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Sunday Morning Edition Sunday Morning' Edition DAILY ARGUS -LEADER "SOUTH DAKOTA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1937 PAGES PRICE CENTS JUU THE Fffi ILt4iUJlliJe) luliffllLlLil li uwiLikiolr Lone Man on Habn Jury U. S. Accepts Peace Conference Bid Squabbles Ahead For Extra Session NOTED MASON DIES 'Sfye Pirates9 to Meet Resistance Employers, Workers Join in Crusade ROW OVER BLACK APPOINTMENT IS STILL SIMMERING J-- 1 V1 I -J FIELDS SOAKED BEFORE ANNUAL FREEZE-UP HITS Sioux Falls Area Past 40-Year Moisture Average Already CORN NOT INJURED Farmers Anticipate Spell of Good Weather to Al-. low Picking South Dakota farmers wore broad smiles today after the weatherman had brought them a moisture-saturated soil before freczing-np time as the result of constant rains and wet snows in the eastern section of the state during the past 48 hours. If there is any one thing that South Dakota farmers hope for in the faU it Is that their fields be soaked with moisture so that excellent planting conditions will prevail in the spring.

The past two days have brought an abundance of moisture throughout almost the entire eastern part of the state. As positive evidence of this the Sioux Falls area has already passed the 40-year average for precipitation. The annual average is about 25.50 inches in this territory, but this figure was passad Saturday when the total for the year of 1937 reached 25.94 inches and with more than two and a half been receiving $35 to $37.50 a week, a raise to $33 for semiskilled cutters who have been getting $30.50, and a blanket 5 percent increase for the remainder of the 1,800 workers affected. Howard Elliott, general counsel for the Manufacturers' association, said style piracy was widespread in St. Louis.

As a result, he reported manufacturers here were getting only a small fraction of the business of the large St. Louis department stores $40,000 to $60,000 last year out of purchases of to $10,000,000. "The downtown stores complained," he pointed out, "that when they bought a local style for. say, $12.75, in a few days a dozen or so local factories were making duplicate copies for $2.75 or so." liailivgffrta.vnriirtni irr I A jury of one man and 11 women was seated at Cincinnati to hear he murder trial of Mrs. Anna Marie Hahn, accused as the poison slayer of 78-year-old Jacob Wagner.

John Granda, shown here with one of the feminine jurors, young mechanic, was the lone wolf among a group composed mostly of housewives. HULL SENDS QUICK REPLY TO BELGIAN ENVOY'S PROPOSAL Answer and Personnel of Dele gation Completed Within Five Minutes DAVIS TO HEAD ROSTER Government Makes It Plain It Opposes Violation of Nine-Power Pact Washington, Oct. 16. OP) The United States moved swiftly today to insure its cooperation with other nine-power treaty signatories in conference designed to halt the un declared Sino-Japanese war. Five minutes after the Belgian government's formal invitation to the parley at Brussels on October 30 had been received, Secretary Hull announced this governments ac ceptance and named a delegation of five to represent it.

Norman H. Davis, of New York, President Roosevelt's "ambassador at-large." was designated to act as America's chief spokesman in conference efforts to find a formula for a peaceable adjustment of the far eastern crisis. In the midst of these plans, Secre tary Hull wrote Senator Walsh, (D- Mass.) he did not think "tnis gov. ernment need or should show toler ance toward actions inconsistent with treaties to which this country is a party." ravor Mediation Davis, a veteran of international conferences, is expected to press for an agreement to mediate the Sino- Japanese conflict in accordance with policy already outlined by the pres ident. This move is expected to be direct ed toward obtaining an agreement between China and Japan to cease their hostilities and strive lor a negotiated peace.

With, Davis will go the state de nartment's toD ranking expert on Far Eastern and European problems Dr. Stanley K. Hornbeck, special political advisor to Secretary Hull on Far Eastern affairs and Jay Pier-repont Moffat, chief of the depart ments European division. The delegation also will include Robert T. Pell, an attache of the European division, who will act as press officer, and cnaries Bonien, secretary.

Secretary Hull announced the delegation would sail the middle of next week and the understanding was it would catch the United States liner Washington leaving New York Wednesday. The United States government, in common with the other signatories of the nine-power pact guaranteeing China's territorial and administration sovereignty was invited to the conference by Belgium to "examine the situation in the Far East and to study peaceable means of hastening the end of the regrettable conflict which prevails there." Delivered by Envoy The action was taken, the Belgian invitation said, in conformity with Article Seven of the pact providing for "full and frank communication" between the signatories "whenever a situation arises" which Involves application of the treaty in the Far East. Count Robert Van Der Straten-Ponthoz, the Belgian ambassador, delivered his government's written invitation in person to Secretary Hull. Secretary Hull asured the envoy orally of this government's acceptance of the invitation and gave him an immediate reply. Immediately after the.

Belgian ambassador had departed, Hull entered a waiting press conference to make his formal announcement of his acceptance and the names of the American delegates. Hull said he had no knowledge as yet of the program with which the government will deal. President Roosevelt indicated plainly yesterday at Hyde Park, however, America's primary objective in the Brussels conference will be to seek mediation of the conflict. SOUTH ST. PAUL MAN IN GOVERNOR'S RACE St.

Paul, Oct. 16. Harold E. Stassen of South St. Paul today became the first avowed candidate for the republican nomination for governor in 1938 with organization of the Stassen for governor volunteers in Dakota county.

Dr. R. P. Radabaugh of Hastings, Dakota countv republican chairman, and M. J.

OToole, South St. Paul democrat, are co-chairman of the new organization. Thev announced that a state-wide drive to win the nomination for Stassen will be launched at a din ner in his honor November 15 at Hastings. MAN GIVEN TYPEWRITER THAT GOES BACKWARD Nashua. N.

H- Oct. 16. UP) A typewriter that goes "backward" and writes in Hebrew today was pre sented to A. J. Goodman by his four daughters as a birthday gift.

The machine was made by a nationally-known typewriter concern which Ooodman said, maintained it never before had constructed one like it." The keys bear Hebrew characters and the carriage operates from right to left Instead of from left to right as on ordinary machines. Goodman, a merchant, long has been regarded as a Hebrew scholar. St. Louis, Oct. 18.

(P) Union garment workers in St. Louis joined today with their employers in a fight against "style pirates." It was said by both sides to be the first time in the history of the clothing industry that such a pact had been made. In return for wage increases, the international ladies' garment workers' union agreed its members would refuse to work, if necessary, for any manufacturer who made cheap copies of more expensive dresses. The contract, for two years, was signed with the associated garment industries of St. Louis, an organization of 41 manufacturers of silk and wool dresses.

It provided an increase of $5 weekly for skilled cutters who have Carpenter Plans Rent-Free Town Scottsbluff, Oct. 16. (jiP) Terry Carpenter, former congressman and unsuccessful U. S. senate candidate in 1936, who now operates an oil refinery, general store and varied other enterprises in Scottsbluff, said today he plans to incorporate a village, Terry-town, on a 200 acre tract, partly in and partly south of Scottsbluff.

"Lights and water will be furnished free from my own plants, there will be no rent, and taxes must be paid on improvements alone," Carpenter said. "It is a humanitarian venture." About 400 persons live on the tract, most of them in trailer houses and makeshift homes, attracted by cost-free ground. Both Scottsbluff county and city officials have indicated opposition to Carpenter's plan, but he Is proceeding with legal preparations. ARMY FINISHES BOMBER TESTS Plane Reported to Have Handled Easily During Workout at Seattle Washington, Oct. 16.

The army announced today that its huge new bomber, larger than its "flying fortress," had completed successfully its first test flight at Boeing field at Seattle, Wash. The plane, which weighs more than than 30 tons, "handled easily and maneuvered readily," the war department said it was notified by Major John D. Corkille. Major Corkille, with Edmund T. Allen, consulting engineer and test pilot of the Boeing Aircraft com pany, made the test flight.

Additional nights are to be maae before the plane is delivered to the army air corps at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, for more thorough service tests. It is destined eventually for the general headquarters air force at Langley Field, Va. A streamlined, all metal mono plane with a wing spread of approximately 150 feet, the new Boeing XB- 15 is similar in appearance to the "flying fortresses," the B-17 bombers that are now in service. Four 1000-horsepower engines drive the plane at a speed which the war department did not disclose. Defensive armament consists of six enclosed machine gun emplacements.

Auto-Truck Crash Is Fatal to Five Rushville. Oct. 16. UP) Five persons, including a small boy about nine years old, were killed seven miles southeast of here today in an automobile-truck crasn. Names of the dead could not be learned at once but the Rush county coroner said all were residents of Camp Point in Adams county, Illinois.

First reports wpre that the car containing the Illinois residents crashed head-on into the heavy truck while attempting to pass an other car. The driver of the truck, whose identity also was not learned. was brought to a Rushville hospital and physicians said they did not expect him to live. Witnesses said the Illinois resi dents were killed instantly. EXPORTS EXPANDING FOR FARM PRODUCTS Washington, Oct.

16. JP) Larger crops this year are expanding exports of farm products, government trade data indicated today. The bureau of agricultural eco nomics said exports during July and August were about 16 percent larger than the same period last year. It listed substantial gains for wheat, cotton lard, rice and barley. At the same time, the bureau said high meat prices had increased imports of beef and-pork to largest quantities since 1929.

imports or ail competitive iarm products during the July-August period gained 39 percent over last year. The largest Increases were in cattle, wool, sugar, vegetable oils, corn, hides and skins and sausage Reform for High Bench May Be Asked Again, Adding Potent Trouble CROP MEASURE STALLED Shift of Votes Within Opposition Possible to Permit Vote on Bill Washington, Oct. 16. (JP) Troubles galore were predicted for the new and special session of congress today not all of them originating in the program requested by President Roosevelt. The items for which he asked crop control, more natural resource planning regions, wage and hour legislation, government reorganization and an anti-trust bill are all loaded with controversy, lt is true, but there are other disputes lurking nearby.

The first of these is the continuing row over the appointment of Hugo L. Black to the supreme court, a dispute involving both his admitted former membership in the Ku Klux Klan and the question of his technical eligibility under the constitution. President Roosevelt apparently has determined to say nothing more about the case. But that does not go for some members of congress. An impeachment effort before the session is a few days old would not surprise many.

Anti-Lynch Bill Troublesome Row number two is a congressional perennial. Not a session passes but that the question of enacting anti-lynching legislation does not bob up to produce an unyielding filibuster by southern senators. Before congress adjourned in August, an agreement was reached making an anti-lynching bill the senate's second order of business, after the current recess. Gauging the prospects for controversy, Washington was prone to add to these, the disturbance within the democratic party left over from last session's fight over the Roosevelt court reform bill. Mr.

Roosevelt has said he may or may not recom-' mend such legislation again. He did not mention it when he called the special session. So long as the subject remains in this status, the foes of last session's bill, including a good many demo crats, will obviously be constantly, ana some or tnem pernaps pugnaciously on the alert. The president's five-point program itself holds abundant promise of controversy. Crop control is a fighting phrase with some segments of the congressional membership, and there undoubtedly will be much acrimonious discussion of the interpretation that should be placed unon the supreme court decision which outlawed the southerners.

It passed the senate last session only to be pigeonholed by a combination of republicans and southern democrats in the house rules committee. The first problem where it is concerned Is to get the bill out of committee. May rrtition for Vole Chairman O'Connor of the rules committee said this week that the bill would be sent to the house early in the session, presumably by a shift of votes within the coalition which trapped the bill last year. If this should fail to come about, a petition signed by 218 members of the house, a majority, would bring the measure to the floor. Government reorganization and the idea of building new power-resource developments in major watersheds both ran into abundant opposition at the last session.

A continuation of the disputes then engendered was considered inevitable. Knowing nothing of what may be proposed in the way of new antitrust legislation, the capital was uncertain just how much of a fight would result. Ordinarily, that subject is loaded with dynamite. Estate Tax Hearing Site Moved Again Dallas, Oct. 16.

UP) It's moving day again for the series of hearings on a four-state controversy over taxes on the estate of the late col. E. H. R. Green, multi-mil- lionaire railroad magnate.

The current hearing, recessed after i a six-day session here, will be re-! sumed in Fort Worth Monday. Evidence has been gathered in Massachusetts, New York and Flor-! ida, each of which is contestine1 Texas' claim that the colonel legal domicile was Terrell, and that the bulk of the taxes on the estate, estimated at $44,000,000, should go to this state. FRENCH ARMY ELIGIBLE 1U J5U I WAK MAlLKlALi Pans. Oct. 16.

tIPt The French army was given first choice today to buy large quantities of arms and munitions taken from Spaniards who have entered France since the beginning of the Spanish civil war. Disposition of thousands of hand grenades, rifles, pistols and other war. materials, including machine guns, accumulated by finance ministry officers was determined in a circular signed by Defense Minister Edouard Daladier, Interior Minister Marx Dormoy, and Finance Minister Georges Bonnet, CONFESSED KILLER TO BE EXTRADITED 18-Year-01d Double Murderer Faces Quick Return to Scene of Slayings North Arlington, N. Oct. 16.

(j.A sleepy-eyed, auburn-haired youth of 18 faced quick removal to Maine tonight after Prosecutor John Breslin announced he confessed tilling an elderly physician and his ife, stuffing their bodies in a car tnd driving his gruesome cargo through six northeastern states. The youth, Paul Dwyer, South Paris, high school junior and ion of a widowed nurse, was arrested shortly after 4 a. by two pstrolmen, who saw the worn soles his shoes sticking out of the window of a parked automobile where he slept so tired from a 56-hour ride, police said, he told them my eyes were sore." Taken to police headquarters for routine questioning police thought he was a vagrant the youth was laid by Police Chief George Shippee to have described readilv the "double murder" of Dr. John G. Littlefield, 87.

South Paris physician and his fife, Lydia, 64. JUSTICE HUGHES GETS VOTES OF FRESHMEN Prinretnn rw 1s Princeton freshmen placed' Chief uaice manes gvans Hugnes anead of President Roosevelt as the great-tst livin? Ameriran a tnhnlafrinn tf the annual poll of the entering class The poll, conducted by the Daily Princrtonian, campus newspaper. Eve Huehps 70 vntps tVn and Henry Ford 30. OFFICIAL WEATHER bv Th Assoct-M Prrss. Local temperature, baro-smr and irind velocity bv J.

H. Bech-MCnSE Official Forecast South Dakota: Occasional rains PMture Sunday: somewhat cooler JSV 0t'casinal rains Sunday Monday; slowly rising tcmpera- Mmnesota: Occasional rains Sun- (laV Ann L. jiauiK temperature punoay and easf. anri com Kins Monday. dav.nrfCf yl-l'luai rams aun-y and Monday; rising temperature Bffiday and extreme east COCirr pvt.remp mutt Iocal Temperatures les.erday Xoday 36 3 a.

34 In i3 Wlnd: South MMife'l? Ba-meter falling fe' Sunset 5:56 Pfwipuaiion: .18. lotal ior year 25.94. MtSm Un Valleys tne Mtte'l centra' BM plains: rather specially in nor r. Tuesday, with of ek! lnal or nieher remainder hm-i prfclPation for Low High Prn 48 5S 60 52 54 in '4 74 .44 wni "0 82 .23 .02 12 Lv:" IS 9i 4" 53 5(1 oJ tc3ri oo tgV TlVa f' 50 52 Taming! City 3 38 .04 Citv 44 44 ni ''n 44 52 .04 E. F.

Terwilliger Vermillion, S. D- Oct. 18. K. F.

Terwilliger, 66, veteran Railway Ex press company agent, cued at his home here today after a lingering uiness. One of the most prominent Masons in South Dakota he had been grand high priest, the highest officer in Royal Arch Masonry in the state, was a past master of the Vermillion Blue lodge, and member of Cyrene commandery No, 2 and El Riad Shrine temple at Sioux Falls. Funeral services which are pending, will be held under Masonic auspices. Mr. Terwilliger is survived by his widow and one son.

Floyd, both of Vermillion, and one daughter residing in Chicago. AMNESIA VICTIM STAYS NAMELESS Chicago Hospital Workers Un- i able to Establish Identity of Young Sufferer Chicago, Oct. 16. UP) Hospital authorities and a physician, reported no progress today in their efforts to establish the Identity of a 20-year-old amnesia victim as Clyde Butler of Roswell, N. M.

The youth showed no more signs of remembering who he is and where he is from than he did last Tues- oay when he walked into the office of Dr. J. A. Cousins and told the physician he didn't know his name Dr. Cousins said his investigation in several quarters thus far had led to dead ends.

The name, Clyde Butler, was found among the youth's personal effects and on his linen and persons who struck up acquaintances with the youth last week said he was known to them as Clyde Butler of Roswell. N. M. From Roswell, the doctor said he learned a Clyde Butler was graduated with honors from the hieh there in 1936. Dr.

Cowing said the youth wore a ring initialed S. '36." indicating lt might have been his class ring. In a book the youth had with him when he registered at a hotel here last week under the name "Oppen-heim," Dr. Cousins said he found the name and address, L. H.

Wellcr, 801 N. Washington street, Roswell. He sent a collect telegram to that party, the doctor said, but it was not accepted. No Change Predicted in U. S.

Land Setup Division May Be Reorganized With Headquarters for Area in New Town Washington, Oct. le.yPi Agriculture department officials said today they did not believe there would be any change soon in the headquarters of the land litigation division of resettlement now located at Lincoln, Neb. The officials declined to say, however, whether any ohange was being contemplated or the division reorganized on a different basis with headquarters for the northern great plains states shifting from Lincoln to Cheyenne or Billings. "All we know right now." said one official. "Is that the headquarters office still is Lincoln.

Neb." ARTIST READY TO HUNT BIG GAME IN NORTHLAND Seattle, Oct. 16. (Pv David M. Newell, author, artist and former St. Louis, Chicago and New York newspaper man, was here today outfitting for an Alaskan big game hunt.

He will be guided by Arthur Kin-nan of Ketchikan, brother of Mar-jorie Kinnan Rawlings, author. Newell, who lives at Lecsburg, salked Jaguar in Brazil with Sasha Cinn.l m.Um V. i a spear but this will be his first venture into the northland. CROWD SEES ROUNDUP OF SCATTERED BEES Des Moines. Oct.

18. UPy While hundreds of pedestrians watched from a discreet distance, 16 hives of bees were salvaged here today after an automobile-trailer collision at an intersection. Luckily for passersby. the bees were numbed by the chilly weather and no non-combatants were stung. Powers Doubt Good Faith Of Italy's Offer Feel Grandi Is Insincere in Proposal That Both Sides Withdraw Troops London, Oct.

16. (Italy's offer to make a conditional "token" withdrawal of part of the Italian volunteers fighting with the Spanish Insurgent armies was heard today by delegates of other powers with skepticism. Count Dino Grandi, Italy's spokesman, made the gesture at the session of the subcommittee of the 27-nations nonintervention committee, summoned to seek means of preventing' the Spanish war from becoming a European conflagration. But he insisted that withdrawals be in "equl numbers from both sides," which competent diplomatic quarters declared would mean recall of only a small proportion of the black shirts now in Spain even if all foreign volunteers were taken from the Spanish government's ranks. The meeting was marked by revival of the bitter verbal warfare between Italy and soviet Russia which has marked the history of the entire European nonintervention effort.

Ivan Maisky, soviet Russian spokesman in the nine-nation subcommittee, made a slashing attack on the role Italy has played in the Spanish war. The only hopeful sign after today's brief, bitter meeting, informed oources said, was the willingness of from home capitals on the Anglo-foom home capitals on the Anglo-French "last effort" to end foreign intervention committee action. Soldier Must Face Murder Accusation Army Private to Be Turned Over to Federal District Attorney in Colorado Denver, Oct. 16. (IP) Lt.

Col. Larry B. McAlfee said today that Emil B. Diechmann, 28, an army private from New Athens, 111., would be turned over to the federal district attorney's office for prosecution for the slaying of James B. Lowrey, 23, private soldier from Yancy, Ky.

Colonel McAlfee said a military inquiry by Fitzsimons hospital officers would be completed today and Diechmann then would be turned over to Assistant U. S. District Attorney David Morris who assisted the military inquiry board. Lowrey, doing guard duty under Diechmann for a minor infraction of rules, died yesterday with five bullets in his body fired from a service revolver which Diechmann surrendered to police at the army hospital immediately after the shooting. Colonel McAlfee said the two men had "rowed" several days ago after Diechmann had ordered Lowrey to clean up some waste in the hospital post grounds.

FARLEY SAYS AMERICA NEED NOT DREAD WAR Portland, Oct. 16. IP) Post master General James A. Farley told the Oregon Jackson club today America need have no fear of war, because "a peace loving president sits in the White House." Farley said President Roosevelt "has demonstrated for all time the democratic party is fit and able to govern," and "the president will carry on in the future as he has in the past, and will work toward the end that America shall be a better place in which to live." EX-MAGAZINE EDITOR ILL WITH PNEUMONIA Philadelphia, Oct 18. 0P George Horace 'Eorimer, former edl? tor of the Saturday Evening Post, is seriously ill at his home in Wyncote.

from pneumonia, it was learned today. He has been ill for several weeks and was apparently improving, a member of his family said, when the complication of pneumonia set In. Labor Battle r.lay Close At Peace Parley Agreement to Talk Over Problems Follows Two Years After Initial Split By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Organized labor has called an armistice In Its two year old civil war and today is ready for a preliminary peace conference in Washington, October 25, intended to unify again the American labor movement, J'cease was the American Federation of Labor's anouncement in Denver that, it had accepted a proposal from the Committee for Industrial Organization to send negotiating committees to a Washington conference without advance conditions, reservations or commitments. The conference agreement fol lowed several days of long distance maneuvering, neither side willing to recede from its views on tne principles of craft" unionism and Indus-trial unionism. Two CIO conference proposals were turned down by the federation before a third was accepted.

Phillip Murray, one of John Lewis" chief lieutenants in the CIO, termed the federation's earlier jockeying on conference conditions "quibbling. The agreement was reached prac tically two years from the date that Lewis and ten "rebel" unions walked out of the federation convention and organized the CIO to embrace unskilled workers in mass production industries. UAWA Workers Idle; Pay Boost Demanded Flint. Oct. 18.

yp A thousand employes of Fisher Body corporation plant No. 1 were idle for three and a half hours yesterday because of a labor dispute Involving six workmen. The night shift resumed work. Plant officials said the six workmen sat down and demanded an increase in pay from $1.05 an hour to $1.10. Michael Taylor, member of the executive committee of the United Automobile Workers of America in Flint, assured the management the entire day shift would be back on the job Monday.

"It was not a strike," Taylor said, "and there will be no strike." COLLEGE BUILDING DESTROYED BY FIRE Slippery Rock, Oct. 16. One hundred and sixty-seven coeds escaped safely in scant attire early today from fire which swept the historic hall on the campus of Slippery Rock college. Nobody was injured. The office of President Charles Miller estimated the damage at approximately $400,000.

The fire originated in the kitchens where preparations were underway for an ox roast on the occasion of homecoming day, and the annual football game with Westminster college. Hundreds of alumni and other visitors gathering for the game saw the building, a three-story frame and brick structure, collapse while flames enveloped it. LEDERER AND MARGO MARRIED IN NEVADA Las Vegas, Oct. 18. Francis Lederer, 31-year-old film actor and active world peace advocate, and Margarita Bolando, 20, stage and screen dancer known as "Margo," were married here today.

The couple planned to return tonight to Lederer's ranch in San Fer nando Valley, near Hollywood, def er-rinjr any honeymoon trip for the present because of their current picture work. Lederer was divorced from his first wife in his native Prague in 1935. Margo baa not been married before. Drive Carefully For the information of motorists who plan to make Sunday trips to some distant points the following brief summary of road conditions is given: Paved roads in all directions are clear, but motorists are urged to use caution as misty weather and slippery spots make driving hazardous. Gravel roads are sloppy as th result of slush following snow and rain.

Dirt roads in the rural districts are in bad condition and motorists are not advised to follow them, according to numerous reports from the area, Some districts report fog, making driving dangerous. months yet to go. Observers indicated that it would not be improbable for the Sioux Falls district to get at least 30 inches of moisture this year. Hampera Corn ricking While all farmers, according to re ports, were- jubilant over the heaw moisture, some reported that it namperea corn picking activities, as little, if any, corn had been cribbed. However, it was not believed that the heavy precipitation of the past few days would injured the com seriously.

More pleasant fall weather is anticipated which would enable farmers to get.their corn out of the fields. Numerous corn-huskine contests are scheduled for this week throuch- out the state, end contestants looked forward to better weather conditions so that competitive events can be carried out without handicaps brought on by nature. In the Sioux Falls territory in-termitten rain and snow brought .58 of an inch of moisture since Friday night, bringing the year's total to almost 26 inches. Probability of more today would increase this figure, lt was said. Since Friday night about three and one half inches of wet snow fell in Sioux Falls, and a continuation of wet weather was reflected in thermometer readings.

The mercury varied only about three degrees from Friday afternoon until Saturday night. Rnads Are Dangerous While the rains and snow brought optimism to farmers it did not bring any Joy to motorists, for road conditions were described as dangerous throughout most sections of the state, as well as in western Minnesota and northwestern Iowa. Rain, mist, snow, sleet and icy pavements made driving hazardous, and travelers were urged to use caution if they plan to make any long trips. Oravel roads were soaked and slushy, while dirt roads in rural districts were said to be almost impassable. Reports from the territory north of Sioux Falls revealed varied weather conditions.

At Brookings roads were said to be in good condition but drivers were urged to be careful as it had snowed all day and was still snowing Saturday night. Mild temperatures, however, melted snow almost as rapidly as it fell. At Madison there was rain part nf the time Saturday and then snow, and again rain. From two to three inches of snow was on the ground at Madison. Roads were reported passable but slushy.

Gravel highways were said to be muddy and slippery. Motor driving was described as "bad." The same was said to be true at Wessington Springs, 80 miles west of Madison. Aberdeen Reports Aberdeen and its surrounding area appeared to have escaped the severity of the snowstorm which swept the eastern part of the state. No snow fell Saturday but some mist was reported Saturday night. Only a trace of was recorded there Friday night.

While skies were cloudy at Aerdeen no moisture was reported. Roads were open. It rained and snowed all day at Watertown. although the preciplta-tion content was low because the rain was more in the form of mist than actual water, and snow flurries were light. There was no semblance of a snowstorm at Watertown such, as was experienced in the southeastern part of the state.

Roads in that territory were reported in good condition, although wet, and local observers said that if jtContinued on page 3, column it.