The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 15, 1929, Page 2

HALF OF CONVIGTED ~ ARE OLD OFFENDERS SAYS EXPERT HERE! William Nimmins, Finger-Print Man at State Prison, Fa- vors Proposed Plan TUCKER CASE Verona Man Sentenced for)’ Banker Murder Revealed Linked to Forgery IS CITED fame = "More than 50 per cent of persons sentenced to terms in the state peni- tentiary have previous criminal rec- ords and with a bureau of criminal apprehension and identification in the state these records would be made available to officials and courts, Wil- Mam H. Nimmins, who is in charge ot the identification department of the “State penitentiary, said today. ‘The bill now. before the state leg- dslature for establishment of such a bureau is an excellent step, Nimmins said, The cetieelicg oy has oe plete photograph an inger print records of all persons who have served time there and these would be incorporated in the bureau's records, he pointed out. Immediately that a person is sen- tenced to the penitentiary, eight sets of finger prints are made and front and side photographs are taken, he continued. Finger print records ‘are sent to the Federal Depart- ment of Justice at Washington for permanent file and to learn if the person has previous criminal record in other parts of the country. As it is now, officials and courts of North Dakota seldom know if a man in their custody has a bad record, whereas a bureau would make | tion period. available to them this information| H. B. 215—Plath, Cass; Sax, Mc- which is necessary to determine the | Kenzie. Provides for establishing po- length of sentence a man should re-|tato grades, appointing potato in- ceive, Nimmins asserted. spectors, authorizing inspection and Establishment of a bureau would beet Vee ad ee for inspection cause officials to take finger-print records of all parties arrested for| H. B. 216—Sax, McKenzie; Plath, criminal offense, send these records | Cass. Provides for deputy state seed to the bureau and learn the past | COmmissioner, car inspection for grade record of offenders, he said. He | Of Potatoes, and places appropriations spoke further of a bureau's work in rie fees in state seed certifications ‘apprehension of criminals. ‘und in charge of state treasurer. Nimmins cited the case of Francis BILLS PASSED BY SENATE Tucker, sentenced to the penitentiary} 8S. B. 145—Cain of Stark—Requires for murder of a banker at Verona but | county auditors to furnish certain in- | whose case was appealed. Tucker | formation on taxes to persons holding was at the penitentiary for a week | real estate liens. and his finger prints were recorded) 8S. B, 1002—Renauld of Rolette and and sent to the Department of Jus- | Bond of Ward—Gives owners of foxes tice at Washington, Nimmins said.}same rights in these animals as are Informaticn returned by the depart- | enjoyed by owners of other domestic ment showed him to have served time | animals. for forgery and grand larceny in the| 8. B. 149—Hyland of Ramsey—Re- U. 8. disciplinary barracks at Fort/|vises*method of electing city park Leavenworth in 1918. commissioners; permits cities to ac-; This information would have been | quire park cites anywhere in state. of assistance to the courts in trying} S. B, 165—Renauld of Rolette—Per- _ ~tiis case and would have been made | mits sheriff to distrain moneys and ~-vailable to them by a bureau such|credits for collection of personal odtS the one proposed, he said. Property taxes. | Nas 8. B. 166—Renauld of Rolette— Makes unpaid personal property taxes a lien on any real estate owned by tax debter. 8. B, 119—Martin of Morton—Gives head of family $200 personal property | tax exemption; single persons $100 exemption. Dans hae RES eeweeeeceevierrs point of view, the clever observer oug! over the top of this sketch. cash offered for it. Tuesday, Feb. 19. Prize winners will won of accrediia- | ties prior to expir Seataeeeerreesseeeeseussenese reuenleeecrrereveset e A Legislative Calendar | aca a a a /ENATE BILLS PASSED BY HOUSE 8. B. 51—Appropriations committee. ~* $180,602.18 for general maintenance and improvements at the state teach- 4. ers college at Dickinson. ———————_—__—________¢ «— _ §. B. 92—Appropriations committee. ‘Sar Permits lagtdatare eS eerie of|! PEOPLE’S FORUM ly . executive officer of state livestock | ry Baldwin, N. D. statute. a Cal 7 : 8. B. 49—Appropriations committee.| It is a well known fact that the * ee $249,821 for general maintenance and|8ctual enemy of the prairie chicken enimprovements at state teachers cgl-|is not the farm boy with his old- lege at Mayville. ioned firearm, walking acrot x 8. B. 50—Appropriations committee. | t! 1 fields, but the city sportsm: $449,906 for general maintenance and| With his high powered gun and his ‘fe improvements at state teachers col-| high powered car! Farmers have lit- +ere lege, Valley City. tle or no chance of getting their SSS. B. 38—Appropriations committee.|share of birds on account of this ‘$171,738 for general maintenance and | fact. improvements at stat: school for deaf,|_ I would favor a law permitting ‘Devils Lake. farmers to hunt game birds two B. 52—Appropriations committee.|weeks before the general season .496 for general maintenance and | opens. provements at state teachers col-} This would give the farmer, who » Minot. feeds the birds, a chance to have BILLS PASSED BY HOUSE prairie chicken on his table before }. 185—Appropriations commit-|the city hunters scare them all for payment of income | away. refunds for years 1919-22, inclu-| We either want an equal chance get our share of birds, or, we z NEW HOUSE BILLS want a law making it a misdemean- tee 9 ee ee a ne ey to trespass an property, game laws or no game laws, to the con- ay bearing Sagat trary. g 5 : more than e can all imagine what would exceed $25, and gives owner of happen if a farmer trespassed on p je animals property rights; provides a| city property, opening gates without a gosto them, and causing other mage. i Ea ge ui rges Criminal | | PRIZE WAITING | Of course, it all depends on the point of view. But no matter what If you can compose such a title, send it the Auto Contest Editor of The Tribune and it may win the prize of This should be in The Tribune office not later than third annual auto show of the Bismarck-Mandan Automobile Dealers as- sociation in the State Training School gymnasium at Mandan, Friday, Feb. 22. Clip the cartoon and enclose with suggested title. }are exceedingly well-handled by the Ide ‘that some motion picture producers, jin an effort to create box office at- THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ntification Bureau on CENSORSHIP BILL IDEA OF ERICKSON ALONE, SAYS AUTHOR Divide Legislator Charges Films Show Too Much ‘Dirt for Dirt’s Sake’ provide a state board of motion pic- ture censors is his own brain child and is inspired of his aversion to “dirt for dirt’s sake,” he said here today. In brief, Senator: Erickson feels tractions, have become inclined to overstep the bounds of artistic pro- priety and are beginning to depend on the licentious and suggestive rather than on the beautiful and the artistic. | “I go to the movies frequently and on the whole I enjoy them,” Senator Erickson said. “I enjoy good acting or a picture which carries a really worthwhile story. In fact I enjoy most of the movies which I see. ht to think of a pertinent line be announced and rewarded at the other successes, directed the new pro- duction, with a notable cast. CAPITOL THEATRE A deft and skillful combination of romance, comedy, pathos and action, told in scenes that are both thrilling and beautiful, makes “Silks and Sad- dles,” the Universal production which opened last night at the Capitol Theatre, one of the most entertaining Photoplays of the season. “Silks and Saddles” is a picturiza- tion of “the sport of kings.” It is filled with scenes of the turf and the many events which lead up to the “Occasionally, however, I see things in the movies which certainly have no place there. I am not saueamish and I have seen as many things as most people, but it gets on my nerves to have scenes snd episodes portrayed on the screen which are lewd and suggestive and which cannot be de- fended on any grounds of beauty, art or action necessary to the plot of the story itself. I have seen some things which made me think of dirt for dirt’s sake, and I don't like it.” The veteran Divide county man said that no one asked him to put in the bill and that, so far as he knows, it has no support from churches, Sunday schools or similar organiza- tions which are frequently found ad- vocating moral reforms. He isn't | asking anyone to vote for it and is willing, he said, for the legislature to act as its judgment dictates without Pressure from outside sources. He hopes only to keep one of his favorite sources of amusement in line with the conceptions of public morality which he feels would be ad- | vacated by the people generally. | G. N. D. A. Acquires Husby as Buyer of Dairy Stock Alone Fargo, N. D., Feb. 15—()—John Husby, former state dairy commis- | running of an important horse race. The story does not hesitate to ex- Pose the evil phase of the sport, made up by the gambler parasites who live off the races. Gerald Beaumont, no- ted sport writer, was the author. Some of the most thrilling scenes of racing horses ever filmed provide much of the interest and also the tremendous climax. Marian Nixon, who plays her first starring role in “Silks and Saddles,” and Richard Walling carry the love interest. Both give excellent per- formances and the romance sequences Pair. (By The Associated Press) FRIDAY Senate takes up Jones bill to increase maximum penalty for Judiciary committee of house has up Laguardia resolution for investigation of charges of Fed- eral Judge Winslow. THIS IS REAL BIGAMY Moscow, Feb. 15.—A Mr. Schwartz of this city is a fellow who, when he does something, does it up right. He was recently arraigned in the Mos- cow high court on a charge of “having abused his position as a member of the Communist party and thereby brought the soviet government into contempt.” All Schwartz did was to| his marry several hundred wives in 18 months. More than 150 of them agreed to give evidence against him. texplained in court why her car was sioner, is now employed by the| Greater North Dakota association in the capacity of dairy stock buyer, according to Jamés S. Milloy, secre- tary of the association. The growing demand for dairy stock, Milloy said, required that the association secure the services of an; expert judge of dairy stock. Husby comes to the association well recom- mended by the extension department of the agricultural college. Husby at one time served as county agent in Ward county. This move indicates an expansion of the association's sire work to in- ——_ i Senator C. E. Erickson’s bill to| FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1929 _ rior Crime Records _ FUTURE OF POTATO TENDS 70 IMPROVE FE BLAGK 3 ©1929 By NEA Service, Inc. (| yi | THIS HAS HAPPENED "tended to my busine’ - and that was day, anand Lec gr che a-| Institute Organized by Experts When RUTH LESTER, te- runnin’ my elevatcr. wi in when I got In my tary. finds the dead body of her “And right now, }oung man, car the seventh ‘loor red light was Gets Busy on Plan for Lusiness is to answer my question.” | on.” M_Mann retorted. “I may not give ‘you a tip to keep ycur mouth shut, as Mr. Hayward evidently did, but I can give you a free puss to the jail if yeu don’t open up and spill what you know.” “Mr. Hayward didn’t tip Saturday—naw, nor emonlover, “HANDSOME HAR- RY” BORDEN. sprawled on the floor beneath the window of his private office, she runs at once to the office of her fiance, JACK HAYWARD. His office is just across the narrow airshaft from Borden's. Finding Jack Rath Better Spuds ‘Fargo, N. D., Feb./15.—One more step in the perfection of the National ,. Potato institute was taken by Dr. P. F. Trowbridge, director of the North Dakota experiment station and chair- man of Dakota Division or “Group s* * “Five minutes? Seven minutes? Ten minutes?” McMann suggested impatiently. ; “Maybe 10 minutes. maybe more,” Micky admitted, his flush deepening. “This Rita dame looks sore because T’ve kept her waitin’, and I jolly her ive me no ‘is mornin’ out. searches for his pistol, which he neither! He tips us boys reg’lar the lup 9 bit. I says to her, ‘Sorry if 1/14” of the institute, when he pre- 4, had purchased at the same time Hy of the month, like age of al ey you waitin’, Miss. I was makin’ | sented the 11 resolutions of the na- 5 he hought an identical weanon other tenants do. . . . Aw, all right! | date with my sweetie,’ I says. 'Nen| tional committee before @ group of for her to keep in her desk. His |!’m tellin’ you, if you'll let me Tt Jshe says, ‘Well, be sure you don’t|potato men at the annual South Da- gun is gone! Ras about 10 minutes after I took !stand her up, old dear, Nothing | ota Farmers’ Week at Brookings, 8. Petrified with fear, she recalls moe Lent ar timy kig| makes @ girl more sore than to be|Dak. Thursday, Feb. 7. Jack's incriminating behavior of jpest me guess, gir Sygate 'd in | 200d up.’ she says, tapping her foot That the potato men of South Da- the past Saturday and his angry adi Sct what was oes aren at again, like she was sors as all get-|kota ere very much interested in the threst against Borden. the ol by, over to the drug si oe | out An’ I says, ‘Gees! Did Borden | Proposed program of the National When Jack returns, he accom- {8¢cross the street to get ok Mt | stand up a swell frail like you’ An’ | Potato Institute is evident, according panies Ruth to Borden's suite |offee, right after T toe bets he she grins a little at that an’ cracks|to Dr. Trowbridge. At the present and while he phones for the po- {Ward up, and acd He fore he |right back, I'll say he did! And how!”| time South Dakota has an organiza- lice. Ruth hurries to close the [Tung for me to take him down. “What else?” McMann demanded.|tion of potato growers, oe al - uel ond **% i inte a Rg re on bine toa have ll Loren office, fearing Jack shot len McMann grinned crookedly as he ? icky grinned. e 0! ey become ai across the airshaft. The window | made rapid rar of the boy's story. an beat it out of the elevator, like | North Dakota in what is called Da- is alreadv closed; Ruth tells DE- {“You didn’t have any other passen-|she was in a hurry. She run into the | kota division of the institute. TECTIVE McMann of Borden's {ger during those 10 minutes, Otto?” | telephone booth and that’s the last I] The purpose of the National Po- two Saturday morning visitors: “Naw.” seen of her, ’cause I had a call from |tato institute, which is entirely of an RITA DUBOIS. nicht club dane- “And when Mr. Hayward left, did|the fourth floor then—or maybe it| educational nature and a non-profit cr. and MRS. BORDEN, his wife {you notice anything peculiar about|was the fifth. Naw, it was the | organization, is to educate the potato and mother of his two children, {his behavior?” McMann suggested. |fourth. Old man Cohen—wholesale | growers, shippers and the general J public in better grading, who called for her monthly ali- shipping of only the very best potatoes during mony check. Mrs. Borden comes in during the questioning and McMann accuses her of the mur- der. but she denies it. Ruth tells McMann of the vistol in her desk but when he looks for it, it too, is gone! Tinv footprints of a pigeon in dried blood on the win- dow ledge and on the floor near the body indicate the window was open when Borden was shot. Ruth's fear for Jack grows but McMann insinuates Ruth is the murderess of Borden! MORAN, the elevator operator’s testi- mony makes things look black for Ruth when McMann sudden- ly asks whose office is that across the airshaft. When he learns it is Jack’s, he asks the elevator operator what time on Saturday afternoon Jack return- ed to his office. * NOW GO ON CHAI Ruth Soald have Litged the wullea|’ “Aay oth for the uth could have kiss: e sullen ny other passengers for young towhead for his failure to seventh floor Saturday afternoon?”| high production times, the use of mention a fact which might yet 4s-|MeMann demanded impatiently. quality seed stock, the curtailment .f sume vast importance—that Jack| “Naw, not a soul,” Micky answer-| acreage, the value of small and scrub Hayward had returned to his office }¢d promptly. “I thought Borden had | potatoes as food for livestock and the empty-handed and left it with a{|gone down by the other elevator, for| food value of potatoes to human be- heavy brief: some reason or other. Gees! He | ings. “Who else rode in your car be-jmusta been dead i his} Dr. Trowbridge has recently met tween two and four o'clock Satur-|sweetie thought he'd stood her up! with several groups of potato growers day?” McMann prodded the unwill-|/Gees! She musta stood there|and shippers in North Dakota and ing witness. poundin’ on the door—” presented the plans before the meet- “I ain't been taking no memory| “That'll do, Moran!” the detective | ings. ones ed eg ae deh shut vil short. on Baad ine ae 1 ‘ar as 1 remember, lidn’t e on your 5 ion’ ite ue Lee TS from ne seventh Leal the ee ee give you per- wey Poco a a 8 loor after Mr. Hayward left.’ mission, unders' ? ie; McMann scowle iq then ea up- 1 When the Hoos} nee oe upon! the 8, AS! y on Micky an, who grinned cheer- | elevator ieCMann faced Jac fully. “How about you, Moran? Who | Hayward, hie ‘eyes narrowed to glint- ate athena ts eee were your passengers for the seventh |ing gray slits. “Well, how about it,) That's what Theodore Martell, agri- floor Miss Lester's and Mr./Hayward? I suppose you're going to| cyitural agent of Grant county, says. Hayward’s second trip?” tell me it took you 10 minutes to] «r¢ you don’t believe it, just give Micky scratched his thatch of red|find those conveniently forgotten! them two barns, one dirty and one hair. “First I brought up Benny theater tickets.” dry and clean. You will find that the hog is naturally inclined towards the clean place in preference to the-) dirty,” he claims. ng VERY PARTICULAR London, Feb. 15.—Monty, a ratter owned by the stationmaster at Ling- he left for the day at exactly one|formation that men from the ers and rammed his hands deeper it grinned. “Said he’d forgot some- Biggers. Hold ‘em they like to lie in cool mud up to ain’t keepin’ tabs on them that’s got |*hing. I took him back down three charge down the hall till I need her.” | urging farmers to k their pork Saturday afternoons Coghlan?” Me. {0. K.! If the kid had found his boss aie eh his gentleness with the widow whom | ers do not k the ms sani- you?” Ruth smiled grate: - hog pe killed her husband. But when the | will need a long feeding period, there- tenants coming and going before if the boy came back for some- 1 ice,” McMann {his entire attention to Jack Hay-| Hogs should be fed on a cement ute when I returned and when I left {Pointed out. “And the door was a high, hot blaze. Lester and I went to lunch at the; Lester’s own story of her discovery had left the theat i boy tell his when he comes in—if he|those 10 minutes? Newspaper re- ad left the theate> tickets on my field, Surrey, hops on a train every WITH THE STORY | Smith, the kid that works fere.” Before Jack could answer Patrol- PTER XV o’clock!” morgue had arrived to remove the} “The time that hogs may be to the pockets of his uniform. “I he come back,” Micky wend back until I get Mrs. Borden out of | their ears.” a right to come and go.” or four minutes later. aie say. Some of Ruth’s hatred of the de-| animals sanitary. Disease makes great Mann demanded. “You require ev-|dead he wouldn’t le back down he had, a few minutes before, tried | tar “ Coghlan shook his head. “Not un-|who was so obviously anxious to lift body had been removed on a stretch-| by cutting down the profit to the then.” thing he’d forgotten ,it was undoubt- ward, fear for the man she loved|floor rather than the ground, unless the building,” Jack Hayward settled |closed between the two offices after 1 (To Be Continued) Chester Hotel, and just before des-|0f the body. But you stick to your — porters appear in the next chapter. desk. We were going to a matinee. |ever gets here,” McMann added curt- clude more dairy stock rather than a i change of policy, Milloy said. Martin stock for the association. KISSED HIM GOODBYE New York, Feb. 15.—(7)—Mrs. Ray Foster, wife of a film cameraman, Parked without lights: “My husband was going away. I had to kiss him ore We haven't been married long.” “Where was he going?” A “To put the car in the garage.” “Where is the garage?” “Three blocks away.” A fine of $2 was imposed. HEIFETZ MAKES $150,000 PER Washington, Feb. 15.—()—Jascha Heifetz makes $150,000 a year with his violin. The amount was revealed in appellate proceedings about his income tax. Officially the instruc- tion his father has given him for five years is valued at $72,000 and mother’s serves as bysiness manager at $62,000. His father gets $25 to $30 a lesson and among his Pupils is the son of Efram Zimbalist. Iwas Apland will continue to buy beef |rapid bridge Building—a distance of only to blocks. I didn’t have to wait for the elevator, so it must have been ;not later than five or six minutes of jtwo when I got off at the seventh floor. I went to my cffice and—” rupted, “I'd just a little bit rather have Otto’s story before you have a chance to tell him what he remem- bers. And you might unclench that fist of yours, Hayward. I’m afraid you'll sprain your fingers, and that would how long was Mr: Hayward in his office before he went back down aia ii fice at all Me saw him head toward this wing of ihe building when he left the ele- vator, slouched lower azuinst “Naw! I ain’t sayin’ h office or he wasn’t in cause I didn’t follow him—ste? and goes to Dormans, the next station, where he spends the day chasing rodents. He gets the same train every day and returns at night in time to go home with his master. SUFFERING OF 17 YEARS ENDED. “I suffered seventeen years and wasted hundreds of dollars on treat- ments and medicines. Sargon becang to help me right from the first bot-7 tle. My only regret is that I didn’t have it years ago, ly. “Who else came to the seventh floor Saturday: afternoon?” “That lady I heard you call Mi Borden,” Micky answered sullenly.| 4. “Gees! I didn’t know the i married!” he added, brightening. “He sure didn’t let it cramp his style none.” ¥ McMann frowned. “Keep your opinions to A hacia until they’re called for, Moran! When did you bring Mrs. Borden up?” ** * Micky stuck out his lower jaw pugnaciously and seemed about to go into a stubborn silence. Then, “I dun- no! Pretty soon after I took Benny down. I guess. After half-past one, anyway.” “Did you notice her manner? Any- Hing unusual?” McMann rapped out ‘I didn’t pay no attention to her. She didn’t mean nothing in my young life,” Micky retorted, “She just got in the elevator and I took her up— that’s all.” was in his} “And when she came down?” Mc- office, be-|Mann was having hard work Ijstrain his anger and im) “Was she uw) 2 I! oked at my watch, found that it 10 minutes to two, and walked llv from the Chester to the Star- “Benny!” Ruth exclaimed. “Why,|man Biggers ap: , with the in- Otto Pfluger hunched his shoul “Well, bodv of the murdered man. called dirty is in hot weather, when dunno—about two o’clock, I guess: I the way, I'll put her in Covey’s} Martell makes this explanation in “Isn't there a register record for |I guess ’at lets Miss out, all adh tective evaporated as she witnessed | headway ‘among hogs because farm- eryone to sign in and out, don’t|Whistling, would he : fully at the boy y. to bully into confessing that she had| He says hogs raised in a dirty place til four o’clock Saturdays. Too many |SUspicion fram her. ] er, and McMann was free to devote|owner at market time. “T can tell you almost to the min-|edly in the outer offi fanned her hatred of McMann into| the ground is high and dry, he points the question matier-of-factly.’ “Miss |Borden was’ killed, according to Miss out. i sert was served I discovered that I/own story, Moran, and let the office} Can Jack Hayward explain away f Your Income Tax ! “Just a minute!” McMann. inter- e too bad... . Now, Otto, on the first $4,000 in exemption, eae in your car?” in’t saying he was in his of- |,” Otto denied sullenly. iCMann pounced. “So 38 “Oh! ht ag did you?” Otto Pfluger shi and | wall. | OUT OUR WAY : By Williams rete ee! EA game law does not give per- mn to do this, to the farmer's roperty, but most farmers have some such experience. Farmers are getting tired of some things, among them being the unfair game laws which offer them no protection. FLORENCE BORNER. AT THE MOVIES ELTINGE THEATRE . layed bills committee. North Dakota to ac- on the same basi: | ecci GoT BUNKIN' With OU. TT! NIGHT MANY THANKS. FROM My BEDDN BACK AWANS. WRANGLN' A PACH HAWSE ViNDER V Buo ? 8 SEPARATED, , . THETS ONE EYED OVER IN TH NATIONS - 8-2-2-2 82-22 FouR ER FWE NOTCHES ON HIS -GUN “Gees! I credit pee from $2,000 to as if he could eaciivs ‘ cheerfully have clouted the imp youngster over the head, but he lim- Ch taal scowl, “Anyone “Sure. A that visday, Mion and two or three times before ” Micky answered “ine Deboll” math erie, oneicages mete n at the jon—" * : “Just a minute,” McMann silenced her paremprarily, “Describe the gitt, Moran—hair, relates, anything ou can Sy ¥ “Black hair, black eyes: Kinda B- 2-2-8-2-2. 2-2-2. FROM INJON 6-2-8-2-2 CLAIM HE RON with TA —p| TELL YOU A MAN Wis Did MiLLIN' oO! Rel