The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 8, 1929, Page 2

GE TWO -RRJECTED BECAUSE HOUSE AMENDED IT) Proposal Terms in Office Up to Ref- { to Put Four-Year, erendum Also Is Killed M’LEOD STATION CLOSED! Cattle Ordered Sent to Edgely; $400 Voted Each Perma- nent Journal Compiler ' ‘ 1 Two administration bills fell by the ‘wayside in the North Dakota senate "Thursday. ; One was a bill to create a commis- tion of five men to investigate the j banking situation and make recom- ‘ mendations for changes in the bank- ing laws. ‘The other was a bill to submit to the people a proposal to permit four-year terms for state and | county officers, | The banking code commission bill {Previously had been ed by the! i te and sent to the house. The | Hous amended it, however, and when | 4t came beck to the senate for ap-| Proval of the house amendments the senior body voted it down. Actions whieh would have brought | & storm of words earlier in the Ben- | jsion were taken without debate, \"rhursday. ‘The crowded senate cal- endar gave sitent warning that work must be speeded up if the general as- sembly ts to finish ita job within the @-day mit set by the constitution, Going into its first night session, the senate faced the task of acting on 36 bills. It spent most of Thurs- day afternoon acting on bills amend- ed by the house and it was decided | to come back at night to get as much work out of the way as possible. Most of the 35 house bills still waiting action have been amended by the senate and must be sent back ‘to the house and ratified by that branch. In addition to the bills which must he passed by the senate, six bills were in the hands of conference commit- tees Thursday, the house and senate made by one or the other of the two branches. A resolution passed Thursday di-| rects the transfer of the state's ex- perimental herd of cattle from the agricultural experiment sub-station at McLeod to the sub-station at Edgeley, no appropriation for the Mc- Leod sub-station having been made at this setsion.. ‘The board of adminis- ‘tration was directed to sell all other Property at the station. Other :resolutions gave the senate desk force additional pay of $1 per day, each, and alloted $400 cash to the clerk of the house and secretary of the senate to compile the perma- nent house and senate journals. Among the bills defeated ‘Thursda: ‘was one permitting the creation of a conservancy district to control floods in the Mouse river at Minot, It had been amended approximately 80 times during its course though the house and senate and several more were aeae defeated. Liquor Charge Flaw , Leads to Dismissal A charge of unlawfully transport- {ng and possessing liquor made against J. M. Messmer, Mandan, 7 is ordered dismissed by Judge H. L. Berry, in Morton county court, Thursday, on motion of L, H. Con- nol jorney. ismissal was on a technical- he cl ¢ not having been filed at the March term of court a year it should have been to be le- ot tote Mandan Legion Sets A carnival will be staged by Gil- bert 8S, Furness post, American Le- gion. in Mandan, April 5-6, to raise lunds for the support of a junior baseball team. Eddie Tobin has been named manager by 1. G. Thompson, Vina commander. Joseph Gaver has named chairman of the finance committee. SQUATTER'S RIGHTS lount Pleasant, Wis. March 8.— elroult court at Racine has been asked to define the rights of a squat- ter in a cemetery. Evergreen Ceme- here was abandoned many years because Lake Michigan was un- the Voie eegreath In re- years squatters have homes the property. Now the village ‘to oust them on the claim that cemetery property has been five years it reverts to the division within which it is Pom BOSAZAH Moan Bscusr eam having failed to agree on amendments | : added Thursday before it finally was id Dates for Carnival]..: PRODUCER T don't want to see the rest. It won't make any dif- | A 0) jon# ¢ ee a shaft. ference what you've got for an encore. Appropriats faggteultral tened bullet found on a strip of “A bullet fired from Borden's of- saison rotted ae Le tobe me \fice toward-mine scars a brick : a 000 for the 1 Dakota] 2/80 s to & new-made vite side my window and is found on the if Ee Sn ee eee | House. oF Mercy and St. John’s Or-| im the ie wall beside os cement floor of the court below. My | Legislative Calendar LN Tit ame and fish commit- | phanage at “fi ee window. This, he says, is the | automatic, which my secretary, Miss t ‘rohibity hunting except from) %, rp me LE Aton pied i ode) -bullet Borden fired too late in Barnes, saw in my desk Saturday ‘ f hour before sunrize to ae- (4 eae self-defense at his murderer | morning, is discovered to be « ny el) securities to 4 sold for parpo: ation project. Ap- netlviiiens 5 pernii ts pr of ments by selling mote 19h separate canes where # county ntary, ment Amends hy wives | Paty ‘court canes. of of Mourtrail. | ance by eral funds fo tension work, + BK. 204-—Sohnnte Eliminates teachin ing men i. Treffr nd domentic Kelence an requires state ald to high schools, Veitch of ¢ cady, and Ma Uneau, Provides tax on dogy i. B. 178-—Hoffman Provides for brandin regintration of bran ment of agriculture He 214 ercitonis and. for, appr iat y fundy to keep protintion tn credited tuberculos H. B. 19--North ridge of Ba and Hamilton of won. Req @levators to store grain 40 days free of charge; thirtieth of @ cent a day ‘per bushel thereafter 1. Bo kT—Thhtcher of Bottines loner su rating — burenus, appropriation to make work ‘06—Turner of Stark reorganization of fire insu ed prior to ‘of "$100,000 n be taken © Permits f Burleigh. Amends nvestinents of di he the decedent, from ent's debtn, opriations ¢ eHowstone me and. fist untiig deer i t certain open me and fish ce right of go eRKONE ON KLINE OUT OUR WAY By Williams FIRST ONE REACY % CRO®S Bors! 1S THiS THE WAY OU MEAN = TO pba YouR ane for cing oll develope | ie, | bridge rin Does " ernment for certain state Billings, 44 in Mingourl river a . Authorizes state to federal Kove ‘antractors aid’ public ron requires Me nt of beex in comb , in order to preven ot Lacs “op Des Wilkon of Slope and Westford of McHenry. ides four- year term for state ieer nnd for employment of as- tant engineers when needed, a ae cordance with population. Fettig of Merce Ke Of Toad Work to ning signs on nigh duties, —Mau and Carte rmits coun i provides charge of one~}.. 1. Vartnient of weights and under direction of miailoner, H. B. 97 Jardine of Cas fixing county, city and pal BE Him state food com- MeM Provided for sub: le of constitutiona ‘ease terms of state dgren a for ny Permits building ructing Cain of Stark; Revise Mi GAWsH! igo — NEVER o3% HERE, CROSAED. How CEEP 1S SHE ? Burkhart 5 te lnke c nd three mem- the governor, 's [made to Gilbert 8. Furness post, Man- d de-|dan, Wednesday evening.“ Addresses measures of Rolette and : |officer, Fargo; and Walter Johnson, .oman and commis on fa to’ remove them within t months after leaving the prop- HES BEAT US. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [wo vo More Administration Measures Are Tossed “Over by Senate BANKING CODE PLAN [Sea aioee | " liation law so that ft does ontroversies over real involving more than teele; Author- to levy one mill ta Dishing planping commissions to govern growth of city ©1929 By NEA Service, Inc. THIS HAS HAPPENED **HANDSOME HARRY” BORDEN is shot between one and: four Saturday afternoon. RUTH LESTER, secretary, finds his body Monday morn- ing, sprawled beneath the shaft window of his private fice. MeMANN, detective geant, questions the followii suspects; Rath, MRS. BORDEN. Borden's estranged wife and mother of his two children, who admits: calling Satarday after- noon; RITA DUBOIS, night club dancer, who says she called on Borden Saturday to get the. torn half of a $500 bill he prom- ised her; JACK HAYWARD, Ruth’s fiance, whose office is across the narrow airshaft from Hayward says he returned to j did, the seventh floor Saturday to get his and Rut itinee tick- ets left on his desk. Jack’s guilt seems confirmed by the testi- mony of the elevater boys, MICKY MORAN and OTTO PFLUGER, and of Bill COWAN, Jack’s friend, who says he heard Jack threaten Borden's life. Detectives are sent out to bring in CLEO GILMAN, Bor- den’s discarded mistress, and JAKE BAILEY, his bod; oid McMann questions B 4 SMITH, Borden's vttize ASHE, his manservant;_ MIN: NIE. CASSIDY, - serubwoman, who cleans the Borden suite, and LETTY MILLER, who cleans Jack’s office. McMann shows Ruth a flat- pres J breadly. “Pretty thin, sweet- i weiWell, what if it is?” Ruth cried. “Any theory that could fit all the {facts would sound almost as absurd. | door I'm just groping in the dark, Jack! , Someone did it! But who, how and ! why? It’s like an awful puzzle of which you have all the pieces but to be you can’t find the key.” I know, dear,” Jack assured her the next. rh itman of ud Forks: 9161.000 complete | Liberal Arts building at state unl- 2; Increases ‘wo to three jeents, additional cent to go to coun- j Hens ‘de to receive one per cen and turning in tax. o—Renauld of Rotette; needs, tax la changing date by which county officers are required to complete certain wonal property ta Jinquent March to distrain moneys and credits for nal property taxes. of Eddy and Lynch rmits persons hold- 4 or builders liens to re- from property to sat- urred by owners during irhyme, sweet, so don’t frown at me |—to fit the pieces of the puzzle to- | gether. I know you've been trying { but McMann sort of cram; le. You were trying so ‘ perate! to convince him that I Ison of Eddy and Lynch jn’t kill your unpleasant boss, that peals Jaw requiring P persons rial placed a. builder's § 26—Forhes of Keichtas Amends law relating to actions Ni’agalnat partnersnips and’ ussoct- tions, making it mandatory that ummons be served pn “one or mot “two-or more: w—I didn’t do it. That's lagreed, isn’t it?” he added, with sudden gravity, his eyes very steady, but so wistful that her heart con- tracted sharply with pity. “Of course, darling!” Ruth pro- jtested, smiling at him through a mist of tears. court to decide .wheth- ay hold two ‘con- ourt in the seme mite suprem: er district. jndge secutive terms of se 8 “All right. But let’s consider the case against me, as McMann sees it,” Jack began briskly. “Three peo- jPle have testified that I threatened Borden’s life, if he laid a hand on you again. Motive. As to opportun- ity—I was in my office for eight or ine minutes of two and two or three minutes after two, and that office is directly opposite Borden’s private office, with two open windows be- tween us across an eight-foot air- me: 144——Lynch of la More; Val- ure sales in ¥ to foreclone with register of deeds juntil after, gate, B, 68—Olwon of Eday and Mag- Trevises state Drovial pt county from Hist Vila ai provided that -for-t! Lied ‘con- earf more than 75 per cent ‘mers withdraw their insur- son of Bottineau: includes “who stood in Jack Hayward’s window.” POLICE COMMIS- SIONER WEEKS, anxious to make an arrest, instructs Mc- on Monday morning. Accessii weapon—the same make and caliber of weapon which killed Harry Bor- f real estate. Mi “|to be leased b orthern Gr “9 den, Beet CE Mann to send for Jack and Rita. “At 10 minutes after two, accord- * * * NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXXII1L young lady, if you mention ord ‘murder’ one more time b you’ve drunk every drop of t! hoe aes and eaten exactly one-half r future husband ant ipate his prerogatives and u a sound’ spanking!” Jack Hayward addressed the galden-hair- ed girl. whom he had just forced down into the biggest, softest chair that her small apartment boasted. Ruth Lester’s fatigue-shadowed blue eyes started, as if they were looking upon a divine miracle, at _jthe tall young man who was busily -|setting her little gateleg table with her own gaily patterned dishes and serving the food which he, had or- dered ‘sent up from ithe’ nearest Tes- taurant. ing to Bill Cowan’s story, Harry Borden was in telephone conversa- tion with someone in my office. Na- turally the police don't say ‘some- one’—they say Jack Hayward. But you and I know that at 10 minutes after two, according to oss watch and the clock in the lobby of the Chester Hotel, I was rejoining you to finish our interrupted lunch. Now— look at that section of the puzzle, little | pean Sherlock: Which piece t 18 for gener- ricultural ban to #tate } school lands the Bad Lands federal gover! tional par q ed over to th nent for use ag! voting operative ntate examine: y prox ae Ruth roiled bravely, trying to meet his mood. “The telephone call, of course, and the shot fired toward your office. Of course Cowan may haye called Borden’s number, le of yours, due to the simliseltyaee numbers, or. the 0] operator may have made a mistake—”. “Let’s not try to explain away the pieces that. don’t fit,” Jack urged. “For the sake of argument, and 8. vides. method o sions of © appel- Jected, fuilare’ sman and Mixsou i Suddenly, as she renii hed his un- bably for the sake of truth, let’s omminnton oF ow Mandan Legion Post trammeled hands—hands which an Lh “a te admit these two fatal pieces into our ee a and shift them about until Let’s say that Borden was t ieee with. someone in my office at 10 minutes after two—” “And for several minutes before 1) minutes after two,” Ruth inter- rupted. “Rita says she called Mr. Borden from the station at five min- utes past two and his line was busy; that she called again at 10 minutes after two and it was still busy, and that at 11 or 12 minutes after two she talked with him. “If, as McMann thinks, Borden was already dead when Rita arrived about’ five~minutes later, he was killed immediately after she talked with him, by someone in your office, undoubtedly the person with whom he had been quarreling over your telephone. But here is another that won’t fit into the puzzle: should Rita, even if she robbed A body, take the gun. with which Bor- den had fired at his murderer?” “No earthly reason that I can see,” Jack agreed. “Equally, there seems to ‘be no-reason why Rita should do the real murderer across the air- shaft a good turn by closing the window, and since that real murderer was not I, he would have had no reason himself to close Borden’s win- dow oy, ‘using thé window-pole in m » He'd not have cared a a is about diverting suspicion from me; the lawful tenant of the office “Wait!” Ruth cried. “What if the real murderer—supposing that, he was in your office, was a friend of gouty and did want to protect, you from the consequences of deed?” “That’s a thought!” Ja soberly, “But—that brings ui Cowan, doesn’t it? Cowan is the a friend I have, so far as I know, w! also knew Harr. “And he hour ago she had expected to see shackled with steel bracelets—she }t began to sob, shudderingly, so that her whole small body was terribly shaken. Instantly Jack Hayward for» sook his dinner preparations, dropped to his knees beside her, drew her head to his shoulder. “Don't, sweet! Yau’ve been so splendid, so brave! I’m here with you now because of your faith and courage. Don’t you think I know that if it hadn’t been for you I’d be in jail tonight, instead of hold- ing my own darling girl in my arms?” Jack pleaded. “McMann believes you're guilty, and so does Commissioner Weeks!” Ruth sobbed. “They’ve just let you out, like a dog on a long leash, to see if you’ll run to a buried bone, and—give yourself away.” Jack laughed and kissed her wet eyelashes. “Then the dog is grate- ful for the leash, darling, since it’s long enough to reach to you, and he’s going to begin Worrying a bone right now—a nice, juicy drumstick.” And he sprang to his feet, to pull the big chair, with the tired girl in it, to the gateleg table. “Do you think Rita has been ar- rested?” Ruth dared revert to the subject.of the murder, when Jack had grudgingly agreed that she had eaten enough for one small Person, Jack dragged her chair to the lit- tle! fireplace, gave an expert poke|— at the smoldering logs, and seated himself on a hassock at Ruth’s feet, before he answered, gravely: “L rather imagine she’s been let run loose—on a leash, as I’ve been, and that the cop on ‘the other end of {the -Jeash will ‘find her digging for “her. buried bone—if Rita isn't careful.” * * OK Ruth’s eyes widened incredulous- ly, but. with shamed hope in ‘them. ae think” shot ‘guilty; Jack?” good-looking . young ; man’s hands closed tightly over - -hers. “Someone did it, darling. You must n't be too horrified tomorrow if bp that Rita Dubois is the e big reason why ‘McMann not arrest me was that he knew he! did not have all. of Rita’s stor: I’m sure he’d rather know what. Ri- ta did with the $500 she admits she i got from Borden before he takes a | chance on clapping me in jail.” Ruth flinched, but. nodded © fi agreerhent. Hoo gave it to some: one ap of -course—someone who was in dire trouble, someone she will ening, 5 digit if she has to go to jail to ‘eel tau ‘aughed. “Him?” . “A man, of Sourae;? Ruth rete ed. “The man 5 mhaerer | be may, of soe loathed: with ve 1 going away Tease sone ig ahe with someone else. Pies she’d simply pected | ithe hag to pay bills: with, she'd ha enough what abe did w with ud Moshe i bested ho thee Roxie, Gi she was plenning to go awa, ie followed se to, Rae “te in ; ways eee aes varthe. office, in| with int of” fcr fear of strangers make 8 Visited Officially by State Staff. Heads The annual official visit of state officers of the American Legion was were made by John K. Kennelly, state commander; Jack Williams, state ad- jutant; T. O. Kraabel, state service i|state contract officer. The latter . |told of progress being made an the disabled veterans hospital at Fargo. After the business mecting, an en- tertainment. was put on under the di- jrection of Major J. M. Hanley and Roy Dow. A seven-piece orchestra under Herman Leonhard gave a mu- “|sical program and Ronald McIntyre 1|and seven dancing pupils appeared in classical dances. Archie Reynolds , | Served refreshments, A. L. Fosteson, commander of Lloyd Spetz post, and Charles Mar- i }tin, its adjutant, both of Bismarck, were guests of Furness post during the evening. A perforated spoon with a hinged cover has been invented for holding tea while it is being brewed in a i! or melting chocolate. ae OeePesr | UESSUH HES : SHORE NUFF AGN! T' BEAT US ACROST P ‘RIGHT AHAID | - Ro Ragiceetle KETH UP WITHA YOH ON)” Plueprint in. oa softies, which wd s. see lephoning you! : her ‘bands softly to- be slapped gether, Wi can corroborate hed story that ‘called you from the it|xtation at 10 minutes. after two? Suppose ‘It was Cowan! Suppose he himself ‘talked with Borden over your telephone, ° suprreled, with him We niti” Ruth ‘in brow bs inkled in t ight That occurred to me this aft- -|ernoon when your ‘woman, Letty Miller, ogee was had just enter- we have there s 2 clean leave ne the: if agli | ‘Fest: of ’s mone: then wrclied over f completed a id 5 piobengt-s BLAGK PICEO! {you had little time to wonder who |i FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1929 | BY HOUSE MEASURE Lower Chamber Spends Thurs- left —_—_-—.. iar nite ater (x, tga hcp ee Oe when you left, to see if it was facied?” She waited i his answer. day Enacting Appropria- Then slow tions for Big Schools “st |GAS TAX INCREASE WINS Money Also Voted for Buying Bad Lands Tracts to Go Into Roosevelt National Park Among 22 bills, the lower house of to the sate iepaatire Thursday passed ing, ,038, state university and agricultural col- lege general ee ane og appropriation for purchase of Saree tana tr be amet fee Dauooet Park purposes. All action on bills Thursday, except one to make a change in the state hail insurance law, came without dis- cussion. In addition to its heavy cal- endar, the house considered a number ** * Jack shook his head, then grinned. “No, And McMann, being nobody’s fool, considered. the possibility of poor little Miss Barnes having mur- dered the man across the airshaft, Decause y he wore his hair or the color of | nail his necktie. But Miss Barnes imme- diately gave an iron-clad alibi. She’d gone to lunch, immediately after one o'clock, with Miss Parkes, a sten- ographer across the hall from my office, and the two girls had shop after lunch, finishing up a Saturday afternoon orgy with a movie. “He checked her alibi then and there and found it perfect. But to mallee back to your case against Cowan unsuspecting devil!. Suppos- z that he did tell Borden, for mo- tives we can only guess at; there still remains your heal in Borden’ 8 office. Cowan could have had time to go after it before Rita ar- rived, or if he had had time, how could he have got in? We can be/the very sure that Borden’s door was locked. “And egain, | if. Cowan did not— and why he? — retrieve the gun with which Borden had tried to defend himseif, firing toward his murderer in my- office window, we come smack upon the foolish conclu- sion that Rita herself, after robbing the body, took the gun away with her, too. No, darling, I’m afraid it won't wash.” “No-o-0,” Ruth agreed reluctant- ly. She had no love dex for Bill Cowan! “But Jack, there are other bits of the puzzle which we haven’t con- sidered at all. The woman with the beautiful contralto voice and—why, Jack! What is the matter? (To Be Continued) More about the mysterious woman with the contralto voice. Read the next chapter. the university, $200,000 for purchase of land in the Bad Lands to be used of Mercy and St. John’s Orphanag: at Fargo. . Farmers Don't Want It, Is Pies McLean county, re- Plied. J. M. ” Thompson, Burleigh county, retorted that he was a farm- er and that he felt the matter of whether @ farmer wanted hail insur- ance should be left to the farmer and not be forced to take it and then w. Twichell contended that farms two sections of land that he found the annual with- etre had lett @ mething. - me. bitte on It was a. fleeting| a}