Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 16, 1920, Page 6

STOnK GTS KICKED QUT OF STATES, HIT N.Y. Driven from 38 Blue Sky States, | Stock Swindlers Flourish in | New York under Different | | Assumed Names NEW YORK, (By Mail.)—Stook -pro- and swindlers who have been driven from 38 states where “blue-sky” Inw: are flourishing in New York ing fo Fawin P. rict attorney in tion of commer. arge of the inves frauds. Iroe charges that most of the operators are composed of “confidence men, ex-convicts, racetrack touts, gam. Dlers and men-of the baser sort’ who, } s00n their crooked work is made public, mi to ther part of the me tropolis and resume business under an other name “lt ist able s he, “that in which is the financial center > world, ihe investing publie should | t without prot n and’ that the Dark A emptor should | law of ca or Smith's Blue Sky Law Commis ‘a prayer to allow the preda-| all Street ir Hage without ttacking the majority report of Gov- | | torney Swann, opposed the recommen-| dation.to turn the prosecution of erook-} ed Wall Street concerns over to four deputies and the Atyrney General Of the State. “The recommendation,” nothing be done by the present legisla- ture except the appointment of a com- mission to redraft the penal law is in- expedient and would accomplish no good he says, “th look on- the. beaches at Venice, Calif. most attractive on the beach, | Sure | Shows |. WASHINGTON, pD. off, the annual cuttt Et At 1,470,000- cords, ng rate: spruce, hemlock, and tir ‘wil last bu ten'years: Only'In Alaska, ‘Washington, Oregon and California are the reserves jn no immediate danger of exhaustion af the cutting continues at the present ‘tate of 2,218,000 cords m- year. These figures, of special interest mek gause of the present paper a Inchided in es' by se Forest Servica of the United States: De- partment of Agnetiture. data ac cumulated give additional emphasis: to the demand for a nation-wide policy that will put privately owned forests on a permanently productive basis and wil) also result in utilizing mill waste for paper making. ; Thy Tio Win Cc. Jan, 36.—In oeTere will , be. an important meeting of the: ~and Navy club IMonday esi in the “club rooms. (he meeting called to name's new president pats army and Navs chib to fill the Vatbancy caus edby the resignation of I. Wa Other matters of importance will come before the meeting. \ ‘Professor Rudolph Tandberg oan by his pupils will give a recital follow- jing the meeting Monday night... Every member-of ‘the club and all ex-servioe men have been invited to attenit the ne- |to Greeley, morning to meet. the ety Mdnenan ‘of the American forces over there! Secretary Fisher. rode with General Pershing to Cheyenne. Tt. was at Lis ‘suggestion’ that arrangements were made to give Pershing a quiet moment in the cemétery where his ‘toved ones were buried, ey of Pulp-wood Rascatces for Constructive and Rermanent Ameri- ean Policy "| less than 20 years 95 per cent of the ; pulp and paper mills of the. country,/] mainly those in the east will havel} | practically exhausted their supplies of] Heprace, hemlock, and fir<the principall} ) woods from whieh the paper on which} | Bewspapers are: printed is made, , | The annual eutting of these woods, jin the New Mtigiand states and New | York is approximately 2,262,000. cords,| and at this rate the supply will last ap | proximately 12 years. The estimated jannual cutting in the Lake States ‘is’ ‘Se NIGHT 7:00, 8:15, 9:30 OF QU, “PICTURES BEST AE ED THEATRE IN THE STATE 5 iw HO WOULDN'T LIKE TO BE IN CALIFORNIA2—This Is the way they | The bathing suit was selected as the | result. All of the facts a commission so 5 table “market = far appointed could possible obtain are now. H but dn the po: jon of the district attor- ‘ ney of as the result of some any 4000 or 5000 complaints Investigated in his office.” The methods 1 by stock swin- aes ary are explain ed I a “In the ol] days,’ he said, “Suck lists were prepared and used- by these unscrupulous pro- moters. On these lise were the names of those known to be susceptible to the ry offers made Dy salesmen of ities. "This list has now heen cast aside and today every #90}, citizen who happens to be inexperienced in the world of finance is a possible vietim, provided he as a ismall hank] ount or government bonds. | “hools ablished to make the smooth tongued salesman more ‘smooth’! and books of instruction are prepared} so that no one even with smal} savings | shall escape thelr Jure. ‘This office is] flooded with complaints of the shorn and plucked who daily stream from Wall street to the Criminal Courts build- ing. The victims, in many cases, have lost their life pavines, the widow's mite, the Liberty Bond bought in a’ spirit of Patriotism by a weoxly deduction from dhe toller's wage. The savings Dank book: and the card of war savings stamps alike have found lodgment in the swindler's net. “The lure of speculation has, © of course, produced a corresponding vol- ume of attendant crime, corruption and dishonesty. The increase in the num- ber and amount of Liberty Bond thefts during the past seven or eight months and of E OF BRAZIL BEING SOUGHT BY FOUR Keen France, Great Britain and Italy for Development of Com- RIO DE JAN a Proknhractiee of France, Great Pritain and Italyofor the} privilege aviation dn Brazil, had endeavoring: to intetest: the government | in their projects, or sions: permit tings freight and possenger lines. The has obtained a gov ernment conces to establish an air line for Aeronaut Fred Miller of 8! in Casper “Rivalry Between U. S., mercial Aviation in South (By Associated Press.) keen airplane | States, the U ed of developing — commercial All of “them have representatives here “for months to obtain conces | them to operate aerial} British Hand Ly ‘age con passengers cargo between the principal cit ies | zil but no British machines have! t yet arrived. It suid. that, 2,000,000 is-a matter of great concern in the fi-) Rounds has been aside to develop nancial district and tn the administra-| oi. routes by. this concern ‘along the | tienjof the criminal law, ay for |eMtire coast. from Pernambuco to | ‘ Bir. Kilroe advocates: as agremedy for! tenos Aires’ ‘with stations at. cight | existing conditions (1) the ‘government licensing and control of . stork ex- 20 ‘similar licensing for stock, investment of the New seeurity | York other lie nuisance plete public record of all security sales and purchases within 24 hours; (5) sim- flar record of collateral deposits by in- veste the amount of broker's len nd nes and addresses of person or m with whom lateral is re-hypo- per u concerning financial condition,’ plans, ete., of concerns before they Inry of stock for sale; (1) 2 Federal “Blue Sky} in the. vivin Law” which would prevent swindlerg| A representative jof a lange Ameri- in other states from doing business by n mail, telegraph or interstate means with prospective victims in New York. other | { | cial —_ ORIGIN OF DOLLAR SIGN (Ry Agsocinted Press.) LONDON (By Mail).—The Ame an} dollar sign had its origin in a blending} of the pillars of Hercules and a Span-} ish scroll, aceording to’ a sh writ er who has made a study of the folk- lore of commer —_— te ~ & Tribune Want, Ads bring results. "RE “White Coal’ is the title of a booklet on Hydro- Electric’ Power which our Statisti- cal Department has 2 prepared. If you are a present or prospective holder of securities) of electric power com- panies we believe ‘you will find this booklet interesting. Avcopy will be sent RD - pee + “e-she-ofestet %, Sas ? Poateats ? % + Po cteateate 2 er ee eo points on the way. powerful type capable of and 2 | British comy passengers will he used. The ny proposes to operate the lines until Brazilian companies are or- | ganized to take over the business and | buy the sir; One American ecuanahy has two ex aviators and four machines h “but it is not known fhat they | anything. other ated: (6) complete public information | hibition 3 made to the gov | to osta vestigated the posgibilities of commer- j country did’not | Yoefoagoegess > It is stated that} of the four-motor rrying a ton of freight | machin anes, | e done! thah to give some ex | pplication has been ment for permission fig financial institftion who recent aviation in 1 said that this atp ent offer a profit- | Mo <a> Se ofo-efo-afe roe: So-eSe eho ote eho afo-ege ofc 0 ef a30-0fo ofe-ofo-e$ foefo-sgoetesteae adectestees tion he repr of greatest influence on business, SOME SHOW! 18 1 eink American he added: airplanc 4 z + he will place esents ina position e in South American t. Charles, Minn., is LYRIC THEATRE . 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