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Evening star., 1927-05-08
GIRL SCOUTS.

Troop No. II met Wednesday at the
Bethesda School. Formation and pa
troll corners were held. The girls
studied the history Of the American
flag. Some Of the members passed the
code. Each patrol drew something
representing the flag. Patrol l won
for having the best picture. The hike
which was planned could not be taken
on account of the rain. The girls are
all trying to pass their tests before
June.
Troop No. 20 met Friday night. Mrs.
Clark, a councillor from Los Angeles,
told about the Girl Scout camp in the
California redwoods. Damaris Peck,
a Girl Scout from China, told about
the American troop she belonged to
over there. A game of streets and
alleys" was played.
Daisy Troop, No. 26, met Friday at
the Fourth Presbyterian Church, with
Lieut.. Lydia Hunt in charge. There
was instruction in signaling, judging
and compass. New games were played.
Section B of Troop No. % met at st.
Margaret's Church April %.
Pinecone Troop, No. 81, held no
regular meetings during the past
week, but several of the girls took
tions held during the week at the little
house. The girls who took part in
these demonstrations were Alice Will
liams, Jacqueline Kelly, Elsie Bryant,
Margaret Scott and Virginia Edge.
The following members Of the troop
took part in the pan-American flag
exercises at the Auditorium Tuesday
evening: Linda Swain, Helen Carn-
shaw, Jacqueline Kelly and Margaret
Scott.
Troop No. AZ met Monday afternoon
in the Chevy Chase Presbyterian
Church. Mrs. Conrad Young, the cap
tain, has returned from Florida. The
troop attended the May festival at the
Chevy Chase Seminary.
Troop No. 58 held its last meeting
April 29, at the James Monroe School.
The girls discussed a tennis court the
Scouts are furnishing. Instruction
period was held, games played and
songs sung. Miss Clark read a story
entitled 1.-THE Proud King" Next
meeting will be planned by Patrol
Leaders Frances Bierley and Evelyn
Gulick.
The last meeting of Troop No. 81
was held at the Maryland School April
%. Mrs. Shure, the captain. gave out
notices. Inspection was held, in which
the Dogwood Patrol was perfect in
every detail. After game chosen by
this patrol a half hour was put toward
study on tests. Some of the girls
passed part of their second class test.
Mrs. Shure told the girls that DIR. Erv.
ing had volunteered to take the troop,
Saturday evening at 1880 o'clock, for
instruction about the stars.
Pocahontas Troop, No. SO. met Sat.
urday and took their lunch. Games
were played, then lunch was eaten
At 1 o'clock the meeting was opened
then songs were sung. Two new girls
joined the meeting Saturday.
Evening star., 1927-05-08
SILK HATS INSURANCE
AGAINST AUTO INJURY
Drivers in London Avoid Hitting
Wearers Of Stovepipe
Head Gear.
Ry the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 7.-Silk hats are
the best insurance against being run
over by a motor car in the London
traffic jam.
Bus and taxi drivers generally re-
gard the stovepipe hat as the insignia
of a noble lord, and no self-respecting
driver could dream of running down
such q superior person.
AS a matter of fact high hats are
now worn more by bank clerks and
messengers than by members Of the
nobility. But the tradition still per-
sists that the morning coat and plug
hat are the uniform of quality.
In the wirl at Piccadilly Circus and
Trafalgar Square traffic cops always
halt traffic for members of the high
hat brigade, and in less congested CEN
ters, where there is no official control,
the drivers themselves halt for the
silk hat.
Evening star., 1927-05-08
From Wild Horse to Star.

a Colorado State farm. The horse was
known then as Casey Jones" killer,
with the reputation of hating all man.
kind. One rancher was dead, another
had spent six months in the hospital
and all men feared the flashing hoofs
Of the fiery black stallion.
Really a pedigreed Morgan stallion,
Casey Jones" had been allowed to
run wild on the Western plains until
he was years of age.
Treated with rare understanding by
a good trainer, Chick Morrison, who
was later killed by another horse in a
polo game, Rex, as he was renamed,
grew to like men enough to obey his
trainers instructions and to lend his
equine personality to the making Of
pictures.
THE King of Wild Horses" his first
picture, acclaimed as novel and thrill
ing. was followed by BLACK Cyclone"
and "The Devil Horse" mo Mans
Law" is the fourth.
Evening star., 1927-05-08

HOLLYWOOD and the motion pic
ture industry are to play an i'm
portant part in the Mystic Shrine con-
vention. June to 16 inclusive, at
Atlantic City.
Harry D. Brown, internationally
known as a pageant master and cleo
trical wizard, will go to the Eastern
resort to stage three mal-.moth night
spectacles. in which filmlands bright
est stars and the brilliant electrical ef-
fects heretofore known only to the
cinema world will be featured as at
fractions for the thousands of visit
ing Mobiles and their families.
creator of the spectacular effects
for the biggest of picture productions
and the mammoth electrical pageant
at the Shrine conclave in Los Angeles
two years ago, Brown is planning to
charter an entire train to take %
stellar luminaries of the screen world
and an entire comedy company TO
make a fun film on the sands of At
tantic City for the edification and en-
tertainment of the throngs.
Evening star., 1927-05-08
A "Vamp'' Unique.

4 NAMP who will not be named In
the cast of First Nationals pro-
duction. Lonesome Ladies'" starts all
the trouble between Lewis Stone and
Anna Q. Nilsson in the story.
In fact. there's one animate rival
and one inanimate rival against Miss
Nilsson in the picture. and the latter
is a huge, comfortable. overstuffed
lounging chair. With its newspaper
rack foot rest and place for pipe,
cigars and matches, it's a vamp
worthy of any housewives mettle In
any tired business mans home.
The kink of introducing a chair az
vamp is one of many plot novelties In
Lonesome Ladies'" which Winifred
Dunn adapted from Lenore Cofree's 9
original story. Ray Rocket Is pro.
ducing the picture for First National
and Joseph Henabery directs.
Evening star., 1927-05-08
Now a Fighting Flapper.

THE queen of the fiappers has be-
come an all-around athlete. Clara
Bow, already possessed of TT" red
hair, beauty and pep, now has en-
larged her repertoire. She can box
with the best of them.
In her newest picture. Rough
House Rosie" the fiery little actress
plays the sweetheart of a fighting
man. In several scenes 1t was de-
manded that she use the padded nit
tens. So Miss Bow took a series of
boxing lessons from AL Kaufman, in
charge of the gymnasium at the Para
mount Studio.
Evening star., 1927-05-08

NOVELTY is an ideal Hal Roach
strives to attain.
One of the most successful novelties
introduced by him was Rex, the wild
horse, who captured the public's mag
ination at the start and held 1t
through three features.
The inception of the idea dates back
to the time that Fred Jackman, who
has directed all the Rex films for
Pathe, made 1.-The Call of the Wild"
Jack London's famous dog story.
When Jackman completed THE Call
OF the Wild" he and Hal Roach
ageed that, while dog stars promised
to be popular, the starring of a horse
would be a departure from precedent.
insuring success on the sheer grounds
of novelty. But 1t was many months
afterward that the proper horse was
found.
The producer and director ultimate
" learned of the existence of Rex on
Evening star., 1927-05-08
White Bead Woman"
Rite.

WHEN John Waters. director of
w Drums of the Desert" started
home from the reservation location
he brought with him six Navajo In
dams, led by Chief Seginitso, head
of the $4,000 Western Navajos.
AS the cavalcade reached the Colo
RADIO River, Seginitso asked that the
car containing the Indians be stopped.
When the request had been COM
piled with, all six of the Indians dis
mounted and scattered sacred corn
meal on the waters of the river.
When Waters asked the meaning of
the ceremony, the chief explained that
to the Navajos the White Bead
Woman is the titular diety. When
ever they are near or cross running
water they pray to her and make
offerings of the sacred corn meal to
her. The play was written by Zane
Grey.
Evening star., 1927-05-08
Beauties in Pathe Comedy.

MACK SENNETT'S 1927 collection
- of bathing beauties make their
first appearance in Catalina, Here l
Gomez the Pathe comedy made
around the recent Channel Swim.
Madeline Hurlock and Alma Bennett
are couple Of spirited girls who be-
lieve womans place is in the Channel,
and attempt to make the Catalina
Swim. Andy Clyde and Eddie Quillan
are trainers who instruct a class of
girls in swimming, and it is here that
the bathing beauties come in.
Probably for the first time in their
careers, they do not just pose along
the beach. They go through a routine
Of systematized swimming exercises.
Women constitute 80 per cent of the
working class population in Constan.
finnnlp
Evening star., 1927-05-08
MOTION PICTURE COUPLE
HOLD MARRIAGE RECORD
By the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD. Calf, April q
Twenty-nine years without divorce.
That is the record Of one couple in
motion pictures.
James Neill, character actor, and
his wife, Edythe Chapman, who plays
mother roles in the films, have been
married that long, and the entire
time to each other.
Their longest separation was for 10
days, when Neill was on location at
Catalina Island and Miss Chapman
was playing mother in Hollywood.
Evening star., 1927-05-08
Won Stroheim on Serials.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, Calf, May IA
renaissance of the screen serial is pre-
dicted by Erich Won Stroheim, actor
director. He sees a place for it in
filming masterpieces of literature.
"A novelist" he said, gets his eff
fects by repetition of significant de
tail. A faithful film version of move
so written cannot be made in ~ reels
without throwing overheard most oi
this significant detail.
Serial presentation of feature films
is the only solution"
Evening star., 1927-05-08

Like Queen Mary of England. Queen
Victoria of Sweden consistently def1es
the DEGREES Of fashion, and though she
is seldom home her wishes that skirts
should not hang more than 4 inches
from the floor are respected at ofncai
receptions.
Evening star., 1927-05-08

Fire Water in Good Old Days.
From the New York Herald Tribune.
To think the Indians called good
pre-war stuff fire water!
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-02

he contended, would be mconstitu-
tional. He deplored the small ap-
preparations made for the bureau of
mines and geological survey.
Elimination of cut-throat competi-
ton and wasteful reproduction by
private, developers of natural resources
was urged by Sidney j. Jennings OF
New York, the president of the United
States Smelling, Refining and Mining
company. He also advocated regula-
ton of the industry by the govern
ment
Legislation to permit mining COM
panies to operate at a reasonable profit
under supervision of a government
commission was suggested as relief
from restrictions imposed by the anti
trust acts by A. Scott Thompson OF
Miami, Okla. He described the over
production of zinc in Oklahoma,
Kansas and Missouri, and urged a
tariff, saying that more zinc was pro-
duced than domestic demands war
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-02
STATES
BETTER MINING
IS AIM OF U. S.

WASHINGTON, Dec. tB-1mproy-
ed methods of extracting minerals
economically and scientific research
are chief concerns of the government
Secretary Hoover told the American
Mining congress today in d1sclahnlng
that the government has any desire TO
interfere in the conduct of the mining
industry.
While America need not become
alarmed over the probable exhaustlon
of its mineral resources, Mr.. Hoover
said, resources should be properly con-
served and wasteful production ellmln-
ated. Government surveys show that
coal, iron and building material re-
sources will outlast many generations
the congress was told, but in the event
of the exhaustion of any one metal
science and industry will have pro-
vided adequate substitutes.
Senator Oddie of Nevada, chairman
of the senate mines committee, tolc
the $50 delegates to the conventlor
that he was opposed to federal. con-
troll of oil production. Such control
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-02

Declaring that excessive taxes, high
labor costs and prejudicial freight
rates are the biggest problems con-
fronting anthracite coal operators, E.
w. Parker, Philadelphia, the director
of the anthracite bureau of informa-
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-02

ton, said the operators were facing
increasingly strong competition as riS-
ing costs and strikes are destroying
their markets.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-02

mo Breakfast Complete Without
The Dispatch"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-02

Dispatch Telephones 81 and 30.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-04-21

Ia dim. distant memory. but some there will be VIII
will search il out
The editor of The Nation points to China Mica
ragua and Mexico countries where American
bullets have been put into use. Does he rccolec
who fired the first shots in China? Does he dis
believe entirely the tales of horror that have COM
out Of that country? II So he must disavow his
claim of being farsceng writer.
big business" is Mr.. Wizards pet bugaboo. Ht
likely believes that this sinister force, he pic.
lures it, is responsible for the friction between this
country and China. Nicaragua and Mexico. What
he negects to take into onsideraton is the ex-
tremely vital fact that in all these countries the
United States sat idly by for many months the
recipient Of gibes and insults. This country was
certainly as true an exponent Of peace any in
the world today Compare its attitude with that of
Great Britain and Japan. who thunder for repara-
tons the slightest provocaton. Not until the
time came that drastic action needed did the
United States show its hand Charging the foster
ing of spirit by the Coolidge administration
is not only foolish but is also extremely idle The
presidents record bellies such statements.
The world is eager to end II wants no
more strife But to say that out of the late war
came benefits, came no advancement, is to deny
the facts. to deny history.
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Modern. But Not Commonplace

The citizen whose delight it is to point to this
country the outstanding example of common
place civilization must have given pause when read
ing an Associated Press dispatch from New Mexico
which told Of rites performed by cult Of flesh
torturers" there.
This group, holding tenaciously to tenetS thought
promulgated only in the middle ages, holds as its
belief that sin be expurgated only by physical
suffering. TO inflict extreme PAIN the cult men,
bcrs lash themselves with braided rope Of soap
weed or cactus. Many cut cross-shaped gashes be-
tween their shoulder blades and use other ingenious
methods to punish themselves.
All this took place in the United States, though
it reads like a page from medieval history
Down south, in the matted jungles of Louisiana
and Mississippi, negroes still practice "voodooism
and believe fervently in the power of charms. po-
tons and philters. Sickness even death can be
brought to an enemy, they believe, by holding "a
little image and pushing pins into it. To effect
death, flngng the image into fire is sufficient.
Witch doctors still ply their trade. Superstitious
thousands hearken to their words, holding weird
ceremonies and believing in fetishes which seem
more appropriate to African jungles than to any
part Of the United States.
No, civilization has not yet completely botted
savagery and medevalism from the American
scene There is still UNEMPLOYED land for the ro-
mancer to search out; there are still mountains to
be climbed and canyons to be explored Romance
still holds sway The United States well be
called modern" but it cannot be called common
place
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Under Il Handicap

Young John Coolidge has won his point. lie can
call on Miss Florence Trumbull often he
likes.
For long time, it is said, the president dis
couraged his sons visits to the Connecticut gov
ernor's daughter because of the publicity that at
tended them. Now, however, he is said to have
withdrawn his objections.
One feels bit sorry for the boy. Every othe'
youngster in the land can pay his attentions to
any girl he likes. and says word. But
poor John Coolidge can't take Florence Trunlbul
to church without seeing full account of it ir
the newspapers next day.
He's hardly getting fair break. Let's all la.
off Of him fer while. Suppose the hoy does like
to call on her-what of it?
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81 cannot remember my own word.
with absolute clearness, but I car
give the gist Of my remarks. and
believe | can tell with fair accurac.
lust what the young lady answered,
Bates replied hesitatingly, with a
glance of sorrowful kindness toward
Cherry, who smiled at him reassur-
ingl4
"Do the best you can. Mr.. Bates
Banning encouraged him.
II asked the young lady if she
had given due thought and consider
alton To the step she was about to
take. Mr.. Wiley interrupted with
some heat or | believe | can quote
his words. We are both Of age. Mr..
Bates, and the license is entirely
legal. assure you. A marriage IL
cense is good for six months in this
state turned back to the young
iaLy. put my arm across her shout
ders. and spoke to her rs a father.
with her best interest ut heart. l
said. in substance. My dear child.
have you considered that you are
about to cause a great deal Of grief.
not only to your mother and father.
bu; to the man to whom you have
given your promise and who is even
now whiting it the CNuTCN LOT MS
bride
And just what did Miss Cherry
answer. Mr.. Bates" Banning asked.
with evident relish for the expected
reply.
"She burst into tears: indeed. |
could see that she had been crying
before her arrival at my house. and
between sobs she said. He ISN'T wait
ing at the church. I've told him
won, marry him. and I won't. I'd
rather die! Oh. Mr.. Bates. he's so
old. so old. I've just told him tina.
| won't marry him. He knows. He
understands now. Oh. ] didn't mean
to hurt him. but he understands.
There was nothing else then for me
to 90 hut to perform the ceremony.
which did. calling nv wife and
daughter. who dressed hurriedly. to
act as witnesses"
"You are sure. Mr.. Bates. that
Miss Cherry said. I didn't mean to
hurt him that those were her exact
words ?" Banning repeated the sig
nificant words impressively.
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Thorpe to. Confer
With HOuck About
Ignite Rate Case

Plans for carrying out the pro-
visions of a legislative enactment
ordering a new investigation of
freight rates on Ignite coal will
be considered at a conference in
Minneapolis tomorrow between
John Thorpe, first assistant attor-
ncy general, and Stanley Houck,
special counsel for the. state in the
Ignite rate case.
Thorpe. who will retire May ],
will continue as special counsel
associated with Houck in the case.
Houck has been representing
North Dakota in the Ignite rate
case which has pending before
the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion. %s a.
Frank Milhollan, chairman. OF
the state railroad board, is SEIZED.
uled to address a convention OF
gas men in the Twin Cities tonaor-
row and may take part in the
conference, i
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(Official City. State and Ccanty Newspaper
A Friendly Organization

The recent banquet of the Bismarck Credit
Bureau served to bring home strongly the
point that the organization is in sympathy with
the buying public of this city. 1t is a friendly or
ganizaton which, by helping merchants to elm
mate the unprofitable account lowers the cost CT
living. AS speakers at the banquet pointed out.
the bureau performs real service by Kidding bust
ness houses of deadbeats who have intention OF
paying their sbills thus helping both the merchant
and the consumer.
In some cases. illness in the family or other ad-
vcrsity has prevented people from paying their
accounts promptly The bureau assists these peo-
pie arranging a system by which they may clean
up their back bills and showing spirit OF cooper
alton which is praseworthy
In these days of complex business life, the bureau
has a real place to fill. 1t has proved Of benef::
to both merchants and customers.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-04-21
Olson Motor Co.
Is Named Dealer
in MarnOn Cars

The Olson Motor company of Bis
marck has been named as dealer for
Marmon cars in Bismarck and vicin-
it'' according to announcement made
today.
Ame concern will handle the Mar
mon Big Six and the Little Marmon
Eight. A five passenger sedan in the
eight cylinder series is now on dis
play in the Olson garage.
The eight cylinder models, recently
added to the Marmon line, are said
to have several new developments in
engineering. The chassis is unusual
" low swung, but with normal road
clearance, due to use Of new hypoid
rear axle gears: springs are mounted
in new type rubber insulators which
are claimed to be rattle proof and
trouble proof. i
The chassis has . six-inch channel
frome. very rigid: self-energizing four
wheel brakes: long, flat. semi-elliptic
snrings. whose total length lack but
22 inches Of equaling the wheelbase
Of the car. The car will 60 20 miles
an hour, it's makers claim, and is
said to make from 10 to e miles on
gallon Ct gaselims. III
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Jamestown Grocery
Company Will Have
$4,000 Building

jamestown, N. d., April 81
(AP)-Work ON new $4,000
building will be begun by the
jamestown Grocery company,
wholesale grocers, here in the inn
mediate future, it was announced
by w. H. Yeager, manager, today.
The jamestown Grocery COM
pany, Of which II. A. Patterson
of Mankato is president, is affil-
lated with the Jordan Stevens
company CT Minneapolis, the L.
Patterson company of Mankato,
the Valley City Grocery company
at Valley City, the Bismarck Gro
Gerry company lat Bismarck, the
Bismarck Grocery company ut
Dickinson and also the Wholesale
Grocery companies at Glendive,
Sydney and Miles City, Montana.
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Elmer Gantry' Very
Popular in Bismarck
Despite Library Ban

The Bismarck Public Library will
not have ELMER. Gantry," Sinclair
Lewis much discussed novel, on its
shelvess Miss Pauline Rich. city Ii
brarian, announced today. Although
Miss Rich explained. she agrees with
Mis- IL Lillian hnat Cook Ok; state = eraran
lated from a public library.
that the North Dakota library would
not circulate the book.
The book, however. is being wide
(, Il rad in the city, more than SOC
copies having been sold by local book
A6eelers. One stationer reports that
the sale exceeds that Of any book
Ms store has carried for some hme:s
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-04-21

District Musical
Contest Here on
Saturday, April 80

The third district musical and de-
clamatory contests will be held In
Bismarck next Saturday, April 80,
with the possibility of a large num-
Der Of entries from high schools
throughout the district. However, as
registrations were made ut state
headquarters in Grnad Forks the
number of contestants is not known
here. s. p. Orwell. head of the mu-
sic department of the local high
school and district manager Of the
contest, is expecting to receive defi-
mite information within the next
few days.
Eighteen different events are
scheduled for the musical contest
and there are three events in the
declamatory contest. Winners of
first and second place in each event
will be eligible to take part in the
state contest in Grand Forks May l8
10, 20 and 81.