Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 24, 1920, Page 1

WEATHER .FORECAST Showers probably. t 1 ar Saturday, not much chang — temperature. Amusement Owners of Nation Taking|_—~ in. 400 Millions Monthly, Is Claim Ww tional ergy ©f spending is stil bring- ing in $480,000,000 each month for amusement owners, according to an estimate today by the treasury de- pon war tax receipts. The public has Increased its purchases of soft drinks, » tobacco and thea- Ire jollars declared. Five bil- lion J spent each year, it bs. - ‘Taxes on soft drinks, tobacco Pe ¢andy amounted to Pai 500,000 for the month of May. Thea- tre tickets sales brought na svete ks Shc oat LENS CUT IN CLEVELAND, Sept. 24.—A price re- duetion. ef 8 to 30 per cent in wools was aby the Cleveland Wo te ipany. today. COMMISSIONS IN REGULARS ARE GIVEN OFFICERS (By Associated Press.) SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 24.—A par- tial list of candidates in Western states who are*qualified for permanent) com- missions In the army from the ranks of emergency officers. made” public» to- day, includes Captains Frank Barr, Fort Keogh, and)Hdward Isaac Cheely of ‘Bert Moegan, Colo. (By ited Press.) SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 24.— Six u dollars in cash was taken by three armed bandits be- fore noon when they—held up the Sugar Bank at Sugar House suburb, according to reports made to the po lice. “They escaped in an automo- bile. The robbers overlooked $15,000. in bills which were secreted in a drawer ~ next to the $6,000 taken. The em- ployes were lined” up against the wall and the bandits threatened vio- letice if an outcry was made, ! ENOF REPUBLICAN FAITH TO ~HRLDINETY TOMERAOM NIGHT Reached Following Rally Held This Week ganization Will Be Modeled After Men’s © Club Already Functioning in Campaign At a ‘cote which will be held tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in the Republican headquarters on First street, a Young Women’s Re- «ie Club, formed a couple of weeks ago. rship committee of ten business women is at work to- g to secure a charter membership of at least 150 is the age mit, It 18) ced after this meeting adjourned | on owed #nd found a ready response among the! : {e form 8 sub followed Republican young women present. a the ay } of the Business and Pro- iss’ Marie Engarde was named as fessio ‘a Club, which was Chairman and Miss Laura Bicknell as vaddressed on the subject of ‘Citizen-|secretary of a temporary organization. ship” by G. R. Hagens, Republican county chairman.” The Republican. club idea was aa- a POPULATION OF ROCK SPRINGS 6,456, OFFICIAL} WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.—Prelim- inary population figures announced Mere by the census bureau give Rock Springs, Wyo., a population of 6,458 or an increase of 11.7 per cent. Roc« Springs gained 678 in population since the last census, PREMIERSR:P U Leygues also will act as minister of be the choice of President Millerand. will be formed, similar in its aims and objects to the, GEORGES LEYGUES ELEVATED TO (By United Press.) PARIS, Sept. 24.—Georges Leygues, minister of marine, has accepted the premiership in the French cabinet, it was officially announced today. will make no change in the present cabinet. The appointment came as a surprise as Aristide Briand was believed to ‘CASPER, WYO., FRIDAY, SEPT. 24, 24, 1920 “rx Oe ay ip AS s az, aad Pte decern = 2° Yellowstone Already Rivals Highways of | | Long Standing in Colorado; Policy of | Commission Means Future Stability | “The road in Wyoming was in much better. condition than in} Colorado!” Unusual as it sounds, the Casper man who.made this declaration) recently on his return from Denver by automobile was only repeating iwhat scores of tourists have declared in their trips from Denver to the | Yellowstone National Park by way of Casper. this year, unless, per-| chance, he struck rainy weather and of more expensively built highways in 01 i idl y-| Northern Colorado, particularly “eg cerita ears ay veut the fast|tirough Fort Collins, where mainte- SL HRGSr Suey Saunas |nance efforts have lagged. The build- remains that the majority found ing of the Colorado roads have con- smoother traveling, with a few excep- a +H Titepa ded eibnine abrents tinued over a period of many years. ns, on the well-graded r! - ing from here to Cheyenne~than on ‘When asked to explain this feature jon a visit to Casper last evening, Wil- the washboard surface of candle mies liam R. Weeks of der, state high- way commissioner, declared that the) (The Casper Daily Cribune {222 JOHNSON SPRINGS SENSATION IN RUMORED BASEBALL FRAUD THEY'RE NOT FALLING FOR THE DECOY) |Gleason pmehadic in ‘le | Chicago to Cleveland, |may decide th | pression that the Sox do not dare win} j.to five players, threatens to expose oe | plot it Chiceso: w! dos tay this year, WMAYOR OF CORK ) crowd ‘tate commission in building and main- ; taining highways this year had tried to \ start work which might be carried for- ward from year to year until leading Wyoming points are connected by the best roads of any state in the West. “Unless it is kept up,” he added, ‘the three or four, million dollars that we are spending wil be thrown away. Casper, insofar as region is concerned, is more than satis-| fied with the efforts of the state high-} |way commission and counties less for- |tunate than this in the matter of ex-| NDER MILLERAND foreign affairs. It is reported that he . tionments,; which have given the larg- (Continued on Page 5) this particular} |penditures admit the justice of appor-| 606 Eastbound --2.35 p.m. 2 p.m. 603 Westbound_.3:20 3 “NUMBER 29 296 | Denial of Charges Against the Sox (By United Press) CHICAGO, Sept. 24.—Sensa- tion in baseball circles was caused today by Ban Johnston’s state-| ment that he heard the Chicago | White Sox “would not dare win! the pennant” because a gambling] syndicate is alleged to have the Sox} players in their control and forbid it. Emphatic’ deriet to this charge w: made by Manager Gleason of the Sox. The playérs have refused to tall. Johnson, who is president of American Léague, declared that he determined baseball. the is to drive gambling «ut of) INTEREST SHIFTS TO PENNANT RACE, (By CHICAGO, grand jury al thro Associated Press.) | Sept, 24.—Interest in the! investigation into the al} Ing of baseball games by| NOC POLICY Proposed California opments today show. lone facing this government. OF POLITICS IN SOLDIER PAPERS (By WASHING’ jand Stripes, Associated Press) Sept. 24.—The a soldier publicatio’ controlled ‘he Democratic national mmittee and the American Legion Weekly, another soldier publication is controlled by the Republican national |committee, Joseph L. Hefferman, sec- retary-treasurer of the Stars and ripes Publishing company, testified today. Hefferman also testified that a man named Wald, purporting to represent the DuPont. intcrests, sought to ob- tain control of the, Stars and Stripes and when he failed threatened that the publication would receive no ad- vertising from large interests, ———— FIERCE BATTLE MARKS RIOTING dishonest players, today switched from With the grand jury adjourned to Tuesday, baseball! magnates and fans are watching the| White Sox for victory or defeat that} future course of the| If the White. Sox win} investigation. ttoday they ito will eee Cleveland. tiie neo ofetl i Johinsor, Presiient of the Amerl- can League, has received rumors that gamblers are trying to create the im- the pennant.- According to statements! quoing Johnson, # syndicate of gam- blers, which, it is charged, bought last year's world series by paying $100,000 HAS BAD RIGHT (By Assoc! sinted F _ PONDON; Sept. 24.—T » lord mayor of Cork, usted condition today, daily bulletin of the mination League. He y bad night, it was stated. is in an according Irish Self- spent al Panna ss coats WINS PRAISE FOR RESULT + COX REACHES TRINIDAD, COLO. (By As: sociated Press) TRINIDAD, Sept. 24. - Colorado at the southern Governor James M. Cox addressed a of several hundred from the} rear platform of his train at 8 o'clock today. He reiterated his statement gateway, |that sums spent for battleships might better be used to reclaim lands. He was met by a delegation of Democrats from Pueblo and Walsenburg. ti oe REXALL VOTE Kimball-Rexa The 1 straw vote for president today: Harding (men), 1,044; (women, 450; | total, 1,494. ox (men), 673; (women), 222; total, 895. IN TURIN, ITALY "(By Associated Press.) ROME, Sept. 24.—Disorders. con- tinue at Turin and rifle “fring is sometimes assuming the chakacter of Pattlp in-the ovtskirts pits ONY according ~ to dispataies hing Rome today. Three More persons were killed it is said, Among them , was Mario Santini, president of the Young Men's — Nationalists’ Agocia- tion. A bomb was thrown in San Carlos square, near the central police of- fice, but no-one was hurt, Two hun- dred arrests were made. iSPECIAL BUREAU IS CREATED TO WORK ON BORDER WASH ment of a n prohibition agents’ de; consisting of the of Arizona, New Mexico and was announced the u of internal revenue. by » new department which will be | established October 1, will be known as. the border department and will be in charge of James Shevlin, recently ordered transferred from the New Yoric | department. MADE.RE Stumbling Block to Adjustment; Japs Prepared to Protest to the Finish _ law. Land Law Is Main (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.—Neither the United States nor Japan is willing to give way in the fight of the Japanese government to pre- vent further discrimination against the Japanese by California, devel- The situation is becoming the most serious’ The United States continues to maintain its position for the ex- iCHARGES MADE clusion of Japanese immigrants, hut will endeavor to avoid conflict with Japan ove further discrimination laws in California. Japan admits this coun- try has the right to bar immigrants, but insists that Japs already here be not further discriminated against by the pasage of California anti-Jap laws. The state department, it is declared, is unable to prevent the passage of tHe Jap officials will demand that the Chited States stop this measure being put in effect. pes America is warned that a waye-ot anti-American sentiment will sweep Japan if the law is passed. Japan may attempt a complete revision of existing relation’ ‘between the two countries based on racial 1 equality. te: it is believed, POLES GIVEN 10 DAYS TO ACCEPT RUSSIAN TREATY RIGA, Letvia, Sept. Sept. 24.—(By Asso ciated Press)}—Adolph Joffe, head of the Soviet peace delegation, at today’s ses- sion of the Russo-Polish peace confer- ence, proposed an armistice which he said must be accepted by the Poiwa within ten days or a Russian winter campaign would be inaugurated which Joffe declared ‘the Soviet government iceniiee to avoid. FARMER-LABOR. PARTY TO STAY WI TH COLLINS (By Associated Press.) DENVER, Sept. 24.—Rumors_ that James M. Collins, Nonpartisan-Demo- cratic nominee for governor, would "b& opposed by another candidate of the Farmer-Labor party, were denied in=a formal statement following a confer» ence last night. Only two state can« didates willbe placed ‘on the ticket, this statement said. These ara for judge of the supreme court and state representative in Denver. BABE RUTH GETS. FIFTIETH HOMER (By Associated Press.) NEW YORK, Sept. 24:—Babe “Ruth got his fiftieth home run in the first inning of the game with Wasik, Ington today. DEATH M SDENVER WOMAN — WILL TESTIFY IN - MYSTERY tering| \Late Occupant sine | Home in Which Wealthy. Man Was Found Murdered Is Called to - Los Angeles to Be Probed, Report (By United Press.) DENVER, Sept. 24.—Mrs. C. R. Peet of this city will go to Los ‘Denton, capi |Angeles to tell what she knows about the mysterious death of J. C. list, there, she declared today. Mrs. Peet rented the: 'Denton home in Los Angeles this summer. She has been here about five weeks. Denton disappeared in June.. lof dirt in the basement of his home ‘there yesterday. ‘EXTRADITION OF JEWELRY THIEF . FROM U. S. IS SOUGHT iN LONDON By Ee — aa) (By Associated Press.) LONDON, Sept. 24.—Solicitors representing Mra. John Spreckles, Jr., of California, have instructed the police to inaugurate extradition proceed- ings for William Barrett, an America: the police in Los Angeles. A warran in, reported under the surveillance of it charging the theft of a pearl neck- lace valued at 16,500 pounds was issued on the application of Mrs. Spreckles on September: 17, The police belies he His body was found under a pile |was murdered by poisoning. Mrs. Peet declared today that she knows nothing of the circdmstances of | his death and that she had not seen |hita since early in June. te Los Angeles police are searchic for a Spanish girl with whom. Dene PENS SECOND AUTOPSY lex BE PERFORMED. | y Associated Press.) LOS ANGELES, Sept. 24.—A secon examination of the body of Jacob {Charles Denton, wealthy mining pro: moter, found bound and hidden yester in the basement of his home, is nned to ascertain if death Was poison. The examination disclosed no wound on hie