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TIAD Clafre's invitation tn irnrh
IL been anything but a trick 20
insure her absence from the studio
while II was being broken intol III
wouldn't have been necessary TO do
that, and Claire probably knew Il.
Max Lewis knew H. anyhow, for
Babe had told him the night he
brought her home that she and
Rhoda worked All day nc the News.
and that Doris and Isabel were or
on q tour with their ballet No.
Claire had asked her 70 lunch In
order to find ont something.
What could she have found outf
Not much, certainly. Rhoda was
sure she hadn't told anything i'm
portant. Wait a minute, though !
She had said that none Of her IA
theirs papers had been destroyed.
There was N whole trunk full az
them. she'd said. and she had sealed
I'D the trunk In other words. she'd
volunteered the fact-fooll Silly.
babhling fool that a sealed-up
trunk was the thing TO look for.
But had she said that II was n
the studiof She couldn't remem
Der having said that I'm 80 manv
words. but she must have admitted
Il BY inference. since Claire had
suggested coming home with her
and helping In the search for the
paper she wanted. Had Claire ex-
pected her 10 accept an offer like
thatf Probably not very seriously.
but she mighE have regarded Il as
a chance worth taking. Anyhow,
X hadn't been until after Rhoda had
declined this offer. giving away
her own suspicion. 10 doubt hand
over ist-thaf Claire had remem
bered the friend who was waiting
for her 10 telephone.
fTo BE coETrNUEDl
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-05

happen-somethIng like this III
had taken ITS first vague nightmare
form when, as q child OF fourteen.
she'd read In the paper about an
other trial under the Mann act. IL
had been n fear or finding some
thing that would give form and
body 10 this nightmare thar had
kept her from going over tie pa
pers in the old leather trunk the
day after her father died One Of
the first things she had done after
her fight from the hotel. It'd I'D the
little haI bedroom or her frst
boarding house. had been 70 seal
that trunk with strips Of gummed
paper all around the lid
Her fathers dying reference to
his papers prevented her from de-
stroying the thing. After the bur.
glary she'd looked at II to make
sure 1t was u~ndIsturbed. but az that
time. preoccupied By the loss OF her
three hundred dollars, she hadn't
thought much about II.
Up to now. until she heard Claire
Cleveland pronounce the word Cali
fornia, she'd been able In her sensl-
bic moments to remind herself that
all she'd ever seen IN the trunk had
been laboratory notes and dEa.
grams, 20 argue that I'm NIL pruba-
bility II contained nothing else, and
TO promise herself that some day
she would open 1t up. 90 through It
methodicany. and make an end OF
her nightmare once and for all
But now the nightmare was true
These peopie-cerfainly Claire. and
probably Forster and his nephew
had their connection with her IA
Their back In the days Of the hor.
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ror and for some unthInkahIe pur-
pose or their own. wanted the thing
dug up.
She sat there frozen. II was
seconds before she could even turn
her eyes from the woman's horrible
face.
-You know about Il. don't your
Claire was saying. You must know
something about Il. Why, there
wasn't hardly anything else In the
papers az the time-especially the
San Francisco papers You don't
want 10 take n thing like that too
hard. dearie."
At that Rhoda managed TO drag
her hypnotized eyes away and turn
them on her empty coffee cup.
"Of course. to hear people talk
dirty hypocrites-you'd think "A
thing like that had never hap
pened before. It's happening All
the time. only they didn't happen
TO get caught You must know
yourself that q good looking girl
could get any man IN she wanted
him; practically any man. They're
funny that way-most men are But
your father I think they
put something over on him. OF
course" she FASTENED TO add. II
wouldn't want to be held 60 any
thing I couldn't prove. and natu-
rally ! couldn't prove one single
thing about this. But II there
was q niger in the woodpile. Il
was this man Forster. And yon
a play that right across the board.
There's no way that you could get
back at him that 7 can see. be-
cause II was all over and done long
ago. But there's one thing you
a do. and that's lay or from him
II he tries 10 come around
Rhoda heard her move her chair
back "A little and that broke the
spell. CHANGING up she saw the
woman gazing thoughtfully at her
watch.
"Well. I guess I've had nv say"
she concluded. "And I know you
must be wanting to run along. I'm
going 70 order q taxi I can't take
you anywhere IN II. can II" She
hadn't quite said her say. though.
for as she rose to leave the table
she added. "You won't forget 10
look up that paper OF mine. will
you. dearieT"
Despite her panic. Rhoda was
able TO note that this had been a
clear afterthought and not a CON-
piete one. either. Claire hadn't told
her where she lived.
Rhoda went home. She didn't
known how she got there. Nor did
she plan what she'd do when she
did. She had no clear expectation
OF what she'd find. But by the time
she had climbed the long fight az
stairs and let herself into the studio
with her latchkey and flown straight
up to her little bedroom in the loft
and looked under the bed, she was
not really surprised TO see that
the trunk was gone
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-05

Pierre Laval IS the prime minister Of France. He
was confirmed as the herd OF the government by
the chamber OF deputies in two test votes. lie is a
butchers son and one Of the youngest of France
prime ministers. Before his confirmation he asked
for peace among the political groups 50 he might
carry on the business Of France without interruption
or political pickering. James Ramsay Macdonald IS
the prime minister Of Great Britain. He was born a
mmone battled his way from poverty to the
top. Now a butchers son Is prime minister Of the
land or Lafayette. A shoemaker was the first presi-
dent OF the German republic. a backsmith's son IS
the dictator Of Italy. II appears that the king game
is dead and that 'the God anointed ones" are disap-
pearing from the surface OF the earth. i democracy
dead the world over? Why ask the foolish question:
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Island they cannot be any more
particular about immediate graves
than can men In war time. They
are dumped $50 AZ q time into q
hole in the ground-and that Is ALI
Another hole is dug and awaits
the coming or another 1907
Harris Ia "A somewhat braky is-
land, and there's q sandy Hill
where the burial ground has been
arranged. As near as New York
can BE- said To have m Potter'S Field
this IN iti
And just ~ the bright and shin
ing yachts lie at anchor down the
river. Harris Island looks across AZ
the homes Of the richest folk OF
Manhattan-on the milllonaires'
castles and mAnOrs OF Great Neck
and Sandy Point.
With the aid or "a spy glass one
can look from Harris Island and
see the suburbanites at tennis
you car see the shrubs and trees
tossing on the wind the color
full sweaters and the rOlnrful dress
es. On the other hand. stand
on the shores OF the estates. It's
possible 10 be reminded OF the
nameless dead by the melancholy
droning Of a b~ell-buoy which clangs
an endless dirEe.
Now ard then they'll tell yuel
at the island of IA mother. w sister.
or a son who come and ask
asking questions and going away.
II. Going away never sure.
Maybe this was their lost one?
Maybe. . . For are there
not 1000 unknown lost ones each
year.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-05

NEW YORK. Feb. SIN an un-
noticed second ol a great city's
routine. some cf the grimmest
scenes are stage.
Thus, In the East River there Is
a spot where. If the weather Is fair.
the yachts OF the rich lie at anchor.
They are polished cloud-white and
their braSseS gliSten til the sun. On
deck gay folk sit beneath gay avn
ings and sip at cocktails or tea.
Voices raised IN chatter or laughter
drift ashore.
And thus. on the East River.
furnishing a shore line background
IL Bellevue Hospital. Manhattan's
city hospital. From one point upon
the hospital grounds a pier extends
into the river. From the pier a
boat leaves each day. and the
weather does not matter. And this
boat churns past the gay yachts
with their gilt and white. and goes
imperscnally upon It's way.
It is taking the daily cargo Of
unknown dead Of a great city 70
unmarked graves
Some days TX takes 10. and some
days III takes DO. The average is
around $50 n week: some 1000 n
year. Seven thousand persons who
can disappear. yet nobody knows
and nobody cares Seven thousand
men and women without names:
without identities: without homes.
Incredible as II max seem, this
happens year IN and year out.
II one mar disappears or one
woman disappears. an entire city
is asked To take IT'D the hunt. But
1000 can drop out OF sight-and
who kn0ws7
They are the John Does and the
Jane Roes found dead in guttersl
The vast army of unknowns YOU
find budding In doorways on blus-
terry nights They're the men who
fill the l0-cent flop houses and
drink the fatal smoke" or Bowery
joints. They're the men who have
deliberately erased the past In one
way or another: torn an old iden-
tity from themselves and drifted
into complete anonymity.
These are n great citv's beach,
combers-and a metropolis has
beachcombers as surely as any fab
ulous South Sea island. You'll see
them in the dark Of nights proving
like stray cats among the city's
garbage cans.
But when the little boat leaves
the Bellevue wharf. a score Of them
90 to ar unmarked grave. This
Is "A general burylng ground they
call Harris Island, And ON Harris
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-05
A Deadlock on the Muscle
Shoals Bill

Muscle Shoals cost the American people s25oy0ooooo
Now the Norris plan has been ditched. There Is a
deadlock OF senate and house c~onferees and the dis
posal Of this vast plant built by the people viii go over
TO the new congress. The issue is government direc-
ticn or private control and direction with the Ala
bama Power company the winner In the game % Car
as the game has been played.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-05
Brownsville Has:

i "A population in 1881 Of over $4,000.
z A mean average temperature OF
3 Bank deposits. $1,000 .000.
4 -Four railroads, seven paved highways.
D. International airport. five air lines.
g. A S6.OO0.O0O deep water port financed
= The best climate. soil In the world.
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sILENcE

How quietly our new maid
moves about said the husband.
You wouldn't think she waS in
the house.
She isn't" came the wife's re-
ply. She left this morning
answers.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-05

President Hoover IS urging that steps be taken at
once to prevent further breaks in Niagara Falls. but
it will be just his luck to get up some morning ana
find they have disappeared entirely.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-05

Well, the New York court holds that a Judge may
indulge in heavy stock market operations without
cheapering the bench. II is understood. however. that
the use Of tickers rs standard equipment in any court
i frowned on.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-05

An American woman has ordered the largest pri-
vate yacht in the world. You can get an idea how
business is BY observing whether or not J. p. Morgan
and Vincent Astor let her get away with IL.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-05

six Rear Admirals and Major General To TT,
Butler. headline. Surrounded
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-05

BY the way, how does It happen that nobody has SC
far blamed that Niagara Falls break on the Reds"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-05

Chicago has notified ali city workers that IL has
no money to pay their salaries this week. How about
getting a loan from the police?
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-05

Copyright. 1881, BY The Associated Newspapers)
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-10-19
SIOUX CITY

Sioux City, Iowa, Oct. 19.-(F-U.
8. Dep Agr)-Cattle, $4,000; calves,
1,5O0. Better grade beef steers and
yearlings steady: others slow; fat she
stock uneven, little changed; bulls
weak to Is cents lower; vealers. so
cents lower; good and choice stockers
mostly steady: others draggy, weak:
choice heavy beeves $3.50; best year.
hngs and matured steers held above
$9.75; plain short feds and grassy
kinds down to $500 and below: grass
fat heifers up to $5.25; bulk beef cows
$3.25-4.00; choice light stockers $6.25;
best heavies $500; bulk eligible
around $4.00-5.75; choice mixed calves
held above $6.75; early sales feeding
heifers $5.25 down; practical vealer
top $3.50; medium bulls $3.50 down.
Hogs, 1000; fairly active, mostly TO-
IS cents higher than Saturday; top
$5.15 for around 240 pound averages;
most early sales l80 300 pound
weights $4.75-5.lo: odd lots 140-l70
pound weights $4.25-4.75; packing
sows mainly $4.35-4.75; extreme heavy
and rough kinds $4.25 down.
Sheep, $4,000, including $500 billed
through; fat lambs opening Is so
cents lower; few good grade range
killers $5.25, talking $500 for best Of
ferings; sheep steady: fat ewes quot
ed to $2.25; few solid mouth ewes
$3.50: feeders firm; four loads around
5000 pound weights $4.25-4.50; best
held higher, qouted to $4.75.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-10-19
CHICAGO

Chicago, Oct. 19.-tR-U. 8. Dep
Agr.)-Hogs, $1,000 including 10000
direct; 1920 above Friday; 10000
lbs. $5.40-5.6O; top $3.50; 10000 lbs.
$5.10-5.40; pigs $4.75-5.25; packing
sows $4.75-5.25. Light light, good and
choice 14o-160 lbs, $5.00-5.25; light
weight 10000 lbs, $5.10-5.40; medi-
UNI weight 2oO-25O lbs, $5.25-5.60:
heavyweight 250-350 lbs, $5.25-5.60;
packing sows, medium to good 275-5o0
lbs, 44.75-5.25; slaughter pigs. good
and choice 100-130 lbs. S4.50-5.25.
Cattle, $4,000; calves, 5000; good
and choice fed steers and yearlings
strong to Is. mostly 1915 higher; ac-
tive at advance: top weighty steers
5000; yeariings $10.50; numerous
loads all representative weights $9.25-
1925; common and medium grades
including western grassers steady:
she stock mostly steady; vealers Soc
500 lower. Slaughter cattle and
vealers: Steers. good and choice GEO.
900 lbs, $775-1050; 900-110O lbs ],
$7.75-10.60; 11OO-l3OO lbs. $8O0-10.75:
l30O-l50O lbs. $7.75-1075; common
and medium 6O0-13O0 lbs, $400-8.00;
heifers, good and choice 550-950 lbs,
$6.75-1O.OO; common and medium
S3.00-6.75; COWS. good and choice
| $4.25-5.75: common ard medium
$3.5O-4.25. Low cutter and cutter
$2.25-3.50; bulls tyeaclings excluded,
good and choice (beef) S4.25-5.25:
cutter to medium $3.25-4.40; vealers
milk fed) good and choice $7.75-
900; medium $s.50-775; Gull and
common s5.O0-S50. Stcc.ser and feed
] er cattle: Steers. good and choice
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-10-19
Little Movie Star
Will Give Dog Away

Jean Darling. who will appear at
the Paramount Theatre here for three
days, starting Thursday, has a puppy
which she will give away to some
lucky youngster of the Bismarck
area.
Jean. petite star of Our Gang
comedies. is on tour and has acquired
the puppy in her travels and prompt
ly fell in love with 1t. but has found
1t too much of an inconvience for a
traveller AS a result, Jean has de-
cided to give the dog away when she
reaches Bismarck
She wants all children in Bismarck
to send her letters, in care OF the
Paramount, telling why they would
like to have her puppy and what kind
OF home they could give 1t. Letters
must be at the Paramount by Thurs
day morning when they will be deliv-
cred to Jean.
From the list of applicants she will
select the one to whom the dog will
be presented at the matinee Thurs
day afternoon.
She also will give to each child at
tending the matinee a Velvet Ice
cream bar.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-10-19
Livestock
SO. ST. PAUL LIVESTOCK

South st. Paul. Oct l9.-(P)-(U. ..
Dep. Agr.)-Cattle, 10000; opening
very slow. undertone weak to lower
both on killer and feeder accounts;
general quality relatively plain; bulk
grass steers salable $5.00-6.00; moder-
ate showing better grades Saturday
at $6.15-6.25; best weighty kinds to-
day held above $3.50; hulk beef cows
$3.O0-4O0; slow; heifers dull; 1926
4.50; few better westerns up to s5.25;
cutters showing little change: bulk all
grades $2O0-30O: bulls dull, $3.75 and
down; practically nothing done on
feeders and stockers.
Calves, 5000; vealerS steady with
Saturdays so cent downturn; medi-
um to choice grades $5.50-7.50.
Hogs, $1,000; fairly active, steady to
strong with last weeks close; better
grades 10000 lbs. S4.75-4.85; top
$4.85; 150-1S0 lbs, $4.50-475; packing
sows $4.00-4.50; and pigs at $4.25-
4.50: average cost Saturday $4.62;
weight 1872 pounds; for week average
cost $4.71: weight 204 pounds.
Sheep $4,000; no early sales on fat
lambs; underlone weak to lower: few
throwouts $3.50 400; fat ewes $150
down; range feeding lambs $4.25-475;
about steady; Saturdays top on range
feeding lambs $500.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-10-19
SECURITIES MARKET
OPENS SLUGG|SHLY
But MOUNTS LATER
Firming Of Copper Shares Has
Effect Of Strengthening
Entire List

New York, lOct. 19.-iP)-The long
neglected copper shares were brought
out and polished up In Mondays
stock market, presumably in antici-
patton Of the international conference
Of producers expected to convene In
New York late this week.
Securities markets generally began
the new week sluggishly. with stocks
drifting little lower for time. as
rails turned rather heavy. probably
reflecting the lack Of an Interstate
Commerce Commission decision over
the week end on the freight rate
plea. Firming Of the red meta!
shares, however, stiffened virtually
the entire list after midday.
Advances of a point or more ap-
peared in such issues as Anaconda.
Kennecott, American Smelling. Nor
anea, CRANKY, Howe Sound, and U. s.
Smelling. In the rails, losses of a
point or two were registered In Santa
Fe. New York Central, Baltimore and
Ohio and Union Pacific. Morning
losses of a point or two In such issues
as American Telephone, American
Can, u. s. Steel, Eastman. and West
inghouse were later regained.
Wall Street appeared chiefly inter-
ested in the arrival Of Premier Laval
of France later in the week, for his
conference with President Hoover.
Changes were narrow at the fin
ish with some issues up to 2 points
The turnover was only about a mil
lion shares, the smallest in month
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-10-19
MINNEAPOLIS FUTURES
OPEN EASY; GAIN LATER

Minneapolis, Oct. 19.-R-The To-
cal market opened easy and listlessly
but gained support on talk of France
buying more than $4,000 900 bushels of
farm board wheat and noticeable
decrease in North american visible
supplies. Toward the end there was
good mill buying of May futures.
December wheat futures closed 10
higher and May Ac higher.
There was no trade in corn flu
lures. Oats rallied a small fraction
with trade light. Rye opened weak
but recovered lost ground. Barley
trade was light with prices virtually
unchanged.
Cash wheat tone was sluggish with
prices about the same. Winter wheat
demand was fair to good. Durum was
sluggish except for a few cars Of
choice milling amber.
Cash corn demand was good and Of
fers light. Oats demand was fair to
good. Rye demand was unchanged
Barley demand was better and med
ium grades strong to 1c higher. Flax
demand was quiet except for choice
grades.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-10-19
PRICES OF WHEAT
AND RYE BOOSTED
ON CHICAGO MART
Buying Of Bread-Crain Futures
Is in Larger Volume
Than Usual

Chicago. Oct. 19.-(F)-Wheat and
rye rose late Monday to fresh high
price records tor the season. General
buying OF wheat future deliveries was
Of larger volume than has recently
been the rule.
Officials Of the Grain Sterilization
corporation said they knew nothing
OF rumored forthcoming proposal
from France to purchase United
States government-sponsored wheat
holdings. The United States visible
supply total decreased $4,000 BUSH
els for the week, making the total
227 ,005 900 bushels against 202, ,043 900
a year ago.
Wheat closed strong, 1918 cents
higher, Dec. $685., May 57h-ss.
Corn %-la up, Dec. 367s -37. May
ASS. Oats MS advanced, >and
provisions unchanged to rise of is
cents.
Tending at times to impair
strength to wheat was Paris cable
saying the French govern m t,
through the Laval commission, would
negotiate for purchase of American
farm board wheat, and that it was
thought the amount would exceed
so 900 900 bushels. Efforts, however,
to confirm the report were without
avail, and nervous fluctuations re-
suited, with the market later steady
ing about unchanged from Saturday.
The total of wheat afloat for Europe
showed an increase of 432, 900 bushels
In the last week. but remained almost
5000 900 bushels less than at this
time last year.
Wheat bulls put stress on a dis
patch from q European continental
grain ho,3e to a Chicago exporter as
serting the general European situa-
ton was improved. It was added
that the Danube region was offering
but little wheat and that Russia was
not pressing whea4 sales. There were
also advices that the potato crop in
France had been damaged Is per
cent, Corn and oats followed wheat
market changes.
Provisions responded to upturns il,
hogs.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-10-19
Houses and Flats

FOR RENT New modern roor,
mouse, with garage. Very reason
able. Phone 754-W or 546.
FOR RENT-Modern five room flat
Onfurnished. very desirable. sis
sixth st. Harvey Harris g. Co.
FOR RENT-strictly modern duniex
l,hree large rooms. Call at 902 7th
street.
FOR RENT-Seven room modern
mouse, hot air heat. Outside garage.
Call at 100 Washington st.
FOR RENT-Three room house A.
SIG; room modern bungalow. close
IN, reasonable rent; 6 room partly
modern bungalow at $25; 4 room
partly modern bungalow, and 7
room modern house. including 4 bed
rooms. well located; want to buv
second hand coal heater. Geo. NJ
Register.
FOR RENT = Seven room house
modern, GIT Front street. Phone
390. Garrison's Second-H H n d
Store.
FOR RENT-Duplex with GARAGE
located at 83l Fourth street. Will
be vacant November lst. Nav be
seen any time. Inquire at Sweet
Shop.
FOR RENT-six room modern house
at 1O14 9Th st. Phone 1891 or cali
at 1910 4th st.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-10-19
WASHINGTON TO INVOKE
KELLOGG-BRIAND PACT

Washington, Oct. TO- R- The
American government will join In
invoking the Kellogg-Briand pact to
stop Chinese-Japanese hostilities In
Manchuria, but is carefully refrain
ing from taking a leading role.
This country's peace making ef-
forts previously have brought accusa-
tions of "meddling" from japanese
military quarters. The American
representative in the League of Ma
tons council room, where the Man.
churian trouble is being considered,
holds his seat over the objections Of
Japan.
In view of this, the United States
chose not to join with the five lead
ing European nations in taking the
first step to invoke the pact. This
step consisted Of identical notes to
China and Japan, sent last Saturday
night by Great Britain. France.
Italy, Germany and Spain. The