The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 12, 1925, Page 1

‘ ' On the same ticket will be Charles; ‘men last evening at the Grand Pi ATHER FORECAST Partly overcast and somewhat unsettled tonight and Friday. THE BIS CK TRIBUNE ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1925 PRESIDENT WILL BATTLE A. P, LENHART TO MAKE RACE ONRECORD AS ‘RUNNING I CEO. HUMPHREYS CHAS. WACHTER TO FILL TICKET Group of Backers Met Last Evening at Local , Hotel . PLAN ACTIVE CAMPAIG Arthur Van Horn Presides at Meeting to Talk Over Plans A. P. Lenhart, president of the city sion, will ‘seek re-elec- tion record in that office. commi on his Wachter, retired business man and| George Humphreys, member of a locah firm of printers. This was the ticket decided upon at a meeting of the backers of HS cific hotel. A. A, Van Horn was chosen as chairman of the meeting. In a statement to The Tribune this morning Mr. Van Horn said the meeting wa: and after canvassing the city for a few weeks, those interested in the above ticket came to the conclusion that it was made up of the best men available. No program of any kind for the campaign was outlined though it was intimated that this would be done later. / Mayor Lenhart in an interview ATES ARE NAMED very informal in nature | tural Eeonomics. HEAD OF BOARD; RESERVE STOCK OF GRAIN HELD Agricultural Statistician Finds Them Greatly in Excess of Year Ago 21,539,000 BUSHELS LEFT This Much Wheat Still Held on Farms Within North Dakota, Is Statement Grand Forks, N. D., March 12.— The reserve stocks of grains on furms in North Dakota are invari- ably greatly in excess of the rel- ative reserve of one year ago, es- pecially is this reesrve large in the case of wheat und: oats, says the report of H. O, Hebrandson, U. Agricultural Statistician, in hi monthly review, issued today. Ap- parently the wheat stocks in the United’ States are about 23,789,000 bushels less than the reserve of that crop one year ago, according to the United States Byreau of Agricul- -The amount of wheat on farms March 1, 1925 was about 21,539,000 bushels or 16% of the 1924 crop as ‘against 12,854,000 bushels or 18% one year ago, and 29,122,000 bushels About 82% of the ed out of the coun- .ties against 69% of the 1923 crop shipped by March 1, 1924, and 80% | TWO EXTREMES — CHOOSE YOURS | Above you see the nchester pool chopped in the ice. waters off Tampa. Great WOULD CHANGE | SULLY’S HILL the year previous in this state. said: “A committee of business men have requested me to become a can- didate for of President of the City Commission nt the election to be held on Apri 7th, 925. I have agreed to be a candidate. The same committep has requested Charles Wachter and George Humphreys to become can- didates for the pffice of City Com- missioners and these men have also agreed to submit their names to the voters for such offices, at the com- ing City Election. “We have no radical promises to make the voters, but we shall en- deavor, if elected, to conduct the affairs of the City in a manner sat- isfactory to the voters and taxpayers and consistent with common sense and with fairness to all.” CHINA'S FIRST PRESIDENT IS DEATH VICTIM Dr. Sun Yat Sen Long Was Important Figure in Chi- nese Life Pekin, China, Mar, 12—Dr. Sun Yat Sen, 63, upon whose head the Manchu dynasty fixed a price of $200,000 when Dr. Sen was campaign- ing for a republic in China, died here this morning from cancer of the liver. Caljed “China’s man of destiny” by many, Dr. Sen was _ identified with almost every phase of public life in his country. He was first president of the Republic created in 1912 and in recent years he had maintained an administration styled the southern government of China, at Canton. In his declining years he opposed the central government at Pekin. Dr. Sen was stricken when he arrived here late in January as a delegate to a conference having for its purpose the unification of China. “1 want to ‘be embalmed like my’ friend, Lenine, the Russian leader,” said *Dr. Sen just before he died. He also asked that he be buried at Nanking where he first served as president. The body was sent to the Rockefeller Hospital for em- balming. Orders) have been cabled t¢@ Moscow for a casket similar to that used for the burial of Lenine. The -be will lie in state at some public ‘ MAN'S BODY IS . FOUND AFTER TWO-DAY SEARCH Council Bluffs; Iowa, Mar. 12.— The body of+ B.A, Wickham, 58, millionaire contractor and financier of Council Bluffs, for two days the object ofea wide rch, was found late ‘Jast night hanging by rope fasterted to the/ceiling’ of an unused basement room in his home here by. Leo Wickham, a ®rother, and police cuptain J.C. Shafer... => . Mountain peaks 1600 feet, high from the bottom’of the ocean have been discovered of. the California) coast. i ~ re-election to the office! These stocks ure very equally dis- tributed over the state. { "The reserve of oats on farms March 1, 1925 was 40,147,000 bush- lels or 43% of, the 1924 crop as com- ated with 19,773,000 bushels or 369 ‘one year ago, 250,000 bushels or 46% in 1923. About 24% of the jerop will be ped out of’ the ‘counties where grown against 16% of the 1928 crop shipped by March 1, 1924, and 15% the year previous. Barley on Farms The amount of barley on farms March 1, 1925 was about 9,126,000 bushels or 26% of the 1924 crop as against 5,469,000 bushels or 25% one '34% in 1923. Barley shipped out of the counties where grown will be 48% of the 1924 crop compared with: 34% of the 1923 crop shipped py March 1, 1924, and 85% of the 1922 crop shipped by March 1, 1923. The reserve of corn on farms March 1, 1925 was 3,865,000 bushels Or 17% of the 1924 crop as against 6,488,000 bushels or 28% of the 1923 crop remaining in reserve on March 1, 1924, and 5,792,000 bushels or 27% the year previous. About 1% of the 1924 corn crop will be shipped’ out of the counties where grown as com- pared with 5% of the 1923 crop ship- ped by March 1, 1924, and 1% of the 1922 crop shipped by March 1, 1923. The inferior quality of the 1924 corn crop will prevent much movement of corn, 4 The amount of rye on farms March 1, 1925 was about 1,247,000 bushels or 9% of the 1924 crop as compared with 1,005,000 or 11% of the 1923 crop remaining in reserve on farms March 1, 1924. About 78% of the last year’s crop will be shipped out of the counties where grown against 70% of the 1923 crop shipped by March 1, 1924, ie reserve of hay on farms Mar. 1, 1925 wa sabout 32% of the 1924 crop or 1,213,000 tons as compared with 1,068,000 tons or 30% of the (Continued on page two) INDIAN CHIEFS SEE SORLIE Formal Call Is Made by Two From Elbowoods A formal call was paid on Gov. A. G. Sorlie yesterday atfernoon by prominent Indians of the Gros Ven- tre tribe, who came from the Elbo- woods reservation in tribal costum Foolish Bear and Bear-in-the-We: ter, bedecked in gayly colored suits and bearing themselves with dignity, wished the Governor good luck in administration. Foolish Bear is a grandson. of Chief Four Bears, great chiefs of the Mandans when Lewis and Clark spent the winter of 1804-05 at Fort Mandan, but him- self,is one of the Gros Ventre tribe. He also ts keeper of the testimonial for the Sioux nation which President Coolidge sent here it July 4, wit- messing the sacrifices of the tribe during the World War. Foolish Bear was a - United States Army scout at Ft.” Abraham Lincoln in 1874 and went with Custer on his first expedition to the Black Hillé,| when gold was discovered. Bear-in- the-Water, who has: the ‘English name of Adelaide Stevenson, was iq] an Army scout at:the mouth of the ‘Yellowstone in pioneer days, year ago, and 8,739,000 bushels orf NAME BY BILL Senator Ladd Introduces ; Measure by Request, and Asks for Information The name of Sully National | park will be permanently lost if Sen- ate bill 4405 becomes a law, is the advice the secretary of the Commerce association received toda from Senator E. F, Ladd. The bill was introduced in the Sen-| ate March 2, too late to be act€d upon during ‘he short session, and Senator Lada wishes to be advised as to the disposition of the people of the Lake Region relative to the bill. The recommendations of the secret- ary of the interior would lead the! ordinary person to believe that Sul-| ly’s Hill National park was merely a pasture, the Secretary in his letter says . “This park constitutes a small area of 780, acres near Devils Luke, North Dakota, given the name of a national’ park but actually utilized as u game pre- serve under the control, of the Biological survey of the depart- ment of agriculture, It is not actively administered by the Na- tional Park Service of the Inter- ior department, no funds for this purpose having ever been made available by congress, The park is fenced to within 30 feet of the boundary with a high wire fence to Keep elk and buffalo within and only a small part—a small pienie grove near Devils Lake, is available to the publie for park purposes.” The area has no, such outstanding scenic characterist- ies that should entitle it to na- tional park status, and, further- more its status as such Ander the above, conditions is anomolous. It would seem far more satisfac- tory and proper if its designation as a“national park” were ended, the reservation eliminated from the National Park system, and its name changed to the Sully's Hill National Game preserve by appropriate legislation.” Senator Ladd introduced this bill (by request), It was read twice in the senate on March 2 and was re-j ferred to the committée on public’ lands and surveys of which Senator| Ladd is the chairm: X C. O. Russell, president of the- Civ- ic and Commerce association, ex- pressed the opinion that while there are a number of advantages in having the park under the control of - the Biological survey as # game preserve, a time will oF when the people of; North Dakota without doubt want the park as a National park Mr. Russell said; “While we admi:| that there are no geysers, hot springs’ or rock topped mountains in the park, nevertheless the park is scenic. It is entirely different from the. ordinagy run of scenery in North Dakota. “Nothing has been done by the National Park service towards mak- ing the park more suitable, much of the time roads to the park have been practically impassible and the public has not had the opportunity to visit the park, consequently little is known about the park throughout the stat Browni Below y sport, either. Hampshire or sporting in a bathing speed boats in the balmy h will you have, New SORLIE LEAVES ON BUSINESS Governor A, Sorlie left this morning for d forks and Min- neapolis, to take up. problems con- nected with the state will and ele- vatoy at Grand Forks JUDGMENT ON NOTE UPHELD IN HIGH COURT Supreme Court Also Rules in Several Other Cases Before It A judgment of $9,000, for a $3 note and $4,000 interest, obtained by O. L. gen, as receiver of the itizens State Bank | of Edgeley, against the Medberry Farmers Equi ty Elevator, N. J. Paulson, A. Carow and other individuals, mem- bers of the board of directors of the elevator company, who did not appeal, was affirmed in a decision handed down by the supreme court. The court, in affirming the deci- sion of District Judge M. J. Englert, held that “an irregular endorser of a negotiable promissory note is en- titled to the rights of a regular en- dorser and that “a negofiable prom- issory note, payable in a named village, but without designating any particular place within the village, is sufficiently presented, so as to charge endorsers.” Other decisions handed down to- day by the court include: Ellen Doyle and Agnes Reineke, plaintiffs and appellants, against William J. Doyle, defendant and re- spondent, an appeal from Ramsey county involving a conveyance of real estate, in which decision was for the respondent. Edla H. Fyten, plaintiff and re- spondent, vs. A. J. Cummins and C. M. English, defendants and appel- lants, an action to have a land pur- chase contract cancelled, in which decision in favor of the former was modified and affirmed. That pot- tion of the lower court's decision which gave Fyten recovery of $6,- 113.55 from A. J. Cummins was stricken out. The effort of Golden Valley coun- ty to recover from E, J. Curtin and B. J. McKay on a depository bond, executed by the First National Bank of Beach, which the latter two signed as sureties, failed in the attempt to attach land in Iowa. The lower court’s decision for the de- fendants was upheld, the court hold- ing the attachment was unlawful. Says a Good Car Is Like Good Health, “You live longer, you live large with a good car than without one, says W..E. Lahr of the Lahr Motor Sales Co. other thing that confers these bene- fits. So a car becomes something much more than) @ convenience or & luxury to the one who owns it. “The fact that automobile trans- portation is requisite to'a bigger measure of life, is becoming more apparent every year. -The millions of car owners in America today are a living demonstration of it. ‘his situation puts upon the, ear dealer @ responsibility greater than This is a matter which should have the carefyl thought of the people of this state’ and ‘particularly the Lake Region section.” (aves merely to provide new cars for those who haven't any. He must serve SeSDeE cand-wel! those who already have’ yar 4 “Good health is the only; GRAIN MENTO "GATHER HERE IN CONVENTIO Three-Day Meeting Expected To be One of Largest of Year in City } PROGRAM Is GIVEN Governor Sorlie Is Among Those Listed For an Address Here One of the largest conventions of the year will convene in Bismarck on March 24 for a three day session —the Farmers Grain Dealers Asso- ciation of North Dakota. The grainmen will be accompan- ied by a band, which will provide music during the three days here. The Bismarck Association of Com- merce also is providing entertain- ment features. More than 300 are expected to attend the convention. Sessions will be in the city Auditor- ium. Governor Sorlie is among those on the program for an address at the convention, the tentative program for which is as follows: March 24th, 1925 Afternoon Session 1:30 P.M. Music—Grainmen’s Band. j Call to Order. Invocation. Address of Welcome—F. L. Conk- lin, Pregident Bismarck Association of Commerce. Response—R. F. Gunkelman, Presi- }dent Farmers Grain Dealers Associa- j tion, President's Annual Address—R. Gunkelman, Report of Secretary—P. A. Lee. | Financial Report. + Telephone Demonstration and mov- ing picture: Prof. L. R. Waldron Plant Breeder, Agricultural College, North Dakota. \ March 25th, 1925 ! Morning Session | 10:00 A. M, Music—Grainmen's Band. Appointment of Committees--Pre- sident. Address—B. L. Farmers Elevator Round Table Discussion Address-—J. P. Larson, Secretary Farmers Grain Dealers Association, \Fort Dodge, Ia. Address—O. L. Spencer, General Manager State Mill and Elevator As- Ewing, Manager Doland, S. Dak. *| sociation, Grand Forks, North Dako- ta, March 26th, 1926 Afternoon i 2:00 P. Music—Grainmen’s Address—John N. Hagan, Supervi- sor of Grades, Weight and Measures, Bismarck, Discussions. Address—E. W. Feidler, Chairman, Wisconsin Warehouse Commission, Superior, Wisconsin. March 25th, 1926 Evening Session 8:00 P. M. Entertainment furnished by the Bismarck Association of Commerce. March 26th, 1925 Morning Session 10:00 P. M. Music—Grainmen’s Band. Address—Past Performances and Future Expectations, W. C. Kendall, Manager Public Relations Section, A. R. A., Washington, D. C. Address—J. W, Shorthill, Secretary Farmers National Grain Dealers As- sociation, Omaha, — i March 26th, 1925 | Afternoon Session 2:00 P. M. Music—Grainmen’s Band. Report of Committees, Election of Directors. Address—J. A. Wyman, President Commission Merchants Association, Minneapolis, Minn. Address—Frank Milhollan, Chair- man, Board of Railroad Commission- ers, Bismarck, N. Dak. March 26th, 1925 Evening Session Banquet is expectéd to be held as usual. BORGLUM MAY . RENEW WORK ON MEMORIAL .. Mar. 12.—Gut- zon Borglum, formerly directing sculptor of the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial, today an- nounced he would confer tonight or tomorrow with a committee from Atlanta, with a view of arranging a resumption of work on the monu- ment. Wilmington, N. King George’s yacht, the Britan- nia, is one of the fi it afloat. It| 9286--aquere feet of canvas in fol’ sall, whei Dakota Youth, Is Involved in Cross City, Fla, March 12. tigation of the alleged complicity of Thomas W. Higginbotham, John H| Windorn, E.G. Priest, W. G. Me- Rane, and Charlie Hart, in the death of Louis Barker, a negro, will begin here today with the convening of a} special term of circuit court. Higginbotham already is under $20,000 bond for appearance in court for a second trial under charges of murder as a result of the death of Martin Tabert, North Dakota man, who died after a flogging alleged to ~~ CLAIM PRESSED FOR GRAZING, Inves- Suit brought by the government | against F.C. Turner, rancher in| Sioux county, who is alleged to have | used Indian lands for grazing cattle, was on trial in federal court here this morning. Mr, Turner, who for- merly lived in Emmons county, re- sists the claim of the government, asserting that he had ceased to use the lands which he rented up to 1920. POISONED HER FOR INSURANCE WOMAN AVERS Mrs. Dora Gage, 52, in Dying Statement, Accused For- mer Football Star WAS FOUND ON FLOOR! Gave Her Bottle He Said Con- tained Corn Whisky, Is Woman’s Charge Kansas City, March --( By the A. )J—Charged in a dying statement Mrs. Dora Gage, 52, of Atchison, . with having given her pois so that he could collect insurance policies which she had assigned to him, Roy M. Turner, 25, being held here today for investigation. Mrs. Gage died at the hospital yes- terday shortly after she had been found in her hotel room, writhing in pain on the floor. Turner, an Atehi- son real estate dealer and former terday with Mrs. Gage, was in the! room when hotel employees forced entrance. Before her death the woman as- serted that Turner gave her a bot- tle which he told her contained corn whisky. She said he threw the bot- tle out of the window after she had swallowed a drink. Mrs. Gage was immediately stricken. Turner denied to police that he had poisoned Mrs. Gage but he would not sign a state- ment. He said he had two bottles of corn whiskey yesterday, which he de- clared were bought in St. Joseph, Mo. Both drank from one bottle and lat- er Mrs, Gage drank from the second bottle, Turner said, She complained the liquor tasted bitter, he continued, Sampling the second bottle without swallowing the liquor, Turner said he found it bitter and threw both bottles out of the window. The, broken glass was picked and will be used for analysi Turner said he held $7,000 in surance policies on, Mrs. Gage’s life, explaining that he had sold her a farm and was holding the policies as securities for notes she had given up | him. Turner was under investigation in 1923 following the drowning of his bride of five months when a canoe in which the two were riding capsiz- ed in the Cottonwood River near Em- poria, Kans. There were no witness. es to the accident. | aL eon | PRICE FIVE CE SENATE START PROBE OF WHIPPING BOSS’ PART IN FLORIDA MURDER CASE Thomas W. Higginbotham, Convicted For Slaying of North New Case administered by Higgin- a Florida lumber camp. 1923 Higginbotham was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to twenty years in the state prison, 1 second trial being granted later, The five men are believed by au- have been botham in Tried in | thorities to know something of the) HARD FIGHT disappearance of Barker who had been missing since October, 1924 un- til his body was found a short dis- tance from the plant of the lumber company for which Higginbotham was “whipping boss.” SEN, COUZENS GETS REPORT _ ON INCOME TAX | | Treasury Department Sub- mits Figures Indicating an Underpayment REPLY |Declared That Charge Was Part of an Effort to | “Discipline” Him 12.—The Treas- prepared for delivery to Couzens of: M§chigan {to- | merrow, a notice of an arbitrary as- nent on profits alleged to have n made by him in the sale of his minority holdings of stock in ‘the Ford Motor Company. in 1919. While the computation of the as- sessment is practically. complete, it jis the intention. of the Treas jto withhold it for one day to give the Michigan Senator who is chair {man of the special committee vestigating the Internal Revenue |Bureau, an opportunity to sign a jWaiver of statute of limitations, if he so desires. The Treasury sent ito the Senator Monday a copy of a memorandum from a private source | joutside of the Treasury, purporting \to show that profits he had made on ‘the sale of the stock to Henry Ford jhad been under-assessed, and that { j between $10,000,000 and $11,000,000 [still was due ithe Treasury: At the same time Senator declared an attempt in the Senate ‘was being made to “discipline him” for his activities in investigation af- fairs of the Revenue Bureau. The statute of limitations which Senator Couzens has declined to waive, runs from tomorrow, and the Treasury declared it was faced with Jobtaining a waiver or applying an assessment. Secretary Mellon said the Treas- ury is precluded by law from making public the amount of arbitrary levy, adding that there had been no inten- [tion to give publicity to the case. CONFABS OF _ PHONE MEN IN STATE URGED Valley City, N. D., March 12.— District conferences that in reality would be small conventions at which telephone officials and employees in the various districts of North Dakota ;would gather for the purpose of be- ‘coming personally acquainted, ex- change views on problems confront- ing the industry in that particular district to the end that all would keep abreast of the new develop- ments in the industry, were urged by L. D. Richardson, of Fargo, di- ision commercial manager of the Northwestern Bell Telephone Com- pany in his address on “The Bene- of District Conferences” before the annual convention of the North Dakota Telephone Association here. ‘Mr. Richardson pointed out that the {three departments, traffic, plant and Washington, Mar, as in- ouzens After a hearing the coroner's jury!commercial, should be given places returned a verdict of accidental'at these proposed district confer- death, It was brought out that ences where a splendid opportunity Turner would receive $17,000 in in-!would be afforded operators ito be- surance which his wife carried. A come personally acquainted with a chemical analysis of the content of Mrs. .Gage’s stomach was ordered by the county coroner. result that better service could be expacted on lines over which the operators have occasion to talk. GOLFERS GETTING ANXIOUS AND COUNTRY The golf bugs are getting anxious as March wears on and the bright sunshine tells of days to come soon when the golfer can get out his ‘mashie and niblick and start in smashing them over the course of the Bismarck Country Club. Officers of the club, too, are feel- ing the call of spring and have al- ready launched their plans for the club during the coming summer. An early start is planned, with a lot of activities extending over the entire summer. Tom O'Leary, superintendent of the club and golf instructor, will be back on the job thi it is an- nounced, and he ha: plans for impreving the course. The Country: Club, continuing the policy it em- CLUB IS PREPARING barked on last year, has established a limit to its membership, which has not quite been reached, and remov- ale of members from the city will offer an opportunity for some more to join the club this year. With new acreage acquired last year by the club, it now owns the Country Club house and site and plenty of land for an 18-hole golf course. The growth of the city to- ward the club house wit] necessi- tate some change in laying out the course, though no ghange is likely to be made this at It is planned to hold the annual meeting and a dance and card ir April, providing an eatly open-| ing of the sedsen.. activities will immediate); SENDS WARREN NAME AGAIN T0 BE CONFIRMED Republican Leaders, Who Ad- vised Against it Yester- day, Change Course IS SEEN Nomination Must Now Travel Again Through the Reg- ular Course Washington, Mar. 12.—President Coolidge threw down the gauntlet to his opponents in the Senate today by resubmitting the nomination of Charles Beecher Warren to be At- torney-General of the United States. After a conference with Mr. War- ren, who had been summoned from Detroit after his name \failed of confirmation by a single vote, the President decided to fight out the issue and give Republican Senate leaders another opportunity to strive for confirmation. Senator Butler of Massachusetts, a close personal friend of the Pres. ident, was present at the White House conference and said he be- lieved ‘the necessary votes for con- firmation could be obtained. Attitude Stiffens Republicag leaders previously had advised Mr. Coolidge that the sit- uation appeared hopeless but with Mr. Warren’s arrival here there was a stiffening of Republican lines and a careful canvass of the outlook during the long talk between the President, Senator Butler, and the nominee, resulted in a decision that confirmation would be possible by a narrow margin, Meantime the opposition, which includes almost the whole Democrat- ic membership of the Senate and a group of Republican insurgents, also set out to reorganize its strength in such a way as to again block Senate approval. It was indicated that the President's decision might result in lengthening the special session of the Senate which the leaders had hoped to end on Saturday, To Travel Regular Course The Warren nomination wi!l have to travel the regular course through the Judiciary Committee which includes among its members some of the leading opponents of confirmation, There will be many opportunities to interpose delays should the opposition decide that sort of strategy advisable. In thei-_ rei ssment of the sit- uation, the’Republican leaders pe rune Jed out that when confirmation fail- ed on Tuesday on a forty to forty tie, not only Vice President Dawes but several of the Republican reg- ulars among the Senate membership were absent. They also declared that several of the Democrats who were out of the chamber when the vote was taken could be won over to support the nomination, President Coolidge is understood to have left it to Mr. Warren him- self to decide whether his name should again he submitted. No sooner had news of the de- cision reached the capitol than the enemies of the Warren appointment began preparations to reopen a bat- tle they thought they already had won. Senators Walsh of Montana and Reed of Missouri, who had placed themselves at the head of the Democratic-insurgent Republican group opposing confirmation, de- clared they would make a resistance even more stubborn than that which mustered forty votes on Tuesday’s roll call to offset and nullify the forty commanded by the administra- tion leaders. For their part most of the Repub- lican organization leaders declined to comment. They said they would again go through the motions of re- ferring the nomination to commit- tees and then bringing it to the Senate floor. The outcome they said could not be determined by the roll call itself. Weather Report | —_——_—_—_—_____—___- For 24 hours ending at noon: Temperature at 7 a. m. Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday Lowest last night Precipitation . Highest wind velocity . WEATHER FORECAST For Bismarck and vicinity: Partly overcast and somewhat unsettled tonight and Friday; colder tonight. For North Dakota: Partly over- cast and somewhat unsettled tonight and Friday; colder tonight. WEATHER CONDITIONS A large high'pressure area, accom- panied by cold weather, prevails over the northern Plains States and north- ern Rocky Mountain region, Tem- peratures are bélow zero in the cen- tral Canadidn Provinces but rising temperatures prevail in the central and southern states west of the Mis- siesippi River. A slight depression, accompanied by precipitation, pre- vaile over the (extreme northern Roky Mountain region. the weather is generally fair. ‘ORRIS