The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 17, 1924, Page 1

(. 4 & A WEAPHER FORECAST Mostly Tuesday: cloudy tonight and ESTABLISHED 1873 NATION’ LURID TALE IS TOLD AGAININ SENATE PROBE Investigating Committee y Hears Story of Conspiracy in Fight Pictures HT IN DAUGHERTY BROU Declared: Attorney - General Suggested Plan For Dis- tributing Pictures ' Washington, Mar. 17.—The Daugh- erty investigating committee heard a story todz that rivalled in lurid detail of those that startled the country in the opening day of the inquiry, Its salient features weré based on allegations that Attorney-General Daugherty: himself was the head of conspiracy to display Dempsey- pentier fight films throughout the country and that Mr. Daugherty suggested to those who first formed the plan that its backe should re- ceive a 50 percent “cut!” of the prof- its. i The witness was Geralg 0. Hold- ridge, a former department of jus- “tice agent, and the story he told was based on “information” he said had been given him by Jap Mumma, New York correspondent for the Cincins nati Enquirer. Mumma, he said, tically accused” Daugherty of being heag of the conspiracy, told him of an exhibition of the pictures at_ the home here of E, B. McLe; with President Harding and members “of the Cabinet present and asserted that in the talk that followed Daugh- erty d possibility of ex- the pictures generally. id Mumma had quoted sa put this thing aer cught to get a big cut—not le: s you said later, according to witness, said they succeeded in ting the pic in 21 states and lat “the profits were very large. ATTACKS COOLIDGE Washington, Mar. 17.—Attorney- eneral Daugherty is being kept ‘in fice by President Coolidge solely cause of Mr, Daugherty'’s supposed volitienl influence’ in ti® forth- ring: campaign, Senator Caraway, emovrat, Arkansas, to charged RATES MADE ‘ailroads Cut Potato Rates in North Dakota A supplement has been issued to 1e North Dakota Traffie (Great orthern 1065-E), which carries sev- al important changes, as follows: (1) Effective March 15, 1924, the v0 Line participate in a seale of »mmodity rates on potatoes between ions in North Dakota. Prior to ris the rate between stations on the oo Linetwas the Class C rate, and iis change makes a reduction rang- g from 2 cents to 12 cents per 100 sunds according to the distance, or na 36,000 minimum carload, the sduction ranges from $7.20 per car > $43,20 per ear, (2) Effective March, 15, 1924, this upplements carries reduced mini- ium weights on hogs, carldads, be- xen stations in North Dakota on the oo Line, Northern Pacific, Great orthern and Farmers Grain & Ship- ing Co, The minimum, weight is re- uced from 17,000 pounds to 16,500 ounds for a 36 ft. 7 inch car, and _corresponding reductions are made ior larger cars. s than (je RCH 17, 1924 IN TEAPOT DOME OIL LEASE SUIT Subpenas on witnesses in the gov- This is the man before whom the ernment’s suit nst the Sinclair}goyernment’s suit for cancellation of interests were served by Hugh L.| the Mamoth Oil Company's lease on (Colorado) Patton, United States|the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve marshal at Cheyenne. Eagee has|was tried, He is T. Blake Kennedy, been sheriff and marshal off ana on| judge of the United States court of for 30 years. Wyoming. TWO BANKS IN. STATE 10 BE | OPENED AGAIN Action Forecast This Week as; Result of New Agricul- tural Credit Body Minneapolis, March 17.—Reopening } next week of two banks orth | Dakota through first direct assist-| ance from the new $10,000,000 Agri- | cultural Credit corporation, financed + by private capit Sat- | y night or- ganization, Gases of at least twh banks were ready to be submitted to the execu-| tive committee of the corporation for} approval before actual loans are made. All the necessary legal steps have been taken, including nature of depositors, following ap-| plication’ ‘for: assis nd exami | nation by the corpora field rep-| resentatives, é i The reorganizations held necessary are_ready to be perfected and the banking department and. depositors! toan fund commission have approved the plans in North Dakota. | Likewise the tax delinquency} functions of the corporation are ex- pected ta begin in North Dakota. | State Examiner Gilbert, Semingson} is in Minneapolis where, fi is under- stood, he is. discussing with officials of the Agricultural Credit Corpor- ation plans for rendering assistance } which will make it possible for two North Dakota closed banks to reopen this week. The banks are under- stood to have*been two of the many} ‘which closers because of good but slow liquidating paper. * forecast by officers of the LA FOLLETTE’S PROGRAM OUT Progressive Delegation Plat- form Given in Wisconsin Madison, Wis. Mar. 17.—The plat- form of the LaF@ette progressive Republican delegates as made public today by Henry H. Huber, secretary of the LaFollette campaign commit- tee, pledges “complete house clean- ing in’ the Department of Justice, the Department of Interior and the other executive departments.” + “We demand that the power of the federal government be used to crush private monopoly, not to foster it,” This same reduced scale ‘has beer | concludes the first plank. ut in effect by the railroads in Cognizance also is taken of, recent lorth Dakota on shipments of hogs| developments in the Washington in- roving from North Dakota td win City ‘markets, to Sioux City, hicago, ete. MRS. F. P. MANN IS INDORSEE Devils Lake, N. D., March 17—The nembers of the W. C. T.-U., which net at the home of Mrs. J. A. Miller, Tarrington: avenue, unanimously en- dorsed Mrs, F, P. Mann, sr., as a can- didate for the legislature in the next election, : A talk on hér recent trip to Bis- marck by Mrs; Mann, a ®iscugsion of Law Enforcement by Rev. Babcock, and a talk on the duties of woman relative to votingyby Mrs, J. B. Stev- ens constituted the program /of the afternoon, | % pa a a AGED RESIDENT OF . CARRINGTON SUCCUMBS Carrington, N. D., March 17.-Fu-| west of’ Dickinson. neral services were held here Wed-| at @ joeal. hospital. Walton, 78,| badly crushed back. Foster county pioneer, who died Mén- | hospital, pneumonia developed. Othe: nesday for Edward I, the] vestigations in the second plank. ih “Wel pledge recovery of the Navy's Oil Reserves’ and all other parts of the public domain which have been fraudulently _ leased or otherwise wrongfully transferred to the-control of private interests, prosecution of all public officials, private citizens and corporations that participate in these transactions, complete revision of the water powgr act and all other legislation relating to the public domain.” . AUTO PLUNGE PROVES FATAL Dickinson, N, D., Mar. 17.—Injuries received when his car plunged from a grade on the Nqw England road and turned turtle while the family were driving to church Sunday 'morning proved fatal-for John Privratsky, 59, farmer residing eight miles south: Privratsky died He suffered a day afternoon following An attack offmembers’ of the family who were in Bright's disease. ( Mr. Walton permanently, settled | slight northwest of Carrinate: ers, Luther and~Charles and Ralph and George Hall. ton for two terms and al so served as a county commissioner. ‘ b e had been here in 1882 with his broth-| south of the ¢ity. Mr, Walton was mayor of Carring-| A defe ctive rear whéel teen the cause. The car turned | township line, the car at the time escAped. with bruises. The accident. occurr- NAVY SECRETARY NORTH DAKOTAN Jamestown, N. D., March 17.—Judge Curtis D, Wilbur of California, the newly appointed secreta the of navy who succeeds Edwin Denby in the Coolidge cabinet, is a forn.er Jamestown boy. He is the son of Dwight L, Wilbur who was in the real estate business here in the 80's in the firm of Nickeus, Wilbur and Nichols. The Wilbur family left here somewhere about 1890, old residents ay, and moved to California, Some of the present businessmen of James- town were school mates of the new secrets ly schools here, BANK’S BOOKS ARE PROBED y in the ear | Examiners go Into Accounts! #r¢ under-nourished, of Closed Wisconsin Bank Hayward, Wis. Mar. 17.--While federal bank examiners investigated the books of the First National Bank of Hayward which closeq March 8 with losses said to exceed over $100,- 000 city officials of Sawyer county took steps to continue operation of schools and libraries here. A large portion of Sawyer county} funds were on deposit at the bank, Closure of the bank by bank examiner followed a meeting of depositors early this month when Henry E. Rohlf, president of the bank, announced the condition of h institution. Rohlf is regarded Hayward’s first citizen and besides being, its first mayor is active .in practitally every enterprise in the tow! * County officials here declined to say whether any prosecutions would follow the disclosures here, declar- ing that first steps in that direction would have to be made by federal officials. The bank was organized in 1s44, SCHOOL CONTRACT LET: Carson, N. D., Mar, 1'2—The bid of Thorvaldson-Johnson Company of Grand Forks, for the general con- struction of the Carson school was accepteg by the school board on Tuesday. The bid was $83,826.00 and a contract was entered into with them for the general construction. There were seven bids in for the general construction. They were as follows: Redlinger & Hanson $i 900.00; A. J. Winberger, $86,990.01 Bismarck Construction Company, $38,330.00; H. Johnson & Sons, $38,350.00; Chas. Kidd, $38,990.00; John Larson, $37,090.00; Thorvaldson- Johnson Co, $33,826.00. national } Albert D. Walton, United States district attorney in Wyoming, assist- ed the government's special counsel, Atlee Pomerene and Owen J. Roberts, in the government's suit for cancel- lation of the Sinclair leases on the Teavot Dome reserve. CHILDREN IN GERMANY SAID | INDIRE NEED ‘Federal Church Council In- | dorses Plea for Aid for Starving, Children | Washington, Mar, 17.—Two and one-half million children in Germany jare starving, sickness is steadily in- jereasing and unemployment is reach- ling almost “unbelievable heights” | the federal council of churches de- | clared today in a statement urging ‘support for the relief compaign he- ; ing conducted in the United States. ; Fram 50 to 70 percent of the chil- } dren in cities and srdustrial districts the statement fsays. | An inerease of 21 percent in infant | mortality was reported last year and 1 1 result, the statement points out, | peblication of mortality statistics , has been stopped. | More taan 5,009,000 unemployed Yworkmen and their families are re- [ce government dole, the special council cites and a property tax to raise one million two hundred filty thousand dollars has been levied to feed 500,000 children for five months while an additional 100,000 children < being fed by German territories. i JURORS MAKE JUDGE PRESENT Judge Andrew Miller of court, who concluded a term last week, received surprise federal hi from the last 12 jurors to sit in a case here a beautiful hand-made, wood smoking stand as a token of | their appreciation, The jurors pur- jchased the stanq at the state prison workshop and expressed it to the judge's home in Fargo. The jurors cipating in the gift are: : Smith, Hector Barnes, Fargo; W. C. Schaffler, Oberon; M. T. Peterson, Ruso; Olaf Vinge, Bottineau; Ki ward Swenson, Tolley; Nels 0. Lin- Mayville; R. A, Werner, Alfred; " Reed, Velva; C. H, M R. B. Zubin, Lakota; Purritin, Temvik. The jurors n nameq themselves “the last twelve. daa FLAX ACREAGE UP Ft. Yates, D., Mar. 17.--Flax acreage in ioux’ County will be more than doubled this spring if re- ports coming in from various parts of the county are true. There is still an abundance of new land in Sioux county, so that a large share of the flax seeded, will be $n, break- ing, , WHERE YOU WILL VOTE IN CITY TUESDAY IN PRIMARY ELECTION Bismatck citizens will vote Tues- day at the following places: Precinct No. 48.—All that part of the First Ward west of the center line of Fifth street to center line of Second street and north of the town- ship line. Vote at North Ward School House. Inspector, R. Penner. Precinct No. 49.—All that part of the First Ward west of' the center line of Second street and north of the township line, Vote at (. B. Little Garage. Inspector, H. Clough Precinct No, 50.—All that part of the Second Ward west of the center line of Fifth. street south of the township line and north of the center line of Broadway and east of the cen- ter line of Second street. Vote at Will School, Inspector, H. L, Reade. Precinct No. 51.—All that part of Taken to the | the Second Ward west of the center | line of Second street south of the township line and north of the center line of Broadway. Vote at John Thorpe Garage, 121 W. Rosser. In- d at a pgint two and a half miles svector, Wm, J. Noggle, Occupants: of the car were una’ to ¥xplain how the accident occurred. have end for,end in the smashup. Precinct No, 52.—All that part of bie |the Third Ward cast of the center Vine of Fifth street to the center line 1 is believed to|of Eighth street and” north of the Vote at High School. Inspeetor, H, S. Dobler. Precinct No. 53.—All that part of the Third Ward east of the center line of Eighth street and norta of the township line. Vote at Richholt School. Inspector, Carl Kositzky. Precinct No. 54.—Fourth Ward, be- ‘ing all that part of the city of Ris- marck east of the centet line of Fifth street and south of the center line of Broadway. Vote at McGillis Block, corner Broadway and Sixth street. In- spector, John Lundquist. Precinct No. 55.—Fifth Ward, all that part af the city of Bismarck south of the center line of Bread- way and west of the center line of Fifth street. Vote-at Soo Hotel. In- spector, Harold Griffith Precinct No. 56.—Sixth Ward. All that part of the city of Bismarck south of the township line east of the center line of Fifth street to the center line of Ninth strect and narth of the center line of Broadway. Vote at Fire Hall. Anapector, John Parkin- son : Precinct No, 57.—Sixth Ward. All that part of the city of Bismarck south of the township line east of the center line of Ninth street and north, of the center line of Broadway. Vote at Gymnasium of St. Mary’s School. Inspector, , Frank McCor- mick. f S POLITICAL EYE OIL INQUIRY'S END BY FIRST OF APRIL SEEN Prosecutor Walsh Expected to Resume Questioning For Body Tomorrow CALE WILL NCLAIR} Another Oil Man Also Will Bi Summoned Before the Committee Ends Work - hington, Mar. 17.—(By the A.| P.)—With Senator Walsh, Democrat, Montana, chief prosecutor of the oil inquiry, nvering from the bron-| chial trouble which caused a sudden | suspension of the ‘hearings on Friday the investigating committee is ex-| pected tomorrow to enter upon the last phases of its work, Members of the committee have forecast that all evidence would be in the record by the end of the month, Senator Wa plans to start tomorrow with the auditors’ reports on oil stock deals at New York and Cleveland by government officals, He intends then to take up the sugges- tions contained in the statement of Leonard Wood Jr. that his fater was offered /support for the presiden- tial nomination during the 1920 Re- publican convention on condition that he agree to give the interior se- cretaryship, if elected, to Jake liam- mon, Oklahoma oil man and_politi- cian who later was killed. To Call Sinclair The committee also intends to ex- amine Harry F, Sincliar again and question James G. Darden with ref- erence among other things to the ef- forts of the Mutual Oil Company to establish a claim on Teapot Dome which brought about the use of Mar- ines to evict its workmen, A sub- poena for Mr, Darden was jssucd by the oil committee a month ago but he has just been found by committee process servers. The Daugherty investigating com- mittee also meanwhile has issued & subpoena for him and he is expeet- | ed to testify at both hearings. ROOSEV EL’ SWERS Washington, M Theodore | Roosevelt, acting Seerctary of the Navy, lashed -back at Representative arolina. Stevenson, Democrat, South branding ‘deliberately — false” statements nr le by the latter on the floor of the House to the effect that Mr. Roosevelt had profited, dircetly or indirectly, from the naval oil leas- on. ° Men who wilfully misrepresent facts to injure innocent men, he said in a formal statement, are “equally crooked with those who take bribes The secretary called on * jeans, Democrat or Republican, gardless of polities, who stand for honor, fairplay, ang Americanism’ make it their business to drive such men from public office. Text of Statement Roosevelt's statement return to Washington a trip to New York, si “Congress Stevenson attack- ed my personal honor, stating in ef- fect that I directly and indirectly profited by the naval oil leases. He has also brought my wife's name in- to the matter, His implications are deliberately false. “My connection with the Sinclair company is given in the testimony. Before the war I was a director of the company and a member of a firm of bankers who helped to finance the company. I resigned my girectorship and sold what stock I held during the war. The last stock interest I had, either directly or indirectly, ceased when 1,000.shares of Sinclair stock, bought by my wife in 1920, were sold at a loss by her some months before the leases were sign- ed. issued from Gives Up Business “I gave up all business at the time of the war and completely severed all my connections before I went in- to politics. “I have been in no business of any kind since that time, ang have made no money either directly or indirect- ly, therefrom. Neither Mrs. Roose- velt hor I hold or have held any oil stocks other than those mentioned above, during this period. Our mon- ey is invested in bon APOLOGIZED Chicago, March 17.—Olive Bell Hamon, 16-year-old daughter of the late Jake Hamon, Oklaloma oil man and Republican politician, returned togChicago today from Washington proudly-bearing what she termed “a Istter of apology,” from Leonard Wood, Jr., who recently charged that Hamon offered to secure the Republi- can presidential nomination for Ma- jor General Leonard Wood in 1920 in exchange for appointment as secre- tary of the interior. ) Miss Hamon in her own language “ran away” to Washington in an ef- fort to lay her father’s case before the senate committee investigating naval oil reserves. “I met Leonard Wood, Jr., outside a theater in Washington and told him I wanted an apology,” she soid. “He told me he would give me one.” She displayed a typewritten letter signed Leonard Wood, Jr. Ms SOLDIER BONUS BILL PASSAGE IS PREDICTED Action May Be Taken Tomor- row in National House of Representatifes DIVIDED REPORT ur Republicans on. House Ways and Means Commit- tee Oppose Measure Estimated number of veter entitled to cash payments,’ for service from 61 to 1 14 | days. Estimated number entitled to | paid up insurance, 3,038,282 b Washington, Mar, 17.—Two reports mn the soldiers’ bonus bill were pre senteq to the house today by the nd means committee, four Re- publicans signing a minority state- ment opposing the measure. Chairman Green in the majority report stated that expenditures un- der the bill estimated at $2,119,000,- 000 could be met from prospective savings in current government ex- penses and calls for no additional t The minority statement declared if the bill were enacted its requirements threatened the likelihood of future tax reduction.. Prospects for passage of the mea- e tomorrow were declared bright 1y by proponents, GOVERNMENT su tor STUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [»om - BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MOND ARMY FLIGHT AROUND WORLD STARTS TODAY Santa Monica, Calif., Mar. 17. The army flight around the world started today M 2a, m jor F rtin was the t to get away. Lieut. Leigh de, photographer of the flight, the secend world away and Licut. Low: pilot of the flight, was the third to take off. HIGHWAY FUND AUDIT IS MADE | BY STATE BODY tate Board of Auditors Re- ceives Report From Ac- countant Named for Work WAR) SURPLUS REPORT st of Handling Surplus War Materials Given the State Is Set Out Handling of surplus war material, including trucks, tractor ds ma- chinery to be used in road work, cost ate highway the st commission §: 2 more than it has received from leases, sales ang in other ways, ac- cording to the report filed with the state board of auditors by 0. B. Lund, accountant named by the board to examine the books of the sion and some other departments and industrie: value received through use of terial is not accounted for in rs and cents. The balance sheet ment department of the highw commission shows the assets $12 457.94, including government autos, motoreycles, tractors, road roller, trucks and miscellaneous’ war equip- highway commi state for the equip- BRINGS SUIT IN CALIFORNIA Asks That Lease of California Naval Oil Lands Be Cancelled Los Angeles, M 17.—(By the A. —Suit to cancel the lease of Cal- ifornia naval oi! tands to the Pan- American Petroleum and Transport. Company as well as its accompanying ugreement for construction and stocking by that company of naval oil storage facilities at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, was filed today by the gov- ernment here. The bill of complaint charges that bribery entered into the making of the leases as well as alleging fraud, conspiracy and illegality us in the case of the suit filed March 13 at Cheyenne, Wyoming. with reference to the Teapot Dome lease and con- tract, As in the Teapot suit the govern- ment’s special counsel, Atlee Pomer- ene and Owen J. Roberts asked the United States district court to issue a temporary injunction stopping the production of oil, appoint receivers to take possession and control of the lands and to enter a final decree de- claring void and cancelling the leases and associated arrangements. | Weather Report _ | + 7 e For twenty-four hours’ ending at noon toda: Temperature at 7 a. m. + 25 Highest yesterday .. 39 Lowest yesterday .. 18 Lowest last night 25 Precipitation .. 0 Highest wind velocity + 10 WEATHER FORECAST For Bismarck and vicinity: Mostly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. No de- cided change in temperature For North Dakota: Mos cloudy togieht and Tuesd: decided change in temperature. ‘WEATHER CONDITIONS A well defined low pressure area covers the lower Mississippi Valley and southern ‘Plains States &nd -an- other low pressure area is centered over the Southwest. These disturb- ances have been accompanied by pre- cipitation in the Mississippi Valley, middle and southern Plains States, over the Rocky Mountain region and in the Pacific Coast States, Temper- atures are considerably lower over the middle and southern Rocky Moun®™ tain region and over the southern Plains States. Elsewhere moderate temperatures prevail, | i ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Meteorogolist. joner, sued ty the commissi: REFUSE TO LIMET TERM Washington, Mar, 17.—The senate refused today by a vote of 70 to four ment on hand, and total ilities of $155,135.86, leaving the cost of oper- ating the equipment to the state 877.92, The equipment. départment was started in June, 1919, Since-January | 1, 1922, the department has kept good records, the auditor states, but pre- vious to that time had not. Surplus war materials e been handled by it. $t the outset it was not known the ‘highway commission, or ap- parently by the War Department. what this branch of the service might develop into,” says the Lund report, “this being an entirely new venture with no precedents to follow. No special effort toward keeping syste- matic records of the activities of the Equipment Department were started at the beginning; therefore, some of their operations during its first two years have been difficult to audit. “The equipment department ap- parently had not previously been au- diteg or checked by anyone outside of the department. . I have made a complete audit from the beginning of that branch of the highway depart- ment, un inventory was taken of all war materials and purchased equip- ment an hand and vouchers and rec- ords examined in detail where same could be found. The records of this department prior to January 1, 19: are very incomplete, howeve seems that in many cases sales were made and the sh collected and pended directly by the men in charge without the funds passing through the state treasurer's office or ap- pearing on the records of the. high- way commission proper in any way.” Records Now Good Citing what he said were “very lax and irregular’ methods, Lund added that “In January, 1922, a book- keeper was furnished the equipment department. Since that time collec- tions and expenditures have passed through’ the state treasury, and all financial transactions reaching the bookkeeper are reflected quite clearly subsequent to January 1, 1922.” The report continues: “War materials and supplies are principally and sold to counties, minor political subdivisions and individuals for use in the con- struction of high There are ar- ticles on hand, however, that cannot be used in road construction; also goods that are rapidly deteriorating with age that are being sold to pri- vate individuals from the supp! room. The practice in handling these transactions are,for the storekeeper to collect the funds, listing them and sending the list with the money col- lected to the bookkeeper periodically; the bookkeeper in turn issuing a receipt for same. * a ‘The methods now used in haift- ling the miscellaneous war supplies and equipment are such that it is im: possible to trace the receiving or disposition of a large part, of the miscellaneous material and equip- ment. “A vexy complete record of the @u- tomobildk, trucks and tractors has been made up by the equipment de- partment. A copy of the War De- partment ledgers showing in detail shipments of all war materials to the state of North Dakota was obtained to approve a proposed constitutional amendment limiting the President to one term of four year: BEE INSPECTOR NAMED R. L. Webster of the state agricul- tural college, has been appointed state -beé inspector by Commissioner of Agriculture and Labor J. A. Kitch- en, He will enforce regulations, is- from Washington showing each truck, tractor and automobile shipped into the state of North Dakota by the War Department, and all ship- ments have been accounted for; this being made possible by being all booked by the manufacturer's serial number. This could not be done, (Cohtinued on pnge 4) RN TON. D. PRICE FIVE CEN’ PRESIDENTIAL VOTE IS FIRST IN ENTIRE U.S. Direction Expression of Peo- ple in State Will Be Watched With Interest COOLIDGE TO Ww Victory Is Predicted For Pres- ident in the Vote to be Cast in State moves into the nation's political spotlight Tuesday. ‘or the voters of the state will vote directly their choice for the Republ n and Democratic nomina- tion for the presidency, the first state in the union in the list of presidential primaries to be held. The political reviews in eastern papers in the last week have turned to consideration of North Dakota and its probable vote. The primary is held to mean more to Hiram John- son than to Calvin Coolidge, because the latter's nomination at Cleveland is held almost assured from pledges of state delegations alr made. Nevertheless, the president's mana- gers are extremely anxious that North Dakota go for him. Predictions made in various quar- ters generally are that North Dakota will go for President Coolidge. His strength has grown rapidly within the last two wee Several Non- partisans are actively working for him, and many farmers have declared their fntention to stand by the Presi- dent who has been standing by them in Washington, The extent of the aFollette “sticker campaign” tet ertain. His manager declares that; LaFollette will be first, Coolidge second and Hiram Johnson third. Generally it is agreed that Johrson is more likely to be last than first. His speaking tour has not gained. him the votes expected. Vote on Laws In addition to voting for president the voters also will elect national committeemen of the Republican and Democratic parties, vote on the so- led “no party election laws,” the Fedge lien bill and two constitu- tional amendments referred to a vote by the legislature. The Fedge bill is believed cer for defeat, because many farmers whom the bill would benefit, it is claimed, have openly declared against Tt because it would do the farmers harm and injure the entire stute. The fate of the election laws is @ matter of conjecture. Fair Weather Forecast Fair Weather is forecast all over the state tomorrow, which probably will result in a much heavier vote being cast than four years ago, when only about 50,000 votes were regis- tered. This was about half the vete, with women not voting. The nornial vote at this time, with women vot- ing, is around 200,000, Many predict 150,000- votes will be cast Polls will be open at 9 a, m. tomor- row and will closed at 7 a, m. Because the ballot contains a great many names—there are 39 candidates for delegates to the Republican na- tional convention—the vote will be slow in coming in. The Tribune, in cooperation with other Associated Press newspapers in the state, will record the vote as rapidly as possi- ble. The returns tomorrow night probably will be so meager that it has heen decided not to attempt to dis- play them ona screen. Bulletins will be posted probably after 9 p, m. Wed- nesday morning, BUILDS FAR: HOME COSTING OVER $18,000 Grafton, N. D., Mar. 17.—A fine brick farmhouse has just been com- pleted on the Williamson farm, three miles north of Grafton, at a cost of $18,500, and is said to be the finest farmhouse in Walsh county. The building is complete through- out and is finished in the best of hard wood. All modern conveniences have been installed, including a show- er bath in the basement. The house is in keeping with other buildings on the farm. The barn it said to be one of the finest in the state. The Williamson farm is famous for its purebred stock, including both cattle and horses. CREAM CHECKS AID FARMER Beach, N. D., Mar. 17.—Henry Feld- man, local farmer, -finds the cream check a welcome one. Henry says that during the past year he has milked an average’ of twenty mixed grade cows and that af- ter deducting costs netted around $1500 for his cream, which income, everything considered, beats any- thing he ever got from wheat raising. In addition to this he raises chickens and adds considerably to his income from these-and the eggs, besides hav- ing some grain to sell. He devotes three-quarters of a section to his operations, most of which is devoted to pasture and the faising of forage crops.