The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 18, 1925, Page 1

PRICE FIVE CENTS TAX CUT “WEATHER FORECAST For Bismarck. and vicinity: Fair tonight and Wednesday. THE BIS ARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1925 GE MAPS INCOME ESTABLISHED 1873 : COOLID BIS i BISMARCK TO MANDAN POWER “LINE PLANNED Hughes Company Files Appii- cation With Railroad Commission LINK $1,000,000 PROJECT ‘ould Connect Proposed Tranmission Line From Capital to Dickinson Application for perm build a 22.000 volt transm between Bismarck and made today before the state railway board by the Hughes Electric com- pany of Bismarck The power developm projec} contemplates an extension of th Hughes main line from Bismar. Dickinson and the construction of a transmission line from Beulah to Hazen. The development program when completed will cost approxi- mately $1,000,000, it was estimated today by F, A. Hughes, Construction work on the Dickin- son-Hebron line is nearing comple- tion. A connecting link will later be built from Mandan to Hebron. The Hughes company has under contemplation a project to build a power line from Hazen west to Kill- deer. This proposed power route would serve Beulah and adjacent communities along the line. In its plan submitted to the board the company proposes to construct a power line from the west end of the bridge across the Missouri river where the present high-voltage line now terminates, to the city limits of Mandan, thus linking the Bismarck! power plant with that recently pur- chased by the company at Mandan, The new line will be another link in the chain by which the Hughes company plans fo link together cities in western North Dakota to insure continuous power service. Other lines now are projected between Dickinson and Hebron in order to connect power plants at those places, the idea being to link all the Hughes plants in this section of the state together to insure continuous ser-j vice to each community. When the system is completed a breakdown at one plant will not uffect the service because power then could be drawn from plants in other cities. Several other applications for per: mits to construct other power line extensions now are pending before the railroad board. It is estimated | hy the Hughes company that the en- tire linking-up program will cost approximately $1,000,000, FARGO MAN | FOUND DEAD IN HIS CAR Word was received in Bis- marck today over the Associ- ated Press wires of the death of H. R. Bailey of Fargo. He was found dead beside the main highway west of Fargo at 2:30 p. m. today. The po- lice believed that he commit- ted suicide. A gun was found at his side in the car. HAIL DAMAGE CLAIMS SLIGHT Hail damage in widely scattered areas over the eastern part of the state caused by storms over the week end was slight, reports to the hail insurance department today showed. A total of 29 claims were received from Foster county, 18 from Em- mons, 14 from Eddy, 9 from Wells, 7 from Stutsman, The fact that much grain has al- ready been harvested reduced the number of claims, Martin S. Hagen, hail insurance commissioner, said. ROADS PROTEST TAX VALUATION Protests against proposed valuq ations of North Dal railroads for taxing purposes were filed with the state board of equalization by rep- resentatives of the Soo Line, Chi- cago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul, the Midland ~ Continental, and Northern Pacific railroads. They represented to the board that assessment of railroad property made last year and Promonet for this year is in excess of actual value of prop- erty. : Several increases and some de- creases are contained in tentative assessment schedules compiled by the hoard. LUCK WA® WITH HIM i Folkestone, Eng—Although his lane {spded upside down, rR Doran-Webb, the _ pilot, aped serious injury, by leaping just be- fore the plane hit the ground. ALL WOMEN CAN TALK Beirut, Syria.—An oratorial con- test at the University of Beirut was won by Mrs. Ahmad Shakir, the first Moslem woman to enroll at the school, ~ “Ibis bettie nest your wite to the ey let reaches the water meter, if possibie, for there is considerable resistance in the meters. 2 a ound it PRISON RECORD NEEDED FOR STRANGEST COLLEGE HE WAS GIVEN IVE YE , : as Nitra SS BY LARRY BOARDMAN NEA Service Writer Washington, D. ¢ A cotlege for} ex-convicts, started by onvict,| is being founded here. It is Letha Watts Memorial Uni- versity--possibly the strangest edy- cational institution in the world. Its only entrance requirement i prison record. Its founder and president is D Farl E, Dudding, who served time i the West Virginia State Peniten- tiary. Fourteen. years ago Dudding was a prosperous merchant in Hunting- ton, W. Va. Then he became in- volved with his uncle in a contro-| xersy over some property. They quarreied--and Dudding shot his uncle to death He pleaded self-defense, but sentenced to five years in Mound ville. After serving four years he released—-only to find his earning power gone, his wife ill, his daughters ostra by friends, and his life apparently wrecked. Then it dccurred to him that thou- sands of other ex-conviects must be in the same plight. Decided to Help Convicts In the penftentiary he had care- fully ‘studied his fellow prisoners. He had become convinced that the majority of them would respond to humane treatment and fair p And he decided to help them ma good. With a borrowed $14, his entire capital, he started in. Miss Letha Watts, one of his few remaining friends, offered to help. Dudding and Miss Watts started the Prisoners’ Relief Society, and wrote letters to 10,000 business men, asking if they would take one or more convicts into their employ. They received but one favorable reply—from Daniel Willard, presi- dent of the B. & O. Railroad. Some time later Miss Watts died, but ‘the Prisoners’ Relief gradually | have made good. | limited to West Virg' became a success. RATE BOOSTS WOULD EQUAL GENT BUSHEL Official Statement Received by the State Railroad Commission Increases in freight rates asked by western railroads who wili argue their case before the Interstate Commerce Commission at a hearing to! start in Chicago, September 1, will total approximately 1 cent bushel on grains; 15 cents a ton on coal; seven and a half cents a ton on clay, gravel sand and stone and 20 cents a ton on cement, lime and Plaster, accirding to an official statement by the yailroads received by_the state railroad labor board. This will mean an increase of mil. ns: of dollars in North Dakota's annual frdight bill, E. M. Hendricks, Peatiiee expert for the state board, said. The western railroads have failed to earn the five and three-quarters per cent permitted to them by the transportation act of 1920, they point the average revenue for 1924 having been 3.87 per cent on their investment, and an increase of five per cent in rates would still leave them below: the figure permitted by law with a net return on investment of 4.62 per cent. Two Killed in Minnesota Crash Little Falls, Minn., Aug. 18.—()— Two persons were killed early toda: when their automobile left the roa four miles south of here and over- turned in a ditch, pinning the occu- pants beneath the car. The dead are Hannah Fryxell and Normal, Gordon, both of Minneapo- It persuaded more and more em- ployers to put men and women with! prison records on their pay rolls. Contributions started coming in from all parts of the country. So far, it has helped 100,000 ex- convicts to find jobs—and Dudding declares that 90 per cent of thede At first the society's scope was Dud- andy { H ding later moved to W made it a national affa Need for Trained Men Then he encountered another ficulty. In an age of sp 1 tion, | it was extremely hard to place the trained men-—and nds,of the men and women trying to assist lacked both business and me- chanical training. This presented the idea of an ex- convicts’ college. He signed. up Marshall, first president of Dr. T. Marcellus shall! College," as chancellor. Next hey started’ the first. branch of his unique university-—a school for stenographers—in the brick house where Ne lives and works. * girls taking this course,” he re helping me send out in- n and pleas for assistance. plan to teach the elementary subjects and all possible trades. “It is impossible to learn a trade son. If there: were nothing do, it would be easy. But when a man has spent the day wheel- ing 1200 pounds of iron, he can’t get much out of an hour's’ schooling in the evening. “I know one convict who went to the prison school every night for 32 years and couldn't even learn to write his own name. He just sat there in a daze. “In our university here it is dif- ferent. We can teach a man toearn his own living in a six-months’ course, “And when the university is well established here, we plan to start branches in other cities throughqut the country.” VIENNA STIRRED BY ZIONIST RIOTS Vienna, Aug. 18—()—Two per- sons are dead and between 50 and 60 and suffering injuries received during the anti-semitic riots attend- 4nt upon the assembling here of delegates to the fourteenth congress of the world Zionist organization. Trouble broke out last night and fierce fighting ensued between the police and members of the Haken- kreuzler or Swastika organization. Numbers of nolicemen were dragged from their horses and trampled un- der foot. Police in turn slashed at the riot- ers with their swords, driving back the large crowds besieging them. Many women were knocked down and trampled in the melee. PARLEY TODAY Washington, Aug. 18—(®)—Ne- gotiations looking to the funding of Belgium’s $480,000,000 war debt to the United States today gave promise of nearing a close. Debt commissions of the two coun- tries were called to a meeting at 3 P. m., and this conference, the first since the temporary adjournment last week, found both parties better equipped to proceed than at any time since the-work first was started. The interim had been used by both to consult with higher officials of their respective governments and both were gble to approach the task today with a fuller knowledge as to what terms would provide a satis- factory ngreement, 'YEGGS RAID VALLEY CITY = Valley City, N. D., Aug. 18—(P)— Burglars last night entered . the Thompson Yards Company office here and forced open the. safe, ‘tak- ing available currency. oss in cash is estimuted at not more than $50, Damage to the safe is considerably more, HIGH COURT GETS COUNTY. | TAX CONTEST { ! 1 . McCurdy Appeais Jansoni Decision in Delinquent Tax Suit ' AIMED AT CO. BOARD Holds Land Sold for Taxes on Which Taxes Unpaid Must Be Sold | An effort to compel the county) commissioners of Burleigh county to list as delinquent all land sold for taxes and on which taxes have not been pata was carried to the supreme F. EB. McCurdy, Bur- leig! state’s attorney, who seeks to compel the commissioners to pass a resolution directing — the county auditor to make a list of all such property. MeCuray contended that failure: of | the commissioners to adopt resolution violated a law the last. session of the Judge Fred Jansonius leigh county court held that the com- missioners Were within their rights in refusing to take such action. In his petition to the court Me- Curdy asserted that “The county| commissioners refused to pass a} resolution requiring the county audi- tor to make a list of the land sold to the state or county more than three years ago prior to the date of is resolution and upon which land axes for which it was sold have not been paid to the county by re- demption or assignment to an actual purchaser, subsequent to the sale, and that such list shall include all such pieces or parcels of land which may have, at such tax sale or sales, been struck off and appeared to have been forfeited to the xtate or coun- The commissioners once ‘passed such a resolution at his request, Me- curdy said, but later rescinded their action as illegal, although he alleges that he does not know the source of | their legal advice on the subject, j { ST.PAUL WANTS | THROUGH BUS | Saint Cioud, Minn., Aug. 18—(). Interest in the hearing on the ap- plications of the Red bus line and Jefferson highway transportation for bus permits conducted by the state railroad and warehouse commission | here today centered in the effort] heing made by St. Paul to have the} busses run through to the latter! city. Officials of the civic and com- merce association and the St. Paul associusion attended the hearing in} the court room of the Stearns coun- t yeourt hot It was indicated that the position of the bus comp- anies will be that they would run busses through to St, Paul if there was any patronage for them, It was pointed out that the busses of the Twin City Rapid company between St. Paul and Mi eapolis now provide that service and that the bus companies are willing to enter into an agreement, APPEAL MINOT AWARD DECISION Appeal from the district court of Burleigh county was taken to the supreme court today by Clifford A. Stevens, Minot, in a case affecting the state soldiers compensation act. Stevens, who was 19 years old when he enlisted at Minot and re- turned there after the World War, was refused compensation on the ground that he was a minor at the time of enlistment and that his legal residence was at the home of his parents in Minnesota. A writ of mandamus ought by Stevens to compel payment of his compensation claim was refused in the lower court. Adjutant General G, A. Fraser was named as defendant in the case, Escaped Convicts Kidnap Four Men Salem, Ore., Aug. 18—(#)—Three convicts’ who escaped from the state prison last Wedneaday night kid- napped four men from Monitor, Ore., early yesterday morning, held them captive all day at the home of John Newman at New Era and last night forced one of the men and Newman's son to drive them to Portland where they left the cai & Aa, Weather Report |! Temperature at 7 a, m. . Hignest yesterday Lowest last night Precipitation to 7 a. m. Highest wind velocity . WEATHER FORECASTS P For Bismarck and vicinity: Fair tonight and Wednesday; not much change in temperature. ' For North Dakota: Fair tonight and Wednesday;. slightly cooler to- night in southeast portion. GENERAL WEATHER CONDITIONS A large high pressure area is cen- tered over the northeastern Rocky Mountain slope and the weather is genemlly fair’ in all sections, Scattered thundershowers occurred yesterday in North Dakota and Minn- esota. Temperatures are high over the Mississippi Valley and southern Plains States, ‘but cooler weath cereils over thé northern Plains tates and northern Rocky Mountain region. ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Official in Charge ino appropriation CITY ORDERS TROLLEY LINE DISCONTINUED Acts on Pe of Large Property Owners to Aban- don Service - ion DEMAND MOTOR SERVICE Petition Signed by 35 Large Fourth Street Property Owners A resolution directing the city at- torney to serve notice on the s board of administration to abandon operation of the capitol trolley line was passed by the city commission at a special meeting this afternoon. ‘The state was given until Septem- ber 25 to complete work of dismant- ling the trolley line, including tear- ing up tracks on Fourth street north of Thayer street. The resolution ly. Little dise commission's presentation of a petition last night 36 large property owners, usk- discontinuance of the Fourth et trolley. The resolution directs that “the State of North Dakota be snd it is hereby required to cease operating the trolley line now operated by it upon Fourth and Main streets of the city of Bismarck on the loth day of September, , and that it be and it is requ to remove all wires conveying electric current required to operate the same, and all poles supporting the same and it is fur. ther required to remove all rails and ties comprising said track on Fourth street north of a point be- ginning on the north side of Thayer street.” The franchise by which the state operated the trolley expired Septem- b Q 19: The board of admin- ven until February the franchise, but failed to act in the mater. The resolution cites negligence on the part of the state in failing to pave Fourth street. between car tracks. . “Improvement in other movns of conveyance has caused patronage of the trolley line to be negligible and to a large extent has dispensed with the necessity for operating the car line,” the resolution The board of admini: to di by ie st car line, F. E, Diehl, member of the board of administration, declared today, when informed of the city commission's action, Although there was no discussion at today’s commission regarding in- stallution of motor bus transporta- tion to the capitol, it is expected ne- gotiations will be begun for arrang- ing motor service to the state-house. BURGLARS LOOT MAX DRUG STORE Minot, N. D., Aug. 18. sp Fout| burglars, looting the Steinhaus Bros, store at Max, N. D., 28 miles south of Minot, early this morning escaped, probably without injury, as Gust Steinhaus, one of the owners, emptied his ol in their direc- tion as they fled northward in an automobile. Despite the fact that the quartette burglars was detected in their work by Mr. Steinhaus, they escaped with approximately $400 worth of merchandise, which they had loaded into their automobile be- fore Mr. Steinhaus, who sleeps above the store, heard them moving about, he today. Hearing noises in the store below, Mr. Steinhaus dressed hurriedly, and taking his revolver, went down the stairway into the’ darkened store. Thinking that possibly the noise had been made by his brother, Arthur,j Mr. Steinhaus called out a question; as to who was in the store. Deserter Taken; International Romance Ends Grand Forks, N. D., Aug. 18.—()— Choosing to take his medicine at the hands of the war department for desertion from the United States army rather than take what the im- migration department has to offer him for illegally eros: the bor- der from Canada, Harry ydonick, arrested near Minot while crossing the border to visit his lady love, has confessed to having deserted at Fort Snelling, the immigration ie cials say, and is quietly awaiting word from Fort Snelling as to his disposition, Miss M. Winjum, said by the of- ficials to be the Minot attraction which drew him across the border, is leaving tonight for Minot after nearly a week's effort spent here trying to free her lover from fed- eral mesh. Thus far her efforts have been fruitless. Hijackers Raid Newark Hospital Newark, N. J., Aug. Si men raided the Newark Italian hos- pital today, escaping with valued about at $1,150 and $1.800 in jewelry and $540 in cash taken from Dr. Charles P. Gnasi. Plunder included 30 cases of as- sorted liquor and 20 cans of alcohol. SHE LEADS MEN’S BAND London.—Miss Vera Clarke is said to be the only woman, the world who conducts a band composed en- tirely of me! ear stations using the shorter wa and they are “buached” on the lower part of your disls, substitute straight-line fre- quency varisble condensers for those you now ui OUCH WEATHER HALTS NEW YORK MERMAID IN CROSS-CHANNEL SWIM; ATTEMPT SETS NEW TIME RECORD Gertrude Ederle, 18-year-old New York Girl, Forced to Abandon Channel Swim Feat t The end of her gallant eff came at 3:58 p.m, when two- thirds of the way across the channel, She was forced to quit hecause of nausea and —seasickness, brought on by the swallowing of sea wat Miss Ederle had heen in trouble for an hour, but took courage from the cheerfulness of her friends and kept doggedly at her task until she suddenly turned in the water toward Hei- ‘kyptian, with a look of yelled Jabez tii swimmer. Sobbing ax whe was taken aboard Minn Ederle said whe swallowed too much walt water during the previous two miles when the wea was choppy, and that her stomach wan causing a great deal cf pain, Dover England, Aug. 18.—() —Gertrude Ederle was compell- ed to abandon her attempt to awim the English Channel this afternoon, owing to adverse weather conditions, Aboard Tug La. Marini accom panving Gertrude Ederle, August 18. |—(P) At 1:30 o'clock “this after- noon Gertrude Ederle had covered half the distance between her start- ing point at Cape Griz Nez and her goal at Dover, She was swimming with great speed. “She is the most marvelous swim mer I ever saw,” Burgess, the veter- an channel swimmer, aboard the tug, told the ociated Press corre spondent. When Miss Ederle left Cape Gris Nez, the sen was almost dead calm, but it became a little rougher sfter she had been in the water a few hours. She called continually for music from the friends aboard the tug, which played almost unceasing ly. The endurance of the young Amer ican girl was regarded by those ac companying her on the tug as equal- Jed only by her great speed. In the first five hours \ all records for the di ance made in 5 7 Chorus Girls Rout Browning — = ——% New York, Aug. 18,—()—Ed- ward W. Browning, whose adop- tion of “Cinderella” Mary Louise Spas was annulled recently, fled from 'a roof garden early today when chorus girls kissed him und shouted, “Oh there's my Cin- derella man.” The millionaire realtor, who was dining on the roof, tried to retreat when t dozen girls circled his table and asked him to adopt them. Then a blonde ingenue circled hin neck #0 strongly that it wax a minute be- fore her arms could be pried * loose. Other diners took up her cry, “Won't you adopt me, Mr. Browning?” Ax he sought to leave another chorus girl took him by the arm and induced him to dance, but he soon broke away as the orchestra played, “If that’s the kind of a girl you are.” Earl Carroll, 2 Broadway pro- ducer, was the cause of the pub- licly manifested anxiety of girls ‘on his payroll for adoption. ‘MAYO CLINIC WILL EXPAND Purchase City Block in Roch- ester; Will Build $2,000,- 000 Addition Rochester, Minn. Aug. 18.—()— Announcement that the Mayo clinic contemplates the construction of a $2,000,000 addition to its present building was made today by Harry. Harwick, business manager of the institution, follo announcement by the Rochester board of education that the block now occupied by the Central school has been sold to the Mayo property association for $200,- 000. The Central school property, oc- cupying a whole city block, is lo- cated directly across from the Mayo clinie building, and is considered one of the most desirable down- town properties in the city. ‘The proposed addition to the clinic building, it was announced, will not! be built on the grounds, but ‘on another lot adjacent to the clinic. The Central school grounds will be kept, for the pres- ent. as a park, A statement issued by the Mayo property association pointed out that the property will be retained to accommodate future expansion the Mayo foundation as a part of the graduate school of the Univer- sity of Minnesota. The Mayo property take possession of the school site 1, 1926. Meanwhile the school board will purchase another block nearby. on which to erect a new ward school building for which a bond has. already been voted SCHOOL HOUSE FOR TEA Franklin, N. H.—An old school bouss: built by Daniel Webster's father, has been sold by the city, and now is used as a tea room. The old desks, still bearing initials, carved by scholars years ago, are used for tables association will Ederle broke} *\COURT HOLDS the same time by channel swimmers. Daring the “sixth hour her pace slowed down the influence of the tide began to be felt and she was compelled to breast the tide rather than to swim with it, going rather difficult. The channel from this point to Dover is roughly 20 miles in width. Its shifting tides and currents fled every woman swimmer t and few men have been A record cross. je in August. 1 .. the wimmer, ebustian 16 hours, minutes. Fra 18,-- Cape G (P)- Gertrut New York to s m entering at 7:09 o'clock, She sat down to a breakfast of well-done apple fritters and weak tea, and as she arose from the table she suid, “I'm all ready for it, bring on_your old ch Just before u Mari which brought her to the starting point, she noticed that she had donned her skirt wrong side out. Asked by her chaperon, Miss Viets, if she cared to return to her room and set it right, she replied, wouldn't like to change now, I it will bring me good luck. he scene about the tug was like attending the departure of an ocean liner, There were fully 100 Persons aboard, including officials, corresponden: cameramen, friends and well-wishers. As Miss Ederle stepped aboard, the captuin gave the word ‘to cast’ off and La Marinie glided out of the harbor bound for j the cape, | her Channel water tempt this here the “r eel that BANK OF NORTH DAKOTA LIABLE | Bank Must Pay Four Years’ Back Taxes to Burleigh County. The Bank of North Dakota is held jliable for four years back taxes on a quarter section of land which came jinto possession of the bank through foreclosure action in October, 1924, by ion handed down by Judge Jansonius. The bank was made defendant in the suit brought by Frank Johnson, auditor of Burleigh county. The land formerly. belonged to Nestor Rutanen, Burleigh farmer. In ; December, 1919, he executed a mort- |gage to the Bank of North Dakota \for $2,500. He did not pay taxes since 1919. ‘As the bank did not pay taxes, they [were yearly offered for sale as de- slinquent taxes, but, there being no ‘bidders, tax certificates were issued to Burleigh county. The bank grounded its case on a |law passed by the 1923 legislature jproviding that taxes remaining un- paid upon land sold to the state 1 be cancelled and abated. f this provision applied only to objection, but the Bank of North {Dakota claims all taxes, including jzeheon township, and county taxes not only for years subsequent to the passage of this law, but also all unp: taxes that had been levied and assessed prior to this act.” The court held taxes from 1920 to 1923 inclusive to be enforceable {against the bank, but exempted 1924 {taxes as coming after the time the Bank became owner of the property. | MACMILLAN MAY ABANDON FLIGHT Washington, Aug. 18—(P)—A poss- ibility developed today that the Mac- ; Millan Arctic expedition might abandon, for this year, its effort to Central school| fly over the unknown region of the! Polar sea. A message asking for an opinion on that subject from Lieut. Com- mander Byrd, commanding the navy , after a conference between officials of the navy and the National of geographic society, sponsor of the! exped: ition. Fund Commission to Act on Claims Final action on application for admission of claims against Class B banks to the state guaranty fund will be taken by the state Guaranty Fund Commission at a meeting to be held within the next two weeks, it was said at the commission's office whlch. failed: bebwaen Sul a which failed between July 1 an Septembe: , 1928, and’ number 23 in all, ‘The claims to be considered total several hundred. Dover, England, Aug. 18.~(@) After swimming six hours Miss Ger- trude Ederle was exactly in the mid- dle of the nglish ¢ about; ten miles from her point, swimming beautifully and very her conditions here in the channel were ather difficult for swimming. There was smart | breeze, k up a nasty op, and it was fi that if Miss Ederle encountered this, as she neared the English coast, she would find the ‘ding the tug “La state taxes there could be no serious | TO NORTH POLE| | section, was dispatched by the navy! janks in Class B are those)’ ‘MAP SCHEDULE FOR SLASH IN INCOME LEVY | Plan Reduction of Surtax to | 20 Per Cent and Maximum | Normal Tax to 5 Per Cent APE TAX LEGISLATIO Predict Enactment of Income ' Tax Cuts Before i March 15 | Washington, Aug. much debated question r4 the nation’s taxes ut the next ses- sion of Congress appears to be tak- | ing a somewhat definite form. That the administration's financial leaders are busily engaged in work ing out a tax reduction program was indicated from two sources yester- day Secretary Mellon and Senator Smoot, chairman of the Senate fin- ance committee assured President Cooldige at Plymouth, Vermont, that a tax reduction bill would be en- acted by Congress before first. p ments of the new year are due, March 15, Simultaneously, the Treasury let jit be known that a study of the country’s financial condition con- vinced officials it would not be un- | reasonable to consider a reduction j of the surtax to 20 per cent and of jthe maximum normal tax to five {per cent. In discussing the matter with the Mr. Mellon and Senator | Smoot, expressed the belief that | many ‘miscellaneous taxes could be jeliminated and that a substantial re- | duction also could be made in both jthe surtax and normal rates, |. Although Mr. Mellon made no def- jinite recommendations to the Chief Executive, Senator Smoot and Rep- jresentative Tilson of Connecticut, trepublican leader in the next House, declared for a cut in. the surtax rates, on incomes of $12,000 and over, from the maximum of forty to twen- ty or even 15 per cent. They also favored reduction of normal rates from two to.one per cent on incomes of $4,000 und under’and from four to three per cent on incomes between $4,000 and $8,000, and from six to five per cent on incomes over that le MRS. FISKE | WILL PLAY AT | AUDITORIUM Stage Star Coming to Bi marck in Sheridan’s “Ri- vals,” Classic Success Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske and an all-star cast including Chauncey O1- cott, Tom Wise und James Powers will play at the municipal auditori- um Saturday night, August 29, in a revival of Sheridan's “Rivals,” com- edy success popularized in the Unit- ed States by Joseph Jefferson, 50 years ago. The present dramatic season, marking the 50th anniversary of the original production of Sheridan's immortal comedy, “The Rivals, signalized by a revival of this Bigh- teenth Century classic, which comes to the Auditorium Theatre on Satur- day, Aug. 29th, for the evening, un- der the management of George C. Tyler and Hugh Ford. A brilliant coterie of players have combined for the presentation of the play in an extended tour of the United States and Canada as a mark of respect for the memory of a man who not only was the most brilliant dramatic writer of the Eighteenth Century, but performed distinguished services in the British Parliament in behalf of the American colonies. Of the scores of Eighteenth Cen- tury “comedies of manners” that were popular in their time only three have survived to this day for major production along with Shake- speare’s plays. These are “The Ri- vals” and “School for Scandal” by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and “She | Stoops to Conquer” by Oliver Gold- jsmith, Ever since it was revealed in Covent Garden, London, Jan, 17th, 1775, until the present time “The Rivals” has held first place among these three in popular favor because its characters and its humor are ever green and, save on the techni- cal side, it’s up-to-date as it was in the time of G: 13 i | President, i i i \ | Anthropologist _ | Killed in Crash Near Grand Forks Grand Forks, Aug. 18.—(P) —A. B. Skinner, 39, New York an- thropologist, touring North Dakota collecting Indian relics for the Heye foundation of New York was killed last night when the automobile in which he was riding turned turtle ina ditch near Tokio, N. D. i Mr. Skinner, accompanied by Amos !One-Road, a Sioyx Indian, who was assisting him in his work, was unin- jured. ‘The accident: occurred when the engine of the car stalled in climbing a hill. The car slipped backwards on the wet road and top- pled into a ditch, pinning both oceu- pants beneath it. Mr. Skinner was thrown partly out of the car and a door Serine on the back of his neck syffocated him. ighten up. an 0: rt iron, ‘Then’ Han'the' iron on'la pias of ealamoniac, hile hot [wipe it on a ck