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Aberdeen, 8. D.—-The annual gath
ering of South Dakota American Le
gion post commanders and adjutants
wil be held here February 16 and
Garland W. Powell, national director
Of Americanism of the Legion, will be
speaker at the banquet." Other
speakers include C. D. Hlbard, 10th
district Veterans' Bureau manager;
A. S. Thompsonrmanager of the sub
district office at Sioux Falls and W. T.
Kroll, 10 district liaison director.
Watertown, S. D.—South Dakota
American Legion posts have been
conductln a friendly contest to see
which one could most quickly pass its
1922 figures for membership and first
prize, $100 in cash, has been awarded
to the past at Edgemont, which in
creased its rolls from 66 to 167. Kim
bal post won second prize with a 126
per cent, gain over last year and
Warner took thirdi place with a 77
per cent, increase. Their prizes were
$50 and $25 respectively. Other Le
gion posts in the state that have
already exceeded their lust year's
membership include: Carthage,
Yankton, Strandburg, Pierre, Oldham,
Montrose. Mellette, . Lesterville,
Brookings, Canistota, Cavour, Colum
bia, Haytl, Irene and Ho#n.
Stillwater, Minn.—Assailing the
treatment accorded former service
men In government hospitals, Mrs.
Myrtle Goetz, of Fairmont, state pres
ident of the American Legion Auxil
iary, speaking here recently, declared
she wouljl prefer to see her son dead
rather than confined in some wards
she had seen. The biggest work of
the auxiliary, Mrs. Goetz said, was to
help care for these men and give them
things needed.
Sioux Falls, S. D.—Mrs. Mable
Moody, president of the South Da
kota department of the American
Legion Auxiliary, recently electfllflad
her audience at a county meeting by
demanding the political scalp of £en
ator Sterling for his opposition to the
federal adjusted compensation bill.
Omaha, Neb.—Four hundred mem
bers of the Douglas county organiza
tion of the American Legion have
launched a drive for 6,000 new mem
bers. Every district Is being covered.
Present returns Indicate the drive
will be successful. Special efforts
are being devoted to canvassing busi
ness house to smoke out the pros
pects.
Flandreau, S. D.—Legion men are
intensely Interested In the recent or
ganization here of the South Dakota
Mlnnesota American Legion cireut
for the purpose of promoting horse
racing, sports and entertainment for
the people of a number of nearby
towns. Representatives from Slayton,
Pipestone. Madison, Brookings and
Flandreau met and determined to put
on three days of running races, a
mile and a quarter derby, various
free acts and minor sports. Uniform
admission prices were fixed and |2,
000 in prizes were allotted. The cir
cuit will open in Flandreau, June 12.
The week of June 19 will be at Slay
ton, June 26 will be at Brookings,
July 3 at Pipestone and July 10 at
Madison. Several other towns may
bo invited into the circuit and the
same hunch of horses and other tal
ent will be used in these places.
Lincoln, Neb. — American Region
posts of this state have been advised
that they can obtain for relatives of
dead soldiers and sailors the grave *
headstones that are authorized and
supplied by the war department. The
headstones are American white mar
blo, 48 inches long, 4 inches chick and
13 inches wide. Each stone bears a
circle two and one-hftlf Inches in ,
diameter on the front face, near the
top, each circle to contain a religious
device. Each headstone is inscribed
with the name, rank, company and
regiment of the deceased, cut in re
lief, on the front. These headstones
are issued free by the government
which also pays transportation costs
to consignee, who must remove it
from the- station within 48 hours. Le
gion posts have been prominent in
the proper reception and interrment
of bodies of men and women who died
in the service.
From American Legion Weekly,
Village Stuff—"Say, how come old
Robinson got well so consumed
quick? Thought he was gonna kick
the bucket last week.”
"Well, you see, it was this way. He
got wind that young wife of hls'n was
glttln’ too daw-gone friendly with the
under-taker.”
Small Cause for Worry — Buddy
was up before the disabled board.
The pompous alienist was asking him
a long string of questions to deter
mine his mental condition, and Buddy
was rapidly getting disgusted:
“Quick,” shouted the celebrated doc,
“tell me this: how many legs has a
lobster?"
“For the luwa Mike." he said, "Is
that all you got to worry nbout?"
Ingenious—Private Blimp was a
modest and sensative mann who
dreaded a rebuff. He had fallen des
perately in love with the prettiest
girl within a mile of the camp, but
hesitated proposing for fear she would
turn him down. At last, when he coutd
stand the supense no longer, he was
struck by an inspiration.
Hastily seizing a pen, he wrote an
anonymous letter asking her to mar
ry him,
St. Paul, Minn.—The Forty and
Eight—an American Legion inner
organization—of this city will as
semble members for dully lunches, to
which men can drop in, bring their
friends and discuss informally mat
ters of interest to veterans.
Farmer, S. D.—The American Le
gion post of this town has in stalled
a radio receiving set in the post club
room. The instrument, which has
three stages of amplification, readily
bringsin stations as far away as De
troit and Denver.
COMPROMISE OH
FARM BUREAU LAW
Measure In Nebraska Senate
Provides for Election on Sub
je ct—No Language
Law Change.
...
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 17 (Special).—
The fight on the farm bureau law
that has been waged fiercely In both
houses has resulted. In the senate, on
a compromise measure. At present if
80 bonafldie farmers in a county peti
tion the county board for the appoint
ment of a county agent, the board has
no discretion in the matter. It must
spend up to »5,000 on the office.
As the compromise now reads
where county farm bureaus are now
established they may be continued in *
effect until January 1, 1926. In 1924
and every two years thereafter peti
tions for an apropriation must be filed
with the board. The number re
quired ranges from 100 in the small
counties to 600 in the larger. If a peti
tion is filed containing 25 per cent,
mqre names than are bn the farm
bureau petition, remonstrating
against county aid, the question must
be submitted to the voters for determ
ination.
New accretions to the general file
of the senate Included bills for the
sale of state school lands for county
farm purposes; prohibiting sheriffs
from naming as deputies any person
who holds state, county or federal
positions or is a constable; for
licensing and regulating rendering
plants.
Declaring if ministers, charity
workers and missionaries are to be
permitted to accept passes from the
railroads, others engaged in equally
worthy work ought to be similarly
favored. Senator Anderson, of Lan
caster, moved in the senate, Friday
afternoon, that presidents, secrets lies
and treasurers of colleges supported
by gifts, and newspapers should be
include^ he asked that the bill be
recommitted for this specific amend
ment, but his motion was lost by a
vote of 21 to 9 and the bill was ad
vanced.
The Nebraska house, Friday, de
feated in an attempt to restore to
the calendar the bill proposing to re
peal two major sections of the Reed
Norvale language law. The vote on a
motion to override the report of the
committee on education and to place
the bill on general file, was 20 for and
74 against. The bill proposed repeal
of the provision that only the English
language be taught in the grades in
public, private, parochial and cfcenom
lnational schools.
TO FILL By
III UK
Governor Bryan Expected to
Name Man Who Deserted
Democrats In Recent
Campaign.
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 17 (Special.)—
Political gossip Is that Governor
Bryan may take advantage of the
vacancy In the house caused by the
resignation o f Representative
Schnerlnger, of Custer county, and
name the veteran legislator, W. J.
Taylor. The latter left the demo
cratic party last year and followed
the midroad progressives In their
fight for recognition. He and Bryan
were very close in previous cam
paigns. and as the governor la in
need of a man of Taylor’s fighting
dualities, knowledge of legislative Ins
and outs and capacity for leadership,
It Is hinted that Bryan Is thinking
strongly of asking him to serve.
Schnerlnger resigned because of
the death of his son whom he had
left in charge of his business In
Callaway. He and Senator Purcell
from the same county have endorsed
a Mr. Haycock, merchant of Calla
way, and a supporter of Bryan in the
last campaign. The governor, how
ever, has not appointed him and gives
no Indication of doing so.
WAYNE 8CHOOL HEAD
GIVEN TWO MORE YEARS
Wayne, Neb,, Feb. 17 (Special.)—
Professor Conrad Johnson, superin
tendent of the Wayne city schools,
has been re-elected for a term of two
more years. His salary this year is
$2,700. Next year it is to be $2,900
and the last year $3,000.
A8K8 »7fc000 FOR
CR088ING ACCIDENT HURTS
Wayne, Neb., Feb. 17 (Special.)—
Suit was filed In the district court
Thursday by Harry Jensen asking
for a judgment of $76,500 against the
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis &
Omaha Railway company. Jensen, a
W inside farmer, while driving to
town in a truck was struck by a pas
senger train last October. He and hia
son were hurt.
The largest fee ever given for per
forming a marriage ceremony in Kan
sas was received recently by a justice
of the peace at CoffeyviUe. It was a
check for $1,000 from Jackson Barnett,
"world’s ru'h>st Inlian,” whom the jus
tice united in marriage with Mrs. Bo we
three years ago.
ORANGE CITY SELLS
ELECTRIC LIGHT BONDS
—
Orange City. Ia., Feb. 17 (Special.)
—The Orange City town council at a
special meeting sold the $45,000 worth
of bonds for a municipal electric
light plant to a Davenport, Ia„ con
cern at a premium of $6Q3. The bonds
will- bear 5 per cent, interest and
will be paid at the rate $2,500 per
year, plus interest, for the next 1$
years, beginning February 1, 1925.
to be president when he grows up.
Chinese in the United States are cele
brating their New Year this week.
MIKE CAMPAIGN
II njORTER
House Committed Favorably
Reports Measure Chang,
mg Primary Date From
July to August.
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 17 (Special).—
Twenty-two bills were ground
through the house committee of the
whole hopper, Saturday morning, and
wark on the calendar was resumed
after lunch. Among the bills favor
ably reported were one changing the
date othe biennial primary election
from the third Tuesday in July to the
third Tuesday in August, one levying
a tax of ene per cent, on the premium
receipts of foreign fire insurance
companies to finance a firemen’s re
lief fund In all cities of 10,000 and
over, and one cancelling that provis
ion of the Burlington relief fund con
tract with employees that if they sue
for damages they cannot collect re
lief money.
The banking bill was made a spe
cial order In the house for Tuesday
morning next.
A
BOYS AND GIRLS WIN
TRIPS TO LINCOLN IN JUNE
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 19 (Special).—
For several years the Sioux City
Stock Yards Company, through Pres
ident F. L. Eaton, has offered prem
iums to boys and girls for work in
swine club#, directed by the Univer
sity of Nebraska agricultural college.
This year Susan Decamp, Clearwater,
Antelope county; James Brozorsky,
Creighton, Knox county; Fred Gem
mell, Carroll, Wayne county; Hillman
Gustin,*' Rosalie, Thurston county;
Roy Bierman, Dakota City, Dakota
county; Dorothy Norris, Laurel, Ce
dar county; Levi Mullie, Ponca, Dix
on county; Frank Toelle, West Point,
Cuming county; Leonard Kolterman,
Pierce, Pierce county, are the win
ners, and will mingle with over 200
high ranking club members on the
H&r|»ultural college campus of the
university the first week of June.
Mr. Eaton Is now announcing 10
trips for 1923 winners, under similar
conditions.
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RANDOLPH MOVES FOR
COMMUNITY BUILDING
Randolph, Neb., Feb. 19 (Special).
—The urgent need for a community
building at Randolph, which has been
the subject for much agitation here
for the last two months, was taken
up at the meeting of the Randolph
Commercial club last week. Mem
bers of that organization and of the
American Legion, women’s clubs and
Other civic organizations favor the
project. A committee was appointed
to confer with the city council about
the matter. The committee will ask
for a bond levy to cover about one
half the cost while the rest will be
raised from other sources.
A
Stabilization of Prices for
Farm Products Object of
Meeting at St. Paul
February 27 and 28.
St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 17.-—Four
governors—J. a. O. Preus, of Minne
sota; N. E. Kendall, of Iowa; R. A.
Nestos, or North Dakota, and J. M.
Davis, of Kansas—already have in
dorsed the northwest agricultural
price stabilization conference, to be
held In St. Paul, February 27 an£ 28.
The aim of the meeting Is to bring
together a large number of people
concerned with the welfare of agri
culture In the northwest for the pur
pose of determining upon a course of
action designed to bring relief to
farming and dependent Industries.
The meeting was called a week
ago by the executive committee of
the Minnesota Farmer-Banker coun
cil, made up of two persons from
-each congressional district, on* a
farmer named by the Minnesota
Farm Bureau Federation, and one
banker, named by the Minnesota
Bankers' association.
SPECIAL CLASSES FOR
GIRLS 8 TO 14 YEARS
Worthington, Minn., Feb. 17 (Spe
cial).—Classes In mothercraft, under
the direction of Miss Greene and the
domestic science teachers in the var
ious schools, have been organized In
the public schools of Bigelolw,
Erewster, Ellsworth, Adrian and
Round Lake. These classes are for
the edification of girls between the
ages of 8 and 14 years |n personal
hygiene, home sanitation, care of
babies, home nursing and home
cookery for small children. Con
trary to a general misunderstanding,
the course contains absolutely noth
ing concerning sex hygiene.
—
SLAYTON, MINN., PIONEER
DEAD, AGED 84 YEARS
Slayton, Minn., Feb. 17 (Special).—•
Per Pehrson, 84 years old, is dead at
his farm home, 12 miles from here.
He was a native of Sweden and was
a resident of this county since 1873.
SOME ONE TRIED TO BRIBE
PROHIBITION AGENT
Omaha, Neb., Feb. 19.—Rohert
Samardick, general prohibition agent,
Saturday discovered some one was
attempting to bribe him. He found
in one of his pockets 10 new $10 bills.
He said he bad been talking to some
defendants in liquor cases at the
federal building-and supposed some
one slipped the bills into his pocket
hoping this might influence him to
“go easy". He said that whoever
did it was going to be “sadly disap
pointed”. He may glv® the money to
charity.
GOVERNOR BRYAN
TO SUJ1T BILLS
Would Abolish Code Depart
ments and Arrange Them to
Suit Self—Repub
licans to Balk.
Blndoln, Neb., Feb. 13 (Special.)—
Sometime this week Governor Bryan
Is to submit his series of bills, abol
ishing the code departments and
re-arranglng them to suit himself.
The republicans say that all he pro
poses is to Junk the McKelvle code
and establish a code system of his
own, the chief difference being that
he will be the head of each depart
ment without any code secretaries
btween him and the employes. '
The work the governor has under
taken Is much greater than his pri
vate secretary, a lawyer, expected. A
great many laws have to be amended
and under the constitution, every
section amended must be repeated in
full even though but one word is
changed. The cost In printing is
large, and It will take a week or two
after they are introduced before they
can be laid before the house.
Meanwhile the governor is resist
ing the great pressure from democrats
who want office.
Republican members of the state
senate are restless under the charges
of the state press, that the two parties
are playing politics about the code,
and propose that a commission be
appointed by the legislature, both
houses to be represented, which is to
sit with the governor and see if a
compromise form of code government
cannot be agreed upon.
As the situation now is, the gover
nor is represented as being insistent
upon his own plan of an executive
council or no change at all, in the
expectation that this will make it pos
sible for him to throw the blame on
the republicans. They say they will
not consent to the governor’s plan
because it is unworkable, in their
minds, but they are willing to talk
compromise.
The senate today killed a bill
asked for by part of the druggists
and fought by other druggists which
would have required all candidates
for licenses to practice pharmacy to
attend a pharmacists school for two
years and barred graduates of drug
stores.
The senate recommended for pas
sage a bill providing for appoint
ment of county judges when vacan
cies occur, by the county board,
when the unexplred term does not
exceed two years. It debated most
of the rhorning a bill permitting rail
roads to give ministers and charity
workers free passes but took no
action. It was denounced as an en
tering wedge to kill the anti-pass
legislation of 1907.
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Organization Given Permission
to Use Lincoln’s Auditorium
for Purpose, Sunday,
February 25.
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 14.—The Ku
Klux Klan has been granted permis
sion to the use the city auditorium
here for a public meeting, Sunday,
February 25, as it is requested, upon
payment of the regular rental. This
much was decided informally by the
city clerk and Commissioner Dayton,
who is in charge of city buildings, af
ter the two had consulted the city’s
legal department. So far as the city
Is concerned the renting of the audi
torium Is a purely commercial matter
and any organization is permitted to
rent It which paye for the use of the
building and which dtoes not dis
turb the peace in euch use.
Head of Waterloo Creamery
Company and His Associ
ates Face Charges In
Federal Court.
Omaha, Neb., Feb. 12.—The first of
the big alleged mail fraud cases
started In federal court here this
morning when Leroy Corliss, presi
dent, and 19 of his associates in the
■Waterloo Creamery *ompany, went to
trial on charges of using the malls to
defraud in connection with selling of
stock of the creamery company.
A total of 126 persons will be tried
on similar charges within the next
60 days.
Among these tfho pleaded not
guilty in the Waterloo case today
are: Oscar Wenstrand, Red Oak. Ia.;
and Harry Slack and F. G. Tyler of
OVosso, Mich.
DES MOINES—Amazed when Paul
Ijandess hurled a heavy grocery basket
at them instead of throwing up his '
hands, two bandits abandoned their at
tempt to rob the store belonging to Lan
dess’ father and hurried away.
TO PENTENTIARY FOR
SHOOTING ESTRANGED WIFE
Sioux Falls, S. D., Feb. 17.—In the
Codington county circuit court Claus
T. Hansen, Watertown painter, was
sentenced to a term of six years in
the Sieux Falls penitentiary on his
plea of guilty of shooting his es
tranged wife, with intent to kill. He
ended a jealous quarrel with his wife
by emptying a .32 caliber revolver at
her head. Mrs. Hansen, who has
been in a hospital since the day of
the shooting, is on the road to re
covery. All that saved her life was
the fact that the weapon used by
Hansen was in poor condition.
SEEK WOMAN
IN PROBE OF
MAN’S DEATH
Detectives Suspect Jealous
Sweetheart As Slayer of
Prominent Los Angeles Man
—Wife Planned Divorce.
BY LOUIS WEADOCK,
Universal Service Correspondent,
Los Angeles, Feb. 16.—Late Friday- ^
night when for the first time police
told Mrs. Remington they believed a.
woman either had killed her husband^
Earle Remington, or caused him to be
killed, the widow volunteered the in
formation that last week she had con
sulted an attorney with a view to^
bringing suit for divorce.
She said Friday night she long hads
suspected her husband of intimacy
With a woman whose name she says
she does not know, but whom she has
seen on the street. ^
Her admission about her contem
plated divorce was coupled, the police
say, with a statement that she her
self was once the wife of Tod Sloan,
the famous jockey.
Trying to Trhcs Coupe.
Close examination of the body of'
the murdered man shows that he was
shot not only with a shotgun but.
with a revolver. The bullet w-ound
was superficial, but the fact that
there was one strengthens the police
In their theory that Remington was-,
shot to death by the man and the
woman who drove to his house in the
coupe which the police are now try
ing to trace.
According to Detective Captain1
George Home, for the last week
Remington had lived in deadly fear •
of some enemy and his apprehensions
had been deepened by a night rob
bery of his office and the theft of
much of his personal correspondence.
Remington’s young and beautiful''
widow has been as prominent in local*
philanthropic work as was her hus
band in business and social life here. .
Murdered in Garage.
Remington, prominent aviator and.'
auto man, was found murdered in the
rear of his home in ft fashionable dis
trict here Friday.
Jewelry and money found in Rem
ington’s pockets Indicated that rob
bery was not the motive.
Remington apparently drove his car •
into the garage at the rear of his
home shortly after midnight. In the
house at the time were his wife andi
two guests whose names have not yet
been learned. No shots were heard;*
by those in the house nor by neigh
bors.
Flying Was Diversion.
Remington was known nationally
as a bank designer and electrical en
gineer, having been elected vice pres
ident of the International Electric^
Protective Association last year.
Aviation was his spbrting diversion
and he was adept at stunt flying.
During the war he organized and be
came general manager of an aviation
company located here.
His electrical engineering achieve- *
ments were mainly in the line of pro
tective and safety electrical devices
for banks.
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ALLIES REFUSE TO
RECOG ORDER
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Notify Angora Government
Warships to Remain at
Smyrna Indefinitely.
! London, Feb. 16 (U. P).—Allied
high commissioners sent a note to
Angora Friday refusing to recognize
the Turkish ultimatum demanding
evacuation of Smyrna harbor by for
eign war craft.
British and French cruisers and
destroyers have remained in the for
bidden waters over the time limit set
by the latest Ottoman ultimatum.
Trouble is not expected, however,
the French believing it may yet be
possible to resume tfee peace parley
that collapsed at Lausanne. Pres
ence of Sir Horace Rumbold, British
envey, at Constantinople, gave rise
to rumors in French circles that the
treaty might be Blgned there.
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ISMET AT CONSTANTINOPLE.
Constantinople, Feb. 16.—Ismet
Pasha arrived here at midnight Fri
day enroute to Angora, where he will
take up with the cabinet the ques
tions left open by the collapse of the
Lausanne conference.
HARDING ISSUES ORDER
ON ALASKAN RAILROAD
Universal Service.
Washington, Feb. 16.—The Alaskan
railroad shall be "placed upon an or
dinary operating basis as rapidly as
is consistent with good management,"
President Harding directed Friday in
an order issued by Secretary of the
Interior Fall after a conference at the
White House.
Col. JameS G. Steers, president of
the Alaskan road commission, wag
appointed chairman and chief en
gineer of the Alaskan engineering
commission; Col. Frederick Mears,
vice president, and MaJ. John C. Got
wals, second vice president.
TRUCE PROPOSED BY
FORMER IRISH REBELS
Dublin, Feb. 16.—Former member*
of the Irish republican army Friday
night issued a proposal for a truce to
last for a month to enable the form
ing of proposals which would find a
basis for negotiations between the re
publicans and the Free State.
A mine blew up the government
stationery office In Dublin Friday
night, heavy damage resulting. Great
republican activity is anticipated over
the week-end In accordance with the
establish® policy of the irregulars.