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been revived to the effect thai Mack Truck may become a Gen. eral Motors unit.
 Moon-Gardner or Moon-Auburn mergers are considered real DOS abilities. From other sources come reports that several makers of medium-priced cars and trucks may build combination around Studebaker. The street persists in believing that Peerless, once on the way to a tie-up with Jor dan, is seeking to merge with two companies, one producing bodies and the other a new type of motor. Jordan actually appears to be headed for a merger through negotiations with Pierce Arrow However, more recent reports in dicate that such negotiations have been unsuccessful and that oth CTS are under way looking to a consolidation of Pierce Arrow and Studebaker. Packard is known t. have been invited to consider con. solidation proposals. but it's ex- ecutives are said to have declar, ed they wish to remain indepen dent.
 Declaration of w. C.. Durant about a year ago that within 12 months or so he would make an announcement that would rtartl.. the industry has led to reports that the street is preparing to share the thrill by awaiting a Durant merger in the near future. Some erudite financier has fig. ured that Durant has enough in. fluence to swing a consolidation of Locomobile. Packard, Reo, Hup. and Durant. For a while there was talk of a Packard -Nash-H -Hud. son combination, but this has been dispelled in conjecture as to the. nature of the expected new Nash models.
 Absurd as may seem much of the talk, the automotive industry, which has become highly com petitive both in the passenger car and truck manufacturing and re- tail fields, appears definitely to be toward consolidation. The number of producing companies has been reduced, through finan. cial legerdemain or the natural risks of business, to a mere quar- ter of the pre-war total. Thers is a growing belief that the in dustry soon may rest in the hands of a few such gigantic cembina- tions as Ford. General Motors and Chrysler.
 Bankers are said to view the trend with approval, believing that a few solid corporations are preferable to greater number of smaller and possibly less sub stantial companies. The effect upon the retail field remains to be seen, although there are indi- cations that a decrease in the number of competing sales and service stations would work nc great harm.
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WILL VISIT IN slTkA

Xenia Kashevaroff and Dana D.. Vighne left on the Queen yester day with Mrs. H. w. Ter hume, bound ,or Sitka, where they will visit at the Goddard Hot Springs. xenia Kashevaroff will visit at the Hot Springs for 1G days after which she will be the guest of MT. and Mrs. N. E. Bol shanin in Sitka for another month. Dana Devighne expects to remain at the Hot Springs all summer.
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(. E. NAGHEL RETURNS FROM SIX DAY TRIP

The survey camps of the U. s Public Survey Office, on the west coast of Admiralty Island, are making splendid progress, Gue to the favorable weather experienced this month, according to c. E. Naghel, financial clerk in the of flee, who returned yesterday from making six day trip to the camps on the Ranger VII, Capt. Carl Collens. They expect to have the township surveys com pleted from Hawk Inlet to Will son Cove by August 1.
 Supplies were delivered to the camp above Fishers Point, of which Charles Seelye is in charge to the camp at Parker Point where Floyd G. Bitts, Cadastral engineer, is directing the work. and to Dan P. Mumbrue, U. S. Surveyor, who has crew at Mitchell Bay. The camp at Parker Point was moved b Chalk Bay by the Highway.
 MT. Naghel' was accompanied on the trip by Walter Butts, who has been employed by the U. S. Public Survey office here for sey- eral years.
 Closing out, everything goes for cost price. "The Wunder
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HoueE PETERS AT PALACE THURSDAY

James Oliver curWood, thai prolific writer of acfion novels, prov1ded the inspiration of an. other motion picture. It is ..Pris- onsrs q the storm" the Univer- saiJewsl staFr!nS 'Houss Peters
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More Motor Mergers
 Are Expected; Wall
 Street Hears Rum0r.

(Cons,nn-n rro.; -axe One)
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-04-25
BYRD PAYS TRIBUTE
TO FLOYD BENNETT

New York, April 25-(AP)-Floyd
Bennet, born in Warrensburg, N. Y,
in 1890, was for the first IS years
Of his life IN obscure figure whose
potentialities awaited only the mo-
ment Of opportunity for develop
ment.
That moment came in 1926 when
Commander Richard E. Byrd was
given the pick Of the whole navy
from which to choose mechanics for
his Greenland expedition with Dom
aid Macmillan.
Byrd discovered" Bennett, . vir.
tually unknown aviation mechanic
aboard q man-of-war, . navy"grease
ball." indistinguishable from his
fellows under the smear Of oil that
was the garb Of his profession. He
was not even especially well known
on his own ship.
"But once he had his chance"
Byrd writes in his recently published
book "skyward." "he showed he was
good pilot and one Of the finest
practical men in the navy for handl-
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SnOwstOrIn Halts
Bremen's Take-Off

Lake Ste. Agnes, April 25.-(AP)
"A snowstorm on the route from
Greenly Island today held the trans
atlantic monoplane Bremen on the
ice of Belle Isle Straits, repaired
and fueled, ready for q resumption
Of its flight to New York.
The district within Z radius Of
100 miles Of Lake Ste. Agnes was in
the grip Of = storm Of midwinter
intensity.
Two flyers with Paramount News
Associated Press photographers,
who made nonstop flight from the
airport here yesterday, said that
when they left the Bremen she was
oil ready for . take-off.
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NATIONALIST
SOLDIERS ARE
now IN TSINAN
Defending Northern Troops
Demoralized and Offer Lit.
tie Resistance

Shanghai, China, April 26.-(AP)
-Nationalist troops today were in
Tsinan, capital Of Shantung province,
some 23O miles south Of Peking, the
announced objective Of their spring
drive.
The southern forces who have
made q victorious march across
Shantung under Feng Yu-Hsiang,
once known as the christian general,
entered the city from the. southwest
yesterday.
The defending northern troops
were demoralized and offered vir-
tually no resistance. Tens Of thous-
ands Of northerners had already de-
serted. They fled across the
country, going east to Chefoo and
Weihaiwei on the coast. Lawless-
ness and brigandage prevailed today
as they treked across the province.
General Sun Chuan-F Fang, COVER
nor Of Shantung, whose army was
destroyed by Nationalist troops in
their advance, arrived in Tsinan
yesterday.
Foreigners Leave City
More than half of the American
and English residences 1t Tsinan
had been evacuated before the city
fell. All women and children went
to Tsingtao, where four American
destroyers are anchored.
About 80 Americans and an equal
number Of British remained in
TSinan Most of <ho,,o ara ronra~AA<,
with the Shantung Christian uni
versity.
A telegram received ut Tsinan
from Tenghsien, abuot 10 miles to
the south, said all missionaries there
were safe. It added that foreigners
had not been molested, which has
been the case all during the present
Nationalist advance.
A few American Baptist mission
aries stayed on at Taisnfd, 80 miles
south Of Tsinan, in the face Of the
advancing Nationalists.
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BITULITHIC ON
BLACK BASE IS
TYPE CHOSEN
Majority Of Property Owners
Affected Favor Patent Paw.
ing For Job
TO COVER 5s BLOCKS
Work Will Start in About
Three Weeks-Geo. Hag-
gart to Be in Charge

Contract for paving approximate
ly 81, 1893 yards, o. 66 blocks in the
east part Of Bismarck, was awarded
by the city commission las; night to
the Haggart Construction company
Of Fargo, low bidder on the type Of
pavement decided upon-Warrenite
bitulithic on Z bituminous base,
using lake asphalt.
The Haggart compaEy's bid on q
two-inch top Of Warrenite bitulithic
laid on q two-.nch bitumi..ous base,
using lake asphalt, was $246, ,258.8l.
It was agreed between the commits
sion and the contractor, however,
that on certain streets where the
traffic is now or is likely o become
heavy . three inch base will be used
instead Of the two-inch base. These
streets tentatively include Broad
way, Rosser, and Seventh street.
Residents Of the east-end, most Of
whom seemed to favor the Warren
ite bitulithic on . black base, were
visibly pleased when the commits.
sion last night passed the resolution
letting the contract for the paving
job. Az one east-ender today ex-
pressed It: "The east-end suburb
which has floundered in the mud for
many years became . part Of the
city Of Bismarck last night through
the action Of the city commission in
voting to pave the streets thsre."
Majority Favor Type Chosen
A recheck Of the petitions re-
questing certain types Of pavement.
made late yesterday afternoon, re-
vealed that out Of $3.50 front feet
Of property liable to be ASSESSED for
the improvements, owners Of 5000
front feet, or Z majority, had signed
for bitulithic on = black base. Own
err .ot 2,250- -8eet -had signed for
sheet asphalt and owners Of 100 feet
had signed for reinforced concrete.
In arriving ct these figures the
committee, composed Of Commission
err John A. Larson and George
Humphreys and City Auditor M. II.
Atkinson, assumed that agents sign
ing for principals had the power 70
do 50, that Geographically signed
petitions are valid and that all the
signatures are legal and bona fide.
Where property owners signed for
more than one type Of pavement,
The signatures were not considered
unless . withdrawal Of the first sig
nature had been filed.
Under the state law, where ma
ority Of the property owners af-
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LEAVES WITHOUT KNOWING
THAT BENNETT HAD DIED

Quebec, April Colonel
Charles A. Lindbergh hoped off on
his return flight to New York at
11:20 this morning.
Lindbergh was unaware Of the
death Of Floyd Bennett, whose life
was the purpose of his air race here
with serum to aid in combating the
pneumonia from which Bennett suf-
fered.
Lindbergh had Left the city for
Battle Field Park, which he had
used as q landing field, before word
came from the hospital. He flew
over the city before heading for
New York and his plane crossed di-
rectly over Jeffery Hale hospital,
where his fellow aviator lay dead.
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HOUSE. PASSES:
FLOOD CONTROL
BILLr254 TO 90
Measure Returns to Senate For
Action on Several Re.
visions Made

Washington, April 25.-(R-The
Mississippi flood control bill today
retraced its legislative steps to the
senate for action by that body on Z
number Of revisions effected by the
house.
The fate Of the measure, however,
in this new stage Of its congression-
al journey was subordinated to the
interest manifest from Ill sides a.
to the views Of President Coolidge
over the changes approved by the
house.
The return Of the bill to the other
end Of the capitol came about as =
result Of the house passing the
measure late yesterday by . vote Of
26l to 80. The senate, several
weeks ago, started the bill on its
legislative career by the unusual
vote Of 20 to Q.
But in the interim between the
original senate action and that yes
terday BY the house, many develop
ments were injected into the situa-
tion and at one time last week the
house adopted the exceptional proce.
dure Of deferring consideration Of
the bill to enable . continuance OF
informal conferences outside the
house chamber in m effort to revise
tho measure to meet objections
raised BY the White House.
Bill Much Modified
These conferences, conducted be-
twean house administration leaders
and members Of the house flood
control committee, brought about
several notifications Of the measure
and today considerable doubt existed
IN the minds Of members Of the two
opposing camps over whether these
revisions would satisfy the prest-
dent.
On the final vote in the house, 86
Republicans, 167 Democrats and one
Farmor.Labor member lined up in
support Of the bill, while 66 Repub-
licans, three Democrats. one Farm
er-Labor and one Socialist Joined IN
opposition.
HE supporting group included
such administration Stalwarts -
Chairman Madden Of the appropria-
tions committee, and Chairman
Snail Of the rules committee, both
81 whom until almost tho last min
ute had joined with othsr Republi-
can leaders IN strenuous effort 70
change provisions to meet the presi-
dGaks v3ews
Uoeo Thar Eneugh Tor vste
IT, hoQ,ao vote exceeded by more
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F.R. Smyth, Pioneer North
Dakota Physician, Dies
Passes Away Last Night Aft.
er Short lllness-Came to
North Dakota In 1885, Set.
tling At Steele-Later Lo-
Gated 1t Washburn and
Came TO Bismarck In 1893
Was Widely Know n
Throughout State

DR.. F. r. Smyth, 76, one Of the
first physicians and surgeons to To-
cate IN western North Dakota, died
here last night after m illness of
only = few hours.
Late Tuesday DR.. Smyth COM
planned Of . severe abdominal pain.
He was taken to = hospital and died
four hours later.
Although weakened by the weight
Of his years, Dr.. Smyth died in the
harness, having worked steadily in
caring for his practice during his
entire residence here.
DR.. Smyth was the last Of his line
and is survived only by his wife,
Three nephews and one niece are
left. The nephews are Charles
Anderson, Glendale, Calif.; David
Anderson, Waddington, Scotland;
and Edwin Anderson, johannesburg
So. Africa. The niece Is Mrs. John
Moffat, Prince Albert, Sask.
Funeral arrangements have been
tentatively set for Friday but are
pending word from Charles Ander-
son ct Glendale.
DR.. Smyth was . staunch member
Of the First Presbyterian church. He
was also . member Of the A. O. u,
W., knights Of Pythias and Yeomen
lodges.
Born In Scotland
, Francis Robertson Smyth was
born in Ayrshire, Scotland, June 8,
1852. His parents, James and Eu-
phemia (Robertson) Smyth were
also natives Of Scotland. His father
served In the British army and was
in India during the stirring times at
Lucknow and Cawnpore. He later
served % postmaster at Dalmelling-
ton, Scotland, for . quarter Of = cen
tury.
The horrors Of the Black Hole Of
Calcutta and the high death rate
that tropical diseases claimed in the
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Lieut.. G.. II. Dietz
Explains C. M. T. C.
at Kiwanis Meeting

Lieut.. George H. Dietz Of Fort
Lincoln addressed the Kiwanis club
Tuesday on the Citizens Military
Training Camp. Lieut.. Diets ex-
planned the origin Of this training
camp, the recruiting methods, elig-
ibility Of the boys, and something
about the training received. About
400 boys are expected to come to
Fort Lincoln this summer.
II. p. Goddard was chairman Of
the days program and George
Shafer presided. The Kiwanians
entertained II. A. Armstrong Of
Hazelton and Fay Brown Of Bis
marck o.. guests.
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WILL
FILL VACANCY
ON CITY BOARD
Special Election TO Be Friday
Chris Bertsch and Paul
Wachter, Candidates

At 4 special election called fol
Friday, April 81, the people of Bis
marck will have the opportunity to
60 to the polls and select mem
Der Of the city commission to fill
the vacancy caused by the death on
March II Of City Commissioner
Charles Wachter.
Two candidates are in the field
for the position-ChriJ Bcrtsch,
local automobile dealer and garage
owner, and Paul Wachter, member
of the Wachter Transfer company.
and son Of the deceased commits
sioner.
Position Of the names on the bal
lot was determined by lot and the
name Of Mr.. Wachter will appear
first, followed by that Of Mr..
Bertsch, the alphabetical order be-
ing reversed.
Both candidates have been con-
Quoting . quiet campaign and very
little excitement has been created
IN advance Of the special election.
Mr.. Wachter's campaign promise is
An honest, economical and busi-
ness administration of the city's af.
fairs" while Mr.. Bertsch's cam
paign literature stresses "Better
streets and roads for Bismarck"
The polls will open at 9 a. m.,
Friday and will close at p. m.
Every. citizen is urged to 60 to the
polls on that day and exercise his
right Of franchise by voting his
choice for the city post.
The. successful candidate will fill
the unexpired term, which ends on
tho first Tuesday in April, next
year.
Polling Places
Polling places for the various
precincts Will be located as follows:
First ward, first precinct-Wil-
liam Moore school.
First ward, second precinct-C. B.
Little's garage.
Second ward, first precinct-Will
school.
Second ward, second precinct
Swimming pool.
Third ward. first precinct-High
school.
RiebSos dn5eS ,.sadi. wssdl second precinct
Fourth ward -Copelin Motor COM
pany garage.
Fifth ward-Association Of Com
Sixth ward. first precinct-Fire
hall.
!. Sixth ward. second precinct-St.
Mary's school.
Precinct Boundaries
So that Bismarck citizens may
determine where to cast their votes
in Fridays election, the precinct
designations are given herewith:
First Ward, First Precinct
All that part Of the first ward
west Of the center line Of Fifth
street TO center line Of Second
street and north Of the township
First wasa, Second Precinct
All that part Of the First ward
west Of the center line Of Second
street and north Of the township
line. ss'
aeeoad Ward. First Precinct
All that part Of the second ward
west Of the center line Of Fifth
street south of the township line
and north e the center hne Of
Broadway and east Of The center
line Of Second street.
Second .Wont Second Preciact
All that paet .cf the second ward
west Of th0 conter line Of Second
(Continnsd On page two)
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Judge Burke Speaks
at jamestown Today

jamestown, April 25.-(AP)-A
parade early this afternoon opened
= program centering ab .us laying Of
the cornerstone for Jamestown's q
new federal building. Ceremonies
were postponed from last week be-
cause Of unfavorable weather.
John Burke, Judge Of the North
Dakota supreme court, was to be
principal speaker 1t the exercises.
Another on the program was Mrs.
Jennie Chenery, daughter Of the
first postmaster here.
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rushed there as soon as BENEFITS
condition became serious.
Colonel Charles A. LindberRh
was also in Quebec, having flown
here from New York last night,
carrying antipneumonia serum in .
gallant but vain effort to save the
north pole flyers life.
Bennett was brought to the Jeff
cry Hale hospital by airplane from
Lake Ste. Agnes SUNDAY :fter being
stl icken while commanding an air
expedition to the relief Of the
stranded transatlantic flyers on
Grcenly Island.
Left Sick Bed to Go
Bennett undertook this relief ex-
pedition with Bernt Balchen, al
though both Of them had to leave
sick beds to do SO. After Benefits
cold turned into pneumonia and he
had to drop out Of the expedition.
Balchen pushed on without him.
Benefits condition became in
creasingly serious as the days and
hours passed and at 10 o'clock this.
morning specialists brought here to
tend him from New York announced
that everything was in vain and
that he was dying. Fifty minutes
later he passed away.
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LINDY'S FLIGHT
PROVED IN VAIN

Quebec, April 25.-(F|-Colonel
Charles A. Lindbergh's daring flight
through rain and suow to bring an
tipneumonia serum 500 miles from
New York to the bedside of Floyd
Bennett, fellow flyer, was found TO
have been in vain.
Early today BENEFITS physicians
diagnosed his illness as type 8 Of
lobar pneumonia while the serums
which Lindbergh had flown from
New York were for treatment Of
type 2, from which it previously had
been thought the North Pole flyer
was suffering.
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Waehington, April 36.-(AP)-
The United States and Mexico, the
state department announces, have
agreed to entrust 70 the permanent
court Of arbitration Of The Hague
The appointment of : neutral um-
|ptre 70 the Mexican American fen-
srsl and special claims commits
siens.
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0iu IL DyIup OlSU
at 1880 a. m. to-
day from double
pneuM. M.onia.
Benefits death
came W lille his
wife was near him,
herself a patient
in the same hos.
pital with tonsili-
tis. His closest
man friend, Com
mander Byrd, was
also there, having
Cancelled all en-
ApA
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DR.. SEYMOUR
SHOT T0.DEATH
BY CHINAMAN
Victim Was Superintendent Of
Presbyterian Hospital
at Tsining

Shanghai, China, April 26.-lR-
Dr. Walter F. Seymour. superinten-
dent Of the Presbyterian board Of
Foreign Missions hospital .at Tsin-
ing, Southeastern Shantung, was
shot to death BY . Chinese soldier,
II was learned today.
Dr. Seymour was slain when he
was shot through the heart On April
is. .
Because of interrupted communi.
cations in Shantune, the news Of
the shooting only reached here to-
day.
The message telling Of the slay.
Ing came by Courier TO Tenghsien,
about so miles southeast Of Tsiniug,
and we sent 1foW there by the
Chinese telegraph.
Others Believed Safe
Mrs. Seymour and other mission
aries ct Tsining are believed % b
safe. i - thought that they are
unable to leave the region because
Il Il overrun BY Nationalist soldiers
mesint northward. '''
d. Seymour, : graduate Of Wis
eonsin university and Northwestern
Medical school, Evanston, Ill.,, came
TO China IN 1oo8. His daughter,
Who = : nurse. r IN the United
States at present.
The Prssbytsrien, hsadquartsrs
here was advised By othsr dis.
patches from Ttinan 81 vav az
re{n1ten <ke4 IO-S.A-xS.
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BRLIEYE nj PROIIsE

Peking. April 26.-(R-The
masses are stirred BY : widespread
tale that Buddhs has appeared
miraculously and promised that the
civil war will end by fall. The story
y that : priest saw the famous
sloeping Buddha, Z wooden image
5 foet long, arise and walk. Az tie
priest 1ell on bis knsss the promise
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Work is now under way on Z gaso-
line filling station at the corner cf
Thayer avenue and Third street, OPP
|posite the Episcopal church. The
station win Be owned and operated
by the Texaco company.
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Princeton, N. J.. April 25.-(R-
University scientists have been pro.
ducing death waves with q minia-
ture radio broadcasting set, and Z
quartz crystal. The supersonic wave
penetrates the walls o1 . living cell
and destroys III matter within with
out harming the walls. It was tried
on . frogs blood corpuscles.
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Baron Peter Nicholaievich Wran-
gel, by individual deeds Of courage
and bravery. rose from tho grade Of
Q noncommissioned officer in the
Russian army to high rank during
the World war. Then after the rev.
olution in that country and the ad-
vent Of the soviet regime he led q
losing fight aginst the bolsheviks.