The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 1, 1929, Page 2

“TRADE HELD LIKELY “AO ADVANCE OR HOLD PMNQ ITS PRESENT PACE | Chief Trends Are Continued » 2 $teel and Iron Strength; Building Slows Down bonged = EXPANSION iN AUTOMOBILES heat Expected to Fluctuate in Narrow Range; Hogs Due . to Rise on Low Supply The year 1928 appears to have eeended in the advancing phase of the feepusiness cycle with the general ex- pectation that during the next few feamonths business activity will either main at its present level or advance omewhat further. The chief trends date are a continued strength in iron and steel industries and per- i=haps for expansion in automobile pro- duction but a slowing down in build- activity as measured by contracts rarded during November and De- nber to a level below that of 1927. Wholesale market prices have con- nued the declines which set in dur- the latter part of September, from in index of 154 during the second ek of September to 147 Dec. 31. he index of farm prices Dec. 15 re- nained unchanged at 134 or 4 points 0 than a year ago. The estimat- med index of crop prices in North Da- ieakota now stands at 106 while the leagndex of livestock and livestock prod- lewdicts prices is 158. Wheat Present indications are that wheat ices will probably continue to fluc- te within a rather narrow range luring the next few weeks and it seems likely that some further e: may be expected during the two months. The course of prices the remainder of the year, how- er, will be largely dependent upon the outturn of the Argentine crop faand upon the progress of winter imewheat in the United States. ‘The world crop, exclusive of Rus- and China, of 3,730,000,000 bushels feepnis year is about the same size rela- Eeéive to consumption requirements as nm, 1923-1924 crop of 3,511,000,000 - els. The larger crop in the lee nited States this year, together with location of the crop, has resulted aan the visible supply mounting to un- S-usual heights and it should be borne wean mind that this does not indicate [that the world supply situation is es- bewentially different than in 1923 in ceresard to its most significant fea- es. Protein premiums showed a to rise early in January. he average price received by pro- penucers in North Dakota for all wheat i~ sate to 5 cents per bushel. The average;price Jan. 15 was cents per bushel. 4 .Flax » Production of flaxseed in the north- hemisphere is now definitel:’ fore- ed well below last year. Estimates m 10 important countries show a eed4 per cent decrease. The average @ received by producers in North ‘ota amounted to $2.04 Dec. 15, 4 The estimated average price fewan. 15 was $2.10. 3 Feed Grains An increase of 10 per cent over 1927 ie35 Shown for the combined production ian the United States of the three im- = foot = is b te is ber b is a | sant fend barley. Barley’shows an increase f-22 production in the United States feet about 87,000,000 bushels over that & year ago, corn increased 121,000,- 0 bushels, and oats 269,000,000 Sweet Clover and Alfalfa It is estimated that 75 per cent of sweet clover seed crop has been by growers up to date, but in the sections of Minnesota and North 85 per cent has moved com- d to 75 per cent a year ago. ces to growers for sweet clover tinued to advance during Decem- In North Dakota prices have d from $5 to $6, and averaged ~o-30 per hundred pounds, basis clean ed. about the same as year ago. weifalfa seed prices have averaged about $5 per hundred pounds higher n last: year. “Production in 1928 4 a 40 per cent smaller than nO . Potatoes Potato production is now estimated it 462,843,000 bushels, the largest —- XK | guess business has sort ot picked up since Ed Hill moved to with his team.” mained fairly steady, the average price of choice beef steers at Chicago declined about $1.40 and of good beef steers about $1 during the month. On Jan. 15 the estimated average price received by producers for beef cattle in North Dakota was $8 per hundred- weight which was slightly above the average for Dec. 15, 1928. Hogs Present indications are that market supplies of hogs during the remainder of the winter season will be less than last winter and that prices are likely to make at least a normal seasonal rise as supplies fall off. The 1928 spring pig survey indicated a decrease of about 7 per cent. Hog prices ap- parently reached the low point of the winter season the week ending Dec. 15, when the average cost of packer and shipper droves at Chicago was as low as $8.50. Prices have gradually moved upward since that time and the average cost for the week ending Jan. 12 was about $9. The average price received by the producers in North Dakota for hogs Dec. 15 was $7.20 per hundred-weight, and for Jan. 15, $7.50. Lambs ‘With supplies of lambs for the next few months above last year no such advance in price as took place a year ago from January to May*can be expected this year. The lamb mar- ket which has been generally weak for several months had a sharp up- turn reaction after the middle of De- cember, advancing from around $14 to $17 the first week in January. The estimated average price received by Producers for lambs in North Dakota Jan. 15 amounted to $12 per hundred- weight. This is $1.10 higher than that of a month ago. ° Wool : Although conditions appear firm the increased supply and the large differential between foreign and do- mestic prices make the prospects for materially higher prices doubtful. Stocks of raw wool at primary mar- kets at the end of November were above those of a year ago. = Butter There is little prospect of butter prices rising above the levels of early January, which show a slight recovery from the December low point. Do- mestic and foreign production are ‘above that of last year and stocks afloat are greater than for the corresponding period of last year. Prices in January will probably aver- age somewhat lower than those of a year about the same as those of last Feb- ruary. Poultry and Eggs The poultry situation appears fa- and stable for some months approved of by the commission for both companies. A schedule of electric rates filed by the Otter Tail Power company ap- plicable on the Bloom Farmers line has been approved. Northern Power and Light company has been authorized to furnish elec- tric service in Forbes by the commis- sion. f Legislative Calendar | Bills Passed By Senate 8. B. 68—Tofsrud, Pierce—Elimin- ates exemption of $600 in actions for collection of personal property taxes by sale of property on which tax is delinquet. 8. B. 100—Van Arnam, Cass, and Hamilton, McHenry—Permits villages and townships to pay cost of cutting weeds along highways from general fund if road fund is exhausted. H. B. 18—Turner, Stark—Increases wolf county to five dollars for ma- ture wolves and coyotes and $3 for pups. Also provides bounty on bob- cats and Canadian lynx. New Senate Bills 8. B. 112—Conrath, Mercer —De- clares construction cf railroads to be @ public improvement; permits or- ganization of improvement district and for levying of tax in such district to aid in construction of a railroad. 8. B. 113.—Brosteun, McKenzie — Eliminates present system of offering delinquent taxes at tax sales, requir- ing counties to retain title to such taxes and county to take over prop- erty when taxes have been delinquent three years. 8. B. 114—Ployhar, Barnes —In- creases exemptions under stat come tax law to $1,500 for single per- son and $3,500 for married persons with $400 additional for dependents. Senate Bills Passed By House 8. B, 24— Brant, Emmons— Gives [pears of education in special school districts right to operate schools any- where in district. 8. B. &—Martin, Morton--Provides central standard time for all portions of North Dakota. Bills Passed By House H. B. 65—Lynch, Richland—Vests highway department with power to restrict use of roads at the time of spring breakup and similar instances. H. B. 56—Pfenning, Morton—Makes ago and prices in February |Payment of sewer assessments within Pa less than 20 years. . B. 68—Dyer, Slope; Cox, Bur- leigh—Would authorize cities, towns or villages to purchase, operate, sell or lease electric ligtit or telephone come, probably until the 1929 poul- ; plants and enlarge and improve the is mar! The egg situation is not so . The 1928 chicken crop about 10 per cent smaller than ._ The average price re- lucers in North Dakota 15.4 cents per pound for 38 cents per dozen for eggs. ONE LINE SALES GIVEN PERMISSION Rate Schedules Also Get O. K. of the State Railroad Commission next summer | Same. salary of county officers from $1,500 to $1,700 Cees Tn 2 ROmRasOn. ek er 1HE BISMARCK TRIBUNE E THIS HAS HAPPENED RUTH LESTER, private sec- retary, conceals her blond love- liness behind yellow spectacles and ill-fitting <‘-thes and skins back her curls in order to escape the attentions of flirtatious em- ployers. But for this disguise she ‘ could not have worked unmolest- ed four months for “HAND- SOME HARRY BORDEN”, pro- moter of dubious stock compen- and notorious for his affairs with beautiful women. Ruth, suspecting him of shady dealings, would resign but for a romance which springs un be- tween her and JACK HAY- WARD, voung insurance broker, whose office is just across the narrow airshaft from Borden's private office on the seventh floor of the Starbridge Buildin; Ruth and Jack become gaged on a Friday night in Ja uary and Ruth darés to come to the office next morning with her disguise removed. In her office, Ruth greets BENNY SMITH, office boy, who is astonished at her transformation and who in- stantly becomes infatuated. He hates Borden and begs Ruth to don her disguise fore his retu:n. She is interrupted by a Phone call. It is “the woman with t* 2 contralto voice” whom Bor- den has previously refused to talk to. Ruth has time to put on her spectacles before Borden’s ar- rival. Borden finds an orchid- tinted envel in the mail and thrusts it in his pocket with an oath. Ruth is sent to the bank with instructions to get $500 in cash and to the station for two round-trip tickets and a draw- ing-room for Winter Haven on the 2:15 train. As she returns to the office she wonders whom the second ticket is for. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER III “Hullo, Miss Lester! Is God’s gift to women in his office? I phoned and he’s expecting me. Oh, pardon me! I thought it was Miss Lester! But I guess Handsome Harry canned her, the poor little scared bunny! Can't say I blame hiin—why!—what Ruth turned in the little swivel chair and faced the girl who had an- nounced herself so nonchalantly. So it was Rita Dubois who was going to Winter Haven with Borden, Ruth was hardly surprised, but a. little sorry, for she liked the vivacious, dark-eyed, black-haired le singer and dancer from the noisiest, most garish night club in the a “I’ve just turned my hair loose,” Ruth smiled, putting on her timid, scared-bunny manner and peering upward at Rita through her enor- mous horn-rimmed spectacles. “Attagirl!” Rita applauded, as she, touched up her already ‘vividly rouged lips. “So you've fallen for Handsome Harry, too, you poor little simp! Been to the movies and got a few hot tips on how to vamp your a Well, Bunny, don't jittle Rita, no matter what you hear! You can have him—next week! But listen, don’t you toddle in and tell him I said so, after I’m fone, or I'll snatch those golden curls of yours out by the roots. . . . Pret- ty stuff!” And Rita, finished with her lips, lifted one of Ruth’s curls ati fingered its yellow silk almost tenderly. Ruth laughed, then glanced apore- hensively toward Harry Borden’s closed door. “The curls are out in someone else’s honor, Miss Dybois, but—I’m engaged <o be married. It just happened last night. You're the second person I’ve told—” “Good child! Wise little baby!” Ri- ta u.~nroved, her voice curiously gen- tle and low. Then she stooped and laid her heavily rou~ed and scented lips against the rose and’ivory of Ruth’s cheek. “That’s the only way, infant! Lasso ’em with a wedding ring when you’re ,oung and—oh, hul-lo, Harry! The top of the morn- ing to you, darling!” Trarry n hel: his door wide, and, regardless of Kuth’s presence, his arms, too, “Glad to see you, sweetheart! Miss Lester’s just bought the tickets. Drawing-room, too, if you’re a good girl!” As Harry Borden, laughing indul- tly, was about to close the door, Rita Dubois turned her head gave Ruth a confidential, moc! Cain along with a slow, significant Ruth’s fingers were flying over the typewriter keys ‘in when Ben- ny Smith’s voice, s1 and indig- nant, interrupted her. “Hunh! Thought it was a secret-— ge getting engaged!” he flung at r from his own desk in the corner. “‘Nen you go and tell everybody!” “Well, if you gotta whisper your little secret, looks like you'd pick out somebody besides one of Handsome larry’s dames,” the boy persisted sulleply. “I thought you just told me ‘eause you—you rorta liked me Startled, Ruth let her hands lie on S. ness, to goble her it not t> smile with amusement at his adoies- cent tumbling into love. . . “I do like you, Benny—lots,” she said tly. “Now be a darling and don’t interrupt me any more. I wart be |he wil! be out of—conference—by BLAGK PIGEO ©1929 By NEA Service, Inc. one but Harry Borden’s wife bothe: ed to knock when she came to his of- fices. “Morning, Mrs. Borden,” Benny mumbled, as he opened the door wide. “Say, Ruth, I gotta beat it to the postoffice for them stamps. Any- thing else you need?” “No thanks, Benny. Fifty tw hundred ones, and 10 special: + . Good morning, Mrs. Bord Ruth had risen as she spoke, now faced Mrs. Borden nei , but smiling the little timid smile which Mrs. Borden would expect of her, for it had greeted her once a month for four months. A rather faded, tired 38, as against Harry Borden’s triumphant 40. Soft, fine skin, going a little lax beneath high, aristocratic cheek bones, and wrinkling faintly around tragic eyes and a patient but bitter mouth. Leaf- brown eyes, no longer glowing with the fire of spring. Of all the varied duties which she was called upon to perform as Har- ry Borden’s confidential secretary, none was so painful to Ruth as this monthly encounter with Mrs. Bor- den. For Borden forced his wife to come to his offices that he might humiliate her. There had been a le- gal separation, but no divorce, and Borden had arrogantly stipulated that he would pay the court allot- ment of $500 a month for the sup- port of his wife and two children, a boy of 12 and a girl of seven, only if Elizabeth Borden came to him each month and asked for it. And Ruth knew that if Elizabeth Borden had had only herself to consider, she would have died rather than so hu- miliate herself before, him. Benny told me Mr. Borden was ” Mrs. Borden answered Ruth’s greeting in a hesitant, gentle voice. Ruth glanced miserably toward the closed door, behind which Harry Bor- den and Rita Dubois were arranging details of their week-end trip to Win- ter Haven. “Yes, he’s in, Mrs. Bor- den, but he—he’s in conference.’ A burst of high-pitched laughter penetrated that closed door, and Mrs. Borden flinched, her nostrils quiver- ing, her gloved hands clenching up- on the handbag she held. Ruth did not consciously notice the discarded wife’s reaction then, but later, when every tiny thing was of so much im- Portance, she remembered — and wished she could forget. “I—then I—” Mrs. Borden stam- mered. ‘Shall I come back a little later, Miss Lester? I brought the children downtown with me, and they’re waiting in the rest room of a department store. I—you know it is necessary that I—that I ask— that I see Mr. Borden today.” “Yes,” Ruth nodded. Bor- den’s ultimatum was that the month- ly $500 would be paid on the tif teenth day of the month and on no other. If his wife did not call for it then, and ask in so many words for what was hers and the children’s by right, she would have to wait until the same date the next month. “I suggest, Mrs. Borden, that you come back in about an hour. I am sure nd then.”, Mrs. Borden flushed. “The children have a dentist's specintenent at 12, and then I’m to take them to lunch. I wonder if Mr. Borden will be here about half-past one?” Ruth agreed eagerly. She was glad she would not have to see poor Mrs. Borden again on that, her own happy day. “Yes. He will be here until near! iy two. He oe me md just a few minutes a; sure half-past one will be fine.” sie “Thank you.” Mrs. Borden was turning toward the door, when an- other burst of laughter — treble wedded to bass—shook the ground- glass panel in the door between the outer and inner offices. ith saw the slight, frail body Sway, sprang to put her arm about the older woman. “Please sit down just a minute, Mrs. Borden. Here! In my chair. And lay your head on the desk. It’s the heat—they keep these offices stifling. I'll get you drink of water. There! Feeling bet- ter?” she asked, as she hel; Har- ry Potten’. wife.to the little swivel air. , Ruth darted to the water cooler in the corner near Benny’s desk, then discovered that the paper cup con- tainer was empty. But there was a tube of them in the bottom drawer of her desk. She ran, frightened a little, for Mrs. Borden looked ter- ribly white and ill. The drawer stuck a bit, and the older woman was lean- ing downward to help, with trem- EET ies, ur hn, De » dear Mrs. "” Ruth begged. “There! It often sticks. + The cups are here somewhere Oh!” She snatched her hand Hee ne ulled-out drawer as if she “Gun?” Mrs. Borden quavered, peartg aver from the drawer, her. a iE istabed wvausly, *Y ut nerv. . automatic isn't it ridiculous my ha pistol? But there were, 80 many holdups in the building. last month that a—friend of mine—” she. could not yet toss Jack Hayward’s name nonchalantly- me, and for himself, too, fices in this building, ribly in earnest the thi holdy afi it than I am of itt Here are the cups. ety tore, in case of ani ANNE AUSTIN ing here r | | wy if I'd touch it! I’m more FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1929 Year 1928 Appears to Have Ended in Advancing Business Cycle utes after Mrs. Borden had left, look- ing so strange and ill that Ruth was muinely frightened—the door of larry Borden’s private office opened and he emerged, or rather was ulled along, for Rita Dubois, in igh good humor, was tugging at his hand. “Don’t worry! I'll be at the station on time,” the dancer was reassur- ing him gaily. “I can do more shop- pin in a couple of hours than most girls could do in a day. And mind ‘i : you don’t call up the stores and limit : ; ? these charge accounts, old di “Mind you don’t fail to keep your part of the bargain!” remii Harry Borden her, as they reached the door. “I'll keep mine—all of it! But —no double-crossing, Rita!” Ruth glanced’ up, her spectacled eyes taking in the laughing but mu- tually suspicious couple. She saw Harry Borden wave goodby to Rita, and many hours later she was to try to recall every detail of that icture, though now she only noted, idly, that the man seemed to be waving a torn banknote, and that Rita’s finger-tip iss was for the torn bill rather than for Harry Borden, (To Be Continued) In the next chapter—motive for a murder. HAD TOGIVEUP HIS 28 YEAR JOB Kimlin Had to Quit on Account Is Like Man “Made Over Again” Now, of Ill Health. He Says ag o®? é § 5 i I felt worse than ever. told me about BROADWAY AT 735 ST. 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