The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 14, 1924, Page 1

I ey { ,. | « | an “ ¢ é : by f | ’ bed | | i} a ( \ f i} i rn > | “ et ii "a i i}. . WEATHER FORECAST Unsettlad t@night. Tuesday generally fair, \ T ABL! ISHED 1873 « BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1924 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE FINAL EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS .D. VICTIM OF CHINESE BANDITS DIES 100 iy ARE NOW EMPLOYED IN RIPRAPPING Big Job Being Carried on Rapidly Above Northern Pacific Bridge on River PROTECTING THE BANK United States Engineers Su- pervising Work of Holding Back River Current 100 men are employed in} Almost nus capacities on the big rip-rap- job on the Missouri river's t bank north of the Northern Pa- cific bridge this winter. The work is being done co-operatively by the | United States Engineers, U. S. Bu- reau of Publie Roads, State Highway ( sion and Northern Pacific tilroad, to protect the bank from washing away by the Mis- ourl’s treacherous current. Con- tinued erosion might eventually en- ger the grades of the Northern the new vehicular bridge dan, The channel also is preserved for river transportation by the work : job is now about one-third ipieted. It starts at a point about e north of the bridge and the itself is almost a mile long. men are employed in the su- rvision and weaving and placing of © heavy mats, while 40 more are ployed as wood choppers and haul- crs. The job will cost upwards of $100,000 » work can best be done in the Mea matrices con- willow branches, wire ca- locked every 20 or 30 feet oven and they aré then weight- projec i v @ down with rock. The matr nye shoved out on the ice about 40 extending from the bank, the t and the matrices then fall nst the bank and_extend- several feet from it. ‘The © held in. plage by. obstrus- PIELESS PLAN PROVIDES Makes Health Champs of Two ; PERFECT PHYSIQUE GLADYS HUGHES informs that she ia the following fit girl, the goal preseription: “Plenty of fighting plus volleyball | practice.” | And as for Victor Lindgrew, 18 hailing from this place, he assures {that his niche in Health's hall was arved by no other means than his | manly abstinence from pie coupled | with periodic rushes on well-stocked platters of ham and eggs. Gladys, who's but 15, came by her laurels at the International Live Stock, Show held recently in Chicago, | \ ; Her score was 99 out of a poss- lible 100. She represented the pick jof 300,000 members of girls’ clubs from ev state in the union and was decided champion only after eliminating 28 other district repre- sentatives who vied with her for thed | hono: healthy children Noteis the High road’ to well-being charted with diettetie forbearanees, tions placed in the matrices. | olid protection then is provided for a y ughes, modern Hy- i hank aj s\ e cur- 5 fs He ink against the swirling cu A faowfou inatente, pve This Id ‘miss from Moor- { of the stone used in the work ped from Burleigh coynty, H. Thomas of Driscoll and Wm. Jo- cphon of Wing having obtained the contracts for furnishing stone., Most it w loaded at Driscoll and while some also was Shipped from Steele, Tuttle and* McClusky. ‘The brush is obtained along the er The labor on the job is from rek and Mandan. he work is timely, in the opinion of those in charge, since an examina- tion of the bank shows the river was cutting into it very rapidly, | The work is being rushed as fast as pos- sible, under the direction of su- pervisers from the United States sineers, War Department, Kansas City, Missouri, and following its completion reveting work will de done around Cannonball. NORTHWEST IS DECLARED FOR COULTER BILL County, M as the count head, Sunflowe s., who won first pr $90,000 THEFT TN KIDNAPING Five Persons Declared to Have Been in Band that Kid- naped Fargo Man CONFESSION MADE? Fargo, Jah, 14.—-A plot to steal valuable personal property said t be about $90,000 worth of liberty bonds is declared to have been the impelling motive behind the kidnap- ping of H. S. Russell, chief heir of the late Mrs. B. Smith-Russell last April 10 for which five people are Publisher of Minneapolis Tribune Testifies Before House Committee hington, Jan, 14, (By the AP) 3 interests and the press of the Northwest are,solidly supporting legislation which would extend fed- eral aid to the farmer in efforts to diversify production, Frederick E. Murphy, publisher of the Minneapolis Tribune, told the senate agriculture committee today. While the Burtness bill which the committee had under consideration would not entirely meet the necessi- ties of the farmers of the spring wheat belt, the witness said, it “would furnish a measure of immed- jate aid which would go far.” “For the first time in my journal- istic career,” said Mr, Murphy, read- ing a list of newspapers he was em- powered to represent, “all these pub- lications have agreed on one thing.” The bill before the committee would establish a fund of $50,000,- 000 for financing the purchase of sheep, corn and poultry and ther livestock in wheat areas which have suffered from recent crops and tar- ket conditions. GIVE MR. FIELDS ~ ' FINE WATCH Traveling men of the International | Harvester company’s branch here presented P. R, Fields, retiring man- ager, with’ a beautiful’ watch as a token of their esteem. The presen- tation’ speech was made by J. C..) Taylor, new manager of, the branch, and Mr. *Fields accepted the gift. ‘The presentation followed the gift of a traveling bag by the emplayes sta- tioned at the branch yegularly. now under arrest. This is said by Igcal polige to be the confession made by Theodore and Carl Hanson, detained in the Cass county jail since last summer on a robbery charge. Ramsden, a member of the quintet charged with the asserted abduction, surrendered himself to Fargo author- ities this morning and was released on a $500 bond. The other two mem- bers charged with alleged kidnapping, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Burley of Moor- ‘head, have also been placed under arrest but are said to be fighting ex- tradition to Fargo. Ramsden, who married a niece of the late Mrs, Smith Russell, is éaid to be charged in the confessjon with instigating the plot. The are reported tohave confessed that they took Russell out of town at his bequest to’ give “him opportunity to obtain a key from Mrs. Smith-Rus- sell. It is said that the key was to Mrs, Russell’s safety deposit vault. The Hansons declare further in their confession, police say, that Ramsden negotiated with them for some little tii déclaring that if they could get Russell out of town he would be able “to do the business” with Mrs. Smith-Russell. .The ne- gotiations progressed for sometime, it is said, and Ramsden kept telling them, they declare, that it would\ be all right with the police if Russell did disappear of words to that effect. Finally they are said to have con- fessed they made an engagement to mept Russell to negotiate with him about leasing one of his houses. When he entered the car the four— the Hansons.and Mr. and Mrs. Bur- ley—were in it, the purported con- fession asserts. ‘The ‘English “air age” is from 20 to 30;\officers in the royal air force are therefore only of much use for flying in their youth. ‘ Victor's title embraces but 12 VICTOR LINDGREW tes. He won it at the Intersti ir Sioux City, Ia. His score Park N. D., Jan. 14—-Daily! was 99.8 out of a possible 100. dozens aren't included in the regi- Which @vas going some, judges said. mens of two. of America’s most! Both youngsters come from farm- 0st | PLOT CHARGED ‘anson® ing communities. Each attends high school. Gladys has red hair, gray cyes, perfect teeth, weighs 121.5 pounds, s 5 fect 3.7 inches tall and smiles |to beat the band. “['m going to bea musi |she says. “And positively go on the stage.” So there you are. 'N. D. DOCKAGE HELD LARGEST Grand Forks, Jan. 14.—Wheat shipped out of North Dakota has: a dockage percentage of 11.3, the high- teacher,” I won't | | dangerous situation. est of any of the four hard spring wheat states, according to a report |received here from Geo. H. Black, | director of the U. S. bureau of grain cleaning investigation. Other states of the hard wheat belt show: South Dakota 7.7 per cent; Minnesota, 7.2 | per cent, and Montana, 2.5 per cent. The report indicates that the per- centage of dockage is much smaller in sections Siler livestock is ex- tensively r DRAKE MILL BIDS ASKED ‘Will be Opened.at Regular | Meeting Next Friday Grand Forks, N. D., Jan. 14.— Bids for the purchase of the Drake mill, a state owned institution at Drake, N. D., will be opene@ by the board of managers of the state mill and elevator at its regular meeting here on Friday, according to Guy-L. Treland, chairman. The’ board decided to dispose of the Drake mill at a meeting held here several months ago. | “Aside from this matter, business connected with the operation of the state mill and elevator of Grand Forks will be taken up by the board Friday, and thereafter until the meeting is adjourned. YOUTH SHOOTS FELLOW HUNTER Beach, N. D., Jan. 14.—A defec- tive 32-calibre rifle in the hands of ‘Clifford Fisher caused the death of Leo Lardy, the 19-year-old son of Nick Lardy, who lives north of Sentinel Butte, the bullet striking Leo in the spinal cord at ‘the back of the neck and causing instant death, as a result of the gun being accidentaly discharged last Sun- day It appears that the two boys, in company with others, went out for {a rabbit hunt and it was while trying to cock the defective gun that the sad accident occurred. The gun was an old one with a lock worn out so that it could not ‘be cocked without pressing for- ward on the trigger, and it was while trying to do this the wea) discharged, and Leo, who; was a {€ew feet in front of the gun was ‘Killed. poh accompanied by fair, cool DAWES OUSTS POLITICS AT NEW INQUIRY ee in Opening | Reparations Inquiry Meet- i ing, Gives Views | | GERMANY'S Characterized as the Most Colossal Bankruptcy iin History Affecting Many FAILURE Paris, Jan. 14.--(By the A. P.) With Brigadier General Charles G. Dawes presiding, leading business | men and finandiers of the United | States, Grgat Britain, France, Bel- | gium and Italy sitting as a board of | directors and creditors today began to examine the assets and liabilities | of Germany, their nation debtor, | with a view of saving something | from the ruins of the most stupen- dous bankruptcy in the history of the world, “Strictly business and no politic: was the motto under which these representative men assembled. | “The success of this committee,” said General Dawes in opening the meeting, “depends on whether in the public mind and conscience of the | allies and the world there is an ade- | quate conception of the great dis- aster which faces each ally and in| Europe unless’ common sense is crowned king.” General Dawes stressed the value | of unity of command in war to show | the bad effects of present conditions. | “We had come to know,” he said, “in common with the citizens of all nations that at last that lack of power to agree upon a common atti- | tude and.common action had brought | all Europe to a most critical and This is no time | to mince words.” He continued by discussing “the | inpenetrable and collosal fog-bank of economic opinion based upon prem- ises of fact which had changed so rapidly as to make them worthless even if they were in agreement.” The first lacking in any of the military display which marked the conference’ at San Remo and Genoa. Louis Barthou, presi- dent of the reparations commission, delivered the address of welcome “We do not expect from you,” he said,” the unlooked for miracle of the solution of the reparation prob- lem but we hope with sincere con- dence that your competency, experi- ence and- authority will concentrate to hasten the result toward which we are bringing all our efforts.” European credit, General said, had suffered a shock as the world had been the Germans’ eco- nomic life ebbing—“because” he add- ed, “the world realizes that if the German people lose their capacity for work Germany loses her capacity to pay those reparations which are $o great anelement in European sol- vency.” FRAZIER’S KIN IS INVENTOR Park River, N. D., Jan. 14 Word received here from Frank Wadge, Winnipeg, brother-in-law of Senator Lynn J. Frazier, for mary years a resident of this place, states that he has received much encourage- ment regarding his shocking ma- chine, a recent invention. The machine’ was tried out during the harvest season at Winnipeg and more recently has been tried out in southern states and is reported to work with almost perfect accuracy, a few slight adjustments still being needed. The machine is known as_ the American Grain Shocking machine; and will be manufactured next year and sold at about $200, Mr. Wadge says. The Weather For twenty-four hours ending at noon today Temperature at°7 A. M. Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday Lowest last night .. Precipitation .. Dawes if o—6 Highest wind velocity ... 12 WEATHER FORECAST For Bismarck and Vicinity: Un- settled tonight. Tuesday gencrally fair. No decided change in temper- ature. . For North Dakota: Unsettled to- night; probably snow east portion. Tuesday generally fair. No decided change in temperature. WEATHER CONDITIONS An area of low pressure, accomp- anied by warm weather is centered over Alberta this morning. Temper- atures are below zero over the upper jssippi Valley and they are low over the northern Plains States but rising rapidly. Snow occurred’ at many places from the upper Mississ- ippi Valley northwestward to the north Pacific coast. High pressure, weather prevails over the Southwest * ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Meteorologist | house wa RULES BATTLE. TAKES STAGE IN CONGRESS Democrats and _ Insurgents Protest Against Regulars’ Proposed Change MELLON BILL HEARD Public Hearings Opened By House Ways and Means Committee Today Washington, Jan. 14.—With com- mittees of both chambers of Congress considering or preparing to stzrt| work on a number of important measures the house today laid aside the Interior Department appro- priation bill to begin the promised {battle over amendment of the rules. Republican insurgents and Demo- crats were more or less united to bring about sharper revision of the rules than recommended by the rules | committee, The committee's recem- mendatign that 150 signatures be required on petitions for discharge of committees from consideration of legislation drew the opposition of both Democrats and insurgents who | regarded. the figure as too high, and they were also united on proposals for repeal of the Underwood rule re- stricting amendments from the floor riff and revenue bills. The and means, committee began public hearings on tax reduc- tion provisions of the Mellon bill to- day and the agriculture committees both senate and the house re- sumed their egnsideration of farm relief measures. The house mili- tary committee meanwhile was pre- paring to begin consideration tcmor- row of the offers of Henry Ford and others for the government Muscles Shoals project and Senator. Bo ready to get under way with the hearing on his resolution favoring | recognition of the Russian Soviet government before the foreign r tions sub-committee of which he chairman. ‘ . NEW BONUS BILL Washington, 14.—-Another gol- diers’ bonus bi in the Se Senator Bursum, Republ Mexico, and calls for return of vet- erans of family and insurance aliot- ments deducted from their pay percentage of their subscriptions to Liberty Bonds while in service plus additional compensation at the of $20 a month for each month of service. Payment would-be made in cash over a period of four years, one- fourth of the veterans to be paid in full each year or in the form of in- surance as they might elect. Tie in- surance would be payable at death on the basis of $400 for each $100 of cash due or the policy might be sur- rendered at the end of 20 years at its cash value based upon annual pre- miums plus 4 percent interes Estimating that 75 percent of the veterans would take insurance, Sen- ator Bursum calculated the cost to the treasury at $125,000,000 each year for the first four years and $60,000,- 000 annually for the succeeding 16 years, : ASK GOMPERS TO COME HERE Federation of Labor to Invite Him at Annual Meeting proposed today by ored Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, will be urged to attend the convention of the North Dakota State Labor Federation, beginning here the first Sunday in May, it was gnnounced by members of the executive committee of the organization in their regular quarterly meeting here Sunday. The invitation to Mr. Gompers will be insistent. Plans also were discussed for an elaborate program for the May meet- ing here. Present at the meeting were: President Conrad Meyer, Far- go; W. E. McFall, Minot; Charles Johnson, Mrs. Margaret Froats, Grand Forks; John Jacobson, Wil- iton; Frank Milhollan, Bismarck. REPRESENTS N. D. AT HEARING, ‘North Dakota is represented at a continuation of the hearing in the western grain rate case before the Interstate Commerce Commission representatives at Chicago today by John (Thorpe first assistant attorney general as attorney for the state railroad commission. Railroad Com- missioner C. W. MgDonnell is repre- senting the comniipsion at the re- gio: advisory board meeting on car distribution at St. Paul today. RARE BOOK BRINGS LARGE PRICE London, Jan. 14.—At a recent auc- tion a William Blake “Milton,” 1804, brought $17,000. The volume is be- Neved: tobe superior.to. the one in the British Museum as no other copy has 50 leaves. Two others are in the United States. nd 2) Dakota, a real battle for the s W. J. LINCOLN, WHOSE MYSTERIOUS | DISAPPEARANCE BAFFLED POLICE, CONFESSED TO MURDERING WIFE CALIFORNIAN WOULD OBTAIN N. D. PROPERTY | The day's mail of A, F. Brad- ley, secretary of the Association of Commerce, brought an appre- ciation of the worth of North Dakota It an offer from a man living in California to trade vulu- able property including produc- ing orange, fig, prune and grape ranches in California for “any good piece, or pieces, of income property in or near Bismarck.” ‘LEAGUE DRAWN INTO TURMOIL OVER COOLIDGE Many Editors Berate Action of Republican State Committee x JOHNSON COMIN Former Bismarck Man_ Is Made Publicity Manager For California Senator AGAINST COOLIDGE. Valley City, Jan, 14. Mrs. C. A. Fisher, member .of the Nonpartisan League State com- mittee and one of the 13 stated by the Republican State commit- tee to bé candidates for delegates to the Republican National con- vention, has written Roy chairman of the committee clining to accept the nomination of the committee because she holds that since the. committee commended the candjdacy of Coolidge the delegates are virtu- ally, pledged to support a “stand- pat” Republican for president With the Coolidge and Hirani Johnson forces organizing in North 8 delegates to the Republican Na- tional convention in Cleveland is now under way. The next bit of action in events leading to the March 18 p mary the meeting of the “Rea’ Republican State Committee” in Far- go this week to determine whether or not a mass convention will be called for the purpose delegates in the field in the primar. The next on the program is the | Nonpartisan League state convention here February 6. With respect to the Coolidge cam- paign, the question now uppermost is the effect of the recent action of the Republican State committee here in commending the candidacy of Cal- vin Coolidge tg the voters gf the state and the selection of a slate of 13 delegates. Most Nonpartisan League editors continue to berate Roy Frazier, com- mittee chairman, and others for the action of the committee, nor does Senator Ladd’s endorsement of Cool- idge quiet them. Frazier Under Fire. Roy Frazier's trip to Washington following the convention and the re- port that he was to get Gunder O!- son's place as internal revenue col- lector—though it was denied by the President in his conference with newspaper men that Olson was to be asked to resign ag added fuel to the flames of some of the league edi- tors. The Williams County Farmers Pregs is particularly bitter. It says in part: “The United States of America is a democracy existing with in a re- publican, representative form of gov- ernment. It is the best form of gov- ernment in the world. It has its imperfections, though, and one of them is the curse of politics. “It seems that every progressive, political movement succeeds to a cer- tain stage in its development and when victory appears to be just around the corner, its organization is seized by politicians who turn (Continued on Page 6) NEED OF CLOTHES LEADS TO ARREST ~ OF BANDIT FORMERLY IN N. DAKOTA Denver, Jan. 14.—Just because they needed some clothes three men who Denver police say are more used to cracking safes in various cities of the country today were in the police net here after they had en- fered a clothing store and helped themselves. They gave the names of Walter Hammon, 47; James Han- sen, 30, and J. D. Collins, 27. Police say that Collins admitted serving a term for robbery at Bis- marek, North Dakota, and that he had been arrested under the name of Joe Harris at Spokane, Washing- ton, The police here also say they have reason to believe that Collins the | of putting | ms Wife Shot and Killed Her Brother lew Her, Dismembered and | Burned Bodies, Arranged | Elaborate Disappearance | “Plant” Which For a Time| Fooled the Authorities — Use of Typewriter Ribbon Leads To His Downfall. Aurora, IIL, 14.—(By the A Warren J. Lincoln, lawy Jan. 135) r,hor- | ticulturist and distant kinsman of Abraham Lincoln, confessed last night that he killed his wife Lina, dismembered her body and burned it January 10, , along with that of her brother Byron Shoup whom he maintained had been shot to death | by Mrs. Lincoln Lincoln disappeared April 30. last and his wife and Shoup were sus- pected of his murder. He suddenly reappeared June 10 by charging Mrs Lincoln and Shoup had kidnappea him only to disappear four months later when whispers of suspicion that he had possibly slain his wife and brother-in-law reached him. | A fortnight ago the Aurora police told the Associated Press that they were searching for Lincoln to ques- tion him about the disappearance of his wife and Shoup and when he ap- lied for a position in Chicago last | Thursday, learned of his address through the firm with which he sought employment. | jlad Its Over urday and confronted with ¢ at he had done away with the brother and sister Lincoln confessed, concluding with “I’m glad to get that load off my soul.” Lincoln collapsed as he uttered the last words of his confession and the Jpolice leit a part of his story unre- lated. The “plant” to force the con- clusion that be had met with foul \play when he left home lust April, j his tshirt smeared with blood, his night cap similarly discolored \ nd 2 blood-stained Indian club along iwith a stained glove his wife had jworn and a noal of blood /in his | greenhouse were left for later ex- a Before He | BERNHARDHOFF SHOT BY BAND, DIES OF WOUNDS Wounded Two Weeks Ago By Bandits Who Shot His Wife and Kidnapped One REWARD IS OFFERED Chinese Leader Offers $10,000 Reward for Mrs. Kilen’s Captors Pekin, Jan. 14.—(By the A, Po Professor Bernhard Hoff, an Amer ican missionary, died today at a hos- pital at Siangwangfu Hupah province from wounds inflicted about two weeks ugo by bandits who also shot down his wife and kidnapped Mrs. Julina Kilen, a co-worker, or North field, Minn., when they raided the mission at Tsao-Yang. Mrs. Hoff is expected to recover Mrs. Kilen still is missing General Wupei Fu, fries ose he Chinese military party end command- er of the northern provinces, offered today a reward of $10,000 for the rescue of Mrs. Kilen Mrs. Kilen is reported to have been seen a few days ago apparently well in Juchow Honan province. Prof. Hoff and his wife were mis- sionaries for the Swedish branch of the Lutheran church in the United States Professor Hoff was born in Moor- head, Minn., and his family moved to Wheaton sometime later. At the age of about 20 ne moveu to Aber- ombie, N. D., with his family, which now lives there. ile attended ille normal school, Fargo col- lege, the University of North Dakota, and went to China with his wife in February, 1922, Mrs. Hoff is a daughter of Rev. Broen, of the Lutheran Bible school, Grand Forks. Word has been re- ceived in Grand Forks that the Hoff were planning to return to the Unit- ed States. nation “I suspected my wife of being un- true to me,” Lincoln said “Many times she tried Io poison me. I saw the man with whom she hud been as- sociating leave my house That started the final quarrel.” “She fired three mes at Byron who had upbraided her for being un- faithful to me and trying to kill me. ch bullet. struck him in the head He fell and I grabbed a”poker. First I knocked the gun from her hand Then I swung for her head. She fell dend. 1 cut up the bodies and burned them the next night.” i ‘Typewriter Hig Downfall. Lincoln admitted insertion of “personal” advertisements in the newspapers signing them Lina, his wife's name, and admitted author- ship of letters to his wife's relatives, | asking and receiving money from,| them in Mrs. Lincoln's name and! confessed signing Shoup’s name to a check on an Aurora bank where Shoup had a large account. In each instance of letter writing Lincoln is said to have used a typewriter with a green ribbon and it was said it was through this means that the po- lice fastened the story on Lincoln. If Lincoln's s accepted in toto county authorities point out he wil! have established a case of self-de- fense. It is not accepted waolly now, and, the authorities point out, the state must establish the fact of the death of Mrs. Lincoln and Shoup io demand pupibhment for the lawyer. KELLOGG GIVES HIS CREDENTIALS London, Jan. 14.—(By the A. P.) —Frank B. Kellogg, the new Amer- ican amb: lor, presented his cre- dentials to King George in Bucking- ham Palace today LOTTERY MAY SAVE CATHEDRAL Cologne, Jan. 14.—Cologne’s great cathedral is being neglected because of the impoverishment of the Cathe- dral Building Society and the in- ability of its members to raise suffi- cient funds in the ‘Rhineland to) keep the historic building in repuir. was concerned in a bank robbery at Warden, Washington, and that he broke jail there after receiving a sentence of 15 years in the peni- tentiary. Lie a i State prison officials today were} unable to find in their records a former prisoner who gave the name | of “J. D. Collins” and was 27 years} of age. The nearest. .approach Secretary Jones could make from a long list of Collins who have been prisoners in the institutions was a Joseph Collins, who was sentenced for robbery in 1917, giving his age at the time as 25 years, and was paroled in 1910, [te Roosevelt equestrienne statue. Both Mr. and Mrs. Hoff were friends of Mrs. Shirping, wife of Ensign of the Salvation Shirping Army of this city. FAMILY NOT NOTIFIED Fargo, Jan, 14.—Mr. and Mrs. J. 0. Hoff of Abercrombie, N. D., parents of Prof. Bérnhard Hoff, Amer:can missionary who succumbed Sunday to wounds received from Chinese ban- dits, had received no word of the death of their son until notified of the Associated Press dispatch this morning. The last news they had heard of theig son, they said, wa: cablegram from the hospital he was recovering. Prof, Hoff was born in Moorhead, Minn. Prof. Hoff “taught in the Lutheran Bible School at Grand Forks for a year und then attended the University of North Dakota, re- turning to teach another year in the ing Bible School, He went to China in February, 1922. He met Mrs. Hoff while teaching at the Bible School of which her father, Mr. Broen, is president, DEMOCRATS T0 NAME CITY FOR CONVENTION Chicago Offers $125,000 For Meeting of the Democratic National Convention Washington, Jan, 14.—A panorama of presidential prospects has been prepared for the members of the Democratic National committee who will meet here tomorrow to sciect a convention city and transact othec business. Friends of William G. McAdoo, Senator Underwood of Alabama, Gov- ernor Smith of New York, John'W. Davis of West. Virginia, Dr. A. A. Murphree of Gainesville and other potential contestants for the nomi- nation are vigorously presenting the claims of their candidates. Selec- tion of the convention city is ex- pected to be sharply contested. Bids from at least six cities are ready for the committee’s consider- ation but the contest is thought to center among New York, Chicago and St. Lonis. San Francisco, Atlanta and Louisville, however, are expected to present strong inducements. Chi- cago’s bid will be backed by an offer of $125,000. New York’s delegation also is un- derstood to be ready to make a large cash offer to ite get the pont the convention. ACCEPT GIFT _OF DR. COE Directors. of the t the State. Historicai society, in meeting Saturday, made no changes in the socicty’s staff and passed a resglution accepting the gift of Dr. Henry. Waldo Coe of the plaster cast of the A. Phimister Proc-