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the the "SOUTH DAKOTA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER" 9 Morning THE DAILY RGU ER 'Sunday Morning Edition Edition SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1937 5 CENTS PAGES PRECIPITATION GLADDENS FARMERS Lone Man on Hahn Jury A jury of one man and 11 women the murder trial of Mrs. Anna Marie of 78-year-old Jacob Wagner. John the feminine jurors, young mechanic, composed mostly of housewives. CONFESSED KILLER TO BE EXTRADITED 18-Year-Old Double Murderer Faces Quick Return to Scene of Slayings North Arlington, N. Oct.

(P -A sleepy-eyed, auburn-haired youth of 18 faced quick removal to Maine tonight after Prosecutor John J. Breslin announced he confessed killing an elderly physician and his wife, stuffing their bodies in a car and driving his gruesome cargo through six northeastern states. The youth, Paul Dwyer, South Paris, high school junior and son of a widowed nurse, was arrested shortly after 4 a. by two patrolmen, who saw the worn soles of 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- youth was said by Police Chief George Shippee to have described readily the "double murder" of Dr. John G.

Littlefield, 67. South Paris physician and his wife, Lydia, 64. JUSTICE HUGHES GETS VOTES OF FRESHMEN Princeton, N. Oct. Princeton freshmen placed Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes ahead of President Roosevelt as the greatest, living American, a tabulation of the annual poll of the entering class disclosed today.

They poll, conducted by the Daily Princetonian, campus newspaper, gave Hughes 70 votes, the president 56 and Henry Ford 30. OFFICIAL WEATHER Weather Information by The Associated meter Press. Local temperature, told. and wind velocity by J. H.

Bechbaro- in Sioux voluntary United States observer Falls. Official Forecast South Dakota: Occasional rains Sunday and Monday; rising temperature Sunday; somewhat cooler in Iowa: west portion Monday. and Occasional rains Sunday ture. Monday; slowly rising temperaMinnesota: Occasional rains Sunday Sunday and Monday; rising temperature and in east and south tions Monday. porNebraska: Occasional rains Sunday Sunday and and Monday; extreme rising temperature in east Monday; cooler in extreme west Monday.

Local Temperatures 3 p. Today Yesterday 6 .36 3 a. 9 p. .35 Wind: p. .36 Barometer South 12 falling Sunrise.

....6:57 Precipitation: 18. for year 25.94. For Forecast for Week the Upper Lower Missouri Mississippi and northern and central valleys great and the Much cloudiness, plains: with rather frenorthern precipitation, especially in quent perature area; Monday or slowly Tuesday, rising temreadings normal or higher remainder with of week. National Weather Record 24 hours preceding and precipitation for by The Associated 7 Press). yesterday; Albany (cloud Low High Prn Atlanta clears 46 52 56 60 Washington 48 52 Dallas (partie cloudy) 48 54 raining 68 70 clear 60 66 Jacksonville clear 74 74 New clears 72 73 Ban Antonio Orleans (raining) 66 80 82 66 .22 .02 partie cloudy 70 72 .26 Chicago Cincinnati 1cleari 52 53 54 60 48 54 Indianapolis clears 46 52 clear 56 58 Milwaukee 66 68 (clears 50 52 Duluth Moines training.

training, 38 46 48 38 .04 Kansas 36 36 .04 (raining) 44 56 44 56 .06 St. training! 40 .64 Minneapolis training: cloudy) 54 56 .86 icleart 44 42 53 42 .04 Phoenix 1cleari icloudy 60 66 48 .30 Lake 82 84 Ban Francisco cloudy) 56 72 58 106 Seattle (cloudy) 66 80 65 66 .10 U. S. Accepts Peace Conference Bid Squabbles Ahead For Extra Session 'Style Pirates' to Meet Resistance Employers, Workers Join in Crusade 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 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 made cheap copies of more expensive dresses. The contract, for two years, was signed with the associated garment industries of St. Louis, an organization a 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. Terry Carpenter, former congressman and unsuccessful U.

S. senate candidate in 1936, who now operates refinery, general store and varied other enterprises in Scottsbluff, said today he plans to incorporate a village, Terrytown, on 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 Handied Easily During Workout at Seattle Washington, Oct. army announced today that its huge new bomber, larger than its "flying fortress," had completed successfully 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 company, made the test flight. Additional flights are to be made 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 monoplane with a wing spread of approximately 150 feet, the new Boeing XB15 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. persons, including a small boy about nine years old, were killed seven miles southeast of here today in an automobile-truck crash. 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 were that the car containing the Illinois residents crashed head-on into the heavy truck while attempting to pass 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 residents were killed instantly. EXPORTS EXPANDING FOR FARM PRODUCTS Washington, Oct. crops this year are expanding exports of farm products, government trade data indicated today. The bureau of agricultural economics 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 of all competitive farm products during the July-August period gained 39 over last year. The largest increases were in cattle, wool, sugar, vegetable oils, corn, hides and skins and sausage casings. FIELDS SOAKED BEFORE ANNUAL FREEZE-UP HITS HULL SENDS QUICK REPLY TO BELGIAN ENVOY'S PROPOSAL Answer and Personnel of Delegation Completed Within Five Minutes DAVIS TO HEAD ROSTER Government Makes It Plain It Opposes Violation of NinePower Pact flict which prevails there." Delivered by Envoy Washington, Oct.

(AP) -The United States moved swiftly today to insure its cooperation with other nine-power treaty signatories in 1 a conference designed to halt the undeclared 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 government's acceptance and named a delegation of to represent it. Norman H. Davis, of New York, President Roosevelt's "ambassadorat-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, Secretary Hull wrote Senator Walsh (D- Mass.) he did not think "this government need or should show tolerance toward actions inconsistent with treaties to which this country is a party." Favor Mediation Davis, a veteran of international conferences, is expected to press for an agreement to mediate the SinoJapanese conflict in accordance with policy already outlined by the president.

This move is expected to be directtoward obtaining an agreement between China and Japan to cease their hostilities and strive for a negotiated peace. With Davis will go the state department's top ranking expert on Far Eastern and European problems -Dr. Stanley K. Hornbeck, special political advisor to Secretary Hull on Far Eastern affairs and Jay Pierrepont Moffat, chief of the department's European division. The delegation also will include Robert T.

Pell, an attache the European division, who will act as press officer, and Charles E. Bohlen, secretary. Secretary Hull announced the delegation would sail the middle of next 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 con- 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 StratenPonthoz, 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 Hull said he had no knowledge as American a delegates. 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. 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 county republican chairman, and M. J. O'Toole, South St. Paul democrat, are co-chairman of the new organization. They announced that a state-wide drive to win the nomination for Stassen will be launched at a dinner in his honor November 15 at Hastings.

MAN GIVEN TYPEWRITER THAT GOES BACKWARD Nashua, N. Oct. typewriter that goes "backward" and writes in Hebrew today was presented to A. J. Goodman by his four daughters as a birthday gift.

The machine was made by a nationally-known typewriter concern which Goodman 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. ROW OVER BLACK APPOINTMENT IS STILL SIMMERING 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.

-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 askedcrop control, more natural resource planning regions, wage and hour legislation, government reorganization and an anti-trust bill--are all loaded with controversy, 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 antilynching legislation does not bob up to produce an unyielding filibuster by southern senators. Before congress adjourned in August, an agreement was reached making an antilynching 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 recommend 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 democrats, will obviously be constantly, some of them perhaps 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 discussion of interpretation that should be placed upon 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 Petition for Vote 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 powerresource developments in major opposition at the last session. watersheds both ran into abundant 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. moving day again for the series of hearings on a four-state controversy over 000.000 taxes on the estate of the late Col. E. H. R.

Green, multi-millionaire railroad magnate. The current hearing, recessed after a six-day session here, will be resumed in Fort Worth Monday. Evidence has been gathered in Massachusetts, New York and Florida, each of which is contesting Texas' claim that the colonel's 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 TO BUY WAR MATERIALS Paris, Oct. French army was given first choice today 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, NOTED MASON DIES E. F. Terwilliger Vermillion, S. Oct.

F. Terwilliger, 66, veteran Railway Express company agent, died at his home here today after a lingering illness. 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 Unable to Establish Identity of Young Sufferer Chicago, Oct. (P) -Hospital authorities and a physician reported no progress today in their efforts to establish the identity of a 20-yearold 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 Tuesday 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, personal found among the youth's 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 high school there in 1936. Dr. Cousins said the youth wore a ring initialed "R.H.

S. '36," indicating it 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 "Oppenheim," Dr. Cousins said he found the name and address, L. H.

Weller, 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. department officials said today they did not believe there would be any change soon in the headquarters of the land utilization division of resettlement now located at Lincoln, Neb. The officials declined to say, however, whether any change was being a contemplated or the division reorplains states shifting from Lincoln ganized on a different basis with headquarters for the no northern great Cheyenne or Billings. 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.

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 Kinnan of Ketchikan, brother of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author. Newell, who lives at Leesburg, stalked jaguar in Brazil with Sasha Siemel, the Latvian who hunts big game with a spear, but this will be his first venture into the northland.

CROWD SEES ROUNDUP OF SCATTERED BEES Des Moines, Oct. 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. Sioux Falls Area Past 40- Year Moisture Average Already CORN NOT INJURED Farmers Anticipate Spell of Good Weather to Allow Picking 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 to $60,000 last year out of purchases of 000 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 dozen or so local factories were making duplicate copies for $2.75 or so." was seated at Cincinnati to hear Hahn, accused as the poison slayer Granda, shown here with one of was the lone wolf among a group Labor Battle May 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. The signal to "'cease firing" 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 followed several days of long distance maneuvering, neither side willing to recede from its views on the principles of craft unionism and industrial unionism. Two CIO conference proposals were turned down by the federation before a third was accepted. Phillip Murray, one of John L. Lewis' chief lieutenants in the CIO, termed the federation's earlier jockeying on conference conditions "quibbling." The agreement was reached practically 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. thousand employes of Fisher Body corporation plant No.

1 were idle for three and a half hours yesterday because of 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 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, Nobody Rock was college. 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 Vegas, Oct. Francis Lederer, 31-year-old film actor and active world peace advocate, 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 Fernando Valley, near Hollywood, deferring any honeymoon trip for the present because of their current picture work.

Lederer was divorced his first wife in his native "Prague in 1935. Margo has not been married before, AP South Dakota farmers wore broad smiles today after the weatherman had brought them a moisture-saturated soil before freezing-up time as the result of constant rains and wet snows in the eastern section of the state during the past 1 48 hours. If there is any one thing that South Dakota farmers hope for in the fall 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 passed Saturday when the total for the year of 1937 reached 25.94 inches--and with more than two and a half Powers Doubt Good Faith Of Italy's Offer Feel Grandi Is Insincere in Proposal That Both Sides Withdraw Troops London, Oct. 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 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 "equal 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 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 sources said, was the willingness of from capitals on the Anglofoom home capitals on the AngloFrench "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. Col. Larry B.

McAlfee said today that Emil B. Diechmann, 28, an army private from New Athens, 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 today and Piechmann, then U. would S.

be District turned 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 ered to police at the army hospital revolver which Diechmann an surrendimmediately 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. 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 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. (AP) George Horace Lorimer, former editor 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. 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 the 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 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. Hampers Corn Picking While all farmers, according to reports, were jubilant over the heavy moisture, some reported that it hampered corn picking activities, as little, if any, corn had been cribbed. However, it was not believed that the heavy precipitation past few days would injured the a corn seriously. More pleasant fall weather is anticipated which would enable farmers to get, their corn out of the fields. Numerous corn-husking contests are scheduled for this week throughout the state, and 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 intermitten rain and snow brought .58 of an inch of moisture since Friday night, bringing the year's total to almost 026 inches. Probability of more today would increase this figure, it 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. Roads Are While the rains Dangerous, 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. Gravel 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 of the time Saturday and then snow, and again rain. From two to three inches of snow was on the ground Madison. Roads were reported passable but slushy.

Gravel highways were said to be muddy and slippery. Motor driving was described as "bad." 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 snow was recorded there Friday night.

While skies were cloudy at Aberdeen no moisture was reported. Roads were open. It rained and snowed all day at Watertown, although the precipitation 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 in in that territory were reported in good condition, although wet, and local observers said that if (Continued on page 2, column 6),.