The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 6, 1925, Page 1

ee ie WEATHER FORECASTS 7 For Bismarck and vicinity: Gen- erally fair and continued cool. iy ESTABLISHED 1873 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [aan ig ROADS READY © ie TOMOVE 1925 GRAIN CROPS , Federal Reserve Official Here Predicts Bumper Yields This Year i I i i “ OUTLOOK IS. BRIGHT : Advisory Board Expects To Move 50,000 More Cars Than in 1924 Curtis L. Mosher, assistant federal reserve agent of the Ninth District and chairman of the executive com- mittee of the Northwest Regional Advisory Board, arrived in Bismarck today in the interests of the Board. Mr. Mosher is looking over the agricultural prospects and getting a line on the crop outlook. He stop- |*’ ped over here after a meeting of the Montana division in Butte at which the state was organized fog the B® | movement of grain this ‘fall. | | Mr. Mosher said that the crop out-| look in Montana is as good as was ever seen at this time of the year and the crops look good in Western| North Dakota. The spring wheat} acreage in Montana is to be the larg- | est that state ever had, he stated.! Seeding was held up by wet weather | so moisture conditions are good. | Western North Dakota conditions| he reports look fine. The Advisory | Board has had reports from four) states and from data accumulated on! the present crop, the Board fooks for’ a movement of 50,000 cars of grain above last year’s movement. Mon-| tana has a heavy increage in wheat, acreage and will seed this year about; 200,000 more acres of spring wheat alone over the aggregate of all wheat | acreage of last year, reports to the Hoard show. 4 The Advisory Board is an organi- zation of shippers and railroad men who supervise the car supply over the Northwest, working in conjunc- tion with railroad commissions and the various railroad lines, Frank Milhollan of the North Dakota Com- mission is a member of the Board and member of the executive com- mittee. The crop: has two weeks start and it the yield is good the car requir ments are liable to be heavy this fall, Mr. Mosher said. He declared that a situation that helps this year is the quieting down of business in the East in the last few weeks which is building up the car supply here so that the Board is 13 per cent bet- ter off than a year ago. Last year was the first year in the history of the Northwestern railroad without a blocked elevator or inabi- lity to supply cars, Mr. Mosher suid. He stated that the Board is hard at work to duplicate those conditions this year and their problems appear solved. Liquidation over this section has been very good and banking condi- tions are improved over a year ago, Mr. Mosher said. Mr. Mosher is here for a visit of two days with Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Mundy. of \ | Weather Report oe 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: -Gen- erally fair and continued cool to- v aight and Thursday. Frost or freez- ing temperature tonight. For North Dakota: Generally fair and continued cool tonight and Thursday. Frost or freezing temp- eratures tonight. GENERAL WEATHER CONDITIONS The pressure continues high over the northern Plains States and kill- ing frost occurred in North Dakota 2 and parts of South Dakota and Mon- tana. The temperature is rising in the north Pacific coast states. Light, seattered precipitation occurred in the southern , Plains States, Else- where the weather is generally fair. North Dakota Corn and Wheat Region, Summary For the week ending May 5, 1925. ‘The weather during the week was . too cool for best results and fre- quent frosts caused some damage to fruit t?ees, early gardens and some early plafted grains. Farm work is well advanced, Plowing for corn is| general and somé\has been planted in the southern portion of the State. | Flax seeding is well‘glong but pre- { cipitation generally woitld encourage greater acreage. Spring wheat, o barley and speltz are doing well gen: erally and pastures, ranges and mea- dows are excellent although rain would be beneficial. Much . road @ work is under way and highways are in good condition. . OBRIS W. ROBERTS, q Officis! in charge. CUBANS ADD TO POPULATION, Havanna, May 6.—The population % ef Cuba increased 225,713 during 1924, a statement issued by F. V. Preval, chief of the national ce { | ith i office, says. The 1924 figures give a total of 38,368,925 against 3,143,219 for 1923. cows Aa. His father elected Germany, Captain Von Hindenburg, 'in 400 years of exploration by ship son of the field marshal, is expect-;and dog sled has been reached by ed to figure prominently in affairs!only one expedition, that of Admiral the new republic. eee eee | i president BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1925 NORSE ENTRY IN POLE DASH STARTS TODAY Amundsen Set to Leave This Afternoon From Norway For Top of World BY AIRPLAN GOES First of Three Explorers To Leave This Season For Frozen North (Ry The Associated Press) New York, May 6.—Roald Aniund- sen’s impending dash to the North Pole by airplane, set to start from Spitzbergen, Norway, this afternoon, |marks the beginning of efforts of three nations to conquer by air that of; portion of the frozen north, which : Peary fifteen years ago. mundsen, discoverer of the South Pole, carrying the flag of Norway, il be followed in June by expedi tions headed by Donald B. MacMil- LEGION SEEKS |garsson, Great Britain, all three tak- lan; United States, and Grettir Al- twill be !Saturday, but the Bisma lex i $2,000 HERE FOR DISABLED Endowment Fund Campaign: with bottoms shaped like sleds so To Open in Bismarck Thursday Morning Plans for the campaign in marck for the American Legion en-| which is less than jdowment fund have been completed {and committees will start out tomor- quota for the Dakota | e this city he drive in held Thursday pect to have this 000 raised in one day quot Team: of the city and ling to the air from bases to be es- \tablished 550 miles by air line from ithe pole. Amundsen, leaving his two ships Fram and Hobby at the northernmost ipoint of Spitzbergen, will attempt the flight in two Dornier Whales— jall metal monoplane flying boats they can land on ice, Algarsson’s attempt has been t ‘ed as daring as the M |States navy expedition is conceded |to be the most elaborate of the three. Bis-|In a blimp, the gas bag capacity of one-twentieth jthat of the Shenandoah, Alge hopes to take off from his ship Li erpool, anchored somewhere west of | Spitzenberg. Like Amundsen he will | be’ content with merely a dash to the pole and a few days exploration. MacMillan’s is the only expedition which hopes to chart the vast unex- ‘plored area on the Alaska-Siberia erm- | on ta of} s will work in all parts the homes will be solicited as well; as the stores and offices. A. P. Lenhart has issued the fol- lowing proclamation asking the, cit- izens of Bismarck to subscribe to! the fund: “Whereas, the president of the; United States has endorsed the ef- forts of the American Legion to provide homes and education for the jthousands of dependent children of{called upon to rescue the two other war-veterans the care and protec- tion of wives and widows now de- pendent upon charity, and the care of incompetent and disabled veterans of the World War, and “Whereas, the governor of the State of North Dakota recognizing this great service to humanity has given his approval of this drive, “Therefore, I, A. P. Lenhart, Mayor of the City of Bismarck, State of North Dakota hereby proclaim the day of May 7th, American Legion Endowment Day. “And urgently recommend that all citizens and organizations of this city put forth every effort in attain- ing this city’s quota of the $5,000,-; 000 needed to cary on successfully the American Legion’s national child welfare and rehabilitation en- deavors. “Given this 6th day of May in the year of our Lord, one thousand, nine hundred and twenty-five, under my hand and the seal of the city of Bis- marck, state of North Dakota.” The national organization is plan- ning to raise $5,000,000, of which amount the North Dakota quota has been set at $25,000. Following the war the Red Cross gave the legion $100,000 for work side of the pole. Half the size of the United States, this area may be the unknown con- tinent both Peary and MacMillan on his previous expedition claimed they saw but could not reach, Because of the thoroughness with which the MacMillan navy expedi- tion has been planned, it may come to pass that the Americans will be explorers. Wireless apparatus will be carried by all three parties. YOUNG SLAYER TO WED WIFE OF HIS VICTIM (By The Associated Press) Edmondton, Alberta, May 6.—The young copper Eskimo Ikalukpiak will be taken back to his tribesmen by royal Canadian mounted police this summer from Stone Mountain peni- tentiary, where he is serving a term for manslaughter, to marry the wife of the man he killed. The drama of primitive passions, which resulted in his imprisonment centered around Havougach, 40, his wife, Khattia, 26, and Ikalukpiak, 25, all copper Eskimos living inland about 100 miles from the R. C. M. P. post at Tree River in Coronation Gulf. RUNAWAY BOY ARRESTED BY LOCAL POLICE among the disabled soldiers and or- phans of the men who were killed jor who died in the service. year the Red Cross found it’ neces- sary to discontinue this aid and the Knights of Columbus give $75,000 for the work this year. order to provide a perm fund for this relief, the legion au- thorized at the St. Paul tonvention last year the creation of a $5,000,- 000 which is to by endowment, the interest e disabled and the of (By The Associated Pre: 8} Lisbon, Portugal, May 6.—Di offered g used for the aid of | orphans. There are now 35,000 orphans in the {United States, while fifteen disabled | men are dying daily, many leaving widows and orphans. ‘TROOPS CALLED OUT TO PATROL LISBON STREETS .—Disord- Alfred Silver, a 16-year-boy of Eureka, was taken from Northern Paeific train No. 7 yesterday after- noon by Officer Peck upon request of Eureka police. The boy had run away from home and he was held here for his father who arrived this morning and took the lad back to Eureka, \SALEM SENIORS TO PRESENT PLAY FRIDAY vNew Salem, May 6.—The Senior class of the New Salem High bchool will present Booth Tarkington’s play, “Seventeen” at the Center Op- era House here Friday evening. The play presented here on April 17 {and was such a success that many requests have been made for the play to be repeated. i A dance will follow the perform- lance. se ita Wea Last to anent it of them | y 1 ers have broken out again in Lisbon; and today the streets are patroled by cavalry, occasional revolver shots are heard, a few persons have been wounded and many arrests have been made. The disorders began Sunday night as a result of the election, Yester- day and last night women led a street parade followed by male de- monstrators who occasionally, fired ra WOLVES TRAP WOMEN Rome, May 6—Many women and children were forced to remain for more than an hour in a church on the slope of Mt. Vesuvius when a pack of wolves surrounded the edi- fice during a service. Villagers later drove away the wolves, which are in that region. ENGLAND REPLANTING TREES sh charged troops are now awaiting reinforce- ments to establish order. the demonstrators and WOMAN ANGLER IS 82 York, Pa., May 6.—One of the enthusiastic anglers here is Mrs. C. Love, 82 years old. Thereupon government troops London, May 6.—In an effort to make: good the depletion of English forests during the war, the fore: commission of the government this year has planted more than 30,000,- 000 young trees, covering approxi- mately 16,000 acres. «It is the inten- tion to double this number of. plant- ing next year, $ these < most Auburn curls, a nose inclined to the retrou of southern beauty when E! traditional type ville, Tenn., was ¢hosen by popula at the University of Chattanooga. ASKS | LENROOT INQUIRY INTO RR, FAILURE Seeks Reason For Crash of Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Line (By ‘The Associated Press) Washington, May 6.—Investigati of the recent failure of the Chicagy Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad will be demanded by Senator Lenroot, Re- publican, Wisconsin, immediately ter Congress convenes in December. Senator Lenroot announced that he would introduce a resolution calling for an inquiry either by the Senate or by the Interstate Com- merce Commission, “There are 1,100 Wisconsin resi- dents stockholders in the Milwaukee road,” he said. “The government is a creditor to the umount of over $55,000,000 and the general public is concerned as well. I have no res son to doubt the honesty and eff ciency of the management of th road in recent years but there are rumors that a receivership was not really necessary but was brought about by a group of bankers and not in the interest of the stockholders. I believe also that an investigation will tend to bring about greater pro- tection to the stockholders in the reorganization proposed to be effec- tive.” WELL KNOWN FARMER OF LEONARD DIES William F, A. Hahn, 57, well known farmer who was a resident of Leon- ard, N. D., since 1900 and of the state since 1895, died at his farm home near Leonard yesterday of Bright’s disease after an illness of nearly three years, He had been confined to his bed for the past year. Mr. Habn was a prominent farmer and was known all over the state. He was born at Rib Fal Wis., in 1868 and settled at Leonard in 1895. He was married to Hulda Salzwadel at Leonard in 1900. Surviving him are Mrs, Hahn, one son, Rubin; Walter, a step-son; and Mrs. Fred Barfuss, a step-daughter; besides three brothers and three sis- ters. The brothers are John and August of Leonard and Richard, who lives in Wisconsin. The sisters are Mrs. Richard Wacholz and Mrs, Fer- | dinand Neuman, both in Wisconsin, and Mrs. Fred Schossow of Chaffee, N.D. Mr. Hahn also leaves 11 grand- children, all in the vicinity of Leon- ard FOR FREEDOM IN HANDS OF COURT The fight of H. J. Hagen, former president of the-defunct Scandina- vian-American bank of Fargo to es- cape a term in the state pénitentiary, rests with the supreme court. The court yesterday heard George A. Bangs, special assistant attorney general, ask for dismissal of Ha- gen’s notice of appeal to the supreme court, and the motion of U. L. Bur- dick, Hagen’s attorney, for a new trial in the case. The court took the matter under advisement for ten days. Eli Whitney worked at repairing fiddles before he invented the cotton gin. today | | CURLS AND FRECKLES WIN FOR HER ge and freckles won over zabeth Campbell of Lyn: r vote as the most beautiful co-ed She is a sophomore. NAVAL OFFICER ACQUITTED OF LIQUOR CHARGE , (By Th Associated Press) ar Norfolk, May 6 mmander DD, {W. Fuller, commanding the val itransport Beaufort was acquitted of all three charges alleging neglect of duty in connection with finding aboard his ship of 500 quarts of whiskey when jit docked here in February, by a court martial at the naval base here today. REBEL LEADER | PLANS ATTACK iMoreccan Tribesmen Mobilize For Drive on French Fez, French Morocco, May 6.--Ab- El-Krim, the Moroccan rebel leader, now is reported to have mobilized 0,000 Riffian tribesmen for his at- jtack on the French zone, instead of he 4,000 previously estimated. The {French outposts, some of which were | isolated by the first movement of the | Riffians from the Spanish zone, have been relieved by General Colombot’s ‘column and the garrison supplied | with food and water. | Colonel Freydenburg, in a series of fiercely contested engagements, is reported to be clearing the central sector, while to the east in the vi- cinity of Tazat, General Cambay, af- ter driving back the invaders, has successfully repulsed a series of counter attacks MINOT BUSINESS MAN MUST SERVE TERM IN PRISON Minot, N. D., May 6.—Abe Gordon, Minot clothing store dealer, con- victed in federal court in Minot on February 9, 1924, on a charge of concealing assets in bankruptcy and of perjury, must serve an 18 months sentence in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, as a result of an affirmation by the United States circuit court of appeals at St. Paul of a decision of the fed- eral court in Minot. Gordon will now have to serve his term at Leavenworth or appeal fo the United States supreme court. An appeal will very likely be taken, it is declared. Prosecution of Gordon was an out- growth of financial troubles in 1922, when eastern creditors threw him ‘into involuntary bankruptcy. The case hinged upon an alleged concealment of certificates of de- posit for $2,500 in a Minot bank in a schedule of assets filed in bankrupt- cy court. It was the contention of the government that those certifi- cates were an asset of Gordon's, while the defense claimed that they belonged to Mrs. Gordon. Fire Destroys ; Valuable Luniber | (By The Associajed Press) Iron Mountain, Mich., May 6.—Fire caused a loss of $30,000 when it des- troyed 40,000 feeder posts and 22,000 feeder ties at Hardwood near here. The timber was owned by Bergdahl and Johnson. The origin of fire is unknown. The loss is partly cover- ed by insurance. Prompt work by firemen saved the village from des- truction. Oxygen now is believed to be « cure for seasickness, N- | is In Michigan‘ eee "ANOTHER BIG BUDGET CUT IS PLANNED Economy Drive of President Coolidge Bearing Fruit, Figures Show | i | | | | i WAR it BONDS RETIRED Probable Surplus For This Fiscal Year Will Be About $100,000,c00 ! \ (By The Associated Press) | Washington, May 6.—President | Coolidge’s drive for economy in fed- eral expenditures will result in an- Jother substantial cut in the annual budget. He hopes the reduction will |be as great as $300,000,000. Present { budget estimates for the year begin- ning next June 30 are for $3,267,00 000 exclusive of the post office de- {partment but including public debt | requirements. These appropriations | already have been made. Budget director Lord is returning ‘to Washington Saturday and will be- igin the drafting of the next budget ‘in conference with the president. | The Treasury soon can supply the | jbudget with additional figures as to jthe probable surplus for the current jfiscal year, a surplus that now prom- to be about $100,000,000. It {likewise will be in a position to fore- Jeast more definitely the receipts {that may be counted on from taxes Jin the fiscal year beginning July 1. | The Treasury already counts on a jeut of about $50,000,000 in expen- iditures through additional retire- [ment of war bonds. 1 eee MRS, SHEPHERD WAR SECRETARY? Return of Maj. Gen. James G. Har- bord from a trip to South America, coupled with reports that the health of Secretary Weeks will not: permit him to continue his office, have led to reports in Washington that Har- bord will become secretary of war. MONTANA OIL PRICE FIVE CENTS i DRY ARMADA BLOCKS RUM RUNNERS BOOZE FLERT HELD AT BAY BY U.S, SHIPS Finish of Liquor Row Seen By Federal Prohibition Directors in East MACHINE GUNS READY Blockade To Be Extended To Great Lakes in War to Halt Smuggling (By The Associated Press) New York, May 6.—Through the censorship accompanying Uncle Sam’s blockade of the rum fleet there filtered today news of in- creases to the greatest dry armada ever in action. Came too suggestions that the Great Lakes, as well as the Atlantic, would be the scene of a blockade. Twenty-one boats have gone from MAN 1S GIVEN New York to watch the liquor fleet, boat for boat, on a fifty mile front, from PRISON TERM Gordon Campbell, Associate of Wheeler Found Guilty of Fraud Charges (By The Associated Press) Great Falls, Mont., May 6—Gor- don Campbell, discoverer of the Cav- in-Sunburst oil fields and the man who employed Senator B. K. Wheeler at $10,000 a ay as his attorney following Wheeler's election to the Senate in 1922, today was found TS ACCUSED | WITH HUSBAND Coroner’s Jury Asks She Be Held For Deaths of Two McClintocks { By The Associated Press) i go, May 6.—The coroner's |iury investigating the death of Wil- | liam N. McClintock, millionaire or- phan, last night concurred in the ac- tion of the grand jury which indict- ed William D. Shepherd, McClintock's foster father, for his murder, and also recommended that Mrs. William D. Shepherd be held to the grand |jury as an accessory to the murder. |_ The jury also recommended that | Shepherd be held to the grand jury on a charge of murder in the death of Mrs. Emma Nelson McClintock, the young millionaire’s mother who died 16 years ago, and that Mrs. Shep- herd be held as an accessory to murder in this death. The jury found that Mrs. McClintock died from mer- cury poisoning administered by Shepherd. The coroner's jury also concurred in the action of the grand jury which indicted Charles F. Faiman with Shepherd. Faiman had con- fessed Shepherd offered him $100,- 000 for typhoid germs to give Mc- Clintock, Regarding Mrs. Shepherd, the jury said it believed she had “guilty knowledge as to the admin- istration of typhoid germs or other manner causing the death of the deceased.” The jury returned its first verdict regarding the death of young McClin- tock after deliberating 1 hour and 20 minutes. It then returned again and a few minutes later came back with its finding regarding the death of Mrs. McClintock and Dr. Olson. The verdicts climaxed an investiga- tion by the body extending over a period of about 5 months. The jury returned its verdict after listening for several hours to a de- jnuneiation of both Shepherd and his j wife by Judge Olson who demanded the investigation into the death of the young millionaire and later into jthe deaths of Mrs. McClintock and j his brother. RECOUNT CASE | IN. DISTRICT | COURT TODAY Trial of the suit brought by W. C. Cashman against W. S. Casselman, asking for a recount of the votes for police magistrate at the city jelection on April 7, in which Mr. ; Casselman defeated Mr. Cashman for the: office by 13 votes, began today jin the Burleigh county district | court. The trial is expected to take two or three days. ‘SIX FIREMEN KILLED WHEN BUILDING FALLS — (By The Associated Press) Atlanta, Ga., May 6.—Six firemen were killed and four injured here early today when the upper floor of a building in which they were fight- ing fire collapsed, the men being buried beneath hales of cotton that had been stored on the second floor: | guilty in the federal court here by a jury under charges of fraudulent oil promotion and using the mails to defraud. . The jury ‘was out 29 hours and re- turned a sealed verdict at’ 9:30 last night. The verdict was read before George M. Bourquin this morning. Campbell is under another indict- ment in the District of Columbia with Senator Wheeler and E. S. Booth, former solicitor of the In- terior Department, charged with con- spiracy to procure federal land by fraud. Campbell was sentenced to . two years in prison and fined $1,000. DEATH CALLS ZONA HOFFMAN Child Succumbs After Brave Fight For Life Conscious and, happy to the last moment, little twelve-year-old Zona Mary Hoffman between four and four-thirty o'clock this morning reached the end of her prolonged struggle with death which all of Bismarck has been anxiously and sympathetically watching. Brought home from Battle Creek, Mich., around eleven o'clock last night, after the last futile efforts on the part of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Hoffman, to obtain the best medical skill that the country af- fords, had failed, the child succumb- ed finally to acute nephritis. Zona was first taken to a local hospital for treatment about six weeks ago, after having been in poor health for some time. Last week, after physicians here were unable to do any more for the child, she was taken to a specialist in Battle Creek, Michigan. Born in Beach, North Dakota, August 31, 1912, Zona was brought up in Bismarck. She was in the seventh grade at the Will School when she was taken ill, and was al- ways at the head of her classes. So- cially, as well as scholastically, the child was unusually successful. Everyone liked Zona Hoffman. Surrounded by her family when she died, she bade each in turn good- bye, expressing the wish to “go out smiling.” Besides her parents, she left one brother, Sidney, who is a student at the high school. Grain Marketing Firm Seeks To Enter State The Grain Marketing company of Chicago, the -operative marketing agency sponsored by National Farm Bureau’ federation officers, plans to do business in North Dakota. The secretary of state has received Papers from H. S. Ballard, counsel, of Chicago, stating that it desires to qualify in North Dakota as a foreign corporation, and when it has been informed of procedure will name a state agent. ‘The Grain Marketing company is incorporated under the laws of Illi- nois as a co-operative marketing agency, and plans to do bus on @ nationwide scale. on Fifty years-ago it was a fed in England for girls to have photo- graphs of their sweethearts printed on thei shoes. an hour's steaming distance shore. Twenty-five craft from New England ports joined those from New York. Twelve more rum chasers are Teady to depart from the zone of ac- tion fom their Staten Island base. Reports from Detroit say that a dry fleet of ten craft is expected to be ready by summer for action on the Great Lakes. Later it will be supplemented by another fleet, con- struction of which has also started. Rum row’s finish is foreseen by R. Q. Herrick, federal prohibition director for New York and Northern New Jersey. Already the increased factivi jes of the coast guard have cut down liquor importations by ninety per cent, he says. The plan of matching the liquor fleet boat for boat is expected to drive the rum selling craft back to their home, ports in the West Indies, the Maritime Provinces of Canada, France and England. They will be unable to‘get food or water from shore or to sell .any liquor, if the blockade is effective, for boats from ;Shore communicating with them will be- seized. The dry navy has guns ready, if need be, to. enforce seizures. One prize is already reported. After a five mile chase that involved shooting and bloodshed a speeding liquor boat was beached at Seabright, N. J. Machine gun bullets from = unit of the dry navy disabled the helmsman of a forty-five foot craft with two Liberty engines of 230 4. p. each. After beaching the craft the men aboard escaped. There were 250 cases of liquor aboard and a pool of blood was noted in the cock- pit. Although government authorities would not discuss operations in the air against the air fleet seaplanes were reported cooperating with the coast guard blockade. A dozen or more planes went to sea from the Narrows early today and one put out from Rockaway Point. STATE TO PUT GRADING ACT INTO OPERATION Immediate steps will be taken by the state railroad commission to put into operation the provisions of the 1913 North Dakota grain grading law, as a result of the decision of the United States supreme court in holding the 1922 initiated act un- constitutional, Chairman Frank Mil- hollan said yesterday. An appropriation of $45,500 for two years from July 1, 1925, should be ample to conduct the grain grad- ing division of the railroad commis- sion, the chairman said. A. special meeting of the commission is plan- ned to discuss the matter and ar- range to bring the department under the personal supervision of the com- mission, the chairman added. Asked if the 1913 act gave suffi-- cient power to protect sellers of grain, Chairman Milhollan said: “I believe it does, although the new act may have given broader powers.” The question of personnel is to be taken up also immediately. John N. Hagan, Present supervisor of grains and grain grading, who’ is in the northwestern part of the state, is expected to return tomorrow. HUNDREDS TO COMPETE FOR MUSIC HONORS Grand Forks, N. D., May 6.—Near- ly 45 towns and citi qualified entrants in the various district high school music contests throughout North Dakota, Bowman, of tension divisi according to Miss Anne the state university ex- ion. From these towns, 400 to 500 students are expected to come to the University May 21-33 to compete for state honors. A patti amiecs LEY TREE 300 YEARS OLD Paris, May 6—Ab. wcaciatree, planted in 1685, is stil atanding the Jardin des Plantes. It sy started from a cutting of scacia brought from North» America’ by: Jean Robin. The tree now is ‘sup- Ported by a cement belt atid ¢ of pillars. shears