Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 2, 1920, Page 1

JO: FOREIGNERS GET CHANCE T0 BUY SHIPS WHEN U. INTERESTS FAL Agreement Reached on Merchant Ma- rine Bill Today .by Conferees, Report (By Associated V’ress.) WASHINGTON, June 2.—The sale of American ships to foreign interests, if diligent efforts of the shipping board have been unable to dispose of them to Americans, was provided for in the merchant marine bill finally agreed upon toav. (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTO:) June 2,.—Complete ment on the house merchant ma- rine bill was reached by the house and te conferees after a virtually all, night session, * Under the agreement, senate provisions providing for a per- manent shipping board of seven mem- bers were retained, but thé senate amendment authorizing the board to set aside annually for the next five years 350,000,000 from the proceeds of charters and sales for ‘the construction of new ships, was modified so as to provide for a reserve fund of $25,000,000 annually, PROFITEERING DRAWS FINE OF $55,000INN.Y. (By Associated Press.) SYRACUSE, N. Y., June 2.—The John A. Roberts Corporation of Utica, | dealers in wearing apparel, was fined $55,000 by Federal Judge Howe today, following ® conviction for profiteering. ——— PARTY INTEREST REQUIRES‘SUFF’ se! \Silbermann & Sons Accused of Turning| EPR, ORR NT: ~ ~ WEATHER FORECAST Partly cloudy and somewhat warmer tonight; Thursday unset- tled. VOLUME IV CHICAGO WOOL HOUSE RENEGES CONTRACT, SAY SHEEPMEN HERE Down Drafts Accepted in Good Faith;! Natrona Flockmasters With Clips Unsold Face Serious Situation, Report Alleged abrogation of contracts, a development said to be practi- cally unknown in the marketing annually of a great tonnage of wooil in this district, has added another bitter pill to the misfortunes of the} growers and has brought one big house into disrepute in the eyes of Natrona County sheepmen. Drafts negotated by a buyer for S. Silber- mann & Sons of Chicago, who contracted three big clips in Central. Wyoming, are said to have been pro- tested and refused, the coincidence be- ing that British wool sales in Boston dropped 2 cents a pound between the} time the drafts were issued and the day; tracts were executed in good faith, The “goat” of the recent transaction is Eugene McCarthy, prominent flock- master of Natrona County. who, on May 12, contracted clips amounting .to The Casper Da Crihbune CASPER, WYO., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1920. _ Yesterday’s Circulation 4,096 NUMBER 199 LIQUOR TRAFFIC TOLERATED BY PALMER FOR PRIMARY SUPPORT OF QUAKER STATE WETS, CLAIM (By Associated Press.) conducted for McAdoo had be HNSON WINS FIRST CONTEST FINISH FIGHT PROMISED BY ALIFORNIANS Wood Supporters Chosen in “Rump” Con- | vention of Tenth Minnesota District Denied Seats by G. O. P. Committee (By Associated Press.) CHICAGO, June 2.—In the first decision affecting Johnson forces, the Republican national committee, 36 to 12, today voted to seat dele- gates from the Tenth Minnesota District, who are counted as favorable to the Californian. | _ Wood delegates were denied seats on the first roll call the com- | mittee has taken since it began deciding contests, after spirited discus- |sion, which brought out the charge,; unable to gain the nomination. Senator | which the committe that the! Penrose is expected to throw his sup- | as | | | en- | Wood delegates had been cho: by al o K iov. Spr 2 wie . adnetedf : »y alport to Knox of Goy. Sproul of Penn ee #EUN, dune 2.—Charges | tirely the work of himself and his ¢ jrump convention. Attorneys for the) sylvan or finally to Lowden. Johnson at the campaign for the nomination | leagues and against the specific per- | Wood delegates told the committee they| will arrive in Chicago Thy ay ol A Dee peperst Palmer as Demo- sonal refusal of McAdoo to allow his |ieft the convention because they w | Gossip along “pr ent ntial row" still of Attor ner as De } f ey toss ong “presidential row’ <= were Sekt etapan ustiac aed name to be used. denied police protect Attorneys for| favors Lowden’s chances weap icoe we jRoe an Me I E es Johnson delegates racterized the| Maj. Gen, Wood apparently is losing open appéal to ery and brew- w INGTON, June 2.—Attorney | statement as a “falsehood.” ound in talk around here. but his ery interests in that state, were made General Palmer appeared in the sen- ——_~ ck are nfid nt : : “kers are confident. before the senate investigating com- mittee today by Eugene ©. Bonniwell, of Philadelphia. Bonniwell, who distributed stickers uring the primary campaign seeking the nomination of William G. Me- Adoo, said saloons and bonded ware- houses in some parts of the state now | were running “wide open” and this was proceeding under the eyes of the ate campaign investigating committee room today just before the afternoon session of the committee began. He is the first candidate for the presi- dential nomination whose campaign is being investigated to appear at the nguiry.. Palmer took a seat among the spectators and did not confer with the committee. | aE CHICAGO, June 2.—T tor! LOUISIANA REGULARS Hiram Johnson means te make an un-| SEATED BY G. 0. P. compromising fight for the Republican (By Associated Press.) ential nomination was seen in a) © GFICAGO, June Resuming work Leen meaes ent? from Jobnson| oy convention contests, the Republican jheadquarters that “under no circupy {national committee today ed twelve jStances would he accept the nomination’ yyingtructed delegates from Louisian: ice president This followed the mile Kuntz of New Orleane, (By United Press.) | for v ee ee department of justices. avid probibltion New Clerks in Union | TEROFE Of a Ofte ae te ity cro. | napional)committeeman, end’ dlamieed enforcement officer’ of the federal pine retell Ces of Casper vat hold) Powder ene vera DOV s Hrank O-\tieicont ‘ly white” group, 4s {a regular monthly meeting tonight ana| /Owden for president. }led by C. 8. Herbert and Vict olsel government, appointed “with Mr. | | “phere is no doubt that Johnson wit |e yc erbert and Victor Loise' | will initiate ten new members. jeon will follow the initiation, _> Palmer’s vise.” The witness charged Avlunch: that the Palmer campaign in Pennsyl- vania had been a “ghastly and debas- | ing degradation of law.” Itrom Chicago, He added that the campaign has returned where he has been Iu., for some time attending to b he $5,000 pounds to Silbermann & Sonsy through the latter's agent, Arthur Ak? eroyd, who has represented them in this PLUMB LEAGUE. VOTE OF DEMOS (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 2.—President Wilson today telegraphed three mem- bers of the Delaware legislature urg- ing every Democrat in the legislature | to vote for the suffrage amendment. “It is my judgment that it would be of the greatest service to the party if every Democrat in the Delaware legislature voted fof it,” he said. ARMY BILLIS PASSED TODAY 4 (By United Press) WASHINGTON, June 2.—The senate Passed the army appropriation bill to- day carrying $395,000,000. It also passed the sundry civil appropriation bil Both are now up to the president. pact cee ess nites EIGHT CONVICTS ESCAPE U.S. PEN, FIVE AT LARGE (By United Press) ATLANTA, June 2.—Five of eight convicts who cut their way out of the! federal prison here thru a window last) night are still at large. | BULLETS Man Brought Down by Glenrock Marshal in Hospital and Accomplice in County Jail After Svectacular Chase Theft of a $3,000 Hudson super six motor car belonging to . N. Van Sant from where it hotel about 2 o’clock Tuesday morning ended in a shooting epi- sode in the open country near Glenrock.- Both James Conroy, who was shot in both legs by the night marshal at Glenrock, Jim Kerr were captured and and r s in a hospital here while Kerr is & held in the county jail. : The theft°of the Van Sant car was Giscovered shortly after it was taken ran wires were sent by the sheriff's lace to near by towns to be on the ookout. ,,Night Marshal Thornton at Glenrock, ad ilies east of here, was on the job i M spotted the car when it stopped at Pani to get some gasoline. He im- mediately. placed them under arrest. with Biers; them to the Glenrock jail a “i the assistance of Smith, the two n broke away and started for the pen country. Piercy? running after them for some rr ©, Marshal Thornton started fir- % snots into the ground ahead of the HALT FLIGHT OF AUTOMOBILE THIEVES WHO STOLE HUDSON IN CASPER territory for a long périod of years. Fer- ty-two thousand ids, representitig the annual)clip of the Keystone ‘Sheep Company and the remainder comprised the McCarthy Sheep Company’s clip. The contract price, it is said, was 59 cents a pound and Mr. McCarthy re- ceived two drafts to bind the contract, one for $5,000 and the other for $2,500. These drafts were turned into the jocal bank and on coming to the city} on May 20, Mr. McCarthy learned that payment had been protested and that the cost of the protest had been assesed | against him. Incidentally, he learned! that the price of wool in the Boston market had declined at almost the same time that he thought he had sold his clip. no {of the Democratic national committee, ‘ An rahe oe art aioe bd sdeae who | vas asked if she knew of any campaign as sin arriv . e! | ce "to 7 Ee era ewoninatelina: tiation | ueenag Rherersanies Oey May 11 his house withdrew from Ak-! ers SOA éroyd authority to contract for wool at| any price, On the omnes hand, | FILIPINOS SEEK well-known to the sheepmen as an old- FREEDOM THRU G.O.P. PLATFORM time buyer for Silbermann, carried his} (By Associated *'ress) firm's code books and printed drafts) and was in all respects equipped to} transact business for them. ‘The two big clips contracted by Ak- eroyd, it is said, will be shipped to Bos- ton and sold in the open market. In CHICAGO, June 2.—A\ delegation from the Philippine Islands, headed by Jaime de Vevra, arrived in Chi- cago today to urge the xdoption of a full independence platform declara- tion by the Republican party. TO CANDIDATE (By United Press) WASHINGTON, June 2.—Edward Keating, former Colorado congressman and now an official of the Plumb Plan league, testified today before the senate committee probing campaign expendi- tures that the league has not and does not intend to contribute to the cam- paign of any presidential candidate, Mrs. Antoinnette Funk, an employe the event the price does not net the owners the equivalent of the contract price of Silbermann & Sons, the latter will be sued for the difference. (Continued .on Page 6) Smith opened up on the men. Conroy was hit in both legs. Kerr surrendered shortly afterwards. Deputy Sheriff Kyte brot the two men back to Casper late yesterday. ‘The annual spring drive of automo- bile thiefs appears to be well under way | in Casper. The new Dodge notor car belonging | to Joe May which was taken from the business section of the city Sunday was | found yesterday partially concealed in| the underbrush in the North Burlington addition, No clues have been found as to who stole the car, The motor car belonging to Dr, W. A. Myers, which was stolen from in front of his office about a week ago, is still listed as missing. | was parked near the Henning brought back to Casper. Con- fleeing men in an effort to stop them. ‘This proving futile, both Thornton and MEXICAN PRESIDENT NEAR DEATH ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° . | Miller the field secretary for, this work. (By United Press.) | MEXICO CITY, June 2.—Provisional President Rodoifo de la Huerta is critically {l.. Following. his inauguration yesterday he was unable to go to the presidential palace for thie reception, An operation for appendicitis may be performed Thursday. Prospects Bright for Success of Drive atl Start Today; Excess te Be Used ’ “Toward Building Fund, Report Pledges and cash reported today in the Y. W. C. A. drive amounted to $5,669.50. Reports were received from the teams as follows: Mrs, A. J. Cunningham, $1,268.50; Mrs. Carl Weaver, $396.00; Mrs. O. L. Walker, $217.00; Mrs. J. S. Mechling, $709.00; A. J. Cunningham, $1,987.00; A. R. Lowey, no report $174.00; Ben Scherck, $214.00; Denham, no report; Dr. Anderson, no report; business women, $704.00; J. H. Aydelott, no report; C. T: Boone, no report. This with the amount reported last night makes about $8,000 in sight today, it was stated. Sarl Burwell, Joe Pledges are most acceptable. They are payable in three instalthents, July 1, 1920, January 1, 1921 and July 1, 1 was a splendid talk on the reasons a Bthel Rowse. The feature of the luncheon today . W. C. A. is needed, given by Miss With more than $4,000 pledged before the campaign opened this morning, the Young Women’s Christian Association workers are confi- dent that the drive for $15,000 will go over the top by tonight. Howa ever, the drive will continue until tomorrow night, as advertised, or until every person for whom a card was made out is seen, all funds in excess of the $15,000 being put at interest, as a start toward a permanent building fund. = —=! The campaign was launched with an} ; ; ew Orleans, |be nominated on the sixth ballot.” said|°’Soitical forces are gathering slowly the Johnson headquarters statement. | hore al leader fof Recomnised | anlar eesus tee predia support Phit'| willing to attach his name to a definite ander Knox for president if Johnson 18) preqicition of whom the convention will name as @ candidate. with probable are they were presented fer payment. AS ; a result, warning has been issued to | expected to begin taking defimite form. other flockmasters throughout the In the convention the uninstructed state, and the Chicago house faces suit} ates are holding the balance of for damages on the claim that the con- and already plans for sounding preferences are being dis- f uninstructed dele: gates some time after Sunday is one of the plans being canvassed Discussion of platform planks seem to indicate that # majority feel the pro | hibition question may be regarded as one not necessarily to be included, be- cause the ‘isgue’ has been written into Yhe constitution and become a law of |the land. There seems to be an agree- ynent that the Mexican plank will fol- low the pronotricement of four years ago ,in which the Democratic adminis- tration was denoun and as regards | the peace treaty and the League of Na- | tions, the plank adopted by the Indiana ) stale Republican convention may serve A. radio ## the nucleus for m plank in the na- tional platform. (By Associated Pre: WASHINGTON, June 2 from the destroyer tender Black Hawk} at Vera Cruz said today that four new eases of bubonic plague, with an addi- tional death, were reported a port, increasing the total num fifteen and deaths to six CLERICAL ERROR IN PASSAGE OF BILL CORRECTE JOHNSON SEEKS TO STEER TREATY COURSE (By Associa CLEVELAND, O., June 2.—"I am go- ling to the Chicago convention to see ‘that the Republican party neither \skulks nor pussyfoots on the qu of the League of Nations,” said Hiram Johnson, of California he! day. “And I shall do all I can to seo that a plank in opposition to the League of Nations is written into the Republi- can platform.” LLOT TO JUNE It y Associated Press) HINGTON, Jur President Wilson signed the joint resolution today eliminating from the agricultural ap propriation bill the Comer amendment (By United Press) CHICAGO, June 2.-+ calaeng on the ‘5 presidency at the Republican conyen- in the original measure, signed yester orn to the tentative program of ar- Mays rangements the committee announced «Continued on Page 6) RANCH THIEF F variow enthusiastic banquet tendered the work- | a s eee | ers at the Henning hotel last evening. The men and women on the various teams were seated in groups, the most spirited. group being that composed of the business women’s teams, seated ,at the last table. Under the leadership of Miss Marie Engarde and Miss Beatrice Boedefeld, with Miss Jessie Anderson at the piano, this group enlivened th serving of the banquet with (By Associated Press) vigor, despite the fact that the Casper; NW YORK, June 2.—A shortage of ¥. W. C. A. is in its infancy. |$20,000 representing money taken from Following the banquet M B. B-| the pockets of unidentified dead at the} Brooks presided as toastmistress and! city's morgue was discovered today by opened the program by telling some of! Commissioner of Accounts Hirshfield the steps taken toward bringing about and Public Administrator Hoes. this first concerted movement for work $$» for the women of Casper. | asper has always gone over the Ae E. F. CHIEF IN again.” | | SIBERIA MOVED great need of providing for the young} women of Casper suitable living quar ters, recreational facilities, ete. “T firmly believe that the one organi-| zation which meets the needs of young! women is the Young Women’s Christian Association which has been studying the problems of girls for 55 years ani which is one of the greatest factors in surprises in the way of songs and Yella top,” she said, “and I am sure it will Tells of Campaign Plans most earnest and enthusiastic Y. W. .| pean ae ae | TO PHILIPPINES solving the problems of the day,” she given with true Y. W, C, A. pep and | | Mrs. Burke H._ Sinclair one of the) (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 2.—Ma)jor eral William 8. nV who commanded the American expeditionary forces in Siberia, has been assigned to the com mand of Fort William McKinley, 2 Philippine Islands. Gen IS ARRESTED Goods Stolen from Duhling Ranch Found in Possession of Young Man Picked Up on Carnival Grounds Here In Jack Dari, a young man arrested last night about 7 o'clock on the carnival grounds, the city and county authorities feel certain they; have the man who robbed at least one ranch house in the, Elkhorn region last week. Dari was arrested by Officer Jones of the city police department, when he had aroused his suspicions while walking about the carnival grounds. | A parcel post check led the police] Many of the other articles, which in officials to’ the Burlington depot, wherc} ‘luded a pair of field glasses, two .22 to Dari were found | ‘ifles, @ revolver and a pair of ladies found a saddle, whict | »00ts have been identified as those was positively identified this morning aken from the Duhling ranch. as that taken from the Duhling ranch y of other ranches may be up to Dari, it is believed, Dari said. “The Y. W. C. A. is taking a firm ed to admit anything and claimed stand in combating the evils of the so-! he the incrimination ar- cial and industrial world. Its keynote les found at the ot from another is service. | person. He told police officers that he ° ° ° ° ° * @| had worked at the Burlington “With our preliminary organization| @ ° we have been working and planning to meet Casper’s needs. We haye perfac' a2 MB SA ETE RENAL PSE 8 sen IRISH RECOGNITION IS DEMANDED Jepot for a time and that he re returned from Bonneville. Dari probably will be held on the one charge because his appearance only , sMrs. Sinclair announced that even) |does not resemble that of the may |with its temporary headquarters the i ae | wanted for killing John Corbett in the Y. W. C. A. will be able to provide « (By United Press.) |Hikhorn country. Dari has dark hair jregistry of all Aeairane rooms open to! WASHINGTON, June 2.—A group of women carrying banners demand and the murderer of Corbett is reported girls; emergency housing for strange : 3 , : oF to have red hai ¥ a g free ‘or Ireland and thé e United States recall her loans to Engt nave red hair \eetgt Who come to (Gasper and have na|'. 108 fee Jom for Ireland and that the United Sta ull h 7 Meee ea Wats joo. cohrered uhyattie place to go; an employment bureau tbru| land burned a British flag before the treasury department building today. |p, ijings, probably will go to OMicer (Continued on Page 4.) The women disappeared before the police arrived Jones co ver the a a ' os pancea |i E Cin rvIinweiraw # iaaese d d yvad Fea Waa aa Ee \