The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 21, 1926, Page 1

WEATHER FORECASTS Fair tonight and Thursday; cooler tonight. ‘ ESTABLISHED 1873 LIQUOR FROM CHINA BEING SMUGGLED IN Federal Prohibition Agents Now Have Chinese Boot- leggers to Cope With CAR SEIZED AT PORTAL Contained 200 Cases of Liquor —Was Billed to Chicago as Chinese Sauce St. Paul, Minn, A April 21—)— Federai prohibition agents now have Chinese bootleggers, handling Nquor smuggled in from China, to contend with. This ‘was revealed last night with announcement here that customs agents had seized a carload of Chin- see whisky in a freight car just af- ter it had crossed into the United States at Purtal, N. D., from Canada. Two hundred cases of the liquor were taken and stored in the customs office warchouse at Portal. The seizure was made two wecks ago but announcement was withheld until an investigation had been made. The shipment, consi Chinese merchant in Chicago whose name was not made public, was bill- ed as a Chinese sauce. It came from Tientsin and Hong Kong, China, was sent to Vancouver, B. C., and Portal. Other shipments were reported to have gone through to the Twin Cities and Chicago. The liquor held includes 130 cases of whisky made from rice and flow- ers, with 36 small jugs or bottles to the case, which sell for $5 a jug; and 70 cases, containing 24 botties cach, of a choicer brand selling for $8 a bottle. Inquiry has been started by federal agents to determine how long the traffic has been conducted under the guise of merchandise. NO FURTHER ATTEMPTS MADE AT SMUGGLING Grand Forks, N. D., April 21.-—()— So far as the customs officials know, there have been no further attempts to smuggle Chinese liquor over the Canadian border since the seizure of 200 cases at Portal April 14, accord- ing, to Jud LaMoure, district col- lector of customs. LIQUOR SHIPMENT WAS ZED ON MARCH 31 Minot, ‘N. D., April 21—-(AP)—The Chinese. liquor shipment seized at} D., and which has resulted investigation, according to news dispatches, was confiscated on the afternoon of March 31. The 200 cases of whisky were found on the station platform at Portal, as reported in a dispatch to the News of that date. Pauline Marler, high school queen twice in cne month. F: festival in her own town. Then s honorary queen at a girl of TRAIN HITS | AUTOMOBILE NEAR PRISON John Bics ‘of Beulah, Driver.) ‘Jumps Just Before the | Collision i John Bies of Beulah had a narrow} scape from death here at 9 o'clock | is morning when’ the nobile | vhich he was driving was struck by} ‘orthern Pacific passenger train No. 2 at the railway crossing near the penitentiary. The automobile, an/ Elgin six touting cur, was demolishe: Mr. Bics, who was gn route to| Driscoll, did not see the train ap-| proaching, he said, until he was about, six feet from the crossing. Sensing ‘that a collision was inevitable, he Vjumped from the automobile just’ be- {ss it reached the crossing, and was uninjured. Frank Milhollan, chairman of the [state board of railroad commission- ers, who watched horror-stricken as! Bies headed his machine directly into} the path of the train, picked up the man and brought him to Bismarck. Weather Report o Temperature ‘at 7 a. m. pees yesterday lust night... Precipltation te 7 a, 1. Highest wind velocity . Weather conditions at North Da- kota points for the 24 hours ending at 8 a. m. today: WANTED, A MOVIE PLOT. AND IT DOES NOT EXIST. WHEN FORD EARNED $100. STARS—RHINOCEROS MEAT. | i 1 i . 49! 78} 47 BY ARTHUR BRISBANE. «(Copyright, 1926.) This is written in Los Angeles,! Li where pictures are made for America and all creation. Most encouraging is the fact that the entire world de- pends en this country for moving pic- tures and automobiles. We make automobiles by the mil- lion and sell them for less than it costs Europe te manufacture them, despite our higher wages. Efficiency explains that) os we Lowest & in inehes Big pictures can be made more cheaply abroad than here, yet foreign nations refuse their own cheaper product _and demand. American pic- tures. That also is easily explained. American producers work ceaselessly, with terrific energy and unlimited expenditure, to make pictures better. The best of this year is out of date Amenia Bismarck Bottinea” Devils Lake Dickinson Dunn Center Ellendale .. Fessenden . Grand Forks Jamestown . Langdon . Larimore Lisbon . Minot * Napoleon Pembina . Williston Moorhead, Minn. .84 WEATHER FORECAST | ‘For Bismarck and vicinity: Fair | tonight and Thursday; cooler tonight. For North Dakota: Fair tonight | and Thursday cooler tonight. GENERAL WEATHER CONDITIONS | centered igh temperatures prevuil over the upper Minsissippl Valley und northern Plains States. A “ae pressure area, accompanied by cooler weather, extends from the! s northern Rocky Mountain states to the Pacific coast. Precipitation curred at a few central Canadian stations and over the southern Rocky Mountain region... North Dakota Coes ae Wheat Re- ‘gion For the werk cnaine “April 20, 1926, The weather during the week was favorable for outdoor work and rapid PI 8 was made in seeding spring wheat,’ Plowing for corn is well ae vaneed but the soil is too dry in some sections on high ground. High winds on the fifteenth cai much destruction of property and some loss Hs Aid by aidigg prairie fires. Vege. mn made rapid growth and pas- one s afford meh feed for livestock. Highways are in excellent condition ‘much road work is under con- struction. Rain is needed in all sections, : : set ot only one explanation for any success, one mixture — ten per cent inspiration, ninety per cent per- spiration, as ‘Edison puts it. Producers ' are ‘looking for “the next step” 4n seering. pistures. some way to make photography, more effec- tive, to crowd, into an evening's use of the eyes and brain more entertain- ment, instruction, emotion and excite- ment, The picture excels the written word in expressing thought and action as our alphabet excels ancient hiero- > wlyphies, but thought in pictures is still held down practically to the slow and action of written books and eocesocsessoecoccce Precipitation Cloudy although there were hoofs to kick up mud. Men could not change at once to the new idea. They have not mh done so with motion photography, and rites are i in the same rd |. you ve, ‘the new idea you can sana it Hy ole There are dices opportunities in moving pictures and everything el: more in this age than ever. entlemen who wish they mi es out here in the gold minded by the Los Angeles Examin- x that in 1901, sixty-two years after, gold rush, Fenry Ford was work- for $100 a month. is doing ll now, ening ne hundred mil- imap a pari Hd ee jore hee yi (Continued on she’ll be queen of the siailay festival there. ! the occasion and particularly to Child | fare Weel jand planning for the future welfare} | made to give concrete expression to | recommend ‘| or athletic celebration, demonstrating BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1926 POLICE CAPTURE INDIANA HARBOR MAIL ROBBER \ | { Wenatchee, Wash., is going to be pple blossom ll go to Winche: Va., to be SORLIENAMES “MAY 1-7 CHILD | WELFARE WEEK‘ Welfare Agencies Urged to Acquaint Public With Health Facilities Governor Sorlie today proclaimed the week of May 1 to 7 as Child Wel- fare Week. He urged all North Dako- tans to lend enthusiastic support to Health Day on Saturday, May 1. “The plan of observing Child Wel- ” said the governor in hi proclamation; “is meeting with in- creasing favor and interest from year to year. It is time for measuring progress, taking stock of the present of children. “In compliance with the request of the department of public welfare of| ; the North Dakota Federation of Wom- en’s Clubs, I do hereby designate the week of May 1 to 7, inclusive, mb Olli eWeltape Werk. Cecoumimiend that during this week all public and private welfare agencies in this state unite in a constructive program to ac- quaint the citizens with the public health facilities of their own com- munity, stressing the great forward looking movements designed _ to promote child welfare. Realizing that in the past quarter century} greater advances’ have been made along welfare lines than in any other! similar period, but realizing also that the work done is only a beginning, L' earnest recommend — that every agency, public and volunteer, civic and educational, devote its energies toward making still greater advances, and that every citizen lend his hearty; co-operation in the promotion of these! conditions. for sane, healthful, joyous living. recommend that on Child Health as far as possible, be | the ideal of healthtul child life. I that on this day all schoolss in the state co-operate by giving an outdoor festival, pageant the ideals of vigorous and vital liv- ing. Every community should lend its enthusiastic support to such.a cele- bration. Let us bear in mind, too, that the ideals stressed are not foF| one day or for one week alone, but’ must be made a significant part of a| constructive program for North Coad g ta. Gen. Pershing May | Lead Soldiers to | France Next Year! Oklahoma City, Okla., April 21-—(4)| ~A move whereby ‘Generai John J.{ Pershing might lead the American soldiers to France in 1927 as he did in 1917 was initiated here tonight when Oklahoma City Post Number 35, of the American Legion endorsed him as the next national commander of the Legion. The most pledged of, support to the general in the election; of & national commander at the Phil-| adelphia convention next fall. Senior Class Plans Class Night Program: ie | The program for class night, May 26, was outlined at a recent ting of the Senior class and students were elected to prepare the different class day documents. The election results | follow: Class prophecy—Miss Martha Ger- trude Lundquist, i a song——Miss Edne Dean Best nd be 2 Rotary Wilbur ag a Class poem—Miss ice Belk. + Class will—Zeph . i lenbeck and Donald Jones. Y , \ TEN [BUILDING-IS |ITALIAN DEBT | GREATER THAN | SINCE THE WAR All Larger Cities of State Re- port More Building Now Than a Year Ago TO ONE AT MINOT i | Bismarck Has 70 New Homes. Several Business Build- ings, in Prospect (By Associated Press) Building construction in North Dakota this year will reach the high- est mark since the war, according to estimates furnished The Associated Press by leading civie club represen tatives in the larger cities. The head of one Minot firm with 40 lumber peed told David S. Owen secret: f the Minot Association a! Commerce, that he was figuring 10 | bills of lumber now to one a year ago at this time and last than the preceding onc, Farm construction is on the up- of the state and ig is being done now than . the su This ; ation of diversi- ied farming since more fencing means ock, particularly small stock such as sheep and ho; Fargo To Have Big Year Fargo will have the biggest building Chestnut, see- ommercial club, About 300 new homes, 9 or 10 business buildings, two factories and two school additions are planned at a prospective expenditure o 000,000. Last gram in Fargo came to $1,736,769. Record-breaking building prospects are in sight in the Minot trade terri- reports Mr. Owen. He estimates | the new homes going up at 15 to 100 j and adds that there is a keen desire to erect new residences. i ity, where approximately spent on the 1925 program, will have many new homes this year, says P. R. Trub- of the Valley City Commer “There wis a lot of talk about building here,” he said. _ Bismarck has about 70 new homes in prospect in addition to seven new business buildings, with a prospective total expenditure of about $750,000, according to H. F of the Bismarck Assoc merce. “If agricultural conditions are sat- isfactory there will bea large amount of building done here in the late summer and fall t we do not yet know about,” said Secretary Goddard. Optimism at Jamestown A note of optimism was struck by Edward A. Ketter, secretary of the Jamestown Chamber of Commer with the statement that “Faith has been restored in local communities with the tenden no longer. for local capital to flow into eastern bonds.” Secret: Ketter estimates that at least 75 homes and 15 business build- ings will be built in Jamestown t! year at a total cost of about $800,- 000. é “Everyone is behind the new build- ing movement in Devils Lake,” Jim Barrett, secretary of the ike Civic and Commerce association, “The building prospects in our trade territory-are very good. We will have about 50 new homes and about seven new business buildings. The prospective expenditure for 1926 is $350,000.” Building prospects in the Dickinson ear was better tion of Con | trade territory are good, although “the people think more about buy new cars than building new home: reports Charles Eastgate, dis n agent of the Dickin: tion of Business and Public He gstimates that $2 will be spent for building cor tion work. Mandan and Grand Forks also re- ported the prospects bright for an active building season. All of the agents reporting declared that farm- ers are building barns, machinery sheds and fences on a big se: struction standards show improve- ment in all cities, the survey sho 200 PEOPLE EXPECTED AT SAFETY MEET Concrete Suggestions Are Be- ing Prepared to Present at Conference Judging from reports |r Governor Sorlie’s office’s the North Dakota Conference for Street and Highway Safety here April 29 and 30 will be attended by @ representative group. Arrangements are being made to accommodate 200 delegates. Committees are now at work ex- amining the recommendations made by the recent national safety confer- ence in Washington, with a view of i determining just how much of them may be applied to state problems. In this way it is hoped to have concrete suggestions ready for the conference and to expedite actian. Committee membership comprises members of the bench and bar and leading business ‘men of tha state. PREFER OUR FILMS New York.—Americati-made films jare supreme in Russia, according to Sidney Hillman,. president of the Amalgamated Trust and Saving Banks. In a recent address:he declared that when Russian theater owners were —told\ to show more Russian | ictures, they ¢! their houses on, jays when Ruasian pictures were de- manded by the rnment, 'S} Bureau, "}hold over, .; such an institution, whether he be « aching , COMES BEFORE SENATE TODAY Administration Leaders Are Confident of Securing Favorable Action OPPONENTS WILL FIGHT Coolidge Approves Terms of Settlement Reached By Debt Commissions Washington, April 21--(AP)—The third major poblem of its session, the two billion dollar war debt settle-; ment with Italy, today confronted the senate. It approved the other two-—the world court and the income tax bill and administration leaders were con- fident that they could muster the n votes late today to bring about favorable action on the agre ment ‘between the American and Ital- ian debt commission, upon which] President Coolidge has stamped his approval. While conceding this. opponents were not t to give up the fight, with their chief weapons a motion to recommit and efforts to have the; terms of settlement amended so as! to increase the interest rates. Those opposing the sett! tended that it amounts i to a cancellation of the prince he debt at the end of the of. the agreement. On the other argue that the will be paid. with interest in addition. principal of the debt amounts to $1 Bt and there has been added to this accrued interest, up to the time of settlement, which makes the total principal $2,042,000,000. For the first five years inte charges are foregone and the will graduate ef John Kote whisky Drys. pr hearing. proposals. louse work on £ The of 2 per cent Oppon- Agitation guna Vot MANY ATTEND CREDIT BODY ANNUAL gone Directors Elected — Speaker} Tells Value of Bureau to a Community A move to ference of sion among business se here today. its 68th an _ Agitation ference was Duluth, ¢ erd district: About 70 business people of the city, members ofthe Bismarck Credit tended the banquet and nual meeting hotel last evening. Following the din- her a short bu meeting was con- ducted, ut which three members of the board of directors were elected to fill the terms which expire this year, Two of the present directors were re- F. Bergeson & Sons and and the Quain & Ram- was elected as the third director to take the place of Cole & Blunt, who had asked that they be not reelected because of the pressure of other affairs. The other directors, whose terms are Cowan's Drug Store, Finney’s Drug Store, Gussner's, Lo- gun's, A. W. Lucas’ company, | and Smith's 3 grocery. H. Schlitgus of Morris, Minn., manager of the west central Minneso- ta Credit Association, was the prin- ipul speaker of the evening. Mr. Schlitgus’ association covers four counties and includes 16 towns. He spoke on the value of a credit Bureau to a communi and described the indirect benefit which accrues to every person in a community from ity of the p + Delegat trict are sai is predicted LUTHERAN TO Fi Lutherans were called movement t amendment, ident of the the Augusta The world present reig! prohibition, nual conven: ference of opposition annual repo that any weaken the difficult to institutions seller or a buyer. The buyer benefits indirectiy, Mr. Schlitgus suid, be- cause the credit bureau serves to eliminate bad accounts among the merchants, thereby permitting the business man to sell at a poner pri Benefit To All Ninety per cent of the value of a credit bureau comes as an indirect benefit to every business man of a community, whether or not he is a member of the bureau,” the speaker said in urging every business man to join the organization. The more members the bureau has, the stronger and more effective it’ becomes, he said. : Group singing of several songs, words for which were prepared e pecially to apply to the activities of th bureau and were fitted to popular tiwes, caused Gece amusenient. ‘The board of directors will meet) this evening to elect officers for the coming year. The present officers are Roy Logan, president; Robt. Webb, vice president; Dr. W. E. Cole, treasurer; and J. Henry Kling, secre- tary-manager. Jamestown College “Women’s Glee Club’ _ Is on Annual Tour Rev. Minnesota, * Fargo, condition of ued critical sician said. close to the Mrs. Oscai er, worrying h Jamestown, April 21, —<)- which had D. The Women's Glee Club of James-: town college is out this week on its annual tour of this section of the stat appearing at such tonws as Fessenden, nnaford, Kensal, San- born and Marian. The club will conclude its series of concerts with the annual home pro- gram in the college chapel, Frida: night. The club is composed of 24 members. Professor Wyatt W. Hunter, vocal instructor of the music depart- ment, is the director. Rock Spri: highest pos not in the life, Govern sequiring 8 (Mich.) for the murder of J TODAY s, House DIVISIONOF CONFERENCE Red Wing, Mi od was the main topic of discus-| The conference, being attended by 500 c legates, from Minneso nd western Wisconsin. | appointed to investigate the feasibil- + tion of separation, and a close vote fore the convention. HT WET MOVEMENT Red Wing., of Dr. P. A. Matton of Minneapol terror cannot be laid at the d the morning se A move to split the Minnesota con-| cipal topic of di to the came when Dr. presiaeat o ) conference of the Augustana in session here today. 0. J. Bodergeen of 4 of Minneapolis. 4 W. !CONDITION - YOUTH WHO SHOT | HIMSELF CRITICAL N. D., i rill old youth who, a tives, is suffering fr ed bullet wound in his lung, contin, is Tecovery are that the over a since last July. HOD is matrimony and Wyoming told an audience here. New liberties and freedom’ are deveioping woman's charm, she said. The British people are suid to be Blame Moonshine for Murder ek, 26 (left) and } are hey blame for the act, according PROHIBITION Italian debt. ess case at prohibition ‘onsiders miscellan committee ‘arm relief. continues Wet Candidate For U ator Makes Speech at poleon “Prohibition is the vital but in) many declared C. P. Stone of | his keynote speech at jhall in Napoleon last nights | his campaign a | blican candidate \ states DISCUSSED, . } union,” in For Split Was Be- Year Ago—Close e Is Predicted progressive senatorship. M , date of the Bette . tion of North Dal re its slogan, “We believe M April “cent law enforcement, split the Minnesota econ-| cent anti-saloon, and the Lutheran Augustana| modification of the permit the manufacture, possession of light under government contro “The principle of wrong, both from a egal and standpoint, along with the in are the first] conference i | delegates sion of the which is holding{ nual convention ‘here, is} 9 \ tion, sive Stone been and an unpopular cannot be enfo tinued. “Prohi proven a failure im , the Dako- for a division of the con-| begun last year by the} and Brain- s, and a committee was} but has in ‘ages of inferio ; liquo: ed the }of be ing at | rom the Superior dis-! , - ‘ id to be split on tee ques- | Would Rewrite “The attempt to en | stead ct is producing a enship which the coming generation. T that good citizenship requires { observance and obedience hand 1 s penal statutes, which have been “[ believe th wish the certainly event th when the issue comes be- is is CALLED ON Minn., April 21-—( AP) the’ northwest toda upon today to fight th o annul the prohibition! in the annual r eliminating sa entitled to it, Minnesota confe na Snyod ‘h ; war was blamed for the; | Contending that prohibition ness, and this! direct effect on the farmers of pr of; Dakota, in d on declared at] for certain grains, Mr. Stone sai fore the Volstead act went into we of North Dakota alway market—a worthw! ‘barley, corn and flax are now only proposed division, market, with usual Mattson submitted his! tion of wheat. a good market for want better land v itefor this important n of law! Dr. Matts on of the 68th an- tion. Hl the ry! rt, in which he de further division conference and make maintain i of mer sue, the n of light wines and beer iet government supervision. Temperance Impossible Volstead act wi t by a majority of the y an organized minority Hash or eebige cee | people reall ing the pre: 1 21.) apolis Was ae sota Synod ‘of Mankato was | president to succeed D natics believe strongly in ten the Volstead ac ein regard to drink on of Balaton, , was Eun secretary. | Mr. Stone spoke before a dience, | people’ from Napoleon and surround: | Herman ing territo H. Schatz of | leon was p -P) tie! Herbert E than, 20-year. | ording to rela-| mn a self-inflict- Morgan Baby Is and chances fo bout even, his phy-{ The bullet is lodged heart. x Edman, the lad’s moth- youth had been criminal charge been hanging ‘over him today New York, April. of Mr. and Mrs. ous financier. ME LIFE FIRST ings, Ark., April 21.—The ition of woman in life niotherhood and busin world or public or Nellie Taylor Ross of child, a boy, was born. Mrs. gan, formerly Catherine Boston, is a_ descendant of GAMES IN MOSCOW ball and other games will be Baku. Russia, Afghanistan, and China will participate,” 7 liking for grape fruit. held at Manistee | to state police who arrested them, VITALISSUE, | STONE SAYS Keynote issue the coming campaign, not only in our! of Dashley’s | s opening . which has ft 190. p: 100 re in favor of Volstead act to sale wines and beer prohibition argument. that the people do not want prohibi- and oppre ie tion smuch as] it does not prohibit the use of strong | quality, a devastating influence on health and morals of our people. Statutes ree the brand of dangerous believe ng away with a market had Mhoee of you wishing! | grains and es should vo s colleges and | fication of the Volstead act, permit- | ting the manufacture, sale and posse: thrust upov, The on interested in enfo: nt prohibition law prohibition workers, Although erance in all! months. makes ten impos- the hall being crowded with | | ture and labo: rmin of the meeting. a Descendant of Two Presidents 21.--@) stork has just brought to the home! Henry Sturgis Mor-| gan a descendant of two presidents ; of the United States and of a fam-| Mr. Morgan is the son of J. pont Morgan, at whose home Adams of Adams’ and John Quincy Adams, duced in Russia for the first time at! ju known the international sporting congress at| ents. "The { ‘Senior and F: PRICE FIVE CENTS MAN ARRESTED | ADMITS THEFT, ' RETURNS L00T Two Minor Slips Bring Cap- ture of the Daring Day- light Holdup Artist GAVE TAXI MAN BIG TIP Was Suspected From Start, But Police Used Clever Bit of Strategy Chicago, April 21—@)-—Two minor | Slips--the breakdown of an automo- bile and the giving of a $4.25 tip to | taxi driver--have led to the capture of the robber who staged a bold day- light holdup of the mails at Indiana |Harbor last Wednesday and escaped | with $3 | With $12,000 in cash in his pockets, | and accompanied by his _ pretty year-old wife, Daniel F. Hesl 6, mognshine | former conviet and once a high schoo! | football aiRh by ~— | hote a sley admitted the robber addition to handing over the | Promised to produce about more from safety deposit boxes ere jtoday. He said that $500 of the -hold- | UP money had been spent. Suspected from the start because of the clues he left, Hesley was arrested las the result of a ‘clever bit | strategy by police and postal insp ie Last Saturday they player, was arrested last postal inspectors at a loop | been committed by Santon Calehere, Sen-| whose bullet-riddled body, was found lin Broadview, a suburb. This was eenes it was explained, to convince 'y that his identity was not liane: and to give police and p. | tuthorities time to pick up his trail. Steal Company Payroll The $37,000 loot was the payroll of the’ Inland Steel company, and was {taken from a mail truck which had ped in Indiana Harbor. The rob- ced the truck driver to operate used in the escape. e on the road to Joliet, IIl., the mail sacks and ed smoothly until the two red Joliet, when motor trou- ble developed. While the car was being repaired, the mail truck driver slipped away and telephoned the police and the rob- ber became suspicious and disappear- ed. Some time later Hesley reached a Chicago suburb, got into a taxi and is} drove around in search of a secluded spot. When a halt was called, the bill was $5. given a $10 bill taken from one of the | payroll sacks. Instructed to keep the | change, the driver became suspicious and notifield d police, TOMORROW IS. BIG DAY FOR WESTERN N. D. shuns Bids Will Be Opened For Con- struction of Bridges at Williston, Sanish in the Fargo | be { per and moral M he usage hav- the Vol- to! strict all laws ‘or the rewriting of the und impracticable se of our people who r and light wines are and in this c would be fewer spending valuable time in jails or hospitals Thu be a big day for western North Dakota, for on that day bids will be opened for construc- tion of the two bridges ross the i rif at Williston and had North Bi feet | | Various towns in McKenzie county land adjacent territory, which will | receive full benefits from the two new steel structures, are planning fitting | ceremonies for the occasion. Thurs- day night at Watford C a short " from Schafer whe the bids be opened, a big civic dinner ill be held. Prominent state and ‘county officials will be present,. in- cluding Secretary of State Robert (Brine, whose home is at Watford ity The two bridges, which will be the ond amd third vehicular be built across the in North Dakota, will cost approxi- mately $1,250,000, according to un- | official estimates. Work will be are started immediately after the con- hoot-| tracts are let and they are expected l\'to ‘be ready for travel within 18 vho m under people | of re- The members of the state highway {commission who will open the bids are: Governor Sorlie, chairman; J. rge au-| A. Kitchen, commissioner of agricul J. J. Moe, Valley City lardt, Napoleon, and H. C. Napo- | Frahm, Bismarck, Construction of the bridges, high+ ‘way experts say, will mean the releas- \ing from virtual isolation of. grea’ ‘stretches of rich farm lands in Me- ; Kenzie county. Ferries are now de- pended upon entirely for crossing the river. They are out of commission | several weeks of the year. its Junior Class Gives an Assembly Program The third of the series of clags | assem ly programs was given this morning at the high school auditor- ium by the Junior class. Thes Pep | and Prairie Breezes staffs are spon- | soring an assembly program contest’ peresen, the clases ee the phomores give their program ‘next. week the Haye ae will be ‘pre- the | Mor- John | Moscow.—American baseball, foot- sented with a Five intro- not Persia) grams, were given dari two weeks,