The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 2, 1930, Page 4

The Bismarck Tribu ‘ An independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) ne Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company Bis- marek, N. D.. and entered at the postoffice at Bismarcs ‘as second class mai) matter. George D. Mann ...... «..+-President and Publisher Subscription Kates Payable ip Advance Daily by carrier. per year ........... Daily ty mail. per year (in Bismarck) Daily by mail. per year. (in state. outside Bismarck) . Daily by mail. outside of North Dal 87.26 ae Weekly by mail in state per year Weekly by mail in state. three years for Weekly by mail outs'* of North Dako PCr YOAr .......eee seer ee ee eee seenee sescceece 1.50 Member Audit Bureav of Circulation ciemmber of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled io the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and isc the | local news of spontaneous origin pud'tshed herein All rights of republication of all other matter hereis arr also reserved. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives SMALL. SPENCER & LEVINGS Incorporated) Formerly G. Logan Payne Ci CHICAGO NEW YORK 0. BOSTON Mexico in Limelight Mexico contin the rest of the civilized world, so much so that the inauguration of President-clect Rubio, February 5, will be attended by spzcial envoys from all countries rep- resenicd diplomatically at Mexico City. In roturn for the honor paid by the country, Mexico will foot the bills of these spscial representatives, unless thelr countries cbject. Special entertainment also will be proviced for the international guests. ns for special interest in the destinies of Mexico at this time are in part due to the fact that our south- ern neighbor has elected an engineer for president, thus giving the country the type of executive as the United States has in the White house, Rubio is looked on as a possible regencrator of his country after years of disorganization by insurrection and assassination. That would mean business for the rest of the world. So the go-getters are coming. Rubio has a background of strength of support by the army. He is said to be of simple and direct charac- ter. He has in the past supported such leaders as Fran- cisco Madcro and after the latter's assassination, Car- ranza, Obergon and Calles. According to Carleton Beals in the New Republic, he has much of the calm and pa- tience and methodicalness of his Tarascan ancestry. The Tarascans are a racial, cnigma: like the Basques in Spain, no one knows their origin. They are generally supposed to belong to the pre-Maya, Aziec and Toltec stocks, and they have maintained their political in- dependence against all the Nahuatl invasions from the north. It is interesting to observe, Beals points out, how the basic military source for the stabilization of any regime in Moxico has com: from well-defined Indian centers: Diaz and the Serranos of Oaxaca; Obregon and the Yaquis of Sonora; Portes Gil, Joaquin Amaro, Ortiz) Rubio and the Tarascans of Michoacan. Michoacan—one of the largest, wealthiest and mos‘ beautiful states, with its magnificent lakes and plains— bids fair to become of greater political importance than Sonora, until now the source of revolutionary governing “power in the country. President Portes Gil was born in Michcaccn, though his later career centers in the gulf coast froiicr petroleum state of Tamaulipas. General Joaquin Aman the secretary of war (said to be the real factor in the chiicg of Ortiz Rubio) is himself a pure Tarascan Indian. “The election of Ortiz represents a further shift of political control (begun when Portes Gil was chosen) from Sonora in the north to the south ard center of the republic. An inevitable shift, for the south and center are the real Mexico, not the warlike north, the control by which was long due to proximity to the United States and an arms supply. Amaro and Ortiz have previously cooperated in edministrative capacities: and many of Amaro’s army reforms were planned by Ortiz, Ortiz Rubio undoubtedly holds the sympathies of the major portion of the army, writes Beals. He is backed by the large majority of the various “revolutionary” ore) ganizations which supported Calles and Obregon, and | which Calles welded into the National Revolutionary | party. Labor and peasant support is less pronounced. ‘The Mexican Labor party, the political wing of the “Crom” (the more conservative labor federation) has | lukewarmly supported his candidacy. This is the Labor | party's first revival after the blows it received at the} time of the assassination of Obregon, and subsequently at the hands of Portes Gil. For the main part, the ‘workers and peasants, save the more radical elements ‘who cupported Rodriguez Triana, have, owing to their debilitetion due to factionalism, remained in a rather neutral and non-active position. But, by and large, Ortiz Rubio represents a far more} potent alignment of the existing organized social forces which pivot about the Constitution of 1917 than did ‘Vasconcelos with his feudal) alliances, his clerical con- nections and the inchoate sentiment of past enemies of the existing regime—an all-defined grouping which he never effectively welded into a party. Ortiz Rubio represents the tendency toward the developmnt of a party system; so does Rodriguez Triana; Vasconcelos, more than either of these two, represents the old-style per- sonalism. Life Through Police Court It turns out now that the frowsy vagrant who was hauled up in the Chicago police court the other day for being. drunk and disorderly was not, after all, the famous Dan Murphy, one-time ster bascball player for the Phila- delphia Athletics. \ ‘The prisoner said he was, you may remember, and court room officials and hangers-on were so affected by this visible decline from greatness and affluence that they collected a sum ©’ money and gave it to him. But the real Dan Murphy, well-to-do and respectable, living in the east, heard about it and spoiled the story to be a subject of big interest to; | soup and vegetables, 120,000 pounds of sugar, 60,000 loaves \is really a blow at public assembly and discussion, we | to take up collections for them. They may, for all of us, stew in their own juices. After all, we might remember this: no man on carth| was ever born a drunken bum. Every bit of wreckage that drifts into police court has had a fall of some kind. For every child in its crib has infinite possibilities; and if, at 40 or 50, a man is making the rounds of the police courts, that is a sign that he has somehow missed his birthright. The police court parade is a daily spectacle. and we | don’t pay much attentton to it. We should. It v.oule, help us to realize what a long way we have yet to go before our world will be what it ought to be. Our Biggest Problem Automobile casualties this year are far above last year's | according to preliminary estimates made by the U. 5S. Census Bureau. The national death toll for the year is lable to reach 27,000. With 2,500,000 automobiles added | to our traffic stream during the year, the situation con-| | tinues to grow worse—and nothing effective is being donc | | about it. | | Nothing in all American life is more astounding than; | the complacent way in which we take our traffic fatal- ities. If some epidemic should visit the country, taking 27,000 lives a year, with no prospect that it would end. we chould have state and federal appropriations to fight it. The whole nation would be alarmed. But we let our | automobiles kill that many and we do absolutely nothing | about it. { This thing is rapidly becoming the very bisgest prob- jem we face. It is far past time that we rolled up our! jsleeves and tackled it in earnest. That we have let it ' go so long is a burning disgrace to the nation. The Menace of Checkers The city of La Cross2, i Wisconsin, seems to be some- | whet like the city of Lynn, Mass.; that is, it evidenuly | hos a mayor who is fond aking unusual and peculiar | rules for the guidance of his fellow citizens. Lynn's mayor, you will remembor, passed all kinds of edicts regerding the length of women’s stiris and the like. Now the mayor of La Crocss—if press dispatches are to be believed—announces that checkers must not he played in public places. He has been nourishing a cam- paign against gambling, and he says that checkers isj potentially as bad a game as craps. Hence—no more i checkers in public. This is the first time we have heard that the playing of checkers could be an evil and immoral pestime. The people of La Crosse now know just how the people of Lynn have been feeling. The Army on the Job If you don't think that the Salvation Army was kept; busy this holiday season, glance at these figures, sul- mitted from the army's central headquarters in Chicago Something like 2,000,000 pounds of gifts were distributed in 275 cities ari towns in 11 middle-western states by the army's workers, Among them were the following: 100,000 pounds of toys, 6(#,000 pounds of potatoes, 360,000 apples, 120,000 dressed chickens, 180,000 oranges, 60,000; pounds of candy, 60,000 fruit cakes, 240,000 cans of milk. of bread, 60,000 pounds of coffee, 60.000 pounds of butter, 60,000 packages of crackers, and some 400,000 pieces of| wearing apparel. i All of which would seem to indicate that the old | reliable Salvation Army was very much on the job. Edito No Christmas Trees for Soviet Children (Rochester Times-Union) ik Many wild stories have come out of Soviet Russia, but | there is nothing extravagant in the report that the Sovie: | = Union is determined to abolish religion and all its works. The latest pronunciamento wipes Christmas off the calendar, No outward observance of the festival is per- mitted. No toys are displayed for sale, no Yuletide | articles, no decorated trees and no public concerts or | E festivals. Children are taken to anti-religious movies and | atheistic celebrations. | This is of a part with the whole Communist program. Whether the leaders detest religion as much as they say, | or whether (as has been reported) their blow at religion | 1 Comment cannot say. The facts are that organized atheism is strong in Russia. ** * One marvels at the faith o: the Russian leaders in no faith! * * * i The Russian leaders have made a few bad gucssc to date, and this appears to be another. Are they for getting that the church did not make religion, but vice versa? Are they successfully to challenge the axiom that has never been disputed successfully hitherto—tha: | man is incurably religious? | | Keeping the Army Happy (Philadelphia Bulletin) | It 1s the ambition of any army worth its keep to be | efficient. Napoleon, who knew a lot about armies and what they should be able to do, noted that if they werc | to be first-class fighting machines they must eat regularly ' and sufficiently. What he said was that an army travels on its stomach, but even when an army is in camp or barracks the men keep asking, “When co we eat?” Regularity in meals, however, is not enough to keep | = ay army happy. The food served to it must be weil | cooked and palatable. And that is what the United | States army is going to be if its chiefs can make it so. Beginning next month all company officers of the Third | corps area, for a starter, will do duty as “cooks’ assistants” | for one month. Reveille for the “assistants” will be 2 a | m. in the bake shop. From that hour until 7 a. m. the | be-aproned officers will learn to kneed, roll and bake ; breed for twelve days. The balance of the month they | will be apprenticed to other cooks and if at the end of | their tour of duty they can’t qualify as blue rib- | § bon ches, they will be expected, at least, to have learned | § to know well cooked food from bad. | Heretofore, most officers just walked through their | company messes the same old questions about the food day after day and getting the same old replies. | ‘With a month’s experience in cocking it is be- | lieved they will know how food should be cooked. and, | moreover, they will be required to eat one meal a day in} the company mess, so that any readiness among them to become routine again will be discoura; Reserve Bank Law Has Loophole | (New Orleans Times-Picayune) | It is little short of astounding that the legal and Pennsylvania, bsereg? committee, has fathered the proposed changes In aw. The freak that has come to light is due to a failure of ‘Well, well, income taxes are get- |ting lower and lower. It’s going to be ® tough blow, however, for some of those charities usually listed on the regular March returns. There is a Fashion-of-the-Month jclub in New York. Apparently there are some people who actually a fashion can really be confined to such an interminable length of time. A three-gun man was arrested in New York the other day. Probably another result of the modern merger trend. i | Once there was a man who told another man what to do for a cold Aur ALAS. PLEASE DOT ASK ME To IS THE BOER WAR! IT WAS ALL SO HARROWING AND V'MEAN I “TH” Meuse ARGONNE, JAKE 7 w ~~ GOSH, THERE WAS AGO, WEREN'T You BERT 2? ~ OVER IN FRANCE ,WASAT iT 2 FRIGHTFUL, tT WILL |~~TeLL OL’ SITTING PAIN ME TO REVIVE 4, BULL HERE ABOUT IT/, «OF COURSE I(T WAS THE GHASTLY MEMORY mw AT THe time L WAS A HERO ~ BUT, EGAD ~ I NEVER hip a tie HUNDREDS OF “THOUSANDS OF US I THAT TAM AN ¢T RAINED UKE HECK # THATS WHERE LGorttis PIPE ~ L-“TRADED A HARMONICA FoR tte believe ; THIS HAS HAPPENED MRS. EMMA HOGART mate of MRS. RHODES? boa: strangled to DUNDEE, “cab” di ists POLICE Lt STRAWN. EMIL SEVIER, f mer bearder whom Mes. Hogarth accused of trying te rob her, is sought. BARKER, eb rom papers in trunk “that ¢ wh logan GRAVES rend of GRIFFIN, Sun fs calles, NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XL ORONER PRICE'S first half dozen questions brought out Bert Magnus’ story of Saturday night. As Dundee listened to the familiar tale he averted his eyes from the sight of Bert's suddenty old and ravaged face. The ama- teur escenario writer looked as ff he had passed through some ter- rible and blighting illness during the few hours since he had stood beside Cora Barker, singing in his surprisingly good tenor, “Drink to me only with thine eyes!” Occa- sionally, as be answered the coro- ner’s questions, his voice wavered, and be pressed the fingers of his uncrippled left hand into his temples as if trying desperately to remember things which bad now, in comparizon with the terrible tragedy of the night before, lost much of their meaning and im portance, When he told how he had be come so absorbed in the revision of his scenario, “More to Be Pitied,” that he had neglected to keep his appointment with Cora Barker, bis * voice broke, and tremblingly ne tcok off his glasses to wipe them, holding them awkwardly in his right hand, between the withered fingers and the thumb which bad escaped injury. “I realize,” he eaid unsteadily, “that if I had kept appoint: ment to meet Miss Barker at the theater last Saturday night, to take her to sepper after the last show, she would not have hed occasion to go into Mrs. Hogarth’s room and would not bave become involved tp the case as a material witness.” There was a rising murmur of excitement, punctuated by sharp exclamations from reporters, wit- messes, and the audience of mor bidly curious. For this was the first news the public had had that Cora Barker had been in the mur- dered woman's room after the ¢rime was committed. Dr. Price looked somewhat non- @)and the other man followed instruc- BARBS | ee owes And the cold was @|cu make it seem almost impossible that ‘anybody ever could be arrested for ‘selling liquor on the strength of such evidence. east in winter from California and ‘suddenly was stricken dumb. He did the only thing left for him to do, of [Sourse-—he: killed himself. (Copyright, 1930, NEA Service, Inc.) fires in 1928 five times more than the | Miss Barker told you,” Dr. Price Some of the Christmas drinks Once there was a man who came ——_________ ——_ Quotations | ‘The United States lost in conan | RAvenging ©.1929 by NEA Service, Plussed at the unsolicited revela- tion, but asked bis mext question quietly: “Did Miss Barker confide in you concerning ber visit to Mrs. Ho- garth’s room after the murder?” “She did—as we were walking together to the Little Queen thea- ter on Monday night,” Magnus an- swered, huskily.” “Please tell the jury as nearly as you can remember just what directed, after pounding with his gavel for order in the excited audi- ence, eee ERT MAGNUS restored his pince nez to his nose, touched his little reddish wustache with trembling: fingers, then answered in a low voice that was frequently shaken with emotion: “Cora—Miss Barker—told me she wanted me to know exactly why she had been held‘as a material witness, She said she had been engaged, in May, to Emil Sevier, ;and that she had broken the en: gagement when Sevier had impor- tuned her to belp bim rob Mrs. Hogarth. She had once been a trained nurse and Sevier wanted her to administer a small dose of chloroform to Mrs. Hogarth, +o in- sure her being deeply asleep while the two of them searched her room for the hidden money, As | said, Cora refused, and broke the en- gagement, but, she admitted trank- ly, Mra. Hogarth had seen Sevier leaving Cora’s room by the window on the night of May 18—or rather at two o'clock in the morning ot May 19. When I failed to meet her last Saturday night, she became obsessed with the fear that I had met Mrs. Hogarth and that she had told me this bit of scandal against Cora.” “And had you met Mra. Ho garth?” Dr. Price interrupted. “I bave already told you that I never met or spoke to Mrs. Ho- garth in my life,” Bert answered with quiet emphasis. “Very well, Mr. Magnus. Now, why was Miss Barker so concerned over the possibility of your having heard this scandal from Mrs. Ho- garth?” Magnus flushed, but ‘raised bis head proudly. “She—valued my good opinion of her.” “Go on!” Price directed curtly, but not unkindly. “As I said, it was fear that Mrs. Hogarth had gossiped against her to me which made Cors decide to question Mrs. Hogarth when she returned from the theater at 10 minutes after 12 Saturday night. She told me that she knocked on Mra. Hogarth'’s door, after having seen that. the light was still on, and that when she received no an- er she tried the knob and found ie door unlocked. She entered and found Mrs. Hogarth dead.” “Did Miss Barker tell you, in confidence, anything to implicate Sevier or anyone else, beyond the fact that Sevier had asked her help in robbing Mrs. Hogarth?” “No, except that he again asked her that Saturday night, and she again refused.” “She did not tell you that she saw Sevier in the room or at the window on the porch?” man forest.”—1 eee “Sex should be fied."—Bernarr MacFadden. zs ® “I do believe in the Flood. I had Noah’s ark as a small boy, but Dean of Peterborough. * * cost of maintaining the whole Ger- . William H. Moore. put in its proper place. It should be extolled and dei- never believed in Mr. Noah.”—The cises. The strap serves feet in position, and the board gives them @ two or three a I * “Women are getting dumber as they “You can’t mix a career and do— mesticity.”—Mrs. Frederick McLaugh- in (rene Castle). Ince, “She did not. I feel sure she 418 not know any ‘more. than she told me,” Ifagnus answered, with a note of pride and faith in his sbak- en voice, “Now, Mr. Magnus, you were in privi conversation with Miss Barker again on Tuesday evening.” Dr. Price continued, and the eudi- ence held its breath. “Will you tell the jury the gist of that con- versation?” | “Yes!" and Bert's voice rang with sorrowing rage. “She said she would sleep more easily it she knew Emil Sevier was safe behind bars—that her dreams were haunt- ed by fears of his coming to avenge himself upon her for the littl had told the police against him. eee T= close-packed audience was suddenly as still as if the wings of death“had swept over it. Dundee, “I—it was of an extremely pri-| sitting between Norma Paige and vate nature,” Magnus protested. Daisy Shepherd, saw both girls “I am afraid {it can be private| shiver and huddle lower into their no longer, and 1 must ask you to| seats. answer the question fully and “Did she definitely say that she frankly,” Dr. Price replied with) had cause to believe Sevier would firm but kindly emphasis. eee kill her?” Dr. Price asked at last. “Not in so many words. I have DUNDEE. who had been an/repeated what she said as nearly eaverdropping and unsuspected | as I can remember,” Bert answered, witness to part of that conversation, | bis voice breaking. Then, “I begged leaned forward and listened intent-| ber to tell her fears to the police, ly as Magnus answered, unhesi- tatingly: “Cora played the piano—we were all im the Rhodes House parlor— and 1 sang, and—and then we talked, Cora and 1. She told me the had been very unhappy—” He was Soundering hopelessly, and Dundee sympathized with his dilemma. How could any man be expected to repeat the tender in- timacies which he had overheard between Cora and Bert—the shy half promises, made more by eyes than by lips? : harshly, and tacles to wipe the moisture from the lenses, “{ will ask you, Mr. Magnus, if-you and Miss Barker became to engaged be married, during that conversation yesterday evening?” A dull red epread over Bert Mag: nus’ chubby, plain face, but his! eyes were steady and bis voice un- faltering as he answered: “Not exactly, in so many words, but I intimated very plainly to Cora that-when this bad business —meaning the Mogarth case, of course—was cleared up, and was free to go where she I would have something to her. As a matter of fact, [ I did not even complete the sen. tence, but’ Cora understood, and— and we were very happy, looking forward to @ future of which we could not even talk until—until—” “I understand,” the coroner cut in hastily. “Now, Mr. Magnus, did Mies Barker tell you whv she bad been so unhappy?” Dundee leaned forward tonsely. Was going to introduce Jewel Briggs’ name? He remem bered “very clearly that Cora bad cried: “Then you didn't mean what you said to Jewel” - ‘Then he settled back in his chair, undecided whether to be disap pointed that the small Pepogis con: that Cora was sad and humiliated lover her arrest as @ material wit-| Bring in Emil Sevier,” Dr. Price ness, and over the gossip connect: | directed, turning brusquely to a patrolman stationed at a door lead- to ask for protection until Sevier was caught. But she refused.” “Did Miss Barker tell you that she believed Sevier to #2 guilty?” “She did not express such a be Hef, but I know she was afraid it was true, She was a—loyal friend. even to a man like Sevier,” Bert answered huskily. “I understand then, Mr. Magnus, that you beard nothing, saw noth- ing until you opened your door about half past four this morning and saw the stretcher being car- “Will you tell the jury what you said then—the words you addressed to the dead woman when you knew it was her body on the atretcher?” “I—" Magnus began, then bowed his head in his bands, his shoul- ders heaving. “I will ask it these are the words you spoke, Mr. Magnus,” and the coroner selected a sheet of young Brede’s notes and read aloud: “My Door darling! If you had only let me watch outside your windows, as I wanted to—'"” “Yes, that ie what I said,” Mag. spoke from behind his shield hands. “I bad told Cora, as @ upstairs together, that if re really afraid of Sevier, 1 stand guard over her. She refused, said there must be no nad ecandal against ber in that “Now, Mr. Magnus, can you tell what awakened you at half-past four this morning?” “Ne—I—I really have no tdea,” “I dislike the word ‘premonition,’ but I woke, terrified, sure that something dread- ful had happened, It is possible, of course, that I was subconscious- ly aware of the entry of the police and of the low-spoken conversation of the officers. But I can now re call no definite noise that awak- As I have told you, 1 sleep about midnight, and awaken at all until halt. pr. is all, Mr. jus—and of mvself and this jury? ... SLANTING BOARD EXERCISES | crease the 1 xtend to you the sympathy al umber of times each day | become stronger. #8 good place to keep the board ts "| under your bed so it will be conven- fent to use. Whether you are troubl- ——$<—<—<—$——$——— , McCoy will gladly answer peed questions on health and diet addressed to tim, care of ‘The Tribune. Enclose a stamped addressed envelope for reply. ed with constipation or with a her- nia, it is a good practice to use these exercises two or three times daily, producing great benefit in any case j where any of the abdominal organs, such as the intestine, womb or sto- mach has prolapsed. In many cases, even where adhesions have formed, this exercise, if used continually, will result in a loosening of the adhesions and improvement of the entire func- tioning of the abdominal organs. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Hypererythrocythemia) Question: ©. M. writes: “My doc- tor tells me there is nothing that can cure hypererythrocythemia, from which I am suffering, as the cause is not known. What is your advice?” ‘Answer: Hypererythrocythemia is the name given a condition which ex- ‘Try | ists in certain people where there is an increase in the number of red blood cells over the normal. My re- searches have shown that such an extra amount of red cells is produced through a definite irritation of the nervous system, including the brain and spinal cord. Such irritation is apparently caused by some simple toxemia, as it can be very casily cured. Out of many cases treated, I hhave never seen one that did not re- spond very quickly to a fast of a few days. Have your blood count taken at some responsible laborator, then ‘stop all food for at least five days (ex- cept fruit juice and water) and then hhave another blood count made. You will find the blood cells reduced to normal, or very close to it. If not quite normal after the five days’ fast continue the fast for a few days more. A correct diet afterwards will prevent any recurrence of the toxema which is apparently responsible. (Reducing) Question: Mrs. Jay writes: “I have been told that a rolling pin is good for reducing. Another friend says that this method is very injur- fous. Is it. or is it not? Iam 5 fect, 5 inches tall, 32 years old, and weigh 126 pounds. Am I underweight or overweight?” Answer: The only correct way to reduce is through diet and exercise. Mascage with a rolling pin is not very effective, and only tends to break down the cellular structure. Your weight, for your age and height, seems to me to be about normal ~ ae 1930, The Bell Syndicaic, inc.) feet FEDERAL FARM FACTS A four-point drop in the general level of prices was experienced be- tween Oct. 15 and Nov. 15 of this year Insects caused the U. 8. Bureau of Entomology quite a lot of trouble this year and research was conducted by the department in an effort to ex- was probably the first arti- ficlally concocted human drink. The tea habit in China dates back 4,700 FLAPPER FANNY SAYS. P42. U. 8. PAY.OFT. People who wented for | | thoy Rot just what thes ee still find plenty