The Butte Miner, 1919-03-14, p.1

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LVI.—NO. 169. 16 Pages BUTTE, MONTANA, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 14, 1919 Price 5 Cents ESTABLISHED 1876. # U.S. TO ABANDON EMPLOYMENT OFFICES [banner, spans columns 1-7] ## Column 1 # FEDERAL BUREAU OF LABOR CUT TO SKELETON DIMENSION ## United States Employment Service Is Reduced 80 Per Cent Because of the Lack of Funds for Its Maintenance. # IDLENESS GROWING WASHINGTON ADVISED ## Failure of Congress to Pass General Deficiency Bill Cause of Trouble; President's Fund Not Available. Washington, March 13.—Reduction of 80 per cent in the force of the United States employment service, effective March 22, was announced today by Director-General Densmore. This was made necessary, it was explained, by the failure of congress to provide funds to continue the work. Mr. Densmore said the number of employment offices would be reduced from 750 to 56, but that none of the work in direct connection with the return of soldiers and sailors to civilian employment would be discontinued. "The reduction of the employment service cuts it to the bone," said Mr. Densmore. "The special work in placing engineers and other highly trained men, persons handicapped by old age and physical disability, vocational guidance for juveniles, the trade tests for skilled workers and the training of employment examiners all must cease March 22. ### SKELETON REMAINS. "The maintenance of a skeleton administrative organization in Washington and the states and continuance of camp representatives, soldiers' bureaus and the clearance system, together with 56 branches in strategic industrial centers, will, however, permit the directing of national employment work by the employment service and enable it to resume full operation when congress appropriates funds." Secretary Wilson, in a statement tonight, explaining the plan for retaining a skeleton organization, discloses a plan to draw on President Wilson's $200,000,000 war emergency (Continued on Page Fourteen Col. One.) # LAST WIRE FLASHES [spans columns 1-2] ### SULZER RESIGNS. (By Associated Press.) Berne, March 13.—Hans Sulzer, Swiss minister to the United States, has asked to be relieved of his duties May. 1. ### LABOR CONGRESS FOR U. S. (By Associated Press.) Paris, March 13.—The labor commission has decided to recommend that the first meeting of the international labor conference be held in Washington in October, if the United States government will consent to convene it. This official announcement was made tonight. ### BOLSHEVIK MURDERS. Stockholm, March 13.—All the relatives of officers of the Eighty-Sixth Russian regiment, which went over to the white guards as against the soviet government, have been executed, says a dispatch from Petrograd. The executions were ordered by the military revolutionary committee of Petrograd. ### ITALY RECOGNIZES POLAND. (By Associated Press.) Warsaw, March 13.—President Trompoynski announced in the Polish diet today that Italy had recognized the Polish government. ## Column 2 # PAMPEL REJECTS STATE'S THEORY AS TO CAUSE OF DEATH ## Physician Seriously Doubts That Death of Harvey Was Caused by Blows; Skull Found to Be Abnormal. # COAGULATION MAY HAVE ARISEN BY EMBALMING ## Medical Experts Figure in Evidence and Questions Arise From Testimony That Favor the Theory of the Defense. (Staff Correspondence.) Livingston, March 13.—O. M. Harvey was abnormal in many ways. His skull was less than half the thickness of the ordinary person and had never knit together along the sutures. His heart was enlarged to twice its proper siz[e] and his liver was not usual, according to testimony introduced by physicians today in the trial of Joseph Swindlehurst, charged with killing O. M. Harvey, the late republican central committee chairman. Serious doubt as to the cause of Mr. Harvey's death was obtained by the defense during the day, which was taken up exclusively by medical testimony introduced by two of the three physicians who performed the autopsy, and the two attending doctors who were called to assist Mr. Harvey before he died, following a street fight with the defendant last December. ### THEORY SUPPORTED. Col. C. B. Nolan gained strong support for his theory that Mr. Harvey did not die from blood clots on the brain, but that what the doctors called blood clots was merely clotted blood forced out of the arteries of the body while the embalming fluid was being injected. He obtained an admission that such a condition was possible from two of the three doctors who testified, and one of them agreed that "it is very possible, it seems to me," while two of the three physicians answered a hypothetical question based on the evidence by saying that in their opinion Mr. Harvey came to his death as the result of blows administered on the head by Joseph Swindlehurst. ### Refuses to Agree. The third doctor refused to agree (Continued on Page Three.— Col. One.) ## Column 3 # MEN WHO HAVE CHARGE OF BUTTE'S ST. PATRICK'S DAY CELEBRATION [spans columns 3-6] [portrait: six men, group photograph, signed "Zubick"] Reading left to right: W. J. Sewell; Edward Fitzpatrick, county president of the A. O. H. and grand marshal of the parade; James J. Murphy, state treasurer of A. O. H.; Judge J. J. Lynch, chairman of the Seventeenth of March committee; James J. Connolly, secretary of committee, and Rev. Father James O'Shea, president section No. 1, A. O. H. With the completion of arrangements last night by the Irish soldiers and sailors at a meeting in Judge Lynch's courtroom, all details for the great parade of the Ancient Order of Hibernians on St. Patrick's day have been arranged. At the meeting of members of the # PRESIDENT QUITS BREST FOR PARIS ## Wilson Arrives at French Port and Is Received With Ceremony; Distinguished Party Meets George Washington. (By Associated Press.) Brest, March 13.—President Wilson and the party that came with him from the United States left Brest for Paris at 11 o'clock tonight. The president and Mrs. Wilson disembarked from the George Washington at 9:45 o'clock. Though numerous decorations had been hung out to welcome the return of the president his reception was entirely without ceremony. Those who went aboard the George Washington to extend greetings were the French ambassador to the United States and Madame Jusserand, M. Leygues, minister of marine, and several other representatives of the French government, Major General Eli. A. Helmick and Brigadier William W. Harts. Colonel House met the president at the dock. ### Excellent Health. President Wilson was in excellent health, apparently having benefitted by his period of rest since he left here on February 15. The president inspected the French guard of honor, consisting of several companies of French marines dressed in their picturesque uniforms, who were standing at "present arms." The president smiled at the men amiably and then complimented their commander. This was the last of the meager ceremonial before the president entrained for Paris. ### MAPPING OUT PLANS. On board U. S. S. George Washington, March 13.—Today, the last of his voyage from the United States to Brest, President Wilson put in several hours mapping out his plans for his peace conference work. During the day the president received a wireless dispatch outlining the situation with regard to the phases of the negotiations to come up soon after his arrival in Paris. ### Of Great Benefit. The voyage has been of great benefit to President Wilson, who throughout has obeyed the injunctions of Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, his personal physician to rest. The president has recovered from the cold from which he (Continued on Page Fourteen.— Col. One) ## Column 4 Army and Navy association in Judge Lynch's courtroom, it was decided to bring the question of parading as an organization up at the next regular meeting of the body on Sunday. In case it is decided not to march as a body, a supplementary meeting will be held, following the regular session, of those desiring to march, # *Net Income of Railroads Is Millions Short of Meeting the January Rental Charges* [spans columns 4-5] Washington, March 13.—Although operating expenses of the principal railroads of the country showed a decrease in January, gross and net operating revenues continued to decline, the net revenue, after deduction of tax, falling about $54,000,000 short of the government's average monthly rental obligation of approximately $75,000,000. ### 161 LEADING ROADS. A summary of revenues and expenditures for 161 roads with annual revenue in excess of $1,000,000 made public today by the interstate commerce commission showed gross operating revenues in January declined more than $43,000,000, or about 10.5 per cent, from the December figure of $440,100,165. Net operating revenue fell off $8,744,822, or 5.1 per cent from the December total of $45,065,603 [?], while operating expenses were $360,465,815, a decrease of $34,568,747. ### Operating Income. Deduction of taxes and uncollected revenues from net operating revenues for January leaves an actual operating income of $20,936,000, a decrease of $10,000,000 from December. Compared with the same month the year before gross operating revenues for January increased $111,427,000, or about 38 per cent, net operating revenues $22,481,970, or [160?] per cent, and operating expenses $88,944,000, or 32 per cent. # DOLLAR YEAR MEN'S SALARIES ARE TAXED Washington, March 13—During the war the government accepted the services of nearly 1,000 men and paid them the nominal compensation of $1 a year. Today the $1 became a tax issue through a ruling by the internal revenue bureau that not only must the dollar be reported but that it is taxable if the total income from all sources is in excess of the usual exemptions. Most dollar-a-year men had private sources of income above $6,000 and in these cases the normal tax on the dollar will be 12 cents, or nearly two months' pay at the government rate. ## Column 5 and a commanding office[r] and platoon commanders appointed. There is little likelihood that the association will not march as a body as the representative gathering last night was enthusiastically in favor of a general turnout. ### Lineup of Parade. The parade will form as follows: [the wide first paragraph of "Net Income of Railroads Is Millions Short..." continues across this column; transcribed under Column 4] # ACROSS COUNTRY AERIAL SERVICE ## Passenger Line Between New York and Los Angeles Announced; Across the Continent in Four Days. New York, March 13.—Aerial passenger service between New York and Los Angeles will be started early in August, according to announcement at the aeronautical exposition tonight by Wesley A. Hill of Phoenix, Ariz., a former army aviator and head of a recently organized aerial transportation company. The company, Hill said, has a fleet of four 12-passenger planes, all of which will start on the inaugural trip on the same date. Stops are to be made at Kansas City, Chicago, Cleveland and other cities, which have landing fields. The schedule calls for a four-day trip. # GOVERNMENT RESTS IN THE O'LEARY CASE New York, March 13.—Attorneys for the government rested their case in federal court against Jeremiah A. O'Leary, former publisher of Bull, after calling several witnesses in rebuttal of testimony offered by the defendant to refute the charge of violating the espionage act. Sur-rebuttal testimony will be offered by the defense tomorrow, after which, it is expected, the case will go to the jury. ## Column 6 1. Ed. Fitzpatrick, grand marshal, with W. E. Deeney and Dr. P. H. McCarthy, uniformed aids, and Harry Thompson and P. J. Grogan, all mounted. 2. City policemen and firemen headed by Chiefs Murphy and Martin. 3. A. C. M. band. (Continued on Page Two.— Col Six.) # LOUIS KLOTZ ON FRENCH FINANCE ## Eagerly Awaited Speech From Chief of Exchequer Clears Up Theories as to Country's Wealth; German Indemnities Paris, March 13.—Louis Klotz, minister of finance, began his eagerly awaited speech in the chamber of deputies today on the financial situation by denying that he had made the statement that France had become richer since the war. From the fiscal point of view there had been more resources created, the minister conceded, but it would be absurd to say that with the invaded departments of France that the country had become richer. ### Deficit Easily Met. According to M. Klotz, it would be relatively easy to meet the 10,90[0?],000,000-franc deficit of 1919 by an increase in indirect taxes, an income tax, receipts from the liquidation of war stocks and a revision of the law governing the transportation of troops over French railroads by charging the allies for transportation as the French are charged. The railroad deficit, the minister said, would be 4,000,000,000 francs. ### Tax on Capital. Concerning the tax on capital proposition, M. Klotz said the French capitalist taxpayer would not be called on to pay one cent of additional taxes until German indemnity figures to France were settled on and guaranteed. But even should Germany pay completely for damages and the restoration of the devastated provinces M. Klotz said this would not balance future budgets after 1919. The tax on capital, the minister asserted, was destined to reach war profiteers. M. Klotz did not heed numerous interruptions from all sides of the chamber asking him to name the amount that would be demanded from Germany. Victor Dalbiez, radical socialist, created some excitement by shouting: ### "Long Live Caillaux." "Long live Caillaux!" referring to former Premier Joseph Caillaux, who is [u]nder arrest charged with having had dealings with the enemy. The chamber was filled with officers and soldiers, who loudly hissed Dalbiez. One officer [shook?] his fist at the deputy and shouted a challenge to a duel. M. Klotz, during his address, mentioned (Continued on Page Eleven.— Col. Three.) ## Column 7 # 'MOON OF ISRAEL' FOR READERS OF BUTTE MINER ## H. Rider Haggard's Masterpiece of Fiction Will Start Sunday; Fascination and Realism Unsurpassed. # READER IS COMPLETELY CARRIED OUT OF HIMSELF ## Men and Women Dead More Than 3,000 Years People the Earth Again to Entertain and Instruct. [drop capital A] MODERN miracle has been achieved. Men and women who died thousands of years ago have come back to this earth and live and move and talk. They do not come back to us like the shadowy ghosts of physical research, but with cheeks glowing, eyes sparkling, pulses beating—in all the vigor of their original flesh and blood. We hear their voices, we see the silks and fine linens of their garments; we feel the touch of their jewelled hands. And more than this—we know what they are thinking and feeling; we share their joys and sorrows even more fully than if they lived in the apartment overhead or in the house next door. Sir H. Rider Haggard is the man who has performed this miracle. And not only this, but all future generations will honor and thank him for the magic which the genius of his pen has worked. In "Moon of Israel," his latest, greatest fiction masterpiece, the distinguished author of "Yva," (Continued on Page Nine.— Col Six.) ### Visitors' Theater Guide. AMERICAN Movies ANSONIA Movies BROADWAY Dark EMPRESS Stock. LIBERTY Movies LYRIC Movies ORPHEUM Movies PEOPLES HIPPODROME Vaudeville MONTANA WEATHER— Snow Friday and possibly Saturday; no decided change in temperature. BUTTE DISTRICT— Snow, not much. TEMPERATURES YESTERDAY— Maximum—45. Minimum—29. # TODAY'S MINER. Page One— U. S. to Reduce Employment Offices. The Livingston Trial. Railroad Losses Heavy. Butte Miner's Sunday Feature. President In France. G. O. P. Campaign Meeting. St. Patrick's Day Plans. Last Wire Flashes. Page Two— State News. Page Three— Telegraph News. Page Four— Editorial. Page Five— County Preparing Road Building Program. Cement Highway from Butte to Helena Proposed. County Saved $10,000. Captain Cutts Speaks in Anaconda. Page Six— Local News. Page Seven— Liberal Culture Club. Hal Johnston Starts Home. Page Eight. Anaconda News. Page Nine— Hennessy's Spring Display. D. D. Richards Here. Page Ten— Sport News. Page Eleven— Page Twelve— Telegraph News. Page Thirteen— Mining and Markets. Page Fourteen— Want Ads. Page Fifteen— Want Ads. Page Sixteen— Telegraph News.