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Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-03-30
CASUAL TY LIST
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SET At TWELVE
Six Bodies Recovered;
IS Injured, Report;
Fireworks Blamed.
Members of Singer
Schaffer Firm Jailed;
Admit Defying Laws.

Chicago, March 20.-Manufacture
and storage of fireworks in a manner
prohibited by city ordinances was
blamed Tuesday night BY city and po-
lice officials for an explosion in the
west side tenement district Tuesday
which killed at least eight persons
injured 100 or more, rendered dozens
temporarily homeless and damaged
many buildings
Two men were held in connection
with the disaster, and two. possibly
killed in the explosion, were sought.
The explosion wrecked the ware
house of We'll & Co. paper dealers.
where a dozen men were working. All
are believed to have been killed.
Violated City Laws.
Next door was the firm of Singer
& Schaffer, dealers in novelty 1ner-
chandise. Chief of Police Charles
FitzMorris and Fire Attorney Shirley
High Tuesday night declared that the
Singer & Schaffer firm had manufac-
tured fireworks in violation Of city
ordinances and that combustion Of
these fireworks caused the disaster.
Max Singer and Edward Schaffer,
nephew and son, respectively of the
partners, were rearrested and jailed
Tuesday night after they had been
questioned and released Tuesday. The
elder Singer and Schaffer were sought,
but it was believed they perished.
According to Mr.. High and Chief
FitzAlorris the two men held admitted
that the firm manufactured fireworks
and that it had conducted an illicit
trade in this product.
Ton TINT Consumed.
More than ton of INT, dynamite.
and other explosives is believed to have
been consumed.
Scores of fireworks labels, pieces Of
fire crackers and torpedoes were found
near the wreckage. In nearby build
ing were 1000 pounds of torpedoes,
according to the police and evidence
indicating that hundreds Of pounds of
gunpowder and dynamite recently had
been shipped to the firm, was said by
the police to have been found.
Only four of the eight persons
known to be dead were badly mangled
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-03-30
HALF AMERICA
Of VOTING AGE
Persons, of
Which 36 Per Cent
Live in 287 Cities.

Washington. March 29.-More than
a third of the country's population in
1920. 37.77O,14 persons. or SO Eer
cent. lived in 2S7 cities of 25.OOO in
habitants or more, census bureau fig
ures said. There were c.739 muniei-
palities having $500 or more inhabi-
tants with an aggregate population Of
54.314,476.
Approximately half Of the popnla-
ton of the United States is Of voting
age. census bureau for two states in
dicate.
In Arkansas individuals over 81
years constituted 49.5 per cent of the
states total population and in Ala
bama they amounted to 4S.7 per cent.
The bureau also is finding more
children in the country than in the
cities. Children under Is years in
urban areas of Alabama constituted
29.6 per cent of the total population.
while in rural territory they comprised
AT of the total.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-03-30
bOlShevik Food
Lack Worries
Despots; Army
Disconnected

Viborg, Finland, March 29.-(By the
Associated Press).- While troops who
are reported to be discontented are
held around Petrograd and other cities
ready to Quell disorders, the bolskeviki
administration is trying to meet the
critical food and fuel shortage over
April and May until the new soviet
policy can be effective. This informa-
ton is brought to the frontier by ref
ugees and bolshevik newspapers.
A Kronstadt refugees story of many
executions was not confirmed. His re-
ports on the continued unrest depict
the soviet was turning all their efforts
to checking the discomfort.
The fuel shortage is SO acute, accord
ing to the bolsheviki newspapers. that
more than 30 railroads have been
forced to suspend service.
Travellers reaching here agree that
the situation is the most restless of
any time since the beginning Of the re-
volt and that the soviets are entering
ing their theories Of reconstruction
faced by hunger. Concessions are in
operative and will be ineffective for
| months.
With the soviet ranks there are three
great factions. The first, led by Sioux
harin, and Zinovieff is dyed-in- the wool
activists. still clinging to world reyolu-
ton. The second, led by Lenine and
Trotzky, is more conservative, Trotzky
differing from Lenine only On the ques-
ton of the size of the army and ex-
tent of concessions to trade unionists
The third, of which Ryekoff and Lu-
norchnrsky, of the extreme right, are
the leaders, favors constituent assem-
h1v
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-03-30
100000 GALLON
Of WINE SEIZED

Santa Rosa. Calf, March ga
seizure of 100000 gallons Of wine hav-
ing retail value of $750,O0G was
made by prohibition enforcement of
ficers today at the winery of X. Mar
tint at Sebastopol. seven miles from
here.
The winery was closed two days ago
by the prohibition officers. but no seiz-
ure was made at that time. Tuesday
the locks were taken from the doors
and the wine confiscated by the gov
ernment.
The seizure came a few hours after
the seizure of three truck loads of
wine near here. The officers could not
ascertain from the drivers who owned
the wine.
Spokane, March 29.-Whisky. gin,
vermuth. absinthe, champagne and
fancy wines. seized by police here in
recent raids and estimated to be wortl.
over $4,000. was destroyed Monday
under the personal supervision of Chief
Of Police w. !. Weir. Bottles were
smashed and their contents allowed TO
run down a sewer. Policemen and
jail TRUSTEES did the smashing Of the
bottles.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-03-30

tation industry and in accordance with
the best public policy, as shown by
the awards of boards of arbitration and
the acts and recommendations of other
official agencies during the pre-war
period.
ON other leading industries of
this country collective bargaining on q
national scale and national agreements
as to working conditions and relations,
have been found to be the best means
Of stablizing conditions, promoting in
dustrial peace and accelcrating Droduc-
tion.
s.3-That in Great Britain these
facts have become so clearly recogniz-
ed by both employees and employers
that national agreements are encour
aged by the Federated Industries and
the Federation of Trades unions as
whole and the effort is being exerted
to make them compulsory upon all en-
ployes and employers in q given indus
try.
'EThat the former railroad admin
istration in entering into national
agreements therefore merely recogniz-
ed tendency which had almost reach
war and which was sanctioned by en-
lightened opinion both within and with
out the transportation industry.
''5-That che representatives of the
railroads have given their sanction to
national rates of-pay and working con-
ditions Of engine and train crews.
'6-We shall further show that the
arguments of the railroads are the
same which have been urged in all past
years to prevent the establishment of
human standards in industry and shall
demonstrate that the railroads are now.
consciously and deliberately taking adj
vantage Of temporary industrial depres-
sion to destroy human standards which
are sanctioned by the thought and prac-
tice Of the feading industrial nations
IF the world"
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-03-30
BALLOON BLOWS
I. UP;4 BURNED

Los Angeles, March 29.-An officer
and three men from the army balloon
school at Ross field, Arcadia, were
seriously burned Monday by explosion
Of an army balloon in Coyote pass,
about eight miles from Los Angeles.
The injured were Lieut.. J. r. Sulli-
van and three enlisted men, whose
names were not Immediately available.
They were members of detail from
Ross field sent to take back to Ar
cadia a balloon in which an ascension
had been made by Lieut.. George %.
Watts.
Lieut.. Watts had reached an alti-
tude Of $4,000 feet when he decided to
land. He was 1,50O feet from the
ground; he made a parachute leap,
leaving the bag with its gradually es-
Gaping gas to drift to earth.
He landed safely and escaped injury
but the balloon exploded almost i'm
mediately after it reached the earth
near the detail from the balloon school
and the { four men were seriously
burned.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-03-30
Two Crucified
by Religious
Order in N. M.

Albuquerque, N. NJ. March o.
Two men we're crucified at tha vii
lage Of Abiquiu in northern New
Mexico on Good Friday in observance
of holy week in rites performed by
members of the Hermanos de Luz,
Brothers Of Light, a religious order.
according to B. j. Nordfeidt and
Gustav Baumann, artists, of Santa
Fe, N. NJ, who arrived here Tues.
day.
Nordfeldt and Baumann say they
were members of a party Of two
dozen tourists who witnessed tina
qualification and flagellation cere-
monies connected with it.
or more than q half hour, the
artists say, the two human sacrifices
were tied to huge wooden crosses.
At the end Of that time they were
taken down, bleeding and exhausted.
The condition of the men is said to
be serious and their recovery in
doubt.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-03-30
LACK Of DOMESTIC AND EXPORT
DEMAND IS GIVEN As CAUSE BY
C. F. KELLEY At BUTTE OFFICE
Suspensions Will Be Only Temporary, Concensus
ofOpinion Of Officials; 5000 Men Are Affected
in Montana; Utah Copper, Ray Consolidated,
Nevada Con-. and Chino Copper Included.

Butte, March 29-The Anaconda Copper
Mining Co. will suspend mining operations April
|, because of the depression in the metal market,
President c. F. Kelley announced Tuesday night
through John Gillie general superintendent Of
mines The smelter at Anaconda will continue to
run for about week on ore at hand while the
Gerat Falls refinery will operate about month.
The A. c. NJ wire mill at Great Falls will oper-
ate at least three months or without cessation
should mining be resumed in the meantime.
Many smaller companies operating in the Butte district
will be affected by the closing of the smelters will
200 easors in siverbow Madison and jefferson
ties In statement to employees behalf Of the board
directors Kelley expressed regret at the necessity Of
suspendng Operations and gives that production
be resumed ''as market conditions permit"
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-03-30

Organization of employees as well as
organization of unions has become ma
tion-wide because the industries have
become nation WIDE" Mr.. Lauck said
in presenting an exhibit on the move
ment toward national agreements. He
declared that when both employers and
employees were organized into national
bodies, the way to industrial peace was
through national agreements.
"In no industry is it more important
than in transportation that a. sound
basis for national unity be laid" he de-
clared.
Data was presented covering national
agreements in the stove industry. glass
bottle industry, pottery. clothing man.
ufacturing and coal mining industries
and in electrical workers unions.
:.The national agreements avert
industrial interruption" he continued
an the rapid expansion of our indus
trtes we have reached the point where
nothing but discord results from inde-
pendent action by shop committees and
The root of the problem is not ma
tional agreements but in the inadqua-
cies of management, he declared.
Conversationally, he said:
s.If railroad management was charac-
terized by reasonable efficiency and
had available for its use proper capital
Or credit. labor costs would have shown
q radical decline under national agree
ments." Mr.. Lauck declared. Savings
in nnerating expense of at least one bill
Iion dollars annually would be made.
We shall demonstrate these facts by
reports prepared by reputable railroad
engineers and experts.
: 1--WE seek to establish these facts:
"1-lhe policy of establishing ma
t;onal agreements or uniform rates of
nav and working conditions is in con-
formity and precedent in the transpor-
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-03-30
Actual Broken Heart
Possible, Says Doctor

London, March 29.-An actual
broken heart is q possibility, ac-
cording to DR.. J. $. Gobdall, a
heart specialist. He said ruptpre
of the heart fibres might result
from emotion. more often from
joy than grief.
"The ordinary everyday emo
tions Of life produce more wear
and tear on the heart than work.
he added.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-03-30
v0TERSFAv0R
bANNERC0UNTY
Special to The Tribune.
Geraldine. March DIV

Special to The Tribune.
Geraldine, March 29.-With 2t
out Of % precincts heard from
late Tuesday night In the election
for tho creation of the new county
Of Banner from portions Of Judith
Basin and Chouteau counties, held
here Tuesday, the vote was 1902
Tor tho county and 463 against It.
OF three places contestlng for
the county seat, Geraldine received
l,OS7 votes, Denton III. and
Square Butte 2O8,
Tho new county will contain
.648 square miles OF some OF the
richest territory In the state. the
assessed valuation Of the area
within the new division is about 20
million dollars. The territory has
a population OF about $500.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-03-30

London, March 29.-While police in
central Germany are reported to be
stamping out the revolt, says a Reuter-
dispatch from Berlin, there are indi-
cations of a spread Of the red move
ment in the Rhineland and Westphalia.
Communists from Elberfeld and Dus-
seld0rf have occupied Mettman and
Velbert.
At Mettman, according to the dis
patch, insurgents aided the reichs-
bank and occupied the police station.
Z Conflict with the special police follow
ed.
Railway Is Seized.
The railway between Elberfeld and
Cologne and Elberfeld and Dusseldorf
has been seized by the rebels.
At Dartmund communists attacked
the police and killed one and wounded
another Six attackers were arrested.
A state Of siege has been declared in
the districts of Munster and Arnesberg
and the unoccupied part OF dusseldorf.
Entente Arm Police.
In occupied> Dusseldorf the entente
has returned arms to the police to
defend themselves.
The dispatch says sanguinary fight
ing occurred Monday at Essen between
the police and the reds. According to
the Montagspost two police were kill
ed and several wounded while ten reds
were killed and 20 wounded. Passen-
ger traffic between Cologne and Hagen
has been interrupted.
SET UP EMERGENCY COURTS.
Berlin, March 29-President Ebert
has authorized installation of extraor-
dinary emergency courts for the speedy
trial Of communists rioters.
Reports up to 3. p. NJ. for mid
Germany and Ruhr points indicated
that the communists had been unsuc-
cessful in their attempt to provoke a
widespread general strike. Only un-
important walkOuts were reported.
The big shops in Greater Berlin
were operating Tuesday afternoon with
full compliments of workers, although
Communists invaded several plants
and attempted to persuade the work
ers to quit.
Gotha Joins Strikers.
: A general strike has broken out in
! Gotha, where the communists have
liberated 81 prisoners. There also is
partial strike at Erfurt.
A Bremen dispatch to the Vossische
Zeitung says that 70 wires connect
ing Bremen with Hanover, Berlin.
Hamburg and other places were cut
Saturday night.
The Zeitung am Mittag, asserts that
the police Tuesday captured 500 con-
munists who had blown up the Am
mendorf railway bridge and occupied
the railway station there. Many of
the arrested men wore Russian uni
forms.
1t is semi officially announced that
1.4OO insurgents have thus far been
made prisoners in middle Germany.
A message received from Borna, in
the Chemnitz district, states thar a
strike has broken out in the Ignite
mining area, which has been occupied
by the police.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-03-30
5000 MEN AFFECTED
IN MONTANA INDUSTRY

Butte, March 29.-At the local Of
fees of the Anaconda Copper Mining
Co. no prediction was made as to the
probable length Of the shutdown. In
fact, the order to close had not been
received either Mt Anaconda or Butte
at a late hour Tuesday afternoon al
though it was anticipated. The shut
down will mean that from $500 to
6,O00 men employed in the Anaconda
mines win be thrown out Of work, that
1900 employed at the company's re-
auction plant in Anaconda will bs out
of employment and smaller number
thrown out Of work at Great Falls,
with reductions in their forces Of the
Butte, Anaconda & Pacific railroad
and the comeany coal mines and
numbering pl Ats.
Other cemtanies viii b affeces1 &
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-03-30
TWO A|RPL LANES
LOST IN SOUTH
Four Fliers on Way
to Virgin Islands
Disappear.

Washington, March 29.-The four
marine corps aviators who left the
naval air station here in two planes
Tuesday afternoon on the first leg of
their 5000 mile flight to the Virgin
islands. had not been heard from Tues
day night. They had intended to make
their first stop at Fayetteville. n. C.,
$40 miles distant. but did not put III
an appearance either there or at Lang
ley field. Va.
The disappearance of the aviators
was complete. notwithstanding in
quiries The only fact which served
to relieve the anxiety of officials was
the improbability that disaster could
have overtaken both planes simultane-
ously. The theory was advanced that
perhaps one had been forced down in
an isolated spot and the other had
descended to assist in repair work.
The craft left here 1902 p. n., the
first being occupied by Maj. T. c. Tur-
ner, chief of marine corps aviation, and
Lieut.. b. G. Bradley, chief test pilot
of the navy and marine corps. and the
second craft by Lieut.. l.. III. Sander
son. pilot, and Gunnery Sergeant W. c.
Rucker.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-03-30
$4,000, 600 Firm
to Market Fruit

Portland, March 90 0-Organization
Of a $1O,OOO,OOO corporation to handle
canning and marketing Of the berry
crops OF Oregon and Washington an
INIT. was effected here Tuesday at
meeting of 20 businessmen, capnery
operators and financiers OF the two
states. 1t viii be known as the Oregon
washington Canning &s Preserving
company.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-03-30

Statement to Employees.
Mr.. keIlsy's statemsat to tho
employees follows.
As the result Of N uaparallsd
depression In the metal markets,
followed by a decline IN pricss to
leveis much less than the cost Of
production, II has beoome aeces-
safy to temporarily suspend epsr-
aNoas. The directors OF the com. !,
Dany have been obliged to take this
step with deep regret, - they
know and appreciate what this
action means to you aad to the
communities dependent upon this
company's operations. For more
than two years operations have
continued under virtually difficult
conditions, in tho hopes that an
Improvement might result that
would make the suspension Of 0p-
erations unnocessAry; instead 0f
this result. and Notwithstanding the
curtailment of production, stocks
Of metals have Increased while
prices have 50 declined that seri.
Gus financial loss results on all
metals sold; the situation having.
reached a point where no improve
ment being II sight; the stocks Of
meta's being excessive; the loss %
production being ereater than can !
long be sustained. Il IL NO loager
matter Of choice but Of necesslty
to suspend production on account
of inability to stand farther less.
1t Is hoped that the situation may
speedily improve 50 as to make
resumption possible, and the assur-
'ance is given that Just as soon -
market conditions permit, produc-
tion will be resumed.
5000 Made Johless.
The suspension Of operations vii
hrow out Of work $500 to 5000 meI
n the Butte district, while about 1,3OC
employees will be without employment
yhen the smelter at Anaconda is
,losed. A much smaller number Il
mployed at the refinery in Great Falls
In addition the shutdown will cause
eduction in forces employed by the
Anaconda Copper Mining Co. in it,
oal mines and lumber plants and the
orce on the Butte, Anaconda & Pacif
c railroad between Butte and AnacOn-
Ia also will be cut.
Operations have been restricted ia
for some time because Of
of zinc production. Exten-
i've plans for manufacture of fertil-
Ger. it is understood. will be held up,
The last shutdown of the Anaconda
properties occurred November %, 1907,
ollowing the panic of that year. With
he exception Of one or two mines
ihich furnished the Great Falls smell
er with a small tonnage. the proper
les were closed until March l, 1908.
The only complete suspension Of
york came in 1898 and 1894, during
he great panic. The shutdown did not
it the miners so hard, however, be-
ause the company gave them employ
lent in construction of the Butte,
anaconda and Pacific railroad, which
vas completed in 1894.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-03-30
PET COW DRAGS BOY
TO DEATH IN RENO

Reno, New. March 29.-Lewis Men
ante, 8, was dragged to his death near
here late Tuesday afternoon, when a
pet COW he was leading by chain,
became frightened as the boy entangled
himself in the chain and stumbled.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-03-30
TURKS 6OMR BRIDGES.

Constamtinople, March o9.-(By the
Associated Press) lin withdrawing
before the Greek advance in Asia Min
or the Turks are blowing up important
railway.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-03-30
CANADA To HALT
SNNN FE|N ENVOY

Vancouver, B. G., March 29-Os
mond 7. Grattan Esmonde, alleged
Sim Fein envoy to New Zealand ant
Australia, who was refused admit
tance to Australia, recently, will not
be allowed to land here when the
steamship Makura, for Sydney, docks
here Wednesday night, under orders
received here Tuesday from Ottawa
local officials announced
Dublin, March 29.-(By The Asso.
ciated Press.)-Captain Cecil Lees. ar
official of Dublin castle, was shot dead
by four armed men outside his hotel
here Tuesday morning, says an off.
cial statement issued by the castle au.
thorities.
Forty armed civilians called at the
home of William Fleming and demand
ed that he and his son Robert hand
over a gun in their possession. They
refused and the raiders fired the house
Fleming and his son attempted to es-
cape but the son was killed and the
father badly wounded.
The murders Of unarmed soldiers in
Cork on the eve of execution of Sim
Feiners were reprisals for the execu-
ton, says an official statement con-
tanning reports of the military in.
quests, issued Tuesday.
Reports state that the soldiers in
most cases were walking with girls
when they were attacked by men who
tore them from the girls and shot them.
finishing the wounded soldiers as they
lay on the ground. In one case a girl
fought vigorously with the raiders, the
reports say.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-03-30
LEATHER FIRM LOSES.

Boston. March 29-The National
Leather Co. incurred deficit of
So, ,749, ,936 last year, President G. II.
Swift reported at the annual meeting
here Tuesday.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-03-30
SEARCH FLORIDA swAmPs.

Pensacola. Fla, March 29.-Search
for Chief Qaurtemaster G. r. Wilkin-
son and four companions missing in a
naval balloon since March 90. shifted
late Tuesday to the vicinity of Apala-
chicola. where, a message to the naval
air station here said. strange cries had
been heard in Il nearby swamp.
Orders were at once sent to Panama
City for the dispatch of seaplanes to
search the swamps, and the dirigible
CT will leave early tomorrow to assist
them.
Officials believe that if the flier,,
landed deep in the swamp it would have
taken them seven days to make their
way far enough for their cries to be
heard.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-03-30
National Railway Pacts
Defended by Economist;
Raps Lax MANAGEMENT

Chicago, March 29-Applying the conditions in other in
dustre which led to national agreements to the railroad in
dustry W. Je Lauck consulting economist for the railway
Tuesday presented before the railroad labor
board in favor of national agreements railroads.