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Y4 VFW ENCAMPMENT DRAWS DELEGATES Local People to Leave in Cara-: van Thursday; Four Already in Denver : | Wins Bendix Race | —_______ ? Local posts of the Veterans of For- eign Wars will be represented by about 12 persons at the thirty-seventh national encampment in Denver next week. Eight of them will leave Bis- marck Thursday morning in the 30- car motorcade assembling here from! ali over the state. i Already in Denver are Mr. and! Mrs, Wesley Sherwin and Mr. and Mrs. P. G. Harrington. Sherwin and, Hartington, present commander of! the Bismarck post and past state) commander, respectively, are two of | the delegates from the Bismarck | chapter, and will be on hand to wel-/| cume the motorcade when it arrives in Denver Saturday. Mrs. Harrington Delegate Mrs, Harrington is one of the three delegates from the local VFW auxil- jary. Leaving with the motorcade, which will assemble on the Liberty Memorial Uuilding grounds between 8 and 10 @. m., are Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bern- | stein, Mr, and Mrs. John G. Karas- | iewicz, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Irvine, Major Harold Sorenson, and Judge J, M. Hanley. J, M. Hanley is a delegate from the Mangan post. Bernstein and Karas- iewicz are the two other official aelegates from the Bismarck post, and Mrs. Bernstein and Mrs. Irvine are the other delegates from the local suxiliary. Bernstein Arranging Motorcade Bernstein is also in charge of ar- | | | | First woman to win a senax transcontinental air race, Louise | Thaden, right, of Bentonville, | Ark. accompanied by Blanche Noyes of Cleveland, left, streaked across the nation from New York | to Los Angeles to set a new wom- | en's east-west mark of 14 hours, 54 minutes and 49 seconds. | i New York, Sept. 9.—(?)—The New | York Times said Wednesday in a dis- |patch from Washington that Presis | considering for | submission to congress, in event of number of suggestions to allow the Gent Roosevelt is his re-election, a far-reaching plan lof governmental reor The plan possibly would involve, 'the Times stated, the consolidation | ‘or abolition of some of the major de- | partments and bureaus. “Whatever the president | proposes,” the Times said, “one may ; hear in informed-quarters now that the regular cabinet posts might be de- ‘creased in such an extensive plan as he has been considering.” | A possibility, the would be consolidation of the army, navy and air corps in a department of national defense. The president's committee on ad- ministrative management, the dis- patch continued, is rushing an ex- haustive study of the federal estab- |lishment, but detailed recommenda- Federal Reorganization | | Believed Roosevelt Aim CALLED SEPT. 15-18 finally | Times _ stated, | BISMARCK TRIBUNE, tions hardly will be ready before De- cember 1. “The committee,” the Times said, “already has evolved a sufficient |prediction among Mr. Roosevelt's |friends that he will deal with his re- / organization plans in one or more spseches toward the latter part of his re-election campaign. .. .” “The administration proposes to fol- low a@ definite policy of curtailing or {dismanteling- emergency units that have outrun their usefulness,” the | Paper continued, “. . . until a compre- hensive plan is developed and adopt- |ed by congress.” “For the present, this policy is be- |ing pursued largely through the prac- tice of failing to fill vacancies where | they occur in these various establish- ments.” The Times said the president has jbeen considering a shakeup in ad- anne’ establishment since last fall. | Livestock ‘Shipments Continue Over State | Despite improved feed conditions sozally, there is a scarcity in western ; North Dakota and livestock shipments {continue, O. W. Roberts, federal me- teorologist at Bismarck, said Wednes- cay in his weekly corn and wheat region summary. “Although day temperatures were |rather high and brisk drying winds ‘eceurred, scattered showers improved | vorted. |tall feed conditions locally,” he aa | “Feed remains scarce in the west- | day night. The former is about five | feet tall, weighs 140 pounds, has blue | eyes and brown bobbed hair, and was | wearing brown shoes and a white or | green sweater. The latter is the same jheight but slender, has brown eyes | and brown bobbed hair, and was wear- ing a brown suede jacket. Both girls {were carrying black sample cases. |They were believed to be heading | west. | —— Fishermen Without Licenses Sentenced Center, N. D., Sept. 9—(4)—Erthur PTEMBER 9, 1936 on that firm's bid of $1,435. Fred Hessinger offered the only other bid, . one of $1,600.65. Petition by residents of Ninth 8t., between Avenue D and the capitol boulevard, asked the installation of curb and gutter and cross walks on the street and that it be widened from the present 30 feet to 48 feet. The matter was referred to the street department for a report, along with a petition by H. R. Jones for the installation of curb, gutter and a driveway to his property on Avenue of City Weigher Frank showed receipts last month of 8096.70. ‘ It also disclosed a revival of the junk business in Bismarck, 415 loads of old metals having been weighed during the period. Affairs of Regan ‘Bank Being Closed A request for creditors of the Regan State bank of Regan to forward re- Taxation, Public Finance Prob- lems of Local Governments to Be Studied A meéting of the North Dakota tax survey commission, Sept. 15 to 18, to discuss the taxation and pub- ite finance problems confronting local governments of the state was called Wednesday by Dr. Spencer A. Lar- sen, consultant. He said the commission will meet Sept. 17 with representative com- mittees from the North Dakota Coun- Auditors’ association, the state County Commissioners’ association, the state League of Municipalities and School Districts. Discussions will center around the problems with which local govern- E. “The report McCormick MERLIN GRANPOR, KILLDEER, DES === Services for 23-Year-Old Mu-| Lancoln, Neb, sont ental * . Norris, vet ol sician Will Be Held Sun- [fetus Republican.” independent, day Afternoon | home in Killdeer at 1 p. m. Sunday. |and in the Lutheran church at Kill- |deer at 2 p.m. Rev. C. M. Fosmark will officiate. Burial will the Normanda cemetery Center. Wednesday became a candidate for re-election with the filing in the sec- retary of state's office of a petition bearing 40,504 signatures on his be- half. ——__—_—__ The African Alpine swift, during the course of a morning's feeding, often wanders 80 miles or more from its nightly rooting place. Sse Merlin Granfor, 23, of Killdeer, died at 12:15 a, m. Wednesday at a local hospital of cancer of the lung. He was brought to the - hospital only three hours before he died, but had been ill for a month. Mr, Granfor was born at Killdeer June 6, 1913, and attended schools at Portland, Ore., and Stanwood, Wash. He was graduated from Dunn Center high school. He was a musician, and played with {an orchestra in Glasgow, Mont., for i two years. He was later a member of a Mott orchestra. Granfor was a member of the Dunn TODAY AND THURS. o tangements for assembling of the niotorcade in Bismarck. F. C. DeWitt, Minot, state com-j miander of the V.F.W., will arrive in the Capital City from Minneapolis by plane early Thursday to lead the} Weather Report WEATHER FORECASTS For Bismarck and vicinity Unset- “good will” motorcade to Denver, | {i _fonlant HESRA EWA RUIE! The caravan will stop in the larger] “tor North Dakota: Unsettied west, towns it passes through en route and | possib! ea showers east to- Thursday cooler extreme north- &:ve a 20-minute program in each | ikl Ot boosting North Dakota. It will make | Weer tonisits overnight stops at Rapid City, S. D., and Cheyenne, Wyo. The encampment will open Sunday and will last through Friday. day, Montana cooler Fair tonight and extreme southeast howers rthwest Thursday, and in sday; some warm= er tonight and in east and south ‘Thursday, cooler in extreme north- west Thursday a e > [GENERAL WEATHER CON { The barometric pressure jover the north-central state: ; [head 30.16, and over the north Pa- cific coast, Seattle 30.10 inches, while (By the Associated Press) noon. pressure area extends from tchewan uthward to Arizona, rince Alhert 29,80, A few scattered showers fell from’ the Great Lakes region to the Plains States, but the vin all see- KIDNAPED, ROBBED Rockford, Ill.—Eugene Eastwood, @| weather is xenerally f AG tions th prevails morning. 1 weather filling station attendant who was rob- Wee bed and kidnaped Wednesday morn- ing, told police that a newspaper pie- | ture of George Hall, sought in the) North Dakota « Sorthwest over Wheat Region nary for th ending 8 shooting of a La Crosse, Wis., furnl- | “Aithough day temperatures were ture dealer, closely resembled Qis ab-j rather high and brisk drying winds ductor. occurred, ed sho improved fall fee Feed re- <a mains scar and ship- CHARGED WITH EXTORTION | ments of livestock continue. Some New York — An investigation | fait plowing ‘and seeding of winter {rye accomplished. started seven months ago by | “picmarck station bar Mayor LaGuardia led to the ar- [28.22 Reduced to Missouri river ft. 24-hour change Sunrise 4:13 1. m, Sunset 7:08 p.m. rest Wednesday of two men on charges of conspiracy to extort money from Walter Klauer, Du- buque, Iowa, manufacturer. DECLARE DIVIDEND Minneapolis—Directors of the First By mal us marth ty date . ears an. Ist to date .... Bank Stock corporation have declar-| voi iiai Jan. ist tn date. d defy, to date ed a dividend of 25 cents a share. | Accumu payable Oct. 1, to stockholders of record Sept. 19. WESTERN NORTH | | BISMARCK, cldy | Beach, ptcldy \ Carrington, 1 | Crosby, ptel | Dickins | Drake, 8. D. MURDER TRIAL STARTS Leola, 8. D.—Selection of a jury te try Dr. A. R. Martell, Leola dentist, on a charge of murdering Miss Lela Halvorson, rural school teacher whose nude body was | (iuivicns found in a hotel room here last | Jamestow rn. pte Oct, 20, was expected to he com- pleted before the end of the day. PLEADS FOR ‘CHAIN SYSTEM’ | St. Joseph, Mo. — In a vehement | plea for redistribution of wealth Charles C. Talbott, president of the Retiie cial North Dakota Farmers Union, told | ()iing sari: the Missouri union Tuesday that “we | Hankinson need a chain store system operated | Lishon. by and for the mass Nan gen neat EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA High- Low- F ae Oakes, clear CLOSE TO INDEPENDENCE | MINNESO Paris — France set Syria on its | way to independence Wednesday | ypnneapoiis. clear by signing a treaty providing for Moorhead, clei termination of the French man- date there. SOUTH DAI QUEEN POSSIBILITIES REDUCED) Huron Deri “4 London — The engagement of | Parid cits a Princess Juliana of the Netherlands | MONTANA POINTS eliminated Wednesday the second | High- Low. | name within a month from the list | yavre, clear Se ron Of eligible princesses who might sit | Helena. clear 2.1... “on with King Edward VIII on the Brit- | Miles ¢ ptcldy 00 Bee arone. me | WEATHER aT ornen roinTs a i igh+ Low: 500 Hunt Indian Boy, | amarine, tex. ciear Btn Missing Three Days | casio sita." Chicago aa | ail Bayfield, Wis. Sept. 9—(P)—Five | pen sisines hundred persons, aided by blood Dodge Ci uluth hounds, were searching Wednesday for the three-year-old son of Mr. and | amonton, | A Kamloops. B. C Mrs. Julian King of Indian Settle | Kansas City, ment, missing from his home since | loa Angele: Monday. The child wandered into | Miami: visa; the brush and swamp area late Mon-| No, Platte, Ne day. Indians had conducted the} New Orleans search until Tuesday when the au-| Oklahoma (i thorities were notified. Pre albert. : nae saaraa== | Qu'Appell Roseburg, Or St. Louis, M Salt Lake Santa Fe, N Sioux City, la, clear .. Spok; Wash Salary Loans Swit Current, The Pas, Mi $5 to $50 © ‘ Ne Security Ne Co-Signers AUTO LOANS $25 to $200 ein portion of the state,” he said, “and! McClure, Wilton fisherman who has shipments of livestock are continuing.” | lived along the Missouri river for He stated that some fall plowing | many years, was sentenced to 10 days ard seeding of winter rye has been! in jail and assessed $4.79 costs when accomplished. | he pleaded guilty before Justice M. Bismarck reccived .12 inch precip-/ Jennings on a charge of fishing with- itation in the 24 hours ending at 7) out a license. la, m. Wednesday while Napoleon re-| With McClure at the time, Toney corded .05 inch, Lisbon .04, and Dick- | Manley of Sanger was given a similar iason, 01, sentence on the same charge. A, I. Peterson, state game and fish commissioner, and E. M. Lee, chief game warden, who were in the Mis- souri river bottoms gathering evidence on a reported deer shooting, came upon the two fishermen and made the arrest. Nees = NESS Briton Sets 4 New Land Speed Records Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, Sept. 9. —(?)—John Cobb, smiling English-| |man with a yen for dazzling speeds! |smashed four world automobile rec- erds in a brief surprise run in his high-wheeled, airplane-motored racer Wednesday. { Cobb drove only an hour—and then. pleased with the results, announced | Deaths Merland Granfor, 22, Killdeer, at ments are confronted in connection with the general property tax and its administration including its adequacy district ger. ceivers’ ‘certificates to the office of the district manager of closed banks was made this week by P. A. O'Keefe, The certificates or inadequacy as @ tax base for local governments, Larsen declared. The tax survey consultant said among other questions be taken up are the sharing’ of state rev with local governments and the sumption” by the state of certain gov- e:nmental responsibilities now rest- ing on local governments. Waterworks Job Is Given to Thompson Contract for the installation of heating equipment at the pre-settling basin being constructed at the city waterworks plant Tuesday night was awarded to H. A. Thompson and Sons must be received \ We'r going te the BIC shoe? he probably would start Friday a 24-) a hour run on which he hopes to clean| 12:15 ®. m, Wednesday, local: hospi- up a dozen or more additional records| © * | Marriage License now held by his countryman, Capt. Oscar William Sprenger, Elgin, and checks can be delivered, he said. CAPITOL HIGH-SPEED ROMANCE—SPARKLING SONGS — GAY ADVENTURE—A SCREENLOAD OF LAUGHS! The riotous story of a headstron tried love!...A picture that will before dividend heiress who to find a short cut to Center Lutheran church and of the Dunn Center Luther league. He leaves his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Granfor, Killdeer, sister, Marcella, also of Killdeer. Funeral services will be held at_his Today & Thursday ———————_ SOULS OF MEN BEHIND GRIM, GREY WALLS LAID BARE! WALLACE BEERY ROBERT MONTGOMERY CHESTER MORRIS STONE -in- “The BIG HOUSE” A terrific drama of prison mutiny packed with drama that will hold you spell- . bound! ind one SEE IT AGAIN! News - Musical - Pictorial COMING—FRI. - SAT. A Drama of Fiery Love and Fierce Conflict} Merry Kid $ Cooper Classis) George E. T. Eyston. Two of the motor car speed records made Wednesday were held by Cap- tain Eyston. | These were the one-hour mark of 162.53 miles and the 200-kilometer 8| record of 162.42. Cobb's new records are 167.690 and 168.266, respectively. Two Bismarck Girls Run Away From Home Police were looking Wednesday for two 16-year-old Bismarck girls, Kath- icen Bartley and Iris Jahnke, who apparently ran away from home Tues- Miss Alice Ruth Moos, Bisma: Fred Mayo, 15-year-old son of Mrs. | rank Mayo, Bismarck, who left home Monday was picked up at Glendive, Mont., Tuesday night and returned to Bismarck. | ; EDGELEY MAN NAMED Fargo, N. D., Sept. 9.—()—Dr. L. B. Greene of Edgeley has been appointed ‘state director of Landon-Knox clubs by Eugene N. Elliott, national director | of the clubs division, Republican na- ; tional committee. it was announced | Wednesday by William Stern, Repub- \Iiecan national committeeman for | North Dakota. me its laughter and life! in the climax of their young lives, (I Introducing ‘the new song hits: Ann Sothern Jessie Ralph Opening Saturday Six melodies by JEROME KERN ... nobody is mild... harsh, not pleasing to Ripe... 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