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V o 1 . ' - . s ' *Y ‘ 1—itariio transmitting and receiving set encased in water-tight and practically air-tight jacket, designed by U. S. navy laboratory for use on airplanes. 2—Chang Chien, Jr., Chinese high commissioner, now in America to study our industries. 3— View of Tell Avio, Palestine’s newest city, on die coast near Jaffa. Daugherty Won’t Resign and Will Be Investigated — Reed on McAdoo. By EDW A R D W. PICKARD A t t o r n e y g e n e r a l D a u g h e r t y , less complaisant tlmn Mr. Denby, will not got out of the cabinet voluntarily—at least not for the pres ent. President Coolidge will not ask for the resignation of the nation’s chief law oflicer. The senate will go ahead with its proposed Investigation of the conduct of Mr. Daugherty and the Department of Justice, without op position by the administration forces. These conclusions were reached the middle of the week, after three days of earnest consultations In the White House. The President conferred at length with William M. Butler, his campaign manager; Frank W. Stearns, his Boston backer, and with other party loaders. lie reached the conclu sion. it is said, that Mr. Daugherty’s continued presence in the cabinet would be very injurious to the chances of the Republican party, especially in Ohio, and that he should resign. This concurred with the advice given the President by Senators Lodge and Pep per. But the attorney general himself was still to be dealt with. On Wed nesday he went to the White House early and tnlked wltii Mr. Coolidge for nn hour. No results. Mr. Butler called again, and in the afternoon Mr. Daugh erty returned. He declared with final ity that he would not quit the cabinet unless his resignation were requested In writing, since he was innocent of any wrongdoing and was ready to he Investigated by the senate committee. President Coolidge, through Secretary Slcmp, then gave out his decision not to demand Mr. Daugherty’s resigna tion, and the latter gentleman Issued tills statement: \It is not my purpose to even con sider tendering my resignation ns at torney general until after a fair hear ing on charges preferred against me.” The attorney general at once left Washington for C’hlcngo nn business connected with tiie prosecution of Charles U. Forbes, former director of the veterans’ bureau. From there be planned to go to Florida, not return ing to the capital for two weeks. By that time the Investigation of ids con duct presumably will tinve begun. It is believed in Washington that Mr. Daugherty will resign at the conclu sion of tiie inquiry, which lie Is confi dent will result In his vindication. Those who urge his elimination point out that, even If his honesty and effi ciency are established by the Investi gation, ills admissions of having spec ulated in Sinclair Oil stocks after en tering the Hnrding cnbinet are confes sions of grave impropriety and indis cretion. INVESTIGATION of the oil reserve leases went on merrily throughout tiie week. C. Bascom Slemp, secretary to the President, was ttie first witness, and he told (he committee he dined frequently witli Fail and E. B. Mc Lean while ut Palin Beach, Fla., and that he urged Fall to make a clean breast of the $100,000 transaction. Con cerning that matter and all else that lie knew of tiie oil affair, McLean was called on to tell the senators. Their determination to question him closely was strengthened by tiie rending of many telegrams that pnssed between Washington and Florida, revealing the strenuous efforts made to call off Sen ator Walsh from his Intention of put ting McLean on the witness stand. Tiie messages showed A. Mitchell Pal mer tried to Induce Senator Under wood to influence Walsh, and the names of William G. McAdoo und his son Francis appeared. McLean, it ap peared, leased a wire from Washing ton to ids Palm Beach cottage and tiie chief White House telegrapher was engaged to operate it. The committee decided to call Mr. Palmer to the stand. CENATOR JIM REED of Missouri, ^ he of the serpent’s tongue, formal ly opened his campaign for tiie Demo cratic presidential nomination by a characteristic speech in St. Louis. Pes simistic and bitter ns usual, he de clared that \not one-tenth of the cor ruption and iniquity which has exist ed” in oil lease affairs has yet been laid Imre, and then lie exercised his peculiar talents in excoriating WilUmn O. McAdoo, his leading rival. Citing nn array of nlleged facts and figures, he undertook to show that McAdoo expected to receive $1,094,000 in legal fees from E. L. Doheny, the oil mag nate. from tiie Charles W. Morse in terests and the motion-picture con cerns, \although he did not appear in a single lawsuit.” Winding up Ills re lation of McAdoo and oil, Reed said it was not until on February 1, when Do- neny “was compelled to disclose the fact that he had employed Mr. Mc- uloo,” that “Mr. McAdoo was seized by n spnsm of virtue and resigned.” “The sole reason he quit,” the sena tor concluded, “ was because bis em ployment had become known. “ Some of you may play poker. I state it merely upon information and belief that there is an old poker rule: “ 'Anybody caught cheating 1ms got to quit the gnine.’ ” The Republicans lost no time in reading the Reed speech into the rec ord of the senate. The Youngstown (O.) Vindicator published a story that McAdoo re ceived a fee of about $200,000 for rep resenting the Republic Iron and Steel company In a tax reclamation case be fore the tax commission. McAdoo ad mitted that his former New York law firm had that Job, hut placed the fee at $150,000, of which he received his share. i PRESIDENT COOLIDGE seemingly * fears that the attention of con gress Is so distracted by the oil leaso scandal and similar matters that It will let through appropriation meas ures which will undo the budget sys tem. An authorized spokesman for the President said that one of the most disturbing factors of the present time was the large number of appro priation bills pending which called for enormous expenditures. Bills are be ing given serious consideration' which provide for additional expenditures larger than the entire expenditures of tiie government, the Post Office depart ment excepted, before the war. Bills which cause the President most concern relate principally to measures for extra compensation, Increased pen sions of all descriptions, and the sol diers’ bonus bills, but added to these there is a general tendency to increase expenditures all along the line. Tills tendency, the President Insists, calls for determined resistance or else the country will be swamped. The re sult not only will be a failure of any tax reduction, but the country will actually be facing nn Increase in taxes. He is convinced that there are plen ty of resources in the country to sup port all of its population in comfort if the people will only be willing to go along on the present level until there is production enough to warrant an Increase. But, he holds, If through congressional action, yielding to pres sure exerted from many organizations, appropriations are Increased, the coun try will have to face a decline until there can be a liquidation and a fresh start. C ONGRESS suspended business Wednesday and the senate and house joined In a memorial service to the late President Harding. President Coolidge, the cabinet, the Supreme court nnd the foreign diplomats were in attendance, nnd Mrs. Hnrding sat with a group of friends in one of the galleries. The only speaker was Sec retary of State Hughes, who sketched Sir. Harding’s career and paid elo quent tribute to his accomplishments in public and private life. E \RLY In the week the Republican national committee took a hand in the oil controversy by issuing a state ment defending the policy of leasing navy oil reserves and undertaking to place the blame. If nn.v. on Democrats. It snld. \The leasing act. which gives to tiie secretary of tiie navy and the secre tary of the interior the right nrrd pow er to lease public oil resortes to pri vate Interests was fathered by Walsh. \That particular section of the act under which Secretary Denby acted in signing lenses to Doheny nnd Sinclair was not only suggested by Secretar> Daniels, hut was written by him prac- tically word for word as It now ap pears in the law. He frankly stated he wanted such power in order to enable him to do exactly whnt Secretary Den by subsequently did. “The leasing act received its first rppiication under Daniels nnd John Barton Payne, when oil lands both within and without the naval oil re serves were leased to private interests to he developed by them on a royalty basis.” Mr. Payne was secretary of the in terior and has been mentioned by his 3 &iends as a presidential possibility. p t e committee’s statements met with 0 dials from Daniels and others. D EMOCRATS In the lower house, assisted by the Insurgent Repub licans, did a lot of things to the Melton tnx bill. Over the protest of the sec retary of the treasury they boosted the maximum tnx on estates and in heritances from 25 to 40 per cent, with an amendment hy which an allowance would' he made for taxes paid on in heritances under state laws. Next, after an exciting debate and several near-figlits, the house adopted nn amendment hy Green of Iowa, onp of the agricultural group, which Imposes a tax ranging from 1 per cent on gifts worth $50.000 to 40 per cent on those of $10.000.000 or more, all gifts under $50,0(10 being exempt. The cigarette tax was then raised from $3 to $4 per thousand, Reprosentnthe Garner as serting this would add $00,000,000 a year In revenue, and the clause in the Mellon hill doing away with the tax on theater admissions amounting to 50 cents or less was adopted. Tiie tax on auto tires nnd parts was cut In half. It »as agreed that a final vote on the measure would he taken before the end of the week and Representative I.ongworth. majority lender, spent two days in a final effort to arrange a com promise on the maximum surtax rate. Secretary Mellon was advised by Senator Smoot that the senate is just ns radical as the house, if not more so, and that there is little chance of nn.v mnterlnl reduction in tax rates be low the levels fixed in the hill ns it is passed by the house. P REMIER THEUNIS of Belgium and his cabinet, defeated when the chamber of deputies rejected the Franco-Belglnn convention relative to imports to nnd exports from neighbor ing countries, resigned on Wednesday. Tills in itself was not so important, but Its effect on the settlement of the Germnn problem may be great. Tlieu- nis nnd his foreign minister, Jaspar, have co-operated closely with the French government and it is admitted that no cabinet can be selected in Brussels that will be so pro-French. If Poincare finds he is to be Isolated it may be he will not be so willing to make concessions in the adoption of tiie Dawes committee plan for the re organization of German finances nnd the payment of reparations. The news from Brussels caused the franc to fall to a new low mark—24.50 to the dol lar. The Dawes committee report, which probably will be submitted to the rep arations commission this week, pro vides for payments in kind by Ger many during the proposed moratorium. The budget subcommittee has prepared n plan for balancing the Gorman budget for three years, with extension of allied control over an additional seven years, ten years In all. The committee has completed its work on the German gold bank plan and the railway plan likewise has been practi cally finished. E XPERTS Of the Lengue of Nations engaged In trying to devise ways of reducing nnvnl armaments talked and quarreled for two weeks In Rome and ndtnurned without practical re sults. Too many of the nations want ed to increase instead of decrease their nnvnl defenses. Russia’s de mands concerning the Black and Bal tic sens were enough in themselves to disrupt the conference. Another i.:ay he called later hy the league. F o r m e r f i e l d m a r s h a l lu - DENDORFF. Adolf Hitler and others were put on trial In Munich for their part in the comic opera Bavarian “putsch” of Inst November. Court, prosecutors nnd spectators were all most friendly toward'the accused and there was every sign that the trial would be a farce. News of Montana B rief N otes Concerning the Treasure State Suicides on Court House Lawn.—G. H. Harksworth, aged 02, of Ely, Minn., fearful of becoming a burden upon friends, drank lysol and died on the court house lawn at Billings. He was discovered upon the lawn in a dying condition by passersby and rushed to a hospital without avail. A note to the Billings K. of P. requested that his body he sent to Deer Lodge for inter ment by the side of his wife. The re quest was granted. Little or nothing was learned of the man’s antecedents. Veterinarians on thé Alert.—A close watch is being kept all over the starc hy state veterinarians as the result of the outbreak of the foot and mouth disease in California. The disease has never become prevalent in Montana and will not if the stock doctors can help it. In 1910 a train load of eastern cattle were stopped at Miles City, it is recalled by stockmen, nnd state vet erinarians killed more than 800 head of the stock. That is the only time the disease occurred to any extent in Mon tana. • Janitor “ Gassed\ Teacher.—When a Butte manual training teacher desired to give Ms pupils a little extra in struction on Saturdays the janitor ob jected. The janitor lighted smudg lamps and “gassed” the teacher an< pupils out of the class room. Nex week the pupils “lifted” and hid the lamps and the altercation was brought to the attention of the school board.. The hoard ruled that the teacher could use the class room. Beards Lion in Den.—Fred Goudy, of the Dearborn country, caught a mountain lion in a small game trap, recently. The lion, measuring over eight feet in length, tore loose and made its den dragging the trap. Goudy followed, and after trying every way known to him to drive the animal out, finally entered the den and shot it in tiie head as it crouched to spring at him. Interesting Comparison in Values.— A Sidney farmer recently brought to Sidney a truck load of wheat and two cans of cream. Comparison of the checks received for the wheat and the cream showed that the cream check was just a few dollars short of the wheat check. Tt took a year to raise the wheat and about ten days to accu mulate the cream. Child Crushed to Death.—Richard, I he four-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Evje, of Hysham, was crushed to death when platforms, piled to make room for a curd party in a Hysham lodge room, toppled over onto him while tiie party was at its height. The hoy was playing with other children when the accident occurred. Officers Thwart California Trip.— Lois Muncliower, 15 years old, of Bil lings. started to lnim her way to Cali fornia and got as far ns Helena before she was apprehended hy officials. She is being detained at Crittenton home pending action of Yellowstone author ities to commit her to the slate girls detention school. Over the Great Divide Pioneers of forty yenrs nco, er more, who have come to the ea i al tho trail HOLDEN—Reuben J. Holden, n pionper resident of the Bitter Roof, who came to Montana vin river steam er to Ft. Benton in the early eighties, diet] at the family home in Long Bench, California, to which place he and his family moved about a year ago. ASHBAUGH—Mrs. Elizabeth Mor ton Ashbnugh, 91 years of age, died at her home in Dillon, after 51 years of active life in Beaverhead county. REEVES—Joseph .1. Reeves, for several yenrs assessor of Gallatin county, who crossed the plains hy way of the Lander cut-off nnd first located in Virginia City In 1804, died at a hos pital in Los Angeles. DUANr,—Patrick Dunne, 89 yenrs of age. hero of the Crimean war, sol dier of fortune, trail blazer nnd pi oneer who located at Virginia City in 1805, Inter moving to Anaconda, died in the Deer Lodge county home for the aged of which he had been a resi dent for a number of years. RIECHMAN—Mrs. II. J. Rieehman, who came to Livingston ahead •’ the railroad hy ox team nnd lived there until a few years ago. died qt tho home of relatives in Julinet-tn. Idaho. LEMONS—Mrs. Margaret J. B. Lemons, aged 0-1, who, with her hus band located, in the Gallatin, near Salesville, in 1SS0, died at. tho home of her daughter. Mrs. W. I*. Todd. De ceased is survived hy 3(5 grand-children and 51 great grand children. TE R M IN A L M A R K E T PRICES Quotations of Interest to Montanans. Week Ending March 8. Minneapolis Grain: Wheat— (Mon tana Station basis) Dark Hard Winter, 89: Spring, 95; Rye, G9; Flax, (Du luth) $2.50. Chicago Livestock; Cattle — Top $12.00, average, $10.00; Hogs, top, $7.40; Sheep, fat lambs, top, $15.75; ewes, $10.00. Boston Wool, territorial choice, $1.42 New York Metals: Silver, 64 cts. o z .; Copper, 14; Zinc, $G.70. STATE AUDITOR SHOWS TO Letter to State Examiners Points Out Method of Shaving Recent Appropriations Half Million An additional half million dollars can be shaved from the general fund appropriations as made by the last regular legislative assembly and tb-e recent extraordinary session. State Auditor George P. Porter has advised the board of examiners of which Gov ernor Dixon is president. The auditor addressed a letter to the'board with an estimate “of the requirements of the beneficiaries under said appropria tions and possible percentage of reduc tion, based upon past history, and other data in possession of this office. The letter concludes: “It will be observed that the esti mates indicate that It is possible to save to the general fund more than $500,000 during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, by observing due econ omy and this without impairing in the slightest degree the efficiency of any departments, offices, boards, or insti- rutions in question.” The reductions propose dby the state auditor range from one per cent for :he supreme court expense to '42 per :ent for the school of mines mainte nance, the latter proposed cut totaling F30.S09. The auditor suggests that the ippropriation for the agricultural col lege maintenance and expense account ne trimmed $96,947, with additional cuts of $34,622 for the experiment sta tion expense and $39,070 for the farm ers’ extension work. From the univer sity maintenance he would pare $62,- F14 and from the insane asylum main tenance $»0,000. From the normal school the auditor’s figures propose a reduction of $*2.087 and from the fund tor county attorneys’ salaries, $18,000. As concerns 29 funds he has recom mended no reductions. ARSENIC O U T P U T OF JA R D IN E N E A R L Y .DOUBLED LA S T YE A R Operations of the Jardine Mining company of Livingston for the last vein* nnd activities planned for the new year are outlined in the report of rhe company, just issued for the bene fit of the public and stockholders. The stocks of concentrates for the year amounted to 381 tons, containing [I16.7S3.30 in gold and $30,960 in nr- jenic, a total of $47,743.30 in the 114 ions of crude arsenic accrued in the plant. Improvements in the milling will in crease the capacity from 140 tons to 175 or 200 tons a day. Considerable flevelopment was done in the mine, a new ore body being opened up In the “Iron Duke.” A tunnel 18 feet In width nnd 40 feet deep was sunk and (25 feet driven in tunnel No. 22. A lotal of 44,429 tons of ore was mined and milled at a cost of $4.40 per ton. To carry on the company’s mining and milling operations and con struction work 140 ment were em ployed. Further additions to the hous ing facilities and increase in the force employed is contemplated the coming season. STA T E CHECKER ASSOCIATIO N IN IN T E R E S T IN G TO U R N A M E N T The checker tournament of the Mon tana Checker association was held at the Y. M. C. A.. Helena. February 22, 23 nnd 24, nnd was played out ex cepting the finals which were post poned to a later date not yet deter mined. The-tournament was a pro nounced success, nnd was the hardest fought battle of any hitherto conduct ed. The result of the first round was Henry H. Lepper of Glnsgow, 29 points; Albert Goldberry, Springdale, 27 points; George E. Conk, Helena, 26 points; Dr. R. R. Frazier, Helena, 25 points; Thomas Rowe, Butte. 25 points; John Goldberry, Springdale, 20 points, and Jack Williams, Helena, 16 points. George E. Cook was elected presi dent for the ensuing year, nnd Dr. R. R. Frazier, secretary and treasurer. Razing Jail The Cascade county commissioners have awarded the contract for disman tling nnd removing the oild county jail at Great Falls to Albert J. Fousek. He will pay the county $50 in addition to doing the work nnd taking posses sion of the material with the excep tion of the iron and steel in the struc ture. There were nin bidders, most of whom wanted to be paid by the county for the job. Membership 1,027 As a result of the four-day mem bership drive conducted by 100 mem bers last week, the Butte chamber o: commerce now hns a membership oI 1,027. During the intensive drive, 1SS new members wore secured. The ac tivity will continue until the desired goal o fl,200 members has been at tained. Shot in Kidneys; Walks 5 Miles Edmund Wagner, 17. of Bonner, walked five miles to find help aftei his liver nnd kidney had been punc- :ured hy a bullet. He had been oul with his .22 caliber rifle nnd at thi time of the accident had been thrust ing at a piece of ice in a small stream He was leaning forward, gripping thi gun by the muzzle, when it exploded Thè boy started back to Bonner ant had walked about five miles when ht was met by his sister, who took him t< the city and called a physician. Thi fed is said to he recovering. State C apital N E W -» n . F A T A L A U T O AC C ID E N T S IN S T A T E DECREASE W HILE every year finds 10,000 or m o r e additional automobiles owned and operated in Montana, the number of accidental deaths need not be expected to keep pace, figures com piled by the vital statistics department of the state board of health show. In 1923 there were six fewer people killed by gas-propelled vehicles than in 1922, there having been 43 persons killed, in the state last year and 49 in the; previous year. Of the larger cities in the state. Great Fails shines with a luster all its own, having reported only a single fatality. Eillin'gs’ record was equal so far ns the number to meet death, but the difference in population would seem to give the Cascade county city a shade over the Yellowstone county city in the percentage column. In ap proximately two-thirds of the counties of the state not a'person met death in automobile accidents. Lewis and Clark county and^ Silver Bow county, with nine each, head the list with the largest number of fatal ities. Of the nine accredited to each, county, Helena gets credit for eight and Butte seven. Thus the Capital city automobiles proved more deadly than those operated in the Mining city. The cities are responsible for the majority of the deaths, for if the acci dents which take place within munici pal boundaries were to. be eliminated, the county in the Treasure state in 1923 which had an accident resulting fatally chalked up against it would be the exception rather than the rule. Including the deaths that took place in cities as a part of the total death rate in the county in which the several cities arc situated, the counties having fatal automobile accidents last year would rank as follows: Cascade coun ty, one; Custer, one; Yellowstone, one; Lincoln, one; Phillips, one; Sanders;, one; Wibaux, one; Fergus, two; Chou teau, two; Deer Lodge, two; Hill, two ; Park, two; Musselshell, two; Gallatin, three; Missoula, three; Silver Bow, nine; Lewis and Clark, nine. OPEN W IN T E R PUTS STOCK FAR AB O V E NORM A L M ONTANA herds and flocks con tinue in condition much above- normal, due to the mild winter and to adequate feed supplies. Stockmen’s reports from all counties indicate that stock are expected now to emerge from the winter in excelelnt shape, and with much less than the normal shrinkage- nd losses, according to the monthly re port on livestock issued hy George A. Scott, statistician of the Montnna co operative crop reporting service. Dur ing January most of the grass was under snow, and feeding was generally necessary, hut recent weather and the- disappearance of most of the snow from winter pastures has allowed stock to again enjoy winter grazing and has made little feeding necessary since January 25, except In the higher altitudes. ASK R IG H T TO FORM “ N A T IV E BORN\ ORDER IGHT to incorporate is asked by the “ White, Native Born Persons of the United States,” designated in articles of incorporation filed with Secretary of Stnte -Stewart ns a benev olent and patriotic organization with headquarters In Great Falls. Utmost freedom “in the worship of the Chris tian faith, regardless of sect or creed” is urged as one of the alms of the- society, membership in which is limit ed to persons set forth in its name. D. J. Ryan, said to be a Great Falls attorney, J. B. Reynolds, a doctor in the same city, and Wallace Wheeler,' also of Great Fnlls, are directors. In itiation fee is $15. H E L E N A W OU L D K E E P V E T S ' T R A D E SCHOOL W HILE the trade school that has been maintained at Helena since the fall of 1922 by the United States veterans’ bureau is to be closed March 31, according to announcement of C. T. Busha, manager of the Helena sub office of the bureau, efforts are being made for the retention of the equip ment for possible use by the state vocational rehabilitation division. The Helena Commercial club is working on a plan for the taking over of the school equipment for use by the state In the event provision can be made by the next legislature. L. A. Henry, vocational rehabilitation direct or for Montnna, who is now in Wash ington. is presenting the plan to the federal government. STOCKM A N A W A R D E D BIG SUM IN DAMAGES J A. McDONOUGH has returned to Great Fnlls carrying with him $57,000, representing the money por tion of the judgment awarded the plaintiff in the suit of W. H. Scott of Brady, against A. K. Prescott, of Hel ena, arising out of a partnership live stock business in Pondera county ter minated in 1918. The case which hat! been tried In the district court of Lewis and Clark county had resulted in a judgment for Scott of a little more than $53,000 in money and a one- third- interest, in 3,000 acres of land.
