The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 14, 1929, Page 2

Ate Bee eae i oes BT Rte we Beene vero ce PAGE TWO t FREIGHT CARLOADS INCREASE AN INDEX OF THRIVING TRADE Large Jump in Iron Ore Ship- ments Chief Feature of Commercial Activity INCOME ON CROPS FALLS Dairy Product Revenues, How- ever, Leap 18 Per Cent as Wheat, Flax, Spuds Drop ‘The volume of business in the ninth federal reserve district during May exceeded the volume in May last year, according to a majority of the in- dexes the federal reserve bank report says. Debits to individual accounts increased 3 per cent in May over the corresponding month last year. Of the 70 reporting cities, 47 experienced increases and 23 experienced de- creases. From the record of individ- ual debits, it appears that conditions were spotted in the district. but in all the states of the district the increase exceeded the decreases. Freight carloadings in full carlots during the three weeks ending May 18 exceeded carloadings in the same three weeks last year by 20 per cent. ‘The major portion of the increase ‘was due to a much larger movement of iron ore, but all of the other classi- fications of freight increased, except livestock and grains and grain prod- ucts. The country check clearings index, postal receipts and flour ship- ments increased in May as compared with May last year, while building Permits, linseed product shipments and department store sales decreased. The value of cash crops and hogs marketed during May was 28 per cent. less than the value of marketing of these products in May last year. The decrease was due to a smaller income from bread wheat, rye, flax and pota- toes. The income from dairy prod- ucts in April, which is the latest month for which figures are available, exceeded the income from this source in April last year by 18 per cent. Prices of wheat, corn, oats. barley, rye, milk, eggs, potatoes, calves and sheep were lower in May than a year ago, while prices of flax, hens, beef catle and hogs were higher than a year ago. The estimated value of important farm products marketed in the dis- trict was: May 1929 May 1928 Bread Wheat....$ pls $12,965,000 . 5,158,000 . oe 000 1:357,000 + 513,000 1,389,000 + _ 676,000 1,243,000 9,765,000 8,864,000 April 1929 April 1928 Dairy Products...$21,616,000 $18,270,000 f AT THE MOVIES i CAPITOL THEATRE Not since “The Volga Boatman” has ‘William Boyd had as fine a stellar vehicle as he has in “The Leather- neck,” a Pathe picture in dialogue and sound in which he is starred at the Capitol Theatre to-night. As a U. 8. Marine private who is court- martialed for desertion in this new Pathe picture, he has a role that will vastly enhance his vogue with fans. There is considerable romance and adventure suggested by the United States Marines and in “The Leather- neck” the producers have centered their drama on the human adven- tures of three “Devil Dogs.” The re- sult is screen entertainment that grips because of its drama, thrills because of the adventures through which its 7 Weather Report | °@ o— WEATHER REPORT ‘Temperature at 7 a. m. Precipitation to 7 a. m. Highest wind velocity Temperature Lowest Precipi- State of weather tation 83 8883ss2sa388 S888: 4|carded to a greater extent than ever | Daily Cross-word Puzzle ACKUSS ell is Ray of light i. Part of the moat 68, One who bathes #8. Throw off 70 Monkeys Trim the athers Genas of the common trog Cry, of the jd goose Hosteiries Prohibitionists Indastrious in- sect i bows H Free of dedue tions Solution of Yesterday's Puazie Oe OOOO wet [\ Hielalolsie} Bao Ape folm[s [rae lalele. [elalelaleMMelrlelclolwis| DEG GOOKO ooo [ele MMolo|r|e|sMMelw{o] ti cise 13. Continuing anti! now 20, Show merey to 2. 7 Sh Bcotenman ond 34. Eeitieat radle GONOD COR se ft i. top BI. acy Knowl 2. Head covering #2. Princl off-prings 2. Kind of biteh- ware 7. Moentain in Greece 8 Come Into low od of love Sicilian vole characters are carried and holds un- usual interest because of its romance and the humorous situations woven into its plot. (By The Associated Press) FRIDAY House considers bills on calen- dar. Senate takes up Borah tariff limitation resolution. Proposal to consider executive nominations in open is before senate. Senate and house farm bill con- ferees meet to act on debenture disputes. Senate finance subcommittees take testimony on house tariff schedules. Blast Recommended For Old Apple Tree Durham, N. H., June 14—(AP)—A stick of dynamite may be the best treatment for old apple trees, says H. | C. Woodworth, agricultural cconomist of the University of New Hampshire experiment station. Old trees in poor condition, he Says, require several years of skillful work to bring into bearing. Even then they are still old, soon will de- cline in production and be of doubt- ful commercial value. He believes it may be better to| remove old trees and replace them with new and vigorous growth. In} time, he observes, it may be found that old trees will have to be dis- before. | OUTOUR WAY OH THis \e TERRIBLE! SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSLSSSSssss 88838 00 WEATHER FORECASTS For Bismarck and vicinity: Partly tonight and Saturday, ably local showers or thunderstorms. ‘warmer tonight. Cooler Sat- yop ee Perils choady We toners Ob ge sised Sere aig en ps pani northwest. Clear Portion. Cooler Saturday. 1929 SESSION LAWS COMING OUT IN BOOK Volumes Bound in Paper and a I continued to stare at the window More Durable Form Now in Process of Printing Barristers of the state soon will have a copy of the laws passed at the last legislative session. ‘The volumes, bound in paper or in a more durable material, are on the Presses and will be available for dis- tribution in the near future, according to Secretary of State Robert Byrne. Some delay has been caused this year by the fact that the paper- backed copy of the session laws must be just as complete and as well in- dexed as the permanent copies. In the old days the secretary of state could comply with the law by mply bundling together bills passed by the legislature and sending them to the printer. Now, however, it is different. In 1925 a law was passed which re- quires the paper-bound copies to be “authenticated” on the same basis as the permanent ones. The result was to delay publication of the “popular” edition until the permanent volume was ready. Although the price has not becn determined, the paper- backed volume probably will cost 75 cents, Byrne wants to get them out before July 1 when most of the laws passed at the last session will become effec- | tive, DEL CAB IA OT NE ¢ The room was pitch black. I still had | a single match. Treasuring it between j Preceded it. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE SYNOPSIS: Driven into the deserted Lundy saloon by the fury of the Skull Valley sandstorm, John Peebles is pursued in the dark by an unknown enemy. From behind the bar on the first floor, Peebles flees from his as- sailant’s bullets to a gallery on the floor above. Peebles huris a chair at the man, grapples with him and is thrown against the wall. As he strikes it, he discov- ers a small door, through which he crawls into another room. The door bolted, Peebles collapses, temporarily safe from his at- tacker. CHAPTER 22 POKER FACES The storm lashed at the building and loose boards rattled like skeletons dancing in a closet. I was vaguely aware of the man investigating the other side of the wall. He would rap on the door with the butt of his pis- tol, then hurl himself upon it, but without effect. I was too ill to care and too dazed to move. Some time passed and then I heard him no more. Presently I began to feel better. my fingers, I was loth to use it. If I struck the match the flame would burn out and I would have lost my last anchorage in reality. In a way, I think I feared the light even more than I did the dark, for I had an uncanny sense of some fresh hor- ror awaiting me. This sounds absurd, but it will indicate to you the abnor- mal state of my mind and how unfit- ted I was to pass on the nature of what was to follow. I tried to rid my mind of its ob- session by focusing my attention on the events that had brought me to this graveyard town. Gold bullets . poker chips ... playing cards... the man “Jerry” . . . Andrew Ogden and Alex Peterson the same man... blackmail . . . Mrs. Joe Lundy Dillon ... Furie .. . Jerry flying his life—but it wasn't Jerry! Nathan Hyde... Jerry and Lucy ing into the sandblast. And then: who has fired on me at the mine? Furie — Dillon? Dillon — Furie? Furie—? “God help me!” I thought. “It: can't be real! Or else I am going mad!” I found, then, that the storm had stopped. When, I did not know, for T had lost track of time. The silence was more devastating to my tortured nerves than the uproar which had I wanted to weep, to laugh, to scream, to dash my head against the floor. And then I made a discovery. The room wasn't as dark as it had been when I fell in through the door. I made out the shape of a small win-/ dow on the north side of the room. & paralyzing coldness came over my body. I was not alone in the room Two men were sitting facing each | other over a table in front of the; window. The outline of their heads and shoulders merged into the shadows which enclosed the frame, but they were unmistakably there. That is, unless I were mad, and I was not sure that I was not! They must know I was here. Why didn’t they; speak, or come to me? They sat per- fectly still. Why didn’t they move? They sat in darkness. Why didn't they make a light? I moved my lips in speech, but no word fell from them, and I hammered on the floor with my fists. Again I tried to speak, this time with better success. “Say, there! I wish you'd help me.” The two men neither spoke nor moved. That paralyzing coldness began to jereep over me again, but I shook it | off. Struggling mightily, I managed to get to my haunches. Then I re- membered the solitary match in my hand. The very thing to attract their attention! I drew the match sharply across the floor; but it must have been defective, for while the phosphorous flared up it did not light the stick, but hissed and sputtered and begain to go out. The brief and feeble flame made little impression on the dark face of the room but it did slightly illuminate the surface of the table. At what I saw By Williams GOLD BULLETS By oun G. BOOTH I dropped the match and flopped down on my back again. “I am mad, or else I am dreaming,” I said, quite aloud. The two men did not speak. In that brief moment of light I had seen playing cards and stacks of Poker chips on the table. The two men were playing poker in thegdark and their cards were exposed! t @ showdown. Crouched against the floor, I fought the horror rising in my breast. I was asleep! That was it, of course. Afterwards, I would laugh at my crazy nightmare! And yet—and yet— I ran my hands over the floor. Sand scoured my finger ends. I felt of my body—thin and bony, but real enough. Breathing deeply, I lifted my eyes to the window again. The outlines of the two heads and shoulders were still FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1929 Volume of Ninth Federal Reserve Area Business Greater in May | SIDE GLANCES there. “Well,” I said aloud, “if you want to sit in the dark pretending to play poker, why shouldn't you? It's your business, isn't it? And if you con't choose to take notice of me I can like- wise ignore you.” But this nonsense didn’t check my rising hysteria, which suddenly got the better of me. “Who are you?” I shrilled. Silence still. “What are you doing there? You can't play poker in the dark! You can't make a fool of me!” I pounded on the floor with my fists. No response. “For God's sake speak to me!” I screamed. “Who—who are you? Igot tomy hands and knees and crawled towards the table. “Why don’t you speak to me?” I begged. “I can't stand it! I'll make you talk. What are you?” Sliding my hand over the edge of the table, I clutched one of the play- ing cards. “That, at least, was real, and I thrust it into a pocket. Steady ing myself with the table, I climbed to my feet. I thought I would fall, but somehow I managed to remain standing. My trembling hand went out to the arm of the figure on my right. I felt a shirt, gritty with sand. Still half blinded, I could make nothing defi- nite of the man. but there was solid stuff beneath the shirt. I fearfully ran my hand up to the shoulder. No word or movement from the figure. “Speak to me!” I implored. “A word! Oh, speak” Still that dreadful silence. Horror crawled within my breast. My hand crept along the shoulder to the neck, and then to the face. The flesh was cold. Something snapped in my brain. All feeling went out of my arms and legs and body and I pitched senseless to the floor. (Copyright, 1929, Wm. Morrow Co.) Have the horrors of the night driven Peebles insane? Will he be saved? Read the answer in to- ‘AUTHORITY 10 SELL STOCKS IS GRANTED Securities Commission Ap- proves of Some Transac- tions in Oil Securities Permission to sell 2,000 additional shares of common stock, par value $50, at $25 a share, has been granted by the state securities commission to the Akron-Wyoming Oil company of Cody, Wyoming. The company is under the control of North Dakota men and is headed by Fred J. Gra- ham, of Ellendale, as president. Sullivan Service Oil company, Grand Forks, was authorized to sell 150 shares of preferréd stock and 40 shares of common stock at $100 a share. The Williston Home Builders asso- ciation was given permission to sell 25 shares of common stock and 50 shares of preferred stock at $100 cach. The company is building houses to sell in Williston. McKesson and Robbins, of Bridge- port, Conn., were authorized to sell 5,000 shares of common stock, no par value, at $45 a share. The company recently participated in a merger of drug manufacturing concerns and proposes to sell the stock to its drug- gist customers in the state. P. C. Remington and Son, Bismarck, were granted a dealer's license. It is the first brokerage house in the state to be licensed under the law, although many outside brokerage houses are authorized tp do business here. Auto Manslaughter Grand Forks, N. D., June 14.—(AP) —Trial of Ed. Benson, Lakota, char, with manslaughter in con- nection with the death of Miss Florence Thompson, Grand Forks, continued in district court here to- da,. Miss Thompson was killed in TAMLLAMS ‘Sieg © vin cack oe] a collision between automobiles driven Sy] Benson and Thomas Vold. gz Case Trial Launched | '3: Wen Sti US ME DEBI “Well, are you goin’ to come in or just sit around on the beach all day?” - - By George Clark DAKOTA EDUCATORS TO ANALYZE STATE METHODS THEY USE’ Superintendent Palmer Heads Three Who Speak at Des Moines Conference Three North Dakotans are attend- ing a conference of rural school su- pervisors being held at Des Moines, Ta., today and tomorrow. They are miss Bertha Palmer, state superin- tendent of pubiic instruction, H, H. Hanson, state rural school insnector. and Ethel K. Mertz, superintendent of schools for Richland county. Miss | Mertz is scheduled to give an address at the conference in which she will describe her work in Richland county. The conference was called by the bureau of education of the federal in- terior department and representa- tives of 11 mid-western states will be on hand. Officials of the leading ed- ucational groups in the country also will attend. Among topics to be considered are the special types of assistance needed yy beginning teachers; the essentials of an effective supervisory program; educational needs of subnormal chil- dren in rural areas; the duties of rural school principals, and the contribu- tion of teacher preparing institutions, state departments of education and county libraries to the solution of supervisory problems. Miss Palmer will relate her exper- ience with the visiting teacher system which she inaugurated two years ago and which now is a permanent part of the rural school teacher-training sys- tem. Miss Mertz will describe the organ- ization and results obtained by the county supervising teacher system which has been effective in Richland county for the last eight years. The work of a skilled educator whose en- tire time is given to aiding the rural teacher in her work has given Rich- land county the best average in the state with regard to the educational advancement of its rural children, Miss Palmer said. Railroad taxes devoted to highway purposes amount to less than two and one-half per cent of the total high- way income. NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORE- CLOSURE SAL! Whereas, Default has been made in the terms and conditions of that cer- tain mortgage hereinafter described by the non-payment of the four amortization installments of One Hundred Forty-six and 20808 | a ($146.25) each, due June tid B cember 9, 1927, June 9, 1928, cember 9, 1928, upon white ha res of Six en and Te/i00 ($67. ae) Dollars paid December 29, 192' the further sum, of One Thousand Hundred Seventy-seven and 337200 tori 55) Dollars taxes fer, HY Laat Wie 1926, a1 Ramsey, State of Ai ragee, Dat: for record in the office of ures is Ne ih peters. = aed as Feco! rr uc! ;Dwight Farnham, ican Management association, /seceate. mortgage onccuted jmit! THEORY OF MERGERS CAREFULLY STUDIED Communication and Transpor- tation Speed Factor in Stimulating Union New York, June 14.—(?)—Speeding of communications and transporta- tion, says the industrial economist, is an important factor in stimulating the present tendency toward great industrial and financial mergers. In an analysis of the present large scale consolidation era, submitted to the recent convention of the Amer- Mr. Farnham lists seven principal forces behind the movement: 1, The overbuilt condition of in- NEW LAND LAW AIDS STATE IN SELLING FORECLOSED FARMS Only One-Fifth of Price Now Required Down, Rest Pay- able Over 20-Year Period Passage by the last legislature of a bill permitting the sale of land on easier terms has enabled the state land department to dispose of nearly 2,000 acres of land which it had taken bad by foreclosing state school land loans. A recent checkup showed that 1,038 acres has been sold for cash and that 930 acres have been sold on contract. In addition many inquiries have been received regarding the purchase or other land now held by the state. All of which warms the heart of William Byerly, state land commis- sioner. His department had 80,000 acres of foreclosed land on its hands when it appealed to the legislature to change the law to make sale of the property easier. Under the new law, anyone desir- ing to buy land held by the depart- ment may make application to do so. Certain guarantees are required and the department must obtain from the land all the money it has invested, with interest. If the property is of- fered at public sale, however, as the prospective buyer may request that it be offered, the minimum require- ment is that the state must get the amount it has involved, exclusive cf interest. The result of the change, Byerly said, is to enable his department to market land which would have been left on the hands of the department indefinitely under the old law, which required the state to obtain more for some pieces of land than prospective Purchasers would pay. “There is a reat interest in the purchase of land in this state,” Byer- ly said. “At the rate inquiries are coming in now we should be able to make a material reduction in the land we have on hand within the next year or two.” When land is sold on contract, one- fifth of the purchase price must be , paid at the time of sale. The re- mainder is distributed over a period of 20 years. Vachel Lindsay Back To Old Home Town Springfield, Il, June 14—(P)— Fame attained, Vachel Lindsay, the poet, is back to live in Springfield be- cause it is “every man’s business to come back to his home town to live.” For years he has lived elsewhere. Poet of Abraham Lincoln’s home dustry after the war. 2. The development during the war of mass luction, which re- ‘sulted in the al introduction of scientific methods in administration, finance, sales and production. 3. The increased cost of equip- ment-required for mass production. 4. Improvements in technical practice. 5. New inventions resulting from research. 6. The high cost of distribution caused by attempts to dispose of the increased output resulting from na- tional advertising, high pressure sales methods, national distribution and direct contact with retailers. 7. Application of mass methods to purchasing and retail distribution through the medium of chain stores. This movement was further assisted by the trend of population toward the cities, by the development and popularization of the automobile and by the growth of hard surfaced high- ways, $400 A CARAT Kimberley, 8. A. June 14.—One of the lntgest diamonds found in the South African fields was recently brought here from Barkley West for valution. It weighed thirty-three and one-quarter carats and sold for $13,300. This is believed to be a record price per carat—$400. sUMMO: mate of North Dak Dakota, County of ei in, eettict Court, Fourth Judicial District. 3 James Tom Fanta, Plaintiff, vs. Ella Fanta, Defendant, 58 eats of North auakele to the ed Defend: bY, summoned and re- io answer the complaint in the above ntitled action which will be on Tite with the Clerk of the District Court in and for the County of Bur- leigh and State of North Dakota, and to Serve @ copy of your answer to the said complaint upon the subscriber hereof at his office in the City of Bt Kidder County, North Dakota, int: a} 2) sare. after the date be take: inst _ the relief asman ie April isene 192 “wort rit 18th, es ARNE VINJ! Retin for ide Pl a in the complaint. kota, Notice is hereby given fp et red Be Frank M. 5 ith, his wif recl She was a passenger in the Vold | &, ‘wil rf ie machine along wae Ivan and Muriel a, ed fe acl L, ry Pe one cea fon Ee, city of wismarck, County of Burleigh, 1, * and State of North Dakote, at the wac the only witness to the accident, hour of 3 unzclock, F i on on othe. EG testified that Benson had been | 4ay of Jul Yuen euch inortkes d.iving on the wrong side of the we aay. of sale for eal aera ted od ine road anc had turnea back to the right side, crashing irto the Vold car which had just turned to the left to avoid a collision. Ehlers testimony co! rated evidence | 7 ars given Wednesday by Vold. a which, rr vee sold, yr ie ately Matate ‘of | North Dae SLOWER SLOW MOVIES London, ‘The revolution a minute. 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Seventeen ¢i an, vali tn ownanie co ney nea y-tour igs orth, range eee ital Went Mai Sere Ronde ty (990) acten, more oF lens, ig to ihe Government sur- vl sald mortgage at th aate. rand efauited , 46/100 psiietene. ‘oeethar or with niniulory al “tielietts Sie | cost of fosure as provided "Bate tue 234 coal ba iPr & rae wT og IO lt for mol sree ist day of November, and fil for record in tho office of the re! ter of deeds of the County of Bu ny in the State ie North Dakota, on 4 h e oth day of November, 1919, ‘and recorded in Book 161 of Mort- on page 379, will be foreclosea yf the premises in a mort- age ‘ront door of the Cot marck, in the County of Pe State of North Dakota at the hour of two o'clock P. the 15th day of to pasiery the tae hs a OT Th nino scribed in uch mortgage rand which with be sold ie wating same are described as follows, foots All of mension Twenty-one Townshi bet dred Fi ad unty, North jue on such mortgage the sum of Kleven three hundred twenty-four tna Ter tothe Dollars 4.76). gether with the legal S of foreclosure, June, i. Tear ana toes RLES FO: Chicago, itis, ‘Mortga: oe. amare orth Dakots. N01 periyer er ety ar eee. | apolis. etl re en i ne town, Lindsay says: “All my books estar my ae that it is man's business to come back tc his home town to live, to-his birth- pier, as I have done, if possible. Here : I intend to stay until the cows come Few LIKE HER London, June 14—Mrs. in a little back street in Peckham. operates what is claimed to be the last quiil-pen cutting shep in Eng- land. For 40 years she has been cutting pens, turning them out at a rate of 150 an hour. She earns about $5 a week at this work. FRIENDSHARDLY RECOGNIZE HER “Friends who have not seen me in three months hardly recognized me for Sargon has built me up from ito to 135 pounds, and my complexion is @ natural healthy color again. I had is | an 2 a ii g & i 8 zg 2 g 8 ry i pl i 5 i i re fh i at iH Bg if E z 4 § i E 5 i E 4 E i 1