The Billings Gazette from Billings, Montana • 1

GAZET JL EARLY MORNING EDITION VOL. XXXVII NO. 53. MONTANA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1924. PRICE FIVE CENTS US7U BILLINGS WW.

JLL mm A Fo) fo) Fc3 fed i Irh ic Carry acners or Re Election ai LIMIT PLACED ON NEW: IS5I0FB0NDS erman n7 r3 lijjj tMllLLSP i MiRf it 'i Big Oversubscription Government Twenty- Year Loan Indicated at Treasury. Washington, Dec. 6. With proportionately, the greatest oversubscription ever ed a federal security issue indicated for the recently-announced 20- to 3(T-year bond offering, the treasury decided Saturday night to decline to accept all subscriptions in ex- cess of $10,000. The decision means that the "widest distribution possible lias been obtained the new issue from which the treasury desired to realize only about in cash.

It will continue until further notice accept all subscrip tions ill which third liberty loan 4'i per cent bonds. treasury notes and treasury certificates maturing next larch are tendered in payment. Announcing that there was many times more cash subscriptions than were necessary to produce the required the treasury said it would place no restrictions on the sale to purchasers of bonds in the amount of $1,000 or less. It will sell to subscribers who sought between $1,000 and $10,000 of the bonds only 65 per cent of the amount they asked for except that all who subscribed for amounts lees than $10,000 will be allotted a minimum bf $1,000. While treasury officials said they had chosen what they regarded as the only I just course in view of the unusual de mand for the new securities, they never theless foresaw trouble ahead.

Hun- ch-eds of bankers have Bent in subscrip tions ranging from $10,000 to upwards Nels M. and Mrs. Anna Anderson Victims of Brutal Saturday Night Crime; Failure to Appear at Home Results in Discovery of Dual Tragedy Sunday Afternoon; Slain When About to Leave Minnesota Avenue Place of Business for Night in Auto. The murder of Mr. and Mrs.

Nels M. Anderson at their barber shop and marcel parlor at 2911 Minnesota avenue was discovered Sunday afternoon, when police went to the' place to investigate their failure to return Their heads were split wide open with an ax. Mrs. Anderson, with hat and fur coat on was found lying in a shed in the rear of the shop, the ax with which the murder was committed, by her side. Anderson was sitting in a barber chair with his overcoat and one glove on, the other lying on the floor.

The woman apparently had been killed in the marcel parlor, as there was blood over the place and on a quantity of groceries she had bought to take home, and had then been dragged into the shed. Other phases of the crime indicate that they had been killed when about to leave Saturday night to go home, after closing the shop. Sunday afternoon a sister of Mrs. Anderson grew worried over their failure to come home to their four children. She of with the view, it is ex PUS POLICE Russia Communists Are Rounded Up for Deportation; Revolt Is Nipped in the Bud.

Paris, Dec. 6. (P) Complete success in putting a stop to the communist agitation to-ward revolution was acclaimed by the government Saturday night, and Minister of Interior Chautemps, su preme head of the French police, was able to express entire satisfaction with the manner in which his men "nipped the action in the bud." Reticence is shown by communist headquarters. The communists do not acknowledge defeat, but say the action has been merely postponed. The official party organ published an appeal Saturday night for communists to hold themselves in readiness for any eventuality.

To the neutral observer It appears that the government scored heavily against the extremists first, by rounding up more than 300 communists of all nationalities, more than 70 of whom, foreigners, will be expelled, and. second, by preventing the communist manifestation announced as a protest against these arrests and expulsions. Feared Prison Communists propaganda, however, has gathered such headway and the organization has been perfected to such a point that students of social and political conditions in France express the opinion that the government must continue severe repressive measure if it hopes to annihilate the revolutionary movement. The communists point to the removal of Jacques Sadoul from the Paris military prison to a jail at Orleans as due tc fear that the Paris prison would be rushed and Sadoul delivered. The official reason given by the ministry of var was that since Sadoul belonged to the one hundred and sixty-eixth infantry regiment, whose headquarters are in Nlevre.

department of Orleans, the Orleans court-martial alone is competent to re-try Sadoul. The original trial in which the former army captain was convicted by default on a charge of treason in 1919 took place before a Paris court-martial. 1 Documents Show Couo Planned. In their raid on the soviet headquarters at Bobigny, the police claim to have seized documents purporting to show that the communists were preparing to attempt an armed coup against Paris in the course of next week. The magnitude of the police operations, whichwere not confined to Paris and Its suburbs, but extended throughout France, was shown when it became known that 20 police commissioners at the head of between 600 and 700 men were engaged.

Many of them searched in distant suburbs for hidden stores of arms and ammunition, the existence of vhich had been called to their attention. Frenchmen Freed. Foreigners alone were held In jail Saturday night, the Frenchmen arrested being allowed to depart after their names aid addresses were registered. The dragnet thus far has failed to catch a single Kussian. Irfonld Krasstn.

the soviet representative, is reported to have told Premier Herriot in the course of a conference Saturday morning that the soviet embassy had absolutely no connection with the present agitation; that the soviet diplomatic mission would carefully refrain from mixing In any way in France's internal affairs. GOPE IMPROVE. Chicago. Dec. 6.

Howard M. C.oie. United States secretary of agriculture, showed improvement Saturday at St. Luke's: hospital where he is confined with bronchitis. MID BEDS MID JAIL HUNDREDS ID REDS Socialists, 1 r.i a 1 and Democrats Win Coalition.

Victory; 7 Chancellors Back. Berlin, Dec. 7. P) An extraordinary increase in the vote of the socialist party over that of last May, consistent gains by the democrats and the politi cal obliteration of General Ludendorff's chauvinisticanti-semitic party are the outstanding features of the general elections held Sunday for the return cf members of the reichstag and the Prussian diet. This is evidenced by the partial returns received at government' headquarters up to midnight.

While definite deductions regarding the relative ultimate strength of the eight contending major parties are as yet impossible, the present returns taken as averages indicate that the socialists will enter the new reichstag as the strongest party. The irregular gains were made chiefly at the cost of the communists. The democrats ran exceptionally well in the metropolitan districts, in aJl probability will elect 40 deputies as against 3S last May. Voting in the general elections, which was somewhat sluggish in the morning, took a sudden spurt in thb afternoon, bringing the participation in Berlin to 80 per cent of the qualified voters. For the whole country, those casting ballots are estimated at from 70 to 80 per cent.

Early returns indicate socialist and democratic" gains in Berlin and other metropolitan areas, notably Saxony and the Ruhr region. Seven former chancellors were re-elected. The socialists returned Seheldemann. Mueller and Bauer, the clericals Fehrenback. Wirth anu Marx, and the people's' partlV-Strese-mann.

The German nationalists re-elected Admiral von Tirpitz, Prince Otto von Bismarck, Count Westarp and Oscar Hergt. General Ludendorff, Albrecht von Graefe and Count von Ueventlow survived the collapse of the German fascisti and again will afford the liberal parties a target for parliamentary jibes. Ruth Fischer and Clara Zetkin were among the communists elected. The clerical party's vote shows only a slight variation as compared with the figures in the last election and Chancellor Marx' party will be returned with an increase of five mandates. The German nationalists appear to have annexed the defections from Lu-dendorff's party, but they have also lost votes to the German people's party.

The nationalists probably will be the second strongest party in the reichstag. If the socialists, clericals and democrats-maintain the ratio reflected in the early returns they will command suf-ficcnt mandates to constitute a new 'government coalition. Out of a vote of 1.100.000 representing incomplete from 12 cities, the socialists captured more than 400,000. the democrats 100.000 the clericals the 'peoples party 173,000. the nationalists 164,000 and the communists lOO.OOff.

Up to midnight. Ludendorffs fascisti party had failed to qualify for a single mandate in any one of the electoral precincts thus far reported. Its losses in Bavoria were a startling Texture of the voting there, and it is apparent that the electorate was seeking vengeance on the Ludendorff-Hitler faction for its attack on the church and its quarrel with I'rince Ruprecht. Until the rural returns are received, no estimate of the ultimate (strength of the German nationalists will be possible, as their strongholds are in the Prussian agarian sectors. Fall River Mills To Go on Full Time Fall River.

Dec. 6. Announcement was made Saturday by the Fall River Cotton Manufacturers association tnat an out five or the cotton ru.iis of the city will reopen- at full time on Monday, affording employment for Jp.000 perrons. Some ot mills had ueen closed for many months. Improved conditions in the, cloth market are given as the season.

IP notified -the police and Patrolmen Heagney and Laurelle went to the shop, where they found the Anderson auto standing at the curb. Peering under the drawn shades of a window, they saw one of Anderson's hands dangling over the edge of a chair. The door was broken in and the dual tragedy discovered. That the murder was not for, purpose of robbery is indicated by the fact that the cash register was not disturbed, and the pockets of both victims contained money. The police have no assured' clues to work on for the solution of the mystery.

The ax handle apparently was wiped as though by a glove on the hand of the wielder, but the signs that bloody hands were washed at the shop bowl do not bear out any theory that the slayer was gloved. Captain William Schneider has been unable to get any fingerprints so far. A young woman who passed the shop about 9 o'clock says she heard loud talk inside as if an argument were under wayj between Anderson and a dark man, of Mexican resemblance. But as Mexican crimes run to the petty and their killings usually are with pistol or knife, the police are not 'satisfied with any hypothesis that a Mexican slew the couple. The nature of the crime suggests rather a degenerate and one of great activity.

to One of the bandits was arrested when a highway construction workman, wiio was in turn shot, filled him with a blow from a sledge hammer, while the other is believed to be surrounded in nt'ia west or south uend by a posse made up of hundreds of officers and citizens from the countryside. BANDITS LOOT TACOMA BANK'S MONEY TRUCK Tacoma, Dec. 6. Three unmasked bandits obtained approximately in currency and silver from three employes of the National bank of Tacoma at Twelfth and streets Saturday while the latter were transferring funds from an automobile to the street agency of the bank for the opening of the day's business. The employes, Hugo Dilen, manager of the agency and A.

L. Atkins and Emory Jackson, assistants, were forced to stand against the wall of the bank building while the robbers took two canvas bags filled with silver and a leather grip which contained currency from the tonneau of the automobile. Dllen and Atkins were armed, but hao no opportunity to use their weapons. After the actual robbery, which was committed by two men, a third drove up In front of the bank building In a large automobile. The robbers loaded the loot Into the car and sped away.

RENO BANK ROBBED. Reno, Dec. 6. A man held up and robbed the Reno National bank Saturday and escaped with about $2,600 in cash. WEETHEAHT, IS GIVEJL LIFE Relatives of Lillian McKenny Satisfied With Sentence.

Bedford. Iowa. Dec. 6. Convicted of the slaying of his Sweetheart.

Lillian of Herrick. S. Carl Hough Saturday was in jail here awaiting transfer to Fort Madison, where he was sentenced, according to the jury's recommendation to serve a life term. Hough refused to comment on his sentence, while relatives of the dead girl "to had been in the court room throughout the 10-day trial declared they were satisfied and had not desired a death penalty. The defense contended the girl was killed by twb who drugged Hough.

WEEK'S RECESS ENOUGH THINK HOUSE SOLONS Washington, Dec. 6. Members of the house decided Saturday tijat a one-week lay off over Christmas was sufficient ar.d without a dissenting vote adopted a resolution offered by Representative I in tftrnrt Vi TUnviflinif a a -nm Saturday, December 20, to Monday, December 29. Senate concurrence i needed. THREE SPANISH REDS ARE SHOT FOR CONSPIRACY Madrid.

Pec. Three mrn sentenced to death in connection with tt recent utbreak at Vers, near the Franco-Spanish fmntier wre executed Satnr-day. They were arrested when crossing the frontier early in November with the alleged purpose of bringing about the overthrow of the Spanish directorate. Famous Authoress Is Seriously Hurt In Auto Smashup Loa Angeles. Dec.

Gene Strat-ton Porter, authoress and Illustrator, injured in an automobile accident here Saturday night, was reported In a serious condition at tha police receiving hospital. Physicians said she was suffering from a basal skull fracture. Leaving her home and driving toward Hollywood with her chauffeur. Mrs. Porter's automobile was struck by a street car at a street Intersection.

The chauffeur's condition also was reported serious by physicians at the ernei-pency hiDtl. HOUGH BPS South Bend, Dec. 6. Two" men were shot and killed and five others were wounded, two of them perhaps fatally, by two men who were frustrated early Saturday evening, attempting the robbery of a soft drink-saloon, and thjn shot their way towaiM liberty in a running battle with police, sheriff's deputies and citizens. -h IDS HI TO GASH CHECK Arrest of Mining Man Results in Return of $2,600 Taken Reno, Dec.

7. Carl W. Coveney, mining man of Nevada and Idaho, who collected $2,600 on a check from the Reno National bank at the point of a gun Saturday was arrested in the lobby of a local hotel Saturday night. Tha. money was recovered.

Coveney presented his check for $2,600 at the bank Saturday and backed up his request for money on it with a gun. which he pointed at J. H. Sheehan, vice president of the institution. Sheehan took him to the paying teller's window, where the money was handed out.

Then Coveney, with his pistol pressed against the side of Sheehan, walked to the door of the bank and made his escape in the crowds on the street. His arrest was made without incident. Coveney confessed, according to the police, who queftioned him et the station. YELLOWLEY SAYS WASHINGTON IS TO BE DRY CITY Milwaukee. Dec 6.

E. C. Tel-Icwley, chief of the prohibition enforcement division at Washington, before leaving here Saturday for Washington, declared he intends drying up Washington, if the task requires all his time and the best men he has at his command. Achievement Day Is Observed at Forsyth Forsyth. Dec.

7. (Special) The first annual Achievement day celebration fver held in Rosebud county took place Saturday at Forsyth. County Agent Ralph I. Mercer and Miss Jesse Adee. home demonstration agent, entertained more than 100 club boys and girls who had finished the year's work, and their parents at noon luncheon in the basement of the Presbyterian church, after which the afternoon was spent in playing games at the high school auditorium.

Featuring the luncheon hour were a number of talks on different phases of club work by members of the various clubs. Talks were also made by the county superintendent of schools, Mrs. Sallie M- Adams, City Superintendent Ira L. Miss Adee and Mr. Mercer.

Loses Compensation Because of Divorce He'ena, Dec. 7. By a margin of just two days, the widow of Andrew Dent, killed July 31, fails of being his beneficiary. The state industrial accident commission has awarded his compensation to his three minor children. Pent was employed by the Hudtleff Marquis company in the lumber woods near in western Montana, when he was killed.

The commission found two previous to ihe fatai accident Mrs. Dent had secured a decree of divorce. The decree had not been recorded at the time of the dejirh but the commission decided that, so luig as it bad been granted, she was no longer his wife. slist were permitted enter the country, she would do so at her peril. Three police officials boarded the I'aris at Quarantine and attached themselves to the duchess' party.

The three Detective Cornelius Frown, Christopher Keller, and Lout Herman of the police bomb squad will remain with the duchess throughout her stay in America. To reporters who followed, on the heeis of the detectives the grand duchess hastily explained that her visit had t.o igr.lfican-- politically. and declitv absolutely to discuss the recent artiim cf her husband, the Crand Duke Cyril, in proclaiming hlrofetf to the t'nnvie of th She and (Continued on Poe 2: Col AMERICAN NAVAL MANEUVERS ARE RAPPED BY JAPS plained, of supplying the requests of their customers. None of these will be allotted, except where the bona fide applications of purchasers show where the I mis are to go. LIGHTBRIGADE SURVIVOR DIES Iowa Octogenarian Believed Last of Balaklava Heroes Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Dec. 7. Ellis H. Cutting, believed to have been the last survivor of the Light Brigade on its im mortal charge at the battle of Balaklava during the Crimean war, died here. Sunday, after being stricken with a paralytic stroke, second during the last month.

He was 87 years old. Mr. Cutting joined the British army when he was 16 years old and took part in many campaigns. He often told the story of how lie was standing close hs Lord Raglan when the order was issued that sent the Light Brigade into "the valley of death." Occasionally he inti mated that he possessed information which might clear up a disputed point history regarding the. fatal order, but he never made anything of tha! nature public.

Cutting suffered a first stroke shortly before election, but recovered sufficient ly to inform attendants on the Sunday before election, that he wanted to cast an absent ballot "for President Cool i'lgc." After many years as a railroad en slneer, Mr. Cutting was automatically retired and lived with his two daugh- MISSIONARIES ELUDE BANDITS Hankow. China. Dec. 7.

UP) Miss Klizabeth Bergalund Miss Ineberg N'ystul. missionaries of the Augustana synod, who remained at Jheir station at Juchcw. llonan province, when bandits raided the place recently, have escaped i-nil are with friertds at Kiuhsien. Both missionaries are from Minnesota. The litndlts hold Juchow with 1,000 The soldiers refused to fight them.

Consular Officer Shot in Belgrade In Critical Plight R. iTV-The condition of Vice Consul Henry A. Dayton, f-hot. Tlu'isday in lu-lsrado by a young woman who afterward committed suicide Wa reported in state department advices Saturday as "better than expected, but critical." PRESIDENT'S PERSONAL SECRETARY WILL STICK Washington. lw.

fi. Edward T. Clark, personal secretary to President oolidgo. lias decided to retain his present post and not accept appointment as assistant to th president of the Emergency Fleet i-orporation. REDUCING DELINQUENCY.

Roundup, Dec. ,7. (Special) Mugael-t-hell county In gradually reducing Its delinquent tax total, the receipts from this senrco in November. trje best month, totaling Since August thl year more than has been to County Treasurer Oscar Jenkins and tie predicts that very few taxpayers ill be delinquent this year. Another Indication of returning pros-I'nity Is the f)et thst a larre perrent-of tj Ja vers ar" their bill 'n one payment.

CIEIDIET SUGAR PRICES CIITjpTS Heavy Cuban Crop of Cane Accounts for Decrease. Denver, Dec. 6. Prices on cane and beet sugar fell 10 cents a hundred pounds Saturday, recording two drops of 10 cents each, the Great "VVcsWrn Sugar company announced here. Kvidences of a heavy crop in Cuba i snd ether sugar raising centers as well as a loosening of the raw market accounted for the cuts, company officio Is said.

The new prices are: Cane sugar from the manufacturers. beet. The whoV.al prices are: Cane, and beet. $5.40. Tokio, Dec.

6. The resolutions protesting against the pli.nned American iisval maneuvers in the Pacific were considered at a mass meeting of th-3 Uokumin Taibi, a.sooietv for the study of Japenese-Ameriean prr b'eins. here S-ntutday night. The resolutions were referred to a stitcial committee. The tentative draft declared the projected maneuvers consi-tute a menace of the 1 1: ce cf the far tast and recommended their abandonment by the United States.

Think Youth'3 Arrest Ends Reign of Terror Anaconda. Dec. Police believe Jhat the arrest of a youth by the name V. Gavin, they have th person responsible for the reign of terror that has been reported in the Northern "addition for several weeks. The youth was captured by O.

F. Tripi and a man named Flowers, who claims was attempting to as-saul a woman, when they chanced along. When thr: two men approached, the youth darted off. but was overtaken, and In' th? struggle that followed recived severe heating. Messrs.

Tripp nnd Flow, crs then to.k him to the city jail. His peculiar actions, however. raiTsfrf the officers 1" think hmi mentally un balanced, and be wax turned er to the county authorities. lie was re-moved to th couoty jail to be held until given a hearing iti regard to hl sanity. Several wevks ag.

a woman on her way hom. was pounced upon as she passed a shed IVnnsyhani avenue. Her screams attracted the attention of neighh'T. and her assailant fled. not before "he secured a gocl look at bis face.

Several nights lat-r another woman underwent the samo erperl-enoe. On Wednesday night two women re said to have been approached In like manner. several -of the women called at the jail and Identified Gavin as the man who attempted, to assault them. ONE JUMPS TO DEATH. Lord n.

rv-f. 6. Exrh.iT're Tf c-aph dispatch Madrid stat that I two cf tie fonvleted etmti.unti were actually Saturday mcrr-i inc at Vera. Trc third Ri.ln. It threw hims if (rem wh'" omlin-t 1 t- the via'' of e-ii-ton au'i WIFE OF RUSSIAN TIHSHONE CLAIMANT GIVEN BODYGUARD WOULD COUitT SUE EARLY I New Tnrk.

Iec. C. The Grand ruches Victoria Feodorovna. wife of the Grand Duke Cj-rll Vladtmirovltch. ho recently proclaimed himself heir to the Romanoffs on the throne of Russia, arrived here Saturday aboard the steamship Paris and was escorted to her suite In the Waldorf-Astoria hotel by a ixjuad of motorcycle policemen.

Extraordinary police precautions attended the arrival of the duchess, nn the authorities had been Informed by George li'Jamgaro'Ji secretary the Monday Opera club, an exeluslv- social organisation on whose behal' the duchess came to the United States, that her life i lad been threatened. Mr. Jsrrtsrsroff told the police he had rfcalved several anonymous letters carrying veiled thrcam If the exiled roy-) Washington, Dec. 6. A readiness to bring the world court issue before the senate "as soon as the agricultural bills and legislation have been disposed of was voiced Saturday by Senator Borah of the foreign relations committee.

Senator Borah said, however, it would take some time to divorce the court from the league, and, "speaking for my-1 self, it is vital that we do that." The agricultural situation, how ever, as placed by the Ida-j ho senator before the world court issues. He said if there was to be no special session after March 4 farm relief meas-; ures must receive early attention. He declared he had been i in favor of a world court for many years, but was anxious that when the United States entered such a tribunal it should i be so constituted a to be a real instrument of peace..