The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 30, 1920, Page 1

THE WEATHER | Generally Falr THIRTY-NINTH YEAR 'THE BISMARCK TRIBUN LAST EDITION ptt ttt et nto ‘BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA., TUESDAY, N V. 30, 1920 _ PRICE FIVE CENTS PROMISE PROBE OF STATE BANK WITHOUT DELAY, Members of Auditing Board | Created by Vote of People i Give Position | | | | PUT BAN ON POLITICS Won’t Take Subscriptions -but | Will Underwrite Expenses Themselves An immediate examination of the | Bank. of North Dakota will be made by certified accountants under the direction Of the state jauditing board | created by the initiated measure, it | Was announced following a confer- | ence of the members, Secretary of State Thomas Hall, Auditor Carl Ko- sitzky and Attorney General Williain | Langer. No public subscription will be tak- en to provide funds for the examina- tion. If necessary, the members ot the board will guararitee the expenses of the audit and ask the legislature to pay them, Mr. Hall said. | “We are created a board of audi- tors to examine the bank, by the in-! itiuted iaw which is effective Decem- | ber 2.” said Mr. Hall. “The major- ity was unmistakable. The report of the examination ought to be ready for the legislature. To accomplish this the examination must be made immediately, and we propose to do this. “There will be no political bias in it. We will, employ certified ac- countants, from within or without the state. _ To Ask Aid “We have not found any account-} ants\who are able to finance the in-|} vestigation. The industrial commis- | i ! sion has refused to provide money for the investigation. The state em- ergency commission will be asked to provide money out of the contingency | tund. If they refuse, the legislature | will be asked to pay the amount. We | will guarantee payment ourselves. Mr. Hall declared that he and Kce-} sitzky were strongly opposed to any | public subscription to provide for the investigation. He said it was be- neath the dignity of the board to do this and that the board was given ample authority to act in the mat- ter. Mr. Hall, Mr. Kositzky and Mr. Langer do’ not expect to go in the bank themselves, unless to consult the accountants. Their report, they said, will be the report of the ac- countants. 3 Governor's View Governor Frazier declared to the Associated @ress that he did not con- sider it best, although it would be legal, for the present board of audi- | tors to go ahead with the examina- tion of the bank at this time, “The examination of the bank is a matter which could best be taken up by the recently elected and not by | present board of auditors,” Governor Frazier said. “Although, it is not a matter for the state,emergency board and I do not think the state should puy for an examination at present. It should be financed‘by an appro- priation by the legisfature.” “The same voters who passed the initiative. law elected the new _offi-} cers who would constitute the board ot auditors. Their intention was to have an examination made by the men they elected and that is the new board, composed mostly of Nonpar- tisans. The new ‘board of auditors would be composed of Thomas Hall, William . Lemke,'. attorney general- elect, and Dare Poindexter, auditor- elect.” BIG M B RALLY WILL BRING MANY: NOTED SPEAKERS A convention rally of the Metho- | dist churches of this district will be held in McCabe church, December 8 and 9. This is a link of twenty-six conventions held in the Helena area} under the direction of Dr. Geo. Meck- lenburg, executive secretary of the area. A program of great interest will be given consisting of round table discussions, movies, stereopticon le tures, and special addresses by ex- perts on the latest program of the! church. The following churches are expect- ed to send delegates, Dawson, Doug- lass, Steele, McKenzie Linton, Moffit, | Napoleon, Washburn, Underwood, ; Mandan, Stanton, Center, Rural and| Fort Rice} Each of these churches is expected to send the pastor, Sunday s noo. superintendents, and his a: sistan! Epworth Jeague president, unit leaders, and, also the presidents | of all the ladies soqieties in the | church. Speakers of note and prominence will address ‘the‘convention. Bishop Burns will be heard in two great ad- dresses. Dr. W. H. Neil of Chicago, an evangelist of great power will speak on the opening night. Dr. Lu-| ther Lovejoy of Boston is on the pro- gram. Dr. Clifford of Minot will speak on the young people’s wotk. These meetings will be of general in- terest and will be open to the public. $15 OFFERED FOR A SLOGAN meeting of the™ of the Mandan Commercial c!nb, it was voted to offer as the club's share in the prices for the slogan- trademark contest $15 on each first prize, At the directors }again be voted on for four years i MPS. D2. NiEW YORK—Police and detectiv Mrs. Dorothy K. Vackers, 18-5 yn the way from her home to confes Police of ‘other cities have been asked EXAMINATION OF BANK GETS | 19,231 LEAD Largest Vote of Any Initiated Measure, Figures of Can- vassing Board Show COUNTY SEAT BILL IS LOST The state canvassing board which met yesterday afternoon,’ tound the following results of the vote at the November 2 election on the init and referred measures and cons! onal amendments: Constitutional Amendments. Elective franchise (woman sut. and residence requirement): 135,366; No 60,772. Ye Changing name State School to State Training School: Yes, 8; No, 63,569. Investment of School Funds: Yes, 124,331; No, 56,526. initiated Measures Board of Auditors: Yes, 118,269; No, 99,038, if Public Funds: Yes, 114,022; No, 106,852. Real Estate Loans: Yes, 116,508; Yes, 114,320; N Supt. "Pub. Ins., Powers and Duties: Yes, 114,571; No, 104,849. Reierred Measure County Seat Removal: Yes, 85,637; No, 92,213. Huge Majority The majority of 19,231 given to the initiated measure providing for the examination of the Bank of North Dakota was the largest majority on any of the initiated Jaws, and larger than the majority given any candidate in the election. The referred measure 1s shown to wave been kilied. ihis was indicat ed in scattering votes recorded be- fore the official county. The measure would have améhaed the law so as to read as follows: “In counties without a courthouse or a courthouse of not greater value than twenty thousand dollars, the question of removal of county seat is to be submitted to the voters upon a petition to the board of county commissioners of a majority of qual- ified electors of any such county j Proposition may be submitted at pri mary or general elections. Petitions to be filed with county auditor, and no velector permitted to remove his name after petition is filed” and further provision that on the peti- tion of 100 electors the name of any city, town or village may be placed on the primary ballot, and that “the two towns receiving: the highest vote at the prim election shall be plac- ed\on the ballot for the first general election and the one receiving the highest number of votes shall be de- | ;signated as county seat and the ques- tion of county seat removal shall not the same county.” School Loans The law which was defeated was designed to make easier the problem | of getting the question of county seat removal hefore the voters. The constitutional amendment re- garding investment of school funds is held important. It allows the board of university and school lands to make loans not exceeding one-l value of any subdivision on which the amount may be loaned. STORM HALTS MAIL TRIPS | Chicago, tablishment - regular air mail service from Chic ago} to St. Paul and Minneapolis was post- poned when the weather bureau | hoisted storm warnings just as the first plane was preparing to hop off The south bound plane, however, left Fort: Snelling. J OTH Y 4. VACHERS Reform | es are combing New York for trace | old bride of four days, who vanished sion at church, five blocks away. to aid in the search. | BUDGET BOARD TO MAKE TRIP Governor Frazier, ‘Maddock and Cahill of the Budget board will make ips to various state institutions to prepare recommendations on expend- itures for the le it became known today. Auditor Carl Kositzky (and Attorney-General William ‘members of the Budget b rot invited to make the trip. Trans: ; portation to the amount of $180 was | requested by the members of the! Budget board. | i LANGER FIXES THE STATUS.OF LEGAL NOTICES Defines What Is st Is Petinitéed Un- der Initiated Law Which Was Voted Upon 1 PRIVATE | Answering ifey: interpreta- tion of the initiated law regarding le- gal puvlications, Attorney-General Lenger today issued an opinion set- ting forth under the proper designa- tion the various classes of legal pub- lication (His statement of the follows Legal publications, notices, ete. ‘ whie h must be pub.ished in the of-| ficial newspaper selected at the elec-; tion of November 2nd, 192u: | LEGALS OPEN a. Official proceedings of the; Board of County COulnissioners, b. All notice’ and publications, | icers are required by including tax lists. which county off law to publish c. All notic and publications which state officals elected or ap-| pointed are required by law to pub- lish. d. All noti cities, towns, within such © es and publications of villages and schools es, towns and villages, if the official newspaper chosen at the election of November 2nd, 1920, is printed and published in such city, town or village. : 2. Legal publications, ‘notices, et which may be published in a paper other than the official newspaper of) the, county, “f+ a, All summons, orders and other proc in all ac- uons or proceedings in the Supreme, District, County and Justice Courts. b. Ad notices of fo closure by ad- vertisement on real estate, chattel mortgages or other liens on real 0} 1 propery. : tatements of banks and publi- cations of townships and township of- fices, ‘ : d. Legal notices and publications of townsnips and township offices Legal notic: and publications | oo} distr ers in case such hoo}, district does not have within citations, notices, boundaries a city, town or village. In cities, towns or Villages in not 1 newspaper is j loc y council or comm jon or board may designate an of jal newspa for the puDlication fi jot such notices and legal publicatior 's are by, law required to be publ towns or village: ed by such cities, por nee including legal noti and stateme! such cities, of the schools within ‘towns or villages. The attorney | will gladly ; that ma; | ications. ‘WEATHER ae For twenty-four hours ending at noon, Tuesday, November 50. | Temperature at 7 a. m2. _ Highest yesterday....---- ; Lowest yesterday Lowest last night ‘Highest wind velocity. | Forceast ' For North Dakota Fair tonight and} Wednesday; not much change in tem-| perature, , | be brought info it.” into ‘BOLLING SAYS GRAFT CHARGE | WHOLLY FALSE | President Wilson’s Brother-in- law Appears Before Con- gressional Committee ‘PAY FOR.LOSS ON HOUSE? Says Anonymous Letter Was Received Threatening Dam- aging Testimony \ eae New York, N6y. 30.—A denial that he had ever taken money for influ- the disposition of contracts machinery by the United States encing or )ohipping board, as charged by T. A. Sands, former Washington banker, coupled with a request that all of his business transactions be investigated “both for my own and my family’s sake,” was made before the Walsh | congressional committee. here today uy RR. W. Bolling, President Wilson’s brother-in-law aud now treasurer, of the shipping board. ir, Bolling told of business trans- ‘ions with Sands. He told the com- mittee that his personal records were all available to its inspection. Sands | has testified that he received Hoa from the Downey Shipbuilding cor- poration for “representing before all board out of which he paid money to Mr. Bolling.” Mr. Bolling said that he had taken a contract in 1916 to build a hous? for Sands and in settling its cost had foregone any profit because of objections by the Sands to a charge for extras. To Some Commission ‘However, a short while after- wards Mr. Sands told me that he did not want me to lose any of my com- mission for building the house * * * “warly in 1918 Mr. Sands sent a Mr. Cranor to see me, in regard to some machinery which Wwas to be used in connection with construction of v Is. Mr. Cranor told me that the machinery in question was ‘bending roil’ and was to have been shipped .to his company from the factory * * * “He said he would look into it and subsequently told me that he found t upon inquiry that “I called on Mr. Sifler who was then secretary of the shipping board and explained. the matter to him. He said’ he would look into it and subsequently told mg, that he:.found upon inquiry that thé rolls had been‘ promised to Mr/ Cranor’s company and ‘would be shipped to them. “A short time after this Mr. Sands told me that he had or would make a thousand dollars in connection with this transaction—though he n states he has no recollection in this matter and that ‘he would take care of me. Would Take Anything “E told him [ would accept noth- ing. ‘He then mentioned the $609 vhich he still owed me in connec tion with the changes made in house, saying that he had not fom gotten it and would pay it. I gave no thought to what Mr. Sands’ re- ationship was to the principal but looked upon him as the vice-president of a large bank and a man who#was justly indebted to me. I therefore told him that I wourd he glad to have him pay what he owed me, but that it could in no way be connected with these or commissions involving gov- ernment work—and this clearly un- derstood. Upon my request he paid me subsequently the $600 * * * “Of the $40,000 which Mr. Sands says was paid for preparing contra I never heard until it was mentioned in an anonymous letter coupled with threats that unless something was done to stop the proceedings of the department of justice my name would MAY CONSTRUCT RAILROAD ON ICE AT BRIDGE The first railroad on ice may be | constructed at Bismarck, Officials of the Foundation com- pany. contractors-on the new Bis- marck-Mandan bridge may not re- build the temnorary bridge which was washed out with the ice Sunday, but instead mav wait until the river freezes solidly and lay the narrod -; guage railroad track and ties on the ls of the company said to- day they did not believe that pier No. which is out in the river, was dam: aged. The river had gone down somewh: was # little freer of ice and no fur-, ther darhage is expected to result. WILLISTON TO CHANGE PLANS Wargo. Noy. 30.— Williston high; school, state high school champions, will not, play Billings, Montana 1 Great Fa Mont. as announced. Williston will try to get a game with Bemidji, Minnesota state champions, 5 according to Williston dispatches. WILSON ACCEPTS Washington, Nov. 30.—Presi- dent Wilson has accepted the in- vitation of the league of nations to act as mediator in the Armeni- am situation. | JAPANESE WILL NOT INSIST ON RACIAL EQUALITY BEFORE LEAGUE OF NATIONS Viscount Ishii Tel!s Assembly That No Proposal Will Be Pressed Before This Session of the Assembly Council —Wants Biennial Meetings Geneva, Noy. 80.—The Japanese ; delegation will not make any pro- | posal for racial equality at this session of the league of nations, it’ was announced by Viscount Ishii at this morning’s session of the assembly. “Japan will patiently bide her time,” said Viscount Ishii. “Un- til an opportune moment shall present itself.” ‘CASEY RESIGNS | FROM STATE JOB P M. Casey head of the Equity Packing plant at Fargo, has resigned.) now culver Of the board of ministration. Mr. Casey gave as his | reason that he was unable to devote the time necessary to the office and and that he must give all his time | to his nv king plaut. ‘ihe position | pays $3.000 a year. Mr. Casey has been unable to be present at many of the board meetings. WONT ACCEPT MILLION GIVEN BY HIS FATHER j Charles Garland Gives Reasons | —Says Christ Would Have Done Same | | ATTACKS THE “SYSTEM”! | Buzzards Bay, Charles Garland, the 22-year-old man who has renounced his right to $1,-| 000,000 legacy left him by his father, J. A. Garland, a wealtify club man and tement of his reason for ing the money. rejec| The statement, he said, was due to the fact that the| many reports of his failure to accept the legacy had failed properly to present his position. “I refuse to accept the money. be- {cause it is not mine,’ "he said. “A system which starved thousands while hundreds are stuffed condemns itself, A system which leaves a sick woman helpless and offers its serv- ices to a healthy man condemns it-j self. It is such a system that offers me a million dollars. “It is blind to the simplest truth— that the hungry must be fed and the naked clothed. I have had to choose between the loss of private property and the law written in every human heart. I choose the one which I be- lieve true.” ( Gets Mueh Advice Garland, who has stated he re- nounced his claim because he thought Christ would have done the same, continued: “I believe I could do no good with the money. It is the man who gives food to the hungry who does good, not the dollars given in exchange for | the food. I would be happy to be the man if I had the food to give, but I can not lend myself to handling the money not mine even though) the good that might be done is pgs- sibly great.” Many people have written to tell him what could be done with the money, he said. But, he added, “you, cannot ‘serve God and mammon.’ So many people ready to serve the dol- lar means-so many less to serve God. There are great opportunities to do good, but they are in men’s hearts, not in my check book. A preach in the name of Christ said this mi lion should have been turnde to good. He thinks God’s work is paid for in jdollers: God's work will never be done until men see this theory un- true.” : Wiie Shares Views statement was made from | garland’ 's home, a former inn of stage coach days. The young man is liv- ing*at the house with his wife and; infant daughter as the guest of his mother, Mrs. Marie Tudor Green, who supplies them with a maid and keeps their larder full. He plans to go to j work eventually, he‘ said, but a year ‘at Harvard college, which he- left to} get married, and preparatory school- ing in this country and in England, fitted. him for no work ready at hand, and he said he thought it would be spring before he found anything. His wife joined with him in his re- nunciation of the millon, Garland said. His mother, although not holding the same views, has told him to do jwh at he thought. right. In another house on the estate lives James A. Garland, III, a brother | of Charles, who has accepted his| hare of his father’s estate, mad larger by the fact that the mother of the boys abandoned her rights to marry Francis C, Green. At Harvard} college is Hamilton Garland, a third} }son. Charl id he understood !Hamilton also was considering re- |fusal to take his share when he he- ; came of age. | Garland indicated that his refusal! to take the money was not based on any question attached to the origin of the Garland fortune, saying he did not know from what source it was derived, but he believed it came down from his grandfathers. jures ae bulls ata “lisad vantage in ‘the wheat market. Opening prices which ranged from the same as y terday’s finish to ong to 1% lower were followed by moderate upturns land then setbacks. yachtsman of Boston.‘today made a} The Japanese delegation he said, had decided to withdraw its protest against annual meetings ot the assembly although it re- quires five months for a delega- tion from Japan to make the long } journey and return. He recommended the meeting every two years with special meetings in emergency — situa- tions, “RECEIVED AND FILED,” ACTION ~INWATER CASE Water (omental Letter of Re- jection ‘of City Offer is Laid Aside TALK SPECIAL ELECTION’ \ The city commission received and ordered filed at its meeting last night the reply of the Bismarck Water Sup- ply company through its attorneys, to the city’s otter of $225,000 for the wa- ter company plant, in which the wa- ter company said it rejected the fer but held open the offer of arbi- . tration. After discussion of the situation, Comanissioner ‘thompson moved that ; the city attorney be asked to give the comnussion tacts regarding — steps nec ary to hold a special election, and what could be done through a bond issue or through issuance of im- provement warrants to coistruct a jcity water plant. Mayor Lucas directed the city at-! torney to report next week on these questions. Commissioner Bertsch suggested ‘that the city might issue bonds for approximately $300,000 and raise the rest of the money necessary by the ‘sale of improvement warrants. Com- ‘misisoner French asked any con- misisoners had heard any sentiment swered that he had heard only what Mr. Hellstrom referred to. Bond Limit Questions Questions were asked as to the bond limit of the city. City Attor- ney O’Hare said that there was con- fusion ‘over the status owing to the legislative; act limiting increases in taxes and’ bonding under the increas- ed valuation, stating that the bond limit in 1919 and 1920 must be based; on the 1918 valuation. It was fig-" ured that the city’s limit on bonds | under the valuation was about $200,- Qu, from which would be deducted present bond issues. City Engineer Atkinson was asked questions as to what would be nec- essary for the city to do if the city took over the present water company plant. The discussion brought the expression that it would take $200,- 000 to $300,000 to remodel the plant. ‘The commission ordered plans anid the limit of the city’s bonding powers ; tor arbitration, and Mayor Lucas an-} LONDON ‘ARMED _ CAMP’ IN FEAR | OF SINN FEIN Government Buildings Are Closely Guarded and Patrols i Move Un Thames MORE IRISH KILLINGS Ambush of’ Fifteert Recruits Near Macroon Ireland Fol- lowed by Reprisals Belfast, Ireland, Noy. 30.—The city hall of Cork was set on fire this mornin: and reports from that city state that the fhomas Ash Sinn Fein club and the Char- lotte Quay are ablaze. Much dam- age has been done, it is stated. Masked men entered and set fire to a building, housing the Dublin Freemaw’s Journal last night. Considerable damage was done to the building. Scores of new ar- rests have been rade In yarious districts of Ireland. Among the places. raided by military forces being a lunatic asylum, London, Nov. 30.—Public buildings in London and in many of the other large cities of England were closely guarded against apprehended Sinn Fein attacks by heavy detachments of police and military. In this city the patrol was not limited to streets but armed motor boats moved up and down the Thames along parliament buildings. With Downing street and its immediate neighborhood cut off from the: rest jot the city by a high fence whicn iw as constantly under the eyes of uni- formed men and with the parliament buildings guarded by sentinels goy- ernment sections of London today as- umed the aspect of an armed camp. Bomb in Warehouse There is nothing to connect the Sinn Fein with the explosion of a bomb in a warehouse in this city early this morning but people ascribe it to that organization. The bomb which apparently was ied into the warehouse in a traveling bag and ‘lett there to explode by means of a time fuse was heard over a wide area and blew out the windows of build- ings nearby. | It started a fire but police and firemen put it out. The financial loss loccasioned by Saturday night's fires in Liverpool is‘estimated at a million pounds sterling. The ambush and killing of 15 men (near Macroon, Ireland, has already been followed by reprisals by the ‘“black and tans” and it is reported there is an exodus of frightened peo- ple from the towns near where the recruits were attacked. The men at- tacked were in training for the “black and tan” forces. WOMEN TO GET JURY SERVICE CALL IN CITY Sheriff Welch ch Announces That specifications drawn for the construc- | tion of a sanitary sewer on Avenue! A from Hannifin street to a point 160 feet west of Hannifin, This sew- | jer and another on 13th ‘street jfrom | ae pavenus C to a point 100 feet north’ Women of Bismarck and Burleigh ‘of Avenue D will be constructed this! county are to have a chance to do winter, it was said. aids will be ae servjce, Sheriff Welch announc- received Dec. 20. He Will Put Their Names un for Additional Jurors “The DeGember jury panel has been drawn but many more names will :92 needed, aud Sheriff Welch says the additional names drawn will be those of women. Names for jury service are drawr, one from each precinct from names jreported by the township board. Af- jter the election.the chairman of the boards came into possession of the [mutes of many women from whom Sheriff Welch expects to select jurors. ARREST FORMER DEPUTY SHERIFF AS RUM AGENT There is no reason why women Moorhead, Nov. 3 rl Hanson |cannot servg on juries, he says. Jt of Moorhead, until a month ago 2/is probable that the first women jurors drawn will be from Bismarck. Judge Coffey, of Jamestown, will | preside at the term of district court 'gvhich opens next week. deputy sheriff in Clay county! and ; formerly a patrolman on the ‘Moor- | head police force, was arrested last} Saturday night in Moorhead by fed- jeral . prohibition officers charged; Names of pérsons drawn for the jury with importing whiskey from Canada. | panel follow: F. Nelson, Bald- Hangon’s arrest: was made after an| win; Oscar Falk, Bismarck; John | exciting) automobile chase for six | Bortell, Bismarck; Alex Asbridge, | miles, furing which, according tofed-| Bismarck; F. A, Lahr, Bismarck; J. eral agents, Hanson's sister-in-law, |F. Wildfang, McKenzie; J. J. Stroh, who was in the car with him, threw | Pickersville; P R- Fields, Bismarck; Holihan, Paul D. Holmes, Menoken, hall, Bismars E. Stra | David Dixon, Wilton; J. H. | Bismarck; «Geo. Ma: iskey from their Cadil- Hanson was overtaken by the federal agents in front of the n= Kiefer garage in Moorhead. {demo, Baldwin; Frank Clausen, Bi Agents Are “Tipped On" marck; Leo Dahlheimer, Bismarck; ‘ —_ ie Bs EK. A. Hamlin, Wing; P. E. Byrne, nformation was furnished the fer Bigmarae: Ie Leow Blomarce: {eral agents by the United States mar- shal'’s office late Saturday afternoon | {Herman Nieters, Wing; W J. Taylor, Menoken; Chris Yegen, Bismarck; I. to the effect that Hanson would ar- : : A. Leonard, arck; M. J. McCarty rive M z th a - ; | in Moorhead with a load of | Bismarck; W. 8. Mitchell, Bismare whiskey “about 8 p.m. Saturday.” At} 16 p.m. two federal agents went to|©: T Staley, Bismarck; Stephen Mc- | point six miles north of Moorhead Mahon. Driscoll: Andrew, Halner, to wait for‘the car according to the|. “Hogeors Mokongin: Ane] Sten. report made today by Lane Maloney,| 1. (todgers. Metontie; | Axel Sten- tgroup chief of the Fargo prohibition itera aes ven eid ioe a te Gagner, Bismarck; F. D. Woodworth, |MINOT LAWYER Driscoll; Fredolen Rupp, Baldwin: |B. Mugy, Baldwin; Aug. Lundberg, WILL DELIVER | Wilton; John Rupp, Baldwin; Ben McCluskey, Wing; Richard Owens, 9 'Brittin; John Youngman, Bismarck: ELKS ADDRESS William Kraft, Bismarck; Henry Mil ler, Frane J..L. Larson, Bismarck; C. M. Snyder, Menoken. John -H. Lewis, attorney of Minot, will deliver the address at the Elks’ (Memorial service to be held at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon in the EI- tinge theater, it was announced today by Judge I. C. Diess, exalted ruler of ; the local lodge. Mr. Lewis is said to} southern Billings county, will be dis- be a brilliant speaker. A musical|continued on November 30. Atter program and a Jodge service will be a that date patrons of that office will part of the ceremonies. receive their mail at Medora. POST OFFICE DISCONTINUED Lickinson, Nov. 30.—Because of the small amount of mai! handled, Hanley, a country post office in