The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 31, 1929, Page 2

ce no ad th de pr lg en of an pu mi ou int TOTAL OF $705,125 FORNEWERUCTIONS ENDS YEAR JUNE 30 Report of Inspector Atkinson Shows Aggregate Since July 1, 1926, of $1,763,878 ZONING IS GIVING TROUBLE Some Citizens Violate Setback Line Law; $554,078 Is Put Into Business Houses Building progress in Bismarck has | * been making steady advances for sev- cral years and for the three muni pal years closed last June 30, home building alone crossed the $1,000,000 mark. The grand total of building ¢x- penditures was $1,763,878. ‘ ‘This is shown by a comparative re- port submitted to the city commission by M. H. Atkinson, who, besides serv- ing as city auditor, also officiates as municipal building inspector and is- sues the building permits. For the year closing June 30. 15 the value of building operations r resented in the building permits is sued by the city was $705,125 accord- ing to the report. This is an increase of approximately $140,000 over the municipal year end- ing June 30, 1928. The total for this previous year was $565,905 and for the municipal year ending June 30, 1927, it was $492,848, the report shows. ‘The report classifies building oper- ations according to the character of the buildings crected. Thus, the busi- ness structures erected in the three years from July 1, 1926, to June 30, 1929, were valued at $136,700 for 1926- 27; at $253,675 for 1927-28; and at $163,700 for 1928-29. a total of $554,075. Residence building values were $204,800 for 1926-27; $285,400 for 1927- 28; $432,100 for 1928-29, a total of $1,022,300. i ‘Altering and repairing figures ran: $42,915 in 1926-27; $20,530 for 1927-28; $101,475 for 1928-29, a total of $164,- Public garages are represented in the guess by $8,433 for 1926-27; $4,250 for 1927-28; $7,850 for 1928-29, a total of $20,533. ‘Three miscellaneous permits are noted of a value of $2,050 in 1927-28. For the three years, business bulld- ing permits ran in totals of 16, 21 and 16, a total of 53; residential permits. 70, 68, 93, a total of 231; altering and repairing, 37, 18, 43, a total of 98; public garages, 34, 20. 43, a total of 97. ‘The permits for 1926-27 totaled 157; for 1927-28, 130; for 1928-29, 182, a to- tal for the three years of 469. ‘The inspector's report notes collec- tions for the municipal year of $1,- 219.75; expenditures of the office of $600.31. It also notes that the zoning board made adjustments on 27 appeals. In this way violations of the building ordinance provision to maintain a sct- back line and to prevent encroach- ments on this by callous property = BAD CHECKS DO NOW AT THE MOVIES PALACE THEATRE, MANDAN In the glowing, colorful extrava- ganza of Broadway lives and loves, “Syncopation,” now playing, singing and talking to overflowing audiences | from the screen of the Palace Thea- tre, tonight, Thursday and Friday nights, a veritable riot of musical and | singing numbers have becn included, | j many of them original. “Syncopation, a Radio picture, in reality, marks a new departure in film technique. It endeavors to tell the story of a pair of Broadway hoof- ers, married, and separated by ambi- tion until both are reawakened in their love for one another by the re- solving circumstances of the plot. ° ° | | ¢ ° CAPITOL THEATRE | Patsy Ruth Miller, who p! the | leading feminine role in “The Fall| of Eve,” the Columbia all-talking film, now playing at the Capitol Theatre, abandoned one career for another, When she was a student la, Mary Institute in St. Louis, she lwas chief contributor to the school ‘magazine until her senior year when she became editor of the publica- tion. She showed considerable tal- ent and up to the time she embark- ed on her stage career, she had several of her verses and short stories published, *owever, since she has become a |film actress, she has written very ‘little and none of it has been pub- lised under her own name. She has written anonymously not be- cause she is ashamed of her work, but because she is afraid her pub- Nic would think she was showing off, |She decided she would much rather ester to her movie public. ALL IMPLY GRIMES Intent and Belief Are Factors in | Judging Issue, Says the Supreme Court Persons who unwittingly give checks upon a bank when they have insufficient funds to mect them are NOT necessarily liable to prosecu- tion under the law, the state su- preme court held recently in revers- ing the Logan county district court in the case of Otto Shock. At the trial in district court the judge directed the jury to return a verdict of guilty and the supreme court ordered a new trial on the ground that such an order, was pre- judicial error. Discussing the statute as it re- lates to “bad checks” the court held that a person does not violate the statute by drawing a check if he has in the bank sufficient funds to meet the check in full upon presen- tation; if he has an arrangement or understanding with the banker \that the check will be paid or if he has “reasonable expectations of hav- ing funds in the bank when th check shall be presented for pay- ment.” . What constitutes “reasonable ex- pectations” was NOT defined in the opinion and would be determined by a jury in the event of a prosecu- | parents were expecting her to return owners are often avoided. Porches and | bay windows, for instance, can be jing sufficient funds in the bank. made to violate and defy this pro-| vision intended to add to the attrac- | tiveness of residential blocks. One or | two cases have come up lately where | the setback provision has been vio- STATE PREPARING | Weather Report ‘Temperature at 7a.m. ..... Highest yesterday .. Lowest last night . Precipitation to 7 a.m. . Highest wind velocity . Temperature tion for giving a check without hav- ee Will Have Representative of Railroad Commission at Federal Exams Preparations to begin active en- forcement of the state law govern- ing the operation of airmen and air- craft doing business for hire within ithe state are being made by the |state railroad board. A recent order by the board Clear jadopted the same rules and regula- Cicar [tions for application to North Da- Clear |kota airmen that are applied by the Clear federal department of commerce to Clear | interstate flyers. Only a few Clear | North Dakotans have obtained li-| Clear |censes for themselves and their} Clear | Planes, as required by law, and the Clear |board expects to begin a law en- Clear |forcement campaign as soon as Clear jample opportunity has been given Clear |for North Dakota aviators to obtain Clear | federal licenses. Clear | The federal department of com- Clear |merce will have an inspector at the Clear |Gardner hotel at Fargo on August Clear | at the Leland Parker hotel in Clear | Minot on August 7 and at the Ryan Clear | hotel in Grand Forks on August 8, Clear |The state railroad board will have Clear |@ Tepresentative at each meeting Clear |to confer with applicants for state ‘Williston 86 Clear {licenses and is urging aviators to i SCARY (| — Clear |make arrangements to obtain li- meane 06 Clear |censes in the near future. } The board now is making a check WEATHER FORECASTS of persons owning or flying air- ‘and vicinity: Gener-| Planes in the state with a view to e 8 ROSS RSPRSS Stations letate of IPrecipi- tation {weather North Dakota— Dunn Center. Fessenden ..... Grand Forks. 1SHS28 BQe QEFasereese Petdererrsrrrarrridi The LLB a4 Of THIS HAS HAPPENED MOLLY BURNHAM, collegiate heiress, is trying her wings. The day Molly graduated from college she in- herited $10,000. And a few days later| her cweetheart, JACK WELLS, left Boston to work in New York. Molly comes from a little town called Snedgrass in Wisconsin. Her | to them, immediately after gradua- They expected to announce engagement, for she had told i about Jack. But Molly, when she receives word cf her inheritance, resolves not to return to Snodgrass, but to taste | sweet freedom and independence. Her mother writes, advising her to emulate the virtues of her Aunt Minnie, who left Molly the tidy small fortune that makes her feel so free and brave. Bui Molly, in the parlance of her crowd, is “fed up” on Snodgrass, and the virtues of Aunt Minnie.. The very | thought of teas and showers makes her blood run cold, she tells Jack. And so—discouraged by her sweet- heart and her parents—she begins to live her own life, and to seek expres- sion for her seething soul. She gets | work on @ newspaper and becomes, | very shortly, a special writer. Her biggest thrill comes when she is as-| signed to cover a murder trial. | NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY | CHAPTER IX | It was a celebrated trial, to which | many out-of-town papers sent their star reporters. One New York paper | had three men and a sob sister there. | Even the society reporters showed up, | which was most unusual, as society) Teporters are customarily wed to re- spectability. But then this was a most unusual trial. The defendant was an artist. A “society artist,” the papers called him, which meant that he had a very fash- idnable following. He was a hand- some man, and the petted darling of many smart women. Although Lionel Barrows seemed an esthetic type, he had engaged in a love affair that had, apparently no esthetic side. The woman was beau- tiful and infamous. And now she was dead, Barrows was charged with her murder. There had been a lengthy investi- gation, during which many men were | questioned. For ssme time Barrows’ | name had been kept out of it. His aunt was a very wealthy dowager, and socially prominent. And he had friends among the most influential People in the city. But the district attorney's office, it developed, had its cagle eye the while on the slim, handsome artist. And one day Barrows, without 50 much as preliminary questioning, was placed summarily under arrest. “How,” asked the city editor one | Saturday night, “How would you like, | Miss Burnham, to cover a murder trial?” “Don't kid me,” she besought him. ‘That's cruelty to girls.” “But I mean it,” he grinned. “This Barrows case—Charlie Ryan will file a running story, and we're sending Slim along for high lights. But there's a lot of woman stuff that Slim isn't going to get. It'll be meat for you. All those society dames, ogling their little Boy Blue. And Boy Blue on trial for the meanest murder on record.” “You don’t mean...” Molly gasped, breathless. “Sure I mean it,” insisted the city editor. “Why not? You can do it, can’t you?” “Oh, I can. I know I can, Mr. Wharton! I'd love to. It's just won- derful of you to let me. It's—oh, it’s perfectly glorious.” * * * Wharton grinned amiably. “It ACROSS 1. Dip in Nqald 4. Pleee of prop: erty ferent color . Talented 30. Foed fish s Iw} mao mr 41, Eastern states br. 42, Beam whieh Keeps ratte te Pag geet and Thursday. |Sceing that all are licensed as re- } Warmer Thursday, ? quired by law. ‘and : *| Law Aids in Forgery Of Auto Plates by Placing of Letters W. S. Graham, state automobile this | registrar, has a method in mind to Fema the for, of automobile legal, can’t use it. It’s Recently Graham found that a car abandoned in Renville county bore a set of tags issucd in 1928 but which had been rcvam and repainted to look like 1! tags, The number eight had been changed to s nine by someone skillful with is. Graham’s idea is to put the in- itiala which designate 's license as having been issued in North Dakota on the it hand side of the tag one on the left hand side the The only thing wrong with that the law requires the in- the left hand side | death. Daily Cross-word Puzzle | Solution of Yesterday's Puzzie OG 9900 oon wood [P[A[SMMSIP[O[TMMCIalw[ojL le) si Hitchen atensiy Bo oOFno ooa@G on [olR/Ole lait MEMIAlT le Mm clolo| 33. [alMolol 21a) a GOO BWOAGEO ood GEOG WROD GOO INING TALENT ELEANOR EARLY Ne S22.Ai takes a story like this to give you girls the breaks.” he observed. “But don’t put the hooks in Barrows, Molly. I don’t believe they've the goods on him. Guilty as the devil and all that. But he has a good chance of getting off. We can’t con- vict a man in the newspapers, you know.” “Oh, I'll be careful!” she promised. “Well, lay off Barrows,” he admon- ished. That night Molly stayed at the of- fice until dawn, reading hundreds of clippings that told of the murder of Bernice Bradford, ex-artist’s model, who lived and died in florid splendor in the most exclusive residential sec- tion of the city. Bernice was not a good girl. But she had been a rarely beautiful one. Girlhood photographs, supplied by her heart-broken mother, proved that. She had been a slim, white thing, with a crimson mouth. And golden hair, and little, twining hands. Many men had valued her charms sufficiently to pay bills that were many and varied. Bernice had driven an expensive car, and kept an ex- pensive maid, had worn beautiful clothes and lived in a costly apart- ment. ‘The medical examiner said he had never seen a woman 50 perfect in Her hair framed her white face like a cloud of golden glory, and she looked, in her coffin, more like a saint than a sinner. But, for all her still and lovely look, Bernice Bradford had died a dread- ful death. She had been poisoned. Barrows’ lawyers would contend it might have been suicide. Neither side was prepared to explain the mystery of the wedding gown that hung in Bernice's closet. The state would naturally declare that a woman antic- The Shining Talent that-was dead So soon as that bright soul was wed. A dull and stodgy wife is she, And dark the flame that used to be, But always come to torture her The dreams of things that never were. So this is the song of the wife— Ah, what have I done with my life?” Later, as she was hurrying to the corner for a jar of cream for coffee, she met a messenger with a special delivery for her. Jack put a special stamp on his Saturday letters, so she might always hear from him on Sun- days. There were some boys coming out from the office for Welsh rarebit that night, and Molly thrust the let- ter in her bag. She would open it later. It was so nice to read Jack's letters leisurely. He wrote the sweet- est letters in the world, she thought. * OK Conversation that evening revolved about the Barrows trial. The crowd congratulated Molly so warmly that she began to feel as if she had already arrived. | “Atta girl,” approved Slim Boynton. “You're the best darn newspaper woman in the city, and I'll bet you haven't cut your wisdom teeth yet. Don’t go and get married now, Molly, and cramp your style.” Red Flynn elaborated. “Say, we had « kid in the office once—wonder- ful little kid. What a future that kid might have had! And what do ried a filing clerk! Nobody's heard a peep out of her since.” as Molly laughed. “Look, boys!” she cried, and showed them the little torn clipping. “This is my battle cry. My hymn of freedom.” “Well, I'll be darned!” Slim gave a long, amazed whistle. “Who do you suppose wrote that thing? Helen Whats-Her-Name—you know — the girl that married Roger Wells. She was on the old Record. Smart kid, too, She meant to go on with her writing after she was married. She and Roger were going to collaborate ona novel. Ambitious girl—Helen. “I hadn't seen her for years, until ipating marriage would hardly com- mit suicide. ‘The defense, on the oth- er hand, was ready to allege that the girl might have met her death at the hands of an unknown slayer— the man whom she expected to marry. Barrows, being married, would be eliminated from that assumption of the case. * * OK Molly went to the reference room (the morgue, they called it, in news- paper parlance) and studied pictures of Bernice and the artist. The girl was lovely in a wild flower sort of way. Tempestuous, with daring eyes, and willful lips, and a mad smile. Lionel Barrows had a narrow mouth and a thin face. His forehead was high, and he wore his hair rather long, in the fashion of a poet. He had the wide cyes of a dreamer, and a beautiful Roman nose. It was im- Possible, Molly thought, to imagine him committing murder. “After all,” she reflected, “you never can tell.” And that night she made many ob- servations in her notebook. A story was shaping itself in her mind. The story of a woman who died for love. In imagination Molly could create the woman. And the man worth dying for would be a man like Jack. She could fashion the characters, she knew. Per- haps the trial of Barrows would fur- nish the plot. On Sunday, cleaning out her dress- ing table drawer, Molly came upon the little verse she had torn from a newspaper the day she was gradu- ated from college. It was some time since she had seen it, and she read it aloud: “A girl she had her hope and chance— But Fate was thwarted by a glance, A look that set her heart afire, So genius died, for warm desire. Although a world will never know Yet still the phantom visions glow, % Plee. of iter board sik Boo OW 2. Over one day I bumped into Roger in the subway. He's editor now of some jerk sheet. And he dragged me out for dinner. Helen was a good deal of a wreck. Said she'd been sick. She looked about 10 years older than Roger. Thin as a rail. They'd had a few kids. Cute little things, with red hair. After dinner, Roger had to go down to the office, and Helen gave me an ear full. A regular spiel about dead ambition, thwarted dreams, and all that. She showed me that verse. Said she'd written right out of her bleeding heart.” Red nodded sympathetically. “Mar- riage raises the devil with some wom- en. Better watch your step, Molly.” “Oh, I intend to,” she assured them. And after they had gone, she op- ened Jack’s letter. He had had a raise... “And, oh ‘Molly darling, I want you 50, little girl. I wonder if marriage means as much to you as it does to me. I wonder if you long for me as I long for you. Tell me, Sweet- heart, do you dream day and night of that wonderful time...” The letter dropped to Molly’s Jap, and a line from Helen Wells’ verse sang itself in her mind . .. “So genius died for warm desire.” and then an- other, and another: “A dull and stodgy wife is she, And dark the flame that used to be.” In the morning Molly went to court for the first time in her life. She saw Lionel Barrows, and his feminine ad- mirers, flocking like movie fans. And his wife, with tear-rimmed eyes, and a cynical, painted mouth. And she saw the lavender silk nightgown in which Bernice Bradford died, which was saneeniennly to be Exhibit Number 1e. Molly shivered with excitement, and drawing a pile of copy paper across the press table, began writing rapidly. Three hours later, her story led the Paper in the third edition. And Molly's reputation as @ newspaper woman was assured. The trial lasted two weeks. And on the 15th day the jury retired to reach a decision. Eighteen hours later they brought in the verdict. Barrows took it coolly. But Molly did a most surprising thing: (To Be Continued.| Private Sky Yacht Has Port Luxuries Southampton, England. —(>)—, le vate flying yacht with the ee fittings of a surface craft is nearing completion here. 8. Coneeited per- fon 4, Three-toed sloth 5. Scot 4. The enemy of : F reeeption s i il HS ll wd Cal experi a STOIC you think she did? Went and mar- |. “ Rom ae lee cumteeer diverse estony Of Recent Mergers New York—(AP)—Brokers say that, plain ordinary mergers .are no longer enough to boost the stocks of companies concerned. For several ars, particularly during the last six months, any mers ON YOUR RADIO. ——— Ad L, vi ger or hint of a merger regardless of its economic strategy, has sufficient excuse for substantial in- creases in the value of securities to be affected. Brokers’ customers are beginning to distinguish between good, bad and indifferent mergers. They no longer stop with the question: “Is this or that consolida- tion going to occur?” but want to know just how carnings per share will be benefited the change. Ralph B. Leon & Co. sug- gest the follow four questions be answered fore buying bank stocks on a merger rumor: (1) Will the merger bring sup- plementary banking functions of two or more institutions under one (2) Would greater resources and it likes best?” In February, the s better cigarette. been | pressing needs of And Mr. American Smoker did vanesusncrig 3 ROL a a heightened lending capacity meet; some of the larger depositors of the banks? (3) Has one of the banks named) merger’ , asa party to the a toe ie y Pomme ‘ne ‘oul roposed pepe an international bank a lo« cal banking clientele? PROPOSE BISMARCK-FARGO BUS Hearing on the application of th¢ Greyhound Transportation company of Fargo for permission to extend its daily motor passenger service! from Jamestown to Bismarck and points intermediate will be held by the state railroad board Aug. 24 GROWING Jack’s beanstalk! “Let's be fair about this matter of deciding which is the best cigarette,” ssid OLD GOLD to Mr. American Smoker lest Januery. “That sounds reasonable,” replied Mr. S. “What do you want me to do?” “Well,” continued O. G., “why don’t you smoke me and the other three leading brands with peper masks covering our names, so you can’t tell us apertP And leave it to your teste to say which one with the ‘nation gave OLD GOLD e rousing seles boost over Januery. In Merch, April, May and June thie brisk upwerd sales swing continued unabated, with June recing chead to nearly double the sales of January. 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