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Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-25
GIRL D|SCL0SES
MORE PLANS IN
BIC BOND DEAL!
Private Secretary to
kohn Questioned by
Federal Authorities.
Gang Planned to Gain
Possession Of Bank
to Get More Cash.

Chicago. Aug. 24-Further revela-
tions in the huge frauds alleged to have
been perpetrated by Charles W. French
and his associates were brought to light
Wednesday afternoon, when Acting
United States District Attorney Col.
John Y. Clenning questioned Miss Es-
ther Lieberman, % years old. secretary
of the American Rubber Co.
Was Kohn's Secretary.
Miss Lieberman acted as private Sec
retary to Rudolph E. kohn. an off,
cial of the rubber company. who is un-
der arrest. According to her story,
the American Rubber Co was organ
lied in 1913, with a capital stock of
$4,000. DIR. Abram Levy was the
president, as he said. Shortly after
the company was organized, Kohn be-
came connected with it and later, after
kohn met French, Miss Lieberman
stated. the concern became involved
in financial deals which finally ended
in its being connected with French in
the present expose.
Go to Milwaukee.
Later Wednesday, federal agents
went to Milwaukee with Alva parsh-
man, former private secretary to
French. whose confessions Yesterday
disclosed the bands gigantic financial
deals. 1t was in Milwaukee that ne
gotiations were about to be closed for
the purchase of bank which. accord
ing to Harshman's confession. was
later to be looted.
The trip into Wisconsin was a result
of Harshman's promise to turn over all
records of the bands deals to the dis
trict attorneys office.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-25
Pacific Conference
of Methodist Church
Opens at Portland

Portland, Ore, Aug. 24.-Delegates
to the Pacific conference of the Ger
man Methodist church were arriving
in Portland Wednesday and the pre-
liminary meeting of the session was
held Wednesday night The Rev. f..
]. Traglio, of Carmel. Wn.. and the
Rev. Bart f. Smith. of Chicago, on the
board of Sunday schools, were the
speakers. The general session will
open Thursday. Among the speakers
on the program, are Miss Jennie NJ.
Smith, of Condo. India, and DR.. p.
G. Hickman. president Of the kimball
School of Theology. The conference
viii continue until Sunday.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-25
Capper-Tincher Bill
Signed by President;
Stops Grain Gambling

Washington, Aug. 24.-The Capper-
Tincher bill for regulating trading on
grain exchanges and the bill which
extends the period for doing assess
ment work on mining claims were
signed late Wednesday by President
Harding.
The bill imposes prohibitive tax
upon puts and calls" and other specu-
lative transactions and upon all grain
exchanges which do not become CON
tract markets" Exchanges and their
individual members are required to re-
port fully to the secretary of agricul-
ture on all transactions they handle.
Certain exemptions from regulations
Of the act are granted to cooperative
associations.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-25

New York Aug. 24.-Staid ole
salts aren't taking kindly to all the
prohibition inspection, official and un-
official, that's going on inside and out
of the three-mile limit.
''Gettin' SO you can't drop a mud
hook without some 1ubber whisper
ing you're rum runner said one
sun-tanned skipper who recently breez-
ed into port with his schooner aglittel
with fish scales.
According to this captain and Others
of his calling. numberless sleuths who
played the "chase thespy" game dur
ing the war now are bent as zealously
on tracking down liquorladen craft in
postwar days.
Agents Are Busy.
There were spies during the war
and there probably are rum runners
now operating off the coast, but skip
tea breath are complaining that even
under suspicion and that reflection is
being cast on the ancient and honor
able calling of fisherman.
Several months ago, strange, fantas-
tic tales began coming in from the At
lantic of vessels mysteriousiy missing
and of other vessels as mysteriously
sighted-the phantom craft that bobbed
up out of fogs. circled merchant craft
and scooted away as silently as they
had come. Pirates was the first YER
dict.
Then, in July, off Hatteras, was
found stranded schooner. SO battered
by the waves that even her name had
been ground off her stern. She never
was identified, but before she was
destroyed by coast guard cutter as
menace to navigation, there was
found in her mold a cargo of rum.
This set folks thinking and when
there came from Montauk Point. on
the tip of Long Island, reports of an
English schooner, that lay off the
three mile limit and dispensed forbid
den drinks to all comers. there were
persons afloat and ashore who gave
credence to the story.
Many Stories Told.
Atlantic City. too, contributed tale
of liquor schooner that lay off shore,
sold liquor and tauntingly sgnaled to
prohibition enforcement officers to
come and get it.
Other schooners were reported from
Tampa north to Cape Sable, and each
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-25
Prohibition Activities
Outside Three-Mile Limit
Trouble Sea Veterans
Staid Old Salts Complain That Agents Are
Getting Too Suspicious of Every Craft
Coming Into Harbor.

was suspected of rum running. In many
cases it was reported that the two
stickers had ignored signals, refused
all advances and kept snobbishly on
their courses.
Now hardly day passes that some
vessel reaching port somewhere does
not report encOuntering these battling
strangers, until it seems as if the en-
tire merchant marine of all countries
must suddenly have turned to rum
running for living.
Then seizures began and to date
more than half a dozen schooners are
being held on technical charges: At
Philadelphia. Gloucester, New Haven,
Atlantic CITY and New York there's ly-
ing a schooner under suspicion.
Marshall Case Cited.
The case of Henry L. Marshall,
seized off Atlantic City and brought to
New York by coast guard cutter, has
aroused perhaps the greatest furry.
For she was flying the British flag out
side the three mile limit when the cut
ter swooped down on her, and now Of
ficial Washington has been called upon
to decide what is to be done with her
and the liquor found aboard her. Great
Britain his indicated she win enter a
ing. without animosity. that she cant
approve of other nations grabbing her
vessels on the high seas. Her British
registry, however. has been challenged
Federal officials claim to have evi-
dence of a conspiracy involving promi-
nent men in ports along the Atlantic
seaboard who are believed to have
put up hundreds of thousands of dol
lars to sell liquor to their thirsty fel-
low-countrymen. The Bahamas is al
legged to be the home port of rum
running fleet. Others are believed
to sail from st. Peirre. Miquelon, the
French island south of Newfoundland.
Federal agents hold that evidence
of conspiracy to smuggle liquor into
the country entitled them to seize
craft of other nations even in the
international safety zone"
On the other hand. contention is
made that it is perfectly legal for
alien shippers to drop anchor outside
the theoretical line and sell liquor to
their hearts content to dories putting
off from shore. The illegality, it is
claimed, comes when the owners Of
these small craft don't drink up their
purchases but attempt to bring some
ashore for a more arid moment.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-25
|. w. w. Tests Power
Against N. D. Farmers

Rowbells. n. d., Aug. o4.-I. W. w.
strength was tested in this locality
Wednesday when general strike Of
threshers was called when the county
officials refused to iberate John Cal
lahan. who was sentenced to spend 30
days in Jail on charge of assault and
battery. Only three rigs were forced
to cease operations, and farmers in
this locality declared that they will be
working Thursday.
Callahan, who carried "red" card.
was sentenced to serve 30 days by
Judge Randall, after he struck farm
or in an argument.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-25
CHILDREN WILL
GET CHANCE To
STUDY UNIONS
Gompers Says Schools
Are Teaching Pupils
to Fear Organization.
Text Book Writers to
Be Given Opportunity
to Study System.

Atlantic City, n. j., Aug. 24.-The
American Federation of Labor intends
to take leading part in the develop
ment of the nations public school
system and to see that labor's point
of view is accurately expounded in
school text books, the federation ex-
ecutiye council announced Wednesday
night.
Schools Not Fair.
The council, in a statement made
public by President Samuel Gompers,
said that reports of the federation S
committee on education showed that
there appears to be evidence of a
preconcerted and we'll organized eff
fort to shape the thoughts of the
young through the preparation of text
books used, and that there is a total
absence of labor's viewpoint"
Besides making comprehensive
survey in an effort to remove what
was described as the false concep-
tion of existing theories Of industrial,
political and social economics the
council said it would endeavor to aid
in bringing tour schools to the high
est possible degree Of efficiency as
we'll as usefulness in the acquiring
of true and accurate knowledge"
Every aid, it was stated, also will
be given text book writers and publish
ers SO that they may no longer be
able to claim that they have not been
fully apprised of the true and accur-
ate principles on the subjects of in
dustrial education"
To Fight Open Shop.
The councils action comes as a
result of report made to the fedora
ton convention in Denver last June
that an apparently well organized
and systematic campaign has been un-
dertaken by the National Association
of Manufacturers to conduct propa-
ganda in the schools of the country
in furtherance of the so-called open
shop"
The council announced it also had
directed that the various affiliated
central bodies and state declarations
of labor demand in their respective
communities improvement in the school
buildings. many of which are rapidly
deteriorating, and urged them to de-
mand high standards of cleanliness.
attractiveness, sanitation and safety
from fire.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-25

the vessel so that it fell into the water
instead Of in the streets.
Populace Frightened.
1t was a moment of terror for the
populace when the disaster occurred
People in the streets rushed madly to
cover. fearing that the massive wreck
would fall upon and crush them. The
terror gave way. however, to horror
as the wreck plunged into the middle
of the river near the corporation pier
During the fall of the airship, three
members of the crew were observed
I They came down into the river, where
they were rescued by small boats. All
who jumped from the falling craft lost
their lives. They had no chance for
escape, for the water was covered with
burning gasoline and the heat from the
burning wreckage was SO intense that
even the rescuers experienced the
greatest difficulty in approaching for
some time. Barges, trawlers and small
boats thronged around the debris. will
ing to render any possible assistance.
Immediately after the disaster, tele-
phone messages came from distances
up to 80 miles reporting that the people
had felt an earthquake shock.
Washington. Aug. o4.-Expressions
of deep regret were voiced by govern
ment officials without exception over
the total destruction of the giant air
ship 4. r. , with heavy loss of
American and British lives. Pride in
the acquisition of the new queen of the
air and hopes of tremendous develop
ment in military and commercial aero
nautlcs had lent interest to the plans
for transatlantic flight of the British
hulit air cruiser. even beyond that
which it normally would have aroused.
One Believed Saved.
Latest advices to the navy depart
ment indicated that of the II members
of the handpicked American crew on
board during the test. only one. Quar-
termaster Norman o. Walker, of Com
merce, Texas. had survived London
dispatches, however, put the American
loss at H. declaring every American
on board" was lost.
Secretary DENLY received cable dis
patches giving details of the catastro-
phe and Immediately forwarded to the
British air ministry message ex-
pressing the sympathy of the navy
department
Far from being discouraged by the
disaster, naval aviation officials imme-
diately prepared to seek authority for
construction of new ship of the
u. r. 2 type in the United States.
Aviation officials, while greatly dis
tressed declare they had not lost faith
in rigid airships. They pointed out
that Germany had built and success
fully operated 14O ships of similar
design. many of only slightly less carry
ing capacity. while English constructors
had turned out 16.
The only serious accidents recorded
against these, so far as naval files
indicate. was the wreck of an early
German Zeppelin over Lake Constance
before the war. and the smashing of
the British R-23 when she ran Sfoul
of her hangar.
No Cause Given.
Official dispatches to the department
did not contain any information upon
which experts could base an opinion
as tn the cause Of the disaster.
Although the q. r. had not been
Continued on Page Two.J
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-25
]. s. SOCIETIES
To IMPROVE RUSS
FOOD ORGANIZATION
Heads of Various Associations
Meet With Hoover to
Discuss Russ Work.

Washington. Aug. 24-American re-
sources for feeding the children of
Soviet Russia were combined Wednes-
day at meeting with Secretary
Hoover. of the Charitable organiza-
tions. comprising the European relief
council The agreement between the
American Relief administration and
the soviet authorities at Riga was ac-
cepted by the council.
The American Friends service COM
nlittee, already at work in Russia, Is
to have definite distribution district
assigned to it and will retain its iden-
tity but under the relief administra-
tion.
Announcement that 100000 had
been placed at the immediate disposal
of the relief administration was made
by Felix Warburg. of New York, Of
the Jewish joint distribution commit
tee
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-25
POWER CO. RAISED
S2,H6,17 BY STATE
IN ADJUSTING TAX
General Manager Kerr Tells
Assessment Equalizers 1t
Will Not Fight Jump.

Helena. Aug. 24-The state board
of equalization went into executive
session late Wednesday and raised the
assessment valuation of the Montana
Power Co. from $37, ,623. .423 to $40
100000.
There was little objection to the
raise in valuation of the Power com
pany, F. NJ. Kerr, general manager of
the concern, telling the board that his
corporation would not fight a reason
able increase, in view of the fact that
the valua tons of other state corpora
tions had been raised
Witnesses on the valuation of the
Power company were heard several
days ago, and only the final decision of
the board remained for the executive
session The motion on the assessment
increase was made by Attorney Gen
eral Rankin, and seconded by State
Auditor Porter.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-25
Finance Plans
for Agriculture
Near Completion

Washington, Aug 24.-Negotiations
for advances to finance agriculture
products for export sales involving ap-
proximately $o6.OOOOOO. are nearing
completion. the war finance corporation
announced Wednesday.
Final action on seven transactions
will be made within few days, the cor
poration added. In the seven propo-
sitions are Washington Wheat Growers
association. 100000 bushels of
wheat: Idaho Wheat Growers associa-
ton. o.O0O.OOO bushels Of wheat: Ore
gon. "a grain association, 100000
bushels of wheat, and the Montana
Wheat Growers association, 1000, 600
bushels of wheat.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-25
SAYS SALE WOODEN
SHIPS A SHAME

Seattle. Aug. 24.-Characterizing the
sale of wooden ships by the shipping
board as shame" and declaring con-
ditions which compelled the sales a
direct result of the LaFollette act,
Louis w. Hill, of st. Paul, chairman
of the board of directors of the Great
Northern railroad arrived in Seattle
Wednesday afternoon to remain sew
eral days investigating business con-
ditions.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-25
EASTERN ROAD ASKS
BOARD TO KILL RULING

Philadelphia, Aug. 24.-The Penn
sylvania railroad Wednesday forwarded
an application to the United States
railroad labor board to ''set aside and
vacate" it's recent decision in the case
of the shops and crafts union, declar-
ing the board has no right or power
to prescribe principles to govern the
railroad and its employees in the max
ing of agreements covering rules and
working conditions.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-25
PEOPLE SEEK SAFETY WHEN
FLAMING SHIP STARTS FALL;
BLAST ROCKS ENTIRE CITY
Monster Aircraft Had Been Cruising All Day
With Everything Reported Going Fine;
Disaster Overtakes Dirigible Within
Few Miles of Base.

Hull, England Aug 24.-(By the Associated Press).-
Sixteen officers of the United States and
twenty officers and of the British met death
Wednesday the collapse the great dge ZR2 the
city of Hull
Only of the Americans board the l-fated craft
escaped could be asceaned at midnight Wednesday,
Only five of the 49 who making the trial trip
in the drgbe prior to the vessel being turned to the
United States navy are known to have been saved
The American officers who started the trial included
Commander Louis H. Maxed Lieutenant Commander Emory
Coil, Lieutenant Henry w. Hoyt Lieutenant Marcus H.
Esery, Lieutenant Commander Valentine n Reig and Lieu
tenant Charles G. Little
The American enlisted who went with the craft
from Howden c. l. Allar Robert Coone, L. E. Crowe,
j. T. Hancock William Julius, NJ Lay, A. L. Ioftn, A. l.
Petit, W. ]. Steele N. P Walker and George Welsh.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-25
SHIPPING BILL SENT
TO PRESIDENT HARnINc

Washington, Aug. 24.-The bin car
rying 4S,50O,0OO for expenses of the
shipping board until January first next.
and 5000, 900 for expenses of the dis
armament conference, was sent to the
president Wednesday night when the
senate and the house adopted a con-
freencef report on the Measure,
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-25
NEW RATES DECLARED.

San Francisco. Aug. 24-Reductions
in westbound freight rates ranging as
high as forty-five pre- cent, have been
declared by the transcontinental rail
carriers for hundreds of manufactured
articles, including all types Of furni-
ture, G. w. Luce, freight manager of
the Southern Pacific company, an
nounced Wednesday. The new rates
become operative October 8.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-25
APPROVE r. r. LOAN.

Washington. Aug. 24.-The Inter
state Commerce commission approved
Wednesday loan of $1hO00,OO0 Tor
six months to the Great Northern rail-
way company TO meet maturing IN
debtedness. {.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-08-25
COTO OCCUPIED.

San Jose, Aug. 24.-Occupation of
Coto, near the Panaman frontier, is
Rcan government in pursuance of the
Loubet- White award.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-12-23
SOME PRETTY FURBELows

genious, short affair, rather snug
about the hips but loose about the
shoulders, and it fastens in a dag
onal line from throat to hem. 1t is
Tapped over to the left at the bot
tom, fastening with group of small
buttons and silk cord and has SIM
liar fastening at the top. The three
quarter-length sleeves are finished
with bands of fox fur and choker
and muff to match equal the suit in
richness. Altogether this ensemble
deserves to be called superb and the
coat and furs may further their use
fulness by being worn with other
skirts of plain cloth or with one-piece
frocks.
The holidays bring out number
less pretty furbelows-some of them
presenting claims to usefulness, many
Of them frankly frivolous and merely
ornamental, but all Of them enchant-
ing. These accessories are beloved
of the eternal feminine, fol they add
the telling touch of elegance, or per-
haps a hint of splendor, to apparel
that might be uninteresting without
them.
This particular season finds empha
sis put on strands of beads. bandeaux
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-12-23
HELD CENsUs-TA WRONG
Divine Wrath Would Follow
Any Such Action.

It is very interesting fact in the
history Of census taking that although
a census system was used in Baby
lonia before $500 B. c., there is long
gap. when none was taken, from the
fall of the Roman empire until the
Eighteen century. The register gen.
eral for Great Britain states that the
reason for this interval is that the
belief was held in the Middle ages that
the anger of heaven would be in
Cured, which the Bible mentions as fall
ing upon the nation when King David
numbered the people of Judah and
Israel.
The census was perfected in Baby
lonia about $500 b. c., each district
making its own returns before the
consolidation of the empire and the
Capitalization of administration about
23OO B. c. The British museum has
a number of tablets of this period
which show the administration Of the
temple property, with agriculture,
stock raising and produce from farm
and garden. A book compiled by Con-
fucius in $50 B. G. dealt with the
enumeration of the Chinese. Fifteen
years later a census of the children of
captivity gives the number Of 1890,
with 1887 servants and PAS singing
men and women.
With the Greeks and the Romans 1t
was regular institution. When bill
for registration of the people was In
PRODUCED into the British house of COM
mons in 1853 it received strong sup
port, and yet some opposition. One
member stated that he did not believe
"there was any set Of men or indeed
any individual of the human species
so presumptuous or abandoned as to
make the proposal. hold it to be
subversive of the last remains of
human liberty" The bill was defeated
in the house of lords. 1t was not re-
vived until 1900, and the census taken
under this act in 1901 was the first Of
a long series.-Christian Science
Monitor.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-12-23
SUIT OF GLOSSY FUR FABRIC

a step in advance to use imitation fur
in suits, making skirts as well as
the coats Of this fabric, and that step
has been taken by the designer Of the
very handsome model illustrated here.
The glossy, black fur fabric used for
this chic suit is close imitation of
broadtail and it would be a case Of
adjoining the rose to put much in the
way of decoration on it. Therefore the
designer has allowed only little elab-
Grafton in the narrow silk braid that
is used with small silk buttons for
making the coat fastenings. The skirt
Is plain and narrow and the story Of
the coat is equally brief. 1t is an In
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-12-23

Vulnerable ribbon bags on metal or
shell mountings, or closed and sus-
pended by ribbons. These ribbon bags
are usually made at home and are of
many degrees of richness. the stores
providing ribbons and mountings for
making them in great variety. Among
bracelets there are bright-colored, flex-
ible novelties of bone and of mother
of pearl in colors. They are made in
sections linked together with gold
and having gold floral designs on the
sections. Braided bands of silver or
strands Of pearls with rhinestone
clasps are among the new bracelets.
Bandeaux for the hair are made Of
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-12-23
SUMPTUOUS FUR FABRICS;
AMONG PRETTY FURBELOWS

and ornamental combs for the hair,
shopping bags, earrings, bracelets,
charms and ornaraents ito be worn on
ribbons and cords), fans and corsage
flowers. But these are only few of
the things made to enhance the beau
ty or please the eyes OF women who
love to surround themselves with
beauty. There are as many small fur
nishings that are ornamental as there
are dress accessories.
Among bags, besides those of leath-
er, there are very attractive ones Of
silver mesh, In several styles and In