The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 24, 1919, Page 1

———- THE WEATHER Generally Falr NE! ' LAST EDITION THIRTY-NINTH YEAR BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WED! K TRIB DAY, DEC. 24, 1919 s : PRICE FIVE CENTS DEMORALIZATIO QF EXCHANGE IS GIVEN ANALYSIS Three Important Factors, Says Wall Street, Cause Depreciation AMERICA GREAT CREDITOR Allies and Other Nations Now Owe the United States $15,000,000,000 New York, Dec. 23.—Three factors in the demoralization of foreign ex- change, intelligible to the average man, rise above the complexities of the present situation, according to old-timers ‘in Wall street. These are: (1) Allied and _ other nations of the world owe the United States approximately $15,000,000,000; (2) American manufacturers hesi- tate, owing to peace treaty uncertainty, to accept big advance foreign orders; (3) England’s virtual suspension of gold exports outside the British col- onies is repulsing American trade. “Just why the British pound sterling normally worth $4.8665 in American gold, should have declined so much since the war ended, and what it all means is an obscure question,” said a New York financial expert. “The pres- ent situation, Sir George Paish’s ap- prehensions notwithstanding, is by no means hopeless. Prophecies of a ‘breakdown’ of credit are not well founded. “America, the storehouse of the world and now the world’s banker, is in the same position England was in after the Napoleonic and American Civil wars. She bought the cheap se- ‘curities of impoverished nations in a most prodigious manner and thereby laid the foundation for her future wealth. We must do likewise and do it within the next two or three years by which time these abnormal condi- tions will have passed. U. S. AT DISADVANTAGE “With pound sterling 25 percent or more below par England can sell to the United States at a great advantage. We can sell American goods abroad only at a great disadvantage because we must add the abnormal rate of ex- change to the goods to get into for- eign markets. Premier Lloyd George recently declared, when sterling was selling at a discount of 15 percent, that the discount really represented a “protective tariff’ of 15 percent on goods manufactured in England. Cer- tainly it is helping to keep American goods out of that country. i “The only remedy for this condition is for the United States to buy foreign securities and extend long time credit for merchandise. We are in a strong economic position. The nations of Europe must have our cotton and wheat and, since they are so heavily indebted to us and we must extend them many more millions to put them on their feet what is the difference whether we buy their bonds or send them our merchandise? “Bveryone in Wall street knows that if the Peace Treaty had been sign- ed in Washington an International Ex- change Committee would have been organized long before now to estab- lish exchange and bring about other necessary réadjustments. Never dur- ing the darkest days of the war, when the Germans were almost at Paris, did British and French exchange go to where it is now. The British, during the war, by a system of credits with the United States, had sterling ‘peg- ’ to. $4:52. Benne Csisien over and gold exports curtailed there was- nothing to keep it that close to parity. Indeed, unless the United States loosens its purse strings there are London financial ex- perts who say the pound sterling will drop as low as $2.50, That would be a calamity. It would be a two-edged sword injuring both England and the United States. “Europe is like a man on the verge of death due to starvation. When you find such an unfortunate you feed him gradually until the stomach becomes accustomed to digesting food. Now our} aim has been all along to ‘stuff’ Eu- rope with all kinds of American pro- ducts. We have piled up a trade bal- ance, according to former Secretary of Commerce Redfield, aggregating $4,- 000,000,000 2 year. Europe's financial system, like the starved human stom- ach, has been unable to assimilate it. Consequently, we thus contribute to tthe demoralization of foreign ex- change and, incidentally, in inflation help to lower the purchasing power of our own dollar. “When you consider, as Mr. Red- field points out, that $4,000,000,000 rep- resents American dollars at par and must be paid by those who owe it in depreciated currencies, making it the equivalent of $5,000,000,000, the result cannot be healthful to future Amer- ican trade and commerce. Foreign buyers are going into more favorable markets.” CHRISTMAS AT CROOKSTON Miss Hilda Bergstrom left last night for Crookston, Minn., where she will spend the holidays. TO MINNEAPOLIS Miss Ethel Fleming of the attorney general’s staff left last night for Min- neapolis, where she will spend Christ- mas with her parents. , TELEPHONE CHIEFS HERE L. D. Richardson, general manager of the North Dakota Independent Tel- ephone Co.; H. A. Livermore, auditor, and Paul Bunce, district traffic chief, were here from Fargo yesterday call- ing on the local office of the company. BSS SERRE TO CITIES FOR HOLIDAYS Henry ‘Doerr of the Minneapolis Drug Co. and F. C. McCagerty of Noyes Bros. & Cutler have gone to the Twin Cities for the holidays. It is possible that Mr. McCagerty, who has covered this district for several years, may be assigned some other territory. LINCOLN PLANS BIG WELCOME TO JACK PERSHING Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 23.—General John J. Pershing will arrive in Lin- coln today for a Christmas holiday visit with members of his family from; Leclede, Mo., his birthplace where yesterday he visited the scenes of his boyhood days. While here the general will be the honor guests at a number of club din- ners and Friday night he will attend a public reception at the state capitol. | | giving its staff an opportunity t day of the whole year at home. Tribune will be dispensed with T! The Tribune takes this occa support and encouragement. THE TRIBUNE TO OBSERVE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY The Tribune will as usual observe Christmas as a holiday, and friends and patrons a merry Christmas and a happy New Year, and to thank them most heartily for their continued ALLREGORDS FOR N. Y. SHOPPING ARE SHATTERED Eleventh Hour Christmas Rush Spends $3,000,000 in Holi- day Bonuses | | | | omorrow to enjoy the happiest Therefore, all editions of The ‘hursday. sion to wish all of its readers i} ONLY TWO VOTES AGAINST SCHOOL _ BOND PROPOSAL No Opposition Develops at $75,- 000 Issue Election Yesterday STATE OFFICIALS TO IGNORE ACTS OF NEW BOARDS | Independents Declare They Will. Insist On Obedience to Constitution ' - | Practically no opposition developed | at the polls yesterday when the vot-/ Jers of the Bismarck school district | | voted in favor of the proposed bond is- | ‘sue of $75,000 for a new eight-room school building on the east side. There | were 158 votes cast of which only two | TGR aeet i were against tthe proposition. | Independent state officials at the The school board will start work on} capitol have declared their intention | plans for the new building immediate-| or ignoring any acts of the state ly after the holidays and it is expected | auditing board, board of alization, | that bids will be asked for to con-}*U@iné Doard, board of equalization, struct tthe building the latter part of | ¢mergency commission and other ad-| this winter. Actual construction is|ministrative bodies as reconstituted ; expected to be under way this spring | of rt i | and the school board epee to have the | eee ee ene pessi0n, should | building ready for occupancy next fall.ithese boards seek to sit before the} rea ~|come operative as provided by the; ent term of school started last fall | constitution. This means, say these! jand those most insistent that a new | officials, that they do not recognize | jetracture be built were’ the beats Of | House Bill 60 which would make all! pupils attending the various schools of these measures immediately effec- where crowded conditions have greatly | tive, as a valid enactment. y diminished the efficiency of the teach-| More than 15,000 electors have pe- ers. eer ‘ |titioned the governor for a referen- The new building will be located/ dum vote on House Bill.60. So far on the block bounded by Avenues C/the governor has not stated whether and D and Thirteenth end Fourtesnit he will call a referendum election or own halt of the block north of that. place any ‘of the ects of the. special location and all of the grounds will be! session which did not carry consti- ee REST Senter, ora (eugene emergency elauses into, ope: a a y poard. in| ration. he governor's office advise all probability the city commission will! Tuesday that it had not yet named a! be asked to close Avenue D so that| state sheriff, who is created in one the grounds will not be cut in two by/of the numerous league measures! that thoroughfare. | which failed to secure the two-thirds | [MUSKET OWNED BY ots necessary tor an “emergency ORIGINAL ROBINSON | LANGER CONDEMNS TERRORIST TACTICS PRACTICED BY TOWNLEY GANGSTERS IN __RECENT SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE SESSION New York, Dec. 24—New York’s final day of Christmas shopping started to- day with a rush that promised to ex-, ceed even the record-breaking busi-; ness of yesterday. Never before in the history of the city has there been such widely dis- tributed prosperity. The stores along Attorney General Declares Sen-jFifth avenue and other streets where imore expensive goods were on sale ate Bill 20 Will Not Stop the ‘were jammed with eager shoppers as, ‘ ‘early as were the shops in the humbler Mouths of Independent State sections. Officials — Predicts Downfall Christmas bonuses distributed by; of Red Radicalism When the jfirms in thte financial districts were} estimated today to aggregate $31,000,-| People Are Given Opportunit to Speak at Polls 1000. Employes of corporations, banks! and brokerage firms in many received double the bonuses of last year. |. The gifts varied from 15 pe | 100 percent of the recipient’s salary. MANY KNIGHTS OF THE GRIP SPEND CHRISTMAS HOM | Popular : | Valley City, N. D., Dec. 24—Address- ing an audience so large that it was necessary to clear out E. J. Pegg’s gar- age to afford an auditorium with suf-/ ficient space to accommodate every-| one, Attorney General William Lan-| ger last night condemned as “terror-} ism” the action of the league majority | during the recent special session in enacting Senate Bill No. 20, making it Frank McCagherty, a felony for any state official to un-| vel] as justly criticise the league’s industrial! Traveling Man, Is Not Ex. pected to Return ‘0 | | | program, and he declared that all the] | laws of this kind which a legislature dominated by Townley might choose| to pass would not serve to prevent him) and other state officials from telling) Tvanters during the year are leaving | e : ” ‘or have left for their homes where The attorney general referred to an’ they will remain over the Christmas editorial which appeared in the Bis- | holidays. Among them who stop at marck league newspaper during the | the Grand Pacific hotel ar last regular session, in which it was| . G. McCagherty, who been rep- promised that “traitors” who did not! resenting Noyes Bros. & Cutler of St. vote with the majority on all league| paul and who is not expected to re. questions would be hounded from the} turn to this city after hig brief vaca- state, and he declared “the bill which \tion, to St. Paul. a Tug Co. to Minneapolis. step in their campaign of terrorism. | WD. Hanson of Proctor & Gamble, | . a a join his family over the holidays. whom they could force to kneel at the!” Hae Corian: fepressntiie ae oil footstool of the czar. They will find | concern, to Minneapolis for Christmas. | how badly mistaken they are.” Cliff Norton and Carl Meyers will Phe attor eae pot eeDs | spend the holidays in the Twin Cities. | le attorney general branded as/ iq Kelley of the Goodrich Tire Co., cowards Senator Noltimier and Repre-!tp hig home at LaCrosse, Wis., over A number of prominent traveling men who make Bismarck their head- sentative Olson, league members from | Christmas. Barnes county, whom he had invited! {afternoon and tonight in those ; church with the midnight ‘ing the music. | Buzzelle. ‘the church F) SECOND PLEBISCITE AT FIUME IN FAVOR OF ITALIAN SCHEME Rome, Tuesday, Dec. 24.—In conse- quence of doubt regarding the first plebiseite in Fiume another was aken on Sunday which resulted in 5 percent of the votes being cast in favor of the Itanian government’s proposal relative to the future occupa- tion of the city according to an Ital-; ian newspaper Major Gabriel | chiet of Cap. Gabriel D'Annunzio's) cabinet, is reported to have resigned. | | REAL CHRISTMAS WEATHER READY FOR SANTA CLAUS, Weather Man Helps Saint Nick to Care Fox All the Little Tots Tonight Washington, Dec. Real Christ- mas weather will greet Santa Cla when he makes his round tonight in the middle Atlantic, New England and middle western states according to the weather man Snow flurr 2s are forecasted for this Elsewher over the count i weather is expected to prevail while it will be gener fair Christmas day except for snows around the great lakes and rain in the north Pacific | states, i ‘Temperatures will continue low over most of the country but nowhere is | Severely col wdeather expected. CHRISTMAS SERVICE AT ST. GEORGE’S TO, BE ELABORATE ONE), 00: The Feast of the Nativity will he; ushered in at St. George’s Episcopal) Euhearist, beginning promptly at 11:50. The vice will be choral, a large choir A short sermon will be’ preached by the rector, Rev. George} Christmas day holy com-| munion will be celebrated at 1 The children’s service will be held in} day night at 7:30, the hildren afterwards going to the parish | house for a frolic. Following is the} service on tonight: Processional, “Hark the Herald Angel: Mendelssohn +. Agutter| - Anon} . Anon ;the matt {of TOTTEN GANG IN. ANOTHER DRIVE ON MISS NIELSON Recommendation of Educational Commission Ignored in Grab- bing New Job KANE IS GIVEN LET-DOWN Liessman Succeeds President of University as High School Examiner Another source of power over the common school system of the state has been concentrated in the hands of the board of administration, which body has removed from the president lot the state university the position of state high has conferred Charles Liessman, board, to be exer rd direc of administ November school this examiner and honor upon ecretary of the d by him as the Although the board ion took this action the first knowledge of y which reached Miss Min- nie J. Niefson, state superintendent of public ruction, and one of the . two members of this board elected by the people, came in a lette Dec received mber 13, from the office of the mer state high school examiner. This letter advised Miss Nielson that under orders from the board of ad- ministration all records and files of the state high school examiner's of- fice had been transferred to the sec- retary of the board of administration, whom the former state examiner was advised would take over the duties of this office. Finally Shown the Minutes. receipt of this information Nielson applied to the secretary of the board of administration for enlightenment and he then dug up the minutes of a meeting of the board administration November 15, of which Mi Nielson had been given no notice. At this meeting the board of administration reversed an action by its own educational com- sion in a meeting at Minot on ovember 7, when it decreed by a unaniinous vote that the state high school inspector, A. L. Shafer, an appointee of Miss Nielson’s, be made tate high school examiner. It was opinion of the educational com- ission, composed wholly of educa- elected by the board of admin- tion because their. expert knowl- edge of school matters, that the two clause. There seemed to be an inti- CRUSOE EXHIBITED mation, however, that the appoint- ment of this official would not be London, Dec. 24.—The musket said to have been given to Alexander Sel- kirk when he was put ashore on the ‘island of Juan Fernandez, 400 miles joff the Chilean coast, has been going jthe rounds of British museums. It ‘was Selkirk’s adventures upon which jwas based DeFoe’s famous story, Rob- jinson Crusoe. The musket is inscribed jwith the name.of “A. Selkirk Largo, i insured it for $10,000. Selkirk owned a tavern near Clap- Lam but died in 1722 at sea as a iieu- tenant aboard a naval vessel. |$7,000,000 WORTH OF GIN IN RACE TO REACH CUBANS Peoria, Ills., Dec. 24.—Gin valued at $7,009,000 was loaded on a train of 27 cars in readiness for a start at midnight of a race to get it safely {past the three-mile limit toward Ha- vana, Cuba, before the bonds expire jJanuary 14. The liquor will be ex- |ported to New York. Armed men will accompany the shipment to pre- vent tampering with it en route, TINTED MULE IS SOLD FOR BOOZE, GOVERNMENT SAYS Chicago, Ill., Dec. 23—Three men, two of them dealers in grain alcohol ‘and the other a seller of barber sup- plies, today were under technical ar- rest, and the district attorney’s office had started an investigation of several high officials of the federal internal revenue department. It was charged the men sought to bribe deputy inter- nal revenue collectors to permit them to color and flavor 150 barrels of al- cohol and sell it as whiskey. Revenue agents in four cities are in- volved in the investigation it was’ in- dicated. { } i i Fire Destroys Furn‘ture, Fire destroyed a shed containing stored furniture in the rear of 46 Main street at 6 o’clock this morning, caus- ing damage estimated at more than |$250. The cause of the fire is un- known. The fire department soon had the blaze under control and. by quick work prevented it from spread- ing to nearby homes. James Walsh, formerly employed in the county auditor’s office at the court house, has returned to this city from St. Paul, where he is attending col- lege. Mr. Walsh will remain here during the Christmas holidays and will return to school after the first of the year. TEACHOUT WIDOWS HERE Mrs. Ellen Teachout and Mrs. Cora Teachout, whose husbands died as a result of an automobile accident sev- eral weeks ago, were in Bismarck yes- terday. TO BE MARRIED MONDAY The wedding, of Miss Viola Bauer of 512 Avenue B to Max Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Miller, will take place Monday at the parish house, by Father Hiltner officiating. Both the bride-to-be and her prospective hus- band are very well known among the “younger set in this city. serene, 1771.” It was purchased by Randolph | Berens, for $6.25, but the owner has |thte presentation of a beautiful de luxe |™e2, il t so far as known it has not yet acted in any official capacity. ‘BEAUTIFUL GIFT BOOK FROM STATE | All of North Dakota will share in edition of Miss Zena Irma Trinka’s ‘history of North Dakota, which will ibe presented tomorrow to Mrs. Theo- dore Roosevelt, as a token of the es- | [teem in which the late Col. Roosevelt |was held by the people among whom he spent the most virile years of his life. ! The gift to Mrs. Roosevelt is made j Possible through the enterprise and ;patriotism of North Dakota Commer- icial clubs which financed the prepara- ‘tion of this handsome book. The vol- !ume is bound in rich, embossed leath- ler, lined with silk, and is printed on ‘a very expensive grade of paper. The ihistory prepared by Miss Trinka, who jis librarian at Dickinson, deals with thte modern development of Dakota dating from territorial days. It is en- tertainingly written and is liberally illustrated with original views of North Dakota cities and beauty spots. A feature of the history will be the “presentation address {fg Mrs. Roose- velt, in which the whole state collab- orates. \SIX MINES STILL IDLE IN KANSAS coal miners who walked out yester- day in j¢otest against sending of ing to work today. It was announced at the headquarters of the operators’ association that six mines had been reported idle, HOWAT IS RELEASED ander Howat, president of the Kan- sas district of the United Mine Work- ers of America, was released from the Marion county jail by United States District Judge A. B. Anderson. Howat agreed to join the international officials of the mine workers in send- ing telegrams to the district executive board in Kansas in an endeavor to have all strikes in the Kansas coal mines ended. Howat was released on his previous bail and if the agreement is carried out in good faith the contempt hearing set for next Monday probably will be continued against Howat as in the district officials of the mine workers. The pupils of thePresbyterian Sab- bath ‘school will give their Christmas program in the church this evening. There will be a Christmas tree. Songs will be sung by the beginners, pri- mary and junior'departments, as well as by the entire school. Miss Gene- vieve Menard will sing a solo and Mrs. A. G. Jacobson will give ‘the reading “Why the Chimes Rang.” The story of the first Christmas will be told: by the primary ‘depart- ment. Recitations will be given by Margaret Will, Betty McCoy, Billy Bergeson, Grant Hopperstad and Isa- bel Postlethwaite. « ¥ ong delayed. The “smelling commit- ee’ provided for in another league ; bill has already been appointed, but; TO MRS. ROOSEVELT Pittsburgh, Kan, Dec. 24—Karly re- ports show that not all of the Kansas} Alexander Howat to jail were return-| Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 24.—Alex-j case of the other international and! | to attend the meeting, accompanied by istenographers to take down his every | word in order that they might have a basis for the prosecution of the speak- er under the provisions of Senate Bill No. 20. afraid to give me a hearing: afraid to have the truth brought out before the people of this state,” said the. attor- mney general. “These men, writhing under the lash of A. C. Townley and; his political tools; these men, afraid |to call their souls their own; these | not representing you or their} | constituents, but representing the au- | tocratic will of their master, passed! olution after resolution at Bismarck esolutions which if they did niot know were false, a few moments’ in- | Vestigation would have convinced them | of their absolut: farsity. i | “Lf asked Senator Noltimier to be| here tonight, and I say to him now| lthat if there is one word of truth in| those allegations you made when you) asked me to resign, I ask you to step up here on this platform and present! | your proof to the people of this state. | | I ask you to show that I sold out to the Standard Oil Co.; I ask you to) | show that the Minneapolis chamber of! commerce hag any connection, directly | or indirectly, with the office of the at-| ‘torney general; I ask you to show! one single case where the state of! {North Dakota has not been ably and; , energetically represented; I ask you’ |to show one place where I have be-} |trayed the farmers of North Dakota, | jand, Senator Noltimier, you know that | |you can’t do it.” | DEMANDS EXPLANATION I Langer demanded that Noltimier ex- |plain his vote on ‘7 | paper bill and upon other \vu,ave; |measures, and especially to tell his {constituents why he voted to deprive, | Miss Minnie J. Nielson, a woman from | jhis own county, of her powers as state! superintendent of public instruction. | ‘God save us,” cried the attorney gen-| ral, “from a condition which enables | ja bunch of political pirates to debase {the womanhood of North Dakota as! {typified by Miss Nielson. The state} ‘of North Dakota is in a bad way, in-| deed, and I say that Townley and his} socialistic outfit can pass law after} law, they can pass resolution after resolution; their newspapers can Villi- fy and threaten and lie until Dooms- jday, but they can’t crucify the spirit tof North Dakota. And next June, my jfriends, we are going out on election| jday and we are going to redeem the) {state of North Dakota. We are going| jto fight. in such a way as the man- hood and womanhood of North Dakota! never fought before. There are enough! of us inside the league to purge the | Hleague of its leadership and to give| North Dakota that kind of a farmers’ government to which it is entitled.” The attorney general declared that had Miss Nielson been permitted by ; the Townleyites to retain the duties of ‘the office to which the people of North Dakota elected her there would have been no books dealing with free love openly displayed in the traveling li- brary boxes of the state library com- mission. Towner county, he declared, had pointed the way, and the league press of that county admitted that one of the principal factors in the recent Nonpartisan defeat there was the treatment which Miss Nie]son had re- ceived from Governor Frazier, Chair- man Totten of the board of administra- tion and Neil C. Macdonald, the for- mer state superintendent of public in- struction whom Miss Nielson so thor- oughly trounced in the general election last year. jae \CHRISTMAS CHEER FOR PATIENTS AND | for sufferer: Bismarck hospital. As usual, of this institution Christmas gifts for everyone and there will he carol singing the nurses and other Yuletide festivities. The nurses’ own Christinas will be celebrated Christmas night in nurses’ home with the following pro- : “Joy to the World”... Seripture and Prayer. Rey. Strutz “Two Little Friendless Chil n?—Mi: Schmierer, — Lind, ner, Hilden, Von: Eschen, Heid School Trio: dre 3: ner. Reading . Tisses Piano Solo . vee Dr. Auge Br Pantomone “The Hol ist, y”—Miss Schmierer, Cole, Roehm. “Silent Night, H s Smilie, Petrie, Teichmann. Song: “It Came upon the Midnight + Schoo! oly Night” Woolyerton, tuts. ribution of gifts, Refreshments. Fee a % | THE CHRISTMAS BELLS | I heard the bells on Ch morn, Proclam the little Lord wv And as they sang there came to me A scene of the nativity. w the son the Father gave, thin a lowly manger laid, While angel choior, struck golden lyre, And gradest, sweet music made. I saw the Virgil Embrace and kiss her lovely child; Then gently Jay him on the hay, Placed there for cattle yesterday ; I saw the humble shepherd’s look As each held tightly to his crook To see a king where never ki Haid lain, in legend, tale or brook. meek and mild I saw the Wise Men of the East, Lay costly jewels at the feet, Of Mary mild, who pressed her child | The closer to her as she smiled; And as I looked I thot ’ah me, That I a worshipper might be, But doubt within and pride without, Descend and shui the picture out. How far from heaven’s mankind ha’ strayed, Since first those bells their musi¢ played, The Bethlehem Star still shines afar, But pride and greed our prospects mar, We grope along thru depths of night, And take the wrong paths for the night, We act and think in earthly terms, While life’s white flame more faintly burns. Oh, happy Bells, could you but bring, To-us those things for which you ring. A nobler creed, a wiser plan, And love for every fellow-man. Then over all the sea and earth, Would ring such happiness and mirth. ‘That all would shout with one accord “Tt us the birthday of our Lord.” —Florence Boerner. iG In | positions should be combined, and i Reading that the high school inspector was * logi the official who should ex- .Hayden|@mine high schools for classification. Sermon." Offertory, “Silent N | HOSPITAL'S STAFF, They were afraid to impeach mes! Onristmas cheer will not be lacking who are patients at the there will be a Christmas tree on each floor ve, with tha} Lind, | | | Fly Agutter Agutter Davia M John Graham, and C. Sehoelkopt. Sursum Cor Jenedictus qui Ve Angus Dei .... Solo, “Cantiqne Nocl”.... Mrs. M. CG. Scheelkopf. Nune Dimmittis National Anthem. Recessional, “A of Glory” s from the Realms Smart) ATTEMPT TO STEAL | $40,000 PAYROLL \ | “TODAY FRUSTRATED the secretary of the commi | ithe L. Q. White Co., s » Was frustrated today when Ben- umin Bowles, police officer guarding, |the money, opened fire on four auto- ;mobile bandits who had held up the pay car. The bandits returned the fire and then fled. BLONDE ESKIMOS ARE THROWBACKS |Atavism Explains Discovery, Says North Explorer f joe manufactur. | | | | i i Seattle, Wash, Dee. plains the dis ery of “Blonde Eski-| |} mos” jn Victoria Land in the Artie, re- ported by Viljhalmar Stefansson, in the | opinion of James R. Crawford, a mem- |ber of the second Stefahsson expedi- ; tion, who has come out of the north for, j the first time in 15 years. | The blonde natives are “throw- | backs” of early white explorers, Craw- | ford believes. He expressed surprise | that the existence of an entire tribe | of blondes was generally believed. He ; Was with Stefansson when the blonde’s | Were discovered. | ,,.“In Victoria Land,” Crawford said. | ‘there are probably three tribes or vil Jages, comprising several hundred na- tives, in which these light Eskimos are | found. But there are fewer than a| | dozen of the blondes, so far as we were ‘able to learn, in the entire land. They had grey © light eye brows, reddish brown hair,( and their skins are slight- ly lighter than that of their brothers. although ont noticeably so. “The natives made it known that} they had never seen white men before.! and probably they had not.” Crawford | said. “But their ancestors did see white men, probably looking for a new land, who never lived to get back to | civilization. “There was one little girl who posses- sed the most pronounced markings of blondeness, the daughter of two dusky natives, whose hair was black and who had black beady eyes, The parents knew of no reason for the reddish hair and gray eyes of their offspring.” Crawford who was married shortly after he had returned to civilization on the steamer whaler Herman, which had picked him up on a floe near Vic- toria Land, intends to take his bride north with him when the ice breaks in the spring. Trinity Lutheran Church Corner 7th Street and Ave. C. Tomorrow: Christmas Day. Ser- vice in Norwegian, 11 a m. Children’s program, 8 p. m. Rev. Johw Flint, Pastor. —aAtavism ex-; |trol of the state board of At the November 15 meeting of the board of administration, | which ueither-Juth N. Hagan, commissioner of agriculture, or Miss Nielson, the only two members of this body elect- ed by the people, attended, Chairman Totten and Members Muir and Casey voted to approve the action of the educational commission at Minot, “except the approval of the request concerning the making of the high school inspector also high school ex- aminer, for the reason that the board feels that the work of the high school can be more properly and ciently done through the office of 'y ion: :*) © the secretary to at once take the work of the high school examiner nd to be authorized to secure suffi- cient clerical help to do this work, the same to be charged to and pro- rated between the high school and rural school funds. tives Board More Money. This action places under the con- adminis- tration the examination for classifi- cation of all high schools in the state and gives the board control over thousands of dollars of additional school moneys. This pro-rating is objected to in school circles princi- pally because it takes funds from the rur schools to be applied to the expense of examining city schools, something hich never before has been done. ‘The action of the board of admin- ration has developed the fact that its educational commission is endow- ed with no original authority, that the minutes of its meetings and its every act are subject to review by effic | the board of administration, and that the latter reserves the right to ap- prove or reject as it may see fit. TEN DISGUISED WHISKEY BANDITS MAKE BIG HAUL Chicago, Dec. 24.—Ten disguised whiskey robbers used motor trucks to take away whiskey valued at from $10,000 to $20,000 from the summer home of C. H. Acker, Broker, at Lake Forest, a Chicago suburb, it became known today. A butler who attempted to prevent the robbery was strung up by the thumbs and cut down exhausted hours later when a chauffeur and his wife broke out of a closet in which they had been locked. YEGGS BLOW SAFE AND GET $400 IN MILLTOWN Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 23.—Blow- ing a heavy safe to fragments with ni- troglycerine four yeggmen driving a large touring car at 5 a. m. this morning robbed the safe of the Ameri- can Rug Laundry Co. of $400, $100 of which was cash. FAITH-FERDERER Albert Faith, former service man, will be married today at Mandan to Miss Katherine Ferderer of that city following which Mr. and Mrs. Faith will leave for Fargo, where Mr. Faith has a position and where they will make their home. News of the pro- posed marriage leaked out yesterday when it was learned that Mr. Faith had given up his position here. He will be in the hotel business at Fargo.