The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 19, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER FORECAST Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight: and Tuesda Not so cold. ESTABLISHED 1873 ONE MISSING INFIRE WHICH BURNS SHIP Ten Passengers Were Injured, | Scme Seriously, During | Rescue Work ! UNDETERMINED CAUSE Investigation Started to De- termine Origin of Dis- astrous Blaze Jacksonville, Fla, Oct. 19.—)— Clyde Line officials today were bend- ing every effort toward finding some | trace of William J. Lawler, Win-, throp, Mass., contractor, who is the only person missing in the near dis: ter which resulted in the destruc tion by fire ofthe sie anche, off Mayport Sai irl reports which i s soniissing were xscribed to the confusion in taking the passen yers and members of the crew off the hurning ship. Ten Injured Ten persons were injured, some of cm seriously, the’ ru ing mostly when a wa crushed between the | yessel d the Texas comp anker per, which had gone to the ue while heavy was rolling, Others were “hurt when another lifeboat spilled them into the when one end was lowered too the comp: investigatia ining the origin endangered the The uttert, f the ship als of ring for ve pre- with the of the af i So far the origin of the fire is a myste ted in fo ignited the nava believed to be. respon re ng of the flan ions which could to propor TOBER HAS SPOILED ITS REPUTATION Fails to Come Through With al Autumn Beauty and Indian Summer 0 ” Us' hicago, Oct. 19. —UP)--October's reputation as a month of indolent sunshine and placid autumn beauty has gone by the boards thi 5 Instend_of an intermezzo come the discordant notes of the tempest, driving snow and rain and cold ther into a shivering middle and far we: Death even has lurked in the swirling snow flake harbingers of bleak winter days. Below freezing temperatures gen- erally sprinkled through the prairie xnd mountain states last night, the lowest mark being registered at Cheyenne, Wyo., 18 degrees. Denver reported 24 and Rapid City, S. D., 26 among other low mark: While r ing temperatures were predicted for over most of the territory, ently was progressing ward, with lower mercury marks in prospect in the lake states until Tuesday. Pray For Dry Spell In contrast to the stories of snow, Kensett, Arkansas, was offering prayers for a c¢ ion of rainfall to enable cotton pickers to harvest their crop. A bright, clear and dry day brought apparent answer after weeks of steady rain, Six weeks ago the same community prayed for rain to break the intense drought. Three deaths resulted from win- irst general visit to the north- Being killed at Red nd one at Minneapolis ns while they were blinded by snow. From one to four inches fell in various Minnesota and Wisconsin Severe flurries whipped by winds brought a wintry re- inder to Omaha, FIRE DESTROYS FUR Olympia.—As a result of fires which swept areas from north- | ern British Columbia to southern Oregon last summer, this section will produce less fur this year than many years. The dense smoke and fires came at a time 4hen most of the fur-bearing animals were rear- ing their young. l Weather Report | Temperature at 7 a, m. Highest yesterday ..... Lowest last night .. Precipitation to 7 a. Highest wind velocity . WEATHER FORECAST For Bismarck and vicinity: cloudy to cloudy tonight and day: Not so cold, For North Dakota: Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Not so cold ‘Tuesday and west portion tonight. Weather Conditions A large high pressure area, ac- companied by cold weather, extends from the Mississippi Valley westward to the eastern slope of the Rockies. Lower pressure and warmer weather prevails in the extreme West. Snow fell in the eastern part of the Da- kotas and in the upper Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes region duc to a low pressure area over the Great Lakes. Generall; prevails over the’ West. ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Official in Charge. ur :a17 0 mn. oan - 18 artly ues- ee forest | ly fair weather | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE $=, FINAL EDITION BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1925 The bod ket containing tae shown above being ear JOINS DRIVE TO REDUCE NO. ‘State Health Department Sends Out Questionnaires Regarding Accidents health tate vined in the campaign by reies to reduce the nunbe ths in North Dak tionn othe deaths in automobile iduring 1924 a ealth Director ked that exact info n which will be of va jining the cause of dents therefore x help in preventing ther The will be classifie d the s made known to the pub- lie in the health department’s annual report, Dr. Whittemore said. He be- the information thus gained uable to those intere ng the number of automo- bile accidents as well as to the in ividual motorist’ in’ warning him inst hidden dange ons To Be An are too) man. caused hb the que is a wi ment to reduce th a minimum by the stat alth, the state mission, the state highw: ion and several state ic bodies besides the r: pan’ Will you join ests with ours? “As an aid to this effort to sa human lives we wish to know. the primary causes of these accidents and to classify them. Will you please fill in the following form for an automobile death occurring in ur territory, certificate of which signed by’ you The questionnaire asks the name of the victim, date and place of death, place of accident, whether rural or urban, the time of day, i the accident occurred on a. si highway and if any of the followin factors entered into the case: I toxication, speeding, inexperience of the driver, disregard of traffie rule: age and mental of physical defects of the driver, color blindness, coll ,sion with another car or with other | vehicles, mechanical defects of the jear, defects in the: road, gas fumes, weather conditions, if it was a rail. road crossing accident, if the victim jwas a pedestrian, passenger or dr jer and the opinion of the person re- \porting as to any method by which the accident could have been pre- vented, tomobile In | corone fing { a qu ire sent o ad persons report ‘lieves: will be lin. reduc swered ths in utomobile ac- ai states earnest nber to rtment 1 com- commis- nd national lway com- Ques: “Ther, our wi te ng n | IN. Y. BAND | STAGES SERIES | New York, Oct. 19,—()—A band of jfive robbers, one of them wearing a policeman’s uniform, committed a se- ries of holdups in Brooklyn early to- jday while in Manhattan two gunmen jshot and probably fatally wounded ithe proprietor of a lower east side |restaurant in which there were 18 |patrons, including five women. | The boldest robbery by the Brook- Mrs, Samuel Goldman lchauffeur as the car was passing jalong Eastern Parkway. After they had crowded the Goldman automobile to the curb the five robbers took $5,- 000 in jewelry and $250 in cash from the victims. The east side restaurant owner, | Michael Gurney, was shot by two men |who had entered the place, supposed- ly as patrons. The shooting occur- red in the kitchen after which the gunmen escaped by keeping the pat- bay with their pistols. Bank Examiner. Issues Call For Condition Reports A call for a statement of the con-~ dition of all North Dakota state and their ber 15 was issued today by Gilbert Semingson, state bank examiner, © OF ROBBERIES, lyn band was the holdup of Mr. and! banks at the close of business Octo-/ THE LAST GAME ENDS FOR “BIG SIX” ort to his Matiiewson, lormer big Sudden Death of Society Woman !s Being Questioned (P) | I Doubt | imitted which y foul postmorten: Dro AL FW urgeon an ito have hee There were ions of poison, mical theory invelvi an h sportst sined de: [ally known | has main ject of her an, silence hy MOTORS IN. LEAD ASSTOGK MART RALLIES i} i ! \ |Saturday’s Collapse Overcome By Fleod of Buying Orders Today New Work, flood of bu the stock market bringing about rp rally which overcame the collay the final hour last Saturda in was whip- ped up to a furious page, with Gen- ‘eral Motors reassuming the leader- p of the advance among indus- which in y gain, ed Renewed buying swept into to the highest price since 1910. A terrifie selling uttack —subse- quently was launched inst the motor s $s, unsettling the st of | the market with the exception of the rail shares, which continued through n upward flight, Despite this irr gularity, trading proceeded in enor- mous volume of the rate of almost! 700,000 shares an hour. Carrier Stocks Strong Buying of the carrier stocks was ‘on an unusually broad seale. Atlan- | tic coast line climbed almost 4 points and early, gains of 1 to 2 points em- braced‘ Atch’ sville and Nashville, Baltimore and Ohio Read. jing, Frisco and Southern Railway.| | Industrials, how8ver, crumbled un-| jder the weight of selling orders which engulfed the motor share: General Motors, after selling as high {as 130 1-2, later dropped to 122 1-2, with Studebaker, White and Hudson falling from two to more than four points under last week's closing! prices. U. S. Steel, Dupont and other issues also yielded some of the ‘early gains, | Officers Seek Tramp Who Fled After. Shooting Elkhorn, Wis., Oct. 19.—(#)—Sher- | iff's deputies and police throughout southern Wisconsin early today were | searching for a tramp who probably fatally shot Elmer T. Ridgway las j night when Ridgway tried to evict the man from his home. The tramp fled after twice wound- | ing Ridgway with a revolver, A! I posse of 100 citizens immediately took up the chase and searched an! area six miles square without avail. Mr. and Mrs. Ridgway returned to | their home early last night from an ! automobile trip. They found house-| hold effects awry | and started a search of the house. With Mr. Ridg- way leading they went to the attic where they found a strange man asleep. When aroused the man, without warning. fired two shots, one enter- ing Ridgway’s neck and the other his lungs. The tramp escaped while \Mrs, Ridgway was giving the alarm. | Polish hard coal has been used, as a substitute for jet in making! \ rings, sin his home town, Lawisbure, | Law Provides State Can Col- | identification \"War, lived on the same street with-| pounds, ~__||DEATH TOLL ~ MOUNTING IN MIDDLEWEST Exhibition Flier Killed When Plane Drops—Another Flier Injured TAKE MANY LIVES ains Also Add to List of Deaths—One Dies Football Gridiron Oot Figured thrice in ports, with one fa t «toll of 1 middlewest; five pers hy trains and om were injured ino a AUTC cn ane lives in ns were than ely 200 foo tarron man sWibition a Cher belt slipped, sible for her ta re pen her parae oodwin, forn’ Houston ‘club ¢ F cently sold t vnati Nutionals, was seriously hurt ne he was piloting fell ton field, Houston. cked at I » blew We basepail patcher and Pa. WILL ARREST POACHERS OX STATE LANDS le he ‘in- Wo pass Killed 1 Vive Collision 5 utomobile interuy s fatal to uding. former M. vard Gerwoll, his wife and were killed) in similar Detroit; five death t two lect ‘Triple Amouat Frem Land Ercroachers a met f farmers ) and) Me- the | collection | siderable sum of hing was rl R. Ko ioner, land co i leit this week for the three ties with instructions to cole from them triple the amount o they would have had to tate lands if leased accord- to prosecute them for tom demand fo men were ki Minn, and their vision driving wy Ll day friend ental death Wood River, Hi outh dropped de football, Automobile the full week in 10) middle- stites ummbered LS as fol- Ohio Hin + Michigan na dh, Missouri and Wiseon- re 1, Kansas ind Oklahoma two, Two Wing. when met appar on railroad sioner, coun followed of the counties by the d de partment and ther of the farmers in question to heed demand for payment of the rental, Similar action against reealeitrants in other counties whe surveys recently have been made also is forecast by the land commissioner unless tie land poachers pay up. Must survey ESOTA HAS. SIX ‘0 DEATHS IN WEEK Paul, Minn, Oct. 19, bile fatalities in ydropped from 15 for the ing October HH to six fe ending at midnight Sund: All of the deaths in this state last week were reported from Friday to Sunday. The first part. of the week tnmarred by a single motor (P)—-Au- Minnesota week end- the week Pay Triple Under the te law. person encroach on state lands illegal! required to yp triple the of ording leasehold. Actions will be filed, Kositzky sa yy filing formal complaints the te’s attorncy of the in which the leged occurred, If the 5s fail to prosecute the 5 id, they are liable to remo office by the governor for negle of duty. Authority for poachers was granted the missioners by the at a meeting July 30 at which time a motion was adopted instructing the land commissioner to the law against pe land illegal! Man Who Claimed He Saw Murders Being Questioned Kenosha, Oct. 19.—()—Kenosha county authorities early jay till questioning Julius factory employee arrested in a ‘Chi- 0 hotel yesterday, to determine whether he has any knowledge of the murder here lust Thursday of Madalynne Latimer, 19, and James Sea her fiane While authoritie clared they do not think had y connection with the crime, yet it may be possible that he knows som thing o and his knowledge » put ‘the investigators on a definite r The police announced that coy of the bloodstained finger prints on Sears’ automobile have been seni to Chicago, Milwaukee, Washington, D. nworth and Atlanta for purposes, The nt of the index finger made a perfect photograph. MAN QUESTIONED Milwaukee, Oct, 19,—(). kee detectives early today, as the re- sult of a thorough checkup on the list of acquaintances of Madalynne Latimer, 19-year-old Milwaukee girl found murdered at Kenosha last Thursday, brought a young man to police headquarters for questioning. His name was mentioned several ry found in the mur- dered girl's possessions d in which he penned from day to day her most intimate secrets of life. Detectives hope that he will be able to give them some tungible clue upon ich to direct their further activi- ies. The name of the man mentioned in the girl’s diary, and who was ques tioned ate police headquarters, w given as Bill O’Meara, dental student at Marquette University, Milwaukee. STREET FOR HEROES October Is 32 Two of the victims were killed when their windshield was obscured by snow Saturday, a third died of in- juries suffered ‘the week previous, and another still was unidentified at Duluth this morning The toll of last week bring total number of deaths in auto accidents in the state to month, compared with 30 for Septem- ber. 1985 GROP OF N.D.WHEAT HAS MORE PROTEIN Toll the nobile of land and com- nd board secution Experiment tation Tests Show This Year’s Crop to Be Better Than Last Fargo, N. D., Oct. 19.—After test- North Dakota v7 samples of wheat gathered 8 counties in the state, C, E. Mangels, cereal chem- ist of the North Dukota Experiment tion, found that the 1 ges 1 per cent prot tent and has a test weight average of 58.19 pounds to the bushel. In a tomparison with the which were run last year, heen revealed that while | weights were greater last season the pro- tein content was less. The protein content in the 1924 wheat was 1 per cent, and the test weight was 60.9 pounds to the bushel. Two of the three highest indiyi dual samples this year were recei ed from Golden Valley county, Mr. Mangels says, one from Sentinel Butte testing 18.51 per cent and one from Beach 18.04 per cent. Wheat from Williston was second with 18.13 per cent protein content. Golden Valley Wheat Protein Golden Valley le protein content, with :in average of 15,62 per cent. Sheridan county ollows with 14,90 per cent; Williams, 4,07; Adams, 13.72; Stark, 13.59; and Dunn, 13.53. Forty-nine per cent of the sampirs examined this year contain more than 12 per cent protein, while ‘in 1924 only 26 per cent exceeded this amount, the chem- ist states, Ward county samples had the high- est average test weight, 62.8 pounds. Rolette averaged 62 pounds, Bottin- eau 61.5 pounds, Mountrail 60.8, Oliver 60.5 and Morton 60.4. The heaviest wheat, Mr. Mangels found, Winnipeg, Can.—After learning] Was producéd in the north central that three eg men, who carned| Part of the state. Samples from 12 the Victoria cross during the World| counties averaged more than 60 The average per bushel was in a block of each other, the city has' less than 58 pounds in only seven decided ‘to changethe name of the] enantiers street to Valor Road. was the average less than 56 pound: that tests it has P Highest In the state in this | and-in only two of these! SUBSTANTIAL TAX REDUCTION COMI ARR |MAY RECOMMEND CLOSING OF STATE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT 1928 OR °29, HOPTON SAYS H | nee Without Serio’ Interest on Reserve Fund Would AI Losses State Could Carry Hts Own Insu Ile States av Nearly endation tot) ' y that it disc vid tornado pa 1928 or Ly: insurance on state buildings charging premium ty, | pton, mar dep said here toda ft re th mann The i fund ha fit was organized in 11. lw nothing the partment’ $800,000 6 the st Nin ed for 1 $100,000 15 carried nd $700,000 hy whic te fund uraneg W,H00 1s neur t ineurred panic heavic by the Hopton fund, which under the even the mquant present Line can he re umount eam pat he po on the with inse ° of Me insurance und allow present the of th innin PRICE FIVE CENTS NG WAYS, MEANS BODY MEETS TO | PREPARE BILL Reduction Next Year Is Estimated From $300,- 000,000 to $500,000,000 MELLON CALLED UPO) Treasury Secretary Does Not Favor Further Reduction of Exemptions ‘h vee of apy 60 indebt sand the rs fund vrowing 1 creasing, he said. Within or two, Hopton the insurance or verve fund should have reached $1,000,000, 1 h that such a pl in at four and alt would yield $45,000 ta t halt t) tal ely Ss00 di t which the in- department Hopton dily are the is constantly tid, heesuse the viet eNpence in and hat ie po 1 ye aid companies | of sell. | mother normal the fund | will will anothe in whie und alone rohasis of partment at cent, q a ed whiet ¢ th wf it b the depart | its ch was 1 Capitol Is Bi t money isk could if could ne paying more needed Driate carry ous , insure ald oper neiple pra ot huvildinge ul has uted by the Ww which al of months | Hopton could r speci his w ute own insurance witha The only building the dep frown, departmen showe report fu In time the nine thas grown tog ndicating that ! tained | proximat unle " + wi y evere be the t depart nstruc the insu history Continued on page 7 Dakota Dry Law r ic, Administrator to STATE HAS Remain in Charge’ FEWER FARMS ——THANIN A920 Decrease in Number of in United States in F’ Years Is 34 of th Ov ting Minnexpoli Cruden stant pre on administrator charge of th Dakota nt jeontinue in the ex at le ieneral V inow, Lest enforcement chic nounced da Mr. Craden returned to Far conferen will arily at i ive Saturday. i uneet of a. per- Dakota, but te Ge i Rhinow suid 95.73 to the selection nent deputy for North dded he had made no. pla: 1 rement of Mr. Cruden at) the tpresent, ile was instrueted tw re- | ain to his p and an uctive i The state Dakota has 1 fewer farms this year than in % the United States commerce partinent's made public to-| Is, North Dakota was onc states to show fewer farms year than five years aso, the stat A “farm, campaign of prohibition — enforces ni officers, Rhino 5 Mr. Cruden was appointed by Cap- n A, C, Townse preceded Rhinow as prohibition chier of this Mr. 40 HURT AS GRANDSTAND FALLS DOWN Spectators at Eastern Football Game Thrown Into Creek in Mishap : cenSUS purposes, is all the land is directly farm.} ed by one p 1, either by his own labor alone or with the assistance of, ‘members of his household or hired jemptoyes. When a landowner has one or mor nters, erop- ch is considered Dakota in 1 ording to the government census, while this year the e shows only 75,969 farms. The se 2.2 per cent. Missouri is the only other state in the west nortn central division to show a de- crease, ine report States shows : number of per cent. “This,” the report i the result ef considerable de- creases in some sections of the coun- tly offset by in oth- i the reasons giv- en for deer in the number of farms were the following: The, ravages of the boll weevil in some of the cotton S$ the migrati of N a of d | | | United ein the or 12 for the entire total de of 7 hington, Oct. 19.— (A) ; More than two score spectators were ‘injured, number suffering broken bones, here Saturday afternoon when a grandstand collapsed while the Washington and Jefferson-Carnegic ‘Tech football game was in progress. The spectators were thrown into | Catfish creek, which runs under the stand, Crowd Hampers Rescue | Ambulances were summoned from Washington and the injured were | brought to hospitals here, Stale po- lice and firemen assisted in the work of rescue, but they w hampered by the hundreds of spectators who thromged about the debri i injured to reach the hos- here, two women, had broken ys s in parts of the North west; the consolidation of Jand & general recession from the | war-tim! ion in agriculture, i 0. In parts of the West; from the subdivision of rane es and large farms for more inten sive operation; and from the devel | opment of orchards, truck, and poul- try farms. ‘The establishment of small truck and poultry farms, ¢s- pecially near the cities, acounts for | most of the increase shown for New | England and some other parts of the | east. ‘Farmer Killed | When Clothing Catches in Belt | (A) up it was es-| had been be held here Nicholas, 45, leg: Lhe accident occurred as the sec- ond period closed und the game was called off, with the score 0 to 0. Two Score Injured At the hospital where the injured were taken officials said that more than two score persons had ven | brought in, suffering from broken bones and ‘other hurts. After a careful check tablished that no one killed. Devils Lak Spare rooms and emergency rooms, Funeral serv at the hospital were soon taxed to tomorrow for capacity and some of the- injured: who was killed late Saturday on a were treated in offices and corri-ifarm near here when his clothing dors, Those only slightly hurt were|caught in the belt shafting in the treated on the field. milkhou Womep id tN. ‘shaft to a pump, his clothing caught residen ames Other Officers jin the belt which hurled him against Valley Ci N. D., Oct. ()- {the ceiling, breaking his back and stripping the clothes from his bod: His body was discovered an hour lat- er by Howard Ouradnik, son of one M D., ¢ of the owners of the farm. Nicho- Appointment of additional depart-! 1a. is survived by his widow and one ment chairmen and division heads of | gon, the state federation of women’s clubs was announced here today by Mrs. J. E. Featherstone, president. A nutber of chairmen were an- nounced last week. The list issued today contains the following assignments: Mrs. E. T.} Danielson, Enderlin, chairman of the dit nm of Indian Welfare of the Welfare Department; Miss Lillian Cook, Bismarck, chairman of the di- vision of library extension; Mrs. John D. Gray, Valley City, cl of the motion pictures divi the applied education department. Mrs. V. B. S. Nickerson, Mandan, was named chairman of a new de- partment on cooperation with war veterans, D., ss will Claude Oct. 19.- Volstead Act Is Upheld By Supreme Court Washington, Oct. 19,—()—The constitutional’ of the Volstead act again was upheld and its provisions discussed in détail today by the su- preme court. A formal opinion in the Druggan case from Chicago, in which appeal by the defendant recently was dis- missed, was made the occasion for the courts redefinition of.its support of the validity of the dry law. i thi 000,000. joan, MELLON'S PROPOSALS Washing: P—. reduction of the maximum — in surtay to 20 per The nore ed under t sat one and toad of tw up to $4,000 instead of four per cent < of $4,000 to $8,000; t five instead of er cent cosa of $8,000, Secretary Mellon's recommendations nd me committe reduction of tax (A resume of Treasury to the ways concerning th pears on Ww first Oct. 19. another hington, (P) step toward nation’s ay with th ling house ways und-means committee to consider a downward revision of the present. levies. M the years that the hand to the wel ping off some he to the mb third committee ha me task the tax 1 reduced to be somewher hetiveen. $20,000,000 $500,000- 000 All hands were ready to advo cate reductions today, including the nd members of both ma in congress. S totaling qatw 00,000, while resented by their on the committee, arner of Texas, believe can be made up to $506,- Mellon's V pe waited t its £ chop- burdens, this time bill for next ye 000,000 and rats, as re ny membe resentative reductions Wants The commit ever, for the vi lon, who asked to r first one on the list for the public hearings, which opened this after- noon and will continue for two weeks before the committee was called convene for an executive ly in the da Although prior fore the committee had carefully refi ing any definite tax return scheme, the treasury has estimated that surplus of at least $250,000,000 would he ple for reduction of the There also had been ition that the treasury a maximum surtax rate r cent instead of the pres- 40 per cent, as well as cuts in normal rates. Opposes Larger Exemptions eretary Mellon further made clear before going before the com- mittee that he is opposed to increas- ing income exemptions as advo by Representative and suggested by Seni can of New Je: New Jersey Senator, Replying his suggestion that all persons incomes of $5,000 or less be exempt- ed from taxes, Mr. Mellon dec “The sole result of such a would be an enormous loss of reve- nue to the government without a ingle compensating advantage. The letter also is taken as 4 to Mr. Garner's pr the exemptions from $1,000 to § ried persons from nd the proposal of ch of New Je member of the committe crease the exemptions to 00, respectively. Predicts Quick Passage Chairman Green of the ways and means committee has declared a bill will be ready for the house upon the convening of congress in December and predicts its passage there hefore Christm. Senate leaders declare the measure can be finally enacted into law by March 1, 15 da before first tax payments of the new year are due, _ As a result of their increasgl ma- jority in the house, Republican me bership on the committee is in this session to a ratio of 15 It was h repre- consin, who nce been voted off the commit- tee by the Republican caucus, count- ed on the majority sid Yeggs Who Robbed Nina Wilcox Putnam Sought By Police West Palm Beach, Florida. Oct. 19. —()—Five highway men where the objects of a search today by police andi sheriff's forces following re- ported robery of Mrs, Nina Wilcox Putnam, well known writer, and her companion, R. W. Gauger, of $6,000 in jewels, papers and cash early yes- terday. Mrs. Putnam told police they had stopped to repair a minor accident to their automobile when the bandits approached, first to offer assistance and then to rob. LOS ANGELES LEADS Los Angeles—The largest safety deposit vault in the world is in a bank bapa lenge wii feet. and is. engl old. 75,000 safe deposit boxes. - ring ‘be- Mellon dvane- to appe retar ined from ‘ tes. definite indi would favor of 20 p ent the reply posal to increase single — persons nd for mar-