The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 9, 1929, Page 2

t ] ’ Be 84 S Reavers op THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1929 ‘Telephone Companies Cannot Base Rates on Length of User’s Line SODA FOUNTAIN AS ” WIRE SERVICE ASSET Barber Shop Also Eliminated From Amenia Inventory in Fee Increase Appeal DENIED TRANSFUSION, TOO Northwestern Bell Needn't Di- vert Long Distance Cal's to Amenia Rivals An order permitting the Amenia Telephone company to eliminate serv- ice on its lines from 10 p. m. to 6 p. m., $0 increase the rate charged by 50 cents a month and to increase the discount for prompt payment of bills from 25 to 50 cents a month has been tssued by the state railroad board * here. The company’s application for per- mission to apply a new rate-making formula on its lines was denied by the board as was application for an order diverting certain long-distance calls from the lines of the North- western Bell Telephone company to the lines of the Amenia company. The proposed rate-making formula, to be known as the line rent formula, would have based the charges for each telephone subscriber on the amount of line necessary to serve him. The board rejected it on the ground that it would be hard to fig- ure, that it would produce endless dis- putes since it is capable of endless variations and that it would take away from the railroad board the rate making powers delegated to it by law. ‘The request that certain toll calls be routed by the Northwestern Bell over the lines of the Amenia com- pany by order of the board was de- nied on the ground that the board has no authority to interfere in the Management of the Northwestern Bell company in routing toll traffic originating on its own lines, except where public convenience is at is- sue. Admitting the company’s contention that it is in financial distress, the board says that “a common sense conclusion, bolstered by the opinions of competent telephone men, is that the town is too small to support 24- hour telephone service and is really too small to support an independent telephone company.” Attacking the company's inventory of its property, the board said that it lists “some peculiar plant and equipment items which hardly can be classed as plant equipment by any stretch of the imagination,” and mentioned a soda fountain and a barber shop. Basing its conclusion upon the testimony of E. W. Chaffee as owner of company property, the board advanced the opinion that the “telephone company was ill-conceived and it will not be able to be made into a financial success no matter what action the commission may take.” ‘The board gave as its opinion that the “only true relief will come by an improvement in relations between all parties so that the natural subscrib- ers to this company’s service are all Teconnected to its lines.” HEARING ON GRADE CROSSING Hearing will be held July 12 at Edinburg by the state railroad board on an application by T. I. Dahl, state’s attorney of Walsh county, for an or- der directing the Great Northern railroad to construct a grade crossing over its tracks in the village of Edin- At the great salt mine at Salnic, Rumania, more than 80,000 tons of rock salt are mined annually. €— | Weather Report i Temperatute at 7 a. m. 53 Highest yesterday 65, Lowest last night bL Precipitation to 7 a. m. 36 Hi wind velocity ~STATEBOARDBARS (sip ctaNces- - | (AED. U6. PAT. OFF. | off our hands.” “What they ought to do is call in all this old size currency and get it r AT THE MOVIES | i CAPITOL THEATRE Human misunderstanding, family | strife, sacrifice and an overpowering love are all incorporated in “Father and Son,” synchronized with dialogue and music, which opened at the Cap- itol Theatre last night with Jack Holt, Dorothy Revier and Mickcy Mc- Ban in the featured roles. It is a story of deep heart interest. A hypocritical stepmother, played by Dorothy Revicr, attempts to destroy the deep and tender love cxisting be- tween a father and his son, played respectively by Jack Holt and Mickey McBan. Her malicious nature gives tise to many plot complications, cul- minating in murder. Father and son, each thinking the other committed the crime, lie to protect cach other. A surprising bit of evidence clears them both and ends the story on a happy note. PALACE THEATRE, MANDAN May McAvoy delighted the crowd at the Palace Theatre, Mandan, last night in her latest Warner Bros.’ starring vehicle, “Stolen Kisses,” in which she is pictured as a much- criticized modern bride who sets sail with her not too ambitious husband— his crabbed father and the latter's meek male secretary—to Paris. Once in the city by the Seine— unlooked-for complications whirl the four tourists into such a furore of amusing adventures as the screen has rarely seen. Folies Bergeres beauties, adventuresses, bos, and all sorts and conditions of People and properties set the couple altogether at odds, but finally whisk them back again—ready and cager to set sail for good old U. S. A. Last time tonight. Fort Gasoline Is Not Taxable, Atty. General by the post commissary to officers, enlisted men or employes of the post, attorney general's office has informed state auditor John Steen. Steen raised the question upon tax. The opinion of the attorney general was that the state may not tax the | OUTOUR WAY Pic’ Em oP AN! Oust ‘em OFF FER ME, Witt YH Boys? TH winMin 1S HANIN' A LUNCH IN TH PATIO AN L home-wreckers, jaaz-| federal government under any cir- cumstances and has surrendered: its Jurisdiction over military and naval reservations. As a result the state law does no. apply on the military | reservation and the state gasoline tax is not enforcible within its limits. Eight Counties Hit Hard by Hailstorms; Claims Now Are 2,002 Bottineau, Burke, Divide, Grant, La Moure, Renville, Mountrail and Stutsman counties were hard hit by hail storms during the week ending July 5, according to a report by the state hail insurance department. The total number of claims reported dur- ing the week was 771. This brought the total for this year to 2,002. The number of claims reported last week from various counties follow: Adams 3, Bottineau 54, Bowman 1, Burke 73, Cass 1, Dickey 16, Divide 54, Dunn 6, Grant 50, Kidder 9, La Moure 130, Logan 14, McKenzie 1, McLean 6, Mercer 26, Morton 30, Renville 85, Sheridan 13, Sioux 18, Stutsman 100, Ward 7, and Williams 4. Angus Gillis, 76, Dies; Was Blacksmith Here In 1882, Then Farmed Angus Gillis, 76, of Almont. died in the city, Sunday evening. He was a retired mechanic, business man and farmer. Funeral arrangements are, pending, awaiting word from a son at Edmonton. The bedy was sent to Al- mont today, and services probably will be held there Wednesday. Gasoline used by the federal gov-| leaves are a daughter, ernment at its army post here or sold | Frazer; of Northfield, Minn.; Gillis was a native of Nova Scotia. He came to Dakota in 1882 and en- gaged in blacksmithing and the farm implement business here, then moved to Almont. where he followed his trade, conducted a meat business and Tells Au dit or Steen ee farmed until 1912, when he re- Members of the family whom he Mrs. R. B. three sons, Neil, of Northfield, M. A., of Edmonton, Alberta, and John, at Al- is not taxable under the state law, the | mont. BANKER'S WIFE DIES Fargo, N. D., July 9.—(#)—Mrs. E. learning that the army commissary | J. Weiser, 60, wife of the president of department was not paying the state |the First National bank and Trust Co., of Fargo, died Monday from a heart attack while bathing in Pelican lake, near here. Ruins. - - By George Clark | Mountrail 66, Oliver 3, Ramsey 1, WELL LISSEN) THeTS DANG Oose BRICK | qHeYy'LL SYNOPSIS: Peterson rushes to his mine to help Jerry, his brovh- er, escape, but finds him dead in the tunnel.. Dillon, who had been guarding the mine entrance, is missing, but Peterson concludes Serry killed himself. With a char- acteristic gesture, Peterson dyna- mites the mine entrance to seal Serry in his tomb forever. As he fices over the mountains from Skull Valley, he decides to adopt the name “Andrew Ogden,” and the career of Alex Peterson, gam- bler, ends. CHAPTER 42 BEHIND A MASK The throb and beat of Jerry's voice cased on the final word and we sat in silence again. Lucy was weeping coftly, I had to dab furtively at my and Henry blew his noce more ‘igcrously than usual. We had lived | ereuen an cnsotional experience of ! great intensity. The end of the drama | had plunged us emotionally exhaust- ed, into the depths. The precision with which the frag- | mentary evidence MacNair and Dea- con and I had discovered fitted into the various parts of Jerry's story was } amazing. Our evidence had sug- gested much, but it actually had re- vealed little, and this exquisite dove- tailing of cause and effect fascinated 'me. Even my experience in the “se- !cret’ room had become clear. Wax | figures, indeed! | I had not missed the pathos of Furie’s devotion to his Bull and Nap. | For 30 years he had guarded and cherished them! No wonder his ter- ror that they might be destroyed or taken from him had driven him to deceive me! Poor Furie! I gave Bull and Nap credit for what sanity was { left to him. Our case was far from complete, t however. Jerry, I believed, had more to tell us. “And so,” Henry muttered, break- ing the silence, “that was the ‘poker game that cracked the town.’” Jerry nodded, his eyes brooding. “Torridity wes abandoned shortly afterwards. .. . I wish I could have put it in the way he did.” “You have,” I told him gently. “I never felt as if I really knew him,” the boy went on. “Perhaps you thought of him as | wearing @ mask.” “That's it!” he exclaimed. “A mask, yes. But sometimes the mask slipped. It's a queer thing to say about one's father.” I nodded understandingly, but Lucy shook her head. “It was the real Uncle Andrew shin- ing through the mask,” she said, with deeper insight than ours. “That aw- ful game, and finding Uncle Jerry dead—they must have done dreadful things to him. Poor Uncle Andrew!” “It meant changing his speech, his mode of living, his outlook on life,” Henry observed thoughtfully. “But fundamentally he remained the “Only sometimes the mask wore thin,” I added sadly. . Jerry shut his cyes. “When I think of the way I harried him about open- ing that mine!” It was hard to really find one's father and lose him in the space of an hour or two and I started up, in- tending to drop my arm over his shoulder, but Lucy was before me. Sliding onto the wing of his chair, she gently drew his head to her breast and ran her fingers softly through his dark hair. “You had better tell us the rest of it, Jerry,” I said quietly. He nodded. “Dad had no trouble about the mine. It was never claimed. He waited a few years, then he had it transferred to his new name. Queer, what happened to the transfer and the check, isn’t it? If Lundy didn’t leave the room between the end of the game and when dad shot him, neither did the transfer and the check—un- less Lundy passed them on to some one else, which doesn't seem likely.” “His mind is a blank about what happened to him that night!” I said, “He won't know what he did with the Papers. He must have hidden them so well that nobody has been able to find them.” “The transfer may have been found,” Deacon suggested, “and noth- ing been done about it.” “Hmn,” I said. “In my opinion the By Williams PAN Fut. CHARLES G. BUOTH GOLD BULLETS transfer and the check are still where Lundy put them. I've an idea several People have been looking for them. But go on, Jerry.” “Dad stopped payment of the check he had given Lundy. He came up here and put everything he had into land- and water development. You know what happened. Everything he touched prospered. He had wanted to erase as much of the past as he could, but he knew that somebody was bound to recognize him as time went on. Of course he didn’t figure on blackmail. But Dillon had, and about five years after Dad came into the San Felipe, he turned up and de- manded $5,000 a year to keep his ;mouth shut about the killing of | Lundy. | “Dad paid him. It wasn’t coward- ice, of course. He always doubted Dillon's ability to make the charge stick. But dad had married, I was ‘orn, and mother was in delicate health. If dad had kicked Dillon out he would have involved himself in a nasty mess and the shock would prob- ably have finished her. So he paid. After mother's death, 10 years ago, he shrank from opening up the case on my account. “Dad had made a barrel of money and $5,000 a year meant nothing to him. Dillon sent him a poker chip every year to remind him the money was due. A month ago Dillon over- played his hand. He demanded $100,000. This jolt was just what dad needed. He blew up and told Dillon he'd never get another cent. . Dillon gave him a month to change his mind. “This was the situation when dad stumbled into Mrs. Lundy last week. Dad was struck by her name and he took her into the house. It turned out that she was the wife of Joe Lundy, the Torridity resort-keeper. You can imagine dad's state of mind Pal she told him Lundy hadn't “Do you know who this man Dillon is?” Deacon demanded sharply. “I don't. Dad wouldn't tell me. He said he was going to handle him in his own way. I suppose that's why he sent for this detective, Luther MacNuir. “Furie was next. Queer, isn't it, how life breaks in bunches. We had a bit of an earthquake two months ago, you remember. It shook open another entrance to the Two Brothers mine and uncovered a rich vein of gold in a hanging wall of quartz. Furie got into the mine through the split and found the new vein.” “Deacon and I have met Furie.” I said dryly. “We know about the vein.” “A queer old bird, isn’t he? Did you notice his eyeglass? That came out of Lundy's ‘magnifying glasses. But the mine. “Furie came to see dad Friday af- ternoon. He didn’t recognize him. Furie came to dad believing him to be a new owner of the mine. He hasn’t the remotest idea who dad is a? (Copyright, 1929, Wm. Morrow Co.) The mysterious tangle of An- drew Ogden’s life is unravelling. Who is the murderer? Continue the story tomorrow. [Bills Allowed by‘ I City Commission | ° The following claims were allowed ee the city commission, Monday eve- ning: First National Bank, com- Co. Albertson's Grocery, , relief Bonny’s Cafe, relief....... 6.75 J. P. McCarthy & Go., relief.. 2.09 French & Welch, relief...... 60 Gussner's Grocery, relief..... 10.00 Dorothy Blunt, relief. 10.00 10.00 20.00 |. H. Carpenter Lumber Co., swi pool Melville's Electric Shop WS “FALL HE. WiLL EAC POLICE ADS RUNS TRATION ae , UNWERS' nc uN i ofessor ¢ University of California | The Chief Turns Pr courses, at University, fornia 2 ; hours. The hard grind of member of the University of Chicago, teaching scientific police admin- istration and methods, is shown above at his desk. The sketches illus- trate chapters in his unusual life. xe * Cop Substitutes Brains for Billies And Lands College Professorship Berkeley, Calif.—A local mail car- rier was persuaded by his friends to run for city marshal, to bring about some local improvements. He did so upon condition that he would serve only one term, which, he believed, would be sufficient time to try out some of his That was 20 years ago. And August Vollmer, the ex-mail carrier, still is Police chief here, still trying to work out his theories. To date he has suc- ceeded so well that Detroit, Kahsas City and Los Angeles have called him in as a consultant in their police re- organization troubles, and even the republic of Cuba called him to bring improvement in its efficient provincial Police corps. eek own theories. To Be Faculty Member Volimer left school when he was 13. In October he goes to the University of Chicago as & faculty member to initiate a new educational feature. He becomes director of the school of po- lice administration, whose object it is to do in a national way what Voll- mer has been doing quietly but ef- fectively through his police depart- days ago he was medal by the Harmon foundation of New York for outstanding public service. There's considerable interest being oo | Daily Cross-word Puzzle Solution to Saturday’s Puzzle ‘ OOO ONO ment here. Jt warded the just a few Harmon a= Ae manifestéd throughout the nation in the police school as something novel. But to Vollmer the new course is but @ continuation upon an amplified scale of the work he has been doing for years with his local police depart- ment in conjunction with the Univer- sity of California, situated here. Voll- mer will get six months’ leave of ab- sence yearly from his police duties here so he can teach at Chicago. the university's department of po- litical science,” Vollmer explains. “The course will be open to police execu- tives, to certain qualified police of- ficers. It is being put upon a solid foundation, to prepare young men for public service, to put this vitally im- portant part of our political pattern upon the same. scientific basis as medicine and the other professions.” like the average small town police chief talking. And Volimer's method of thinking and acting is of a different caliber, too, than the average policeman. He in- sists that Sherlock Holmes, gimlet peep-holes and the like have nothing whatever to do with the new era of Doesn't sound Police work a profession. making “When our police work here in Berkeley began to attract youths who Qog0 gO Ono wiles (rigalal trite lal ie oP Fyegens points capital 58. Note of the 59 Italian river DOWN 1. Afresh 2 Artifice 3. Black exckoo 4. Affirmat 4. Hypo! €. By moans of & Galttot's horsé 9. Desist it ESB ane 1%, Feel ik Fore 20, Lakewarm 24. Automobile ssity [T[S[ATR] ce. tape O00 OGD COOK Ree a patrol work taught these college boys practical as well as theoretical knowl- edge. And in the end they had not only the policeman’s art, but his sci- ence, Experts to Aid “At the University of Chicago they should be aided to an even greater ogists, psycl cepetta ete. to preseet. to. the experts, etc., presen dents the very latest in these sciences. It will be one of my big jobs at Chi- cago to organize these groups and ascertain how many departments in the university have something to offer these police students.” Vollmer’s ideas won cooperation from University of California in- structors in a day when crime preven- tion received scant attention. Faculty and police chief have pioneered here. Results have been manifold. The Berkeley “supercops” or “scientific po- lice” have become so widely known for their intelligence and efficiency that the ordinary run of criminals gives this community a wide berth. Cooperation and understanding be- tween Berkeley citizens and Berkeley police have reached the ideal stage. ‘Yor:ngsters look to the police as their friends, Adults have overcome the tendency to shirk responsibility and drive. A specified time would be given to acquainting the public with one The drop in traffic accidents was material. Ten of Vollmer’s former Berkeley of the country. One heads Califor- nia’s State Bureau of Criminal Iden- tification. Police sent here from oth- er cities for “Vollmerizing” include the present police chief of Los An- geles, head of the San Diego identifi- cation bureau, and experts from Sac- ramento, Tacoma, Portland, Ore., and many other cities. “What business firm compells ap- Plicants for various vacancies in the organization to submit to the same physical and mental examinations?” Vollmer asks, when personnel is dis- cussed. “No firm would think of put- ting the same questions to salesman, engineer, manager and accountants, nor expect them to meet the same standards as to health, age, weight, etc.—and then start at the same rate of pay. Picked as Individuals “That is what is expected of police, however. And this is the thing we have striven to correct in our own force. We pick our men as individ- uals, with, of course, some few re- quired standards.” fore Vollmer’s police, ques- tions as to heredity, environment and the like. The Policeman treats feriors. the public as equals, not in- One campus romance grew out of an arrest for speeding by a polite—but firm—young student-po- liceman. Vollmer’s work among the boys of Berkeley has eliminated the old nest- destroying, pilfering gangs. And in their place are boys within whom the genesis of good citizenship has been Planted. Freak Air Currents Make Weird Noises Treves, Germany, July 9—(#)—An volcanic crater in the Eifel mountains that is known as one of the geological landmarks of the region under the name of “Totenmaar” (Pit of the Dead). For hours a mighty roaring noise was to be heard for many miles that thoroughly frightened the inhabitants of the surrounding villages. The con= priee sreling sone said ried of the inder! ne Greatly added to it: eerie character. sa The bottom of the crater was frozen over and physicists’ who came to ex- amine the interesting phenomenon believed that the noise was due to the confined air currents in the bottom of the pit, causing the ice above to Heirlooms of Doctor Tho’t 1,900 Years Old Providence, R. 1—()—The Numis- matic society of Ne been called i Be ge, iti xovl g E f Pa rH A i E i E i a = oe