The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 3, 1926, Page 4

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LOGAN PAYNE COMP. iCHICAGO _ AN ETROIT ed PVE YNR, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YOR - _ Fifth Ave. Bldg. 5 (Official City, State and County Newspaper) i Traffic Deaths Decrease *There is hope that traffic fatalities, now standing at the amazing figure of 24,000 a year in this coun- ty, have reached the crest and are now beginning te decrease. A. B, Barber, manager of the depart- ment of transportation of the chamber of commerce | of-the United States, and director of the national} conference on street and highway safety, is of this opinion. According to the reports for the first months of the year the figures indicate a slight} tendency toward reduction in the total of accidents for the country, taken as a whole. The estimates of thst feduction range from 3 to 15 per cent as compared with the corresponding months this year. This is very encouraging, for, if this record is con- tinued throughout 1926, it will be the first year since the motor vehicle began to be a problem that an actual decrease, as compared with the previous year, has been noted. More encouraging still, Mr. Barber thinks that it is only the beginning of a continued reduction and that in 10 years we will look back -and wonder why such frightful numbers of fatalities occurred and why it took so long to bring about improvement. We hope Mr. Barber’s opinion is cor the forecast comes true. Certainly it will be a bie feather in the cap of newspapers if this is true, for it has been through the medium of the newspapers that the general public has been educated, by the horrible example reflected in the news columns and by the editorial admonition to take care, to a real- ization of the traffic danger and appraisal of the Proper methods of ‘safeguarding their safety. A not inconsiderable contributing factor, of course, is the increasing expertness with which mo- tor vehicles are being operated. The drivers are becoming more expert and more careful. , The shocking loss of life through traffic accidents Tims been a blot upon a development that otherwise has been one of the greatest boons to the humai race and it is well that conditions are bettering themselves. ct and that The Radio Situation Truly the air is neither free, nor is it an entirely safe place to be, even through the medium of wire- less waves, the broadcasters are beginning to find ‘out since congress, in the rush to get home for a vacaticn after the long strain of winter, neglected the important legislation which would have provided regulation of the radio business, now found to be of the utmost necessity. Ever since the attorney general of the United States ruled that Secretary of Commerce Hoover had no authority to regulate the broadcasting busi- ness, the air has been open for anyone who wished to use it, without regulation nad without restraint In New York City we find that immediately stations began to jump from low to high waves and to in- crease power until the ether above that city wa: one vast chaos, with thousands, yes, millions, of ra- @io sets useless and millions of listeners were plac- ing the. blame exactly where it belongs, on the con- gress that was so anxious to get home to get re- elected that it had no time to give to the nation’s business. Another factor, and an interesting one, arises as Judge A. L. Reeves of the United States District Court of Kansas City rules that Secretary Hoover still has regulatory powers. This judge issued a Permanent injunction, restraining a station from monopolizing time which had been allotted by the secretary to another siation. Apparently Judge Reeves interprets the Jaw differently than does At- torney eral Sargent. However, that is only a point of interest and not one which “will do much to clarify a truly serious and annoying situation. The broadcasters them- selves, at least those who are now in operation, are mostly cognizant that they will all fare well if they work together, but that the whole business of radio can be jeopardized if they do not voluntarily evolve some method of controlling the situation themselves pending another session of congress when it is hoped *- that that body can be made to see the necessity of quick remedial legislation. 4 Ma at Sea gA serious doubt has arisen that marriages per- a. at sea by a captain of a vessel ing the se ited States flag is legal, since it is ¢ that mere is no clause in the United States maritime act gives a captain the right to marry persons at Thus a technicality arises that would threaten generations old, one of the ancient and practical traditions of the sea. lly, of course, it was found expedient that @ virtual father to his ship’s company. The oftentimes arose where it was essential that seems, by its provision to indicate that such marriages are legal, for it says, “Every marriage taking place on board, with names and ages of par- ties, should be entered in the logbook.” Of course, it might mean where such ceremonies were per- formd by ordained ministers who happened to be on the sam vessel. The act, however, does not say that and gives much support to the contention that such an old custom as marriage at sea by the captain of! a vessel is legal, Ten to One on the Channel About forty people, among them Lillian Cannon, the water witch of Chesapeake Bay, are getting | ready to try to swim across the English Channel. | The odds offered by Lloyds against their ‘doing it | The channel swim is one of | are quoted at 10 to 1 the greatest, if not the greatest, feat to be attempt- ed. It is a combat with natural forces, that i beat down hundreds who’ have attempted it. TCil- lian can make it, she will have accomplished ‘a tri-! umph over nature that no woman has ever attained. People Still Can Hear “It's the jazz age,” you've often heard, And it is. But there still are a few people left who can hear. The proof is a boiling night in New York and a crowd of 15,000 assembled mphony of Beethoven. The Ninth Symphony is one of Beethoven's “deepest” works, and Beethoven could be very deep when he chose. The strange part about it was that Coney Island was open for busi- ness that night, too, Ah! Sweet Accord! The day of peace is at hand. Premier Mussolini’s brother has called off a duel he had intended to en- joy with General Bencivenga. We were greatly encouraged when we heard of | this, but on top of it all, what do you suppose has! happened? Why, for the first time in years anj| i | | | | to hear the Ninth} election was held in Juarez, Mexico, the other day, | and not one person was killed. There were fights, | of course, and one man was shot in the jaw, but no one was killed. : We are anxiously awaiting the next bulletin from ! Herrin, Ill, with the fond hope that perhaps aftet | all the day of loving harmony is at hand. | Editorial Comment } Why New York Resists 1 (St. Paul Dispatch) | One point in Secretary Hoover's inland waterway | speech is worth particular notice. Referring to the advantages that will be gained by bringing the ocean to the great lakes, he said: | Today on the St. Lawrence river it costs | from 8% to 10 cents per bushel for storage, | reloading and transportation between Buf- falo and Montreal. With direct action the major part of this should be saved—and it would reflect in farm prices in every lake state. This explains the bitter hostility with which New York is fighting the St. Lawrence tide-water proj- ect. It explains why plans to make that river nav-' igable for ocean vessels was met with the cry that ocean vessels cannot navigate in restricted chan- nels, that the-seheme was an engineering impossi- bility, and why now, under cover of much rhetoric about patriotism and national defense, a counter project for an all-American route through New York state has been brought forward. The New York route is being advocated asa means of obviat- ing the St. Lawrence by-pass and also as a means of unloading on the government the New York barge canal, which is proving an expensive white elephant, Throughout all its inconsistencies and self-con- tradictions and changes of front, the opposition to the St. Lawrence route has preserved an inner con: sistency. At all timds it has kept clearly before its eyes the single, all-important object of not relin- quishing the tribute which it levies against western shippers and producers on the traffic that comes down the lakes for export. So long as the grain vessels that come down the lakes can be forced tu break bulk and transship, the tribute will continue. Although it seemed to capitulate on the principle in proposing an alternative all-American route, as though its opposition was based chiefly on patriotic grounds, it has done nothing of the kind. The pro- posed New York route does not contemplate the free movement of ocean vessels into the lakes, At the most it proposes to transfer the transshipping point from Buffalo to Albany. The tribute of from 8 to 10 cents a bushel that is levied on the western farm- er would continue to pour into New-York. A whole continent is pressing towards the sea. A few selfish interests in a single state cannot in- definitely block its progress. Modified Galf Language (New York Times) A couple of weeks ago a man was haled into an English police court and fined “for using bad lan- gua: The astonishing thing is that he was pun- ished for having used it “in the hearing of members of a golf club.” They seem to have been. the com- plainants. If so, it shows what has become of the fine old tradition of golf as the great begetter of picturesque profanity. ‘Now it would appear that we have fallen on such lily-livered days that golfers, far from swearing themselves, must be protected from contamination by the profanity of others. Gone are the days of the terrible major in a bunker with such terrible language~issuing from its depths that affrighted onlookers stopped their ears and ran away rather than “hear” him play. According to this new ruling of the English police magistrate, the only safety would be that of the clergyman on the links who topped his ball into an awful trap and was sai to have indulged in “the most profane silence” eve! Whatever the law or facts of | trip to ‘Honolulu, “SANDY” THE STORY SO FAR ! ELENORE MEHERIN “What makes you positive that a Sandy McNeil, in love with life,} shot fired in this room would hrve m: to please her impoverished famil Tyranny by quarrels follow. A son dies ‘at birth. Bob McNei for Sandy and her mee to take a Ramon Worth, who declares his love. Murillo says he will ne: Judith iModre, a cousin, love is everything. Sandy rillo and accepts the kind of Ramon, whose thome she shares. When her mother dies she leaves Ramon and goes to live with her cousin, Judith. Douglas Keith, th man whom Judith loves, introdu his friend, Hal Hume, a doctor, Judith. He, ‘himself, falls in’ with Sandy who reciprocates fection. This leaves Judith heart- broken. Sandy meets Ramon Worth who has returned from the Orient, and she tells Douglas of his return. They plan to run away togethe: day before, Sandy goes to Ramon’s of- ice at h rgent request. He shoots Sandy and commits suicide. ‘is taken to Hal Hui al when it is learned that her name is_con- neeted with the scandal. Then Doug- las is called before detectives jo learn that he was at Ramon’s office on the day of the suicide. Although| Douglas denies any part in the shoot-| ing, he is taken to jail and indicted for murder. When Judith learns of this she determines to tell what she knows of the affair and thus vindicate Doug- las, GO ON WITH THE STORY FROM HERE. Chapter 106. _ He wouldn’t talk. He refused to gay one word in his own defen: He had no witnesses. { And they were proving he was in the room. His fingerprints were there. That blood stained handk chief was ‘his. He was seen en’ ing Worth’s office on the aN pe haps at the very hour, Ramon died. ‘The second day of’ the people's case against Douglas Keith charged with murder. Judith stood in the kitchen of the little hunting shack, her eyes blis- tered as they drank up these ac- counts of the trial in the evening papers. “And you were sweeping’ a neigh- boring room when you heard some- one shaking the knob of mon Worth’s door?” nitress, a oe featured out 40, was on the stand. “You came to investigate and found 4 young man in'a brown it im-; arries Ben Murillo, a rich Italian,| be Murillo and frequent] ti her uncle, aids in plans| Saturday re she meets} room, ttentions| by y ©] tle before 11 o'clock knelt patiently waiting? You're po: defendant is the man you si “Yes—h “Tell what a “He’ waited there. He shook the knob. Then -he rapped hard, like this, with his knuckles. After quite a while the door was opened. He went in. He spoke to someone. 1 heard him say, ‘Good .God!’ Some- one answered. It was a woman's voice. The door closed. I then went to a.room in another corridor. ' I paid no more attention. When 1 tive the r to enter Mr. Worth’; see anything furthe: “What time was it when you saw him enter that room?” ‘About a quarter of eleven.” ‘an, architect, was called. d f@u have the office adjoining that rly occupied by Ramon Worth?” “Did you. h b th “a you happen to be in. this office on the renin of . Monday, February ninth?” Pi (Fras there from 11 o'clock un- “You're certain it was the Monday night in question?” ‘Certain. On this date 1 returned | heard by you?” An experiment was tried te“prove The architect told of this. On the following Ramon’s death police officer’ fired 2 in the All doors and windows we of the pistoi heard in the no such sound was heard between 11 and ‘1 v'cluck on Next. a doctor on the -corone! 'Youfexamined the ba § Worth a 7 o'clock on the giorai following his death? | How. long, :a| oximately, had Worth been deud [Eight hours. i “Your would say then. that the death probably occurred at or a lit- at Ramon “Yes. - i“Could have occurred several hours: tater, say @ little after 17” “No. He died before M1, not after.” Judith, reading this chilled with horror, hey were actually prov- ing thet ugias was in his office when Ramon died. If Douglas: didn’t shoot him, at the very least he knew: who did. His silence made a suicide theory untenabl Would any man go on trial for his life if he could so easily clear himsel If Douglas didn’t shoot Ramon someone else in that room did.’ And in his presence. He was shielding the murderer. Judith crumpled the papers. She went in quietly to big room where si and Sand; lept. She fireplace, held a lighted to a corner of the The flame threw a fitful dow across the wall—a shadow that dart- tively past deer horns and crossed on the panels. The e died, wing the newspaper in charred layers on the red eoals. NOW, JUST A MINUT@, MR, { They were trying to fasten a mur- der on Douglas Keith. Judith knelt here. She could hear | Sandy breathe—now and then hear short, restless cough. They were covering him with guilt. She clasped her hands in an ef- | fort to control the warm, creeping | terror that went slowly upward wu til it sat throbbing and immen: | feeding on her heart. They would prove their case— Grotesque. Not to be imagined. Impossible! — Could any one look. at Douglas Keith and believe him a murderer? Could any one look at at young boy's face—clean and) fighting ond tender, and say that he should be hanged by the neck until dead? y | Judith sank against a chair, bur- | ied her face in her art Th would never ask th Young men have. been hanged. remembered that case-of a bo; | 22 whose sister went every one in the state to save her ir, «How, up to the {last momen;.the: girl shad been un- able to believe the brutal thing could be done—e noose tightened about her, | brother's throat. wt Yet it -happened.; It happened one Friday morning at 10 o'clock. And all the girl and that boy's mother | could do Was.tp steal into a.church | and pray’ while gféwn men ‘téok a} young boy out and killed him. Just as:a butcher does a cow, only more revoltingly. “For the butcher does it quickly and without pretense. But these men escorted thelr vit tim ceremenigusty. They. had: an a dience. They him semiy 8 ic] steps. Then they pulled a cap over his face, Judith remembered stiflingly the} appalling details. ind suw a young Sigure walking up steps. She ‘closed her mind's eye,| refusing to the face. Yet it went under her lids and the on rs—dark, hazel Almost unable to breathe, Judith rose. She smiled to herself. Absurd tine her thoughts smother her like s— i, Yet they Were provii She went over ai it him guilty. CHATTERTON « You Say HE'S A CRock, AND YOU CANT S66 HOW < CAN VOTS FoR HIM. Daou A eRCOK cc, &_ KNOW SNOUGH ALL RIGHT, weit, WHAT Po XOou KNow £ im He’S A CROOK cey‘S HAVeE THe t (has WST WHAT, KNOW THAT MAKSS ‘YOU CALC HIM O e THAT'S ALL RIG €nou KNow ! i THING & | moun twigs. So easy to clear him—hurting: no| lil frantically to] one! Porging. tions Her Own Way. JERRY MAKES A MISTAKE “What more than a man like Jerry was needed to make one a happy wife? “What a little twist wan there my own brain that made me hesitat Ww it because I had been so un- fortunate as not to find anyone who after ten years of married iife seemed very happy?” . . The first mémories of my mother were of seeing her gentle «yes miated with tears, She had been nagged all her life by my father, and yet was what the world: called a good husband. He. provided for oer bountifully. He was always with her —more is the pity—for he never lowed her to’ have an idea of her own. She was as much his chattel as ne he had bought an@ paid for je Tr. This seemed to be the sta‘us of all the husbands and wives in that little country town from which I had hase vane beets wo col vély busy and pos: ‘eontent caring for their cnt n, and that was all, Since I had come to the city I’had seen an entirely different kind of life. —a kind of life I had;read about‘and ened upon on itt 7 jut Poet peaple were not an: ‘P| ere was Robert Tremaine. Fre jad not with his wife long oevore lami And yet she hi: mn they were mai ried, Bobby Tremaine was crazy about his wife. ‘WI had made them grow apart? at was this terrible thing that came between al- ‘ways? his defe: No one didn’t do T know! Yes, she knew. ting it -happe: She finding herself without to sit erect. a “I’m letting it, hi in. I know and I'm letting it heppe Now she went into the kitchen to shout: “He ec and walked nervously back and| ¢! forth, Now she stood at the door and stared black clouds rolling over the distant hills, Was Dougias asleep? Was he ly- ing on that narrow cot in a smal fetid cell and staring wide-eyed the grated doo: training with grim, beaten eye: Five weeks ago he had brought them here. He had stood at t! very door and taken Judith’s hand That was jast after she saw him Jean so gloriously to Sandy, kissing her and saying some happy thing, en ,{ he came to Jude and asked her to take care of Sandy. He sai darlin, vou'll her—” But he never guessed what was going to happen. It now “Jud: no matter what .happe ‘ick by her? Oh, Judy, I love Insane simple A little breeze blew crisp leaves in a flurry about ‘her feet. A chip- went rattling through tl Judith tiptoed back to Sandy’ bed. The ‘tale chee ow 1 litt oe was happening? Suddenly Judith recalled Sandy staring from the window in_ their! closet and that Sandy’ ‘h her: hands over: her face red desperately: jude—I ean’t help it.” ~ Becat loved him so, Pe And if Sandy knew where he was, now and what was happening? Judith stooped down hastily and) touched ‘lips to. ‘ahair. She er: “She'd never forgive —: never! I -won't let it, ‘The next morning Judith went. to cpting She went to the Hall of justice. she knew what! Chapter 107 Judith feared she might be watch- 4 and her coming lead to Sandy's rrest. je was. nervous and her Three times she had to repeat: “I'm his cousin, Jane Keith.” “He's in court now, Mids ‘Keith, ‘but likely to be im any moment for, the noon recess. You better come The men are locked up! . ‘shaki id telling me where! Jail is the county jail, right Miss.” weUE Oh, I see.” hush Jedith’s eyes! eagelike struc- Te was offiei separated tee ral rom ree of heavy the ‘small rea by three thicknesses hind these ‘nimal in int: The ru. out. 8 till 11 and oat “Ju the tanks, Don’t in ie le La Thése are the cells; and ¢ this ,on either to pow. tier tie; to the ceiling, 40 | Sees temell ect collet: .. rich ¢ ed iron a mt lt = | well enor of fODAT anil, he live of all my’ acquaint. 5 r, there 20 ex somewhere wh made lite and ve a. very rent - it from the life I had freamear " Av if to further mid up my prob- lem, I met Jerry as 1 left the apart- ™SHow did’ you know 1 was h 10" ou wi aoe y now as here Tag “I saw Mamie a the street,” answered promptly, “after you ray-from me this morning and told me that I would probably you nated Ca mi went there, after describing Joan and dem Smith, he. said that yan pak abl; eres over here. ‘ s 8 lor you to be, Judy,” ‘he anid, looking around, “i don't like you to go to such places without some man with you.” Immediately the old fightin spirit rose in me. Here was Jerry finding fault with me for doing something thet he knew nothi bout, = Just when I had soften just when I had made up ind that reninte the safety of Jerry's home was best for mes I knew that I could not accept it. Furtively, I looked up into his face A ae ue mouth tigen cag isive lines. I knew he was think- ing that he kne it was best for tear aan he did, bet I also knew that I did not love Jérry Hathaway th to let him decide’ my life must still go on my own way. (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) TOMORROW—Judy’s New Friend. ran ‘ll for me. at all, but with his arms. before him, the A Handeutfed—they had, bon od those ti Ls look— gladness, as 3 little boy. He took voluntary, hasty thrilling Then he frowned and bit his lips id stood quite still, staring bewll- pag and apprehensive into Judith's He spoke to the man at visi can come back at 1. -He wants to know if anyone in his family has become ill. Her glance fixed on the brown ‘head—the face harried. “His eyei Judith thought- ferent! oung, wn thin and ok different,” terribly dif- said aloud. “Everyone return at 1.°. She tried hard to smile gaily. But when they slid back a door in the grating and he stood’ a brief 8 itty. Me esd ‘pititutly Tentred swiftly, his fully lowered. ‘Judith hurried, fale running. She kept blinkine’ walk ng blindly. own here.” wage leading wing of: the rig ote This bridge also: was grated to. the very top of the buildi But the sun came here litle: rugh of air inet her . There were wins It in a long row on e' 5 They were. -planted_ with Wandering Jew—green, waxy leaves falling in streamers and swaying @ ifitie. je must be glad to see those leaves,” Judith th it. He must be glad to get out., mn to be tried even to sit in the court charged with a murde: he is well, FH a went: to a littl ti Thitd “utneate, “Bhs. onaenea eateie . ae és thopgh she meant dropped Jumps of into her cup. Five weeks theree-locked up in a little feet . high. room'6 by 8 and & prother-iving oa wire spring one 8 itehed to the wall—a very narrow 0 separate buil with small, cells. But these ‘cells opened to the ig and the air. They were roo! te SET as oe ae ht And he—head lowe: place like that, Ske uses 3 membered him suedaling, the rd Itad wo ladders on ited the want to ery she m ly, “It would be ter i Maye, Oh, I know he was awfully ness had rushed like And this hi hi mured. meant ee. the tide of lowing thought: The men were wi pepe smiled, Ye Ho meant Ghat. sho shsild. stand bs st sl i just outside the {i ry id {eee beady: Cries aiaes wi NAS Judith stood Lege ery hss aa ee