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Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-12
VACATION DATE
HELDUP BY TAX
REVISION BILL
Several Setbacks Result
in Change of Date for
Congress Recess.
Good Roads Legislation
Will Be Reported to
Senate on Monday.

Washington, Aug. 1.-THE move
ment for recess of congress received
several setbacks Thursday as resul.
of the tentative date for beginning the
thirty day vacation being turned back
from August 20 to August "a or 25.
Probable delay in house passage of
the tax revision bill was the principal
cause of the talk of postponement
Representative Mondell, Wyoming,
house Republican leader, informed Sen
ator Lodge, Massachusetts, senate
leader, that August 20 appeared too
early for a recess and that it was now
probable the tax bill could not be got
ten through until August "a or 25. Eff
forts. however. are to be continued to
pass the bill by August 20.
Another obstacle to the proposed va
cation was rising opposition among
Republicans and Democratic senators
because of the status of several pend
ing bills. Several Democrats served
notice in the senate they would oppose
vacation resolution, probably to the
extent of filibustering, unless the good
roads bill is enacted.
A compromise on this legislation was
reached by the senate postoffice and
post roads committee, which agreed
unanimously to report bill next Mon
day calling for $10O.O00.O00 of govern
ment appropriations. OF this $4,000
600 would be Immediately available. and
an additional $5O,OOOOOO would be
provided in six months.
The committee combined features Of
the Townsend bill and the Dowell bill.
passed recently by the house. 1t re-
tanned the Townsend plan for federal
highway commission but adopted the
Dowel provisions giving authority TO
the states to lay out state roads sys-
tens, subject to the approval by the
federal commission.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-12
ECONOMY NECESSARY
To MEET REDUCTION
IN EXPENDITURES
Mellon Tells Congress All
Departments Will Have to
Cut to Rock Bottom.

Washington, Aug, 11.-Both the ad
ministration and congress were told
Thursday by Secretary Mellon that
the S55O,O00, 900 reduction in estimated
departmental expenditures agreed upon
at the White House conference last
Tuesday as a part of the whole tax
revision program could be accomplish
ed only by the exercise of the most
rigid economy.
The tax question got into the house
debate. Democratic leaders attacking
the program with charges that only
the wealthy would benefit by most Of
the proposed changes in the revenue
law and that the curtailment in depart
mental expenditures for this fiscal
year upon at the White House, con-
ference would prove merely. paper
savings"
Republican leaders replied with the
declaration that the new law would
lift $6O0,OO0.0OO off the people yearly.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-12
Famous Old Saloon
Denied Pop License

Bozeman, Aug. 11.-Harry Latta
was refused a renewal of his license
for a soft drink establishment at the
meeting of council Thursday night.
Latta's place is one of the most famous
OF the old-time saloons that existed in
the Gallatin valley previous to the
enactment of prohibition and was noted
in the old pioneer days when gambling
was licensed. During the Roundup,
the place was raided by Sheriff Es-
gar's force and Mayor Parkin prompt
" closed the place. Latta appeared in
person before the council to plead his
fanse, but his arguments fell on deaf
ears. y
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-12
SENATE ACCEPTS
HOUSE METHOD 0F
ASSESSING TARIFF
Republican Conference" on
Measure Severely Critisized
by Democratic Senators.

Washington, Aug. 1.-THE house
policy of assessing tariff duties on the
basis of American valuation of i'm.
ported merchandise was accepted by
Republican members of the senate fin
ance committee Thursday. although
they failed to reach an agreement fin
ally on details of the program. Re
publicans acted alone on the question,
the Democratic members being ushered
out of the meeting in accordance with
what was said to be custom.
Termination of the details went over
to Friday, but before further moves
are made, Republican members of the
house ways and means committee will
be called in for an informal discus
SION OF the changes, which the finance
committee Republicans have approved.
Ihls conference, it was said, was ar
ranged IN order to avoid possible con-
fllct between the two houses.
The decision to establish the COM
mlttee policy, in Republican confer
ence' brought protests on the senate
floor from Senator Simmons of North
Carolina, ranking Democratic member
OF the committee, and Senator King,
Democrat, Utah. Mr.. Simmons de-
ciared his Republican colleagues were
taking testimony in secret and that no
record was being made, SO that other
members of the committee would never
know what had happened.
MIR. King said the situation called
for 1.-The seVerest condemnation" add
ing:
1t is well known fact that all
kinds Of interests are here trying to
prostitute this bill | don't want it
written by the dye or other monopo-
lies"
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-12

, both minerals and surface rights is but
u cents per acre.
j. A. Walsh, representing the Coast
Line Land Co, the Three Forks Land
Co, and the Enterprise Land & I'm
provement Co., said that lands sold by
the Northern Pacific in Musselshell
county were subject to a reservation
to the railroad on iron and coal which
reservation the assessor had assessed
at $40 per acre and that when his
companies sold the land they reserved
the remaining minerals, which reserva-
tions in turn had been assessed at $40
per acre, making a total of 500 per
acre for the reservations. whereas, the
property rights to the land itself. in the
case of some grazing land. had been
assessed at only $3.75 per acre.
Out of Reason.
He claimed that this $40 assessment
was all out of reason, discriminatory
and confiscatory, and in referring to
the supreme court decisions in the
Mjelde and the Musselshell cases had
muddled the situation
He further held that the retention
of the surface rights for exploration
purposes was merely an easement, of
no value to anyone but the owner of
the mineral deposits.
Governor Dixon took stand which
might have been interpreted as in op-
position to the high assessment, al
though he did not commit himself, when
he said:
Does any member of the board feel
we could assess reservations of sur
face rights at $40 per acre when the
land itself is assessed at only So
I'D like to think that over" replied
Mr.. Rankin. "It might be we would
if the rights are over valuable coal
or oil deposits"
1--WE have no right to tax the min
erals-we must forget that minerals
exist" said the governor. Il think the
board must follow the supreme court
decision regardless of what the law
yers say"
THAT is exactly what / think" said !
Mr.. Rankin. Il advise the board to |
follow the 54th Montana (Musselsheu /
.ase) in this matter
Mr.. Rankin took a strong stand in
opposition to the views of the attor-
leys and at times the arguments be-
.ame very heated.
The board adjourned for the day af
er setting the cases of the Mountain
states Telephone & Telegraph Co. and
he Montana Southern Railway, for =
}. M, August Is.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-12
Farmer Arrested for
Attack on Jarnin
Admits His Guilt

Syracuse, N. ", Aug. H.
Frank Sheets, Oneida farmer, ar
rested after the finding of Frank
S. Jarmin, of Idaho Falls, Ida,
beaten into unconsciousness be-
side the railroad tracks near
Oneida "Wednesday, in a sworn
statement to Captain S. ]. Nc
Grath, of the state police, Sheets
admitted that it was he who at
tackled Jarmin.
The crime was committed with
an iron bar and came at the end
Of an utomobIIe trip across the
continent. 1t resulted from
quarrel between the two men over
payments on the car. which the
two had purchased. Jarmin is in
an Oneida hospital lowering Ibe-
tween life and death, with 20
jagged cuts in his head.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-12
PITTSBURGH BUILDS
HONEST FOR CITIZENS
To CHEAT RENT HOGS
Thousands of Buildings Being
Constructed for Solving
City's Housing Problem.

| Pittsburgh, Aug. 1.-Two thousant
new houses for the Pittsburgh distric
within the next year is the aim of thu
| housing corporation of the Pittsburgh
Chamber of Commerce formed to better
| the acute rent and home situation here
I Cheap money. construction at about
| ne-half the usual cost. and expert
supervision without charge are lead
appealed to the public that scores OF
building applications have been filed.
The movement is for civic better
ment, without profit to the corpora
ton. Its officers are giving their time
and business experience without hope of
financial reward Bankers, builders
and material dealers have fallen into
line. The result has been that money
for construction is available at the
legal rate of 6 per cent without bonus.
materials are being provided at little
more than cost, and some 1900 lots
have been listed as available sites for
dwellings.
The corporation has no money, nor
does it assume any obligations. On
the other hand it insists that every
house be financed before work is
started, but it helps in the financing.
1t demands that each prospective
builder shall have not less than 20 per
cent of the total cost. Then it tells
him where he can get a first mortgage
for TO per cent, and if necessary it
puts hIm IN touch with an institution
that will take second mortgage for
the remaining 20 per cent.
This plan is primarily to help those
living on moderate salaries and incomes
who have been hardest hit by the
shortage of houses and the conse-
quent high rates." A. W. Thompson,
president of the corporation, says.
With this in mind we have set out
to build modest, substantial and COM
Portable homes at low cost These
houses will have all the conveniences
and necessities. They will be good to
look upon, but they will not be SNOWY.
and best of all they will be worth
every cent invested in them.
We are simply supplying to the
man who wants home the methods
by which mass production has been
successful and giving him the benefit
of the saving in costs"
Applications for houses are grouped
into blocks of 10 or more. to get the
benefit of heavy buying and concen-
trated supervision.
The corporation has II basic plans
and Will build houses of four, five. six
ana seven rooms, at a cost of from |
800 to $1,000 room. From these
basic plans limited number of other |
designs can be evolved. The plans are
regarded as the best possible for this |
community.
EMPLOYEES of leading newspaper |
soon filled a club and decided to locate
heir colony in the South Hills district.
Xhile large party of University of |
professors took up, the
question of building on land near the
University. Neighbors living in flats
lnd apartments in the congested resi-
renee sections have also approved the
'lah by forming neighboring clubs. A
number of manufacturing companies
ave been taken up with the corpora
ION the idea of providing houses to
ell to their EMPLOYEES at cost
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-12
GRAIN BILL APPROVED

Washington, Aug, 11.-A bill hv
Representative Steenerson, Republican
Minnesota, to modify federal grades If
spring wheat was reported fayorablv
Thursday by the house agriculture com.
mittee.
The. measure provides that all for
eign material in grading Of wheat shall
be counted as dockage and that mois-
ture in excess of IA 1-2 per cent shall
be designated on the grade certificate
and shall not affect the grade.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-12
CALLS UPON FRIENDS
Of LEAGUE To ASSIST
PRESIDENT HARDING.
Hamilton Holt Says Executive
Must Choose Between Pro-
Leaguers and Opponents.

Lake Junaluska, N. c.. Aug. IL
Calling upon all true friends of the
League of Nations to give President
Harding every opportunity to perfect
the suggested association of nations
Hamilton Holt of New York, one of
the leaders of the pro-league Repub-
licans. speaking here Thursday night
at the layman's conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South, de-
clared that the president soon must
choose between 1.-The pro-leaguers in
his cabinet whom he made and the BIT
ter enders in the senate who made
him"
Let our political leaders make no
mistake" said Mr.. Holt. ''rhe league
issue viii not be settled until it is
settled right. Every friend of interna-
tional peace and progress therefore
must withhold final judgment until Mr..
Harding sees fit to disclose the detail
ed plans of his association. But this
is clear. If he wants the permanent
support of most of the American peo-
pie his association must be more than
a mere group of nations agreeing to
be good and peaceable and all revolving
about a court.
1T is inconceivable that Mr., Hard
ing could get the world or the senate
at the present moment to consent to
establish a better court with wider
jurisdiction than the admirable one
Just created largely by the genius of
Ehhu Root and already adopted as the
chief tribunal by the present League
Of Nations. And if Mr.. Harding's as
sociation is under no compulsion to do
except when the spirit moves,
hey are now with or without an asso-
ration.
'.The present league with it's 40
members and its truly admirable record
If things accomplished in the one short
;ear of its existence is well worth pre-
serving. Indeed. it is better to have
he present league continue as it is
Without the United States during the
erm of the present administration
han to emasculate the league in order !
o get the United States to enter it. |
but we cannot wait much longer. |
The world is on the verge of revolu- |
ion, famine and pestilence. MIR. Hard |
ng must choose between the pro- |
eaguers in his cabinet whom he made, |
r the bitter enders in the senate who |
1ade him. The decision must be made
easonably soon. If not, all friends of |
he league must organize SO as to cap
ure congress in 1922 and the pres-
ency in 1924. They must tread the
ath of the opponents of slavery, who
ontinued fighting even though cleo
ion after election went against them.
Nearly all the Democrats and more
han half of the Republicans clear
lajority of the American people-want
he United States to enter some kind
an association with enough teeth in
actually to lessen the probabilities
f war. They can win if they unite"
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-12
A7URE OF DE KALERAS REPLY TO ENGLAND NOT GIVEN OUT
HARDlNC'S AGED FATHER MARRIES|
q q q q = q
White House Taken Completely by Surprise
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FORMER OFFICE NURSE IS BRIDE

Monroe, Mich, Aug. ti.-Dr.
George T. Harding, 76, father of
President Warren G. Harding,
came to Monroe Thursday, married
Miss Alice Severns, So, for many
years nurse in his office at Marion,
Ohio, and left the city before more
than score of Monroe citizens
had guessed his identity.
Accompanied by a younger
Marion couple, who refused to d.
vulge their names, Or. Harding
and Miss Severns drove here in an
automobile, arriving about noon.
They went Immediately to the
court house, obtained a marriage
license, and asked to be directed
to Baptist parsonage. As there
is no resident Baptist pastor here,
the couple went to the home of the
Rev. Frank T. Knowles, pastor of
the Monroe Presbyterian church.
who performed the ceremony at
2 o'clock.
Following the wedding, Or.
Harding and his bride left in their
automobile, driving toward Toledo.
Or. Harding made an attempt
to withhold announcement of his
marriage. The marriage license,
obtained from Miss Beryi Snyder.
deputy county clerk, was marked
mot for publication"
Or. Harding appeared in the
pest of spirits white in Monroe
and talked with newspaper men
and attaches of the county clerks
of1Ice on variety of subjects.
whenever he was asked concern.
ing his relation to President Hard
ing, however, he ignored the oues-
tons. The physician distributed
cigars among men with whom he
talked at the county building and
sent box Of them to the office
OF the local daily newspaper.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-12
Wood May Be Selected
to Govern Philippines

Washington, Aug. lI.-Maior
General Leonard Wood, it was
authoritatIveIy stated, has been
selected by President Harding for
governor general of the Philippines.
He expressed his willingness to ac-
cept the post.
A bill designed to remove all
doubt Of eligibility of General
Wood for the governorship was In
troduced by Chairman Longworths
of the military committee and un-
derstood to have been suggested by
the administration. 1t provides
that active army officers shall be
eligible for "clviI offices of the
government in administering its
Territorial possessions"
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-12
Gunrnan Identified
as Former Convict

Seattle, Aug. 1.-THE body of
an alleged gunman who was shot
and killed by Patrolman w. O.
Densmore here early Thursday af-
ter an exchange of shots was iden-
titled by finger prints as that of
Mitchell Doyle, %, former con.
vict in the state penitentiary at
WalIa WaIia, Wn., police an
nOunced at noon.
Densmore said he was question
ina the man when the latter open.
ed fire without warning. Dens-
more returned the fire killing his
assailant.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-12

1t is not supposed that de Valera S
reply amounts to acceptance of the
government offer. Rather, the belief
is held that various objections have
been made but that contact between
the two parties will be maintained,
subject to further discussions and that
the truce will continue.
Preparations for the meeting Of the
Dali Eireann are well advanced.
London Hopeful.
The Irish situation underwent an
unexpected development when Eamonn
de Falera's answer to the government
proposals was delivered to Austen
Chamberlain, leader of the government.
at London, and Immediately forwarded
by airplane to the British premier in
Paris.
Mr.. de Valera had been expected to
delay his reply until after the meeting
of the Dali Eireann at Dublin Tuesday:
hence the flutter of surprise in London
has been followed by an apparent
double crisis in Paris, occasioning the
sudden decision by Premier Lloyd
George to return to London and con
yene cabinet council Saturday to
consider the Irish reply.
1t is difficult to disentangle the eff
feet of the evident inability to harmon
ize the opposing views of Premiers
Lloyd George and BRAND over Silesia
from the possibility that de Valeras
reply portends an Irish crisis, or to
decide which of the two has led to the
sudden change in the premier's plans
1t is noteworthy that Mr.. Chamberlain
who must have read the Irish reply,
Informed the house of commons that
the premier was returning Sunday, thus
intimating there was no immediate
gravity.
Response Invited.
Neither in Dublin nor in Irish quar-
ters in London was grave view taken
of the reply. Up to late hour, no
authentic report as to its nature could
be obtained; the same secrecy was OBJ
served as has characterized the nego-
tiations from the beginning
But the general impression is that
it means continuance of the negoti- |
ations, and some of de Valera's col |
leagues have taken up quarters in Lon
don ready for such development.
. The understanding is that the reply !
is not calculated to jeopardize the !
negotiations, but it is rather of an
informal character, inviting a response
from the premier.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-12
|. w. w. Issues Call
for 'Footloose Rebels

Aberdeen, Wn., Aug. it.-Satur.
days issue Of the Industrial Work
or, will contain call for ''five
hundred footloose rebels to come
on to Aberdeen and help US make
this district ono of the best organ-
lied in the state" it was learned
Thursday with seizure of three
bundles of papers.
Arrest Of Aaron Haapanen fol-
lowed seizure of the literature.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-12
BOMB WRECKS HOME.

st. Paul. Aug. PA bomb early
Friday wrecked the front porch on the
home of F. c. Norlander here. Six
persons were asleep in the house but
none was injured.
Norlander, who is a general con-
tractor, declared he has no known ene-
mics.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-12
THREE TRAMPs KIIIEn.

San Francisco. Aug. -11.-Thes un-s
identified men were reported to have
been killed in the wreck Of q freight,
tram st Livermore, Cali, tonight sna|
train, according to reports reaca1nr
San Francisco jumped the track -
cars fen on the crowd 81 tramns -Ehea
had . camp 4lShgside the track, J
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-12
Mrs. Obenchain and
Arthur Burch Held
for Killing Broker
Two Elements of Case That Investigators Be-
ieve Are Lacking Are the Weapon and Motive
for the Crime; Former Husband of Woman.
Will Help Her Fight for Freedom.

Los Angeles, Aug. 11-Mrs. Madelynne Obenchain Of
Los Angeles and Chicago and Arthur Burch of Evanston
Ill., classmates at Northwestern university indicted
Thursday for the murder of John Beton Kennedy.
Mrs. Obenchain who with Kennedy when he re-
ceved the shotgun charge that instant DEATH had
been held material witness ever since she reported
it to passersby few minutes after occurred last Friday
night
The indictments returned before Judge Sidney Reeves
of the superior Judge Reeves remanded both prisoners
to the county jail to be arraigned Monday
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-12
THREE LAND SAFE AFTER
RIDE TO SEA IN BALL 0nN

Lakehurst, n. J., Aug. ia can
tive balloon, which broke from its
moorings at the naval air station here
drifted seaward late Thursday after
noon and was driven back inland bv
contrary wind currents, the three pas-
sengers landing unhurt three miles
from the station.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-12
SHERIFF REPLIES TO SMALL

Springfield, Aug. 11.-Sheriff Henry
Mester Thursday night replied to Gov
ernor Small's bitter attack which fol-
lowed the governors arrest Tuesday
on charges of embezzlement. The
sheriff declared that he tried every
legitimate way to avoid humiliation Of
the governor beyond that incident to
the serving. of warrant in. the ordin-
ary way"
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-12
Sim Feiners Quiet;
London Is Confident
No Break Will Occur
Irish Republicans Go on With Their Prepara-
ton for Meeting of Dali Eireann, Although
Foreign Circles Declare Note Forecast Trouble
Between Counties.

Dublin, Aug. 11.-(By the Associated Press).-No
sponsbe Sim Feiner wha knaw will give any hint of the
nature of Eamonn de Valeras reply No authentic YER
of the proposals haseaked out but
inference drawn by those in contact with the Sim
leaders and officials is that both better
spirits than would be possible if renewal of the struggle
feared The general tone among the Sim leaders
xoinul1 ic Of danco
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-12
MISS TOPPING DIES

Fargo, Aug. 11.-Miss Lillian G.
Topping, in charge of the Crittenden
home here for the past Is years, died
at II 80 Thursday night.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-12
WEATHER

Cloudy Friday and Satur-
day; probably thunder show
erS.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-12
Relinquish Rights.

A. s. McCrary, of the Northern Pa
cific, said that out Of over 100000
acres originally held by the Northern
Pacific, it had relinquished it's rights
to all but about 1905 900 acres.
NJ. T. Sanders, also Of the Northern
Pacific, called attention to the fact that
in Colorado where minerals were as
sessible, the average assessment on
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seemingly is one Of confidence.