The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 17, 1922, Page 1

WEATHER FORECAST—Fair to- night) and: Friday; not much thange in temperature, ESTABLISHED, 1873 SAME OFFICERS HEAD AUDITORS FOR NEXT YEAR Messrs. Felson, Kramer and Tucker Are Re-elected by the Association MAKE RECOMMENDATION Many Resolutions Are Adopt- “ed by the Auditors for Changes in Laws County auditors of the state con- cluded their convention here today and then went into session with Tax Commissioner C, C. Converse t. dtr n. in The auditors will meet the state board‘ of equalization during the day, Officers of: the auditors were re- elected as follows W. W. Felson, Pembina county, president; J. A. Gramer, Ramsey county, vice presi- dent, and W. R, .Yucker, Casq county, seeretary-treasurer. Fargo was se- leted for next’ year’s meeting place. Resolutions::adopted by the audi- tors included appreciatfon of the hos- pitality shown thém in Bismarck by’ local organizations, the state officiais and Warden L, L. Stair, and urged that the auditors give their united efforts with their home representa- tives to the furtherance of the rec: ommendations as made by the audi- tors. Earl H. Tostevin, secretary of the North Dakota Editorial association, explained the action taken by the as- 4 80 ion at its recent meeting in seeking to -reove inequities in the present. laws regarding charges for legal printing of complicated matter, and especially in urging all newspa- pers to charge less for printing de- linquent tax lists this fall than the law permits. The auditors adopted « resolution, approving this action. Urge Many Changes. Recommendations for changes in legislation made from the conven- tion floor included: That the law be changed so that there would be no political registra- tion in towns casting less than 500 votes, the change held necessary be- cause the addition of women voters sunder.-the sold, registration: law “ex-, tends registration to,many small vil- H lages. . wo That compensation of officials of election be $5.00 plus 1 cent for each votér voting, and that absent voters’ ballots be in same color and. form as others. The_present rate of pay for election officials is inequitable in precincts of varying size, the audi- tors hold. That the law,.yermit election re- turns to be sent fy express as. well as by mail, because, saving money may be made in some tnstances, That the legislature repeal the in- terest and penalty distribution on general taxes which shall become a part of the county funds; that is, that interest and penalty on general taxes go into the county general fund and not be distributed to the sub- divisions, but that interest and pen- alty on special assessments be dis- tributed as at present. That the law be amended to include power companies and all public util- ities (particularly high power trans- mission lines) in the classes origin-| ally assessed by the state board of equalization, That tax sale subsequents be not; accepted until November 1. That the legislature change the law to provide that taxes shall be due January 1 following assessment: instead of December 1. This im- portant recommendation was made, it was explained, because many other states have the date of January 1, and| confusion to taxpayers is lessened. Only Woman Auditor There. “ During informal discussions many county auditors protested against. al- leged inequalities and difficulties caused by the present taxation ex- emptions. @he majority. opinion |ap- peared to prevail, asking the legis- lature to-do away with all exemptions _except complete exemptions and in such cases to provide that the prop- erty be assessed at true cash value and the exemption, if any, be a per- centage of this total. One of the most interested county auditors was the only woman audi- tor in the state, Miss Ida M, Bern- hard of Adams county. The committee on resolutions was composed of: Ida M. Bernhard, jAdams; C. C. Misicti, Dickey; John iL. Hughes, Stark, The committee on nominations was composed of F, A Burton, Richland; Andrew Blewett, Stutsman; R. W. Kennard, Ward. Enjoy Prison Visit. The auditors in attendance were entertained at a dinner at the state penitentiary at 1:30 today by Ward- cn L, I. Stair. Eighty-five guests were served in the employes dining room after a tour of inspection of the twine plant, laundry and |power plant. The dinner was announced as a “home grown” affair, every- thing served having been grown on the penitentiary farm excepting. only the coffee and the apples in the pie. After dinner the guests inspected cuss taxati. | an exhibit of grains, grasses and| revive popular government in China vegetables grown on the penitentiary] is on the verge of collapse, accord- farm, which were a revelation to| ing to survey of conditions brought most of those present. The corn and| to the attention’ of the foreign lega- beets were especially fine, some of| tions. the later being of an immense size.] defying the government, cabinet min- The guests included the members of the Board of Administration, coun-| sponsibilities ty auditors and representatives of| treasury is empty and civil employes, several printing firms, --and ‘wiring, “of $59,000, was: accepted. | dissenting vote when the motion to This Approximate Investment | THE FOREST FIRE ‘Fifty Killed on @apove is the wreckage of the train Bt Taure. Below. the remains of vic! BOARD SPLITS ON BUILDING: Contact for Normal Does Not Go to Low Bidder Contract for building the new main, building at the Dickinson Normal School, hasbeen let by the state; | board, of administration to T. M.| | powers: of Fargo. The bid of Mr. Powers for constructing the building on “Alternate A” plan was accepted, the bid for the general building: con- | struction being $225,482, The ‘bid of 7. P, Reilly of Fargo for the mechan- ical equipment, plumbing, heating Under the “Alternate A” plan, it was said by .members,of.the board, the building would be constructed to in-| clude an auditorium and gyrmasium | but if the board found that funds | would not be available to complete | the entire building the auditorium and gymnasium wing might be omit-' ted. A.-J. Weinberger. of Beach was; lowest bidder, being,about $2,000 un- | der Mr. Powers, the second lowest! bidder. On motion: of F.'S. Talcott | the bid of Mr. Powers was accepted as the “lowest responsible bidder.” J. A. Kitchen, member of the board, presented a. resolution urging the} contract be let to Mr. Weinberger,! stating that Mr: Weinberger was the: “lowest responsible bidder,” adding | that Mr. Weinberger had just com-; pleted building a $100,000 building in| Miles City, Montana, and that two banks had offered to advance $50,000 in'the building of the, normal build-| ing, if Mr. Weinberger desired the ad- vances. Mr. Kitchen’s was the only award the contract to Mr. Powers was taken. BRIDGE COST 18 $1,375,000 in New Missouri Bridge A ae Cost of the new vehicular bridge across the Missouri river here is ap- proximately $1,375,000, state engineer} W. Hy Robinson said today. The ex-, act cost, he said, can not be determ- | ined just now and. is” dependent somewhat upon the length of time} interest must be paid on estimates: now unpaid. \ The cost of the bridge is about $175,000 above the estimated cost, he said. Of this amount increases in freight rates accounted for $45,000, he said, while advances in the price of cement and the washouts suffered by the Foundation Company when the Missouri river ice floes took out temporary bridging accounted: for most of the rest of the increased cost. Under the contract of the Foundation Company, which built the approaches and the piers, the com- pany was to receive a sliding fee, the fee to be larger if the estimated cost were lessened and smaller if it were exceeded. The company will receive the minimum fee, Mr. Robinson said. Popular Government at Low Ebb in Chinese Republic (By the Associated Press) Peking, Aug. 17.—The attempt to Military leaders are openly isters are refusing to assume the re- of their posts, the! unpaid, have quit their jobs, most noted shrine at Lourdes, France, were killed and almost 100 injured | done when he left, he said, was on a COAL BIDS FOR. ! ner, $3.00 perton at the mine; | Carbon Lignite Coal Co., Werner, {mine; Whittier: | bus, mine run $2.70 per ton; ‘Truax BI i SMARCK TRIBUNE [=| BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1922 (Leased Wire of Associated. Press) Way .to Shrine in which 60 pilgrims to the world’s tims are borne away by oxen. ‘CROPS ESCAPE RUST DAMAGE Obert. A, Olson, returning from harvest,in Bowman county, said that crops there just escaped heavy dam- ‘age from red rust, Although thresh- ing has not begun he expressed be- lief that yields will be large and the quality good. The only threshing field of oats, which yielded 50 bushels to the acke. QTATE HIGHER of Bids - Is} Gencral ,, Level , Above’ Those of Last we Years" Bids submitted for coal to be sup- plied state institutions are some- what higher than last year, accord- | ing to opinions expressed by, mem- | bers of the board of administration after, bids were opened and béfore ; recapitultations of the many bids had been made and compared. All| bids were for the delivery of lignite | coal to the various state institutions, and a large number of bidders were present yesterday afternoon when the bids were opened. Award will be made within a few days, it is ex- pected. Bids submitted to the board in- clupded: Washburn Lignite Coal Co., $3.50 per ton F, 0. B, Wilton for" 6-inch lump coal; other grades vary- ing prices; Lehigh Mining Co., Dick- inson, F. O B. mine, $2.90. far mine ruh;? evens Bios ag rj Bop} ‘the mine; High Gkade Cog! €¢.f Wer- “High! $3.00 per ton ‘at, the mine:ifor mine run; High Grade ‘Coal €é., Medora, | G-inch lump, mine ryn, $5.00 per ton | F. 0. B.: state insane hospital; for state at. large, average price of all} contracts; Haynes Coal Mining Co.,| for big, lump, $2.50 for mine run; Indian Creek Coal Co.; Regent, $2.00 per ton at mine; Lucky Strike ‘oal CoaéZap, 38-inch mine run, $2:60; | screenings, $1.50 per ton; 6-inch lump, $3.25; McCormick Coal Co., New Salem, $3.30 contract rate at rockett Co., Colum- Coal Co., Columbus, screened lump, ; $3.20; mine run, $2.95; screenings, | $1.30; Zenith Coal Co., 6-inch lump, | 00 at mine. Some bids included | qualifications and thus are not com- | parable as to price in all respects on the above basis. | That freight is in important fac-j tors in the cost of coal was shown in the quotations of prices. Freight rates per ton from Dickinson were shown as follows: To Agricultural/ College, $1.96; to penitentiary at Bismarck, $1.09 1-2; insane hospital at Jamestown, $2.70. FLYING CIRCUS FOR INDIAN FAIR} | 5, Ft. Yates, Aug. 17.—The Standing Rock Indian Fair association has S MENA {movement eastward of fruit ship- | vania-railroad machinist was shot to PEACE NEARER IN STRIKE IS PREDICTION Casualties Continue in Strike! Zone.—Brakeman Killed at Havre, Mont. Big Four Stop Blockade of ‘ Trains Over Several Southern Routes {By the Associated Press) Chicago, Aug. 17.—An end to the strike of big four transportation brotherhoods on western railroads, an improved outlook for peace in the New York conference today, along with shootings, bombings and burn- ings were high lights in the nation’s railway. crisis during the past 24 hours, \ Blockades and tie-ups on the Atchi- son, Topeka and Santa Fe, the Union Pacific, Western Pacific and Southerr Pacific cleared up when striking train crews called off their walkout and opened the way to immediate restoration of traffie on lines: which were paralyzed by the strike of the Big Four brotherhoods. With the train strike breaking up’ in. other sections of the, coyntry, trainmen who interrupted traffic on the Missouri Pacific at Van Buren, Arky refused to return to work while guards remained on duty in the yards. Only trains which were made up and delivered to ¢rews outside the rail- road yards were moved. Immediate Improvement, Settlement of tne trouble with the trainmen resulted in an immediate ments and other perishable freight marooned in California. Bombs were thrown at a Santa Fe train which left San Bernardino Cal., for the first time in six days. The first bomb explosion occurred in the railroad yards and two more were hurled at the passenger train as the engine wheels spun over oiled’ rails‘ in pulling out of the city. George Stambaugh, a brakeman on the Great Northern was shot and killed at Havre, Mont., by a railroad, guard. : William Craft, s blacksmith helper, employed by. the, .Denyer and Rig; Grande ‘since the shopmen’s strike, suffered a broken leg and other in- juries when he was attacked on the streets of Pueblo, Colo. Woman Shot. Mrs. Nels Harisen, wife of a Santa! Fe shop foreman was shot and killed in her.home, Police took up the trail of two men who are said to nave attacked -her. James Lewis, a etriking. Pennsyl- death by. Charles Parsons, a wealthy reat estate man, following a dispute over the strike. Lewis accused Par- sons of “listening over. the shouldcra of strikers when they gathered to discuss the strike. i Three alleged strikers were arrested at Milwaukee following an ‘outbreak in which strikers were said to have stoned a passing train, Troops remained on guard in vir- tually all places where soldiers were sent to quell riots earlier in the strike, These'included five towns in ;Kansas—Parsons, Newton, Herring: ton, Hoistington and Horton, and three in Ilinois\~Bloomington, Clin- ton and Joliet. Troops in Illinois. Major Stiles, in eommand of troops at Clinton, Ill, regommended martial law following renewed distrubances in which several men were injured. Outbreaks were reported from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Superior and Janesville, Wisconsin; Birmingham, Mobile and Albany, Alabama, and Scranton, Penn- sylvania,),An attempt was made to bloy up the tracks of the Louisville and Nashville at Birmingham and a plot to wreck a train on the same road at Mobile was discovered while the home of an &. and N, employe was attacked with bullets and stones. Traffic on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific was blocked at El Reno, Okla. where a railroad bridge was burned. Farmers reported that two men were seen to fire the bridg. IRREGULARS ARE DEFEATED Dublin, Aug. 17-—The town of Clif-; den of the Irish cvast 43 miles north- west of here,‘has been freed of Irish irregulars and the Marconi wireless station there whieh was racently seized by the insurgents, has been rescued by. national army forces. The station will be put into operation again within a few days, it was stated today. secured as an additional feature for the big Indian fair, which is to be held at Fort Yates, September 6-7-8, the presence of a flying circus. This consists of three aeroplanes of vary- ing types and one auto racer. All kinds of thrilling stunts, sham bat- tles and races between planes and auto are included in the program of the flying circus. The concession has also been granted a $10,000 electric merry-g0- yound. ‘This will be a great attrac- tion, especially to the young people. Because of the splendid crops on the reservation this year, the agri- cultural exhibits bid fair to surpass the exhibits of any previous year. Supt. E. D. Mossman has asked the Indian Office for $400 with which to pay permiums FRUIT IS NOW MOVING NEW PA i ' | i JUDGE AMIDON HAS BIRTHDAY Fargo, N. D., Aug. 17.—Federal Judge C. F. Amidon is celebrating his 66th birthday anniversary today. George C. Sikes, an old friend from Chicago, will spend the day with him, and Mr, and Mrs. William Bal- lou and Dr. and Mrs. R. E. Weible will take dinner with him. Friends will visit him during the afternoon, Girls born in July are likely to be feithful in‘love and friendship, ac- cording to an old belief. One of the big New York hotels sends 1000 sheets to the wash every day. WILL DELAY MESSAGE. ON STRIKE ISSUE Pesident Harding Decides Not fo Go Before Congress Today at Least RLEYS CALLED Administration Action Held in Abeyance Awaiting New Developments (By the Associated Press) Washingtony Aug. 17.—President Harding was understood today vir- tually to have completed the -mes- sage -he will present to congress dealing with the nations industrial situation but no indications was giv- en ag to just when he would deliver it, previous: plans fof presenting it today having been, it was under- stood: held ‘in obeyance because of the rail. strike conference, set for today. at New York. Results that might: come from that meeting, it was , intimated, might affect some phases of the situation with which |’ Mr. Harding was\ expected to déal in his statement and he was”'repre- sented as being desirous of with- holding if there were any possibili- ties the union chiefs and rail exe- cutives could show: prospects of cont- posing their differences. In the meantime, mediation acti- vities which have been in progress here for the past week were prac- tically sugpended, as most of the striking shop crafts representatives and heads of ‘the four big non-strik- ing unions who have been enacting the role of mediators were in New York to meet the executives’ com- mittee today. In preparing his message to con- gress, President Harding is under- stood to. have decided against mak- ing.a-request for legislation to deal with the-strike situation at this time though it was regarded as possible he would ‘assure congress that if such legislation is needed he will not hesitate in asking it. It was said the message would explain the entire industrial situation as the president and his advisers had found it by. reason’ of close, .investigation and contact and that. it would fur- ther expréss the determination of the administration aid of the federal governments ef- forts to keep the railroads running in event the latest, strike settlement parley fails. Seek Basis for | Strike Settlemen \ See (By the Associated, Press) New York, Aug. 17.—'he scene of negotiations toward peace on the railroads again shifted from Wash- ington to New York today, when car- rier presidents and union chiefs as- sembled for a conference which will mark the fifth attempt of an outside agency to suggest an acceptable so- lution to the seniority riddle. Today the Big Four brotherhoods, “Big Brothers” of the seven striking shop crafts unions, will seek, through their national officials, to; of the As-) place before a committee i sociation of Railway Executives, 2 proposal for settlement which will be acceptable to both sides. One possible plan by which the roads might maintain their policy of | regarding loyal and new employes with seniority preference over re- turning strikers and still effect a compromise with the shop crafts, appeared in the mass of unofficial discussion in railway circles prior i to the conference. The Plan Such a plan, which lieved, would be accept ; crafts was outlined by’ ‘certain exe- cutives as follows: H 1—That the railroads instead of} being bound by the majority action of the association of railway exe- cutives, be permitted to take back as many of the strikers as needs of individual roads dictated. This would) it was be-| table to the ' to give the ‘full: Panes Tr ae | The Weather LOVE (By the Associated, Press) Hammonton, N. J., Aug 17,—There has come into being here one, of: the strahgest courts in all the world x- the court of love—where men and women in search of-mates may come, pour out the longings of the heart and be succorred. Before the court are the qualifica- tions and the yearnings of some 1,- 000 bachelors and 1,000 spinsters, but the first day’s work resulted in only five matings. These were shin- ing examples of what may come. A man 62 years old was mated with a gold star mother, 43 years old; an undertaker was selected as husband for a nurse; a coast guard was picked to become the protector and life companion of a fair divor- cee; a widow was slated to becomé” the helpmate of a: painter, and last, but not least, a Kentucky belle—a ONE VICTIM OF HEAT WAVE IN MINNEAPOLIS _ (By the. Associated Press) Minneapolis, Aug. 17—The heat wave caused a second death in the Twin Cities within 24 hours today when Joseph Jaski, 32 years old, @ ep‘died at’a hospital where he wag taken yesterlay. A St. Paul man was a victim of the heat yesterday. RADIO SCHOOL IS OPENED Father Hillary Explains Prob- lems to Interested Listeners Wave lengths and magnetism with relation to radio were explained by Father Hillary of St. John’s univer- j sity at the opening of classes last night in the Radio school which is being held at St. Mary’s auditorium this week. , Father Hillary who has made a careful study of radio development touched briefly upon the history of the development of the use of elec- tricity from the early Christian’ era to the present time. He explained and illustrated at, what.rate,of speed wave lengths travel'in’ various sub- stances—water, ether, and solids, and developed the subject of positive and negative charging, After the lecture the audience which had a representative group of {women as well as men listened. to radio concerts which were coming in from Denver, Volo, and St. Louis, Mo. Seven radio phones were at the auditorium for the use of the mem- bers of the ¢lasses. One of the out- fits which had been made by Wilbur }Rohr. and William Ricker was as good in “picking ap” as any of the commercial sets, according to reports of the radio fans. During the re- mainder of the week, persons who are interésted in constructing an out- fit for themselves qill have classes each morning to learn how to build a set, GIRL HELD FOR SHOOTING BABY i LY 1 (By the Associated Press) Melstone, Mont., Aug. 17.—Adelia Lampje, 8, is held here for shooting | and killing Harry Gaylord, aged 3.! The children, who live in adjoining houses quarreled, it is'said, and the little girl shot the baby with a, small calibre rifle. —* | | — For twenty-four. hours noon today: Temperature at 7a. m. Temperature at noon.. Highest yesterday ending at 63, 78 91 assure jobs to all the strikers on} most of the roads in the country, | Lowest yesterdsy, vee ee particularly in the southeast and | Lowest est night i throughout the west. recipitation ...... :f 2—That. the roads and unions Highest wind velocity agree to recognize the seniority of Weather Fore ; loyal. employes who refused to| For Bismarck and vicinity: Fair strike ' \!tonight and Friday; not much T jority % | change in temperature, That the seniority Status of; i ; waning Strikers. and so-called| For North Dakota: Fair tonight and Friday; slightly cooler southeast “new men” be fixed through agree- between unions and manage-| 1 roads, governed | ciency of | ments ments of individual partly by standards of effi individual employes in both clas 4—That all pension rights be re- stored to the pre-strike status. No official ‘sponsor appeared for) this plan. Members of the execur | tives’ committee declined to di cuss its merits and the Big Four re- presentatives took a similar atti- portion tonight. General Weather Conditions Except for a few light, widely scat- tered showers, the weather is gener- ally fair in all sections of the coun- try. Temperatures are high from ‘the Mississippi Valley eastward, but cooler weather prevails from the Northern Plains States westward due to high pressure over Montana, H In. tude: ” Amenia.. .. ..99 “57 .00 p.c Bismarck 9 57.00, cl’r H Bottineau .. ..84 5400 op. Start First Hop Devils Lake. ..88 58.00 cl’r in 600-Mile Jaunt} Dickinson .. 49 00 pe. (By the Associated Press) Dunn Center . 52.00 cl’r New York, Aug. 17—Pointing the] Ellendale. .. .. 59.00 cl’r nose of the Sampaio Corresia sea- Grand Forks. .. 5800s el’r ward, Lieutenant Walter Hinton, took | Jamestown .. .. 60 .00 cl’r off from the waters of Jamaica Bay | Langdon.. .. .- 55 00 cir at 7:20 o'clock this morning and|Larimore. .. 65 00s el’r started on the 600-mile trip to Lisbon. .. .. -- 54 0H scl’ Charleston, South Carolina, the | Minot. .. .. 47 v0 cl’ first hop in the 8,500 mile flight | Napoleon. .. 50 «90 cl’r from New York to Rio De Janeiro. | Pezxbina. 54 udcl’r The crew, five in all, was up at 4] Williston. .. .. 5400s cl’'r o'clock making ready for the flight.| Moorhead. .. .. 6). 02 cl’r Hinton expected to make Charleston in about seven hours. Metecrologise, daughter of the mountains — was snatched up by Thomas Bancroft Delker, founder of the court, The court of love is constituted much the same as any other court, having a presiding judge, or cupid, in this case, a woman and a jury of seven, including the chief of police, a former soldier, a telegrapher and four women. The idea of the court, so the story goes, was conceived over a plate ofj hash in the town restaurant by Del- ker and. Lewis Conley, Hammonton’s leading cigar store proprietors. They organized the Lover's Cooperative Union, which in turn produced the love ‘court. The five women whose cases were disposed of were notified that in case they were dissatisfied with the flind- ings of the court they had two weeks within which to file application for new hearings. ANTHRACITE WORKERS IN CONFERENCE May Reach Agreement Soon Upon New Wage Scale With Operators (By the Associated Press) Philadelphia, Aug. 17.—The return to the mines of anthracite workers was expected to follow today’s con- ference between officials of the miners union and the operators here. The miners through the scale com- mittee have been asking a 20 per cent increase in their pay. The oper- ators wanted a reduction in wages, Both sides, it was indicated as conference was about to cenvene, were ready to recede from their stand and close observers declared that there was a likelihood of the 1921 wage scale being captured, tor aonther term. If the operators ‘and miners’ repre- sentatives reach an agreement this ' week, it is believed that a call would be issued at once for a tri-district ~ealt-at Wilkesbarre-to-ratify such ac- tion. According to terms. of the Sha- mokin convention, agreed. to by the miners on January 29, either the con- vention or a referendum vote is ne- cessary before the men are ‘ordered back to work. Many of the ‘anthracite miners were declared today to be in bad con- dition as a result of the long suspen- sion of work, Operators were quoted as saying that in some instances it would take them from a month to six weeks to get them in a safe condition for operation and that it would take even longer before normal operation could be resumed—probaly not be- fore October. President Kennedy of district num- ber 7 in a statement issued at Hazel- ton last night said that the miners would enter the Philadelphia negoti- ions on the basis that they sub- mitted to President Harding in @ reply to his invitation. This em- braced a no-arbitration basis and the retention of the wage contract which expired March 31, last. FACES STIFF PROGRAM (By the Associated Press) Duluth, Minn., Aug. 17.—Governor J. A. O. Preus faced a stiff program here today. The chief executive was scheduled to discuss the local situa- tion with fuel authorities early in the forenoon and to address the op- ening session of the Minnesota realty association before noon. At noon the governor planned to give an address at a luncheon at the chaber of com- merce. The last engagement of the ‘day was scheduled for this afternoon at Pike Lake near here, where the governor was on the program to ad- dress the annual farmer-city picnic. POINCARE GETS CABINET’S 0. K (By the Assoctated Press) Ramboulliet, France, Aug. 17.—The French cabinet today uanimously ap- proved of the German reparations policy of Premier Poincare and con- gratulated him on the stand he took at the London conference of allied primiers. The French cabinet, meeting here today under the chairmanship of President Millerand decided not to call an extraordinary session of par- liament, since the government is con- stitutionally empowered to make de- cisions during parlimentary recesses. THREE INJURED Fort Yates, N. D., Aug. 17,— Sam Stern, Mobridge, S. D., tailor is in ‘a local hospital suffering from brain concussion, as the result of an un- usual auto accident. As the auto in which Stern and Dr, A. P. Darby and George Defender were riding topped a hill, it was confronted by two other cars coming up. The brakes, failed to hold, and the car, which had been swung to one side, plung- ed downhill, overturning near the bottom. The occupants jumped. Darby and Defender escaped with slight bruises, but Stern struck on his head and was severely injured. Physicians believe he will recover. PRICE FIVE CENTS -7E MINNESOTA TOWNS COURT DOES RUSHING BUSINESS IN OPENING SESSION; _ CALENDAR SHOWS UNIQUE MATCHES FOREST FIRES BURNING SOUTH OF EVELETH | All Men in City Leave Town to Join Fire Fighters in Surrounding District MANY ARE IN DANGER Another Fire Is: Reported in Vicinity of Buhl by Virginia Enterprise (By the Associated Press) Duluth, Aug. 17.—Eveleth and sev- Jeral nearby towns are in danger. of | destruction (by forest fires burning on the west and south of Eveleth, according toa telephone message rv ceived by the Associated’ Press at 1:15 p. m, today. The Eveleth News reported the’ town “was full of smoke.” The News said “every man in town was leaving forthe, fires” which are reported to be fanned” by a stiff northwest wind. The town of Eveleth is protected on the west side by a large open pit mine but it is feared the fire may» © driven into the tewn from the south side by the high wind. Kinney, a nearby town of 200 inhabitants, is said to be in the greatest danger, Forest fires west and south of Eve- leth increased their menace this af- ternoon, and reports to the Associat- ed Press filed st 1:15 p. m, “Every man in town was leaving for 2; the fires,” which were reported to be fatihed by a stiff northwest wind, Evelyth, a town of approximate. 7,000 population, {s situated on the Messabi \iron range about 90 miles north of here. The Virginia Enterprise had re- ports of another fire in the vicinity o1 Buhl, which is near Eveletn, In a telephone message at 1:30 p. m. the Eveleth News reported that the town “was full of smoke.” Eve- HVleth,.a city of .,600 population, it . protected on the west side by a large pen. pit mine, but -residents of the ity feared the fire might be driven into the town from the south, \Kinney, a town of 200 inhabitants just notthwest sf here,’ was said to be in the greatest danger. The News estimated that 1,000 men already had left Eveleth in automobiles for the main fire front. Details of the fire were not available in Evefeth. ’ --Duluth, Minn; Aug. 17.—With dense smoke clouds from forest, and brush fires blanketing sections of the north country and seriously in- terferring with location of new fi from the ground towers and also the fighting of the fires, Ranger A. B. Gibbs of Duluth, one of the pioneers of the Minnesota state forest ser- vice, was prepaged today to report to his headquarfers at St. Paul that there is an urgent need of an aero- plafie forest patrol during the pres- ent emergency. Ranger Gibbs returned to Duluth from Virginia where he made several flights in a national guard plane yesterday to test the feasibility of utilizing the state aviation squadron to assist’ the forest patrol force. Yesterday was an ideal day to make the test, according to Ranger Gibbs who cited the. fact . that smoke, especially from the Kelsey Peat fire, had put the various. look- out towers out of commission and had rendered the ground forces vir- tually helpless toward spotting new fires. Also, he said, while the ground patrolmen were vainly trying to study the topography of the strick- en areas, the airplane riding high above the fire and smoke, provided a ready vehicle for mapping the burning areas, In this way the fight- ers might be provided with infor- mation with which to plan attack on the flame: SEEK SEAT ON MD ANE BOARD Northwest Wheat Growers Would Operate in Min- neapolis ; _ (By the Associated Press) Minneapolis, Aug. 17.—The north- west grain growers’ association today drew up papers for an application for membership in the Minneapolis chamber of commerce, according te John G. McHugh, secretary of the chamber. The application will be filed with two or three days and im- mediate action by the directors ot the chamber of commerce is expected. The northwest wheat growers’ as- sociated will be the first cooper- vative organization distributing its dividends on a patronage dividend basis to seek admittance to the cham- ber of commerce, following passage of a bill by the last session of the legislature making the Minneapolis chamber of commerce and the Duluth board of trade open public markets. George C. Jewett, general manager of the organization, is still in Wash- ington, where he recently obtained a loan of $10,000,000 from the war finance corporation for the financ- ing of the marketing of grain of the 19,000 members of the association. Arrangements for the financing of the wheat pool are also being made with bankers of Minneapolis, St. Paul, Grand Forks and Fargo. (a Pecan oil can be used as a sub- stitute for alive oil. i