The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-08-02
EXTRA SESSION .
IS ADVOCATED
ATC0NFERENCE
Resolutions Adopted at Meet
ing Held at Fargo to Con-
slider Grain Situation
FOR u. S. CORPORATION
Would Revive Organization
Which FunctiOned During
War to Handle Surplus

Fargo, Aug. 2.-More than 500 far
mers and business men, representing
20 counties in Moth Dakota, gath
cred in the Fargo auditorium to con-
slider the crisis confronting the
wheat growers. adopted resolutions
calling upon President Harding to
call an extra session of congress I'm
mediately for the purpose Of reviv-
ing the U. S. Grain Corporation or
creating some other governmental
agency to handle the wheat crop
The resolutions were unanimously
adopted as reported by committee
Of Is, just before the conference ad-
journed last evening after a day lof
serious discussion of the predicameQt
in which the northwestern states are
in because of the ruinously low price
Of wheat at the present time. The
organization committee was author
ICED to call joint conference Of
states.
Unlike other conferences Of this
kind, the Fargo meeting did not stop
with the adoption Of resolutions but
took steps to follow up the decision
of the conference with thorough or
ganization work. Two additional
committees were appointed-one to
organize every county in the state
to back up the demand voiced by the
meeting here and another to cooper
ate with similar organizations in
other states and to represent North
Dakota at any regional or national
gatherings of this nature that may
be called in the immediate future.
The latter body was designated as
an affiliation committee.
The organization committee Of Is
members was named as follows:
Organization Committee.
H. C. Halvorson Of Minot, chair
man, Frank Heimes, VALLEY City,
Walter Reed, Fargo; Al. Scott,
Grand Forks; J. A. Buchanan, Stuts-
man county; James Gronna, Lakota;
George Allen, Pleasant Lake; E. A.
Bowman, Kuhn; j. E. Reeder. Town
er; D. W. Mottheir, Fessenden; Nels
Kinkle, Fessenden; A. c. Peterson,
New Rockford.
This committee met last evening
and organized for the organization
drive which the conference urged be
started in every country in the state
An executive committee was elected
consisting of H. L. Halvorson Of Mi
not, president; Jas Gronna of Lakota,
vice president; r. B. Fuller of Fargo,
secretary Of the North Dakota Farm
Bureau Federation, secretary, the
other ex officio members being Frank
Heimes, Walter Reed, Gerald P. Nyc,
A. ]. Scott and A. ]. McInnes.
The afiliation committee is COM
posed of the following members:
Walter r. Reed, Fargo. chairman;
L. S. Ward, Barnes county; Gerald
p. Nye, Griggs; J. D. Bacon, Grand
Forks; ]. E. McElroy, Stutsman; Jas.
A. Gronna, Nelson; Hans Blossom,
Pierce; c. E. Danielson, Ward; T. S.
Hunt, LaMoure; J. B. Resder, Nc
Henry; T. L. Beiseker, Vets; A. G..
Peterson. Eddy, and Gov. r. A. Mes
tos, Burleigh.
The consensus Of the meeting was
that this movement must not be con-
fined to North Dakota if anything is
to be accomplished but must be car
ried into. other states. Almost all
the speakers at Tuesdays gathering
expressed the opinion that North Da-
kota could not accomplish anything
along this line alone but that all the
wheat growing states Of the union
must work in unison II enough press
ure is to be brought to bear upon the
president and congress to secure de-
sired action.