The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 26, 1925, Page 1

a” WEATHER FORECAST For Bismarck and vicinity: Most- ly fair tonight’ and Thursday, ESTABLISHED 1873 CRAIG. TAKES FORGERY CASE 10 HIGH COURT One Time Nonpartisan Leader and Former Bank President Demands New Trial REASSERTS INNOCENCE Ruling Holds Insurance Policy Is Not Subject to Estate Debts Raymond W. Craig, one time Non- partisan lender, today appealed to the supreme court from his convic- tion on a fourth degree forgery charge in the district court of La- Moure from which a change of venue had been taken from Ranson county The case grew out of Craig's al- leged illegal operations in connection with the operation of the Ransom county Farmers bank, of Lisbon, of which he formerly was president. In a brief presented to the court attorneys for Craig contended that he did ‘nothing illegal or wrong and that his every action was for the best interests of the bank. The record shows that at the time Craig charge of its affai hank listed among its paper a 30,000 in notes which had been given by directors and other officials i return for loans. They at the time as worthless. Through an arrangement with Minn Farmers Bank bought $48,000 worth of obligations given by the State Bank of Nome, N. D., for $14,000, These then were listed on the books of the Ransom county bank and the notes given by directors and others were withdrawn. The point on which Craig was convicted was that he signed the name of another man to the minutes of the board of directors at which these transactions were approved. a lis bank the Ransom County Policy A life insurance policy is not sub- ject to the debts of an estate, the supreme court held today in the case of Ella R. Coughlin, administratrix of the estate of Gilbert J. Coughlin, vs. Charles Boyer and W. J. Gerding. The court reversed a decision of the Ward county district court which held for Boyer and Gerding at the trial of the case. Reverse Mattson Case ay reversed Grand Forks county district court in the case of Martin E. Mattson, and remanded the case for a new trial. Mattson convicted of second degree murder in connection with the death of Mabel Anderson, on whom he was charged with having performed a criminal operation. The reversal was based on the fact that some of the evidence offered by the state at the trial and admitted by the court was in- competent. New Action The supreme court today remanded the district court of Mountrail coun- ty for a new trial in the case of Mr. and Mrs. Cens Nelson, appellants, vs. A. Flath, The court held that the record of the case, which involves the custody of Edna Lois Flath, was not in proper shape. The Nelsons are the maternal grandparents of the child and Flath is a paternal grand- parent. HUNT MORON IN SLAYINGS Couple Found Murdered on Roadside Near Hastings, Neb. Hastings, Nebr., Aug. 26.—()—- One of the most’ spectacular man- hunts ever staged in this section was instituted today in an effort to ap- prehend the slayers of Clarence Ya- ger and Mrs. Lawrence Bird, who were found shot to death on a high- may, near here early Monday morn- ny Ee Approximately 300 farmers and townspeople armed with shot-guns,| Highest wind velocity .. clubs and pitchforks, searched the surrounding territory for the slayer who is thought to be a man who fre- quently has annoyed motorists parked on the highway. The hew theory was advanced last night after a garage mechanic at Grand Island, Nebraska, had stated that two weeks prior to the double murder he had chased a man whom he caught peeping into the back of his automobile as he and a youn woman friend were parked on the Mel way near the scene of the mur- The man, he related. disappeared into the darkness and called back to him, “I will get you yet.” It is be- lieved the man’ returned Sunday night, saw the automobile parked by the roadside and fired at the couple sitting in it. BOARD HEARS TOLLEY CLAIMS More thah 40 claims against the State Bank jof Tolley and the State bank of Grepne were heard last week by Judge C, J. Fisk, referee of state bank claim; for the state guaranty fund commissiot Testimony was taken in eich id will be sub- mitted to ithe si guaranty fund commission together with Judge Fisk’s recommendation. Twe bendrad claims now are on file in his, offlee awaiting deposition, Judge Fis’ said, and as soon as final recommendations are made on them ‘ they also will be presented to the guaranty ¢und commission, THE BI BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, AUGL 26, 1925 * Bell Bottoms | Are Now Passe -——_- “(rv Chicago, Aug. —()—The well-dressed man of today must have the following assortment of clothes or be hopelessly behind th: times: 1 dinner coat for semi-formal occasions. 1 full dress suit for formal oc- casions. 4 sack suite for business wear. 1 sport suit. 1 frock coat } for formal day ear. 1 high hat to be worn with frock coat and full dress suit. 2 overcoats, one of dark ma- terial for formal wear and one of lighter color for business wear. The list was issued by the N: tional Association of — Retail Clothiers and Furnishers, meet- ing bere. It was also announced that it is all right to wear su penders again, but “bell botto trousers are frowned upon. Other items of interest to gal- lants included regimental striped suspenders with «ilk front stripes, solid leather garters and buckskin shoes with “perforated oes, SLOPE WHEAT SHOWS HIGH PROTEIN RUN Premium of 13 Cents a Bushel on Protein Wheat Paid at Dickinson Dickinson, Au, Wheat thres’ ed in the Dickinson community du ing the past week has given farmers definite surance that the average yield will be much better than was | first anticipated. On the Frank J. ‘Petrick farm northwest of the city where the threshing of wheat h been completed it was found that the grain yielded an average of 14 bush- els per acre. Mr. Petrick had pre onsly made an estimate of 10 bushels. The grain was of good quality and for the most part graded No. a this Wheat raised in Stark county rich year is in protein content, t s sent to the laboratories for analysis show. In fact it is so rich in these desirable milling quali- ties that elevators and mills are of- fering a premium of 13 cents bushel for wheat raise't locally. One sample sent out for analysis by M. J. Moe, of the Farmers Grain company, revealed a protein test of 17.95, the highest of any yet. tested in the state. It is believed that the average protein test will range around 14 per cent and the gluten test around 42 to 45 per cent. per | These tests are made free of charge’ and farmers who wish to know the ,value of their wheat as a_ milling product are urged to take advantage jof the service offered by the state schools, the elevators and the mills. Wheat grown on the Missouri Slope is always of much higher protein and gluten content than that raised in! other sections of the state and t that reason commands a higher price. Harvest is now practically co: ‘pleted, only a few fields remaining to be cut. T. A. Potter, in charge of the fed- eral labor office here, reports a shortage of men in the Slope xrea over which he has jurisdiction. Men are being sent out as fast they come into Dickinson and there is aiways a waiting list at the office. FRENCH ECHO COOLIDGE VIEW Paris, Aug. 26—(A#)—The French foreign office appears to be in entire agreement with President Coolidge's reaffirmation at Swampscott of the principle of capacity for payment as a fair and just rule to apply to Amer- iean’s European debtors. That was the first quick reaction to unofficial accounts of the pres- ident’s point of view, as oultined in press dispatches received here. A ———— | Weather Report ———_________# Temperature at 7 a. m. . Highest yesterday 79 Lowest last night 186 Precipitation to 7 a. m. . ie . AB Weather Forecasts For Bismarck and vicinity: Mostly fair tonight and Thursday; not much change in temperature. For North Dakota: Mostly fair to- night and Thursday. Warmer tonight in east portion. General Weather Conditions The high pressure area is centered over Minnesota this morning and fair weather prevails over the Great Lakes region and Mississippi Valley. Temperatures are somewhat lower in innesota and in the southern Plains, States, but warmer weather’ prevails from the northern Plains States westward to the Pacific coast due to a low pressure area over the north- ern Rocky Mountain region. Light precipitation occurred in the eastern part of the Dakotas and in Utah and Washington, North Dakota Corn and Wheat Re- gion Summary 4 sone: the week ending August 25, The week was dry, with unusually high temperatures near the clos. and being accompanied by high win: damaged late corn and flax. work made excellent progress. vesting is mostly completed late sown grain. Threshing advanced with yields ranging better than expectations. Corn, where early planted and well tended, is an ex- cellent crop. It is out of danger from frost in some sections. Rain is need- ed for pastures and ranges. ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Official in Charge Farm and gluten. EACH ANGLO- FRENCH DEBT SETTLEMENT Two Per Cent Fixed as Inter- est on 623 Million Pound Debt 62 Annual Payment of 12,500,000 Pounds Set as Install- ment TERMS YEARS London, Aug. 26.—The Brit- ish chancellor of the exchequer, Winston Churchill, and the French finance minister, M. Caillaux, today reached an azree- ment in. princtple on the fund- ing of the French debt to Great | Britain, It was officially announced that jan agreement has been reached on the basis in principle, of 62 annual payments of 12,500,000 pounds on the sole responsibility of Franée, sub- ject to an agreement being reached on various matters of deta d sub- ject to a governing condition of pro- portionate equal treatment by France of creditors. M. Cailla while reserving his opinion on these prop- ositions, undertook to lay fore his government. The agreement in principle between Mr. Churchill and M. aux allows y a partial Moratorium, until Under this agreement France is to pay Great Britain a little more than two per cent interest annually on her debt 623,000,000 during the ‘years in which England is making payments on her debt to the United After this time the interest se and the prin to States. payments are to ¢ al of the debt wiped off the slate. simply to. be between merican al ador and M. Caillaux, the \French finance minister, is regarded to a tri-partite arrangement amon, tion, ‘The Daily Mail says it understands that Caillaux expressed the opinion to Mr. Houghton that the entire debt problem should be settled through a three-sided agreement. It adds that Mr. Houghton was in agreement with this. M. Caillaux then, according to the Daily Mail, told Mr. Churchill that the agreement between Premier Baldwin and Secretary of the Treas- ury Mellon on the Anglo-American debt ought to be revised. The Daily Telegraph says it has been made clear to M. Caillaux that Great Britain cannot clinch any bar- ain with France until it is definite- § known what terms the United States will require from France. As far as settlement of the Anglo- French debt question is concerned there seems to be no hope that an agreement will be reached this week. It is the purpose of M. Caillaux to return to Paris tomorrow with new proposals to submit to the cabinet und the belief prevails that Mr. Churchill will likewise suggest fresh ideas on the subject to Premier Baldwin and the members of his government. COAL STRIKE them be-| WHEN BELGIAN WAR DEBT PACT WAS PREPARED Assisted by Secre working at Piymouth, Vt, on tinal ded |FIND 4.4 BEER Arab Tribe Takes French Garrison Au. (PR) An London,” | ity. bellion the tribesmen ainst the French regiment in Syria) Ss spreading. | BLOCK BUREAU | APPOINTMENT Hold Jardine Cannot Appoint to Fill Economics Bu- reau Post the three nations on the debt ques-) STATUS HOLDS Mine Workers and Operators Cannot Find Basis for Arbitration Washington, Aug. 26.—(#)—Secre- tary Davis of the labor department, returning to Washington today from a six weeks’ trip abroad, immedi- ately went into conference \with Hugh L. Kerwin, the department’s irector of conciliation, to acquaint himself with the present status of the anthracite controversy. Wilkesbarre, Pa., Aug. 26.—(@)— Anthracite operators will meet the citizens “No-Strike” committee here. this afternoon to hear its appeal that scale negotiations broken off with the mine workers August 4, be re- sumed to prevent a strike September first. The miners, in giving their reply at similar conference in Hazelton yesterday, said they would clean the slate and start afresh with the mine owners on one condition which the operators found prohibitive. The miners stipulated that the operators must recede from their position’ of insisting that no demands would be coneldsred that increased production cost. W. 'W. Inglis, chairman of the op- erators scale committee, announced last night that departure from this fixed policy would be impossible. A new Bfitish embassy is to be built in Tokyo, Japan, at a cost of $1,200,000, as an incident of the highest im-|" ‘ portance in the negotiations here or over the war debt of France to) Washington, Aug. The Great Brit: civil service ‘commis. nounced | The am dor entertained both| today that it would ‘hold open |! Winston Spencer Churchill, Chancel-| competitive e the post | lor of the Exchequer and the French| of chief of the bureau of agricultu- minister. All reports of the conver-| ral economics, a position to which sation seemingly confirm the sug-]| the agricultural department announc- gestion that the general debt situ-| ed yesterday that 1 as P, Cooper ation was discussed and that nothing] of Kentucky had 1 ppointed i will be done in London toward sett-| The commissio 1 the place ling France's debt to Great Britain] could not be filled in the manner} until it is known what debt arrange-| chosen by y Jardine, but it ments France cun make with the] consented to ppoint- United States. ment” of Mr. Cooper, pending an Political writers today say there} examination. f can be no Anglo-French settlement{ ‘The appointee, who is dean of the without the participation of — th lege of agriculture of the Univer : United Stutes—the real arbiter ofj sity of Kentucky, was nained to suc ‘the situation her ceed Dr. Henry G. Taylor, — w From this has arisen, in some} tenure w terminated re quarters, a sugestion that there may| cently b ary. been threats of a con There h gressional investigation of the action but tod ment by the civil serv jon took no| direct note of that feature of the case. HOLD GRANT COUNTY FAIR | IN SEPTEMBER | —The annual | at! Carson, Grant Cour Leith Wedne: day, September 9, 10 and 11. is an agricultural fair for the ad- vancement of better farming meth- ods, better livestock and a better understanding of what Grant county is capable of producing. All exhibits are welcome whether they be large or small. Premiums are offered in the fol- lowing departments: horses, cattle, swine, sheep, poultry, grain and grasses, vegetables, boys and girls, education and women's department. MANDAN WILL BE D. A. R. HOST Mrs. Eric A. Thorberg of Bismarck, state regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution, will preside ut the state meeting in Mandan, Septem- ber 9 and 10. Delegates to’ the con- vention are expected from Bismarck, Fargo, Grand Forks, Devils Lake, Jamestown, Carrington and Valley City, where chapters are located, and fn addition a large number of visit- ors und members at large are expect. ed. Mrs. George M. Young, who was state regent for five years, and who is now one of the national vice-pres- idents, will be present and is on the program, Mrs, Grant Baldwin, nation- al chairman for better films, Brook- lyn, N. Y., will give the principal address. Mrs. John L. Bowers, past regent of the Mandan chapter, is chairman of the program committee. Mrs Lyman N. Cary, for four years pr ident of the North Dakota Feder: tion of Women’s clubs, is regent of the entertaining chapter. The formal opening of the conven- tion will be at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, September 9, following an informal luncheon at noon. Arctic Party on Southward Voyage Washington, Aug. 26.—-(#)—The MacMillan Arctic expedition has re- sumed its southward voyage after having been weatherbound for sev- eral days on the northwestern coast of Greenland. MONKEYS ESCAPE Berlin—Thirty; ‘monkeys recently d from a cage when an at; lant at the zoo here forgot to close a door, More than 1,000 men had great difficulty in rounding up the fugitives.” Aug. 26. Fair will be held This! y Andrew Mellon (r lay, Thursday and Fri-| ¢ tof B Debt Com missioners, AIDS RUM SALE ional Committee Toronto, At 7) spe- cial committee United Stat Con- gress, appointed to. inquire into the workings of the Eighteenth Amend ment to the United States constitu m, were guests at a dinner last cht of the Ontario Prohibition Vnion s, who are headed by jrant M. Hudson of {™ at present touring On- tario to obtain. information of the sale of 44 per cent beer in the pro vince and the workings of the tem perance law in general. We first asked whether 4.4 beer had satisfied those who wanted al- oholic beverage,” said Mr. Hudse the dinner, “4 per cen ied that it had not. “Our next question was whether he sale of 44 beer had decreased the sale of bootleg liquor. The rsal reply was that it had in uni- ed, rather than decreased. In virtually every person we interviewed declared the whole system most un- satisfactor With regard to prohibition i United States, Mr. Hudson de that sentiment in its favor icoming steadily stronger. The next congress would show the | largest. majority on record in. sup- port of the 18th amendment, he said, and there was not the ‘slightest | chance for the present law to be re- | pealed or amended. ‘ESCAPE WITH | U. 8. CAPTIVE Harbin, Manchuria, Aug. 26) -! ie bandits who are} holding Dr. Harvey J. Howard, American eye — spec t. of the) Peking Union medical college, for nsom, evaded the Chinese troops who had surrounded them and have taken their prisoner by -up the Hwachwan River to a 250 miles from Fuchin, in th n province of Holungk information was received he today in a telegram from Roj Greene, general manager in China ; for the Rochefeller Institute, who added that Manchurian troops of the Holungkian forces are pursuing the, bandits. FARMERS ARE HOLDING GRAIN Movement of wheat to market has been about normal for this season of the year although some of of farmers who are in position to do so are planning to hold their grain until the post-harvest rush is over, advices received by local grain men say. Some are selling a part of their wheat and holding the remainder. A survey made by a Minneapolis grain brokerage house, received here this week, said the condition is general throughout North Dakota and neigh- boring stat CARSON PLANS INCORPORATIO Carson, N. D., Aug. 26.—Agitation is under way in behalf of incorpor- ating Carson, Grant county, as a city. The Carson Commercial club at a meeting unanimously voted in favor of organizing Carson as a city. Steps will be taken to complete the necessary details necessary and an election of the voters will be called to vote upon the question. BEULAH GAINS IN POPULATION Beulah, metropolis of Mercer coun- ty, has a population of 626, accord- ing to figures released by County Auditor Leupp. Population figures for Mercer county centers were an- nounced as follows: Beulah, 626; Hazen, 464; Zap, 342; Golden Valley, 318; Stanton, 299. In 1920 the population of the same towns was: Beulah, 552; Hazen, 520; Zap, 257; Golden Valley, 369; Stanton, 325. The census figures do not give Beulah full credit for all of her pop- ulation owing to the fact that. about 150. people live in additions to the original plat and are not within the incorporation. Beulah really has @ population of over 750. Merger county ‘shows a gain - of practically 300 population since git) and Sen. Reed Smoot Cleft) President Coolidge sian War loan agreement which has number | s here shown deen signed by the War LEGION FLAGS | GO UP TODAY 1A total of the 200 s were sold in Hismarck business distriet dur ing the American Legion eam } to decorate erty business an tial districts, 1, 7 nder of the le today will be Meronanes the and in position today ked to leave them up for ance of the day arrived MASS TO HALT | TONG MURDERS Hip Sing Tong Holds Conven- \ tion in Minneapolis Next Month 1 Kwong, of a ¢ se restaurant, was shot and killed by two unidentified Chi- nese today. ss assailant es- caped. ' New York, Aug. 26.—(P)-A | conference looking to a renewal ! of the ruptured armistice be- tween the principal Chinese tongs was held today at police headquarters. High offi Is of the Hip Sing and On Leong tongs participated. The first ite info | as the cause o + tw the two ton which sent ia of violence half wity ! across the United States, was re 1 from members of the con- | ference. Charles W. Gould, attorney for the Hip Sings, said the break | came when that organization at- tempted to establish lodges in Boston and other reputed On j Leong strongholds. N ‘spr j today by police in nearly 1 city of the east and middlewest an attempt to cut short a new Chinese tong war in which four Chinese have » killed and three ; wounded in the Extra details Chinatowns of More than 100 Chine: arrested, ‘some being held in connection with the murders, and others on suspicion, {_ The death toll score seems to stand ‘four to nothing in favor of the Hip iSing Tong men. Police here learned {that 75 telegrams to this effect were sent out from New York and Boston to Chinese leaders all over the coun- try. [S"On Leong Tong men have been | murdered in New York, Chicago, Min- apolis and Pittsburgh, one in each while a former Hip Sing king inatown in St. Louis, has been of wounded. Seventy-five Chinese were rounded up in Philadelphia on orders from General Butler, 15 b detained for further investigation Thirty were rounded up in Newark. Four were suspected of being impli- cated in the New York killing, but later were held merely on charges of carrying revolve! Minneapolis police were ordered to disarm all Chinese in anticipation of further trouble during the national Hip Sing meeting there next month. More than 150 extra police patrol- led New York Chinatown while in- fluential merchants sought to bring about peace. In Boston where two Chinese and a white man were wounded in gun play on the street police succeeded in calming the Chi- nese on the street. Shanghai Police Shoot Dock Hands, Two Killed in Fray Shanghai, Aug. 26.—(?)—Two per- sons were killed when Chinese po- lice today fired into a crowd of dock- yard workers besieging the police station and demanding the release of four arrested workmen. Four of the besiegers were wound- ed. The workmen held by the po- lice had been arrested for assault- ing a coolie. The crowd which gathered about the police station numbered about precied with cries of derision. Shots ired into the air failed to intimi- date the dock workers, whereupon the police turned their guns against the front ranks. Seeing their com- rades fall, the remainder of the dem- onstrators fled, | SLASH NAVY BUILDING BUD e— = Censor Latest Sheik Creation —_ New York, Aug. ‘Charleston’ has y into its own, But if the s F of American Teachers of Dancing has its way, it will be a dance of dignity, censored to win the favor of people of culture, The battle for recognition of the Charleston nearly split. the dancing masters convention here Monday. It was finally agreed that the flapper sheik mode of doing the dance was to be com- hated. The glorified ‘Charleston’ was demonstrated at the Waldorf- Astoria ballroom, The kicks, “suggest! movements’ pmplex motions were elim The feet must not be more than 45 degrees out of line with the hody and there must be no lean- ing backwards, SEE RETURN ON NATIONAL PRESS DRIVE 1C fornia Spent Over lion Which Brought | $75.000,000, Claim a Mil in Es] TRIBUNE [ono PRICE FIVE CENTS SLASH NAVY BUDGET BILL —— AOMILLIONS Program Contemplates Aban- doning Boston, Charleston, and Brooklyn Yards $310,000,000 | May Drop 7,000 to 10,000 En- listed Men on Basis of Ten- tative Army Budget | Washington, Aug. 26.—(4)—Bud- ‘get paring and its possible require jments as to a curtailed program is | ging the study of naval heads \* ell as the war depar' nt, ;. Acting at the request of the budget bureau to reduce its program for the ‘fil year 1927, the Na depart ment has slashed its original esti mates by more than $40,000,000 by arranging to curtail activities all along the line and perhaps abandon number of eastern shore stations Fear Slash Menace War department. officials at the same time fear that the army's bud- |xet will be limited to a figure that _ | will neces: ate dropping from ae. eilay to 10,000 enlisted men and_ possibly | F iy Cli Ie ee Ps Ient {one or two thousand officers. ! ter North Dakuta Asso-| Where § ciation and now second vice-presi- | tSkedy the naval dent of the combined Greater North | derstood: to Association. and) North theese fi kota Auto! le Association e 10,000,000. prentea benefit. to he derived |#PPropriation of $323,000,000 for the from the program of t sociation, | Present fiseal year. I basing his statements on the exper:| Abandon Stations Lience ‘of other : Inasmuch as officers regard $300, California 1,000 in | 000,000 as about the minimum neces J three yea and|Sary for maintenance ‘Drought more than f new| Purposes, it has been neces Wanlth? inter tiorthern (C he | meeting budget requirements pointed out. The All Y , of jinto pl for new construc Los Angeles, spent 000 in three! well as tion development, in sin advertising, he said \dition to curtailing the shore sta- + population of that city doub- | tiohs. led and real estate transfers jump-| While conferences have not been ed from 51,000 4 year to more than 191,000 in the third y the campaign paid more than 00,000 in taxes last year, “North Dakota needs more people, more factories, more industries. A ln a truthful advertising cam- tign will get them and will pay prth Dakota very definite dividends increased land values, better eco- dual ation,” lowered ind sed nomic conditions, taxes, and iner: said Mr. Stern. ‘JAMESTOWN IS Ninth District Rotary Club Will Hold Convention August 31 popu Jamestown, N. D., Aug. 26.—(A)— Presidents and secretaries of the Rotary clubs of the Ninth district Rotary International, including the states of Minnesota and North Da- kota and also the city of Superior, Wis., will assemble e, August 31 and September 1 for the annual fall meeting of the club executives, Ed- ward A. Silberstein of Duluth, dis- trict governor, announced today. There are 39 clubs in this trict, to which 2,000 Rotarians be- tein said. be held in the long, Mr. Silbe: presiding. The conference is in the nature of a school for club presi- dents, secretaries and committeemen, rnor Silberstein | he | concluded at the rolina, Ne it Brook. t Lakes jeston, South C the Supply Base N. Y., and either the or Hampton Roads training, station. In taking this stand, it is Ipointed out that recommendations of jthe board headed by Rear Admiral Rodman three years ago on the Ishores establishment situation are being followed. Centre on Pacific The move also would be in line with the general trend of recent years in centering naval activities the Pacific, thereby eliminatizg the | tained but the original plan to utilize $47,000,000 toward new construction, jmuch of which was authorized last lyear by Congress in new cruisers jand other craft but not appropriated jfor, beyond jan amount sufficient |merely to begin construction, faces the prospect of sharp revision. | Curtail Air Grant } While $47,000,000 is regarded as the minimum requirement for the bu- reau of aviation, $33,000,000 had |been requested to expand the acti lties of this branch of the service. |This figure too, is now faced with the probability of a considerable re- duction. ; Although some consideration _ is ; Said to have been given to closing the |air station at Lakehurst, N. J., and iplacing the dirigibles Los Angeles land Shenandoah out of commission, unless the former is leased to a pri- |vate company for commercial oper- {ations, indications now are that this ‘step will not be taken | AUSTRIAN CHIEF and in this case is held to permit of | the presentation by the ‘governor of | the program of International Rotary | OF STAFF DEAD as announced by the International Council recently held in Chicago. The address of welcome at the opening session will be delivered by President Walter A. Hein of the Jamestown club and response will be made by Past District Governor Nor- man D. Black, publisher of the Fargo Forum. Among prominent speakers who will address the conference are Thomas J. Davis, chairman of — the International committee on constitu- tion and by-laws and a prominent attorney of Butte, Mont., Mr. Black, Edward F. Flynn, past district gov- ernor, and assistant to the president of the Great Northern Railway, of St. Paul; 0. F. McClintock, past dis- trict governor, and Harry Bert Crad- dick, former director of Rotary In- of the University of North Dakota, and many others. The executives will lunch at the State Farm School Monday noon, and have a banquet at the Gladstone hotel that evening, for which the Jamestown club will prepare a special program. Many important subjects pertain- ing to Rotary education, business methods, extension of Rotary clubs, fellowship, and community activity, such as Boys’ work, crippled chil- dren and rural-urban acquaintance will-be taken up, Mr. Silberstein said. FIND GIRLS Fargo, Aug. 26.—After -olice and county authorities throughout the northwest were asked Tuesday to aid in the search for two Madison, Minn., girls who disappeared last k The first efforts of the po-| Thursday while on a “hike” north| lice to disperse the gathering were] of town, they were found in Fargo| yesterday afternoon and are now in the care of Miss Alice Duffy, police woman. The cirls are Evelyn Harrison, 16 years old, and Myrtle Gullickson, 17, and are daughters of prominent families in Madison. ternational, Thomas Kane, president | | Vienna, Aug. 26.—()—Field Mar |shal Baron Franz von Conrad Ho jzendorf, chief of staff of the Austrian armies in the World war and later | commander-in-chief on the — Italian {front, died today at Mergentheim, in | Wurttenberg, Germany. ‘ICE WATER IS | LOCKJAW CAUSE | Reno, Nev., Aug. 26.—(P)—G. Alda- jya, a blacksmith of Elko, took a idrink of ice water and four hours | afterward physicians had to work on him before they could open his jaws. They said it was a form of lockjaw caused by the action of the ice water on the glands of his throat. |FOREIGN LEGION | IS HALF GERMAN { Paris, Aug. 26.—(?)—Once enemies {at arms 16,000 Germans, exactly half | the.total strength of the French for- feign legion, are in Morocco fighting {the battle of France against the re- bellious Moorish tribesmen. Applications from former German soldiers to be permitted to lend | their aid to their former enemies in | the warfare against the Riffians are coming in such numbers that it is impossible for the French ministry of war to accept all of them. The foreign legion to which the | Germans are attached has been’ in the thickest of the fight since Abd- el-Krim, the Moroccan war lord, be- gan his offensive, and French. of- ficers asserted tl the Germans have given a good account of them- selves. They battle in the manner of the trained soldiers they are and it is said that the percentage of de- sertions of them to the enemy ranks is not larger than that among the other- nationalities represented in ‘the legion,