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ESTABLISHED 1873
BRITISH FLIER IS STILL MISSING
AMERICANS IN
NEW TRIUMPHS
IN OLYMPICS
Yale Crew Wins Over Canada,
Italy and Great Britain
in France
> HELEN WILLS VICTOR
Youthful Tennis Star Beats
Molla Mallory—U. S. Also
Takes Swimming Events
Argentcuil, France, July 17. (By the
•A. P.) —Yale’s unbeaten varsity ciew
won the Olympic regatta champion
ship today when the eight-oared crew
swept to a brilliant victory by 11 1-2
lengths over Canada, with Italy third
and with Great Britain, expected
to give the Americans the hardest
fight, fourth and last. Rowing with
the same power and precision they
had shown in their sensational vic
tories in the United States, the Yale
oarsmen, after a slow start, took
a lead from the Italian crew and
raced their rivals out of sight ov’er
the last three-quarters of tlie dis
tance to lower thjeir own record
for the 2,000-meter course to 6 min
utes 33 2-5 seconds in spite of the
brisk wind.
Italy gave the Americans their
} closest competition most of the way
but the Toronto University crew, re
presenting Canada, flashed a closing
spurt to take second place. The
Canadians, however, were unable to
gain on the flying leaders who swept
across the finish line amid a wild-
ly enthusiastic ovation in which the
v frenzied yells of Eli mep and friends
' were uppermost.
The 10 points earned by the
triumph of the Yale crew were just
enough to give the United States
victory in the rowing competition by
one point over the gallant Swiss
competitors. The point score at the
en<l of the day was United States
33; Switzerland 32; Great Britain 27;
France 21; Holland 12; Italy 12;
Canada 10; Australia three and Brazil
three.
HELEN WILLS WINS
Olympic Stadium, Colonibes,
France, July 17 (By the A. P.)—
Miss Helen Wills, American woman
lawn tennis champion, today de
feated Mrs. Molla Burjstad Mallory,
former American champion, repre
senting Norway, in the Olympic ten
nis championship, 6-3, 6-3.
WIN SWIMMING HONORS
Olympic Swimming Pool, Des
Tourelles, France, July 17 (By the
A. P.) —The United States won two
out of three finals Olympic swimm
ing events today, finishing one, two,
three in the springboard fancy div
ing and first and third in the 200-
meter breast stroke swim, thus add
ing 33 points to the American score
and placing the United States far
ahead of Australia in the water
sports.
CONVENTION
SUGGESTED
Leaguers May Hold One To
Consider Action
Suggestion that a Nonpartisan lea
gue state convention will decide the
attitude of the organization in the
November election Ms made in the
North Dakota Nonpartisan, published
here. The newspaper declared, with
respect to the question as to whether
the League will run candidates in
the fall against the successful Intie
v pendents in the Republican primary,
that no one knows answer.
“The state executive conynittee
does not feel like assuming tfce re
sponsibility of doing the things that
are necessary to be done, and if
the convention is called soon the
farmers will have time to attend,
the roads are good and everyone will
enjoy an outing to Bismarck any-
Vway.”
f It is suggested the convention will
announcement of the results
of the state canvassing board
I.
Gets 3 Years
For Possessing
Narcotic Drugs
Minot, N. D., July 17.—Peniten
tiary sentences totaling four years
and a county jail sentence of one
year were imposed on three' con
victed defendants in district court
this forenoon 'by Judge *>John C.l
Lowe. The sentences witfy one ex
ception, were the maximum which
could be imposed.
A 1 Moore, colored, convicted by
a jury in district court late yester
day afternoon on a charge of poss
essing a prohibited drug (cpcaine)
was given a three year penitentiary
sentence, this being the maximum
penalty which could be imposed
under the statute under which he
was convicted. Moore, when brought
before the bar for sentence', when
asked if he had any legal reason
* to present .why sentence should not
be passed, made the assertion, “I’m
not guilty!”
FRANK HONEYMOONS IN HAWAII J
Frank Keenan, veteran star of stage and screen, chose Hawaii as the
scene of his latest honeymoon. He and Miss Margaret White wore mar
ried in Honolulu immediately after the boat they went otter from San
Franscisco on. had docked. >ltev, Akaiko Adkana (left), a native
minister, performed the ceremony.
STEEPLEJACK FALLS 60 FEET FROM
ANTELOPE ELEVATOR BUT SURVIVES
“Saily Jack” Finney After
Adventurous Career on Sea
and Land Meets With Acci
dent in North Dakota,
While Seeking Escape From
the Call of the Sea—Suffers
Broken Arm, Cracked Rib
and Bruised Leg
Martin J. “Sailor Jack” Finney, who
was reared in North Dakota and lists
Chicago as his home, has taken a
lot of hard knocks around the world
with little trouble, and he has just
taken about the worst knock of all
in North Dakota and still survives.
Finney fell 60 feet from the top
of the Occident elevator at Antelope,
North Dakota, striking in a grain
bin partially filled with wheat. The
loose grain served as a cushion to
break the shock of the fall, and he
escaped with a broken arm, a bruised
leg and cracked ribs. He is now be
ing cared for at Hebron.
'But let Finney tell the story of
his narrow escape from death. He
has written of it, and some of his
adventures around the world, to a
Bismarck friend. Finney recently ap
peared on a boxing card at Mandan,
boxing with Jack Hoffman of that
city.
“I was going on the maniift to the
top of the elevator and I stepped
off and proceeded to make my way
across the obstructions to the win
dows which I had to take out i|nd
throw a line over the top in order
to ascend to the roof, as I was in
stalling lightning rods on all of
the Occident elevators, when one of
the spouts leading into an empty
grain bin gave way just as I stepped
on it and down I weht to the bot
tom,” wrote Finney.
Landed on All Fours
“I landed on all fours, more to the
left side. Well, I only got a com
pound fracture of my left arm a*d
a broken left rib and a badly crushed
back and right leg. I’m at present
confined in a private home at He
bron, with a trained nurse* at my
bedside, d think I’ll come all right
in short order.’
“Sailor Jack” Finney’s trade is that
of steeplejack, although he likes to
box and has served in the navy. He
has climbed some of the tallest build
ings in the country, and recently
worked atop the Steven's building in
Chicago, several hundred feet high.
The fall from the Antelope Elevator,
he wrote, was his first.
Finney has sailed the seven seas
and has been in most of the ports
of the world. He also sought pugi
listic fame, aitd was held amateur
batamweight champion of Brooklyn
some 12 years ago. He also was a
wrestler and a circus clown, being
with a circus in South America,
Australia and at Cape Town, South
Africa. He also introduced the box
ing game in the interior of Nicarau
gua, Columbia and other places in
Central America. He also went
through the experience of being
“pinched” in Florida and made to
work in a lumber camp near Talla
hassee, Florida, where Martin Tabert
was killed.
Ship-wrecks also are listed in the
experiences of the young man. Last
March he was shipwrecked off the
coast of Maryland, wMle on the oil
tanker Louisiana. The ship sank
gradually while on the bar and sever
al of the crew of a revenue cutter
lost their lives in an attempting res
cue.
_ Finney was a sailor when (he war
broke out and his ship was pressed
into service as a naval transport.
Ho quit the sea in 1921, anjdjie got
about as far away from water as
he could. Now, laid up in bed, he
is thinking about the sea again, and
figures he will,go back eventually.
The chief products of the ‘Cape
Verde Islands are coffee r hide's and
millet.
Mineral deposits in Persia are un
developed, but known to be extent
eive.
CAMPAIGN TO
CUTTAXESBY
LAW RENEWED
Tax Payers Association Seeks
Initiative Measure Cutting
Levies One-Fourth
CIRCULATE PETITIONS
Effort to be Made to Get 10,-
000 Signatures by the
First of August
The State Tax Payers Associa
tion will renew its campaign for
an initiated law proposing a 25
percent cut in taxes irv the state in
the levies for 1923, with exceptions,
it is announced by Dan R. Jones,
Wahpeton, secretary. Petitions
were received in Bismarck today.
Ten thousand signatures must
be obtained by August 1, 1924, to
put the measure on the ballot in
the November election, according
to a statement by Mr. Jones. In
his statement he sgys:
‘(The Association held a meeting
at Fargo on June 27th and 28th,
1924. It was the opinion of the
members that taxes, in many com
munities, have become confisca
tory. That taxes were taking all
the revenue derived from real prop
erty and by taking all revenue pro
duced tl\e result is the confiscation
of capital invested in land and
other property.
“Men with money refuse to in
vest in our State fearing that'
North Dakota will deprive them
of their property through high tax
es. In order to restore the fair
name, fame and credit of the State,
the Association has drafted a bill
lowering taxes 25 percent from
the levies of 1923, but in no in
stance are communities compelled
to lower levies under that of 1918
and by a majority votq of the elect
ors of any taxing district the levy
can bp made 90 percent of 1923.
“The cut in taxes does not effect
taxes levied for special improve
ments, interest on bonds, sinking
fixed levies etc. The cut is
.very moderate but it does assure
those who iVish/'to invest that our
taxes will not be higher; that we
are actually moving toward lower
taxes.”
PROVINCE IN
CANADA‘WET’
Saskatchewan Refutes Tem-
perance Act in Vote
Regina, Saskatchewan, July 17. —
Voters of Saskatchewan refuted a
temperance act of four years stand
ing in a plebescite yesterday by a
majority that approached a land
slide, .it was indicated today as
further compilations of the vote
was made.
The act was condemned both by
city and country, with four,of the
leading cities rejecting the .act by
almost a 10,000 majority. A vote
in favor of prohibition of 36,585 and
53,657 against was reported from 830
polls out of 2,581, with indications
of an increase against the try* act
as votes continued' to trickle in.
PETITIONS FOR
P. O. WILLIAMS
ARE CIRCULATED
Petitions are being circulated here
to place P. O. Williams of Bismarck,
formerly in the office of Commis
sioner of * Immigration, in the race
for Congressman from the Second
district Undemthe LaFollette bannir.
BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1924
DEMOCRATS TO
CONSIDER TWO
RULECHANGES
Abolition of Two-Thirds Rule
and Unit Rule in Conven
tion Is Asked
BEING CONSIDERED
Definite Campaign Is Launch
ed to Force Change For
1928 Nomination
Chicago, July 17. (By the A. P.)
—Concerted action by members of
the Democratic national committee
from a number of western and
southern states in an endeavor to
make the unit rule and the two
thirds majority inoperative in fu
ture conventions has advanced to
the stage of formal interchange of
views on the subject, a member of
the committee revealed.
A committee member from one
western state had prepared a formal
declaration on the subject for sub
mission to the proposed meeting of
the national committee at Clarks
burg, West Virginia, in August.
Under this resolution the com->
mittee would declare both rules con
trary to the Democratic principles
and recommend to all state bodies
that plans for the convention of
1028 and thereafter be calculated on
the basis of majority rule and with
every delegate free, so far as bind
ing party rules are concerned, to
vote his own preference.
More than a fourth of the com
mittee members have given assent
to the proposition since the national
convention adjourned a week ago,
a leader in the move said today.
Additional .membens have been
sounded on the question and have
promised to'assist in bringing the
resolution before the full commit
tee.
BRAZIL REBELS
HOLD POWER IN
BATTLELINES
Brazil Business Man Declares
Government Afraid to Send
Troops to Fight
Montevideo, Uruguay, July 17.
Fighting between the Brazilian
government forces and insurrec
tionists at Sao Paulo is continuing
without advantage to either side,
according to authoritative advices
received here early today. Recent
arrivals from Santos declared that
port is virtually closed and the
situation extremely grave.
A prominent South American,
who arrived in Montevideo, from
Santos, in an interview asserted
the rebels at Sao Paula apparently
were in control and that the fed
eral troops beseiging the metro
polis have been unable to dislodge
them.
“I can state that the resolution
aries have been masters of the sit
uation since the first moment,”
said the South American. “On the
day of the outbreak, state president
Da Campos was obliged to seek
refuge in Rio Janiero. The re
bels engaged in the fighting num
ber about 20,000, not counting the
large contingent of Civilians who
morally support the revolutionary
movement.
“The reason no decisive action
is being fought is that the gov
ernment fears a big battle as it
has no faith in its soldiers. It is
afraid they will go over to the en
emy any time. There is no doubt
but what the rebels can gain pos
session of Santos when they wish
to do so.”
OLSNESS ORDER
IS RESTRAINED
Fargo, July 17.—S. A. Olsness,
North Dakota insuran.ee commis
sioner, will be restrained from en
forcing a recent order regarding
insurance agency separation in this
state, in an injunction to be issued
ih federal court here, as a result
of the hearing of the subject, Judge
Andrew Miller announced today.
Mr. Olsness in an order sent all
Western Union Insurance Compan
ies in the state May 9 ordered se
cession of all separation proceed
ings between Union, and Bureau
insurance agencies. He stated fur
ter that he would cancel the li
cense of any Western Union cofn
pany known to be carrying on sep
aration work.
MUST PAY FOR
MUSIC USED
Philadelphia, July' 17—The United
States district court today -decided
that proprietors of motion picture
houses must pay music publishers
a license fee for the privilege of
playing copyrighted music.
State papers in. Greece now lefer
to the “State of Greece,” instead of
the “Realm of Grttco.”
CHURCHSURYEY
i MADE IN STATE
BY MINISTERS
Various Denominations Coop
erate in Work of Searching
Out Needs of Church
MAKING FOUR TOURS
Will Visit All Corners of the
State to Discern Religious
Needs There
Four teams, representing various
church denominations, will tour
North Dakota to make a study of the
religious situation, With especial re
ference to communities not now being
reached and to those in which single
churches need strengthening. At the
conclusion of the tour the represent
atives on the four teams will hold
a meeting and consider the situation
from a broad angle, without par
ticular reference to any denomina
tion.
The interdenominational coopera
tion in this state is a part of a
general movement among Protestant
churches in the entire country in
this regard. The present survey was
considered at a meeting of 20 na
tional and state leaders representing
the Baptist, Congregational, Church
of the Brethren, Methodist and I'ies
byterian communions, in Jamestown
Tuesday, according to Rev. John Mo
range of thii city. Rev. Charles E.
Vermilya of New York, formerly a
Methodist superintendent in this
stnte, who now is secretary of the
Ho me Missions Couneil representing
practically all of the Protestant de
nominations, conferred with the
leaders.
As a result of the conference the
20 men were divided into four teams.
Each team contains'its far as possi
ble representatives of each denomi
nation. One team left here yester
day morning, consisting of District
Superintendent John Morange, of the
M. E. church; Secretary M. R. Zig
ler of the Church of the Brethren,
Elgin, Illinois; Rev. G. P. Keeling,
pastor of the Presbyterian church
of Park River; Rev. P. E. Nystrom of
Bismarck, Baptist; Col. Porter, mis
sionary, and Ernest M. Halliday, sec
retary of the Congregational Church
Extension Boards of New York. The
members will return to Bismaick
Saturday and he assigned to pulpits
in Bismarck and Mandan Sunday. On
the first part of their journey In the
southwestern part of the state they
followed the Killdeer line .of the
Northern Pacific.
Rev. Morange, emphasizing the im
portance of the work, quoted Dr. L. O.
Barnes of New York, secretary of the
American Baptist Home Missionary
Society, as saying that in the inter
mountain states “in fixe-sixtns of
the communities there is no question
whatever of denominational compe
tition, but a tremendous need of de
nominational concentration.”
KIDNAP GIRLS
FROM AUTO
Bandit Trio Robs Men, Car
s
ries Girls Away
Milwaukee, W|is., July 17. —A
bandit trio kidnaped two girls—
twin sisters —after holding up and
robbing their companion at the
point of pistols, here today.
At 3 o’clock this morning the girls
were found in a dazed condition on
the south pide and brought to cen
tral police station by a passing auto
mobile driver.
One, it was found, had been at
tacked by two of the men. She was
in a serious condition and was bare
ly able to mumble her story to
police officers.
' The other, also was on the verge
of collapse. She had not been at
tacked, although her clothing was
torn to' shreds in her fight with the
three men. v
%The girls were riding with Er
win Nichols, 24 years old, and Her
bert Brandt, 23 years old, when a
large touring car drove up along
side their car. The trio commanded
them to stop, threatening to shoot.
Brandt halted his car and \ the
three men then searched his
pockets, taking sl6. The girls were
ordered £o eitter the wefce(
menaced with pistols when they
hesitated and were finally seized
and dragged into the bandit ma
chine.
While one -of the mert stood gua,rd
ovet the the other two orAkr
ed Brandt and Nichols to Jturn to
ward the city and <frive' > away.
Three shots were fired at the young
men and the bandits with the girls
sped southward. *
Brandt and Nichols drove to the
nearest telephone and notified the
sheriff’s office.
REPORT RYE '
HAS BEEN CUT
First cutting of winter rye was
reported here today by W. F. Rey
nolds, who. said he saw a field cut
and in the shock between Bismarck
and Flaaher yesterday.
TRIBE OF “APE INDIANS” REPORTED
FOUND IN PACIFIC NORTHWEST
Several Parlies Leave in Search of Verification of Existence
of Tribe in Wilderness Who Attacked
Band of Prospectors
Kelso, Washington,' July 17 (By
the A. 1\) —While awaiting reports
from parties who have gone to the
vicinity of Spirit Lake on Mount
St. Helens, in quest of verification
of a story told by trappers that they
encountered a hand of ape men
there last week, residents today were
interested in statements attributed
to George Totsgi of the Clallam In
dian tribe that ape men arc mem
bers of a tribe of Indians known
as the Seeahtik tribe.
The trappers reported their cabin
was bombarded by the ape men dur
ing the night. Totsgi was quoted
as saying that members of the
Seeahtik trike are huge in stature.
These Indians, he said, talked the
Clallam language nnd are adept at
imitating the sounds of birds.
The Seeahtiks were last heard of |
TO CONSIDER
CAR SUPPLY
Many questions relating to the
car supply for moving North Dakolu’s
grain crop to the markets this year
will be considered at a- meeting of
the Northwest Regional Advisory
Board at Fargo on July 22, according
to Frank Millhollun, chairman of the
state railroad commission. Repre
sentatives are expected to he piesent
from Montana, North and South Da
kota, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Mich
igan.
SHOWERS AND
COOL WEATHER
ARE FORECAST
Local Showers Help to Drive
Down the Thermometer
in This Territory-
Scattered thundershowers are in
prospect in North Dakota today and
tomorrow, With no general rain ap
pearing in the forecast issued today
by the weather bureau. I
Bismarck scored one-tenth of an
inch of rain in the day's period end
ing at 7 n. m. todaj—the only one
of the 17 weather stations in the
state to record rain. However, it
was feloudy in most parts of the
state and from 10 to *JO degrees cool
er than for the previous few day 6.
The cool spell is about as valuable
in preserving crops as rain, in the
opinion of the weather officials. O.
W. Roberts, observer, believes that
a large part of the crops, carefully
put in, have enough moisture to
mature, while the atubbled in grain
needs additional rain. With moist
air, probable showers and cool
weather the crop conditions general
ly are held favoxnblc.
Thfe shower in Bismarck sen* the
thermometer down, considerably. A
much heavier <shsjwer fell a few
miles south of Mandan yesterday
afternoon, one traveling man report
ing the road muddy that he had
difficulty in traveling over it without
chains.
RAT PROBLEM
BEFORE MINOT
State Aid May Be Appealed
For in Fighting Them
M.mot, N. D., July 17. —Minot’s rat
problem got before the city com
mission again when Will J. O'Rourke,
secretary of the Minot Elks lodge,
told the body yesterday that unless
some cooperation was extended by
the city within a short time that
he would be forced to take the mat
ter up with the state board of
health.
Recalling Minot’s experience with
the sewage disposal plant which
was constructed after the state
board of heajth issued specific
orders that failure to act would re
sult in the state stepping in, it is
not out of the realm of possibility
that the state health department
would take command in fighting
rats, were formal complaint made.
Mr. O'Rourke called attention to
the fact that one institution is
helpless in fighting the rat pest;
that only by a concerted city-wide
activity can rats be eliminated.
Mayor W. M. Smart informed Mr.
O’Rourke that 200 pounds of rat
poison had been ordered and that
the rats of the city were due for
a fatal lunch very shortly.
STATE COAL
BIDS RECEIVED
The state board of administration
today was considering numerous, bids
for-supplying coal for state institu- (
tions. The bids are almost uniform
ly lower than last year, but are bo
numerous they have not yet been
tabulated, according to E. G. Wan
ner, secretary of the board.
by the Clallam Indians about 16
years ago and it was believed by
the present Indians that they had
become extinct,” said Totsgi.
“Th* Seeahtiks made their home
in the heart of the wilderness on
Vancouver Island and on the Olym
pic range."
Totsgi declared that his tale had
been corroborated by Henry Napo
lean, Clallam trihe, who met one of
the Seeahtik Indians while huntin;
on Vancouver Island recently.
Although no reports" have been
received from several parties who
left here to search for the Indians
Monday, individuals who returned
today from the cabins of the five
prospectors partially confirmed the
story of being bombarded by rocks
in their cabins by “mountain devils."
Rocks were found inside the cabin.
No tracks were discovered, however.
AD MEN HEAR
HOW CANADA
WAS BOOSTED
Advertising Played Important
Part in Building Up of
The Country
HUGE EXPENDITURES
Many Times Repaid, Says
Executive of the Canadian
Pacific Railroad
London, July 17 (A. P.j—lndicat
ing how advertisers had fostered
the growth of Canada, E. A. Beatty,
head of the Canadian Pacific Rail
way company, told the convention
of Associated Advertising Clubs of
the World today that since 1881 his
road had spent $67,000,000 on col
onization. in contrast to $36,000,000
expended by the Canndian govern
ment.
These figures, he explained, in
cluded more than what might
strictly be termed advertising, the
colonization efforts having been
directed at rather different types
of settlers. The Canadian Pacific
was particularly interested in gett
ing settlers for the lands it has to
sell, he said, while the Canadian
government directed its efforts more
to securing settlers for its free
homesteads of 160 acres each.
Traces Part
Tracing the part played by ad
vertising in the building of Canada,
which began with the Jesuit mis
sionaries in the days of the French
dominion, Mr. Beatty said it was
not until the Canadian Pacific ap
peared on the scene that an aggres
sive, consistent and comprehensive
advertising campaign for the colon
ization of Canada was planned and
directed from Canada itself. In the
last 40 years a campaign of invi
tation and welcome has been con
ducted, he asserted, in which the
Canadian Pacific gave the example
and set the pace.
Canada’s snow and hard winters
are among its greatest assets, Mr.
Beatty declared. “Without that
winter we should not be able to
grow the hard wheat on which so
much of the prosperity of the
Canadian west depends, and which
every miller in the United States de
sires for his choicest flour. With
out that winter we should not have
the fur-bearing animals and the
fur trade which for 300 years has
been one of Canada’s basic indus
tries. Without that winter we could
not haul so economically as we do
the products of our forests to our
lumber and pulp mills. And last
but not least, without that winter
we could not have the virile, sturdy
manhood which the whole world,
particularly since the achievements
(Continued on page three.)
t Weather Report I
For twenty-four hours ending at
noon. v
Temperature at 7 a. 53
Highest yesterday
Lowest yesterday
Lowest last night
Precipitation ....'.
Highest wind velocity
Weather Forecast
For Bismarck and vicinity: Most
ly fair tonight and Friday, except
possibly scattered thundershowers
Friday. Warmer.
For North Dakota: Mostly fairtrf
night and Friday, except possibly
scattered thundershowers Friday.
Warmer east and central portions.
» General Weather Condition*
The pressure is high over the
Plains States and along the Pacific
coast and it is lt>w over the south
ern Plateau states. Precipitation oc
curred in the'Great Lakes region in
Missouri, eastern South Dakota, at
Bismarck and at a few placed in the
extreme Northwest. Cool weather
prevails throughout the northern
states. •
ORRIS W. ROBERTS,
t Meteorologist.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
M’LAREN HELD
SAFE, HOWEVER,
BY OFFICIALS
Thought He May Have Stop
ped Part Way on His 400-
Mile Overseas Flight
DESTROYERS
Japanese Ship Fails to Find
Trace, and Other Ships
Are Sent Out
Tokio, July 17. (By the A. P.)—
Although there had been no news
received here up until this afternoon
of A. Stuart McLaren and his party
of British aviators fiying around the
world since they left Toshimoye, on
Yftorfu Island, in the Kuriles, early
yesterday, no anxiety is felt here
as yet for their safety.
McLaren should have completed a
flight to Paramashiru Island, about
460 miles north of his starting place,
by noon yesterday. However, it is
believed likely that he landed at
some intermediate point in the Kur
iles far from radio or other com
munication with the outside world.
Broughton Bay, Shimushiru Island,
where the advance party foP* his
flight laid down a fuel and supply
base, is believed the most probable
point of his landing.
The Japanese destroyer Isokaze
has searched as far north as Shimus
hiru Island without finding any
trace of the aviator and a destroyer
which was'on duty at ParamaEhiru
to aid the flier is searching south
ward.
The latest report on the weather
in the Kuriles, where the American
fliers were delayed by fogs and
storms, said it was cloudy but no
wind which circumstance is regard
ed as favorable to the flier’s safety.
YANKEES ADVANCE
Brough, England, July 17.—The
American Army around the world
airplanes arrived here from Croy
don at 1:08 o’clock this afternoon.
CONFESSES TO
POISONING OF
SIX HUSBANDS
Ohio Woman Signs Confession
in the Hands of Prose
cuting Attorney
Mt. Gilead, Ohio, July 17.—That,
county authorities may contem
plate further action in the case in
volving the confession of Mrs.
Eleanor Yeoman, 39, that she gave
poison to the last of her six hus
bands, causing his death on June
28, was indicated here yesterday,
although County Prosecutor T. B.
Mateer had previously declared
that further arrests were not ex
pected.
Although possessed of the wo
man’s written and signed confes
sion that she gave the poison to
her husband, no' charge has been
placed against her, authorities said
here last night. She is in county
jail without bond.
She was brought here from Mar
ion Sunday after a telephone re
port from state chemists at Colum
bus that poison had been found in
the stomach organs of Yeoman’s
body, which had earlier been ex
humed. Her confession came after
several hours in jail.
The woman was married seven
times to six husbands, marrying
one of them twice. Besides Yeo
man, one other husband is dead
and another is said to have been
taken from her home on a cot by
the man’s brothers after he hkd
been ill for some time. He recov
ered.
HAY ACQUIRE
EQUITY HOUSES
Proposition Is Put Before
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Wheat Growers
Grand Forks, N. D., July 17.
George E. Duis was re-elected presi
dent of the North Dakota Wheat
Growers Association at the annual
meeting of the board of directors of
the association here. He will serve
in that capacity for the coming 12
months.
A. J. Scott was re-elected secretary
and R. L. Taft was re-elected cashier.
A plan whereby members of the
Wheat Growers association would
take over the visible stock of the
Equity Cooperative Exchange of St.
Paul, a defunct organization, in the
various communities where such
members reside, was proposed at the
morning session of the board by
Colonel Lambert, receiver of the
Equity Exchange. No definite action
was taken on the matter but consid
erable discussion took place in con
nection with the proposal.
HUNT