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SIGNED NOTES
IN BLANK FOR
FRANK BEDDOW
fiertus and Johnson Obli
gated to Back Promoter
For $487,000
BY CECIL H. MAHOOD,
Tribune Staff Correspondent.
Parker, S. D., May 26. — George
/tertus and Martin Johnson, Avon,
S. D., farmers, affixed their signa
tures to contracts that obligated
them to furnish Frank R. Reddow
with financial backing to the sum of
$487,000 and signed their names to
property statements In blank that
later showed handwriting purporting
Rertus and Johnson to be worth over
$650,000.
They wrote their names on con
tracts which provided that they
should receive financial remuneration
in the form of 240 acres of Cali
fornia land and $60,000 In cash for
giving Reddow notes that totalled
$487,000 as security for their con
tract.
Bertus placed his signature on $50.
000 worth of notes later used as se
curity for issuance of $60,000 worth
of certificates of deposits from the
Citizens State hank and for alleged
theft of which Reddow is standing
trial here.
Bertus received $627,000 in notes
from Reddow in exchange for the
$487,000 given him by Bertun and
Johnson, hut neither Bertus or John
son knew the contents of any of the
documents at the time they were
drawn and signed, both testified
Monday.
Statements to the effect that neith
er had taken the time to read any
of the papers that ran into thousands
of dollars stunned the packed house
present. In reality, both are wit
nesses for tlie state, hut no one of the
interested spectators ventured an
opinion as to who their testimony
really aided because of the fact it
became so twisted and warped at
the hands of state’s Attorney Dan
Hanson and G. M. Castor, attorney
for Beddow.
Bertus Now “Broke”
A wealthy farmer four years ago,
Bertus testified that today he is al
most penniless, owes $78,000 on his
farm and is filling a job as day labor
er to help pay off some of his debts.
Johnson said he was still farming hul
that from an independent farmer he
had slipped to a poor man with debts
totalling over $150,000
In an attempt to show suppression
of evidence on the part of Beddow
after lie was arrested, Attorney Han
son queried Rertus as follows:
“Did Beddow and you see each other
shortly after December 21, 1923?”
“Yes,” Bertus replied.
“What did he say 7"
He told me to get away from
Sioux City."
‘‘What else?”
"To go to California and stay un
til this affair blew over.”
Both Bertus and Johnson declared
they had never given Beddow au
thority to 1 iII out property state
ments and that they had directed
him not to fill out the faces of the
property statements because they
could not even hope to meet any
obligations arising from their issu
ance.
Total Notes Near Million
Testimony showed that neither had
received any compensation from
Beddow for signing the $50,000 worth
of notes mentioned. Total notes in
circulation and signed by the two
nearly bankrupt farmers go over the
$725,000 mark, Hanson said, follow
ing the afternoon session. Most of
that amount is being held by South
Dakota banks. Me said.
The property statements and notes
of importance, as well as correspond
ence of value relating to the semi
partnership of Beddow and the two
farmers, were nearly all executed in
Beddow’s American Colonization com
pany office, the testimony showed.
Evidence was shown to the effect that
Bertus and Johnson each received
$10 an acre for California real estate
projects they financed by their note
issues.
Near the conclusion of the day’s
session Attorney Castor led Bertus
into a series of answers designed to
extract statements regarding what
the defense termed an ‘‘important
meeting” between Beddow’s mother,
Beddow and Bertus in the Beddow
home shortly after the Citizens State
bank was closed by the State Bank
examiner December 31.
“Didn't Beddow tell you to skip
the country if you wanted to, but
that he (Beddow) was convicted lie
had committed no wrong doing and
that he was going to stay in Sioux
City and see the deal through?"
Answer Shock to Woman
At this question from Castor Mrs.
Beddow could scarcely retain control
of herself and tense with expecta
tion, and her face wreathed in a
smile at what she apparently
thought was a turning point in the
evidence, she waited breathlessly
for Bertus’ answer.
“No, he did not,” Bertus shouted
At this reply Mrs. Beddow sank
hack into her chair and hesitating
hut for an instant, swept out the
courtroom just as Judge I.. H. Kloe
gsr adjourned court until Tuesday
morning.
vt the repeeated denials of Bertus
Norfolk Kicks; Don’t Like
To Be on Bonesteei Line
Uncoln. Neb., May 26.—(Special)
—The Chamber of Commerce of Nor
folk Monday enlisted the aid of the
state railway commission in induc
ing or compelling the Northwestern
Kailroad company to quit listing it as
on the Bonesteei branch, when in
foot, it is on the main line. Jts
officers say they have pleaded wltti
the officers of the railroad and held
conferences without getting any
where, “and no longer can the hu
nt lUtion be endured."
Queen Shakes Mean
Slipper to Tune of
American Jazz
Universal Service
Madrid. May 116.—The queen o.
Spain foxtrotted for the first time to
an American Jazz band Saturday,
when Ambassador Alexander P.
Moore, discarding conventionalities,
gave his first big dinner in honor of
the king and queen at the American
embassy.
The guests sat at two tables. Am
bassador Moore, as host with the
queen alone and Mrs. Mildred Mnrtln,
hostess to the king, at the other.
Following tho dinner a reception
was held at which the negro Jazz
hand of the Kmbassy Dance club in
Paris played and Madame Matezen
auer sang. Two hundred attended
the reception, including Dougins
Fairbanks and Mary Plckford, the
former dancing with the queen and
the latter with tho king.
Ambassador Moore Is giving a
muslcale Tuesday In honor of the
Dowager Queen Marla Christina.
COOLIDGE SIGNS
EXCLUSION ACT
Criticism of Congress Stirs
Ire of Friends of
Measure
Universal Service
Washington, May 26. — President
Coolidge Monday signed the Johnson
selective immigration bill containing
r clause prohibiting Japanese from
entering the United States after July
1 with the purpose of settling here.
The president accompanied the sign
ature with a statement character
izing the Japanese exclusion provi
sion as “unnecessary and deplorable,"
and declared he would have vetoed it
without hesitation if it had stood
alone.
Leaders among the host of ad
herents of the new law in congress
did not attempt to conceal their re
sentment over the tenor of the pres
ident's declaration. He took occasion
to praise the so-called “gentlemen’s
agreement" by which the Japanese
government has been supposed to
co-operate with the United States
government in restraining the dump
ing of laborers upon these shores.
Proponents of tiie Johnson bill say
the agreement has not worked and
reiterated that the main object in the
insertion of the exclusion clause was
to sustitute an ah' tight arrangement
for one proved to be full of leaks.
Secretary of State Hughes, by
whose counsel the president waged
his strenuous but unavailing fight
against the exclusion clause, made a
last minute attempt to styay Coolidge
to a veto of the hill. He left the
White House hurriedly after a con
ference which preceded announce
ment of the signing by only a short
space of time. He wap closeted with
the president late Saturday after
noon also. At this time Coolidge was
still debating what course of aetlor
to take.
and Johnson that they had read any
of the instruments drawn in Ihju
dow’s office and to which they said
they affixed their names without
any knowledge of the contents, the
crowded courtroom could not re
strain laughter. Though their first
testimony regarding signatures was
shaken at innumerable places, they
both remained firm in thol'- testi
mony that they had trusted Beddow
implicitly when directed to sign their
names and that they thought there
was no necessity for examining the
contents of the papers
Hanson, prosecuting attorney, said
late Monday he expected to com
plete examination of state witnesses
by Tuesday noon. Both the pros
ecuting and defending attorneys are
anxious to complete the trial by
May 30.
Beddow suffered a setback
when the hearing was resumed
Monday. Judge L. b I-leeg
cr overruled Beddow’s objection to
admittance In evidence of property
statements hearing the signatures of
Martin Johnson and George Bertus,
Avon, S. D.. farmers implicated In
the alleged bank wrecking. The
property statements supporting in
dorsements of Johnson and Bertus
on notes for $50,000, made It possi
ble for Beddow to withdraw this
amount of money from the bank, th*
state claims.
Judge Fleeger made his decision
after Morris Ilkln, of Sioux City,
former business associate of Bed
dow. aga :t testified. Ttkln said he
first saw the property statements
and notes in Beddow’s office in the
Grain Exchange building In S’oux
City. The statements, valuing pi-op
erty holdings of Bertus and John
son at $075,000, were filled out by
Beddow in his office, In the presence
of his father, S. J- Beddow, and It
kin, tlie latter testified. The $675,
000 is admittedly much too high as
valuation of the Bertus and John
son property holdings.
According to Itkln. the notes at
tached to the property statements
were the same Instruments he pre
sented to Baimore Swan, assistant
cashier of the Parker bank.
Itkin denied he had been promised
immunity for testifying against Bed
dow.
Plans to Put Former Klan
Leader on Stand Beaten
W-ashlngton, May 28. (T. N. B.) —
Plans of George E. B. Peddy to put
E. I. Clark, former Imperial wizard
or the Ku KIux Klan. before the Sen
ate investigating Peddy 8 contest for
the senatorial seat of Earl B. May
field of Texas were blocked Monday
afternoon.
Counsel for the senator said that
Clark had been convicted of a fel
ony and therefore ahbuld lj$ bared.
Highest Honor Men at West Point I
T, cSi/E>rar»
Cadet Wallace H. Hastings, or California, and Cadet Afbert V.
Glenn, of Mississippi, are running neck sod neck for the highest honors
In the graduating class at the United States Military Academy at Wi\t
Point, N. Y.. which will receive Its diplomas on June 13. Hastings ha*
a fractional lead
“LIAR” FLUNG
AT LAWYER IN
BEDDOW TRIAL
Witness Hurls Bomb Into
Hearing—Says Writing
On Notes Forged
BY CECIL H. MAHOOD,
Tribune Staff Correspondent.
Parker, S. D., May 23—One explosion
followed another Friday afternoon in
circuit court at Parker, S. D., where
Frank R. Beddow Is facing a $50,000
larceny charge from the Citizens
State bank.
The first explosion, when J. F.
Kass, counsel for Beddow, produced
$25,000 worth of certificates of de
posit which formed a part of the
$50,000 issue which Beddow Is ac
cused of stealing and which the state
apparently believed could not, be ob
tained by the defense, proved to lie
a "Dud” compared with laie after
noon developments.
The next crash came when Martin
Johnson, Avon, S. D., farmer, testi
fied that he actually did sign his
name to property statements in blank
anct that the writing on the face of
the note which purported Johnson to
be worth over $300,000 was tilled In
without his knowledge and without
his consent. It was regarding intro
duction of these property statements
as evidence of Beddow's alleged
fraudulent scheme to steal the $50,
000 that precipitated a veritable
barrage from both State’s Attorney
Hanson and counsel for the defense
who centered their attack on the
competency of the property state
ments as material evidence.
Open Fire on Judge
The jury and the two witnesses,
Johnson und George Bertus, were,
sent out of the court room when the
prosecution and defense both swung
their heavy artillery on Judge L. I,.
Flc^ger. Questioning the law in In
troducing the type of evidence de
sired by the state, as well as the in
criminating effect of proof so far In
troduced In the case and the rela
tivity of the evidence thus far shown
ns to the alleged larceny by Beddow,
were discussed In no uncertain terms
by attorneys, while Judge Fleeger
vainly tried to maintain the semb
lance of order.
"You’re a liar,” Dan Hanson slates
attorney, shrieked at A. B. Carlson,
attorney for Beddow, at one stage of
the controversy In which Carlson
was expounding his thoughts on the
principles of law Invoiced.
"Maybe so, and maybe not.” Carl
son retorted, "but, I am cut out for
a lawyer and Intend to remain in that
vocation."
Spring t urprls*
Producing by Beddow of $25,0o0
worth of certificates of deposit
which the state apparently believed
could not be introduced in their en
tirety and subsequent checking and
rechecking of the missing certificates
of deposit by state’s attorneys, proved
to be a climax to the evidence of the
state witnesses that had not been
anticipated. Hanson demanded the
missing certificates of deposit be pro
duced by Beddow while H. J. Caul
Held, vice president of the Citizens
fc^tate bank was on the stand. In
response to questioning by Hanson,
f'aulHeld testified that 15 certificates
of deposit with an aggregate value of
150,000 had been Issued by him to
Beddow.
It is this sum, In the form of cer
Beck Named Manager of
Ninth Vet Bureau Area
Washington. May 23.— Charles O.
Heck today was appointed manager
of District number 9 of the Veterans
Hureau, with headquarters at St.
I.ouis. The"district Includes Iowa,
Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri, Heck
succeeds M. K. Head, recently trans
ferred to New York.
CANADA MINKS MUCH COAL.
More coal was mined in Canada In
the year Just ended than In any other
year in thq history of the country.
tlfloates of deposit mentioned that
Beddow Is accused of having stolen
from tjie bank and which he Is al
leged to have obtained by fraudulent
scheming, Hanson succeeded In get
ting a majority back, eight in all,
with $25,000 value, to use as evidence
at the trial. Beddow also had gotten
busy and taken tip $25,000 worth,
paying the holders the full cash val
ue and now has given them into the
court's care with the request that
they he returned to the banking de
partment.
Beddow’s attorneys Insisted that ns
soon as Beddow learned he had been
deceived regarding the financial con
dition of the hank he had set out
Immediately to get possession of the
certlllcatos, Intending to give them
back to the bunk and to pay the face
value of them himself.
May Recall Witnesses
Attorneys for the state Indicated
late Friday that some of the wit
n^ses dimlssed following submitting
of their testimony to the Jury may
be recalled for more questioning.
Belief on the part of attorneys for
the state that witnesses became-con
fused regarding two sets of notes in
volved In the transaction and that
this confusion may have led witness
to make Incomplete or wrong state
ments wus the reason given for the
probable recall of one or two. Only
10 of the 40 state witnesses have
been called to the witness stand thus
far.
'Court was adjourned by Judge
Fleeger until 9:30 o’clock Monday tis
Illness of his mother necessitated the
Judge adjourning until next week.
J. W. Ulmer, president of the Menno,
S. 1)., State hank, testified that Mau
rice Itkin, an agent of Beddow, de
livered a $3,500 certificate of deposit
to him in payment of a business debt
Beddow had contracted. Payment
was made shortly after December
21, Ulmer said. His testimony was
brief and cross examination was
waived by the defense.
Caulfield, 60-year-old, vice pres
ident of the bank, a resident of Sioux
City since 1871, told how he had
placed confidence In Beddow's en
terprises, advertised and promoted
products of the Union Gravity Level
company a Beddow project, and fin
ally, believing he and a lifelong posi
tion, accepted Beddow's offer to bo
come an officer of the Citizens State
bank.
Extensiveness of Beddow’s Cali
fornia land transactions was brought
out In Caulfield’ testimony. He
claimed that Beddow needed hanks
to float paper to the extent of over
$2,000,000.
It was following Caulfield’s pro
motion work In California land that
he was offerod the position in the
Others Freed
Men arrested, or otherwise impli
cated with Beddow in his frenzied
finance deals, will not be prosecuted,
Prosecutor Hanson announced Fri
day.
They are George Elliott, Morris
Itkin, P. A. Cunningham, Earl Cor
rigan, H. J. Kipper and H. I. Smith
of Sioux City; Balmore Swan of
Parker, George Bertus and Martin
Johnson of Avon, S. D., and George
Caulfield, former vice president of
the Citizens bank.
“When we Issued warrants against
several persons besides Beddow, we
did not know Just what the situation
was as to their guilt or innocence,'’
said Mr. Hanson. “Details of the case
were so complicated at the time of
the bank failure, and trails leading
to the guilty were no Interwoven,
that arrest of all those men seemed
vital at the time.
“We have since learned that these
men were only tools. Beddow is the
big gun.’’
House Resumes Debate on
McNary-Haugen Farm Bill
Washington. May 23.—The House
resumed debate today on the Mc
Nary-Haugen farm relief bill with 5^
hours ulloted for alternating periods
of attack and defense of the measure.
Possibility of a vote before next
Tuesday seemed slight.
Itepresentatlve Kincheloe, demo
crat, Kentucky, a committee member,
started an attack on the measure.
CABINET QUITS;
NATIONALISTS
TO CET CHANCE
AH Attempts to Reorganize
Before Reichstag Opens
Today, Fail
BY KARL H. VON WIEGAND,
Universal Service Correspondent
i Copyright. 1924.)
Rerlin. May 26. -Tho Marx-Stross
man cabinet has resigned.
Following a hurried cabinet session
Monday night, Chancellor Marx, un
der whose regime Germany pulled it
self together stabilised Its national
currency improved economic condi
tion* and accepted the Da //es report,
handed In his resignation to President
Kbert at 10:30 o’clock.
The action of the cabinet v.’as fol
lowed by a last desperate, but n vain,
effort of the several parties to agree
to a new government before tho
letchstag meets Tuesday. These
efforts finally failed when the parties
of the middle repeeted the proposals
of the nationalists who again tried
to meet the crisis by putting forth
Von TIrpitz as a "super-party'*
chancellor.
Give Nationalists Chance
As a result President Kbert will
take the formation or a new govern
ment In hand Tuesday and will give
the nationalists their first chance.
They are likely to give the mandate
either to Von Tirpltz or Dr. Dergt.
If, as seems certain, ho Is unable
to form a cabinet that can command
a majority, the mandate is likely to
go to the socialists and after that
to the present coalition of middle
parties. These are certain to pro
pose Marx again as chancellor.
The middle parties adopted resolu
Mins which pledged the new g<v-;in
ment to accept the Dawes plan prac
tically without condition. The pres
ent cabinet will stay in office unit
the new government Is formed.
Cabinet Opens Today
What should he a memorable ses
sion of the newly elected relehstag,
one which will determine the fate
of the Dawes plan and, to a far
reaching extent, contribute to the
peace or economic disorders of Eu
rope, meets Tuesday afternoon.
A complete rearrangement of seat
ing on the floor of the house has
been made necessary by the new
parties and the growth of the com
munists from 3 to 62. Von Tirpltz
and I.udendorff, through not In the
same party have been given seats
well to the front, close by the com
munists.
The latter It Is feared have organ
ized a veritable riot. Influences are
%at work trying to presuade Von Ttr
pltz and Ludendorff not to appear la
answer to roll call.
Only a small fraction of the de
mand for cards of admission has
been granted because of extraordin
ary police precautions.
Attempt to Change
Church Creed Fails
Methodists at General Con
ference Elect Three
Book Agents
Universal Service
Springfield, Mass., May 26/—Interest
tentered In the election of book agents
at the Methodist general conference
Monday. The balloting came after
the conference had voted to have
three agents Instead of one. Those
elected were:
John H. Race, former agent at New
York.
Dr. George C. Douglas, Troy, N. Y.
Dr. O. G. Markam, Baldwin, Kan. !
Robert S. Hughes, head of the
church’s publishing house at Chi
cago. failed of re-election.
The afternoon session was marked
by sharp debate over the minority
report which favors elimination of,
the clause: ‘T believe lu the Holy
Catholic church" in the apostle's creed
and the substitution of the words
"the Holy Christian church."
The report was defeated and the
creed remains unchanged. An at
tempt was made to stampede the con
ference by s motion to adjourn before
a vote could be taken on the report.
This was defeated, largely through
the efforts of Dr. George RUlott.
Governor Bryan Wants
Gasoline at 17 Cent
Lincoln. Neb., May 26.—(Special)
—Governor Bryan said Monday he
is endeavoring to have gasoline sta
tions established In Lincoln, where
the owners and operators are not
obliged to maintain the tank wagon
price in order to buy a supply to
sell to the public.
■‘Substantial people contemplate
starting filling stations In Lincoln.”
said the governor. "I have hopes
that gasoline will be sold at 17 cents
a gallon, or loss, preferably less, de
pending upon the purchase price of
the product. It Is immaterial wheth
er llie stations established be new or
old ones take never."
.Tire Bursts, Woman Thrown
From Auto; Neck Is Broken
Riverside, ('at.. May 26.—When the
automobile in which Mrs. Anna D.
Nunn. 35. Los Angeles, was riding
near here Sunday blew out a front
tire, the resultant swerve and joit
threw her from her seat unto tho
pavement and broke her neck. She
died enronte to a hospital.
ONLY KIVU REACH POSITION
Of every 100 young men who begin as
railroad firemen, only five ever reach
the position of oassenger engineer.
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