The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 15, 1928, Page 3

| SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1928 SPECIALGROUP | H=é Guede Re ISUGAR FACTORY ~ TS WORKING ON MARCH 4 PARTY Washington Wants 3-Day In- augural; Hoover Wants Simplicity Washington, Dec. 15.— (AP) — Conforming a hospitable, congenial city’s idea of za three-day presiden- tial inauguration celebration with President-elect Herbert Hoover's # abled request that the performance one of “simplicity” is the task that confronts the special inaugural committee which is working hard on its March 4 party. : ‘Mr. Hoover expressed his desire that the ceremony be no more elab- RAZED BY FIRE Million Dollar Warehouse in Towa on Fire All Night; Sugar Burning Belmond, Iowa, Dec. 15.—(AP)— With a loss of nearly $1,000,000 the ‘warehouse and the season’s supply of stgar of the American Beet Su- gar corporation was burned here last night. ‘‘he main factory was htly dam: sed. The bl ia he one story ware- house, which filled to the roof with 167,000 e-hundred pound sacks of sugar, is believed to hav: started by spontaneous combustion. Discovered at 9 p. m., the fire was not under control until early to- THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE six neighboring towns attempted to! stcp the flames from spreading. Belief was expressed that the su- la in the warehouse might burn for a week. W'FARLANDHAS COURT DEFENSE Claims Burleigh County Dis- trict Court Has No Jurisdic- tion in Case Contention that the Burleigh county district court has no jurisdic- tion in the case filed by J. A. Coffey in an effort to prevent R. G. Mc- Farland from taking office as judge | of the fourth district court was ad- vanced by the defense at the hearing of the case here /today. The defense contended that the an injunction could be issued pre- | venting McFarland from taking fice merely on application of a citi: zen, any one could prevent every elective state officer from taking office una f by instituting injunc- tion proceedings. Judge Coffey, who is ending his eighteenth year on the bench of the fourth distr: s defeated by the} November election. He brought suit to enjoin McFarland from taking of- fice, charging that McFarland had violated the state corrupt practice act during the election campaign. SHOP IN DRIZZLE Grand Forks, Dec. 15.—(AP)— Christmas shoppers Friday were faced with a drizzle of rain. Today there was little of the holiday atmos. | phere with summer-time street cleaning equipment at work on downtown streets. SCHOOLS ARE CLOSED | East Grand Forks, Dec. 15.—(AP) | —Schools here have been closed and) “for men only” program was in| ran, \ will not reopen until January 2, due to influenza and the regular holiday | LOCAL STORE HOST TO MEN = ‘For Men Only’ Program Ar- ranged by A. W. Lucas & Co. Given Last Night Men outnumbered women pur- chasers at the A. W. Lucas & Co. department store last night for the first time this year. Three hundred men were guests | at the store during a program ar- ranged “for men only.” The men customers were served with cigars and cigarettes and were allowed to} smoke in the store. ‘The few women who were present heck of bills for state printing, as | were not aware of the fact that the progress. The men’s night idea was arranged portunity to select Christmas gifts for women in secrecy. The manager said that men feel out of place in a department store |Becatse they are not acquainted Guests visited the store in re- sponse to special invitations. (STATE PRINTING | CHECK ORDERED | Minnesota Printing Commis- | sion Asked to Suggest | Investigator Decision to go ahead with the ed by State Printer James Cur- ached by the state print-| | ing’ com The Minne- sota printing commission will be PAGE THREE’ one who could make the check and, in the meantime, thc members of the North Dakota printing ¢ will look around and see if they can find a North Dakota printer who could do the work. It was agreed that all of the. printing bills se by the state dur- ing 1927 will audited. t Curran asked for the investigation following the circulation of insinuas tions that some printing contractors had been overpaid. The rumors were alleged to have been circulated by a Bismarck printer who had failed to obtain state printing contracts, Eastgate Dubious on New Legislation Larimore, N. D., Dec. 15.—(AP)— J. E. Eastgate, ving served in four North Dakota legislative ses- sions, is uncertain as to thc pros- pects for new laws for the forth- coming session. : “Let the men who are coming for the first time tell what they are go- ing to do,” Tastgate said. “ i have day, although fire departments from | action was not properly brought. If} recess. j by the store to give the men an o} ked to suggest the name of some-) heen there four times before.” orate than that of President Cool- - - = idge’s in 1925. So the committee, . Under the leadership of Colonel U.S. Grant, has started making plans that are just a little more elaborate than the functions arranged four years ago, in the hope that Hoover will rmit some deviation from his in- formal statement on the matter. Washington is all set to show the thousands of visitors who are ex- pected a good time—to the extent of a $100,000 guarantee by business men to defray the deficits, if any. For three days the national capi- tal will be decorated, entertainment will be almost continuous, and ‘4 Zuests need never have a dull mo- ment if the plans now under con- sideration are carried out with Hoover's sanction. _ The Saturday ard Sunday preced- ing Monday the fourth will be given over to sightseeing trips, aviation contests, concerts, pageants, field meets and general good-will gather- ings, all arranged by Colonel Grant’s committee. Members of the committee are frank in expressing their hopes that Mr. Hoover will consent to an in- augural ball, though the place for such an event is one of the problems that has not been solved, ~ However, if the inaugural ball is found to be out of the question, there will be a charity ball at one of the hotels for the benefit of the chil- dren’s hospital. ‘SENATE OKAYS . BOULDER DAM Sale of Goods Manufactured by Prison Labor Is Considered Today ., Washington, Dec, —(AP)—If it were not for farm relief, tariff revision, the ““ellogz-Briand treaty and a fe 7 other matters, congress might be at work today in the belief that its legislative broom would make a clean sweep at this sssion. v_ Both houses have made legislative rogress lately. The senate passed ‘oulder Dam yesterlay and today was occupied with a Lill to regulate the sale of goods manufactured by prison labor. second cf the appropriati sures, the $285,000,000 irterior de- partment appropriation bill, dis- posed of had taken up the annual ap- Propriaticn measure for the derart- ment of agziculture. Off he floor, on the senate side only <“e rules committee had work to do today, but the house had more activity in prospect. Its agriculture committe y.s still wrestling with , the packers and stockyards act and three other committees, Indian af- fairs, rules and appropriations had meetings befor: them. ¢ There was committee activity yes- terday but events that drew the most attention were on the floor of the senate. “The pas.age of Boulder fam caused ;; nera! congratulation, ind a resolution introduced by Sen- itor Moses of N.w Hampshire gen- eral speculation. ‘ A devel-pment before the senate public lands committee was the an- mea- The house with the| Sir John Aird, president of the Canadian Bank of Commerce at Tor- onto and one of the greatest bankers in the dominion, has been appointed chairman’ of new radio commission. With him on the board are Charles Bowman, Ottawa news- aperman, and Augustin Frigon of lontreal, director of technical edu- cation for the Province of Quebec. The commission will study broad- casting in the United States, France and England and submit its reco: mendations to the Dominion Parl ment. nouncement by William J. Donovan, an assistant to the a‘turney general, that he planted to institute fraud \roceedings :gainst some of the Sinclair companies as a result of the leasing of royalty oil in the Salt Creek fi-!d. This hearing, beginning on the confirmation of Roy.O. West, secre- trry of the interior, broadened its Scope until it took on the appearance of an oil investigatior FARGO SHOPPERS WET Fargo, Dee. 15.—() —Shoppers went about their task today in a fog and rain but rejoiced as they re- called a year ago when 15.6 inch snowfall, a record, terminated. The mercury was well above the freez- ing mark today. A year ago it stood well below zero and traffic in the city was impossible. 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