The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 25, 1929, Page 2

/ ___ MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 192 ses Bound Up in Rev Fund Repealer George Clark UNIFORM UTILITY | WW Ween jsusinc ows | ete, BLACK PICEOWS) Fese-zz IN HOUSE MEASURE] “Seo Se NEA Service. nc_Gy ANNE AUSTIN JH see ox men THIS HAS HAPPENED __ ail right, then—I wasn’t! But God ; Independents Sanction Plan _ SENATE FLARES UP TO RETAIN THREAT TO MAGHINE TRADE Wi A= Me Between one and four o'clock {knows I didn’t wish him any harm.”|the big man bent low to listen. “Sat- Saturday afternoon, “HAND- McMann: studied the girl for a| urda: morning, when Mr. Borden SOME HARRY” BORDEN, pro- {long minute through narrowed, glint-| was in the outer office with Rita, he ing eyes. Then: “Well, Rita, let’ moter of dubious stock compan- let's d_goodby to her with the to: Project Never Started at Prison Against Which’ Nonparti kes. a) shot. qilonday | morning fave your story. Did you go to the halt ot ry vellow-backed bankne a‘ |. ) secre- station?” "t the d ation, and Held Advantage in Keep- g P tery, finds his ody sprawled ee didnt ak much of it at the time, i nea’ ¢ airshaft window of! Rita fl her h ii | but now leve now what ing Prices Down sans Are United Bloc his private office, POLICE DE- | sure 1 did! I'd promised to go away |heppened,. and “what Bir.” Borden _ TECTIVE McMANN’S first |with him for ie week-end, and t meant _ when hee ue that ae suspect is MRS. BORDEN, wife | was ready to keep my bargain. I got |keeping his GAS REFUND BILL KILLED! of the promoter and mother of to the station ay tay, organ. 1 got re kept. hers.” his two children. She admits |the information desk, where he'd| “Yes, yes; McMann urged impa- ; calling on him Saturday after- |said he would meet me. At five min-|tiently, as Ruth paused for breath. Sioux County Seat Removal noon for her monthly alimony utes after two I-began to get ner- pg coe Lb tase isgeeors nage check but insists he was alive |vous for fear we'd miss the train ing playfully, ing Referendum Is Made Party when she left him. ahd decided to phone him. There's a|take the bill away from him, and Policy by Majority Vote The next suspect is Ruth Les- telephone booth near the informa-|tearing it in two. I'm sure—sure!— ter, who. confesses Borden's at- | tion “desk, and I called from there, |that he let her keep half of the torn : tempted familiarity with her {where I could'see Harry if he came/bill, and had promised to Ci her Sanction by Independents promises | Saturday morning. The third | while I was phoning. His linc was|the other half after she'd kept her Passage in the house of a bill to) suspect is JACK HAYWARD, |busy, so I knew he'd not left the of-|promise about—about going away provide . uniform | procedure for! Ruth's fiance, whose office is |fice. I waited for about five minutes | with’ him.” assessing public utilities. just across the narrow airshaft more and called again, and his line| “Well?” McMann grunted, frown- The Nonpartisan minority Satur-| from Borden's. He explains his | was still busy.” ing in deep concentration, money grants for development of day set themselves solidly against the | “return to the seventh floor Sat- “Just, a minute!” McMann inter-| “Oh, -don’t you see?” Ruth im-| agricultural extension work as ap- measure when it was considered in| urday afternoon by saying he rupted. “Can you fix the time of that | plored. “If she’s telling the truth— congressional act the committee -of the whole. They | left his and Ruth’s matinee tick- |second call exactly?” if she really didn’t see Mr. Borden | jast maintain that an amendment to the| ets on his desk. “Sure! Ten minutes after two,”|again, she still has her half of the bill makes it special legislation for Further suspicions is cast on | Rita asserted confidently. “I had my bil! But © believe she’s lying! I be- the public utilities. It will be on to-/ Jack by the testimony of BILL eye on the big clock.” lieve Mr. Borden was alive when day’s calendar. COWAN, who tells of hearing Ruth did not need the flick of Mc-|she came, and that he either gave Fight which broke Priday over a) Jack threaten Borden’s life Sat- | Mann’s narrowed eyes in her direc-|her the other half of the bill, as he bill to change procedure in making | urday morning. He also tells of |tion to remind her that the dancer | had undoubtedly promised he would, refunds under the state gasoline tax| telephoning Jack Saturday aft- |had partially corroborated Bill Cow-|or that—that they quarreled because law was definitely settled when the} ernoon, of being plugged in ona |an’s damaging testimony against|he wouldn't, and. she—she—” bill was killed. Though it received a) busy line, and of hearing Bor- | Jack Hayward—that, when he had| Her whispering voice faltered. She majority vote it failed in getting the ice shouting angrily. called Jack’s number at 2:10, he had|could not bring. If to utter an two-thirds necessary for its passage. plainclothes detectives {been plugged in on a busy line and | accusation of. murder. “Oh, Mr. Mc- Tt required @ two-thirds majority in ir atched to bring in BEN- | had Feand Harry Borden’s voice|Mann, please believe I’m not just that it sought to amend an initiated) NY SMITH, Borden's office |raised in violent anger. With a tre-jtalking wildly, to—to help someone POTATO GRADING STUNNED What Looks Like Killing Be- lieved a Temporary Setback; No Compensation Appeals No arguments marked defeat by the senate Saturday of the bill permitting appeals from decisions of the state workmen's compensation bureau. Debate on the committee report »Priday hed been taken to indicate & renewal of the argument when the matter came up Saturday. Instead the bill was beaten without a record vote. A motion to kill the bill car- tied 25 to 19. The warmest argument of the day's session came on the report of the state affairs committee with regard to repeal of the law creating a re- volving fund at the state penitentiary. The report of the minority of the committee was adopted 25 to 24. A bill to establish a state potato grading system was defeated Saturday but legislation on this subject is ex- measure. bo: = iaabeeaiads accent ” 3 y, and RITA DUBOIS, danc- | mendous effort of will she controlled |else! If know Rita must have been PREG Mave bern meet eae ee ee ee ae oe EC CEE CRE, With little opposition the house} or id of Borden's, McMann ‘/the waves of dizziness that were|desperate for money, and yet I don’t house and some senators said they cereale old peices cts is Ruth about the pro- |pouring over her brain and braced, i 1, it four-year terms for A preferred to vote for the house bilis| Fine and W. D. Lynch, La Moure|in brothels and be involved in the tate aie oon cificers, Tt also | moter's previous love affairs. |herself to listen to MeMann’s next think she’s just a gold-digger either than for the senate bill. county, denied this claim. ; | shadiest sort of the city’s affairs, yet She tells him of CLEO GIL- question: i McMann frowned. Then, “Was| would i peeing bill beaten would have per- Speak For Potatoes | they play the role of “big hearted fog ae ate Sauclibis TRERANAE eter MAN,’ who preceded Rita in “Did you call his number again?”| Borden in the habit of carrying bills mitted counties to organize into| George H. Hoople, Walsh county, | Joe” and grow moze than passingly tifement fund. Borden's affections. They are “Of course!” Rita answered|of large denomination?” | health districts which would employ | talked for the potato inspection Dill, | sentimental where “purity and sweet- d interrupted by DETECTIVE We 49) “I knew he was in his of-| “He was, he was!” Ruth replied. & full-time health officer. The vote | Which he had sponsored, as did J. K. | ness” are concerned. Ask Crime Superintendent — CLAY, who announces himself fice or his line wouldn’t be busy. I/“He was terribly vain about mone: Was 21 to 24. Brosteun, McKenzie county. Joseph} Even the late Rothstein, king of a] Among new bills introduced was| and Rita Dubois. waited about a minute, and then I|—loved to flash hundred-dollar bills. To Protect Farmers Poupore, Grand Forks county, and C. | vast underworld, was known to have |one to previde for a state superin- ee got ‘him, and he told me to come over | Just last week he showed me a $500 Attacking the bill to repeal the law | Norman Brunsdale, Traill county, deposited money in the bank for a|tendent of original identification. |NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY |to the office—” banknote—told me to take a good creating the prison revolving fund, C. | talked against it. All are from potato | girl who had gone broke and threat-| R. E. Swendseid, Mountrail county, CHAPTER XXIII “Wait!” McMann interrupted | look at it, as I might never see one| the W. Fine, Benson county, said it also | producing districts. ened an evil life. And he didn’t de-|was spokesman for the minority| Detective Sergeant McMann made|sharply. “Exactly what did you say/again. I told him he was foolish to Would eliminate the law permitting | Hoople discussed the need of in-| mand interest, or even companion-|against the public utilities bill. He |quick work of his preliminary ques-|to Borden and what did he say tojcarry such big sums on his person, the manufacture of farm machinery | Spection laws and of proper certili- | ship. He did, of course, expect to be | declared thut the bill if passed as it |tioning of Rita Dubois. Her replies | you?” but he just laughed at me and looked at the prison. Passage of the law/ cation to give North Dakota potatoes | paid back when the girl found her|now stands would enact into law|as to name, age, Profession and|/ The dancer hesitated for a mo-|pleased with himself. Maybe—may- ‘would make it practically impossible | 4 bet§er status in the inarkets of the | place in the city and began to earn | provisions contrary to present stat-|place of employment were given|ment, while Ruth held her breath. be he showed it to Rita Saturday ever to begin the manufact: of |country. Other states have a better /a living—and he was, utes. He said that it would give coolly, even nonchalantly, but Ruth,|“Well, he didn’t give me a chan to}|morning—” She faltered. farm Paabisiaey ae the eeon, he | System with stricter grades, he said,; As many moralizing lectures have | public utilities privileges not now en- | seated near the dancer, 'so that both say much, I said, ‘My God, Have McMann nodded slowly, the frown contended, and said it is only fair to|and as a result their potatoes are | been preached over the table covers | joyed by other tax payers. of the girls faced the detective|do you know what time it is, or|slowly clearing. “And Borden’s half the farmers who are paying big {receiving preference. jof a night club as in any of the| In his remarks Swendseid read from | across the dead man’s desk, saw that have you forgot you were to catch|of the bill was not on his body this Prices for farm machinery to continue | Poupore said he preferred to vote | side street missions. the statutes relating to trading of |Rita’s hands wene tightly locked. |a train at 2:16?’ And he said, ‘ I} morning. Of ] the protection which the threat of | for the house bills now in the senate | GILBERT SWAN. | votes among members of the house} “And so you and Borden, after| hadn't forgot, Rint bate sob rhea Spool tied temic ee daze veo Prison made farm machinery gives| because he did not want to take a! (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) | and to members taking issue in meas- | your first meeting about three weeks | unavoidably detained. What time is|ken the useless torn half—” them. chance of some legislation on the - ures in which they had a personal|ago, became lovers?” McMann it?’ I told him it was 12 minutes aft-| “It wouldn’t have been useless to D. H. Hamilton. McHenry county, | subject failing of passage at this ses- | interest. Pounced suddenly. : er two, and he swore a blue streak, /one person—Rita Dubois!” Ruth re- said the money still would be used | sion. : | ‘If any person in this house has That’s a lie!” Rita denied vehe-| and then he sa‘ we'd have to take a|minded him. “And she could have by the prison. The revolving fund| Brunsdale said the state seed com- |} Your Income Tax broken those laws, if someone has|mently, her black eyes blazing. later train and for me to come o} passed 0 how shi it, | Sets provided by law never has been set| missioner has wide general powers | : ©! traded votes or done any bribing, I] “‘Then—” McMann grinned crook-|up to the office, that we'd Beanadest or agai reend thought 10. fo up, he said, and the law is doing no| and duties and it would be necessary} A loss arising “from fires, storms, | demand that the gentleman tell who | edly—“I take it that your week-end bs when I got there.” knew of Borden’s having had the one any good. “ {to extend these powers to authorize | shipwrecks, or other casualty; or from | it is,” L. L. Twichell, Cass county, re-|at Winter Haven with ‘Handsome McMann frowned and tapped his|other half! Please ask her for her Dell Patterson, Renville county,|him to establish rules and grades | theft,” is deductible and need not be| sponded. “No one has any right to Harry’ was to have been in the na- cil against the dead man’s desk.|half of the bill, Mr. McMann! If that Scandinavia: said the main objection to repealing | governing potatoes to have a work jconnected with the taxpayer's trade | make insinuations of that kind on the! ture of a honeymoon? Let’s not Ruth knew that he was trying to fit|she still has it, I'll believe she did languages be taught at the state agri- the law is that it will prevent the|able law. The house bills, he said, /or business. The term “other casual-| floor of this house. I call the gen-! waste time, Miss Dubois! I know]|the dancer’s testimony into his the-|not see Mr. Borden when she came| Cultural college. Penitentiary from going into new | allow for more variation in the toler- | ty,” within the meaning of the rev- | tleman’s bluff.” that you and Borden had planned to|ory of Jack Hayward as Borden’s |back Saturday afternoon.” H. B. 239—Erickson, Kidder—Would turing enterprises, even if|ance of defects as to grades than the jenue act of 1928, is one arising| Swendseid replied that he was mak- go to Winter Haven on the 2:15 Sat-| murderer. She wanted to remind| Detective Birdwell interrupted the] Prohibit display on public high n they become advisable. Senate bill. Brunsdale explained that, | through the physical forces of nature, | ing charges against no one but that lurday afternoon, that. Borden had/him that he had her own corrobora- whispered conference. “Hei or in public. places of any advertise= A. W. Fowler, Cass county, said 25 | When potatoes are scarce, the toler- | for example, a flood or frost. Allow- | there were rumors that this had been bought a drawing room for the trip] tion of Jack’s alibi—that he had re-|ters on the line, sir. The Golden|ment containing the ‘likeness’ of Per cent of the profits of the twine | ances may be greater than when po- | ance, of course, must be made for any e. a] joined her at the Chester Hotel at 10|Slipper safe was robbed sometime plant operated at the prison, now go | tatoes are plentiful. ___ | insurance received. minutes after two. But she realized, |between closing time early Sunday into the revolving fund. New legisla-| Brosteun pointed out that the in-| Loss of property by theft or bur- miserably, that more than her own morning and noon today. The man- tion would be necessary before any | terests of potato growers in various |glary in an allowable deduction and 3 tell me is—why didn’t Borden meet word would be needed to make Mc. |ager of the club has some sort of tip Rew enterprises could be launched | Sections vary, since the eastern part | need not be incurred in trade or bus- | bill does not give special privilege to you at the station as he had ig ” ” . Mann believe i about a $500 bill—’ jury would hi As McMann reached for the ex- word of a girl fighting for the life|tension on Borden’s desk, Rita Du- anyhow, he said, and if the law is|0f the state produces a commercial | iness. Hence the loss occasioned by | public utilities. mot passed it will mean that the/| product while the western part of the | the theft of jewelry or the theft of an Made Partisan Issue The dancer laughed, but it was money in the revolving fund will lie | State specializes on seed potatoes. automobile used for pleasure and| The bill to permit Sioux county to/not a gay sound. “That was what I planned " i f the man she loved, when that|bois rose, looked wildly about as if idle while the prison may have to Eee convenience is | deductible. Should | move its county seat by majority vote | wanted to know, too—and I found |” sd 4 - borrow money to finance the twine | @—-——————__—_—___—-& circumstances attending the loss of | Saturday became a party measure.|out when I saw the headlines about iy was the sole support of his a opelti ers ener a sree Plant operations. He said the law has || IN NEW YORK | Jewelry leave the owner in doubt as/C, Vernon Freeman made a motion|the murder at noon today.” s “en ek . |blaek eyes fixed in an agony of sus- been on the books since 1911 and no|g______"____./io whether it was stolen, mislaid, or! that the bill be re-referred to com-| For two hours Ruth Lester had! «well, Rita, go on,” McMann di-|pense upon the detective, machinery has been made yet, citing e lost from his person, a claim for loss | mittee. J. H. McCay, Sioux county, | been praying that Rita Dubois would rected at last. Ry. d (To Be Continued) 85 proof that the statute is of] New York, Feb. 25.—About the last | would not be gllowed. It must be es- | opposed the motion. With Independ-| furnish Jack Hayward an alibi, by MB Sie Vase waco clsi4 this : s [ little value. He denied that repeal | Word in realism is being achieved in | tablished that the jewelry was stol- ents favoring the motion, it was car-|admitting that Borden was alive|“°TS hopping mad, too, weren't of the law would permit the organiza- | a mid-town theater where the current | en. ried. The bill was opposed before it | when she had visited him after 2:15, PS at I wasn’t what ight tion of future industries at the state | noises of Times Square are repro-| A loss through embezzlement is de- | reached the calendar but it was not |The collapse of that hope now was| cali delir Piper lige It Mg duced, in well muted form, in all their |ductible for the year in which sus- made a partisan issue. so unnerving that the girl feared aie elirioae with delight,” Rita ad- o. @| H. G. Hollenbeck, Hyland Sees Failure cacaphonie discord. tained. ©. E, Erickson, Kidder county, |she would faint, carta per er Lae a Pg bed | Legislative Calendar || ismarex n the Hyland, Devils Lake, said he} To secure this effect a microphone again led the attack on the bill to| “So i news to you that Bor-| Widened w! war e Bl 0 7 Mis, Sau ere tire pa Member of the house when| Was hung over the square and this change refund procedure under the ;den was di was it, Rita?” Mc- the present law was passed. Investi- | was wired to the back stage of the| | "Ty i 8S || gasoline tax law.. He contended that | Mann grinned. f Senate Bills Passed he said, that it would | theater where it is dimmed down to ‘oday in Congr if ofl dealers were forced to pay a} “I'll ey it was!” Rita assured him, Mrs. : city 000 to $500,000 to set |@ low buzz, and thus it reaches the Mcense fee in serving as agents of |nonchalant again. “I was knocked |f@'TY: much less bump him off, if Steel—Provides gor egress Fa) tation feat mt Genrer id eee : predignaatry be paid. He ae out. Fainted right on the street. My bay ati ch ngoeng tl ins by cities, villages townships and . refusal of $ by . 5 es 2 n last assembly to establish at the mich app cone any, Dessent as) the ci neme considers general defl- it they did not recelve pay, they ond | aa damtoes Sibel te “ail aon, Soe gt did 50a get Peerage yaa rence raeciey @ plant for making automobile | dram: " iency bill, senate Edge resolution | add a cent to gasoline price 4 » Hyland said if license xe % | and Reed committee report. a caban a eames fo Ree hares. ibe here? What happened 2” The torn $500 bill. Will it pin the murder on Rita Dubois? § i + be made successfully,}| The Big Town gossip: Such has House ways and means commit- iting to ” The dancer's gripped each the manufacture of farm machinery | become the vogue for going about | tee holds tariff hearings, replied that dealers had| “Were yeu an love with Harry| ther. 80 tightly that a. knuckle ‘would surely be a failure. bare-headed that manufacturers and House judiciary committee has Borden, Rita?” McMann interrupted cracked, Her big black ayes, flashed ‘Walter Bond, Ward county, said he | wholesalers of men’s hats are wor-| Jones bill before it. tax bett suddenly. from McMann’s heavy, grinning face eg Sight lesa ello eid [areal Soalgn lnvaivine mmaro tii |Csabee ee bee aaa sequent added income t0 the deans | face emt over the thin, exotic] fe sume Pale, One ae It seeking ing campaign involv! 101 a es up on ro lers. * i: ipes Ye time there was talk of protecting the |a hundred thousand dollars is being [face, “That's my business! . Well, Prenin, Mite answered! “l come right farmer from the farm machinery | launched to bring hats and heads to- over from the station, just a block combine then being talked about. He |gether again... Perhaps you will [ourourway SS Just took time to check my| things than buildings. aid he favored the repeal now, how-|learn that the hatless head loses its sae bags. I suppose I was here within| ther changes. ever, hair... .Or beaven only knows what. OUT OUR WAY. By Williams _ |} iv ‘minuter atter 1 hung up the ré-| | ots A parliamentary tangle developed}... But you can’t believe everything - ceiver.” n consideration of the bill by Sen- | you see. “You got here about 18 or 20 min- itor Fine to it ti to re- 4 . = " ; te: mer wen enine ed poy nt mara tt | ESL | | oor seumet ot \V Scat (SERS, naar | |i tik se ape fog ed eee isn esege peo UVERFOoT Gwin’ | WHEN IT ¢ ; Mrs. Hoff, Morton county woman makers... . And William A. Brady, US TH EXECUTIVE WAS FIVE whose feet and hands were badly the show producer, has “fessed up” | STARE. HES GOT DOLLARS A frozén in a recent storm, is a patient floor. The result | that he used the front of No. 25 West NN SHARES O'STOCIY at the St. Alexius hospital. ‘was not straight- | 65th street for that famous drop in INO : ‘ SHARE , FIVE * ened out until a yehale action had Bireet poeta which Bas! caused end- o Wt TH’ COMPANY, an a. ‘been reviewed detail. less Manhattan comment. ... Peggy ces Mr. Hyland argued that the bill would | Joyce has gone to Europe. .. Which "ANY Sot “4 Pac ( ties into heals districts with ull | turned trom, always makes the overworked mar- Dy USE time health director, attended the riage license clerk feel better... . FER BREATH HE rn! 8. B. 218—Thorson of Adams— Pilg gay, thay pet. newest THINKS HES LOSIN] WE'RE | sight “arcu nd ae ga call | Would seanire mathioatios of pro- left_ which is r and better than d " - So that’s what did, Hoople ralsh—La that other Dane shone oes = : AO ? others penta deiied (eo a per Harry Beaumont, director of the = = \ : ” the dancer agreed eager! new MGM talkie riot, “Broadway pod ir a ee 2 fell headlong into McMann’ Melody,” got. his start as a program f 7 ye " trap. 3 boy he St. Joseph, Mo., theater, and Fe a Wd - : Petts “Finen, Lrg Mewonn asked, as Ma ‘ al a ‘ * [Ruth leaned forw: :|do you account for the fact pat you [spent at eet 10 minutes on the .o BobBoo— F h