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PAGE EIGHT MONEY VALUE OF BUSINESS SHOW GAIN All Lines c:f Trade in Phis District on I parade. Report States Fnrpo, N I’, July 11 r ll> • • money value of I• u• me -> trail ;i<■ 1 1* *1 in seventeen rep re enlntive citie- <>! the Ninth l , 'eder:il 1!< "t 1* * trie’ linrirur June wa- per c Mil r.rente: ft-*->n in lt)i> ‘•;ime vm'il'l n c T :i"e and made a nout record for t.hi"inth. says the preliminury report <>‘ tin- Minneapolis l-’ederal Ke-er.u- haul . released today. Ihe phv ical volcne nf business as in l !ic;«t«*<l bv railwa rarloadinps was f> per cent yn.ite: in the first two week, of June than in the corresponding period a 'eat the report '•tutc. “Reports so far re-s-ive l show in creases as eotni'Jired with a year a ,r o in retail trade, k’nim market in;;. prain prices and future stiles, cattle teceipt at. terminal markets and livestock prices, shipments of feeder livestock, iron ore. flour and linseed pro'hirt . and carloudinn-' of forest products, miscellaneous commodities and met chandise in less than carload lot . says the hank’s report 'drain stock at northwestern tc minal elevators were much larirer than a year atro with the exception of corn and rye. decreases as com pared with last year occurred in the marketing: of hogs and sheep. “As compared with a month airo. ' there was an unseasonably la rue in crease of '• per cent in the money value of business. Increases ochurreu in grain receipts and future sales, shipments of flour and linseeil prod ucts and carload itigs of forest prod nets, miscellaneous commodities and less-than-carload merchandise. !)<■- creases were reported for livestock receipts, shipments of iron ore and retail trade. “The valuation of building per mits issued during June at nine citie j was f.l per cent greater than the val nation in June a year ago and pc i cent greater than the valuation of: permits issued in May. I'.lUo. -Thi increase in June as compared with j May was contrary to the usual sea Sonal movement. “City hanks in this district experi | enced a fi per cent decline in com mcrcial loans and a f> per cent in : crease in demand <leposits during June. They increased their non-com 1 mercinl loans and enlarged their in t vestments and reserve funds. Ranks j c outside of Minneapolis and St. Paul 1 t increased their reserve funds and re- h duced their borrowings by small amounts. Federal reserve notes in h circulation expanded with the in -t crease in the volume of business.” I ! FACTORY GUARDS HIGH QUALITY OF CHRYSLER CAR “The thousands of dollars, which we spend for our laboratory equip ment, are really spent to assure ( hrysler owners years of cate free enjoyment and profit from their cars.” savs W. Ledyard Mitchell, vice president in charge of manufacturing of the Chrysler Motor Corporation. “We maintain a stall of trained chemists and metallurgists who keep a constant check on every piece of raw material purchased for the fabri cation of Chrysler parts. “After the raw material has start ed through the process of manufac ture it is constantly watched and inspected hv these specialists to de tect any flaw in the workmanship. Samples aje taken to the laboratories between operations and there sub mitted to various tests “You can. grasp some idea of the vigilance with which we guard Chrys ler quality from a few example-*, “We have machines for testing the hardness and the tensile strength of steel, anil the depth to which a part has been case-hardened. “Parts such as the propeller and rear axle shaft are subject to a constant, twist or ‘torque’ in service, therefore we have special and costly machines in which they are subject ed to far greater strains than is possible in actual operation. “We have ultra-violet ray equip ment to test the dye in the uphol stery material, and instruments which tost its strength both with and against the warp. We make* a ‘pocket’ of top material and allow water to stand in it for a long per iod of time to test its waterproof quality. “These are just a few examples and there are hundreds of other tests just as exacting and import ant to the owner. “It i* this extreme care which we exercise in our choice of material together with the thousands of in spections which the Chrysler receives it* '-nurse of manufacture that has helped the Chrysler attain i.ie supremacy il enjoys." We repair the Ford elec- I trical system with genu- I ine farts and thoroughly I skilled workmanship .Vo I rushed or “good enough” I work—only thoroughly de- I pendehle service in every I | ifjtail. Modest rharges. ■ “I’M GLAD HE’S DEAD,’’ SAYS YOUNG WOMAN BY ROY J. GIBBONS i NBA Service Wiiltr j Heaven City, 111., July 11.—(A s ) The romance that was horn where I the moon drops behind the listant curtain of the blue Ridge moun tains, has died in the down-at-the heels street of an Illinois village. So la-year old Nina Roundtree has lust, her faith and her hope, and thirty-odd members of the strange love cult “farm” here face investi gation of their activities by County Prosecutor A. 11. Prouse. Nina lived with her father in a “mountain white" settlement near Dabneys, Va. The father was HO and blind. When the moon swung down the sky beyond the blue wall to the west, Nina dreamed of the knight that would come titling some day to take her out to the outside world she had heard of. hut never seen. Nina Advertises Hut the knight never came. So Nina put an advertisement in a mat rimonial paper. It was the only way she knew. Her advertisement was answered by George Schofield. He was fiO and pudgy, but he took Nina away from her home in the mountains and brought her here. Now Heaven City was founded hy one “Dr." Albert .1. Moore. Moore left Chicago precipitately a couple of years ago, taking Mrs. W. W. Talcott with him. Mrs. Talcott’s husband had just killed himself because she would not give up her activities in Moore’s “Life Institute" in Chicago. Sixteen or seventeen men and women and a baker’s dozen of chil- Will The Chrysler Stand Up? If you don’t know already, read this letter and find out. It is only one of many. i Bismarck, N. D. April 15, 1925. Corwin Motor Co., Bismarck, N. D. Gentlemen: 1 want to tell you how much we appreciate the wonderful service we have been having from the Chrysler Brougham I purchased from you the first of last September. We drove this car out to the coast last fall, and the speedometer now l egisters over 19,000 miles. Not one cent has been spent to date on re pairs. We have not even replaced a spark plug or had to have the valves ground. The first tires ran 18,000 miics. They were Fisk balloons. The consumption of gas and oil was highly satisfactory. Gasoline mileage never ran below twenty miles to the gallon. We would drive the car 1,500 miles and then change oil. It is not necessary to add any oil at any other time. The Chrysler is a most comfortable road car, and is capable of being driven at a high rate of speed without discomfort to the passengers or damage to the mechanism. California is full of Chryslers, and on every side I heard nothing but the highest praise of the car. I have owned larger and more costly cars, but consider the Chrysler to be the best all around automobile I have ever seen. Sincerely yours, Name on request. dren were added to the colony. There arc a few decrepit buildings here on an unpaved street. The women sleep in a ramshackle hunk house, an'd the men occupy a smaller one. Some three or four of the lUO acres to the “farm” are under cul tivation. There- are a few beehives, a flock of goats, and wide stretches of weeds. The women work as nurses, sent out by a central agency in Chicago. Tim men do odd jobs. Earnings are all pooled. It was into this that Nina’s knight from beyond the mountains brought Iter. They were not married, as Scho field had a wife in a middlewestcrn c i t y. Then, the other day, Schofield boasted of his prowess as a boxer. Another member of the colony chal lenged him, and a match was ar rangod. Schofield was worsted at every turn. As Nina watched her gallant knight tear down the last shreds of the glamour she had tried to invest him with, she jumped into the ring herself. Heart Gives Way “Give me the gloves —I can beat him myself,” she said. So she chased Schofield about, pummeling him whenever she could overtake him until he collapsed. His weak heart had given way. He was dead. A coroner’s jury exonerated the girl, calling the death accidental. Hut "I am glad he is dead.” she said. “If he had not died I would have murdered him. “It was lonely living here with HERE ARE THE PRINCIPALS IN THE STRANGE TRAGEDY AT HEAVEN CITY. ABOVE, AT THE RIGHT. IS NINA ROUNDTREE, WHOSE LOVER, GEORGE SCHO FIELD. DIED WHILE BOXING WII’H HER. BESIDE HER IS “DR.” ALBERT J. MOORE, RULER OF THE LOVE CULT THERE. BELOW ARK MRS W. W. TALCOTT, WHO FLED FROM CHICAGO WITH MOORE, AND HER SON. nothing but poor white trash around and poverty. “He said he was rich. But he had a wife. He lied to me." And that’s all she will say. ON ficials have taken steps to return her to her home. Now all of this does not worry FOR RELIABLE INSURANCE Now is the time when you need Hail Insurance on CROPS. City Insurance Agency S. O. Leßarron, Mgr. ■ THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Moore, who does most of his talking through Mrs. Talcott. Nothing Improper “We have many guests here every year," she says. “We invite anyone who is interested in our teachings to stop with us. “Nothing improper in Schofield’s relations with Nina ever came to our attention.” Moore insists there is nothing to investigate. Golden Rule People “We believe in the golden rule here," he says. "We arc a free peo ple. We do whatever we choose, so long as it does not infringe on other people’s rights. “We worship God. W’e don’t, however, believe in death. Our heaven is right here. “The sad plight of Schofield could not be helped. But Schofield is not dead. He will he reborn and live an entirely different life.” Indisputably, though, one thing has died —something in Nina's girl ish heart that told her romance and a beautiful, gallant knight lay hid den behind the misty Blue Ridge. Graham Brothers Again Move Into Larger Factory Bi’«<nea« Growth of Prominent Truck Manufacturer Has Necessitated Nineteen Fold Increase in Man ufacturing Space in Detroit In Four Years. Following closely the information that Graham Brothers produced more 1 1-2-ton trucks than any other man ufacturer during the first quarter of 1925, and ranked second in the 1-ton and 1 1-2-ton fields combined, comes the announcement that their Detroit factory has again found it necessary to take greatly enlarged space. On June 18, it is also announced, Graham Brothers opened a new Pacif ic coast plant in Stockton, California. Including Graham Brothers, Canada, Ltd., this gives them four factories. The rapidity of Graham Brothers’ growth is clearly indicated by the * m • •• •• SQOOO Miles ZMeanJVothing fo This Cafs Great Engine 52 weeks to pay/ Gig mileage and long life are natural to the beautiful Willvs-Knight. The Wiilys-Knight sleeve-* valve engine has no carbon troubles* It never needs valve-grinding* All moving parts in this engine slide or rotate— with none of the concussion of metal pound ing on metal as in poppet valve engines* That’s why you’ll never wear it out! WILLY S KNIGHI Lahr Motor Sales Co; AH, AN ARGUMENT FOR EVOLUTION Coulf'i this actually be a prehistoric monkey about to slay a bear? W. T. Smith, how and arrow maker of San Francisco, refuses to tell how he got ‘this amazing picture, but contends that it proves conclusively how monkey and man descended from the same ancestors, learning that with science he could slay his foes. When a9ked if the setting was his own backyard, he refused to answer. repeated increases in their space re quirements—which have much more than doubled each year since 1921. The first Detroit plant, in 1921, had 13,000 square feet. During 1922 this was increased to 27,000 and during 1923 to 40,000. In May, 1923, they moved into a plant of 60,000 square feet, more advantageously located with respect to Dodge Brothers from whom they obtain the engine for their trucks. Soon, still more space was required. First, 36,000, then 50,- 000 more square feet were added, nnd on June Ist, 1925, another move gave them 250,000 square feet. Graham Brothers now have a space under one roof 400 feet by 600 feet in a steel and concrete building which was erected by Dodge Brothers dur- - O Ftmr-eyltnder models from $ 1295 lo $ I <595. Slx-cylinJer modtbfmm $1845 fo $2495, AD price* f. o. b. Toledo. Wt rue*** ih* fight to change price* and epadfkathne without node*. «—****— ■** ■ jm\**** '•mrw'i ing the winter of 1917 ns an ordnance plant for the manufacture of recoil mechanism for 155 millimeter French heavy guns. The new plant has been laid out for direct flow of materials, units and parts from the receiving docks through the various departments and stockrooms to the assembly lino with out any retracing or unnecessary handling. Materials from the railroad cars are unloaded on covered platforms 400 feet long by 40 feet wide ami conveyed down an aisle 24 feet wide by 540 feet long in the mnin building to the proper stockrooms cr depart ments. At the extreme end of this aisle and at right angles to it is the frame That’s why there are any number of Willys-Knight owners who have driven 30,000, 40,000 and 50,000 miles without spending a dollar for engine repairs* Another great reason for Wiilys-Knight <s popularity is its' freedom from vibration —thanks to this car having exclusive United States rights to the celebrated Lanchester Balancer* SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1925 assembly line. While the frame trav els a distance of 100 feet, wrong side up, on a conveyor, the necessary brackets arc hot riveted in place and the springs and front and rear axles are attached. . The frame is then taken by a small overhead conveyor, turned right side up, carried through an enamel spray nnd then through an enamel oven 200 feet long. The passage is timed at 30 minutes and the temperature is care fully controlled to insure proper bak ing of the durable, lustrous enamel. As the frame emerges from the oven it is picked up by another over head conveyor which takes it around a right angle turn and places it upon the final assembly conveyor. This conveyor is 400 feet long nnd travels about 4 feet per minute to produce 150 trucks per 9 hour day. During the first 100 feet the wheels with tires are mounted on the axles. Then, the chassis, still moved by the long chain, rolls onw'ard on its own wheels. With the regularity of clockwork the various units are placed in position and the various bolts nnd nyts *ee securely tightened with special pneumatic wrenches. Inspection of the assembly line in full swing shows clearly how, with increased production and adoption of the assembly methods of Dodge Brothers, it is possible for Graham Brothers to deliver such exceptional truck value at a low price. SAVE CHURCHYARD London—Gray’s famous church yard is to he preserved for posteri ty as the result of the raising of an endowment. Building operations have come to the very edge of the yard and an attempt was made to buy it for such purposes. More than $11,000,000,000 is in vested in the bituminous coal indus try in this country, according to government statistics. Coal Burns! Electricity Gives Heat! Oil Makes a Flame: But Gas is combusti ble. Use The Super-Fuel.