The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 20, 1925, Page 1

» { WEATHER FORECAST Increasing cloudiness tonight and Wednesday. Not so cold. ESTABLISHED 1873 THE BISMARCK TRIBUN E/ aan | BUNKHOUSE ERECTED AND | FURNISHED Former Nonpartisan League Organizer Is Personally in Charge of Work INVESTORS FLOCK IN State Securities Commission Will Investigate Town- ley’s Activities A.C. Townley, at one a in Nonpartison affairs of Norci D kota, but who has not been in the ty for some time, is now back the state and is personally harge of operations looking tows the@drilling for oil at Robinson, ac- cording to word reaching The marck Tribune this morning. He h constructed a bunkhouse 40x30 feet according to the Tribune's. in- it electrically lighted moved in a carload of fur- including 50 beds. Drilling in the vicinity to start Monda dia men are now at for the initial operations. s Oil company is the organiz tion which is carrying on the work and the site is about « mile from the location of the well which created a furore six weeks ago by pro- gasoline. is said 29 prospective investors were in Robinson Saturday looking over the field. The “gasoline well” has been tak- over by the Robinson Develop: t company, which was recentl anized and — incorporated — with 5,000 capital. Robinson — and Jamestown capitalists are said to b the directors of the corporation an the company plans also to start op- erations in the near future. RITIES COMMISSION INVESTIGATE O. Eailey, secretary of «state securities commissi "today that the commi: will consider a to investi- pate the o-tivities *. Townley, former Nonpartisan leader, in con- nection with an oil development pro- ject at Robinson. Townley said to be connected with the Kansas Oil company. A month ago he was being sought by the securities commission in connec- tion with h leged activities in selling oil stoc in North Dakota without the permission of the securi- ties commission. It was later de- termined, however, that he was so- liciting his friends for loans for use in connection with the operations of the Kansas company. the said _. Woman Held Three Weeks on Murder Charge Is Free 20.—()—After in jail, Lillian Philadelphia, Oct. nearly three weeks M. Emanuel, on whom the state sought to fix the blame for the ath of Baurice Eugene Felt, weal- thy realtor, was free today. She spent last night with her friends and with her 18-months-old son, Forrest. Felt was found mortally wounded with a bullet in his brain on the night of September 29 in the home of Miss Emanuel. A coroner’s jury , Yesterday announced that it found Felt died at the hands of a person or persons unknown to the j ee Assistant Dist: announced he would apply for a warrant charging Miss Emanuel with suspicion of murder. Fred Felt testified he had met his brother by appointment, found Miss Emanuel with him, and that the girl had threatened to “knock off” Maur- ice if he refused to pay her a sum of money. CONARD TO DICKINSON Dickinson-+-Rev. Ralph V. Conard, who has been pastor of the Congre- gational churches at Killdeer, Dunn , \Center and Halliday for the past two years, has accepted a call to the First Congregational church of this city. He will take charge of his new pastorate about January 1, ‘ acetates DS aii remem aE le Weather Report | Temperature at 7 a. m. . Highest yesterday Lowest last night Precipitation to 7 a, m. j*Highest wind velocity . WEATHER FOR For Bismarck and vicinity: _ in- creasing cloudiness tonight and Wed- nesday. Not so cold. For North Dakota: _ Increasing cloudiness tonight and Wednesday. Not so cold west and north portions tonight and east and south portions Wednesda: her Conditions A large high pressure area, accom- panied by generally fair, cold weath- + er, prevails from the Mississi\ pi Val- ley westward to the Pacific coast states. A low pressure area, accom- panied by precipitation, covers the Great Lakes region. Another low pressure aréa centered over'northern Alberta is causing warmer weathér over the Northwest. ‘Weekly Crop Report Cloudy weather with occasional snows interfered considerably with late threshing and other outdoor Bis- Attorney Kelley | COMMITT Townley DISASTERS FEWER IN PAST YEAR BUT LOSS OF LIFE WAS GREATER Washington, Oct. while fewer than the greater lite and property toll, nounced today in its annual rep The tornado that cut last spring alone caused report id, whiie the dis preceding numbered only In prepa for the nation during the nex ninth annual roll call of the R ber 11- 20.—(AP) a 796 record number er 735 dead and not ation for whatever emer -American disasters this year of t year exacted a the American Red Cross an ort for the year ending June 30. ath through the middle west deaths and maimed ualties of the entire year Quice 2.000 injured uty be in-store t year. s anounced, the Red 1 be held Novem ) Disasters The in 90 disasters during the counted for of the calamit with 16; tornadoes whieh cay . Y far ort showed that the Red year Cr red ineludine tf fo qt ailroud nines ‘ed sery which second ( Se typhoo accident nd om'ne ere disaste w eruptions, 2 “entombmen forest » mid wester tion and ren id. This ope of its work in this reg! proximately 33,435 peop! Within 12 hours of its oce ‘lief organization completed in region, and had launched mea; tion for the sufferers from fou of people ever in its care in th 4 Included in the two “enton Floyd Collins at Cave Cit set up canteens anization bore the cost of work, tornado pr pilitation in “peace-time history,” ion is now virtually Ky. and other assistance on the fires, and similar v resented the largest problem of the In compieted 1 ised ap fon, the Red Cross ass urrence the Red C€ n the Santa Ba earthquake sures of permanent rehabilita r disasters, the largest number is country. mbments” Here ss had its was the tragedy of Red Cross chapte spot, while the miterials utilized in the relief Other Castastrophies ber of recent disasters in i report. “Outstanding Shenandoah. | field representatives in the vi | the ship's home port 3 i comforting those berea scene of the loss. “Other ca the fire at Shreveport. ' Tennessee forest fire; t) orn: Hl along the Rio Grande River, w of El Paso, and a hailstorm, w counties and impoverished 100 the among Lakehu lives. and necessitated people. A series of flood 14 deaths, and Red Cross at Erzeroum, Turkey. killed 11 which killed people also others; anothe. left 186 others in need. “In the Virgin Islands, the and stroyed 1,000 buildings, and in by the organization. A flood in zeles, Colombia, completed the AGGART CO. BEGINS PAVING WORK TODAY Road to Penitentiary Will Be Graded This Fall, Paving Depends on Weather Work preparatory to the paving of state highway No. 3 between Bis- marek and the state penitentiary was started this morning by a crew of men employed by the Haggart Con- struction company of Fargo. A half a dozen men und several teams are on the job today and the old road bed is being plowed up and put in read- iness for grading. A tractor will shortly be added to the mechanical equipment, according to G. W. Hag- gart who is superintending the job. Work was begun on the west end of the project. “We will try to get the piece of road which is slated for the pave- ment graded this fall before winter stops operations,” said Mr. Hag- gart this morning, “and it may be possible that part of the paving can still be done this fall. That, how- ever, depends entirely on’ the weather.” The Haggart construction company is proceeding with the work follow- ing the passing of a resolution by the Burleigh county commissioners at their last session authorizing the company to begin operations. the official knowledge or consent of the state highway department,” said H. C. Frahm, chief engineer, when informed of the action of the Hag- gart company, “and we have no statement to make concerning the matter.” Several Alleged Speeders Haled Into Mandan Court Bismarck motorists out for a plea- sure drive over the paved highway to Mandan will be wise to stay well within the authorized speed limit for that piece of roadway. this morning are to the effect that a goodly number of automobile driv- pearance in a Mandan court today. The arrests, it is said, were made by a police officer who was patrol- ing the highway in an automobile. work, Potato digging and corn husk- ing made fair progress. Freezing temperatures occurred in all sections ST. PAUL FIRM GETS CONTRACT “ Jamestown— The. Fuel Economy Supplemcnting these service: ssistance and the destruction by fire or virtually the w “The work is being started without, re those incident to a num United States.” continued the these was the wreck of the Chapters at Cambridge and Caldweil, Ohio, und icinities of both the wr rst, went to work, assisting and (in the tragedy, and helping at the rophies in which the Red Cross served include La., which wiped out nine blocks: the ado at Anniston, Ala.; the flood hich affected three towns south hich struck two North Carolina families.” Disasters Abroa: rurning to disasters, the report s jeading the list was the Chinese, flood, which cost 13,115 aid from the Red Cro: id: to 100,000 fires in Porto Rico resulted in to 2,233; an earthquake 4; a typhoon in the Philippines necessitated our care of 5,000 at Agana, capital of Guam, killed only one, but Red Cross rendered istance following a hurricane which killed 80 people, injured 100, de- which 1.500 people were assisted Peru, a fire at Cananea, Mexico, ole city of Mana- foreign operations, More Lignite Is Shipped This Year Than Last Shipments of lignite the state of North Dakota period beginning Sept. 12, 1925, and ending October 3, 1925, exceeded those for the same period of 1924 by 20,563 tons, the October 17 bulle- tin of the North Dakota Board of Railroad Commissioners shows, Ship- ments to other states, however, for the same period this year were 6,583 tons less than for the like period last year. Intrastate shipments of lignite from Sept. ‘sto October 3, this year, 97 tons.as compared tong during that period The interstate shipments for the period in 1925 were 3,841 tons and in 1924 were 10,424 tons. N. Y. CABARETS OBJECTIVE OF LIQUOR DRIVE Thirty Proprietors Summoned to Appear in Court For Alleged Law Breaking New York, Oct. 20—(#)—Broad- way cabarets and supper clubs were the objective today of the sweeping prohibition drive ; fare. Thirty of United States Buckner’s staff. Throughout last night and early District BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1925 KE CONSI Plans to Drill for Oil Near Town of Ro ‘HOOVER URGES 'STATETO HAVE | all, transportation 1 ‘oe coal within for the! HUGE SYSTEM | OF WATERWAYS With Population Increasing Rapidly, Inland Waterwa Are Necessary aril ONE SENATOR IN CONGRESS No Election Will Be Called to. Select Successor to Late Senator Ladd TALKS AT KANSAS CITY Visualizes Mis ppi System as 9,000 Miles of Waterways 0. (AP) incre of in the next twenty-fi Hoover declared i sto civic and here last oo is vipe for the United S wrk upon the cre 40,000,000 Urs, Secretary dre waterways. not on collection of disconnected local lake projects,” id, s that will be nd-of continental done tary we have driven our en development of land. speed the in its a nd | pointe ergi ind power, Many Causes Involved Fhe new setting in which we find ourselves develops from many causes. “Pirst, we have made great vances in methods of river imi ment and canal constructio the depths of water which now provide we can bring to bear great improvement in design and the size of water craft, in methods of propulsion, and in loading and dis- charging cargoes. These inventions and improvements restore to the terways the position of being again the most economical transport for \ y kinds of goods, which they lost to the rail times when they could ¢ of only three feet of draft. “Second—Our agriculture and in- dustries are based on higher stand- ‘ards of living than those of foreign ‘comeptitors, and if we would main- tain these standards we must secure ithe cheapest form of transportation jof agricultural and industrial pro- jducts both to domestic and world ad- jtage boats -—We must face the provi- sion of our transportation for the |nation. Only a quarter of a century j hence we must serve an inerea 40,000,000 in population, and traffic will increase faster than their numbers. The terminals and ys of our railways al- premonitory We shall need vast ex- pansion by rail and water and the capital cost of this expansion in these regions will be less by water n by rail. “Fourth—-Because we will have full empioyment for both railways and waterways we can now quit the destructive battle between water- borne and rail service for an era of mutual coordination. “Fifth—We must find some nat- ural curb upon further conges- tion of population in the great ur- ban centers through greater diffu- sion of our people throughout the country, and our waterways offer « positive contribution to this accom- plishment. “Sixth--We have today behind us a long suspension of national pro- jects due to the war and its after- math. We have recovered a degree of c strength that makes it us to undertake any able task of national develop- Most important of age our inland w. unified transp not as isolated uni onceive and at connected whole, not a collection of disconnected lo: rand lake improvement projec as has been our habit in the past Every great transportation whether rail,| or water, or 1 must consist) of main trunk between great centers of popu and industry, with collateral feeders f gathering und distribution ser- “Eighth—The topography of our country, the present and future nec- all, r ities of our population, the de- most j velopment we have already accomp- yet|lished, and above all the goodness waged along the famous thorough-jof Providence in our natural water the best known| channels clea night resorts were served with sum-| such mons, and complaints by members of|tems, the Mississippi System und the Attorney|Great Lakes System. ‘ y define for us two major inland waterway sys- Great Waterway System “I visualize the Mississippi today the federal prosecutor’s men|tem as 9,000 miles of connected wa visited the all-night places and left] terways—a transportation system of papers requiring the owners to ap-| Which some 3,100 miles ure trunk pear in federal court charges of selling liquor. The action against the 30 places|line 1,500 miles in lengt! to answer| lines and 6,000 miles ( of late a main north-south trunk reaching hat is, was Mr. Buckner’s first step in his|from New Orleans to Chicago and announced plan to mately 100 of the suspected of selling liquor. Scenes of excitement prevailed in| through Reports] some of the resorts upon the entry|a large part of these main stems we and police-|can maintain nine feet of depth. In the process | addition of government agents men, In some cases, BOWMAN CORN SHOW Bowman—The second annual corn} modern craft, show and hi festi' adlock approxi-| there eding., Manhat-}Lakes System, and crossing this, tan resorts, mostly along Broadway,| great east-west trunk line 1,600 miles ers were haled into police court at|serving squads reported, the crash| must Mandan last evening on charges of|of many liquor bottles, being hast-|through the Tennessee, the Cumber- speeding and were forced to deposit! ily broken to destroy evidence, could| land, the Arkansas, the’ Upper Miss- bail money to guarantee their ap-| be heard before entrance was gained.|issippi, connecting with the Great a in length, from above Pittsburgh ro to Kansas City. Over o these main tunks, we diligently improve feeders the Upper Missouri, the Monangahela, the Alleghany and other streams to workable depth for It will serve the vast will be|heart of American agriculture and held at Bowman Tueseday and ajwill place great commercial and in- la vi gathering of people from this| dustrial cities with upward of 7,000,- ity is expected. One of the fea-| 000 people in ‘hee eveateat a? com- but no serious damage has been re-| company of St. Paul has been award-|tures of the affair will be a barbe-| munication with each other and it ported. livestock is shipped. Much ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Official in Charge. a new heating plant in the new Tri- nity hospital here, The work will, be completed within six weeks. being| ed the contract for installation of| cue at noon. Though it has 225,000 inhabitant: Vellore, India, has no electric lig will contribute to the cheaper trans- Portaton . of agricultural id bulk commodities over a great hinterland | of states,” With a 8) Moses’ letter above their} igns of | ~ ' | WILL NOT APPOINT ! — Hl Governcr —Sorlie Decides’ Against Special Election Beeause of Cost fl ( i Ina G. Sort kota wi the December se His determin » today Gov that North one ion of Da have only Hampshire, that pointer the governor Dakot« term of th Sens F. La would not be seated by the sen reviewing the law I pre h there would be no election to a succe r. Gov. Sorlie far as 1 can see thi demand that [appoint anyone and no] {matter whom T appointed it) would Heause trouble.” 1 The yovernor had reference to the! North Dakota political — situation} which has been ed by apparent split. in League which is bel observers to have divore from the more rad ‘in his own pa to an }North Dakota newspaper e the governor the matter go by de summ h ii in a which said} concluded | vult until! © said it, | es determination | ;not to a] clectoin to name} a_suceessor d was the result fof estimate state officials that! it w id cost between $150,000 and} "$200,000. “Nort other «wer executive i time until successor usual cour } next. pri y election is | jfor June, 1926, at which candidates | | for senator will be selected. L. B. Hanna and R. A. Nestos, for- | mer governo snd both members of | the conservative wing of the Repub- | lican party in North Dakota be jing urged by their friends’ for the post. Considerable speculation has Jbeen had, also, regarding the possi- i of Sorlie entering ‘the san. Sorlie Accepts Gunderson’s Bid to Conference Governor A, G. Sorlie of North Da- kita is one f seven executives of middlewestern states who has accept ed the invitation extended by Gover- nor Gunderson of South Dakota to attend an economic conference Sioux Falls on October 28 and Other state governors who have 4 cepted the bid are John E. Erickson of Montana; John Hammill, Towa; m MeMullen, Neb heodore sam A. rapp, Okla ukota doesn’t what badl will only people Senator of events i need an- * Be Nellie Ross of Wyoming, have heen invited to the conference but no word has yet been received as to whether or not they will No specific program for diseus: has been planned, but freight the inheritance tax, agriculture, < lopment — will be iong the topic: Butler May Quit Marines to Clean Up Philadelphia Philadelphia, Oct. 20.—()—Mayor Kendrick announced today that he would make a formal request of President Coolidge to extend Gener- al Smedley D. Butler's leave of ab sence from the Marine corps so that he may continue as director of pub- lic safety here. General Butler in an address last night intimated that if it “came to a show down” he would consider giving up his connection with the marine corps in order to remain here. “While it would be an awful wrench,” he said, “I don’t know but what t came to a show down, I , the towns a! quainted with the r ei pla | off the red hot Admiral Coontz, lett. Fleet at San Pedro, plac Bismarck Men Making Tour of Surrounding Tow Bismarck tomorrow busine re visitir 1 part ac- | better H ents of those} and to boost the North Dakot State Corn Show which will | t Bismarck November 17, 18, 20. Five the two-di nen on ch route. distributing literature — concerning ate corn show and are inviting one to plan to take in the an-/ nual exposition. PASSENGERS SAY SAILORS of the sta being covered in| with four or five The men are; routes are y tour, WERE DRUNK Serious Charges Made Fol- lowing Burning of Clyde Liner Comanche New York, 20. (P) aren by survivors home niembers negro c Clyde liner Comanche, which burned off the Florida coast Saturday, were drunk, and in some nstances caused passengers to be/ hurled out of lifeboat Raymond, steamship of line, ships and Captain of our most trusted ¢ Mr, Raymond. “If the crew drunk he would not have port.” Dispatches from Florida and one left, fire was discovered. ers a depicted as having been calm at the time when members of the crew were pulling them from lifeboats and up- setting boats in their haste to get uppe ne Deseri 2 of Worchi negro cre hed back sengers trying to get into boats were yanked out by ne- groes. I finally got into a — boat when it had been partly lowered. The apparatus jammed and some of us were thrown headlong into the wa- ter.” intoxicat would give up my connection with the federal government and go out on my own to cleun up Philadel- phia.” _ COMPANY DIES Minneapolis, Oct. 20.—(4)--Thom- as J. McCann, 39, vice president and general manager of tho Shevlin, Carpenter & Clarke Company, died early today while en route to the jc coast, according to word re- Mr. McCann with his wife left here last Sunday. Dilation of the heart was given as the cause of death. The body is a Maricopa, Ari- zonay. pending funeral arrange- ments. First steps for an American navy were taken Oct. 13, 1775, The only one of the 167 passengers unaccounted for is Wm, J. Lawler of Winthrop, Mass., who is believed to have been drowned. Search is being being relieved of command of the Admiral Amateur toa nearby cabbage patch last age | obtaining clues to suc and forth on | made for his body. None of the crew is missing. SKIPPER DECLARES STATEMENTS UNTRUE Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. Statements made in criticis crew of the Clyde line C when she was burned off Mayport, Florida, last Saturday night as pub- lished in The New York World and The New York Times, were declared “positively untrue” by Capt. Ed Curry of Montelair, N. J, master of the Comanche, today Captain Curry said only one per- son was intoxicated and that was a negro waiter, The captain also de- clared that the crew deported itself in an unusually manlike manner. “I saw no confusion among eith- er the passengers or crew,” Captain Curry declared. “There ‘was one elderly lady that was hysterical.” son in Pacific | Robinson, right, stepped in his { ! AUTO HUBCAP IN MURDERS Detective Held For Questioning — Chicago Man Is Released Wi Oct ind torn of what is believed to bi blood, found beside a_ ston Kenosha y hold the | H surrounding | 20,—(P) nes Sears, | Sheriff All clu ig, She has turned to the hubeap valuable thread in the investi maker's iff Willems 1 in shot the Kenosha ay. Investigators are searching 4 in the vicinity in the hoy a car or ent purchase of a new hub cap ype found r Detective Arrested The inquiry into the murders took au new turn yesterday when the police took into custody Frank Kurt I har’ ho professed to be an teur had all th ade, including of v had clipped accounts of the police le Hy newspaper session of the he thought they Iving the mys- ned during the iz and will by 1 furthe: Julius Yuk i ed in Chica questioned night. Another man Ra- cine, Wis. Was turned over to Mil- ukee authorities on another charge. AUTO LACKING HUBCAP 18 FOU Milwaukee, Oct. —(P)-—An au- tomobile, the same make as the one sought by the Kenosha police in co nection, with «a double killing nez there last week, found by the police here to e machine lacks a hubeap, nosha authorities are said to have found a hubeap near the scene of the murders last night. ‘The sheriff at Kenosha said he is certa achine is the one used by the person who killed Madeiynne Latimer and James Sears. The car has some blood spots on it, according to those who it. A woman's garment and a com- pact were found in the rear seat. COL. MITCHELL TO BE COURT- MARTIALED Washington, Oct. 20.(#)—A_gen- to | | —— GREEN GIVE } tate Lt of the | applying | would reduce to one and one half per ‘enue | that the Al however, has virtually hubcap, contain-1 prov: post \ | | have viewed | K. PRICE FIVE CENTS DERS PROPOSAL OBJECTION TOTAX PLAN - EXPECTED gram .Presents Points Pro- Several of Difference APPROVAL Various Organizations and Individuals Will Be Heard By Committee Washington, Oct. 20.—()—Several major fighting points are furnished in the treasury’s tax reform program ns presented yesterday to the house ways and om s committee by Secre- tary Mellon. These are the principal which are certain to en strong opposition in) con rate on against maximum surtax sof 20 per cent, 40 per cent of the inheritance or in- the present Repeal 1X. peal of the income Still another 1 publicity provision law, point of diifer- betwee aisury and con- gress is the total of the re- duction. Secretary Mellon has warn- ed that it would be inadvisable to go beyond $300,000,000, a sum en- low te suit some of the ¢ on the Republican, as well as the Democratic sid Reductions Proposed Along with the proposal for cutting the maximum surtax rate in half, the treasury sceretary made known that his program called for a smaller reduction also in the normal rates on small incomes. — He cent the two per cent rate on incomes up to $4,000, make the rate three per cent instead of four per cent on in- comes between $4,000 and $8,000 and reduce to five per cent the present six per cent rate on incomes in ex- cess of $8,000. The joint reduction proposed would fix 25 per cent maximum tax which would individual taxpa Mellon said this return ate large amounts of capital for ductive enterprise, Swould increase prosperity and ultimately bring into the treasury probabl. much rev- as could expected in the future under the present 40 per ccn™ maximpm, Democratic me Republic favore mums rate only to 25 per cent and would approve greater reductions in the normal rates than proposed by the treasury head. Chairman Green of the committee, given ap- Mellon's surtax pro- the to Mr. Will Hold Hearings Before undertaking to study the treasury prope n full detail, the committee will devote two weeks to the hearing of the various organiza- tions and individuals interested in the subject of tax reform, Before the public hearings are con- cluded, the treasury will submit de- tailed ‘estimates of receipts and ex- penditures for the government for the next two years. From these, the committ to make its own ¢ to the amount of t ’ aan be removed over i od of years without embarrass- ment to the treasury PEOPLE URGED TO GIVE FOR A WORTHY CAUSE Governor Issues Proclamation Concerning “Old Iron- sides” Campaign In a p mation issued Goy. A. G. Sorlie, honorary man of the state committee on the restoration of the Frigate Constitu- tion, suggested that the people of the state “contribute their mites to this most worthy patriotic cause.” Charles Leissmann, deputy secre- ta of state and secretary of the constitution committee of the Elks lodge, which is sponsoring the move: ment, announced the appointment on Tat ‘the state committee of the follo persons: Miss Minnie J. Nie state superintendent of school: hool superintendent of each Mrs. J. E. Featherstone, Valley City, president of the North Dakota Federation of Women’s Clubs; Mrs Albert E. Jones, Lisbon, North Da- kota American War Mothers; J. A, Potzer, Bismarck, grand master of the I. 0. 0. F. lodge in North Da- kota; James A. Garrity, Fargo, state deputy, North Dakota state council . of Thomas F. Kane, president of the University of North Dakota; . E. Allen, president of State Teachers College, Valley City; R. M. Black, president, state normal and industrial school, Ellendale; E. P. Riley, president, state school of sci- ene, Wahpeton; C. C. Swain, pres dent, state teachers college, May ville; George A. McFarland, presi dent, state teachers college, Minot; S, T. May, president, State Normal eral court-martial for trial of Col. Wm. Mitchell, on charges of violat- ing the ninety. was ordered today to Washington October 28. The order for the court-martial was issued at the war department hy direction of President Coolidge. Major General Charles P. Summeral commanding the Second corps area, Governor's Island, N. Y., senior of- ficer in the army lists, was appoint- ed president of the court, convene in sth article of war,|L. school, Dickinson; L, Conklin, jzell, wanis nt Dr. F. B. Strauss, Bis- marck, state Lion clubs; Sam Stern, Fargo, president of the state lodge of Elks, and William G. Owens, Wil- liston, district deputy of the Elks lodge. As designated in the governor's proclamation the offici: time for receiving contributions is the week of September 19,