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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-03-24
Wooden Shoes

'"The peasants in America do not wooden shoes
at ALL in the fieds" writes Able Pierre of. Gas
cony NO. the peasants there shoes of leather,
although should think that sabots would be much
serviceable not onyon the roads, but blowing And
wooden shoes are far less expensive. Ah that Amer
lea is an extravaganza country!' !. -
Advertisements haven't yet taken the heavy wooden
shoes from Gascon feet-nor yet the heavy wooden
shoes from Gascon minds Gascony thinks in the past.
America in the future:
Advertisements make the difference They crisscross
improvements in countless directions the miles.
They distribute Fords, furnaces and electric lights
widely that foreigners think you extravagant to enjoy
them They put you in touch with the latest convent
They help many people enjoy those convent
ences that their cost to you'll small. i.
You read advertisements to link yourself with the
best to substitute speed for the shamblng progress
you otherwise would have to make in the lonely wooden
shoes of isolation.
!. Do you read them regularly? Good habits pay
NJ IN szs@eaE -s 4. @sfs F*t}sns4 w.
ADVERTISEMENTS ARE RELIABLE BUYING
: GUIDE OBTAINABLE IN NO OTHER WAY
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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-03-24

TrIbaas wsat Ads Bring Resslts
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-03-24

Playing golf won't hurt any ball
player unless he prefers his golf to
baseball Such beng the case, he
cuts into his livelihood to no small
degree.
Evening star., 1924-01-25
Record of Euents
In California and
Teapot Oil Leases

The following outstanding devel-
ments in the history Of the how
famous Teapot Dome oil reserve
lease are given in chronological
order:
On May 81, 1921, control over the
naval oil reserves was transferred
from the Navy Department to the
Interior Department by executive
order signed by President Hard
ing.
On November 80, 1921. E. l. Do
heny sent to Washington by his
son, 100000 In cash, which he had
drawn from a New York bank and
agreed to lend to Mr.. Fall in the
nature Of friendly service to a
man he had known for thirty
On April z. 1922. the lease Of
Teapot Dome naval oil reserve
No. 8, In Wyoming, was made with
the Mammoth Oil Company, head
ed by II. F. Sinclair.
On April 25. 1922. a contract
was signed by the Interior Depart
ment on behalf of the government
giving Mr.. Doheny's company
preference right on oil reserve No.
IN California when the property
On April ~, 1872, the Senate
ADOPTED q resolution offered by
Senator La Toilette of Wisconsin
providing for an investigation of
the naval oil reserve leases by the
public lands committee Of the Sem
ate.
On December IL, 1922, oil re-
serve No. l was leased to Mr..
Dohey by the government. the
contract being signed by Mr.. Fall
as Secretary of the Interior and
Edwin b. DENLY as Secretary Of
the Navy.
On October %. 1923, the inves-
tigatton of the naval oil lease
was begun by the public lands
committee.
Evening star., 1924-01-25

such requirement, and the Treasury
Secretary said today he had recon-
mended incorporation of the provision
In the tax bill.
Repeal of the excise tax on sof;
drinks and beverages was tentatively
agreed on today by the House ways
and means committee. which is re
visfnS tax legislation. Chairman
Green estimated s1l,O0o,000 in revenue
thus would be lost
Committee members reported that
thus far all attempts to repeai tbc
had been defeated. The question,
however. has not been disposed OF
Consider Party Bill.
House republicans studied the pro-
posal of Representative Treadway,
Massachusetts,, republican member
of the ways and means committee.
that they prepare a party tax bill!
today, while the committee sought to
conclude its work on the miscellane-
Gus or so-called nuisance tax rates.
Mr.. Treadway put forward the party
suggestion yesterday after attacks
had been made by the democrats on
the Mellon bill on the floor of the
House, and as a result of their failure
to accept the republicans offer to
frame a compromise revenue measure
on the basis OF the income rate sug
gestions of both Secretary Mellon
and Representative Garner, democrat.
Texas. A party measure, some mem
bers predicted, would follow closely
the rates proposed by Mr.. Mellon
Upon completion of the miscellane-
Gus tax rate schedules the committee
will consider the recommendations of
Mr.. Mellon involving greater exemp-
tion for earned than unearned in
comes and that community property
income be taxed against one person
instead Of permitting the filing of
separate returns by husbands and
wives, as allowed In some state4
Representative O'Connor, democrat,
New York. made public today letter
to Joseph S. Mccoy, actuary of the
Treasury. in which he said he had
asked the Treasury on January II for
estimates on certain tax figures
which had not been received. He
charged the Treasury neglected dem
ocrats and asked If there Is any
thing to hide"
Evening star., 1924-01-25
GIVEN LEASE RENEWAL
Indian Land Holdings of Lesa
Company in Rich Section

JOPLIN. Mo, January 25.-rr,-
Eagle-Picher Lead Company wa.
granted a renewal of a lease On
approximately 2,100 shares of re-
strlcted Indian land in the ouapaw
reservation of northeast Oklaho,na
last August. The land is situated II,
the richest section of the Oklahon,a
zinc and lead district and Yields man
thousands in royalties to the Indians
According to O. K. Chandler o..
ailaml, Okla. superintendent of the
QuapaW Indian agency. the renewal
OF the lease was granted the EaeIn-
Plcher Company by the Department
or the Interior at Washington in ac
cordance with an act of December 90
lands
Between 5000 and 10000 acres %
restricted Indian acreage in the
Oklahoma mining field is under lease
TO various mining companies. includ
ing the Quapaw Mining COMPANY Cf
which Charles NJ Schwab, the steel
magnate. is the principal owner. The
Schwab interests obtained a lease on
approximately 1900 acres of the land
last March. The mining land has
yielded more than million dollars
in royalties since 1921. which is the
part the Quapaw Indians share i'm
the rich mining holdings.
Evening star., 1924-01-25
SEEKS OKLAHOMA
LAND LEASE AIRING
State Senator Also Suspects
Election Connected With
Teapot Dome Case.
BY the Associated Press.


OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. Januart
25.-The granting by A. z. Fall, for,
mer Secretary OF the Interior, of a
lease on Quapaw Indian zinc and lead
mining land in northeast Oklahoma
would be offered as the subject for
United States senatorial committee
investigation under resolution
which Senator Courtland M. Feuquay
of Chandler has prepared for in
struction in the upper house Of the
state legislature.
The resolution also would request
the Senate committee investfgating 9
the Teapot Dome naval oil lease to
develop further the recent testimony
OF W. G. Wahlberg to the effect that
harry F. Sinclair. president of the
sinclair OIL Corporation. had turned
Zevely OF Muskogee. Okla s2s mo- q,
Iloerty bonds which were not &C.
counted Tor to him (WahIberg).
Election Facts Sought.
This inquiry would be asked to de.
terInine whether any of the none 9.
was brought into Oklahoma for ~,
iast gubernatorial campaign, accord.
ing 70 tne resolution, which calls at
!sn1ion TO the testimony given durjnr
the impeachment trial of former CO..
~ walton indicating rumory
tnroughout the state that such hsii
been done. Id"
me mining lease now held by trr
EagIe-Picher Lead Company con
prlses approximately 2,100 acres ~,
res restricted Indian land in the ouapav
oI,Hhe.Ion' oI,sh the richest section of ths
OkIahoma lead and zinc fields J..
was granted by the Interior D.nart-
menu iast August under the act of De
cemoer. 1921, governing the leasing ~
sucn properties and yields MANY thou
Saans Saaia or dollars in royalties 10 the
Evening star., 1924-01-25
MELLON IGNORES
C0UZENS' QUERIES
IN DEFENDING PLAN

Continued from First Page.)
Evening star., 1924-01-25
New Iron Fields Opened.

Iron fields in Brazil are so rich and
promising, though hardly touched.
that they will soon eclipse others that
are world famous, according to Dr.
oliver c. harrington, curator OF the
Field Museum of. Natural History in
Chicago. DR.. D. w. Nichols, asso-
ciate curator. In anticirating the for
NAL report, said the Brazilian iron
fields were not only vast. but Of the
highest grade--so high In fact, that
the iron fields over which Germany
and France have been quarrsling are
unimportant..b b. conaparison. - $50
Evening star., 1924-01-25
27,s4O ACRES LEASED.
California Records Show Extent
Of Doheny Holdings.
By the Associated Press.

SAN FRANCISCO, January 25.--
Doheny leases on government oil
lands in California, under the name
Of the Pan American Petroleum and
Transport, include 1880 acres, or
forty three and one-half sections of
the fifty-eight sections in the oil re-
serve, according to maps prepared by
the state bureau of mines.
conceded to be Of immense value.
Some Of it has been drilled. but much
is untouched. The land is In the rich
Elk Hills oil field. on territory five
Evening star., 1924-01-25
FALL FOREMAN CALLED.
BY tho Associated Press.

By tho A6sociated Press.
Tom johnson, foreman Of A. B.
Falls ranch at Three Rivers, N. NJ,
left there yesterday for Washington,
whare he has been subpoenaed as
witness before the Senate COMMITTEES
lease, according to . report here to-
day, X. -. ..-..-----.
Evening star., 1924-01-25

Mr.. Doheny appeared before the
committee as a voluntary witness
Ind, as he put it, ito state to the
committee and the public the full
1acts: regarding the loan. He said
lie had come from Los Angeles for
THIS purpose. and had travelled via
New Orleans to apprise Mr.. Fall Of
MS intention. and had found him al
ready in entire accord with my pur-
pose"
Mr.. Doheny began his testimony by
reading a long and carefully prepared
statement, explaining the loan and
the circumstances under which
St was made and the conditions
Of the contracts subsequently, entered
into by his companies with the Navy
Department.
After Doheny and McNab had reao
rheir statements to the committee,
Senator walsh began the questioning.
II was in New York when thA loan
Evening star., 1924-01-25
SCENT FARE BILL UP.
Hearings on McKellar Proposal to
Be Resumed Monday.

Hearings on the McKellar scent
street carfare bill will be resumed
before the subcommittee on public
,,,,,,+tes of the Senate District COM
n,ittsa at 1920 am. Monday, In the
office of the District committee. Sena-
tor McKellar will continue his state
ment in advocacy of the scent fare
Evening star., 1924-11-22
Lieutenant Is Retired.

First Lieut.. Region V. Love, Coast
Artillery Corps, has been placed on
the retired list on account of dis
ability incident to the service.
Evening star., 1924-11-22

Secretary of the Navy Wilbur
proved himself a true friend of radio
last night when he prevented lot
of Chinese characters from being
flashed through the ether and inter-
fering with the reception by Wash
ington radio fans of the classical
renditions of the United States Navy
Rand Orchestra, being broadcast by
WCAP.
In u quiet room of the Wardman
Park Hotel. where the radio show
de luxe is holding a three-day stand,
G. Francis Jenkins, who has a num-
ber of important radio inventions to
his credit was explaining to group
of prominent Government officials.
dip 'omats and scientists the complex
ity of his latest creation, the tele-
photo letter. an apparatus for trans
hitting script on the crest of radio
waves Albert l.. Stern, director of
the radio show, who had billed Mr..
jenkins invention as the chief attrac-
tion, suggested that practical
demonstration of the machine would
satisfy any skeptics that it would do
all that the inventor said it would.
Out at station NOF, the naval radio
laboratories in Bellevue. d. c.. was
message in Chinese script, written by
i
Chinese legation. The letter had been
sent from the station and received on
the apparatus in the hotel room earlier
in the evening, but Mr.. Stern thought
d repetition was advisable.
Mr.. Jenkins shook his head. He
well knew that the raspings of Chinese
characters shooting through the air
would play havoc with the Navy Or
chestra's concert in the headphones and
loud speakers of the radio audience in
Washington and contiguous territory.
MIR. Stern became somewhat insistent.
Il will take the responsibility for the
interference and the wrath of the radio
sans" he responded boldly.
Secretary Wilbur, member of MIR.
Jenkins small audience, turned over
hastily in his mind the obvious results
of the proposed Representation, and
looked directly at Mr.. Jenkins. Il
would not do it, he said. And when
the naval chief spoke, the demonstration
was promptly called off.
Three messages, the one written by
the charge 'affaires of the Chinese Le-
Evening star., 1924-11-22

The plan involves establishment of
centers throughout eastern Africa.
where native leaders Will be trained
as doctors, engineers, ministers,
teachers and leaders and the other pro-
fessions.
The trustees appropriated $4,000
to the campaign of Hampton and
Tuskegee institutes in which these
schools seek to develop their col
legiate departments. Small appro-
priations-the sums were not an
nounced-were made to Fisk and
Atlanta universities.
Dr. Anson Phelps Stokes was elect
ed president to succeed I. B. Phelps
Stokes and DIR. James II. billiard,
Charlottesville, Va, was made vice
president.
Evening star., 1924-11-22
COST CURTAILS OUTPUT.
Material Reduction Seen in Govern
ment Printing and Binding.

Increases in the cost of printing
and binding executed at the Govern
ment Printing Office by the Depart
ment of Commerce will make neces-
sary very material curtailment of
the printing and binding contem-
plated during the fiscal year 1925, ac-
cording to the annual report of T.
F. Mckeon, chief of the division of
publication of the department, made
public today.
Work contracted for during 1924
will result in an obligation against
the 1925 appropriation of about
1000. On the basis of an in
crease of 10 per cent, the balance in
the 1925 appropriation will be further
affected to the extent of $71,25O by
reason of the increased charges now
prevailing, Mr.. Mckeon says.
The sum of S4S1, 500 was available
for use of the department for print
ing and binding during the fiscal year
1924. OF this amount, S47S,S59.4S was
used the report says.
Evening star., 1924-11-22
FALL FROM WINDOW
i BREAKS G|RL'SLEG
Attempt to Escape From
Senator's Office Results
in Injury.

Their attention attracted to the
Senate Office Rui' ding when a woman
fell from a window on tho first floor
TO the bottom of the area way shortly
before o'clock this morning. MEM
hers of a force working on the rail
way tracks near the Delaware ave-
nue. and G street entrance to the
building hurried there and picked her
up. She gave her name AS Clara
Caviness, her age as 26 and her ad-
dress as 1902 Thirty-third street. but
afterWard changed it to Clara Miles,
1928 Thirty-fOurth street. She was
suffering from n fracture of her left
leg ana shoc4t and was taken to Cas-
ualty Hospital by the workmen.
Inside the building Willard F.
Preston of the Capitol police force
arrested John c. pugan, "a clerk
to Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin. for
alleged intoXication. He was arrest
ed as he emerged from Senator Len
roots office, from where the young
woman had leaped from the window
in an effort to prevent being seen
by the Capitol po iceman, who had
knocked on the door.
Police Question Clerk.
Dugan, whose parents reside in
Milwaukee, was taken to the sixth
precinct police station, where he was
nelu on the charSe OF lntOXlcatlOn
and detained until full investiga
tion of the affair could be made. 1t
being evident that Miss Miles jumped
from the window. he was later per-
mittod to leave the station after the
police had accepted collateral for his
appearance in Police Court.
Dugap told the police he had known
the girl some time, and last night he
met her at dance. Later, he said,
he invited her to the office of his en-
ployer to partake of liquid refresh
mentS, and they had been in the Of
flee only Il few minutes when there
was Il knock on the door.
Advised Jump From Window.
His first thought being to prevent
his companion from being seen, he
said, he told her to leave by way of
the window, thinking she would land
on the parking below. 1t developed
that instead of getting across the
narrow areaway to the soft earth she
had fallen distance of about II feet
and landed on the cement pavement.
The young woman declared she had
left the window of her own volition
and her injury was the result of an
accident she was unable to avoid.
Miss Miles, police say, had not been
drinking.
Evening star., 1924-11-22
VANS AVAILABLE AS FOLLOWS IN

VANS AVAILABLE AS FOLLOWS IN
PITTSBURGH. NOV. "A.
BOSTON. NOV. 26th.
PHILADELPHIA, NOV. 81.
WILKES BARRE, NOV. 2s.
PHILADELPHIA. NOV. 2S
NEW YORK CITY. DEC. l.
WEEKLY SERVICE FOR SMALL LOTS TO
AND FROM BOSTON AND INTERMEDIATE
POINTS.
THE RIG TRANSFER COMPANY. INC.
1925 18th ST. NV. MAIN Gi33
Evening star., 1924-11-22
PLAN SCHOOLS IN AFRICA
EDUCATE TRIBE HEADS
Phelps-Stokes Fund Officials Also
Appropriate Money for Ameri-
can Negro Colleges.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 22.-Exten-
sive plans for the further develop
ment of educational work among the
natives of Africa were discussed at
the annual meeting yesterday of the
Phelps-Stokes fund, established in
1911 by Miss Caroline Phelps-St
Resources of the organization are de-
voted to promoting inter-racial CO.
operation, education of negroes and
Indians and the improvement of tene-
ments in New York.
1t was announced that report of a
recent educational commission to Eas
Africa would be issued soon and
would recommend much larger ex-
penditures than those of the past in
the interest of native education, to be
based on methods practiced at such
schools as Hampton and Tuskegee.
Evening star., 1924-11-22
BERLIN DELAYS ACTION
IN Won NATHUSIUS CASE
Will Make Official Examinati tion of
French Trial of General
Sentenced for Theft.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, November 22-The Ger
man government will make no protest
nor will it demand that immediate re-
lease of Gen. Won Nathusius until il
has examined the official protocol of
the French court martial which con-
Victed and sentenced the general to
a years Imprisonment for confisca-
tion of private property while he was
stationed near RoubaiX.
Meanwhile, official quarters do not
conceal Indignation over the episode
which, it is indirectly admitted, pre-
sents diplomtic complexities in addi
ton to the widespread resentment
voiced in the German press. The
newspapers designate the trial as a
farcical drumhead procedure, espe
Cially since the Lille court denied
Gen. Won Nathusius the ordinary
privilege of preparing a suitable de-
tense.
The German government sought to
assist him by subpoeninS widely
scattered witnesses who were at
taChed TO his wartime staff. The
general it was said, will demand
complete vindication and will not ac-
cept amnesty.
Evening star., 1924-11-22
Naval Officers Transferred.

Lieut.. Comdr. Richard III. Knight Of
the office of naval intelligence, Navy
Department, has been detailed as
navigating officer of the cruiser De-
troit; Lieut.. Comdr. Charles r.
OLeary, to the navy yard, Norfolk;
Lieut.. Comdr. f. r. NJ. Whiting from
command of the u. S. S. Bulmer to
the U. s. S Hannibal and Lieut..
George F.. Cooper, Medical Corps,
from the marine barracks, Quantico.
Va, to the 1st Marine Brigade, Haiti.
Evening star., 1924-11-22
COOLIDGE AGAINST CUT.
Does Not Believe in Lower Wage
for Rail Workers.

Reduction in the wages of rail-
road employees should not be made
to bring about reduction in freight
rates, according to the opinion of
President Coolidge, who believes, 1T
is said, that the reduction rates
should be brought about by econ
omies in operation.
Present conditions, in the opinion
of the President, do not warrant a
reduction in wages.
The Presidents views on, railroad
wages were made known to visitors
but he did not discuss any plans he
may have for railroad Legislation
nor did he go into detail in speak
ing of a possible reduction at this
time in railroad freight rates.
Evening star., 1924-11-22
WILBUR SAVES LOCAL RADIO FANS
HEARING CHINESE AIR MESSAGE
Secretary Interferes and Result Listeners Get
Band Music Instead of Rasping
Test.

CATION, and the others by Emile Ber-
liner. inventor Of phonograph and tele-
phone transmitter, and DIR. ]. Harris
Rogers, inventor of underground and
undersea wireless, had been sent from
NOF to the hotel with the use of Mr.
Jenkins apparatus earlier in the eve
ming before WCAP went on the air.
They were projected on screen in the
ballroom of the hotel. Other events on
the program included addresses by DIR.
Rogers and Mr.. Berliner and musical
selections by Brooke Johns, late of the
Ziegfeld "Follies"
Evening star., 1924-11-22

THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK
holders Of the Columbia Title Insurance Com
pany Of the District of Columbia for the
purpose of electing fifteen trustees of the
company for the ensuing year. will be held
at the office of the company, No. 500 9TH
1924. at l pm. The polls will be open be-
tween the hours of . and O'Clock pm.
cember g. 1924, to December Is, 1924 both
dates inclusive. CHARLES L. MARSH
Secretary.
nos * % o9-dec61 Is
Evening star., 1924-11-22

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN-TAKE
notice that the certificates of sale for taxes
ington. u. c., on September 20. 1887, and
January %. 1889. issued to John Hile and
Margaret IIile, have been lost destroyed
and that we have applied to the Commits
sioners d. c., to issue us duplicate of said
WILLIAM HILE. oos Mass Ave. NV.
EIIZ. NOLTE. 10 Eye ST. ne.
Evening star., 1924-11-22
REVOLT STORY DOUBTED.
Riga Cannot Confirm Kronstadt
Mutiny.

LONDON, November ga Reuter-
dispatch from Riga, replying to an
inquiry regarding a report published
in the Paris newspaper Ere NouvelIe
to the effect that there had been a
mutiny in the Russian fleet at Kron-
stadt and that War Minister Trotsky
had been captured, declares that no
confirmation has been possible.
Evening star., 1924-11-22
Will Address Federal Employees.

Representative Hudson of Michigan
will be the principal speaker at mass
meeting held under the auspices of the
National Federation of Federal En-
ployes tonight at the Northeast Masonic
Temple, Eighth and F streets northeast.
The questions of leclassifcation, retire
ment and wages in the navy yard will
be considered.
Evening star., 1924-11-22
Haverty Freed of Charge.

4 jury in Criminal Division 2 be-
fore Chief Justice Mccoy has render
ed a verdict of not guilty in the case
of John W. Hayerty, newspaper man,
charged with grand larceny by trick
in connection with the purchase of
an automobile. The accused was
represented by Attorney Howard
Costello.
Evening star., 1924-11-22

CHLORINE GAS TREATMENTS GIVEN
daily for colds. bronchitis and other respira
tory diseases. Phone Main 1919. 10 an. TO
n m Home treatment by appointment. 2Ss
Evening star., 1924-11-22
SPECIAL NOTICES.

] WILL. NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY
debts contracted by any other than my
self. JOHN W. KAISER. 223S Nicholson
street southeast 2ts