for a hearing before
Judge Pugh December 22.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
DEMAND SHARE
AS OTHERS OF
ALLIES PAY UP
Would (Jit Money Equally
With United States From
France. Other Nations
!NO OIUECTION HERE
Treasury Officials in Wash
ington Enter to Protest
To British Claim
'\
| London. Pi-,-. 11.— (By the A. P.'j--•
i Winston Speto er ( hurchill's declar
• ntinn in his first speech in the
| House ni ('umii',tui: a- Chancellor of
j the Exchequer, that >he government
! eon - ill CIS i \ es.-ential that nnj pay
meats made l>y Croat Britain's deb
itors in i n rope to the United Staton
j should l>e accompanied simultaneous
ly by proportionate payments to thin '
country. pirasf.s the press nnd popu
■ i-.Cf :nniic:t'.-e.y, without regard tc»
! pHity oi size nf poeketbook.
I Every inclining newspaper displays
j the account of ii:~ speech more prom
inently than anything else. relegating*
) to second place one of the worst fogs
iof the year which lias kept London.
: datk ami di-nial for 48 hours and
i which was -til! this morning as dens©
'a- ever.
I
acckfted by r. s.
t Washington. I'm 11.—The Trea-
J Miry has accepted the statement o£
iWiijstr.ii Churchill, chancellor of the.
British exchequer, yesterday on al
lied del.ts as **ohviou» and logical'*
and has no intention of making
further comment.
, Tiiis further expression was inadg
today after a conference between S<*~
cretnr.v Mellon. Under Secretary
Winston and Assistant Secretary
i WiMlsworUi at the Treasury.
1 AUG. BELMONT,
: WIDELY KNOWN,
j DIES AT HOME
l
; W its Sportsman and Financier
of Long Standing in
' * Country
I
t
New York. Hoc. 11 August Bel*
niont. intoi nationally Known sports
men :m,| financier, died in his Park
avenue rue.itn.c:.i la.-t night after axj
! illness of little it ore than one day*
A sudden attack of cellulitis, compli
cated In Idnod poisoning, was gnen
a- the i’ i’.imj of his death. He was 71
ycar.s olii. While no definite funeral
arrangements have been made it was
announced that the burial would
take place ,n the family plot at New*
j port. Rhode island.
Mr. Belmont was horn in NVttr
; Yoik. Eeh. 18, 18.*:;. Ho intered Hnr»
vard university m Ix7o after prepav
-1 ing at the rectory school, Hnmpdert,
Conn., and Phillips Exeter uead
; emy.
Enters Banking Firm
In lx7o he entered the hanking firm
■of his father of which he assumed
1 oortiol m at the death of his
t father and has throughout his life
been prominent in hanking circles. At
the time of his death he was head of
J the firm of August Belmont t: Cc.
l Mr. Belmont was chairman of thd
hoard of directors of the Inter*
i borough Rapid 1 ransit company
which he or gaumed. He was chair
( man of the board of L.ouisville and
' •ishviH<- v iin-ui, a director of the
St. Paul railroad, a director of the
r.qu.tabit’ LUc Insurance company,
! ■ Nat ic:v; i f’ark hank and various
other corporations.
Mr. Be’uuont was married twieft
! ami was the father of three childreu.
His first wife, whom he married in
1881. was Bessie R. Morgan. She
j-diou in JS;<B and in Lj*l<* Mr. Belmont
i married Eleanor ltobson, a famous
! actress. His children by his first
j wife wer»* August. Jr., Raymond and
• Morgan. August. .Jr., died in 1919.
Mr. Belmont was the son of August
j and < aroline Slidell l i. l'erryj Bel
| mom. His father was boYn at- Alzei
! in the Palatinate. Rhenish Prussia,
1 but came to New York at the age of
111 and became a citizen of the United
States at the first' opportunity. Tb*
J elder Belmont became an intemation
! ally known figure in financial and
1 diplomatic circles.
ARCHITECTS
NAME OFFICERS
Fargo, N. J).. Dec. 21. W. B. Han
cock of Fargo was chusen president
of the North Dakota Architects as
sociation to succeed \V. F. Kurke of
l argo, at a meeting held recently
in the Fargo Commercial club. Mr,
Kurko, was cbuseri vicepresident.
Robert Ritterbush of Bismarck
was reelected secretary and treas
urer. Fargo, Devil Lake, James
town, Bismarck and Grand Forks
wore represented among the 13
architects who attended th| business
session. ;‘- •
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