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kota association q county auditors.
Sessions win be held August u, 10
and Il.
Administration of laws applcanle
to the office Of auditor VIII % dis-
cussed with view to exchanging m
formation on the subject.
Speakers listed for the convention
are Attorney General p. o. Satire,
Commissioners Of Agriculture and La
Dor John HUSKY, Deputy Tux Com
missioner ]. A. Gray. and Deputy
Examiner J. A. Brown. Other speak
ers include w. w. Felson, veteran a4-
ditor Of pembina county, = ~.
Pusch, tax expert for the Nofsnesa
Pacific Railway.
q. j. Mustad, Finley, Steele county
auditor, is president Of the associa-
ton: s. w. Lyman, Eddy county. vice
president and J. NJ. Baillie. Barnes
county, secretary-treasurer.
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Stavisky Arrests Total 26
TWO sy;iic'oEs, fouR ovELs
With Mystery Still Dark

100000 francs-the check was found
Blanchard was fired from his job
Blanchard went to Fontainebleau and
after sending q farewell Letter X
his wife, took poison in the woods anc
died.
A prominent lawyer. Maitre Ray.
mond Hubert, took over the duties Of
defending four of Stavisky's former
associates, employees or lawyers.
It seemed to be too much for his
nerves, and so, on March 9. he tried
tossing himself into the Seine. Luck
lily. or unluckily for him. he was
dragged out and lived to tell merry
tale later oil-so merry that he is in
prison. possibly still laughing.
| So there was no lack Of excitement
when the commission started to work
Check Stubs Vanished
| But there was one obstacle. The
stubs of the checks signed by Stavisky
had vanished utterly, some hundred
Of them. That gave rise to one of the
more dramatic moments of the in
quest.
; 1t was on March | that the stubs
appeared
Inspector Pierre Bony of the Surete
Generate was responsible. Now we
will recall that en- January 26 Inspec-
tor Pierre Bony had been suspended
by the Disciplinary Council for ex-
tortion I mentioned it in Chapter
Six under that date. But Inspector
Bony was die-hard. and he kept
right on working on the Stavisky case,
hoping. so he said later, to prove his
devotion. On March he told the
chief Of his service that he had locat-
ed the checks, but he made 1t very
complicated.
The check-stubs are in the hands
of man whose identity must not be
revealed" he said. He is a valuable
stoolpigeon, and can only produce
the checks if We guarantee him pro-
lection"
After long consultation it was ar
ranged.
Ministers Cheron tJustice) and
Sarraut Interioo came to Bony's
apartment at o'clock in the evening.
Then entered n man of the under
world, all enveloped in heavy coat
and turned-up collar, with his cap
pulled down over his eyes. He deliv-
cred the checks and admitted he had
gotten them from Gilbert Romagnino,
one OF Stavisky's most active hench-
men. They let him go without furth-
er questioning. and that was that.
On March 6 Pierre Bony was not
reinstalled in his old functions as in
spector of the Surete, but put directly
on the Prince murder case.
All this was very dramatic. but the
press made life miserable for Bony
and even for Cheron, the Minister Of
Justice. Bony, they screamed, was
playing the magician and juggling
with the cards. Cheron was his dupe.
The whole commission Of AZ men was
his dupe. Bony was crook and
fake. When was the commission go
ing to realize it?
Jo-Jo, the Apache, Involved
But the incident resulted in still
more color for the papers and more
drama for the Stavisky case. It set
the papers to Investigating, and their
Investigations revealed Jo-Jo-the-
White Haired-Boy.
Now Jo-Jo is worth some descrip-
ton. His real name is Georges Hahn
ault. and his Is one of those rare
cases Of real apaches still remaining
in Paris, long after they were made
immortal by the pen Of Eugene Sue
and the brush of Toulouse -Lautrec.
This personable young man has the
reputation of being involved in no
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-08-08
Anti-Freeze Dealers
To Meet Here Friday

More than 800 automotive dealers.
garage and service men are expected
to attend q meeting In the Elks Han
in Bismarck at 3 o'clock Friday eve
ming.
The meeting will be sponsored BY
the National Carbon Co., manufacture
er Of Eveready Prestone anti-freeze,
and the two local distributors, GUAM
rud, Brink and Reibold, Inc, ana
Grant-Dadey Co.
Anti-freeze problems win be dis
cussed by G. .. Mccormick, anti
freeze engineer from Minneapolis.
This is one Of q series OF 200 meet
ings scheduled all over the country In
the interest Of anti-freeoe service. Al
though cold weather still Is far from
the minds of the average motorist,
the automotive trade already Is look
ing forward to and preparing to take
care of cold weather service with .
permanent" antifreeze. according to
Theodore Quanrud Of Quanrud, Brink
and Reibold.
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Sargent Pioneer Dies
Sunday at Age Of SO

Forman. N. D., Aug. S.-(R-Fun.
eral services will be conducted for D
j. Mckenzie, 80, long time resident Of
Sargent county and registrar for the
federal land bank of st. Paul from
September, 1921, to Dec. !. 1880, who
died here OF a heart attack Sunday In
the home of his daughter and son-in-
law, Mr.. and Mrs. A. Leslie, with
whom he had been residing for more
than three years.
Born in the province Of Quebec.
Canada. Nov. IL. 1853, Mckenzie en-
tered the Presbyterian ministry. Prior
to coming to North Dakota in 1887 he
was pastor Of a church at Lowell,
Mass. When he came to North Da-
kota he settled in Sargent county and
was pastor Of churches at Rutland
and Minor.
Before being elected county SUPER
intendent of schools for Sargent coun-
ty in 1890 he quit active ministerial
work. He served In the superintend-
ent's capacity 1894.
Afterwards he entered the law pro-
fession handling land, collections,
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By FULTON THATCHER GRANT
CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Part
When we abandoned the unravellin
Of the Stavisky case as presented II
the Bayonne bond-swindle, it wa
some time in January. Camille Ay
mard. former editor OF La Liberte
and Deputy CASTOR Bonnaure ant
many others had been involved, ant
the whole country was startled by tn
shocking revelations of these high
ranking men STOPPING to such shod
diness.
But imagine the conclusion, tn;
shocx -in-seres that must have follow
ed. On the first day Of April-onl,
two months later--the arrests made
in the case already totallcd rs anc
many more were anticipated. There
had been two suicides, two attempted
suicides and four duals.
Beyond the Is arrests more than
score of other names had been draggec
in and rolled in the mud Four form
er ministers of state, three senator's
several deputies. more than ten high
functionaries and five prominen'
lawyers, magistrates and members OF
the court had been definitely involved
or besmirched.
And all this came about through
the emphatic energy OF the special
Parliamentary Commission, born UNI
der Doumergue's government.
The first active day Of these A.
unimpeachable men was February 20
They started right from the begin
ming, taking In order the 1926 STAY
isky case, the Hungarian bond case
that never became an actuality, and
the Bayonne affair. And they named
names fearlessly.
It was shown beyond doubt that
CASTOR Bonnaure, the Paris deputy
had received no less than 100000
francs from the crook, that he had
made several trips to Hungary with
him, and that he had once passed
Stavisky off as his secretary" He
went to prison.
The commission got together the
cancelled checks signed by Stavisky.
They totalled millions OF francs, and
there were still more to be found.
They looked into the sources OF tele-
phone calls that came into the Hotel
Claridge while Stavisky had been a
resident. They published some sur
prising names. There was to be no
concealing of facts now.
Minister'S Name Enters
Up pops the name of Louis Proust,
former Minister of Agriculture. Up
comes the name of Substitute Hur-
laux Of the Courts. And those OF
Carat, Dubarry. Aymard and the 9TH
er "old friends" in this story were not
missing.
Action starts. Substitute Rurlaux.
questioned, is tricked into revealing
that he helped procure some 10 de
lays in the 1926 Stavisky case. And
Substitute Hurlaux is forced to re-
veal that he counted OH his dear
friend Serge Alexandra for aid and
the support of his influence IN getting
a long awaited promotion.
So Substitute Hurlaux attempted,
on March 6, to commit suicide. He
was restrained and put in padded
cell of a nursing home-under guard
for future reference. He was also
relieved of his job.
But that was only beginning.
Blanchard, high functionary Of
the agricultural ministry. it seemed,
had taken the government post while
he was director in the Fonciere,
Stavisky's public works corporation.
Fo- helping out his boy friends, the
Stavisxy gang, he received a reward of
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JOHNSON TO Chart
NRA'S SECOND, ERA
Blue Eagle Control Lifted for
Most Part in Towns OF
$500 or Less

Washington, Aug. 8-(R-Hugh 8
Johnson returned to a cluttered desk
Wednesday to steer MIRA into its sec.
ond era.
Now that code-making Is virtually
finished, the recovery unit enters the
uncharted seas of compliance. New
set-ups must be manned to see that
industry lives up to its covenants.
Problems galore faced Johnson, just
back from a vacation" mostly spent
in seeking to get employers and strik-
ers to agree. Topping all the prob
lens was the question just what N7A
will be like In the future, an issue
that the president and congress must
decide.
I johnson, who wants to step out
when President Roosevelt feels he
can be spared. has suggested CON-
mission to succeed him.
The MIRA formally lifted Tuesday
night much Of the control over trade
in towns Of $500 or less. It designat-
ed small-town employers In Is re-
tail trades and services as coming url-
der President Roosevelt's order lift
ing code obligations from certain lit
tie businesses.
Only child labor provisions and, in
certain cases, fair trade provisions
were retained. Price fixing was toss
ed out.
The trades affected: barber shops,
motor vehicle storage and parking,
bowling and billiards, cleaning and
oyeing, laundries, shoe rebuilding, no.
tells, baking industry (nsofar as sale
Of bakers products at retail Is COW
cred thereby, retail food and grocery,
retail jewelry, retail tobacco, retail
trade (including retail drug and book
sellers) real estate brokerage, restau-
rants and confectioners' stores.
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less than IL murders in Argentina, .

less than II murders In Argentina,
prosperous trafficker In white slavery
important In big dope-ring, Will
numerous condemnations against hi
name on the police records Of France
and yet has been arrested only once
He was. In fact. stoolpigeon To-
Pierre Bony of the Surete.
Jo-Jo- the-Terror (the same Jo-Jt
under another name) was, 1t was re-
vealed, the mysterious man who pro.
duced the check-stubs before the hyp.
Noticed Ministers of France. HI
turned out to have been Gilbert Ro-
magnino,s friend for many a year. anc
Il a.cEme evideu. thAt he and hi
gang formed a part Of Stavisky's or.
ganization, which was. upon investi-
cation, assuming startling dimen-
sionS.
But the press went further than
that At least one paper stated posi-
lively that Jo-Jo's gang included
Henri Voix and Pigaglio, who were
with or near Stavisky when he died.
This paper asserted that Stavisky had
engaged Jo-Jos crowd to hustle him
out of France. He had not taken
money, but he had taken ten million
francs worth of jewels. and these he
gave Jo-Jo in exchange for cash. The
gang knew how to dispose Of such
things we'll enough.
The reporter on this story seems to
have had a real hunch He claims to
have discovered that when the police
were hot on his trail Stavisky turned
yellow He claims that Jo-Jo there
fore betrayed him to the police (Jo-
10 was a stoolpigeon. after alb and
he accuses Jo-Jo and his gang Of
Stavisky's murder. They chloroform>
ed Stavisky. he states and then shot
him under the eyes of the Surete and
with its consent.
At the time Of this writing this has
not been proved but 1t makes q good
story.
However that may be, Jo-Jo pro-
duced the checks. Romagnino was ar
rested as accomplish and receiver and
the inquest went on.
Missing Jewels Cause Trouble
The next thing that troubled the
commission was the missing jewels,
those which Stavisky and Jo-Jo are
supposed to have spirited away to aid
the escape. Gustave Tissier, back in
Bayonne, confessed that he had sent
a package to Stavisky but could give
no clue as to its whereabouts.
Investigations showed that Romag-
ninn had kean in london during the
first week in March. Later 1t was re-
yealed that Jo-Jo had gone with him.
Scotland Yard was given a tip and
it was not long before five packages
of jewels valued at 100000 francs were
in the British capital.
Then more jewels turned up in
Switzerland and in Belgium-some
two million francs worth, all told
and the police decided to let the Lon
don matter drop until they could see
the jewel affair from a still broader
angle.
But it was on and after March 10
that things began to grow really hot.
On that date the Paris nnagiStrature
took the entire case away from Bay
onne. relieved the indefatigable Judge
d'Uhalt of his investigation. called the
prisoners to the Sante. and centraliz-
ed all the threads and ramifications
of the inquest under the Ministry OF
the Interior and the 42-man commits
sion.
Copyright Mcclure Newspaper Syn
dicate)
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ana footing horns and whistles.
Mr.. Roosevelt has an intimate pic
ture OF the power and reclamation
program OF the northwestern pro-
posed developments In North Dakota
and Of the living conditions OF the
people.
Thursday he visits Green Bay, Wis
consin, where at the state Tercen-
tenary celebration he Is expected to
deliver the major speech of his trip.
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Pirates Take Second
Place i'm Northern

st. Paul, Aug. 8.-(ReCrookston
Wednesday had supplanted Eau
Claire as second place team In the
Northern Baseball League, having
nosed out winnipeg 4 to 3, while Eau
Claire, former second place holder,
was idle. The league leading Fargo
Moorhead aggregation also was idle
Tuesday.
In the only other game played
Tuesday Duluth made Is hits count
for IS runs In coping the odd game
Of the three-game series by . Is to
count. Burris for Duluth and Arno-
vich for the Superiorites, hit home
runs.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-08-08
Insane Man Murders
Aged Mother With Axe

Roundup, Mont. Aug. 8.-(PrLloyd
Stalcup, IS, an inmate Of the Mon
tana State Insane Asylum, allegedly
hacked his mother to death with an
axe Tuesday at the Stalcup home in
Klein. near here.
Several persons told authorities they
saw the man kill Mrs. F. w. Stalcup,
So, after pursuing her from the house.
Stalcup later surrendered to Deputy
Sheriff Ty Rogers without resistance.
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GENERAL CONDITIONS

low pressure area is conferred over
the Red River Valley and Manitoba
(The Pas 29.72l while high pressure
area overlies the north Pacific coast
(kamloops $1,000. Moderate to heavy
showers fell in Minnesota, Manitoba
and eastern North Dakota, but else
where the weather Is generally fair.
temperatures continue high in the
middle Mississippi Valley and lower
Missouri Valley. but cooler weather
prevails over the northwest.
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AAASA
For North Da-
kota: Fair, cool
err east and south
portions tonight;
Thur S d ay fair,
warmer In west
portion.
For South Da-
kota: General | y
FAIR and cooler
tonight; Thursday
fair, cooler eX-
IRENE Southea S t
portion.
For Montana:
Fair tonight and
southeast. norton
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-08-08
North Dakota Corn and Wheat Re-
giOn Summary
For the week ending A,1r,,~t p 1904

VIZ "oe'k e11oz1z6 zxu60oC J, 13o3.
Hot, dry weather with but light
precipitation prevailed all sections
which while favorable for harvesting
and threshing caused most vegeta-
ton to deteriorate, especially corn,
flax, and potatoes. Haying made good
progress but disappointing yields mad
pastures are drying, with livestock
showing considerable shrinkage.
Streams show record low seasonal
stages.
Bismarck station barometer. inches:
$500. Reduced to sea level. 1881.
Missouri river stage at I a. m. 90
It. "a hour change, oil #.
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State Officials to
Meet With Auditors

Valley City, N. D., Aug. B.-tP}-
State officials whose work interlocxs
with that Of county auditors will par
ticipate in the program arranged for
the annual meeting Of the North Da-
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PRECIPITATION

For Bismarck station:
Total this month to date ]
Normal. this month to date 49,. 4
Total, Jan. LIST to date SIS,
Normal. January LIST to date ;. l1.6:
Accumulated deficiency to date 81:
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The home of John and Priscilla
Alden still stands In Duxbury, Mass.
Near It is 4 monument 70 Capt. Miles
StandiSh.
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Synthetic violet and rose perfumes
are now being made from the oils
from grapefruit skins.
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loans and abetracting.
He leaves one daughter besides Mrs.
Leslie. She u Mrs. Helen q. Lyken
Of Torman.
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1HuTSuays C00lef Southeast DOrtiOr
tonight. ~
For Minnesota: Partly cloudy. cool.
er IN west and extreme south portions
Wednesday night: Thursday fair
cooler In southeast portion.
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Weather Report
FORECAST

For Bismarck and vicinity: Fair
and cooler tonight: Thursday fair
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MINNESOTA POINTS
High Low.
est est Pct. |
Minneapolis. cldy. 49,. 90 66 .68
Moorhead, clear $685.. 81 66 1.42
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WEATHER IN OTHER STATES
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THE STATES MUST HELP

DLANS of the first nationwide conference
l. on labor legislation to seek regional
treaties and iron out discrepancies between
the forty-eght state systems of labor laws
are important and timely.
Whether the recovery act is made perma-
nent or not the states should advance the
social gains of the codes. And to halt the
unfair interstate competition these state laws
should be made as near uniform as possible.
Our present system of state labor laws pre-
sents the picture of a crazy-quilt Of standards,
reaching up from those of the industrial jun
gle to the better codes of Wisconsin, New
York Ohio and other enlightened common
wealthS.
Only twenty states have ratified the child
labor amendment; only sixteen have minimum
wage laws; only twenty-seven states and two
territories have old-age pension systems; only
eleven have the legal eight-hour day, and
four states permit a sixty-hour week. While
forty-four states have workmen's compensa-
ton laws, only eighteen provide for state in
surance funds.
Alabama and New Mexico have no safety
regulations for workers. Only Wisconsin has
an unemployment insurance law. Only nine
teen states have accepted federal aid and
Joined the United States employment service.
Only fourteen states regulate industrial home
work, sixteen prohibit or limit night work
for women. Only five states have proper laws
permitting cities to work with the federal gov
eminent for sluIn abatement.
In 1885 the legislatures of forty-four states
meet. Before that time regional conferences
can be called to reach agreements on minimum
standards. The national minimum provisions
just adopted by the Washington conference
should be used as an irreducible living stand
ard below which no state dares push its
workers.
The federal government is assuming lead
ership in labor reform. Its projects in en-
ploynlent exchanges, unemployment insurance,
child labor abatement and Slum elimination
require more active and unified cooperation
from the states.
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Water Company and Politics

indianapolis Water Company is
taken over by a lot of politicians,
these old employees of the COM
pany who are qualified fully for
their positions by years Of service
with the company will be ousted
and higher salaried men with the
right politics will be employed. Do
you think that would reduce the
consumer water rates in this city?
The higher the operating cost, the
more you and I are going to pay
for the water we use, else pay
higher taxes.
TOO, every time the political
party in this city changed, COM
plete new set of employees would
go into office-people who would
have to be trained and wouldn't
be worth their salt for several
months, still they would be draw
ing, in all likelihood, higher wages
than now are being paid.
Apparently the city has indebted
itself to the indianapolis Water
Company to such an extent that
it is unable to pay, and some pub
lic-spirited individuals offer as a
solution that the city take over
the water company and thereby
presumably cancel the indebted
ness.
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which I am sure no one would
criticise if it is carried only to
reasonable lengths. But when that
love confers upon an animal the
material advantages so badly
needed by many children, then
I do believe it should be ques-
toned. 1t should, indeed, be bold
~ challenged.
Half-starved, ragged little boys
who roam the city streets and get
a part of their food from garbage
cans are able, every day, to look
into richly upholstered Imousines
where dogs recline in ease and
elegance. They can peep into the
windows Of houses and see dogs
that are sheltered, warmed, pro-
tected, fed, loved. They well may
ask themselves, I think, into what
kind Of world they have strayed;
a world in which animals are
housed like humans and humans
are forced to live like animals.
The child who freezes and
starveS and whose heart has ached
for the love it has never had will
one day have the right to charge
with high crime a government
which permits so many of its citi-
zens to pet and pamper dogs while
thousands Of its children go for
gotten and neglected
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DUMB. BUT NEVER DULL

NTARGOT ASQUITH, like our own matron
Iva of politics. Alice Roosevelt Longworth,
has been writing a book. The title is More
or Less About Myself" Dutton), or, more &C
curately, All About Myself. For though she
has much to say about the great and not-so-
great of the war and prewar England, they
become in her mind only foils for Margot.
AZ those who read her earlier essay into
autobiography will recall, Mrs. Asquith has
been blessed with two glorious certainties in
life One is that she is brilliant, and the other
that she is naughty 1t happens that she is,
underneath, rather dumb and decorous. But
her illusion Of superiority has liberated her to
be herself That is why she is a very interest
ing person. In the worlds of society, politics
and literature in which she moved one was
not disqualified by dumbnesS The arch sin
was dizziness. And of that she has never been
guilty.
So when Margot lifts her veil, you will adj
mire the hawklike dart by which she pins her
enemy, Lloyd George; you will be moved by
her manner in stacking the cards in favor OF
her husband premier, you will be amused by
her Irritation with the prince who became Ed
ward VII-even though it all seems more than
a little faded wisecracks of those who helped
make the great war which destroyed them.