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Grand Forks herald., 1922-05-23
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REATEST HERO
Tells Governor No Body Of
Men IS Competent For
Is ~ .s'4Gi --..stl :,
] Such Delicate. Task.

Bismarck N. D.. May 23.-Adju-
.tant General C. A. Fraser does not
!. 3elieve that a North Dakota soldier
{ Of the late war should be designated
as North Dakota's Greatest Hero"
war records of many Of the men Of
.ne state that no committee of men
:an select one Justly. Therefore he
has declined to become a member OF
the committee to make selection.
y In answering Governor Nestos' let
ter asking that he act with Captain
GA. N. Anderson and Major George
Russ, representing the American
Legion, Mr.. Fraser says:
wherein you request that / act as one
of a committee. composed of Major
Y, George Russ, Capt. G. A. M. Anderson
and myself, TO select and name the
North Oak ota ;, hero for the Living
/ He'll OF Fame,"I beg to inform you
that canont act on such a COM
sMtttee. as< II
Say Idea is Wrong.
u 81 have arrived at this conclusion
after working over the. records of a
great many North Dakota boys. and
the more I have gone into this mat
ter the more convinced. ] have be-
= come LndL Iue "NOlC AuCh VI q AANAh6
Hall Of Fame" is a. mistake and that
no body OF men is competent to select
such man.
\ Hundreds Of North Dakota boys
performed deeds of great heroism
H many of them were decorated by their
/ own government. and others were
= decorated BY the governments OF
England, France, Italy and Poland
Should 1 confine myself simply to the
t~1
anssimpossible task but hundreds OF
our boys performed deeds @of heroisn
out in No Mans Land during the
darkest hours of night, with no eye
toAWitness and no one to recommend
them for decorations
Believes Governor Should Refuse.
II have talked with many Of these
men and find that they are yer,
modest; that they do not claim to bt
hefoes and simply state that they en-
deAvored to do their duty. do mo-
believe that a single one of these mer
desires to be named or pointed out a:
the Greatest Hero They offered
their lives in battle or dashed through
shell swept areas to rescue a wounded
comrade. What can be greater thar
this? How can there be any measure
of such heroism? What gauge car
we5suse to measure it? Who can 81
down and calmly declare This maj
is the supreme hero OF North Da
kota?' It would be unfair to othel
men and distasteful to the ma,
named.
IT believe that T know about hov
these boys feel in regard to this mat
ter, and I believe that as govern. /.
! OF this state you will be justified i,
afefnsing to name any man for thi
Living Hall Of Fame
Sincerely yours.
&C. A. Fraser.
. FtF uAdi,,fapt Cenoral
Grand Forks herald., 1922-05-23
Funeral F Wednesday 4
:E For Aleda Melby

y Funeral services for Miss Aleda
tsst Lake, MINI, Saturday night; will
BE Held here on Wednesday. At 2.
O'Clock there will be brief service
Ut the family home 702 Third ave.
nue.. and at 2:aO the services will
begin at the Bethany Lutheran
church. Rev. David Stoeve will Of
ficiate and the remains will be inter
red at Memorial Park cemetery.
The body Of Miss Melby arrived In
Grand Forks Monday night. ac-
companied by her father, Samuel
Grand Forks herald., 1922-05-23

bers of the local unit, that they might
get An ,opportunity to- attend the en- 2.
Grand Forks herald., 1922-05-23
Ia YGHT TfIISTI,ES

Devils Lake, l. May "a g ol.: !.
week by IN. SChalley. Ramsey oun-'
styt agttcnltuEal gent, the county
Grand Forks herald., 1922-05-23
Six Are Now In Race
For Supreme Court

! Bismarck, N. D., May 2s.-Nels ].
Bothne of New Rockford; ]. =. Rob-
inson Of Fargo: w. II. Stutsman Of
Mandan and M. J.: Englert. Of Valley
City have increased the fling of can
didates for nomination to the 'su-
preme court to six.
Other candidates are Porter J. Nc
Cumber for senator. O.! B. Burtness OF
Grand Forks for congressman and l..
j. wehe Of Bismarck for attorney
general. ..
Grand Forks herald., 1922-05-23

I N. H., 04&yBS8.--Ss everything
is looking fine throughout the whole
river, !" siaid Max Morgan, dairy spe-
ciaiist, at the North. Dakota agricul-
turl college, who a returned j. Sunday
from q two weeks' trip through Nor
ton, stark. Grant, Hettingsr and 9TH
er counties west Of the river.
1T rained there every day last
week except two: There has now
been 9 heavy rainfall in all the coun-
ties in the extreme southwest, which
missed the big rainsa couple Of weeks
ago and the whole SLOPE country looks
since I came, to North Dakota three
years ago." ~, =.
Mr.. Morgan was county agent in
Morton county before he took his
present position. and he is therefore
familiar with farming conditions in
the slope country.
Despite the favorable outlook for
good grain crop. because Of the
ample moisture, the farmers are stick
ing to their stock and they will in
crease their feed crops by from rs TO
SO per cent this year.
II was out visiting farmers by auto
mobiles every day for the last .two
weeks and they are putting in their
crops in much better shape than US
ual. They are plowing deep and cul-
tivating thoroughly for all crops. II
they get through June with ample
moisture they are going. to have an
abundant feed crop.
The grass is high and green and
coming fine and the stock in excellent
condition. :,
my belief is that there is going
to be a big demand for dairy cattle
e. hot uA~<f0n lsVh&S
demand is almost sure to come it the
feed crops turn out well. There has
alreasy been a large amount of corn
and potato planting done, and there
will be big acreage of these crops
this year, especially corn"
Grand Forks herald., 1922-05-23
!. EVENING 81 /, EDITION.

commissioners have passed q q resplu'r3
ton providing DOR the appoi ntnss 4 rs !. 81 81
! weed co,mrnissioner u each h 5cf ,ss Ahe IS, II
COM ,issioner's distri cts OF the county ['y
to enforce the sow thistle law: Il \
Tha ,efforts Of the, weed hghters N
VIII ba to prevent the perennial thistle i !
from going TO- seed. III. $ f53i Il ssls; ssl;3
Grand Forks herald., 1922-05-23
Fourth Man Enters Race 4
!, For Auditor In Nelson

Iakota, N. B., May 2s.-Peter
/. .Ajurseth has announced himself as q
candidate for auditor of Nelson
county.
.. This makes the fourth candidate to
ANNOUNCE for this ofnce. The others
arasw Campbell, H Halstenson and
II. Telander, the present auditor.
Middletown transcript., 1922-03-25
kATo EXPLAINS ARM PAcTs.
Says Non-Fortification OF Philippines
Is Essential.

Tokio-Opposition to the Govern
ment's policies, which attended the
recent passage Of the Budget bill by
the lower house, reasserted itself dur
ing discussion of that measure in the
House of Peers.
Admiral Baron Kato, Minister of
the Navy, replying to an interpella-
tion, stated that the Government did
not intend any material increase in
its present program of building sub
marines and auxiliary craft and the
Government was willing to reduce ex-
penditures to the lowest possible
figure.
Admiral Kato, who was one Of
Japans delegates to the Washington
conference, declared he considered the
conference success from the Japanese
point Of view. He said Japan at.
tempted to secure the agreement as to
capital ship ratios in spirit of con-
cession; therefore, she had proposed
the inclusion of the agreement re.
garding fortifications in the Philip
pine Island. He regarded this as an
important condition of Japans accept
ance of the conference agreements
rather than the quadruple agreements,
which, while being a factor in the
preservation of peace, was not re-
garded as the most essential.
Middletown transcript., 1922-03-25
Sought To Prove Revenoe.

The revenge of woman scorned
was the motive the prosecution sought
to establish. About two months before
this time, according to testimony, Mrs.
Obenchain left Chicago for San Fran.
cisco and told acquaintances she was
to marry Kennedy in that city on June
%.
Kennedy failed to meet her, how
ever, and she came to Los Angeles.
There were frequent meetings between
the couple during July, and Mrs. Oben-
chain wrote some letters to Kennedy,
introduced in evidence, some of which
expressed ardent affection, others deep
resentment. On one occasion Mrs.
Obenchain took Kennedy to a fortune
teller, whom she had asked to talk
favorable" to the young man, accord
ing to testimony. Finally Mrs. Oben.
chain wrote to Kennedy that she was
through with him." and on the same
day telegraphed to Arthur c. Burch,
an old schoolmate living in Evanston,
ILL.,, to come to Los Angeles, saying
she needed him and "the friend l had
last summer Burch came 10 Los An
geles, bringing with him a shotgun
case, according to a Pullman porter's
testimony.
Middletown transcript., 1922-03-25
WEEKS AGAINST
CUTTING ARMY
Says 100 Or More Posts Must
Be Abandoned
PLEADS FOR PAY PROVISION
Says Failure To Grant Men Salary
Would Discourage Attendance
At camps-keep Full
Strength.

Washington. - Acting Secretary
Wainwright announced that the pro-
posal of the House Appropriations
Committee to cut the $4,OO0,OOO item in
the Army Appropriation Bill submitted
for pay of reserve officers to $3.50, 900
would prevent the carrying out of
plans for the training of some $4,000
reserve officers during the year.
The $4.000,000 item, he said, was
submitted to cover pay of the off.
GERS when called to active service for
their annual 15-day training period.
When the sum the committee pro-
posed to allow, he added it would not
be possible to give this training ex-
cept to such officers of the reserve
corps as were willing to attend with
out pay and at their own expense.
Mr. wainwright said the matter was
serious from the point of view of
the War Department since it tended
to discourage men with adequate war
experience or other military training
from entering the reserve corps. Upon
the successful completion of that corps
he added depended the whole national
defense project worked out in the Act
of 1920
1t has been computed that when the
new army plan providing for develop
ment OF the National Guard and the
organized reserve has been made fully
effective that total of 10000 reserve
officers will be needed for the various
divisional units so that they can be
mobilized quickly in the event of war.
There are now enrolled in the re-
serve some $4,000 officers, and the Re.
serve Officers Training Corps, de-
signed to supplement the reserve, has
been erected to produce 1000 addi-
tional reserve officers this year, about
double that number next year, 5000 in
1924 and by 1928 to turn out 10000 new
reservists annually. This figure would
provide, it has been estimated, for the
retirement for the reserve officers
who gave their experience during the
war and would keep the reserve corps
itself at its full strength of 10000.
In order to give the present reserve
officers "refresher" courses and de-
velopments in the military art grow
ing out of the post war study of that
struggle it had been planned, Secre-
tary Wainwright explained, to assem-.
BILE 1000 men of the corps in each of
the corps areas this summer to wit
ness demonstrations by regular troops
and to take such instruction as has
been provided for.
Middletown transcript., 1922-03-25
D. S. ORDERS RHINE
TROOPS WITHDRAWN
Action Of Harding Not Result
of Allied Attitude
POLICY LONG ESTABLISHED
Evacuation Must Be Complete BY July
I, End OF The Fiscal Year
France Regrets
Action.

Washington.-All American troops
Will be out of Germany by July 1 un-
der orders issued by Secretary Weeks
by direction of President Harding.
About 1000 officers and men are di.
rectly affected as the remainder of
Major-General Aliens command in the
Coblenz bridgehead zone on the Rhine
already were under home orders.
The announcement Of the decision
for complete American evacuation of
occupied territory in Germany was
made by Secretary Weeks as his first
act on return to the War Department
from three weeks vacation in
Florida. He indicated that the step
was ordered in compliance with the
policy previously announced of with
drawing the Rhine forces as quickly
as possible. 1t had no relation, he
said to the wrangle in Congress over
further reduction of the size of the
army nor did it result from the cor
respondence between the State De-
sioners over the American demand for
share in German reparations pay.
ments on account of the maintenance
of troops in Germany.
The original order of the President,
1t was pointed out directed that all
troops on the Rhine, with the excep-
ton of not more than the single in.
fantry regiment and artillery and other
auxiliary detachments, be brought
home in Army transports as rapidly as
possible. The movement is now in
progress and the work of the two
transports running in the service will
be continued. Mr.. Weeks said until the
remaining troops also have been re-
turned, which will be before July /.
The War Secretary made no expla-
nation of steps that would be taken
to turn the Coblenz sector over to
the Allied commanders for policing
and to hold the bridgehead as a
means for further advances into Ger.
many to enforce treaty obligations.
The three bridgehead positions were
taken up under the armistice for this
purpose and their occupation con-
firmed in the Treaty of Versailles and
the treaty between the United States
and Germany.
1t was admitted at the War Depart
ment that the action of the United
States in completely abandoning the
Rhineland position might have some
effect on the negotiations resulting
from Secretary Hughes action in SUBJ
mitting a request that the United
States receive share in German rep
arations payments already made to
cover maintenance of armies ON the
Rhine. 1t was insisted, however, that
the step was not direct result of
those negotiations, since complete
withdrawal was forecast before the
note calling attention to the American
bill in excess of $241 100000 on this
account was transmitted
Middletown transcript., 1922-03-25
WEST VIRGINIA IN
TREATY FLEET
Work on Completion Of Big
Battleship Resumed
TO LET WASHINGTON WAIT
construction On Latter Craft Found
Less Advanced Than That On
Other-CoIorado "Com-
pleted."

MISUNDERSTANDING DENLY or.
dered work on completion of the bat
tieship West Virginia, building in the
yards of the Newport News Shipbuild.
ing and Drydock Company, resumed
that vessel having been selected for
completion, instead of the battleship
washington, under the terms of the
Naval Limitation Treaty.
The special naval board headed by
Rear Admiral McElroy, which inves
tlgated for the Secretary the degree
OF completion of the two ships, Sec.
retary Denby's announcement said,
found the West Virginia to be 80 per
cent. finished, as compared to the 50
per cent. completed status of the
Washington.
Work on the Washington will re-
main suspended as is the case with
other new battleships and battle
cruisers which are slated to be
scrapped or converted when the
treaty has been ratified and ratifica-
tions have been formally exchanged.
The Washington is under construc-
ton at the yards of the New York
Shipbuilding Company, at Camden,
N. ]. By the terms of the treat,
the United States was authorized to
complete two ships "of the West Vir-
ginia Glass; which were under con-
struction when the Conference was
called, and on their completion to
commission these with the fleet and
withdraw from the active forces the
older battleships North Dakota and
Delaware, which will be scrapped. The
third battleship of that class which
will be included in the treaty fleet is
the Maryland, now in commission.
The battleship Colorado, of the
same class, is under construction at
the Camden yards, but so nearly COM
pleted that she was figured as a com
plete ship in the treaty discussions,
and these two, the Colorado and the
West Virginia, will be the vessels to
be added to the fleet as the equivalent
in the American Navy for Japan's re-
tention of the battleship Mutsu.
The Navy Department has not
reached q decision as yet as to which
of the three battle cruisers nearest to
completion are to be converted into
airplane carriers. Congressional au-
thority for the construction of the
carriers is required and as soon as
that is obtained the decision as to
which two of the cruisers will be used
for that purpose will be made.
1t is generally assumed that the
Lexington. building at the Fore River
(Mass.) yards, and the Saratoga, un-
der construction at the Camden yards,
will be converted, while the Constel,
lation, at Newport News, will be
scrapped.
Middletown transcript., 1922-03-25
DEBATERs TO USE RADIO PHONES
Ashland Hurls Challenge At Harvard
And Cornell.

Ashland, O.-Challenges for an in
tercollegiate debate to be conducted
by the wireless telephone have been
sent by Ashland College here to Har-
ward, Cornell and Princeton.
The contestants would remain in
their own cities and deliver their
speeches into the transmitters of wire
less telephone sets with their oppo-
nents and judges listening in" at
various points. Use of amplifiers at
each end would permit considerable
numbers of persons to hear the de-
bates, it was said.
Ashland College claims the distinr
ton of having lost only one debate IN
% years.
Middletown transcript., 1922-03-25
M|STR|AL IN
ABENCHA|N CASE
Jurors We're HopeIessIy Divid-
ed They Reported
SAME DIVISION ALL TIME
Defendant Pale, Worried-One Mem.
Der OF Panel Throws Reporter
Out OF Way Upon Being
Questioned.

Los Angeles.-The jury in the case
Oh Mrs. Madalynne Obenchain, charged
with the murder of ]. Bolton Kennedy
reported to Judge Sidney N. Reeve
that 1t was unable to reach an agree
ment, and was discharged.
The jurors were hopelessly divided
according to their reports to Judge
Reeve.
Each was asked separately whether
there was a chance of agreement
Each replied there was none"
Inc foreman stated to the Judge
the division was nine to three. but
as the law requires, did not say wheth.
er the majority favored conviction OF
acquittal
Most OF the Jurors, after they were
discharged, were reluctant to talk
with newspaper men. One threw a
reporter out of the way when he
sought information as to whether the
majority favored acquittal or con.
viction.
Il guess I've got some rights as a
citizen!" the juror shouted.
Another juror said the nine favored
conviction, and that the division had
been on that basis from the first
ballot.
Judge Reeve reset the case for next
Tuesday, March 81, when, he said, he
would set the day for the new trial.
Mrs. Obenchain was in court when
the jury reported. She looked pale
and worried.
The foreman, in a statement to
Judge Reeve, confirmed that the de.
cision had been nine to three from the
beginning
Middletown transcript., 1922-03-25
TWO HELD IN BOND THEFT.
Employe OF Treasury Said To Have
Confessed $175,ooo Steal.

Observation-Disclosures A. Clevenger,
employee of the bond department of
the Treasury, and U. o. Wamsley, of
Charlottesville, Va, were held under
$4,000 bond each for action of the
grand jury on charges of conspiring
to defraud the Government in connec-
tion with the theft of SITS, 900 in nego.
table bonds from the Liberty bond
branch of the Treasury.
A third man, whose name was not
diyulged, is being sought in the South,
according to Secret Service agents,
who said Clevenger had confessed to
taking part in the theft The bonds,
officials said, were recovered in the
attic of Clevenger's residence. He and
Wamsley, at their preliminary hear
ings before United States Commission.
er Morton ]. Mcdonald, entered pleas
Of not guilty.
Middletown transcript., 1922-03-25
HARDING TO RULE ON CHANGE

Washington.-Decision as to the
suggested transfer of Public Health
Service facilities for the treatment Of
former service patients to Veterans
Bureau rests with President Harding.
No legislation is necessary, it was ex-
planned, to place the Public Health
Service facilities for this purpose un-
der the authority of the Veterans Bu-
reau, as the transfer can be effected by
Executive order
Middletown transcript., 1922-03-25
PROPOSES BLiNDERs FOR
CHICAGO MEN.

Chicago. - Longer skirts for
women, lower steps for street cars,
or binders for men-Chicago must
have one Of the three in order to
prevent a steady increase in &C.
cidents, Alderman Leo Klein de-
clared in introducing an ordinance
before the city council providing
for lower street car steps.
"The women wear such short
skirts that when they start to
climb up the high street car steps
well, the men can't seem to keep
their eyes to the front and many
accidents occur, particularly
among motorists" explained Mr..
Klein.
The proposed ordinance was re-
ferred to a committee.
Middletown transcript., 1922-03-25
LIVE STOCK


BALTIMORE.-Calv Choice, handy
weight veals, per lb., lie; choice fat,
heavy veals, 9k Q10; fair to good, 8
@9k; heavy, smooth, fat veals, 7@8;
heavy, rough calves, 6@7.
Lambs and Sheep-No. sheep, per
lb., &c; fair to good, 3k@4h; com.
mon. 2k03h; old bucks, 405; lambs,
choice, per lb., 1904; fair to good,
10012; common, thin, 500.
NEW YORK.-Cattle-S SGD
SIS; bulls, $405.25; cows, $1.4G0
$50.
Calves-Veals, $7Q14; culls, S5@7:
little calves, $505.25.
Sheep and Lambs-Sheep, $4.5O@8:
culls, 1904; lambs, $11016; clipped,
$11@15; culls, 5000.
PITTSBURGH. - Hogs - Heavies.
$10.S5@11; heavy Yorkers, $11.25;
light Yorkers and pigs, s1055.
Sheep and Lambs-Top sheep, $40;
top lambs SIG.
Middletown transcript., 1922-03-25
France Regrets Action.

Paris.-Regret over the prospective
withdrawal of the American troops
from the Rhine was expressed in
French official circles, when the
Foreign Office was unofficially informed
OF the order of Secretary of War
Weeks for the return of the Rhine
forces by July l.
The order caused no surprise, how
ever some officials saying they quite
expected that the Washington policy
of continued decreased number of
forces at Coblenz would finally mean
complete withdrawal
Middletown transcript., 1922-03-25
LEAGUE MAY WATCH GERMANY

Paris.-A proposal to turn the con-
troll of execution of the military
clauses of the Versailles treaty over
to the league of nations was made at
meeting of the ambassadors council
by Count Sforza, representing Italy.
The French wanted the present COM
mission control of Germany continued
for eight years and Count Sforza pro
posed substituting the league If Ger
many showed good will in carrying out
the terms of the treaty.
Middletown transcript., 1922-03-25
RUM RUNNERS WILL BE
HUNTED BY WIRELESS.

Washington. Rum runners
along the Canadian border will be
hunted by wireless according to
advices received by Commissioner
Haynes from Col. Roy c. Wander.
cook, head Of the Michigan De-
partment of Public Safety.
A system of wireless communi-
cation, Colonel Vandercook said,
will be installed along the length
OF the Canadian-Michigan border
as a part of the concerted cam
paign by United States and Ca
madam officials against the Illicit
importation of liquor into this
country.
Middletown transcript., 1922-03-25
URGES SYSTEM OF AlRWAYs.

General Mitchell Says U. S. Leads In
Application OF Aviation.
New York.-Immediate establish.
ment of an organized system of air
ways in the United States is urged by
Brigadier General William Mitchell,
assistant chief of the Air Service.
In a statement given out General
Mitchell, who has just returned from
three-month survey of European
aeronautics, says that Europe is max
ing great strides in the development
of aviation, but in its actual applica-
ton the United States is in the lead
Middletown transcript., 1922-03-25
TAX RETURNS $4,000, 900.
Reports From Outlying Districts Not
Yet Complete.

Observation-Disclosures reports of pay
ments of the March Is installment of
income and profits taxes received by
the Treasury showed $310,000,0O0 on
deposit so far with Federal Reserve
banks. Deposits through last Friday
aggregated 1886, 100000.
Reports from outlying districts will
not be received for several. days,
Treasury officials said, and until then
it will be impossible to determine
whether Secretary Melons estimate
of $460,O0O,O00 income and profits
taxes receipts for the quarter will be
obtained
Collections during March of last
year aggregated 100000.
Middletown transcript., 1922-03-25
ELECTION INTERVAL EXTENDED
Vatican Lengthens Period From Pope's
Death To Successors Choice.

Rome.-Official announcement was
made from the Vatican that Pope Plus
XI had extended to Is days the interval
to elapse between the death of a pope
and the session of the Sacred College
to elect his successor Unofficial but
authoritative announcement that such
a decree would be issued was made
recently.