The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 3, 1921, Page 1

_ The Weather COLDER TONIGHT FORTIETH YEAR $2,000,000 OF BONDS ARE SOLD BANK ANNOUNGES Bank of North Dakota Confirms | Announcement Made in East of Bond Sales MADE TO TOLEDO, 0., FIRM Farm Loans Again to be Made by Bank of North Dakota, it is Said by Cathro The Bank of North Dakota, as fiscal i agent for the Industrial Commission, | has sold $1,500,000 of 53-4 per. cent real estate to Spitzer, Rorick and com- pany, Toledo, Ohio, according to F. W, Cathro; head of the bank. The same company has agreed to take approxi- mately $500,000 of mill and elevator bonds, Mr. Cathro added. hese sales, announcement of which was made locally today after the bond company’s New York offce had made announcement of the sales. They are in addition to sales previously made by the hank agencies which have been maintained in: Bismarck, in Chicago and New York. These sales include about one-half million dullars mill and elevator bonds. The entire real es- tate series of $3,000,000 offered is sold except for some short r.aturity. About $500,000 of the mill and elevator bonds had been sold by the bank’s own agencies, Mr. Cathro said. The $2,000,000 bought by the Toledo firm and the bonds sold by the bank make ‘total sales of about $4,000,000 he said. The Chicago and New, York offices of the Bank of North Dakota will be closed, according to Mr. Cathro, and the Spitzer, Rorick and Company wili be’ the agency for the cuture sale of North Dakota bonds. The sales of bonds have been from tie real estate series principally and trom the mili and elevator series, the bank series not being pushed, according to Mr. Cathro. f A practically unlimited market was opened up through the sales, it was claimed by the bank head. The law authorizes the issuance of $10,000,000 real estate bonds. The farm loan ge-! partment of the Bank of North Dak6ta| will be opened ‘up again as soon as it! can be put in working siiape, Mr. Ca- thro ‘said. “About one million dollars of applications for farm loans are on hand, having been on hand when the bank ceased making farm loans. N» Dew appraisal will pe necessary, he said. 3 Mr. Cathro said the. bank would have plenty of funds.to ake advances to permit resumption of work, on tne Grand Forks mill and elevator if de-| sired. H. A. Paddock, secretary of tie: Industrial Commission, said that he did not know what action’ the commission might take, but said it might bein. advisable to resume work on the mill this close to winter. The bond sale department of the Bank of North Dakota has made sales in 42 states, it’ was said. 7 NEW YORK ANNOUNCEMENT, New York. Oct. 3.—(By the Associat~ ed Press.)—The state of North Da- kota has won its financial fight of more two-years to dis;ose of its real estate series bonds. ‘Tae.unsold ba!- ance it was announced yesterday by the Bank of North Dakota has becn bought by Spitzer, Rorick and com- pany of New York. The bonds will be offered for public subscription in the usual way at $101 and accrued inter- est yielding 5.75 per cent. A statement issued in connection with: the, sale of the bonds said it terminated:‘‘one-of the raost dramatic campaigns of recent years in Wall street.’ The fight began in the spring of 1919 when the North Dakota legis- lature then controlled by the Nonparti- san league authorized the issuance of the bonds as a means of carrying ou’. the league’s industrial program. i | i {0 WOUNDED IN KU KLUX FIGHT Prosecutor Won't File Action| Against Sheriff | Waco, ‘Tex., Oct. 3— County \Attor- new F. B. Tierey here iate Sunday re- fused the demand of a committee of CK TRIBUN Last Edition BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1921 PRICE FIVE CENTS THE BATTLING CATHCARTS EARL AND HIS WIFE WHOSE MARITAL TROUBLES ARE 1NTER- ESTING BRITISH HIGH SOCIETY, BARL TRIES 10 DIVORCE. WIFE Action ' Follows Her Winning And Losing £1500 Deauville at (By Milton Bronner) London, Oct. 3—All London society DAIRY CIRCUIT ~ ORGANIZATION -— TSCOMPLETED lOfficers of Association Are Elected and Directors For It Are Chosen’ | Permenent oreanization of the Bis- ;marck dairy circuit has been effected. At a meeting held neve Saturday af- ternoon officers and directors were chosen and a. line of procedure was | decided upon. The officers chosen | were: President—Louis Garske. Vice President—Lee Madlard. Secretary-Treasurer—-G. J. Schneid- { i fer. s _. Directors-At-Large—-Frank Paris, V. J. Hiltenberg. | The directors met pricr to the open meeting held for discussion of the dairy circuit and adopted a constitu- jtion. The congtitution provides two classes of memberships. They are: | No. 1—Breeder mumbership. Under | this clas each applicant must within a year after making application head Be herd by a full-blooded Holstein sire. i No. 2—Testing membership. Under | this class it is required that the herd j be headed by a full-bicoded animal, |not necessarily a Holstein. Testing | privileges are given to both classes | and the membership fee is the same. ; All. subsequent applications | membership will be passed on by the board of directors. Two applications already are on file for position of su- | Perintendents of the circuit. Much enthusiasm was manifested et the meeting. The directors wil go slowly but surely, they said, toward the completion of the organization, utilizing as a nucleus ‘lairy herds now in the county. The meeting was held }in the Commercial clu) rooms. The entire organization is iu the hands of the dairymen, the Commercial club agricultural committee offering its | services in promoting the organization | and in any way the dairymen may see! |fit to accept them to further the move- ; ment. PROPOSESHORT | OUT TRAIL AT i | | | | for} | 28, the voters of Nori Dakota will will be sitting on the sidelines this fall when the divorce courts hear the RYDER MEBTING noble Cathcarts’ air their family troubles. They started doing so some time ago in the newspapers. going to fight to a finish. Earl Catheart has filed suit for di- vorce from his countess. He is 59 and was married in January, 1919. ‘His bride was much younger than himself... She was a war widow, her first husband having been’ Captain de Grey ‘Warter of the 4th Dragoon Guards. ‘ The countess presented her hus- band with a son, and this boy, under the title of Lord Greenock, is. heir to the peerage and estates. ‘Ear! Rejects Bills Society thought the earl and his countess were getting on swimmingly, but were disillusioned when one day they read in The Times a formal an nouncement by the earl that his wife was not allowed to pledge his credit. Reporters rushed to see the count ess, who replied that she thought the whole thing considerable of a joke. She further said she would answer the earl also in a public statement. This duly appeared. She said hér total allowance foo her right noble husband was 960 pounds per annum, out’ of which she; paid all her traveling expenses and also 276 pounds in school fees for her two. children. She added he had offered her 1500 pounds a year, less income tax, but that she had refused this with right- eous indignation. (She is going to fight her husband's | suit. At Deauville on the French sea- coast, the gayest of gay places, the countess recently had won 1500 rounds during an evening's play in the Casino, but she fost it the next night, BEDS AND MEALS. TO BE FURNISHED. DeS Moines, Ia., Oct. 3.—Beds jand meals at 8 to 10 cents each for unemployed men, veterans, will. be furninshed in Des {Moines this winter through efforts of {Sheriff Robb, particularly war the Iowa American one hundred prominent Lorenza citi- zens that he file compiaints against; Sheriff Bob Buchanan and Deputy; Sheriff Burton, in connection with last | night’s fight at Lorena between parad- | ing Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and! /® Sheriff's posse in which ten men; were wounded, three perhaps fatally. : The county attorney declared that the! grand jury here would ve called to in-; vestigate the incident and that pend- ing its action he would take no steps; in the matter beyond an investigation by his department for evidence for! submission to the grand jury. CONCILIATORS NAMED. i Washburn, N. D., Oct. 3.—At the last} legislature a bil was passed providing | for a board of conciliation for eacn county whose duty it is to dispose of} certain controversies without suit. Judge Coffey and Judge Nuessle have | ‘appointed the following men in the county on the McLean county concil- . fation board Robert Cotton, Wilton. E. K. Mason, Raub. Jerry O'Shea, Blackwater. L. R. Burgum, Washdurn. Otto Olson, Underwood. Robert Fitzgerald, Garrison. H, . Feitag, Max, L. Moe, Ruso. *‘ Glenn Thayer, Dogden. E. M. Ployman, Mercer. Phil Fogarty, Turtle Lake. Legion headquarters, announced to- The sheriff .has arranged for a home fitted with cots, blankets and | Roads Association: showers. The equipment. is to be donated. WEATHER REPORT For 24 hours ending at noon, Octo- ber 3, 1921. Temperature at 7 a. m. Highest yesterday | Lowest yesterday | Lowest last night . Precipitation Now they are| Vice Presidents of Missouri Slope Good Roads Associ- ation to Meet, Ryder, N. D., Oct. 3—A meeting. of importance is to be held here Tues day when the vice presidents of the Missouri Slope Good Roads Associa- tion wilt convene to discuss the mat- ter of blazing a trail west from some point on the main line of the Soo Ry. between Harvey. and Drake tv Max, thence west through the several intermediate towns to Sanish, thence across the Missouri river through Me. Kenzie county to the Montana state dine to connect up with one of the National Parks highways. This proposition was taken/up some months ago when it was proposed tu incorporate this proposed trail in the system of trains for which the N. D Good Roads Association was endeavor- ing to get support from the legisla- ture at its last session, hut the meas- ure before that body was defeated. It is revived now at the instance of Sec. B. A. Dickinson of the Missouri Slope Good Roads Association who issued the call for the meeting. Mr. Dick- inson is an’ ardent govd roads pro-| moter and he is earnestly seeking to put the proposed trail on the good roads map. What™it would mean to the territory through which it would pass cannot be estimated. Thousands of autos carrying tourists parties trav- el east and west through North Da- kota every year to and from the Yel- lowstone National Park and the Gla- cier National Park. ‘These tourists would naturally take ‘the short cut, if it is effected, thereby shortening the distance approximately 150 miles, | which would mean that the big auto- mobile tourists traffic east and west over the terfitory to the north would be diverted and the siorter route | would become the popular one. The proposed blazing and register- ing of a trail from Mohall south to Minot and from the latter place through Ryder to Sanish, which will ‘be done within a few days, occasioned | i the calling of the meeting of the vice! | presidents of the Missouri Slope Good “SUNSHINE STATE” UPHOLDS NAMEIN | THE PAST MONTH) North Dakota retains its record of the Sunshine State. The monthly meterological sum- mary, issued by the weather bu- 1 INDEPENDENTS | CAMPAIGN WORK Statement Issued by Committee Asking Workers to.Support Recall Candidates | OUTLINES RECALL STAND Question: “Are Officials Guilty as Charged?” Says Cam- paign Statement Made A statement was issued by Inde- pendent campaign headquarters in Fargo, received here today, in which it calls all Independent workers to “stick to the real issucs—the charges against the officials under recall.” The committee says the question to be voted on October 23 is: “Are the officials, against whom the recall has been invoked, guilty of the charges made?” In the statement saya: “With only two sets of candidates hin the field-and no other measures af- fecting the economic xffairs of the state than those proposed by the In- dependents, the issues of the cam- aign come before the voters in a lear cut ‘for-or-against’ proposition. “Before the polls close on October the committee have written into history thateat a crucial moment they cither voted for honesty, economy, efficiency and oper. books in the administration of om state government and for restored credit so that farmers znd business- men can get properly financed again and so that political subdivisions can again obtain control of all funds that belong to them; or tuat they voted to retain in office three men who havo not only admitted that cney have used millions of dollars of public and pri vate money for the purpose of huilding a political machine with which, to keep themselves and a horde of im- Ported and home grown | Won’t Work radicals in luxury at the expense of the taxpayers of. the state, but are brazenly indicating \that they intend to continue their reckiessness with public funds and disregard for the or- dinary standards of honesty as long as they are kept in office. State’s Credit. On October 28, the citizens of North Dakota will also have voted to either approve or disapprove of laws that wil help to restore our credit and pre- vent public officials, wacther Independ- ent or Nonpartisan, trom ever again mis-using public funds as the mem- bers of our present industrial commis- sion have done. “The voters of the state are face to face with a most. sevious proposi- tion. Thousands of our people are about to be bankrupt because they cannot get new loans, or old loans re- newed, even though it is a matter of common knowledge tha; there 1s lesst inflation in land values in North Da: kota than in any western agricultural state, “The records of banis, trust com- panies and real estate loan companier show that non-residents, wno flave been loaning money to North Dakotans. are now instructing their agents to call in loang amounting to more than $50,000,000 that are needed badly just now. ' Tssues At Stake. The good name of tho state and the welfare of future gencrations are it stake. If we vote to retain in the highest ‘offices in the state men who have by their own testimony admittea that they have misused more than $6,- 000,000 of public money and violated anti-grafting laws that all minor of- fictals . have wholesomely respected since statehood, we will put a blot upon the state that can never be re- moved and fingers of scorn will be pointed at us and the rext generation wherever we go on the North Ameri- can continent. If we vote to put in the places of the guilty officials, a set of men against whom there is not even a charge of irregularity §n public serv- ice ‘or private business, the mistakes of the past will be forgotten and we! will enjoy the respect that is rightfully due the pioneers of any state when they are about to turn over their work | to the next generation as those who first broke and built in North Dakota are now doing. S | HRS. LOOMIS DIES HERE SATURDAY TISSUE CALL-T0 {in “indemnities,” also known as “priv- [ASKS INTEREST rv that date. The announcement was ma railway employees’ department Labor, following a conference of organizations, “Representatives of the are yet to be counted reported completed before October 10. after four he said. WOMAN LEADER OF BOMB PLOT KILLED BY RUSS Moscow, Oct. 3.—(By the Associated Press.)-——Vania Barron, a woman anar- chist leader and nine men associates, have been executed by the Soviet in- quisition, and many others have heen imprisoned in Moscow in connection with plots dating back to September, 1919, when bombs were exploded dur- ing a tee of the building in which the meeting was held and killing many persons. PUTS AND CALLS ELIMINATED IN meeting of the Muscow commit-! the communist party wrecking) RAIL UNIONS POSTPONE ACTION ON STRIKE VOTE UNTIL OCT. 10) Chicago, Oct. 2.—Railroad unions will take no action on the strike question before October 10 and possibly not for sometime de by B. M. Jewell, head of the of the American Federation of executives of the 16 railroad labor brotherhoods whose strike ballots that the tabulation would not be Until the result is known such EX-SERVICE MEN PRESENT CLAIMS, -TOU.S. OFFICERS i i | | | | | | Clean-up Squad at American Legion Hall to Take Care of all Inquiries | 30 MEN APPEAR EARLY | pa see | A general clean-up of all soldiers’ claims is being conducted in Bismarck today and tomorrow. The clean-up squad of the Veterans’ GRAIN EXCHANGE Course of Grain Prices Watched with Unusual Interest Under New Law i | \ | | i | | | i PROHIEIT “INDEMNITIES” Chicago, Oct. 3—Board of Trade members watched the course of grain| prices with unusual interest Saturday because of the elimination of trading ileges,” “bids and offers’ and “puts and calls.” ‘ Last spring while the Capper-Tinch- er law regulating grain exchanges; which goes into effect late in Decem- ber imposing a prohibitive tax on this method of trading, was being framed the officers and directors of the Chi- cago Board of Trade recommended the indemnity trading be discontinued. The members of the Board of Trade a few weeks ago voted to’ eliminate indemnities Oct, 1. ‘ “Indemnities” in substance are con- tracts which give to the buyer the privilege, of demanding a specific quantity of grain at « named: price within a certain time, or give Him the privilege of delivering a specified quantity at a named price within a certain time. Hence the name “priv- ileges.” The utility of indemnity. trading, marketing experts of the Board of Trade say, lay in the insurance it pro- vided for speculators against violent) price swings in a stated period. “Speculators,” said a leading grain man, “provide a market in which country elevator owners or farmers may protect themselves from loss by hedging.’ Specuators are constantly on the alert to buy or sc}l as ordinary conditions of supply and demand indi- cate, but they in turn aeed a chance to ‘hedge’ against the unexpected, such as a sudden change in world political or economic conditions that would change price values.” Sage Used Means. There are firms and individuals which made a specialty of selling in- demnities. The late Russell Sage was reputed to have made many of his mil- lions by the sale: of “stock privi- leges,” and analogues process, on the New York Stock Exchange. Years ago trading in puts and calls was eliminated at Chicago, but the trade was promptly transferred to the Milwaukee and, Minneapolis mar- kets, and as a: consequence trading wag later resumed here| Many traders held the opinion that the move would make speculators more conservative and thus reduce the volume of speculation. A reduction in volume, it was furtver theorized, would make for wider fluctuations in price, a situation not desired by far- mers, who, for many year's have sought to stabilize prices, | PAYMENT TIME ‘Governor Frazier has written to E. | | G. Quamme, manager of the Federal Farm Loan Bank, St. Paul, suggesting me. | ithat interest payments be deferred ‘one year in cases of North Dakota farmers having loans who have had crop failures. The governor in his | letter said many of these farmers have {bean in the state for years and it =a ‘would injure the state if they were Emily Decker Loomis, who for the) forced to sell their farms or have Mrs. Loomis Made Her Home in Bismarck For Twelve i Years e | Highest wind velocity reau, shows the percentage of possible sunshine for September to have been 69, or 7 per cent above normal. Only eight days of the month were listed as “cloudy,” the rest being “partly cloudy” or “clear.” The temperature for the month was 59, which was about two de- grees above normal. The highest temperature was 93 and the low- est 34. The highest temperature ever recorded in September was 102. The total precipitation of the month was 1.67, somewhat above normal, which is 1.19 inches of rainfall. No killing frost occurred in Sep- tember, the first killing frost be- ing on October 1. One out of every 25 farms in .the United States ‘isoperated by a woman. Weather Forecast For Bismarck and Vicinity: Fair) tonight and probably Tuesday, slowly), rising temperature. i or North Dakota: Fair tonight) and probably Tuesday; slowly rising | temperature. { Weather Conditions ! | The pressure is high and the weath- \er fair over the western statés. Tem- {peratures are below normal and read- |ings below freezing were . recorded | generally in North Dakota this morn- | ing. A low pressure area BecOnt: panied by rising temperature has ap-| jpeared over the Canadian Northwest, (and its southeastward movement will ‘result in fair weather in North Da-) | kota tonight and probably Tuesday with slowly rising temperature. —Orris W. Roberts, Meteorologist. past twelve years has made her hom with her daughter, Mrs. 0. N. Dun. ham, passed away ‘at the Dunham} home Saturday evening at ten o’clock. | Mrs. Loomis came to Bismarck a/little} over twelve years ago and since he iepend’s death has made her home ere, Mrs. Loomis ‘was born in Catskill, New York, in 1847. She was ill only three days , being taken sick on Thursday and she died Saturday ev- ening. Mrs. Loomis is survived by her daughter, Mrs. O. N. Dunham, a son Charles Loomis of St. Paul and a step daurhter, Mrs. Elizabeth Pike of Denver, Colo. Mr. and Mrs. O. N. Dunham left this morning with the remains for Trumansburgij New York where burial will take place. i rangements will be made by a niece who resides in New York. Funeral ar-| Bureau, coming here frum the western part of the state, considered about 30 cases in its morning session in the American Legion hall. It remains here until 5 P. M. Tuesday, “It is the duty of this squad to take up all matters which an er-service man desires to bring before it,” said C. T. Hoverson, in charge. “Claims are handled by Miss McGregor, of the Red Cross and Mr. Skinner 1 epresenting the American Legion. They include in- auiries concerning pay due, state or national bonds or similar claims. Orig- inal claims are handled by Mrs. Poole, of the Red Cross. Cases of appeal from past awards are brought. before Mr. Mock handles vocational training cases, Dr. Burns is the medi- cal examiner, Mr. Meyers rates the ex- service men and Mr. Boink maxes ar- rangements for travel, meals and lodg- ing of any ex-service man sent to hos- pitals or government schools.” Under the new United States Veter. ans’ Bureau, consolidating all soldier aid bureaus, a district office is main- tained in Minneapolis. In cases where there is an apparent disability, as shown by the discharge, entitling a man to allowances, the claim can be forwarded to the Minndapolis office and the man will receive his first check in three or four weeks, Mr. Hov- erson said. “Claims naadled by the bureau range from clothing allowance to bonus claims, ¢ The county chapter of the Red Cross furnished luncheon in the American Legion hall, the members of the Wat Mothers and Ladies Auxiliary of the Legion serving it. Ex-service men from several coun- ties were present. The clean-up squad goes from here to Jamestown. It is at Carrington from 1:30 P. M., October 7, to 5 P. M., October 8. Members of the party are; C. T. Hoverson, incharge; Dr. H. A. Meyer rating officer; Dr. H. ¥ Burns, exam- iner; C..C. Mock, vocational training; C. R. Boink, contact otficer, and M&s McGregor, of the Red Cross. CONFESSES HE SHOT POLICEMAN Duluth Police Obtain Admission From J. Hikkinen Duluth, Oct. 3.—Johnar Hikkinen, aged 25, who yesterday morning is alleged to have shot and killed one man, seriously wounded another, shot a Duluth policemen in the arm and engaged in a pistol duel with a squad of detectives: before he was shot and captured, rallied from the effects of his wound during the night and js ex- pected to recover, physicians said. In_an alleged confession today Hikkinen admitted to police that’ he shot and killed Waino Pauttu but denied that he shot John Maki and another. Hikkinen is said to have told authorities that he fled from the city immediately after the. slaying and did not figure in the shooting of the two other men. Hikkinen is said to have shot and killed Pauttu after an argument over who had the largest nose and then critically wounded Maki, hotel manager, when the latter opened the door to his establishment expecting to care for a late arrival: MAKES IT 59 New York, Oct. 3.--Babe Rath made his 59th home run of the sea- son Sunday off Fullerton, of Bos- them foreclosed. JEWELRY WORTH $5,000 BELIEVED STOLEN IN NORTH DAKOTA. SEIZED | Duluth, Oct. 3—Duluth police today | were checking valuables worth $5,000 ‘from two alleged robbers in an effort | to identify the men and their loot with | recent jewelry store robberies in Far- {go and other North Dakota towns. |” The men gave their names as Hen- iry Keto, age 24, and Ernest William Aho, ‘age 26. Keto wore the uniform of the United States Navy. Aho said ‘he was a laborer. | They were arrested by a squad of | police who broke, into their noom in a ton, local hotel and surprised them before they could bring into play loaded re- volvers which lay on a bed. Aho is said to have admitted to po- lice that he was in Fargo a month before coming to Duluth with Keto two weeks ago. Police decided to arrest them after learning that the men had been sell- ing jewelry around the city. Included in the loot taken were 35 FARMERS GRAIN SALES PLANIS A FAILURE, CLAM President of Chicago Board of Trade Says Collapse of Move- ment is Seen unions as have already voted for the walkout will ‘mark time’,”|DEFENDS PRESENT SYSTEM Claims it was Attempt to Sub- stitute Monopolistic System For Competitive Chicago, Oct. 3—(By the Associated Press)—The grain world is witnessing the almost complete collapse of the cooperative movement of farmers to market their own grain, Joseph P. Griff, president of the Chicago board of trade told the grain dealers nation- al association at the annual conve tion here today. “The leaders of this movement are in retreat,” Griffin said. “Despite their inexperiences and utter lack of marketing knowledge they have been exposed as paying themselves enorm- ous salaries. “The farmer has learned that the glowing promises made to enlist his financial support are impossible of performance. Without the farmers’ money to be supplied in abundant plenty this plan was fore-ordained to failure and thus we are_now witness- ing the almost complete collapse of this embryonic monopoly.” Citizens Legisiation | (Much legislation has been recently advanced, Mr. Griffin said, which was nothing less than “a bold attempt to destroy the present highly competi- tive marketing system and substitute in its stead a species of monopolistic control.” “This sinister plan was to be sugar- coated and sanctified under the shal- low pretense that it was a coopera- tive producers movement,” he con- tinued. “In plain facts it was sponsored by an aggregation of self-constituted agi- tators and false prophets who in self- interest and for personal aggrandize- ment were attompting to capitalize the unhappiness and discontent of the farmers,” Would Preserve Middle Man Preservation of the middle man in the grain industry is to be one of the principle topics for consideraton at the three-day convention, accord- ing to Charles Quinn, secretary. The 1,200 members of the associa- tion: attenc#@ig the meeting, according to ‘Mr. Quinn, expected to draw up a course wf action to frustrate plans of various interests to do away with the middle man. An active campaign probably will be launched next March he said, when the dealers hold their annual. meeting. 00 AMENDMENTS AREOFFERED TO. SENATE TAX BILL Chairman Penrose Expects to Reach Consent Vote on High Lights Soon Washington, Oct. 3—The senate to- day entered upon the second week of consideration of the tax revision bill, with indications that a final vote would be delayed. until late in the month. More than 50 amendments af- fecting- every tax provision. in. the measure remained to be acted':upon’: and in addition uninterrupted \ work on the bill was to be presented by debates on 'the peace treaties and votes on those passed and on the Panama canal tolls repeal bill. Chairman Penrose of the finance committee in charge wf the tax mea- sure expected to reach soon a unani- mous consent agreement for time to vote on the “high spots” of the mea- sure but much discussion of the out- standing provisions was looked for be fore final action on any of them. IT’S SPRINGTIME IN AUSTRALIA _ Sydney, Oct. 3—Australian spring: time conditions justify an optimistic outlook, say government officials. The dairying season has opened remark- ably well, lambing returns were con- sistently. high and pasturage and wheat areas are in excellont condi- tion. The rains and snow melting have caused floods in Victoria but the dam- age has not been extensive, and any local material loss is well balanced by the general gain to the land. The wool industry is more buoyant mits good prospects of a steady mar- et. The meat industry depression largely due to the effect freightage overseas. NEW PHONE RATES PUT INTO EFFECT New Telephone rates have been put in effect in Bismarck by virtue of the [recent federal court decision in Far- g0. New rates, as given by the com- pany, are: one party business line, ‘$4.75 a month; two party” business, $4.25; one party residence $2.75; four party residence, $2.25. MACCABEES NEW TENT. Garrison, N. D., Oct. 3—A new tent of the Knights of Maccabees was or- ganized here on Thursday evening. Deputy State Commander Graydov Brookhart arrived here on Sept. 19, and obtained fuly forty members. is of high watches, 140 rings, four diamond stick pins, 25 necklaces and numerous other pieces of jewelry. State Commander D. McNamara of Fargo was here to assist in the work of installation.