The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 25, 1923, Page 4

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C oes 620 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) .... 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.............. 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) LET THERE BE FAIR PLAY Tonight the city commission opens bids for pumping: equipment and probably there will be consideration of the use of Diesel engines for pumping the The Hughes Electric compar to prevent the city water plant from achieving a maximum of efficiency. Certain agencies are trying to discount the use of oil engines to pump the water. It is essential that the city pump the water so that the consumers on the one hand can get water as cheaply as possible and on the other hand the city 1 control its own plant without going to the te commission fo: proval of its pumping contract. Let every citizen be on his guard. Bismarck voted almost unanimously for a city owned water plant. Why not make it complete? This city did not vote to transfer the matter of water rates from the Bismarck Water Supply company to the Hughes Electric company. There as yet has been no expr the city commi e indirectly is attempting ion on the matter from on, or the city engineer, but there should be some decision soon on this point. A majority of the citizen’s committee is known to be in favor of the city owning every unit of the new plant so that ee people will be free from the domination cf any private utility. The first effort on the part of the Hughes Electric com- pany to cripple the city owned plant was when its President, E. A. Hughes appeared before the city commission, and at tempted at the eleventh hour when the bond people were present to buy the city urities, to knock out the plans completely and build the kind of a plant he thought the city should have. His agents have been busy for weeks seeking to defeat all plans for the city to pump its own water. He has refused to date to submit a power rate that will compete with the offer of the low bidder for Diesel engines. The Tribune cannct believe that in face of the emphatie vote for a city owned and city controlled plant, that any utility is to be permitted to defeat the will and desire of the voters. To date, the negotiations have been handled above critic- ism. The city engineer, the commission and citizen’s com- mittee deserve the highest praise. There remains but one vital point to settle and that is the city control of power to pump the water, a matter that will play a most important part in fixing of rates. This city will soon t matter of water rat be free of one private utility in the Is it going to slip on another collar and let the power ility tell it what must be paid for water? Install the oil engines by all means and place the con- trel of rate making completely in the hands of the city com- mission. This is the only logical action to be taken. ICE Is another Ice Age coming in which a gigantic glacier will creep down from the north pole toward the equator” Quite possible, according to some scientists who have studied the growth of northern glaciers in the last 70 years. The MacMillan Arctic expedition has, as one of its main purposes, investigation of the possibility of another Ice Age. ff such a catastrophe came, how quickly nations and indi- viduals would stop warring against and robbing each other! In the presence of common danger, we quickly unite for the common good. You see this illustrated in disasters such as floods fires that destroy cities. Whv don’t we cc-operate without waiting for nature to send calamities to bring us to our senses? DULL If your job seems.monotonous and dull, think of E. P. Smith of the Old Colony Trust Co. in Boston. He signs his name 350,000 times a year on checks, ete. ing five pens, enables still necessitates 70,000 signatures a year. boresome and write the same thing over and over again on the bleck- board, Smith deserves a medal. Yet his job is the kind that standardization aid mass production and “efficiency” are bringing all humanity toward steadily. selves in a frightful prison. him to sign five at a time, And if it’s as ECONOMY People used to walk blocks to save five ‘cents carfare —- and often wore out several times that much shoeleather. The busy man who used to cut his envelopes open and use them for scratch paper was called thrifty; now he’d be con-| sidered a time waster. : Popular ideas about economy of money are becoming more sensible. When it comes to economizing on time, t only thing of real value, we’re as great wasters as ever.| Most of our rush is just a nervous explosion, not a shortcut. “MASSACRED” Ninety-seven per cent, of the Armenian population in Turkey has been wiped out, to date, declares Rev. Dr. G. B. Young, of the Near East relief organization. : At this, rate, if you bother to add‘up the Armenians “massacred” by the Turks in the last 10 years (according to the cables), there must be several millions of them left. Sometimes we wonder if a propagandist invented the adding machine. Why exaseerpie an evil that admittedly exists and ig atrocious enoug! without exaggeration? PREDICTION From the northern end of our continent, south and west Hudson Bay, comes word that the season is three weeks te. -.Which' should interest ‘all of us, especially farmers, ace much of our weather is manufactured up there. The Ojibway Indians predict a very hot summer and a ing winter. They base this prediction on wooderaft, the late spawning of the dore and the depth at which they are ; Namaycush, the salmon trout. j A machine, hold-} But that | as when teacher used to make us stay after school | We are walling our-} he! THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | | home is if you don’t eat it up you | have it for the next meat, We never can understand what ‘these autoists are driving at. Palm Beach aviator hurt during [take-off Also, many hers sun- | burned during their take-off, cme | Henry. Ford’s political machine eoms to have a self-starter, | Maybe a Pennsylvania man whose | Jleg broke as a tooth was pulled though the roots were long.’ Just about the hottest basebatl | gume recently at Richmond, Va, Grandstand burned, was, If you s around ¢ un bootlegger sitting ying he is afraid dry laws | will go out of style. Ilinois woman insists dishwash- ing beauties hands. Many girls |want mother’s hands beautiful. has a perfect | er name in our | hess, Actre ying husband doesn’t set h paper with such fooli: A summer resort if where mos- quitoes start in abont dark, just as the flies quit. bitin, Caterpillars held up an Oregon train, srythings Chinese seems to have the bandit habit. Time it gets cool enough to go to work it is time to go to bed. i It is easy to get a boy to take a bath. Just buy a hose and let him | The Picnic Season’s in Full Swing ILL SAY ths | MAN PRIVATE OWNS A LOT OF PROPERTY water the lawn, Florida University has made Bryan a doctor of laws. Will has been their dry nurse all along. Some New Yorker might get elect- ed pi nt if he didn’t think the ; United States was p suburb, Portland, Ore., man pawned his | LETTER FROM MRS, MARY ALDEN wife’s sold teeth, and corn-on-the | PRESCOTT TO HER SON, cobb just getting ripe, too. JOHN ALDEN PRESCOTT. aes MY DEAR BO Bulgaria’s new cabinet is off. It is | nnot re writing , you al- Zankoff, Moloff, Smiloff, Rousotf,|}though you have not answered my Todoroff and Kaz ssoft. last letter, but I am sure I know . the reason why. Do not be toa Cincinnati street car attacked @| proud, son, to confide in your motor bus. Sheet car won, mother, Vesuvius is breaking out again in Italy. But Mussolini, the statesman, has quieted down, She understands you, John, better than anyone else in the world. All mothers understand, John. If chil- | dren would only take their mother's advice oftener they would be! able to avoid much trouble. I would not ,vrite you this, only dear Pris adford has been in New York for a weck and she wrote me that the other night she saw Some of our ships aré’so dry iow the well-known “S, S.” before their names means Sunday School. When airplanes get as thick as n autos we will nave to take the chim-/Leslie at the Midnight Follies with ney's in at night. * | Karl Whitney. They were alone and — Leslie scemed just basking in the dee Rubber bricks are the latest. If | voted attentions of that rich young used, mother could sit the in the street to bounce, Some party gan have for their presidential race: baby out | Lothario. Dear Prise Leslie had on a’ low-cut go her arms bare, . Have you quarreled with eLslie, John? Why diq she meet this old- illa says that n with this slogan | “When | in rum vote the rummies do.” time lovers of hers in New York Dear Priscilla saiq she knew that International Nicke] Co, says busi- | you were not in town as Leslie ness is better. Nickels do seem to} locked so perfectly unattached and | fancy free. Oh John! I did notstell you so, but I felt that you were making a great mistake when you married this pleasure-loving, frivolous girl. Dear Priscilla tells me that in this public place Leslie was smoking a cigaret and that she also followed that shameless custom which many foots ish women practice of rouging and The next station i |powdering her face where all may | Land was Bird Town. eee |likely that Ruby Joan, the lost rag | be working pretty hard. '| ADVENTURE OF | | THE TWINS | By Olive Roberts Barton \ in Choo-Choo it didn’t seem Dear Priscilla wrote me that she ven took out a stick of red paint ed it over hert lips and t she evidently asked Karl Whit- y if it were put on properly, for she made a little pouting motion with her lips and he nodded with ‘a smile, Then they floated off in a | ance. John, I believe this that I am tell- ing you might be made of enough importance for you to secure a di- voree frem your misguided wife and Lam sure that, nothwithstanding her gre reluctance, dear Priscilla would tell this on the witness stand if you should deem it necessary for her to do so, Year Priscilla has never. been one to try to avoid a duty no matter how was to her gentle soul. You know that as a rule I do not believe in divorce, but I know. that ‘Jyou are suffering ang unhappy and I believe that after Time had sof- repugnant it tened the hurt that Leslie has given your pride, you would realize you {ne loved her and you would also realize that there were other girls in the world who were more worthy of you and who could make your happier, The right kind of a girl would never ghink of look- ing at another man when once she is married. Ihave given the contract for painting the house as I knew, being your nfother, I had only to ask an: thing of you, my son, to receive it. If Leslie has left you, you certain will not contribute to her support. Let her get it from her rich father j¥f she cannot get it from her rich lover. Write me immediately John, for 1 | doll would come to such a place, but | Mister Punch, the conductor man told, the Twins that they might as well look, now that they were there | EVERETT TRUE ‘ BY CONDO So they hopped off the little train | nd looked around, They were very glad that they had come, for Bird Town was not at all \like they haq supposed it would be. | Instead of trees there were streets | I ja |all properly named and numbered. | | But the whole town was up in the | jair, for every single house was on | | top of a post. | On the nearest and largest house, | |quite four stories high, and with | |baleonies all around, was a large | ‘sign which saiq “Martin Motel, Wel- come!” “We had better go there and ask,” |suggested Nancy. “Hotels are like | TAAL (i | drug stores. That’s where you go to} ask about anything you don't know.” | | They were just about to climb up| |the post that held up the Martin ‘Hotel, when a cheery voice called down, “Good morning, my dears, can |1 do anything for you?” | It was Mrs. Martin herself in a , Purple dress. She had come out to dust a rug over the railing. “We're looking for a rag doll,” called Naney. “Did you see her?” “Hag she anything to eat with her?” asked Mrs. Martin. “Any seeds or yipe-cherries or bugs?” “Goodness, no.” said Nick. “Well, I'll ask my next neighbor,” Toe said Mrs, Martin, “Oh, Mrs, Wren, did you see a doll?” “No!” said little Mrs. Wren stick- ing jher head out of her tiny house. “But ‘lll ask my next neighbor. Oh, Mrs, Flicker, did you see a doll?” “No” saig Mrs, Flicker, “but VL Lask my next neighbor.% And so it went all down the streer. Ruby Joan was not in Bird Town after all, so back went the Twins to the Choo-Choo Express. (To Be. Continued.) (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) Wildwood Pavilion 6pens Ford Day, June 27th. I shall be very anxlous to know if) I am the first one -v open your cyes to what is going on in New York and if you and Leslie hag quarreled | before she left. Dear Priscilla Bradford tells me that she ig going around to the ho- ; sent from Princetown tels tomorrow and sec if either Les- lie or Karl Whitney is registered at any one of thenk YOUR MOTHER. | MANDAN NEWS Miss Vivian Brown was the honor guest at a dinner party and kitchen shower Friday evening at the Anton Olson home with Miss Ruth Olson | and Mrs, W. R. Keller as hostesses. Table appointments and decorations , cf the rooms were ‘carried out in req and white. Miss Gwennie Gray, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Gray, brought the gifts to Miss Brown in a little wagon which was beautifully decorated. Announcement of the ap- proaching marriage or Miss Brown to Herbert Hoeft was made Wednes- day. Mrs, Henry Bitzing has gone to Fargo, where she will be a guest for ! a few weeks of her son and daugh- ter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. E. K, Bitz- | ing. Mrs, J. & Beattie has as her guests for the early part of the summer her sister, Mrs. A. H, Juergens and little daughter, Miss Lois of Chicago. The annual meeting of the North Dakota Press association has been set for Aug. 10 ang,i1, at Minot. The annual meeting of the Morton county rural schoo] officers was held Saturday afternoon at the high schoo] auditorium with about 175 in attendance. i AT THE MOVIES | i Ora o £ THE ELTINGE. “Daddy” brings Jackte- Coogan to the Eltinge theater for today ang to- morrow, Monday and Tuesday and with him his pet: pig Mildred. ““Dad- dy” is the kind of picture that fits Jackie, and pleases everyone. “Mil- dred” is Jackie's bottle feq infant pig who grows to womanhood and is re- sponsible for lots of the fun. And other laughs come thick and fast when Jackie mixes with the dish of spaghetti, that he tries to eat; when “Daddy's” pants won't quite fit; when he tries tp milk the cow. Then of course, there has to be some pathos which Jackie puts inte a picture so appealingly. A “Fighting Blood” story is also shown for Monday and Tuesday, entitled “Knight-in-Gale.” CAPITOL. What promises to be one of the best pictures of the! season will be seen when “The New Teacher,” a William Fox production, starring Shirley Mason, opens at the Capitol theater. Miss Mason, while only a youngster, is one of the most love- able persons appearing on the silver screen, Preliminary ‘notices of, her new play say that she ‘will enact the role of a society gitl who becomes a school teacher. when the family fortune dwindles. This 1s the type of role that Miss Mason should do exccedingly. well, and 1s most after her own heart, ‘MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1923 COPYRIGHT 1922 THEMEMILLAN COMPANY = RELEASED By NEA SERVICE INC, ARRGT.MET. NEWSP. SVS. BEGIN HERE TODAY Mark Brendon. famous criminal investigator, while taking holiday jon Dartmoor is asked by Jenny Pen- dean to investigate the mystery of her husband’s disappearance. Jen- ny's uncle, Robert Redmayne, is suspected. of murdering Michael Pendean in a fit of insanity brought on by hardships in the recent war. The {wo men are traced to the bungalow being built by Michael near Foggintor Quarry. Blood is found on the floor of the cottage and several ‘witnesses testify to ing Robert riding away on_ his motor bieycle with”a heavy sack be- hind the ‘saddle, Mark learns that Robert is the stranger with whom the conversed at Foggintor Quarry on a day when Mark visited a trout stream there. Brendon remembers how conspicu- ously Robert dressed. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY “Have the workmen been in here this morning?” asked Brendon, and Inspector Halfyard answered that they had not. \ “Two constables 'were here last night after one o’clock—the men I when Mre. Pendean gave the alarm,” hé said. “They looked round with an electri torch and found the blood. One came back; the other stopped on the spot all night” Brendon then . examined the ground immediately outside the kit- chen dopr. For twenty yards he scrutinized every inch and present- ly found indications of a motor bicycle. Half an hour later one of the con- stables approached, saluted Mark, and made a statement, “They've pulled down the wall, sir, and found nothing there; but ullford, the mason, says that a k is missing.” Mark came back presently out of the rain which had now begun to {fall steadily—but not before he had strolled as far as the fishing pools and seen clear marks of naked, adult feet on the sandy brink. Nothing that he regarded as of value resulted from inspection of ‘the remaining rooms and Brendon presently decided that he would re- turn to Princetown. He, showed Halfyard the footprints by the wa- ter und had them protected with a tarpaulin, . “What's your idea?” asked Half- yard. “] should say we have to do with an’ unfortundte man. who's gone mad,” replied. the’ detective; “and a madman doesn’t take long to find as a rule, I think it’s murder right enough and I believe we shall find that this soldier, who's had shell shock, turned on Pendean and cut his throat, then, fondly hoping to hide the crime, got away with the body. “Redmayne was a big, *‘powerful man and he may have struck. w:th- out intention to kill; but this me: means more than a blow with a I think that he was a homicidal maniac and probably plotted the job beforehand with a madman’s limited cunning; and if that is so, there’s pretty sure to be news waiting for us at Princetown.” The. correctnejs of Brendon’s de- duction was. made manifest within an hour, and the operations of Rob- ert Redmayne defined up to q point. A man was waiting at the police sta- tion—George French, hostler at Two Bridges Hotel, on West Dart. “I knew Captain Redmayne,” he said, “because he'd been’ down once or twice of late to tea.at Two Bridges, Last night, at half after ten, I was crossing the road from the. garage aye suddenly, witheut warning, a motor bike came over the bridge. I heard the rush of it and only got out. of the way by a yard. There was no light showing but thc man went through the beam thrown from the open door of the hotel and I saw it was the captain by his gteat mustache and his red waist- coat.” “Was anybody with him?" “No, sir, I'd have seen that much; but he carried a big ‘sAck behind the saddle—that I can swear to.” There had been several telephone calls for Inspector Halfyard during his absence; and now three separate statements from different districts awaited him. These were already written out by a constable, and he took them one by one, read them, and handed them to Brendon. The firdt;eame from the post-office at Post Bridge, and the post-mistress reported that a man, one Samuel White, had seen a motor bicycle run at great speed without lights up the steep hill northward of that vil- lage on the previous night, He gave the time as between half past ten and eleven o'clock. The second message told how a garage keeper was knocked up ‘at Ashburton, just after midnight, in order that perol might be obtained for a motor bicycle, The description of the ,purchaser corresponded to Redmayne and the message added that the bicycle had a large sack tied behind it. The, third communication came from the police station at Brixham and was somewhat lengthy, It ran thus: i, “at ten minutes after two d’clock last night P. C. Widgery, on night duty at Brixham, saw a man on a motor bicycle, with a large — parcel It is evident that Mr. Fox was|behind him run through the ‘town desirous of, making the picture one | square. Hg, .prgeaede down: the of thé little star’s best as he has|main street\ahd was gone for the surrounded her with an exception-|best part of an’ hout;’ but, Earl Metcalfe and'| three ‘Alan Forrest are two of. the besv|turn without his parcel, x studio ang tiny | fast up the hill out of Brixham, the ally able cast. actors in the Fo: before o’elock, Widgery saw bim re- He went Pat Moore ig. ‘one of the leading | way: he came, Inquiries today show child actors ‘on the s¢reen. that he passed the Brixham coast- The picture should be a big suc- | guard station about’a quarter after cess. ~~ Tribune Want Ads Bring Results, end of the coast-guard toad, bethu: ie . | two o'clock, and he must have lifted his machine over the barrier, at; the .| twenty-five and thirty-five. he was seen by a boy, from Kerry Head lighthouse, pushing it up the gteep path that runs to the downs. The boy was goihg for a doctor, be- cause his father, one *of the light- house watchers, had been taken ill.” Inspector Halfyard waited unl Brendon had read the mesages ant put them down, “About as easy as shelling pea: ch?” he asked. “ZT expected, an arresi,” answered the detective. “It can’t be long dy layed.” r As thought to confirm him the tel. ephone bell rang and Halfyard rose and entered the box to receive the said alled the No. ace. He was expected had wired yesterday to say he'd be home, They left supper for him, as usual when he is e pected, and went to bed. Didn't heart him return, but found on — going! down house next morning that he’ had come—supper eaten, motor bike in tool houre in back yard, where ho keeps it. They called him at ten o’clock-—no answer. They went in his room, Not there and bed not slept in and his clothes nct chang- 7 Marine Ter lastnight ed. He’s not been seen since.” Inspector Halfyard reported the statement and Brendon picked up the mouthpiece. “Dective Brendon speaking. Who ibe SG “Inspector Reece, Paignton.” “Let me hear at five o'clock if arrest has been made. Failing ar- RED REDMAYNES , y EDEN PHILPOTTS Buna = \ rest I will motor down to you after * that hour.” » “Very good, sir. I expect to hear he’s taken any minute.” » *Brendon considered, having first looked at his watch, He turned to Halfyard. “Sould Robert Redmayne not be taken today, one or two things must be done,” he said. “You'd better have some of that blood collected and the fact proved that it is hu man. Now I'll go and get some footl and sce Mrs. Pendean. Then lh, come back, for Paignton at half past five if we hear nothing to alter my plans.” It was now three o'clock. Sud- denly he turned and asked Halfyard a question. “What do you think of Mrs. Pené dean, inspector?” e “I think two things about her,” answered the elder. “I think she's such a lovely piece that it’s hard to believe she’s just flesh and blood, like other women; and I sthink I sever ‘saw such worship for a man as she had for her husband, This. will knock her right bang out.” “What sort of a man was he?” “A fricndly fashion of chap—Cor- nish—a pacifist at heart I reckon; but we never talked war politics.” “What was his age?” “Couldn't tell you—doubtful— might have been anything between A man with weak eyes and a brown beard. He wore double eye-glisses for ciosa work, but, his long sight he said was rood.” After a meal Brendon went again to Mrs, Pendean; but many rumors had reached her through the morn- ing and she already knew most of what he ‘had to tell. “Have you a portrait of your hi band?” asked Mark. Tl take the police car \ Mrs. Pendean left the room and \ returned in a few moments with a photograph. I presented a man of meditative countenance, wide fore- head, and steadfast eyes. He wore a beard,mustache and whiskers, and his hair was rather long, 4 “Is that like him?” : “Yes; but it does not show his ex pression. It is not quite natural— he was more animated than that.” “How old was he?” “Not thirty, Mr. Brendon, but he looked considerably older.” Brendon studied the photograph. “You can take it with you if you wish to do so, I have another copy,” said Mrs. Pendean, ‘T shall remember very accurate- ly,” answered Brendon.” “Can you tell me anythigg about the lady to whom your unéle is engaged?” ‘ “I can give you her name and ad- dress, But I have never seen her.” “Had your husband seen her?” “Not to my knowledge. Indeed I ‘ean say certainly that he never had. She is a. Miss Flora Reed and she is stopping with her mother and father at the Singer Hotel, Paignton. Her brother, my unele’s friend in France, is also there I believe.” “Thank you very much. nothing further, I go to this evening.” “why?” “To pursue my inquiry and see all those who know your uncle.” Mark rose, “You shall hear from me tomor- row; he said, “and if I do not go to Paignton, I will see you again. to- night.” ; “Thank: you—you are very kind.” Brendon returned to the polic station and was astonished to fin that Robert Redmayne continued at large. The cement sack hid been found in the mouth of a rabbit hole to the west of the Head Above a precipice, The sack was bloodatain- ed and contained some. small tufts of hair and the dust. of cement. \ (Continued in Our Next. Issue) i A THOUGHT | If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all and servant of, alk—Mark 9:35, Coarse If I hear Paignton A : Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neigh-* borhood of the great, always peels ant Misa) Paneneet of Thigh \ ~ my X \ ye