Billings Gazette (Newspaper) - August 22, 1927, Billings, Montana MONTANA WEATHER Monday unsettled ably west portion er northeast portion Monday MORNING EDITION WYOMING WEATHER and In VOL 320 BILLINGS MONTANA MONDAY AUGUST 22 1927 PRICE FIVE CENTS SACCO AND FACE FINAL DAY OF EXECUTION RESPITE Younger Convict Has Hope That Life Will Be Spared Older Continues to Show Effects of Mental Strain Radical Sympathizers Again Urge Strikes and Threaten Bombings State Prison Boston Aug Sacco and Bartolomeo went to bed in their cells in the death house Sunday night with the knowledge that day may be their last day of life Sacco has renewed hope that his life may be saved Vanzetti is silent and restless ac cording to Michael A defense attorney who visited the men in their cells Sunday The two men who with Celestino Madeiros are scheduled to be electrocuted some time after midnight Tuesday morning spent what may be their last Sunday on earth quietly received in addition to visit two visits from Mrs Rose Sacco and Miss Luigia Vanzetti Sacco's wife and Van sister spent an hour in the death house on their visit and about the same length of time in the afternoon US 0 EUSE Governor Fuller Re- quested to Stay tion Until Records Are Examined Washington Aug ment by the department ol Justice day that its files would be opened to high Massachusetts authorities should inspection be requested In connection with the case was lowed immediately by an appeal by of the condemned men that the Lowell committee undertake Euch an examination At the same time a telegram was sent to Governor Fuller requesting a stay of execution to permit Inspection of the government records The wire to the Massachusetts executive was signed by Arthur Hayes of New York and Francis Fisher Kane of Philadelphia who earlier In the day had conferred for eral hours with Acting Attorney eral Farnum Hayes and Kano likewise made public a telegram which they said had been sent President Coolidge at the summer White house In South Dakota Saturday after two had discussed the case with Attorney General at his home In Vermont Urges Opening Files Tho wire to Mr Coolidge urged that the government files relating to the case be opened before tho men were executed adding that It seems to us the honor of our country would be Irrefutably sul lied If these men aro put to death when of people sincerely believe tha Important evidence Is kept by thi government During tho day counsel for Sacco and Vanzetti obtained over the telephone from court officials the summe addresses of all justices within a day reach of Boston Tho summer of Chief Justice Taft vacationing o Murray bay Quebec was said to havi been requested In particular Meanwhile Monday it Is expected record of tho case will bo filed with th clerk of tho supremo court an effort Initiated last week to have th high tribunal review the proceedings the Norfolk county superior court o Massachusetts where tho men wero trie and convicted and also tho action of th state supremo court In refusing to re view tha case on its merits Michael A one of th defense counsel Saturday appeared be foro tho clerk of tho United States premo court to file petitions but wa advised a record of tho case also be necessary He said this would bo for warded from Boston and tho case wl be docketed upon its receipt Xo Message The department of Justice announce ment Sunday was made by Mr Farnun who said the files would bo opened I v Governor Fuller the attorney generi Massachusetts or tho Lowell comml tee upon request He said however thi he told Hayes and Kane who wero ac to his office by Frank Walsh of Now York that they were m authorized to convey to the setts authorities any suggestion or me sage In any shape or form on my b half In making the ac r ing attorney general reiterated the position that It had no diction over the cose and said that ho had been advised that a checking of tha government's files had tailed to disclose any evidence of any collusion ever between the stato and federal In the cose Tho by Hayes and Kane to dent Lowell of Harvard who headed the Investigating committee appointed by Mr Fuller requested him to call that into session at 10 o'clock Monday morning BO that Imperative tions as to why theae flics should bo ex- may bo presented before Saeco and are put to death wire to Governor Fuller in part Wo are acting for tho citizens com- organized for tho solo purpose of an examination of the so files and for and In co-operation with Mr Arthur D Hill attorney for the defendants Wo earnestly and fully urge you to grant the necessary respite lo the In order that the commission bo enabled to present the required request to the attorney Shortly alter filing tho telegrams Hayes Rune and Walsh left for Boston SLEEP WITHOUT NEWS OF REVERSES TODAY'S GUEST IN WESTERN ROLES Boston Aug that the latest undertaken by their counsel in their had failed Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo their fate In the death house at state prison at mid- night entered upon the last 24 hours of life allotted them in the respite granted 12 days ago by Gov Alvan T Fuller They went to sleep Saturday night without having been informed that Justice Louis D of the ed States supreme court had declined to Intervene In their case and that their attorney Arthur D Hill of ton was speeding through the night by automobile and motor boat to peal to Justice F Stone at the latter's summer home on Isle Au Haut off the Maine coast The Rev William Murphy chaplain of the prison was the last visitor ad- mitted Sunday to see and Vanzetti nnd Celestino Madeiros who Is to go to the electric chair for an- other murder along the two radicals Before entering the cells in the death house the priest had not learned of Justice Brandels decision and so could not Impart it to the prisoners AH three snld were physically and mentally well The condemned men were served with roast chicken dinner Sunday and al hree ate heartily managing as well as hey could with spoons that are thi illy eating utensils provided them ood prepared especially In the prison kitchen brought to leath house In an contains cd given the trio in their cells Sacco Has Hope Sacco has renewed hope that his life may be spared It was revealed by Mus manno after he had seen the pair earl n the morning shortly after he had ar from Washington where he at to file a writ of In th United States supreme court said that showed In the legal battle that Is stll carried on by his But Vanzetti the quieter of the two continues to show the effects of tn mental strain under which he has bee said the attorney He hat he found Vanzetti wearing A knotte handkerchief on his head and that h was afraid to question him about It fo fear of disturbing the prisoner's mind IG getting little rest said manno He paces his cell almost con Writes to Son Bacco said to have started to writ letter to his son last week but late was reported to have halted his Sunday however the citizens committee made public a letter Is the one the committee said that Bacco wrote The letter which Is dated August 18 Is addressed to my dear son and President Coolidge who recently commented on the importance of news reels s a means of keeping the world Informed of current events demonstrates that he nows something about the mechanical part of movies also Insert shows the resident wearing the feathered headdress given him by the Sioux Indians at a at Deadwood This Is the latest portrait of the chief executive WATERS OF PACIFIC STILL HOLD FATE OF SEVEN LOST FLYERS Says Present tration Talks Dry But Acts Cites Obstacles Lake Aug PInchot former governor ot Pennsylvania addressing the congress of the World League Against Alcoholism Sunday sailed Andrew w Mellon secretary of the treasury as being the chief obstacle to complete enforcement of federal tlon In the United Slates Back of him and therefore chiefly re- sponsible Is President Coolidge the speaker declared Much of me lurmer governor's address was devoted to a re- sumption of his attack on Secretary Mellon whom he charged with refusing to have the prohibition law enforced For many reasons Secretary Mellon Is utterly unfit to have charge of the enforcement ot the eighteenth ment Mr PInchot declared First he Is wet When appointed as secretary or the treasury Mellon was If not the largest one of the largest makers of whisky In America through his ship of the Overhold distillery Both be- cause of hts personal views and his business Interests he was Just the wrong man to enforce the law The result has proved It The trouble with the Coolidge Is that it has talked in favor of the drys but acted in favor of the wets President Coolidge personally obeys the law He has It Is true said In sages to congress law ought to be and ought to be enforced He did it is true call a conference of governors on law enforcement the result of which was utterly nothing I was there and I know Under the Coolidge administration there has been dry talk enough to keep the dry of not dry action enough to keep the wets from getting all the drink they wanted THRONG WILL GREET COOLIDGE ON BRIEF STOP IN BILLINGS City to Present President's Wife With Moss Agate Pin Carrying Unique Natural Design of Pillar Train Scheduled to Arrive at 8 A M and Leave 10 Later President Coolidge will arrive in Billings at 8 o'clock day morning on a special train The train will leave 10 utes later for Livingston Early Sunday night the president stepped on board the train at Ouster S D and began the trip which will carry him for the first time across the plains of the far west and into the nation's wonderland Yellowstone National park One of the largest crowds ever to assemble in the city is expected to be present at the union passenger station Monday morning to welcome the president of the United States eral store proprietors and other business men Sunday night telephoned their employes not to report for work until after the presidential train had left the city It goes on to say that I never thought our Inseparable life could be separated but the thought of seven years makes It It did come but when tt has not changed really the unrest and the heartbeat of affection that has remained as It was The loiter mentions the end of Sacco's hunger strike and explains If I stopped my hunger strike the other day It was because there Is no more sign of life In me Continued on Page 2 Col 2 San Francisco Aug vasti Pacific ocean continued Sunday to hold ast the fate of the seven who dared to ly over Its thousands of miles of css water from the shores of California the of Not nil the of the navy the army the scores of steamships plying the great sea nor the hopes and prayers of relatives friends and the that tribute to bravo effort brought one word to indicate whether the ocean had claimed them or they were still afloat waiting for rescue eagerly extended but to come Five days had passed since the Golden Eagle and the Miss Doran hearing their four courageous men and one woman roared away from the crowded and airport that cheered them to win and the prizes offered by James D Dole for the first and second planes to cross miles of the Pacific And nothing was heard from Pilot Jack Frost and Navigator Gordon Scott of Los An- geles of the Golden Bogle nor from Miss Mildred Doran the beautiful young school teacher who bravely shared the dangers of John Auggy Pedlar and Lieut V R Knope who piloted and navigated the plane named in her honor Joins Missing Two days had gone by since Capt William P of Dallas Texas anc H of Alameda Cal with the courage that laughed in the face death flew out to sea to search the waves along the whole route to for traces of those who had pre- ceded them From their plane the Ins Spirit they radioed the gay messages to friends and the Jests of men going light-heartedly to great adventure And then through the COO miles of air camo their SOS piercing the night that overspread the ocean It was at p m Friday: Final Message We went Into n tall we come out of It but were sure scared It was a close call We thought It was all off but we came out of It Tho on fho instrument board went out and it was so dark that couldn't or the brave seven The liners parting he waves between the mainland and the slands maintained their ceaseless vigil Out from the Golden Gate of California soared army planes working with those catapulted from the decks of the carriers Langley and Aroostook and far out in the Pacific other army and navy planes spread their wings over e waters of Hawaii What human could do was done will be done Bufe whether those sought rocle the waves or whether the waves of eternity rolled over them was not known HOME CITY PRAYS Mich Aug 01 man's efforts to find their Idol the flying school teacher this thriving In- community bowed down in HE STD 0 Continued on Page 2 Col 2 Frees Self After Trapped Six Days in Cave see the are In That was the last heard from and holder of the distinguished service medal for heroic service for his country In Franco during the war of nations and tho young navigator whose hand on the key sent the messages that will show others how to die to aid their lows Ships Continue Search Scores of ships of the navy continued Sunday to plow the sea In tho search LLI Three Known Dead Seven Missing and More Than Spent to Win in Prizes and Fame Big Smith Says Fog Defeats Effort to Catch Ship With Airmail Naval Air Station Squantum Mass lug fog off the coast early defeated the Irst attempted light The fog forced the United states navy flying boat to return to Its iase hero after the big plane had battled he thick weather for an hour and a If In an effort to reach tho liner Leviathan 375 miles off the coast Carrying 100 pounds of mall dis- patched from New York to Boston by rain after the Leviathan had sailed ior Europe the twin-motored lopped off the water hero at Sunday morning Three hours later the ship re- turned the attempt frustrated by tho log barrier The mall hsd arrived at Boston shortly before midnight It was put on motor rucks and rushed here to tho air tion where It wns loaded on board the waiting plane Gray skies attended tho departure A fog bank at tho outer bay was succeeded later by thick weather that kept the plane's rolling at 100 feet became so low that Llent C H In command of tho plane brought her about to return to the base In addition to Lieutenant Lieut Bradford E assistant pilot mechanics and a radio man formed the of the WEATHER AGAIN FOILS HOPES OF FRENCH FLYERS San Francisco Aug first transoceanic air race In history has taken a high toll In men and money To date the record chowa three killed seven ing and In excess of spent to win in The only contribution to the ment of commercial aviation made by the flight according to aviation experts Is that a professional aviator starting on a flight over a course to has the odds of four to one against his getting there Originally there wero thirteen starters In the race who obtained places Three were killed en routo to tho take-off place one never got far away fiom hla home hangar and another was ruled out before post time Ernest Smith the first civilian pilot to ly an from tho mainland to tho Hawaiian Islands Bald the whole race was a big mistake It Is stunt Smith declared and not practical with land planes And now there are six men and girl out there somewhere battling fo their lives All for It worth It Of Hie eight planes that actually faced the flag two stumbled ant crashed at the start two put back with engine trouble or damaged planes twi reached Honolulu and three arn missing today The third was piloted by Capt William who after being force back started out In search of those wh were missing in the race James Dole donor of the prises never contemplate an air race when he offered the award Ho believed as did exports In the avla tlon world that It would bo some month before a properly financed tlon could be equipped and sent on way Shell Mound Tenn Aug Trapped six days In cave Lawrence S Ashley geologist who en- tered the cave lost Monday on an ex- trip dug his way out Sunday Ashley said that he had been trapped by falling earth as he crawled through a narrow passageway while attempting to reach a large underground cavern be- to be connected with the cave Although weak and in a dazed con- dition Ashley said that he had not from his confinement He told an Associated Press representative that he had previously cached food at a point near where he was caught and had not suffered from hunger A small shovel he carried was used In digging his way to the surface he declared Ashley who had given more than two years to the exploration of the famed cave went in Monday with the determination to examine a new cavern which he had discovered eome time ago leaving a message that if lie did not return by Tuesday that the be notified When he failed to return on schedule his friends became alarmed and a searching party composed of natives familiar with the cave was organized and began the quest for the missing geologist Will Present A Montana brooch will be presented to Mrs Coolidge during IOT short visit in Billings The ring with n large carrying a natural design 01 pillar with an white and yellow gold band will be given to the first lady of the land by Mary the daughter of Mr and Mrs C D 220 Clark avenue Mr Is ident of the Billings Commercial club The brooch will be presented through the Commercial club as u gift from the women of Billings A card accompanying the gift will bear the Inscription To Mrs Coolidge with love nnd best wishes from tho women of Billings Notables to Join Party Railway officials a congressman and others arrived In Billings Sunday night to Join the presidential party on the train here Congressman Scott Leavitt of Great Falls will the train to pay his respects to Coolidge and will leave the party at Livingston Officials of the Northern Pacific railway were expected to travel through the park with the ident J J Clark veteran Northern Pacific conductor who has piloted two other presidents a queen several princes and senators by the carload through tana arrived from Livingston Sunday night and will take charge of the special train as it leaves Billings Mr Clark said that the train was scheduled to arrive in the city at 8 a m Monday ana leave at n m Tho clul train of eight Pennsylvania railway cars will be transferred from the lington to the Northern Pacific in ll ngs Will Leave by Cody The president will leave the park by way of Cody Wyo after a week of suing any pleasure which meets his fancy tn the wonderland Mr Clark will be In charge ot the train as far as Gardiner where the president will enter the park bv bus Although the short stop in Billings will obviate any formal reception for the ident members of the post No 4 American Legion will be present Governors Will Try to Reach Agreement on Problems of Water Rights Protection Denver Aug to find solutions to the vexing problems of the last five years the conference on the Colorado river Is scheduled to open here Monday The primary purpose of the meeting la to reach such agreements as will permit of full ratification of the Santa Fe compact drawn at Santa Fe N M In 1822 Five states have affixed their signatures to it Colorado Utah Wyoming Now Mexico and Nevada Two states have yet to ratify and Arizona On the statement of Gov C C Young who arrived Sunday California's approval of the pact will he predicted on the passage of the Boulder canyon dam at tho December session of congress In a body at the depot wearing caps Provision was made by the police ment Sunday night to handle the large crowd which Is expected to gather The moss agate brooch will maKe n peculiarly appropriate gift for Mrs the donors decided Sunday night as Montana Is the the only state In which tho moss agate Is found The moss agate as tourists In the stato are quick to learn pictures In miniature landscapes scents animals and defined characters of natures History of Rock The stone which Mrs will FORMER FIGHTER LOSES FOREARM FROM POISONING Paris Aug Bourget field was virtually deserted Sunday Weather reports early In the morning Informed tha aviators who have been waiting at Le Bourgot for weeks for an opportunity to for New York that a half gala was lashing tho Atlantic from Dunkirk to Conditions were so bad that there was some until noon whether the regular airlines between Paris and don would be able to make the Journey Tho weather bureau said there was no prospect of Improvement This has been the most month of August In France for several years PARACHUTE JUMPER Germany Aug ton Merkelback noted parachute was killed Sunday In a leap a para- chute of his Oivn construction A leather strap broke precipitating from an altitude of cot Helena Aug known to all parts of Montana as tling suffered the loss of his left forearm Sunday night as a result of blood poisoning was shearman for tho Barrett Iron Works and last Monday operating a saw his hand was thrown into the saw two fingers Jeing badly cut Ho was immediately to St Peter's hospital but efforts save the arm proved useless gained a wide reputation as n fighter in Montana and only in the last year had given up the ring game He IB a brother of Young Helena fighter who Is well known throughout Montana Is 27 years old married and has a family HIGH EXPLOSIVES FOUND BELIEVED RADICALS WORK wear as she leaves Billings shows In bold relief the rug Bed rock which was first seen by white men when the Lewis and Clark expedition crossed Montana In its exploration of tho northwest The rock is pillar named for a colored cook who was the chef for the explorers who first penetrated Montana The legend of the rock is that as the expedition pursued a course along the Yellowstone river they sighted this ering mound of stoue rising In the ley from any other A decision was Immediately made to name the rock for Pompey the negro cook Destroyed Marker The Lewis and Clark party built a shelter as a marker on the top of the rock and left In it a record of their visit Tho structure was torn down vandals not knowing Its significance when settlers first began to pour Into tho territory which was destined to como bountiful Montana Frank now a salesman for tho Mazda lamp company declares that as a away boy he was the one who threw the remaining sticks of the marker to the ground below Mr well preserved though post 70 years old is a visitor In Billings A magazine article a few years ago to a story he told In Billings EX Aug 0 Emerson and State Engineer John A Whiting left Sunday Denver to at- tend the Colorado river conference Ing there Monday Governor Emerson who had re- turned from an overland trip to Jackson received a telegram from President inviting him to Join the party in Yellowstone park He tele- graphed Mr asking him if sible to leave the park by the Cody way and advising that he would moko every effort to meet him there This would mean that the governor meet the president In Cody Thursday or Friday Arrangements wero made by Governor Emerson at Jackson for the expenditure of 56.000 raised at his call in the state in repairing tho Irrigation systems damages by the Ventre Hood Most of tho flood sufferers are farmers who need water for Irrigation It was said and this offers a practical eld in tatlon Sacco Maine Aug Sacco police Sunday found 13 boxes of high explosives a box of caps and 75 feet of fuse wire on the new county road about fifty feet from the road In a field B short distance from the Fenderson field A story that the explosives were being taken to Massachusetts Saturday In a truck that had become disabled nnd wero placed In the Held was being Investigated tonight by the COLORED YOUTH DIES IN CHAIR FOR ASSAULT Texas Aug his Innocence to the last Ed negro sen fenced to death for criminally ing a white girl stepped Int the chair In tho penitentiary hero at a m Exactly six minutes later after tho switch had been twice pulled the prison pronounced the youth dead Continued on Page 2 Col 3 FLOOD WATERS AGAIN POSSESS TOWN ON RIVER Little Rock Ark Aug and without funds or plans proximately 500 residents of McClelland Sunday night were in box cars en route to shelter provided by the American Red as whimsical White river slowly but surely engulfed their homes ana rarms destination was Cotton Plant county seat of Woodruff where tho Red Cross has established refugee camp the fourth of the year be pitched on the same location McClelland Sunday night was empty except for the muddy waters of th river which found their way the town through Broken levees litre stock had been moved to safety and th people many with their scanty posses slons on their backs had resigned then to another of the element Tho White river which broke throug levees near McClelland three months b foro the Mississippi went mad last began its nnw assault last week follow I Ing heavy rains in north Arkansas Observers Say ment Will Rob ing of Teeth Los Angeles Aug All eys In the Chaplin cose maintained unday that the film comedian and his Grey Chaplin had property settlement and that the orce trial would begin Monday ag However the Examiner declared ay night that persons in close touch the situation were positive of tho of an agreement which would ender the trial a mere formality Tho It was stated would give irey Chaplin and their two children bont part In cash then a rust fund for the children and the iu In five annual payments The Examiner further states that ac to informed parties ths would retain his Beverly Kills home Attorneys for both sides were reported o have engaged In of ences throughout the day The trial has been scheduled for Walter court To accommodate the hordes of men assigned to report the trial has planned to occupy other and larger court room quarters for the occasion Mrs Chaplin It was predicted by close to the case would appear In court shortly after the trial opened at 10 a m to testify to asserted acts of cruelly with which she has charged her husband but would not delve Into the more sensation al of her accusations DOLE RETURNS Municipal Airport Oakland Cul Aug monoplane Oklahoma piloted by Bennett nnd by Al Henley the airport here at p m Sunday for Oklahoma City The flight will he made by Miss Herod a friend o was the third occupant of plans
