Great Falls Tribune from Great Falls, Montana • Page 1

FA (jBEftl AMERICA! See It First and Stand Behind It Always Montana, Weather Partly cloudy Monday and Tuesday: possibly shower not so warm Tuesday. ON TAN A' BEST NEWS GATHERER GREAT FALLS, MONTANA, MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 3, 1925. THIRTY-NINTH YEAR PRICE FIVE CENTS WW mm TWO WOMEN AND MAN SLAIN BY DENVER ROBBER BRYAN TOSSE UNION BALLOTS CHANCE GO TO FRIENDS IN ALL GROUPS HEDGES RITES TO BE HELD AT HELENA TODAY Bandit Shoots Autoists After One Girl Screams AVERS UPSHAW WEEK-END TOLL REACHES 1 5 (N CENTRAL ZONE Attempt to Rescue Scott FromNoose Opens Today Hearing on Condemned Man's Sanity Starts as Wife and Friends Stage Campaign to Complete $10,000 Defense Fund Forfeited Presidency in Order to Be Right, Is Eulogy of Council Votes for Nonpartisan Political Policy to Gain Desires Southern Leader Another Youth Is Wounded; Victims Are Murdered While Seated in Machine; Killer Fires Several Shots and Flees Death of Father and Two Sons in Crossing Crash Is Outstanding Incident Scores Darrow as Man Whose Life Is 'Built Upon Shifting Sands' Chicago, Aug. 2. OP) While at torneys Sunday night completed their Helena, Aug.

2. OP) Funeral services for Cornelius "Toby" Hedges, cne of Helena's most beloved and respected native sons, and a prominent Mason, will be held here Monday afternoon at the Consistory temple at 4 o'clock. The services will be conducted by the grand eommaudery of Knights Templar, and the eulogy will be pronounced by the Rev Newman Hall Bnrdick. Commitment service at the grave in Forestvale cemetery will be conducted by the grand lodge. Business throughout the city will be suspended, by the closing of stores between the hours of 4 and 5 o'clock.

FrieiAls and fraternal brothers of the deceased from all sections of the state will gather here for the funeral service. Hedges, who was grand secretary, A. F. and A. Montana, and of many other Masonic bodies, died Friday.

Three Fatally Hurt in Another; Many Drown; Others Hit by Autos POLICE DRAW 'NET Denver, Aug. OP) A police cordon was thrown about Fort Logan, near here, in an effort to capture the holdup bandit who late Sunday night shot and killed two girls and a youth and wounded another man whUe attempting to rob them. The robber was believed to have fled to that vicinity after the shooting. while her sister, Mrs. Julia Stearns, and Fred Funk.

24. died while being taken to a hospital. Carl Perry. 25, the other youth, is at the general hospital. The bandit, according to Perry'-J story, approached the parked automobile and pointed his revolver through the window of the machine.

He demanded them to hand over their valuables. Mrs. Stearns screamed and the bandit- instantly fired. He then fired a half dozen shots at the other three occupants of the automobile. The bandit then fled.

Perry, who was shot through the arm after the robber had taken flight, went to a nearby farm house ami summoned the police by telephone. Miss McCormick had been killed instantly but the police 011 their arrival took three others to the hospital. The police Sunday night, although the description of the bandit was not available, said that he went toward Fort Logan. Chicago. Aug.

2. OP) A grade crossing accident at Moorhead. cost the life of Miller Dueaz. a planter, and his two grown sons, and stood out in a list of week-end traffic accidents and drownings which Sunday night had caused a fMl of 12 deaths in central 'states. The Dueaz father and sons their conclusion that Scott is normal in every sense.

Whether Scott will be permitted to enter the courtroom and: appear before the jury was a question on which opposing counsel differed Sunday night. The states attorney's representatives ere of the opinion that Scott should not be seen by the jurors, and cite a criminal court ruling of recent years in which the principal in a similar proceeding in which, a life is at stake, and are prepared to press the point. They tentatively considered placing him on the witness stand for the examination of the court and jury. Trick of Fata By a queer trick of fate. William Scott Stewart, one of Scott's attorneys, will be called upon to knoc down the precedent in excluding the defendant from the sanity hearing, which he, as prosecutor, cited in the case several years and was sticcets-ful in establishing.

As assistant state's attorney in the prosecution of Gene Geary, convicted murderer, several years ago, Stewart fought to exclude Geary from a sanity hearing which, resulted' in his commitment to the Chester state fcospltaL If he is successful in bringing Scott into court in the present case, it probably will be after a demonstration that the previous case is not parallel in important respects, for the state is ready to exclude Scott on the basis of the court ruling in the Geary case. were instantly killed when a train crashed into their automobile. Four drownings were reported at Memphis, and Marquette. Mich. Granville S.

Booker lost his life in Denver. Aug. 2. OP) Two young women and a man were shot and killed here late Sunday night by a holdup robber when he attempted to rob them of their valuables while they Mere sitting in a slowly moving automobile. Another youth was shot through the arm.

Miss Marie McCormick. 25, w-as killed instantly by the bandit's shots. New York. Aug. 2.

OP) William Jennings Bryan, as a man whose religious faith was built upon the Rock 6f Ages and whose political faith was such that he "threw away a crown" because he would rather be right than be president, was eulogized by Congressman William I'pshaw of Georgia, hi memorial services for the late fundamentalist leader at the tent evangel Sundny. Titans of Brain The Brvan memorial service was to have been the opening of a fundamentalist campaign in New xork by Dr. Frank Norris of Fort Worth, known as "the Texas cyclone," in evangelical circles, but he was prevented from coming by illness in his family, and the campaign was temporarily postponed. Congressman I. pshaw styled both Brvan and Clarence Darrow, defense counsel in the recent evolution trial at Davton.

"as titans of brain, logic and eloquence," but aid that "Bryan house was built upon the Rock of Ages. Clarence Dar row's on the shifting sands." While Bryan from his boyhood trusted Christ "as a personal Savior," said Mr. Upshaw. "Darrow confessedly left Christ out of his heart and lie rharged Darrow with "inviting the ycuth of the ration into a great spiritual Sahara." plans for a sanity hearing before Joseph B. David Monday morning, friends and relatives of Russell Scott carried on au intensive eleventh hour campaign for funds to free him from the gallows.

Mrs. Catherine Scott, wife of the condemned man. remaiued in Detroit and Windsor in an effort to raise a balance of a $10,000 defense fund. Thomas Scott, aged father of the prisoner, continued hia fight with a public appeal for professional alienists who would testify for defense for expense only. Two newspapers Sunday carred sixned advertisements appealing for such aid.

Will Hasten Hearing A special venire of 100 men. has been summoned by Judge David, and if the wishes of the court are followed, a jury to decide Scott's fc.ir.ity will be selected in one day. In setting the trial, a week ago. Judge David intimated he would permit no unnecessary delay in the sanity hearing and expressed the view that examination of veniremen should not require more than one court day. State and defense counsel are ready with imposing arrays of alienists to be called as soon as the jury is impanelled.

The general conclusion of the defense experts is that Scott' mentality hes become impaired since his ccn-viction and sentence. Alienists en I Horn lake. Memphis, when he vainly I strove to rescue from drowning his SETTING UP PLANES TO DELAY START OF ARCTIC ilB SURVEY friend Alfred Brogan. At Marquette. Leo and Timothy December were drowned in the Chocolay r'ver while on a fishing trip.

II. M. Tuck of Plymouth, stu- COOLIDGE OBSERVES dent at the of Wisconsin, FIVE INJURED AS MOB BREAKS UP KLAN MEET Four Days Necessary to Put Craft in Shape, Says M'Millan Report HIDING DEATH DAY IN HOME SECLUSION This point probably will be- one of the first argued after completion of the- jury. gaged by the state are unanimous in was drowned in Lake Mendota. Madison.

Traffic mishaps claimed three lives in Chicago Sunday and a fourth died after suffering more than 11 year from a form of insanity induced by an automobile crash. Two probably fatal injuries were sustained in spectacular smashups. Ruben Young wa catapulted from his racing automobile at the state fair park, Milwaukee. and over the top of another speeding machine to fall clear of the track with a fractured skull. At Paris.

Delbert Jones. 24. sustained a broken back when his' motor car skidded and turned over twice. Three persons were fatally injured at Indianapolis when their automobile was struck by a traction car. Executive Attends Church in Morning; Has Held Office Tw Years Local Bodies Will Select Best Candidates for Indorsement Under Program Washington.

Aug. 2. OP) la direct language from ita executive council Sunday the American Federation of at it was through tfj5U1u thuIrd P1" movements of th tK, i 11 uPPrt in 1924 with diStJSSffiSr. Presi. A return to the custom of entering str1S1nAl poUtiS'SS? didae TOrt of the dividual can- ucions emphatically indicated as its farnre Must Free ri decision recited a ren-SS-m convention El Pi bich Uid down" pSci-Ple that organized labor "must bT as now domination -na? ln ils fciory." BTtMn dictum was car- that iUort.fdr bT ConnciI rnat no aid or comfort be given tho n-r hJ d'sa to have pre- t'15 indorsements for friendly to labor, regard! les of their party affiliation tiS.rf candidates, par-firiH the congressional l1" rounol promised to wag.

a derations of labor and central labor bodies everrwhere will be summoned to assist as in previous IVt; wh-i! its C5uaI condem-cuon of bosses and support of the primary system for nomination of candidates was again made evident. Reviews Events 35" mentioned the events i. th council indorsed the LaroLette forces, but said that since the nonpartisan political policr fca wen fohowed. many independent or third party movements have come and gone, generally existing onlv for one election. "The executive council believes that as a result of nonpartisan political poncy.

the launching third partr movements has been proved wasted errort and injurious to the desire to S-f01 frorlle records. Ih 1.0T- nd 1924 Poetical campaign definitely determined this fact Experience therefore has taught' labor that to be successful, politically it must continue in future as in the riau to foHow its nonpartisan political policy- An active campaign to interest women wage earners and their svtrpa-tnixers it was also announced, will be earned on during the prknarv and election campaigns. Inter-Union Clash Given Fresh Start New York. Aug. 2.

(A The inter-union war between bricklarers and plasterers" unions, which last Mar tied of new building." gave t-igns of breaking out afresh with a strike call which has gone out from the bricklayers officials ordering their members not to report for work Mon Falls First Aid Champs Contest at Butte Today PAINFUL EXHIBITION Memphis, Aug. 2. OP) One of the painful impressions of the recent spectacle at Dayton was the venomous animosity exhibited by so-called intellectual men toward those who merelv differed with them in opinion, said Bishop Thomas Gailor. president of the National Council of the Protes-tana Episcopal church, in a seruioii here Sunday. Bishop Gailor was speaking on the text: "Whosoever shall say to his brother, "thou shall be in danger of hell fire." "No wonder he says that the man who in his heart calls his brother 'thou fool shall be in danger of hell fire," continued Bishop Gailor.

"For that means arrogance and cruelty, and who Westwood. Aug. 2. OP) Five persons. inclwiing two women and a boy were cut and bruised, three men were arrested and the farm house of Stephen Illsley in the Islington district here was wrecked Sunday when a meeting of some three score of Ku Klux Klansmen was broken up by a mob of 500 persons.

The meeting was the first attempted since the state police announced that the department no longer could afford police protection to klan gatherings. A stone, thrown at the speakers' stand, started the rioting and instantly the uir was filled with missies. The three local constables were unable to restore order. Many of the klansmen reached their automobiles and escaped but about a score took refuge hi the Illsley house, which was immediately surrounded and stoned. CNJfiWFiLEO IN SHOOTING CASE Fergus Attorney Waits Outcome of Christopherson's Wound; Small Detained IS INTER II Local Team Meets Anaconda and Butte Outfits SURE, SAf 5 EXPERT AS AUTO OVERTURNS Washington.

Aug. 2. OP) Because of th difficult operating conditions, four days will be required to put the planes of the MacMillan Arctic ex-pendition at Etah into operation, the navy departmentwss-advised Sunday by Lieutenant Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd. The only landing beach at Ktah is about "0 "feet wide and 40 feet deep. Commander Byrd said and it will have to be levelled down as it is now too steep.

Likewise, many rocks will have to he removed and runways built for the aircraft to keep the wheels from sinking into the soft sand. "Peary and Bowdin worked this morning from 4:10 to said Commander Byrd's dispatch sent from Etah early Sunday. "Followed close to coast line and had good views of many gigantic glaciers. Arrived Etah tonight o'clock. Weather bad, with wet snow and fog covering hills down to 100 feet.

"Only one small beach in whole harbor, as beach line is almost universally rocky and with many cliffs and rock hills arising from water's edge. Planes will have to be erected on beach due to lack of space on the Peary. The beach is sandy and pebbly, so that rnnwajs will have to be made for each plane to keep wheels from sinking in. There are many large rocks on the beach that will have to bo cleared off. It is ThI feet wide and 40 feet deep and too Meep present for use, but can be levelled down sufficiently for use.

"Will start landing planes at o'clock tomorrow morning. Due to difficult operating conditions, four days will be required to erect planes." ave vou the right to scorn your fel Swampscott, Mass. OP) President Coolidge spent most of Sunday, the second anniversary of the death of Warren G. Harding, which suddenly elevated him to the presidency queitly at White Court. The president remained in the seclusion of the summer White House grounds except for a motor trip to Salem to attend the morning service at the Tabernacle Congregational church- He was accompanied by Mrs.

Coolidge. Senator and Mrs. Pepper of Pennsylvania. who had been overnight guests at White Court, and Frank W. Stearns, his close friend.

The sermon, on the theme "Gratitude and Ingratitude." was preached by the Rev. It. W. McLaughlin of Worcester, Mass. After dinner, at White Court.

Senator and Mrs. Pepper continued on their motor trip to their summer home in Maine. Monday John T. Adams of Towa, former chairman the republican national committee. Mrs.

Adams will arrive at the summer White House for a short stay. low man? If you think that you are French Astronomer Bases Predictions on Lunar-Solar Cycle Data Children Among Those Hurt Near Feely; Anaconda Child Is Killed Hobbins Trophy Will Be Awarded to Winning Squad Butte. Aug. 2. OP) With great customary on sueh occasions.

Butte Monday will observe the annual miners' safety field day at Columbia gardens here. It has been announcd that f-r the day. mining operations here will be suspended so that manv thousands of miners win have opportunity to participate. One of the features of the extensive program will be a champion first aid contest in which teams from Great Paris. Aug.

2. OP) Next winter will be long and hard, is the deduction made from researches which have been carried on by the astronomer priest. Father Gabriel, and which Prof. Guil-laume Giordan, director of the Paris ohservatory. has described to the academy of sciences.

Father Gabriel has discovered that the lunar-solar cycle of 744 years is divided Into two periods of 372 years and four periods of IStJ years. Severe colli weather follows these periods, he superior remember that you are little better than a parasite yourself, lour father and mother, your ancestors furnished you with whatever gifts of mind and body you possess. And yet we are all tempted to say to some brother 'thou Say Harsh Things "Surely all men of every shade of thought are ready with their lips to praise the gospel of love, and yet professors of religion never said harder things about each other than they are Baying today. And as for the reformers, the uplifters, some of them seem to have forgotten the every name and idea of charity toward their neighbors. "There are some men who seem to be willing to make money by using their perverted talents only for detraction, just as some newspapers seem to exist in order to publish scandals and blast reputations." Mentioning the "catalogue of raur-der." being described in newspapers and tracing crime to a spirit of intolerance.

Bishop Gailor added: "We have grown indifferent to death by violence, like people living on the fringe of civilization. "Let us pray for the gr.Jci to cultivate in ourselves the honest, unselfish interest and regard for the aims and hopes and lives of our aumaii kind." he said in conclusion. v.llu ArwicnmiM am Hutt win lahf be The Hobbins trophy will awarded to the winning team. neueves. and ttiat thi-f winter will be as severe as were the winters of the years 1553 and 1470.

His observations TK. -rlrl" rhnmnion first aid team Butte. Aug. 2. OP) An automobile accident, iu which seven persons were injured, including four young children, brought to a close a day of enjoyment and picnicking, when the car if J.

J. Taylor, aged '4. turned turtle on the Divide road several mile this side of Feeh. shortlv before o'clock Sunday night. 1 he injured were: .1.

.1. Taylor, fractured rib and lacerated left ear; Mrs. .1. J. Taylor, aged 71.

at least two broken ribs, bruised right knee, cut over the left shin, and lacerations about the head; Joe Zwick. injured shoulder and cut on head; Ruth wick, his 1 0-year-old daughter, cuts about the face; Ai-leen Taylor, aeed S. broken shoulder blade; Melvin Taylor, aged ti. cuts on head and rieht arm. and Durward Taylor, aged 11.

bruised back and lacerations about the face. Aileen. Melvin and Durward are the children of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Taylor of Kellogg.

Idaho, and the grandchildren of Mr. and Mrs. J. .1. Taylor.

The grandchildren and their parents recently had arrived here visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Taylor.

from the Great Falls smelter of th nre on researches Jnto the works of historians, priests and writers which were lik-dy to give weather indications. Last of Army Planes Arrives at Chicago day on four construction jobs of the George A. Fuller company. Construction jobs of the Fuller -companr in Chicago and Washington also will be Special to The Tribune. Lewistown.

Aug. 2. Marion Small, prominent Ilohson farmer, arrested Saturday morning in connection with the shooting Friday night of Henry Christopherson. young farmer living near Moore. Sunday declined to comment on his arrest until the completion of an investigation being directed by County Attorney K.

K. Matson. No formal charge will be preferred against Small pending the outcome of Christopherson's wounds. Mr. Matson announced.

Christopherson. shot in the abdomen and shoulder as he emerged from his home to answer a summons from a man who had driven to the Christopherson farm house gate. Sunday night, was iu a critical condition. Attending physicians said little hope was held out for his recovery. Although the county attorney has obtained a statement from Christopherson, and is said to have had an interview with Small, he declined to make public any of the testimony thus far received.

Small, according to attaches of the county attorney's office, admitted having visited the Christopherson place to talk over what he termed "personal matters concerning indirectly domestic affairs." Small's wife, who was visiting in Colorado at the time of the shooting, has been notified, but the time of her arrival here is Chicago. Aug. 2 OP) A large bomber, the last of six army pursuit Old Master Defeats Team He Lost to 18 Years Ago as Rookie Washington. Aug. 2.

OP) Walter Johnson. Washington's premier pitcher. Sunday celebrated the IKth anniversary of his debut as a big league hall player by defeating the team he failed to beat on August 2. 1007. the Detroit Tigers.

As a raw western recruit he twirled six innings in Detroit. Washington lost 3 to 2. but "Barney was not eharged with the defeat. Ty Cobb, present manager of the Tigers, also played in 1507. Kills Man in Home and Surrenders Self it was in- Anaconda Copper company, which left for Butte Sunday morning to enter the state contest Monday, won its title at Salt Lake City two years ago.

when it defeated all competing tetims from the United States and Canada in an international cet. No international mct was held in 1924. lmt the team retained its title bv defeating all other teams in the state in a Montana tournament at Butte. The squad which won second place in the local competition at the smelter is accompanying the champions. The following men comprise the championship team: L.

J. Deranleau. S. Paulson, G. D.

Gillis. D. K. Iwlor. Joseph Marcure and Edward Lgan.

The member of the second team are K. II. Zican. Orlando Petrini. J.

B. Moniger. F. A. Kommers.

Wilfred Tre-week and Elizear Ijindry. to complete a round trip test in rne strike call, flight from "Selfridr FiM Mi-h timated. The strike order included in the strike call, i a retal- WORKS WILL LIVE Marion. Ohio Aug. 2.

(P) "Twenty-nine months was a verv brief period for Warren G. Hardim; to displav his worth and powers," Dr. Carl W. Sawyer, son of Br gadier General Sawver declared in an address Sunday in "the old Trinity Biptist church on the second anniversary of the death the late president in San Francisco. "History alone can tell of the accomplishments of his administration and put them in their proper position md give them their correct value." J)r Sawyer said.

"What any of us say or write now will have very little bearing upon the proper summation which time will make of his accomplishments." The church pew where the l.e president used to sit was draped with purple cloth. In the center a lare black strip of silk formed a background for a boquet of flowers. Marines to Leave Nicaragua Today Managua. Nicaragua. Aug.

2. OP) The Nicaraguan government Sunday issued a statement to the people the country saying that the American marines, who have been stationed in 'NicaraRiin for more than a decade, would depart from the country at 7 o'clock Monday morning. The statement begs all Nicaraguans to support the government in the preservation of peace and in this manner make Nicaragua deserving of the name of an independent and civilized nation. the Pacific coast over lightedmail measure against the plasterers airway, arrived here at 4 r. m.

Sundav union, which several weeks ago signed a "separate peace" individually with several of the largest contractors in tue country. central standard time. The plane will deparr for Selfridge Field. at 7. a.

m. Monday. It was delayed more than a day at North Platte, for motor repairs. INJURIES FATAL Anaconda, Aug. 2.

Knocked down by an automobile as she was on her way home from church Sunday morning, Gertrude Marie Josephs, '-year-old Anaconda girl, died at the local hospital 15 minutes later. Her companion. Nora Sullivan, was also knocked down, receiving numerous bruises. New Zealand Workers Boycott U. S.

Armada Coolidge Boy Wins Promotion at Camp Camp Devens. Aug. TO RESUME PARLEYS Paris. Aug. 2.

OP) Resumption of the Franco-British war debt negotiations which broke down in liondon last Thursday is anticipated by newspapers friendly to the government, before the middle of September. By then it is expected the Franco-American discussion of the ame problem will have started. John Coolidge. son of President Coolidge. Sunday was made acting corporal of his squcd.

the second of company third battalion. When the company went through its first formation nt the citizens' military training camp Sunday morning. John won the promotion on the strength of his experience of three summers ago when he attended a similar camp. Return of Millions to Aliens Is Probed Girl Found in Well Victim of Slaying Mattoon. Aug.

2 P) A post-morten examination Sunday of the body of Miss Cora Stallman. Cincinnati school teacher, found dead in a cistern at the farm home of her sister. Mrs. Anna Seaman, near here Saturday, showed that her death was not caused by drowning. Coroner F.

S. Schilling who ordered the autopsy, made thin statement but declined to discuss the findings further pending an over the death, which he said would be held later in the week. It later was found that letters near the body were filled with innuendoes, and charges of strange complexes oc. the part of members of the Seaman family. Although written iu large rough print, the phraseology was that of education.

Flood of Rio Grande Causes First Damage KI Paso, Aug. 2. First heavy damage from continued floods in the Rio Grande in this section occurred Sunday at Fabens, 20 miles south of here, where land and crop damage will total more than $50,000, reports said. Fight families are homeless following "-the crumbling of four water-soaked adobe dwellings, one a 4.000 structure. A force of 100 men is working to hold the water back from thousands of acres of growing cotton.

The crest of the flood is expected to pass Fabens late tonight- The Rev. John Gordon, Noted Educator, Dies Philadelphia, August 2. OP) The Rev. John Gordon, dean-emeritus of the Tctnple I'niversity of Theological seminary, died at his home here Sunday, aged K2. lie was said to have been the oldest living graduate of the I'niversity of Chicago and was the first graduate of that school to be awarded an honorary degree.

Dr. Gordon, a native of Scotland, for 2-" ears served as chairman of the board of directors of the American Baptist Publication society. He had been pastor of churches in Chicago. Portland. Montreal.

Philadelphia and Ijowell. Mass. Fear of Pen Causes Murder Confession Wellington. N. 7...

Aug. 3. OP) The Wellington labor-socialists have urged publicity that the American fleet as a fleet be boycotted and the Dune-din labor representation committee has pased a resolution urging aU workers to refrain from participating in celebrations being arracged for the forthcoming visit. The Wellington Dominion referring to the action taken by the labor-socialists says editorially: "Communists and labor-socialists never appear at less advantage than when in dealing with matters of this kind. Their outlook is professedly international but in practice they seem -to delight in attempting to stir up bad blood betwen nations.

There is no danger of the welcome given the fleet to this country being marred by any appreciable extent a result of extremist propaganda." FIRE BEYOND CONTROL Wallace, Idaho, Aug. 2. A forest fire'blaxe In the Pine creek district 20 miles east oC Wallace broke beyond control lines early Sunday and Sunday night was burning over more than 1,000 acres. Forest service officials reported that the blaze is being Mother Finds Child After 30-Year Hunt Chehalis. Wash- Aug.

2. OP) Ben Napier late Sunday shot and fatally wounded L- J- Nicholson, when he returned home and found him there. Nicholson died soon after in a hospital. Napier surrendered to police. The shooting was said by officials to have resulted from attentions which Nicholson had paid to Napier Manufacturer Takes Own Life With Bullet Sedalia.

Aug. 2. OP) Stephen B. Pickett. 4H secretary-and general sales manager for the Mc-Murtry Manufacturing company of Denver, paint manufacturers, shot and killed himself Saturday night on a lonelv road near here to which he had driven his automobile from Denver, a distance of 2T miles.

Coroner George E. Alexander of Douglas county, after an inquest late Sunday, after the body had been found Sunday morning, returned a verdict of suicide. Ill health was believed to be the motive. Pickett had been associated with the McMurtrv company in Denver for 22 years. Previously he had resided at Toledo, Ohio.

OFFICER HELD SANE Manila. Aug. 2. (A3) At the resumption todav of the court ruartial of Lieut. J.

S. Thompson on the charge of murdering Miss Audrey Burleigh, of Memphis. last April, the medical board which has observed Thompson since the girl's death, declared Thompson Each member of the board, which consists of army officers, also testified they believed Thompson was in normal control of his actions at the time of the slaying. Washington, Aug. 2.

OP) The return in 1921 by the alien property custodian of several million dollars in seized funds to the American Metal company is under investigation by department of justice agents here and abroad. Although officials of the department and the custodian's office were unwilling Sunday to discuss the object of the investigation, their attention was understood to have centered particularly on certain transactions. The settlement with the company, which was formed in the T'nited States by German metal interests, was made during the administration of Thomas W. Miller, who resigned ns alien property custodian several months ago. He is now in Europe as head of an international veterans organization and a member of the battle monuments commission.

Wichita, Kans. 2. OP) His fear of the ienitcntiary prompted John Gordon, wanted. in more than a score of cities on burglaray and jail-breaking charges, to confess Saturday to the murder of Joseph Matirer, Chicago drug clerk, for whose death Russell Scott is under sentence to di. the prisoner told officers here earlv Sunday night.

"I aiii tired of living and I don't want to spend most of my life behind the bars," Gordon is rc-jKrted to have said. "I think Scott is innocent and I am willing dip iu his place. I am too big a coward to commit suicide, but I would gladlv die on the gallows if in doing so I could save another life." Kdwardsville. Aug. 2.

OP A SO years" search by Mrs. Ida Kced of this city for her child lias ended successfully with the receipt of word from Mrs. Nettie May Fuller of Ta-coma. the missing daughter. Thirty years ago.

when her husband died, while thev were residing in Wooster. Ohio. Mrs. Reed places! her two childrenin institution, after which all, trace of -them were lost. Recently.

Edward Reed, the woman son, found HOGS, CATTLE PRICES HIGH Chicago. Aug. 2 OP) Hogs and cattle in July sold at the highest level 1020. the monthly report of the Institute of Americau Meat Packers Sunday states. The top price for the month was $14.75 hundred for hogs and $15.25 for cattle.

Export trade was comparatively quiet due to the impending miners'- strike in England and heavy importation of Danish meats. DIES WHILE MOTORING Butte. Aug. 2 OP) While motoring an a highway near here, accompanied by three ether rersons. "Happy" Peterson, a Jesident of Butte for the last 40 died suddenly Sunday morning.

He was taken to a near by garage, but all efforts to revive him proved futile. a roan who knew of th case and in Ilia uo Mirw in me rase ana in-iimimru v) a nruug ri iuu ami formed him where hi eiter could la large amount of valuable timber ia be found, ia the direct path of the Games..