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4 'I /v w* •N. fel- E E N I N E I O N SVOLUME 10, BANK DURING MONTH Redeposits in Banks of State Drop. $900,000 After 11 Note Payment. '. ,,s FURTHER DRAIN OF I FUNDS IS INDICATED Another $60,000 is Loaned to State Institution^ and Departments. (Herald Special'Service.) Bismarck, N. D., March 21 —According to the resolu ii6n passed by the Industrial Commission Opening the Bank of North Dakota to in dividual deposits on Feb. 21, 1921, "a vast number of peo ,ple of the state',' urged that this should be done. If such was the case this vast nuiqber of people has afiot made any vast amount of deposits up to date. The report of the Bank of North Dakota, for March 15, 1.921, just nialie public shows that the individual deposits in that institution have in creased by only about $13, D00 sitjce Feb. 15. This in cludes any deposits that may have been made by labor un ions or similar bodies as the re$ult of the strenuous.efforts made by Governor Frazier and others to obtain such de posits. 1 Effect of Note Payment. The effect .'of the payment of the$l, 000,Of0 not? owed to a Chicago 'bank, which wEus accolrnplished March 15, is shown by a jdrop of approximately, $#(HH00B~'0r^tWE^w»ount cjf fedeposlts in ^tUikA of the state, There is-a aiml larvdrop iff the footings of the Bank of NoHh Dakota. ^is is/ signifieant as in view of the receipt of tax funds' which are now cortiing in tb'e footings wotild naturally be on the up-grade if the bank were holding its own. Drain Continues. "That there has-been no stoppage of the drain on the resources of the state is shown by'the'fact that the amount loaned to,state institutions and depart ments has increased $60,000 during the month. Just which institutions and departs ments may have received this money is not indicated by the statement. In view of $he fact tnat the individ ual deposits in the bank liave been in creased by such a/ small amount in apite of the strenuous campaign of ad vertising publicity, personal entreaty, etel, which has been' put on to secure Ihem, the following quotations from the resQlation Opening it in this man rler are of some interest: Where Is "Vast Crowd. "Whereas, immediately preceding :he general election in 1920 in the campaign concerning, the initiated public funds law, again a vast number of. the people of. the .state urged that the Bank of North Dakota should ac cept private as well as public funds for deposit and, "Whereas, many prominent bank-, nrs,' some of whom were members, of! the executive committee of the bank-i ers' conference of December 7, 1920, and,/ "Tyhereas, ,at( all times sinc6 the Bank- of North Dakota was first dis cussed in this state, a constantly in creasing number pf people have urg ently-insisted in private conversation, in public discussion, from the plat form and in the press and by oral and written .statements to the industrial commission as. well as to thp bank 'it self. -that the Bank of North Dakota should receive private an well as pub lic funds for deposits artd. "Whereas, the Bank of North Da kota'was created by ylrtue of.a law approved by the people who are now emphatically demanding that it re ceive private deposits. "Jt is therefore necessary that the industrial commission recognise and accede to the demands of the people of the state, and that the Bank ot Sorth.Dakota be opened to private ana individual deposits." SCHOOL DISTRICTS T0 CONTINUE TO BE UNITED ON LOANS Madison, Wl%', March 21.—School Aiatrict8 will continue to be limited in t|ieir borrowing for school pur peses to '1 per 'cent \of the assessed valuation of the 'property as. a result of the non-cflncurrfOce of the senate '.oday in- the Summervllle bill remov ing the present restriction. The as sembly had acted favcirably on the b«i. Final actiop was taken on the Han sen resolution memorialising congress 1F take -federal Action to curb prof? iteering.in the* necessities pf life, The -esolution w.hich has jiow ..passed ooth houses, asks that congiiess "au Uiorlze and direct immediate and Vig 3rovs federal action to protect the popple Of" every st^te from the injus :ice and' evils which- l^ive come upon hem through failure of ^he states t«y j^operate and' thek failurei, of the fed- Tral government to,'Assert its .power' ,% curbing ther projHtMrs.' vift The. amount ot butter fat in Wls •^j'nsin butter was set 4t H. per J4fit .with a,2Vi per' cent tolerance by Jie senate in concurring in the Nelson /..liil passed by the low?r house. Mil to require 'labelling' of a3I nised f(wd stuffs was killed. 1 -fi "V {, tyj6' £*i S/.vP r^wr rc« Under the law which created the state industrial commission and the Bank of North Dakota, the industrial' commission,' through the bank, was given control -of practically all of the public monies of the', state,' counties, «tc. ,« .. Although the powers of the com mission were abridged to some ex tent by the initiated law which per mitted counties and other sub divisions to ^deposit their funds else where than in the Bank of North Da kota,the funds of the state and the state institutions and departments must still be deposited in the Bank of North Dakota. ,. 1 Therefore the Industrial com" mission, through the Bank of North Dakota, Has still tbc power to icidcpogit the funds of the state wherever it may see (it, and to make such loans of the state funds as It may see fit. Now, from the manner in which these redeposits and loans have been handled in the past, some indication may be obtained as to how they will be handled in the future. -Let us take the statement prepared by the officers of tfye Bank of North Dakota for January 19, 1921, and see how this matter has been handled In the past. GRAND FORKS OOUSpTY. In Grand Forks county there was a' total of. $33,196.10 re deposited among 21 banks. Of thls'^sum, however,' $11,295.09, or over one-third, was In the Peo ple's State bank of Grand Forks, a strictly Nonpartisan league It^ stitqttoii, which has since been closed. In the same way, out of a total of $81,857, which had been loaned to banks in Grand Forks county, $40,000, or nearly one-luUf of\ the total amount, had been loaned to the People's State bank.' *Y-.y J. kepresend^tives ol Etnplb] ers Presented Case Last Week. Washington, March- 21.—Spokes men for the packers'1 employes pre sented their side of the dlsputeyWith their employers over wa$6a"artd working conditions at a conference early today with Secretary Dii.yls at the department of labor. Tnte pre ceded the joint conference at whith Secretaries Hoover of the department' of compierce^and Wallace of the de partment of agriculture sat with the labor secretary. Packers. Heard Iiast Week. The representatives of the packers were, heard by Mr. Davis last we^k. Besides the three cabinet officers, those attending the conference were James L.^Cohdon and Carl Meyer for the packers Dennis Lane and Red mond S. Brennan, for the employes, and l^ugh L. Kerwin, E. -P. Marsh, and Howell Davis, members of the cpn- ciliation division of the department 'of Lfcbor, \yho participated in the ex tension in'1919 of the Alschifler A®k' have stated that in their opinion, the Representatives of the packers were Bank of North Dakota, at all times, ion should have been open and should now, be otfen for the reception of private^ as well as public funds for deposit Hearing. h^d cnc®' the preliminary confer- hut .the Spokesmen for the w°rkmen asked for a private} hearing RUoh flJ! eivpn ,hp such as' w:as given the employers' rep resentatives last week, and the re quest'was. granted. Mr. Lane and Mr. Brennan were accompanied to the' department by nine representatives .of trades allied with the packing industry, who said they were on hand to back up "the employes'" representatives and to giye them advice during the confer ences. "We will not yield," said J. J. Bren nan of the .International Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers. "If necessary we can-, make the packers stand up to their agreements.' Mr. Congdon, when askeg if the packers' representatives had come be're with authority to make a new agreement wltfy the. employes, said they were here only at the invitation of the secretary of labor. "We do hot know what he lias in mind," he added. "We have no knowledge of any plan that Secre tary Davis or. the employers may have." $ Wage Cut Effective. Milwaukee, Wis., March 21.—A wage_' cut of from ten to- fifteen per centrwent into effect today for" about 2,000 Milwaukee: packing house workers. While union meat workers of Mil waukee, together with thoM in other cities, voted in favor of a strike, re sults-of the conference at Washington between packers and workers' repre sentatives ar4 awaited before a strike is declared. The establish ment) of a ten hour maximum day. which, goes into effect with the wage cut in Milwaukee packing houses, with the exception of Cudahy Broth ers, :is the. principal object of attack. Cudahy workers accepted the «wage cut whenvthe plant agrtied to retain the eight-fcoqr day., "EMtTX' GRAVE" QABE UP, Ap'ermont, Tex., M^rch 21,—The West Texas "empty grfcve" ca*e, in volving the supposed .death of B. Jl'. Cochrane years ago, the funeral and buHal. on? a /lonely hillside »ln Stone wa)l county and the openlhr ot' the jgrave.last ^tmraer by officers only to find an empty coffin, was called for t^l^l sherdi tpdjty. CocbriMte. who was found alive" near Sterling City, Tex., is cha^ged with swindling in connec tton witn' the payment of^\ insurance money. ., ",r~ •. HP*- *, -Ar ®"i NORTH DAKOTA •'m^ $ .',:? V' «Ua* Public Funds Finance League Banks Wood's Bank. In the Uttle town of Dcering is Mc? Henry county, there are two banks. One of .them, the" Security State bank, has F. B. Wood, member of the na-' tionaU executive committee of the Nonpartisan^ league, as president. On the date In question this bank had $31,496.87 1 -V emnlovers' ren- t:..**'.v J--••*?£/ -.^ 1'^ The Red River Power compand or Grand' Forks and the UniMi: UcKt and Heat company of Riijfe'^ can cxlleet a surcharge on electric light and power rates"'.'-.' pending a hearing of the cat*p."," upon Its bearings, providing, however, the companies give' a" sufficient bond to protect patrons, •. acbbrdlng. to a supreme court do-. ctelon today. City Attorney W. J. Mayer construed the brief announce ment as a victory for the city. He said that it sustains the dis THE BUCKING BEAR Li A r*? redeposits and $20,000 loans and discounts, a total of $51, 49.6.87. The other bank in peering had redeposits of $7,736.28 and no loans or rediscounts from the Bank of North Dakota. S'i Vogel's Bulk. F. A. Vogel, one of the 'most violent Nonpartisan members of the house of representatives, operates the Farmers' State bank at Coleharbor, McLean county. According to this statement from the Bank or North. Dakota,, his ba.nk had $28,747.15 in redeposits and. $14,910 in toans and discounts. There is one other1 bank in Cole harbor, the Northwestern State bank. This had $5,2.98.27 in redeposits and no loans or rediscounts. Cahlll's Bank. The People's State bank of ,Leith was operated, ulitil it was closed re cently, by J. I. CahiU, a rabild Non partisan leaguer, member of the state board of administration, Out of $74, S25 redeposited by the' Bank of North Dakota in 13. banks of Grant county, $15,893.22 was deposited in this bank, which also had $9,4)00 in loans and discounts and $8,200 in farm loan special deposits. There- is. one other, bank in Leith, the Farmers' State, but it had only $5,506.81 in redeposits and $5,000 in loans and discounts. Nelson County. Xa'Nelson county the Bank of North Dakota had on redeposlt in 14 banks/ $75,979.34. Of this, how ever, $33,099.99, .or nearly one-half, was redeposited in the First State bank of Kloten, conducted by O. E. lioftnus, before he became" state bank examiner. Out of. $88,655.62 loans and rediscounts' to banks in Nelson ie uourt Says Power. Companies Can Collect -if Sufficient Bond is Placed jk ^7"^ Do the People of North Dakota With TUs to ContioM? Or WUI. 1*ey Stop it By 'Removing the Present Meftibersof the State Inda»ti^iCtmiiiisdon by Means of E E A S c-rtlSK»8% w# vag0 ift W. "'^11^ i, v-a -«f«h A "j\ '$ ^S?j 1*.!" S sk*ii\ •-^in*^ teSk« *4 V.VJ W GRANDFQJRKS, N. D., MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1921. -•/W A Iij,- fop 'j ..VA-'»»«.',' couiity this sam? bank had $31, 491.24. The .only-other Nelson county bank Bnown with any large amount of- loans and^.dlscounta'Vas the Michi gan City .bajak of Michigan, with $29,664.28. This /was the ,banK /which financed many of- the ^automobile business ven tures of B. ^H. Stary of Conway, after Stary had supplied the Nonpartisan league with automobiles in the early part of'its career, 'taking farmers* notes, po6t-dated" checks, etc.. in' pay ment. i'' .. These are' only a few of the ih stances which show the gross favorit ism practiced by the Bank of North Dakota under the direction of the industrial commission in the re deposit, and loaniflg of the people's funds. Other'and moto glaring in stances will be taken up later. But the oases shown here arc sufficient to,demonstrate that the industrial commission luu used the public fuiDds of the people of North Dakota largely for the purpose ot financing banks friendly to the Nonpartisan league, or controlled by the .of fleers and employes of the league. To stop such practices as these the people have one recourse. This is to get rid of the present members of the industrial commission who sanction thfcm. These officials may be eliminated by means of THE IlE^ALL which will* be considered by the Independent voters of North Dakota at the state convention, to be held at Devils^ Lake March 30. trict court, that, the injunc tion* .prohibiting the collection of the ^urchar^e, 1s kept in force till a sutBcient .bond is provided. ''The two M^for companies imlu4J,l»*suit-.fct quash the or der, declaring 'that the board was not ln^pro^er setoion at the time ut«ie otth» wa» invalid. niMuiles'.' made effect -that the board iinU|' |n^i^er session and that thejorter was valid The dtetjflct donrt, af Ur a hear ing upcoi/a xnoUon for an liijunc-. tion to tvetrmln the oollectlon of the surcharge, granted a tempdfr "ary restraining. order. In the appeal, which was argued some time .: before the supreme CpUlt, the,cities asked for suf -Aelent/bfihd'^tp protect patrons In the event that the oouru-, after a Jjearlng /'upon the merits, deddc against. the power companies. Briefly, the decision of the su preme court means that a suf flcient bona* must be provided by the t^b coiHpaiir^s,' else' the re straining order will be in effect. North Dakota: Fair tonight and probably Tuesday: rising temperature. W «sr rti t' NOT GUILTY, IS VERDICT IN MATEWANCASE Trial Lasting 46 Days Ke sults in Formal Discharge Of 16 ^Defendants. Williamson, W. Va.. March 21«— The sixteen defendants tried in con nection with the death of Albert C. Kelts, who was killed during the Matewan gun fight last May, were found not guilty today by a jury in the Mingo county circuit court. The defendants were formally dis charged by Judge R. D. Bailey, pre siding, but were remanded to jai pending bond arrangements on .six other indictments charging the men with- having' been implicated in the de.ath of six other private detectives killed with Felts. The trial consumed 46 days. A large group of miners standing outside the court room received the announcement' of acquittal with en thusiasm. Wives and relatives of the Mate wanians stod on the porch of th county jail and received their kin Williamson residents received th verdict .quietly and theije were demonstrations aside from an out burst of cheers from the miners who stood vigil since Saturday morning. On Strike Since 1919. A coal miners' strike has been in progress in Mingo county coal fields since July, 1919. Nearly a.year later the Stone Mountain Coal Corporation engaged the Bald win-Felts detective agency to evict striking miners' fam ilies from the company house$. On May 19, 1920, a party of private de tectives beaded by Albert C. Felts, carried Out the evictions and later Felts and his men stopped in front of a l)ardwa«c store. Thy leader,and Mayor C. C. Testerman engaged itf a' conversation. A shot was fired. Thep rifles and pistols "barked" from all' direct!oM.^ind tjefc^rc the shooting ended Feltd, Testerm'an, six other members of the Bald win-FeIBi paety and ,two. other residents f«&:'mortally woun^d. /.. Twenty-thfee men. of Matewan were indicted in connection witft the death of Felts. When the trial began on 'January 26, the cases against sev eral "defendants were dismissed and as the trial progressed others were dis charged until only 16 were left. One of those to await p. verdict was Sid •Hatfield, Matewan's chief of police. During the .closing arguments of counsel "reference was made to Hat "fijfeldW marriage to ,the widow of Tes tipfmaji two weeks after the latter was .Killed. Mrs. Hatfield had been in constant attendance £.t court. Six other indictments hang over the 23 ment in connection with the deaths of the other six operatives who fell during the engagement. Five of the private detectives who escaped after the battle were indicted in connection with the death of Mayor Testerman, and two other residents of Matewan. By MORRIS V'r. 7 ,'v DEPOSIT APPEAL FAILS "t GERMANY WINS GREAT VICTORY IN PLEBISCITE Washington, March 2'1.—President Harding suggested today to Chairman Fordney that the house, ways and means committee sound out the sen ate Republicans as to the feasibility of early pasage of an emergency tar iff that would take care of farmers. The proposal was discussed at length, but it was said the committee reached no definite conclusion. It was the idea of the president, members said, to javoid an embargo and to limit the bill to a very few items, including wheat and wool. RESUME ADVERTISING. Binghampton, N. Y.. March 21.— Binghampton newspapers under an open shop policy today published dis play advertising after nearly two weeks' suspension due to a strike of union printers seeking to enforce de mands. The striking printers expressed con fidenoe they would be able to break into the ranks of non-union men when the publishers attempt to re place strike-breakers with men seek ing permanent positions. THE WEATHER. Minnesota: Fair tonight Tuesday warmer Tuesday. -.•ft-v & ...v V- SJ f* 55. & I E E N 1 *i 1 I I IW'Wi 1 ATTEMPTS OF POLISH ARMY TO OVERRIDE DECISION EXPECTED Berlin, March 21.—(By The Associated Press.)—'•Ger many won an overwhelming victory in the plebiscite held in Upper Silesia yesterday to determine the future national status of.that region according to official returns received here. Two districts were still missing at 9 o'clock this morning, but the count showed 876,000 votes had been cast for Germany and'389,000 for Poland. Will Suppress Disorders. Suggests That Fbrdney Sound Out the Senate Republicans. Oppeln, March 21.—(By The Associated Press.)—En tente fbrces in Upper Silesia will promptly suppress any ef-j fort oil the part of the Polish army to over-ride the decision in yesterday's plebiscite, or to anticipate the action of the council of ambassadors in Paris, General Lerdnd, head of the interallied plebiscite commission, told The Associated Press today. He said rumors that the Poles had been concentrating ari army on the Silesian frontier were "whol ly without foundation." "Reports that 30,600 Polish troops were marching to vyaird the border have been current here. A motor trip tlong the Polish frontier showed the presence of the usual °oli,sh sentries, but there were virtually no entente troops tfie Silesian side* of the border. The balloting yesterday was virtually over by mid-af ternoon. There was .no disorder of a serious nature" re ported. During his trip through the zone, a number of Germans attempted to confiscate The Associated Press cor respondent's automobile at Eichenau to take voters to the polls. and Athens—A royal decree was issued calling the classes of 1913, '1914 and 1915 to the colors to insure greater protection to the Greeks in Asia Mi nor. pacification of the Near East .%nd execution of the Turkish treaty. r'^SwMi *SS NUMBER *0 'r •j.»,' j, A 1 A", ., "$•* $$ rfrtZ „v •$• «•£. Fi& .. Machine Guns Ready. Oppeln, March 21.—-"Should the Poles cross the border," said General, Lej-ond, "they would be met tyy ma chine guns and rifles. America and the rest of the world may depend upon me to maintain the entente's will. here. The Poleq.understand that they .' cannot over-run allied authority, and I-am confident they do not intend to attempt it." The view expressed here was that a few people might cross 'the border from Poland, but it was not feared that the situation would get out of control. The Germans here were massed in front of the Oppeln administration building to await the result of the bal loting and when the first returns from the city showed a vote in favor of Ger many, in the proportion of twenty to one the crowd sang "Deutschland Uber AUes," and "Deutschland In Ehren." No Great Confaskm. Berlin, March 21.—Reports from Breslau state that the plebiscite was generally without untoward incidents. When house bill 44 was dead, The Herald credited the hold-over senators with having "Saved North Dakota from an Orgy of Social is The Herald Was Tetmed an Alarmist The alarm vwas Provisional returns published in newspapers here show-that In Oppeln, Germany received 20,000 votes to 11, O'OO for Poland. In Tarnowitz the Ger mans cast 85 per cent of the ballots and in the town of Beuthen they cast 78 per cent. In the Beuthen country districts the vote, as published, gave Germany 59,222, Poland 62,040. In Koenigshuette. the Germans re ceived 32.000 and the Poles 10,851 and Kattowitz and country districts gave the Germans 72,831 and the Poles 66,-' 187. the town of Kattowitz voting German by 93 per cent. In Hindenburg. the Germans cast 36,676 votes to 31. 625 by the Poles, while in Kreuseburg. 'he German vote was 33,980 to 1,556 for the Poles. A Day for HI story. Palm Sunday, the day of the voting in Upper Silesia, seems likely to go down in history as one of the most mo mentous days in the adjustment of, European boundaries growing out of the recent war. The day has been looked forward to with intense inter est by all Germany and Poland, while evidences of world-wide attention up on the balloting were not lacking. The area involved, comprising some five thousand square miles, was the largest section of territory to have its (Continued on page 14) Saved From Tke Orgy of S ocialism not heeded. Socialism has^.'^c had its chance. The experiments have cost us Vt much. We are iexperiencing the results. Trijik Has Disarmed tke Eaemy»^M www IF TOU WAWT TTOB TOCTH, WITHOUT ISAR OR FAVOR, RfiUt nC H£»AU). il' \*i' fa •m 5" ii-j? VTr- -s •ifti