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*H*SC nr nom n INFLUENCE 0. S. NO SURPRISE IN ENGLAND OVER AMERICA'S ATTITUDE ON PORTION DEBTS Terms on French War Debt Not Mad# j to Influence America, ■ Say* Prase MORAL PRESSURE IS HINTED j 4 London.—American dispatches re porting amazement and Irritation ln j the r Uafted States over the terms of the Anglo-French provisional debt ar rangements and quoting statements of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury f Winston and Senator Smoot of the American «lebt commission and other | persons are featured In big tyf>e in the | newspapers. No surprise Is expressed here at the declaration that the United States will adhere to Its attitude on foreign debts already Indicated, but anxiety Is | as evinced In comment over reported sus picions In the United States that Chan cellor of the Exchequer Churchill ami ( the United I The newspapers print disavowal of any Intention of Great Britain to bring any pressure upon the United States Finance Minister Oalllaax schemed to put moral pressure on States. Paris.—The Echo d'Paris says It learns from a person who Is In a po sition to know that, while sati s fi ed with the British offers of a roorator lorn and a reduction In the debt figure, there Is no question of the cabinet signing any sort of an agreement. The newspaper add* that nothing can be definite until after the Franco-Aroer lean conference at Washington. Montana Ores Go to Belgium Butte. Mont.—A Belgium syndicate has signed a long term contract with Glen Anderson, general manager of the Iron Mountain Mining company, for the purchase of all zinc and lead con centrâtes taken from the Mineral coun ty mine. The shipments will be made direct to Belgium. Mr. Anderson stated that the new mill at Iron Mountain Is under con «traction and will be ready for oper ptlon September '15. The mill will have a capacity of 150 tons a day and Is so arranged that additional units may be Installed without Interrupting the production. San Francisco.—Dorothy Elltngson. . 17-year-old confessed matricide, was | found guilty, of manslaughter by a superior court Jury. The young defendant took the ver dict calmly. She was chewing gum when the Jurors entered after more | than 10 hours' deliberations and con tinued chewing after the verdict was read. Manslaughter carries a penalty of from one to 10 years, eligible for parole after one year. New York.—Announcement by the postoffice department that bids for transporting the United States malls over eight other routes will be opened September 15, is expected to furnish a remarkable Impetus to commercial avi ation In this country. Men In close touch with atr transportation, declared It would have a similar effect to that exercised by awarding of mail con tracts In the pioneer days of railroad building. Expedition Abandoned The MacMillan Arctic expedition baa abandoned hope of carrying out Its full exploration program over the polar sen this year. Curtailment of the expedition's ac tivities was forced by adverse weath er, which has locked the northland In ice and fog well ahead of the usual winter season. J Ospetown, South Africa.—A dis patch from Ellzabettivllle, Belgian Con go. says that religions fanatics in the neighborhood of Sakanla. attempting to make forcible conversions, slaugh tered 50 native in one village. A small patrol of native police was driven off with a number of killed and wounded. Troops have been sent from EUza be th rill e. New York.—The long continued con troversy In the garment trades Indus try reached a new crisis when 50,000 workers, members of three union lo cals, left their machines in obedieora to an order from their action com mittee. The firms affected by the order rep resented the bulk of the women's gar ment industry in this city. j Hong Konk.—-Lin Chnng-Bol, f|. nance minister of the Canton govern ment, has been assassinated. He was one of the leaders of the Bolshevist elements In the government, closely associated with Moscow. Big Damage Suit Filed New York.—Salt to recover $14,000, 000 alleged damages was filed in the state supreme court by Arthur Datslei, trustee In bankruptcy for the Beixntck IMotributCng corporation, in behalf of «•rwlltort* of that and other motion plo tare enterprises of Loots J. Beiz&Ick Death «®H New to R. I.—The death of Ed vm nf isawtndtei brought m m IS*« total of death* remitting ton .-»HitotoB of « hollar ea the SMBS 01 LEDGE Bewdoln Centra Through Dangerous Experience With Little ..._t_ Damag« Washington.—Grounded for more than 10 hours on a rock ledge, to be finally washed off by the swell from a bursting Iceberg, I* one of the exper iences from which the Bewdoln, a * t aonch craft of the MacMillan Arctic expedition, has emerged unscathed on her return trip from northern waters with the Peary. The grounding oc curred more than 70 miles north of Booth sound. A delayed message re celved by the National Geographic so clety and signed by Commander Mac Mlllan relates that to prevent the Bow do,n from pounding In a choppy sea *«er striking the ledge, 84 steel bar rcls of gasoline were thrown over AII but six barrels were latei hoard, mons for aid from the Peary, which eventually got a tow line aboard the Bowdoln, the staunch little vessel took on a 35 degree list as the tide ebbed and the decks could be traversed only recovered. While awaiting response to a sum a,d of TOP«" Just as the Peary, at flood tide, was ready to tighten the tow line "we were washed off by the swell caused by a bursting Ice berg," Commander Mac Mlllan reported. Another message received by the geographic society said the Peary had reached the harbor at Akpahni and that a blizzard had been raging for 24 hours, with a 50-mile wind and high then ***** was ,n th ® *®® °* Saunders island, not far j ^ poun Booth sound, Shell-Shocked Vote Terrified Boston.— Terrifying memories of their days in France came back to six shell-shocked World War veterans when the big guns at Fort Andrews went Info action for target practice while an excursion steamer carrying nearly 300 veterans on a harbor outing passed the fort. Six of the men became hysterical, Nurses nnd attendants qulted them »nd reassured other veterans who were less seriously upset by the firing. Am balance« from the Veterans hospital an<1 ®re department cars were «•ailed I« the dock and conveyed the seriously I affected men back to the hospital, Montana Editor Honored Cincinnati.—John W. Mahan, natlon il commander of the Disabled Ameri can Veterans of the World War, an nounce«! here that V. D, Oorbly, Mis soula, Mont., has been appointed assis tant national adjutant In place of Jos eph I/oos, Cincinnati, who resigned. Oorbly Is editor of the Missoula Sen tinel, a dally newspaper. He serve«! with the marine corps, second division, throughout the war and was severely wounded In action. Oorbly was reha bilitated by the United States veterans' bureau and was graduated with honors from the school of journalism ut the University of Montana. Plonrar Journalist Signs "30" Chicago.—Victor Fremont Lawson, one of the greatest and one of the last of America's pioneer Journalists. Is dead. The editor and publisher of the Chi cago Dally News died at his home here after an Illness of only three days of a heart ailment from which he had suf fered frequently In recent years. Foremost among the exponents of untainted news, one of the founders of The Associated Press, and owner of one of the greatest newspaper suc cesses on the continent, hts death marked the passing of a premier newspaper figure of the last century. Wrong Man Is Kllisd East Las Vegas, N. M.— Ohrl C. Ma gee, Albuquerque editor and storm cen ter of New Mexico politics, shot and killed John B. Lassatter, a state em ploye. In a hotel here when. In a fight with former District Judge D. J Leahy, hla political enemy, he drew a revolver and fired suddenly. Lassatter was a byst a nder . Magee fired two shots, after he had been knocked to the floor by I-eahy, the first shot striking Lassatter and the second wounding Leahy In the arm. Leahy was the district Judge who tried Magee In two cases, both of which gained national publicity. Boston.—Francis Lee Hlgglnson, one of the founders of the hanking firm of Lee. Hlgginson and company, is dead at bis summer home In Pride's Cross ing, according to word received here Be was 84 years old and was director of numerous corporations. Including the Calumet and Hecla Mining com pany. Washington.— Postmaster General New has announced that np airmail would be carried from the Pacific roast on the three navy seaplanes on their non-stop flight to Hawaii. Filera to »pot Fires Sait Lake City.—Air mall pilot* In the * the western division are to task while making their mail flights of watching for forest fires, officials of the western air mall division have an noupced. They will communicate with forestry official« about the fires by ■radio. Wartrington.—Secretary Meile« «mm been notified that the French debt . oomnimioa would leave about Sepum I bec ÎI for »he United State» France to Talk Debt« STOCKMEN PUD » HEW FOREST PflllCï DISAGREEMENTS WOULD BE TAK- EN INTO THE U. «. -COURT FEBEML CONTROL fWflREÖ •bearing Bureau of Timber land Pow ers Urged By Salt Lake City Meeting Salt Lake City, 1'tab.—Recommend ations that the forestry bureau be sham of Its arbitrary power In grant ing of grazing leases, was adopted by the American National Livestock as sociation In conference here. Under resolution* adopted, congress would be requested to pass a law leg alizing the grazing of livestock upon the national forests and authorising the secretary of agriculture to execute leases for not less than 10 years, re newable at the option of the leasers. Should such a law be enacted it would naturally follow that any con tested point arising from disagree ments between the lease-holders and the government would be taken to the United States district court Instead ol being settled in the forestry bureau as at the present The recommendation further pro ▼Idea that the proposed law shall re strict the lease-holders In the use and disposal of the leasee only to the ex tent eseentlal to Insure beneficial ose of the resources concerned from the standpoint of business in general and to make the holders responsible for any damage caused to the resource« in volved through exercise of rights un der such leases. At one session of the conference given over to a discussion of the pnhlic domain, the majority of sentiment ap peared In favor of federal control. State control is meeting with dis favor at the conference, delegates tak ing the stand that under federal con trol, rules and regulations governing grazing In the various states would be more uniform. J. M. McFarlane, president of the Utah Cattle and Horse Growers' asso ciation, declare«! that the time Is op portune for f «nierai control of the pub lic domain. Reach Accdrd on Refunding London.—The British chancellor of the exchequer, Winston Churchill, and the French finance minister. M. Call laux, have reached an agreement In principle on the funding of the French debt to Great Britain. If was officiary announced that an agreement had Keen reached on the basis. In principle, of 62 annual payments of $12,500,000 on the sole responsibility of France, sub ject to an agreement being reach«'«! on various matters nf detail and suhj«>ct to a governing condition of propori Inn ate equal treatment by France and her creditors. Under this agreement Franee Is lo pay Great Britain a little more than 2 per cent Interest annually on her «i«»bt of $623.000,000 during the ytmrs In which England Is making payments on her debt to the United States. After this time the Interest payments are to cease, nnd the principal of the debt is simply to be wiped off the slate. Ruhr I« Turned Back Duesseldorf, Germany.—The French and Belgian troops have turned over the Ruhr to the Germans after four years occupation, undertaken to com pel Germany to pay reparations. Thera were no disturbances and no public ex pressions of either regret or pleasure. There were, however, many emotional partings between French soldiers and their German sweethearts. The allied army marched out with bands playing. The troops assembled In the forenoon before the headquar ters, where they were reviewed by the general In command. The bugle sounded a general salute to the flag, which was ran down to "The Mareellalse." The march then began, and the troops crossed the bridge to Oberkasselln, In the Belgian sons, to entrain for the French aera. Plant Fry In Park Washington.—Good fishing has been assured In Yellowstone National park by planting of 1.138,000 trout fry; 1. 431,000 eyed eggs in park waters dur ing the last month. In making the an nouncement the department of the in terior said that nearly all of the lakes and stream»of the park from the tim ber line down to the lowest altltud« contain either trout, whlteflsh or gray* ling. . Austrian Qensral Dira Vienna.—Field Marshal Baron Frans eon Conrad Hoetzendorf, chief of staff of the Australan armies in the World war and later commander-in-chief on the Italian front, to Wurtemberg. Germany. Appoints Idaho Attorney Swampocott, Moss.—Hoyt E. Ray. ÄNs been appointed United States at torney for the district of Idaho, t Copper Surplus Small New York.—Surpluses In the stocks of copper held In the United States at the dose of July aggregated 88,080 too*, the the doue of the World star, according to IfBuraa complied by the American hate«» of metal statistics. The total jagigteWto « redact ton «f SJSS8 vom tot Heat tor any month sine« 10 BUM I G. M. GREAT BILLS PUBIS Will Inerrara Copper Refining Facili ties to Car* tor All Metal Pro duced In Montana _ Grrat Falls, Mont—The plans of the Anaconda Copper MInning company for the enlargement of its electrolytic zinc plant a call for an the former by 30 per cent giving It a capacity of 240,000,000 pounds of elec trolytic zinc a year, and an. Increase of one-third In the capacity of the cop per refinery. The zinc plant Improve ment Is to be completed «hört I y after the first of the year, and the proposed refinery Improvements are to be com pleted by the end of 1028. According to the announcement of John D. Ryan, chairman of the board of directors of the company, made here while he was in the dty In company with President C. F. Kelley, Vice Pres ident J. R. Bobbins in charge of Mon tana operations, and Frank M. Kerr, vice president and general manager of the Montana Power company, comple tion of the plans will provide facilities at Great Falls for the refining of all of the copper produced at the company's properties In Montana. Mr. Ryan has recently returned from a trip to Europe and Mr. Kelley re cently completed an Inspection of the Anaconda company's South American properties. "It is our aim," stated Mr. Ryan, "to provide facilities at Great Falls for re fining all copper produced in Montana and as rapidly as the market condi ad its copper refinery here, i ncr e as e in the capacity of tions will permit to put the same through at least the primary stages of manufacture here. With this In view, we contemplate enlarging the capacity of all our Orest Falls plants about one third. and expect these additions to be completed by the end of 1936." Fire Destroys Rail Property Buffalo, Wyo.—Fire of unknown or igin destroyed machinery for the North & South railroad valued at $24,000, only a small part of which was cov ered by Insurance. The «Iropplng of a cigarette In an old unused ice house where the equipment was stored has been suggested as a possible cause ol the Are. Only one-fourth of the machinery de stroyed was covered by Insurance, Lee Hibbard, owner, said. Among the equipment lost was a Holt caterpillar tractor which alone was valued al $0,600, a great number of dump wagons and wagons used in road grading, scrapers, plows, shovels, harness and camp bedding. Nothing was saved, and It Is fearer! the Iron will be too badly buckled and warped to he sold. Oar Loadings Make Record Washington.—Loading of revenue freight for the week ende«l August 15 total*-« 1,064,793 «ara, the American Railway association has emtonneed, marking the fifth ranseem e period In Which the million-mr mark was ex ceed«^. -, The figure, the greatest for any week lids year, was 13.182 cars more than were used the preceding week an«l 111,885 more than for the same week of 1924. Speechless in Face of Death Budapest. Hungary.—With five min ute» to »ay good-bye before their death sllowe«) by the court. Mltzl I-edere and her husband, Gustav, a former, lieu tenant. rholdng with anguish and bHnddd by tears, were unable to say a ■ingle word They had been ranvlct«*d of the murder of Franz Kudelkn, who was visiting the couple in a suburb ol Budapest. Ordinance Held Illegal Denver.—A Denver city ordlnan«.« preventing newsboys from crying their wares or selling papers, except at au thorized stands, was held nnconstltu t Ion si by Judge James C. Starkweather In the district court. Judge Stark weather's opinion was handed down Ip a suit brought by the Denver Cost t«. restrain enforcement of the ordinance, which was passed recently. Gun ^xplodra In Camp Rockford, III.—Seven soldier* are re ported dead and between 20 and 3€ wounded, many seriously, by the bursting of a howitzer In the Eighth Infantry (colored) regiment at Camp Grant. The accident occurred Just as thr men were completing their morulnt firing on the Camp Grant range. A de fective shell Is blamed for the tragedy •Ihrer Output High New York.—Production of silver la North America and Peru during July amounted to 16.628JH2 ounces, a new high monthly record for the year, me cording to the American bureau ol metal statistics. The total output for the first seven months was 109,150,30? %>r responding period last year. Btrike Tira Up Work Chicago.—Construction work valued •t several million dd I «re ha».been tied op here by two strikes resulting frwi différence» between brick layers and plasterers' unions. Vesuvius Active Naples. Italy.—Mount Vesuvius hai resumed extraordinary activity. Th« voiCRho l* erupting great quantities ol and lighting up the whole «wan trsrnm at olght Observera at the vol /wat e «baervairay have e xpre s sed Iht qptwton there is ao great RIRJE TEAM IFF F 88 The rifle tram which will represent the Monttmi national guard at the na tional rifle matches at Camp Perry, Ohio, baa left Helena. The men were «elected on Hie ha ni ft of their »rares on the ran (re at camp last Rummer and on their home iroBod». TTiey will compete for war department medals In tram and Individual events age! it* t trams repre senting other national guard unit* and branche* of the regular service. They may alao compete In National Rifle a» sochitkin matches at the rame time. Pay and expenses while on the trtp are provided by the government. at Fire Fighters Battle Flames More than 60Q men are still fighting fires In the Kootenai and Kaniksu for ests though the blazes are held in check despite the lack of rain for the last week. The 17-mile fire on the Kootenai forest, which has covered more than 18,000 acres. Is expected to' be on a patrol basis soon. The Cross mountain and Grizzly peak fires, the other two large ones in this forest, and the Kaniksu fire are troublesome, but not spreading. ■* Pet Bear Attacks Child Despite the fact that her condition Is serious as the result of blood poison ing, physicians expect to save the life of Barbara Durnatn, 5-year-old daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. K. J. Durnam, whose skull was penetrated by the claw of a pet bear as she lay asleep In her room at Karst's camp near Boze man. The bear, a pet of the family, had broken the chain which confined it to a near house, a* mem bers of the family set up a chase to recapture the animal It became fright ened, ran Into the house and into the child's bedroom. There In a panic. It attacked the child. It struck her a vicious blow with Its claw behind the ear. The claw penetrated the skull and produced a deep and ugly wound. The father rescued the girl and she was taken to the Deaconess hospital at Bozeman, where her recovery had been doubtful. The bear was shot. Changes ,— The purchase oW the Rosebud flour mill and light plant at Rosebud and of the Hathaway elevator at Hathaway, by Arthur J. Palmer, of Cleveland. O.. has Just been consomme«!, Mr. Palmer taking immediate control. M. A. Shees ley, who has been the owner of the flour mill for a number of years, was retained as miller. Mr. Palmer Is a former resident of Montana, having lived in the state more than 30 years ago. For six years .he was located at Anaconda and while there had charge of the Installation of the light plant. Since leaving the state he has spent most of his time In Cleve land, having been Interested In the banking and oil business. Mr. Palmer Is much pleased with the business outlook In Montana and be lieves there Is a prosperous future for the state. Busini Complete Broadus Bridge The Security Bridge company has completed the construction of the Powder nver bridge at Broadus. The work consisted of the reconstruction ai a 120-foot wood span at the west end of the steel span. The construction required 24 cotton wood pilings, which was prepared by Johnny Nell. The county supplied all the necessary material for the wood span and fortunately nearly alt the old bridge planks were salvaged from a sandbar, a short distance down the river. The wood span was washed oui in the high water of June 16 and the three steel spans of 423 feet remained Intact. Ask Daily Mail Service Provided a petition Is favorably act ed upon by the department at Wash ington. D. C-, Jordan and residents of Garfield county will have dally mall service In the near future. The peti tion. with a long list of names of per sons receiving mall st the Jordan of fice. has been sent to Washington. Towns In other section*^of the state, practically as far removed from the railroad as Jordan are now receiving «lally mall servira; while the contract on the Jordan route calls for dally mall servira during six months of the year an«f tri-weekly service the remainder of the year. Cleaning up the debris and salvag ing of office records from the ruins of the W. D. MacKay company's ware house In Billings, which was partially by fire, has started. The damage resulting from the fire is con serv*lively estimated at $12.000, near ly ail of which is covered by Insurance. The work at rebuilding will commence Immediately, according to Mr. MacKay. and the greater port of the damage be ing «lone to the basement and main floor while the recent Improvement» made on the second floor were on harmed. > ^ nlt . 1864 *«*<*"<* Montanas «West plo John H. Shober, «2 years oM. a real neera, died at the home of his piece. Mrs. G. B. Nolan in Helena. He was the last survivor of those present at the meeting on October 30, 1864. whew Last Chance Gulch was renamed He» When hb arrived In the gulch. Its population consisted of but six and the residence dtstrtot coexisted of two cabin*. Four of the population were the original dteeeveren of Last Chance gulch. CRASH RECALLS OLD STATE LAW Truck Driver to Face Trial on Untest ed Statute—Carries a Stiff Flna Frank Cunningham, an employe of the Mountain States Telephone com pany, was returned to Great Falla from Helena to stand trial on a charge of failing to stop after an auto acci dent and refusing to give his true name Jn violation of a state law, here tofore never enforced In Cascade conn ty The law was brought out by Fred A. BwaM. and complaining witness in the case against Cunningham, whom he charges with deliberately bumping hint off the Vaughn road, five miles west of Orest Fall*. The law under which Cunningham will be tried provides that a driver mur stop after an accident and that If asked by the Injured motorist, or/'any one else," he must give his true name. If the injured party is unable to ask his name, the law provides, that he must report the mishap to the nearest sheriff within 24 hours. : As far os can be learned no one la Cascade county has ever been pros ecuted under the statute, violation of which calls for a fine of from $25 to $500 and Jail sentence of from 10 days to three months. Civil Service Examination Senator Burton K. Wheeler an noonees that the United States Civil Service Commission will hold an ex aminatkm on Saturday, October 24; 1925, to enable him to make selection for designation for appointment of a principal and two alternates to a ca detship at the United States Military Acadamy, West Point, New Tork. Any resident of Montana who d«* alres to compete in this examination should report at 9 a. m„ on Saturday.' October 24, to the Secretary, Local Board nf Civil Service Examiners, post °Eflce building, in one of the following cities: .Kallspell, Missoula. Butte, Dillon. Helena. Great Falls. Bozeman. Havre, Lewlstown. Billings. Glasgow, Miles City. Glen «live. Candidates must be between the age* of 17 and 22 on the date of admission to the acadamy, that Is. on July 1, 1926. A form showing the scope and character of the examination may be obtained by writing to Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Senate office building, Washington, D. C. Those desiring to compete in the ex amination should write to Senator Wheeler at the earliest practicable date In order that arrangements may be made to ship papers for the exami nation. . —.-----. - Montana Coal Winning Favor That the public gradually Is realiz ing that Montana coal serves the pur pose as well as coal shipped In from other states was the assertion of Ste phen Ely. president of the Montana Federation of Labor. "We are expecting to see a big In crease In the consumption of Montana coal and a gradual decrease In the Im porting of coal from other states." Mr. Ely said. It Is In line with the move ment for the consumption of home pro ducts. "The people are coming to realize that Montana coal does not clog the stoves and pipes with soot as badly as does Utah coal. Besides that. Montana coal has a greater content of thermal heat units than the Utah product, and also is cheaper." "K > Will Finance Municipal Band If present plans work out success fully Whlteflsh will have a municipal band before many weeks have passe«] Chart«* Tarr, chairman of the Klwaids committee to con fer with the city council relative t<» making a half mill levy for the support of a band, has been assured by Mayor McLean that the proposed budget for the city, to be submitted st the next council meeting, contains provision for the levy. If this Is adopted by the council. It means that the sum of around $700 will be available for main taining a band, and this is what has been desired. • O. E. S. Officers Installed Worthy Matron Mrs. Edna Kavaugh of Shelby, Mrs. Nina Salomon of St. Ignatius and Mrs. Gina Kelfer of Fair view, were installed by officers of the state convention of the Montana gran«! chapter. Order of Eastern Star which completed a two-day session at Mis soula recently. « Minister Is Named The Rev. James F. McNamra, pastor af the First Baptist church of Helena. was appointed by Governor J. E. Erick son to succeed the Rev. F. E. Oartson of Helena as a member of the state board of charities and reform. Dr. a pastorate in Portland, Ore. Roundup Lets School Job Construction of a new addition to the Roundup high school at a coat of $38,437 was' provided for with the awarding of the contract for the build ing to Rofttnan Herfen, local con tractors. and ef the plumbing contract to F. L. Dye, also of that place. Work ,1. on the new unit will start Immediately . .. ^ __ * Bd . u «*tUaai«l that U will be ready tor occupation on February I. A hood Issue of $88.500 to provide .1 tor the addition bos been disposed of by the hoard of educath» to the state land board.