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JUST A THIRD OF IT

Parson: And is that bottle Of whis-
Ky your sole consolation in your
bereavement"
Widower: Oh, no, parson, there's
couple more in the cupboard
London Opinion.
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Community Council
Earns $155 in Sale
of Movie Tickets

A meeting Of the Women's Com
munity Council was held Friday aft
ernoon in the Association Of Com
merce rooms. A report of the finance
committee showed $l55.2O received
from the sale Of moving picture
tickets. This included a gift Of $50
from Dale Simon, manager Of the Ell
tinge theatre, as a reward for the en-
ceAent work done by the Council.
The following donations from clubs
were reported: Elks, So; Current
Events. So; American Legion Auxili-
airy, So; Mothers, IS; Rcbekah lodge.
S.: Presbyterian Ladies' Aid, $40;
Mothers Service. $3.50.
Mrs. Florence Davis, librarian OF
the state historical society. gave am
interesting talk, Thirty Minutes in
Bismarck"
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR INSPECTION
Members Of the Tancred Command
cry No. l, Knights Templar. will meet
at the Masonic temple Monday eve
ming for the regular annual inspection
by Inspector Erstravaag of Bottineau,
and all members arc urged to attend
so that a good showing can be made
Members are urged to attend in uni
form. Dinner will be served in the
temple dining room at o'clock, after
which there will be work in the
Knight Templar degree. The drill
team will practice at the temple Sun
day afternoon at a:3O.
TO MINOT
Brigade Adjutant r. +. Carlander
and Mrs. carlandcr left this morn
ing for Minot where Mr.. Carlander
will meet with tho program commit
tee Of the International Order of
Odd Fellows to plan for the coming
session of the grand lodge to be
held at Minot in June. Mr.. Carl
ander is representing the Patrarchs
Militant Of the Uniform Rank.
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ELTINGE THEATRE

Anna @. Nilsson comes to the Ell
tinge for Monday and Tuesday in
easy Pickings."
This fast-moving. tense mystery
play introduces Miss Nilsson in mas
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IS ILL AT HOME

Hans Gran, manager of the Webb
Brothers shoe department. has been
i'll at his home for the past few days.
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prcOvERS FROM ILLNESS

Miss Marie Huber, who has been
i'll at the Bismarck hospital, has re-
covered and has resumed her work
as principal of the Will school.
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LEAVE FOR HOME

Representative John Halcrow is
leavin~ today for his home in Penn
bina county. Representative J. K.
Olafson is also leaving today for his
home in Gardner.
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HERE WITH AIlNT

HERE WITH AUNT
Leo, Clifford and Lawrence Rich
ardS Of Wilton are guests Of their
aunt, Mrs. Matte Bigler. during the
district basketball tournament.
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CAMpE1RE CIRIS MEET

met last evening at the Women's
Community Council rest room. Plans
were made for ceremonial meeting
next week.
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VISITOR LEAVES

Miss Josephine Parsons, who has
been visiting at the w. f. Parsons
home. left this morning for her home
in Page. N, D.
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MnVE 70 BISMARCK

Mr.. and Mrs. William Luck. who
have been residents Of Mandan for
several months, are moving to Bis
marck today.
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NONPARTlSAN WOMEN. ENTER.
TAIN

The N0npartisah W0men'S club. No.
:. entertained Thursday evening at
the l. o. o. F. hall with q dinner.
About ESQ were in attendance. The
tables were .attractively decorated in
the national colors. Mrs. H. W.
Herman was chairman OF the commit
tee in charge. A dance followed the
dinner.
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EMANUEL EVANGELICAL.
CHURCH

Corner Seventh and Rosser SITS.
e. +. Strutz, Pastor.
Services on Sunday as follows:
Preaching at 10 a. m.
Subject: knowing God"
Special music
Sunday School ut IL Il. m. Ben C..
Larkin, in charge.
Evangelical League Of G. f.. at 7:l5
p. IN.
Miss Esther Bremen, leader
Topic: stewardship II Principle OF
Life"
Evening sermon: "Dust and Divin-
ity."
Special music by the mems chorus.
Mid-week service: "Wednesday
7:45 p. M
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RETURN HOME

Senator and Mrs. Gus Wog and
daughter. Mabel, left today for their
home in Belfield.
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TO VISIT IN MINNEAPOLIS
RETURN HOME

weekend for Minneapolis for a
weeks visit with friends.
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HERE ON BUSINESS

Jack Hallam of Watrous is trans
acting business in the city.
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GERMAN BAPTIST CHURCH

HERMAN BAPTIST CUVK(W
Corner Sth and Rosser streets.
Fred +. Klein, Pastor.
Notice for the Lords Day:
10 a. M. Sunday School.
II Il. M. Morning worship.
Subject: the Man VINO Obcyed
God"
700 y. m. Devotional meeting OF
the Il. Y. p. ".
9 y. m. Evening service.
Subject 1.-THE Danger of Delay"
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Pay your Gas Bill now and
save the discount before the
tenth.
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LEAVE FOR DAVENPORT
Representative and Nrs. John Plath
returned to their home In Davenport
today.
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is ILL

Miss ELAN Holton of the Webb
Brothers store is confined to her
home by illness.
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IS III.

Miss Isabel Zeamer, high school
student. 10 confined to her home
by illness.
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Representative and Mrs. Andrew
Johnston left this morning for their
home in Forest River.
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REPRESENTATIVE LEAVES
Representative c. +. Carlson re
urncd to his home in Hope today.
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VISITING HERE
Mrs. Fred Brown Of jamestown rs
visiting in the city for few days
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PATIENT At HOSPITAL
Mrs. ID. b. Burton is Il patient ut
the Bismarck hospital.
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Dance at the !. o. o. +. hall
hall Saturday night.
Evening star., 1927-11-14
RED CROSS PUSHES
! ANNUAL ROLL CALL
10000 Members by Thanks.
giving Day Is Goal Set
by Workers.

With 10000 members by ThanksCiv-
Ing day as their goal. roll cali workers
ot the District Chapter of the Ameri
can ked Cross began intensive opera
t!ons today to go over the top. Every
effort is to be made to exceed the
record of last year, when it stood forth
IN adult enrolment. in proportion to
population, among all the cities of the
country, and second in Junior Red
Cross enrolment, with 49.3 per cent
OF school pupils enrolled.
Volunteers serving in various Red
Cross booths in banks, theaters. stores
and other places. report renewed in
tereSt in Red Cross work because of
its record in flood relief. In response
tn special appeal for Mississippi flood
sufferers. the District Chapter raised
Sl49,411.44 and 81 boxes of new and
used clothing were shipped to the flood
district
In order to facilitate enrolment,
persons who have the Red Cross mem,
bership blanks, sent with their gas,
electric and telephone bills. are re-
quested to fill them out and send them
IN with their enrolment dollars to
the chapter and roll call headquarters,
S21 Sixteenth street northwest, as soon
as possible.
The regular work of the District
cndptef mas been gong on without
interruption. Notwithstanding prepar-
ations for the roll call. The report
for October shows that 6S workers
in the production department of the
chapter made AS garments and con-
trihuted 1877 hours of volunteer ser
vice.
Thirteen workers on surgical dress
fngs spent 80 hours in this task, 80
Braille workers devoted 135 hours to
the preparation of reading matter for
the blind, 81 members of the Motor
Corps, under the direction of Mrs. C.
II. Jewett, gave 221 hours of service
of themselves and their cars, provid.
ing their own gasoline: 40 Gray Ladies
at Walter Reed Hospital spent 4S0
hours in the wards, while Is workers
of the hostess and recreation com
mittee. under leadership of Mrs. w. S.
Spencer, contributed 696 hours in
other service hospitals
Administrative officers of the Dis
trlct Chapter gave $50 hours of
volunteer service, and IL staff assist
ants worked for IL hours. Including
other units, altogether 293 volunteers
worked 3,405 hours last month in
activities of the local chapter.
Evening star., 1927-11-14

More than SO varieties of birds fire.
quent the White House grounds.
This wealth of feathered life was OBJ.
served by the most enthusiastic bird
lover who ever lived in the White
House, and who looked at every bird
which flew past his office window or
which he observed in the tree limbs
with the trained eye Of naturalist.
AS Theodore Roosevelt observed the
different species he took notes. The
list he prepared in the early years OF
the present century has just been
resurrected by Mrs. G. c. Maynard,
prominent in the work of the Wash.
ington Audubon Society, and furnishes
an interesting side light on Roose-
velt's character and interests.
ROOsevelt's List.
. The list. which he made out during
his administration, of birds actually
seen on the White House grounds is
as follows:
Sparrow hawk, screech owl, saw.
What owl, yellow-biled cuckoo, downy
woOdpecker. flicker. chimney swift,
humming bird, crow, fish crow, or
char1l oriole, Baltimore oriole, purple
grackle, purple finch, thistle bird,
whitethroat, tree sparrow, chippie,
snow bird, song sparrow, fox SPAR
row. cardinal, indigo bird, barn swal-
low, cedar bird, red-eyed vireo. war.
bling vireo, black and white warbler.
blue yellow backed warbler, Cape May
warbler, Summer yellowbird, black.
throated blue warbler. black -throated
green warbler, myrtle warbler, mag
noia warbler. chestnut sided warbler,
bay-breasted warbler, black poll war.
bier, Blachburnian warbler, yellow
throat. blue.winged warbler, Canadian
warbler, redstart. catbird. Carolina
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night heron which spent the Winter
Of 1907 on swampy country one-half
mile west of Washington Monument
The whitethroat, he said, "sings all
Winter"
Birds seen by Roosevelt about Wash
ir ston but not on the White House
grounds he records as follows Night
heron. mourning dove. quail. ruffed
grouse. sharp-shinned hawk. red
shouldered hawk, kingfisher. hair
woodpecker. whippoorwill, night
hawk, kingbird. great crested fly.
catcher, phoebe, wood peewee, horned
lark. bobolink, red-winged blackbird,
meadow; TX, vesper sparrow, bush
sparrow, towhee, tanager. purple mar
tin, tree swallow. bank swallow. logger
head shrike. prairie warbler, oven.bird,
water thrush. Kentucky warbler. piplt,
mockingbird thrasher. house wren,
marsh wren and gnatcatcher.
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so VARIETIES OF BIRDS FOUND,
ABOUT WHITE HOUSE GROUNDS
Roosevelt's Record, Resurrected Here,
Shows Former President Was Keen Stu
dent of Feathered Life at Mansion.

wren. creeper. white.breasted nut
hatch, tufted tit, chickadee, golden.
crowned kinglet, ruby-crowned king
let, wood thrush, bluebird and robin.
Doubtless this list is incomplete. 2"
Roosevelt wrote. II have seen others
which 1 have forgotten"
His list is interspersed with inter-
esting comments OF the sparrow
hawk he wrote: "A pair spent the last
two Winters in and about the White
House grounds. feeding on the spar.
rows-largely. thank heaven, English
sparrows"
On his rides about Washington
Roosevelt was equally observant of
bird lif-. He found. he records, "a
Evening star., 1927-11-14
100000 motor cars are In opera.
ton at the same time.

o0.000,000 motor cars are in opera.
ton at the same time.
Even though this point is reached"
he said. "it merely Is situation in
which steady usage replaces expa n
sion. The sewing machine and the
boot and shoe industry have passed
the saturation point. yet still are
thriving"
Mr.. Ayres expects domestic soon.
sumption this year to fall below any
year since 1922, although the export
production has nowhere near reached
the point of saturation."
He predicted a boom in motor car
buying generally with the release Of
the new Ford product, pointing out
that more than 100000 prospects,
are waiting to view 1t before de.
Gliding what make to buy. Many Of
these. he said. will buy other make
cars. thus improving the entire auto.
motive trade,
Evening star., 1927-11-14
CHICAGO ITALIAN KILLED.
Believed to Be Another Gang War
Victim.

CHICAGO, November ii R.-An
Italian youth. shot
through the back, who was found
lying in the street and who died soon
afterwarI. led to the police belief to-
day that another gang war victim
may have been added to Chicago's
long list.
An hour previous to the finding of
the dying youth police in another part
OF the city found Joseph Calero,
Evening star., 1927-11-14
Accidentally Wounded by Son

VIRGINIA, H.. November II P).-
After lying wounded for several hours
in a hunting blind near here yester-
day Louis Grow, g., of Chicago, was
taken a hospital at Jacksonville
suffering from a shattered right leg,
injured when the shotgun Of his son
Roland, %, was accidentally dis
Evening star., 1927-11-14
English "Coxey's Army" Moves On

SWINDON, England, November II
R.-The new "Coxey's army" after
warming their hands at a bonfire
formed by pile of copies of the Lon
don Daily Mail. which is vigorously
anti-Red. took to the road for Hunger
ford l. miles from here this morning
Evening star., 1927-11-14

leader Of the self.styled "42" gang.
shot through the back.
Police believe Calero may have been
shot by a policeman. an officer having
fired several shots short time before
at two men he saw stripping an auto
mobile in the alley.
Evening star., 1927-11-14
AUTO SATURATION POINT
DECLARED UNALARMiNG
Milan v. Ayres, Chicago Econo-
mist, Says Steady Usage Re-
places Expansion.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, November 14.-The sat.
uration point has been reached by
the American automotive industry,
the National Association of Finance
Companies was told today by Milan V.
Ayres, Chicago economist, but he does
not regard it as a cause for alarm.
The "saturation point" by the
Ayres definition. is the time when
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BY G. NJ. DYOTT.

"A Ne fought our way down
n the Rio Roosevelt our stores
ran lower and lower. Fight
4 \ men consume a lot of food,
even IL restricted TO two meals
a dav ours were not square meals,
either. and it was becoming daily
more doubtful whether our supplies
would hold out until we reached the
rubber growers on the lower river.
To make matters worse. one of our
canoes upset. We had passed safely
through a bad group of rapids and
were embarking at the tail end of
some broken water. Juan, in the lead
ing canoe, was we'll under way; ] was
right behind him and the third canoe
was just putting out from shore.
had cautioned Bob Young about some
trees that were growing in midriver.
They We're unpleasantly close and the
swift current threatened to carry our
canoes right on top of them. The mo-
ment | was ont OF danger l looked
around to see how Bob was getting
on. He drifted out into the current,
With Luiz in the stern, padding. sud
denly the canoe disappeared and soon
after there was a frenZied yell from
Bob.
The moment we heard him shout
we put back to shore and Eugene
Bussey and myself made our way
along the bank as quickly as the
tangled forest growth permitted. I
hurried ahead until l was opposite the
submerged island on which Bob had
been wrecked. / could not see any
thing. but heard him yell that he was
drowning.
Bussey caught the word "cargoes
and was quick to sense what was
meant. He called out in turn to Doc,
who was with Juan in the first canoe
further downstream. Doc acted at
once and had Juan pull out into the
middle OF the river to intercept any
of our belongings if they came float
ing by.
Bob had with him our valuable
films and my feelings can be mag
tned as l stood on the bank realizing
that all had gone TO the bottom.
The only thing to be done was to
rescue Bob and LUZ. To get canoe
out into the middle of the river was
a dangerous and difficult task. I hur-
ried back to my boat. discharged the
cargo and with the assistance of Bus.
sey and Alfredo padded upstream
against the swift current. Crossing
over to the tail end of the submerged
island, we worked our way up to the
head of 1t by hauling on branches,
finally reaching the spot where Bob
and Luiz were perched in the branches
of tree.
X X
THE noise of the water tearing
- through the trunks made it difficult
to hear. / shouted to ask where the
canoe was. Bob pointed to a rope, taut
as a piano wire, which was hitched
to a branch. Somewhere at the end
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them. They would not go home. Doc
wanted to invite them to stay to sup
per and would have traded away our
last ak and machete for useless ar
rows had l not passed the word that
no one was to do any bartering. EX-
cessive exhibitions of friendliness are
often forerunners of trouble.
WE told the Indians to come back
next day about o'clock. They
grasped the meaning of our signs and,
as darkness came on, they faded away
in the jungle. Next day they were
back on schedule with shouts of
"Arara! Arara" Swarps Of brown
figures crowded around us like bees.
They did not come emptyhanded,
either. They brought a few hunks of
dried monkey meat, a drink that had
quite a strong alcoholic content and
ears of hard corn. When greeting us
they shouted "Arara" and for that
reason we called them "Arara In
dams" SO far have been unable to
find any record or description Of them
1t is not easy to converse with a
horde of savages. The sign language
does not lend itself to the expression
Of varying shades OF thought or com
plicated ideas. All we could hope to
do under the circumstances was to
impress our visitors with the one i'm
portant fact that we were birds of
passage.
think we succeeded in making our
selves understood. because the Araras.
in turn. gave us some friendly advice.
1t took us long time to grasp what
they were driving at, but gradually
the significance of their oft-repeated
gestures dawned upon us. They laid
their shaggy heads on their hands
and closed their eyes as II asleep:
then, pointing to the opposite bank of
the river, they shook their fists ener-
getically from side to side. This was
followed by an imitation Of chopping
Off hand or foot, and Of eating food.
In plain English, they warned us not
to sleep on the opposite bank of the
river, because the people who lived
there cut off the hands and feet Of
strangers and ate them.
Our friends hung about till pm.
and when they left they took num-
Der Of our belongings with them. 1
saw one man pull out machete that
had been hidden under some blankets
and deliberately throw it into the
jungle, where he could pick 1t up
later. 1t would not have been good
diplomacy to retrieve it and confront
the thief with proof of his unftiend.
illness, and had to let the offender go
free.
Once clear of our nimble-fingered
guests, we began moving our cargoes
over the trail. AS we could not shift
camp two miles in a single day, we
carried part of our belongings to a
halfway point and left them piled up
in the jungle. I had carried one case
to the spot chosen, and on returning
with second was astonished to find
that the first had been opened during
nv absence. The contents. thrown
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Outwitted on Final Stage of Rio Roosevelt Journey

glad to see pair of pants in all his
life. To us that simple garment was
an emblem of success, faS OF vic-
tory-and only just in time. for our
last ounce of meat was coE3umed
that night and our supply of rice was
exhausted.
7 ONG. weary days of padding still
hay ahead of us, but our cventful
Journey was now nearing it's end. 1t
was only matter of hard work. Food
was plentiful, for the kind settlers we
met gave us generously Of their stores
Senior Alvidio Araripi. who owns the
trading post Of Vera Cruz. was hos
pitaIity personifed; he treated US like
, kings.
Glow many Of you died on the
way?" was the question every one
asked us. They took it for granted
that half at least must have persisted.
To have eight start and eight finish
was to them nothing short of a mir
acle.
Down the unending lane Of flowing
water we Travelled to the Madeira
River. We encountered Col. Caripe
on the way. lie had helped the Roose-
Welt party ont at the end OF their
memorable iuor Gev in 1914. and now
he came to our rescue and facilitated
| our movements down the river. lie
| had given Roosevelt n suit OF clothes
| and he had a photo of the Colonel
! decked out in his garments. He
| showed us the picture with great
| pride. We met others who also had
| met Col. Roosevelt. and one and all
| were high in his praise for the en-
| durance he had shown in making
| such a trip.
1t was not long before we reached
! the Madeira River, down which we
| sailed to Manaos, on river launch.
! We arrived there, l 900 miles from
| the mouth of the Amazon, at 1890
| m. and by 4 o'clock the same day
| Bussey and / were on board the
| steamship stephen, homeward bound
! for New York.
| Luck plays an important role in
| any expedition. and l must say that
| in spite of Setbacks fortune treated
us well. We had, of course. the bepe-
| fit of Col. Roosevelt's experience; but
! it was our canvas boats that did more
| TO crown our efforts with success
| than anything else. How Col. RoOse-
/ welt survived the ordeal Of that trying
| river Journey is hard to realize; yet
| he did. and the data collected by his
party form a substantial contribution
TO our geographic knowledge of
/ South America. Even if the head
waters Of the Duvida We're known to
| Gen. Rondon in 1909, or the mouth Of
the same stream to the rubber men
more than half a century ago, the
fact remains that no one had previ-
ously explored it in its entirety or
! thought Of the two extremes as be-
| ing one and the self-same river. L
like the ColOnels own expression:
we put a river on the map" That
is just what was done, and it was
done uncommonly well.
My story of this muCh-talked- of
river now ends and I feel it a privi-
lege to go on record with the assur.
ance that. this roaring torrent is no
longer a river of doubt" but a river
of fact" and that the official name
given to it by the Brazilian govern
| ment, namely, Rio Roosevelt, will al
ways remain a fine tribute TO one OF
the finest citizens America ever had.