Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-07-07

The strength of the appeal OF Tot
ten, Gurnmerson and 'Bilican' to the
sympathy Of leaguers may be gagged
by the fact that Totten is today fac
ing these specific charges:
"'Embezzlement of $102.70 OF
league funds.
CA federal charge of t~ransporta-
ton of liquor.
Criminal libel, preferred by mem.
bers Of the state committee.
1.-The garnishment of an account
which he had established in the Da.
kota Savings bank.
''An injunction f%orbidding him tc
have anything to DO in future with
the management Of The Courier
News
Turns Up in Stern's Bank.
1T was Totten's arrest by the com
mittee last Saturday on a charge Of
embeZzlement that apparently arous.
ed in him a desire to get even. Treas.
urer Ole Kaldor had received com.
plant that $102.70, Sent in to the re.
call fund. had not been acknowl-
eyed in The Courier News. The send.
er of the money forwarded his can.
celed check to prove that it had beer
received at league headquarters. Mr.
Kaldor found that it had been in,
dorsed with a fac smile of the STAMP
he uses on all checks, and which
posted, not with the funds which Mr.
Kaldor has in his charge, but in tn.
Dakota Savings bank-Alex Stern'
bank-where Mr.. Kaldor has neve,
carried an account.
M Kaldor found, On inquiry at tn,
bank, that the money had been de
posted by an employe of The Cour
Ter News But it had not been de
posted to the credit of The Courie
Investigation at the Office Of TIL,
Courier News disclosed that Their
was no record on it's books of a de
post with the Dakota Savings bank
or the receipt Of a sum of $1O2,7O,
Admits Depositing $2,27O.
When the committees investiga
ton had got this far. Totten cam
forward and admitted depostting tn
money. He said it came to TIL
Courier-News. though it was mad
out to Ole Kaldor. His excuse TO
putting Mr.. KaldoTs signature to tn
check. and depositing it to his owl
account. was that Mr.. Kaldor had re
fused to give him the money he sal!
he needed for The Courier-News. H
admitted then that, he had 20 deposit
ed about $500. but in the statemen
which he tried to get into TIL
Courier-News yesterday he admitte
the sum was $2,27o. The amount &C
tually gaTnisheed by the committe
was s2.172.41. 8
1T is the charge Of Totten and hi
friends that the executive committe
has "mishandled". funds sent in b
farmers. Every dollar sent in to tn
recall fund has been receipted,' y sal
Treasurer Ole Kaldor. Every chez
has been entered on a register, fo
have been deposited elsewhere by NJ
Totem" The committee is now in
vestigating the possibility that othe
checks may not have reached thei
intended destination, and asks a
who have sent donations, which hav
not been acknowledged in The Couri
er-News. to communicate at one
with Mr.. Kaldor, giving dates and
full description.
Chairman A. A. Liederbach We
hementfy denied that there had bee
any outstanding" of funds. Ever
: dollar expended by U.s." he said, cha
I been in conformity with the instrue
tons drawn by the mass conventio
namely:
What Money Is Used For.
IT.. To pay obligations owing 1
counties for 1920 campaign expenses
"2. To pay certain overdraft
from the las campaign;
'"3. To pay other campaign ez
penses from the last campaign;
20. To help the Service Burea
care for certain pressing obligations
'"5. To lake care OF accommods
ton notes;