The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 2, 1923, Page 1

EES 4 ‘in Norway. This was the gt the city. WEATHER Forecasts | FORECASTS : Generally fair tonight &Ynd Sy ang ponent” ESTABLISHED 1873 SMITH SIGNS DRY REPEZ WATER MATTER GOES OVER TO MONDAY NIGHT ‘ity Commission Rejects Pump Bids and Holds En- gine Matter in Abeyance EXTENSIONS GRANTED| All Contractors on Which py Contracts Were Held Open Agree Extension to June 12 After wrestling with various phases of the water works contracts this week, the city commission adjourned evening after another four-hour ion to meet Monday night at % o'clock, The commission and citizens com- mittee devoted the time to consider- ation of pump bids and the question of installing oil engines to supply electrie power to pump tue water. It was decided to reject all pump hids and advertise for new bids on June 25, ‘The oil engine matter was left in abeyance, It was stated that the commission 1d a committee favored a type of pump for the plant which was the highest in the pump bids and under the law it was necessary if the com- mission is to buy the apparatus it wants to reject bids and advertise r new ones, Replies were received from all con- \ actors who were asked to hold their bids open until June 12, stating that they would do so, Mayor Lenhart said, The commission drew a contract with City Engineer Atkinson which is the same as the one under which he has been serving as city engineer, but was drawn anew because the commission has been reorganized in the meantime. The contract is for $60 a month and five per cent of con- tracts over $500, With respect to the water works contract Mayor Lenhart id the city engineer would pay for the services of L, P. Wolff, of St. §Paul, consulting engineer, other engi- neers and all supervision necessary in handing the plant matter, Mayor Lenhart said the commis- sion felt that Mr. Atkinson’s stand and engineering advice had been fully vindicated. The fact that low bi on the new plant were about $4, under the estimate of the city engi- neer on a $700,000 job was evidence that there had been no guess-work on the part of the engineering force but that the matter had been gone into thoroughly. He also said that the bids indicated that Mr. Atkinson had given the commis vice throughout regarding the value of the present water company plant. “TUT” RELICS TO MUSEUM Widow of Earl of Carnarvon Sacrifices Fortune London, June 2.—The Earl of Car- narvon’s private collection of antiqui- ties will be presented by his widow to the nation for the British museum, says the Daily Mail. Lady Carnarvon thereby sacrifices the prospect of greatly adaing to her weath for Earl’s will stipulated that if she decided to sell the collection the British Museum should be of- fered the first chance to refuse it for 20,000 pounds. This is said to be much below the actual value. The newspaper asserts that the prospective gift ‘will include what- ever part of the treasurer found in Tutankhamen’s tomb is alloted tothe Carnarvon estate by the Egyptian authorities, Shoemaker Retires After 51 Years Minot, N D., > Sane 2.—Fifty-one ears of almost ceaseless toil as a Peres wil] bé ended on June 20, vhep Hans Hanson of Minot, veter- an in-his profession, relinquishes ownership of his shop to Carl Nel- ion of Devils Lake. Hans Hanson was a boy of 15 sum- mers when 51 years ago prentice he began pegging that the fabled belligerent cow was supposed to have. knocked over a lan- ern in Chicago, causing the burning He worked for four years as an apprentice, wjthout sal- ary and with barely enough food for a growing oy to exist upon. Later He came to the United States and for. the last 19 years has resided in Mi- not, where he has. carried on his work, The state of Vermont ived its name from “verb mont,” © meaning Green Mountain. Ae body immersed in'a licuid lgses in eee ‘an amount equal to the weight of the liquid displaced, BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1923 ce “WHITE PLAGUE” WARS WITH BOLSHEVISM ON RELIGION By Don P. Drohan NEA Service Writer Erie, Pa., June 2.—Tuberculosis is Joining Bolshevism in a gigantic war| on religion in crushed and bleeding Central Europe. Trailing in starvation’s wake, it is exacting an appalling toll among the populace .on Christianity’s firing line. Such is the pathetic picture Mich- gel Cardinal Faulhaber, arch-bishop of Munich, painted in an interview here. Into monasteries, convents and ‘| missions, where hungry women and children come begging for bread, the white plague—like a thief in the night—is sneaking. “Our priests and nuns and the oth- er religious workers, already slowly dying from malnutrition, fall easy victims to this dread disease,” ex- plains his eminence. “Thousands have contracted it, Thousands more are suffering from softening of the bones owing to lack of proper food, Operations are out of question betause of prohibitive costs, No Work Available “Other thousands are sacrificing their scanty morsels to hordes that storm their doors pleading for some- thing to eat. They labor on inde- futigably, without thought, of them- selves, until they're no longer able to remain on their feet. “So, too, with the little children in the orphanages. And with men| and women who are roaming the! streets crying for work. But therej is no work to give them, “In the midst of all this poverty, | | disease and distress the materialistic ! \ philosophy of Bolshevism is certain’ Splendid Program Given in; to appeal. Bolshevism, however, 1s, ‘ easier to combat than the plag Opening Exercises—Many Delegates There { MICHAEL, CARD, FAULHABER ‘LUTHER LEAGUE : CONVENTION IN | That we cannot stave off without aid| | from the outside. H “Only the generosity of other na-| tions can save us, Your people ha The eighth annual convention and been very kind to us. And I know song festival of the Mandan Circuit! they shall be equally as kind through-! Young Peoples Luther League opened | out the dark days we have yet to go at the Lutheran church at Mandan{ through. \last night with a.splendid program} “We appeal for no alms--merely rendered by the local League, After] a ‘lift, as you Americans put it. the program an informal reception Some day we hope to pay our debt and social time was enjoyed in the to the last mark. jechureh parlors, followed by light re-| “I have come to the United States! freshments. to express my country’s appreciation| A considerable for what you have done toward lead- gates, singers and visitors had «l- ing us out of the chaos. My visit is ready arrived’ from surrounding the realization of my life’s most cher- places so that the church was well | ished a We \filled. Owing to the fact that the leased With America President of the organization, Rev. ‘ “Even. during the war,” he contin-, W. T. Gigstad of Beach, was detained ues, “when I was a chaplain at the ‘and will arrive this,morning the for- front, | was-impressed with thé high mal opening.af canveution, will regatd our treops had for your sol- be held, this morning. The forencen diers. We found our most courage- ‘session today will principally be de- ous foe our kindest friend. |vote@ to business, A splendid pro- “With great expectation I set foot gram is arranged for the convention upon your soil. Nor have I been dis- ‘to terminate in a grand concert to be appointed. I feel as though 1 were|given at the Palace Theater on Sun-| in another world.” jday evening by a chorus of about 100 number of dele-( The ‘cardinal is one of the most | voices and ‘soloits from various! distinguished theologians of modern ' places. times. From his pen have come, Governor Nestos will address the many of the better known works on| conventign tomorrow. The feature ‘exegetic and homiletic nature. Despite his profound scholarship, he is remarkably democratic. Cardi- nal Faulhaber cleverly circumvented an attempt to kiss his ring. He pre-| ferred the American way of shaking hands. His face was wreathed in a pleas- ant smile. But a look of sadness dis- placed it as he told of the misery of] his people. His eminence got along splendidly without the assistance of an interpre- ter, He speaks exéellent English. Samay eee mere WANTS PICTURE R UH R R A | L | A picture of the sod house of the emigrant is wanted by Dr. M. R. Gil- more, curator of the State Historical Society. The type has about passed! from North Dakota, and Dr. Gilmore | want photographs both for the Yale University Press, which has made ai request and for the state museum.| bombs, Both tracks were torn, up for Dr. Gilmore also. would like to eet! considerable distance and. trafic an old-time breaking plow for the wii! be interrupted for sometime. museum, a type now rarely seen. A coal train was derailed by the! Tranen ‘damaged. track In one other case contact bombs were exploded when | jstruck by“loecomotives, both engines | dergiled. of the convention will be the contest of choruses of 100 voices at the Pal jace theatre ‘tomorrow. The chorus will be under, the direction of Prof. Herman W. Munson of the McPhail school of music. | There are about 70 delegates from} young peoples Luther League con- ventions from Steele on the east to Ollie, Montanady on the west, not in- cluding Bismarck and Mandan de.e- gates, Duesseldorf June. 2.—The main! line railrond used by the French for the transportation of coal and coke, out of the occupied Ruhr district was | cut early today by the explosion of | | cceteniteieadiadiincetiaielnamamnnannemediete 2 | FHE WEATHER |; eee For Bismarck and vicinity: Gen- ee sane change Wetiomeratere”” “° INCENDIARY For North Dakota: tonight and Sunday. Pe ET ica | A-notieaie Apiee tn the ait: The pressure is low over the north- I ber of incendiary, or suspected fires! ‘ern Rocky Mountain region and pre-| in North Dakota is noticeable, Henry | cipitation occurred from extreme| L. Reade, state fire marshal, said to- western North Dakota westward to/ day. Investigations throughout the the Pacific Coast. Over an inch of| state have shown him he said> that precipitation occurred at Spokane; the moral ‘hazard is much and at Calgary, Alberta. Heavy pre-| better than in the last three years, eipitation also occurred in the mid- dle Mi: ippi Valley. Fair weather prevails throughout the Plains States. ‘Temperatures are lower over the Da- kotas this morning put it is general- ly moderate in all sections. Road Conditions Highways throughout the State are generally in good to excellent|, Gemeaty twit) ETRES FEWER) much A grim reminder of warfare be-, condition. Wheat, tween U.S. aoldiers“and the Indians Btatlon High Len Preci- | in North ‘Dakota more than a half meni; » 90 © Clear} century ago has Been placed. in the ISMAR: » 88 i 0 Clear State Historical wociety. It is a metal Bottineau - 89 48 0 Clear, canteen, picked up by) Mrs, Oscar Devils Lake ....... 90 66 0 Clear; Anderson of Sterling of the site of Dickinaon ......,... 19 48 0 -Cleatithe Stony Lake battlefield, north of Ellendale ......,.. 87 67 0 Clear Driscoll,’ Burleigh county, Tt was Fessenden 52 0 Clear here'that General Sibley and his com- Grand Forks @2 0 Clear) mand on July 27, 1863, met any de- atone “i age ee feated a band of Indians, Larimore ...,! 91 61 O Clear The. battlefield and other’ sites Liston, © Clear] 2°table in the expedjtion of Gen- Minot 0 Clear Ctl Sibley to the Missouri river dur- ‘Napole. © Clear] ing the Ciyly War when the Indians Pembina : 91 59 O Clear] Were\stirred to resist the advance of Williston 16. 48 .23 Clear| the whites; were assisted here by Dr. Moorhead 90 64° 0 Clear| Gilmore and Dana Wright. ‘Orris W. Boberts, Moteprologia 5 They 1 on n Idcate the grave of _ MANDAN OPENS:: | partment, U, | yer’ and capitalist of Shanghai, {Will contain both the number of the GRIM REMINDER OF WARFARE OF OLDEN DAYS RECEIVED HERE pen nnn FOREST FIRES [Normazcy ae STILL RAGING | FOUR MORE OF CAPTIVES IN CHINA FREED! | Speedy Release of Other Cap-|!ires Also Reported in On-) 1°; tives Is Being Predicted by Ute) donk Upper Relief Agents scsinge STILL ARE HOPEFU AMERICANS ‘INCLUDED | awa . Last Captive to be Held et ges fi herd oy ough Rain Is ent, Last Bandit Is Enrolled | In Army Gives Hope St. Paul, June 2.--Forest fires in the brush today were still menacing | various sections of the United States | ing provinces in Canada. Tientsin, China, June 2—Four more of the foreign captives held ‘by the Suchow train bandits, one Aw- erican, two British sub! and one Mexican citizen, have betn released} While rain was being vainly prayed unconditionally and arrived at the|for in the forest fires area virtual) relief camp at Tsao Chwang accord-|loudbursts were causing distressing ing to a telegram from here. Those|Conditions in. Albetta, One death | released today were Jerome Henly,|“#’ 'eported at Blairmore, Alberta,+ | American, New York; employed by| here Harold Joyce, aged 8 — wns the Fearon-Daniel company at Shan {drowned. At Calgary two bridges ghai; Rdward Elias and Theodore being endangered by rushing Saphiere, both British subjects and| Waifs in the swelling Elbow river and many residents were prepari to leave their homes, Gas service in the city was cut off. I change was reported in the jest district and the Oboskak | area where Sheep Creek flooded the ins were tied up and hun-j dreds of automobiles were stalled in the southern part of the province. Further east in the province of On- tario little improvement was noted in the forest fire section. Serious} blazes were reported at towns and at Atikokan, just west of Port Arthur.! r. In the United States Northern Minn- | brok j Vere Me ers of Shanghai, and Manuel , manufacturer, of Guadlajasa, The dispatch from Prospects were e Tsaochwang for the speedy f the eight other foreign- ers imprisoned on Paotzuku moun- tain. The international military com- mission reached Tsaochwang today and sent an airplane to reconnoiter the bandits’ position. The other foreigners still held at last reports included four Americans Major Roland Pinger, ordinance de- S, A. Leon Friedman of Chicago and Shanghai; John P. Powell, Shanghai newspaper publish- r and Lee Solomon of San Francis- co and anghai, The others were Fred Elias, a broker of Shanghai, da brother of Edward Elias who is released tod: and Reignald Rowlatt of Tienstin, both British. Emile Gensburger, Shanghai broker, | a Frenchman, and E. D. Musso, law- an settlers continued their! struggles against increasing fire dan- gers, More than 200 men are battl-j ing to keep the flames from enter-| ing Superior National Forest in Minnesota. The forest is surrounded | on four sides by fire. Most of the| other fires in Minnesota were under | control or being checked except! Bueyek. One near Echo Lake was! about five miles wide and had burn- ed over more than 4,000 acres. The! other, several miles northeast of | Bueyck, was still advancing, | Scores of additional fires = Italian. The release of most of them was expected hourly although it was con- idered likely that the bandits might hold two or three pending fulfill- ment of all actions demanded by the Chinese government. One report said that the last foreigner would not be freed until the last of the outlaw band had been enrolled in the army, The favorable progress of the negotiations today, however, indicated the enttre settlement of the affair would be effected in a few ‘days, WILL NUMBER ND, HIGHWAYS State Engineer Says Work Will Begin Soon so were! gions, WIND STAYS DOWN. Duluth, June 2.—-Continuation of favorable wind conditions in the} northeastern Minnesota forest and brush fire area today found forestry | officials still hopeful that the favor- uble eastern winds would bring a drenching rain, + Since the wind subsided 48 hours ago the crews have made marked } headway toward establishing fire lines and otherwise cutting off flames. Only some sections of the larger fires remained uncontrolled. Forestry officials stressed the dan- ger that wonld result from rising winds. Calvin Dahlgren of Ely, su- pervisor of the Superior National Forest, considers the potential fire menace to be the most strious in re- cent years. John McLaren, district fire chief for the National Service, fears that the Superior National would be swept from boundary to boundary within a few hours if strong winds should develop before rain quenches the fires and brings | out retarded vegetation. FIRST VICTIM OF THE HEAT) Minneapolis, June 2.—Victor Schell, The system of numbering high-| 5% is the first heat victim this year ways has proved very successful,|in Minneapolis. Schell was found un- | permitting easy identficatiom «nd| conscious on streets yesterday after- making possible easy recording of| noon and today his condition was re- the number for the benefit of trav-| ported as “only fair.” The tempera- elers, ture reached 90 degrees at 5 p. m. yesterday. WARRANTS ARE MAILED OUT TO. FIRE DEPTS. Warrants for $38,477.81 have been mailed to 231, organized fire de- nartments of the State by State Aud- itor Poindexter, the amount repre- senting the distribution accruing from appropriations made out of the two percent premium tax payed by foreign insurance companigs operat: ing in the state. The. amounts range from as low as $8.80 paid to the town of Tagus to $6,480:38 paid™to Fargo, and i clude $2,252.74 to Grand - $1649.60 to Bismarck $1247.01 pai Jamestown and $1,046.48 paid tl Devils Lake. North Dakota highways will he numbered, in conformity with a sy:- tem which has proved successful in Wisconsin ,and Minnesota, , Walter G. Black, state engineer, said today The work will be started soon and mach of it completed during the summer and fall, All trunk lines in both directions and inter-country roads will be num- bered. Signs will be posted which trail and the name, if any, the sign probably to be in the shape of the state of North Dakota. CELEBRANTS HONORED. New England, N. D., June 2.—Mr. and Mrs. 8S. A Walker, who recently celebrated their golden wedding an- niversary, were given a place of hon- or in the big parade held at the Het- tinger county play day celebration here They occupied a special auto which had been trimmed for the- oc- casion. New England people present- ed them with a large bouquet of yel- low roses and with their congrattila- tions and good wishes, Chaska, a friendly Dacotah Indian who was in the U. 8. service but not in the army. Because he was not in the army a soldier’s marker for his Minot, N. D., June 2.—E. J. Mc- Grave cannot be obtained, but it J8|Grath, local agent, and attaches of the intention of the society to pro-.|the Minot. offices, have been ‘invited vide a local marker anyway. je} to attend the Mountaineer ball at grave -was in the General Sibley | Minneapolis June 2 as one of the fea- camp, several miles north of Driscoll, | tures commemorating the initial run but when the soldiers left camp |°f the Mountaineer, a fast Sao train Wagona were driven, over the: grave | from |Chicago to Vancouver. to level it and conceal its location The train, which will leave Chicago from the enemy. on June 10, ‘will parte Weis st 8 a.m, They also visited Sibley Butte, a [29612 Eastbound, ft will arrive rocky eminence sevéra} miles from heyelat 2 0. m. |The trip an ch the Stony Lake battlefield site. Why |;ato,t Vancouver will be made in 34 it is called Stony Butte is not known, | FAST TRAIN CELEBRATION according to Dr. Gilmore, as no mil-] yt js claimed tiiere are more itaryéngagement: was found near it, | heetien an: the worldthan all’ cther Mr. Wri ‘have shown, ereaturesscombineAiy sv/ 14, . a , IN MINNESOTA: | syncopations { music. | Noble Warren the pou reported, mostly in partly settled re-! y, By HARRY B. HUNT RA Service Writer Washington, June 2—Washington is an Ameri: city no lon From the dignified and sedate cap- the worlvs greatest deimac it has been transformed into} a giddily d oriental Babel, out doing in gaudy trappings and ing colors the brilliance and : n- dors of ancient’ Meca, Medina and Bagdad For the week of June 3 the Whi House ceases to be the executi mansion, residence of Presideyt Wat ren Gamaliel Harding. It becomes, instead, the royal seraglio palace of | le Gamaliel Harding, high pot=, entate of Aladdin Temple, Ancient Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. | vania a ue, historie fare down which our presi- NORMALCY BEGONE! GET SET FOR THE § riot-| RIBUNE FINAL | FINAL EDITION PRICE FIVE cE is HRINERS in 1921, Maybe you remember hew Congre: ling that the country would not approve lange expe es at that time for an inaw pageant voted down th» a |tions for display | But wha ; that mints withheld at le up now the time is for any in the Shriners’ were such elaborate sta in front of the Whit such brilliant and costly eifeets The whole picture is cost- somebody well up to $500,000. 500,000 Shriners will spend when they to te nd the prestige of having Fellow ner Noble Harding, with his red z in the re is of multi Electric nts and yellow House, ing But think of wh: tars everywhere d blue banners ) ereen, id bunting by the = mile. Music jaring frem amplifier horns on high Posts every hundred feet from the Capitol to Washington Circle, two miles away, ded towers and min. urets cornering the den of A Tur es. sh trousers and Arabian Orie Washin Speaking one thing of Roy Haynes, who is Well ain't that's what nothing else but! naturally makes prohibition NOT a commis- hriner, has dents ride to thelr inaugurals is Pennsylvania avenue no longer. It! has become “The Road to Mecca”, along which will trudge some hun dreds of thousands of Shrine pil grims. vette Park, — fronti the White House, becomes t of Allah,” outdoin rish’s wildest medley of atmosphere imagination —in* olors and with its quiet | shredded the weird} of pulsing — desert The whole city and all its normal life has been turned topsy-turvy to make a gala week for the national Shriners’ convention, which is ex- pected to bring at least 500,000 vis- itors to town, Maybe there is something than mere Shriner Ity in decking out Washington a: the mod- a this y Poss rying to make more jtry that was withh as inaugu BORER DIES AFTER FIGHT, Jamestown, N. D., June 2.—Peter Pantelis, a Greek railroad laborer brought to a local hospital from Bow- din with a scalp wound, died this morning. The county attorney of | Wells county telegraphed local un dertaking Parlors to hold the body pending investigation. The story as reported is that two Greek laborers got in a fight, and Pantelis was strugk over the head with a pinch bar. id at the time} back DUIS MAKES STATE TOUR President of N. D. Grain| Growers Speaks on Wheat Pooling Grand Forks, N. D., June 2—“Or- derly Marketing,” will be the key- note of speeches which Geo. E. Duis of Grand Forks, president of the North Dakota Grain Growers associa- N. | pilgrims, Shrine week bootleggers, from He is annoyance bringing in a bunch of vhis best agents to help make the capital safe for Shriners. However, it is whispered that the best brains of the fi ppers’ ted- eration also are on the job and thut a number of oases are being estab- lished for drought-parched desert| After Shriners’ Week Washington will return to normaicy, Pra be to h S00 DECIDES AGAINST ANY TRAIN CHANGE Desire to Avoid Injury to Bismarck Business Men Re- sponsible, It Is Stated The Soo line today withdrew its ap- plication to establish mixed train service on the south line out of Bis- marck during the summer month Superintendent S$. W. Derrick an- nounced today. | action was taken, it was stat- ause of the feeling among s men of Bismarck that they suffer considerably from the proposed change, and the Soo was ac- tuated by a spirit of friendliness and desire to aid Bismarck business men and Bismarck generally in its busi-| ness and development. The Soo will continue its service} as at present, although the branch is operated at a loss summer during months, Supt. Derrick said. Supt. Derrick, returning from a tion, will make on a tour of various North Dakota points which he began today in the interests of the wheat‘ pooling movement. But five stops have been definiteiy planned thus far. They are: Finley on June 1 at 2 p. m.; Cooperstown on June 2 at 3:30 p.m; Mayville on Bone 4 at 3 p. m.; Davenport on June 5; Dwight on June 6. Although Mr. Duis expects to com- plete the tour by June 30, he proba- bly will speak at about 40 places throughout the state, several of the speaking dates heing in the after- ¥ ill make’ the tour by au-| attendance is expected. Many will pron ee km ‘i : arrive from the Lutheran Bible school chee aa aienavles at Grand Forks, it is expected, Our vision, without moving the == eyes, covers an arc of about 220 de-| Cape Chelyuskin, Siberia, is the grees. northernmost point in Asia ESE S, MEN IN NATIONAL GUARD AT’ - DEVILS LAKE TO “FEED” WELL The 1,050 men expected at the North Dakota National Guard camp at Devils Lake wil feed well. The list,of supplies listed by Major Har- old Sorenson, disbursing officer of \the guard, includes plenty of solid food and a number of delicacies. It wil] cost, $10,335.50 to feed the guard in the 13 and 2-3 days in camp and $2,340.80 to provide rations while the guardsmen are traveling to the camp. ‘The total cost of the camp, estimated at $71,929 and paid from U, S, Army fund, ‘includes, freight and: transportation, $22,520.74; rent of hors and mules, $1,092; forage, $408.1 , oil, $322; fuel, misce Tanecugh. $823 and pay, $34,071.12. The rations will include 12,577 pounds ‘of beef, 2,153 pounds of ba- eon, 18630 pounds of bread, 12,556 trip on the North Soo, expressed the opinion that crops are virtually as far advanced now as they were at this time last year, in spite of the late spring. With the exception of some loss on winter rye due to winter kill the crops are in good shape, he said. LUTHERANS TO MEET, Mayville, N. D., June 2—The an- nual national convention of the Lu- theran Brethren wil be held here June 11 and days following. A large pounds of potatoes, 30 cases of fish, 3,587 pounds of inions, 15 50-pound’ Sacks of “Dakota Maid” flour. The old army beans will be there, the estimate calling for 1,100 pounds of white beans. There will ibe used 575 pounds of rice, 100 pounds of hominy, 75 cases of tomatoes, 250 pounds of evaporated apples, 730 EAL BILL PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT ACT KILLED New York Governor’s Stock Boosted for Presidency as “Wet” Candidate GIVES HIS VIEWS Calls for Modification of Vol- stead Act, But Will En- force It In State New York, June 2,— Genaro Celonginoni, arrested last night charged with Possessing 110 gallons of wine, was dis- charged today by Magistrate Goodman on the ground that the court had no jurisdiction since the arrest was made ater Governor Smith signed the repel of the Mullan-Giage state prohibition act. Albany, N. Y., Tune 2—The Mul- lan-Gage state prohibition enforce- ment act is dead, Governor Smith killed it last night with a few strokes of the pen neces- sary to affix his signature to the leg- islature repeal bill adopted four weeks ago. In announcing ils action the gov- ernor called for “common sense” modification of the Volstead act by Congress which would base the al- coholic content of permissible bever- ages at a point that would make pos- sible the sale of beer and light wines 1m states .hat want them. This action is counted on by-his supporters to make him a formidable bidder for the Democratic presiden- tial nomination on a “liberal plat- form” in 1924, The Mullen-Gage act passed out with few formalities. Reportensywho swarmed the corridors about the ex- executive chamberall day were admit- ted at 6 o'clock, just in time to see the governor Jifting the blotter from his wet signature. He smiled ant said: “Boys I have just approved the bill.” Caineras Chick. Motion picture camera men ground out a few hours of film and it was all over. In announcing his decision Governor Smith made public a mem- orandum of nearly 4,000 words ex- * ‘plaining exhaustively why he had ap- proved of the repeal, He declared the 18th amendment was just as effective in’New York as it ever had been and he would re quire all state officers to aid ine federal government in strict enforce- ment of the Volstead act. WETS ENCOURAGED. Madison, Wis., June 2.—Encourag- ed by the repeal of the Mullan-Gage enforcement law in New York the wets in the Wisconsin legislature an- nounced today that they plan next week to move to take off the table the Tucker bill, providing for repeal of the Severson prohibition enforce- ment law for Wisconsin, This meas- ure tabled by defeat earlier in the session now is to be revived by the |anti-prohibitton forces who hold the upper hand in the assembly according to Assemblyman Herman Tucker of ; Milwaukee, author of the repeal. VOLSTEAD WON'T COMMENT. Granite Falls, Minn,, June 2—A. J. Volstead, former representative in Congress, today declined to comment on the action of Governor Smith in New York which repeals the Mullan- Gage prohibition enforcement law. “If I had been governor 1 would have vetoed it,” Mr. Volstead said, but refused to say anything further. “NORMALCY” IN MAY WEATHER Averages Do Not Vary Far From Past Years “Normalcy” ‘marked the weather for the month of May, according to the weather bureau’s meteorological summary, The percentage of sunshine was 63, which was just five percent above normal. ie The average daily excess of tem- perature was 1.7 degrees above nor- mal while this was evened up by making the recor@ since January 1 —20 i than normal, A little more marked. difference from~normal is shown in precipit- ation, It was —149 inches less than normal for the month and there. is an accumulated deficiency in rainfall of—2.41 wches since Jan- pounds of jam, 350 pounds of prunes, and 825 pounds of cortee. A total of 2,900 pounds of sugar will be used, and 20 cases pf evap- orated miJk will go to make up the meny. It is es! 220 pounds of” butter ‘will be need: The ration allowance for the en- campment is 50 cents a day. Major Sorenson believes this will permit. of so meextras not included in the estimate, such as ice cream on Sun- ann corre uary 1. Light - frost was reported on. 12 days, healy on 15 and killing on eight days. Leading Material Clothing. and’ other apparel and material to be used as replacements: at the National Guard camp at Devils Lake was being taken from the ne tant-General’s ‘storeroous today | loaded on. a:Soo line train} to: be | en to the military reservation.