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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-01-23
MANY ENTRIES
ARRIVING FOR
POULTRY SHOW
Tuesday Is Entry Day-Judg
ing to Be Done Wednesday,
Banquet Thursday Noon

Entries in the Missouri Slope
Poultry Show, which officially opens
In the corn show building. here to-
morrow and which will continue
through Thursday, were pouring in.
to the city today.
Everything was in readiness Of
the poultry show headquarters to
handle the large volume of prize
poultry exhibits which are expected
to fill the 1000 crates arranged at
the corn show building.
Tuesday, which has been official
" designated as ENTRY Day." will
be used for the reception and ar
rangement of the individual birds
and flocks that have been entered
preparatory to the Judging which
will be held Wednesday.
Welsner Arrives Tuesday
DR.. O. ]. Weisner, poultry spe-
cialist at the North Dakota state
agricultural college, who will do all
Of the judging, has consented to stay
an extra day in Bismarck to con-
duet q poultry clinic where anybody
interested in poultry and the ex-
hibitors may have advice free of
charge. DR.. Weisner will arrive
Tuesday night.
DR.. A. F. Schalk, head OF the vet
Urinary department at the state ag-
.laultural college and expert on the
diseases Of poultry, who will speak
at the banquet to be given in the
Grand Pacific hotel on Thursday
noon, will arrive Wednesday ,rr<h..
A. r. Miesen, temporary president
Of the Slope Poultry association,
which will be reorganized at the
banquet Thur.day, announced today
that there will be q man in charge
Of the exhibits day and night.
Many Entries Received
Entries were received today from
Fargo, Moorhead, Hensler, Baldwin,
Bismarck and Underwood. Under
wood Is sending a large display by
truck while Fargo ill also have all
exceptionally large exhibit.
Interest among tho turkey raisers
is at high pitch and there are in
dications that premiums in that
class OF fowl will be holly contested.
Mr.. Miesen urges all local exhib-
itors and those in the nearby cities
and towns to get their entries into
Bismarck as soon as possible to re-
lieve any congestion that may re-
suit.
After a lapse of five years. indi-
cations point to q great revival not
only in poultry raising over the
Slope country, but also in the poul-
try show that is being held, Will
bert Fields, one Of the sponsors OF
the show, said today.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-01-23
Flood Danger Passed
as Missouri Recedes

Reports that the Missouri river
level is falling at all points above
Washburn, received by the federal
weather bureau here, relieved all
fear Of a flood today.
At Bismarck today the stage
was II feet, rise Of 81 feet, with a
further increase of six inches ex-
pected today and tonight.
No breakup Of the ice sheet in
North Dakota is predicted at this
time, according to O. w. Roberts,
federal meteorologist.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-01-23

ers have been losing. After much
research Jack places suspicion on
Robert Chandler, O'Day's business
advisor but evidence is not suffi-
Gent to press the charges.
In the meantime Dan Mcdowell
has his sixty-fifth birthday and
through q new regulation he is re-
tired from the force but he is quite
active and O'Day gives him a posi-
ton as night Waterman in his
jcwelry store. Here Dan works
with Jack on the cast and numer-
Gus clues lead to the exposure Of
Chandler's nefarious operations.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-01-23
Leg or Arm Must Be
Severed From Body
to Be Compensate

Failure of the legislature to in
clude the phrase 'loss Of use" in
the workmen's compensation law
when it was revived at the regular
session in 1927 is responsible for
the ruling by the bureau that only
cases in which q leg or arm is
severed from The body are compcns-
able, records Of the bureau show.
Under the old law the directors
of the bureau made rules and regu-
lations regarding the compensability
Of all kinds Of cases, the statute
giving them certain amount of
authority in that respect.
The new law, however, contains a
benefit scale which was missing
from the old law and it says spe-
officially that persons suffering the
loss of any part of the body have
. valid claim against the bureau.
No mention is made Of the loss Of
use Of any part Of the body. As a
result, the bureau directors have
ruled, anyone suffering from stiff
joints or bad eyesight as the re-
sl.'t Of Industrial accidents are not
compensable.
Wenzel Opposes Ruling
Commissioner r. E. Wenzel OPP
posed his four colleagues on the
board, contending that their inter
probation Of the law is too techni-
cal and not in compliance with the
spirit and intent Of the legislature
when Il revised the statute. The
same reneral rule which applied
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-01-23
Charles Miller Dies
at Local Hospital

Charles Miller, "A, who has been
an insurance salesman here and at
Mandap for the past 10 years, maxi
ing his home at the Pat.s~ rsor hotel,
died Saturday afternoon at q local
hospital following = four-month
illness. Funeral services will be
held at $50 Tuesday M .rning at the
Capital furniture parlors, 208 Main
avenue, and interment will be in St.
Mary's cemetery. Mr.. Miller le-vcs
q wifi. who lives at Fargo.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-01-23
STATES WOOL
PRODUCTION
TAKES JUMP
Total Production in l9zt
Stands Close to Totals in
Days Of Open Range

Wool is again becoming one Of
North Dakota's leading commodities.
Figures compiled by the state de-
partment Of agriculture and labor
show that the states wool pro-
duction in 1926 stands close to the
totals reached in the days OF the
open range.
The figures. furnished by the
counties OF the state, set the 1926
production at l,7l6,876 pounds. fifth
in the totals since 1890. They mark
a reaction from the slump which
began in 1908 and continued until
the low mark of 1O6,533 pounds was
reached in 1916.
The trend toward diversification,
along with the fact that numerous
sheep campaigns have been held IN
the state during the last two years,
accounts for the increase in the
number of sheep on North Dakota
farms and the jump in production
totals, according to department
officials.
More Alfalfa and Clover
Along with sheep raising, alfalfa
and sweet clover acreages have in
creased and the total alfalfa acreage
for 1926 Of 122, 6SS acres is the high
est so far recorded, the figures show.
The sweet clover acreage of 285.O55
acres during 1926 is the second high
est recorded.
The increase in both these crops
has been generally steady. In 1909,
t.: first year statistics we're conf
piled for alfalfa, there was total
Of 3,5O8 acres and in 1918, when COM
pilation of figures for sweet clover
started. there were 1870 acres
recorded.
Corn acreage during 1926 was the
second highest in the history of the
state, the figures show, with 1897
acres planted. This is exceeded
only by the total Of 963, 1906 acres in
1924.
Potatoes, in 1926, totaled 1885,
GAG bushels, an increase over the
1926 total Of 4,5O2,611 bushels. The
.speak" years in this crop were
reached in 1921, 1922 and 1923, when
1921, 843 bushels, 9,726,737 bushels
and 7,918,75O bushels, respectively,
were raised. Figures for 1890 on
this crop showed 734,694 bushels,
It jumped into the million class,
there to continue through 1926, in
the next year, when 2,576,818 bushels
were recorded.
Wheat Yields Drop
Spring wheat, durum wheat, flax,
oats, barley, rye and speltz took
drops in 1926 over the previous year
the figures show. The 1926 spring
wheat total was 3O,494,17l bushels
and the 1926 total was 52,2O8,912
bushels. The durum wheat total
was 24,703,75O bushels in 1926 and
in 1926 il was 30,145,4 66 bushels.
Flax, in 1926, totaled 4,S38,8
bushels and in 1926 totaled 6,787 1853
bushels, while the 1926 total for
oats was 24,686,30O bushels, as COM
pared to 46,952,559 bushels in 1925.
The barley crop for 1926 was 16,94l, ;
1873 bushels and in 1925 it was &c.
661,349 bushels. The rye total for
1926 was 5,955,432 bushels and for
1926 was 1O,454,685 bushels.
Speltz, in 1926, totalcd 1,O43,4O
bushels as compared to the 1925
total of 2,738,7 58.
Wool production first came into
the million pound class in 1891, wher,
. total OF l,084,386 pounds was
clipped. It continued in this class
until 1909, reaching q high mark
Of 2,719,036 pounds in 1908. In
1910, the total was 7G5,314 pounds.
Not until 1925 did wool get back
into the million class.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-01-23
PALACE THEATRE-MANDAN

1AlIAOE II EA lNE|-NlAVOAN
The vaudeville bill at the Palace
theatre in Mandan Tuesday evening
features Parsons, Vine & Co. in
"Outin Inn," farce written to pro-
woke laughter. Song and dance
numbers are interspersed.
Eleanor Catherine Judd billed as
"the Blind Pianist" is young lady
Of exceptional accomplishment. for
in addition to her unique skill in
musical lines she has bachelors
degree and a masters degree in
Shakespeare from George Washing
ton University where she is a MEM
Der Of Alpha Delta ri society
sorority. Her musical voice adds
enjoyment to her piano act in the
singing Of several songs.
Cloudc g. Hutchinson are man
and lady singing character songs
and portraying sights Of today. The
lady is miniature prima donna,
her voice being the feature Of the
offering while the man is 4 clever
pianist. The three Kaswell sisters
billed as SO Active Misses Keeping
Fit" give an exhibition Of acts Of
skill, versatility and STRENGTH.
Bill Pruitt with "A Voice from the
West" is a big, husky fellow with a
singing voice of wide range, sweet
ness and volume.
Ben Lyon and Pauline Starke are
featured on the screen in "Dance
Magic"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-01-23
ELTINGE THEATRE

Broadway is still laughing and
the wise boys haven't stoppe, kick
ing themselves yet!
Olga Rostova, the flaming Rus
sian beauty who descended with
such force on the theatrical center
Of America, not SO long ago, running
hearts, gathering in the shekels and
doing all sorts Of surprising things,
now turns out to be nothing but a
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-01-23
TENTED STATEMENT OF COLLECTIONS
and DISBURSEMENTS OF TAX MONEY IN
1927 HAS INTERESTING COMP ARlS0NS

oaing collected for Bismarck
office
collections
city which $216796l.
collected the Bismarck
the
collected the previous
interesting statement prepared
collected 1927
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-01-23

HASTINGS BANK CLOSED
Closing OF the First State bank Of
Hastings, Barnes county, was an
nounced today by the state banking
department. The institution was
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-01-23
RICHARDSON NOMINATED

Washington, Jan. 23.-(AP)-Setll
w. Richardson was nominated by
President Coolidge today to be
United States attorney for North
Dakota.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-01-23

pretty little light-haired Yankee
girl from Vermont.
Come to the Eltingc theatre today
or Tuesday and see the whole fas-
cinating story. Esthc Ralston's
new tale Of stage life Ind love "The
Spotlight" heads he bill. The cast
is headed by Neil Hamilton, Arlctte
Marhal, Arthur Housmar. and
Nicholas SouSSanin,
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-01-23

would be reversed if the right Of
appeal from its decisions existed.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-01-23
DIRECTORS CLOSE LISBON BANK

DlkECIOKS CLUSE LlSBUN BANk
Fargo, N. D., Jan. 23.-(AP)-The
First National Bank OF Lisbon closet
Friday by order Of the board Of d.
rectors. w. s. Adams is president
OF the institution. No reason for
the closing was announced.
Evening star., 1928-09-09
Farmer Wins Throne Shines Diplomacy Modernzes Natio1

Scorning Turkish law and bureau
Gratis, these mountaineers govern their
lives according to the ancient traditional
folk law, the sacred code of LEX. He
who is injured has a right to exact
similar injury from the offender II one
is killed. his brothers and sons to the
last made relative are obliged to exact
vengeance upon the family of the Of
fender, which must reply in kind, until
after years OF guerrilla warfare the feud
is ended with besa. or truce.
These Matt mountaineers, the hard
lest of all in Albania, carry rifles as we
carry wrist watches. They say they can
kill at thousand yards, and too often
they do. They can march endless dis
tances in heat or cold, unshod or with
feet wrapped in burlap.
Bravest and hardest of the men of
the Matt is their feudal lord, Ahmed
the Hawk
When 1 went to meet MIN in the
presidential palace in Tirana, / ex-
pected kind Of mountaineer Attila, or
at least a barbarous version OF Mus
solini Instead, sitting behind clean
desk was a slender, supple young man
with blond hair and short, silky mus
tache, clad in best suit, necktie and
collar immaculate, trousers unostenta-
tiously pressed. Exactly like so many
young men whom saw at Ciro's tea
dances the week before His voice was
soft. almost tlmid. Then looked into
his eyes for a hint of the daShing
mountaineer The eyes said nothing;
they were, I thought, full Of the guile
of the East They reassured me that l
was not in Paris, but still In the
| Balkans.
The nnountaineer was already max
| ing his social career toward the throne.
He had abandoned the red fez for the
eray felt hat. On his coins and postage
stamps were his head wreathed in ivy
and his initials below, like Napoleon s.
| He had designed a splendid parade uni
/ form for himself of white broadcloth,
| trimmed with ever so much red white
: end black braid and tall round hat
! with a two-foot plume rising above It,
Since that time his wardrobe has ac-
, c,Inulated enormously. He has ordered
, not only new crown from the Italian
oflcial crown maker in Milan, but a
gold saber, golden spurs and scepter'
= X x
A HMED zOGU is not modest. He
"A was undecided whether to call
/ himself Zogu / or Scanderbeg III.
THAT illustrious name was that OF one
| of the real heroes of the secular strug-
( gle between the Christian west and the
/ Mohammedan east. Scanderbeg block
! ed the Turkish advance northward Tor
! full 25 years and was called by the
Pope Defender of the faith"
Mussolini, who has been engineering
Ahmeds royal career. doubtless was
pleased when consideration was given
Scanderbeg's name. 1t is that OF one
who was an ally of Italy in resisting in
vasion from the East. And, besides,
when Scanderbeg died he bequeathed
/ all of Albania to the Italians.
There is more than a superficial
parallel between the old Scanderbeg
and Ahmed Zogu At the age of 8
the Prince of Kruja was sent as hostage
to the Turkish court, from whose serv-
ice be eventually escaped to serve his
Evening star., 1928-09-09

own country. BY a curious coinci-
dence, according to the Ahmed legend,
Ahmed Zogu was sent at exactly the
same age to Constantinople by jealous
but cowardly older brother and es-
capped by the outbreak of the first
Balkan war, at great peril to himself,
to bring courage and leadership to the
men of the Matt, although he was then
but 16.
The men of the Matt were willing,
under worthy leader, to take on any,
body, Turk, Serb or Montenegrin, in
order to keep invaders out of their
mountains. And they made a clean
job of it-partly, perhaps, because there
was nothing In particular which the in
vader coveted in those mountains.
When the tribes met in April, 1920,
to make plans for expelling the italian
army of occupation, Ahmed the Hawk
was there with his devoted tribesmen.
The work was efficiently done, so far as
guerrilla army could do it, and inter-
national politics did the rest, keeping
italian, Serb and Greek alike out OF
Albania and permitting the entrance
OF the infant country into the League
of Nations.
Ahmed Zogu emerged now as one of
the outstanding figures in the new gov
ernment. A man who can command the
absolute and undertaking allegiance of
800 fearless fighters and straight shoot
ers can get his price in Albanian poll
tics. Besides, this rich landlord, ca
paole OF maintaining perfect feudal or
der IN his own domain, was the ideal
type OF old Albanian that the feudal
beys cherished. Against them were
ranged the far more numerous city mer-
chants, coastal tradesmen. oppressed
peasants and young intelIectuais.
IL Is this cleavage that has been at
the bottom OF all the Albanian revolu-
tlons since 1920. Once when Ahmed
was minister the city folk gathered their
barefoot legions and marched on Tirana.
All the rest of the cabinet fled, but
Ahmed stayed at his post until the
reactionary army from Elbassan arrived
IN the nick Of time to save the capitaI
On another occasion a group of poll
t1clans. who had managed to buy up
the Albanian army with promises, SEEM
ed fairly In power, and the cafes were
buzzing with local politicians preparing
to make their deals with the new
government. Suddenly, all unan-
nounced, the men of the Matt arrived,
Ahmend at their head. No one wanted
to try conclusions with these 300 feudal
zealots. Ahmend walked into the minis
terial palace. The local politicians
changed their minds once more, and all
was quiet.
But the struggle between reactionary
and democrat, landowner ana shop
Evening star., 1928-09-09

| All this comes back to money. The
normal revenues of Albania are around
S3.OOO,OO0 year. The normal expendi-
ture is million or so more, plus what
ever the new King chooses to spend for
his personal satisfaction. But the
money is always forthcoming, for under
the banking concession to Italy and the
resultant Treaty of Tirana he is prac-
| tically guaranteed against overdrawine
his bank account, and hence agains,
| revolution.
| Thanks to his close cooperation with
Italy (which Jugoslavia and her patron
| France bitterly resent). Ahmed has been
able to build roads. to construct a
railroad from the capital, Tirana, to its
seaport, Durazzo; to develop port facili-
ties. to organize the national finances
and to set in motion the exploitation of
the economic resources of the country.
For all these capital expenditures Gin
which must be included the jaZz or
chestra and the golden spurs) Albania
is in debt indefinitely to her western
neighbor. But however questionable
the means. and however fraught with
danger to international peace, the re-
suit is the substantial modernization OF
Albania.
To become king is not easy. Ahmed
NA~S AAtuAACuFClCu ~ WIFI IIlS CONSENT and
under the direction of Mussolini. France
has objected from the beginning, be-
cause this new monarch can be moth
ing but a creature of Italian policy and
thus menace to Frances ally. Jugo-
slavia. to the east. For two wears
frances veto has been effective in pre-
venting the consun1mation of His Hope
tul Highness' anticipations. But now
france has entered into a close entente
with Great Britain, from which she re-
ce1ves much. but for which she must
also concede something. One of these
concessions was undoubtedly the per-
mission to Italy to play her Balkan
policy unhampered so long as it does
not threaten war.
AS for Jugoslavia. the nation most
directly concerned. she is at this mo-
ment In no position to make any in
ternational gestures, being engaged in
hfe-and-death struggle for existence
as result of the Raditch murder and
the consequent acute struggle between
Croat and Serb
AT the moment when France was
neutralized and Jugoslavia was HELPLESS
Mussolini nodded to Ahmed the Hawk
But Europe is diffident of Mussolini in
his role of king-maker 1t is tao Ma
pcleoEic.
Evening star., 1928-09-09

| Shabbily elegant dwellings. The min
| aretS of the mosques rise above this
restful skyline. and in the distance are
the snow-capped mountains which Sepa-
rate Albania from the Balkan East
But when Ahmed the hawk took
charge. old Tirana became translated
indeed. Twenty-Seven embassies and
legations took up residence there or in
nearby Durazzo. American girls taught
the President the latest jazz steps, The
legation folk, with nothing else to do
instituted daily teas and nightly dances
Ahmed celebrated Albanian national
holidays with dances at the palace. The
foreign diplomats all celebrated their
own national holidays with dances at
the legations Tirana soon became, in
proportion to its population. the most
cosmopolitan city in the world.
But there were two technical diff
culties which embarrassed the President
in his new career of urbanity and fash
ion. One was that he was engaged to
the daughter of his former prime min
lister. Shefquet Bey Verlatzi, richest citi-
zen of naughty Elbassan. And in AL
bania an engagement means something
Specifically, it means that if you don't
marry the girl, you have mortally of
Tended the family And that mortal
ly'' is to be taken literally. Perhaps as
Ahmed began to see visions of a crown,
he also began to see visions of prin-
cess of the blood. In any case, although
he had commenced building a new road
from Elbassan to Tirana that his bride
might come to him in comfort, he
now delayed. on the pretext that he
must first marry off his younger sisters
The second technical difficulty was
that in playing the pert of a strong
man he had been obliged to execute .
number of his political enemies and,
therefore, was in status of blood feud
with their families. More and more,
then. he was obliged to keep his own
palace heavily guarded. For this rea-
son he kept his Russian mercenaries as
: a personal bodyguard They are to be
found, day and night, surrounding the
palace, clad in their elegant, black
braided. red uniforms.
So the strong man became more and
more invisible and the parties at the
palace less and less frequent. Ahmed is
wise. for he has suffered at least three
attempts on his life-the latest in July
OF this year, for which three men were
executed. On one occasion when he
was minister of interior his assailant
shot at him point-blank in the corridor
Of Parliament Horse He jumped
! straight at the assassin grabbed his re-
volver, beat the lights out of him and
turned him over to his own police.
y X X
RUT personal courage does not explain
Ahmed's present position as strong
man of Albania. An Albanian politician
who has no other asset than personal
courage Is out of luck. Ahmed Zogu
has an extraordinary adaptability and
realism. He knows when to be smooth
and when to be ruthless. His present
power rests primarily upon his personal
and well paid bodyguard; second. upon
the devotion of his feudal tribesmen:
third, upon the dependability of his far
flung militia ($l2 mouth whether
they work or not).