The Missoulian from Missoula, Montana • 1

1THE daily mi MONTANA'S "OLD RELIABLE" NEWSPAPER ALL THE NEWS EVERY DAY WORLD OVER VOL. LI. NO. 330. MISSOULA, MONTANA, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 26, 1925.

PRICE FIVE CENTS SHEPHERD IS DENIED JAIL BAH; MUST i MONTANA TO COLLECT i NO BAIL i' 1 FROM CLARK'S ESTATE VICTIM OF CULT BRANDING PAYS WITH HiS LIFE; "ROARING LION OF TRIBE CONFESSES TO POLICE MAN ACCUSED OF ADMINISTERING TYPHOID GERMS TO HIS FOSTER SON LOSES FIGHT FOR FREEDOM Late Former Senator Considered This State His Home; All of His Property Subject to Inheritance Tax. McCormick Learning Harvester Business By Work as Laborer Judge in Denying Plea fof Liberty Says All He Can Do Is Request That Prisoner Have Early Trial. to Ralph Swain, in Icharge of inheritance tax collection for the board of equalization, has estimated the amount of the tax at from $3,000,000 to $5,000,000. No recjord seems available at the state capitol which would interpret reference in the Clark will to a trust fund of the State of Montana as one of the beneficiaries. The impression seems to prevail, that the fund lis for the benefit of the state historical I I "a i if A I I I 4 6 4 If 1 In SM SECURITY SINCERITY Offered Himself as Sacrifice, Although He Didn't Ex pect That the Ordea Would Cost Him His Life WHITE HOT IRON BURNS CROSSES Ceremony of "Assembly of God;" Garden of Eden Scene Follows Infliction of Marks on Head, Feet.

By The Associated Press. Orovllle, March 25. Herman R. Shadow, victim of cult branding here, offered himself as a "sacrifice to the Holy although he did not expect to pay with his life, according to a confession announced here today by District Attorney Edgar Rothe, as having been obtained from Mrs. Anna Rhodes as she? lay on a sick bed In her home, which she calls the "ark of the covenant." Rothe announced he would ask for an insanity warrant against Mrs.

Rhodes and convene the grand jury for a thorough inquiig' Into the practices of the religious body to which the woman and her relatives are alleged to belong. This organization is said to be known as the 'iAssembly of God," which has been meeting at Gridley, and which its members are represented as claiming' is an outgrowth of the Pentecostal church. Volunteered to Be Sacrifice. The branding, according to Rothe's statement of Mrs. Rhodes' confession, occurred in the early hours of March 1.

Her. brother, Sharlow, Bhe is re ported to have admitted, volunteered to have the Holy Ghost burned Into him. In the presence of her husband, Edward, she, as the "roaring lion of the tribe," first passed the white hot iron over her lips to purify it, and then applied it to the soles of Shadow's feet and his head, making the "sign of the cross" with it. Tapers meantime were burned in. the corners of the room.

In an adjoining room, it is claimed, were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rhodes, brother and sister-in-law of Edward Rhodes. Garden of Eden Scene. Two hours later, the purported confession continues, according to Rothe, the family staged a "Garden of Eden" scene entirely nude.

This was participated in, it is alleged, by the two Rhodes couples and the two children of Mrs. Anna Rhodes. It was said by Mrs. Rhodes to have been interrupted by Mrs. Olive Humphreys of S.m Francisco, an evangelist of the Pentecostal church, who protested against such practices.

Shadow died last Thursday and the Investigation inaugurated shortly afterward indicated that he had been the victim of the cult burning. FOREST WEEK DESIGNATED. By The Associated Press. Helena, March as American Forest week in Montana the period from April 27 to May 3, Gover-rtor Erickson t6day urged upon "all public officials, associations and foi est owners, upon the press and the schools and upon all citizens the state to join in this nation-wide effort to build up interest and knowledge concerning the preservation and re-growing of forests." BONFIRE OF BANK NOTES. By The Associated Jtome, Marcn zt.

A bonfire was made this afternoon of 100,000,000 lire in bank notes. The fire was started in the presence of Slgnor De Stcfani, minister of finance, and other officials as the inauguration of the policy of the government to reduce the circulation of paper money. Goat and Domestic Happiness Fail to 31 ix in Washington By The Associated Press. Spokane, March 25. Fondness for goats led Clayton C.

Higgins of Spokane to milk one at the breakfast table directly into his cup of coffee, Eugene V. Higgins testified at the trial of her divorce suit in superior court here today. Mrs. Higgins also testified that her husband insisted upon keeping one of their two goats in the house. The case was continued until tomorrow.

ELLUKSOM JURY IS NOT YET COMPLETED Youthful Defendant Barely Able to Keep Her Faculties Functioning While Lawyers Argue in Court. By The Associated Press. San Francisco, March 25. It was no flippant denizen of the night life who faced a crowded courtroom here today in 16-year-old Dorothy Elllng-son, who killed her mother rather than obey a parental edict to stay away from just one more party. The girl who sat at the bar of justice struggled nil day on the border line of hysterics.

Once, walking unsupported, she fainted in a corridor out side the court, falling flat to the mar ble floor. Unconscious, she was carried Into an unto room Where her father de- I prived of his wife by her act, but rec onciled to her in her extremity nursed her tenderly back to con sciousness, kissing her pallid face and her closed eyes. She was taken to the prison hospital, where she Bpent the noon hour. She sat through the afternoon session stolid. But the Jazz girl, who last January told the police defiantly, "yet, I shot mother; she would not let me go out when I wanted out" this girl seemed to have gone forever.

In her place was an expressionless girl, mature beyond her years, who sat with downcast eyes and exhausted her nervousness by playing with a vanity case. It did not seem that she ever could smilo again. May Fill Box Today. The third day of the murder trial dragged to a close with indications that a jury might be selected sumo time tomorrow. The slato and the defense each had eight peremptory challenges loft, but tho state had shown a willingness to accept the jury at any stage, and there were intimations that the defense- might, not uso every challenge left it.

Repeatedly, tho prosecution passed Its challenge. The defense hud excused 12 persons by adjournment. The girl's attorneys gradually eliminated all tho younger men in tho jury box and all but two of the women whV had been passed for cause. The last to be excused was Mr Alice M. Cordon, an elderly motherly woman with a grown daughter.

The interrogation oL' Jurors produced f-evcral droll responses and sullies between counsel. Unco spectators laughed aloud, and Judge Harold Louderbuclc directed the bailiffs to eject about 20 of tho spectators, several of them women. After that there was breathless (tilet. Ten Men, Two Women. As the jury stood at tho close of court it consisted of lo men of mature Continued on raj's Six AS THIRD DAY EL0S By The Associated Press.

Helena, March 25. W. A. Clark cast his last vote in Montana at the general election last November, the board of equalization has been informed. This is interpreted to mean that Montana may collect the inheritance tax on the entire estate whereas had his vote been cast elsewhere, the tax would have applied only to such properties as were situated in Montana.

W. L. Murphy of Missoula, an attorney for the estate, according Interest on State Warrants to Be 42 Per Cent, Decision By The Associated Press. Helena, March 25. Interest on registered state general fund warrants after April 1, 1925, will be 4i2 per cent, "unless the supreme court of this state sees fit to depart from the rule consistently adhered to by it," whereby reference tc the journals of the house and senate may not be had, the attorney general informed State Treaurer Harmon todays The treasurer had asked a written opinion regarding the effect of house bill 23, by which the legislature attempted to lower the warrant interest.

Vermont Looking for Male Companion Who Disappeared Same Time. By The Associated Press. Newport, March 25. While searchers continued their quest for the body of Charles II. Hutchins, thought drowned in a swamp, physicians today held an, autopsy to determine whether criminal violence or an accident had caused the death of Edvth Young, whose body was found with a submerged buggy and a dead horse in the swamp today.

No evidence of foul play had been found. Miss Young and Hutchins were last seen together on the night of No vember 24, 1924, when they left a liv ery stable at Newport and drove in. the direction of Orleans, where Miss Young lived. Yesterday a divorce against Hutch ins, the father of two children, Was to have come up for hearing. Miss Young, a former school had worked in the creamery of which Hutchins was manager.

1 Police investigating the case are trying to ascertain whether Hutchins-is still alive or if the horse, the buggy and its occupants pluhged together from the highway into the water, drowning both man and girl. LEEDS IS DEAD; WAIF INHERITS By The Associated Press. New York, March 25. Warner M. Leeds, vice president of the Leeds Tin Plate interests until ill-health forced his retirement from business in 1904, died today of tuberculosis at his homo here.

He was 57 years old and had been ill for 20 years. A 12-year-old daughter, Joey Louise Leeds, adopted front the foundlings' ward at Bellevue hospital, will inherit moBt of Mr. Leeds' fortune, estimated in the millions. She also inherited the income from a $2,000,000 trust fund, plus $250,000 and a fortune in jewelry from Mrs. Leeds, who in Feb 1923, leaped to death from a window of the home where Mr.

Leeds died today. BOY IS CHIDED; KILLS HIMSELF By The Associated Press. Laramie, Wyo March 25. Because he was chlded for doing something wrong at his work place today. Hoy L.

Woods, 18, an apprentice at the Union Pacific shops here, turned a shotgun upon himself tonight. The discharge tore off the top of his head. Woods' death was tho third suicide recorded in Lnrumie in three' days'. APPOINTMENTS MADE. By The Associated Press.

Helena, March 25. J. K. Murphy of Ilutte today was named by Governor Erickson us stuto purchasing agent to succoed J. K.

Wood, on April 1. The governor also announced the reappointment of ln C. 13. K. Vldnl as president of the.

slate tuberculosis NUIlllul'luill ut Ouloil, HORSE AND ARE FOUND SWAMP By The Associated Press. Chicago, March 25. Unknown to his fellow workmen, Fowler McCormick, son of Harold McCormick and his former wife, Mrs. Rockefeller McCormick, has for the last six weeks been at work as day laborer in the Milwaukee shops of the International Harvester company learning the ground work of the reaper industry to which he 's heir, it wa (earned today. The young man, known to his associates simply as McCormick," was found in work clothes, doing routine work in one of the shops at the going scale of a day.

Thomas F. Woodlock Named to Succeed Potter on I. C. C. After Nomination Had Been Offered Twice.

By The Associated Press. Washington, March 23. Despite the senate's failure to confirm hif nom ination. President Coolidge today ap pointed Thomas F. Woodlock of New York to succeed Mark TV.

Potter, resigned, as a member of the Interstate Commerce commission. Immediately there were indications of a determined fight in the next session of congress to prevent confirmation. Senators Harris of Georgia and Fletcher of Florida, who with other Democrats have insisted that the south is entitled to representation on the commission, announced they would oppose favorable action and predicted there would be a formidable array against Mr. Woodlock. Clash Seems Certain.

The situation offers a strong, probability of a clash between the president and the seriate, similar, at least in some respects, to the fight over the nomination of Charles B. Warren if Michigan, to be attorney general, Twice Mr. Woofllock's nomination was sent to the senate only to be pigeonholed while In tho Warren case the senate twice rejected, the nomination and the president offered him recess appointment before appointing Attorney General Sargent. Some of the president's advisers have expressed the opinion thatj while there is strong opposition to Mr. Woodlock, chiefly on geographical grounds, administration forced would be able to get i favorable committee action nomination is resubmitted, paving the way for confirmation.

Mr. Woodlock, who is a writer on financial subjects, can take over his new duties, immediately, but there is a difference of opinion as to whether he can draw salary until senate! confirmation is obtained. BALFOUR IN JERUSALEM. By The Associated Press. Jerusalem, March The visit here today of the Earl of Ralfou'r, former British foreign secretary, passed without incident.

Crowds gathered in the Mosques and were addressed by Moslem and Christian orators. Mounted gendarmes patrolled the streets, but there was a marked absence of tension. mitted he was the much-sought "lone wolf." The court was told today that Walters had been disabled at Brest during the war when a mine swoeper on which ho served exploded. The attorney nlso said that Walters had been adjudged insane at Boise, Idaho, several years go nnd that he later had prlsonment at Seattle on a charge of been sentenced to three months' im-breuklng and entering. The "Lone Wlolf" first engaged the attention of the lloston police January when ho robbed the apartment of a young woman whom ho lushed to a bed.

A series of apartment robberies followed, nnd tho dread of the "Lone Wolf in a district Inhabited largely by business womon and college girls bdoanm so great Unit a large force of plain clothes police was assigned, to duty then-o, PBEffl 5 ACTION PAVES WAY FOR FIGHT WITH SENATE CASE'S BACKBONE RESTS IN AIM AN, Court Declares His Credibility Is a Matter for Jury to Decide; Either Murder Case or Nothing. By The Associated Press. Chicago, March 25. Release from" jail on bail today was denied "William D. Shepherd, charged with tho murder by typhoid of William," N.

McClintock, his foster son, tc- gain the boy's million dollar estate. "The, most I can) hold out for this defendant," said Chief Justice Jacob Hopkins of the criminal court in rendering the decision, "is a speedy triat" If he wishes it" 1 The judge made it clear he was ruling' only on the question of fact as to Whether proof of guilt was evident or presumption great "If Faiman's testimony is true," said Judge Hopkins, referring to the statements of C. Falman, also under indictment in connection with the death of Billy McClintock, "the defendant and Faiman entered into a conspiracy diabolically conceived and cruelly executed." If Untrue, Injustice, "if Faiman's testimony, is he continued, "tho defendant is the! victim of a monstrous injustice, en meshed, in a net of coincidences and circumstances that are unprecedented and painful to contemplate." Judge Hopkins conceded that Fal-jiian's credibility was material, but Indicated that ho behoved that was for the jury to decide. "This Is either a murder case or It is nothing," said the judge. "By no process could It degenerate into a manslaughter case.

It would be the duty of tho trial court to set aside, a verdict of manslaughter as not in consonance with the evidence, as the evidence now shows itself to be. "Tho question before tho court Is question of fact. Tho only thing for this court to decide is whether or not proof is evident or presumption la great" Decision Comes in Hurry. The judge delivered his decision within a fsw minutes after W. Stewart for the defense had closed a reply to what he termed a "dangerous) argument" of State's Attorney Robert 12.

Crowe. "It would be more dangerous," said Mr. Stewart, "if it were addressed to a jury." "A case," Mr. Crowo had said, "such as has been presented hero without any defense or contradiction would In my judgment, if it was submitted to 12 men In a jury box, result in a death verdict in just tho tlmo it would take the jurors to sign tho verdict." DEFENSE CLOSES IN TEAPOT CASE By Tho Associated Press. Cheyenne, March 25.

The defense In tho Teapot Dome annulment suit closed its case in -Ucrnl court here today. Tho defense's case waj closed with arguments by Martin IV. Littleton, the attorney who won fumfl as tho defender of Harry IC Thaw and Tinman W. N. wberry.

As the chief of counsel. Mr. Littleton attacked (ontentioiiH of tho government that fraud was used connection with tho turning of the Tt npot Dome o'l lease over to Harry and tho Mammoth Oil company by Albert l'al! when he was secretary of the The government s-'eks, cancellation of the lease. street, for the; wind was blowing from the southwest and endangering th s.ieaj.iwe.L hotel vhlch caught l'lrw from the three different limen. Men with hose, ami water bucket noi-kod on the root of the hotel and the other building across tho street lor 'urs puttlnv out tho showers ot live cinders v.

hleh conNtiintly fell. The heat was ImcliKO that Windows racked and roll Jn tho business blocks in the vicinity and iletiillsi of volunteer fiiemen were busy keeping tin leads of hove from destruction hciatisn of the live finders and sparks thsl i ai-peied tho ground in immediate vicinity. The cause of thu fire is unknowif and later 111 the day W. lirmilw, slate fire marshal, Helena, arrived iU tho city lo make, Paris Will Cooperate With Great Britain, However, in Chamberlain's Plans to Sound Berlin's Offer. By The Associated Press.

Paris, March 25. The French ambassador to Great Britain, M. De Fleuriau, started back to London tonight with instructions to cooperate In any way possible with Austen Chamberlain and to ascertain whether, as the British secretary for foreign affairs put it in the House of Commons yesterday, Germany's security offer is "sincere and honest." Skepticism prevails on that point in French official circles, where it is pointed out that France's experience with the German republic, as well as with the empire, has been such that specifications of the guarantee will be required before the French can rely on the Reich's signature. Protocol Hope Not Dead. "It is admitted that Mr.

Chamberlain has taken the lead in the security discussion and that France must give full consideration to the German offer, as it is indorsed by the British Cabinet. The leaders of the government's majority in the chamber still have a lingering hope in the league protocol; the foreign relations committee of the chamber has received M. Bonconr's report on this subject and next Wednesday probably will adopt a resolution favoring ratification. BUTTE IN PATH OF HIGH WINDS By The Associated Press. Butte, March 25.

Starting yesterday a high gale swept Butte until this afternoon, the wind breaking records for duration, though higher velocities have been recorded for short periods. Street signs were blown down and one automobile accident was attributed to the dust which blinded a school boy and the driver of a car. tho boy being struck by tho rear fender. Weather Forecast: Fair Thursday and Friday; rising temperature Friday and in west and central portions Thursday. IN OTHER CITIES.

City Max. Min. Prec. Havre 1 62 50 ,02 Helena 58 36 Kalispell 44 42 .10 Miles City 68 48 Calgary 38 30 JO Chicago 66 34 Loi Angeles 70 52 New York 62 40 Portland 56 42 St. Pul-Mpls.

70 44 San Francisco 60 52 Seattle 54 42 Spokane 50 44 Williston 58 38 WEATHER CONDITIONS. The western Canadian low has made good eastern progress, overspreading the great central interior of the country to the south of iti center. It has cauied light rain or snow during the Pt 12 hours in the northern Rocky mountain region. A strong rise in pressure 'has followed the low, owing to the action of a marked high moving northward along the Pacifio coast and centered wit of Wathington. The high it rapidly overspreading the northwest and hat cauied cooler wtather at far east at the eastern slope of the Rockies, LOCAL OBSERVATIONS.

Maximum ......48 Minimum 27 At 6 m. 48 At 6 p. 35 Precipitation, .01 inch, William Shepherd, heir to one million dollars left by his ward, William McChntock, has been denied bail by the court in Chicago. Shepherd is accused of administering typhoid germs to his ward that he might inherit the fortune. DIM'S BONO IS READYjFORAPPROVAL H.

H. Parsons Announces That It Will Be Present- ed This Morning. The bond for Duhlgren, convicted, of violating the state banking- laws, will be presented for approval this morning, it was announced last night by H. H. Parsons, attorney for Mr.

Bahlgrcn. The order admitting Mr. Dahlgren to bond, pendingg the perfection of the appeal of his case to the supreme court, has been in effect since early Tuesday morning. Mr. Duhlgren is in jail pending approval of the bond.

Mr. Parsons said he could not remember tho number of signers to the bond, or the names, but said there were a "number." The signers had been ut down in amounts of from $250 to $1,000, ho said. Arrangements were not completed, ho said, until after 5 o'clock. Ten Days in Jail. Dahlgren has been in the county bast He since Monday, March IS, when Judgo Duncan pronounced judgment on him following the jury's verdict of guilty.

The supreme court Tuesday issued a cerimeato ot prohanlc cause, admitting that there might be reason for nn appeal of his case, that he was entitled to have execution of judgment stayed and allowing him to post a bond of $5,000 for his release until tho appeal is perfected. It was said Tuesday night by H. if. Parsons, who with Fred Schilling represents the defendant, that a bond would bo presented first llilng yesterday morning, but the day passed without the bond being presented for approval. It is to be approved by H.

M. Kuwn, clerk of the district court, under the supreme court ord-r. which was signed by Chief Justice Lew L. Calloway. The bond may be a cash bond of the amount designated, or it may be property bond, in which ease slgnerH will have to be obtained whose total property is twice the amount of tho bond.

One Has Change of Heart. One man, who Tuesday had signed the bond for Dahlgren, withdrew his name, early yesterday morning. No information as to who will be on the bond can bo learned as counsel for Duhlgren said they prcfercd rot to give nut tho names of the signers until the bond had been completed and approved. Dahlg'-en was found guilty by tho jury of having violated the st ife bunking laws In connection with the transactions of the American llanlt nnd Trust company, of which be Wns president and which is now closed, by making false statements ti the slate superintendent of banlts. Judge Duncan sentenced him to'.

4i to ft years In the state prison nl Deer Lodge. Since, the re turn of the Jury verdict, a continiinus nnd strenuous battle has been w.iged to keep Dahlgren nut of the penitential Kvcry legal expedient on the has been resorted to by defemm counsel, wllh the result thnt Dahlgren if to 1(. fillnwed bin llberf'y oiiiuii tipeal' Titiltd and Is to be allowed to lippoaV his case to tin- judgment ot Out higher I'olllt, I DEPREDATIONS OF 'LONE WOLF" ARE AT END WITH CAPTURE IN BOSTON; WILL 6FFER INSANITY AS DEFENSE EARLY MORNING FIRE BURNS WHOLE BLOCK OF BUSINESS BUILDINGS AT THREE FORKS; LOSS PUT AT $50fi00 By The Associated Press, lloston, March 25. Boston's "Lone Wolf," mysterious burglar who for weeks preyed on women apartment dwellers In the Back Hay dsltrlrt, was in jull tonight under observation of two physicians of the' state department of mental diseases. Tho burglar, whose real name Is said to lie Jnmes 13.

Walters and who has gone under the xillus of Frank Stevens, was traced to rooming house in South Boston. Arraigned in court he pleaded not guilty to Indictments fur burglary and carrying weapons and indionted thnt he would offer lnsnnlty ns his defense. Judge Bishop fixed his hull at $00,000. Walters gave his homo address as Richmond, and his occupntlon as marine engineer, follon 'say ho ad- By Tho Associated Tress. noxeinan.

March So. An enlue block In the business section Three was dentroyed by fire Ibis morning, wiuslng a property l.w jr.O.Om) with Insurance covering l.vst than third of the amount. The fire was Ills, ei e.l jn of Anderson's sott drink parlor, a two-story frame structure with on tho seeoiid floor, at o'clock Ibis morning. An alarm Immediately brought the tho d' pai t-ineni. but the blaze, Tanned by a gale, gathered nuch hoadw.iv that the remainder of the buildings the block wen- la end power to mtii by the time the water Could be used, The efforts of tho firemen and nf volunteers were centered on tlio saving o( the buildings uciosh the.