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Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-01-30
Blue Caterpillar
Appears; Due to Food
Cells Absorbed by 1t

New York. Jan. 29--(By The As
sociated Press .D--Discovery of the
first blue caterpillar known to the old
scientists has bene reported to the
American Association for the Advance
ment of Science by DIR. John II.
Gerould, professor of zoology at
Dartmouth college.
The scientist was breeding butter
flies in his laboratory in Hanover.
N. H., when one day he found the blue
stranger Ordinarily. caterpillars, feed
ing on plants, are green.
The next day the blue visitor ap-
peared. Breeding them. Or. Gerould
found they bred true and he decided
that they were what is known to
biologists as a ''sport." In this case
the sport was caused by a mutation
in the digestive system which resulted
In cells absorbing only the blue in the
chlorophyll of the plants.
A later experiment caused the
zoologist TO conclude that blue cater
pillars existed all the time. but that
they had been eaten so promptly by
sparrows that their presence had
never become known.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-01-30
HAS
HEAVIEST SNOW
IN NTH|RTYYEARS
AS Storm on Atlantic
Coast Passes, Winter
Smites Pacific.
Los Angeles and Other
Southern Points Hit
by Feathery Flurries.

San Francisco. Jan. 29.-California
Sunday received the most widely dis
tributed snowfall in many years. q
cold north wind whipping in off the
ocean and down over the northern
mountains into the valleys brought
rain that turned to snow in many
localities. some of which had not had
so heavy a fall in 30 years. Los
Angeles. other southern points, and
San Francisco shared in the furries.
Around San Francisco bay the fall
was the first in six years and varied
from a trace in San Francisco proper
to two or three inches in parts OF
Berkeley and Oakland. There were
three inches or more on the hillside
around san Rafael, Mill Valley and
Mount Tamalpais. The mountain itself
had heavier fall Saturday.
Renicia. on San Francisco bay, re-
norted two feet of snow had fallen
Sunday, carrying down telephone and
teie0ranh lines and interfering with
wireless transmission from the govern,
ment station at Yerba Buena island
nv breaking the control wires leading
to it's sending arc at Mare island navy
yard. eo,,
in two hours. .
In southern California, the wind was
higher than elsewhere along the coast:
OFF Los Angeles harbor the pilot boat
Hesper was capsized and one man
drowned
While the snow was general IN
northern California, there were points
in the south that it did not strike:
Los Angeles had a few flurries OF
flakes; Riverside reported enough to
whiten the ground and San Bernar-
dipo's fall was the heaviest since loSZ,
VARYING from one to three inches, ac-
cording to location. Snow frollcs were
held in the streets. The snow had not
melted Sunday night and residents had
the unusual sight Of snow cingins to
orange trees.
In the valleys around Los Angeles
the fall was general A foot fell at
Mount Wilson, near Pasadena, and an
equal fall at Devore blocked automobile
travel through Cajon Pass.
Stockton, with a three inch fall, had
it's first snow since 1915 and young
sters made the most Of it. Some OF
them never had seen snow before.
The weather bureau forecast is for
continued cold weather Monday
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-01-30
Shrieks and Groans After Roar

Shrieks and Groans After Roar
..In the midst of the roaring were
shrieks and cries of women and chill
dren and a few shouts of men. There
were cries for help, groans and worst
of all. the means of those in terrible
pain. 1t was awful. | can't describe it.
/ see it all the time-those poor chill
dren and men and women crying and
groaning.
"There were only few of us in the
balcony. Luckily there weren't more.
The balcony gave way and crashed,
soon after the ceiling began to fat on
to those on the lower floor. They were
caught the worst.
Il guess there was lapse of maybe
20 seconds, hardly more, before the
balcony fell Funny, but it kind of
twisted as its supports gave way and
it swung down on those below. 1t
didn't go straight down, just kind Of
side ways and slanting,
Budged 500-Pound Chunk
Il don't know how l got out from
where I was crouching under that
chunk of plaster. | really believed it
weighed 500 pounds. And | think /
moved that plaster with my shoulders.
Anyway. / crawled out between the
seats to where i saw small noie III
the plaster above. forced myself UP
through that hole. Then l crawled out
over the snow and plaster. over the
tangled debris. to the doors on the
Eighteenth street side.
Across the aisle when the crash
came was little fellow never saw
him again and l wonder if he is dead
who laughed and roared at every
especially funny part of the film. /
don't know what became of him or
the others in the balcony.
Mind Clear Amid Terror
1.-THE plaster fell first. in chunks.
1t was just like an ice pond breaking
ND. The ceiling didn't give i'll one crash.
1t seemed to break up everywhere.
That let in the snow.
Its queer. but / was conscious
all the time when l was pinned down
by that great piece of ceiling. My
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-01-30
AN|TAL|AN POPE
SURE, CARDINAL
MERCER FEELS
Prelates Also Predict
Election by Saturday
by About Four Ballots

Rome, Jan. 2s.-(By The AS
sociated Press.)-The next pope
Is certain to be an Italian, accord
ina to statement made Sunday
by Cardinal Mercier, primate of
Belgium, TO The Associated Press.
"There is no need to indulge In
vain conjectures or to count the
votes in advance he said, "but
one must wait the DEGREES of
providence and providence for five
centuries has ruled that the
supreme pontiff should be an
Italian"
The 26ist pope will be elected
by Saturday, according to the con-
census of opinion expressed by the
preIates arriving with the cardinals
attached to the concIave; they ex-
pect that the decision will be
reached on the third or fourth bal
lot. The conclaye will open Thurs
day and from present Indications,
the work of eIecting popa will
be carried on expeditiously.
81 do not anticipate a sharply
drawn contest, which some pre-
dict" said an English eccIesiastic.
American and English church
diqnitaries consider it certain that
the choice will fall on an italian.
They believe that the hest chances
lie with Cardinals Maffi, Ratti,
leqa and laFOntaine.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-01-30
HORROR SEQUEL
To WAR LAX|TY
Senator Capper Hears
Building Laws Were
Ignored in Rush.

Washington. Jan. o9.-(By The As
sociated Press ).-Senator Capper of
Kansas. q member of the senate Dis
trict of Columbia committee. announced
Sunday night that when the senate re-
convened he would introduce resolu-
ton calling for an investigation of the
Knickerbocker theater disaster and also
of all large buildings constructed here
since the beginning of the war.
Senator Capper said reports had
come to him that to greater or less
degree the building code of the Dis
trict of Columbia had been violated
during the rush of construction follow
ing the increase in the city's popula
ton after the war declaration.
An investigation was ordered Sun
day by the District of Columbia board
of commissioners. Orders also went
out to close all theaters until the snow
had been cleared from the roofs and
inspectors had examined the structures.
Officials said that until an inquiry
had been made, the direct cause of the
collapse could not be determined.
1t was stated that the inquiry would
be started when rescuers had made
certain that all of the bodies had been
removed from the debris. President
Harding issued the following statement
Sunday on the disaster:
II have experienced the same Az
founding shock and the same mex
pressible sorrow which has come to
all of Washington and which will be
sympathetically felt throughout the
land. If l knew ought to say to sof
ten the sorrow of hundreds who are
so suddenly bereaved: if could say
word to cheer the MANNED and suffer
ing, / would gladly do it. The terrible
tragedy, staged in the midst Of the
great storm, has greatly depressed all
of us and left us wondering about the
revolving fateSs
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-01-30

London. Jan. 29.-(By The Associ-
ated Press. 1.-The conditions upon
which the British government would be
willing to terminate the Egyptian pro-
tectorate. recognizing Egypt as SOW
ereign state, and to agree to the estab-
]ishment of an Egyptian parliament. is
announred in a statement officially cir
culated Sunday evening by the foreign
office.
"The policy of his majestys. govern
ment has been founded on the following
principles, it says: ,
"While unwilling to cede to disorder
or violence what they were prepared
to grant ON its own merits, his maJes.-
tvs government has explicitly stated
their readiness to invite parliament to
terminate the protectorate declared IN
1914, to recognize the existence of
Egypt as sovereign state and to
agree to the constitution of an Egyp-
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-01-30
EGYPT OFFERED FREEDOM
AND ARLIAMENT UNDER
GUARANTEES TO BRITAIN

tian parliament and re-establishmcnt of
an Egyptian ministry of foreign affairs
when they were satisfied as to the fol
lowing conditions which they regard as
vital to the interests both Of Egypt and
the empire:
They must have full and effective
guarantees that the imperial comm'lni-
cations are assured; that Great Britain
retain both the right and power to af-
ford that protection to the foreign COM
munities' in Egypt which the govern
ments of these peoples in existing con-
ditions look to her to supply; and, that
Egypt is safeguarded against all for
.eign interference and aggression.
''As soon as an agreement satisfying
these conditions has been drawn up be-
tween the Egyptian government and
the British government there will be
no hesitation on the part of the latter
in inviting parliamentary sanction to
such an accord"
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-01-30
EAST BURIED UNDER
ONE TO TWO FEET SNOW

Washington, Jan. -a.-Buried under
from one to more tha.s two feet OF
snow by one of the most s,~nre storms
in several decades, the middle n.iantic
section spent Sunday in efforts to re-
sumo activities suspended Friday night.
when the storm broke.
The storm. described by the weather
bureau as the worst in % years, Sun
day night had passed out to sea and
it's center was said by the weather
bureau to be some distance north
northeast of Bermuda.
Daybreak Sunday found the capital
without street car service, it's streets
blocked with sonw. it's suburbs cut off,
deliveries of perishable foodstuffs cur
tailed. and many buildings endangered
by the load of snow. Sunday was spent
in attempts to restore semblance of
normal conditions, and though aided by
ing temperature-the city Sunday night
was still in the grip Of the storm.
Heavy Over Mason-Dixie Line
Other portions Of the middle Atlantic
section reported similar conditions. In
Baltimore, the snowfall was almost as
heavy as here. Southeastern Pennsyl-
vania and the region in and about
Philadelphia was covered with n foot
to foot and a half of snow. New
York City and adjacent sections also
experienced heavy snowfall. along
with eastern Delaware and New
Jersey.
The Hampton Roads district exper-
fenced heavy seas along it's water
fronts. 42-mile gale and dense
mist of snow and sleet which made
navigation extremely perilous to the
few vessels moving.
Scared Folks Clean Roofs
All indications here were that, even
with the favorable weather forecast,
it would be days before normal con-
ditions were restored. Some improve
ment, however, was discernible at night,
railroads entering the city announcing
the more and more frequent arrival
Of trains.
Taking warning from the theater
catastrophe. many apartment houses
and office buildings issued orders for
the removal Of snow from their roofs
Many porches collapsed.
As a result of the tie-up of trans
portation, many thousands Of persons
slept last tight in the Union Station
ia cots sent there by the war de-
partmens.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-01-30

mind, when / saw the ceiling falling.
and afterward was just as clear and
collected as now. | knew ! was hurt
some. but | didn't know how badly.
1t seemed my time had come. | lived
year pinned down between the seats.
1T wasn't until | got outside that
noticed blood falling from my face
and hands | got out myself. No one
helped me. I crawled over the broken
seats and plaster and snow to the
door.
Tainted Trying to Help Victim
! On the way saw young fellow
lying half curled up moaning and cry
! ing for help. ] leaned oyer to lift him
and then everything went black. The
next / remember. | was at the door,
wiping the blood from my eyes and
mouth: / don't know how / got out.
didn't see any other injured ones as
crawled. | can't remember that part
Of it.
Thought He Was Dying
MY only thought then was to get
home before / should die. My chest
panied me. my back seemed broken.
my face was dripping with blood. All
wife and little girl what had hap
pened. l thought l was going to die =
Representative Smithwick, who lives
about block from the theater, said
he staggered home without overcoat or
hat, through the snow. Physicians
found him suffering from shock, bruises
and possibly internal injuries.
Il think it was miracle that | came
out alive" he said but think of those
poor children and men and women not
so fortunate. | don't see how any who
are under that balcony escaped. If
those below could have seen the ceiling
breaking away. they would have had
time to rush out thruogh the doors.
Those underneath us had no chance. l
guess. / keep thinking of it all the
time, that awful roaring and the crash
ing of the balcony on it's way down on
those people below. 1t was all over in
half minute. l guess. but it seemed
hours
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-01-30
Judge Halts Dance
Because 1t Seems
of Jungle Character

Chicago Jan. 29-Declaring the case
.'smacked of barbarism' and the
Jungle, Judge Arnold Heap fined
Julia Rector, dancer in the Enter
tainers' cafe, on the south side. 500
ON charge of conducting an obscene
and indecent show"
Miss Rector several days ago demon
strated her shimmy dance in court to
allow the judge to determine whether
the dance was indecent.
Judge Heap scored the police de-
partment for allowing the case to re-
main OMEN
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-01-30
BOTH SIDES DESIRE
PRISON CASE TRIAL
TOSTART PROMPTLY
Judge Horsky Being Absent, Proceedings in
Suit for Accounting Of Penitentiary Trans
actions Will Be Before Poorman.

pecial to The Tribune. ,.. -
Helena Of Frank consy the de"1nd A. n
state Of the handling the states property from M m aausTy & M @
Tertiary district court Of Lewis and Clark
this week. the
of Col c. Nolan, city, chief counsel for coney
in the answer Or in the trial Of the case they the
Conley to the trial and hopes
Nolan said Sunday. Attorney Generai
state also ready for the trial and
his be started early next week.
the attorney general has fallen
presided by Judge A.
Horsky sitting member Of the state
likely that he will be able to try the
n said the matter will regularly nefore
Poorman the presiding Judge department OF me
actually presiding both departments whe
Judge Horsky Is engaged by the supreme court
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-01-30
John D. First Gave
8 Cents a Week; Now
Gave $500, 1000, 600

New York. Jan. 29.-John o.
Rockefeller. whose public gifts ap-
proximate 100000, started
his benefactions with contributions
of S cents week to foreign mis-
sions and 8 cents to the poor, John
D. Rockefeller, Jr., his son, told
his Sunday school class, ledger
shows. He then paid 81 week
for board and lodging.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-01-30
10Y DEAD IN THEATER H0RR0|
MINER SAVED BY INSTINCT TO RUN
ASROOF CRACKED LIKE SLATE FALL

Washington jan 2s(By The Associated s).Long expert
enabled W. H. Norris 63year retired coal
Buckhannon va to escape from the Knicke
booker theater.
q in the eighth from the 'front.' m he said when
exactly like that which
Of Goa! mine makes when going to let 60 "
that brought fe
thought flashing mind beat that fall
the outside.
cam the orchestra leaders baton
cracking falling
got and Of wind
the
onto he
moving up the aisle. The house around me
virtually empty"
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-01-30
134 INJURED FOUND
BENEATH COLLAPSED
ROOF Of PLAYHOUSE
Check-Up Accounts for Few More Than 300 in
Laughing Audience When Weight Of Snow
Crumpled Top in on Them; Only One Able to
Run Out; Eleven Cases Where Husband and
Wife Seated Side by Side We're Killed.

Washington Jan. 3O-(By The Associated Press )-Off
ca police records early Monday placed the known dead the
Knickerbocker theater disaster at 1O7 Elimination Of dup
brought final total down from the unofficial
peak of 112.
The of injured toaed 1884, with IA recorded having
sustained serious hurts Caught beneath the falling roof
beams taken hospitals suffering with broken
limbs internal injuries. Many given immediate
medical attention mprovised nearby stations Family
groups predomnaed the audience which Saturday night
gathered to watch the showing of rolcing comedy. In
the audience but found who had become
of impending doom in time to reach exit number Of
others worked their way to safety through scant openings
in <ho wrorLau
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-01-30
ELECTED HEALER EDITORS

Boston, Jan. Zy.-D1rect0rs Of the
First Church of Christ. Scientist. an
nounced that. acting under the manual
of the Christian Science church, they
have elected Willis J. Abbott. for the
Monitor, and Albert Field Gilmore, also
of New York, editor of the Christian
Science Monthlies.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-01-30
HOUSE MEMBER SURVIVES
TAEATtR WRECK; CRAWLED
THROUGH HOLE IN DEBRIS
Cannot Forget Roar That Cut OFF Laughter Of
Children About Him and Turned 1t
Into Groans of Dying and Injured.

washinaton Jam 29-{By Associated Press.)-An
anche Of broken plaster spneed wood and twisted
the audience while the orchestra played
the description OF the
disaster by Representative John T.
Smithwck of He the balcony the
collapsed He unaided-just
how, he recai-with serious hurts.
playing music and comic film was run:
with his hands
with cuts Suddenly there was sharp crack saw
plaster began to fall all the eater seemed me - We M
crouchng nvounta down between the seats
The force
broken by | pinned
sitting force
nde | forget it.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-01-30

Sir Ernest died on board the Quest,
which was anchored off South Georgia
Island
The previous night he had been
slightly indisposed, but no uneasiness
was felt.
At $3.50 a. M. January 5. he began
to sink rapidly, and despite all efforts
OF his attendants, died within three
minutes.
Captain Hussey, who attended him,
said the symptoms showed that Sir Er-
nest had died from angina pectorls.
His body was transferred from the
Quest to a Norwegian steamer and.
accompanied by Captain Hussey, ar
rived Sunday.
Governmental and military honors
were paid the body. The government
will retain possession of the body un-
til it is embarked for England, which
probably will be February IL.
Death was due to angina pectorls.
and occurred when the Quest was off
the Gritvicken station.
The body was brought here on a
Norwegian steamer and will be taken
to Europe. Captain J.. Hussey, of the
Quest. will accompany the body.
Professor Grieyel and other mem
bers of the explorers party will con-
tinue the expedition.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-01-30
PETRlFlED LAND

Sir Ernest Shackleton was born in
1874. He was third lieutenant in the
British national Antarctic expedition
in 1901 and in 19O7-O9 commanded
an expedition which got to within 81
miles of the south pole. He made his
third quest of the pole in 1914.
The expedition in which he was en-
gagged when he died was to have COW
cred 10000 miles of uncharted sec
tions of the south Atlantic, the Pa
cific and the Antarctic seas.
The expedition had not only as its
quest oceanographic research. but the
exploration of a petrified forest and
the location of "lost" island
Tuanaki-the adjacent waters OF
which had not been sailed for more
than 80 years.
Discovered South Magnetic Pole
Sir Ernest for his distinguished
services was made a knight in 1909.
Sir Ernest was an Englishman. He
was educated at Dulwich college and
after graduation went to sea. 1t was
in 1894 when he entered the expedi-
ton which brought him fame. 1t was
that expedition that discovered the
south magnetic pole.
His 1S9O-96 expedition was pro-
lific in geological surveys. The ship
Endurance, on which Shackleton made
the voyage, was crushed in an ice
floe in October, but drifted until mid
winter, when the explorer and his
party landed on Elephant island, in the
South Shetland group. Shackleton, in
small boat and with five men. left
for Port Stanley, in the Falkland
islands. seeking aid for the % men
left behind Ultimately the party was
rescued.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-01-30
POLAR CAREER
Of SHACKLET0N
.ENDEDbY DEATH
Noted British Antarc-
tic Explorer Dies on
New Expedition.

Montevideo, Uruguay, Jan. 29:-
(By The Associated Press).-Sir
Ernest ShackIeton, British exptor-
er, died January 5. on the steam
shin Quest, on which he was
makinq another expedition into
the Antarctic.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-01-30
DIES At f25

Salt Lake City, Utah, Jan. 20
Mrs. Mojoch Mologan, Indian, said TO
be 125 years old, died on the Washas-
kie reservation, near Logan, Utah. sew
eral days ago. A SON. 80 years old,
survives.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-01-30
500 MONKEYS USED
TO DEVELOP VACCINE

New York. Jan. 29.-Five hundred
monkeys have been used by health off
cials in New York and Washington
in the last two years in experiments
looking to the development Of vaccines
against Influenza and pneumonia.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-01-30
CLEANING UP OMAHA

sons were under arrest here tonight,
according to the police, following orders
Of Police Commissioners Henry Dunn
to @clean up Omaha"
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-01-30

Cheyenne, JAN CIV. r. Sammon,
one of those killed in the knickerbock-
err theater in Washington. was deputy
state treasurer of Wyoming when he
resigned last summer to attend George
town university in Washington. He
also had been one of the leaders in
the American legion in this state. He
was a son of ]. w. Sammon, of KEN
morer Wyo
The Washington times., 1922-04-08
PAJAMAS TRES
NECESSA|RE To
MILE. 'PAREE'
Should Be on Hand to Don
These Spring Mornings,
Fashion Rules.
BY ALICE LANGELIER,
Cosmopolitan News Service.

PARIS, April SIT behooves
milady to be beautiful in her boudoir
as well as on the street. And II she
would be Parisienne as well as beau
tiful, she will don pajamas.
This winter it was pleasant to
Jump from bed into a soft feathery
eiderdown or quilted silk kimono.
Now that spring is here it is con-
sidered quite the thing to jump into
a pair of silk or satin pajamas.
"Cloky silk is what the finer
lingerie shops in Paris are showing
today-black ones with wide orange
borders or emerald-green collars and
trimmings. Then there are green
backgrounds splashed m brilliant
flowered effects.
/ have seen a few one piece affairs
but the most elegant ones have long
Jackets reaching to the knees. In
La Tendresse" last night Yvonne
Bray wore a winsome one with fine
linen pleatings escaping at the knees
which give it all the chavm and
daintiness woman must have.
1t is not so easy to be dainty in
pajamas. ! would recommend them
only to the very young and the very
thin.