The Havre Daily News from Havre, Montana • 1

VOL XIV No 813 HAVRE MONTANA TUESDAY EVENING JANUARY 17 1928 'I1 II KSSOSB price Hvi anm hisTOCu the Havre Daily news PromoTeb Senate To Pass on Siriitli' Case Toda coolioge leaves behind mew UAA OAAAAL1A ase i ouay mL ftND NIRmi court Senators Sim its BROWNS ENTER Louis Jan 17 (AP) Re LIGHTNEXT POPULAR TKACHICR of can elected ward at the city that the stick to delay of exceeded was found a pistol and numerous cigarette stubs the latter indi cating that the couple may haVs talked for pome time before fhe shots were fired Minneapolis Jan 17 (AP) much wishy washy enforce of the prohibition law was the complaint of Andrew Volstead at a celebration of the eighth an niversary of prohibition last night am amazed at the way Waabf ington has treated the prohibi tion Mr Volstead said us stand by the law for it is a good law What is needed is public sentiment behind it The time has come when the saloon in terests must BL Jill LEET IB EBB UI1B EXERCISES Washington Jan 17 ive extra alarm fires sed with several minor a motion to have a entire or? each BYRD WILL START ON SOUTH POLE committee the $290000 bill until after Spirit of St Louis Ready for New light Selvig Asks High Tariff On arm Goods SCIENTIIC WE DEEM HOPS CJILLETJ'TD ATTENTION CBN RESS BACK TO GASTRONOMIC NORMALCY WITH YEAST British Air Ace and American Try or Endurance Mark 17 (AP) gastrono after an commun of TWO HELD OR USING MAIL TO DERAUD Joseph Stalin and The paper added that the was understood to have copy of his Washington Jan 17 (AP) called by the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul railroad continued their criticism before interstate commerce commission today of claims of operating econ omy put forward by proponents of thg merger of the Northern Paclf ic and Great Northern railroads The Milwaukee is opposing the program of its chief competitors to bring about the' Great North western consolidation Terminals in the Duluth area and the Rosebul coal fields in Montana wore the subject matter of most of testimony: San rancisco Jan 17 (AP) The trimotored okker mono plane of took off from Mills field at 8:09 a on another attempt to break the record for continuous flight The plane was piloted by Captain Charles Kingsford Smith British air ace and Lieut George Pond of the United States navy Washington Jan 17 (AP) Civil service examinations Members of the Havre Chamber of Commerce held their annual meeting last night and chose of ficers and directors for the cur rent year There was a large at tendance at the gathering which was held in the juvenile room Robert Lucke was chosen dent Leon McNicol vice dent Earl Bronson treasurer and Weaver Clack Koepke A Buttrey Runkel rank Elwell and rank! Merrill directors The meeting passed instructing the officers general meeting of the ganizatlon at least once month during the year Dr Somers'ret ring' pres ident presided at the meeting Talks were made by a large number of business men present complimenting the retiring offici als on the report and praising the work of the Cham ber of Commerce Washington Jan 17 (AP) The senate set out today to write finis to the case of Senator elect rank Smith of Illinois who after being denied the oath of of fice refused to submit himself to the jurisdiction of the slush fund committee or to avoil himself of theopportunity t0 be heard on the senate floor rom the Reed committee it re celved a report recommending that Smiths seat be declared va cant because during his primary campaign he accepted more thon $200000 from officials of nubile utilities corporation of Illinois Which were under the jurisdiction ot the Illinois commerce commis sion of which Smith then was chairman Consideration of a solution was begun almost immediately with senate leaders hopeful that a final vote could be had before the end of the day adoption was re garded as a foregone conclusion setting forth that contri DNKNOWN ANO UNTRIED TEAM BUSINESS LN PICK DDB LUCKE OR PRESIDENT COMMERCIAL CLUB Dispatches from Rome! on Jan 12 quoted the newspaper Brilli ants as saying that a condemna tion of Pope Pius for having the anti bolshevlst move ment with had arrived at the Vatican in the form of a registered letter from Moscow ad dressed directly to the Pontiff The document the paper said was signed by high personages of the orthodox synod and by Alexis Irkoff others Pontiff hshown to all the cardinals and then to have consigned it to the Vatican archives as a historical document SENATE BOARD SIDETRACKS TAX CUT BILL presi presi secretary EDISON TALKS POLITICS AND WAR DECLARE DEATH LETTER WAS MALIGNANT JOKE Bozeman Jan 17 (AP) Dorothy Youngman reported to have died in a suicide pact tu was a popular teacher in the Dozeman public schools for two years She same bore 1924 and was highly esteemed In 1926 she left to accept a teaching position in California She re turned hero for a visit In 1917 following a trip through Yellow stone park Continued on lest page) lint Mich Jan 17 (AP) Adolph Hotelling a 47 year old church deacon of Owosso Mich has confessed kidnaping slaying and dissecting the body of little Dorothy Schneider but why he did It is by his confession as in comprehensibMTto him as to the authorities Officers however had little time to ponder over motives last night because arrest was followed by such an outburst of public indignation that all the ingenuity of police was needed to save Hotelling from mob violence 'The lint jail was found no safe place for him a mob forming al most as soon as word of the ar rest spread Hotelling was taken secretly from the jail driven by motorcar under heavy guard to tho state capital Lansing and fi nally shortly after midnight to day locked in a cell at the state reformatory at Ionia No sooner had the cavalcade of state police and officers cleared the lint city limits with Ionia Mich Jan 17 (AP) Urging quick action by the state forestall any further attempt at mob violence Gov red Green today called representa tives of the attorney of fice into conference to determine the procedure in meting out punishment to Adolph Hotel ling confessed slayer of 5 year old Dorothy Schneider Gov Green expressed hope that Hotelling could be arraigned without being returned to Gene see county scene of the crime and taken to prison without de lay The prisoner snatched last night almost from the grasp of an infuriated mob of more than 10000 persons at lint spent the night in a quarantine ward of the Michigan reformatory here He added nothing to his previous confession made to state police soon after his arrest maintaining he did not know why he stabbed the child to death and then mutilated her who the had Mr will Moscow Jan 17 (AP) The soviet news agency Tass today stated that reports published in foreign countries that the Vatican had received notification of a "sentence of passed by the soviet government on Pope Pius and alleged to by Stalin is founded and regarded ignant The first glint of day crept ov over looking the Havana harbor as Mr Mrs Coolidge said adieu to their hosts in the Cuban na tional palace and started their homeward lourney The Mem phis left promptly for Key West where the president board a special train waiting his arrival there for the return trip to Washington One formal stop at Jacksonville has been scheduled for Wednesday morning Behind the president left Charles Evan Hughes and 1 the rest of the American delegation to the Pan American congress which $Ir Coolidge opened yes terday amid an inordinately friendly gesture from those heard the speech toward American executive who traveled far to deliver it Hughes and his colleagues represent the Washington govern ment in the conference which Is expected to last about six weeks Accompanying the president homeward were Secretary and Mrs Kellogg and Secretary and Mrs Wilbur The presidential party was due in Key West in the middle of the afternoon Mr Coolidge intended to be back at his desk Thursday morning olstead Complains of Wishy Washy Dry Law Enforcement Washington Jan 17 (AP( The senate finance voted to sidetrack 000 tax reduction March 15 An effort by mons of North Carolina ranking on the committee to obtain Immediate consideration of the measure was defeated by a strict party vote 11 to 9 with the republicans "'sticking bythe post ponement program Informed by Chairman Smoot that the republicans intend to de lay consideration of the tax bill until after March 15 when first tax returns of the year are due Senator Simmons declared will hear from us on this Democratic members of the committee were called for an early conference at which the North Carolina senator expects to map out a plan for carrying his fight to the floor for early con sideration of the tax bill Senator Smott expressed confi dence after the meeting republican majority will gether' on the floor for the bill which has far the! limitation on tax reduction proposed by the Chicago Jan 17 (AP) Com mander Richard Byrd announc cd today that he would leave Now York on his antarctic expedition next 10 Ho has purchased the ice ship for the trip The ves sel now Is at Tromso Norway nnd is being fitted up for an early trip to Now' York Tho explorer and nlrmnn clared lie hoped to return to tho United States fjom tho South Pole region in Juno 1 929 but added that conditions there might make it necessary for him to remain thore until June 1930 lie elaborated on his plans for tho antarctic expedition by saying that ho would take 100 dogs In stead of B0 first thought nocoB lonia Mich Jan 17 (AP) Adolh Hotelling confessed slayer of little Dorothy Schneider w3 taken from the Ionia reforma tory here this afternoon for sec ret arraignment somewhere in Genesee county (lint) where the slaying occurred last Thurs day It was planned to rush him back to the reformatory here Im mediately after the arraignment Gov red Green in announc ing this procedure predicted the slayer would be sentenced San Diego Calif Jan 17 (AP) The mightiest naval air fleet ever mobilized under any flag in times of peace will gather at San Diego in July and August to train for battel exercises which will be staged five months later'Tn the canal zone This was announced here today by fleet aviation auth orities Sixteen squadrons of fighting bombing torpedo and scouting planes from the battle fleet plus the giant aircraft carriers Sarato ga and Lexington the carrier Langley and tenders Aroostok and Gannet and a division of destroy ers are to participate in these ex tensive aerial exercises here and nt Panama UICHIBffl GBVEBNOB URGES QUICK ACTION BI STATE III MB'S TRIAL ED ORESTALL MB VIOLENCE Cl II I SERVICE EXAMS MUNDT BERBMED their prisoners last night than a mob of 10000 persons charged down upon the jail seeking to wrest Hotelling from the author ities The assault upon the jail was met by tear gas bombs hurled into the mob by guards Brickbats and a few gunshots were the answer The increasing strength of the attackers led to the calling cut of the national guard which succeeded in clearing the streets shortly after midnight Hotelling father of five child ren and an active worker in the Owosso Church of Christ is a car penter It was a fellow tip that led to the arrest Hotel ling had aroused suspicion by con stant discussion of the Schneider case and at one time said po lice were told that he could lay his hands on the slayer When officers went to his home Hotelling at first denied the charges He brolte down and con fessed the officers asserted after being identified by a farmer who had helped him extricate an auto mobile from a mud hole near the place where Dorothy body was found The automobile which was used for the kidnaping was found at the Hotelling place It had been freshly reainted Text of the confession was not made public but was to be turned over today to Prosecuting Attor ney Will Roberts here Highlights in the statement as given out were that Hotelling stopped the child while she was returning from kindergarten at Mr Morris near here Hotelling said he was in lint at the time looking for work "I don't know what came over the confession said "I was driving along and saw Dorothy I got her into the car thinking I would take her home She cried I drove her t0 the Sny der road (the muddy road In which his car became mired) and carried her part way across the field She still cried and wanted to go home She said she would tell her father so I pulled out my knife and stabbed her twice had been thinking night after night of the Hickman case turning over in my mind the de tails of that The possible bearing of the Hickman casewas disspelled later police said when Hotelling confes sed to similar attacks on children over a period of years Two of these attacks according to offici als occurred in Owosso One was on a two year old child and the other on an eight year old girl Hotelling's' acquaintances were thunderstruck at his arrest John Boyd Grand Raids attorney re called Hotelling as a modest farm boys the son of a pioneer Kalkas ka Mich settler Hotelling Boyd said worked on his farm until he reached manhood and then went into the construction business Nine years ago he moved to Owosso Owosso residents said Hotel outstanding characteristics was his apparent piety 5He was made a deacon of Christ Church here and took a leading part in the affairs of the pastorate Only Sunday he presided at communion at the church and after the services he was established as an elder Mrs Hotelling has steadfastly Refused to believe her' husband guilty She said that if he had confessed the statement had been wrung from him by torture Charles Harper was aiderman' of the second the regular meeting of council last night to fill a vacancy caused by the death of the! late red Wilbur He will serve until the city elec tion in April when an aiderman will'be chosen for the short term and other officials will be elected for the regular two year term Harper is one of the best known citizens of Havre is a prominent contractor1 and builder and stands high in business pro fessional ana social circles The mayor appointed a com mitteeV to draft resolutions of condolence to be sent to the wife of the late Aiderman Wilbur of Laura McIntyre Rogers for a cut in the interest on delinquent taxes was denied Mayor McKelvy was given a leave of absence to attend the auto show and attend to personal business in his old home in the east The report of the state exam iner was read Havana Jan 17 Cuba said bon voyage to President Coolidge today and sent him back to his country with the memory of the greatest acclaim ever paid in Havana to the visiting head of a foreign nation HA steamed out into the ocean on the cruiser Memphis bound for Key West having left a mes sage of good will and internation the first ever deliver ed in person 'by an American ex ecutive on Latin American shores Washington Jant 17 (AP) la flights such as those of Lind 1c flights suchas those of Lind bergh Chamberlin and others was called to the attention of congress today in the record of testimony accompanying the Independent of fflces appropriations bill reported by the house appropriations com mittee The measure which rovldes funds for the host of 'independent govornmentol commissions bu reaus and boards carries a total of $6261 93111 or $7716303 below that of last bill and 13 6 00 0 0 below the amount re quested by the budget bureau The national advisory commit tee for aeronautics was allotted $600000 an increase of $60000 over that provided in last bill Dr Joseph 8 Ames chairman ot the aeropoutics committee ort Myers la Jan 17 (AP) Thomas A Edison talked war and politics when newspa permen invaded his winter homo yesterday and flung varoigatod questions at the aged inventor ollowing his custom of reply ing with a stubby pencil to writ ten interogatlons Edison on one occasion wrote that the "Ameri can people will be a bunch ot saps If they elect Herbert Hoo 'veb and on another one can say when war willcome to He seemed principally concern ed about having his rubber exper iments here understood not trying to compete with foreign countries My experiments nro aimed at finding a plant pro lific enough to produce a rubber crop in 18 months In time Tt was then that ho said in an swer to a question that none with authority about next Asked how soon ho expected to find the rubber plnnt he sought he replied: fcSix or elh years it I am butions to primary con test totaled $58782 and that of this summ 203000 was donated by officjals of public utilities or ganizations the resolution said: and "Resolved that the accept ance and expenditure ot the vari ous sums aforesaid In behalf of the candidacy of the said rank Smith is contrary to sound public policy harmful to the dig nity and honor of the senate dan gerous to the perpetuity of free government and taints with fraud and co the credentials for a seat in the senate resented by the said rank Smith and be it further that the said rank Smith is not entitled to take the oath of office and is not en titled to membership In the senate of the United States and that a vacancy exists in the representa tion ofthe state of Illinois in the United States By declaring the seat vacant ft was the purpose of the senate to serve njice upon the authori ties of IlllnoiS'that the senate re garded the elections of Smith as vitiated and was ready to receive the credentials of a successor riends of Smith held how ever that the senate could not set aside the election and that Gov Small appoint a suc cessor unless Smith resigned It was stated that the senator elect had not intention of doing that and was reared to again present his credentials to the senate sit ting at the opening of the seven ty first congress In December 1929 St modeled and rejuvenated by re placements the St Louis Browns of the American League under the guiding hand of Manager Dan Howley will enter the race this season and untried and entirely: unknown quantity In the Junior circuit Gone from the ranks is George Staler 1926 manager and star first baseman Gone are Williams Gaston Rice Vangilder and several other veterans who last season performed in the spangles of the Browns In their places will be untried youngsters many of them new to the majors The task of replacing Slsler at first bAse at present stands be tween Lu Blue obtained in a trade with Detroit and Guy I Sturdy a'heavy hitter from Tulsa ot the Western League Otis Brannon and Oscar MelUlo will try for the keystone assignment while Ralph Kress and Walter Gerber the latter the only veter an infielder back are scheduled to patrol shortstop rank will be pressed hard by Billy Mullen for the opportunityto hold down the hot corner at third At present Heino Mnnush r' I McNeely and ritz Schulte nrr 1 ha only outfielders on the but the addition ot another be fore spring season around expected Sturdy should he bo crowded off of fir 1 by Blue Is a llkejy Candida's to the outer garden The team should be strong be hind tho bat with three good re ceivers on the list Stove Walllo Schang and Clyde Manion 1 grace the list of backstops HOUSE TABLES TARI BILL ON REVISION DERATES I (AP) Intersper ones anl a few false ones thre'w the na tional capital into state of tun moil last night find early today and led the police to believe fire bugs were at work The blazes the first of which began shortly before midnight continued until after nine this morning bringing appamus from many nearby Virginia and Marylad towns to aid an exhaust ed Washington crew and starting a wide search for suspects believ ed to have deliberately set fire to the places and to have turned in false alarms to divert the fire fighters The first man taken in the hunt was a temporary psychopathic pa tient at Walter Reed hospital He gave the name of John Jacob isher 29 On his person found a fire badge ot the town of allsburgh He wae held fpr Investigation isher was arrested after three men said they had observed him acting suspiciously at a fire box in the Eckington section where a grain elevator was burned at ourth and streets northwest Washington Jan 17 (AP) By a vote of 183 to 164 the house today tabled a senate reso lution proposing a downward re vision of the tariff This action taken" at the In stance of Representative Tilson of Connecticut republican leader of the house has the effect of vir tually killing the measure inas much as a vote to reconsider the tariff question the western republican independent group have nade It clear however that some move against the tariff was to be expected in the house at this session Representative Garrett ot Ten nessee democratic floor leader vigorously opposed action Tho resolution approved yetser day by a coalition of senate dem ocrats and republican independ ents was transmitted to tho house ns an cxpf essiop ot senate senti ment The house alone has au thority to Initiate tariff legisla tion' gave tho house committee a lengthy review of aircraft devel opment in the last 12 months year 1927 was notable in demonstrating tho capabilities of he said transoce anic flights ot Lindbergh and others led to the awakening of the American people to the possibili ties of aviation and to the need of airports "Industrial capital was invested In' aeronautical enterprises The essential activities of the deport ment ofcommorco in establishing airways and In regulating and en couraging 'commercial aviation Wore factors In this development The success ofthe army and navy In developing and standardizing military types facilitated the pro curement pt aircraft and thia with the support ot the year aircraft programs toy the twq services M'NARY HAUCEN BILL AGAIN UP BEORE' HOUSE 1 ARM BOAHII BEEB COMMITTEE RECOMMEND THAT SEAT BE DECLARED VACANT BECAUSE ACCEPTANCE BE MOBE THAN S20D00B OR HIS MMPH CHARLES HARPER NWED AIDERMAN ROM SECOND IH Railroad Officials Continue Criticism of Big Ril Merger IRES STARTLE WASHINGTON CBPS BELIEIE BUGSATWDHK have been totally un as a "mal Washington Jan' 17 (AP) The MoNary Haugen bill took familiar position today as the bus iness before the house agriculture committee This farm relief measure a fighting Issue in both houses of congress differs in two respects from the one vetoed by PresidentCoolidge last sessipn It now would giy ethe president blanket power in naming the fed eral board end its relief provi sions wotELbe applicable to all ag ricultural products TJefore heading into the big farm relief subject the committeeacted favorably on the Capper Ketcham bill authorizing an ap propriation of $960000 for farm extension and economic work In addition the bill would authorize $500000 for the second year that the act is in force Representative Ketchum republican Michigan was authorized to re introduce his bill as amended with the assur Tance that it would be reported favorably by the committee UrbUUU WILL ninu INILHIHUIIftL AMITY GBEATEST DECLAIM EVER GIVEN VISITING HEAD OREIGN NATION GIVEN COOLIDGE BV CUBA Panama City Jan 17 (AP) The Spirit of St Louis was ready today to carry Col Charles A Lindbergh to now adventures but the lone eagle was some 200 miles from here A telegram to La Estrella De Panama said that Lindbergh would return to rance field in the canal zone Thursday Tho data of his hopoff on the 1000 mile nonstop flight to Caracas Venov uela jtlU UiuhtormtlHl Washington Jan 17 (AP)' A plea for higher tariff protec tion for American agricultural products was mado by Represent ative Selvig Republican Minneso ta In an address prepared for de livery today 'in the house The Minnesotan has introduced a bill Increasing the tariff rate on more than Moore of dairy UvijstQok aaa farm pronto Indianapolis Ind Jan 17 (AP) Otis 'J Briggs and' the Rev Charles Gunsolus both of Indianapolis Indicted by a fed eral grand jury in Washington for using the malls to de conpectlon with alleged were under ar rest today TWO OUND DEAD IN AUTD SUICIDE COMPACT IS RESPONSIBLE SAY COPS Los Angeles Jan 17 (AP) The "bodies of Gerald 28 reputed wealthy Pasadena resi dent and Dorothy Youngman be lieved to have resided in Boze rfiann Mont and St Paul Minn were found clasped in each arms bullet holes In their heads in an automobile at Irwindale near here today A letter indicated a suicide campact: Police investigation revealed that Keck was the son of tho late Orlando Keck wealthy grain In vestor operator of Rock Rapids Iowa The elder Keck died in Pus edona during the past year The bodies wore discovered bv A ollette an electric light company employe when io stop ped to investigate the parked car Deputy Sheriffs Claude Peters and Walter Hunter said tho pair had apparently been dead nevoral hours Qn tho nSor of the oar TTav Woof TTla Tan 17 (AP) President Coolidge landed on er historic castle American soil again today from his Havana crossing on the cruis er Memphis The ship docked at 150 for prohibition enforcement workers cannot be framed with a view to perpetuating the tenure of incum bents in the service the civil service commission said today in outlining the status of the situ ation which resulted In wholesale flunking by employes of tho dry organization Declaring the under thelaw must be competitive the commission said such oxamin ations could not be set aside un less there was fraud or Irregulari ty COnneted with them nnd nn such charge had been made fraud in co against tne prohibition oramlna dlnlnmn L1UU fllPA DlhC RAM VnVAfJ TA DDC fAAIinC I HIM Illi 11 1 II 111 III Mill III I 111 1 I 111 VI vUIii LfIKlJ Izvll TVinUL I I IlLLJa Vv Orofino Idaho Jan Orofino was back to mlc normalcy today aviator had circled the Ity and dropped 40 pounds yeast thereby saving it from be ing a breadless city Cut off from rail and highway i communication since last Thurs day because of floods Orofino I which has 1000 inhabitants sud deniy found itself with no yeast and only one loaf of bread A Spokane aviator arrived over the town yesterday and delivered the necessary yeast Last night was devoted largely to baking bread AN.