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Great Falls tribune., 1922-04-23

lines of the document. which never hac
been officially presentd to the confer
ence and was patiently part of the
normal bolshevik propaganda. He also
announced that he was getting tired of
crises which were being foisted upon
the conference, to the great detriment
of work. and wished to say on behalf
of the delegations of the British en-
pire that If these crises and constant
delays continued he would be forced to
explain who was responsible for them.
British ignored in Protest
The British delegation has not re-
ceived as yet the protest which the
French government is reported to have
sent out from Paris to the powers sig
natory to the Eersaillest reaty. in which
France is said to maintain that the
RussoGerman treaty is violation of
the Versailles treaty
No Child Interview
Richard Washburn Child, the Ameri-
can ambassador, issued a signed state
ment Saturday. in which he denies
having given any interview regarding
the Genoa conference
George Chitcherin. the Russian
soviet foreign minister. gave the
Italian socialists and communists
shock Saturday by meeting King
Victor Emmanuel on the kings visit
here and accepting his majesty's in
vitation to a luncheon on board the
Italian dreadnaught.
Great Falls tribune., 1922-04-23
'Max's Marriage Plans
Fail to Get Approval
of Mccormick Family

Chicago. April 22.-The announce
ment of Max Oser former cavalry of
ficer, cabled from his home in Switzer-
land. that he would be welded to Miss
Mathilde Mccormick of Chicago in
June was met with statement that
Miss Mccormick and her father
Harold T. Mccormick, had made mo
plans of any Sort regarding the date
of the departure for Europe.
Miss Mccormick, is not known to have
consented to tho marriage.
Great Falls tribune., 1922-04-23
b0RAH IN CLASH
W|THLEG|0N ON
BONUS POSITION
Pocatello Post Told
He Does Not Propose
to Buy Their Votes.
Service Men Accuse
Senator Of Neglect;
Cite War Claims Bill.

Washington. April 90. Senator
Borah. republican, Idaho, states in :
letter to the Pocatello. Idaho. post
American Legion, that if he voted fol
the soldiers bonus bill sit would b.
simple matter of barter in which
use the peoples money to buy some
body's vote The letter was in re-
sponse to telegram received by the
senator from the Pocatello post anC
was made public Saturday night by
him.
81 observe in your telegram" il
says. "the threat which you impliedly
make as to future political punish
ment. 1t was wholly unnecessary for
You to make this threat. It reflected
no credit upon you. and it has had no
effect whatever upon ME. When you
come to that fight in which you pro
pose to inflict punishment. you will
doubtless be able to say many things
in the way of censure upon my public
record.
Not Bribing Through Treasury
'.But one thing, neither you nor any
one else will be able to say. and that
is that I ever sought to purchase po-
litical power by, drafts upon the pubic
treasury. or that ! those to buy a
continuation in office by putting four
billions of dollars upon the bended
backs of American taxpayers.
Il haven't much respect for the
man who buys office. even though he
pays for it with his own money. But
the most slimy creature which dis
graces American politics is the man
who buys office by paying for it with
appropriations out Of the public treas
ury and charges his venal political
obligations to the taxpayers.
Using Peoples Money: Not He
"If / thought this measure proper
one. ! could and would vote for it.
But. believing with thousands of for
mer service men who have written me.
that it is not q proper one, if | should
vote for it it would be simple mat
ter Of barter. in which ] use the peo-
pies money to buy somebody's vote:
in which the account Of my political
expenses would be charged to the tax
payers.
"Of course you understand that |
have at all times supported, and stand
ready to support, any measure which
will help the disabled veteran
At the outset of his letter Senator
Borah said he had taken his position
on the bonus "after great considera-
tion and with much reluctance" He
added that he understood perfdctly
the criticism it would bring and "the
condemnation it would invite" but be-
lieving that his position was a
righteous one, he could not change.
Great Falls tribune., 1922-04-23
ANOTHER NOTE TO GERMANS
PLAN TO PLACATE FRANCE:
LLOYD GEORGE GETS WEARY
Paris Delegation So Suspicious 1t Even Mistrusts
Ten-Power Proposal to Renew Pressure
on Teutons; New Russian Reply.

Genoa April 22-(By The Associated Press -The crisis
in the conference raised Saturday by
lection to Germanys reply to the enpower suggesting
that the German Delegation refrain from discussions relating
to Russian affairs had not passed satisfactorily up
hour Saturday evening
The tenpower delegates meeting Sunday draft sup
Elementary note to the Germans but Satur-
day night whether the French would this action
they extremely suspicious Of the German document
apparently the French delegation Genoa being hard
by Paris to have it revised
The French also raised the objections the voumnous Dol
shevk document which became public Friday in which Russia
made long reply to the London experts report the
Great Falls tribune., 1922-04-23

LlOn or RUSSIA.
Rusia's Real Reply Soon
AS result of the French protes
not actually the formal reply. but
discussion of the bolshe,ik vieWpoin
leading up to the stage of a reply, the
randum submitted Friday in answer
to the report of the allied experts or
Russian Affairs.
Ten Powers Confer
: At the meeting of the ten powers
which had protested against the Russo
German treaty, it was agreed to ask
the Germans to draft another note.
meeting the objections to the German
reply.
The Russians, for their part, ex-
planned that the memorandum. in an
swer to the London experts, to which
France had taken exception. had been
superseded by their formal reply to the
allies
1t was said that Vice Premier Bar
thou. of France. in addition to his de-
cision to protest the German reply. had
instructed jacques Seydoux. the French
financial expert, to refrain from at
tending any further meetings of the ex-
perts of the Russian sub commission,
pending instruction from Paris.
French Object Strenuously
The French note said without ref
erence to the other undertakings which
Germany had contracted, that the
Russo German treaty violates the prin-
ciples laid down at Cannes.
1t observes that. in the opinion of
the allies. the treaty destroys the
spirit of mutual confidence indispens-
able for international cooperation,
which the conference aimed to estab-
lish and that the allies are, there
fore. unanimous in considering their
dignity no longer permits them to col
laborate with the German delegates
on the commission handling Russian
affairs
All QuibbIe to Lloyd George
NJ. Barthou said the French could
not sit with the Russian commission
again until this document was discus
sed. The soviet experts explained that
this document comprised merely their
own arguments and was superseded by
NJ. Chitcherin's note setting forth their
position exactly.
Premier Lloyd George appeared much
over the French ''quibble.'
He declared he had only read three
Great Falls tribune., 1922-04-23
Body of Slain Man
Lies Year in Open

Denver. April 22.--The body of a
man about 60 years of age was found
% miles south of Colorado Springs
early Saturday. according to telephone
messages received in Denver. The mes
sages said authorities believed the
man had been dead about year and
indications were he had been murdered.
Authorities have not been able to
identify the body.
Great Falls tribune., 1922-04-23
American College
at Beirut Seized:
Flog Prisoners Daily

London. April 22.-A dispatch to the
London Times from Cairo says the
newspaper Mt Mokattam has learned
by way of Haifa, Syria. that the Amer
lean college at Beirut has been placed
under local government control: that
persons recently arrested at Beirut are
flogged daily and that the independ-
ence movement has extended to Haran
The Times adds that there evidently
is a most strict censorship 1t Beirut
and Damascus.
Great Falls tribune., 1922-04-23
NEW CONFERENCE POSSIBLE
BELIEF OF KAMENEFF

Moscow. April 2o.--(By The Asso-
ciated Press Even if the Genoa
conference should break up, soviet
Russia does not expect war as a con-
sequence. but considers that new
conference will take place within six
months. declared Leo Kameneff. presi-
dent Of the Moscow soviet and acting
premier, in an interview with the AS
sociated Press
Whether the conference fails OR not,
he said now rests entirely with the
allies. especially France and Great
Britain.
Great Falls tribune., 1922-04-23
Collins Met With Gun
as He Comes to Talk
on Free State Treaty

Belfast. April 22.-(By The Asso-
ciated Pressl Michael Collins upon
his arrival at Killarney Saturday to
deliver an address, was met outside
the depot by an Irish republican army
officer, armed with revolver, who
warned him he would not be allowed to
speak until an incident at Tistowel,
County Kerry. where the officer al
legged some of his men were fired at,
had been cleared I'D.
Great Falls tribune., 1922-04-23
JOHNSON MASKED C0NLEy'S STATE SAIL
FRENCH RENEW CRISIS IN GENOA PARLEY
Sausage Links Act
as Shock Absorber::
Save Drivers Life

Los Angeles, April 22-Sausage
as shock absorber saved the life
Of e. +. Craddock, truck driver,
here yesterday according to his
opinion expressed In his report to
the police. Cradd0ck was driving
a truck belonging to packing COM
pany and filled with meat products.
when a Pacific Electric locomotive
hit II at a crossing. Bystanders
said Craddock sailed 20 feet, but
aIighted on a shipment Of sausages
that had halted little quicker than
he did.
He was unhurt, but badly tangled
in link sausage.
Great Falls tribune., 1922-04-23
Walsh Launches Bill
to Reimburse Montana
in Forest Fire Funds

Washington. April ,22.-Appropria-
tion of S2G.IW to reimburse the state
of Montana for expenses incurred in
suppressing in 1919 forest fires which
originated in national forest reserves
is provided under a bill by Senator
Walsh democrat of Montana, passed
today by the senate and sent to the
house.
Great Falls tribune., 1922-04-23
Dutch Queen Loses
Her Mother-in-Law

The Hague, April 22.-Grand Ouch
ess Marie of Mecklenburg- -Schwerin,
died at the royal palace Saturday She
was the mother Of Prince Henry Of
Mecklenbnrg sSchwerin, consort Of
Queen Wilhelmina.
Great Falls tribune., 1922-04-23
POST CITES SOLiCiTUDE
FOR WAR CONTRACTORS

Boise. April 22.-Replying to Sepa-
tor Borah's letter regarding his stand
on the bonus bill. the Pocatello post
of the American Legion charges, in a
second letter to the senator. that his
record shows STUDIED obstruction
policy and declares his efforts TO be
a guardian of the treasury would have
been appreciated when q S3OOO,ODO.-
600 appropriation was made to save
beneficaries of war contracts from
financial disaster because the war was
won before their contracts expired.
The letter, made public in special
dispatch to the Idaho Daily Statesman,
also charges the senator with ignoring
all individual eases in which assist
ance was requested for former service
men. Another letter from the sen
ator to the Legion also was made pub
lie in special dispatch from Wash
ington to the Idaho Daily Statesman.
in which he denies having neglected
disabled veterans.
Rid:cule Watchdog Performance
Referring to the senator's statement
regarding the shouldering of 81 600
100000 debt on the American taxpay-
ers to pay the bonus. the posts reply
says,
preGldLe the lilpOTLAHCe Vi RudTulnE
the United States treasury. 1t would
appear, however. that Andrew Mellon
would need very little assistance. if
any. in the performance of that duty.
Guardianship Of the treasury would
have been most appropriate motive
for yourself and colleagues along in
1917 and in the years since that time.
It is strange, indeed. that so few Of
our statesmen nbught of the condi-
ton of the treasury until the introduc-
ton Of the bonus bill. It would seem
that the public treasury needed some
regular see guardians about the time
the $4,000. 100000 appropriation was
made to save the beneficiaries of war
contracts from financial disaster be-
cause the war was won before their
contracts expired
Point to Former Opposition
THE payment of $50 per month
bonus to civilian employees in Washing
ton. d. c., was nicely effected without
a whisper of opposition from the
qua rdians of the treasury. As sug-
gested in Your telegram, your opposi-
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Y. w. C. A. RETAINS HEAD.

Hot Springs. Ark, April 22-Mrs.
Frederick NJ. Paist of Philadelphia,
was unanimously elected to succeed
herself as president Of the Young
Women ~ Christian association In con-
vention here.
Great Falls tribune., 1922-04-23
GENERALLY FAIR WEEK

Washington. April 22-Tbe weather
outlook for the week beginning Mon
day. in the Rocky mountain and
plateau regions, and Pacific states is:
Generally fair and normal tempera-
tureA
Great Falls tribune., 1922-04-23
NO MILITARY ALLIANCE.

Berlin. April 22.-lBy The Associ-
ated Press AN official statement
declares positively ''in view of the CON
slant dissemination of reports to the
contrary that Russian German
military convention does not exist.
Great Falls tribune., 1922-04-23
SPANISH QUEENS BROTHER
UNDER KNIFE; VERY Low

London, April 2o.--Lord Leopold
Mountbatten, brother to the queen Of
Spain, underwent serious operation.
His condition is considered critical.
Great Falls tribune., 1922-04-23

EIGHT WOUNDED BY BOMB.
Bologna, April o2.-Eight persons,
four Of whom are communists, wero
wounded by The explosion Of q bomb
thrown into - cafe.
The Washington times., 1922-09-03

but she never got wise. Isn't that
funny? I guess she doesn't know
1t yet. Gosh, wouldn't it be a
treat to see her face when she
reads what you're going to write
about Jack Mcconnell. All. no,
don't ask me her name. I wouldn't
squeal, anyway.
"She got too serious anyway
and I had to quit her. She used
to stay up waiting for me when I
was on the midnight shift and I'd
come in black as tar in my over
alls. Grandpa had really given up
trying to refine me, and I'd turn
ed out to be a regular roughneck.
RED HOT ROMANCE.
"still. ia keep thinking maybe
I'd like to be a girl. but I never
see my way clear with my short
hair and all. I couldn't make a
very good picture Of myself as
. girl. My girl used to get after
me till I got no rest, honest.
She'd come down. to the yard, but
they wouldn't let her in. because
she had no badge and everyone
was looking for spies and things.
Sometimes he did let her in,
II we wasn't too busy. guess he
looked on her as my future wife,
the way she was carrying on. So
I had to quit my job to shake
her. She was always nagging
about my late hours and dirty
work and because was only
able to take her out about once
in three weeks"
It was ludicrous, as Florence
told It, but back of the words one
saw her working in a huge
munition plant, "black as tar"
on the midnight shift operating
a steam crane. with one day off
IN three weeks, . slip of a girl
doing two mems work. But mol
This was no slip Of girl in the
Bliss yards. This was whist.
ling Jack" Mcconnell, two.
fisted. hard.hitting young rough.
neck. asking no odds OF Nature
or man.. and chewing whatever
he bit off. There was no Flor
ence Gray then, nor for years
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bring sufficient proof to convince
him that I am the victim of a
great plot"
Miss Kelly was found guilty Of
the theft Of a diamond ring valued
at $500 from David r. Lamont, the
banker, Of No. 800 West Eighty
second street. The theft was said
to have taken place four years ugo,
when Miss Kelly was employed to
nurse the bankers son through an
attack Of influenza. The ring,
which had been Mrs. Lamont's en-
gagement symbol, had disappeared
from q dresser in the infants
room.
Miss Kelly was arrested, dis
charged for lack of evidence and
re-arrested after she had given a
pawn ticket in 1919 to Helen C.
EAhmend as security for a loan of
SITS to go abroad. The loan was
not paid and Mrs. Ahmend redeem
ed the ring. She took It to Tis-
fany's. where it was recognized as
the missing Lamont gem. When
she returned from Europe this year
the nurse was indicted, arrested
and has just been tried.
GREAT SCANDAL SUGGESTED.
P. J. Mcdonald, counsel for the
nurse. said that the root of the
charges against his client was to
be found in the period of the late
Peter Cooper Hewitt's last illness,
and explained:
"At that time, Miss Kelly, who
was his nurse, incurred the en-
nifty Of Mrs. Cooper Hewitt. now
the Baroness d'Erlanger. and her
secretary, then known as Err
langer. They wanted to get Miss
Kelly out Of the way.
so they blackened and DETAINED
her character and like the con-
spirators they were, they started a
crusade to crush her. The ring
stolen from the Lannon'S was never
possessed by Miss Kelly and the
ring she pawned was her own
mothers betrothal ring"
SECRET SHUT OFF.
Testifying in her own defense,
Miss Kelly battled with the court
and lawyers to get her complete
recital into the record. and while
much that she said was stricken
from the record and while more
was stopped from even utterance,
nevertheless the defiant woman
The Washington times., 1922-09-03

carry others to the operating table.
and still they never suspected I
was anyone but Jack Mcconnell.
FATE AND FAMINITY.
but why is it now, that girls
always get caught in the end? I
guess it's fate, don't you think?
Look at me. I've seen men die wheI
they were mashed all to pieces
and their groans made me want to
cry, but I didn't dare. Sometimes,
I got the blues and I'd start to
cry in my room, all alone, but I'd
always make myself buck up.
First time, ever saw a man die
It made me feel awful sad.
couldn't seem to shake 1t off.
Meanwhile, ! was living at the
hospital. Grandpa missed me and
wanted me home. So I gave up
the ambulance, but certainly
felt bad. That was my pet job.
Soon we left town. The nurse wrote
me, and I wrote her for awhile.
Even in Philadelphia she wanted
me to come on and see her, and
did once, for I liked her; but we
busted off because wouldn't
come back to Brooklyn to work.
She was mighty pretty, little
brunette, smaller than me and a
little older, but wasn't the guy
to say that to her. Me fall in
lover No, never! I never could
see that stuff.
II guess I was around too much
with boys and felt too much like
one Of them; but ! suppose I'd fall
for one now. after all this. II the
right sort Of a guy comes along.
I'm girl, you know. It's Flor.
'ence Gray that's talking, not
'Whistling Jack Mcconnell any
more. The Judge put him out Of
commission"
Florence smiled, with a sugges-
ton Of coquetry. oddly enough
since she has been compelled to
be a girl before all the world the
idea is growing on her, and IL only
the economic question were settled
and she could be Independent. shn
probably would enjoy her new en-.
The Washington times., 1922-09-03
CHIEF OF THE IRON GANG.

CHIEF OF THE IRON GANG.
But hearken again to Whistling
Jacks adventures:
"In Philly I got a five-ton Bull
dog truck to drive, hauling gravel
for the Wares. live In a room.
ing house apart from grandpa
because my hours were such that
I'd always be waking him up COM
ing In and he isn't young any
more. No, nobody ever suspected
anything about me.
II got in with the Iron Gang
in Chinatown and they were
tough all right. 1 wasn't tender,
though. got In with them BE-
cause I was a good fellow and q
good fighter. beat the best
they had by swimming the Dela.
ware from Bricksburgh to the
seashore, New Jersey, three and
q half miles, with the tide
against US part Of the time. Their
best man gave out half way over.
They decided then that vas
good enough to be the leader Of
the gang. That was two years
ago, There were about forty
five in the gang.
Yes, there was a second-story
job now and then, but / never
tried any Of 1t. Maybe was just
as bad, but never split with them
on the haul and I never turned off
a job. I've been picked up by the
police, though, for different little
things, and I've spent more than
one night in jail. and jail 10 not q.
nice place to spend . night, but I
was never supsected until the last
time, and then Judge Brown sent
me south. Before that. I'd fought
five rounds with Kid o'Neiii at tbs
Gayety Theater In .Phiily. and I
knocked him out with one to the
point Of the Jaw--and stili no one
suspected.
EXIT JACK-ENTER FLORENCE
when I went South I stayed
ak months, and then came back
to be q girl, and I'm going to be
The Washington times., 1922-09-03
NEW YORK, Sept. 2.
h URSUED by tho attentions
y Of the Shah Of Persia, whom

Of the Shah Of Persia, whom
u she had thrice rejected in
marriage. the beautiful Baroness
D'Erlanger is fitting between Mon.
AGO and Deauvills on her honey
mooni
Confined in a cell in the Tombs,
deserted by former friends. Eliza
beth Kelly. trained nurse, is fac
Ing a three-year term in prison!
Between these women. so distant
ly separated by land and sea. by
wealth and social station. there ex-
lists a secret which may startle So
ciety within the next few weeks.
The Baroness D'Erlanger. four
times wed. Is the widow of Peter
Cooper Hewitt. the millionaire in.
ventor, grandson Of Peter Cooper,
the son Of the late Mayor Hewitt
Of New York city. Miss Kelly, a
spinster nearly fifty years of age.
is a trained nurse Of obscure orr
gin, convicted as thief.
GRAVE PLOT CHARGED.
But she charges that she was
convicted falsely simply because
she knew too much about the
Baroness D'Erlanger and the baron
and their ante-nuptial relations.
and. most important Of all, what
Peter Cooper Hewitt had to say
on his deathbed Of his wife and her
companions.
Miss Kelly insists that she has
been found guilty Of theft as a re-
suit of false testimony In order
that she may be prevented from
revealing her secret In open court
in Frances where she Is suing the
former Mrs. Cooper, Hewitt for
$25o,ooo for slander and false ar
The nurse said, after she had
been sentenced:
"If I can only get to Paris to
push my civil suit for a quarter
Of a million dollars, will startls
the country. do not intend to
stop until I have exhausted every
possible effort to expose this fright
full conspiracy that has been form
ed to discredit me.
SEEKS OFFICIAL AID.
II am going to appeal at once
to the district attorney to inves-
tigate the things that have been
done to me. I am sure that can
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Girl Adventurer Lived For Sixteen Years AS Boy
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Continued from Page 81
In. The engineer took a liking to
me because was jolly and happy
and whistling and he said he'd
teach me to run the crane. OF
course, that made me proud and I
tried my best. Later when he was
off for a few weeks. sick, I took
his place, for the superintendent
had a lot of confidence in me-"
ACQUIRES NICKNAME.
Hitherto, the craneman had been
Just Jack Mcconnell, with a ~.
Nc" tatooed on his forearm, but
along about this period. they began
to call him "whistling Jack" and
It clung, she said, as she went on:
"The super lived In the same
house with US on Columbia
Heights. got in with fellows at
the plant. of course. We had it
easy II there was barees late COM
Ing in, or II we was on night shift.
for there was three shifts in war
times.
Hard, does It sound, the night
shift? Well, figured IL was
going to be a boy, I might as we'll
be q regular fellow and get tough
as quick as I could on the outside
anyway"
Here Florence smiled, wisely,
with the wisdom Of a lone fighter
against odds, as she said:
'If tried to be a clerk or some
thing easy, my skin would have got
soft and they would have spotted
me for girl sure enough. Why.
I used to go with a girl living in
the house and she Used to say I
was too nice o fellow 10 be doing
that kind Of work ana she wanted
me to give It up and try for a
place in the office, because 1t was
more to my station. More culture,
seer Like grandfather
LOVE ENTERS HERE.
But I'd tell her: Nix. the out
door life for muhr couldn't
take chances indoors, / knew that.
I'd take that girl to the movies
and ! did get a little leary when
shed put her arms around me and
ia feel like telling her to can 1t.