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little sister was beneath the pile OF
debris also. The girl, about years
old, also was rescued. Neither OF the
children were seriously hurt. through
some miracle, but their mother. near
by, was dead.
Lieut.. Col. Taylor. an army CT
ficer. was taken out by our men. We
started to put him on stretcher, but
he found he could use his legs and
turned around to help US in our work.
"Dr. Gearhart. a dentist. was found
pinned beneath an 1-beam. He told
us, as we endeavored to extricate
him. that he had been conscious all
night in that position. A woman be-
side him, was dead.
"One fellow with both legs hor-
ribly broken. asked for cigarettes as
he was carried out on stretcher.
He joked with his rescuers about his
mangled limbs. remarking that he
had about six legs now. He was
crtainly full of grit.
a group of two women and a man
whom we were digging out also dis
played remarkable nerve, talking with
the men and directing their rescue.
I'VE were forced to be rather rough
with a number of persons who de-
manded entrance to the ruins in or
der to find relatives or friends. We
wish the Star would express our re-
h,,t q
only way We could handle the situ-
alton under the trying circum-
stances"
Begins with Loud Hiss.
When the crash came last night it
began with a loud hiss. followed by
a deafening roar. The middle Of the
roof gave way first. 1t was followed
by tho entire roof and the balcony
The fallen balcony covered the pit
of the theater. On top Of that was the
roof.
Before the noise from the crash
Of falling timbers. concrete and steel
was silenced. the agonized shrek
and cries for flclp from those buried
beneath the mass began. The screams
Of hysterical women and OF those
actually injured were heard for
blocks away.
Rescue work began Immediately
Those who had escaped by q miracle
Joined tho police reserves and fire.
men, who reached the scene within
fifteen minutes after the crash. There
was no light. The binding snow
made the work more difficult. And
above everything else came the cries
of the injured, many of them COM
pietely buried. and out of sight be-
meath a mass of timbers.
Injured Carried to Homes.
Police, firemen and volunteers car.
ried the injured first into houses and
stores nearby, Every residence be.
came dressing station, Doctors
Throughout the city responded to
hurried calls. All available ambu.
lances were sent, but many were
unavailable, having broken down
during the day in the snow. After
they had reached the scene, and
when the work OF rescue was well
under way. the entire field hospital
unit from the Walter Reed Hospi-
tai, with its fifteen ambulances, was
dispatched. Trained soldiers Joined
the ranks Of the rescuers.
Torches, candles and flashlights
were brought into play. Pickaxes
iron bars, hammers and saws were
taken from the fire apparatus and
the rescuers began hacking away al
the concrete and wood. One by one
the injured were pulled frem be-
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MISS UPSHAW INJURED

Companions Die, She Escapes.
Miss Ruth Postley Of 1854 Euclid
street was among others to have a
escape. Both her COM
panions at the theater. Miss Helen
Dortcir. 1865 Euclid street. and Miss
Mary Ethel Atkinson. 2223 18th street.
were killed. Miss Postley suffered
only slight injuries.
AlheM G. R,lahRax OF the 1eetnR
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attention there or put into ambu-
lances and rushed away.
Last Sacrament Administered.
Although the standing walls were
condemned Immediately by the police
and all those around warned, the
rescue work went on. Three Roman
Catholic priests went about and ad-
ministered last sacrament to the
dying.
The heavy wire screen, which in
such buildings retains the plaster of
the ceiling, accounted for the saving
of many in the audience. Some of
the rescued were found with their
heads sticking out of debris through
holes in this screen. In turn, it re-
tarded the rescue work. Many pris-
oned beneath this screen had to wait
for men with saws and other instru-
ments to cut them out.
When the rescue work was well
under way, Company X. Gath Infan-
try, on guard duty at the Pan-Ameri-
can building, was rushed to the
scene to assist the police and firemen
in extending a Gordon around the
ruins. \ detachment of marines and
the members of the hospital corps
from Walter Reed Hospital also as
sisted in this work. Later fifty
troopers came from Fort Myer.
Volunteers in Danger,
Great difficulty was experienced in
keeping away from the ruins, and out
of danger of the standing walls. the
hundreds of volunteers who came
from all sections Of the northwest to
lend aid. Scores of them brought
blankets. and from unknown sources
hot coffee was brought and passed
around to those doing relief work.
The ruins were described as resem-
bling one Of the well known pictures
of French cathedral after a heavy
shelling. Covered with snow, which
fell in a continual downpour. could be
seen the projecting pieces of steel
and iron work. concrete and wood.
piled in a great mass. The moving
lanterns, the shouts Of the rescue
workers and the cries and shrieks of
the wounded made a picture which
must be left to tho Imagination. A
description would only serve to
weaken the awfulness of the scene.
The Knickerbocker Theater, stand
ing at what might be described as the
very heart of the northwest section,
was one OF the most modernly con-
structed and beautiful moving pic.
ture theaters in the city. 1t was one
of the Crandall houses. Barry Buck
ley, one of the owners. was an
early arrival at the scene. He told
a reporter from The Star the build
Ing had stood the most serve tests Of
construction. The weight of the
fallen snow was responsible, he said.
for the crash.
Calls Cp Physicians.
Mrs. Dorsey Bush. day telephone
operator at the Garfield Hospital,
showed some good sense and quick
thinking when she was notified Of the
crash. She Immediately got In touch
with nineteen city physicians, outlined
the catastrophe to them, and requested
them to 60 to the scene Immediately.
An idea Of tho manner in which tho
victiIns were caught In tho debris Is
given by DR.. schoenfield. one Of the
physicians who went to the scene. He
described the discovery of DR.. Brous-
seau. one of the badly injured. sitting
upright. with the head OF Tracey. one
of the dead, lying in his lap. He also
found two men, whose names he was
unable to give, hanging from the bal
Cony by thejp {set, THAR bodies cE1Shed
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l.
First Scientist Columbia Road Euclid
There the attempts Identification made papers
being taken from the pocketbooks and clothing There
and relatives came to identify the dead There were many
heartrendng
Gradually the crowds increased streets
the theate From early morning thousands of
coming and going, many visiting the church search
of relatives and friends
PERMITS UNDERTAKES TO AID
Nevitt has issued order permitting mdertaers
bodies from the of the disaster their ea
lishments.
Undertakers will be permitted, however, take bodies
from their establishments private homes until they have been
reidentified positively.
The purpose this order avoid the possibility
fusion families the having
bodies taken to wrong houses.
REMARKABLE RESCUE
remarkable that of Scott Mont
gomery taken $40 this morning, having
pinned beneath iron gder for than eleven
He died four hours later Walter Reed Hospital however He
morphine while under the weckage by physician who
had crawl quite to him Miss Veronica Murphy 1860
California street, whom Montgomery accompanied the
theater also is among the dead.
fve-year-od girl found unhurt, between
bodies of dead The child apparently dsturbe
quickly grabbed and carried away by
of the that her learned Her life
evidently saved by her falling between the and the
protection given her by the who killed by her
side
MISS UPSHAW INJURED
Miss Caroline Upshaw of Representative Upshaw
Georgia. had foot off and the other badly anged
lit will have be aputated Ten college Students living
S A. E. fraternity house street, have volunteered
their for blood anson which be necessary
Miss Upshaw's recovery
Little Syear-old Grant Kanson is all who be found of
happy family of five who attended the atefu heaer last
father Oskar Kanston his mother and his
among identified dead Another sister, Dorothy Is
DID, listed among the missing and believed pershed
kanstons who lived 256 street. recently came to
Washington from Chicago Mr. Kanstn employed at the
Bureau of Valuation of the War Department.
he gave
Miss Ruth Posty 1854 Euclid
could
the
iDortch
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Apartments was an outstanding hero
of the disaster, as he gave his life
that others might be rescued. He
could have been taken out of the
debris fully an hour earlier than he
others We're more seriously injured
than he. When he was removed it
was too late and he died shortly after
being taken to tha Christian Science
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IS ON GROWING DEATH LIST
AS THEATER RUIN IS CLEARED

Continued from Page I, Coils. and y
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-11
CUNNINGHAM LEAVES
FOR NEW YORK ON
BEING bA|LED OUT
Officers Fail to Get Father
and Brother of Ward,
No Developments.

White Plains, n. Y, June 1O.-While
District Attorney Weeks and Sheriff
Werner were perfecting plans for get
ting the father and brother of Walter
IS. Ward. who has confessed to killing
Clarence Peters, before the grand jury
next weeks, Maurice J. Mccarthy. at
torney for James j. Cunningham. who
is held as a material witness, Saturday
got S250O bail for his client
Cunningham, who was freed after a
visit to Justice Platt's home here,
started at once for New York.
Meanwhile the sheriff, his deputies
and the lone county detective, rein
forced by private detectives, kept plug
ging away along the admittedly slender
lines which have been opened to them.
They tried to find George s. Ward.
father of Walter 9. Ward, and one
of the founders Of the baking company
which carries his name, but if they
were successful. they did not announce
it. Sheriff Warner, as usual, stayed
within hearing distance of his tele-
phone. hoping momentarily to hear the
lost Rogers and Jackson, last heard Of
in Syracuse, had been brought back into
the picture.
The two deputies he sent upstate
returned empty handed but firm in the
belief that If the newspapers had not
sent reporters to meet them at the
station they would have had their men.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-11

Cincinnati, June 10.-(By The As
sociated Press. by rejecting a rec.
ommendation submitted by Samue
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, the building trades
department of the federation here Sat
urday refused to call On the national
board of jurisdictional awards to re-
open a decision made against the car
penters' union, which was proposed as
the means of winning the carpenters
back to the membership in the depart
ment.
Coupled with this action, which was
taken by the chief officers of the 1G
unions composing the department at its
adoption of a motion affirming the
support of the jurisdictional board.
This board is composed of representa-
tives of the building industry and
charged with the settlement of dis
putes between various union crafts.
Rehearing Means Reunion
in offering the recommendation, Mr.
Gompers said it, in substance, pro-
vided that when a rehearing in a dis
pute between the carpenters and the
metal trades union had been ordered
that the carpenters would automatical-
ly become part of the department
President John Donlin of the depart
ment, in presenting the motion which
was adopted, said the question was
that I'VE non-concur in the recon-
uendation of Mr.. Gompers to invite the
carpenters back, reopen the case and
suspend the decision"
The action of the convention came
as climax of session that began
with consideration of proposals which
were adopted for bringing peace to the
building industry. With the view of
ending the turmoil in Chicago, which
has prevailed since the Lands wage
award, the convention directed that an
early meeting of all union presidents
in the building trades be held in ses-
sion until the situation is cleaned up"
Mr.. Gompers, in referring to the
Chicago situation, said organized labor
should abide by any judgment to which
its word had been given. but he added
that he preferred reputation to lack
of unity among the trades.
Thinks Chicago Bad Light
"The Chicago situation said Frank
Feeney, of the elevator constructors
union, threaten TO disrupt the build
ing industry throughout the United
States"
July 20 was set by the union presi-
dents for opening their Chicago meet
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-11
Sam Protine, Age SO
to Wed Bride of 65
at Columbia Gardens
Special to The Tribune.

special TO Inc IrlDune.
Butte, June 1O.-Sam Protine, SO, of
this city, obtained a marriage license
Friday. to wed Miss Lottie Knapp, 65,
of Lewistown. Sam has often claimed
that he is more than 100 years old,
but when he applied for the marriage
license. he remarked that he had to be
on the square this time. The wedding
will take place Monday at Columbia
Gardens, and will be an open-air cele-
bration # Sam can induce j. r. Whar-
ton, manager Of the gardens, to allow
it.
A letter received from the bride to-
be. gives Sam the information that she
has already left Lewistown driving q
span of Shetland ponies and expects to
arrive in Butte Monday. Sam has been
requested to wear his uniform, that of
a policeman. and his bride-tO-be states
that she will wear buckskin with leg
gings. The prospective groom has been
in Butte for more than 40 years. and
despite his age, is very active, and has
never been afflicted with any ills of old
age. He has been employed as a
Waterman at the gardens and later as
special policeman in the downtown dis
trict A uniform give nhim by for
mer policeman, star numbered sc, and
a police cap with number % on it, are
always worn by Sam.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-11
CHESTER'S PARTNER
IS KILLED IN GUN
FIGHT WITH POLICE
Roberts Killed in Attempt to
Rob Coffee Firm at
Kansas City.

Kansas City. June 1O.-Fred Rob
erts, known to the police and under
world as big Fred because of his
diminutive stature. was killed in gun
fight with three policemen early Satur-
day. Roberts was charged with muir
der following the killing of Miss Flor
ence Barton, society girl here, shot to
death on lonely country road while
driving with her fiancee in October,
1920.
Roberts death followed an attempt
to rob the King Coffee company, ac-
cording to the police.
Denzel Chester, declared to have
been partner of Roberts, was arrest
ed in Great Falls in 1920 on the charge
that he was implicated in the Barton
murder. Chester came to Great Falls,
he said, to see Alice King" wife of
a local man, whom he met in Kansas
City. and was taken into custody in
a rOoming house by the police.
Chester escaped from Kansas City
officers at Broken Bow, Neb., while
enroute east, and was later captured
and tried on the murder charge and
acquitted.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-11
WAIT
To SEE HOOVER
WORK HIS PLAN
Walsh and Borah Pull
Back Demands for
Price Investigation.

Washington, June 1O.-Senatorial OBJ
lection to the administration efforts
to prevent rising coal prices was with
drawn Saturday pending demonstration
of the success of Secretary Hoover's
program Of meeting the situation by
moral persuasion, while assurances of
CO. operation we're given the commerce
secretary in his efforts by the Nation
al Retail Coal Merchants association.
Senator Walsh. democrat, Massachu-
setts, joined with Senator Borah, re
publican, Idaho, in announcing his in
tention of Withholding demand for con-
gressional investigation of the coal
price problem, although he declared if
advances were not quickly overcome he
would seek to determine the facts and,
if necessary, urge indictments if prof
iteering existed.
Coal Men Study Plan
Roderick Stephens of New York,
chairman of the board of directors of
the Retail Coal association, wrote Sec
retary Hoover that his organization
would medinately study the specific
suggestions offered as a policy for the
guidance of the retail coal trade.
Developments in the coal price con-
troversy since his conference with Sen
ator Borah, Friday night, were regard
ed Saturday by Mr.. Hoover as giving
him the support and cooperation nee
essary to push his program Of moral
persuasion" to keep charges for fuel
from climbing during the emergency
Senator Borah's useful warning,
Mr.. Hoover said Saturday night in a
statement, that no aid or comfort will
be given from the committee of the
senate of which he is chairman, to
those who have refused to cooperate
in the voluntary plan Of restraining
coal prices will, ! trust, put an end to
the recent actions of some people in
attempting to upset these arrangements
through senatorial support.
THE National Coal Retailers asso-
citation now informs me that it wishes
to cooperate and ! have no doubt it
will reply to my original propositions.
Hoover Has No Power
There seems to be some mistaken
impression that the secretary of com
merce had unduly attempted to control
prices in ways other than the desire
Of the administration to use its good
offices to protect the public. Congress
has given no powers to the administra-
ton and in their absence if these good
offices prove Intellectual it is up TO
congress to devise some other method"
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-11
MAJORITY MEN
GO To VOTERS
WITH RECORDS
Ohio Congressman Says
Affirmative Platform
Is Republican Flag.

Columbus, Ohio, June 1O.-(By
The Associated Press. .)-Sounding the
keynote of the coming republican cam
,paign throughout the nation, Con.
gresham s. d. Fess of Ohio, chair
man of the republican national con
gressional committee and senatorial
candidate, Saturday night declared
that the republican congress has made
good on every one Of the platform
pledges of 1920 and that republican
congressional candidates will face the
voters this fall on an affirmative
platform The address was made
before the Buckeye Republican club.
This campaign will be aggressive
and not defensive, because We are
going before the country with a record
of constructive legislation accom-
plished which is the greatest and most
constructive ever put through by any
congress in the history of the nation.
We have nothing to hide or be
ashamed Of" declared the Ohio con-
gresham.
Asserting that much which congress
has done has been of international
significance dealing with fundamental
economic problems both national and
international. ne said the republican
party has decided to 60 before the
voters with the record and undertake
the task of educating them on the
real meaning and significance of what
has been accomplished"
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-11
Jazz Dance Music
by Radio Halted
for Wedding March

Oakland, Calf, June 1O.-Jazz mu-
sic for dancing, the regular Saturday
night program of KY, Rockridge
radio station in Oakland, gave way
Saturday night to Lohengrin's wedding
march as a radio bride marched to an
bridegroom. Thousands of radio listen
ers heard the march and the ceremony
altar in the concert room of the broad
casting station, where she met the
that followed. The bride was Miss
Vivian Kidd and the bridegroom was
Leland II. Hodgson.
Several members of the audience
called back by telephone with congratu-
lations for the "air wedding" couple
and said that the entire ceremony was
plainly audible.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-11

resume consideration of the question
on the unanimous invitation Of the re-
parations commission.
The committee recognizes that there
is a certain dependency of a reparation
settlement upon the question of the
inter-allied war debts which is outside
of the committees jurisdiction, and
points out the danger of collapse of
German credit if the negotiations for
a settlement are too long delayed A
short term interim loan, however. could
be made which would remove that dan
ger. But a short term loan, it is said.
would be of no benefit to certain of
the allies, who would receive little or
none of the proceeds.
The French delegate. CharIe3 Ser
gent, dissented from the report, saying
he was unable to accept any reduction
in German liabilities under the treaty
of Versailles, or any diminution what
ever of Frances rights under the
treaty.
The committee members decided that
they could not thus fully continue their
study as they were extremely anxious
that no action of theirs should injure
the interests of France and that if
France did not at the present time de-
sire any inquiry into the more general
conditions necessary for re-establish-
ing of Germany's external credit. the
committee did not feel justified in un-
dertaking that inquiry.
The committee observed that an es-
sential condition of an external loan at
any time is that the public must feel
that Germany is making real and SUBJ
stantial efforts to place her finances
upon a stable basis and that q second
essential consideration is removal of
the uncertainty regarding the repara-
tions obligations.
The committee had before it a state
ment to the effect that American bank
ers and investors could be interested
in substantial degree in the purchase
Of German obligations only if further
fundamental condition was satisfied
namely, that such loan should be at
the unanimous request and for the
benefit of the allied nations.
Among the fundamental conditions of
American participation was unanimity
among the lenders as well as the estab-
lishment of the credit of the bor-
rover.
The report touches upon the inter-
allied debts as being outside the COM
petence of the committee, and that
subject could not be discussed as among
the factors in the problem of securing
that desirable allied agreement, which
also was one of the essential condi-
tons of q loan to Germany.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-11
OF SENATE
ON BONUS INDICATES
MAJORITY OF 3 TO I

ents contend that he will if passed in
it's present form.
Thirty senator's were listed az
against the amended house bill, with
this number possibly to be augmented
by one senator who is absent from
Washington and whose position has
not yet been definitely established
Thirty senators were divided, 20 on
the republican side and 10 on the dem
ocratic side.
A number Of senators who are count
ed now as supporters Of the present
bill if no different one can be put
through. will join in a fight to amend
the measure reported by the finance
committee. Some of them favor q
cash feature with other important
changes. but the extent to which it will
be possible to change the pending bill
is regarded now as problematicaI.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-11
MacNider Assures
Legion He Will Attend
State Convention

Helena, June 1O.-(By The ,Associ.
ated Press. Department Adjutant o
c. Lampert, American Legion. has re-
ceived a message from National Com
mander Hanford MacNideP definitely
advising that he will be present at the
fourth annual state convention of the
Legion to be held at Kalispell, July
20 to p.
1t was said that President Harding
expects to be in Montana on the date
of the Legion convention and Adjutan'
Lamport has been notified by the presi-
dents secretary that the executive will
attend the meeting of the exservice
men if his dates can be arranged.
Mrs. Lowell f. Hobart, nationa,
president of the American Legion aux
iliary. has also signified her intention
of being present at the meeting Of tha,
organization which takes place at KaE
ispell on the same dates as the Legion
convention