Billings Gazette (Newspaper) - July 19, 1929, Billings, Montana MONTANA Local thunderstorms Friday day probably litUo change In temperature WYOMING WEATHER Probably local day nnd Saturday warmer south portion VOL 286 FINAL MORNING EDITION ASSOCIATED PRESS BILLINGS MONTANA FRIDAY JULY 19 1929 UNITED PRESS PRICE FIVE CENTS WRECK VER BRADDOCK Tommy Annexes Round Go Easily Winning Unanimous Verdict of Judges BOXING LESSON Title holder Reveals Mastery in Closing Eight Rounds After Shaky Beginning Hy ALAN 1 Y ANKER STADIUM New Y o i- k July Tommy Loughran dispelled all doubt about his ability to the light heavyweight di- vision Thursday night hy ad- ministering a sound threshing to his youthful New Jersey lenger Jimmy Eraddock In 15 rounds thai for the most part were dull and one-sided Few masters of ringcraft have ever manifested so clear and un- disputed superiority as did Loughran in the skillful manner he cuffed punched and ished the youth from the other side of the son In the opinion ol a or won nt lonst 12 or 13 rounds The deci- sion of tho two Judges nnd Eddie Forbes the close of the bout wns n mere On Just two occasions In first ami seventh rounds wns the world's champion In or difficulties Almost the first punch of the fight a short Inside by opened a cut over left oye This not only a stream of Hint half blinded the holder hut so flustered him Mas to telling punches to head nnd body Tommy Opens Safely this episode buck In complete of the hnd In distress In tho round In the previous rounds the damage wan evened when Tommy opened a nt the side of Jimmy's eye But ns they emerged from n of the seventh n of blood from n fresh cut almost In tho center of his forehead ently wns from u grazing left lull It also wns claimed li corner the challenge hnd hutted the champion lo open the cut Whatever Hie canpo the champion was for a few moments the bloodier of the Uvo figures and he crowd lor more ns It urged Jimmy on cm 7 Col 1 BANKERS OPEN STATE TODA SENATE ENDS HEARING ON TARIFF Inly mcr 50 shot killed his estranged wife Mrs Ing 30 hero la to Thursday then committed with the same tol Ico believed Jealously was the motive Mrs had been working as housekeeper for William E Rath of Idaho Krith took her In his car to the of a friend with whom she had left her two small boys The house was next door to that of who was sitting on his own front porch When the car stopped walked toward it ana began shooting As Mrs fell mortally wounded shot himself Independent Oil Men Appear to Request Petroleum Duty as Aid to Small Firms READY FOR DRAFTING Maryland Governor Asserts No Moral Obligation Exists in Prohibition Matter By Stuff Eastern Point Conn July 18 United Press Proposals of George W chairman of dent Hoover's commission on law en- forcement for a division of between the state and federal In enforcing the law drew sharp criticism but Continued on Page J Column -S PILOT FILL TO DCS July Ross Arnold was killed late day when he fell from the cockpit of the plane Greater Des before It crashed in an attempt to make a contact The Greater was making tests in preparation for an attempt to the world's refueling ance flight record Charles escaped in a parachute The refueling hose from tile Miss Sioux City became entangled In ft wing of the Greater Dos causing it to tip badly Arnold In the rear cockpit and slipped down through the RAIN SHORTAGE Although sections of the stale there bus been clont rainfall season were hurt economically to some extent this year the over Montana ns by reports submitted by members of the executive council of tho Montana Bankers which in session hero Friday ami Saturday is Rood nnd thn of prosperity In tho have become The Montana association IB divided Into coven different groups representing ns many sections of the Each has Itn off Leers nnd a member on tlic association a council nnd each year at tho hankers convention reports covering nnd nrc prepared by tho council Thin reports tho in and livestock ami hold nn optimistic view even whore Iho crop situation In not nt I Is host Tho bankers point out tlint the bettor paid for wheat will up in somo ex- tent for the smaller yields expected in Homo regions All reports cite tho condition of banking nnd business In In tho respective Tho report for No 1 wns pre- pared by N S of Fort lon president of tho Rank At Trust company group No a report wan prepared by L K HIllH of of tho of Baker Kroup No 4 B D of vice president ol the First State hank group No 5 by R R Williams of Great Falls cashier of tho Great Falls hank nnd group No 7 hy William Witt ol Columbus of the First National bank Montana The following report for No 1 Is for the northern part of tho state around Shelby Harlem and Fort In group No 1 as a whole conditions nrp not PO favorable ns they were- last Crop prospects aro not so good and banks ex- a larger shrinkage In de posits from fall to spring Winter wheat In winter wheat sections Is very good and will undoubtedly snow ft very yield Tho tory tributary to oil shows n fino increase In business and de ts Tho rains nnd wet spring mada ft very good for tho stock In Rome sections It mny bo maturing too Hoon on account of tho recent dry weather but on the It Is above tho Much hay will bo put up All shipments go on tho market In very good condition nro no new banks nnd no have cloned In this group They all show very monta nnd reflect cies On account of tho stock crazo of the country nro buying stocks nnd It Is a drain on It bns Continued on ft Col I Little Chance Seen That Measure Will Boost Industrial Charges as Asked By 8 press Staff Correspondent July senate finance committee's tariff hearings closed in a spectacular manner Thursday when Independent oil producers warned retaliatory measures would be taken unless they were given a protective duty on petroleum and Smoot announced he vors a reduction on the house rate of 3 cents a pound for sugar These two dominant issues flaring up at intervals during the hearings which lasted more than one month were the out- standing features in the closing session of the committee MaJ W S Heywood Jennings La representing Governor Long and in- dependent oil producers of the state raid unless the committee gave a protective his group would demand a full and exhaustive Continued on Page 2 Column Ci Eleven More Bumed Four Seriously as Powder Explodes to Wreck Building New Kensington Pa July men were nnd 11 burned four seriously Thursday night In an explosion of bronze powder that wrecked one unit of the plant of the Aluminum company of America nt Logons Ferry here In to the 11 in others were burned but were treated at the scene and sent home The explosion origin of which wns undetermined according to company attaches rocked the district and was heard for several miles The men killed and hurt were for the most part working In or near the unit that was shattered and the force of the blast stripped some of tho victims of clothes The dead were J I 55 night foreman and Andrew GO The wrecked unit wns made up of two small connecting one-story brick building The loss was estimated nt between and OF MEDIC Orent July completed their business early In tho afternoon tho physicians and geons horo for the annual meeting of tho Montana association de- voted tho remainder of the closing day to ft visit to the wire mill and to a nt the Big Falls park Dr LeHoy of Falls won elected president to take office after tho next convention Dr E M dans of who wns elected won Installed as president for tho remainder of this year Dr D P of was elected vice president and Dr E O of WM re-elected WAS for tho next convention HEAD BANKERS ASSOCIATION Howard Whipple San Francisco Bank and Surety Company Officer to Speak ENTERTAINMENT MONTANA Bankers tion opens its twenty-sixth convention here with a session starting at clock this morning on the top oor of the Billings Commercial lub with two nationally nent speakers Howard Whipple Ice president of the Bank of merica San Francisco and T lartley Marshall vice president the United States Fidelity nd Guaranty company on- the program for the session Bankers from ail parts of the state ere arriving here Thursday and ngs was ready to entertain the ors with special attractions planned or each afternoon and evening of the Smoker Last Those arriving early for tho ng were entertained at a smoker Continued on Page 2 Column 5 Officers of the Montana Bankers association ill convention here tills Upper U O Kaufman vice president Union Bank and Trust company Helena president A T lower secretary tana Livestock Finance corporation Helena secretary-treasurer and N A Telyea lower vice president National Park bank Livingston president OVER SOVIET AND Hy tlin Associated The break between Russia and China over the ation has become a diplomatic actuality with the German ment's agreement to take charge of Russian Interests in China and Chinese interests in Russia Formal notification of Russia's decision to cease relations China was received at Nanking in n second note from Moscow which carried out the warning of the first Russian note of July 13 President Chiang an emergency conference of nationalist government lenders to consider tho question after receipt of a telegram from Gov Chang that the tion is extremely grave in view of troop tha concentration Along Tho nationalist government hnd apparently not lost hope of nil settlement with Russia Japan wns possibly prepared to in- between Russia nnd China In tbo of Jn tho far Premier and For- eign Minister who aro not officially Informed of ments conferred on tho as conveyed In reports Troop movements were generally reported on both aides of tho tier but no fighting sec mod to havo Japanese news dis- martial had Continued on 2 Col a SOLDIER DIES IN HIS FIRST JUMP Portland Ore July Thi Jump by Connul Blatter 10 Kirk Ore proved here Thura dny ns lie plunged Into tho Columbia river from n height of cet nn was drowned He wns A o the Blatter Jumper down over the tho parachute fastened so lie wan no to swim He became entangled In tho equipment which fell over hi The youth borrowed n parachute nml hired nn belonging t Charles Mcarn Portland from tho nt nn of feet nnd opened he pnra chuto but wind horo him Into tho river SCUERS BODIES OF 9 FROM at Hilands Club at Noon Will Be Followed by Golf Dinner Dance Swirling Torrent in Arroya Weakens Span and One Car All Steel Plunges Into Creek Bed Submerges Giving Passengers Little Chance to Escape Other Coaches Scatter Colo dry arroya coursing the table land three miles west of here suddenly turned into a raging swirling torrent by a wall of water sioned by a rain of cloudburst proportions Thursday night had given up nine to the rescue victims of the collapsing of a trestle bridge on the main line the cago Rock Island and Pacific railroad shortly before 4 o'clock Thursday morning All of the bodies recovered were taken from the creek bed during the day by rescuers who worked frantically amid the wreckage of one of the most disastrous railroad wrecks in the history of railroading in Colorado More tlinn Uvo scorn were ed injured many or whom arrived In Denver Thursday night by train Others were taken to Goodland Kan and to Colorado Springs for ment That additional bodies may be re- covered before tho wreckage finally IK cleared away was the opinion of rescue workers and railroad officials who throughout the day and day night were directing relief tions All of those who lost their were In an all-steel Pullman placed on the crack western ger train No 5 at St Louis nnd destined for Colorado Springs and Bandit Enters Senate Cigar Store Beats Clerk Getting Away With Loot After an Intensive search of the city police efforts turned to out- points Thursday night In the that the bandit who held up nml robbed the Senate cigar store Thursday morning had made his through the police Police have broadcast the lon of the robber and all avenues of escape from the city arc being atched D M Bownian clerk who wns on duty at the time of the robbery and Deputy Sheriff Barney spent Thursday afternoon on the cus grounds at Laurel In an effort to the robber as a follower of the circus Entering tho storo by a roar door bandH stepped behind the Ler and ordered to throw ip his hands Before Bowman could comply the thug struck the clerk with hts pistol Hastily scooping up hc contents of the cash register the ran exit the front door and down the alley on the opposite side of the street Bowman by the effects of the blow staggered Into police quarters nnd told of tho robbery Afterward he Joined In the search for his assailant viewing every rounded up by the posse The bandit was described by man as a man of about 30 years of age six feet In height and weighing about 175 pounds Tie n overalls rough blue shirt nnd alack hat It Is thought that the spent some lime in observing the atore previous to the robbery Bowman's Injury was not severe and he was able to return to work late Thursday KILLING 31 ON RUSSIAN SHIP Berlin July re- hero Thursday night Bald a Russian steamer had been blown up hy a explosion in tho Black aoa and it was believed 31 lives had been lost Tho advices 14 and 17 ol tho crow of tho had been killed or drowned Prices Move Up and Down Scale Slide on Report of Rains From Argentina Chicago July IB IF Wheat prices teetered nervously up nnd down the scale Thursday racing up to new seasonal records for the fifth day and then to vary the story giving way under tho weight of huge profit taking sales and ished 278 to 3 a bushel lower World crop condition showed little change But beneficial rams In Ar- gentina were Just enough of a ish influence to turn the tide 11 Liverpool shako the confidence of the early morning market and suggest to some that bountiful harvests In Eu- rope and the hemisphere might balance the crop calamity In the spring whead belt of Canada and R northwest At the finish line December was sold at to September at to nnd July futures at 31.11 recurring weather In the northwest without a hint of relief in n region where re- lief now would come almost too late spurred the market up to tho est levels of the year Forty-seven cents a bushel above the season's bottom mark at Wednesday's clos wheat bounced up 2 cents higher er the early sinking spell Thursday The top was for December wheat for nnd for July During Wednesday's At the of fair and warmer Continued on Page 2 Column 3 Continued on Page 2 Col 1 the coast The car submerged bed of the creek bed was not en- tered until late Thursday high water having made entrance earlier impossible Six Identified Of the bodies recovered partial Identification has-been made so far of hut six of the victims Those identified Miss Mary of West Palm Beach FJa en route to Colorado Springs Mrs Ben Lewis believed to be of Memphis Harry Lewis Memphis Tenn G P Carlle West street New York City bakery construction engineer Miss Julia Carlle same address Mrs Jennie Foltz Memphis Teun Pullman porter ad- dress negro porter All of the victims have been removed from the scene of the wreck to Burlington Colo Tlie swirling torrent of water ing death and destruction In Its waks completely submerged car No of the crack train throughout the er part of the day and It was nearly nn hour after the wreck according to survivors in the other coaches before it definitely was established that ono car of the train actually was missing With the collapse of tho loss than 50 feet In width the arroya eight cars seven Pullmans and n chair car left the train nnd were strewn over the countryside Two of the at either end of the submerged death loft suspended from the track OUT STAR CIRCUS FLEAS EXECUTE THEIR LAST HOP JAMES K United Press Correspondent Chicago July and nrc victims of flea soap but their genius will live on In flea circus Maestro Magnabosco discovered the genius or Romeo and Juliet first construed the disappearance of his two stars ns an elopement He re- ported them missing and asked the police aid They are trained ho told the sergeant at the Chicago avenue station They are very Intelligent nnd will come If you whistle When did they naked the sergeant nnd he reached for a report blank headed strayed lock This afternoon the re- lied I hart a worthless fellow Peto Simmons helping me bul 10 got drunk and let n stray Airedale nto tho circus and I Romeo nd Juliet eloped on the Airedale's hack Anybody who knows aboul could Identity them In a minute They were largo wore born on the back of n an bear Irom which I obtained then n a 7.00 at Budapest Juliet wear platinum necklace and Romeo left leg la missing Ho lost It In fight with n fox terrier flea that h found making up to Juliet Spurred by re ward numerous largo gentlemen rounded up no less thn n 100 Airedales but all tho fin tooth combs of the efficient poll lied to find the missing circus stars Maestro Magnabosco himself ex- several scoro suspects but ot one wore Juliet's necklace and ot one was a big upstanding bear flea like Romeo Then Jerome Francis Flaherty keeper entered tho scene he demanded of the ergeant do you keep This drunken down the cell Is so full of Hens that tho ther bums aro klckln1 I need half cake and haven't got all of cm Something told Magnabosco his earch was ended Hastening to tho ell he wasted u glanco on Is erstwhile Simmons but lunged his hands Into tho bucket of urts tn which Simmons hart been his enforced bath A moment later ho took out two Iny limp bodies Tho flea soap had lone Us deadly work Whereupon the Issued several at Keeper Flaherty But Flaherty was not to ba delayed In his work Ho again attacked tho nape of Simmons neck and shortly handed tho not two but seven crawling hopping I think your Juliet must have hart tho keeper Bald Tho picked up his glass In delight he cried floo n little yellow down their Only Carpathian fleas stripe Tn two months I'll have them doing everything Romeo Juliet did
