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Tint IVINIFRED TIMES tAftRSESSiON Mill's: 1g PRESIDENT CABLES AUTHORITY . FOR CALLING CONGRESS . AGAIN TO CAPITOL \ PRES. WILSON TO BE. AWAY Chief Executive Unable to Leav.o. Peace ' Conferenste to Attend Opening Day of Reanvention at Hot.-\ Date Was Surprise or , Washington. May S.—President WU- soh has call,s1 congress to meet in special session May 19. The cable was received at the Wills) House. The early date probably means that the president viII not be here for the opening, but he desires congress to begin work on the nppropriation bills so that he may pass on them before beginning the new fis- cal year July 1. The senate, with the text of the I reaty before it, also can hasten action after President Wilson returns aud delivers his message on the treaty. Washington, May S.—President Wil- son issued a call by cable yesterday for a special session of congress to meet Monday, May 19. Secretary Twat'Ity, in making the announcement, said it would be im- possible, of course, for the president to be here on the opening day. The day fixed for the special session was much earlier than Democratic leaders had expected. White House officials said that in naming an early date for the session, Presidetit Wilson was guided largely by the advice of Seercdary Glass its to the necessity of passing annual appro- priation measures which failed in the closing days of the last session. President Wilson's proclamation call- ing the extra session' follows: \Whereas public Interests regaire that the congress of the United States sleuth' be convened in extra session at 12, noon, on the 19th day of May, 1919, too receive such communications as may be made by the executive. \Now therefore. 1, Woodrow Wil- son, president of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim that an extraordinary occasion requires the congress of the States to convene in extra capitol in the District o the 19111 day of Mt noem. of whit: at that time hers there( take antic SHIP rman iegton at an with the shipping board of replacing cancelled contra adjusting payments to he made by COSA est ion s and Ii eon- nection with the vonstruction of ship- yards as a war emergency. Mr. Hurley said that all questions Involved In the Pacific coast ship- building mitt:rain would be discussed at the meeting. It is understood that the hoard expects to award numerous additional contracts to the pacific coast yards. because of the excellent record made by them during the war. No date was :-ret by Mr. Hurley in his telegram of invitation. MANUFACTURER MUST PAY TAX ON DRINKS Washington, May S.—Regulations for ndministration of the 15 per cent tax on \near beer\ and other beverages made of cereals, and the 10 per cent tax on manufacture of soft drinks, pro- vide that the assessment is against the original manufacturer in the case of near beer, even though he sells to an- other concern which bottles and sells the product. The tax is on the manu- facturer's price, not on rne retail price. The tax on unfermented grape juice, ginger ale, root beer, pop, artificial mineral waters, apple juice.s! ;:ooberry Juice and other fr` 1 7. - juices Is paid by the nianufactt7i . er and these articles are exempt feom soda fountain taxes. Daniels Leaves England. Devenport, England, May 10.—The secretary of the United States navy, Josephus Daniels, and party, left here yesterday for Brest aboard the Coorsair. Secretary Daniels will start today on the Mount Vernon for home. TARTAR PRINCIPALITY WOULD BE ADOPTED BY U. S. New York, May 10.—Now the prin- cipality of Nakhichevan. at the foot of Mount Ararat, to which Noah is said to have descended when the ark grounded, conies forward to ask the United States of America to beeome Its mandatory. Its prime minister, Jaffes Koons Kahn, a Tartar chief- tain, has addressed such a request \to the itnperial representative. the su- preme president of the United States.\ SERGEANT WELZ Serj. Joseph Aloire‘\, Wel/. it as the proud young man who chaperoned 14 - year -old. Milton Pershing, sou of the general, on a visit to France. Ile was selected for the post by Secretary of 1Var Baker. Welz enlisted in the reg- ular army In 1909 after studying medi- cine, working on ,the New Haven rail- roiad and at the -plumbing lousiness. INDUSTRIAL BOARD HELD PROTECTION FOR BUYER Chairman Peek Declares Price Fixing Body Wrecked by One Man.—Says Pubbc will Inquire Washington, llay 12. 1 ;oorge , N. l'eek, chairman Id the department of commeree's inolmnrial Imard, wblch wa.s dissolved last week after a eon- troversy with the railroad administra- tion einicerning sled prico-s, in a statement last night that the pub. lie would \demand an explanation of tIto' wrecking, apparently on the ob- stinacy of a single individual. of a plati to make an immediate reduction itt the cost of !him; of such an ap- parent national value.\ '\I'litioughout Ile. baffling coestrover- sy.\ said Mr. Peek. the bootird has found itself checked by opposing forces which ii could neither under- stand, reason iii It. nor overcome, but which grew in strength until Ili,)y.ren- tiered progress hiloos , dble .a.oti forced abandonntioni ..t . Unanimously Approved. 'D o I •ory 1 lit' I1111111 111IS 110011 1111• proV.-11 111111.1•O onianinemsly toy bust- is:4s men and associations and by edi- o rial and iti•ooss comment; in prat.- • the plan has been proved by the er books of steel proiducers and the tog revival Nvidelt followed the an- incement of steel prices and ceased the railroad administration's re- join of Moose prices. t. is ini•ooncoivable that the railroad doiiiiisti.;!:. , !•'s_ unsubstantial older. iion alone was stiff,. ient to justify tIto' abandonment of it policy of such impoortance. BIG PLANES READY TO START ACROSS SEA Flight Will Not Be Delayed Minute Longer Than Necessary, Says Naval Commander Trepassey, Nee rum en :l ed. :NI :I.\ 12._ 111111 the navy's trans-.1ttate lc Hight guarolships at their (meat' stai loons, mei the seaplanes NC -1 and NC -:t tleel eil to have 1101.11 Iv lii 'it trip eroin Rockaway Beach, N. V., 111.1i - ell i1011S last night WV1'1 1 'hilt ill.' 1.1:111l'i. , WIl' '41111 their 1,240 tulle flight to th e Azores is soon as Com. John H. Towers deo•ioles the weather is faVor• able. It is believed the aviators will not sacrifice a favorable opportunity by waltitig fun' tho) NC -4. Officers expressed satisfaction with the result of the long tmastal flight here. Itegarolless of shifting winds sue!\ as are expected iii mill -ocean they were enabled i 1 1 l'Orl'Ol't 11 i 11 t WO minutes. A warning has been is , nti.fl to the public to be prepared fon. false starts. as it is intenolosi to \hoop oft\' with exceptionally heavy loads f111`1, 111111 the planes 'nay compelleol to) re- turn If the loads prove excessive. Officers said the question of wheth- er the NC, -4 will start with the Whet tutu planes depends upon tho time she arrives here, its favoorable e (either may eatea. the NC -1 and N('-2 to) start witli little warning. 1I'llen the start is made the planes probably will fly the first part of the Azores \leg\ by night, hoping to leave the fog area 400 'Mhos out. Hamburg Exchange Closes. Hamburg, May 10.—The stow': ex- change has decided to close for twc days as a result of the situation cre• ate.] by the publication of the peace treaty. HONOR MEDALS GIVEN HEROES OF U. S. FORCES Washington. May 10.—Award of tit( congressional mosial of honor to 1.1eq- tenant Patrick Regan. 11th infantry and Sergeatit Benjamin Kaufteen. 305th infantry. Arthur J. Forrest. 3 , 15t1! infantry, James E. Karnes. 117th in. fantry and Edward R. Talley, 117th in was announced yesterday by the war department. Each citation showed the soldier single-handed ad. vaneed against and put out of action machine gun nests. GOOD FiLIADS iii PRESENT ISSUE SECRETARY LANE FAVORS IDEA OF CONNECTING GLACIER PARK WITH CANADA NEWS OF THE CAPITAL CITY Montana Telephone Users Are Hit by Sharply Increased Wire Rates Imposed by Postmaster Gen- eral Burleson Helena.—Senator T. J. Walsh has received the following telegram from Secretary Lane of the department of the interior at Washington, in response to a message sent here, following a meeting of business men at the Mon- tana club on plans to link tip the na- tional parks of the northtvest and the Pacific coast by good roads for the motor tourist travel this year: \I ant in hearty accord with the plan to connect Glacier National park with Banff and other Canadian park areas, by way iof Watertown lake. If the plan is tensible, I will have the project carefully investigated by the national park service during the sum- mer. I will ti,44'Itave the national parks bureau confer with the domin- ion authorities. The road map desired is . in course of preparation.\ The state highway commission has been advised by Attorney General S. C. Ford that a law passed in the lastas- sembly, under which county commis - stoners may submit tot voters t .special levies for road and bridge , eonstruc- Bon, will constitute a levy on nil prop- erty in ti county, and not alone - on ex- tra -urban prollerty. • .• * * * Phone Rates Boosted. Sharply increased telephone rates, a ul hori zed and appri)ved by- the post- master general. I Olok effect in Montana Mity I without the consent of the state iittliibo'scoominission, which will defer action until the supreme court of the United States has passel npott thr postmaster general's _Vght to increase intrastate rates. \ Business lob $4 a mono those that have i's that have been low be $5, and en $5 will be $6. Residence rates that have been $2 will now be $2.50. anti the rates that have been $2.50 will now be $3. No change Is made on rural lines or for exten- sion service, it is announced. The In - (Tenses generally range from 20 per cent upwards in Montana. In Butte the raise on some classes of business rates is 60 per cent. Telephone rates were recently rais- ed In the east and the new rates in Montana are in accordance with Post- master General Burleson's plan to raise them throughout the country. * * * Walsh Discusses League. Unit Oil Si 11 i k'S Senator T..1. Walsh, in a formal address on the league oif na- tions, before a large audience at the Ilelena Young Women's Christian as - :mint - Ion, spoke of the need of pre- , outing the \next war.\ He said in- ventions in the course of perfection would wipe out entire cities from launching points hundreds of miles away. The people of the world are demanding the trial by some plan by which war can be nverted. Ile said the league provided tirbitration and that nations refusing It become out- laws. He thought that if the league had been in existence in 1914, the present ivar would have been nverted. He said none of those who oppose the league have any substitute to offer. lie declared the amendments to) the first league draft should dispose of practically all objections. * * * Planning New Buildings. Plan, for the new 1 / 1 111111111:8 at the state seh000ls in Missoula, Bozeman and Butte are now tinder way, accord. ing to Chancellor IL C. Elliott, who has been conferring with architects. The legishiture appropriated $100.000 foor each building. One is the engi- neering building at Bozeman, for which Fred %%Alston is the architect; a li- brary at - Missoula for which C. C. Co- llagen of Billings is the architect and a building for the metallurgical de- partment of the schtiol of mines for whirl' Floyd Handl of Butte is pre- paring the plans. C. H. Carsley of Helena is the consulting architect on all of them. * * * .Tatnes C. Batten, supervisor of placement. and C. A. Zuppan, super- visor of training, on the northwestern listriet of the federal hoard of voca- tional education for soldiers' aid, are now in Helena. They will visit Great Fails, Butte, Missoula, Billings and other cities later. The district is now training 4,000 soldiers, Mr. Batten says. He estimates (lint 2.000 wound- ed Montanans will need the course. * * * Girls' School Site Awaits Opinion. Not until Attorney General S. C. Ford renders an opinion to the mein - hers of the board of managers of the state vocational school for girls, concerning certain phases of the law passed by the last degislature creat- ing the school, will the hoard be pre- pared to take up the question of site. Manhattan is the only town, so far as known, that has made formal ap- plication for the school. Deer Lotig,e and Glendive, It is reported, have prop- ositions to submit regarding the loca- tion of the school in their towns. HAVRE IS BRANDED AS OUTLAW BY COGS WELL State Health Officer Says City Has Disregarded Order as to Dis- posal of Sewage Helena.—Charging that Havre has for years violated every sense of de- cency in disposing of its sewage, anti branding it as an outlaw city in public health matters, Dr. W. F. Cogswell, secretary of the state hoard of health, formally asked Attorney General S. C. Ford in a letter \to take such ac- tion as will remove this town front the outlaw class in public health matters.\ \The city of Havre,\ writes Dr. Cogswell, after setting forth that the town has ignored orders of the health board to install a sewage disposal plant,\ has for years violated every sense,of decency in 'disposing of itS sewa,_ It lins ignored the protests of neiglipetline towns with which It ex-. pects tit do business. It has defied the laws of the state of Montana and the orders .of the state board of health.\ The letter sets forth that at a meet- ing of the state health board in .Tanu- ary an order was adopted stating that whereas Ilavre was discharging raw sewage into Milk river, the waters of which are used for domestic purposes by individuals and towns downstremn, and that this sevivage contaminated the water and placed an added burden on water purification plants below Havre, therefore Havre was directed to in- stall a sewttge treatment platit.'work to he started not Inter than itty 1, 1919. A copy of the notiee was .todolished in the Havre newspaper as required by law and was served on the Iltivre city clerk. \You will notice,\ Dr. Cogswell tells the attorney general, \that the time limit when work on this sewnge _treat- ment plant was to have • been started Wes May 1, 1919. No plains - for' the 'scum -age !realms -lit plant haye been presented to the 'slate hoard of . health and toy understanding is that opera- tions have not been started.\ ARMY CUTWORM GETTING IN ITS WORK ON WHEAT Bozeman—Wheat farmers of Mon- tana are warned that the army cut- - WO - nil, whittit ()rented havoc with 100,- 000 acres of - lb:memo wheat_ in 1915, again is making its appearance in the state in alarming numbers. Reports from central Montana have been re- ceived by Entomologist R. A. Cooley of the Montana State college at Boze- man, with the advice that the cut- worm is at work in menacing propor- tions in the state. In a bulletin issued upon the sub- ject, PrOfessor Cooley states that the spread of tlp) cutworm can be stop- ped immediately by the use of poison bran mash. - The cost of the poison bran, he says, runs from 25 to 35 cents per acre, and only a small portion of any field needs to he treated in order to stop the cutworm. FLCTATION SILT DUMPED INTO CREEK KILLS FISH Levee Erected by Mining Company on Stream is Only Tomporary Safeguard Helene.—J. L. Deliart, state fish and game warden, It Is announced, is taking steps to prevent further dum- ping of silt and sediment from an oil flotation plant at Neiliart Into Belt creek, which is said to be ruining the stream for campers and fisher- men for a distance of 50 miles. The game warden has returned from Great Falls and Nelhart, where he in- vestigated conditions. During the past 10 years millions of trout anti grayling fry have been put into the stream, which In three months has been ruined for fishermen, says Mr. DeHart. The mining company affected Ilea started the erection of a levee to hold the silt. The game warden says this might last for 90 days. The residents of Monarch are now required to haul their drinking water for miles, according to Mr. Deliart. French Girl Awaits Lover. Great Falls.—Debrille Fournier, 21 years of age, who lost her parents in the world war, her father and brother being killed in action anti her mother by a bomb raid, has arrived in Belt from France, consigned to Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Collard, whose son, John Collard, is to wed the young woman %viten he returns from the army. The young woman was seven months a prisoner in a German war camp, and met young Collard in a Red Cross hospital where she was nursing. L. S. Olson of Plentywood, who has had charge of Sheridan county's state fair exhibits for many years, has start- ed a 30 -acre experiment farm just north of that city to try out new crops in the :st.sunty. Big Blast Is Shot, Great Falls.—Great Northern con- struction forces last week set off a charge of 800 kegs of blasting powder in a tunnel at the Wolf creek quar- ries, where the company secures gran- ite for riprap work. It was estimated after the explosion that 30,000 yards of granite had been torn loose in workable sizes. It was the biggest Charge ever touched off there and produced about twice the amount of broken granite usually secured. It is estimated the granite loosened will last the company two years. REAR ADMIRAL COWIE • .Rear Admiral Thomas J. Cowie.• whose slogan. \The' Battle of the Bonds,\ and able management of past Liberty loan campaigns in the navy %%tore Ion inspiration to the \gobs\ to do their utmost to back up the country's fight- ing men on land and sea, wits selected by Secretary Dino , •o launch tItc navy 1Actory kg* UN NEWS IN CONUENSEU FORM Its:port of ill. lo fry ldir before an international comt for high -crime against civilizatien has locen read to former Emperor 1Villiani of Ger- many, At the sante time he was noti- fied that Holland hits virtually &Odell to turn him over to tine allied ',ewers upon demand. There has been 1111 real reaeon for an advance in the price .of flour in the United Shiles, according to a statement from Julius Barites, United States wheat director. Secretary Danie * * day from Brest lo)ol last Satin . - troonntriv4- • Albert Pat France, has loo present his creolentl golvernment. • * The boishevild forces it) Russia have it before the advance of the allies. The - Anneriran fott . oes have re- paired the railroad 1tue,tgs far as les- -• selskaya. * ' A 'terrific explosion of guts In the Nottlegitani mine of the Lehigh and yilkeRharre Coal coneetny killed a number of miners. Scoortos of men were. caught behind the blast and the fire that followed the explosion. Three bodies have been reached and the fear Is expressed by the Pennsylvania mine inspector that tit least 50 men are dead. * It is understood that the Duke of Devonshire will shortly retire as gover- nor general of Canada and the London Mail says the office will be offered to the Earl of Athlone, lot . 00ther of Queen Mary. • tr Col. Jelin Cyril Porte has brought a flying boat to ,1itterien for entrance in the London Daily 111101's trans -At- lantic prize rimiest. Colonel Porte's startiug point will he Harbor Grace, 50 miles south of SI. Joolitts. it 'Mayer Thompson) and the city of Chicago were denounced as disloyal by delegates attending a meeting of the American Leglim in St. Louis. I'M- it'StS WPre made about holding next year's convention in Chicago. * * President Wilson has promised France that lie will propose to the United States the formulation of a treaty whereby the Unittsl States promises to aid France if that tuition be again attacked by Germany. * * The war department has issued or- ders for the recruitieg of 5,000 men to serve as replacement troops; for Amer- ican soldiers now in Siberia. Troops will be sent forward In units of 51e.) each from San Francisco. st IVIlliani Jennings Bryan. formerly secretary of state in President Wil- son's cabinet, Is candidate for moder- ator of the lireshyterlan general as - senility to be held in St. Louis this month. • * * The food famine and typhus epl- demIc which threatened Serbia inive been averted through tile work of the United States food administration and the American Red Cross forces, the headquarters of the latter agency has been notified by Red Cross iteadquar- terS at Saloniki. * Twenty-two Villa bandits raided the town of Cananea. Sonora, robbed a bank. killed five policemen and escap- ed with a number of stolen horses. • tr• President Julius 11. Barnes of the United States Grain corporation has announced that reports that the cor- poration had purchased 25,000,000 husliels of wheat from Canada were untrue, hut he reiterated tile declara- tion which he had made previously that arrangements had been made for the purchase of a \moderate atuount - of wheat from the dominion. — wwwwwwwiesnesemeweilemgrirrwli MONTANA NOTES TREASURE STA1 E TALES TERSELY TOLD 4 4 .Members ot the Rotary clube ul Butte, Helena and Anacoutla held a meeting lust week to discuss coneffteti action toward improving the highw ofthe state. George Ramsay ' g of thi quality- ood roads ciifoa i r i f the lt i .i• lo would place the Treasure state tli In mpi: tourist busite tinein u r i t i a lt i td •e States, n tl In an auction sale at the Billings i O 0 i stockyards, 109 head of registered Hereford cattle brought II total of $51,- 315. l'he cattle were shipped to Mon- tana by a South Dakota livestock firni and were sold to Nieman:I ferment anti ranchers. One bell brought $1,050, be - tug sold to E. H. 'rice of Logen. O 0 Helena headquarters of the Metho- dist Episcopal centenary movetnent reports that Ill points in the state have raised their quota to the fund. The Helena area includes North Dakota. Idaho, Siontanu anti parts of Oregon. • 0 Police Sergeant Philip Prija of Butte, tried on a charge of second de- gree assault, has been found guilty. Prlja made an assault upon Mike Burzan, a Serbian, during a Serbian demonstration at the Northern Pacific depot last full. Prija also is a Ser- bian. O 0 The state readjustment council ot the Y. M. C. A. will inert in Helena on 'day 25. Recreation, education and similar topics will he discussed. O 0 The state higll way commission hits been advised feoleral authorities ha‘e tipproved of a federel idol project de- signed to eliminate a hairpin,turn 1.11 the Marshall graoie near Missoula. Tit cost is estimated at $16. 00 0.- . Venom - stone county has applied for $75,000 federal aid wimpy to finish suffiwItig with gravel a 47-nille stretelt of road bet Avec!' Billings and Pompreyi Pillar. O 0 An old flat sten)) on which, he hail tired wheels in the plosier 43 . '4 fir Anaconda will be polished amid CSI as a monument to Atigustliti.slancloIrs; • :IT • wit4i oat Atm- • 1 Mt tile ge witio:1) r .1)oos- ,rue. W* ary am W1,(W1,(SO tU escaped -again-1a 4 week. Ile was re- taken, an, hour incl. :tad brought at once . .iiito dkrtriet court, pleaded guilty to thv 'charge of Breaking Jail and was /Wen the mastuipm sentence, two anti otre-intlf years, ho the state penitentiary. O 0 • For the .first time in several years Butte is'iwithont, a military '.'gnard. Ca pin in 115)sfeihdrom pa my of ihe 44th regiment . go'rensilars, whitit hi.; been quartered at the school t o o b f: ing een transfer Barracks, Wake)! prised 43 tmsij ricers. jail 111,r r Coali- tion t‘, 1tte of - The state ralli.tiad commission has Set for hearing at Thompson Falls May 15, the appliention 0,1 residents 'oft Eddy, Noxon 111111 111•1'011. for tile 'res- toration of a stub Nerthern pitelfie train that was takett ort* durfnkitho war. The stub mrigintilly ran from Spokane to 1.3ctitlise lout at present runs only to'Kv 0 Ol 1 itj• o Mrs. Anna Gould Hough. a sister At the lute Jay Gottid, the financier, and widow of the Rev. A. M. Hough, the first regularly ordaineol Protestant preacher in 31ontetia, who dedicated the first church hunt in Helena, died last week in Los Angeles. according to word reeriyed in Helena. Mrs. Hough was t9 years of tige. O 0 License antiliea for eards are no longer legal om automobiles, nceording to a eommuni(-atiom secretary of IState Charles T. Stewatrt has sent out to all sheriffs and chiefs of police. He ad_ vises thou that purehasers of new COI'S should be allowed from 12 to 14 days In which to priocure II -''miss's, :Ind if they have not been obtained at the expiration' of that period to) seize the cars and arrest the owners. O 0 While reports are current that the direct referendum provisions of the constitution vvill he invoked against the legislative reefrendum to be eon- sidered at a special election to) be held on September 2 on the amendment of the primary law to provide fu a' Man - !nations by state conventions, end th e bill to legalize boxing itt Moutuna. Sec- retary of State C. T. Stewert is mak- ing the preliminary arrangements for the election. O 0 The annual appropriation for the city of Missoula for the fiseet y ew ending April 30, 1920, is $97.400. This amount was appropriated Ily ;1,,. tin nual appropriation ordinance 1 %1, by the city council. o A party of 25 linemen hat just reached Helena, finishing the stringing of an additional wire from Grent Falls to Helena for the 1I'estern Union 'j'.' graph company to take care of the rapidly growing volume of business from the northern part of the state.
