The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 12, 1929, Page 2

_RAVYRALLAYING | ~~ BRDGE AT MEDORA = ARERALLWAY ENS lamestown to Get New Boiler | Plant and Twenty Miles of Track Welding Near By ADDING WASHED BALLAST ie } : i i i This and Fusing Joints to In- crease Smoothness of Roadway Riding St. Paul, Feb. 12.—The Northern Pacific Railway company, through the executive offices in St. Paul, has announced a $46,500,000 program of expenditures in 1929 for roadway, building and equipment maintenance, roadway and building improvements and new equipment. The program contemplates the making of these large expenditures at many points between St. Paul- polis and Duluth on the east end and Seattle-Tacoma-Portland on ae > the west. ba 5. The program follows: \ ¢ +Roadway and building : maintenance -$14,000,000 “Equipment maintenance... 15,000,000 .Roadway and building im- provements .. ++ 10,000,000 “New equipment 6,000,000 * ‘The roadway and building main- tenance program calls for the laying of new ballast which, with the neces- By the close of 1929 a total fof 1,020 miles of washed ballast will vcover the roadway, improving its rid- ‘ing qualities and making it virtually justless, ph | home from Hollywood the other day. buildings $300,000; im- provements to equipment $1,500,000; dmprovement of water supply $100,- ; and $60,000 for improved elec- “tection af various Points slong the al ong ‘Bystem. ¢ Large expenditures are planned in North Dakota. Twenty miles of rail- "welding work will be done in that across the Missouri river in the Bad Lands. At West Fargo a $30,000 item is for additional trackage where the Armour & Company plant is ‘located. .At Jamestown sh item of $45,000 is included to improve the stationary -boiler plant at the roundhouse. Im- ‘provement to the water supply at ‘Glen Ullin is another $20,000 item. About $300,000 of the ballast pro- gram is in North Dakota. f IN NEW YORK ‘ { > +. New. York, Feb. 12.—To Manhat- ‘ tan’s colorful locales, such as “Tinpan ; ” “Mazda Lane” and “Turtle ‘THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | SIDE GLANCES - - - “Aw, come on; don’t you ever get enough?” “gave him the job of echo in the big | with a comedy Oswold cartoon, will complete this canyon scene.” You'll hear the sad tale of the exchange that got the talking records mixed and sent the disks for “What Price Glory?” out with “The King of Kings.” * * * Reading a national poll being taken by “Variety,” I find all is not applause for the stalkies; that in many of the smaller cities of the realm, the audiences are far from cer- tain that they want noises with their pictures. Dropping up to say goodby to Tom Meighan before he left for Holly- wood, this time under the Warner banner. I found that new furrows had appeared on his brow. Thomas has the notion that the actor is now more or less at the mercy of the machine operator in the movie theater. He may do a splen- did job of recording at the studio; his picture may show up as a fine product, and still he can be wrecked | by a final operation inside the theater. * oe Speaking of cinema matters re- minds me that Nancy Carroll came Now when Nancy Carroll comes! back to New York it’s a little differ- ent from most home-comings of gals who left the big city to win fame and fortune in the flicker capital. For Nancy doesn’t take quarters in the ritzy hotels; nor does she get a du- plex apartment in the snappy neigh- borhoods. She goes right back to the Bronx, where “ma and pa” and the kids still sit around the parlor. And there, if you're a newspaper reporter, is where you'll have to go if you care to in- terview Nancy, and there you'll find | her, for all her thousand a week. For Nancy has not forgotten that she came out of Eighth avenue, not far from that district that once wore the more-or-less colorful name of “Hell's Kitchen.” GILBERT SWAN. (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) [AT THE MOVIES ‘ ¢ ELTINGE THEATRE “The Woman Disputed,” the love and hate drama of an outcast wom- an’s redemption, brings Norma Tal- madge to the screen of the Eltinge Theatre, for two days starting Wed- nesday, in what is said to be the section of Broadway where film concerns center, and where 5 | have greatest role of her career. ‘This picture is based on the sensa- tional stage play of the same name by Dennison Clift. The story, as translated to the screen by C. Gardener Sullivan, has in its film manifestation all the drama, virility, and charm of the Play, authorities who have seen both versions state. A character of unusual strength and fascination, perhaps one of the strongest in fiction, is the way critics described Mary Ann* Wagner, the heroine of “The Woman Disput- ed,” the part played by Miss Tal- madge. Mary Ann's life is the drama regeneration, the romance of boundless love, and conflict between self and sacrifice. PALACE THEATRE, MANDAN Opening the program of acts will Gertrude Clark and Boys part of the Kilkenny Giant in “Moth- er Machree,” Fox Films’ version of Rida Johnson Young's mother-love story in which Belle Bennett is fea- tured, which is now showing at the Capitol Theatre, is a minister’s son but, according to his own confession, “One would never suspect it in siz- ing me up.” lected by Ford because of his mam- moth build, was born in South Africa, where his father was the Bishop of Clermont. ‘was one of seven children. All over six feet. for the ministry,” McLagien told Di- rector Ford, “but when I was thir- teen, the Boer War called and I an- swered. There I got travel-dust in my shoes and I've been hitting the long trail ever since.” much the same as fighting. It’s hard hard wallops in the breadbasket.” effort to improve the type of pro- |™morous ads embodying jests at the ex- grams broadcast over KFJM, Univer- | Pense of various business members. sity of North Dakota radio station, an| | Nearly the full club membership organized groups on the campus to compete with each other in a talent carnival. Fraternities, sororities, and other groups will gather the best tal- ent from their organizations. In try- selected and later these will be broad- clubs, orchestras, and monologue num- H bers will be broadcast, according to pospriates bill; senate Caraway Pp these acts will receive in the form of letters and telegraph messages will LIONS DO CAPERS FOR EVENING AND DANCE AWAY HOUR} Ladies’ Night Is Turned Into Vaudeville by Talented Funmakers of Club y George Clark | THIS HAS HAPPENED When RUTH LESTER, sec- retary, g6es to the office on a Monday morning in January, she finds the dead body of her employer, “HANDSOME HAR- RY” BORDEN, sprawled on the floor beneath the window of his private office. Ruth is engaged to JACK HAYWARD, whose office is just across the narrow airshaft from Borden's. Ruth recalls that Jack had threatened Borden. She also re- calls that when she met Jack at noon Saturday with a bruised lip he believed Borden had hurt her though she insisted he was wrong. Ruth runs to Jack’s private of- fice and, finding him_ out,’ searches for his pistol which he had purchased at: the same time he bought an identical weapon for her to keep in her desk. His gun is gone! McMANN, a detective, ques- tions Ruth. She confesses her en- gagement to Jack and also tells him of Borden’s two Saturday morning visitors: RITA DU- BOIS, night club dancer, with whom Borden was planning a week-end trip; and MRS. BOR- DEN, his wife and mother of his two children, who called for her monthly, alimony. Mrs. Borden comes into the office during the questioning and McMann merci- lessly accuses her of the murder. She insists she left Borden alive and that the only person she saw near his office was MINNIE CASSIDY, scrub woman. NIEL- SON, medical examiner, ives. When search is started for the weapon that might have been used, Ruth tells of the pistol in her desk. McMann goes to get it. It is gone, too! * * * NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XII Detective McMann’s eyes were like glinting bits of steel as he turned on Ruth. They did not miss the fact that her little hands were locked tightly together, her eyes fixed in a wide, unwinking stare of horror— upon Elizabeth Borden. Lion entertaining talent turned ladies’ night into vaudeville at the Elks hall Monday evening, when sing- ers, jesters and dancers of the: club combined in a program of stunning stunts. ' After the burlesquerie, the stage and curtain were removed and the remainder of the evening was de- veted to dancing. At midnight a buffet lunch was served, while the ita went on till an early morning jour. Dr. F. B. Strauss was director of the show. Hazel Johnson's orchestra took part in the musical section of the Program and then furnished the rhytiim for the hundred pair of feet which glided over the waxed floor for the remainder of the evening. Such talent as Webb Bayliss, Bis- marck’s splendid tenor; Dave Shipley and Fred Peterson, the club come- dians; and the Rions quartet, Henry Halverson, E. O. Bailey, and Peterson and Shipley, were conspicuous in the doings in front of the curtain. One of the best stunts was the box- ing match between Raymond Mad- dock and Dave Swantey, aged 6. Each weighs 68 pounds, and they put oa four fast rounds with the mitts, while the Lions and guests roared with laughter as they slipped around on the polished floor, landing lefts and uppercuts. Another feature that drew several recalls was a dancing number by Cora Marie Strauss, Irma Happle and Roland McIntyre. This was stepped off in dancing uniform and was a real piece of terpsichorean art. One of the surprises of the evening | was @ piano number by Ruth Freiss, @ schoolgirl, who played difficult se- oc ig with the skill of a profes; ‘Webb Bayliss did a blackface song act in imitation of Al Jolson and sang and sang to repeated recalls. Henry Halverson was the otter tenor star of the program. Mang ROB. U. 6. PAT. OFF excellent bill. CAPITOL THEATRE Victor McLaglen, who plays the {Mann and I’m here to find out who ta thos y you're trying to shieli Mrs. Bor- len—' “I'm grateful.” Mrs. Borden, who had risen and was holding to her chair, finished his sentence for him. “And I don’t want you to bully thi hild. It is true: I did see the wea- pon. I was feeling sick and faint be- cause I heard a woman and my hus- band laughing loudly together.” manded. “I guess we're about through’ here, doctor,” he called to the medical examiner, who was still jin the private office with the corpse, “Wait, Mr. McMann!” Mrs.. Bors den commanded, and Ruth admired the calm courage which had come to Harry Borden's widow. “I have made no confession, -and will make none, for I did not kill husband. I hi merely relieved Ss painful duty—that of telling what happened between her and myself Saturday morning. “I admit that I was hurt—jealous, if you will—because my husband was so evidently finding happiness with another woman. But for many years he has given me cause to be jealous, and I have borne it uncomplainingly for the sake of my children.” McMann nodded, his lips twisting in a brief, cruel smile. “But on Sat- urday you reached the end of ‘your rope, didn’t you, Mrs, Borden? You quarreled with him about this other woman, after he had given you your’ check—” “I did not!” Mrs, Borden inter- rupted firmly. “We parted as ami- cably as usual, and my husband was alive. I did not even remember that Miss Lester had a pistol in her desk. | N My husband gave me no cause to re- member, and I was thinking only of getting back to the Chester Hotel, where I had left my children.” Again McMann suddenly switched his glinting hard eyes upon Ruth again. “Did Borden buy the automatic and instruct you to use it on bandits, Miss Lester?” “No.” Ruth breathed the word, rather than spoke it. “I bought the gun for Miss Les- “When did you last see your auto- matic, Miss, Lester? Come now—the \truth, the whole truth, and nothing. but the truth! Colby Lester’s daugh- ter should be familiar with that phrase, and know that the truth is always the best policy.” Ruth nodded weakly, and moisten- ed,her lips. “I—saw it Saturday morning, when I opened the bottom drawer to get a new carton of paper cups. It was there then, lying on top of those clean towels. I—I never saw it again, Mr. McMann. I never touched it. It frightened me. even to look at it.” “Who else that drawer One catchy number included Cora Marie Strauss, Webb Bayliss, R. H. Crane, and 2 doll in a babycoach. This was one of the comedy hits of the evening. Another was Abe Tol- chinsky in @ song and clog number. The two comedians, Dave Shipley and Fred Peterson, as Val and Tine, well made up, put on a combination of Jests and songs, Dr. D. gave a monologue on Lions quartet some numbers, and Bill Doty and E. O. Bailey staged @ schoolboy burlesque that grew fun- nier toward the end, till it brought forth the characteristic Lions’ roar. A grand ensomble of the partici- pants concluded the program as it had begun, in a chorus of song. ‘ Ruth silently prayed that Mrs. The hall had been decorated with | Borden would forgive her. “A num- valentine hearts and the stage was|ber of people. I can’t remember all marked off with bottle-and-candle | This stalwart soldier of fortune, se- McLaglen, six-feet-three, “The original plan was to draft me “Acting,” says McLaglen, “is pretty | work but you can win if you have “te lew you kept a gun in ability and are willing to take a few Students Broadcast of them at the moment, but Benn: * 5 footlights. Dr. Dursema raanipulated |the office boy, of course, and Me at State University |. spotignt during the program, and | erdon and’ ns Mee eden amr in pauses as the participants prepared |" “Ah! So Mrs, Borden knew!” Mce Grand Forks, N. D., Feb, 12—In an | for appearance Dr. Strauss read b1- | Mann interrupted triumphantly. ter, Mr. McMann,” Jack Hayward spoke up. “As I told you we are en- gaged to be married. I bought the automatic several weeks ago, after there had been two hold-ups in the building, but she was afraid to learn to shoot it.” McMann: scowled at the young man, thought deeply for a moment, then pounced ‘upon Ruth again. “If you -were afraid of the gun, Miss Lester, ‘how did it happen that so many. people knew you had it.” The memory of past humiliations painted Ruth's cheeks scarlet. “Mr. Borden made me get it out some- were" armed,” she faltered. “It— amused him to see how frightened of the gun I was. Several of the stock salesmen were in his office one aft- ernoon, and he made me bring it in —and—and pretend I was a bandit.” “Swell sense of humor!” McMann commented. “You weren’t so crazy “And how did Mrs. Borden know you ‘kept a gun there? Did she ask you?” “She—saw “it there,” Ruth said faintly, reaching out dizzily for the desk. A low exclamation, that might have been either from fear or star- tled realization, had broken from Mrs. Borden’s ashen lips. “When?” McMann barked. “Saturday morning,” Ruth admit- ted in a low, trembling voice. “! pulled out the drawer to get the pa- per cups and: Mrs. Borden, who was sitting at my desk, helped me with the drawer because it stuck, and— and I explained how I happened to have a gun—about the hold-ups in the building, you know.” | “And why was Mrs. Borden sit- jting at your desk?” McMann caught her up sharply, relentlessly, “You'd made her sit down because she was feeling faint, hadn’t you? And you were after a cup to give her a drink, weren't wey i Ruth stared her amazement at his accurate deduction. “Mrs. Borden not look—well, so I thought—’ “Look here, Miss Lester, a A was present and they brought their appeal has been made to the various ves and cweethearts, so that 122 wit ce were on hand for the dancing that closed the cvening. | Today in Congress (By the Associated Press) TUESDAY House considers legislative ap- outs which will be conducted Feb. 17, @ number of the best acts will be cast over the University station. Musical quartettes, soloists, glee resent plans. The response each of Senate commerce committee hears data on contract shipping board proposes to make for sale of government passenger steam- ers. House ways and means commit- indicate the winners. Silver cups will be given to victors in the men’s and women’s divisions, according to those in charge, and the fact that the best talent available on the campus will| tee continues with tariff hearings. be used will improve the quality of university broadcasts, it is believed. ‘Hygienic - rules for cooking and : eating. were embodied in the Hindu The Panama Canal Zone is a mil- | religious laws to ensure their obser- {tary reservation and is administered | vance and they are observed to this by the War Department. | say by all except the unorthodox. WELL MA'AM, YOU ASKEO FER ‘A SENSIBLE HOSS -—ANO WELL-HE IS~VERY. | RECKIN HE ‘|THINKS THREES A CROWD” :\ ANLUH- SomE Hosses HAVE MORE SENSE THN SoME.~ OHY SAY ~ 1OU GWE ME A pERRIBLE HORSE! prev WANTS To ‘GF Bacw v: HOME. about your boss, were you, Miss Les- ter? * * * Ruth stared at the detective with frightened blue eyes. “I—he was nearly always a considerate employ- er. I had no cause at all for com- plaint, until the day of his death.” She could have bitten her tongue aft- er she had again uttered that phrase 1 /0f double meaning, but apparantly it upon Mc- had made no impression Mann, or he accepted it at its face value. “You seem pretty sure that Bor- den died on. Saturday, Miss Lester,” the detective commented. “Let's see what the medical examiner has to say. He must be able to give some sont ot report ‘by now. . . ..Oh, doc- or Dr. Nielson appeared in the door- way between the two offices, his pale eyes blinking mildly behind his thick-lensed spectacles, “When was Borden killed, doctor? of course you can't say to the min- did | Ute or even'the hour, before you form the autopsy, but it would help head and smiled quizzically. “You have so little regard for the nice iz, the employes and tenants of the building as to when the shot was fired. And say, doe, phone me as soon as you extract the bullet, won't. you? I'll bet you a hundred it’s a .38 caliber. if you're in a betting frame of mind sinted the offer tiyly, “Now, iT pudiat e offer dryly. “Now, may, ti Phone the morgue to send for the “You admit that?” MeMann de-|'¥: ined, but he} te: times .and. show people that we—we|to TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1929 orthern Pacific to Spend $46,500,000 in 1929 for Improvements’ EF BLAGK PICEO ©1929 By NEA Service, Inc. ANNE AUSTIN interrupted her stumbling/within it. McMann, seated at Bo speech. “This is murder, you know,jden’s desk, glenced and someone committed the murder, | ob; up, but did elevator operators told their stories. “Which of you runs the elevator just across the 7” McMann de- inded. “You?” oon, and I probabil- —or murderess rode uP and down in your elevator, my lad. “What's your name?” 1 Denr‘s Moran,” answered automatically, then: “Gee! Murdered! Do :: have to stay in here, boss? Honest—ow!” wre A to ee wh 8] ry as the boy’s how! of fear followed upon an eerie sound. Ruth enlightened him, her eyes upon the, bi igeon which was fying abdut the airchatt window, as if seek’ admission: “It’s just a they tiy into the glasn thinkeg the ey iy he glass, thinking As she spoke, McMann strode to the window and sacha out interest- edly, just as the pigeon settled upon the white stone ledge and be- gan to strut up and down, pecking at something— “Lord! And I nearly missed it!” McMann _ shouted. ' can open it then. ... Has Nielson gone? Hey, doctor!” A minute later Ruth, in a bitterly lucid flash through the darkness of horror and fear, rechristened the black pigeon. She would never again call him “Satan.” His true name was emesis. (To Be Continued) Bloody pigeon tracks, the clew to Borden’s murder. In the next chap- Tr. [Legislative Calendar | House Bills Passed by Senate, H. B. 65—Lynch of Richland— commission H. B. 75—Appropriations committee $8,555 for repair of boiler house at sg ant reach ned semaine B, 38-—Appropriation $67,900 for state health department, including appropriation for child hy- or person print- bills to notify county treasurer six days before sale. M3 E asi? i g ; i i Hy Ht ne i fel ‘t fi Ch af E Es H i i [ i i fe: : i i A = 1 RSS 4 » if 4 i ql | pt ih Ey i rl ! 2 i i i mate conse i Es . ee to exceed = ad Ferber! | rise. } indemnity or lability insurance par- ties defendant in suits against policy Senate Bills Passed by House 8S. B. 36—$253,035 for maintenance of institution for feeble minded at Grafton. 8. B. 34—$8,000 for care of feeble minded whose residence cannot be charged against any specific county. 8. B. 69—Ettestai, McHenry—Clari- fies and makes minor revisions in law Pertaining to selection and actions of county political committees. Bills Passed by House H. B. 120—Game and fish commit- tee—Permits shooting of wolves, coy- tes, Canadian lynx and bobcats from airplanes. H. B. 119—Game and fish commit- tée—Prohibits hunting between sun- set and one-half hour before sun- H. B. 8—Henrickson, McHenry— ‘ould validate certain snecial assess- ment districts created in cities prior to 1917. H. B. 149—Swendseid, Mountrail— Repeals law giving bounty for main- taining watering places on highways. H. B. 150—Swenseid, Mountrail— Repeals law permitting county tax levy for immigration. H. B. 152—Olson, Burleigh—Permits Temoval of county physician for fail- ure to attend to needy cases brought to his attention by overseer of poor. H. B. 153—Cox, Burleigh—Provides for licensing of airmen and aircraft. H. B. 143— Judiciary committee — Provides for purchase, sale and dis- tribution of digest of supreme court @ecisions and appropriates $1,500 for purpose. H. B. 92—Muus and Burns, Ward—» Would require bonds for dangerous sports and exhibitions at fairs, carni- New House Bills H. B. 184— Thatcher, Bottineau — Provides regulation for motor boats not under federal regulation which H. B. 185—Swendseid, Mountrail— ates attorney from dstondine tact "s from defending par- ties in criminal action. H. B, 186— McCay, Sioux —.Would remove requirement of two-thirds 5 lad E E : ef in : i 3 i F E ci