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Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-05-22
Republican Defec ton
Big Enough to Upset
Caucus Program, So 1t
Is Deferred Now.
Taxation Scheme to Fl
nance Plan Attacked as
Calculated to Invite
Treasury Disaster.

Washington, May 21.-Republican
leaders Of the house decided Friday
not to attempt passage Saturday Of the
soldier relief legislation. No date was
fixed for calling UP the bill, but leaders
said they expected to get it before the
house Tuesday or Wednesday.
This decision was reached because Of
prospective coalition between a
majority of the Democrats and II
minority of the Republicans, the latter
opposing any cash bonus. The combina-
ton planned either to defeat the rule
giving the bill right of way for passage
or amend the rule and leave the bill open
for amendment.
Democrats Oppose Solidiy.
Before Republican leaders were call
ed together, an informal Democrat poll
showed virtually solid opposition to the
Republican program. 1t was also dis
closed that the anti-bonus Republicans
numbered three score, and by combining
with the majority, might upset the
Republican control.
Anticipating action on the bill
Saturday, both Chairman Fordney, of
the ways and means committee, and
Representative Henry T. Raipey. rank
ing Democratic member. filed their re-
ports on the measure late IN the uay.
Neither offered any direct argument for
or against passage of the bill. Mr..
Fordney declared the legislation could
be financed only by new taxes, without
which. he said, the measure would be
'inexpedient, If not entirely useless
FoolIng Soldiers. He Says.
Mr.. Rainey attacked the taxation
scheme. declaring it ill-considered and
calculated to hurry us ever nearer fin
ancial disaster" He advocated a var
profits tax. and said that. if permitted,
he would endeavor to include it in the
bill
Evidence that the bill Is designed
primarily as a Republican campaing
proposition" said the Rainey report, rs
found in the fact that not a single tax
takes effect until after the next cleo
tion. There Is not the slightest inten
tion Of trying to pass the bill through
the senate at this session Of congress.
We consider this is acting in bad faith
with the soldiers organizations which
requested this legislation"
Mr. Rainey declared the land reclama
ton plan embodied in the bill would
lead to unlimited expenditures, and
would be stricken ont of the bill
Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-05-22
ELECTR|F|CATION KEY
TO NATIONS FUEL-POKER
PROBLEM SAYSBUTTE MAN

from electrical generating stations using
coal for fuel, and with a large part of
the power supplied from water power
plants, the saving would be consider
ably increased.
TN my view, the experimental stage
of railway electrification Ia past. The
Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul railway
and the Montana Power company have
demonstrated in Montana the entire
practicability and great superiority Of
electrical power for the operation Of
q heavy trunk line railway by more than
four years Of 100 per cent operation.
Four-thousand-ton trains 90 up and
down heavy mountain grades under per-
feet control and at speeds never before
known and with a regularity which Is
phenome enal.
The demonstration of electrical op-
GRAFTON in the northwest has been 50
satisfactory that the question of It's ap-
pEcation to other roads is only matter
of securing the necessary capital to-
make the application possible. The
change from steam to electric operation
means more than a mere change in
type of locomotive used II means
change in the entire conception of the
art of railroad transportation.
'In short, by adopting electrification,
the railroad company 10 relieved entirely
Of the business Of generating power and
ID enabled to concentrate on - main
business OF transpoetanon
Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-05-22

Philadelphia. May 21.--Grover Cleve-
land Bergdoll. convicted draft dodger.
recently sentenced to serve five years on
Governors Island, Y. y. escaped from
army guards at his mothers home here
Friday and is still at large. The wealthy
Philadelphian, who evaded the govern
ment authorities for more than two
years before he was captured at his
home in sensational raid. disappeared
in his own motor car. while two
sergeants from Fort Jay. y. Y, his
guards, were sitting in the drawing room
of Mrs. Bergdolrs palatial home. The
machine was driven by Bergdons chauf-
feur, according to the police.
"0n Important Business"
According to information received here
from Fort Jay. BergdoII came to Phila-
delphia Thursday on q three-day fur
Tough to attend to important business
matters" 1t was said by the military
authorities that he had left Governors
Island on competent military instruc-
tions and was supposed to visit city
other than Philadelphia. The nature OF
Bergdolrs business. the military authori
ties said. was confidential.
1t was said the two sergeants had
spent the night at the Bergdoll home.
which is in Wynnefield on the outskirts
Of the city. Friday, Bergdoll was enter
tanning the sergeants with recitatI1ns
from Shakespeare, according to James
f. Roming. a friend of the Bergd0Ii
family, who was present
Phone Call Was Excuse.
A telephone bell rang and Bergdol
said he would answer it. He left the
room and as the bell kept ringing, the
Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-05-22
GERMAN BRUTALITY
T0WOMEN SC0REDBY
ONE IN PARLIAMENT
Assembly Set in Uproar by Suf-
fragette Member; Demands
State Of Siege End.

Berlin. May 21.-The independent So
ciahsts took advantage Of the temporary
absence from the national assembly
chamber of most Of the members Of the
parties Of the right to put through a
motion demanding that the state of siege
in various parts Of the empire be lifted
Immediately.
The opportunity came after the speech
Of Frau Zeitz. Socialist. who during the
debate on Interpolation complaining Of
acts Of brutality toward women and
children By the French black troops in
the occupied area, reminded the inter-
pellators that they had failed to mention
the acts Of German soldiers against
women In Russia and Belgium.
Frau Zeitz's remarks created Q tre-
mandAns upror.
Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-05-22
Frank NJ. Kerr Cites Mil
waukee Line in Mon
tana as mple /;
ouId Save IS P. G. Coal
on Roads.

Pasadena, Cal. May 2L-The nation
is looking to the electrical industry to
effect economies in the depicting store
of coal and oil, the National Electric
Light association in convention was tcld
in a report from Frank NJ. Kerr, Of
Butte, Montana, chairman of the COM
mittee on identification Of steam rafl-
roads. Mr. Kerr was unable to attend
the convention and his report was read
By Fl. II. Cochran.
Excerpts from the report follow:
IF all the steam railroads IN the coun-
try were electrified with the power fur
nished from large steam generating
electric stations, the total fuel required
would be equivalent to 63,500,0 600 tons
Of coal, as against the actual figure for
17e,0OOOoO tons. Thus, by electrifica-
ton of the roads, 122, 800 900 tons would
have been saved. II the power neccs-
sary toyeun thu railroads we're furnished
Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-05-22
Word Catholic Left
Creed by Report of
Methodist Censors

Des Moines. Ia. May 21.-The
majority of the committee on state of
the church of the Methodist Episcopal
general conference has recommended
that no change be made in the present
Apostles Greed.
A minority report. however, will be
submitted. il was said. asking for the
elimination Of the phrase. THE holy
catholic church The creed now reads:
II believe in the Holy Ghost, the holy
catholic church. the communion of
saints. the forgiveness of sins etc. The
word catholic is used in a general
sense, and has no reference to tn.
Catholic church as that term is generally
understood The signers of the minority
report desire, however, to eliminate any
reference to the word catholic"
Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-05-22
WAR Of BU[GARS
AND TURKS UPON
GREEKS LOOMING
Possession of Adrian
ople and Thrace Bone
of Contention; Kemal
Brutally Drafting.

Constantinople, May 21.-(By the
Associated Press THE new Thracian
government at Adrianople has dismissed
all the old officials.
Former sub-governor Erdjument Erik
an Bey, who has arrived in Constant
nople, said that Bulgarians are crossing
into Turkey in large numbers and join
ing the Turks, who are preparing to re-
sist the Greeks.
Bulgarians. according to Ekran Bey,
will form the backbone of the forces
opposing the Greeks, but he declared
that Oplonel Jafar Tayar, who was the
Turkish commandant at Adrianople, has
10000 Turkish soldiers available.
Ekran Bey asserted that the French
are permitting the Bulgarians to enter
Turkey at will, but as he is considered
in allied circles here to be decidedly
anti-French, 1t is believed his state
ment should be taken with reserve.
Turkish nationalists have seized the
village Of komkaleh at the southern
entrance to the Dardenelles and are
either defeating the Sultan's troops. or
are persuading them to desert TO the
army of Mustapha Kemal Pasha, the
nationalist leader, at various points
along the Sea of Marmora.
Anzevour Pasha, the only conspicuous
supporter of the sultan in Anatolia. has
been severely wounded and his chief of
staff hanged by nationahsts, near Gouve.
At Eski Chehir and other points along
the Anatolian railway. the nationalists
are bringing in unwilling recruits in
groups of five or six. with iron rings
locked about their neeks and connected
up by chains with fellow shirkers.
Frequently draft evaders have brok
er heads and bandaged arms and legs,
as result of rough tretment by guards.
Only Moslems are ccnscripted. the ma
tionalists declaring Christians TO be an
trustworthy.
Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-05-22
Bones of Mission
Explorer Of 1879
Believed Uncovered

Quincy, H., May 2i.-The skeleton
of what may prove to have been a
missionary connected with the Joliet
or La Sale expedition of 1879 was
uncovered by recent floods In the
Mississippi river at Meyer, H., a
VILLAGE OF 20 miles north OF Quincy,
The head was missing.
Along with the remains, which re-
posed on rock slab, were found two
silver bracelets and three solid silver
crosses, one being stamped "Mon-
treal', and the smaller ones "R. CO..
The bracelets Or wristbands were
marked m. ~" There were also a
number Of ivory beads, presumed to
be the remains OF q rosary.
The bones and the relics were sent
to q college at Canton, Missouri,
where an exhaustive research viii be
made. On first examination OF the
CROSSES and bracelets the ooIIeae
authorities give II as their opinion
that the remaIns are those Of one of
the pioneer missionaries.
Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-05-22
Woman Who Poisoned
Sister and Family
Quickly Found Guilty

Lincoln, kans., May 2i-Miss
Stella Hyman, who confessed that
she caused the death of Mr.. and
Z Mrs. Ed Bunch, her hrother-In-law
and sister, by placing poison In their
food. was found guilty of murder In
the first degree by JHry here Fri
day night. The Jury was out twenty
minutes. Her motive was due to
the sister and husband refusing TO
LET her marry their son, father of
her child, she said.
Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-05-22
STAR DRAFT DODGER
ESCAPES I'm OWN CAR;
MYSTERIOUS FAVOR
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, Philadelphia's Flying
Dutchman' Taken Home to Sign Papers, Walks
Away From Prison Sergeants, Motors off.

two sergsants became suspicious and in
vestigated. His car, which had been
standing in front of the house, had dis
appeared and Bergdoll with it The draft
dodger was dressed in olive drab denim,
the army prison Uniform
The two sergeants telephoned police
headquarters and every avenue of escape
around the city was covered.
Seeking for CoiIusion.
Mrs. Emma G. Bergdoll, the fugitive's
mother. was not at home when her son
escaped, but returned shortly after
ward.
Military and city authorities are max
ing an investigation to ascertain whether
there was any collusion and whether
Bergdoll was aided in his escape.
Bergdoil was convicted Of desertion
by army court martial at Governors
Island, March 80 and sentenced to five
years in the old prison at Fort Joy.
The trial began March 4 and was fea-
tured by efforts on the part of Berg
doll through a corps of attorneys, to
prove he was mentally deficient and not
responsible for bis disappearance.
Speed Maniac on Road. in Air.
Bergdolrs record with the police of
this city and suburbs is long one.
He began a sensational career as a
wears old. He is now Is. He paid
several thousand dollars in fines for
speeding and fighting with policemen
who attempted to catch him. He later
branched out into aeronautics.
BergdolPs brother. Irwin X. Bergdoll.
well-known motor car racer, still is a
fugitive from justice. He also disap
peared instead Of answering the draft
call
Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-05-22
TRAFFIC D|CCERS
T0FREE FREIGHT
At 80 GATEWAYS
First Object Prompt
Loading and Unload
ing; Cars to Be Placed
According to Real Need

Washington. May 21.-Attack on the
freight congestion. which has threatened
to paralyxe the national arteries of
transportation. will be concentrated i'm
mediately at a score of junction points
Operating officials Of the American
Railway association have been instruct
ed that this would be the immediate OBJ
iect. with clearing of side tracks at less
important points and elimination Of
basic causes Of congestion left for future
consideration.
Formation Of committees at each of
thirty ''gateways" was ordered, the duty
OF which will be to dig cars out of the
mass and see that they are forwarded
expeditiously.
Must Load to Capacity.
These instructions were supplemented
to the action Of the Interstate Com
merce commission. covering drastic re-
routing and equipment pooling. which
were designed to deal with the conges-
ton as a whole.
The car committees will begin work
Monday at Omaha, Seattle, Minneapolis,
st. Paul Denver, Portland, Oregon
Chicago, and other cities
First attention of the new freight
controlling bodies was ordered gwen to
the following activities:
Obtaining prompt loading and unload
ing OF equipment.
ryinS capacity.
Placement of car orders in accord
ance with necessities.
Reduction OF use Of equipment In trap
Or transfer service when movement can
be made by motor truck or wagon.
Development of practical movements
for expedited merchandise cars
Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-05-22
IRISH BANDS BURN
COURT HOUSE, P. 0.
AND PRIVATE HOME
Destruction of Several Police
Barracks and Other Out
RACES Reported.

London, May 21.-Destruction of saw
eral more police barracks and military
huts In Ireland and other outragss are
recorded in an official report received
here from Dublin.
An attempt was made to burn the
courthouse at Port Arlington, 40 miles
southwest of Dublin, but 1t resulted in
failure.
In county Sligo armed masked men
took official books and papers from the
income tar offices and burned than.
The courthouse and postoffice in
County Kildare were burned, as was a
private house.
The Middleton and Armageh court
houses were destroyed by fire with all
their records.
A mail cart was rifled between Thurles
and Killenhaute and ~ letters and
-yaluablas st0len.
Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-05-22
TENSION IN CHICAGO.

Chicago, May 2l.-Millions of bushels
of grain were flung suddenly on the
market Friday by holders who had be-
come nrerved. Prices quivered and
then collapsed. Wreckage of values
totaned 1874 cents hushei on corn
6S cents on oats and S1.T5 barrel on
pork.
Tonight, owing to the tension Great
ed. every brokerage house in Chicago
was calling for heavily increased mar
gins on all open trades, and there was
prospect of another strenuous day on
Change tomorrow Whether a reaction
or a further drop in quotations was TO
be looked for, few authorities were will
ing to predict, but anxiety was evident
that either contingency should be guard
ed against 70 an unusual degree.
It was said also the heavy pressure
came from houses with Wall Street con-
nections. The outstanding certainty
was that liquidation Of great magnitude
had begun, and was wholly unchecked
when the session came to an end with
quotations at the lowest point reached
and the trading pits a bedlam.
Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-05-22
Wants Liquor Back
That Would Take Him
1O2 Years to Drink

Chicago. May 2i.-John Spisss.
former saloon-kseper, would have to
i've 10 be i55 years old to drink up
l.O57 quarts Of iiqu0r which federal
AGENTS receRtiy SEIZED from him, 40
oordino to judge K. N. Landis' fig.
ureS-
The Judge dea,sd Spless' pstitsoa
for the retura OF the liquor, which
hs coatended Was for HE own use,
after estimatiao Il would take one
man i02 yeaSS b drink II. Spless
save his aoe - 5S.
Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-05-22
Two Killed in Race
War Started by White
Girl and Negro Woman

Fayetteville, N. c., May 2i.-In a
clash between whites and blacks.
n. C. Butler, white, was killed,
Deputy Sheriff W. C. Moore, mortal
w wounded, two other white men
shot and several houses In the negro
section of the city were burned. At
midnight the situation had Gained.
The trouble started this morning,
1t Is said, In an alteration between
a white girl and a negro woman.
Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-05-22
Gunman Auto Driver
Found Guilty of Hand
in Labor Bully Murder

Chicago, May 2i-Jamss vinci
was found guilty Friday night as
an accessory to the murder of Mau-
rice Moss" EnrIght, labor leader,
by a Jury In Judge Sahath's court.
His punishment was fixed at four
teen years In prison.
VlncI was charged with driving
the automobile from which Enright
was Killed In front Of his home on
the night of F Feh. /. The death pen
atty was asked by the state.
Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-05-22
Construction of Meat
Supply of Nation Is
Threatened; Cars Lack

Chicago. May 21.-An immediate con-
striction of the nations meat supply is
threatened by the reduced quota of re-
frigerator cars apportioned to packing
companies by the Interstate Commerce
commission. according TO a statement is
sued by Thomas f. Wilson. president
Of the Institute of American Meat
Packers. in behalf of American packing
companies
Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-05-22

pO1 n pI IlCCS caS tIk1A ming tlIC LII oC
food-stuffs.
Due to Scaling Credits.
The stock exchange showed improve
ment on a sharp recovery of liberty
bonds and victory notes.
A large part of Fridays liquidation
in cotton and grains was attributed to
the further scaling down of credits by
banking institutions here and in other
reserve centers. evidently in conformity
with the request of the federal reserve
board
In the local cotton market May con-
tracts broke 400 points with equally
sharp reactions in New Orleans. The
Liverpool market also reported sub
stantial reactions.
Copper Also Hit
Domestic and foreign metal markets
quoted lower prices for spot and future
deliveries, silver proving the only excep-
ton at slight rise in London. Little
business was done here in copper for
immediate delivery.
Banks in the uptown or wholesale
dry goods district reported additional
loan contraction and most of the retail
shops advertised "cuts" of % to 40 per
cent in women's wearing apparel.
Dealings in liberty bonds and victory
notes failed to reach the huge totals OF
the two preceding days. but most OF the
days business was on an ascending
scale. Virtually all the liberty issues
closed at the days maximum quota
tons. gains extending from one per cent
to 3.O4 per cent. the fourth An = scoring
the greatest advance.
Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-05-22
German Parliament
Ends Career Stormily:
Was Republics First

Berlin, May 21.-The German
republics first parliament went out of
existence at noon Friday for. although
its mandate is effective until the new
reichstag is convoked, it will not sit
again unless summoned for some great
emergency.
The closing hours of the session were
marked by acrimonious party strife,
which resulted in the bill providing for
abrogation of the military courts being
left in allegiance.
Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-05-22
Stockman Stabbed;
Neighbor Blamed

Tsma. Iowa. May 21-Frank Maiden,
A stock breeder, is charged with staobing
Ned Smith, neighbor, also stock
breeder. and endeavoring to stab Mrs
Smith. as the Smiths were driving TO
town. Indignation is running high against
Maiden. il is said.
Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-05-22
CUT AUTO PRICES 10 p. C..

Morris, H., May 21.-Local dealers
In three makes of automobiles announce
reductions Of 10 per cent in the price
of all present stock and on future or
ders. At the same time tires and ac-
cessories were reduced 25 per cent in
price.
Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-05-22
DEATH or WOMAN HARRIS
BACK TO MILES STANDtSH

MIarshalf,eld, Wis, May 21.-Mrs
Martha A. Butler, O pioner rs,idsnt of
WISCONSIN and a direct descendant Of
Captain Miles Standish, one of the Ply
mouth Pilgrims died at her home In
Richfield. Her maiden name was Mics
Martha Ann Standlsh. She was If the
eighth aenArettm OF Mn Etandish.
Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-05-22
FOUR DAYS MAIL CUT
PROPOSED, BY SEAPlANE

New York, May 2l--A saving of four
days to American mail to the Orient
through postoffice contracts for seaplane
delivery OF postal matter from Seattle
to Victoria. to begin about July 1, was
announced here by B. n. Cott, general
manager of a Seattle aircraft manufac-
tnrer here
Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-05-22
LIVING STAPLES REEL
UNDER STIFF BLOW IN
NATIONWIDE ASSAULT
Cotton, Sugar and Corn Options Break Violently
and Pork and Provisions Suffer Sharp Reac-
tons; Chicago Houses Under Keen Tension; Is
Result of Federal Reserve Curb on Credit.

New York. May 21-Prces of living staples sent reel
in the principal commodity market of the nation Friday
result of the nationwide assault high COSTS which until
today had been expressed mainly cuts in the of wearing
apparel in the retail trade
Cotton, and options broke violently here and in
Chicago cereals and provisions including pork also suffered
sharp reactions Significance attached to the drop in the
marking the first break high priced
Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-05-22
Chicago's Fat Ladies
Reduce Average of 1O44
Pounds First Month

Chicago. May 21.-Seventeen women
in DR.. John Dill Robertson's reduction
class closed a months experiment Fri
day with an average loss of 10h pounds.
Mrs Susie Jones, 45-year- old house
wife. who weighed in on April % ct
224 pounds, tipped the scales at 20Oh.
Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-05-22
DAWSON ASKED TO TESTIFY
IN PROEITEERlNG Ql1ty

New York. May 21-Henry 2. Davi-
son Of ]. p Morgan & Co, has been
subpoenaed TO testify before the joint
legislative committee investigating pro-
fiteering His opinion on the causes OF
discomfort over the economic situation
will be sought, it was stated.
Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-05-22
NO INCOME TAX BARGAINS.

Jefferson City, No, May .1.-The
Missouri supreme court has ruled that
individuals and corporations paying state
income taxes are not entitled to re
duction equal to the amount of other
state taxes
Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-05-22
NEW MODERATOR ELECTED.

Philadelphia. May 21-The Rev.
Samuel s. Palmer. of Columbus. Ohio.
was elected moderator at the opening
session Of the general assembly of the
Presbyterian church in the United
States
Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-05-22
CHARGED WITH ssos, 900 STEAL.

Youngstown. Ohio, May 21.-Misap-
plication Of $609,O00 of funds Of the
Struthers Savings and Banking company
Of Struthers il charged in indictments re
Bruce Campbell. secretary of the in
stitutiou.
Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-05-22
FReNCH r. r. STRIKE OFF,

Paris, May Ii -(Havas.)--The Cen
eral Federation of Labor has decided
to call off the strikes that had been
ordered in support Of the railway mems
walkout The decision for the resump
ton Of work was reached by a vote of
O6 TO II.
Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-05-22
SAMUEL eETs PALESTINE lob

SAMUEL GETS PALESTINE I0B-
London, May 21.-(Canadian Press.)
1t Is understood Herbert Samuel, for
mer secretary of state for home affairs.
will become high commissioner of Pal
estine, for which Great Britain recently
waived the mandate under the Turkish
peace treaty.