The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 4, 1927, Page 1

\ # yan SMARCK ‘WEATHER FORECAST Rain or snow probable to Saturday. Not much chat ESTABLISHED 1878 AUTOMOBILE SHOW STYLE SHOW TRADE WEEK MARCH 7-12 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [mom | BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1927 LEGISLATURE PLANS TO FINISH EARLY TODAY PREPARATIONS | FOR BIG EVENT ARE COMPLETED Committees of Auto Show- Style Show-Trade Week Clean Up’ Details MANY PRIZES OFFERED All Out-of-town People Eligi- ble to. Win—Farmers Have Two Chances With Bismarck’s Automobile Show- Style Show and Trade Week starting next Monday, committees in charge of the affair ate busy cleaning up details and keeping good their prom- ise to have everything ready when Monday morning comes around. With the prize list steadily mount- ing, out-of-town itor will have opportunities to win some valuable articles during the week. Over 150 prizes have ready been collected. The prizes are to be placed on dis- play at the Association of Commerce chambet where visitors will reg- ister and be given numbered cou- pons, which are to be kept until the _— rawings at Auditorium = Duplicate stubs will be placed in a large hopper noon, on the stage of the auditorium, three blindfolded girls will draw out the winning numbers, which will be announced to the public immediately. If anyone who wins a prize is not present, arrangements will be made to get it to him. ‘lwo drawings are to be held: one y for farmers alone and the other for all out-of-town people, including the farmers. Included in the exclusively farm prize list are such things as a black- smith vise; two 10-pound sacks of green alfalfa seed; a steel tray wheelbarrow; a corn sheller; an ht-galldn cream can; a horse col- ints. eo renee, turehy pebwlors one Plymouth Rock rooster and six hens and one Duroc purebred sow. General Prize List @n the general prize list, for both farmers and all others from out of town are: Fleck Motor Sales Co. 30x3 1-2 Kelly Tire; M. B. Gilman company, tire and tube; Dakota: Auto Sales company, tire and tube; A. and M. Tire Service, 29 x 4.40 tube; Copelin Motor Company, tire and tube; Bis- marck Motor company, ditch light; Quanrud, Brink and Reibold, Wal- ton fore light; Lahr Motor Sales company, pair Goodyear chain: Bismarck Accessory and Tire com- tire pump; Stair Motor Gom- + accessories; Corwin-Churchill Motors, Dail Miro glare shield, H stop and back up light; R. F.’Wher- land, 10 1-2 fone motor oil; Meyers lion can Sinclair gil; Oil company, 10 gallon tant Mobiloil: . W. Stratton, flashlight; Capital Chev- rolet company, Willard storage bat- ery. First National Bank, interest cer- tificate, value $10.00; Provident Life Insurance company, $10.00 cash; irst Guaranty Bank, savings ac- count, value $5; Harvey Hafris com- pany, $5 cash, Bismarck Tribune, year’s subscrip- tion; Lamb, The Jeweler, repair vork value $2.50; City Dry Cleaning, leaning and dyeing, value $2.50; repair credit, one ‘ismarck Capital, Erbe’s Barber ge four.) "WKENZIE HOTEL NAME IS“CHANGED Will Be Known as Patterson Hotel—O’Hara and Kredler Are New Managers Changes in the name and manage- ment or othe McKenzie hotel. were an- nounced today by Edw. G. Patterson, \. proprietor, with the statement that rfp Billy O'Hara and Art Kredler have sumed management of the local hostelry. The hotel will in the fu- ture be known as the Patterson Ho- tel. Mr. O'Hara, who will be in full charge of the office, has been with the hotel the past 12 years as chief clerk and manager, .and an un- usually wide acquaintance among the traveling public. Mr. Kredler is well known throughout the northwest as an Caged hotel manager. Hi was in charge of the Waldorf hotel at Fargo for eight years, opened the Lewis & Clark hotel at Mandan and wanares it for three years, and for ree years was chief clerk at the! hotel in St. Paul. ‘Mr. Kredler will devote most of his t}me to the catering and to the super- vision of the dining room and lunch room and the serving of banquets € and dinners for private parties. To Be The work of redecorating the hotel, which was seepentes ot first of the year becaus in connec- tion with th Veclsiative's pecelan wilt will be resumed at once an: completion. fumerous changes hoth in terior and ‘interior. of the oot hotel, owned by Patterson uit ovas the feant oubete tre: | ba rence, Te- ieee “the concrete one, which we be ra any fat fal, and the ont subscription; (Continued on ind Saturday after-| § le}call, these were unofficially denied 9 MORE BABIES | ARE ILL FROM NURSE'S | BRROR ‘One Is in Critieat cutie: While Other Is Given Chanee of Recovery ,PROBE IS UNDER WAY Four Infants Exhumed— Three Nurses Involved Chicago, March 4—(AP)—< The sixth baby given boric acid instead of distilled water at the Columbus Memorial hospital, died in convulsions today. He was Robert Oliver Johnson, six days old. The seventh infant, Marjorie Elizabeth Gibbons, nine days old, was rted | near death. The boric acid solution was administered to 10 infants. Chicago, March 4,—@)—Two girl babies, too little to know «ao lal yer fought’ for their lives at Columbus Tiyear-old Harrison, Ark. boy after, Memorial hospital today while civil shooting his father. | The boy told! authorities pressed an investigation police his father was striking his to fix primary responsibility for it phpoe Mella < fina" | deuths of five other infants accident- died shortly afterward. Mrs. Ered-) atty given ‘a mild antiseptic solution puiet dtslebenisstinia acrione Meee er acini ‘rhe sixth inasanilad buby's condition was critical and the BANK ROBBER FOUND SANE paneniy ill suffer no ill effects. Meanwhile bodies of the four i fants who had been buried were or. Marian Meyers Must Return to Vermilion to Be Tried on Burglary Charge jot a) bit sorry. again,” said Calvin Fi dered exhumed by Coroner Oscar Wolff. There were numerous clashes be- tween officials when they sought to straighten out circumstances of the deaths and the coroner said he would demand the resignation of Dr. Zan/ Klipper, coroner's physician who ‘turned a preliminary report attri ‘ing the deaths to an epidemic of i testinal influenza. Mystery in the case was cleared up by admissions of three student nurses that they fed the infants boric acid solution which they believ- ed to be water, substantiating the; Vermilion, ‘8. D., March 4.—(P)—~ i eheory evelved. ina pasty a There is no trace of mental disease Gne nurse explained sho,pre; in Miss Marian Meyers, 19-year-old | Solution to wash the infants’ qyes and re left it in a bottle to cool, and nurses! co-ed at the University of South} who knew nothing of the operation Dakota, and she must stand trial on thought the colorless, odorless fluid a charge of third degree burglary. | Was distilled water, and fed it to the A report that she is sane was re- | babi bies, ull between five and 14 days ceived last night by County Judg ARE DAMAGED: NO LIVES LOST epee for eaily a meni Miss Meyers’ condition was termed in the report however to be “on the Four Berges Wit With Crews Still Adrift Offshore—Steam- ers Reported Safe borderline” and she appeared to have a “psychopathic personalit} Judge Coller, who is chairman of the Clay county insane board, paid Miss Meyers would be brought ‘hi from Yankton to face trial at the | March term of cireuit court eae | opens next Monday. She was arrested February 5 in the First National Bank of Vermilion, after attempting to break into the bank’s vault. She had sought funds with which to continue her school work at the university, she said. AMBASSADOR FROM MEXICO RETURNS HOME State iasiaahcanl Has No In-: formation as to Reasons Why He Leaves Capital Washington, Ma March 4.—@)— Mexican Ambassador Tellez’ sud- den departure for Mexico City last night was officially declared by the embassy today to have been due to “family matters” Washington, March 4,—(®)—The! mystery surtounding the subject of the recent exchange of diplomatic notes between the United States and and Mexico has been deepened as a result of the sudden and unexplained departure last ht of Mexican Ambassador Manuel Tellez for MAltnnugh’ there, were noralitent rumors that the state department had requested the ambassador's re- | Norfolk, Va. March 4—4f)—Al- } though a score of vesselp were badly battered by Wednesday’s northeast gale off the Virginia coast, coast guardsmen today were completing no loss of life. Three cutters, the Manning and Mascoutin, were scour- ling this section of the Atlantic bourd, principally to locate four es which broke away from their | barge Ing tugs and are adrift their lerews offshore. It is believed none ‘of the crews have met mishap. Two vessels have been driven on shoals, the steamer Firmore at Smith’s Point in Chesapeake and the schooner William Bisbee near Cape Henry. Tugs, however, were expected to float both ships, Two large steamers for whose safety apprehension had been felt, are now reported safe. The passen- ger steamer City of St. Louis is pro- ceeding to New York after emerg- ency repair of her storing gear, and the steamer Willsolo lanned to dock here today after bation ont te séa to ride the gale, Fears for the ; Willsolo had been expressed when no radio messages came from her sosterday when she was a day over- ue. Ranch Foreman and Employe Have Duel Monterey, Calif, March. 4—@)— Deputy sheriffs and physi rush: ed to the Molera Ranch vin the moun tain country south of. here~ today after receiving # report that George Curry, 38, ranch foreman, and An- drew Wardlow, 54, an employe, had met in a duel of ‘classical western style. Curry and Wardlow met on moontain trail and shot it out with rifles, a telep hone mes said, Wardlow was de ade dying and Curry was being hunted. h School Youth nie Commits Suicide Cc. here, while the Mexican foreign of- fice said there was no foundation’ for them. Washington officials are under- stood to have been informed that Tellez is returning to Mexico be- cause of the illness of his brother, which was the me explanation ‘iven when the ambassador recently left Washington for. home. only to return without leaving the country. —— Arh eee DENIES WAS DEMANDED Washington, 3 March 4—@)—A mal di that the ‘United States had donanded the recall of ee Atesseaie Tellez, who left Wash- ington last night for Mexico City, was issued today by Aes ine Be Baccotary Grew of the state departm: Oakland, Calif,» Mr. Grew’s statement follows: Blakely Dales Farr: Bie report that the Mexican am- siege committed bythe’ “United Statens ia without rifle. ini s- is without founda ion and this fe ta has to a mild reproof for a “bad con- no information concerning pur- duct” mark on his school_ report ‘pose of his visit to Mexico City: [sora 2 * os Marek 4- fe ee en ined Werke \ Coroner Orders Bodies of! check which thus far has disclosed} rrabassett,| & Today’s Program in Legislature House at 10 Each branch to act on reports of conference comittees. Departmental budget bill and 3 others still in conference. Adjournment sine die expected by late afternoon, WITNESSES OF SHOOTING ARE ON STAND Alice Holst of Sanish Unper- turbed as Murder Trial Makes Rapid Progress D. meets at 10; senate Stanley, N. Rapid progress and this mornii in the trial of Alice Holst, 22-year-old Sanish girl, for the murder of William Nafus of Van Hook in a Sanish pool hall last December 13, while the girl contin her unperturbed attitude in the pri: oner’s box. Seven witnesses were heard yest after the selection of ber! jury ag completed at 2:45 p.-m., incl ud. ing Vern Amsler, owner of the room where the slaying took p and attaches of the establishment present when the shot was fired. The spectators of the shooting agreed ti that the girl entered the pool room, called: “Come here, Bill,” drew a revolver from the pocket of her and discharged the weapon once. Ni fus called fo doctor before he fe! while the girl fainted immediately after the shooting. Died Almost Immediately An autopsy had revealed, said Dr. ‘A, Flath of Stanley, Mountrail county coroner, when called ‘to the stand, j that the bullet had penetrated the heart and left lung, causing almost immediate death. Amsler denied that a poker game had been conducted in his pool hall, and also asserted that no intoxicating, liquor was served in his place of bu: iness. He admitted that three men were employed in the place which boasted but two pool tables and # \ rummy game as activities. | Judge George H. Moclring of Wil- ison, who is presiding at the special {term of court, has barred girls under 18 and boys under 20 years of age from the court room. Criminal Assault Charged Miss Holst has asserted that the fatal shooting followed a criminal ault made by Nafus while she was ‘a helpless condition. The 12 jurors named are all mas- culine, four women pete Pe been ex- cused from service, one’ for cause, (Continued on page four.) TWO BOYS FIND RICH QUARTZ IN SOUTH NEVADA Prospectors Stand Ready To- day For Rush Into New Gold Producing District March made yest |. Tonopah, Nev., March 4.--(P)— {Nearly 100 automobiles stood ready {here today for w stampede to a new) gold producing district, yielding! | what prospectors said was the richest quartz ever seen in southern Nevada. Two 19-year-old boys arrived here Wednesday night with two sacks filled with the quartz. Assays of the Tl ore gave returns of $78,000 a ton. The town was on the verge of hy steria last night. Scores of prospec- tors watched every movement of the | lads, and one man offered $1,000 to :| be told the place where the ore was found. The boys who found the ore are Frank Horton, Jr, and James Tray- nor. Both their fathers are mining men. Horton’s father is in Los Angeles and the ‘youths refused to five the location ot the strike until e returns. Mining engineers said that if the ore given the yer was of the “free” ‘iet it came from Death Valley, jous in the history of gold in the we Reports around Tonopah suid the boys had found free gold, but the youths kept their own counsel. —— Weather Report | Weather conditions at North Da- kota points for the 24 hours ending it 8 a. m. today. Temperature at 7 a. m. . Highest yesterday . Lowest last night . Precipitation to 7 a. m. Highest wind velocity WEATHER FORECAS' For Bismarck and vicinity: - BL Rain 4 | or snow probable tonight or Saturday. Not much change in temperature. For North Dakota: Rain or snow probable Seaieht, or Saturday. Not much change in temperature. WEATHER CONDITIONS The pressure is low over the nor-|/ thern Plains States and over the Rocky Mountain region while high pressure areas ate centered over the Ohio yaiey, ‘and over the north Pa cific ‘he weateee is somewhat upsettled over the West and precipi- it} tation oceurred over the Southwest. Temperatures axe moderate from the upper Mississippi Valley westward to the Pacific coat BRIS W. ROBERTS, Official in charge. th face, UL S. SENATE WEEPS MANY | And the End Is Not Yet BILLS ASIDE Deficiency Measure, Carrying; Seed Loan Appropriations, Fails of Passage UILDING BILL LOST Resolution Extending Life of Campaign Fund Investi- gation Also Beaten Washington, March 4.—-(#)—An- other session of congress passed in- to history today to the accompani- ment of a senate storm that swept into limbo some of the best laid plans of party leaders. Chief among the administration bills to fail of passage was the $93,000,000 deficiency measure, car- rying important money allotments for the army, for veterans’ loans and seed loans to farmers and for pen- sion increase: Also consigned to the waste basket were the al property bill, the} postal rate bill, and the lie building program. But the failure of thes i feature senators. The dragged down to defeat with them the proposal which had tied senate procedure in a knot in the closing hours of the session the resolution of Reed of Missouri to extend the life of his campaign fund investigation. 69TH CONGRESS PASS! NUMBER OF MAJOR L, Washington, h (A). writing its legislative history, the 69th congress placed upon the sta‘ ute books a number of major law but it will pass on to its successor many perplexing problems. In its two years of office it eased the nation’s tax burden by nearly four hundred million dollars; ap- proved foreign debt settlements ag- gregating three billions of dollars, and expanded the cduntry’s defense forces both by air and by sea. To the 70th congress it will leave solutions of the long ‘ing ques- tions of Muscle Shoals, farm relief, Boulder Canyon Dam, merchant ma- rine maintenance, coal control lation, alien property, and rai construction. Agreed With Coolidge at First Coming into office on the Cool- idge landslide of 1924, the expiring congress was generally on agree-} ent with the president during the first and long session ending last y, but disagreed questions in his last three- months’ reign. At the outset jajority coneur- in the views of the executive enactment of farm relief legislation along lines of the Mc- Nary-Haugen plan. In less than nine months, however, both the house and senate reversed their po- sition, passing the bill and sending it to the president, who promptly vetoed it. ‘Again, at its short session, con- gress once more found itself in ntinued on page four.) Alabaster S By Margaret Turnbull 3 a ad , . . while the per- fumed light stale through the mists of alabaster lamps.” — Bulwer Lytton HERE is real ro-. mance—old-fash- ioned romance in a modern setting. A story of whimsical, lovable folk—of old love and new love— in a little town in Pennsylvania; and then of Venice with her drowsy, sunny la- joonsandthemagicof blue-black nights. New Serial for Readers of The Tribune Beginning Monday pore arerrerer with him upon! | | | “Abie’s Irish Rese,” whose earnin will produce probably another mi terms of the contract she recently s play. right), Adolph Zukor and attorney for the produ y and William de se L. Moses ignemare, HOUSE HAS LONG SESSION THURSDAY TO GET CALENDAR THOS. MILLER I$ GUILTY OF Case Against Daugherty —Was Out 70 Hours ‘| Federal Court, New Yor! ~(#)—After more than 70 ii { liberation, a jury today found Tho |W. Miller, former alien property ¢ todian, guilty of conspiracy to and unbiased services in allow i claims for $7,000,000. A disagree-| }ment was reported for . Hurry Daugherty, former attorney general, and the indictment against him was disniissed, Daugherty and Miller were changed! with having released $7,000,000 worth of property seized under the trading! w with the enemy act after having been viven, according to the government, “hypodermic injections of graft” by, John T. King, late national Republi- can committeeman from Connecticut. ‘The property was the proceeds of {49 per cent of the stock of the Amer- ican Metal company, owned by two German ¢ompanies controlled by the Merton family of metal magnates. History of the Transacti Richard Merton came to this coun- try after the war to seek return of the property through the A. P. C. of- fice and retained King to put his claim through the government offices, He pi King a fee of $441,000 and the government charged that part of this money found its way to Daugh- tery and Miller through the agene: of the late Jess W. Smith, Daugherty’s political handy: The Merton claim was passed in 1921. By the time the government offi- cial: ere indicted, the statute of limitations prevented prosecution for bribery and so they were charged with conspiracy against the govern- ment they served, the period of limi-! tation for conspiracy being six ye: They were brought to trial for spiring to defraud the of their full and impartial services in permitting passage of the Merton claim, Bail Set at $5,000 Bail for Miller was continued pend- ing approval, It was set at $5,000. Date of sentence will be arranged counsel and Judge Knox. United States Attorney Emory R. Bugkner, after the verdict on Miller and the Aisagresioent on Daugherty, asked Judge indictment against Daugherty. n= tence in Miller's case is two years im- prisonment and $10,000 fine. Aaron Sapiro, Miller's counsel, said an appeal would be taken. Committee Refuses to Take Action on Washington, “March 4- (P)— The senate interstate commerce commit- tee refused today to take any action on the nominations of O. H. Caldwell of New York and F A. Bellows of Minnesota, as members of the radio control commission. The nominations Were referred to the committee last night by the sen- ate after the appointments of the oth- er three members of the commission | had ben approved, Some senators sought to obtain an adverse report against Cuidwell and Rellows, but a majority insisted that their nominations go over to the new senate without prejudice. ~President Co ae may make re- cees appointments to fill the places if he so desires. There has been op- Position to the two appointees on the groung’that they were fecal by Secretary Hoover, Watching Miss Nichols ae her signature are CONSPIRACY: Jury Disagrees, However, in' fraud the United States of his honest. \ ty y rate fi government! nox to nolle prosse the |-d' The court complied. Maximum sen- | Radio Board Names| “soot nage zs al approximate $5,000,000, ion fer Anne Nichols under the igned for its production as a photo- ated, left to standing, Louis KE. Swarth, levinsky, Miss Nichols’ law- manager of “Abie’s Irish Lask: LM general Ros CLEARED UP FOR EARLY ADJOURNMENT THIS AFTERNOON Some of the Most Important Bills of the Session Included | List Passed Yesterday— Bill For; State De- partments Is Approved ea | in Appropriation Maintenance of North, Dako twentieth lative assembly will become history n it adjourns sine die. house and ‘Thursday legia- neh and all that y adjustment of| between the ho ht house bills a and senate bills the hous ing in the 0 remains fe difference: x committees e of these, however re two school transportat the rates which parents shall ive for transporting children to! |schoel, and the appropriation for} | the commissioner of immigration. Some of the most important bills considered at the session also were included in the list. Among them the app tion bill carrying! jover $2,000,00( the maintenance | of various state departments; — the bil making the secretary of the in- {dustrial commission ex-officio sec- retary of th curities com- mission; th tax bill; the j weights’ and bill; “a bill regulating interest. which {bunks may pay sits of public | money, nd ‘the bill ieeniing the sale | of snuff. | 27 Senate Bills Disposed of | Pushing rapidly forward the house [disposed of senate bills which Were on its calendar and ‘urred enate amendments of five bills originating in the house. Included {in this group was the bill requiring} the state treasurer to keep in sepa- s money tg pay interest on statelleul estate bonds and money to be’ used in retiring the bonds when| {they become due. The law now pro- vides only one fund and Independent} members of the legislature are fear-| ful that bond retirement money will] be used to pay interest. Among senate bills passed house were the bill carrying 240 for the maintenance of various | state departments; the bill estab- lishing rules of the road modeled after those recommended by the na- ional safety conference; the grain \grading and warehouse bill, req jing elevators to charge for all grain the weights and measures inspection bill; state securities com- mission reorganization bi the hair- dressers’ and cosmetologists’ bills: the bill revamping the state hail insurance law in important particu- lars bill changing certain of the state phar- macy law, a bill __ raising the maximum working day for wom- en to eight and one-half hours but retaining the maximum of a 48-hour | week; bills. permitting the formation {and operation of institutional hold- | ing corporations to build dormitories | at state educational institutions, and ; humerous appropriation bills. fis of \ Appropriation Bills Passed The appropriation bills, in addi- tion to the departmental budget ap- propriation, were: Valley City nor- mal school, $3: tate training school, ndan, $27 ; ae Ros state training school, $40,000; Normal school, $287,950; deficit Bt department of public instruction, $5,350; Institution for feeble-minded at Grafton, $313,159 (Includes $125,- 000 for new boys' dormitory build- ing); state prison revolving fund, $125,550 (includes appropriations for a new building, improvements. and ithe purchase of additional land and $10,000 for installation of machlonty, to make automobile license tags). The house got under way at 10 o'clock Thursday sorning and fin- jast senate ished the vote on the bill at 5:40 o'clock, having taken an hour out for lunch. Indications are that the work of each house will be finished early today and adjournement sine die is expected before evening. is (Continued on page foui PRICE FIVE CENTS CONFERENCE COMMITTEES MAKE REPORTS |Difficulty Anticipated in Ad- justing Differences on Several Bills NUMEROUS ROLL CALLS Senators and Representatives Hope to Complete Ses- sion By 6 O'Clock, aa J. E. Steves ’ count was unanimously elec! president Pro tem ad yet the state senate when it convened this afternoon. The nomination was made by Senator Walter Bond, Ward county, president pro tem of this jon, an tec: onded by Senator D. H. Hamilton, McHenry county Good humor prevailed when the house und senate met this ‘morning to adjust differences on various bills passed by one house and amended in the other. Despite this fact, however, indica- tions were that difficulty would be | experienced in adjusting conflicting opinions on several bills. Among these were the departmental appropriation bill, carrying more than $2,000,000 for the maintenance of varlous state departments; the bill | requiring all hotels more than two stories high to be Anlipe’ with fire escapes and the bil ing the secre- tary of the industrial commission ex- | officio secretary of the state secur- ities commission. Many Roll Calls The members of both houses mark- ed time as the various conference committees swung into action. It is necessary that each house approve by a roll-call vote bills in which changes from the form in which they passed either house are made by the conference committees. As a result the house and senate faced a maxi- mum of 20 roll calls each, Fourteen bills were in conference when the assembly adjourned last night and five or six more were to -|be added this morning a number of | bills amended and passed by the house yesterday having failed to reach the senate before it adjourned. Senators were said to be , to stand firm on the hotel fire escape bill, The house committee also was said to be prepared to take a firm stand. One result may be that the bill will be killed as a result of fail- ure of the two legislative branches to agree. Other details of the mea- jsure are not expected to precipitate much argument. The bill placing inspection of weights and measures in the state regulatory department also is expect- {ed to precipitate a real argument in | the conference committee. As passed by the senate it placed the work in the hands of the state board of rail- road commissioners. Secretaryship at Stake The provision making the secretary of the industrial commission ex-of- Acio secretary of the securities com- mission was added to a senate bill which originally was intended to re- vise the fees to be collected by the (Continued on nage four.) CASE AGAINST ‘CROOKSTON MAN IS DISMISSED Minnesota High Court , Has No. Jurisdiction’ in {Cont t | gressional Contests St. Paul, March ()—Holding thut the courts have no jurisdis in congressional contests grow out of final election, the Minnesota Supreme Court today dismissed ac- tion brought against C. G. Selvig, Republican, of Crookston, elected congressman from the’ ninth Minne- sota district last fall. ‘Action was brought by 25 voters in behalf of Knude Wefald. Farmen Laborite of Hawley, the incumbent, who was defeated. ismisst by Jud, in Polk county district court. This dismis- sal was upheld by the supreme court’s opinion today. arges were that Selvig, who was superintendent of the Northwest School of Agriculture at Crookston during the campaign had violated the corrupt practices act. Specifically, it was alleged he had published and circulated untrue statements re- guarding his opponent. i Lower Court Upheld In upholding the lower court and throwing the contest squarely before the house as the sole judges of the fitness of its members, the supreme court clearly defines Minnesota's law for the future. The case of Flaten vs. Kvale, cited by the voters in Reioging their case, was held not a precedent by the up- per court in that it related to pri- mary elections only. “Primary elections not of the character contemplat or intended by the term ‘election’ as used in. the constitution of the United Far or the constitution of this state, are not elections within thence ing of that term as there used,’ ae reads, sar oct mating" canada Soe