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PAGE SIX CHICAGO FAILS 70 INSTALL: REQUIRED y NUMBER OF METERS [Windy City Puts In Only One- _ Tenth as Many as Federal *, : | Permit Requires ;too much for Mrs. Brzeginski. She Chicago, March 25.—(7)—Chicago ; b¢ called to revive her. has fallen far short of the mark set by the government in 1925 for water meter installation, Charles Evans was informed today. Colonel E. H. Schulz, the opening of the hearing, to deter- mine how Chicago may best completc | Sewage disposal plants that the per- mit called for an average installation of 41,000 meters a year. The permit granted Chicago the right to 85°0 cubic fect u second of Lake Michigan water for sewage purposcs. In 1925, 4,437 meters were put in according to Colonel Schulz, who is ® member of the United States army engineering corps. In 1926 there were 4,535 installed, in 1927, 6,253} and in 1928, 4,740. The total for the four years was far short of the re- quired number, the colonel concluded. With the exception of installation of water meters, however, Cicago has complicd with most ef the cun- ditions laid down by the governnyat 4n the 1925 permit, Colonel Schulz testified. } “There has been no unreasonable | interference with lake navigation,” he | Said. “Government inspection has | been paid for by the district. No at- tempt hrs been mace by the district to forbid the free use ef tho nav- Agable waters of the lake. “By the expiration of the permit date, December, 1929, Chicago will have carried out a program for con- | struction of artificial sewage disposal Plants for a population of 1,200,000. Qs required in the permit.” An opposing array of counsel, rep- resenting the states bordering on the Great Lakes, was present. BIG MASONIC EVENT STARTS TCMORROW 'Scottish Rite Reunion Will Con- tinue Over Four Days; * Two Cities in It The biggest cvent in SGismarck Masonry—the spring Scottish Rito Yeunion—will be opened here tomor- Tow and will continue four days. Bismarck and Mandan Masons are united in the event, which is to be @n annual affair here for them. Tuesday will be given over to the conferring of the ineffable degrees, from the fourth to the fourteenth, inclusive. The sessions schedule calls for one session at 8 a. m., the second at 1 p.m. and the third at 7:30 in the evening. The officers who will function to- morrow are John O. Lyngstad, ven- erable master; A. B. Welch, senior warden; Archie Johnson, junior war- dey; I. N. Steen, orator; John Park- inson, almoner; Gilbert Haugen, sec- retary; Frank A. Lahr, treasurer; T. G. Plomasen, master of cercmonies; H. M. Beall, expert; Lorenzo H. Belk, assistant expert; Forest F. Skinner, captain of the host; Thomas Mc- Kane, tyler. About 175 to 200 candidates are cx- Pected to take the work, which will conclude with the investment of Lewis and Clark consistory and the conferring of the thirty-first and thirty-second degrees Friday evening. {Two Does Killed by Lawbreakers to Be | Auctioned Tomorrow Fresh deer meat for sale. Sam J. King, state game warden, Bt the Burleigh county court house St 1 p.m. tomorrow, will auction off two does, killed over the week-end lawbreakers. The animals evi- ently were shot as they were rush- fng in herds from the Jowiargs ‘Blong the Missouri river as the wafer fwas rising. }. No arrests for the shooting nave ‘been made, King announces, es doe weighs about 100 pounds. Bc = ie was found on the river bank at hmidt, 12 miles south of Bismarck, turday night. It had been shot with a large rifle. The second was found this morn- ing by a section foreman about five west of Mandan. This one hac been shot with a large bore rifle. '@ing says the animal was shot in the bills west of the mouth of the Heort ver. He traced it to the spot where I was found dead by the trail of which it left. The river is being patrolled closely state game wardens to prevent ithe eee lawless slaughter of the animals. Farmers Visit a Bac Sait, "ceec” S| GRAR ZEPPELIN OFF | estified at | [the 27 passengers, among them two ° ° Stop Hot Argument | By Calling Firemen | a | Milwaukee, Wis., March 2°.—(?)— Hot words brought five fire com- panies to 951 Bremen strect Sut.day. Feeling they cculd no longer en- dure the argument Mrs. Gladys Brzeginski and her husband re carrying on at 3 a. m., Sunday. neighbors sounded a fire alarm which brought five companies to the scene. The amount of fire apparatus was ° fainted and a rescue squad had to ON 5,000-MILE HOP Mighty Dirigib'e Soars Over Mediter:anean cn Seco~ | Long Cruise »f Career i | | i} Rome, March 25.— (7) — The dirigible Graf Zeppelin, on a 5,000-mile flight over the Medi- terranean and central Europe, arrived over Rome at three o'clock this afternoon. It circled [ the city three times and 20 minutes later left in a southerly direction, Fricdrichshafen, Germany, March 23.—(?)—The Graf Zeppelin, mighty mistress of the air, left her hangar here early today and later was report- | ed sailing over the Mediterranean or, the second long cruise of her career. | Five thousand miles of travel !ay| ahead, with four days of crulsing. over France, Italy, the northeastern and eastern shores of the Mediterran- ean, the Balkans and countries of central Europe before the giant dirigi- ble should return to Friedrichshafen. Departure was at 12:54 a. m., (6:54 Sunday, E. S. T.), being delayed some- what by the late arrival of some of women. Besides the passengers the ship carried a crew of 48, and a total load of 55 tons. There was more gaicty at departure today than on the setting out on the wwansatlantic venture last year, but there was less excitement. Released by the workmen the dirigible rose quickly to 200 meters and pointed its nose to the east, Dr. Hugo Eckener, master, setting its course over Lake Constance toward Basle, Switzerland, and Marseilles. Bathed in the soft moonlight the Graf Zeppelin could be seen by the watchers here for a long while after it took off. Dr. Eckener prior to de- parture announced his exact route would depend upon such weather con- ditions as he encountered. TWIN CITY BANKERS FORM CORPORATION New Financial Institution to Own and Operate Banks |their appearance the rebel forces had jin the air submitting to search for | advance HELP FOR BESIEGED MAZATLAN FEDERAL FORCE DRAWS NEAR Government Troops Surprise a Rebel Force Robbing Ro- sario Citizens of Money Mexico Ci ture by the rebel west coast army un- der General Francisco Manzo was be lieved past. Federal reinforcements inder Gen- cral Evaristo Perez, military governor of the state of Nayarit, advancing northward, surprised the small rebel garrison at Rosario, 40 miles south cf Mazatlan, late yesterday and in a brief brisk encounter captured the city. Three rebels were killed before their main body retreated. Government announcements said that when the federal troops put in all the citizens lined p with hands money and valuables. The town was thoroughly looted. Its capture was kelicved here to have cut short any threat of a rebel into the state of Jalisco where, with Guadalajara in their pos- session they would have constituted a definite threat at the Calles rear. | March 25.—(#)}—Help | for the beleaguered federal garrison t 1 when the water at Mazatian was within 40 miles of |‘, Prevent looting when that city today and danger of its cap-| griven from their homes. river had reached 20.3 feet, the high- est since 1903. The belief persisted, however, that the crest would soon be reached. Reports from Keokuk, Iowa, that the river had fallen six inches were gratefully received by levee patrol- men especially souri, district, been almost given up as hopeless yes- terday. f. Canton, Mo., was also threatened by the exceedingly high stage of the river. A hastily constructed sandbag crown on the levee protecting a large section of the town was within two j inches of being overflowed. Members of the National Guard and Naval Militia patrolled, the fluud- ed Indian Grave district near Quincy the families The first fatality from that section occurred at Beardstown when a youth fell from a dike and was drowned. DEEP SNOW COVERS Fires as Hail, Snow, Winds and Rain Strike Denver, March 25—(?\—The moun- tainous area of southwestern Colo- deep snow following yesterday's storm that dropped temperatures as 6,000 Under Perez The Perez forces were the advance | guard of the army of General Lazaro} Cardenas, the body of which was at/ Trapuato, en route here from Torreon. | Coahuila. Advance of this main body, contain- | ing possibly 6.000 men, was being pushed with all possible haste in an attempt to drive the rebels quickly back up the west coast where it wa: hoped the forces of General Callies | eventually could close on them from} the east. | Meanwhile General Jaime Carrillo, | commanding the federal garrison at Mazatlan, reported a partial cessation of the heavy fighting which contin- ued for two days there. Rebel reports of capture of the city created a small flurry at Chapultepec castle here but at midnight last night communication was reestablished with Czrrillo who reported “no change.” Rebels Gather Dead This was taken to mean that the rebels had not advanced after an earlier reported withdrawal. Sunday, it was said, firing became more desultory, finally ceasing, with the rebels gathering up truck loads of their dead and wounded and with- drawing some distance from the city. No estimate of their losses could be made but they were believed to be heavy. No report was made of federal losses, but General Carrillo said he could hold the city against any fur- ther attack until reinforcements ar- rived. In the north General Juan Andreu Almazan moved his forces as far north as Bermejillo about thirty miles north of Torreon, in wha: was con- sidered the first move to purge Chi- huahua of the rebels. Yesterday marked the beginning of the fourth week of the revolution. Throughout Northwest St. Paul, March 25.—(?)—Organ- ization of a new financial institu- tion with resources of approximately $275,000,000 to own and operate banks throughout the ninth federal deserve district was announced today by 8t. Paul and Minneapolis bankers. Ownership of one-half of the new company will be identical with own- ership of stock in the First National bank of St. Paul, the Merchants Trust company and the Merchants National company. ‘The other half will be identical with ownership of stock in the First National bank of Minneapolis, the First Minneapolis Trust company and the First Min- neapolis company. The new corporation will be known as the First Bank Stock Investment company and its purpose is to pur- chase and control the stock of select- ed banks throughout the ninth fed- eral reserve district, the announce- ment said. George H. Prince, chairman of the First National bank of St. Paul, will be chairman of the board. Paul L. Leeman, vice president of the First National bank of Minneapolis, will be president. Vice presidents will be R. C. Lilly, president of the St. Paul in- stitution, and Lyman E. Wakefield, President of the. Minneapolis bank. Included in the directorate will be L, W. Hill and the presidents of the six largest railroads serving:. the northwest —the Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Milwaukee, North- western, Soo Line and the Burling- ton. Harry J. Harwick, secretary- treasurer of the ‘Mayo ‘clinic at Rochester, also will be a member of the board. ————S es Blettcl, scauty prize winner, called a Policeman when a fourth accosted her. She told the judge she was too tired to hit him. William Doty is back from a trip through the southeastern part of the . | State on business. He got in Sun- day and resumed his place as “live- wire” at the Lions luncheon today. German business conditions, on the whole, were less satisfactory in | 5 1928 than in 1927, Rum Runner Captain Admits Business; Explains Battle (Continued from page one) Alone staunchly maintains he was well without it. Representatives of the United States, Great Britain and France are studying the facts of the case today. Federal officers sey if the sunken ship was first sighted within 12 miles of the shores of the United States coast guard boats were within the law when they pursued her into the gulf and sank her when she refused to stop on command. Captain John Thomas Randall, Canadian skipper of the I'm Alone, is bitter in his de- nunciation of the coast guard’s action and has likened it unto submarine warfare in the last war and declares it to be a violation of the freedom of the seas. Lions Launch Move To Send Bismarck Cagers to Chicago (Continued from page one) Bismarck is third in the contest based on organization of new clubs. C. E. Larson was introduced by Ed Klein. They are brothers-in-law and he has come here from Casselton to be associated with the Klein Tog- gery... The family will follow and they will become Bismarck residents. Frederick and Ernest Strauss, sons of President Strauss, hom? from col- lege on Easter vacation, were in- troduced as guests of the luncheon. President Hoover Orders Hurley to Send: Scout Craft (Continued frem page ne) the belief that only heavy delayed action bombs would be effective. In a telegram to the commandant of the seventh corps area they urged that big bombing planes and heavy delayed action bombs be used. They asked that, if-heavy equipment is not avalable in the seventh corps area that it be obtained elsewhere and sent west enjoyed spring weather. Several mining towns in the San} Juan basin. Colorado, were isolated by slides that buried railroad tracks | under 20 to 40 feet of snow, traific was paralyzed in others, and indus- tries were at a standstill, The storm was general over the state. but as it lnoveu south, increased in fury Silverton, famous mining town atop the continental divide. was blocked for the third time this wi valanches that buried the o: road track to the town Durango. Cimbress pass, den many times in the months, and Lizard Head pass, also, It was estimated it before the were isolated. would be several cays tracks are cleared. California had tricky weather which included hail, snow, high winds and occasional showers. The temperature dropped to 36 degrees in the citrus belt and fruit growers were prepared for smudging should the mercury drop much lower. SEEK PLANE MISSING OFF ATLANTIC COAST Curtiss Field, N. Y., March 25.—(/P) —Two amphibians and one airplane left this field this forenoon to join in the search for the Sikorsky amphib- fan plane which has been missing since it left Norfolk last Friday morning. One amphibian was piloted by Cliff Webster, with Robert Chew as an ob- server. The other was piloted by Harold E. McMahon and carricd George Berry as an observer. They headed for Waretown, N. J. The airplane, piloted by R. Enslow, with K. Normington as an observer, expected to search in the vicinity of Lakehurst, N. J. TWIN GITY BANDITS ENJOY RICH SUNDAY March 25.—(?)—Bandits enjoyed a profitable Sunday in the Twin Cities, getting $5,000 in a raid on the Nieol- let hotel in Minneapolis and $2,500 in cash and jewelry in several hold- ups in St. Paul. No trace had been found today of the three bandits who held up three Officials in the auditing department of the Nicollet, smashed open the safe and fled with the money after locking their victims in a vault. In the St. Paul robberies, Thomas W. McMeekin, an attorney, was the heaviest loser. Prowlérs took $1,850 in jewelry from his home. SEVERE FIGHTING IS REPORTED IN CHINA Nanking, China, March 25.—(%)— Sever fighting broke out yesterday between Wuhan opposition forces and Nationalist government troops on the borders of northeast Hupen and north Anhwei. Fighting also took place south of the Yangtse on the Hunan-Kiangsi border. Details are lacking. 5 President Chang Kai-Shek and his staff are proceeding to Kiukiang. For your dry cleaning, phone 980, Broadway Cleaners, BANISH THAT EXTRA FAT Do it in the easy, pleasant ah the easy, pl Nec byebeneed by combating the COLORADO ROCKIES: California Huddles Close to/ rado today was buried under another | far! | west as California while the south- by | THE STORY OF THE HOUR---- “RICH GIRL----POOR GIRL” Against a background as realistically New York as an airplane photograph of Manhattan Island, Huck Connor, Harold Judson and Stephen Armitage each fought for one of the three * things that men have always fought for—Life, Love and Money. Circumstances tossed these three widely different types together. Huck Connor, left above, was a desperate racketeer. Harold Judson, center, was the pampered, weak-willed son of the own- er of the fashionable Judson Hotel. Stephen Armitage, right, was a young automobile salesman. How Judson and Armitage fell victim ‘to Huck, the racketeer, makes a thrilling story of New York life. As modern as today’s newspaper. 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