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Evening star., 1928-09-10
COOLIDGE FISHING
IS HALTED BY RAIN
President and Wife Leave
This Afternoon for Wash
ington.
BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG.
Staff Correspondent OF The Star.

CEDAR ISLAND LODGE. BRULE
RIVER, Wis, September 1O.-The
President today braved a cold, heavy
rain, and north wind to get in his
last day of fishing before leaving for
Washington.
The temperature fell to about IS
overnight, and a. there was no indica-
tions of a let-up in the downpour Of
rain the President did not remain verv
long at fishing He has refused to let
his fishing paraphernalia be packed,
and 1t is likely he will indulge in his
favorite sport later in the day, If the
rain stops.
This morning Mrs. Coolidge was
busily engaged seeing that everything
was put in readiness for their leave TAX
ing late this afternoon. The baggage is
taken in Army trucks to the Presidents
special train at Superior.
The President and Mrs. Coolidge will
leave their island retreat shortly after
4:3O this afternoon. They will motor
to Superior. where thousands are ex-
pected to be assembled to bid them
farewell. 1t is understood that the
President will take this opportunity to
express his gratitude and appreciation.
He probably will not speak more than
2 or 3 minutes.
The special train will consist of eight
steel cars. The journey from Superior
to Chicago will be over the tracks of
the Chicago e. Northwestern Railroad
and from Chicago to Washington it
will travel on the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad.
James j. Davis. Secretary of Labor.
who is in Pennsylvania. where he has
been speaking. will board the special
train tomorrow night at some point in
Pennsylvania. According to the sched-
ule the train will arrive in Washington
Wednesday morning early enough to
permit the President to be at his desk
at the customary hour.
President and Mrs. Coolidge yester.
day went to the Congregational Church
at Brule. They were thanked for the
Christian example of the past three
months bv unfailing attendance at
church. They have heard IL evangei-
ical sermons by John Taylor. blind
lay preacher. who has divided his life
between selling dry goods on week davs
and preaching the Gospel on the Sab
bath.
Evening star., 1928-09-10
OFFICER IS-AWARDED FOURTH
DECORATION FOR WAR BRAVERY
Lieut.. George J. Forster Gets
Distinguished Service
Cross.
Already Has Croix de Guerre
and Two Stars for
GaIIantry.

Lieut. George j. Forster. one of the
! five officers OF the 26th Infantry Regi-
ment who survived the deadly barrage
( of German artillery, rifle and machine
| guns at Scissors. and now an aid to
| Maj. Gen. Charles P. Summerall chief
| of staff, has had another decoration
added to the several already conferred
upon him for bravery.
This time it is his own cOuntryS Dis
tinguished Service Cross, awarded for
hcroiSm in action near Verdun from
October to 13. 1918. He already holds
the French Croix de Guerre for his
extraordinary conduct at SOiSSonS. a
silver star for bravery at Cantigny and
a second silver star for gallantry under
fire at st. Mihiel
The Distinguished Service Gross was
awarded the young officer on recon-
mendation of Theodore Roosevelt jr.
who served in the same regiment with
Lieut.. Forster
According to the citation, Lieut.
Forster throughout the engagement
displayed exceptional GOODNESS and
bravery under artillery, machine gun
and rifle fire, directing the fire of his
guns, thereby rendering invaluable as
sistance to his battalion commander in
establishing liaison and obtaining i'm
portant information
Lieut.. Forster took part in the five
major operations of the 26th Infantry
1st Division. at Cantigny, scissors,
st. Mihiel. the Argonne and at the de-
fense of Toule. He received the French
decoration for his heroic actions at
scissors. the first outstanding American
offensive. He emerged in command of
his battalion. by reason of the fact
that his superior officers we're killed in
the battle. Out of 100 officers the 26th
Regiment lost all but in that en-
gagement, while but 237 of $500 men
survived.
Lieut.. Forster was born at Wausau,
Wis, April "a, 1891. He entered the
military service from Missouri, after
graduating from st. Marys College.
Kan. He entered the second officers
training camp in Illinois and went to
France Immediately upon completing
the course. He has been an. assistant
to Gen. Summerall for eight years.
Evening star., 1928-09-10

toward the foaming white water below.
Our canoe glided down until it met
the turbulent water and then We began
to bob up and down like cork We
shipped very little water until the bow
nosed through a huge wave instead of
bouncing over it. A sheet of water
drenched me as sat cooked in front
watching for rocks.
The canoe, heavily loaded with sup
plies and equipment. became difficult to
handle after the first drenching, and
gradually took on more water. enough
to submerge the gunwales. We rode
rightside up until bad eddy caught
the bow and turned the canoe clean
over, throwing Fuller and 1 headlong
into the icy river.
We righted the canoe and hung onto
the sides as the current carried us down
to quiet water where We could swim to
shore safely.
Have Narrow Escape,
Before we had time to warn Boddum
and Kane, in the other canoe, not to
run the rapids. we saw them at the ton
OF the first chute coming down at high
speed. Up to my neck in the frigid
water, I watched them as they bobbed
up and down, missing the rocks, and
then down the second chute they sped
to meet a fate similar to what we had
experienced
Their canoe. tossed on the crests of
the big waves, seemed to be coming
along finely until they were half wav
through the white water But from then
on, the nose seemed to be going down,
and with each succeeding wave the
angle became more noticeable until the
water seemed to rush in and envelop
the canoe.
1t was spectacular sight to see the
canoe vanish from sight and only two
haeds reappear few seconds later.
Ihey hoated down to quiet water with
only the upper part of their bodies
visible
After landing, we retrieved our sup
ply bags but our kitchen, movie camera
and 5000 feet of uneXpoSed film could
not be accounted for. Thus the rapids
received their name-"the Five-Hun-
dred-Dollar Rapids"
Corn Meal Ferments.
Max Kane, who was acting as cook.
resented doing his duties with only one
Kettle and one cup for utensils, so we
Whitfield out four crude wooden spoons
to complete our kitchen. A rain set in
shortly afterward making the soaking
of our supplies set out to dry thor
ough one, and it continued to do so for
the next two days
The corn meal previously had been
soaked and after this drenching it he
gan to ferment so we fed it to the
whisky Jacks" and the way they
cleaned it up surely made them worthy
of their name The other supplies suf-
fered to some extent, and we had twice
as much oatmeal after swamping-in
quantity at least
The message which informed those at
Bracket that we were lost and starving
somewhere on Reindeer Lake was car
ried to that post by ranger hydro
plane and was signed by Corp. Mallory
of the Canadian Mounted Police, who
is stationed at Pelican Narrows, half
way between the pass at Manitoba and
Bracket.
You will readily understand how
interested we were in that message
Subsequently we read some clippings
giving more information regarding us
and we decided that the story originated
with man we had met at South End
Evening star., 1928-09-10

Messing an automobile race over the
pass. headed in the opposite direction.
For two hours. Hinden said, the bus
hugged the side of the road as it crepr
slowly toward the summit and during
this time score or more of racing
cars dashed by. Twice the cars side
swlped the trailer. but doing no appre-
clable damage. Each time, it seemed
they missed the bus by inches.
In London they met Dudley Barker
and in Paris they met Rene Ponthieu.
who are the Oratorical champions in
England and France and will arrive for
the International Oratorical Contest to,
be held in Washington in October. Hin
den stated that he met half a dozen
groups of WashingtOnians in Europe.
The party disbanded when the Lap
land docked. Hinden was met at the
pier by his parents. Rosado stated he
expects to remain in New York and
Washington until the international con-
test, in which he is to represent Mexico.
Accompanied by his parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. Samuel Hinden. apartment 125,
$500 Fourteenth street, Benjamin ar
rived III Washington last night
He spent the evening recounting his
experiences abroad and lunched at the
Mexican embassy today with Rosada.
Evening star., 1928-09-10
EXPEDITION CHIEF
DESCRIBES HARDSHIPS
IN CANADIAN WILDS
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length from 200 yards to IL miles
long and run through region which
is thickly populated by sand flies, mos
quitoeS and the terrible black flies of
the North. These pests made life mis-
cradle for us from the time we left
Brackett until we returned.
The Neultin drops over 1000 feet in
its total of approximately 400 miles
from its headwaterS at Cashmur Lake,
to where it empties into Hudson Bay
at Drftwood Point. The Indians tOld
us that this river was very swift and
full of tortuous rapldS-and for once
they did not eXaggerate.
We were successful in running all OF
the rapids until we were within one
days travel of Neultin Lake. Then we
hit a thriller tnat almost wrecked our
expedition.
Rapids Prove Dangerous.
We have named these particular
rapids the Five Hundred Dollars
Rapids" They are over mile and
half long and only broken in the center
by one short smooth stretch. All the
rest of the way the river is full of huge
boulders and the channel narrows from
100 yards to 10 yards after the second
chute, causing the waves to jack-knife
together with a bad backlash.
Fuller and I vere almost mile ahead
of Boddum and Kane when we reached
this dangerous spot, so we decided to
run it if possible and then walk back
to take movies of our companions as
they shot down. We padded to the
crest of the chute and awaited develop.
ments as the swift current carried us
Evening star., 1928-09-10
.ORATORy WINNERS
LAND IN NEW YORK
Washington Youth Describes
PeriIous Bus Ride Over
Mountain Pass.
snecial Disnat tch to The Star.

NEW YORK, September 10.-A four
hour motor bus ride over SimplOn Pass
from Switzerland to Italy will be re-
membered for the rest of their lives by
the seven Americans and one Mexican
winners of the high school DIVISION Ma
tional Oratorical Contest, who returned
yesterday aboard the Red Star liner
Lapland from a two-month tour of
Europe.
The party included Benjamin E. Hin
den of Washington, who was sponsored
in the contest by The Evening Star
James r. Moore of Somerset, KY. spon-
Sored by the Louisville Courier journal: :
National Champion Joe E. West of
Omaha, sponsored by the Bee-NeWs:
Ralph zabludofsky, Brooklyn, sponsored
by the New York Times; Elliot Norquist
of Kansas City, sponsored by the Kan
sas City Star: Charles j. Olson, Wor-
cester Mass, sponsored by the Gazette
Frederic r. johnson of Chicago. Spon-
sored by the Daily News; Efrain Brito
Rosado of Mexico City, Mexican ma
tional champion, and Prof. George B.
Dillard of the University of Virginia
VINO conducted the tour of Europe.
The party sailed from New York June
30. The itinerary included tours of
England, France, Belgium, Holland for
the Olympic games. up the Rhine,
Switzerland, northern Italy, back to
Paris for five days and return Septem-
ber /.
The outstanding event of the tour,
according to the unanimous verdict of
the party, was the week at the Olympic
games. But the big three was the ride
over Simplon Pass.
THE road practically all of the way
through the pass was carved out of the
side of steep cliffs. with a sheer drop
OF a couple of thousand feet on one
side said Hinden. THE scenery was
wonderful, but soon after we started
we met an automobile, coming down
grade from the opposite direction, that
flashed past, Just missing the baggage
trailer behind the bus although the bus
driver had crowded over as far as pos
sible toward the outside of the narrow
road. If the automobile had struck the
bus it seems certain that we would have
been toppled into the canyon below.
I'VE had hardly begun to feel easy
again when second automobile loomcd
up ahead. following the first one. Again
the bus driver Rugged the edge of the
Cliff and again we hung on to our seats
conscious of the drop of 1000 feet.
Again we crept back into the road and
again there came thunderlng down the
mountain another automobile driven BY
some one apparently Indifferent to dan
ger and death. This car was stripped
and We learned then that we were wit
Evening star., 1928-09-10

Born in Italy SIS
years ago, Mr.. Del
Vecchio came to
America as a young
man. He had re-
sided in this city
for 80 years. He
was a member of
the Unicne Fra
tellanza Italiano.
Funeral services
will be hold tomor-
row MOI ming at
9:30 O'Clock in the
H o | y r o 5 ar V
Church, sol Third
street. Interment
W i'll be in ST
Mary's Cemetery.
Mr.. Del Vecchio
Evening star., 1928-09-10
Schumann-Heink for Smith.

NEW YORK, September 10 LP.-
Nine. Ernestine Schumann- -Heink prom
ised the Democratic national committee
here yesterday IA votes for Gov Smith
They are all in her own family-her
childrsa, grandchildren and their hus-
bands and wives.
Evening star., 1928-09-10
Pershing Returns to Capital.

Gen. John j. Pershing has returned
to this city from his Summer home at
Bluemont, Va. and is re-establishcd in
his regular apartments at the Metro
politan Club and has resumed his du-
ties at the War Department as head
of the American Battle Monuments
Commission.
Evening star., 1928-09-10

Is SWINIVFU DV nIS
widow. four sons. Savino. Leonard.
Louis, jr.. and Ernest; two daughters.
Mrs. Anthony San Fataro and Miss
helen Del Vecchio; three brothers.
Guerlno. John and Anthony; three sis
ters, Mrs. Prospero Stellabotte. Mrs
Frank Frazzano and Mrs. Michael
Agriesti. and his mother, Mrs. Marv
Grace Del Vecchio.
Evening star., 1928-09-10
LOUIS DEL VECCHIO,
MARKET MERCHANT, DIES
Services for Convention Hall Deal
er Will Be Held Tomorrow
at Holy Rosary:

Louis Del Vecchio for 80 years
merchant at the Convention Hall
market, died Saturday at his residence,
l417 Meridian place.
Evening star., 1928-09-10

Refrigerator cars for milk transpor-
tation are being advocated by DR.. Angel
MAZDA, chief of milk distribution Of
Cuba.
Evening star., 1928-09-10
Coil Springs
Special 81 $50

Either single or double sizes at this
very special Semi-Annual Selling
price. Exceptionally we'll made and
worthy of your immediate attention.
Evening star., 1928-09-10
Layer Felt Mattresses
SITS S5sg'' S;st $19.75 Dsss's Sub

1heSe SOFT durable mattresses upholstered in the
same inequality ticking that covers the box springs
An "easy-to-turn" type.
Evening star., 1928-09-10
HANNA SAYS FARE
RAISE MUST ALSO
APPLY TO w. R. & E

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Evening star., 1928-09-10

Finely constructed of walnut and
gumwood. These, in regular stock,
were far more.
Dressing Tables to match, $45
Bedroom Chairs to match, $3.50
BEDROOM FURNITURE, Sixth FLOOR
Evening star., 1928-09-10
New Goose-Feather
Pil1ows, $3'75

1t is truly unusual to find such
pillows as these at this low
price. Offered only during the
Semi-Annual Selling, so be sure
to choose this week. In the
wanted 21x27 size.
Evening star., 1928-09-10

We will pack, crate and
ship, free of charge. any
purchase you may make to
any railroad station in the
continental United States.
Evening star., 1928-09-10

This number has solid mahogany
posts with pineapple tops-a style
note of especial importance for
Early American decorative schemes.
The double size at 5000.
BEDROOM FURNITURE, SIXTH FLOOR.
Evening star., 1928-09-10
High Grade Chinese Rugs Special

All these rugs contract quatyp the high standards
specified when purchased them After this week they
will be far will be both peasurabe profitable take
advantage of the savings New and coos
Evening star., 1928-09-10

Comfortable chairs of pleasing de-
sign and covered in attractive Gre
tonnes are offered at this Semi-An-
nual Selling price, $1675.
Matching Leg Rest, $1o.5o %.3
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ORDER LIMITING TIME TO FILE
CLAIMS, AND FOR HEARING
THEREON.

State of Minnesota, County of st.
Louis, SIS.
IN PROBATE COURT.
In the Matter of the Estate of John
Kapsch, Decedent.
Letters Testamentary this day hav-
ing been granted to John Kapsch, Jr.
1t Is Ordered, That the time within
which all creditors of the above de-
cedent may present claims against his
estate in this Court, be, and the same
hereby is, limited to six months from
and after the date hereof; and that
the 3Oth day of October 1928, at ten
o'clock A. NJ. in the Probate Court
Rooms at the Court House at Duluth
in said County, be, and the same here
by is fixed and appointed as the time
and place for hearing upon the exam
nation, adjustment and allowance OF
such claims as shall be presented
within the time aforesaid.
Let notice hereof be given by the
publication of this order in THE ELY
MINER as provided by law.
Dated, Duluth, Mimi, April rs, 1928.
S. w. GILPIN,
Judge of Probate.
Seal of the Probate Court, St.
Louis County, Minnesota.
A. j. THOMAS, Attorney for Executor.
ga 5-18
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April 9th. 1923.

AfUli, 1OAo.
The House, on April oath, passed the
Flood Control Bill, providing for a
general plan, which is compromise
between those proposed by General
Jadwin, Chief of Army Engineers, and
the Mississippi River Commission.
The plan will be put into operation
by board consisting of three Army
and two Civilian engineers.
The sum of $35OOO0,O0O is author
lied to start the project, which is a
composite plan, embracing: reforesta-
ton of the head waters of the main
river and its tributaries; construction
of reservoirs to control the flow of the
main tributaries dams to be
used also for power and irrigation
purposes dredging of the channel
of the river proper; and construction
of spill-ways protected by levees to re-
lieve the flow of the main channel
during times of high water.
The Engineers assured the Commit
tee that after this plan is put into
operation, it will be a safeguard
against a flood 25 per cent greater
than the flood of 1927. While it is
not entirely satisfactory to the Con-
gress and the President, the plan is
conceded to be start to control this
mighty stream and prevent recur-
renee of such disaster as that of 1927.
S 3437, to provide for the conser-
walton of fish, and for other purposes,
passed the House on April 25th. The
measure had already passed the SEN
ate. Under provisions of the bill, the
Department of Commerce is author
lied and directed to study, investigate,
and determine the best means and
methods of preventing the destruc-
ton of fish occasioned by bitches,
canals, and other works constructed
or maintained by the United States.
1t further provides that such sums OF
money as may be necessary, not ex-
ceeding in the aggregate $4,000, are
authorized to be expended for the
purpose.
1.-The bill authorizes the participa-
ton of the United States Government
in a conservation effort of great i'm
portance, namely, the saving of mil
lions of food and game fish. The fish
cries departments of the States of
Washington and Oregon, in coopera-
ton with commercial fishing interests,
sportsmen and anglers societies. have
been endeavoring for many years to
perfect a device or devices to prevent
the admission of fish to irrigation
canal intakes and diversion dams.
Only partial success has attended
their efforts Most of the irrigation
works have been built and are being
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. WEEKLY CONGRESSIONAL LETTER !

maintained by the Federal Govern
ment.
ct has been shown to the Commit
tee that every year millions of fish
fry are Matched in the upper reaches
of streams on which irrigation works
have been installed. These immature
fish, more particularly young salmon
pursuing their natural course down.
stream toward the ocean, as well as
trout and other game species, are
swept into the irrigation canals and
bitches, from which they cannot es-
cape"
Consideration of the McNary- Haug-
en- farm relief bill was begun in the
House April Goth. There will be twelve
hours of general debate and the con-
sideration of amendments under the
five minute rule.
The bill, as passed by the Senate
April 21st, authorizes revolving fund
of $400,O0O,OOO, to be administered by
Federal Farm Loan Board "in an
effort to stabilize the current of inter-
state and foreign commerce in the
marketing of agricultural products"
The measure retains the so-called
equalization fee, which was one of the
objections cited by President Coolidge
in his veto of the measure passed at
the last session of the Sixty Ninth
Congress.
However, it has been pointed out
that the application of the equaliza-
ton fee under the new bill has been
altered so as to make the method
last resort in relieving the agricul-
tural situation.
Senator Smoot, of Utah, Chairman
of the Senate Committee on Finance,
conferred with President Coolidge on
April Goth relative to tax reduction
legislation. The Chairman reported to
the President on what the Committee
had done in voting for $203 100000
tax cut. The Senator expressed the
opinion that the measure, as agreed
upon in committee, was satisfactory
to the President.
AS passed by the House, the measure
proposes a total net reduction of ap-
proximately $290,0OO,0OO, whereas the
administration proposal was for re-
duction of $225,OO0,0OO and the House
Ways and Means Committee for $780,
735,00O
Senator Simmons, Minority Member
of the Committee, announced that the
Minority Members will carry to the
floor of the Senate their attempt to
bring about reductions amounting to
approximately $3OO,OOO,OOO.
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Notice for Bids
BIDS ARE INVITED BY THE
BOARD OF SCHOOL DISTRICT
NO. 3, OF LAKE CO. FOR TRANS
PORTATION OF SCHOOL chill
DREN.

The requirements call for trans
portation of pupils from Section
Thirty to Ely High school and return,
and for separate trip later to trans
port pupils from the Minnesota Power
& Light Cos. property at Fall Lake
Dam to the Section Thirty school.
The pupils return requires only one
trip, High School pupils being return
ed to Section Thirty, and those for
the Dam being taken home on the
same trip.
All bids should be on contracts for
one and three years, must state in full
the equipment it is proposed to use,
and must include the cost of liability
insurance to be carried by the sue
cesSful bidder.
The contractor will be required to
furnish a bond for the satisfactory
fulfillment of the contract. ;,
Bids must be received by P. M. on
May 9th addressed to Mrs. w. o. Lom-
asney, Clerk, School District No. 8,
Section Thirty, and will be considered
at a meeting of the Board on May 10th.
The Board reserves the right to re-
iect any or all bids.
SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 8,
SECTION THIRTY, MINI.
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SUMMONS.

State of Minnesota, County of ST.
Louis, SIS.
Municipal Court, City of Ely.
Victor j. Thompson, Plaintiff,
against
John Wadin, Defendant.
The State of Minnesota to the Above
Named Defendant:
You John Wadin are hereby sum-
moned and required to answer the
complaint of the plaintiff in the above
entitled action, (Which complaint has
been filed with the said Court, and to
serve copy of your answer to said
complaint on the subscriber at his
Office in the City of Ely, in said Coun-
ty and State, within ten days after
service of this summons upon you, ex-
elusive of the day of such service, and
if you fail to answer the said COM
plant within the time aforesaid, the
plaintiff in this action will take judg
ment against you for $50 with interest
thereon at the rate of per cent per
annum since July 81, 1927, together
with the costs and disbursements of
this acStion.
Dated, April 81, 1923.
THOMAS j. CAREY,
Attorney for Plaintiff, Ely Mime
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