The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 1, 1921, Page 1

) | r , _ Administration Believes’ It Can, The Weather “ Ungettled oo a, FORTIETH YEAR THE BIS PEACE PLANS MODIFICATION OF BOND SALE CONTRACT IS SECURED BY NEW STATEINDUSTRIAL CO ! Amount of Bonds Required To ~—_———e—eeoenrro- Be Delivered scant RAWFORD AND Will Be Reduced By New| Agreement. | SRN SEE BETTER SALE POSSIBLE! | “Save Much Money in New| Deals in Future. Modification of the bond sale con- | tract negotiated by the retiring league} industrial commission just before leaving office has been secured by the} new industrial commission. Details; of anew agreement'were completed at regents has been appointed secretary | of the noon today. ‘Through negotiation ‘of a new agree- ment the Industrial Commission be-| lieves it will be able to save a great deal of money to the state, it is stated. | Although it is not, satisfied with the| deal made by the league commission | yet. it believes that much has been complished in the new agreement. | The league administration contract- ed‘to sell a total of $12,300,000 of; bonds to Spitzer, Rorick and Com-! pany. H Under the new agreement $6,100,000! of this amount is withdrawn from er can be sold in competitive market | for a promium, the new administra. | ticn believes. } Withdrawn from the former con: tract are $4,500,000 real estate bond: $1,000,000 mill and elevator and $600, | 000 home builders. i Deliver As Needed. Another feature of the new agree- ment, which was concluded with a rep- resentative of Spitzer, Rorick and Company, is that bonds will not be delivered “until real estate loans are ready to be made or money is needed in mill and elevator construction o: for cleaning up debts of homebuild. ers association. Under the former agreement a great portion of bonds would be delivered before money could be used thereby causing the state to pay a great deal of additional interest monoy. : The, new contract to be.drawn up will, be directly, between Industrial Commission and ‘the. bond company, instead of through the Bank of North Dakcta. Five hundred thousand dollars of! real estat bonds will be taken im-| mediately at par and 53-4. interest. | The league commission had agreed to} sell this amount in its first contract: at 5 per cent discount, it is stated. | Loans will be made immediately from; this amount. Under the new agreement the homo! building series, mill and elevator and; real estate bonds are sold at par. i See Better Offers. Offers to purchase North Dakota, bonds at par and at five and half per) cent interest have been made recent; ly and the bond market has eagel| greatly, it is stated. The former in-! dustrial commission’s real estate bond | contract extended over a persod of 14! months. Within this period, if new) bonds are issued, the state adminis- tration believes they can be sold at; more advantageous terms. : The old contract provided forsale, of $1,000,000 home buildets’ ‘bonds. | New contract provides for ‘sale of $400,000. The admiistration hopes ‘t/ will be able to clean up the debts of this association with $400,000. The former admiristration had a} contract to sell $2,000,000 mill and elevator bonds. One’ ‘million dollars; is withdrawn from this. Since the en-| tire amount of money could not be} used for many ‘months, possibly mote ; than a year, ‘the: administration be-} lieves it will be able‘to sell the million | dollars worth of bonds at much bet- ter terms when necessary to issue) them. | The same is true of the real estate’ series of bonds, the contract provid-, ing for all bonds that can possibly be; used in the next few months, it is! stated, | First Contract Attacked H The first contract entered into be-| tween the late industrial commission} and Spitzer, Rorick & Co., was dated September 21, 1921, and the terms oi} that contract have already been pub- lished. ‘his. was the contract the/ legality of which was questioned in} the case brought by certain taxpay- ers of the state inthe district court of Burleigh county, and which was ap- pealed to the supreme court of the State of North Dakota. While the suit was pending in the supreme court, and after it had been fully submitted on both sides, the late industrial com- mission entered into another contract modifying and cancelling the first contract. This lagt attempt was made November 21, 1921, two days be- fore the fate industrial commission went out of office: Under this agree- ment the hands of the incoming in- dustrial commission were effectually tied as the contract provided that bonds of the real estate series, Bank series, Mill and Blevator series, and home building series that might be put on the market during the year 1921 or 1922, should be handled exclu- sively by Spitzer, Rorick & Cio, and at 6 per cent interest with the excep: tion of the bank series bonds aggre- gating $1,300,000, _ the interest on which was to be 5 5-8 per cent. DENAULT NAMED 10 POSITIONS Former Will Be Secretary of Industrial Commission; Latter in Bank EXPLANATION IS GIVEN Lewis Crawford, of Sentinel Butte, former member of the state board of Industrial Commission, and W. B. DeNault, of Jamestown, will be manager of the farm loan depart- ment of the Bank of North Dakota, it is announced today. Mr. Crawford has been engaged in business and farming at Sentinel Butte and was a member of the first board of regents. Regarding the se- lection of Mr. DeNault, Goevrnor Nes- tos made the following statement: “Have just noticed the statement in yesterday's Courier-News that A. B. \DeNault had been asked to become | contract and if necessary to issue lat {Director General of the Bank of North |7gQ PREVENT FLUCTUATION: Dakota and stating that he was the representative of the Wells-Dickey ;Company and that it was expected to kill the Rural Credits or Land Loan partment by the first of the year. is incorrect and untair in every particular. It is W. B. DeNault who thas been urged to become the head of ithe Bank of North Dakota with the ; understanding that he was to become | aso the manager of the Rura Credits |Department. He has declined to be |come the head of the bank but has (finally consented, upon our urgent re- uest, to reorganize for efficiency the ural Credits-or Farm Loan Depart- jment of the bank. He is not the rep- | lresentative of the Wells—-Dickey Com- | pany, as stated, and jseven years. He is an experienced jand capable real estate loan man and ithis administration believes that. the !men who understand a business can ‘give thé state the best service in that ‘business and are more likely to pro- {duce results of value to the people than those who are not experienced in that particular line of business. “Mr. DeNault is careful, conscien- tious and conservative in his business methods and I am confident that he will ‘establish a real loan business for the farmers of our state. We do not believe that the loan business should be a charity institution or a bureau for distributing political fav- ors and ‘the only ones who will be | disappointed are those who are look- ing for a chance to sell their land to the state by making loans for the full value of the lands. I am confident that in his administration of that de- partment the conditions found last fall, when it was discovered that 90 loans had been made for more than the full assessed value of the land, making a heavy loss to the farmers of our state inevitable, will be impos- sible under his administration of the Rural Credits Department, but the people who want to make real estate loans in conformity with law; viz: for | not more than one half of the value of the land, will have a splendid chance junder the new administration. “In order to have an extra check on values, the new administration also proposes ‘that with each loan applica- tion there shall be filed the auditor's certificate as to the assessed value of the land for the past three years. “] believe that the state’s loan busi- ness should be conducted on the same sound conservative basis as one would use in building a private loan busi- ness, and I am positive that Mr. De- Nault will develope just that sort of a real estate loan business for the peo- ple of our state. I am very glad in- deed that Mr. DeNault has consented ; to serve and I am-sure that his ap- pointment and his conduct of this de- partment will meet with the approval of the farmers of our state.” ARBUCKLE CASE NEARING JURY San Francisco, Dec. 1.—Arguments in the Roscoe Arbuckle manslaughter case were scheduled for today. It is possible that some additional evidence will be offered by the state. ARMED BANDITS MAKE AN $8,000. JEWELRY HAUL St. Paul, Dec. 1.—Two masked and armed robbers held up the Lund. man Brothers Jewelry shop at South St. Paul and escaped with more than $8,000 In gems and set- tings early today. (. BR. Landman, a member of the firm, had just opened the shop MISSION he has not | {worked for the company for the past | The new industrial commission has had the last two days, conferences with a representative of the Spitzer, Rerick people and as @ result, on the 30th of November, entered into a new (Continued on Page $) and was removing the trays of jewelry from the vault when the two men entered. They hound and gagged him and locked him in a closet. After freeing himself Lundman gave the alarm. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1 TRIBUNE PRICE FIVE CENTS | ONLY 17 MORE |; DAYS LEFT TO WRITE A SLOGAN Only 17 more days left to pick off that $15! The Bismarck Town Criers slo- gan contest ends December 17. Ai- ready there are a large number of slogans on hand. Within the last two days slogans have been sub- mitted from Dickinson, Mandan, Napoleon and other towns outside Bismarck. The contest closes December 17 —but in case of duplication the one submitted first is g:ven prefer. ence. It is a case of the early bird hav- ing the finest picking. Contestants are urged to submit their slogans—not more than five words and fitting for the advertis- ing of Bismarck—as quickly as possible. Slogans should be mailed to Sec- retary’ Town Criers club, Bismarck, IN. C. 1 | | Reparations Commission To Dis- | cuss International Financial Situation i Plans To Be Made To Stabilize i Foreign Exchange in Lon- | don Meeting ; Washington, Dec. 1.—(By the Asso- ciated Press.)—Decision has been |reached by the federal reserve boar4| |to send an adviser to the forthcom-! ing conference of foreign bankers | jcalled by the reparations committee | to discuss exchange ‘stabilization, 1¢/ was said officially today at tne treas- ; ury. | ‘The board officials said has signi. ified its willingness to be present at: \the conference which will consider | t specific methods of preventing suddea exchange fluctuations resulting from: the January payment of the Germany |indemnity. The date and place. of| ‘meeting of the conference has not! been communicated to American of-} | ficials who regard the whole matter ‘still in the form of a proposal. LITTLE CHILD, “OLDWOMAN, ARE | FOUND SLAIN | Chicago Authorities Hunt For Husband of, Murdered Wo- man Found in Home Chicago, Dec. 1.—Following an all) j night ‘search for little Margaret | Coughlin, 3 years old, her dismem-; | bered body was found today in a wash ; boiler in the home of Mrs, Ralph j Pensis, 50 years old, a_ neighbor. i Shortly afterward the body of Mrs.| | Pensis with her throat slashed by a | butcher knife was found on the second floor of the Pensis cottage. Police} | immediately began a seafch for Ralph} Pensis the woman’s husband. WOULD SELL VICTORY BONDS es { an autonomous Rhineland to Ko ‘ } : | ploited by. the Allies. for reiestinn to sawp his client from the death pen-| | purposes is likely to be proposed by! @!ty.was on the verge of collapse. ks jatorium or reparation plan suggested ; | j-by Great Britain it was reported to- | day in official circles, i Soa i | point,” greatly complicates the finan- paper currency basis, RR ne en FRANCE WANTS FRENCH BLUEBEARD SENTENCED T0 i Versailles, Dec. 1.—Henri Desire | | Landru, the Bluebeard of Franre, con- } f victed of the murder. of ten women! Mark Goes Up Under Prospect) ona one boy was sentenced today to! i of Bri 7 i. a [Me guillotine. He smiled last night! i British Trade Negoti for the firat time since his trial open-' ations ed. A flickering expression of amuse- | nd “ment ‘crossed his face as he listened yito.the, words of Judge Gilbert~sending | SITUATION IS INTENSE} him toj-she guillotine for the most/ heinoug:crimes in French jurispru-j i j dencey 5 ! French Would Create Rhineland; ‘Thank you gentlomen,” he said, “as , 5 ihe bourished his weatherbeaten hat 11 | For. Allied Exploita- a mocking bow to the jury.” Then he{ i tion disappeared through the small door | | leading to the Versailles jail. | gs While the verdict was being await-} BY ASSOCIATED PRESS fed, the convicted slayer of ten wo-| Paris, Dec. 1A receivership for; men and a boy spoke words of en-| y a 2, ! Germany as a bankrupt nation with Petre aan Mies ‘sent er ee HIS VICTIMS ee 1 | 0 HENRI DESIRE LANDRU France as an alternative to the mor-| Landru lured the women to his villa | under the promise of marriage. The: hay ere. fascia prosecution charged that he killed! nd Walled by Ten tae helt them and disposed of their bodies by ‘ern “Bluebeard.” aon burning them in a small ‘stove after’ me. Jamast Ci t ‘ I . Jamast Cuchet, wido first cutting them into small pieces. | 40, disappeared at Vernouillet in ee The motive ascribed to Landru for!uary, 1915. Her 10-year-old son, Au- + his many orimes was that of robbery.|dre, vanished at the same time. Mme. Therese Laborde-Line, native ~——_——- , MARK GOES UP | London, Dec. 1—The German mark underwent a further significant recov- ery on the London exchange. Heavy buying sent the rate to. 750 to the round sterling as against yesterday’s close of 980. : The recovery was assisted by opti-| {mism regarding the negotiations: be- | erness, disappeared at Vernouillet in| tween Dr. Walter Roathenau, former ugust, 1915, German minister of reconstruction | UL; Mme. Berthe Heon, a 54-year-old and the financial heaids of the British i widow, disappeared in October, 1915, government in regard to Germany's ‘from Landrau’s new villa at Gambais. reparation payments and the possibil-| | Mme. Anta Moreau Collomb, 45- ity of a moratorium. i year-old widcew of a Marseilles silk The decline in the value of the} German mark, normally worth 23.8). 3 .__ [in December, 1916, cents before the war, to a fraction of/Retires To Big Farm In Pembina; Mille. Andree Babeley, 19-year-old a cent and, perhaps, “the vanishing! County on Thanksgiving Day tune teller, disappeared from Gambais in April, 1917. ‘ | Mme, Celestine Buisson, a widow, [seebpared at Gambais, in Septembr, j 1917. Mme. Louise Jaume, separated from cial outlook of every nation in the world, { The “tobogganing” of the mark has} been attributed by German financiers BY ASSOCIATED PRESS, to the forced payments on the Allied; Hoople, N. D., Dec, 1-When G a reparations of $33,750,000,000 while! Rpfaae eds Wear OF her husband and divorced after meet- others see in their almost negligible! ernor Lynn J. Frazier retired to his ing Landru, disippeared at Gainbais value the result of unsound finance, | farm in Pembina county, Thanksgiv- in November, 1917. ’ Car AORLDSEOEE, Hales ane tne Fae ing day, he became the second of the, Mme. Anne Pascal, native of Toulon exchange their almost worthless cur.| !!¥ing ex-governors of North Dakota and: Paristan acquaintance of Landru, rency for any and every kind of com-| to turn from the first office in the state | susanpenred at gamta’s We cate eo Fy H fon > ww rdel- marks (10,915,500,000 were issued ini), ase Tae tee hes . an 1919. one recent."month).that some of the! Ms years since retjrement as a tiller currency has appeared engraved on| of ae al is by strange eosinctdence NEW ASSISTANT only one side, or contrast, the first of the living ex-| . TRH Gold) Law | governors, Roger Allin of Park iar WARDEN NAMED It has been said that Germany does! Although of advanced age, Mr. Allin | 4 ————- not possess one-half iof one per cent! still is in active charge of his farm. | Norman McDonald, deputy warden of the gold required to meet her tons; Governor Frazier retire from of-| at the state penitentiary, who has and tons of paper obligations. Rep-| fice to a farm of 480 acres of the fa-| turned the keys on scores of prisoners resentatives of the government 0%: mous Red’ River Valley land, widely |!" 12 years service, has been replaced Wrance, as an indication of this, re-! heralded as the greatest wheat land |P¥ Charles Cram, formerly employed cently arranged terms with Germany’ on the face of the earth. It ts the farm |#t the Bank of North Dakota. War. at a conference in ‘Weisbaden by; his father secured when he followed jeer Stair said that he did not care to which Germany agreed to. deliver! the early settlers into North Dakota | £ive any reason for the change. seven billion gold marks worth of| and settled in this country, the first | building material. German bankers where the whites found a home in the| neve relleatelly ine ie Bare state, Being in the Red River Valley, | i ear Hite om Surae- year mora: | the farm is of course a wheat produc- fe declara ts 0) Ge i recover | et but Mr. Frazier early started to} toriunt ‘te enanle ermany break. away from the exclusive wheat | Many ‘Allied. economists, however, | Proeram ot the North Dakota farms | maintein that the depreciation of the|#"d one of his last acts before be-| mark has been artificially brought | come. governor at the time of his'Ptoposed Consolidation about: by the machination and trickery | "5 election was to dispose of a| k of German financiers, They point out; "umper crop of potatoes. i Take in Many Producers that Germany is much more prosper} The Frazier farm is well improved | ew ous in comparison with other Eurv-| with a seven-room house, barns and; New York, Dec. 1—Reports that a pean countries and that, while there | Outbuildings. There was hardly 9' morger of seven or more of the inde- ig a great contrast between the ex: break in the routine of the farm when | pendent steel companies is contem- tremes of wealth and poverty in Ger-| Mr. Frazier left it for Bismarck ant, plated were confirmed in the financidt many, speculators are making mil- | there was hardly a. break when he re | district today. lions and nearly everyone is at work ; turned, for the man he had working; The proposed consolidation wiil even if at/low wages. | for him for years before he was gov-jtake in all leading producers and The sub-committee, known as the, ernor has been in charge in his ab-| manufacturers with the exception of Guarantee Commission of the Repara-: sence. They only resumed the rela-|the Bethlehem Steel Corporation and tions Commission, has gone to Berlin| tions that existed before the election | the Jones and Laughlin company of to investigate whether German marks | of 1916 changed the routine of home| Pittsburgh. ‘really have any value. In event of/ farm life to that of political and state} The capitalization of the various finding them worthless, all foreign) activity. trading with Germany conducted on 2) ‘Deaths, which have had no small! consolidation. approximates $500,000 will cease and! part in the life course of the late! CO and the products of? the various the Ebert government may face such) governor, have added to ,his.cares 23 / mpanies cover almost every branch a crisis as will necessitate now action | farmer and in addition to the land of the steel and iron industry. by the Allied powers. Prior to the! Jiich he holds himself, he has charge| The consolidation if effected would Will | war, German marks in New York Were! (ihe 160-acre estate of a sister, held | be second in importance to the United ; third in importance ha forest oe sactions, the British pow aE aah the French franc being) means that the former governor Be first and second, respectively. | now in charge of a farm that if thrown | 'TY- . arati | into one block would be a mile square. | ‘in trust for a niece and nephew. ‘This /States Steel Corporation now the |State Board of Land Commis-| sioners Approve Proposal | i The state board of land commission: | ‘ers has authorized the sale of $210,000 lof Victory Bonds to provide additional | |funds for the department which makes) \farm loans and purchases bond issues | fof public corporations. The sale is? ; conditional upon receiving par value ,of them. . i | Treasurer Steen has taken steps to! jascertain if par value can be obtained ifor them in the east. The bonds} |have not yet reached par on the open | market, and are registered bonds. eee } ‘WILL APPEAL | | FROM ORDER OF GOV. FRAZIER An appeal from the order of Gov- 2nor Frazier removing John 0. 3rubb and H. A. Kirklie, commission- ers of Burke county, will be taken to the district court. Notice of in- cention to appeal has been filed on it ve : POR’ Reparation Paymentt | Between the two farmer ex-gover- | WEATHER REPORT Gince Germany agreed to the Allied ; ‘8 | For twenty-four hours ending at reparations terms last May the fol- nors, six other men are alive who noon, Dec. 1. lowing dates and amounts were fixed | have held the highest office in the Bift | remperature abr am. for payments: ‘of the people of North Dakota. Ia Highest yesterday June 1—1,00:0,000,000 gold marks to; the order in which they held their Lowest yesterday . tions Commission. | Office they are: phot wee ae pelivery to the commission; Joseph H. Devine of Mandan. Re-| Womeet leat night . ye 000,000,000 gold marks.! cently head of the State Training! retest wind vel of bonds for 12,000000,000 ently hea e > Highest wind velocity July 15—iFirst quarterly. payment of: school for Boys at Mandan. | fannual sum of 2,009,000,000 gold) Frederick B. Francher, the two, Weather Forecast marks. oe terly | pay.| 72ers of whose term were the last) for Bismarck and Vicinity: Fair August 15 First rer ihe eee years of the century. He is a banker |tonight and Friday; colder tonight. ment of the 26 per cent of the “tin California. | For North Dakota: Generally fair of Acierman exports) lartarty. pasment! rank a White, 1900-04. Now Unit-! tonight and Friday; colder tonight. . 1b—Sees ;, ed States Treasurer. | of annual. sum of 2,000,000,000 gol! “yy. ‘garles, 1905-06. Banker, lum- marks. , is berman and gentleman farmer at; \Nov. 1_Dalivery to the Renan ety Hillsboro, N. D. ‘low pressure area has advanced to Commission of bone ‘ae ‘without cou; John Burke, 1997-14. Tn banking | Manitoba and the pressure is low ov- gold marks: ale 32.000,000,000 goli| business in New York City. ‘er the Mississippi and Missouri val- Pons attached for 52,0NN,00" |) L. B. Hanna, real estate, loans andjleys and northward over Canada. Marke Generally fair weather and moderate Nov: : temperatures continue over these sec- of the 26 per tions. Light rain or snow has fal- Cea len from Idaho and southern Mon- 3 i m ission now in en from aho and southern Mo The Guaranties Commissio EE eee tt icet Tie a ‘a ere, of Berlin is composed of M. Mauclite weather in North Dakota will be gen- 23 29 None . 14-NW Weather Conditions The center of the northwestern farming, Fargo, N. D. Mr. Devine was governor hut six months, filling out the term of Frank A. Briggs, deceased in office. TWO HOPS TO LAUSANNE, Second quarterly payment} ent of the value of Ger-! the Secretary of State. The tioners, who have retained will allege that Governor Frazier gave but three days notice for the hearing on the charges against them, and that there was not time to prepare and make the trip to Bis- marck. Therefore. the commission- ers did not appear. It will. be alleged that the fa¢ts do not justify theTimdings.<« c chai ; d M. Bemel- i pane aaa Other members| London, Dec. 1.—Passengers are now erally fair tonight and Friday; colder Si Hach G. Levick, Great Britain; | being booked for the air express from | tonight. ? ‘sicher Parosils Italy; M, Sekiba,| this city to Lausanne, Switzerland. The ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Japan; M. ‘Tiourtch, Jugo Slavia; ant} journey is made with only one stop, Meteorologist. Roland W. Boyden, United States. at Paris, 1 a The duties of the Commission are —--- = ----— SEEK LATE SL PERS. desGribed under eight heads as fol- WAR ON BIG WORDS Ongar, Eng., Dec. 1.-~Police lows: London, Dec. 1.—Professor Walte. RECEIVER FOR DEATH FOR MURDER OF TEN WOMEN ; jot Buenos Aires, and grass widow, dis-| i a ‘| ; appeared at Vernouillet in July, 1915.} | Mme. Marine Guillin, a former gov- j manufacturer, vanished from Gambiasj ; household servant for a Parisian for-} ISREPORTED : companies concerned in the proposed ; ‘dominant. organization in the indus- ; are | filled. searching the neighborhood of Bovin- N IRELAND FAIL ‘RENEWAL OF HOSTILITIES TS PREDICTED ! ;Truce May End at. Any Time | and Bloodshed be Re-sumed |FACTIONS WONT BUDGE | Ulster Refuses To Enter All Ireland Parliament (By Associated Press.) | London, Dec. 1.—The possi- bility of renewed bloodshed in ireland confronts the British 9| Isles in consequence of the vir- |, tual collapse of peace negotia- | tions which have proceeded un- — i These are the 10 women that police! der a truce for the last five months. ; The Sinn Fein has stood firm :on the demand for an all Ire- ‘land parliament on the basis of | Settlement proposed and at the ; Same time refuse to concede al- ilegiance to the British crown. | Ulster has refused point blank ito scrap her own parliament and ito enter an all Ireland parlia- ;ment under present conditions |on the ground that she will come | directly under the control of the ‘numerically superior south. i The government officials are bending every effort to seek ; Some unexplored avenue of ne- | gotiations and it is believed that |all possibilities of a settlement ihave been exhausted during the lengthy parleys. As to. how {long the truce will last under present conditions there is no ‘indication. The Sinn Feiners ihave expressed’ the view that | there will be no formal denuncia- tion of the pact by either side and this leads to the belief that ; any spark of. combat set off. in Ireland with the peace move- |ment deadlocked will start the ; conflagration anew. SALARY METHOD “CHANGE TALKED - BY OFFICIALS | {State Administration Would | Make Them Same in All | Departments i oe | |REDUCTION IS ORDERED { Equalization of salaries paid to em- ; Ployes of the same class in various | state offices is to be undertaken by the state administration, through the state auditing board, it is indicated, salthough no official statement is forthcoming. {| Salaries in some departments, not- ably the board of administration and ‘state hafl department, are fixed by the department heads, while salaries {of employes in most state offices .are {fixed by the legislature. It has been jtound, it is said, that there is con- siderable difference in salaries of em- Playes of the same class, the salaries {fixed in the. departments usually be- jing higher than those fixed by the legislature. The state auditing board—com- j Posed of the Governor, Attorney-Gen- eral, Treasurer, State Examiner and |Commissioner of Insurance—is to be the medium through which the state ;administration hopes to make a con- {siderable saving on the state pay- {roll in niany instances. All bills must be approved by the auditing board ; before warrants are drawn, giving |this board a check on expenditures. The first action of the board, which now is controlled by Independents, was to require the workmen’s com- pensation bureau to submit all pay- ments of salaries, etc., to the board. Conferences on the equalization of salaries are expected to follow. The board reduced the salary of Joseph Coghlan, law librarian to the legislative appropriation of $2,000 a year. A statutory enactment a few years previous placed the salary at $2,500, ‘but the legislature last winter redyced the salary. The higher sal- ary had been paid. The board de- cided that the legislative appropria- tion legally should obtain. Six persons were cut off the pay roll by the administration when res- ignations of tax supervisors were asked for by the tax commissioner in compliance with a request from Gov- ernor Nestos. Other reductions will be made from time to time as condi- tions warrant. R. H. Thistlethwaite, statistician of the department of agriculture, left yesterday. His place has not heen CLOCK IS TARGET. “First—To insure enforcement of Artictes 241 and: 248 of the Treaty of Versailles. “Second—To supervise the collec: ger for Sunday late sleepers who do Ripman of the University of London not want to attend church. They hag declared war against “hivh-sound- ing” words. “Pram” should he used for perambulator and “sten-lift” for escalator. he says. We appreves mang Crowland, Eng., Dec. 1—Amateur may be abl to explain why the|hunters have made a practice target church bell ropes have been found] Of the clock on the old abbey here. tion of German customs, export taxes k* S265 (Continued on) Page 6) joes were cut every Sunday morning for the] Several bullet holes have been found |= twe months. i la the clock’s face,