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| 6» _ MANDAN NEWS £696 GAINS SHOWN INSOUTEWEST AREA 849 Districts Have 72,178 Res- idents, Compared to 70,552 a Decade Ago Census figures announced this ‘morning by Milton K. Higgins, Man- dan, supervisor, from 21 districts in southwestern North Dakota show a vise in population of 15 residents, This brings the total rise in 349 dis- tricts of the area to 1,626. The 349 Gistricts had a poulation of 70,552 in 1920, compared to 172,178 this year. ‘Twenty-three district, for which no 1920 figures are available and com- ‘isons consequently impossible, ave an aggregate population of 6,094 tesidents. Figures announced today follow: ‘Adams County— . Farms 1930 Cedar Butte on 84h SUS Billings County Tp. 141, R. 99 Tp. 131, R. 100: 'p. 143, R. 98 Hettinger Coun Black Butte Madison : Rifle ... St. Croix”: Mercer Count Kessler . Tp. 143, R. 90 Tp. 146, R. 90 Morton County— Youngtown Oliver Count: Tp. 142, R. 3. Baee Sona ERLS asae a Blope County— Chalky Butte Richland Cnt epee S2aeS2 & e NURSERY STANTON SUC , 77, Was Widely HEAD AT Joseph Kredi Known as Hotel Manager in Northwest Joseph Kredler, 77, Stanton nur- weryman, died early this morning at this home near Stanton. He had suf- fered from heart disease which fol- lowed a general breakdown of his health. He was the father of Arthur Kredler, widely known northwest ho- telman, who formerly operated hotels here and at Fargo and now is at St. Paul. ‘The body will be sent to Chicago for funeral and burial. Martin Hecker, Farmer At Dickinson, Is Dead Child Dies at Hazen After Kerosene Drink at Hazen for the 14-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Ganske, who strangled to death while trying to Carl Kositzky Called To Father’s Bedside Carl R. Kositzky, 723 Eleventh treet, left today for San Diego, Calif., led there by the serious illness of father, Gus Kositzky who is 85 years of age. Mr. Kositzky will be joined in’ the Journey by his brothers, Will Ralph, Winner, 8. Dak. Edward, Colome, 8. Dak., Gus. Jr., Cleveland, and two sisters, Mrs. C. Owen, ner, and Mrs. Will Nollkamper, Gre- ry, S. Dak. Another brother, Dr. id Kositzky resides at San Diego. Mr. Kositzky is not expected to live, according to the information received here. He was a pioneer resident of the Sterling vicinity. He retired about 10 years ago moving to Califor- nia. Search Liner Visitors For Smuggled Liquor New York, May 3.—(#)—Resuming ago, customs searched all visitors leaving the North| . ‘German Lloyd liner Bremen prior to her sailing for her Brooklyn pier. No arrests were made, but severi pints and half pints of liquor were seized. More than 7,000 visitors were searched as they left the ship. Student Conference Draws 150 Delegates the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. Mrs. Jessie Burral Eubank, nation- ally known teacher of religion, was the principal speaker at Friday morn- ing’s session. She asserted that pres- ent day college students would be un- limited in their accomplishments if they would “draw aid from the limit- Jess sources that spiritual shafts pro- vide.” NAME RAILWAY RECEIVER Francis Adams and Secretary A ay | Additional Sports | eS Pirates and Robins Battle for Slugging Honors in National Brooklyn Has Leader, Jake Flowers, but Pittsburgh Has Numerical Edge "New York, May 3—(P)—The rivalry between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Brooklyn Robins is the feature of werages re- leased today and including last Wed- nesday’s games. Brooklyn can boast the individual leader in Jake Flowers but the Pirates hold the lead in club batting and have four men among the first 10 regulars against three for the Robins. Fisher, Stephenson Second Flowers has rapped out 23 hits in 49 times at bat, giving him an average of 469. end @ seven-point lead over his’ nearest rivals, George Fisher of the St. Louis Cardinals and Riggs Stephenson of the Chicago Cubs, who are tied for second place. Other batters following the three crepe among the top ranking regu- are Pittsburgh, .435; , 429; Suhr, Pittsburgh, .417; Brooklyn, Engle, Pittsburgh, .396; and Terry, New York, .390. honors. He has made 2¢ hits toshare the lead with John Frederick of Brooklyn and has batted in 17 runs, | midst of iz hitting orgy seldom ap-| lege and was desirous of retaining compil Frederick and Adam Comorosky of | .350 for the first two weeks of the| for a long term. have scored 13 runs, Chick Hafey of St.|ing games of Wednesday, show the] on the reappointment, said: “‘Direc- another Pitts- Kiki Cuyler of | average 66 points during the last! football team but encourages his as- triples with a| week while his team hiked its mark | sociates to develop high class basket- jackson of the run lead- and Paul bases, and five points. Cincin- ‘k are tied for club with 981 averages. Four National league pitchers are top honors, each having won games and lost none. They are Kremer and Larry French of | plt Simmons, Cisse Tied for Bat Lea In American Loop Both Hitting .432; Clint Brown Atop With Three Straight Hurling Wins race for batting honors in the Amer- averages, including games of Wednesday, reveal that the ficlally 44 times and each has rapped fielder, who led the race at the end of last week dropped from a .533 average to .385, good for second place. Most of the other 10 leaders are veterans. After Simmons, Cissell and Jamieson they are: McManus, De- |, 378; Cochrane, Philadelphia, St. Paul, May 3.—(?)—Oscar Mitch-| 364; Fonseca, Cleveland, .355, and ell, Duluth attorr-". was appointed| Oliver, Boston, .350. receiver for ‘Street Rail-| The Cleveland Indians took the ‘way compan: Judge W.| teem batting leed away from the A Cant. Athletics. They raised average Ington with thelr wives. Left to Members of the American delegation to the London naval conference after their arrival In Wash- Secretary Henry L. Stimson, Mrs. Stimson, Mrs. Ch ight: dame. from .265 to .301.. Washington and the White Sox were tied for second with .280 while the Athletics slumped to .276 and were next. St. Louis supplanted Washington in first place in team fielding with a 981 percentage while the Senators were second with .890. Clint Brown Atop Clinton Brown, 27-year-old Cleve- land recruit, took the technical lead in the pitching race by winning an- other game running his total to three victories and no defeats. Five others had records of two won and none lost—Hadley, Washington; Hogsett, Detroit, Thomas, Chicago; Russell, Boston; and Marberry, Washington. “Lefty” Grove, of the Athletics, is credited with one victory and no de- feats. He has been in four gams. Leaders: Team runs, Washington 72; team hits, Detroit, 135; double Detroit 18; individual hits, Washington, 21; doubles, Kress, St. Louis, and Regan, Boston, triples, Goslin, Gullic, St. Louis, 3; runs batted in, Simmons, Philadelphia, 18. Horace Koehler Is Setting Swat Pace Clip; 14 Pitchers Remain Undefeated Chicago, May 3.—(#)—Led by Hor- ace Koehler, New York Giant cast- off, the Toledo Mudhens are in the the American association. With Koehler leading the circuit with a .436 average, the Hens have led a team batting average of season. Unofficial averages, includ- Toledo third baseman boosted his from .342. Eight of the Mud Hens are batting .375 or better while most of their mates are close to .300. McCann Is Second McCann of Columbus took second place during the past week with .426 while Rosenfield of Toledo landed third with 422. Otis Miller, Minne- apolis outfielder who led at the end of the first week’s unofficial averages, dropped 78 points and fell to fourth ace, The other leaders were Layne, Louisville, .411; Carlyle, Kansas City, .401; Lebourveau, Toledo, .405; High, Minneapolis, .395; Wilson, Toledo, 390. Columbus also was hitting at a terrific pace, boosting its team mark in the second week from .305 to .320. Kansas City dropped from its field- ing leadership in the second week. The Blues made 15 errors in seven games and fell to a tie for third place with 957. Columbus jumped from fourth to first place with an average of 970. 14 Pitchers Unbeaten Fourteen pitchers remained in the undefeated circle, although only four were able to win two games. They and Columbus, 91; fewest opponents’ runs, Louisville, 55; team hits, Co- lumbus, 154; double plays, Minne- apolis, 19; individual hits, Koehler, Toledo, 24; hits for most total bases, Nejs, Columbus, 35; two base hits, Mc- Curdy, Columbus, 7; home runs, High, Minneapolis, McMillan, Kansas City, and Ganzel, Louisville, 3; stolen bases, Layne, Louisville, 7; runs batted in, McMillan, Kansas City, 16. 30 Relay Teams in Ohio Meet Events | Simpson, Bracey and Tolan in Century; Records Are Ex- pected to Fall Columbus, O., May 3.—(?)—Thirty relay teams and individual competi- {tors who took championships away from the Penn, Drake and Kansas re- Jays in the last two weeks came here today for the seventh annual Ohio re- lays. +} ‘Dominates Without’ Dominee: For Hickey Circuit P. Waner, Pittsburgh, 455;{Giant Castoff Clouts at .436]/ rangements had been made to keep ; Herman, e clash of these champions and| Hal the first 1990 meeting of 1029's fastest TORNADO DEATH LIST INCREASES T0 EIGHT Missouri and Kansas Red Cross Workers Labor to Provide New Homes Kansas City, May 3.—(?)—The toll of lives exacted by a series of torna- does that swept parts of Kansas and Missouri Thursday night today swell- ed to eight with the death last night in a hospital here of Paul Wells, 12, of Norborne, Mo. Injuries received when the wind demolished his home proved fatal to the youth. Work of providing shelter for the homeless and aid for the injured was continued today. Red Cross workers are cooperating with local officials and it was announced that no outside aid would be required. Property damage in an ntar Nor- borne was placed at $100,000. Six Persons were killed there. The other two deaths occurred at Kickapoo, Kas. near the Missouri river. Lawrence Kern, 50, a farmer, was killed and his wife died later in a Leavenworth hospital. ‘Funeral for Bismarck Bride Is Held Friday Funeral services for Mrs. Florence Anderson Hedstrom, 24, who died in Bismarck Tyesday, were held from the Valley City Baptist church Fri- day afternoon. Rev. W. A. Weyrauch, Jamestown, former Valley City pastor, officiated, Mrs. Samuel Mikkelson and Mrs. An- drew B. Anderson sang. Pallbearers were four brothers, 2 Arthur, Clifford, Samuel and Melvin, and two cousins, Andrew B. Ander- Son and Redding Amundson. Besides her husband, others in at- tendance from Bismarck were Mr. and Mrs. Albin Hedstrom and daugh- ters, Irene, Ruth and Hazel, and a son, Paul, student at the University of North Dakota. Mr. and Mrs. Bert aor Wilton, also attended the rites. Thatcher to Preside At Bismarck Meeting M. W. Thatcher, St. Paul, general manager of the Farmers Union Ter- minal association, will preside over a conference of Bismarck area em- Ployes here Wednesday, May 7. During his business visit here, Mr. Thatcher will broadcast an address from KFYR between 9 and 10 p. m. the evening of May 7. Mr. Thatcher will speak on the cooperative agricultural movement in the northwest with special emphasis on cooperative marketing. Associated Press Photo ‘college sprinters— George Simpson, Clauae Bracey and Eddie Tolan— constituted serious threats to scveral world records while the collapse of @ score of records for the meet was looked upon as a matter of course. ‘The absence of eight 1929 cham- pions in the 10 individual events was considered no detriment to the busi- ness of record breaking. While Simpson's record of 9.4 sec- onds for century appeared to be in danger of being tied or bettered un- der auspicious weather conditions, he planned to discard the controversial starting blocks which clouded his performance last year. Finnegan Renamed Bison Sport Head r= Lawn mowers sharpened at the Bismarck Spring Service Station, 714 Thayer. Phone 137. ing’ Is Compliment Paid by Shepperd Fargo, May 3.—C. C. (Casey) Fin- negan, director of athletics at North | Dakota State college for the past two | Years, will continue as head of the | Diiysical education department and head football coach at the Bison in- stitution for another year, according to an announcement by President John H. Shepperd. Confirmation of the report that ar- | Capitol Last Time Tonight Elinor Glyn tells what amancan do with | T’ Finnegan as director of athletic af- fairs at State college is a source of satisfaction to college officials, stu- dents and alumni. J. E. Davis, chair- man of the state board of administra- tion, stated that that body was well pleased with Mr. Finnegan's work since taking over his post at the col- the Bison mentor. The action is viewed by athletic board officials as assurance that Finnegan will remain as director of athletics at the college President Shepperd, in commenting tor Finnegan not only develops a good ball teams, track teams, hockey play- ers and good boxers. He has a larger; percentage of the men students tak- ing physical exercise than I have seen here at any time. The relationships throughout the group seem to be very cordial—Casey Finnegan dominates without domineering. VIKINGS BEAT BEAVERS Minot, N. D., May 3.—()—The Val- ley City Teachers college defeated Minot Teachers college, 81 to 50, in a dual track meet. Try Alaskan Crimes In Floating Court Seattle, May 3.—(P)—Justice, as jwell as ministrations to storm bat- tered ships, will be adminstered by the Coast Guard cutter Chelan in Alaskan water this summer. Federal Judge Cooke Hill of Alaska | jand @ United States attorney will hold court aboard the ship during its summer cruise which will take the cutter to settlements in the north- western portion of Alaskan territory. Com. R. W. Dempwolf of the Chelan is a United States commis- missioner and Lieut. Com. John Tre- bes is & United States marshal, mak- ing the floating court official. Because there are no federal courts in Alaska west of Valdez the cruise is made biennially, Cases ranging ie petty larceny to murder are tried. with WARNER BAXTER CATHERINE DALE OWEN HEDDA HOPPER Comedy and News 8- Days -3 Beginning Monday PHI DELTS CONVENE Grand Forks, N. D., May 3.—(#)— With 11 delegates from seven chap- ters in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North and South Dakota in attend- ance, the annual convention of Lambda Province of Phi Delta Theta, social fraternity, opened at the university here Friday. CONGEESSMAN KVALE FILES St. Paul, May 3—(#)—Congressman Paul John Kvale of the seventh Min- | nesota district today filed as a can. didate for reelection on the farmer labor ticket. Congressman Kyale, | who resides at Benson, succeeded his father who died in a fire last fall. | i | DA , i AS Stor ferers Stomach sufferers in Bismarck and vicinity will glad to learn that al store, Bismarck, North 4-H Clothing Clubs And Miss Sommerfeld Hold Session Here A clothing club demonstration school was being conducted in the civil service room of the federal build- ing here, today, by Miss Edna Som- merfield, 4-H club field agent among Girls, from the Agricultural college extension service. Miss Sommerfeld conducted a simi- lar meeting at the home of Mrs. A. E. Kopplin at Wing, Friday. Three clubs were represented there, the newly-formed Richmond clothing club, the Wing and the Arena. The care and use of sewing equipment was demonstrated and the fundamentals of garment making exemplified, along with the principles of selecting wawsh material. The session dealt with making of undergarments. At the meeting here today clubs, represented by leaders and one girl member each, included the Bismarck, Braddock, Wild Rose, Moffit, Sterl- ing, Brittin, two Menoken and two McKenzie organizations. A. 0. U. W. Shows Gain In ItsAnnualStatement According to the annual statement of the Ancient Order of United Work- men, the fraternal insGrance order had assets of $7,471,133.02 on January 1, B. C. Marks, Fargo, grandmaster of the order, announced today. Life insurance in force totals more than $49,000,000.00. During the past 10 years of the 35 years of existence, the greatest growth has been recorded, Mr. Marks said. The assets in 1920 were $2,089,323.34 baal in force was $18,800,- MRS. GEO. KEUP ELECTED Velva, N. D., May 3.—(P)—Mrs. George Keup, Columbus, was elected president of the third district federat- ed clubs, and Mrs. C. Aureland of Mi- not was named to the state nominat- ing committee. "\/E CAME. OVER TO SEE JANET'S NEW PLAY ROOM” OW simple and easy it is today to finish off the H attic or add a sunporch to give the children a place of their own to play. It’s ideal for the chil- dren—and solves the problem of scattered playthings, soiled walls and broken furniture. Use our Budget Payment Plan to make home improvements. Pay for OO | Omaha Youngster | | Champion Penman | Omaha, Neb. May 3—()—Joyce Marks, 6, of Omaha, might well rank as the nation’s youngest writing in- structor. 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