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An appropriation

CHICAGO, March 11-Chicago, in brand new sailor pants, has wis., ions of going down to the sea in ships.
 The city's outlet to sea trade hinges on little more than a years construction work and Q few million dollars. This would fin ish the canal making the Illinois river navigablc from Lake Michi- gan to the Mississippi.
 Chicago hopes the federal gov ernment will provide the S7,5O0.o0o required to put finishing touches on the almost completed canal.
 Sentiment and the cash register join hands over the project.
 On sentiment's side is the tra- dition of 300 years ago when Mar quette and Joliet padded canoes near the present site of Chicago and perhaps dreamed of day when the Great Lakes would be joined to the Gulf of Mexico.
 The cash register figures in the plan, too. Millions of dollars arc expected to be added to Chicago's industrial wealth by water trans portation facilities that would com prise the Great Lakes, the Illinois Mississippi and Ohio, as well a: contact with the sea.
 Already the state of Illinois ha' spent $20,000,000 on the canal anc locks necessary to lift shipping ovel the natural typographical divide
 Completion of the canal in tht immediate future hangs on an ap propriation of $7,5OOooo from Con gress in this session, and Supremi Court ruling on the amount 0 water that may be diverted int the canal from Lake Michigan. Ex tra water is needed to enable barge to ply through the new waterway
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three others the combined vote for repeal and modification was larger than that for enforcement.
 The poll is conducted along the same lines and in the same man. ner as the Literary Digest has used in it's Presidential election polls in the last three national cam paigns. It is the aim of the maga- zine to poll 2O,O00,oo0 votes on the Prohibition question.
 Three Questions
 Three questions are printed on the ballots:
 1. Do you favor the continuance and strict enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment and Vol stead Law?
 2. Do you favor a modification of the Volstead Law to permit light wines and bere?
 8. Do you favor a repeal of the Prohibition Amendment? ae ] The person receiving an official ballot is asked to express his views by marking a cross against the question he desires to answer af- firmatiyely. Only one mark can i be made on each ballot. G ] Safeguards have been taken by the magazine to make the use of counterfeit ballots an impossibility It will take several weeks to com plete the poll The vote will be made public each week as the poll progresses and canvass is made
 Poll by States
 The results of the first weeks balloting by States as announced last night by radio follow:
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HOME BOARDING HOUSE
 TAKEN OVER BY DAVIS

The Home Boarding House, owned by Mrs. Bertha Rennan and oper- ated by her for sometime past. has been leased for a period of five years to David Davis, Mrs. Rennan announced today. MT. Davis, who operated the house until late last fall. took over the management yesterday.
 Mrs. Rennan has just had the place repaired and thoroughly rem ovated, putting it in first class con- dition..
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Tournament last night by a score of 1854 to 1589 Barragar, with a total of 610, wa5 high for the eve ming, while Kirk's game score of 224 carried off single score honors.
 Tn the other mems match, Team 5 of League II won from Team by 55 pins In this contest Bringdale had high average of ATS and high game score of 190.
 Tonight Bernard, Hermle and O.. w. Wilson will meet Goddard, Gardner and Van Alta at 7:15 pm, while Henning, Pullen and Blom- gren are slated to oppose Metcalf, Stewart and H. Sabin at 9:30 pm.
 Scores last night were as follows:
 LEAGUE I.
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PAUL C. JACOBSON
 FUNERAL IS TODAY

Funeral services for Paul c. Jacobson, fatally injured in an ac- cident in the mine last week, were held at 3 pm. today under the auspices of Silver Bow Lodge, I. O. Q. F., the Rev. Henry Young off ciating
 Palloearers were John Meyers, E. A. Johnson, A. Anderson, Olaf Eek land, B. Lowell and R. Ranberg Interment was made in the Odd Fellows pot of Evergreen Gene tery.
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EASTERN BROADCASTS
 RECEIVED IN JUNEAU

With several radio owners report ing reception of WGY. Schnectady, New York, after midnight, fans in terested in receiving an eastern station direct are asked to tune in at 790 kilocycles.
 Experiments are being made by the Schnectady broadcasting station with a power of 100000 watts. AS radio reception has been unusually good the last few nights it should be possible for many to hear WGY. Sunday night WBBM, Chicago, was heard here, and between 1i:l5 and 11:45 pm, came in quite clearly.
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head would have been vitally signif- icant--to Royl
 Or even the description of wo- man with a wounded head Yes, but no one had seen that strip of plaster. The taxi driver hadn't. She had been most careful about that.
 She went downstairs, switched on the light in her little living room, and sat down at the desk. There was nothing to do now but wait for Roy-and think. If she could only stop thinking for a little while But the perils were many, and the road ahead was so hard to see.
 There was the element of per- sonal danger to herself at the hands of Mrs. Kane and Izzy My CTS. She had not minimized that danger, but so far it had not been crucial They would strike the first chance they got-she knew that, Not tonight, she felt satisfied of that, for, if those warnings about Twisty Morgan meant any thing, lazy Myers would not be con- cerned with her for the moment. But tomorrow or the next day, yesl How was she to protect her self?
 What was she to do? She did not know They were afraid of her, and they meant to put her out of the way-she was not deceived on that score.
 They were afraid of her influence over Roy, and, in view of that sud- den and, to her, terrifying declara- ton of love he had made tonight, they were in measure justified in their fears; but she had begun to be desperately afraid that no influence of hers would turn him from the life he was leading, and to be still more afraid that she wuold never be able to make him believe he was Roy Howard and not Worry Kane. But they did not realize thatl
 What safety could there be for her-except in flight? She shook her head. If the Big Shot, Roy, were not her brother the whole as- poet would be changed; but even so, there would still be Phil
 The door bell startled her,
 There was Roy nowl She was quite safe, he could not possibly know anything, she had argued that all out with herself-but there came sudden stab of fear as she rose hastily to her feet and started for the door. He would be in an ugly mood, of course; but he could have no reason to suspect her. She had only to keep he wits about her, and surely she could do that.
 The bell rang again before she reached the door-rang inpatiently, viciously almost, it seemed Ger tainly, and from his standpoint with good reason, he was in no doeile CT pleasant humorl
 She opened the door--and the next instant drew back with low, startled cry, as she stared at the figure standing htere on the stoup.
 It wasn't Roy; 1t was Phil.
 Copyright, Frank L. Packard)
 A new Phil frightens Enid in
 totnorrow's installment.
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DOUGLAS NEVIS
CARD PARTY PLANNED FOR
 COMING WEEK END

Having had their plans upset on at least three other occasions for the giving of card party, the Ladies Auxiliary is again making preparations for the event to be given, this time Saturday evening, March b. It will not be just card party, say the ladies in charge of the affair, 1t will be a real so- cial event, to which it is hoped all Douglas will turn out to-
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VETS IN EARLY LEAD IN PR0HI
 DIGEST BALLOT
First Weeks Balloting in Prohibition Poll Gives
 Vets Good Lead
Continued from Page One)

 the Eighteenth Amendment was 1l8,934 The modification vote was 91,9l2, making the total vote for a change from the present system 210,846.
 States included in the first weeks poll were: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Ne braska, New York. Ohio and New Jersey. Only one-Kansas-cast a majority vote for enforcement. Its vote was 6,729 for enforcement. D. l10 for repeal and 2,739 for modi- fication.
 Six States in the group cast ma jorities for absolute repeal. Ia
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LARGE SURVEY PLANNED

WASHINGTON = Airplanes and cameras will enable the British to. complete a survey of Rhodesia and Sudan in IS months that oth- erwise would take IS years. A total of 100000 square miles will be surveyed and mapped.
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SALMON SOLD HERE

A 27-pound red king salmon, the first of this fish to be sold on the local market, brought 30, cents per pound to John Lowell, skipper of the halibut boat Fern. Juneau Cold Storage made the purchase.
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WARM 2.Ooo FEET HIGH

SAN FRANCIsCo-Pilots along the Pacific seaboard find three temperature strata, one at 2.00o feet being warm while below or above 1t is extremely cold.
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CLUB MEETING

The Douglas Island Womens Club will meet Wednesday evennig with Mrs. Ed Bach at her home on D Street.
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BARRAGAR AGAIN [
 HIGH IN BOWLING

With both teams rolling good ball, Team defeated Team 2 in League |, in the Elks Bowling
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Supply of Wheat
 Hiked This Year
 By '29 Cmry-Ouer

tContinued from Page one)
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LADIES LEAGUE TEA

The Ladies League will give a tea in the Clubroom Thursday after noon. .........-... ........,,.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-08-19
LYNCHED BY
north CAROLINA MOB
Is Hanged and RiddIed With Bull
lets After Jail Is En-
tered by Ruse

Tarboro, N. c., Aug. l9.-R-On-
yer Moore, %, negro, charged with
criminally assaulting two small white
girls. was taken from the Edgccombe
county Jail by 200 masked men,
hanged to a tree and his body riddled
b. bullets.
After gaining admittance to the Jail
on a ruse, the mob carried the negro
to his home. approximately 100 yards
across the line in Wilson county and
Is miles from here. Then they strung
him to q tree and fired scores Of
bullets into his body.
Deputy r. O. Watson, who lives
with his family at the Jail, had re-
tired when he heard a voice calling
him early today. Believing it to be
an officer with a prisoner, he went
to the door and called, Have you got
a man for me?" Someone In the mob
answered affirmatively and Watson
unbolted the door. AS he did he saw
the crowd of masked men and made
an effort to throw the bolt.
The men rushed through. forced
him into his office and took all the
keys from q peg on the wall.
The men unlocked cell after cell
until they found Moore. The negro
realizing his fate. went to
his death without q word.
Sheriff w. e. Barden. notified as
soon as the men drove off. went in
search Of the lynchers. He reached
the negro's home after the mob had
dispersed and found the body. Wat
son said none Of the men In the mob
had been recognized.
This was the first lynching in
North Carolina since 1921.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-08-19
WOMAN IS
INJURED IN fire
Mrs. w. p. Knott Suffers Cuts
on Arm Following ExpIo-
sion in Home

Mrs. w. P. Knott. 1404 Thayer st.,
today was recovering from the effects
of shock and cuts on her arm which
resulted from an explosion in her
home Monday night.
Mrs. Knott a washing clothes In
her basement when the laundry stove
exploded. Mr.. Knott said the cause
Of the explosion had not been de-
termined.
The stove was between Mrs. Knott
and the cellar steps and she was
trapped by the flames which followed
the blast. She escaped. however, by
leaping upon a nearby table, pushing
out the glass in a cellar window and
crawling through the window to the
outside.
Her arm was cut in the effort and
three stitches we're necessary to close
the wound. Mr.. Knott said this morn
ing that the injury was not serious
and that Mrs. Knott was recovering
from the shock of her narrow escape.
The flames were 'extinguished by
the fire department after the house
had been damaged by smoke.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-08-19

600 a year. One purpose Of the meet
Ing was to learn why so few Of these
myriad oysters reach dining tables.
One reason Is that other epicures
besides humans like their oysters, the
starfish, for instance. But remedy
for starfish destruction has been found,
Miss Louise Palmer Of the u. s. bu-
reau Of fisheries said. It Is a copper
sulphate dragged in bags over the
oyster beds at the beginning Of flood
tide. She said as little as IS ounces
in 1000 gallons Of water kills adult
starfish In q few minutes.
Although oysters r now taboo for
human consumption during the four
months without the traditional r."
science has found a way and summer
oysters were predicted by J. M. Lem
on. of the u. 8. bureau Of fisheries.
1T has been demonstrated he said,
that oysters car be rapidly frozen
and placed In storage for several
months without any detrimental ef-'
fects upon the taste. cclcr. digest.bil-
ity and food value"
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years up to that time and each sue
ceeding census has been tabulated as
to population center with scientific &C.
curacy.
From 1870 to 1900. the period in
which Hilgard said the population
center would advance 1926 miles, he
missed 1t by but rs miles-it moved
1925.
He based his prophecy not on the
statistics at hand, but on a n1athe-
matical system he evolved.
Hilgard then argued in this FASH
ion: The geographical center Of the
United States map is just below the
middle Of the northern boundary of
Kansas. Owing to the comparative
infertility Of the territory lying
west Of that meridian, ut Is certain
the center Of population, when a per-
manent ratio Of distribution shall
have been reached, cannot be far
west Of the Mississippi river" And,
since there Is no great disparity of
northern and southern zones 1t will
be near the middle latitude Of 80 de-
grees. placing 1t not far from the city
Of st. Louis.
He then took a tentative point near
st. Louis as ultimate and moved the
center Of gravity toward 1t at a rate
based on the movement in a decade
he considered normal.
The actual distance moved from
1900 to 1920 was 49 miles. leaving 81
to go In the present census bureau
calculations. Until complete check is
made, the bureau experts are content
to let this estimate stand as probably
within a few miles, possibly five OF
six, Of correctness.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-08-19
BOY OF Is SETS NEW FLYING
RECORD ACROSS UNITED ESTATES
Eddie Schneider Cuts Off More
Than Four Hours From
Old Junior Mark

Los Angeles, Aug. 19.-R-A slight
eighteen-year-o old Jersey city youth
Eddie Schneider, today helu the
junior record for the fastest westward
crossing Of the United States.
Landing at the Municipal airport at
dusk yesterday. the young filler COM
pleted his transcontinental crossing
in a total flying time of 20 hours, Al
minutes, just 4 hours % minutes less
than required by the former record
holder, the late Frank Goldsborough,
Of New York.
Schneider left Westfield, N. j., Au-
gust II, flying only during the day
time. He said he experienced much
stormy weather along the route and
damaged his plane slightly once
when he struck a tree in landing at
Altoona, Pa.
Schneider first landed at Long
Beach Municipal airport.
Uncertain where he was, the young
flier asked an airport attendant and
was told he was at "The Municipal
Airport" The answer led Schnei-
der to believe he had reached his
destination. Several minutes later
he discovered his error.
Upon reaching Los Angeles Mu-
nicipal airport Schneider took no
chances of making q similar mistake.
To fifty enthusiasts who ran out to
meet him he shouted:
Hey, I want to know for sure be-
fore I cut off my motor. is this the
Los Angeles Municipal airport?"
He said later he was undecided
when he would start back in an effort
to beat the eastward record Of %
hours, Is minutes. also set by Colds
borough.
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Too Bad Oyster Isn't Hen; She Lays
Half Million Eggs in Single Year

New York, Aug. l9.-R-Heroic ef-
forts Of the Atlantic coast oyster to
preserve her race were described to-
day. She produces from 5000, 900 to
lis, 0 900 eggs during n spawning
reaction, lasting from SO to 70 min
utes. Since each oyster may spawn
five or six times during a single sea-
son, the annual egg production OF q
single oyster may approximate half q
billion.
The feat was reported to q gather
Ing Of biologists Of international re-
pute, civic, state and federal. health
authorities and shellfish commission
ers from several states at the con-
vention Of the National Association Of
Shellfish Commissioners and the
Oyster Growers and Dealers associ-
alton Of North America, Inc.
It was cited by Dr.. p. 8. Galtsoff of
the d. 8. bureau OF fisheries as a
mere commonplace In the life Of an
oyster. Even the poorest layer, he
said. set down an average Of 1900
600 eggs Ia about an hour, Of e0,0o0,-
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-08-19
Denver Attorney Says New Type
OF Criminal Is Responsible
for Prison Riots

Chicago, Aug. l9.-(R-Kind words
for prison inmates and harsh ones for
lawyers were spoken yesterday at the
preliminary conference of the Ameri-
can Bar association which formally
opens its 1880 convention tomorrow.
At a group meeting of attorneys,
Justice Royal A. Stone of the Min
nesota supreme court told of attend
Ing a play where the audience showed
audible approval of a character state
ment: IF I had q son preparing to
be a lawyer. I'd kill him."
1T wasn't the actors saying this
that disturbed me particularly" Jus
tice Stone said, ut was the marked
approval of the audience that bother
Cd. No profession Is put on q lower
plane than ours.
1.-THE answer is intensive, efficient
local bar associations. Let u put our
profession so high In ethics and ef-
ficiency that no other can equal It,"
New Criminals Unruly
William w. Grant. Denver attor-
ney. told the criminal law section of
the association that idleness and over
crowding of convicts and the evolu-
ton of a new type of criminal were
responsible for prison riots.
Grant, chairman of q committee
appointed by Gov. William H. Adams
to investigate the Colorado prison
outbreak a year ago, described the old
time criminal a lone who took his
medicine, who served his sentence
often in idleness. occasionally on the
rock pile, and who submitted to Ill
treatment In poor quarters. He re-
garded it as part of the game"
The new type Of criminal, Grant
said, Is not only different In himself
but "infects the rest Of the prison
population with discomfort, resent
ment against any kind Of discipline
and IN INSCRIPTIONS disregard for
the rights, feelings and obligations
Of the rest Of the world, that, SO far
as I know, has never been duplicated
in prison history"
Idlencss Breeds Mischief
The things Of immediate interest to
q convict, Grant said, are where he Is
to live. what he is to wear and eat,
what work he Is to do and what OPP
p0rturf1ty for recreation IL afforded
him.
In the Colorado state prison, the
attorney said. there are cells for $50
men. in which more than 800 live.
Nowhere, Grant said, Is the maxim
1.-THE devil finds mischief for idle
hands to do" so true as in the peni-
Tertiary.
I'm practically all Of the institutions
at which riots have taken place. there
has not been sufficient work to keep
inmates busy"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-08-19
Scientist Prophesied s. Years Ago
Where Population Center Would Be

Washington, Aug. 19-(P-A proph.
ecy made So years ago concerning
the spot at which the 1880 cei.ter o.
population Of the United States would
be found was pointed to today by
Clarence E. Batschelet, census geog-
rapher, as the most accurate estimate
available at this stage Of the compu-
tations.
Undertaking. on the basis OF
announced returns for the entire
country. to trace the movement OF
that mythical balance point from Its
1920 resting place, Batschelet said at
this point Of the calculations he could
not improve on the old figure.
In 1872. he said, a brilliant but lit
tie known mathematician, Julius
Erasmus Hilgard, estimated the Gen.
ter Of population would cling close to
the thirty ninth parallel OF latitude.
and would move 126 miles westward
between 1875 and 1900 and an added
So miles between 1900 and 1880.
Hilgard further prophesized this
hypothetical point will be about 80
miles east of st. Louis in the year
1000. This. he forecast, would be just
about its ultimate and the country
could thereafter be depended on to
maintain an approximation of equilib-
rum, with st. Louis as pivotal
point.
In the 1872 population prophecy,
published in Scribner's Monthly, Hill
gard made the first reliable computa-
ton of the center of population OF
the United States. The census hu
reau followed two years later Will,
official computations for all census
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-08-19
Charge Three Boys
With Office Theft

Wahpeton, N. D., Aug. 19.-Fe
Charged with grand larceny. three
Hankinson youths were held in the
Richland county jail today. Police
said they had obtained confessions to
theft of a cash register from a motor
company here early yesterday.
The three r Arthur Mendenwalt.
"a. John Cox and Duane MacQueen.
both q.
The trio was arrested at Graceville,
MINI. OF the $156 in the cash reg
lister when 1t was taken from the ga
rage here, but $50 was recovered. The
register Was found in a ditch along
the roadside near Campbell. MINI.
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PROHIBITION AGENT
EuNpERS SUSPENSION
administrator at Albany. NJ. T.,
Charged With Misconduct;
Others Disciplined

Washington, Aug. 1o.-R-George
Golding, prohibition administrator al
Albany, New York, was under indef-
mite suspension today on charges in
v0lving personal misconduct. which. II
sustained will result in his dismissal
from the service.
Prohibition Director Woodcock, who
announced yesterday he would pun
ish illegal personal behavior of agents
said Golding was charged with mis-
conduct with several s~tenographers in
his office. The charges, brought by
the girls themselves, are on file
with the civil service commission
which has power to GUST the admin
istrator from the government service.
Woodcock said the charges were
first made last July Is, and that q
thorough investigation had been
made which led him to believe the
girls we're in no way to blame"
Two other agents, Robert F. Myrtle.
of Milwaukee, and Basil N. Quinn, Of
washington, D. c., were given five
day suspensions yesterday for their
behavior in q~uarrels with motorists
over traffic rules. Myrtle. the d.
rector said, attempted to arrest a
motorist and drew a gun when asked
to show his authority. Quinn was
said to have struck a driver and taken
him to police station, exceeding his
authority.
Acknowledging the penalties to be
mild, Woodcock said, he sought
through these punishments to check
abuses and promised more stern
measures II necessary.
The dry chief refused to go into de-
tails Of the Golding case. He said the
administrators record on the whole
appears to be good.