Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1920-12-30
AUDITING BOARD
J HIN||DERED IN WORK;
APREALS TO COURT
I SSUnable, d, Secure Records Of
& t.asse Amount Of Flour
!. saiaeSS IN p Have Been Sold to
& snsspers United Stores
<omt lny.

81 srsSpers United Stores
! I 13<e'm't} On }ny.
}Br.'ga,Ak, N. b., Dec. 27.-(spec-
@iaI1o Asserting that approximately
sI2p!0Oo worth Of flour had been
sold9h the state mill at Drake to
thGs consumers United Stores COM
pa,Ey;a company fostered by the Nom
paStisan league, and that records re-
garding the transactions are with
Held, and further that employees OF
the state have, hindered the exam
ination of the state industries, the
states auditing board has asked the
supreme court to direct that certain
records be given up to the boards
representatives.
The auditing board, created by the
initiated Law of Nov. g., has en-
countered many difficulties in maxi
ing the audit of the North Dakota
mill and elevator associations mill
at Drake, but it was only when es-
sential records could not be obtain
ed that the appeal was made to the
supreme court, it. was stated.
MIS- lLOSo hCllcI, CuC UOOAhSpGSA
at the Drake mill refused to allow
= Harry Altman, one OF the certified
accountants employed by the board
OF auditors, to have access to the
safe in which records were kept, 1t
is charged, and that efforts to gain
information regarding the COnsum-
er's Stores transaction had been un-
successful, though efforts had been
made in Fargo, Bismarck and at the
mill
Most OF Flour To League Stores
It is stated by Harry l.. Altman, in
an affidavit accompanying the pc
tition to the supreme court, that he
had found that approximately
$4,000 of flour had been shipped
ont on consignment of which ap-
proximately $4,000 worth had been
shipped to the Consumers United
Stores company, corporation hav-
ing stores i'll various parts of North
Dakota, that affiant asked the per-
sons in charge Of the mill and eleva-
tor at Drake for the records and cor
respondence covering these transac-
trons and Mr.. Hibbit, the manager.
informed him that Mrs. Rose Keller
had absolute control Of all books and
records and that he had nothing to
do with that department and that the
said Mrs. Keller stated she did not
have the records or correspondence
in connection with these consign-
mcnt Shipments; that said records
and correspondence were handled
either through the Fargo or Bis
n,arck office of the North Dakota
mill and elevators association; that
affiant requested the said records in
the office of the mill and elevator
association at Fargo from Mrs.
Dodds, secretary to Mr.. j. A. Nc
Govern, manager of the mill and ell
Eyator association, being out of the
city and that the said Mrs. Dodds in
formed him that she did not have the
records and that they were either: at
the Drake mill and elevator or in the
office of the industrial commission
at Bismarck but that she knew that
weekly reports were supposed to be
sent by the consignees to either the
} Drake mill and elevator or the in-s
dustrial commission at Bismarck;
that affiant requested information
with refernce to these consignments
from the manager of the Consumers
United Stores company at Fargo
and that said managers and his as
sistant, Mr.. Powers, both informed
him that the reports were sent to
the mill and elevator at Drake with
every remittance; that affiant also
asked the office secretary Of the
manager of the North Dakota mill
and elevator association at Fargo
for books and records apd that he
was informed that said records had
been turned over to the Equitable
Audit company, of Minneapolis. Mimi.
the latter part of the preceding
month for audit, and that to the best
OF her knowledge said books were
still in the hands of the Equitable
Audit company; that affiant then
telephoned e. G. Lee, the represent
atiye of the Bishop Brissman and
company, who is in charge of the
audit Of the various state industries
of North Dakota, stating the above
facts to Mr.. Lee. Affiant states fur
ther that the bookkeeper at the
Drake mill, Mrs.. Rose Keller, hind
cred and delayed the examination on
the part Ol dllluuL 6Luu AAo oo0A0t1AAS
in many ways; affiant further states
that it is essential that he consult
these records in order to make q
complete and satisfactory examina-
ton Of the mill and elevator at
Drake.
81 e. G.. Lee, another accountant en-:
ployed by the state board Of audit
ors, who engaged in the pursuit for
the records, says that he was inform
cd by w. "A. Anderson, secretary Of
the Industrial commission, that he
should see w. A. Darling, Of the
] Equitable Audit company, which was
then working on the records Of the
state home building association at
Bismarck, 4.
Darling told him, he declared; that
part of the records we're in. Rilsmarck 9 Z
and that part sof than wegS tuilt-l
CAB lock ed up6 ~ lAxE - saIad thek