The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 20, 1923, Page 1

— ~ +, Snow and colder tonight with cold wave. WEATHER FORECAST. | ESTABLISHED 1873 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | LAST EDITION | ‘BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1923 PRESS TABERT CASEIN SOUTH § Judge Kneeshaw Volunteers to Accompany Grimson to Southern State BEI FUND | | RA ED} | | Several Hundred Dollars Sub scribed to Pay Expenses of Men on Trip Langdon, N. D., Mar. 20—Judge W. Kneeshaw and State's Attorney G. | mson of Cavalier county expect to leave for Perry, Florida this week | to be present at the grand jury hear- ing scheduled to begin at that place March 26 to investigate the circum- | stances of the death of Martin Ta- bert, Munich lad who it is charged | came to his death in a lumber camp in Dixie county, Florida through mistreatment when leased out as a county prisoner to the Putnam Lum- er company. At lgast ten witnesses who are residents of Florida and four from outside the state wil] give tes- timony at the grand jury hearing, ac- cording to State's Attorney Grimson Only a possible deley in complet- ing the details of securing a change of venue from Dixie county to Tay- lor county can delay the opening of the hearing, Mr, Grimson says. ; ed that Martin Tabert | ie county, and in response from Mr. Grimson, State's nev John B. Kelly of the Fl district has replied that he is | tuking steps to secure such change of | venue, Under the Florida system | state is divided into districts for | it purposes and one state’s attor- | and one judge serve the entire Cistrict consisting of several ¢oun- | ties! A change of venue will there- | fore not take the hearing from the | a It is belie died in Di to a wire Att thy district nor will it take it to a dif- ferent jurisdiction. Judge W. F. Horne is the presiding judge in the | Florida district where the hearing will take place, Fund Being Raised Judge Kneeshaw' goes to Florida merely as a volunteer to sec that justice in procedure is secured. He has made an offer to pay his own expenses if necessary. It is not thought however, that this will be necessary, as an effort is being made to secure $1,000 in Cavalier county before Tuesday to pay the expenses+ of imson and Judge Kneeshaw and those incurred in transporting itnesses, Over $700 had been sub- scribed to the “Tabert fund” Satur- day, Otto Tabert, brother of Martin Taber‘, may accompany Mr. Grim- on and Judge Kneeshaw but this is not certain. Florida Sentiment Aroused ‘ That sentiment against the con- viet leasing system practiced by Florida counties is growing rapidly since Mr. Grimson began his investi- gations of the Tabert case is evident from the “numerous letters that he eives daily and the tons of cdi- both dailies und weeklies. Mr. also in receipt today of communications from four members of the Florida houe of representa- s deploring the practice of leas- ing county prisoners. According to Associated Press dis- of March 7 appearing in da_ newspapers, Representative J. Kd. Stokes of Bay county, Florida, | , will introduce a measure in the com- ing session of the Florida legisla- tu to abolish the county-convict leasing system. Mr. Stokes, who is a candidate for speaker of the house, makes the statement that ie intro- | duced a similar measure in the ses- sion af 1921 but that'it was lost. He then put through a local bill abol- ishing the system in his own coun: j ty, he declares. | Judges Oppose System i fact that the judiciary of Flor- ida is opposed to the practice of con- | viet leasing by the counties is indi- ' jal comment in Florida newspa- | * 4 FUTURE USES OF HOSPITALS IS PROBLEM Federal Board Unga ‘Study, of Problem to Protect U. S. Interests Washington, Mar. 20. diate inauguration of a continuing study to determine future economic uses for the Federal Government's vast hospital facili s urged b the Board of Consultants on hos- Pitilization in a report today to Secretary Mellon The work of mapping out further pos: plants, the board suggests, should be centralized in some federal gov- ernment office and the problem: made subject to pse scrutiny i the war and: post - w: may tit be wasted. is made tion between the federal gov. eel and the states be evolved to ultimately make hospital prac- ces uniform, throughout — the country. WILL LEASE LANDS SOON: cuted by resolutions passed at the re- cent convention of county judges ,of | Florida. By unanimous vote at the open- | ing sion of the convention the | judges pledged their support to a movement inaugurated by Coramis: | signer of Agriculture McRue to bring | about the speedy aboli of the convict lease system. Is Common in State That mistreatment of prisoners under. the convict-lease system i: common in Florida is the claim made ; in numerous letters in the hands of Mr. Grimson. Perhaps the most pa- | thetic letter received recently is one addressed to Governor R. A. Nestos | by H. C. Cruise, 287 North Bellevue | avenue, Memphis, Tenn. The writer of the letter alleges that on January 5, 1909, when he was 17 years old, | he was enticed into a poker game by two men at Tallahassee, Fla., and { fleeced of all his money. The next | day, he asserts, he was arrested and | taken before a justice where he was | sentenced to 90 days at hard labor | while ‘the two men who had won his money from him were released. Cruise, according to his story, was | sent to a turpentine farm where he | worked under the worst possible con- | ditions, often times in a foot or more | of water and in a steady rain for| hours, He says that he was stripped | of his clothing and whipped with a five pound leather strap while bent over a log with a large negro hold- ing his head. “I am in poor health to this day,’ declares Mr. Cruise, “from the effects of a blow from that five pound strap across the kidneys. Governor Hardee says that the state of Florida must not be judged by a single instance of mistreatment to a prisoner, but I want to say that if a man happens: to fall a victim to | one of those lymber camps or tur- pentine’ farms and is not a good strong man he will never get over it, j include verted to the state through surrend- | limum of tthe They made 15 year old boys do men’s (Continued op Page Three). Cultivated Lands to be In-| cluded This Year year will! which re- School land leasings this cultivated lands er or cancellation of land contracts, it was said today by Carl R. Kositz- | ky, land commissioner, Rentals for! school lands will range from a min-! cents an acre to a maxi- mum of 75 cents an aere. The annual leasing of school lands will be conducted by Frank Kiebert andJohn Snyder. The first leasing {will be in Emmons county on March 23 and the last in Sioux county on May 9. Alt lands will be rented to best bidder. The minimum fee for grazing and. pasture lands will be the same as last year, $15 for a quarter of a section, with a $3 leas- ing fee charged to cover expenses of the leasing. The auctidns will be held in the county seats of the state. KLAN KLEAGLE ESCAPES TRAIL ‘Springfield, O., Mar, 20.—Motions made by the defense to dismiss the defendant, return of property seized and to throw but all evidence and testimony offered by the state were sustained by Judge Golden, in police court this morning in the case of Imme-! sible uses for the great hospital} i Upon testimony of Betty Miller (above) police ordered Ben Bojar- quez (below) held pending investi- ‘gation of the death of his sweet- heart, Eileen Zimmerly, — mov bathing girl and artists’ model. Bo- jarquez says Miss Zimmerly commit- ted suicide. Miss Miller. chum of | the deal girl, claims Bojarquez and Miss Zimmerly quarreled the day be- fore the latter was found dead MASONS INITIATE 5 CANDIDATES Five candidates received the Master Mason degree at the; Masonic Temple last night. They) | were Henry Jagd, James E. Potter, Lars E. Wambheim, Harold Ho ton and J. L, Va A number! of visitors \ PLAN PUBLIC — FINANCIERS ‘Slope Farmers and Business| Men Invited to Bismarck, March 27 A public meeting in the afternoon in the Rialto theater and an open- forum dinner of the Association of Commerce in the McKenzie hotel at night are being arranged for the it here of John R. Mitchell of the Federal Reserve Board of Washing- ton, tis L. Mosher, of the Fed- eral Reserve Bank of Minneapo! | Dan Wallace, editor of the St. Paul ner; Harry Owen, editor of the 1 Stock and Home, reptesenta- | lives jof railroads and Twin City commercial bodies here on March 27. | Letters are being sent out by the 1A. of C. iin this te’ tend the guthering, at which the! | question of farm finance and the re- lation of the Federal Reserve Banks to be discussed, and also to bank- ers and bi | Slope district. | several hundred people the meeting. Mr. Mitchell, the Northwest rev- | resentative on the Reserve Board, ;ranks among the big financiers of | : the country. If the attendance proves too large ‘to give alt accommodations in the Rialto thater for the afteroon meet- | ing it will be adjourned to the city | Auditorium. to representative farmers | An attendai | is expected at STORAGE GRAIN IS PROTECTED. Over Million Dollars of Bonds, Are Given “Most of the storage tickets ure, pretty well protected “ by bonds,” John. N. Hagar, state supervisor ot | grains ahd grain grading, said today, | announcing algo that since Decem-! ber 25 approximately $1,000,000 in! additional bonds had been required | from grain elevators to protect grain, held in storage. Within a week this, amount of bonds will.be raised to: $1.500,000, he added. Mr. Hagan has been functioning | under a modified federal court. ordar | designed to permit Wim to supervise | bonding of elevators. pending final decision on the constitutignality of the state grain grading initiated law. “We have had hardly any opposi- tion in our bonding work,,either from line elevators or farmers’ elevators,” M. W. Corger, Ku Klux Klan Kleagie | Mr. Hagan said. and organizer, charged with riotous conspiracy. EXPECT LAWS SOON. Copies of ‘the popular edition of the sessioh’ laws of 1923 are expect- ed: to be available within a week or two, it was stated at the office of the secretary of ‘state, zt The initiated grain grading law will soon go to the United States supreme court, he said, and Seth Richardton,( engaged as special coun- sel by Attorney General Shafer, will ask advancement on the calendar, with the hope of getting a decision before the summer adjournment of the court, {tions for the next school year. , this board, MEETING FOR | ess men over the entire { STATE BOAR ASKS HALT ON STUDY COURSES Board of indininisioibiod Res- | olution Against Expansion \ in Institutions | ECONOMY NECESSARY | Would Review Any Projected | Changes in Curricutums in Institutions Heads of educational institutions in j the state under control of the state | ‘board of administration will be noti- ‘fied of a resolution adopted by ene board urging that no new co of study be adopted for the ins tus The} action of the board was taken, it was stated, because of curtailed appro- ‘priations, and also as a part of the | weneral state in avoiding expansion of activ- in the} economy movement ities as much as possible. The resolution adopted by the board follows: “Resolved, that the secretary be instructed to notify the heads of ail the State Educational Institutions advising them that it is the sense of in view of the curtailed that no additional new study be added to the} of any institution until budgets, courses’ of curriculum the same has first been approved by the Board of Administration Departmental heads and heads of the various educational institutions are now considering and planning | their work for next year, with knowi- cdge of the amounts allowed the in-/ stitutions by the state legislature The resolution, it was stated, does | not prevent readjustment of any courses for the purpose of strength ening the institutions. Members of the state board of administration probably will visit most of the state institutions within the next two or three weeks to go/ over the budgets for the year begin- ‘ning July 1. | 1,000 SAID HOMELESS IN | STORM AREA Must be Provided With Food and Clothing, Say Red Cross Workers Memphis, Tenn., Mar, 20.--Approx- imately 1,000 persons. are homeless lin: the tornado-swept area of North- western Mississippi and must be pro- vided food and clothing to aid them in rehabilitating themselves, accord- ing to an estimate made by C. J. Crane and C. E, Lovett, representa- tives of the American Red Cross, in charge of relief measures. The estimate was made today after survey of the situation at Savage other points in the area devas- tated by the storm which swept through half a dozen ‘counties last Thursday and took a'toll of 38 lives. COLD WAVE Balmy Breezes of Spring to! be Short-Lived Here A*spread of 65 degrees in temper- j ature, from the lowest point in Bis- marck Sunday to the highest Mon- day, marked one of the most unusual 24 hours of weather in Bismarck in many moons. From 16 below carly Sunday morning the thermometer | rose to 49 above zero yesterday, the highest point. The lowest tempera ture Yast night was.37 degrees above Only one point on today’s map showed below zero temperatu: It} was 16 below last night at S. S.! | Marie. The balmy spring breezes will be short-lived in Bismarck, however. A cold wave is announced for tonight | by the weather bureau. The low | Pressure area which caused the quick rise in temperature moved on, and a} high-pressure area is pressing down! from the Canadian Northwest. The) cold wave is expected to be accom-| panied by snow, and tomorrow vy strong northwest winds. SOME REAL SONG HITS IN 00. A SHOW A bevy of beautiful: ‘dit special tage lighting, and a variety of sprightly musical numbers ‘will be features of “One Girl In a Million,”| play to be presented by Company A, North Dakota National Guard at the; auditorium tomorrow night. George A. Childs, director of the play, de- clares that the cast consists of tal- ent that professional people might envy. The play itself is a bright spark- ling piece which allows the actors many opportunities to shine and the audience a chance to laugh. The entire Program is one of sim- ple entertainment, ‘Iowa, and Minnesota gave emphatic | endorsement to the proposed merger | of the Northern Pacitie, {and ri '$475 VERDICT IS GIVEN HERE) A jury in district court gave | Judgment to,J. C. Olson, plaintiff | in a case involving several head of | attle, against CHM Thompson for | $475.00. Both are farmers living | between McKenzie and Moffit.| Trial of a cas in the court was delayed because the prosecuting witness, from Hi en. | Was unable to get across the or from Mandan. RAILPLANOF GROUPING HELD BEST FOR : D, ' i | | | | | ment at Comm Hear- \ ing in St. Paul i MARKED CHANGE SHOWN | ‘ Plea for Consolidation Born’ in Demand for Lowest, Freight Rates, Claim Dakotas for Hill Plan St. Paul, Mar. 20--Opposition to any consolidation but an en- dorsement of a merger of the Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Chicago, Burlington and Quincey lines if there is some merger, was scheduled to be voiced by St. Paul interests be- fore representatives of the Inter- state Commerce Commission on the proposed railway consolida- tion plan today North Dakota interests appear- ing before Commissioner, Camp- bell yesterday went on record as favoring an acceptance of a mer- wer of the Great Northern, Nor- thern Pacific and Burlington if the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Saulte Ste. Marie line agreed to | make connections which would | provide an entrance into Fargo. | and Grand Forks on the Soo Line. North Dakota, Witnesses from Great Nor- thern, and Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroads as productive of greatly increased service to the pub- lie at today’s hearifg before repre; sentatives of tae Interstate Com- merce Commission. The merger of the three roads | would be a long step toward relief | of car shortage during the peak of the grain movement as the Burling- ton peak comes later than that of the Northern, and car supplies woulg be alternately augmented, the North Dakota and Towa witnesses said. Such a merger would benefit the entire state of North Dakota, Fred P. Mann, Devils Lake merchant and | director of the National Chamber of ‘commerce declared. A combination service and would not jon because of the the Minneapolis, St. S. Marie and Chic ‘oads, Similar opin ssed by Stanley C. Colburn, representing the. Minot commercial club, Jamés Kennedy, Fargo, contractor, and R. E, Barron, Minot banker. 1 Governor R. A. Nestes of North Dakota who was the first witness called at the opening session yester- day told the “committee that the trafisportation problem must _ be solved in the interest of the public road worker. What the rail- road wauts is the best service at lowest cost which will permit @ rea- sonable return to the carrier. Governor Nestos made no mention of the Hill merger as opposed to the } Ripley plan of consolidation. The Hill plan would merge the three railroads while the Ripley plan would place the Northern Pacific and Great Northern in a separate group- ing. of existence Paul and S. and Milwaukee ions were. expre St. Paul, @lar. he Ripley plan of the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion for consolidation of railroads into a few big systems is a marked | change from the attitude of the gov: (Continued on. page 3.) TO BUILD FOR — EXPRESS (0. Northern Pacific to Put Ne Building West of Depot ‘ i A new building to house the American, Railways Express com-| pany office, now located on Broad-| ; way.) will be built adjoining the} : depot by the Northern Pacific Rail-/ way company, according to infor-; : mation here. The building is necessitated by lack of express room in the depot and insufficiency of other quarters} of the company, it is understood. Work on the buijding probably will begin about May 1. It is un-! derstood it will be built on the/ lawn west of the depot, in line with Webb Brothers building. The new building will not -be an ex- pensive structure. POSTMAN 30 YEARS | Grand Forks, N. D.. March '19— Frank Gifby of Grand Forks on Sun- day rounded out 30 years in the ser- vice of the United States postal de- partment. During that period it is estimated that he has walked 148,000 mites to deliver 9,000,000 letters to the residents of Grand Forks in ad- dition to newspapers and other sec- ong class mail, le has refused to accept the pen- sion to which he is entitled and will [continue in the service, RUHR WORKERS: URGE EFFORTS TO END FIGHT Ask Government to Take all Possible Means to Settle Ruhr Cri: AGAINST Reported French Forbid Ac: ti ity by Relief Societies in Ruhr 1 Mar. resolution adopted by the leaders of the Germany ym, Germany, 20. workers’ association of the government upon “to leave no possibility exhaust- mine is called ed to end the Ruhr battle and settle ; ithe reparations crisis through nego- tiations, resolution opposed any at tempt to cripple the peaceful resist-! ance campaign or on the other hang to prolong the struggle unduly and it demands the movement which is aimed at produc: ing armed opposition either from in- side the Ruhr or outside of it. FORBID RELIEF WORK. Berlin, Mar, 20.—-An dis: patch to Vorwaerts reports that t Rhineland Commission has issued a new order forbidding activities in the occupied area by any such org: tion as the Ruhr Rel Soc collection of funds. je of Essen y. The stam, or payment in connection with rehef lude Rheyce, where the propriated money Belgians ap belonging to the city, five million of which was i tended for the unemployment and six million held by, the Reichsbank for distribution to railroad men and | Muenchen-Gladvbach, where 10,000,- 00 marks in funds for the unemploy- ed were sei and Hayn Hainesburg, where the seizure involved 1 000 marks. W. D. DOPKING, FORMER STATE OFFICER, DIES \ Home in Mandan Early Today by Son Wm. D, Dopking, 58, state officer from 1914 to 1918 and ass’ ant deputy warden of the state pen tentiary under Charles McDonald,| was found dead in bed this morning tby his son, William Jr., 17, with whom he slept. He had complained of pains about his heart last night, but apparently had recovered and talked with his son for sometime at 11:30 o'clock be- fore they slept. Mr. Dopking, a native of Caro, Michigan, came to North Dukota in 1902 and homesteaded. A part of the town of Flasher was a part of his original homestead. He conduct- da grocery store there for some years until he was uppointed to the state place. Since 1920 he had been making his home in Mandan. He was a member of the Brot hood of American Yeoman of marck and Mandan Elks lodge. Fun- feral arrangements were not made, pending return of Mrs. Dopking, who has been employed at Jumestown for the last four months. Two children survive, COUPLE WEDDED 50 YEARS Enderlin, N. D., March 20—Mr. and Mrs, Charles A. Nord celebrated their golden weddin ganniversary with a family reunion, all their children being present. After remarks by Revs. Gaustad and Runsvold, the coupl¢ were presented with a shower of gold coins, A gold ring was pr sented to Mrs. Nord, and a gold head- ‘ed cane to Mr. Nord. —_—_—~ -— FIGHT! In aj parole j IN CLARKE CASE | | | | Houston (Tex.) girl} shown above, declares she is the girl | Laura Martin, Sdward Young Clarke, Atlanta, Ga., is accused of having transported to | New Orleans for immoral purposes. She will testify at the trial in Hou- ton of Clarke who is charged with violating the Mann act. ADOPT CREAM GRADING PLAN : FOR NO. DAKOTA Probably Will be Put in Effect on May 1, Dairy Comm sioner Announces work are also said to have been for bidden. The newspaper says under the au- thority of this order numerous seiz- ures have been made. Three cities | are specifically cited in whieh a total of 285,000,000 marks are said to} {have been taken. These places in-! | SUPERVISION PLANNED) | System will Rew: Reward Produc- | ers of Quality Cream, View | of Mr. Reynolds of cream by effective in| on May 1, and sale become Dakota probably W. F. Reynolds, state dairy com- missioner, said today following his return from a meeting with bers of the Dairy Products ciation of the Northwest in The system, Mr, Reynolds said | provide reward for producers bring up the quality of the cream | they” sell. I At the Reynolds will \ , North wh St. Paul secured assent buyers in outside states, who do not have regular stations in North Dakota, to the plan, so that a uni- jing system will obtain on} produced in the state, h There is no cream grading in orth Dakota at this time. but a found it a suc . Reynolds said There will be two grades of cream —No. 1 and No. 2. It is es- timated that 70 per cent of all cream | now being produced in North Dako- | ta grades No. 1, he said. The ob- | jection to the present method, wiere | a flat price of pound is paid regard- less of quality, Mr. Reynolds said, is that it down the price of | cream the producer a sougnt to bring to a high quality | level, and raises the price of poor cream. It is not u difficult matter } to bring all cream to grade No. 1, he said, lower grade being marked generally where cows have been fed | on wild onions or strong-flavored | food. y Drafting of rules and | for the under way meeting Mr. of cream i said. regulations cream grading system were ! by Mr. Reynolds : and as’ All grading will be done by official graders, under the ision of the dairy commis- | In jon there will be | ficld. men utder ‘nis direction to check up all grading stations, so that a double-check will be maintained and all cream stations will grade on the same basis, he said. Both out- of-state buyers and those within the state will be on the same basis, he added. : Mr. Reynolds has’ figured that, on the basis of present prices, a gain of $920,000 would have been record: ed by producers if all cream sold in | tne last year could have been graded | No. 1 at the Se ee stations. DES LACS VOTERS, GOING TO POLLS TODAY, EXPECTED TO RETURN WOMEN CASE-APPEALED Des Lacs, N. D., March 20—The vil- Jage of Des Lacs, which a year ago ‘stepped into a unique place in the county, by electing a complete set of feminine city officials, is pretty well satisfied with the first year’s admin- jistration of “petticoat” government, and according to present indications will return practically the entire as- semblage to office for another year. The village lection is being held today. niel Olson, husky section fore man, who was appointed to the of- fice of village marshal, after things got “too tough’ for Mrg. F. H. Ward, who resigned, will a be a cand date for re-election. He has given no reason for not running for the office again. Two women did battle at the polls for the honor to bear the village marshal’s star. They are Mrs. Seth Lund and Mrs. John Hely. Each is confident that she can handle any sit- uation which arises, they announce, and if elected will wield the billy club in a menner that insures an in- tention te enforce the law. Mrs. Ward cation several months ago after a situation got beyond her con- | trol one night, when a number of “drunks” created a disturbance. J.C. Cogdily and Mark Cook were | nominated at the regular village cau- cus, to oppose Mrs. T, M. Filbert and | Mrs. G. J. Johnson, respectively, in- | cumbents in the offices of village | trustee. Mrs. H. L, Halvorson, chair- | man of the village board, thus far is | unopposed for re-elect: Mrs. D. E. | Berry is not seeking re-election call village assessor, and Carl Solomon- | son and Mdrk Warring have been | nominated to run for this office. Mrs. | Mel Shafte is unoposed for the office af treasurer, as also is Mrs. E. C. Kinygn, village clerk. Mrs, Rebecca Varnes probably will continue to wield the gavel of justice hee of the peace, being unopposed. One of the improvements which the present administration made dur- ing the past year, was the installa-|/her from” home, she allege tion of a reservoir to furnish water |couple have one child. to the village. | AGENT lish the National Guard, ‘ed the assembly. Jes b; PRICE FIVE CEN’ FOSTER NAMED SELF AS FOR “REVOLUTION” id in Questionnaire, State Charges, He Had Been Active 21 Years TAKES STANI) Department of Justice Sleuth Who Attended Meeting Tells Communist Secrets St. Joseph, Mar, 20--The question naire which William Z, Foster i charged with filling out when he ar rived at the Communist Nationa Convention held in the sand dune. near here last August was intro duced in evidence today by the state in Foster's trial for syndicalism. The questionnaire read to the jury says that “Borden,” the name Foster is declared to have used at the con- | vention, had been “active in the rev- olutionary movement for 21 years.” ‘Borden” also wrote in answer to questions on the sheet that he was an employe of the Communist party with the title of industrial organ r, that he had been a member of the LLW.W., of the Socialist party and’ of several labor unions iad been arrest- ed frequently and had participated in scores of st Francis Morrow, a department o justice agent, who attended the con vention as a delegate from the Phil delphia and Camden districts, was ¢ the stand today to identify more the papers federal agents seized a raid on the meeting. he morning session was marke by frequent clashes and the exchans of personalities between Frank | and Oliver L, Smith, assistant attor ney genewmal of Michigan. DENY STATE’ AID TOGUARD IN WISCONSIN | Legislature Votes to Termin- ate Support for Guard Armories Madison, Wis., Mar 20.—The Wi consin National Guard received second blow from the legislature t day when the assembly voted 44 .¢ 21 to terminate state aid for mai tenance of urmories and to turn ov the eight state-owned armories. ithe cities in which they are locat for school and other purpose Tr stand was .taken by engrossment bill introduced by Assemblyn» John Polakowski, Milwaukee soci t, author of the proposal to which pa ROTARY MEET _ TS UNDER WAY Mayor of St. Paul Welcome Delegates at Session St. Paul, Mar, 20.—With appr: imately 500 delegates present frv 32 clubs in Minnesota and North L kota, the largest ninth district RK tary clubs conference got under w: today and will continue until la Wednesday. A short address | Norman Black of Fa district go or, followed the welcome addres Mayor Arthur F, Nelson of S Paul, and marked the morning se: sion of the congress which dispo: of preliminary business and appoint ,ed committees. Mr. Black made a report of hi activities as district governor dut ing the past year, showing what pro gress had been made by the club it the ninth district and praising the spirit displayed by Minnesota and North Dakota representatives. Ife encouraged the increased activitie ;of women in Rotary activities. ALIENATION Emmons County Case Come« to the Supreme Court Mr. and Mrs. Peter Oster of E) mons county have appealed to th: | Supreme court from a verdict of § '500 granted by a jury to Karoli {Oster, their daughter-in-law, in | $25,000 suit for alienation of the 3( |fections of her husband. The v0» dict was granted in December, 192? Many specifications of error assigned jn the appeal. The plaintiff alleged in her oris jinal complaint that after she and jcr husband, Jacob. Oster, who were miny- ried in South Dakota, had moved ia North Dakota, the parents-in-law je gan a systematic effort to break up their martial union. By spreaten tie Jacob Oster with disinheritance snd other means they forced him te send The Mr. and Mrs. Oster denied her There has been considerable com-|comipaint in most particulars, ad- ment, pro and con, on the expendi-|mitting that th ture involve in this improvement. the paragraph it they were ‘worth $50,000 wes Pak