The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 7, 1922, Page 1

By) ] an | < . q ) ‘i° aa io “ ow “ 4 t 6 ee 1 hi ad 4 : * rY “ oe aa te rs . ’ , cy vy For Bismarck ‘and vicinity: Mostly cloudy tonight and Friday; probably light snow. ESTABLISHED 1873 \ STATE’S CCORES OF SUGGESTIONS IN. EW ASOCIATION WORK ARE LISTED BY THE MEMBERSHIP Meetings Attendance Disappointing, But Wealth of ‘gestions Come in Building up the Program of the ociation’s Work for the Future—Many Suggestions ASKS $20,000 FOR UNWANTED LISP Immediate or Near Future, While Others are Based | »m Long-Time Campaign JGGESTIONS ADVANCED FOR A. OF C. WORK Establish closer relations between people of city d country. Cooperate in all movements for betterment of lope territery. Create parks, playgrounds. Encourage immigration. Organize Associated Charities. Improve housing conditions. Secure. better rail service and rates. Urge improvement trunk highways Agitate for new capitol, courthouse. Encourage poultry and corn show. Community chest. of county. res of suggestions for the work of the new Associ- ation of Commerce, some of which are listed above, were : advanced last night in group meetings of the membership | held in the high school. Long discussions in which many ' new ideas were adduced were held in various classrooms | following a general meeting presided over by Judge A. M.: Christianson, at which Blair Clerk of the American City | Bureau outlined the desire to puild up the club program} through the ideas of the membership. i The meeting was enthusiastic, but there was a disap- | pointingly small percent of the total membership out. More : than 100 cards, containing suggestions, were filled out for the consideration of the club officials: ! An unusual number of recommendations were made to) increase the attractiveness of Bismarck as a place to live, and not merely to increase the business. These sugges- tions, however, are along the lirie of the new organization of civic and commercial work in cities, in that it is found the city which satisfies its residents often satisfies those seeking a place to establish industries. The work of completing the club@ organization is proceeding rapidly. Twenty thousand dollars for a lisp! Many girls would give it, but Clara Mackin, formerly leading lady | with Leo Ditrichstein, is suing for $20,000 because, one wished on her, Her -suit is against Eugene Vigneron, Chicago dentist, whose work on her teeth, na claims, caused the change in her alk, $1,000 INJURY VERDICT 0.K'D she says, she had j Ballots for the election of ten di- rectors are in the hands of the members and must be returned be- fore’ 6'p. m. Saturday, Dec. 9.-The directors elected will choose a secre- tary. Various Programs ‘Some of ‘the suggestions of mem- bers, most of whom sought to put forward ihe things they were most interested in, give food for thought. One man's program was: community Christmas and central regulation bureau, auto camp, city play Another warlted control of solic of fake and worthless advertising, another a Bismarck trade mark, a third a public market place with proper conveniences and control, and camp grounds for auto tourists. Another woman, said: “Better spir- it between the country and the city. More entertainments, lectures, con- certs, for the benefit of the coun- try people. Community chest and cen- tral registration bureau. A program with eight planks-in it was suggested by another. It fol- lows: 1. Promote settlement of. sur- rounding trade territory. 2, Encourage poultry’ and corn show. 3. Urge improvement of trunk highways, Burleigh County. : 4. Establish traffic and transpor- tation bureau within the club. 5, Street marking. 6. Encourage band. 7. Immediate action on park, 8. Better publicity for Bismarck and Missouri Slope. Would fielp County Agent Support for the good roads move- ment, a new courthouse, good rail- road service to! Bismarck, opposition to increase of public utility rates before railroad commission was urg- ed by the member. Another in th, tourist same group urged that the county agent be supported in his work for better farming methods and that a rest room for farmer families be maintained. A broad suggestion was made in the following language: “Advertise the agricultural possibility, especial- ly corn,. ete, of the country tribu- y to Bismarck.-Advertise in news- papers in Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin and other states. What Bismarck wants is more and better farmers. If, the country prospers the town will grow. Reasonable park and recrea- tion facilities to make the city a good place to visit.” Support for 4 band was frequently mentioned. Building of a community building, an educational survey, gar- bage disposal and filtration and dis- tribution of city water was another. A merchant suggested: “organize a park board with the intention of planning municipal parks and: play- grounds. Establish a real auto camp Establish a community chest for charity.” ‘A professional man urged: “Secure tract 160 acres on river for city park, Elect a park board. Get a trade mark and slogan.” Wants Playgrounds and Band Another professional man. urged: “Investigate housing conditions. Pro- mote better feeling between city and country. Promote parks and play- grounds and band. Organize an as- sociated charities. Promote good roads.” Establishment of a capitol rela- tions committee, which should co- operate with state authorities, es- (Continued on Page 6) istrip mine, opened here by the Mid- HUGE CANDLE | TOLAST FOR -18 CENTURIES New York, Dec. 7A candle of chemically treated bees wax, five feet in circumference at the base, 16 feat high and weighing one ton, Supreme Court Sustains Award ‘Madé\to Minot | Woman \ H ‘ | An exceptionally large personal in- | jury verdict,, in which Martha | Steinke was awarded $12,300 dam- ages from the Northern Telephone FBAR ALLIANCE WITH ENEMY OF CENTURIES ‘Russia Seeks:to Capture Turk | And Prevent Agreement | With Entente 1 'URZON’S PLAN FAVORED ‘Old Diplomatic Scheme of | Temporizing Is Prac- | ticed by Pasha (By the Associated Press.) ; Lausanne, Dee. 7—The Turkish | | delegates to the Near East confer- tence today faced the difficult prob- Htem of deciding whether Turkey’ in; [formulating her plan for control. of | ithe Dardanelles had cast her lot with Russia or with the entente | | powers and the United States, Turk- | ley's suggestion for the solution of | ; the perplexing straits question will | be made public tomorrow at the | Hotel Du Chateau. | Ismet Pasha and his associates in | iformulating their plans were faced |by the sharp differences in opinion | between Great Britain and Russia in the discussion of the Dardanelles | question. If Turkey, on the one hand, goes over to the British camp jshe fears the irate Russian army on her eastern frontier, if on the | other hand, she sides with Russia in fdemanding complete control of the {waterway she fears the British navy jis in the straits. i Turk Temporize The Turks this far have temporiz- ‘ed by saying they favored M. Tchit- Icherin’s . plan. But they took. this attitude before the y had heard the [met Pasha and his associates were impressed by the plan presented by {Lord Curzon yesterday on behalf of ijthe entente, which was approved in ‘general by the statement ‘of the {position of the United States, The Turks apparently cannot forget that Russia is Turkey’s traditional enemy and that Premier Lenine’s | government may not be less covet- ous of Constantinople and” straits than was Russia in the days of the Czar’s. Turkey has always found protec. !tion in numbers. She has played the |European countries sgainst each jother to her great advantage time ‘and again, and she hesitates to trust her fate to Russia alone while the rest of Europe, supported by the known 2s the Enrico Caruso memo-| company fof injuries sustained at! United States opposes an effort to rial candle, has just been completed! Minot when she walked through a/turn the Black Sea into a - Russian | and will be shipped to Pompeii, Italy,; door and fell into an open cellar, ; lake. in a few days. It costs $3,700 and was made on the order of an orphan asylum in New York of which Caruso was a’ generous benefactor. The candle will be placed in the| circumstances the award was not ex-| powers like the entente to keep a/ Church of Our Lady of Pompeii, where Caruso last worshipped. I is ‘expected to last eighteen centuri burning 24 hours on each All Souls day, which occurs on November 2. It bears an inscription in Italian meaning: “Offering to the most holy Mary of Pompeii in behalf of Enrico Caruso.” Five men spent four months making the candle. 1,800 TONS DAILY Zap, N. D., Dec. 7.—-With an aver- age estimated daily capacity appr ximating 1,800 tons, the new lign way Coal company will add substan- tially to North Dakota’s lignite out- put. Actual excavating of coal has just beeen begun, and the lignite which has been bared is of fine ! was sustained by the supreme court there in a decision promulgated to- | day. | The court held that under the jcessive. Judge Robinson dissented. ‘URGE FARMERS | TO PRODUCE OWN SUPPLY 1 | Washington, Dec- 7.—Farmers should produce more of their own | foodstuffs and buy less that must be {brought to them by railroads, ac- leording to a survey, of opinion among 25,000 farmers, made public today by the department of agricul- ture. Nearly 30 per cent of the food | consumed by farmers and their fam- | ilies’ generally is not grown by them or in their immediate vieinity, it {was shown, whereas, it was estimat- i i quality, mine operators state. led that 79 instead of 70 per cent of It is estimated that 40,000 tons of !their needs could be produced local- coal now lie exposed and ready to be! ly, . The louded into wagons or cars. 6 product is about 27 feet underneath the surface of the earth, but the giant dredge which is being used for stripping work, moves three téns of dirt each -time the large dipper is! .; filled. Coal is now being shipped to points of consumption as rapidly as cars are received. ' Gov. Russell Denies Charges Of Miss Birkhead (By the Associated Press.) Oxford, Dec. Frances Birkhead, star witness ye: terday in her $100,000 damage suit against Lee M. Russell, Governor of Mississippi, based on charges of seduction and other serious allega- tions will be recalled to the witness stand when the trial is resumed in federal court this morning before Judge E. R. Holmes. Miss Birkhead who | repeated in detail her charges, was under direct examinaticn for nearly three hours at the afternoon session’ of the opening day of the trial and had just entered upon cross examination when court adjourned for the day. Governor Russell preceded the young woman op the stand and was briefly examined, having been called by plaintiff counsel as an “adverse witness.” He denied allthe charges contained in Miss Birkhead’s peti- tion, : It was estimated this morning that several hours will be tequired befare the cross examination of Miss Birkhead is completed. |ed, tend to reduce the price farmers {same time increase the cost to them for the things they buy from out- | cide localities. so greater home pro- {duction of htcir own requirements |would prove economical and, make ithem less dependent upon the rail- roads and the outside world. 60 MILLION AVAILABLETF Washington, Dec. 6.—Rural credits legislation sais to have the approval of administration officials and pry posing to create a farm credits de- partment as‘a part of the present farm loan system was introduced simultaneously in the senate and house today by Senator Lenrost, Re- publican, Wisconsin, and Represen- tative Anderson, Republican, Minne- sotal The tavq bills “similar in most particulars would make available for farm loans a total of $60,000,000 dis- tributed equally among the 12 farm loan banks. ‘The present govern- ment subscription to the 12 banks totals only $12,,000,000. The banks would be authorized to rediscount farm paper having. a maturity of from six months to three years. High freight rates, it was explain-| | reeeive for their products and at the! LAW PASSES; Fighting Hard | M. Tchitcherin, fighting b2rd to} \defeat Lord Curzon’s plans, urges | lit would enable a combination of’ |great navy in the Black Sea as each | ;member of the! combination would | maintain there as many ships’ as be- |longed to Russia, or whatever Black |Sea power happened to have the, largest navy at the time. i i Turkey, in considering Russia’s | plan, apparently has an eye on her {ows pocketbook. If she adopted M. | Tchitcherin’s proposal’s, | Turkey |would be forced to make a great outlay for a fleet and for fortifica- j tions, and as she has no money she {would prefer to have some one else ‘bear the expense of policing the | straits. | Possible Adjournment | There are many rumors of a pos- ible adjournment of the congress | jfor the Christmas holidays inas- ;much as the situation between the | | powers and Turkey has cleared con- | | siderably. ; The question of capitulations is in an even worse tangle than the {straits problem, but, Great Britain, France and Italy are showing tact in handling Turkey's sensitive at- titude toward her acceptance of anything that would bring her sove- ; reignity into question. Since the! | Russian squall over the Dardanelles ‘has been weathered without dis: er, the prospects seem much bright- er for an agreement on principles that will satisfy all parties. The various sub-commission’s are meeting daily to thresh out the de- , tails of the question on the agenda, but the real work of the conference lis largely accomplished in private conversations among the leading delegates, (By the Associated Press) Angora, Dec. 7.—The Turkish na- tionalist government it was announc- ed today, had decided that it can- not accent the continuance in Tur- key of the consulates or postoffices of any power at war with Turkey. Seek Plans to _ Take Postoffice From Politics , Washington, Dec. 7—The National Civil Service Reform League which be- gan its annual convention here to- day, took up for consideration the question of removing the postoffice department from politics by bring- ing about the appointment of post- master’s strictly on a merit basis. thOer problems emphasized in its program were the effect upon ef- ficiency ‘in the federal service of giving world war veterans preferred status in filling jobs, and the alle to enforce the Volstead act, jlater than his usual habit after the |morrow before the |was apparently ‘letting the day de- {secretary of the navy, John Hayes! jsolution offered by the powers. Is-{ | Lower Devils Lake Sioux, $4,800; Fort Berthold, $13,000; Turtle Mountain band, $15,000: | $84, THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1922 (Leased Wire of Associated Press) MOTION ON GRAND JU TIGER PREPARES FORBIGDAY IN WASHINGTON Dec.. Washington, 7.—Rising a strenuous day of yesterday and a/ night address which kept him up Georges, Clemenceau today | faced a comparative lull in the pro- gram which has kept the veteran statesman on the whirl s'nce he | brought his campaign for France to ithe American capital last Monday. Luncheon with President Harding at {the White House at 1:30 o’clock was the only announced event on his program for the day. Whether his capacity for sights seeing would continued to keep the Tiger on the move on the next to the last day of his visit here or whether he would take advantage of the easier program to rest and “point? for the concluding and im- portant occasion of his speech to- | conference of public opinion on world peace, he cide. Announced as the only “form- } al” address on his program here, Clemenceau was understood to be reserving the high spots of his ar- gument for America’s cooperation in French affairs for that hour. He plans to leave the capital almost | immediately after concluding his address for Philadelphia, delivering another there, Saturday, and then move on leisurely to New York for his final speech there Monday. Clemenceay lay abed today until o’clock—four hours after his usual rising time. During the morning he received seyeral visitédrs, among them ‘Theodore Roosevelt, assistant Hammond, and Colonel E. M. House, who arranged his tour. : ‘ASK FUND FOR RECLAMATION, PART INN. D, |$120,000 Appropriation | Urged for Use on Lower Yellowstone, N. D. and Mont. OTHERBUDGETREQUESTS Bismarck Indian School Main- | tenance Fund Set at $30,- 000 for Year 1924 ‘An appropriation of $120,000 for \ne U. S. Reclamation Service for expenditure during 1924 on the Yellowstone, Montana and North Dakota is asked in the bud- get submitted through President Harding to Congress, according toa special dispatch in the Minneapolis Journal. The money would be used in irrigation work in that territory. No request for appropriation for other general reclamation work in North Dakota is included by Bud- get Director Lord. Most of the appropriations asked for the Northwest are for the In- dian service, maintenance of irriga- tion spstems or forestry service. The Indian service requests in- clude $370,000 for the relief of dis- jtress and prevention of disease tamong Indians. Of this amount $112,500 is for the support of a hospital at Blackfect, Montana, $40,- 000 at the Sec und Fox reservation in Towa; $10,000 for Turtle Mount- ain, North Dakota, and $8,000 for row Creek, South Dakota. The es. timates for appropriations for In- dian schools of all tribes other than those specifically provided is $1,- 799,500, an increase from $1,675,000 this year. A provision is suggest- ed for discontinuance of schools where the attendance is limited. In North Dakota the estimates for the Indian service are: Support of school. $30,000; Fort Totten school, ; Wahpeton school '$58,500 in addition to those not specifically mentioned. For the maintenance of Glacier Park, Mont. the estimate is $254,- $00, an increase from $178,700; for Yellowstone Park the estimate is $371,500, and for Wind Cave Nation- al park, S, D., $10,700. The appropriation for the marck \Indian school ‘this year $30,000. BURGLARS JAM BANK VAULT BUT GET NO MONEY Huntley, Minn, Dec. 7.—After a day's work with sledge hammers and crow bars, the vault door at the State Bank of Huntley, which was jammed into an immovable position by a blast placed in front of it by robbers, early yesterday morning, was removed today. Bank officials reported that no money was missing, although the explosion had caused some damage to valuable papers. No clue has been obtained lead- ing to the identity of the robbers. Telephone and telegfaph crews ore still working on lines leading oat of here in all directions which were cut Bis- is ed appointment of political workers] by the bandits before they went to] Minnesota, is work on the bank, support of mola PACIFIC SLOPE GETS COLD WAVE Severe Gales Are Reported Over Great Lakes H Region i Opposes U. S. Development of Muscle Shoals Washington, Dec. 7.—-Proposals for government development of ‘fertilizer factories at Muscle Shoals Ala., were opposed in the senate to- day by Senator Heflin, Democrat of Alabama, who said such a policy would mean postpontment of genera tal developement of Muscle Shoals Chicago, Dec, 7.--There was no: projects. He reiterated that Henry great relief for the northwest fron: Ford’s offer should be accepted, and the near zero temperatures as the demanded ‘that congress take action first cold wave of winter gradualiy | on pending legislat.on to dispose of extended southward, giving the r'n-;the property. cific slope its first touch of real win-|_ “Certain special agents are block- ter almost as far south as the Mex-|ing action in the present congress,” ican border and threatening to over- | Senator Heflin said, adding that he spread the Ohio and lower Missig-: lieved majorities in the next_con- sippi valleys by Friday. igress would support Ford’s offer. While minus temperatures still} prevailed in the northwest, the ther- | Helena and Havre, Mont., recorded MRS. PHILLIPS: FIND BAR SAWS temperatures of six and tow degrees below. Police Hold Two Men Charged With Aiding in Her SLEET IN MINNESOTA Dandelions, However, Are in Blossom in Columbus— Buds Swelling | SEVERE GALES ON LAKES. | Duluth, Minn. Dec, 7.--The steam- er H. B. Nye, downbound, reported in dispatches from the Soo last} night to have been unaccounted for! since Tuesday night’s storm, passed | Detroit at 7 a, m, today, according | to a special to the Herald. | The upper lake region has not Escape ben visited by severe gales during the past 48 hours, but the weather] Cheyenne, Wyo. Dec. 7—Search continues unfavorable to shipping-| here of the Union Pacific train on Snow has been falling\ for 24 hours,' which Mrs, Clara Phillips, convicted forcing already delayed vessels to) murderess of Mrs. Alberta Meadows proceed slowly. |in Los Angeles, was reported to be a Eicige | pasenger, following here escape from ‘ SLEET STORM, ss |the Los Angeles county jail Tuesday, Fairmont, Minn. Dec. 7-—South- | failed to show that she was on board. ern Minnesota skidded to work this} Qne woman. remotely resembled morning following the worst sleet! the description of Mrs. Phillips, but! ia! stan mt te ene foe atte questioning her the police did for automobile trafic, being one| “The woman admitted she had been mass of sleet. Foot traffic was also mbst uncertain. Reports received here indicate that the sleet extended over a large section of this part of the state, and considerable. damage has been done! to trees and telephone and telegraph | wires. in Los Angeles recently, but insisted she boarded the train ‘at Ogden, Utah. She had a ticket from Ogden to Bal- older than the age given for Mrs. Phillips. 's Search for Mrs. Clfira Phillips, escaped murderess from the Los Angeles! county jail, which today took in the western half of the country, has been without avail. Developements south of the Califor- nia border in Mexico eliminated that section from the ‘hunt for the slayer of Mrs. Alberta Meadows. Sheriff W. E. Traeger and a po: made an unfruitful search at a re- sort near Tijuana, Mexico, and req ported the escaped woman had not been there. Reports received here from the east showed that Mrs. Phillips was not on east bound trains on which she had been re- ported. STORMS IN OHIO. Columbus, Ohio, Dec. 7.—With the j west in the grip of below zero; weather and with northern Ohio ex: periencing sleet and ice storms, ! dandelions were i blossom in Col- umbu’s today and |many bushes con-! tained buds, following several days of unusually mild December weath- er. STEAMER BATTERED Sault St. Marie, Mich, Dec.7.— with her interior battered, all fur- | niture abroad smashed and the sleeping quarters wrecked, the steamers Charles M. Warner of Buffalo is at a pier here effecting repairs to engines and recuperating the strength of officers and crew after a thrilling experience in Lake FIND SIX SAWS. Los Angeles, Dec. 7—Six saw: were found in the possession of E. A. McNabb, held in the Los Angeles Huron during the storm of Thurs-jinal charges, according to’ Mark day night. Bailey, jailer. The vessel with her engines out| The saws were discovered in a} of commission so that it could run|search of the jail when, after the| in reverse gear only, was battered jescape of Mrs. Clara Phillips, con- by the sixty mile storm that reached | victed “hammer murderess,” early hurricane proportions off Saginaw bay. The vessel almost rolled over e jailer that certain prisoner: at times, During the height of the | were plotting “a wholesale delive storm the captain and crew, all) This alleged ploy involved McNabb wearing life preservers the engines effecting temporary re- pairs to broken rods. The 21 men in the crew were a unit in saying they owed their lives . rene to the courage of Captain ‘Hugh! ARREST WRONG PERSONS. Little, who urged them to “buck| Chicago, Dec. 7.-—Miss Elsie Coe up” so that témporary repairs could | and Miss Clara Hutchins of Balt heveffected. saded with coal is | MOP Md. were taken from the in- heucasaae Duluth? “She! probably | Coming Los Angeles Limited of the will be here several ways’ making {Chicago and Northwestern railroad jrecently arrested in Minneapolis and jreturned here for trial, and both were placed in dark, solitary cells. escaped from the Los Angeles coun- ity jail. The women satisfied the police of their identity. SCOR S HEALTH The two women left Los Angeles lon December 4, the day before the date of Mrs. Phillips’ escape. | The police boarded the train at | Maywood on a report that Mrs. Phil- lips was believed to have been seen {on the train as it left Omaha, al- ; though {extremely unlikely that Mrs, Phillips could reach Chicago in three days without the use of an airplane. (By the Associated Press) Fargo, N. D., Dec. 7—Authorities who have studied the public health system in North Dakota say it is in chaos, Dr. Robert Oleson of the United States Public Health Service told an audience here late yesterday. Some effective work is being done by state and private organizations, he added, but lack of correlation between such effort and the state board of health has resulted in con- fusion and inefficiency. He spoke of the annual appropri- ation of the state board of health as the smallest and the least per capita amount for any state in the union, REPORT FALSE. San Diego, Cal., Dec. 7.—Reports that Mrs. Clara Phillips, Los Angeles murderess, had been seen in Tijuana, Mex'wo, yesterdiy and that there was a possibility that she had taken refuge in\a cabin believed to be owned by Ed. (Gold Tooth Johnson), near Point of Rocks, on the Oce: proved false today after an investi- gation by Sheriff Wm, Traeger of Los Angeles gnd_ posse. CUTS DOWN MAJORITY CALL SHIPSTEAD AS WITNESS Washington, Dec. 6—Arguments Following the canvassing of the opposing confirmation of Pierce vote of Burke County late today the State Canvassing board ai nounced that Judge W. L. Nuessle had received 85,632 votes and Seth Richardson of Fargo, 85,382 giv- ine Nuessle a maiority of exactly 250 on the official returns, Burke county gave Richardson 1442 to 926 for Nuessle. Butler, St. Paul attorney, as an as- sociate justice of, the supreme court probably will be heard tomorrow behind closed doors by a senate judiciary sub-committee. Senator- elect Shipstead, farmer-laborite of to be the first wit- ness, RY DENIED JUDGE COFFEY DECLINES 70 PUT 9 NAMES PASSED OVER ON JURY: CHARGE FRAUD timore, Md. She appeared somewhat county jail on- three different crim-| [Tuesday morning, a rumor reached: worked at | and “Fat” McDonald, alleged bandit,| |today by police seeking Mrs. Clara: | Phillips, convicted murderess who detectives had said it was) LAST EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS IN SIGNATURES Judge Hanley, Attorney for Defendeants, Declares Many Signed Grand Jury Petitions Under Misrepre- sentation and Fraud; Con- tention that Grand Jury as Now Constituted Is Valid Goes Over; Judge Asks At- torneys Whether Petitions Are Sufficient for New Grand Jury ‘if Present One Is Knocked Out. * UP AGAIN TOMORROW Judge James A. Coffey in district court this afternoon denied the motion of the state to remove the last two grand jurors drawn on the panel and substitute two who had been drawn but set aside because their names were ;names of women. \ After ruling on this point ‘Judge Coffey asked attorneys this question: ‘If the grand jury panel is held void would the petitions on which the ;grand jury was called be suf- ficient for the calling of a new ‘grand jury? | After some discussion court |was adjourned until morning while attorneys for defend- fants took time to examine ithe petitions. | ‘Attorney J. M. Hanley, who resisted the state’s mo- tion, told the court that he| wished time to examine the petitions, “that we have been jinformed that there was fraud and misrepresentation in obtaining signatures to these petitions; and many of| those who signed them now are sorry that they did so.” Former Governor John |Burke for the first time ad- jmitted his interest in the | matter by appearing and| ‘arguing with the states at- orney in the case. William Langer suggested i the court discharge the pres-| ent panel, Mr. Hanley also as- serted there was evidence a grand jury was wanted to “wash political linen” and declared a grand jury was| utterly useless in Burlegih| county when the states at. torney had power to issue warrants. Mr. McCurdy pointed out that the petitions, if valid compelled calling of a gran \jury. Hanley Challenges Panel, Judge Coffey opened court at 2:01 |p. m, and announced there would b jfurther consideration of the grar: | jury matter, Mr. Hanley, who, yesterday alles ierrors in drawing the jury and s). cifically objected to any appearan by former Governor Burke on tl ground he had been privately re j tained by E, A. Hughes and other and his appearance before the granj i jury would not ke in good faith, sai \that in addition he wished to chal |lenge the entire grand jury panel o¥ jthe ground that it was illegall] drawn, on the basis of the irregu larities cited by State’s Attorney Me Curdy. It was stated by counsel that th challenge to the grand jury wa made solely for the purpose of hay ing the legal questions brought be fore the court. Judge Coffey said that he had op| | portunity to look up some authori ties cited by the defendants, but no by the other side and asked State’ Attorney McCurdy to cite them. H. did so. Mr. McCurdy said that the obje tions of the defense fell into thre| classes, among them that the nan of one of the jurors drawn was mig spelled. He Said this was not th] test; that the test was whether the were competent persons. He quote South Dakota and California statue| and decisions as they, in his opinioy affected North Dakota grand jur| rulings. Mr. McCurdy said one of the rea sons he raised’ the question yestey day was to give all persons a chanc} to act, so that the court might b informed and so that no mistak might be made, He said that he bq lieved that regardless of whether th court granted his motion to amen the grand jury drawing or not he bi lieved that it was a Valid grand jur Burke Assists McCurd: Mr. McCurdy said that formd Governor Burke was in court an| wished to make a statement concer ing the statements of Mr. Hanley Mr .Burke appeared before Ju (Continued on Page Three)