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tee Oe + BLKRIVER BAND! * City, Ia., were obtained from Salmon : sentenced on these charges, however. “in a gun fight shortly after the rob- GO T0 STILLWATER ON LIFE SENTENCES Ray Salmon and Donald Mela- vin Plead Guilty to Charge of Robbing Banks Elk River, Minn., Aug. 15—(?)—Life sentences in Stillwater prison were meted out to Ray Salmon and Donald Melavin, charged with robbing the | First National bank of $7,200 Friday, when they pleaded guilty in district court yesterday. Within four hours the men had started serving their sentences. Immediately after sentencing the men, preparations were begun for their trip to Stillwater. A squad of deputies, headed by Sheriff C. F. Mosford, Sherburne county, took the men to prison. Confessions to a series of robberies which included a bank at Gilmore and Melavin in court. They were not ‘August Becker, who was wounded , will be arraigned today. Becker's Tegear-ole wife, pleaded not guilty to charges of receiving stolen property. Her trial was ect for August 22. LATE WHEAT YIELDS 10 AND 11 BUSHELS Soo Line Area Barley Averages Drop. From Early Fig- ures Reported Additional returns of average grain crop yields in the Soo Line territory have been received by the local office of the road. These show increasing averages in wheat, while previous high figures in barley are not ap- proached in the latest figures. The elds reported are: Lidgerwood, rye running 12 to 17 bushels and some wheat 10 bushels. Geneseo, 60 acres rye, 11 bushels. Forman, 80 acres wheat, 10 bushels, 60 acres, 11. Coggswell, 60 acres rye, 8 bushels, 30 acres, 10. Wishek, 160 acres, rye, 11'2 bushels. Burnstad, 60 acres rye, 14 bushels, 53 acres barley, 17. Moffit, 60 acres rye, 10 bushels. Underwood, 80 acres rye, 14 bushels, 60 acres wheat, 11. Garrison, 60 — rye, 12 bushels, 40 acres wheat, 10. Ryder, 65 acres rye, 12 bushels, 0 acres rye, 10. ‘Van Hook, rye running 7 to 10 bushels. Sanish, 40 acres rye, 12 bushels. Kulm, 20 acres barley, 20 bushels with 30 per cent hail loss, 25 acres of barley, 25. Oakes, 30 acres barley, 20 bushels, 60 acres wheat, 12. Fullerton, 50 acres barley 25 bush- els, 50 acres barley, 10,.40 acres bare ley, 12. ‘Merricourt, 80 actes durum wheat, 20 bushels. Artas, 100 acres wheat, 4 bushels, 40 acres wheat, 8, 40 acres barley, 12. Pollock, 52 acres wheat, 6 bushels, 40 acres, 5 bushels, 60 acres barley, rye, 7, 145 acres, 11. Ryder, 50 acres rye, 12, 60 10, 30 acres, 15. Scout Plane Covering Derby Course Will be In Bismarck Saturday Lieut. 8. J. Sansom, in a scout plane, is making a trip over the courses of the national air derby of August 23-September 2, and will be here about Saturday, to inspect this control point for August 26. He is proceeding west to Santa Monica by the southern route and from that California point will fly to Portland and begin the inspection flight of the race route through Billings and this city to Cleveland, the derby terminus. Squirrel Tag Day To Aid Fargo Pets Fargo, N. D., Aug. 15.—(AP)— Inevitable as only tag days can be, here is one likely to be received with. more than usual enthusiasm, Fargo squirrels are threatened with famine. Dry weather has cut down the nut yield in Fargo parks, so citizens are to be solicited for funds to buy feed for the squirrels. The campaign to relieve the starv- ing squirrels has been started by the humane society here. Brown paper acres, tags, cut in the shape of nuts, will be sold by members of the juvenile branch of the society on the squir- rel’s tag day. {salvaged if cut by comi Hail Near Van Hook Damages Light Crops Beyond Harvesting | Hail south of Van Hook, night, covered an area 10 miles long by five to seven miles wide, according to reports to the Seo Line offices here. Seventy-five per cent of this area was under cultivation and 25 led cent of its grain crops had been cut Loss to standing grain is estimated at 25 to 30 per cent. Five to 10 per cent of the crops can be bine, the re- mainder of the stands being so light it will not pay to harvest them, the Teport says. BUTTZ WILL STUDY MATE-TRADING CASE, Validity of Remarriages of Two Couples to Be Scrutinized in Minot Court Minot, N. D., Aug. 15.—Renville county’s trading couples will be in the spot. light here again Friday when Dis- ige C. W. Buttz of Devils trict Jud; Lake comes here to consider further evidence in criminal proceedings against them. Validity of the marriages of the two couples, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Rikansrud and Mr. and Mrs. Willis Knight, in Canada immediately after obtaining divorces here is being at- tacked by State Attorney George Rodsater of Renville county, who has preferred charges of illegal cohabi- tation. Further evidence relating to Canadian marriage laws will be con- sidered by Judge Buttz, who re- ceived the case directly through stipulations without a jury. NELS ELHARD WILL NOT BE PROSECUTED Washburn, N. D., Aug. 15.—(AP) —Nels Elhard, of Jamestown, driver of the automobile which plunged off a railroad bridge near here June 30, resulting in the death of four per- sons, will not be prosecuted in con- nection with the affair. Elhard left a Bismarck hospital | 10 days ago and was arrested on a charge of driving an automobile while intoxicated. At a hearing Tuesday, however, Justice C. A. Brummond held that there was in- sufficient evidence to warrant the charge. State’s Attorney R. L. Frazer said Elhard will not be subject to further | prosecution unless relatives of the dead men institute action. He re- garded this improbable. Fresh Lake Fish—Gussner's. For Sale One new Nash Special Six Coupe at greatly reduced price. Lahr Motor Sales Company Phone 490 widely publicized mate ; ‘NORTH DAKOTA BOYS Mandan and Missouri Slope cit| izen Soldiers Best Rifle- men in C. M. T. C. North Dakota boys, espccially | those from Mandan and the Missouri | Slope, are expert marksmen judg- ing by scores made in the two day target practice shoot of the C. M. \T. C. at Fort Lincoln. Two Mandan citizen soldiers, Nor- {man J. McKendry and Morton C. | Weibers, were high scorers in the |two classes, second ycar and basic, i respectively. | Twenty-three -members of Com- pany I, 15 members of Company K, '28 members of Company L, and 39 {members of the band and Company M. won the distinction of C. M. T. GC. marksmen. Among the Reds, or second year; boys, who had a possible score of 100 to aim at, high scores were: Nor- ;man J. McKendry, Mandan, Co. TI, 192; Lucas F, Wetsch, Solen, Co. K, 88; Laurence C. Welsh, Mandan, Co. I, 87; and John R. Smith, Mandan, Co. I, 87. The basics, or first year bi had a possible chance to s shots, were: Marton C. bers, Mandan, Co. M, 69; Carl Sandbeck, } Beresford, S. o L, 6 and | re J. Dooley, Ramona, S. D., Co. {I, 68, PRISONERS STRIKE Harbin, Manchuria, Aug. 15.— | (AP)—The 39 Soviet officials who were arrested last May after the| Chinese raid on the Soviet consulate here have gone on a hunger strike ment for 10 weeks without trial. You will find that you ac- tually use less flour when you use OCCIDENT, LYONS BEST ‘OR CLIMAX because of their purity. Test a sack in your own kitchen. We guarantee that you will get better results than from any other flour. Costs More—Worth It RUSSELL-MILLER MILLING CO. Beauty Shops Say Wash your face with Palmolive only Follow the advice Logan’s A. W. Gussner Jones & Webb Brown & Tiedman Bertsch Grocery John Dawavn Richholt’s Grocery J. W. Seott Mrs. Joe Gabel Sunshine Grocery Montgomery Grocery Spohn Grocery J. W. Atkingon . - Joe Baron & Co. M.S. Lang Orange Grocery Tony Sissinni ‘For Friday and Saturday at the follownig Good Will Stores Mandan Geo, Little A. Boutrous Bismarck Quality Store Davis Grocery B. Thompson CRICK RIFLE SHOTS as a protest against their imprison- | « armer Has Third Wife in 3 Months —. j | ————— 8 Carrington, N. D., Aug. 15.—Tive small children must have a mother and Jake Stiegelmeier, farmer south of Goodrich, has his third wife with- in the last 12 months. Last August his first wife, whom he married 16 years ago, died. short time later he married again and this bride passed away within three months. His third marriage took place last week. He is the son of Chris Stiegelmeicr, Carrington. VANCOUVER LEADS IN WHEAT EXPORT ‘Vancouver, B. C., Aug. 15—(AP)— Vancouver and allied Pacific coast Ports led Canada in export of Cana- dian wheat, according to totals fur- nished by the Vancouver Merchants’ exchange and computed from official figures compiled by the board of grain commissioners. Vancouver, NW Westminster, Prince Rupert and Victoria shipped a total of 97,000,000 bushels in the 1928-29 period or 26 per cent of the total Canadian export, Montreal, Quebec, Halifax, and other Atlantic ports combined, accounted for 92,- 000,000 bushels of Canadian wheat. The Marchants’ Exchange figures did not take into consideration gains other than wheat and shipments of United States wheat through Cana- dian ports are omitted. BURNS ARE FATAL Red Wing, Minn., Aug. 15—(AP)— Marjorie, four, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Oscar Elander of this city, died from burns received Tuesday when ing water at her home. AprTO THEATRE SCANDAL has wrecked more lives than SIN. INNOCENCE has always paid tribute to SO- PHISTICATION. Such are two truths brought to throbbing life on the sereen in this absorbing drama of a beautiful girl who became enmeshed in social intrigue which plunged her into the midst of a murder mystery . that — scandalized even’ the most sophisticated! 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They mo- ltored both ways and after feasting | |their eyes on the wonderful moun. | tain scenery of the old Tar Heel! state in the vicinity of Hickory and | Dobbs, the western trail as they | neared home secmed very bleak to! them. But west is west to the! Snows, now that they have spent | |many years out here, and they said; they preferred the plains to the old | oak and maple hills of their youth. | Mr. Snow, in fact, refused the of- for a big North Carolina charge while away, feeling sure that he} would not make the old scenes scem like home again after breathing the free air of the west. North Carolina is restless and the Ithe people are discontented, said Mr. Snow. The textile strike has caused some irritation, but politics have caused most of the feeling. Hej said the action of Mrs. Hoover in en- tertaining Mrs. Oscar DePriest, wife ‘of the colored congressman from Chicago, has tremendously stirred the bitterness ‘of the southerners and the colored population—75,000 to 35,000 white in Winston-Salem— has to bear the illwill of the whites growing out of the social event at |the white house. Thursday—Friday and Saturday 2:30—7:15—9:00 P. M. With HUNTLEY GORDON JOHN BOLES JANE WINTON In Talk Sound and Music THE COLLEGIANS ” and Fox News. feet from its base. giant dynamo and motor near tank were disloged from their bases’ and the machinery temporarily dis- rupted. | Kaster went over to the tank to release some air just as the tank ex- |ploded, The machinery had not been jtunning it should and he sus- | Pected oS tal the pre: Mr. Snow said the tobacco crop has been good and also the prices. North Carolina had almost dail: rains while he was there, so a crops grew luxuriantly. SPOKANE PLANE 10. 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