The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 5, 1924, Page 1

cy WEATHER FORECASTS For Bismarck and Vicinit tonight and Friday. ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1924 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE FINAL EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS DENBY, ROOSEVELT ARE EXONERATED . DAIRY CIRCUIT “FINDS QUALITY IS IMPROVING Balanced Feeding Program Under Cooperative Plan Brings Good Results / } 1 IS EXPANDING ‘Two More Members Are Add- ed to the Burleigh County Testing Body CIRCUIT The Burleigh County Cow Test- ing Association held an enthusias- tie meeting yesterday afternoon in the Association of Commerce rooms, reports reflecting great made since a number of who produce ¢ farms banded together to use scien- progress farmers products on their tifie methods and organization in their business. Reports were made that quality of the cream produced has increased since many members have worked out a more balanced system of tions for cows, with the dairy cir- cuit tester, Albert Zenzell, Many member have added fine new stock to their herds and some mem- bers have sold cuttle at good prices. Two new members were admitted, bringing the membership to 20 and leaving but four places for which applications may be made. The association members perfect- ed plans for a big picnic to be held on Thursday, June 26, in Menoken Grove, in which members of the cir- cuit, other farmers and business men will be invited to participate. Those going to the picnic will take their own basket lunches. | Wolworth Brothers have offered a heifer calf as a prize in a horse race, the entry fee for the race being $1. There wiil be no entry fee for other races, such as foot races for boys and girls, for which prizes will be offered. There also will be horse shoe pitch- ing and other amusements. A big crowd is expected at the picnic, The new members of the circuit iam Breen and George Knoll, iving near Bismarck. Several members reported additions to their herds, going more and more to pure bred Holsteins. It was decided that the circuit would be represented in the tour to the New Salem and Flasher Holstein circuits this month, the circuit being represented in conjunction with the Association of Commerce und Rotary clubs, It is planned to send five girls dressed in black and white to sing, and it is likely that a unit of the ‘Juvenile band will be included. PARENT BODIES INCREASING / National Secretary of Parent- Teacher Associations Here EPS The idea cf the Parent-Teachers Association is growing rapidly throughout the entire country, and North Dakota % in line with other progressive states, according to Miss Frances S$. Hays, field secretary of the National Congress of Parent: and Teachers, which recently held a natoinal conference in Minneapolis, Miss Hayes has visited several cities in North Dakota in the interest ’of the extension of these societies. “A Parent-Teachers Association in Every School” is the slogan adopted in some states, Miss Hays said. The associations have the marked advan- tage of bringing closer relatiofs of the home, school and community in all that affects them. Miss Hays said. New associations are being organ- ized about as fast as they can be handled by the national association, she said. While here Miss Hays met officials in the state Department of “Education, State LAbrary and Health Department, and was, given the coop- eration of all, she said. ADVANCE GUARD OFF FOR CAMP se \ samestown, N. D., June 5—The ad: vance guard of Company H, James- town National Guard unit, left today for the Devils Lake camp by truck, taking the camp stoves and one cook, Gross, so that supper can be pre- pared for the conipany when it ar- tives at camp Saturday evening. Cook Gross, who was with the company at camp last summer as second cook, recently hiked all the way up from Iowa in order to be, here and go to camp with the same company he attended last year. Going with the truck are Gilbert- son, McIntyre, Gross and Mess Ser- geant Corbert. The balance of the company will entrain Saturday morning. 4 STABBACK FREED BY * FEDERAL COURT JURY Fargo, June 5—Fred_A. Stabback, qharged in federgl court with trans- porting a stolen car from Aberdeen, 8. Dy to Oakes, ‘N. D,, was declared not guilty by jury yesterday after- noon following | completion of the trial which lasted several hours, * * & WHAT’S WRONG WITH WEATHER? * Low Pressure Spot Slips and Country Shivers WHY DAYS ARE BAD SULEL MOVING GIONS IN NORTH HAS At STATES. BY LEARRY BOARDMAN NEA Service Writer 1 Washington, June 5—OMf the coast | of Greenland, in a spot that isn’t good for much else anyhow, the! veather for most of the United] States is made. | When th ot remains off the tip of that country in the ingtime, we have normal weather. But it has slipped south and west. That's wl has caused rain on the Atlantic seaboard, floods and torna- does in the central states and snow far away as the “Dakotas, rd H. Bowie, supervis forecaster of the U. S. Weather Bu. | reau. This slipping post is known as the normal low pressure area, How does a low pressure area gov- ern the weather? When the air in a given region is warmed it becomes lighter, forming a low pressure area. . Heavier, colder air rushes in. The warm air with its quantity of moisture is forced higher. There it is cooled and condensed, its capacity for holding moisture is less and the moisture forced out the form of rain and snow. But the cold air rushing toward AOUL fH NORMAL ZOW PRESS U; roitheas" TER BOWL OF LOW PRESSUR THER IN THE U. RE- DWE. ITED aN a low pressure akea does not go ina straight line, Due to the rotation of the earth it veres to the right. So the colder currents headed to- | ward the Greenland low pressure area instead of sweeping by the United States us they usually do are sweeping over the country on their way from the pole to the low pressure area, These currents have chilled the count d forced the moisture out air giving us our present weather, West of the Rockies the has been the reverse. The Pacific low pressure moved from the tip of Alaska ward the Japansese coast. The colder air currents in theirr to this place have missed the Paci- fie coast. The air there remains m, holding its moisture and caus- ing the drought. “It is impossible to predict weather conditions months ahead,” Bowie “but I will say it is almost cer- tain thatthe weather will return to normal. Weather conditions are like a pendulum—swinging to abnormal, then back to normal again—and just in the course of natural events this | pendulum is due to reach the normal point in its swing.” condition area has to- VETS HOSPITAL HELD ASSURED Construction Is Authorized if Measure Is Signed Minneapolis, June 5—Jmmediate construction of a $1,500,000 tubercu- losis hospital for World War vet- erans in the northwest has the ap- proval of both houses of Congress. A dispatch - from the Washington bureau of The Journal brought the news of victory in a long fight for facilities to saye ithe lives of hun- dreds of veterans suffering from tuberculosis—the passage by the house of the appropriation bill pro- ‘viding for a tuberculosis hospital in the tenth district of the Veterans bureau, which has its headquarters in Minneapolis. Speedy construction of the hospi- tal was forecast recently, when it became known the government al- ready has inspected several sites in the vicinity of the’Twin Cities. Thg,tenth district headquarters in Minneapolis have been requested by Brigadier General Frank T. Hinnes, director of the veterans bureau, to investigate the adaptability of sev- eral sites for the hospital. One of them is near Owatonna and Waseca. REQUISITION S HONORED Governon Nestos has honored a requisition for the return to Min- neapolis of Eddie Doherty alias J. L. Simpson, in jail in Carrington, and wanted for alleged theft of an auto TWO BANKS IN STATE MOVE State Bank of Mil- ton, Cavalier county, has become the Security State Bank of Orr, rand Forks county, according to a cord of transfer filed with the Secretary of State by A, E, Welo, P. P. Engh and J. H. Engh, direc- tors. The Green State Bank of Greene, Renville county, has become the Security State Bank of Tolley, Renville county, according to a rec- ord of transfer filed by Charles Dockter, president. LOCAL 1.0.0.F. PROMINENT Taking Part in State Conven- tion at Fargo The Securit, Bismarck Odd Fellows are taking a prominent part in the state con- vention ceremonies in Fargo, C. C. Converse, state tax commis- sioner, delivered the adress at the annual Memorial Exercises, at which Brigadier-General Theodore Koffel of the uniform rank and staff appeared in full dress uniforms and assisted in the services, Custer encampment No. 16 of Bis- marek is at Fargo with a full degree staff, led by R. E, Carlander, degree captain, Mrs. Arntz of Bismarck was elected treasurer of the Ladies Aux- iliary of the Patriarchs Militant. Mr. Koffel was chosen senior warden of the grand encampment. The conven- tion ends tonight. Twenty per cent of the brakes in use are defective, say auto en- in Minnesota. gineers. YOUTHS, ONE 18, ONE 16, FOUND IN ~ PRISON, T0 GO TO TRAINING SCHOOL The experiences of two youth beth whose departure from the straight and narrow path led them on a long trail which wound up in the state penitentiary, was unfolded here through the efforts of W. F. McClel- land, superintendent of the State Training School at Mandan, the Children’s Bureau, pardon board and other agencies. And as a result it is expected that Baldwin Bennetto, 18 years old, and Alfred Ebson, 16 years’ old, will be transferred from the state prison to the State Train- ing School. The two youths were sentenced on April 3, 1924, to serve a year in the. penitentiary for stealing an auto- mobile, the’ sentence being given by Judge James A. Coffey at Jamestown. At the time they said they were a brothers, and gavé their names as Glenn and LaGrange Bennett. They hailed from California and they said they had traveled far and wide. They appeared much older than authori ies now say they are. When both sought parole investl> gation of their case was institu Superintendent McClelland obtained admission that they were not br ers, and found that Bennetto escaped from the training sch where he had previously been coyone, mitted, The pardon board commutest, ed the sentence of Bennetto to sail Pip pire. June 7, when he will be taker, to the training school to remain un- til he is 21 years of age. The board also took steps to ebtain the transfer of Ebson to the training school. [RALSTON SHIES FROM LEADING | DIDN'T BOB HAIR IN TIME, TRIAL SHOWS Mandan, N. D., June 5—"“Digt the complaining witness — have fight or aft ards?” was the | auestion asked by the foreman aay pe of a Sioux county jury of Judge NH. L. Berr: Indiana Governor, Proposed as Compromise Candidate, Discourages Actich SPEAKS TO CONVENTION Something About Presidency That Makes Him Not Want It, He Declares June 5 — Declaring something about the great- this exalted position that admonishes me against wanting to undertake the ution of its great Indianapolis, “there i: ness of and solemn duties,” United States Senator Samuel M. Ralston, today urged the Indiana Democratic state convention not to consider him a candidate for the Presidency, “Great as the honor is, however, I would not speak truthfully to you should I refrain from saying that I have never aspired to the presidency country Senator Ralston If there be those who doubt sincerity in what IT am saying let me lay additional emphasis on my state of mind by declaring that this convention will please me most by allowing the delegates from In- diana to the New York convention to go uninstructed, “The Senator said the Democratic party should choose as its candidate sai my for the presidency “a man who is human through and through, who knows America and who want! country to do its part dn es' ing peace—continuous peace—among the nations of the earth.” Senator Ralston declared that no government can be called honest that fails to uphold the equality! of right of individual citizens, or permit cit- izens generally, to be taxed for the benefit of a favored few EXPECT MANY AT DEDICATION AT DICKINSON Two Programs’ Arranged When New Normal School Building Is Turned Over Dickinson, N. D., June 5,—A great throng is expected in Dickinson Friday when the new Dickinson Normal School building, which will house almost the entire school, is dedicated. There will be two programs, one in the afternoon at 3 o'clock and another at 8 o'clock in the evening. Special invitations were extended to educators throughout western North Dakota to be present. Members of the state board of administration and presidents of all state educa tional institutions are expected to be present. Dean Joseph Kennedy of the state university will be the chief speaker iday afternoon program, at S. Berg of Dickinson will preside. At the Friday night pro gram, Lewis F. Crawford, curator of the State Historical Society, will deliver the main address, State Superintendent Minnie J. Nielson will give “Greetings from the State Department of Education” and R. B. Murphy, of the State Board of Administration, will p sent the building to President T. May of the normal school. The new building, said to be the finest state education building, cost $300,000, DAWES REPORT GERMAN HOPE Chancellor Marx Is Firm For Acceptance of it Berlin, June 5—Frankly designat- ing the Dawes report as the pivotal point in,Germany’s foreign relations and reiterating the minster’s adher- ence to its previous acceptance of the, experts’ recommendations, for the approaching reparations ne- gotiations, Chancellor Marx’s state- as basis} tonight and Friday. The jury had been pondering over the evidence in an assault and battery case in which Mrs. Alice Young was defendant and a Mrs. Culligan complaining wit- ness. They were unable to re- conile “exhibit A” a strand of tong hai with the bobbed tresses of M Culligan, Judge Berry made inquity and discovered that’ Mrs, Culligan’s hair had been bobbed r an alleged battle between the two women in which ehibit “A” _ it was alleged, had been yanked from her head. Mrs. Young was found guilty and fined. NESTOS AVERS FARMER'S TAX HAS BEEN CUT Declares That Promise in This Respect Was Kept By His Administration SPEAKS AT STEELE Governor, in Talk Summarizes Defense of Acts of the’ State Administration Steele, N. D., June 5. R. A. Nestos, continuing his speak- ing campaign here last night, sum- marized many of the questions he believed ought to be driven home to the voters of the state in the pres ent campaign. The Governor em- phasized a dei ion that the In- dependent admfhistration had — car- i out a pledge to reduce the al- .--Governor leged unfair burden of taxation upon the farmers of the state, and had not only-cut taxes-but had caused a net “decrease in the valuation of farm property for taxation of $2: 8 199 in 1923 as compared with 1921. e Governor, in a brief address, summarized many things he — said were facts of vital interest to the taxpayer. He sai¢ “The legislature of ated $721,963.33 less than the legi lature of 1 “The state board of equalization in 1923 levied $751,926.26 less than ar befor ery county in the state, except Hettinger, pays less this year for the support of the state government, state institutions, and state aid, than last year. “Of each dollar paid in taxes, the average portion used for all state expenditures is only 13.36 cents, and for county and local purposes 86.64 cents “Under the Leagué, laws a man who invested $10,000 in a city house and lot which he could rent at a high rate per month, was assessed only $5,000, while the farmer who invested $10,000 in a farm on which he could not even make running ex- penses was assessed the full amount of $10,000; and that a man who might be drawing from $5 to $7 a day in wages or a good salary in a city could hold as much as from $900 to $1,400 of property exempt and not subject to the payment of a cent of taxes, while the ¢armer who owned land worth that much, was assessed its full value ev though he did not earn a cent on his. land Farm Land Assessment “The farm lands of North Dakota were assessed in 1923 $270,301,917 less than in 1921, and that while the farm personal property was assessed at $37,402,818 more, that the net de- crease in the assessment of all the (Continued on page 3) ¢—__- — a Weather Report | o——_—__-______—_ For twenty-four hours ending at Boon today. the Temperature at 7 a. Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday Lowest last night . S49 + 12 + SL 47 m. . Precipitation Gy Highest wind velocity . 18 Weather Forecasts For Bismarck and Vicinity: Fair Rising temper- ature Friday. For North Dakota: Fair tonight ment in the Reichstag on the occas-| and Friday. Cooler southeast portion sion of his reappearance at the head o! ithe second cabinet bearing his ine, was occupied entirely with ferences to the nation’s foreign re- ‘ment of the Dawes report, A approaching b y fe economic rehabilitation. Na- obse} tonight. Rising temperature Friday. General Weather Conditions The low pressure area is centered lations as affected by the enforce-| over the Red River Valley this morn- ing and scattered precipitation oc- ‘Zhe chancellor avoided any specific] curred along the eastern slope of mention of measure’ for the relief of] the Rockies, in t with the provistons of the Dawes|over the upper Mississippi Valiey, execution] Good showers dccurred in northeast- situation would obviously|ern North Dakota, but the’ general movement to-| throughout the State showers were the Dakotas and elsewhere very light and scattered. Fair st\discipline and unity were in-| weather prevails west of the Rockies. ipensatble for the achievement of| Temperatures dropped slightly in the ermany’s recovery, the chancellor] Dakot: d in his appeal to the Reich-] Mountain region, but seasonable tem- and over the northern Rocky stag for its approval of such meas-| peratures prevail in all sections. ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Meteorolo; ures as were required to carry out the,expert’s program. CONGESTION IN CONGRESS NOW IS LESS ACUTE Faiiure to Agree on Substi- tute Farm Relief Bill Changes Situation APFROPRIATIONS ARE UPC Reclamatigns and vy Biil Are Before Congress For Quick Action v hington, June 5-—-(By the A P.)-—With’ farm — relief legislation along the line of the defeated Me Nary-Maugen bill definitely aban- coned in the House by Republican enders and the Muscle Shoals ques tion put over until December 3) by the Senate, the congestion in Con e today had been relieved. Much remained to be done before adjournment Saturday night, how ever, with reclamation and — naval riodernization measures the — prin ciple items remaining on the pro gram, An omnibus pension bill similar to the one passed late yesterday ving about 200 proposals affect ing Veterans of various wars and de- pendents right-of-way in the Senate t with the $150,000,000 up considerably ay bill designed to bring the to the ratio agreed upon the Washington arms conference, in second place. The latter as passed by the House last week, calls for construction of eight Scout cruiser and six river gan boats and con- version of six battleships into oil burners with installation, in addi- tion, of devices for protection against submarine and ai t. Despite the decision of Republican leaders to abandon efforts to put through a farm export measure, agricultural relief was before the House in the form of the Hoch re- solution ructing the Interstate Commerce Commission to make a freight survey looking to a general reduction in transportation charges or farm products. Several confer- ence reports on various bills als were before the Chamber, « along with the Crampton measure to es- tablish. a separate prohibitidn bu- reau in the Treasury department, and opponents of the reclamation C bill were prepared to move for its passage under a suspension of rules limiting debate, preventing amend- ment and two-thirds majority. Senate action on requiring the lamation measure, which is based on recom- mendations of the Interior Depart- rent fact fiyding commission, was planned along similar lines exe pt that sponsors hoped to attach it as a “rider” to the $158,196,000 defis- ey bill passed yesterday by the House, which carries, among other items, $131,943,000 to defray the first year’s cost of the ban law (Continued on page 2) SOUTH DAKOTA SELLING ‘GAS’ State Stations Are Opened to Public D., June 5—Sale of gaso- line by the state at 18 cents a gallon including the 2 cent state tax began today at several South Dakota on a larger of last fall, when Governor McMaster launched a program of gasoline sale by the state which led to fluctuations jin retail prices throughout the central and north- west. Stations opened for retail sale of} gasoline at Watertown, Aberdeen and: Rapid City, State gasoline stations at Madison and Huron arg not finish- ed but will be rushed to completion within the-next few days. George Henry, secretary to Gover- nor McMaster, suid that the state has purchased six carloads of gaso- line at 11 1-4 cents a gallon plus a, freight adjustment of 1-2 cent a gallon. by j | if BREAKS RECORD Mme, Adrienne Bolland, — daring French — aviatrix, — who recently broke her own loop record of 98 loops by completing 212 loops in the sky LINES DRAWN FOR ‘BATTLE OF MILLIONS’ ‘and Jury : Indict ments in Leopold, Loeb Cases Ex- pected Tomorrow Chicago, June 5 (By Prosecution the Pp.) und defense were pre- paring today for the “battle of mil- lions” expected to follow grand j indictments tomorrow han Leopold Jr. and Loeb, milli res’ sons and ted kidnapers and slayers of Robert Franks,’ school boy son of Jacob Franks, millionaire real estate man. Creation of a $1,000,000 initial de- fense fund with which to retain the foremost legal experts in America was reported as States attorne: an- nounced demands would be made that trial be set for July 15, the earliest date consonant with Illinois procedure, vo indictments youth, charging som and murder, both capital of- fenses, have been prepared and await the report of the grand jury, expected to complete its examination of witnesses today. Arfaignment is scheduled for Mon each ran- against kidnaping for chief Clarence Darrow, counsel for the defense, was said to be consid- ering retention of orps of experts, including authorities on evidence, insanity, legal tacties, — physiogomy and alienists. Pitted ag: States Attorney Crowe, in personal charge of the case, said he would have three assistants identified with the case since the finding of the boy's body on May 21. The million dollar defense fund established by the families of — the youth were said to be merely pre- Millions will fight millions,” S: m= uel ttleson, former corporation counsel and friend of Jacob Franks guards who have heen set over the evidence, which includes the blood-stained clothing worn by the Franks boy, the tape-wrapped chisel with which he remnants of which his body were cautions were taken against theft or tampering, Mr. Crowe said, and after the guard jury report, the evidence will be, placed in four safe- ty deposit boxeS in four banks. Authorities gave scant attention any connection the youths may have had last fall with the shooting of Freeman Louis T university student, found near university campus, and the attack on Charles Ream, Hughes said “neither are we are not interested.” killed and automobile robe in wrapped. Pre. to the mutilation Chief important; ALLY ILL EDITOR ¢ Grand Forks, N, D., June 5—P. 0. Thoreson, publisher of The Nor- manden and Scandinavian, the latter a month! ine, and state sena- tor, is ¢ y ill in a local hospi- tal. Mr. on was ‘forced to undergo a serius operation a few days ago. ASHLEY HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES FOUND IN ALL PARTS OF U.S Ashley, N. D., June 5—How the small high schools scattered over North Dakota are edicating . boys and girls for business and service in all parts of the country, and abroad, is shown in a statistical his- tury of the Ashley High School, given at the recent commencement exercises here. With about 100 graduates from the local thigh school since 1909, less than a dozen may be classed strictly as Ashley residents. The graduates are scattered to all parts of the United States and\ beyond its borders. The first class of 1909 was com- posed of three. One of these, John J. Laemmle, isa furniture dealer in Ashley. Another is married and lives in Ashley _Mhile the third is a stenographer in Minneapolis. Of the next class, that» of. 1913, a four-year high’ school class, the graduates are now located as fol- lows One employed in the legal de- pertment of the Standard Qil Com- pany at Minneapolis, one married and living in Flaxville, Montana, an- cther on the staff of the Minne- apolis Tribune, a + fourth married and living in Minneapolis. The class of 1915 is located as follows: One married and living in Grafton, one address unknown, one in university extension work at Cleveland, Ohio; another a mission- ery in the city of David, Panama; one cashier of a bank at Danzig, one married and living in Chicago, an- other married and living in Barlow, North Daketa. ‘Adolph Shock, a graduate of the closs of 1915, is a minister in Cuba, New Yérk; Harold Mensing, of the class of 1917, is in Calexico, Cali- fernia;; Phil'p: Reuben of ‘the sai class is holding a government posi- tion in Japan; and still others are ‘South te be found in New. York, Dakota and-other states. aN I WALSH REPORT ON DOME LEASE MATTER GIVEN Prosecutor Says Former Sec- retary of Interior Not Party To Negotiations LEASES ARE CRITICIZED Policy Held Indefensive — No “Oil Deal” Proved at G: O. P. 1920 Convention Ww P,) shington, Jun (By the A. grant disregard of the law in negotiation of the Sinclair and Doheny oil lease was charged in, a report to the Senate today, prepared for the oil committee, by its pros- ecutor, Senator Walsh of Montana. The executive order by which President Harding transferred the oil reserves from the Navy to the Interior Department was held in report to have been illegal. The manner in which the leases ated secretly by Former Secretary Fall was dese bed as “in disregard of the statutes.” he leases themselves clared “indefensive based on a_polic alone had author: to determine. Fall Criticized ill’s acceptance of $100,000 from EK. L. Doheny was characterized as “in the last’ degree reprehensible” although no opinion was expressed to whether the payment was in fact a loan. Shipment by Harry F. Sinclair of were de- wasteful” and which Congress a consignment of blooded cattle to Fall's New Mexico ranch and Sin- clair’s subsequent employment of Fall after he left the Cabinet were cited without comment. Likewise, without comment, the report related how Sinclair expended one million dollars to clear Teapot Dome of conflicting claims some of which, ut least, “were shadowy.” Denby Exenerated ormer Secretary Denby of the y Department and Assistant ry Roosevelt were exonerated from “any part_whatever” in the ne- gotiations leading up to the leases,” It was declared that despite dil- igent inquiry the committee found “no facts of sufficient importance to report” in support of the rumor that. public officers had speculated in stecks of the Sinclair and Doheny companies. Similarly the report said “the evt- dene to establish the exist- ence” of any conspiracy between oil operators and others at the Repub- lican national convention in 1920 ‘for exploitation for public resources. Only sing reference was made to the conflicting statements by which it had been sought to connect Edward B. McLean with a $100,000 payment to Fall and no opinion on that subject was expressed. The only recommendation contain- ed in the report, aside from a ref- erence to court proceedings now in Congress, was contained in the fol- lowing summary: Summary Made “Had the legislation enacted by Congress been observed in. its spirit in dealing with the reserves, had it not been wrested out of all reason to afford some appearance of justi- fication for the course pursued, fur- ther action by the law-making branch might not be necessary. In view of what has transpired it should be made plain: “1, That no lease or other con- tracts authorizing or providing for the extraction of oil or gas from the reserves should be entered into ex- cept upon competitive sbids, for which proposals should be duly ad- vertised. “2. That no lease or contract should be entered into for any pur- pose except to protect the reserves for drainage and for such limited areas as should be drilled to that end; unless in the case of an emer- .|gency to be proclaimed by the Pres- ident of the United States. “3, That every such lease or contract should be submitted to and approved by the comptroller general before taking effect. “4, That the authority conferred by the act of June 4, 1920, to ex- change, is restricted to the exchange of crude oil or gas for fuel oil or other products or derivatives of oi! or gas.” APPROVE REPORT Washington, June 5—With all of the organization Republicans absent the Senate oil committee today ap- proved, with minor changes, the oil investigation report. drawn up by Senator Walsh of Montana. WILL VOTE ON * COUNTY SEAT Schafer, N. D., June 5.—With more than enough signatures filed to in- sure an election on the question of removing the McKenzie county seat, voters will use blank ballots and write or paste in the name. of the town they favor for county seat. The names of the two towns given the highest vote in the primary elec- tion will be placed on the ballot at the fall election. Schafer, an inland town, is now the county seat.! Proponents of re- moval, say that several other towns. located on railroads, have. greater claims for Serenhtien as the coun- ty’s capital, ~' soe soa