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Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-18
NEW EVIDENCE
|SPR0M|SED D IN
KENNEDY CASE
Defense Says Slayer
Will Be Arrested and
Jailed in Few Days.
Mrs. Obenchain s I runk
Seized and Examined
by Attorney.

Los Angeles. Aug. 17.-The man
who killed J. Belton Kennedy near here
August ) will be in Jail within five
days. Ralph r. Obenchain told newspa-
per reporters here late Wednesday,
As attorney for his divorced wife,
Madelynne Obenchain. he announced
that he had obtained evidence that not
only would cause the arrest of the
slayer of the broker, but effect the re-
lease of Mrs. Obenchain and Arthur C.
Burch, held in jail under Indictment
for the Staying of Kennedy. He said:
Arrest by Sunday.
''The investigation which we have
been conducting has produced evidence
showing new theory for the killing
Of Mr.. Kennedy. and the individual or
individuals responsible for the murder
or who are directly implicated in it
will be arrested. | believe that by
Sunday the entire situation will be
cleared up and the innocence of the
present suspects established"
Mr.. Obenchain's statement. made
late in the day, came after he had lost
his first tilt with the prosecution over
a technical battle to retain possession
of trunk consigned to Mrs Oben-
chain from San Francisco.
Trunk Examined.
When it arrived here Tuesday night
he announced he would attempt to pre-
vent seizure Of it, on the ground that
it waS his trunk, temporarily being
used BY his former wife. and that under
the law it could not be seized and the
contents held as evidence against the
defendant without search warrant be-
ing employed, describing exactly what
contents of the trunk the officers
sought.
Deputy District Attorney Asa Keyes
seized the trunk on subpoena and the
contents were gone over behind closed
doors. Whatever they were of peril
nent value was not announced. but Mr.
0benchain announced that he would
fight the introduction of any of the
trunk contents on the ground that it
had been seized unlawfully.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-18
Wee Hour Workers
Improve Morale by
Using Phonograph
Minneapolis Postmaster Finds That Music Put
Pep Into Work; Jazz" Records Saved
For Fag-end of Night.

Washington. Aug. 17.-Music to i'm
prove the morale of workers whose
duties takes them well into the wee,
small hours has been tried out in the
Minneapolis post office and proved a
success, E. A. Purdy, postmaster at
that place, Wednesday informed Post
master General Hays. The idea was
tried Mr.. Purdy said. after he had
made a psychological study of condi-
tions under which his night force work
ed. He found men working away from
the general noises of the day as rule
showed a low morale. inclined to be
morose and generaly worried at being
away from their families, which re-
suited in an absence of enthusiasm in
their work.
AS an experiment, phonograph was
installed and records, which it was
though would rest the nerves and en-
flven the spirits of the employees. were
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-18

The outburst was short-li and
failed to develop any general express
sion OF senate opinion on the subject OF
public or closed sessions. Further de-
bate on the question was assured how
ever, by presentation for future con-
slderatlon of a measure which would
instruct the American delegates to in
sist that the conference sit with open
doors.
Lodge Silent.
Senator Lodge did not express his
did assert that in the negotiations over
disarmament itself he would hold to
the principle that the only solution was
a general disarmament He declared
no one would work more earnestly for
disarmament than he. but that he
would hold to an unshaken conviction
that to insure success there must be
general reductions all along the line.
Later the foreign relations chair
man, speaking on a good roads bill. as
serted it was false economy to save
money for roads By taking it away
from the army and navy whose reduc-
ton he asserted. had been carried too
far already under existing conditions.
Without specific mention of the dis
armament proposals he reaffirmed his
make further curtailments in it's mill
tary and naval establishments without
menacing national security.
While the senate debate was in pro-
gress. President Harding listened to
the plea of group of women political
leaders that he appoint a woman on
the American delegation to the confer
ence and told them he was confident
a way would be found to utilize
womans influences and inruitions to
aid in the success of the negotiations.
The presidents words were variously
interpreted by members of the group.
but it was said he refrained from
specific statement whether q woman
would sit in the conference.
Those who took the petition to the
White House We're acting for the Ma
tionaI League of Woman voters. whose
president. Mrs. Maud Wood Park,
headed the group and presented reso-
luton on the subject adopted at a re-
cent convention of the league.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-18
PRISONER NOT NAMED
IN VERDICT RETURNED
BY CORONER'S JURY
Doris Shirley, After Testifying, Is Married to
Entertainer; Police Believe Dolly Mason
Creation of Hightower's Mind.

San Francisco, Aug. 17.-The YER
dict Of the coroner's jury which We'd
nesday investigated the death of Rev.
Patrick Heslin, Colma priest, made no
mention of William A. Hightower,
held on charge of murder.
The verdict read:
We find that Father Patrick Hes
lin came to his death either by blows
on the head which fractured his skull
or by two gunshot wounds, either one
of which was sufficient to cause
death"
There were only two witnesses at
the inquest, DIR. John r. Clark. autopsy
surgeon, and Constable S. Allandin of
COlma, who was a member of the party
led by Hightower to the priests grave
on Salana beach, 80 miles south of San
Girl Released.
Duncan Matheson, San Francisco
captain of detectives. said the police
had dismissed the idea that Dolly Ma
son, whom Hightower said furnished
the clue to the location of the priests
grave, is living personality. They
now advance the theory that Dolly
Mason was the creation of Hightowers S
mind and was given many of the at
tributes of Doris Shirley, his former
companion.
Doris Shirley has told all she knows
of Hightower's activities. Matheson
said, and no longer is under detention.
The police investigators sought aid
from the realms of silence when
Hightower was subjected to cross-ex-
animation while very delicate in
strument recorded his heart action
and respiration under the reactions
caused by leading questions.
Science Used.
When asked point blank if he mur
dered Rev. Heslin, Hightower's blood
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-18
Battles an Eagle
NearButtetoSaye
10 Months Baby

Suite. Aug. I7.-WhiIe picking
berries at a Sunday school picnic
south of Butte Wednesday after
noon Albert Pierce. 1904 Wharton
avenue. fought with and killed an
eagle which attacked his TO-
mouths-o old baby which he was
holding under one arm.
The bird, measuring four feet,
tip to tip. seemed determined to
have his prey, which in the clash
was dropped into the grass.
The father, after beating off the
attack first with a rock, let go the
child and, seizing heavy stick.
killed the bird after a fight lasting
10 minutes.
The baby was uninjured, but the
fathers face was badly scratched
and bruised. The bird was brought
home as a trophy.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-18

tried nightly with gratifying results,
Mr.. Purdy said. although he was care
full to explain that no jazz" was play
ed until the fag-en of the night as he
did not want the men juggling and
tossing about letters and parcels. -
Everybody was more alert, he said,
ana at quitting time went home less
tired, less worried and with a more
efficient nights work done. The post
master general approved the idea and
said he would watch further expert
ments with interest.
Mr.. Purdy, who was characterized
by Mr.. Hays as "A bird of a postmas
ter with batting average of LOCO.
although a Democrat" is in Wash
lngton to give the department some of
the ideas which has made the Mime
apolis office one of the best and most
successful in the country. Mr. Hays
said
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-18
Police Chief Shot
While Attempting
to Arrest Convict

Eau Claire, Wis, Aug. IT,
George Void, acting chief Of police.
was shot at three times and struck
In the forearm here Wednesday in
In a struggle with Edward r. Allen,
alias Ed Smith, alias Joseph James.
who had just been arrested on
charge of breaking Jail at Sno-
homish, Wash. Allen had been held
In Washington for safe-blowing.
He had submitted quietly to arrest
here and was just outside the city
Iail between Chief Void and Po-
Iiceman I. Lennie when suddenly
he pulled a gun and began firing.
Void was shot In the arm but his
wound is not serious.
Another officer who was pass
inQ, tripped Allen, took his gun and
made him prisoner again.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-18

pressure went up 80 millimetres at one
jump. according to August Eollmer.
chief. and DIR. j. A. Larsen, medical
adviser of the Berkeley police depart
ment. who conducted the investigation.
Hightower has not been told that the
Shirley woman married an entertainer
here Saturday, and the investigators
expect that the future presentation of
this information. together with other
facts, may bring forth damaging admis-
sions from Hightower when they are
prepared to reveal these things to him.
The Shirley woman married Lee
Vincent Putnam at Redwood City Sat
urday night, giving her name as Edna
Carroll, age 26. of South Dakota. In
formation from Denver and Salt Lake,
according to the police here, indicates
the Shirley woman was known in those
places as Edna Mickey Carroll,
according to Captain of Detectives
Matheson here
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-18

Most of his speech of an hour, as he
said in closing, was little about the
bill and a whole lot about the demo-
cratic party"
Reviewing what he described as ex-
travagances under the last administra-
ton. Mr.. Fordney charged that Pres
ident Wilson had taken over the rail-
roads "for political purposes only
and had placed in charge of them his
son-in-law, McAdoo, whom he was
grooming for the presidency"
Democrats Question.
Asked from the democratic side why
he had voted for the bill authorizing
federal control of the carriers, the
speaker said:
II voted to put the president in a
hole and We did it,
Later Mr.. Fordney said he had made
his statement about taking over the
railroads jokingly but his declaration
was greeted with jeers from the Dem
ocrats.
The committee chairman went into
details about shipping board opera
tions and war purchases as well as
aoperations of the railroads and the
telephone lines and declared that now
the republican administration had ''to
20 to the country and ask for money
to pay for these extravagances. He
then gave some figures about the num-
Der of people President Wilson carried
with him to Paris and the money spent
while there.
Turning to the bill itself, the chair
man discussed briefly the changes in
tax levies proposed and declared the
committee had made an honest effort
to reduce taxes and believed it had
given TO the house ''as equitable a
measure as was possible under the
circumstances"
MIR. Fordney was given a demonstra-
tion by his Republican colleague and
some Democrats who stood and ap-
plauded him for several minutes.
Garner Opens Fight
Representative Garner. of Texas.
ranking minority member of the ways
and means committee, opening the
democratic fight on the bill. replied at
some length to Mr.. Fordney's state
ments about federal railroad opera
ton. Asserting that Democrat and
Republican congresses had voted
$2,6OO.OOOOOO to the railroads, he de-
clared that the end was not yet
You are called upon" he said, ad-
dressing the Republicans. ito vote
$500, 100000 more which the president
recommended the other day. Why do
your leaders want you to vote on this
proposition before congress takes
recess. They dare not let you go
home and meet your constituents on
the proposition of giving the railroads
$500 100000 or more
Turning to the tax bill. Mr. Garner
said he believed and hoped his party
would say that the law put on the sta
tue books should provide that those
most able to pay should pay. He add
ed that the Republican proposal was
for lifting Of the tax burden from the
classes and placing it on the masses.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-18
England:S Unemployed
Former Service Men Are
EnHsting in Spanish An,1u
Applicants Asked Only Two Questions by Off
GERS: Can You Fight?" and will
You Fight?"

London, Aug. 17.-By the Asso-
ciated Press. .)-Scores of unemployed
former service men are reporting daily
to the Spanish consulate here for en-
rollment in the foreign legion of the
Spanish army. Men accepted are di-
rected to report to the Spanish trans
port Almirante, which is due to sail for
Spain Thursday.
Information which led to this re-
cruiting is said to have been circulated
secretly among the unemployed. Ap-
plicants for enlistment are asked only
two questions: Can you fight!' and
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-18

will you fight?"
Although the men are Informed of
the dangerous nature of the prospective
campaigning against tribesmen in Mo-
rocco, they readily enlist in view of the
Inducements offered. These include q
bonus OF 700 pesetas for five-year en-
lstment and 400 pesetas for four
year enlistment. Other attractions are
eligibility for medals, decorations and
promotion to commissioned rank. as
wei as daily pay of four and one half
pesetas upon final acceptance at the
headquarters of the foreign legion in
Ceuta, Morocco.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-18
Austrian Pardoned;
Sedition Conviction
Special TO The Tribune.

Special to The Tribune.
Helena. Aug. 17.-Jocef Iioceyar. an
Austrian, who was convicted Of sedition
alleged to have been committed while
he was employed at Il Roundup coal
mine, has been pardoncd. the state
board having accepted Governor Joseph
NJ. Dixon's recommendation. lEoceyar
was sentenced to serve from Six to II
years and began serving on February
%. 1919, He was 81 years old then
Judge George z. Jones, who tried
the case, said that Hocevnr might be
considered a mild sedtionist," and
200 miners where he worked vouched
that he did not make sedtious utter
ances there as alleged. His friends
say the case was q frame-np.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-18
DORIS SHIRLEY FORMERLY
LIVED IN MINNEAPOLIS

Denver. Aug. 17.-Lee V. Putnam,
who married Doris Shirley, mentioned
in the Heslin murder mystery case,
formerly lived in Denver His father,
f. r. Putnam, was a federal agent
here.
Miss Shirley, identified by local po-
lice as Edna ("Mickey") Carroll, also
formerly lived here. and figured in po-
lice investigation of the $4,000 rob-
berry of two messengers of the Stock
yards National bank here last spring
She was held by the police until the
three men arrested for the robbery
pleaded guilty and were given life SEN
tences. Then she was released.
Police announced the girl formerly
lived in Minneapolis, MINI. Her name
then. they said, was Mrs. f. r. Cav
anaugh. Her Minneapolis husband is
dead. the police said.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-18
Mother and Son
Combine Weddings
Special to The Tribune.

Missoula, Aug. 17.-Word has been
received in Missoula of double we'd
ding in Chicago, in which two former
Missoula people were two of the prin-
cipals. They were Mrs. Myrtle NJ.
Leach widow of the late Sherman
Leach, and her son, Hoyt c. Leach.
Sherman Leach was business manager
of The Missoulian for several years
Mrs. Leach became the wife of w. 4.
Newbern, Chicago insurance man,
and her sons bride was Miss Marie
Sweeney, daughter of an official of the
Wabash railway.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-18
LODGE FAvoRs DEDUCTION.

Washington. Aug. 17.-Senator Lodge
of Massachusetts, named by the presi-
dent as one of the American delegates
to the disarmament conference declared
in the senate Wednesday that he would
exert his best efforts for reduction
of armament. but that there must be
q general reduction" by all nations.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-18
COMMITTEE TO WORK.

Washington. Aug. 17--The senate
finance committee will determine next
week whether tax revision or tariff
will take precedence for enactment.
Chairman Penrose announced Wednes-
day. The committee decided to con-
tinue hearings on the tariff measure
through next week taking up the met
ais and wool schedules.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-18
Touring Deputy Sees
Protected Hens Cook

Special to The Tribune.
Billings. Aug. 17.-Fleyd H. Bentley
a tourist, made the mistake of cooking
a brace of sage hens at Tourist park
here while deputy game warden was
one of the nearby campers. The war
den was T. A. Berkin of Roundup
who. with Mrs. Berkin. is making an
automobile trip. He arrested Bently
and the latter was fined SO in police
court.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-18
STRAY BULLET HITS WOMAN

Des Moines, Aug. IA shot from
a policeman's pistol, intended to frus-
trate fleeing pedestrian, hit Mrs. Au-
gust Hast, aged 35, as she was stand
ing at the window of her second story
apartment at 18th street and Grand
avenue at a. M. Wednesday morning
The bullet hit Mrs. Hast just above
the waist line and hospital surgeons
say she probably will die.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-18
Ebony War Hero's Leg
Broken in Runaway

Miles City. Aug. 17.-With his horse
boiling while driving north on Seventh
street. Wednesday, J. II. jackson,
known in this section as Sergeant
Jack colored man formerly Unit
ed States cavalryman stationed at Fort
keogh during the Indian wars, was
thrown against the pavement, suffer-
ing fracture of the left leg between
the ankle and knee, with both bones
penetrating fh6 flesh.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-18
Doped Girl Rescued
From Room of Cook
Snecia1 to The Tribune

Special to The Tribune.
Billings. Aug. 17.-Word sent to a
friend asking help to prevent her ab-
duction by r. l.. Frame of Hardin,
formerly a cook here, took policemen
to room in local lodging house,
where they found Frame and a girl,
the latter apparently under the influ-
ence of narcotics. A revolver was tax
en- from Frames pocket. 1t is prob
able the case will be turned over to
the federal authorities.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-18
. PUBLISHER DIES.

Cincinnati, Aug. III. S. Crowell
former owner of the Crowell Publish
ing company, Springfield, Ohio, pub
fishers of the "Womans Home Com
.panion" and Farm and Fireside." died
Dearly Wednesday in hospital in this
city. He had been ill with cancer for
many smonrhs.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-18
GIRL SAVES BANK ROLL.

Chicago, Aug. 17-Miss Rose Yore,
secretary of dairy company has a
novel plan to outwit bold bandits. She
was stopped by robbers Tuesday on her
way to a bank with $1,000 in currency.
Dropping the money on the sidewalk.
she sat down on it and screamed Eff
forts of the bandits to pull her over
were futile and they fled as aid ap-
preached.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-18
Fordney Opens Debate
Which Soon Drifts Into
Attack on Ex-Presidenf
Chairman of Ways and Means Committee Given
a Demonstration by His Republican Col
leagues; Democrats Pledged to Vote Against
New Revision Measure.

Washington, Aug 1.-THE Republican defense of and
the Democratic assault the tax bill got under way
Wednesday the house Discussion however was not con-
fined to bill ITSELF ranging all the from the number
President Wilson took to Paris to the question of
social justice.
Chairman Fordney Of the and committee, in
charge opened the four hours debate after
the house adopted strict party vote 223 to 49,
rule for final vote at 3 p Saturday.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-18
CLOSED OR OPEN
SESSION PROBLEM
FACING AMERICA
Motion Presented to Instruct u. S. Delegates to
Insist That Disarmament Meeting Sit With
Open Doors; Democrats Flay Lodge and Ad-
ministration For Actions.

Washington Aug 17-(By The Associated Press,-The
question of secret sessions of the disarmament confer
criticized of the steps taken by the administration
Chairman Lodge of the foreign relations committee who
been selected of the American delegates gave his COL
leagues gmpses of the attitude intends to adopt in
the conference.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-18

Generally fair, probably Fri
day,too; slightly cooler.
Arizona republican., 1921-12-11
BABE RUTH, |DOL IF
 BASEBALL FANS, AT STRAND THURSDAY

"Babe" Ruth, "colossus of the swat" the most popular man in the athletic world today is coming to Phoenix, starring in a great six part photoplay which was pronounced re- gently during its tremendous recep-
 ton at Madison Square Garden in New York, as the most unusual com-
 binations of sports, humor, pathos.
 happiness. humanness and thrilling
 excitement that had ever come to
 the attention of the metropolitan critics. It will play the Strand three days starting Thursday.
 Babe Ruth is the hero of millions of fans throughout America, his
 baseball record is the wonder of the
 age, his supremacy in his diamond
 work stamps him as the greatest
 Roman of them al." and yet his
 popularity is not by any means con fined to the followers of the nation al pastime. He is cited continually as the result of clean living, of high
 ideals, and of real character-so that in Babe" America has favorite son-a lad worthy of the title-a lad
 whose living exemplified the confi- | dence and regard placed in him by everyone.
 And Babe has not confined his ef- l forts to baseball alone. He is an | actor. Few people know that he was | president of the dramatic society of St. Georges college in Baltimore. He l has likewise had considerable ex- | perience in stage work gained | through his tours over the Orpheum and Keith circuits of vaudeville 1 houses. So that he comes to the ! a tho raSl1if of a great 1 scheme to foist upon the public a l famous athlete. but as an accom- | plished performer, featured in a | drama which is calculated, as one | critic aptly put tito please every 1 boy and girl between six and 6o." | No picture or play would be com | plete for Ruth if 1t did not devote considerable footage or time to base | ball and "Head.n' Home,' the title | of his initial screen appearance, does l just that. And yet. 1t is not base
 ball story in the strict sense of the | word. The story is deeply appealing. l a drama of youth and happiness-a l play that will please everyone wheth- CT or not he enjoys a tilt on the dia-
 mond. It Is a story with an appeal ing background of rural atmosphere, | just the sort of yarn that one would 1 expect to find Charles Ray doing. It 1 has it's thrills. it has it's baseball ex-
 citement, it has great shots of
 Babe in action as the heaviest hit
 ting home run king who ever swung a bat, 1t has the wonderful charm of l mother devotion, it is a typica' | American story. featuring an Amer ican, the idol of millions of Ameri-
 cans, and there you have "Headin' 1 Home" in which Babe" Ruth will
 make his bow to Phoenicians at the Strand for three days starting next Thursday.
 The feature will be augmented by
 a special line of added attractions,
 and every indication points to this
 engagement being one of the most
 suspicious of the attraction offered during the week