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tf tf 4 'WEATITER PI Three. MONTANA Generally fair east, rain or snow west portion Thursday nd Friday; warmer Thursday. WYOMING Scow and colder Thursday: Friday generally lair, warmer northeast portion. DAYS FINAL MORNING EDITION "ROY EZGIMENT. Faraway.

Mareb 38. AboOti Bstarribia, comrnia- the Paraguayan field an Cfcaco. announced PRICE FIVE CENTS VOL. XLVI NO. 145.

UNITED PRESS BILLINGS, MONTANA, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1934. he Paraguayans had AW I fflEA (an Infantry regl- Brtsocers. id PLANNING CONFERENCE ADOPTS PROGRA RIDES VE SURE ita 'OS fc 5. RETURNED FISHING BECKONS ROOSEVELT 0. r.

DEMANDS BROAD SCRUTINY JEM EIIACIS 1 APPROPRIATION i BIELIIIIOlf i mm! bib FSxl On TEMPORARY I rcri basis son. BALLOTING IS III ENTIRE ACCORD III KM MEET 1 Former Holders Must Reorganize to Get Chance Under New Post Office Ruling-. EXPECT ACTION IN THREE WEEKS if I vnr gKj i v. YASHINS WMf "lC VHARLESTOr I i NASSAU Deep sea fishing will give relaxation t'o President Roosevelt, successful in his fight to avert a nation-wide strike of automobile workers. Sailing on Vincent Astor's yacht Nourmahal Wednesday, he will spend a week in waters off the Florida coast, shown in the map.

Inset is the president shown as he sailed on a previous trip on the Astor yacht. -f MARTIN J. INSULL. facing embezzlement charges in connection with the collapse of the great Middle West Utilities company, was placed in Jail Wednesday night in Chicago on his return from Canada. MARTIN INSULL Says He's Blameless; Vessel of Brother Is Now Heading for New Hiding Place.

Chicago, March 28. (U.B Martin J. Insull was brought back to Chicago Wednesday night and sent to Jail on charges of embezzlement growing out of the collapse of the $2,000,000,000 Insull utilities empire. Insull arrived at 5:22 and was taken immediately to the criminal court building, where a conference was held to determine whether he could obtain release on bail. It was decided that release Wednes day night was impossible and Insull downcast and wishing that "it was all over," was taken to a Jail cell.

It was indicated, however, that he might be released Thursday on bail. The 65-year-old former president of the gigantic Middle West Utilities company, came back to the scene of his financial triumphs in the custody of two Cook county officers who ac companied him from Ontario, Canada, where he fled 18 months ago. "I never thought I would come to this." Insull said upon arrival. "But." he added, "I can hold my head up because I know I am blameless. I wish it was all over." The prisoner seemed nervous and whistled to himself.

The warrant Issued for Martin's ar rest accused him of "the crime of theft of the sum of $344,720 of the property of the Middle West Utilities company; $66,000 of property of the Middle West Utilities in another in stance, and the sum of $14,222 of (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) John Dillinger Is Reported Seen in Western Sections (By The Associated Press.) John Dillinger, outlaw, was sought by police of three western states after he, or a man looking like him, was re ported seen in various localities Wednesday. Alvin Carlson, a garage man at San Eernardino; said he was certain that one of two men who drove into his place was the notorious outlaw. Dick Wilson, owner of a service station at Brawley, reported that two men, one looking like Dillinger, came into his station, displayed a large roll of bills and tanked up with gasoline. At San Jose, Sheriff William J. Emig also heard a report the outlaw had been seen' there.

Reports saying Dillinger had been sighted in Phoenix didn't cause officers to become excited. REACHES WINDY CITY FOR TRIAL of mow House Rules Committee to Vote Today on Creation of Body to Hear His Claim. SOLON BLAMES FLOWING BOWL Thinks School Head Got His Impression at Jovial Dinner, but Thinks Quiz Wanted WASHINGTON, March 28. (yp) Signs Wednesday pointed toward the creation of a special house committee to hear the charges of Dr. William A.

Wirt, the Gary, school superintendent, that some of President Roosevelt's advisors wanted to lead the government into communism. The question will be voted on Thursday by the house rules committee at a special meeting. Acting Chairman O'Connor, Democrat, New York, said he thought Wirt got his information at a Jovial dinner party, but that he thought sentiment for a congressional inquiry predominated the rules committee. Generally, as the rules committee goes, so goes the house. Republican members voiced dissatisfaction with the resolution by Representative Bulwlnkle, Democrat, North Carolina, calling for an Investigation limited to the Wirt charges and demanded a broad scrut iny of all rumors that professorial advisors were plotting to supplant the present form of government.

Bulwinkle said he did not put much weight on the revolution talks but that "the thought came to my mind if there are men in the government service designing to thwart recovery and continue destitution they should be found out." Bulwinkle related that the Wirt statements were read to the house commerce committee last Friday and said it was absurd for "that stuff" to go into the committee's record where it might be used against the administration in the coming elections. Representative Martin, Republican, Michigan, asked if Wirt "divulged the names of these men, do you plan to call them before the committee?" "Yes sir, absolutely," Bulwinkle said. O'Connor said "there is a story going around Washington that Wirt talked to these people at a dinner party, where there was a flowing bowl," at which there was "talk about the present, past and future." Representative Fish, Republican, New York, said in the house that the brain trust promotes collectivism (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) Ex -Montana Ranch Woman Is Held on Suspicion of Murder. Los Angeles, March 28. (P) The sheriff's office announced late Wednesday that a Los Angeles police detective lieutenant was being sought for questioning in connection with the slaying here late Saturday of Eric Madison, film studio attache.

Capt. William Bright, head of the sheriff's homicide detail, said he had information that the officer was a close friend of Mrs. Nellie Madison, former Montana ranch woman, widow of the slain man, who is held in the county Jail on suspicion of the murder. The officer Is reported to have ad vised Mrs. Madison on the purchase of a revolver, of the same caliber as that with which Madison was slain, the day before the shooting, authori ties said.

The sheriff's office did not divulge the name of the police officer sought. Meanwhile, a coroner's autopsy re port disclosed two bullets entered Madison's back, another crashed through his brain and a fourth shat tered his right arm above the elbow all of them fired while the film auditor's back was turned to the person who held the caliber pistol, of Spanish make, one of two weapons purchased by Mrs. Madison Just before the tragedy, was not the one (Continued on Page 11, Column 1.) 800 Fishermen Are Reported Drowned As 300 Junks Sink Shanghai, Thursday, March 29. f.T) Eight hundred fishermen drowned, said Chinese advice. Thursday, when a storm off the const of Kwangtung province, sank 300 fbhlng Junks.

SEEK POLICEMAN IN MADISON CASE Grants Increased Allowances to Vets, Federal Employes; Vote Is 63 to 27. BALLOTS MARK MAJOR DEFIANCE Chief Executive Had Objected to It Due to Fact It Will Upset Budget Balance. By P. HAROLD OLIVER. Associated Press Staff Writer.

WASHINGTON, March 28. (Overriding the objections of President Roosevelt, the senate joined the house late Wednesday in voting to enact more liberal veterans and federal pay legislation than the chief executive was willing to accept. By 63 to 27, just a little more than the two-thirds margin necessary to overthrow the recommendations of the president, the senate wound up a long day of debate, by putting the legislation on the statute books. The house vote Tuesday was 310 to 72. The two votes marked the first major defiance by congress of th president.

The roll call found 33 Republicans, 29 Democrats and one Farmer-Labor member voting to override the veto. All those voting to sustain th president were Democrats. A roar of cheering and applause rose from the gallarles as Vice President Garner announced the bill had passed over the veto. "Sixty-three to 27, the bill is passed," Garner said. The senate had to wait several minutes to continue wish its business, while the galleries were cleared.

It recessed immediately. The overriding means that approximately $90,000,000 to $100,000,000 will be returned to World war and Spanish-American war veterans annually without review of their cases to determine, whether their disabilities were of service origin. The president had held out for temporary restoration of these veterans to the rolls pending review of the cases to eliminate the undeserving. It also means government employes who had their salaries cut 15 per cent; by the economy act, will get back 5 (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) Arrest Ends 24-Year Freedom of Convict Who Fled Kansas. Edmonton, March 28.

(U.PJ The 24-year freedom of an escaped, life-term convict from Leavenworth penitentiary was ended Wednesday night by Royal Canadian mounted police. Frank Grigware, sentenced to life in the Kansas prison for robbing United States mall, was held here by Canadian authorities pending extradition proceedings. After his escape, Grigware made his way to Canada, married and settled down in Jasper, under the name of James Fahey. For 24 years he led the life of a respected citizen. Tuesday Fahey was arrested by the "mounties" for shooting game within a national park.

On investigation, a check of fingerprints showed "Fahey" to be Grigware. the escaped convict, according to United States Consul II. M. Collins, who is representing the United States government in the extradition action. States Steel corporation are ammnc tne latest to announce the (Continued ou Pa 11, Culaaia i) HOB GET ESCAPED MAN Stand Solidly Behind Water Conservation, Silver Remonetiza-tion, Metal Studies.

ACT CONCLUDES STATE SESSION Permanent Organization Effected; SetUp 12 Districts; Advisory Council Named. HELENA, March 28. Machinery with which a long-time planning program may be put into effect was set up late Wednesday at the closing session of the first state planning conference in Montana. The state was divided into 12 districts and members were se lected from each district to organize and coordinate the vari- ours state units into the plan ning set-up. A permanent organization was effected through the appointment of an advisory council of 12 members to act with the state planning board, whose members also make ur the state water conservation board.

Voting in entire accord, the Montana planning conference Wednesday stood solidly behind the state water conservation' the congressional proposals of Senator Burton K. Wheeler and others for silver remone-tization, and for an exhaustive study of the state's metallurgical situation. Indorsement of these and other subjects, deemed vital to Montana's future, was made without delay or dissent after the final report of the conference resolutions committee, headed by E. G. Leipheimer, editor of the Montana Standard at Butte, had been received.

The conference by Its adoption of resolutions further gave its support to the allocation of federal emergency funds for the financing of "meritorious mining ventures" and to make "ostensibly self-liquidating loans to producers and prospective purchasers of noncompetitive metals in Montana." On the subject of metals and their production, the conference adopted two other resolutions one urging the reopening of the Helena assay office "to not only serve the small prospector, but to stimulate the production of gold and for its expeditious handling." The conference, in the following, took a firm stand in relation to Montana's water resources, and in support of the water conservation program: "It is a matter of vital importance to all our people that we maintain as a whole and unimpaired, our rights (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) I Notice in The Gazette THE WEATHER. LOCAL WEATHER REPORT. From 6 pm. Tuesday to 6 p. m.

Wednesday. Furnished by H. W. Peterson, United States special observer: Temperature at 6 a. 22 Temperature at 6 p.

SI Maximum for 24 hours 26 Minimum for 24 hours 21 Mean temperature 23.5 Barometric pressure at 6 a. ,.26.89 Barometric pressure at 6 p. 27.05 Precipitation 02 Wind Northeast State of weather Cloudy STATE WEATHER. Helena, March 28. (AP) Maximum and minimum temperatures and precipitation at the following cities during 24 hours ended at 6 o'clock" Wednesday night reported here were: Max.

Min. Prec. Havre 16 16 20 24 24 52 8 56 28 56 32 54 58 56 50 18 Helena 22 Kaiispell 28 Miles City 24 Boise 66 Calgary 8 Los Anselcs 78 Omaha 68 Portland 64 St. Paul-Minneapolis 46 Salt Lake City 66 San Francisco 70 Seattle G2 Spokane 56 Willison 18 Weather Condition. Rain or snow is Indicated Thursday In western Montana, Wyoming, northwestern Utah, and eastern and central Colorado.

Friday will be generally fair. It will be warmer in Montana. VITAL STATISTICS. MARRI.UiE LICENSE. Georje E.

Hofenieder. 22. and Clara Spadt, 19, both of Worland, Wyo. DEATH. Norman Bausch, 12, route in street accident.

TRANSFERS. Irving J. Tnbcr to Adalino M. Taber Lots 11 and 12. block 23, West Side subdivision, Billings.

J. N. Tolmait and others to Charles M. Melvin Lots 23 and 24, block 35, Foster addition, Billings. v.

VL 5 A girl of determination is Eva Beryl Tree. 20. above, blonde niece of the late Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, famed English actor. Working in fruit canneries during her vacations from San Jose, Teachers' college, she saved $300. With this "stake" she hopes to establish herself in the Hollywood films.

Norman Bausch Run Down by Automobile Driven by Rancher of McLeod Section. Norman Bausch, the 12-vear-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Bausch farmers a mile and one-half west of the Broadwater school on the Broad water avenue road, was fatally in Jured at about 4 p. Wednesday when he was struck by an automobile driven by John O'Donnell, McLeod rancher.

The accident occurred in the 500 block of Broadwater avenue The boy, who was a 6-A pupil at the Broadwater school, was taken to a local hospital immediately after the accident. He was unconscious when he arrived at the hospital and died about 20 minutes later. X-ray pictures revealed that death was due to the crushing of the left chest caus ing collapse of the left lung. Mr. O'Donnell, who was exonerated of blame by Coroner Frank M.

Smith following an investigation which re vealed his car could not have been traveling at a greater speed, than 15 miles per hour, said he had driven into Billings in the light sedan of his brother, James O'Donnell, Mount-view cemetery sexton, whom he was visiting, and had picked up his brother's two sons and another student at Fratt Memorial school and. in returning, was driving west on Broadwater avenue. Approaching Fifth street west, ac- (Continued on Page 2. Column 5.) Business Associate Finds Their Bodies in His Apartment. New York.

March 28. Margaret Biedcrbick, 35, a teacher in a Brooklyn public school, and Thomas G. R. Pierson, 58, head of a Manhattan insurance brokerage firm, were found dead in Plerson's apartment Wednesday. Each had been shot through the heart with an 'old-fashioned .45 caliber revolver.

Pierson shared the apartment with Frank Hanlon, formerly a lieutenant in the marine corps and a business associate of his. It was Hanlon who reported the discovery of the bodies. Tuesday night. Hanlon told police, Miss Blederbick had visited them and they had drunk together until late. When they retired, Hanlon told Assistant District Attorney William Mc-Gulnness, it was agreed that Pierson should sleep with Hanlon in the bedroom and Miss Blederbick would pass the night on a davenport in the living room.

Hanlon said he slept until 11 a. and that when he awakened he found the two bodies on the davenport. The gun whs on the floor near the woman's limp arm. I'nnlon said he had heard no shot and neighbors told police they had heard nothing. Hanlon was held for further questioning.

FATALLY INJURED IN CAR BROKER, TEACHER ARE FOUND DEAD Successful Bidders to Be Required to Start Operations in 30 Days After Date. WASHINGTON, March 28. (JP) New bids for temporary air-mail contracts were asked by the postoffice department Wednesday, but companies that formerly held the awards must first reorganize and remove officers who attended the now famous 1930 air-mail conference before they can operate. The announcement showed clearly the administration re mained firm in its attitude that cancellation of private air-mail contracts February 9 was justi fied. "Temporary contracts with com merclal aviation companies for trans porting air mail will be made within the next three weeks," Postmaster General Farley said in a statement.

Advertisements for bids to be made within the next 15 days are to be sent out within the next day or two. The successful bidders will be required to start operations within 30 days after they receive contracts. The department announced 15 routes on which awards are to be made. These total 17,826 miles, as compared to the 25,248 flown by private operators before their contracts were scrapped on the grounds of col lusion and fraud. The temporary certificates are for a three-month period, but they may be extended by the post office department one to three months.

The effect of the announcement Wednesday, department officials said, would be to throw the air-mail contract field "wide open." Transporters that never held mail contracts may bid on the new awards; the reorganized companies and even concerns built from the ground up may enter the competition provided they meet the requirements to be laid down by the post office and commerce departments. Officials expect the administration's permanent air-mail bill to complete the work begun Wednesday, which, if carried through, would result in new air-mail alignments and lower pay basis. The post office committee (Continued on Page 2, Column .) Cabinet Committee to Submit Findings to President on Return. Washington, March 28. (IP) A spe cial cabinet committee will be ready to discuss with President Roosevelt upon his return to the capital some of its preliminary findings in a trouble-shooting analysis of the criti cized price control feature of the recovery act.

The committee, consisting of the cabinet members directly concerned with capital goods prices and price control methods as set up by the recovery act, is composed of Secretaries Wallace, Roper and Perkins and for the legal interpreting Attorney Gen eral Cummings. Its creation came after Mr. Roose velt let it be known that he believed unsatisfactory develop ments had come from the posted price system used by NRA to control methods. Mr. Roosevelt applied this particu larly to the steel industry in which the trade commission reported there was a definite trend towards a price monopoly.

The criticism of some of the price control methods, not only by individuals, but the trade commission was understood already to have been the subjest of informal talks by the four members of the special committee during executive council meetings. Wednesday the committee had before it no definite plan and was described as starting out on Its investigation without any preconceived idea that the method of open prices in an industry was either right or wrong. While the outstanding example used by the administration in its study of price control efforts has been the steel Industry, scores of other industries nre operating under one form or another of price control st up under the NRA Of 372 codes (Continued on rage 6, Coluinu 6.) fiRA PRICE EIIG PROBE LAUNCHED Jacksonville, na, Marcn vr President Roosevelt sailed the open seas Wednesday night, keeping his vacation with a heavy anchored confidence in the national situation. On schedule, Mr. Roosevelt boarded Similar Conditions in Surrounding Territory Are Reported; Snow Heavier West.

March appeared Wednesday to be making ready for a lionlike exit as an overcast sky, east wind and light snow flurries bore a chilly outlook. The storm brought but a small amount pf moisture here, according to H. W. Peterson, weather observer, who recorded .02 cf an inch at o'clock Wednesday evening for the preceding 24 hours. Light flurries occurred during the day, but early in the afternoon there was scarcely enough snow to cover the ground.

The temperature here at 6 o'clock Wednesday evening was 21 and the minimum for the 24 hours was 21. Similar conditions prevailed over the surrounding territory, reports (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) Finds His Children Slain in House and Wife Dead Outside Motgantown, W. March 28. (iP) Returning home from a short visit to a neighbor's Wednesday night, O. B.

Fawley, a well-known business man, found two of his children slain in the living room and his wife dead beneath the front porch. The coroner reported the mother had shot the children, Margaret, 11, and Harold, 23, and killed herself. Reconstructing the tragedy, police said after shooting the two the mother apparently went to the bathroom, drank poison and slashed her throat with a broken glass. Going downstairs she placed her head in the furnace, singeing her hair badly and burning her clothes. Returning upstairs she leaped from a window, tumbled down the porch roof and fell into the yard.

Then she crawled beneath the porch. MARCH STORM IN AREA BRINGS UT ISllE the yacht Nourmahal here early Wednesday and Wednesday night headed for the warm climes of south ern waters, to fish and relax for week. (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) INGIEEINGSIS Merchants Expect It to Be Well Over '33 Total When Check- Up at Close Is Made. Responding to the stimuli of new styles and fatter pocketbooks and ignoring the possibility of rain or snow on Easter Sunday, Billings shoppers are buying at a rate that has convinced merchants their prepaschal sales will be well above those of 1933 Representative stores Wednesday pointed to increases of up to 27 per cent in March sales, over the same period of 1933, as proof of their contentions. Although women's apparel led sales for the first 27 days of the month, the turnover in men's suits and fur nishings has stepped up considerably in the last two weeks and the volume is now ahead of last year, reports from haberdashers indicated.

The last two Saturdays were the busiest since the Christmas holidays, according to the record of one store, whose executives predicted their March volume would be 33 per cent above 1933 figures. Increased employment and the radical departures in fashions for men and women were credited with much of the increase. Sport model suits for women, accentuating "wind blown" silhouettes, and bl-swing styles for men were introduced this spring and are meet ing with widespread favor, according to the merchants. "These fashions are definitely 'in' and milady is doing everything In her power to see that she and her escort are properly decked out for the Easter promenade," explained a retailer. "A considerable volume of business is coming from persons who have gone back to work in recent months and whose wardrobes were depleted by long periods of idleness.

These buyers, we have found, most frequently replace worn clothing with complete outfits." OF SUGAR sugar as a basic commodity and levy a processing tax for development of agriculture and to pay benefits to growers for reduced acreage find production. The modified program follows In SHOWING GAIN SETTLEMENT PROBLEM APPEARS NEAR STEEL FIRMS ANNOUNCE PAY BOOSTS FOR 186,000 (By The Associated Pres.) WITH at least 186,000 steel workers already promised a 10 per cent increase in their pay envelopes effective April 1, more than 140,000 others Thursday are expecting an announcement that the wage boost will be extended throughout this giant industry. Steelmen estimate a general ln-- crease would amount to well over i evidence tending to confirm repor- $3,000,000 a month, and that prob- that tne enurt industry already hs ably more than $1,650,000 a month is (icided 0n the raise, involved in the boost thus far an-, Two ubsldlarles of the WASHINGTON, March 28. () The troublesome sugar problem appeared well on the way to settlement Wednesday night with immediate favorable action on a revised measure predicted by administration leaders. The redrafted Costlgan-Jones sugars control bill embodying the administration program appeared In both house and senate during the day bearing the approval of most elements of the sugar Industry.

While not nil were entirely satisfied. It was indicated they were ready to support the new bill to include nounccd. Nineteen companies have Joined in the movement within the Iiust 48 hours, each adding to th (Continued on Page 11, Column 1.).