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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-08-07
GET HARD SENTENCES
Several Navy Officers Confess
and Others Convicted.
Ordered Publicly Stripped of All Rank
Insignia and Are Sentenced
to Prison.

Washington, July 30.-The Navy de-
partment has made public the details
of the sentence imposed on four Of
ficers in connection with Investigations
of assignment to duty and promotion
irregularities.
The department statement said the
seven men pleaded guilty of charges
of having accepted money and valu-
able presents from reservists for de-
sired assignments or for relief from
active duty after the armistice.
Berger and SPAIN were convicted of
fraud in connection with examination
of applicants for promotion.
Ensign Beck was sentenced to be
stripped publicly of the insignia of his
rank, dismissed from the service and
IL years Imprisonment. Berger was
sentenced to dismissal and one years
imprisonment; Casey to be stripped of
his insignia, dismissed and IL years
imprisonment; Jones to be reduced to
the grade of seaman, five years i'm
prisonment and d~ishonorable dis
charge; Jacobs to be reduced to lands.
man, five years Imprisonment and dis
honorable discharge. The sentence
imposed On Davis was not announced.
On review the fve-year sentences
imposed on Jones and Jacobs were re-
duced by the Navy department to one
year.
The departments statement added
that the trial of Lieut.. Benoit ]. FL
lert, who appears to have been the
principal offender" was set for August
1, and that it was expected that new
facts would be developed which would
result in other trials.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-08-07
GRAIN AND LIVE STOCK.
MINNEAPOLIS Grain.

Minneapolis Grain.
MINNEAPOLIS, Aus. 1.-Oats, Sept,
76%c; Dec, 1870. Rye, Sept,
$1.62A; Oct, $1.62A. Barley, Sept,
$1.33%; Dec, $1.35%.
Closing Cash Prices.
Minneapolis, Aug. Corn, No. 8
white, $1.97@1.98; No. 3 yellow, $1.86
@1.S7; No. 8 mixed, $1.84@1.86. Oats,
No. 2 white, 1914 @74kc; No. 3 white,
2@73kc. Barley, choice to fancy,
$1.32@1.34. Rye, No. 2, $1.57A: Flax,
No. L.. $5.9S@6.
South ST. Paul Live Stock.
South st. Paul, Aug. 1.-Estimated
receipts at the Union. Stock Yards:
Cattle, 1,40O; calves, 500; hogs, 5000;
sheep, 700; horses, 20; cars, 1o7.
Steers. S6.25@12.50; COWS, $7@9;
calves, $8@15; hogs, $21@22; sheep
and lambs, $8@14.5O.
Chicago Live Stock.
Chicago, Aug. Hogs, 5000; top,
$23.4O; heavy weight, $21. 5O@23.1O
medium weight, $21.5O@23.25; light
weight, $21.25@23.15.
Cattle, 1000; weak; beef steers, me-
dunn and heavy weight, choice and
prime, $16.50@1S.25; medium and
good, SllWl6.5O; common, $lO@l2;
light weight, good and choice, $4,000
1925; common and medium, $4,000
1850.
Minneapolis Butter, Eggs and Poultry.
Minneapolis, Aug. 1.-Butter, extras,
SIC; extra ~firsts, 49c; ~irsts, 4Sc; Sec
onds, 47c; diaries, 43c; packing stock,
Ale.
Eggs-Fresh prime ~firsts, new crate,
43c; current receipts, riots out, case,
Sl1.70; seconds, per doz., Csc; dirties,
candled, doz., Csc. Quotations on eggs
include cases.
Live Poultry-Turkeys, fat, 10 lbs.
and over, soc; thin, small, cripples
and culls, unstable; stays and cocks,
16c; ducks, old, zoe; young, 23c;
geese, h., 12c; hens, 4 lbs. and over,
25c; under 4 lbs, 23c; guineas, doz.,
So; broilers, all sizes, h., 3Oc; 1919
chickens, 2h lbs. and over, soc.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-08-07
CALL TROOPS IN RIOT
Chicago Streets PatroIled by
Soldiers Called by Governor.
Race Riots Terrorizs City for Days
and Many Are Killed and
Injured.

Chicago, July 31.-c Chicago
streets are patrolIed by soldiers
called out by Governor Lowden at
the request of Mayor Thompson
for the protection of life and
property threatened by the race
war which for days has terrorized
the city.
Chicago, July 29.-Eight persons
were killed and more than two score
injured, many of them seriously, in a
renewal of race riots in the Chicago
"black belt" For more than five hours
the five mile area on the South side
was a battle-ground of scattered fights
between whites and blacks and be-
tween policemen and negroes, who
fired from housetops, from dark alleys
and other points of vantage.
A call for troops to quell the out
breaks resulted in four regiments of
National Guardsmen being modified,
but at a late hour they had not been
dispatched to the disturbed district
and Chief of Police Clarity expressed
the belief that the worst of the dis.
order had passed.
Five of the dead are negroes and
three are white.
After a motorman had been dragged
from his car and killed by a group Of
maddened blacks and a dozen street
cars had been completely wrecked the
street car company ordered that no
more cars be taken into the troubled
area. The elevated trains also quit
running in dangerous territory. Troops
continued to move to a centralized
point in the South side, but they had
not been ordered to begin %patrolling
the streets. The coroner has begun
an investigation of the cause of the
riots.
The wounded in most cases were
hurried to hospitals, after which they
were removed to homes when their
conditions permitted. There was no
concerted battle by the blacks, the out
breaks dotting an area of five to seven
miles. Every police station in the
South side was flooded with reports of
deaths and injuries.
The riots which started on the South
side beaches were renewed when negro
laAorers began leaving the big indus.
trial plants and in a short time more
than a score of separate outbreaks
had occurred. Whites began dragging
negroes from street carsa The negroes
retaliated with stones and knives.
Street cars in the heart of the BLACK
belt" were tied up and the windows
smashed.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-08-07
DEBATE TO Be DELAYED.
Treaty Consideration Take Back
Seat Temporarily.
Pact With Columbia Receives Immedi-
ate Consideration-House
Plans Recess. e.

Washington, July 2S.-Senate con-
%troversy over the peace treaty with
its league of nations covenant will be
halted temporarily to ALLOW considera-
ton of the long pending Colombian
treaty. However, the peace treaty and
related subjects are expected to be to
the fore every day.
The house recess plans, calling for
a complete shutdown of the lower
branch from August 2 to September 8
are expected to be presented formally.
The plans undoubtedly will receive
the required senate approval. The
senate will remain in session, chiefly
working on the peace treaty, while
house committees will take up various
investigations and will hold hearings
on a number of reconstruction lee
ures. The recess, however, will delay
enactment CT several bills, including
the prohibition enforcement measure,
until September.
The Colombian treaty involving pay
ment by the United States of $25,000,-
600 to that republic, resulting from
the partition of Panama, will be taken
up at once, by the foreign relations
committee. The treaty is expected to
be reported by the committee and rati-
fed by the senate promptly.
Developments thought probable in
the treaty fight include statements by
President Wilson outlining his stand
on the proposal for ratification reserz
vations, and giving new information
as to the Shantung provision. Both of
the expected statements would have a
direct bearing on debate. The Shan
tung provision is the subject of diplo-
matte discussions now in progress with
Toxic.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-08-07
$4,000 Men in Middle West and
Southeast Only Ones
to Go Out.
INBREASE IS EXPECTED
Presidents Request That Congress
Create Commission to Consider
Wage Increases .Favorably Re-
ceived by Union Officials.

Chicago, Aug. 2.-President Wilson's
request that congress create a com.
mission to consider wage increases for
railway employees was favorably re.
ceived here by officers of the Chicago
district council of the Federated Shop.
mems Union, which called a nation
wide strike of railway shop workers.
Press dispatches stated that the Presi-
dent had suggested that any proper
wage increase be made retroactive to
August, 1919, and the local shopmen's
leaders declared that on that point
they would remain firm for retroaction
to January 1, 1919.
Advice of Officials Unheeded.
The shipments strike, according to
reports, was chiefly effective in the
Middle West and Southeast and in the
latter section alone $4,000 men had
laid down their tools, according to
union advices. All over the country
and especially in the Middle West
union locals were voting on the strike
proposal. A big increase in the num-
Der of men on strike is expected by
union officials.
The local unions had disregarded
the advice Of their international Off
Gals at Washington, who have been
comforting with the Railroad admins
t%ration, and who instructed the men
not to strike. The request for in
creased wages from 68 to IS cents an
hour for machinists and from 46 to go
an hour for helpers, was made the
first of the current year, the union
men said.
Reports from all sections of the
Middle West indicated that the strike
had not become effective as widely as
the union officials had expected. North
Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin,, Iowa,
South Dakota, Missouri, Indiana and
Kentucky apparently were free from
strikes among the rail employees.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-08-07
Turks and Tartars Moving en-
Them From Three Sides
Cutting Off Supplies.
May Be DIFFERENTIATED
Disasters More Terrible Than Mas
sacres Of 1915 Are Threatened
Declares American Officer
in Appeal to Allies.

Paris, July 31.-Turks and Tartars
are moving upon the Armenians from
three sides. They have, cut off the
American relief supplies and threaten
all the remaining Armenians with ex-
termination unless additional military
protection is afforded, according to
dispatches from Major ]. c. Green Of
Cincinnati, who is directing the Amer
lean relief administrations work from
Tiflis.
Herbert Hoover, director general of
relief, Immediately submitted Major
Green's message to the peace confer
ence, which already had similar re-
ports from other American and Brit
ish observers.
Major Green sends the following
from Tifis:
Had a long conference with the
president. The situation is worse.
The Turkish army, we'll prepared, and
Tartars are advancing from three
sides. If military protection is not
afforded to Armenia Immediately, the
disasters will be more terrible than
the massacres in 1915 and the Arme-
MAN nation will be crushed, to the
everlasting shame Of the Allies.
Relief work is impossible in the
present situation unless order is re-
stored. Cannot something be done to
have the British forces in the Cauca-
sus intervene to save Armenian"
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-08-07
New Constitution Ratified.

Berlin, Aug. 2.-The Weimar Ma
tional Assembly finally ratified the
new constitution, establishing for Ger
many a Republican form of govern
ment. The Majority Socialists, the
Catholics and the Democrats were SOL
idly for the constitution. In an inter-
view in the Berlin Tageblatt. Cabinet
Minister David warns Germany that
the danger Of further revolution is not
passed. He advocated entrance of a
stronger Democratic element in the
government as a means of increasing
stability.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-08-07
Pays Ransom to Mexicans.

Washington, July 29.-Acting upon
the advice of the Mexican government,
John West Thompson, an American
ranchman, living near Mexico City, has
paid the $1,000 ransom demanded by
bandits for the release of his 14-yead.
old son the state department is ad.
vised. The Mexicans authorities said
they feared the bandits would murder
the boy. Secretary Lansing said the
Mexican foreign office had agreed to
refund the amount of the ransom and
to take measures for the capture and
punishment OF the bandits.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-08-07
France Waits on U. S.

Paris, July 31.-A disposition to
delay final action on ratification of
the German peace treaty until the
United States senate acts on the
Franco-American military treaty was
indicated by those in touch with the
situation to represent the majority
view OF the chamber of deputies
peace treaty committee. Former Pre-.
mier Vivian, chairman of the COM
mittee, expressed the opinion that ex.
ecution OF the treaty would be com.
pleted In time for 1t to be discussed In
the chamber about August IL.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-08-07
drive ON HIGH
COST OF LIVING
Government Branches to Unite
Efforts in Supreme Fight
to Lower Prices.
SEEKING LEGAL MEANS
Cabinet Officials Meet to Consider
Situation While Congress- Gets
Resolutions for lnvestiea-
. ton as to Causes.

Washington, Aug. IA bill au-
thorizing President Wilson to
requisition food, fuel and other
necessities and sell at reasonable
prices and to appropriate $10,0o0,-
900 as a working fund was intro
duced by Representative James,
Michigan. The house, at the re-
quest of President Wilson agreed
to defer its planned five weeks
recess and consider demands of
railroad employees for decreased
living costs.
Washington, Aug. 1.-Governmental
machinery has been set in motion in
response to demands from the public
that some official action be taken to
relieve the high cost of living.
Prices, as they affect the average
citizen, assumed first place in interest
in the capital. At the White House
President Wilson was said to be CIV
ing deep and very thoughtful con-
%sideration' to problems presented to
him and the Railroad administration
by members of the railroad brother
AoOuo, WIZ REPRESENTED lldI pI1CcS
would have to come down or wages
go up if social unrest was not to de-
velop into upheaval. In the senate
and house the situation gave rise to
resolutions to investigate reasons for
the present price levels; another to
reduce the volume of currency in cir.
culation as a means Of debating
prices, II requesting the Attorney
General to stop speculation in foods
on exchanges and another to sell this
years wheat crop at market prices
instead of at the government guaran-
tee, the difference to be made up by
the government.
Attorney General Palmer met eight
high government officials for a discus
sion of high costs and the best meth
DDS to pursue to effect a reduction.
After a general talk, lasting nearly
three hours, the conference disbanded
to meet probably next week, for fur
Their counsel based on additional in
formation to be collected in the mean
time. Those attending the confer
ence included Secretaries Glass, Hous.
ton. Redfield and Wilson, Director
GeneralHines, Chairman Murdoch of
the Federal Trade commission; AS
sistant Secretary of the Treasury
Ieffingwell and w. B.. Colver of the
Federal Trade commission.
Officials who attended the attorney
generals conference declined to dis
cuss what took place. Mr.. Palmer
stated that the conference was called
chiefly for the purpose of making a
survey of the situation and develop
Ing any information on which the
head of the nations law enforcement
machinery might act to curb profteer-
ing.
MI. Palmer admitted there was no
law by which prices could be lowered
directly but he declined to say whether
new legislation was needed to enable
the department of justice to punish
men who may be guilty of profteer-
ing.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-08-07
Japs and Chinese Clash.

Washington, Aug. 1.-Sixteen Japa.
nese officers and men and three Japa.
nese policemen were killed and II
Japanese soldiers more or less serious.
ly wounded in a clash with Chinese
troops at Kuangchengku, according to
an official report received by the Jap.
anese embassy here, The clash was
said to have followed an assault on an
employee Of the South Manchuria raft.
way company by about 20 Chinese sol.
diers. The report said the Chinese
government expressed regret over the
incident. 90"
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-08-07
AMERICA WILL AID, POLK SAYS
Declares All-Russian Government Mil
Be Supported.

Paris, Aug. Frank L. Polk, Amer
lean assistant secretary Of state and
head of the United States peace dele
cation here, told a group of French
States senate committee on foreign
affairs would complete it's report on
the German treaty by the middle of
August and that the senate would not
take more than two weeks to ratify it.
Admiral Kolchak, head of the Omsk-
All Russian government will be given
moral and even material aid by the
United State, he said, and added that
Bolshevism is not to be faced in his
country.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-08-07
"Pershing to Sail Sept. I.

Paris, Aug, General Pershing
will leave for the United States Sept.
1, it is learned. Pershing will leave
for Coblenz for a final Today inspec-
ton Of the Rhine district and the bat
tie areas. The First division will be-
gin its departure Aug. Is. The Eighth
infantry and auxiliaries, totaling $500
in all. will be the only troops remain.
ing on the Rhine. Pershing said he
hoped no further attempts would be
made to have the A. f. +. dead taken
10 America.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-08-07
North Dakotans Get Crop After All.

Mandan, N. d, July 30.-As the
time for harvest nears, it is apparent
that many farmers of this section,
who supposed, several weeks ago, that
they would have no crop, will be able
to realize sufficient on this years pro.
duction to break even, while some
will run from three to ten bushels an
acre. At the present price that means
that the farmer who gets ten bushels
an acre will make a comfortable mar
gin Of profit. The harvest Is general,
with plenty Ut labor.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-08-07
WOMAN DESTROYS TOTS, SELF
Burns Children to Death Rather Than
Separate From Them.

Jacksonville, Ohio, July 3O.-Several
hours before authorities were to con-
vey them to the Athens county home
sever children, ranging in age from
six weeks to ten years, were found
with their mother, Mrs. Tony Stravisar,,
burned to death or a%sphyxiated in their
home at Kimberley, a small mining
town lear here. The children were,
tied to their beds ind coal oil had
been sprinkled over the room. It is
supposed that worry over the separa.
ton caused the mother to destroy
herself and her children.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-08-07
Al ERICANS TO LEAVE RHINE
All But 5000 Expected to Be Out by
AUGUST 20.

Coblenz, Aug. 2.-All American sol
diers excepting about 5000 who will
remain on the Rhine indefinitely, will
be out of Germany by August 20, ac-
cording to the latest. instruction from
general headquarters which are being
carried out by the officers in, the Cob
LEM area.
In fastening the withdrawal Of the
American troops it was announced
that the First division had been turned
over to the transportation department
and that the first units of this division
would probably entrain for Brest
August u.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-08-07
AMERICANS FACE HUGE LOSS
New Mexican Law Would appropriate
PropertY of Eoreiuners.


Washington, Aug. More than a
Thousand Americans are threatened
with loss of millions of dollars in in
vestments by a new agrarian law en-
acted by the legislature of Sonora,
Mexico, at the instructions of Cover
nor Gales.
Several American companies have
xiled complaints with the State de-
partment against the operation of this
law and other complaints are in prep
;aration. The department is preparing
representations to the Carranza gov
eminent against putting the law into
operation because of injustices this
government contends it works upon
United States citizens who have in
vested many millions in agricultural
lands on Sonora.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-08-07
$50, 100000 FOR 100 SHIPS
Shipping Board Makes Record-Break-
ing Deal in Sale.

Washington, Aug. lone hundred
steamships built on the Great Lakes
during the war have been sold by the
Shipping board to the Anderson Over
seas Corporation of New York for ap
proximately $4,000, 900. This is prob
ably the largest ship sale on record,
the board said in announcing the deal
and the vessels will eventually pass
into French and Italian ownership.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-08-07
WILSON'S TOUR POSTPONED
Indicated by ~Postponment of Review
of Pacific Elect. -

Washington, July 80. = President
Wilson will not leave on his speech
making tour of the country before Au-
gust Is and possibly not until late in
August. This was. Indicated by the
formal announcement by Secretary
Daniels after a conference at the
White House that the review of the
newly organized Pacific fleet at San
Francisco, originally set for August
10 had been postponed in order that
the President might be present.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-08-07
TO DEP0RT UNDEsIRABLEs

Measure for That Purpose Passes
Lower House.
Washington, July 31.-A bill to de-
port undesirable aliens, under which
the government may send home enemy
aliens now informed in this country,
has been passed by the house. The
vote was unanimous.
The measure is designed to tighten
existing deportation laws, and under
it's terms aliens who may be deported,
include enemy aliens at present in
termed as dangerous but not convicted
of violation of various wartime laws.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-08-07
TO BUY CANADA'S WHEAT CROP
Dominion Government Will Purchase
Entire 1919 Output.

Ottawa, July 31.-The Dominion
government has decided, to buy and
market the Canadian wheat crop Of
1919. The crop will be sold Eat pre-
vailing world prices" and the surplus
proceeds will be divided among the
original sellers of the wheat: Specu-
lation and profiteering will be pro-
hibited.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-08-07
CAR STRIKE GRIPS CHICAGO
100000 People Walk When Lines Are
lied Up.

Chicago, July 3o.-Chicago's sur
face and elevated lines are at a stand
still as a result of the strike of the
employees of both systems after their
refusal to ratify an agreement reached
between officials of the company and
officers of the union.
Traffic in the downtown or loop dis
trict was confused because of the odd
vehicles used and at times badly con-
gested. Officials of the striking men
and their employers said no immedi.
ate settlement of the strike was in
sight.
Approximately 1000, 900 persons re.
ported to every means of transporta.
ton possible or stayed at home.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-08-07
OWNERS GET WIRE LINES BACK
Teieeraphs and Telephones Are Re-
Iinquished by Government.

Iinquished by Government.
Chicago, July 31.-Telegraph and
telephone properties which have been
under government control since mid
night July 81, 1918, were turned back
to their private owners at midnight,
according to Associated Press dis
patches from Washington. The order
for the return to private owners was
issued by Postmaster General Burle-
son. The return of the wire lines was
contained in a resolution adopted by
congress and signed by President Will
son some days ago.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-08-07
Austrian Cabinet steadfast.

Paris, Aug. 2.-Doctor Karl Renner,
Austrian chancellor and head Of the
Austrian peace delegation at St. Ger
main, has denied ~categorically recent
reports that the Austrian cabinet is
about to resign.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-08-07
$4,000 CROWD AT FOOD SALE
Attend Daily Disposal of Army Sup
plies at Frisco.

San Francisco, Aug. 2.-Approxi-
mately $4,000 persons daily are at
tending a sale Of bacon and canned
goods originally purchased by the
government for the army, it was esti-
mated by those in charge of the enter
prise. The food was recently bought
by the city to be ~retailed at cost.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-08-07
SOVIET ORDERED 10 RESIGN

AIIIes DEMAND Unconditional Retire.
ment of Budapest Government.
Zurich, Switzerland, July 31.-The
Allies are said to have demanded the
unconditional resignation of the Bud
apest soviet government in replying
to the negotiations for the soviet
withdrawal, opened by Bella Kun, the
communist leader, according to a ru-
NOR current in Vienna.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-08-07
Wants Army Surplus Food Sold.

Wants Army Surplus Food Sold.
Washington, Jusy 30.-After an all
day wrangle the house adopted a reso-
luton, reported out by the war in
vestigating committee, requesting Sec
rotary Baker to place on sale without
delay surplus food products held by
the War department and valued at
$l20, 000, 900.