The Missoulian from Missoula, Montana • 1

THE DAILY MI OUL FORECAST Fair Tuesday; Wednesday fair East, unsettled West portion; little change in temperature. OBSERVATIONS Mamimura 45 Minimum. 32 At 7 a. m. 35 At 6 p.

39 At 12 o'clock midnight 34 AN MISSOULA, MONTANA, TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 14, 1933. PRICE FIVE CENTS VOL. LIX. NO. 318.

NTANA SENATOR Beer Measure Passage Before End of Week, Forecast of Leaders Renewal of Confidence Manifested by Crowds at Deposit Windows Confidence Renewed RELIEF FORCES SHOW SPEED Lewis Declares on Return to Capital DRAFTING OF BILL STARTED rN FEW HOURS APPOINTED IT COONEY AFTER RESIGNATION mm FORMER GOVERNOR OF MONTANA AND HIS SUCCESSOR TO POST SWING OPEN IN CITIES Loses Decision on Technicality; Buys Lunch for Opponent 1 WHEN Washington, March 13. (4s) President Roosevelt was (old today by Senator Lewis, Democrat, Illinois, upon his return from the Middle West that there has been a "general revival of hope the greatest revival of spirit since 1928." "I have never seen in my political said Senator Lewis, "such a quick transformation from discouragement to encouragement, from despair to hope. "The efforts to do something have created an atmosphere of new confidence that prevails all through the West." MADE Former Montana Chief Executive Will Succeed Late T. J. Walsh in Upper; House at Washington, Preparations Are Made in Smaller Centers to Join Procession Today, Others on Wednesday.

BUSINESS QUICKLY REACTS TO CHANGE Expected to Be Reported To House This Morning Where Overwhelming Majority Is Predicted. PRESIDENTS SHORT MESSAGE A SURPRISE Contains 72 Words. Imme 1 I 1 jt I NEW GOVERNOR IS I Kansas City. March 13. OP) Elmer N.

Powell, attorney, and his friend, Edward D. Ellison, dean of the Kansas city school of law, wagered a luncheon on the outcome of a test of the power of suggestion, "We will gaie at an upper story hotel window for 15 minutes, and if a crowd of at least IS persons assembles, you buy the lunch," the dean proposed. The test was made. To the amazement of the attorneys a crowd of 1,500 persons assembled. Along- with the crowd came dashing fire apparatus.

Flames darted from the very window under scrutiny. Lawyer Powell paid for the luncheon but he contends Dean Ellison won on a technicality. Damage Total Now Estimated at $75,000,000. Number of Lives Lost Put Officially at 115. TWO MORE SHOCKS FRIGHTEN PEOPLE 0 Gil II 1 DOLLAR American Dollar Moves Up At London.

Gold Flows Back to Reserve Banks In Growing Stream. By The Associated Press. Banks in some 250 clearing house cities fall in line today, reopening for business as did the majority of banks in 12 Federal Reserve diate Action Deemed by Chief Executive to Be of Much Importance. BY CECIL DICKSON. Associated Press Staff Writer.

Washington, March 13. P) Final congressional action to legalize and tax beer before the week-end was HOT DETER ORATED ORDER Foreign Exchange Quotations "Czar" ThousandsAbandon Homes For Open Spaces. Situation Well in Hand, Report of Officials. Los Angeles March 13. (VP) Disturbed by only two more distinct earthquakes in a series now totaling 38, relief and rehabilitation work proceeded swiftly to centers yesterday.

BROADCASTS Most banks in Reserve cities went back to business on an unrestricted basis yesterday. Crowds at the de Senator John E. Erickson, formerly governor. Governor Frank H. Cooney, sworn in Monday.

predicted tonight by Democratic Senate and House chieftains following President Roosevelt's sudden request to Congress for immediate modification of the Volstead law. posit windows manifested renewal of PREPARED BEING confidence. Reports from the, 12 Federal Reserve central cities were that bank SUCCESS OF BQOSEV ELT ECONOMY BILL deposits had far exceeded withdraw. day in Southern California, where more than 100 persons losC their lives as a re Machinery for complying was set Judge Announces He Will als, bolstering the revitalized flow of into motion by House leaders within credit through business channels. MISSOULA RESIDENT Takes Over Office at 5:37 P.

M. and Signs Erickson Appointment as First Official Action. Helena, March 13. P) Governor John E. Erickson resigned late today to become the successor to the late Thomas J.

Walsh In the United States Senate. Frank H. Cooney, lieutenant governor, became the chief executive of Montana. The governor resigned at p. m.

and Lieutenant Governor Cooney was sworn In immediately as chief executive. Mr. Cooney became governor at 5:37 p. m. and retired to the governor's private chamber and signed the apiwintment of his predecessor as United States The apiwintment of the new senator was filed at .5:43 p.

11 minutes after the resignation took effect. A large crowd had gathered in the lobby of the Capitol a short time before the announcement ot the action was made. First Official Act, Mr. Cooney was in the governor's outer chamber at that time and fl members of the Supreme Court were present, with Chief Justice L. L.

Callaway wearing his robes of office. There, with perhaps a hundred state officials and employes as witnesses, Justice Callaway administered the oath to Governor Cooney, who received congratulations and, as Governor Erickson emerged from the door of his inner office, stepped toward him with the greeting: "My first official act will bi the appointment of the most popular man in Montana as United States NDICATED BY A TESTVOT IN SENATE Sign Document in Sioux Falls. sult of the first shock Friday night.4 a few hours after the President's 72-word message was read in both chambers to the applause and cheers Some Chicago banks had to furnish extra facilities for handling new ac counts. The Red Cross tonight made a list of 2,000 persons injurfd in Banks in smaller communities Sioux Falls, S. March 13.

of the members. The chief exec utive said: The Message. sped preparations to open as fast various degrees, less than half se riously, at Long Beach. Watches Trading. BY HIRAM HERTELL.

New York, March 13. (A) Under the watchful eye of a newly appointed "czar" the American dollar was accorded a vote of confidence when foreign exchange transactions were resumed today after an eight-day suspension. With a large staff at his disposal in quarters hastily arranged over the week-end by the Federal Reserve bank, Fred I. Kent, designated dictator of foreign exchange, put' in a busy day. Choice No Surprise.

Mr. Kent's choice was no surprise to Wall Street leaders who recalled his duties during the war when he functioned in a similar capacity. He is considered one of the outstanding authorities in the country in the intricate details of exchange dealings. The most: striking manifestation of the dollar's position was shown in London and Paris, with business mainly of a speculative nature. Shorts runhed to cover when they realized that the United States would not abandon the gold An order enjoining the Sioux Falls Broadcasting association from as Federal Reserve and state bank "I recommend to the Congress the Damage for the entire quake area, Washington, March 13.

fT) The Roosevelt economy bill strode triumphantly through a tempestuous debate today to its first Senate test, a preliminary vote which showed a preponderant sentiment for the measure. Twenty Republicans joined using Associated Press news in its passage of legislation for the imme broadcasts was being drawn late to resulting almost entirely from the first shock, was boosted to an esti diate modification of the Volstead officials could issue authority. Business Grows. Crowded streets, throngs of shoppers and expanded newspaper ad act, in order to legalize the manu day after Judge James D. Elliott in Federal district court here an mated $75,000,000 today.

40 Democrats to keep the bill under From best official sources, the facture and sale of beer and other beverages of such alcoholic content which President Roosevelt would be vertising in the larger centers of population showed business on the death list was placed tonight at 115, The other victims are divided among Compton and Huntington as is permissable under the Constitution; provide through such manufacture and sale, by substantial taxes, a proper and much needed Park, next heaviest sufferers to $125,000,000 and $150,000,000, the administration hopes by these savings to balance the budget within a year. Denouncing the economy bill, Senator Robinson, Republican, Indiana, said its passage would be "signing the dispossess warrant that will throw a million families out of their homes, with more ruthlessness than has ever been exhibited In the history of mankind." Long Beach, and Watts, Santa Ana, Santa Monica, San Pedro, Garden revenue for the government. (Continued on Page 3, Column 5). Grove, Pacoima, Norwalk, Artesia Bellflower, Wilmington, Montcbcllo, NEW UNIVERSITY nounced he would sign the injunction. The announcement came following arguments in the case of the Associated Press against the Sioux Falls Broadcasting association, in which the Associated Press asked that the association be restrained from unauthorized use of its news dispatches.

The hearing today followed filing of a suit on February 25, in which the Associated Press asked that the association, operating station KSOO here be restrained from broadcasting its news without permission. A temporary restraining order was granted at that time pending final decision. The broadcasting firm in an affidavit filed In answer to the suit Los Angeles, and others. More Injuries, A sharp quake at 5:16 o'clock this He conceded that he did not be lieve hi speech would change a given unprecedented power to make economies, from being sentenced to a quiet slumber In a committee pigeon-hole. The vote of 60 to 20 tabled a motion by Senator McCarren, Democrat, Nevada, that the measure be recommitted for a study of its constitutionality.

Caucus Today. Although positive the measure will pass, and by a wide margin, Senator Robinson, the Democratic leader, tonight announced a party caucus on the bill for tomorrow. With two-thirds of the party membership present, a majority vote can bind all Senate Democrats to support the measure, except those who have made previous adverse commitments to constituents. A little earlier, Robinson discussed the legislative program with Presi morning caused minor injuries to vote. BUDGET PRE five persons in the southern part of Los Angeles and one In Lynwood.

Another fairly strong tremor, the thirty-eighth, came at 11:30 a. m. The situation tonight seemed to upward trend. Quotations in the American dollar were resumed on money markets, opening at $3.43 to the pound sterling at London, a cent higher than before the bank holiday. Fred I.

Kent, New York banker, was reappointed to his wartime post of foreign exchange "dictator" for control of dollar exchange at New York. The Chicago Board of Trade dicated it might reopen futures trading Friday. Some banks were opened on a limited basis. Gold Returned. Tons of gold flowed in a 'growing stream Into the Federal Reserve banks.

Secretary of the Treasury Woodin said the people had responded "with common sense" to the government's first step toward financial reconstruction. Senator Robinson of Arkansas proposed to authorize direct loans from Federal Reserve banks to state banks and trust companies for one year. senator." AT HELENA MEET Estimated Savings Under Economy Bill be "well in hand," thanks to efforts of police, Red Cross, Salvation Army, Marines and sailors from navy vessels offshore, the national guard and charged the Associated Press with Quotations Good. London began dealing in dollars with an opening bid of $3.44 2-3, a rise of approximately one cent, as compared with the quotations at the close of business on March 3. Prices fluctuated between about $3.40 and $3.45 all day, with the close at $3.42.

Francs were quoted at 3.92 2 to 3.95 cents and the final quotation for the day of 3.92 cents compared with a closing of 3.94 on March 3. This can only mean, said foreign exchange experts here, that the dollar has overcome its crisis through the courageous and prompt financial program of President Roosevelt. Any belief that the United States was doomed to a period of wild inflation is thus checked, at least for the time being, accordng to a cross section of Wall Street opinion "unfair competition," with maintaining "a practical monopoly" and several other agencies. With his predecessor, Governor Cooney retired to the private office, where he attached his signature to the prepared document and Private Secretary Aiken filed it with the secretary of state, 11 minutes after he had submitted Governor Erlck-son's resignation. Mass of Bills.

The crowd quickly disappeared. with "unreasonable restraint of in terstate commerce In violation of the Sherman act." Use of Associ dent Roosevelt and told him the economy bill would be passed by the Senate. Abandon Homes. Alarmed by recurring thousands of persons have temporarily abandoned their homes in ated Press dispatches was not The day's fiery debute marked Governor Cooney and Senator Erick The Associated Press denied the by spirited personal clashes. McCarren became involved in a heated Long Beach, for open spaces They are being eared for adequately, official reports said.

son remained for a few moments, allegations. The KSOO operators discussing the procedure for com exchange with Glass of Virginia at said their station should not be Colonel C. Wyman, In charge pleting consideration of 101 bills one point. barred from using such news while other stations "owned, controlled, of food relief, said agencies under his control fed 80,000 persons today. still remaining of the mass of new legislation left by the state legisla Few Against Move.

Only 11 Democrats and 9 Repub leased, operated or otherwise affili Under direction of Mayor Richard ated with newspapers" were per mitted to broadcast such dispatches. G. Schultz, a "clean-up" of Huntington Park started in earnest icday, preparatory to reconstruction. licans voted against ttie tabling motion made by Chairman Harrison of thn Finance committee, to defeat McCarrcn's and a few of these said they did so mfrely because Squads of men recruited 'rom un Washington, Manh 13. (yp) -Although President Roosevelt lias not committed himself to details as to how savings from veterans' cost would be effected under the economy bill, some meMhcrs of Congress have been given a compilation showing directions that might be taken and amount estimated to be saved.

One such placing the total io be saved at $383,530,000, follows: K'stimated annual savingn: 1 Eliminate pensions to remarried widows, (a) Civil war and Indian wars, (b) Spanish war, $378,000. 2 Itestriet hospitalization and domiciliary cane: (a I income provision)! on non-tervlee connected rases, 3 ftcduoe benefits to $20 for single men hospitalized or domiciled, $5,370,000. 4 Kmergrney officers retirement act restrleted to causative factor rases, $3,388,000. 5 One rating table, five rales, $10, $25, $50, $75, $100 average impairment, $40,000,000. Eliminate term-insurance claims, $15,000,000.

7 Eliminate disability allowance, $101,652,000. (Continued on Page 6, Column 8.) Grain Exchange to NEWSPAPERMAN DIES. Winsted. March 13. (A Louis E.

Stone, the newspaperman who made Winsted's Freaks of Nature famous throughout the country, died today at the age of 57. The originator of the "Winsted Wild Man," of 1895; the man who made famous the story of the hen that laid an egg on the pilot of a employed razed tottering structures and removed brick and ma.onry such a dra.stie and infrequently used (unjamcniary tactic permitted no Be Opened Friday from the streets. debute. At Compton, the city council dis STATE BANKS. Washington, March 13.

(Secretary Woodin in a statement tonight announced state banks could obtain currency to meet tTieir needs under the emergency banking act from Federal Reserve banks and the Reconstruction corporation. The secretary's statement follows: "Responding to inquiries today as to what facilities are available for enabling state banks which are not members of the Federal Reserve system to obtain currency to meet their needs, Secretary of the Treasury Woodin calls attention to the statement of the President', in his radio talk on March 12, that 'these banks can and will receive assistance Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) The. floor debate benan after the Chicago, March 13. (P) Indica cussed plans for rebuilding the city, while scores of men were busy removing debris. Republicans in a forenoon party conference had discussed it and developed a "substantial maloiltv" ture which adjourned two weeks ago.

Governor Cooney has until March 17 to act on these measures. There being no lieutenant governor, Senator Robert Pauline of Flathead, a Republican, comes next In line after the governor, by virtue of his office as president pro tern ad Interim of the Montana Senate. Governor Cooney said he contemplates no change in his staff at the Capitol. Senator Erickson plans to use the staff at Washington who assisted the late Senator Walsh. Chosen to Third Term.

Senator Erickson last November was accorded the unique honor of election to a third successive term as the state's chief executive and began his ninth year on January 1. As a resident of Kallspell, the for-(Continucd on Page 3, Column 1.) tions tonight are that all will be speeding train in 1911; whose yarns shipshape for the Chicago Board of Colonel W. A. McCord of the One included those of the cat with the hair lip that whistled Yankee Doo fentlment to support the Pres'dent. Trade and other grain exchanges to Hundred and Sixty-third infantry reserve, U.

S. whose troops have dle, and the cow that was so cold Twenty-six of the 35 member? of the minority tended and Senator resume business as usual Friday morning. one winter day that she gave ice been in practical charge of the city, McNary of Oregon, their leader, pre A definite decision regarding the said it has an ample food supply and dicted mast of these would Join cream, was treasurer and general manager of the Citizens' Publishing company and managing editor of Salary Cuts Ranging Up To 20 Per Cent to Be Made. Helena, March 13. OP) Salary cuts ranging as high as 20 per cent were agreed upon today by members of the executive council of the Greater University of Montana to bring budgets within the $700,000 annual allotment made by the last legislature.

In announcing this decision, Chancellor Brannon said no departments would be eliminated. An additional saving will be effected through the expiration of some one-year contracts held by faculty members who plan to do graduate work at the close of the school year. Their posts will left vacant, the chancellor said. The budgets, as revised today, will be presented to the State Board of Education for its approval at its April 3 meeting. Presidents of the six units and extension service left tonight to work out details of the proposed salary reductions.

In addition to the appropriation by the legislature, the units and associated agencies receive approximately $600,000 fu earnings, which include fees and receipts from land grants. The distribution of these earnings is as follows: University, College experiment stations, $124 390; extension service, School of Mines, Normal College, (part of whirr: goes to Eastern Montana Normal Eastern Montana Normal, Northern Montana College, $10,500. The following sums were fixed by the legislature for salaries: University, $179 655: College, Mines, Bureau of Mines, Normal College, Eastern Montana Normal, $31 955; Northern Montana College, $23 732; experiment station, extension service, $30 052. Chancellor Biannon also announced that after this school year the system of awarding honorary high school scholarships will be sharply modified. subject probably will be reached late (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) Democratic advocates.

Wednesday in time to give a full 24 the winsted Evening Citizen. Leaders felt the final vote might hours' notice to everybody con Reduced Assessment not muster as many as 60 ayes, but they expressed a belief that tixiay's roll call was a "fair indication' of the ultimate lineup. cerned. The idea is that banking conditions on Wednesday will be adequate to furnish grain traders here and elsewhere ample basis for a good start. STATE VETERINARIAN SPEAKS TO DAIRYMEN henator Borah, Republican.

Idaho. Values Outlined hy Equalization Board Helena, March 13. A) A sched said he believed some "vpry serious SPARROW NEW FOE POPE CALLS FOR PRAYER FOR CONFERENCE SUCCESS legal propositions" were involved in the measure, but was against send OF STATE STOCKMEN ule of reduced assessment values Glasgow, March 13. G45) Wool- ing it to committee. However, like some others, ne voted against the tabling motion because It allowed no debate.

growers of the Hinsdale section are at grips with a new foe the common sparrow. Senator Harrison, Democrat. Massachusetts, argued for the grant Wheat bundles pitched out a feed for cattle, based on suggestions, has been recommended to county assessors by the State Board of Equalization. The reductions are as follow: Purebred, from 155 a head in 1932 t'o $50 in 1633; coming from $17 to $15: comintr two-vear-olris. of extraordinary power to the Presi for sheep are attracting thousands of the birds.

The sparrows make a serious dent in the rations of the woollies. It won't go on, say the dent to cut veterans' costs and Federal salaries on the ground that it would warn the world "that this government's credit is going to be preserved." Dr. W. J. Butler, state veterinarian, addressed 100 dairymen and milk dealers of Missoula at a meeting at the courthouse Monday night, when the proposed new ordinance governing distribution of mi)k in the city was discussed.

Mayor W. H. Beacon and Councilmen Lloyd A. Hague and Ira Johnston were present. Dr.

Butler explained to the dairyman that Bangs' disease, found in dairy cattle here, was not a local disease. He said that Missoula dinrict was probably better off than other sections of the country. Dr. Butler ureed pa.sturization of milk and recited that many of the Important Cities of the country re quire that the milk distributed In them shall be pasteurized. He said it would not make bad milk good, but that pasteurization would make proper milk safe.

Captain M. Y. Tupper of Fort Missoula explained that the government regulatioas for milk for the military posts call for pasteurization. Dr. F.

D. Pease, health officer, explained that the proposed ordinance, would comply with regulations of the government, the United St'ates Public Health Service and with the state laws. Discussion was also carried on regarding establishment of a centralization cooperative plant for the pasteurization of milk. sheepmen. from $23, to $20; coming three-year- under the headings of Joys and sorrows, the pope said that there was a desperate pattern in the "critical international situation" of the "stained and devastated earth." He dwelt on the possibility that wars and the economic crisis were caused by war on God, and as Instances of war on God he cited Russia, Spain, Mexico and portions of Central Europe.

The pontiff, wearing a white cassock, a red mantle fringed with ermine and a skull cap, addressed the cardinals attending the consistory from a crimson-gold thron chair. Vatican City, March 13. (A) An Invitation to the world to pray for the success of the economic, disarmament and war debt conferences was Issued today by Pope Plus XI in his allocution at a consistory at' which he created six new cardinals. The pope said that he would himself pray every day for "Concord uixin the conferences and conversations to take place precisely during this Holy Year for world economic readjustment, for disarmament may It be effective materially and morally and for war debts." Summing up world developments Savings In Millions. He placed the savings to be made old steers and stock bulls, from $38 to $35; stock and range cows, three years old and over, from $25 to $21; dairy cows, from $t0 to $35.

STAFFORD REAPPOINTED. Helena, March 13. Shortly in veterans' expenditures at before he resigned to become United 000,000 and in salary cuts at up to a hundred million. Along with the States senator. Governor John E.

Assessment values for sheep remain unchanged. They are: Purebred. $3 a head; stock rams, comine one-vear-olds. 12: eominir Erickson late today reappointed A. H.

Stafford state commissioner of revenue to be derived from the beer bill recommended today by the President, estimated at between agriculture. two, three and four-year-olds, $3..