The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-01-09
EXTRACTION
OF GEO. DUIS
GRANTED
President Of Wheat Growers
Association Is Wanted
at CrOOkStOn

ExtraditioG papers were ISSUED mere
today for the return to Crookston.
Mimi, Of George r. Duis. president
Of the North Dakota Wheat Growers
association, to answer to a charge OF
absconding from the state with intent
to cvade proceedings to establish the
paternity Of his llcgtimate child.
The charges are preferred BY Leila
Heston. Crookston.
Copy of an affidavit made by Miss
IIcston before Judge William Watts
Of Crookston was attached to the re-
quest for cxtradition papers received
ut the governors office here.
After setting forth that she had
lived with Duis for eight years,
though unmarried, Miss Heston said
she is the mother OF four children.
and that Duis IS the father OF each.
Continuing the affidavit set forth
that che first three OF said children
were born at Grand Forks, \. d., and
the last at Crookston, Mimi. on De-
ccmber 6, 1925; that all Of the SAID
children are illegitimate and that said
George +. Duis is the father OF an
said children; that during part OF
seven years he maintained home
for affiant and her children, part OF
November I, 1924 a. CroOkston. Mimi,
and that affiant ard her ch'h~en
have lived continuously at Crookston
since that time; that daring the per-
iod since that time he has lived with
affiant and her children at their
home in Crookston one or two days
each week. representing to persons
whom he met at CroOkston that has
name was Davis Affiant was known
as Mrs. Davis.
Refuses Legal Proceedings.
"He has always acknowledged ia
affiant that the children were his
and has so told other persons, but
that he has always refused to have
his paternity established legally; that
he moved affiant and the children
from Grand Forks in the fall of l924
because steps were being taken &c
establish paternity there: that since
the birth Of the last child efforts
were made by affiant and others K
induce him to have paternity estab
lished but he always became en-
ragged and refused and has threaten
ed .affiant if anything was done. III
learned about January !, 1926, tina
the Child Welfare Board of Crooks
ton and others were contemplating
proceedings to establish ms paternlt!
of the children and that on Januar.
z he left Crookston and went 7
Grand Forks and refuses to return
TO permit such proceedings to b.
had that warrant has been ISSUED
for his arrest upon paternity charg
and he has been informed of 1t bu
refuses to return. Through CONVEX
sations and threats over the tclephon
he has been trying to induce affian
to leave CroOkston and go to Super
Tor, Wisconsin, or some other stat
under threat that her children wi
be taken from her and that he wi
do nothing for her unless she con-
plies
Says lie Is Married.
Another affidavit sets forth thu
Duis has been married for numbt
Of years and has one child by III
marriage.
Duis rose TO prominence in l9-
as the head Of the North Dako'
Wheat Growers association, an .
yaniaatiOn Of farmers to pool the
wheat in an effort to obtain high'
market price for their members.
Conviction on the charge preferrt
against Duis carries with Il max
mum penalty Of two years III prise
under the Minnesota law.