Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 28, 1920, Page 1

WEATHER FORECAST right amd Thursday, Thursday. VOLUME IV. Probably rain or snow to- colder NECK-AND-NECK RACE ON PREFERENCE VOTE APRIL 28, 1920 (By Associated Press.) MINDEN, Nev., April 28.—As nei- ther Mary Pickford nor Owen Moore are in Nevada to be served with sum- MOORE-PICKFORD SUMMONS ISSUED Yesterday’s Circulation 4,175 NUMBER 169 [PROBE RUSSIAN 'U. S. CHAMBER TO. ! SECRETARY OF C.C. EN ROUTE TO THIS CITY REBELS TAKE CAPITAL CITY OF CHIHUAHUA : ‘a’s Hold on Border State Slipping yrousands Join Obregon Army and Sonora Insurrectionists; Fighting Goes Against Federals in Tampico Field (By United Press.) EL PASO, April 28.—Altho neither Carranza officials nor mons in the state's suit to set aside | |Obregon revolutionists here could confirm early today rumors the divorce decree granted Miss Pick- | TRADE QUESTION | ,Gharles B. Staffora, recently chosen of fighting in Chihuahua City, Obregon fallowners claiaed that pororcuunee, EAnesi aint Rigtescs (come) | Chamber of Commerce, will riven |Chihuahua City had been captured without bloodshed. All TaN ; 3 5 i of erce, arrive in | PMP by Sots, 2 | map an Lei ape eer oink | Casper tomorrow from St. Cloud, |indications point to Carranza’s hold on the border state slip- General Wood Leads Johnson in New Jer-| ‘ Gardnerville paper, coples of which | ATLANTIC’ anette ree) recommended as an exsert in hag [Ping. Obregonistsas claimed the Juarez garrison was on the April 28.—The| recommended as an expert in Cham- aré to be sent to the two at Holly- sey While Harding Retains Slight | Lead on Military Man in Ohio (By United Press) M NEW YORK, April 28.—General Wood is leading Senator John- son in the New Jersey preference primary by 533 votees cincts missing, according to figures given out at Rep: quarters here. Wood headqparters claimed all four delegates-at-large, but conceded Johnson six district delegates out of 24. tial race will remain in doubt until the complete official count is made. with 166 pre-| ublican head- The preferen- wood, California. Miss Pickford is referred to in the order as “Gladys M. Moore, known as Gladys M. Fairbanks.” Her attorneys let it be known they will contend that service by publica- tion is insufficient. board of directors of the United States Chamber of Commerce today authorized the appointment of a commission to proceed to Europe to investigate the possibility of @ resumption of trade re- lations between the United States and the Russian people. ber of Commerce work. He will spend the remainder of the week in becom- ing acquainted with the work here and in conferring with John R. Knee- bone of the American City Bureau, who has been in charge since March. Mr. Kneebone and his wife will leave here Saturday. FORMER CASPER MAN GIVEN TWO WIVES BY verge of revolt and that the spirit of mutiny was spreading thruout the Car- ranzista army. (By United Press.) SAN ANTONIO, April 28.—Rebels un- der General Obrégon’s personal com- mand have captured Cuautla, a large city in Morelos state, it is reported here. One thousand men in Carranza’s own guard en route to defend Cuautla re- volted and occupied Cuernavaca. Other reports of generals joining the Obregon revolt were received today. (By Associated Press. AGUA PRIETA, April 23.—Approxi- (By Associated Press.) EL PASO, April 28.—Ruiz Sandoval, consul general for the Mexican federal government, today confirmed reports of @ revolt in Chihuahua City, capital of Chihuahua, but said he was without In- formation as to details. “There was fighting, but beyond that I know nothing of the situation,” he said. At Salina Cruz, on the Pacific Coast. all business places were reported closed yesterday as a result of a revolt of a government garrison of seventy men, who robbed the post office, telegraph of. fice, express office and stores, disarmed the police and customs officials, cut the Slates of Republican and Democratic mately 4,000 Carranza troops at gover telegraph wires and took all available (By United Press) jcandidates for delegates-at-large to the and Jiminez, Chihuahua, revolted yester-| horses in the city. COLUMBUS, April 28.—Senator Hard-| national conventions elected substan. day, according. to ener! ere) Beret | eres aay Hemp aDere 28 Yeatecuay, ing and General Wood are running a] tial majorities in yesterday's presiden- mander of the revolutionists in north-| confirmed reports thar had reached here neck-and-neck race in official returns! tial preference primary, according to west Mexico. to the secretary of state. With 60 per the complete vote. DIVORCE ANNULMENT of the revolt of Gen. Cosio Rebelo and Gen. Maycotte and announced that Gen. cent of the precincts heard from Hard-| Senator ‘Lodge led the Republican FEDERALS HARD PRESSED Rafael Garza at Guajardo, near Mexico ing is leading by less than 1,000 plu-|“big four: pity IN TAMPICO FIELDS City, had joined the revolution, rality. Democratic “regulars” were elected (By Associated Press.) COLUMBUS, April 28.—Additional returns from yesterday's ‘presidential preference primary in Ohio gave Sen- by a majority of three to one over for- mer Coagressman O'Connell, who made his campaign on the anti-prohibition | issue, | Of 35 Republican delegates, including POLES ADVANCE Matrimonial Tangle of J. G. Nicholas Is (By United Press.) SAN ANTONIO, April 28.—Fighting between Carranzistas and rebels has ‘broken out in Tampico, according to re- ports reaching here. Vera Cruz fed- MAZATLAN UNDER SIEGE OF REBELS. AGUA PRIETA, April 28.—Mazatlan, Sinaloa, a port on the Pacific Coast of erals have been ordered rushed by boat| Mexico, is being attacked by revolution ator Harding a lead of about 10,000 over |'those’ at large, 29 are unpledged but , ; to Tampico.to aid General Murguia,|@ry forces under Gen. Flores, accord- jeneral Wood. The vote from 4,677 out|several have announced their intention Parallel of Pickford Case with Same Carranzista commander in the oil dis-|ing to an unconfirmed report received at of 5,882 precincits gave Harding 102,-|to vote for General Wood. Two are ° trict. | military headquarters today. 762; Wood, 92,976. pledged to Wood and four are favor- Court for the Setting Murguia is hard pressed By seals Bn: | JUAREZ MONEY BROUGHT = | able, der Generals Gomez and Pelaez, says . - MASSACHUSETTS DELEGATES Former Governor McCall, who de. TO UNITED STATES. WILL GO UNPLEDGED (By Associated Press.) BOSTON, April 28.— Organization glared himself in favor of the nomina tion of Hoover, made his best show- ing in Revere where he finished third. DEATH AT OWN BIDDING, CLAIM Slayer’s Confession Says ‘He Carried Out Request of Girl When She Put Her Head in Noose and Asked to Die (By United Press.) PONTIAC, Mich., April 28.—Vera abandoned dwelling, was murdered: at alleged confession of Allen Best, age 2 Schneider, pretty 19-year-old telephone tor who was found choked to death Sunday night on the porch of an t her own request, according to the 4, made today to Prosecutor Gillespie. 180-MILE FRONT (By Associated Press.) WARSAW, April 28.—A general ad: vance by Polish forces along a 180- mile front into Ukraine was announc- ed today by the Polish general staff. The movement is for the expulsion of “foreign invaders,” (Russian Bol- shevik). The Poles covered about 50 miles the first day of their forward move ment, their advanced line taking them within 60 miles of Kiev. The advance was explained in a proclamation issued in the name of General Pilsudski, head of the Polish | state, which announced that after the expulsion of foreign element the | Poles would remain in Ukraine only | until an authorized Ukrainian govern- ment should take control. setae Nee See STEEL MERGER IS PROJECTED hotel in Denver and formerly here Tuesday. Mr. Nicholas obtained a divorce from Mrs. Emma Bennett Nicholas in Minden, Nev., in December, 1917. Mrs. Emma Bennett Nicholas, charg- ing that she was never served with summons, obtained an annulment of the divorce decree on June 18, 1918. Mr. Nicholas, in the meantime, on March 25, 1918, while a resident of Casper, Wyo., married Miss Minnie Mef- ford, a former telephone operator at the Kenmark hotel. in Denver, which was conducted by Mr. Nicholas prior to his divorce from his first wife. Mr. Nicholas declares that jhe knew nothing of the annulment proceedings and has continued to live with his sec-| ond wife, believing her to be his tegal| mate. Mrs. Nicholas No. 1 says that Mr. Nicholas was served with summons in FATAL, DRIVER DENVER, Colo., April 28.—J. G. Nicholas, manager of the Savoy manager of the Midwest hotel at Casper, | forms the apex of a newly developed triangle which’ anticipates the} Pick{prd-Fairbanks mixup in Nevada, in that action of a’ Nevada court! in adjusting a matrimonial tangle has left him with two wives. Details ‘ 3 Cruz, of the matter, which have been a secret of long standing, were revealed toaay. PROSECUTION TRIES TO SHOW JENNINGS KILLED FROM REAR INJURY PROVES Witnesses Heard This Morning in Trial of the report. TOWN ON GULF COAST CAPTURED BY REBELS (By United Press.) it was) officially reporte/ EL PASO, April 28.—Leading~ busi- ness institutions of Juarez transferred | their money to El Paso today as a pre- caution in event of a possible change of WASHINGTON, April 28.—Mexican}5°vernment, it was said. rebels on Monday cay dred-the town of Alyarado..on the gulf coast south of| winn., Vera Mr. and Mrs. G. K. Leigh of St. Paul, are Tiere visiting. with Mrs. George Hughes, who is Mrs. Leigh's sister. John Cordillo Testify Regarding Cir- cumstances of Finding Body - the annulment case before his mar- “She put her arms around my neck and asked me to kill her. She said (By United Press.) riage to Miss Mefford. ‘Special Th b she was tired of life,” the alleged confession states. “I took out a couple of NEW YORK, April 28.—A° giant steel| As the result of it all, Mr. Nicholas (Special to © Tribune) handkerchiefs, knotted them together and slipped them over her head, I thought thy were around her mouth but the noose must have slipped farther down, I went away and washed my hands. |merger involving Bethlehem, Midvale, Lackawanna and other independents |with a total capital of $200,000,000, is ‘reported under consideratio’ JAPS MASSACRED IN EASTERN SIBERIA BY RUSSIAN BOLSHEVIKI now has two wives. Moreover, the wives live within two blocks of each other, for the first Mra, Nicholas is now one of the managers of the Kenmark hotel, at Seventeenth and Welton streets, formerly controlled by her husband and Mr. Nicholas and his second ‘wife dwell at the Savoy, at Seventeenth and Broadway. MARY PICKFORD'S JUDGE SAT IN BOTH CASES The startling similarity of the case to that of Mary Pickford is made more striking by the fact that the same judge who gave Mary Pickford Moore her de- cree, Judge Lagan, sat in the Nicholas divorce case and annulment proceed- ings. District Attorney Brockless of Minden, also served in both cases. W. H. O’Keefe Not to Blame for Accident Which Caused Death of George Car- ter, Verdict George A.- Carter, the Western Union messenger who was run down by a motor car driven by William H. O'Keefe on East Second street yesterday morning, died at a local hospital this morning about 3 o'clock as a result of fractures recelved about the head. He was the son of A. H. Carter, who works at the Midwest refinery. CHEYENNE, Wyo., April 28.—Four witnesses were exam- ined at this morning’s session of the John Cordillo trial, testify- ing relative to the finding of the body, the position of the auto- mobile in which the body was found and the character of the wounds causing death. E. C. Benson and Rev. Frank Delo testi- fied relative to finding the body and to conditions indicating that 300 CARS SUGAR RETURNTOU.S. ACROSS BORDER| (By Associated Press.) NOGALES, Ariz., April 28.—Three Jennings may have been searched after death occurred. A blood-stained garage repair bill and a bank deposit slip, the former found in the bottom of the car and the latter in the road behind the car, were intro- duced in the evidence. They also testi- fled regarding bullet holes in the top of the car, two in number, and the fact that the windshield of the car had been broken, apparently by a bullet, their evi- 5 dence tending to show that the bullets Mrs. Nicholas No. 1 was reluctant No funeral arrangements have been hundred carloads of Mexican sugar yy ar ca fired from behind Jennings as he | Tuesday to discuss the badly-snarled| made until relatives have been heard wee Guards and Several Hundred Residents| bead a4 te refined in Sonora will be released for Reported Annihilated; Ultimatum Is Sent Siberian Capital by Warships (By Associated Press.) FLOUR PRICES AT PEAK, BIG MILLERS SAY (By United Press.) matrimonial situation. “I have tried to forget and forgive,” she said. “My friends have come to me and asked why I did not give the facts to the public and let them judge who is in the wrong, But I have main- tained constantly that’I would not do so. I have endeavored to forget it all Mr. Nicholas declates the informa- A coroner's inquest is to» be held this afternoon in the office of Perry A. Morris to investigate the youth's death. W. H. O'Keefe was exonerated of the blame of the death of George sale in the United States as a result of the revolution in Sonora, it was announced here today. The sugar had been sent into the United States un- der bond, but was returned to Mex'~- by order of President Carranza. Its .return to the United States is now be- ing allowed. y sat at the wheel of the car. Benson was positive that no person had ap- proached or left the car after it stopped, no tracks being visible in the soft dirt. ‘Ben Bellamy, a member of the coroner's jury, testified relative to the position of the car and the body. Cerdillo appeared very nervous while witnesses dwelt upon the greusome de- A erat: ¢ raga Carter by the verdict of the coroner's ee 1 WASHINGTON. il 28.—Japanese guards in the district MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., April 28.— }| tion regarding the annulment was “all t ; tails of blood pools and blood spots. of Nokolaevskk, “ te a Sibe i Fealieved to have been anni-|| Flour prices have reached their Jinews to me.” ithe verde Mineola Co REHEARING OF Pra hii My Lene, teerihed, reeetHine. hil. vere atkabel get Romie “peak,” according to milling authori- “I knew absolutely nothing about 2 ated and several hundred Japanese residents, including the Japanese consul there, massacred, according to an official statement from the Japanese foreign office made public by the! Hate denartment today. Suspension of communication makes | It impossible to get details but the state- Japanese troops, and turn over the) Ment says it is evident that @ “serious|Russian warships, arms, munitions and| ; W” has taken place. barracks to the Japanese troops: "forts of the Japanese to dispatch a relief expedition into the dis- riled because of ice. ‘time, however, the Japanese © sent an expedition to Alexandroy- fecompanied by the warships a ana Mishima. These forces reached their destination on April .22 ‘nd found Japanese residents of that ‘istrict safe. Most of them were taken ®Soard the Mikasa. bud, __. (By United Press.) 10, April 288.—Two Japanese hips have landed troops at Alexan- 1, a Siberian port 400 miles north ‘divostok. Russian troops: retreat: i without resisting, “apan has delivered an ultimatum to Russian provisional government in ria demanding that all armed Rus- Slons withdraw from areas occupied by sult of the supreme council meeting a Darmstadt territories would be evacu number allowed by the convention of ties here. The car shortage is ex- pected to be relieved soon, permitting grain dealers to move millions of bushels of wheat tied up in elevators, Flour has reached $15.30 a barrel in carload lots, the highest price this year. FRENCH OCCUPATION CONTINUES UNTIL HUN FORCE IS WITHDRAWN (By Associated Press.) PARIS, April 28.—Premier Millerand in making a declaration as a re- it San Remo said that Frankfort and ated by the French as soon as the allied commissions have established that German armed forces over the August, 1919, had been withdrawn. it,” he said. “I was away from Den- ver after the divorce proceedings, g0- ing to Casper, Wyo., where I married Miss Mefford.” “What were the grounds on which you obtained the divorce?” was asked of Mr. Nicholas. “It's all on record,” he Baid. “I real- ly do not remember much about it.” “Was the divorce granted by the same judge as in the Pickford case?" “I guess perhaps it was," said Mr. Nicholas. “I didn’t pay much atten- tion to that.” The tirst marriage of Mr, Nicholas, took place in 1898. His wife was Mrs. Emma Bennett. For years they ran jointly the Kenmark hotel, then known as the Kaiserhof. It is alleged to have been over Miss Mefford, then the phone operator at the Kenmark, that the Nicholases were estranged. Mrs, Nicholas, in ‘applying for an- nulment, asserted that she was not ac- quainted with the facts of the divorce until nearly six months after the de- cree was granted. | Both Mrs. Nicholases are handsome | women and are widely known in Denver | society circles. “We find the boy came to his death as follows: By being struck by a Maxwell car driven by W. H. O'Keefe, on Second street near the intersec- tion of Beech. We find the car was being driven at a moderate speed and the boys attempted to run across the street in front of the car too close for the driver to avoid accident. “W. F. SHAFFER, “W. D. RHOADES. “GEORGE STILPHEN. CHICAGO, April 28.—Mrs. Lillian P. Clayton had a divorce decree to- day because her husband wrote her from the Pacific coast that he had an affinity in the spirit world from whom he received love messages. irs. Clayton charged that her hus- band, Robert C. Clayton, eloped to STEEL TRUST CASE IS ASKED (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, April 28.—The fed- eral government asked the supreme SPIRIT LOVE IS DIVORCE CAUSE court today to re-hear its dissolution suit against the United States Steel cor- poration. Seattle with the wife of Wellington Glover, his best friend, in 1918, Mrs. Glover died recently, Clayton informed Mrs. Clayton that he could not return to her, as he re- celved “daily messages of love” from Mrs. Glover, according to letters in- the wounds found in Jennings’ head. He testified that there were five wounds, each sufficient to have caused virtually instantaneous death. Cross-examination seemingly was directed to an effort to establish that there might have been voluntary action by Jennings after he was shot, but Leake was positive that there could not have been. “Are you a member of any liqudr deal- ers’ association?" Prosecuting Attorney Patterson asked Bellamy. “No,” replied the witness, broadly. Louis O'Donnell took the stand at 1:03 o'clock this afternoon. NAVAL RESERVE OIL LANDS ARE TO BE DRILLED (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, April 28.—An amendment to the naval appropria- tions bill designed to develop naval petroleum land reserves, chiefly in smiling troduced as evidence. “Death has not changed my love,” he wrote. California, was approved by the senate today. ——4 euuin