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THE DAILY
VOL.XLIV. NO. 6.
MISSOULA, MONTANA, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 6, 1917.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
TREASURY FLOODED WITH AVALANCHE OF MONEY
TAX ON COTTON
PROPOSAL GETS
COLD GREETING
Southern Congressmen Raise
Storm of Protest Against
Proposition.
EXCESS PROFIT TAX
FINDS MORE FAVOR
Congress Is Bending Every
Effort to Raise $1,800,
000,000 Desired.
Washington, May 5.—A proposal by
Representative Moore of Pennsylvania
to include a tax of $2.r.O a bale of cot
ton in the war revenue bill stirred up
a sectional controversy today in the
house ways and means committee, and
resulted in the committee's failure to
complete the bill tonight ns had been
planned.
Mr. Moore proposed the cotton tax
while the committee was struggling
with indifferent success to raise the
total of the bill to the $1.800,000,000
desired by Secretary McAdoo. City
products, Mr. Moore maintained, had
been heavily burdened with taxes, and
it was only fair that southern plant
ers shoulder their fair share. Approx
imately $30,000,000 could be raised dur
ing the coming year, he said, by the
levy proposed.
Opposition Breaks Loose.
A storm of opposition ensued and to
night southern members in and out of
the committee were up in arms pre
dicting confidently that the Moore pro
posal never would carry. They argued
it would be just as fair to tax wheat,
corn and oats.
Argument on the proposal will be
renewed in the committee Monday.
Predictions tonight were that the bill
would bo ready for submission to the
house Tuesday. Chairman Simmons of
the senate finance committee an
nounced that his committee would be
gin work on the bill as soon as it is
reported to the house. Public hearings
will be held by the senate committee.
Despite the fact that the house bill
now totals much less than the desired
$1,800,000,000, the measure as finally
enacted is expected by senate and
house leaders to carry this amount.
Profit Tax Favor Grows.
House Democrats are again looking
with favor on applying a graduated
scale to excess profits taxes, once sug
gested by Secretary McAdoo. Consid
eration was given a proposal today to
strike out all exemptions and substi
tute for the sub-committee plan of
doubling the present excess profits tax
a scale of 10 per cent on business pay
ing from 8 to 15 per cent. Fifteen on
those paying 15 to 25 per cent; 20
on those paying 25 to 50 per cent and
25 on those paying 50 per cent and
upwards. Another proposal was to in
crease the present tax of 8 per cent
to only 14 instead of 1C per cent as
planned by the sub-committee.
Transportation taxes on pipe lines
and taxes on jewelry and advertising
also were discussed. The former are
new proposals but more than a year
ngo, Secretary McAdoo suggested an
advertising tax. It would include bill
boards as well as newspapers and
magazines and would be assessed by
space occupied.
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HOLLWEG WILL
TELL WAR AIMS
Berlin, May 5.—The committee on
foreign affairs of the federal diet is
expected to meet today for the pur
pose of receiving a statement from
Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg. the im
perial Chancellor on the military, po
litical and economic situation.
It is predicted that Dr. von Beth
irvann-Hollweg's announcement will
coincide with the reply he will make
to the interpellations of the conserva
tives and social democrats regarding
Germany's war aims.
SOUTH HAS BIG
CROP OF SPUDS
Minneapolis, May 5.—Potato crops in
southern stales are unusually large
this year and with big shipments from
that part of the country expected
about June 1, Minneapolis produce
men expressed the belief today that
potatoes will be back to normal prices
of from 75 cents to $1 a bushel whole
sale. It is estimated that 37.000,000
bushels will be thrown on this market
-within 40 days after the heavy ship
ments begin.
The Weather
Montana—Fair Sunday; some
what warmer in south portion;
Monday partly cloudy, probably
showers west of the divide; cooler
in west and north portions.
TRUCE FOLLOWS
PETROGRAD RIOT
Petrograd, May 5.—Via London.-— In
consequence of the disorders which oc
curred yesterday in Petrograd, the ex
ecutive committee of the council of
workmen and soldiers' delegates has
forbidden all public meetings and dem
onstrations for the next two clays.
Any one who incites any demonstra
tions or fires a shot will be regarded
as a traitor to the cause of the rev
olution.
The executive committee lias pla
carded the streets with a proclamation
appealing to the people to maintain
calm, order and discipline and calling
upon 11 so soldiers not to go out carry
ing guns and to obey only orders bear
ing the official signature of tIso execu
tive council. The* proclamation also
appeals to the workmen and soldiers
not to take part in public meetings
or demonstrations while carrying arms.
PROHIBITION IS
URGED FOR WAR
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Olympia, May 5.—Complying with a
request from Governor Mlliken of
Maine, acting Governor Hart today
telegraphed President Wilson urging
national prohibition during the war.
His message reads:
"Whiskey is not food, neither is it
a necessity nor even a luxury. The
185,000,000 bushels of grain used an
nually in manufacturing intoxicants is
more, essential as food for those sup
porting the government than would be
the excise revenue. We urge national
prohibition during the war as an eco
nomic measure."
AGE COMPROMISE
CONFEREES' HOPE
Washington, May 5.—Two meetings
today of senate and house conferees
of tlie army draft bill failed to bring
an agreement on any of the important
differences. The conferees discussed
briefly the maximum ago for conscrip
tion, fixed in the house bill at 40 and
in the senate bill at 27 years. It is
the general belief that a compromise
making the maximum not over 30
years eventually will be reached.
RIVERS-HARBORS
BILL ADVANCES
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Washington, May 5.—An omnibus
rivers and harbors bill appropriating
$26,893,000 anil carrying authorizations
for many surveys and examinations
with a view to future improvements ;
was agreed on today by the house riv- j
ers and harbors committee. The bill
was mainly for maintenance and con- |
tinuance of existing improvements and !
is based on recommendations submit
ted by the y\ur and navy departments
in the interest of national defense.
GERMAN TROOPS
QUELL RIOTING
Amsterdam, May 5.—Via London.—
Grave rioting has occurred in Mainz,
Germany, according to a rcpor f re
ceived here by the Telegraph. Sixteen
hundred people took part in a demon
stration because of the scarcity of
food and a number of shops were
looted. Troops fired on the démon
stratifs, the reports adds, and eight
persons were killed. Later the troops
arrested 500 persons.
CRULL SUICIDES
IN ELKHART, IND.
Elkhart, Ind., May 5.—E. Jacob Crull
of Roundup, Mont., who was defeated
for tlie Republican nomination for con
gress by Jeannette Rankin at tlie 1916
primary, died here today from poison
which he drank last night at an un
dertaking establishment. No cause for
the act is known. Crull was not mar
ried and came here recently to visit
after an absence of 20 years.
25 FARGO MEN
JOIN MARINES
St. Paul, May 5.—Twenty-five young
men from Fargo and vicinity arrived
here today, headed by their mascot ,
"Jeff," a Boston bull, and enlisted it
the marine corps. The men were sent
to the Mare Island,
station tonight.
Calif., training
MAKES ECONOMY
PLEA TO WOMEN
OF HOUSEHOLDS
Secretary Houston Says This
Is Their Duty in Face
of Emergency.
WANTS SAVING MADE
A SOCIAL STANDARD
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Save on Food, Leather and
Wearing Apparel Is Bur
den of Appeal.
Washington, May 5.- In appeal today
"to the women of the United Stntos,"
Secretary Houston declares that they
can do their bit most effectually in
the national emergency by practicing
effective thrift in their households..
The appeal was prompted by many
requests for a statement as to the
service women can render the nation
in the direction of producing and con
serving agricultural products.
"Every woman can render important
service to the nation in its present
emergency," says tlie appeal, she need
not leave her home or abandon her
home duties to help tlie armed forces.
She can help feed and clothe our
armies and help to supply food
those, beyond the seas by practicing
effective thrift in her own household.
Thrift In Household.
"Every ounce of food the house wife
saves from being wasted in her home—
all food which she or lier children
produce in tlie garden and can or
preserve—every garment which care
and skillful repair makes it unneces
sary' to replace—all lessen that house
hold's draft on tlie already insufficient
world supplies.
"To save food the housewife must
learn to plan economical and properly
balanced meals, which, while nourish
ing each member of the family proper
ly', do not encourage overeating or of
fer excessive and wasteful variety. It
is her duty to use all effective meth
ods to protect food from spoilage by
heat, dirt, mice, or insects. She must
acquire tlie culinary ability to utilize
every bit of edible, food that comes into
her home, she must learn to use such
foods as vegetables, beans, peas and
milk products as partial substitutes
for meats. She must make it her busi
i ness to see that nothing nutritious is
j thrown away or allowed to be wasted.
I Food Waste Is Labor Waste.
"Waste in any individual household
may seem to be insignificant, but if
■ only a single ounce of edible food, on
to
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THINK ANTIDOTE
FOR SUB MENACE
HAS BEEN FOUND
Naval Officials Have Re
ceived No Report From
Consulting Board.
New York, May 5.—W. L. Saunders,
chairman of the naval consulting
board, announced here today that the
board had forwarded to Washington
plans for dealing with the submarine
problem, which it is believed has
solved tlie problem successfully.
Mr. Saunders emphasized that inas
much as ho was not disclosing details
of tlie naval hoard's recommendations
to tlie government, the statements he
made were not military information.
The plan submitted to the govern
ment, Mr. Saunders asserted, was not
based upon ''theory sketches or de
signs," but upon actual tests "which
have proved encouraging." Tho use
of electricity is involved importantly
in the whole idea of an offensive.
The naval operations would, under
the plan be directed toward bottling
up the North sea as effectively as
Great Britain has blockaded the Eng
lish channel.
Mr. Saunders alluded to the north
gateway of the North sea as Germany's
"hornets' nest" or "rat hole" for sub
marines and said this "nest" must be
blockaded and penetrated, its U-boats
destroyed and naval bases also dealt
with effectively.
Daniel* Has No Report.
Washington, May 5.—The report of
the naval consulting board of a device
to overcome German submarines had |
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not reached Secretary Iwniels tonight
and officials here made it clear that
.
, |'he judgment of the department would
it bp withhe!d until there was a success
' fu > demonstration of the invention.
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Naval officers expressed great eon
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PEER'S DAUGHTER IS II
AN ANGEL OF mercyiLRi
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THE ll( IX. MONICA G HEN FELL.
Tlie Hon. Monica Grenfell is tlie
elder of two daughters of Lord and
I Aid y Desborotigh. is he lias been work
ing ns a Red Cross nurse from the very
outset of the war and is now engaged
ill the British base hospitals at Calais.
Aside from her duties as a nurse she
is now taking up a special course in
massage for home nursing. Two of her
brothers, the Hon. Gerald and the Hon.
j Julian Grenfell, were killed on tlie
western front in 1915.
BALFOUR SPEAKS
WARNING WORDS
TO CONGRESSMEN
President Breaks Precedent
by Occupying Seat in
House Gallery.
Washington, May 5.—Foreign Soc
' rotary Balfour, speaking by invitation
today before the house of ropresent
: atives, said the world only now was
; coming to realize that peace and mn
i terial civilization may bring the great
; ost possible menace to free govern
I ments.
I "When I was young," bo said, "wo
j used to flatter ourselves that progress
I inevitably meant peace and that
growth of knowledge was always ac
. companicd as its natural fruit by the
, growth of good will. Unhappily we
j know better now and we know there is
such a thing in the world as a power,
which can with unvarying persistency
; focus all tho resources of knowledge
and of civilization into the great task
1 of making Itself tho moral and ma
terial master of tho world. It is
j against that danger that we. the free
peoples of western civilization, have
banded ourselves together."
Tho British statesman's words, in
terpreted by many of his hearers as i
warning against a premature ending
of the great war, were cheered by the
representatives and crowded galleries.
Among tlie applauding spectators was
President Wilson, who broke all presi
dential precedent by slipping unnoticed
into a. house gallery to hear the ad
dress.
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ILLINOIS AHEAD
IN MIDDLE WEST
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Chicago, May 5.—The University of
Illinois with 393 men enlisted leads all
other middle west colleges and univer
sities in the number of candidates for
commissions in the army officer's
reserve corps training camps, accord
ing to an announcement from central
department headquarters here tonight.
W. A. CLARK
IS RECOVERING
"Senator W. A. Clark is rapidly re
covering his normal state of health,"
is the news conveyed to Judge Walter
M. Bickford in a letter received by
him yesterday from James H. Ander
son. serving as a secretary to Mr.
Clark in New York.
HOUSE STRENGTHENS BANKS.
Washington, May 5.—To increase the
gold holdings of federal reserve hanks
and to strengthen them against any
exigencies of war, the house today
passed th^adininistration amendments
to the federal reserve law decreasing
reserve requirements of member banks,
The amendments now go to the senate,
IV ODAIliiniAfflDlf
UnUURUvVUnlv
FOR HARVESTING
NORTHWEST CROP
Proper Distribution of Farm
Labor Considered at St.
Paul Meeting.
AT CONFERENCE FIVE
STATES REPRESENTED
Discuss Means of Getting
Workers and Work To
gether Expeditiously.
Ft. Paul, May 5.— Sixty representa
tives of official and non-official de
fense organizations from five north
west states, in addition to representa
tives from St. Paul and Minneapolis,
met here today and approved infor
mally a tentative plan submitted by
prlvate citizens for tlie mobilization
and distribution of farm labor in an
ticipation of orders from the several
stall's that tho crop of the "broad bas
ket of the world" be properly harvested
during the present war.
To Make Labor Survey.
Tho plan calls for a staff officer of
general executive head working under
tlie public safety commission of each
state and includes ns a first step a
survey of the labor needs and labor
resources. Under the staff officer
would bo transportation executives to
care for the moving of tlie farm labor
ers and a mobilization executive, who
would arrange for labor transfers from
farm to farm and to successive areas.
County chairmen and township
chairmen would work under these of
ficials, it was explained.
Suggest Reduced Fares.
The suggestion is made that passen
ger rates might be reduced during the
farming season, so as to enable east
ern labor to got tlie farms in the north
west.
j. C. Alisher of Miles City, Mont.,
said :
! think we can take care of tiie la
bor situation in Montana." He urged
a survey of commodities, particularly
with reference to the. lines we cannot
do without.
"I believe restriction in making malt
and spirituous liquors because of tho
amount of grain consumed tyould be a
good tiling."
"Some arrangement should be made
for getting the crop to the consumer
at a fair prico and to combat efforts
to keep tho price too high," M. W.
Williams of Aberdeen told the repre
sentatives.
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COLLEGES AND
UNIVER IT1ES
PROMISE HELP
Officials of 180 Institutions
Plan System of Aiding
in War.
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Washington, May 5.—Administration
officials of 180 leading institutions of
j learning in the United States con
ferred today with a committee of the
idvlsory national defense commission
ind arranged machinery for co-opera
tion with the government during the!
war. Secretary Baker addressed tlie
•onference, pointing out that impor
tant defense work can be done by the
chools of Ute country and tho edu
ators adopted resolutions embodying
plans for active service.
The conference was attended l>y
members of the national association
of state universities, the association of
American agricultural colleges and ex
perimental stations, the association of
American universities and tlie associ
ation of American colleges.
The resolution recommended that
the bureau of education and the state
relations committee prepare a compre
hensive policy of co-operation between
the government and the educational
institutions, "which will make for the
most effective use of these institutions
throughout the duration of tlie war."
The educators went on record as be
lieving that all colleges and univer
sities should so modify their calendars
and curricula ns to comply fully with
the present needs of the nation and to
utilize most profitably the time of the
students, institutional plants, forces
and equipments.
the
any
today
REPAIRING PAVEMENT.
City Engineer Hathaway had a
small rrew at work on the Higgins
avenue pavement near the north end
0 f the bridge yesterday. Settling of
tlie bridge piers has caused some of
the pavement to crack. Several square
yards must be rebuilt.
WOMAN TELEGRAPH
OPERATOR IN NAVY
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MRS. PEARL TAYLOR.
Mrs. pearl Taylor is the first wom
an to enlist in tlie naval reserve as a
telegraph operator, she Is already on
the job in tlie navy department at
Washington and is performing callable
service.
War Summary
With tho strotiK fortress of Uion os
their objective I'runrh troops oontinuo
thoir adViinee toward tho Ailette river
from the heights above the Aisne,
northeast of Soissons,
The German résista nee is declared
to have been of a most desperate char
acter hut the French maintained their
advances and in addition to inflicting*
heavy losses on tlie Germans took more
than 4,300 prisoners on Saturday. The
total prisoners taken during the op
erations in the same territory on Fri
t w
in this territory.
Hulheourt continues to he a center
of most intense battle with alternate
advance and retirement on both side/i.
South of that point the British have
bombed their way into German
trenches of the Ilindenburg switch in
the direction of Queant.
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The outcome of
situation in Uussia
denounced member
the contradictory
where molts have
of tli«* provisional
govern!
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tlie
the
mains puzzling. Chief
I Petrograd Saturday
were the adoption by tiie council of
workmen's and soldiers' delegates of a
vote of confidence in the government
and tiie forbidding by that council of
aii meetings or armed demonstrations
for two days. The troops in Petrograd
were ordered to remain in their liar
racks.
Premier Lvoff and Foreign Secretary
Milukoff have declared that the gov
ernment will resign rallier than recall
the note sent on .May day to tho en
tente government, assuring them that
Russia would vigorously prosecute the
war
The Gen
Bethmann -1
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CRUISERS FIND
GOOD PULP WOOD
A party of forest service men, which
under charge of James Girard, logging
engineer, lias been estimating the
available supply of pulp timber in tho
Canyon Creek region of the Blackfeet
national forest, has returned after
Completing it H work. The party esti
mated 180,000,000 feet of timber on
9,000 acres. Of the timber Inspected
58 per cent was spruce if the highest
type of paper pulp material.
MUST ANSWER TO
PERJURY CHARGE
San Francisco, May 5. --Formal com
mitment holding Frank C. Oxman to
answer to tiie superior court on
a 'charges of attempted subornation of
Perjury, was signed by Police Judge
Matthew Brady here today. Oxman
of charged with having attempted to
of induce F. E. Regall of Grayville, Hi.,
to give false testimony against Thomas
J. Mooney, convicted bomb murderer.
LIBERTY LOAN'S
SUBSCRIPTIONS
UP IN BILLIONS
Gold Pours in on Officials at
Rate of Over $500,000
Per Minute.
EVERY CORNER AND
NOOK REPRESENTED
At Present Rate Two Billion
Loan Is Over-Subscribed
200 Per Cent.
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Washington. May r,.~ Tho treasury
was hurled todai beneath an avalanche
of subscriptions to the Liberty loan.
Yesterday's pare of $20,000,000 an hour
was quickened to almost $500,000 a
minute and it became apparent that,
the $2,000.000,000 offering would be
oversubscribed beyond all previous es
tent os.
Compilation of the actual amount of
subscriptions received today was be
yond physical possibility with tho pres
ent working staff. Probably one
fourth of the offering already lias been
spoken for. officials listed subscrip
tions received up to 2 p. m. t and found
that during the six hours of working
time that had elapsed since, the hist
compilation the country had sub
scribed $172,983,000 additional, bringing
the grand total for the. two days up to
$41 1,057,000, exclusive of thousands of
replies yet to he listed.
Far Over-Subscribed.
Subscriptions listed yesterday and
today represent the offerings of less
than 0 per rent of the total number of
financial Institutions before which Sec
retary McAdoo placed the offering.
Should the present ratio lie maintained
the hanks and their customers will
havo subscribed to approximately
$6,500,000,000 worth of the bonds, an
over-subscription of more than 200 per
cent.
As many of tlie large financial Insti
tlons have telegraphed their subscrip
tions, however^officials arc Inclined to
believe that tiie present ratio will
hardlv lie ma Intiilnrd.
Replies to the offering received to
dai' came from virtually every pnrt. of
the world where the American flag is
flown. Hawaii, Porto Rico and tho
Philiimlnes rallied substantial sub
scription. Fairbanks. Alaska, tho
northermnost oitv in tiie western
world telegraphed n $50 000 subscrip
tion and added that tile loan would ho
advertised in tho newspapers there.
From every state in the union tiie re
of
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the
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of
the
tho
after
esti
on
ply was overwhelming.
Cities' Contributions.
Tlie New York batiks, the country's
financial stronghold sent subscriptions
totalling $53.000,000. bringing its two
dav total up to $116 890.000. 'Total
New York subscriptions Include two of
$10 000 000 each, one of $4.000.000, ono
(of $3.000,000. two of $2.000,000, two of
$2.000.000 and six of $1,000,000.
j Philadelphia subscribed $13.330,000,
Including one subscription of $3.000,
, 000, and another of $2.000.000 and six
I of $1.000,000. Pittsburgh sent sub
scriptions totalling $4,668,000, tnsluding
one of $2,000,000 and another of $1,000.
000. Three subscriptions of $1,000,000
each were received from San Fran
cisco, making the day's total, $5,650,
Oao. ltoston also sent three Individual
subscriptions of $1,000,000 each among
the day's subscriptions of $4,115,000.
t'lowland sent two subscriptions of
$2,000,000. A Milwaukee hank sub
scribed $3,000.000 and another in De
troit subscribed $1,500,000. Individual
subscriptions of $1,000,000 each wert*
received from Chicago, Orleans
and Toledo.
The two days' total of subscriptions
from Minnesota was $1,228,000.
Work Far From Complets.
Subscriptions have been tabulated
from approximately 1,500 of the 27,500
banks of the country, the other 26,000
not having been heard from or their
replies having been received later
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BODY OF ST. PAUL
PATROLMAN FOUND
to
Hi.,
Minneapolis May 5.—The body of
George Connery, the patrolman who
disappeared more than a week ago,
after having attested two men for
speeding, was found by military au
thorities at Fridley, Minn., near here
tonight.
The police believe that the two mur
dered Connery In order to avoid ar
rest and subsequent connection With
more serious crimes.