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

WEATHER. FORECAST Fair tonight. with frost, cooler in east. and central portions; Wednesday fair with rising tem- perature. CASPER + > > > J ° Mrs. Brooks Re-elected State Regent at Business Session This Morning; Four Chapters Represented by Meeting Mrs. Bryant B. Brooks of Casper was re-elected state regent of | the Daughters of the American Revolution at this morning's session of the’ state convention of that body, being held in this cty. Other officers elected are: Vice regent, Mrs. Maurice Groshon of Cheyenne; state treasurer, Mrs, Effie R. Dodds of Cheyenne; recording secrtary, Mrs. E. P. Bacon of Casper; librarian, Mrs. Mary R " Holladay .of Laramie; state historian, | | ‘ ——— Mrs. Ben Bellamy of Laramie; state (By United Press.) auditor, Mrs. C. B. Godwin of Sheri- dan; state registrar, Mrs. Willis Spear of Sheridan. SIOUX CITY, Ia., Sept. 28.—Wage reductions were predicted by Gov. Cox in @ speech here yesterday because of Seven delegates were present from out of the city representing thi « of the sour chapters outside of Casper. The morning session was held at the home of Mrs. Brooks and in addition to the election of officers the conyen- tion considered amendments, and changes in the constitution, listened: to the reports of Mrs. Brooks as state ‘re- gent and of Mrs, Dodds, state treas- urer. Mrs. Dodds acted as secretary pro-tem of the meeting, The morning ses: was followed by a. very delighfful . on meet ryed -at home of Mrs. R. H. Nich on Park avenue, the A business meeting is being held this afternoon at the home of Mrs. Cooper,-and this will be followed*by. a Program. ter the League ot Nations, conditions throughout the world. declared that closed foreign markets will be felt by labor in decreased wages Jaren: produetea:- Herein: deckeped that America’s entry into.the ‘league would bring aboutu the re-establishment of foreig ntrade and credita and an adjust- ment of business conditions. Be AEDS eo rae No country can be greater than her sons. = HT WwW SIXTH BANK GLOSED IN BOSTON FIDELITY TRUST GOES ON ROCKS (By Asscclated Press.) BOSTON, Sept. 28.—Bank Commissioner Joseph C. Allen has taken over the affairs’ of the -Fidelity Trust Company of this city. His action marked the closing of the sixth banking institution in this city within the two months, The capital of the Fidelity is $3,000,000. According to the latest avail able statement,’ the surplus is $700,000, Deposits totalled $18,000,000. James C. Ferguson, president of the company, and Edwin T. McKnight, vice president, are affiliated with several other financial institutions. Allen said the reason for failure was “steady withdrawals. of deposits aud slow and doubiful Joans.” ‘ LEGION MEETS NEXT IN K. C. Missouri River Metropolis Choice of Ex-' Service Men for Next Annual Fete; Reports of Committees Heard (By Associated Press.) ; CONVENTION HALL, CLEVELAND, Spt. 28.—The second day’s session of the second annual convention of the American Legion got under way at 10 o'clock today after an hour’s delay awaiting com- mittee réports. The first official action of the national commander was the appointment of David J. McCoy of San Francisco as sergeant- CASPER, WYO., TUESDAY, SEPT. 28, 1920 WELCOMES — o the failure of the United States to en-! which | caused continued unsettled business | He and by. farmers jn slumiping ‘prices for| t | tion which led to the voting of indict- | ments against the eight players, it was D. o J 1 | | ChiactAGO RACE RIOT AVERTED BY PRIEST—A race riot that threat- ened was narrowly averted by the quick M, Burke, ‘Thomas E. refuge in the pursued the m as it was about to sta the, building by the appeal of Father Burke, and the fugitives were led out by a side en- trance. * Z INDICTED BY JURY Grand Jury Returns . Cicotte Gives E CHICAGO, Sept. 28.—Eigh' | dicted today on charges of conspiracy to do an illegal act in connection with alleged crookedness in the World’s series last year. The men are Felsch, W: | cotte, Williams, Jackson and Gandil. Cicotte, White Sox pitcher, learned. It is reported that the same gambling clique is attempting to have Brooklyn throw this year’s series to Clevéland and that the Whité Sex players are be- ing blackmailed to let Cleveland win the pennant. Gandil is not playing’ now. All chances of winning the pennant are thrown away. Comiskey informed the players if found guilty he would drive them from baseball forever, if pos sible. Cicotte broke down and cried in the jury rodm, one juror said. He quoted the pitcher as saying: “I wish I had not been mixed up in it.’ At 3 o'clock the jury was preparing to resume its investigation, with & number of officials of both major leagues summoned. Rumors about the court building said other players had} confessed. President Heydler of the National league, and John McGraw of the New York Nationals, were called in, Com- BROOKLYN GETS FIRST GAME OF WORLD SERIES | at- arms. ‘The committee on ‘adjusted compen-|convention recommended Kansas City, sation reported unqualified approval of! October 31 and November 1 and 2. Both the hill which passed the house, but;reports were sdopt: was left pending before the senate. | Compulsory military and physical ‘The report directed the national ex-| training was advocated in a resolution ecutive committee to take such action|adopted. The military committee’ be- es it may @eem necessary to ensuré}came permanent. Prompt passage of the bill. The com-|na of Cody, the new state a mittee on time and place of the next'in attendance. (By United Press.) ; CHICAGQ, Sept. 28.—The National |-Raseball commission today decided to! |hold the first World series game in! Brooklyn on October 5, instead of in the American league city. The first , three games will be played in Brooklyn Valentine de Collon-| and the next four in the American Sherman and other anti-trust laws, At ajutant is league city, alternating thereafter, The| torney General Palmer declared in a, {ninth game will be played October 16. ! No, 606 No. FEDERATED CLUBS MEET TOMORROW ‘/Lin I. Noble; treasurer, Mrs. T. 8. Tal- Investigation of. Baseball .Scandal; ; Justice in the District of Columbia su-| p.m, 2:55 pam. -+2.35 603 Westbound._3:20 p.m. 8:40 p.m. ° 2 ° ° ° ? ° |All Wyoming to Be Represented at State Convention of Women’s Clubs; Record Attendance Predicted for Meeting Officers and delegates who will attend the seventeenth annual conyention of the Wyoming Federation of Women’s Clubs are arriv- ing in the city this afternoon and eyening from all parts of the state! in readiness for the opening session, which will be held in the Meth- odist Church, beginning at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. The first session of the convention will be preceded by a meeting of the executive board, called by Mrs.;tution, Mrs. J. J. Jewett; executive Lin I. Noble, the president of the fed-} board, Mrs. Albert Roschelle. Special eration, for 9 a. m. committees: Local board, Mrs. Thoma Between 9 and 10 the credentials] Cooper; Hamilton. éommittee, headed by Mrs. William J.| Greetings, neous business, an- Bailey of Casper, assisted by Mrs. J.|nouncem: adjournment. F. Goodnough of Rock Springs and A {NOON ON. Miss Elizabeth Wiley of Greybull, will] 1:30 p. m. 3. W. ge presid- be in session, so that the accredited del-|ing. Reading of minutes, music. egates may be duly seated when the] 1:45 sorts: Conservation; | . F. Hamilton; food, Mrs. forestry, good roads, Mrs. Edward Ewel; soils, M ". R. Wood. Soprano solo. 2:30 p. m.—Reports of biennial, cellaneous, adjournment. * EVENING SESSION. 8 p. m—Mrs. Noble presiding. Call convention opens, birds, ‘The program for lows: 9 a, m.—Executive board meeting. 10 a. m.--Call to order, Mrs. Lin T. Noble, and Mrs. W, V. Gage, presid- ing. Singing, invecation, Rev. W. L. French. Reports of officers: vice presi- dent, M . V. Gage; recording sec- Wednesday fol- mis- retary, Albert, Roscheile;..~ cor: FEO wecrel ho Mrs. Fred Wyck: off; general federation director, Mrs. tye. Maxon 1. Hi Pelton;* clubs, Mys. B. Brooks; response, Mrs. W. V: age; presideni’s annual address. Mrs. Lin I. Noble. Music. Address, “Amer- icanization,” Dr. Grace Hebard. Music. Adjournment. Informal reception. faferro. Reports of business commit- tees: Club extension, Mrs. Charles T. Sherbno;. clubwoman, Mrs. Lin I./ ‘The federation officers are: President, Noble; finance,’ Mrs. Guy Brill; consti:-} Mrs. Lin I. Noble, Thermopoljs; vice president, Mrs. W. Gag@ Worland; recording secretary, Mrs. Albert Ro- chelle, Lusk; corresponding *secretary, Mrs. Fred Wyckoff, Thermopolis; gen- eral federation director, Mrs. Lin Noble, Thermopolis; treasurer, Mrs. T S. Taliaferro, Rock Springs; auditor, Mrs. Frank, Kelley, Sheridan, The following cities will be represent- ed: Cheyenne, Thermopolis, Lusk, Sher- idan, Buffalo, Newcastle, Lander, Grey- bull, Wheatland, Douglas, Big Hom Sunrise, Rock Springs, Rawlins, La: mie, Worland, Powell, Evanston, Up- ton, Kaycee, Lovell, Guernsey, Farson, Cokeville, 1 and Riverton, with probably s others, Every effort is being made by the |local comntittees to insure the success |of the Casper convention which will |probably be one of the most largely attended meetings in some years. More than 150 delegates are expected. Pembina roo ade HIGH PRICE OF GAS, TOPIIC OF | OILCONVENTION Findings Today in vidence, Claim t- White Sox players were ‘in- ‘eaver, McMullen, Risberg, Ci- gave the grand jury informa- iskey was so affected that he was un-| techs able to make a statement after sending (By Associated Press.) telegrams suspending the players, DENVER, Sept The best meth- od reducing the present high price of gasoline and the necessity of establish- ing a national exchange for oll stocks ire two of the principal questions to come before the national convention of he Independent Oil Men's association, according to delegates, at the opening today. Delegates were welcomed by state and city officials. ph eae see 7 GO ON TRIAL KING’S ESTATE I$ SEIZED BY ITALIAN RED (By Associated Press.) LONDON, Sept. 28.—Estates owned by King Victor Emanuel of Italy xt} Santa Maria de Capea Vetre, near} Naples, haye been seized by members| of local agricultural” societies, acc ing to a dispatch to the Exchange ‘Te! No opposition was offered to | | graph. persons seizing the property, it was) dual paid. (By Associated Press) MEXICO CITY, Sept. 28.—Mem- bers of the chamber of deputies who participated in Sunday's demonstra- tion, during which several incendiary addresses were made from the central balcony of the National Palace, may be brought before the grand jury, ac- cording to a decision reached at a se- cret session of the senate, eartinaettc e Sateen 25 INJURED IN TRAIN WRECK BIG FIVE PLAN VIOLATION OF | ANTI-TRUST LAW| (Rv Avanciated Press.’ i WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.—Objec-| tions to the entire plan suggested by | the “Big Five’ Chicago meat packers | for disposition of their stockyard inter- ests were filed by the Department of preme court today. To sanction the proposal of the packers to dispose of thelr stockvard interests to a» holding company to be formed by F. H. Prince | and company of Boston, would mean the sanctioning of a violation of the! (By Associated Press) LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Sept. 28.— Twenty-five persons were injured, several seriously, when two Missouri Pacific passenger trains collided statement. head-on near Malvern, Ark., today. to order, music, addresses of welcome; \Mrs. Claude Teanor, Daughter of Charles | Hawks, Roused from Sleep to Be Shot Down by Husband After Refusal to Re- turn to Him; Murder Was Premeditated™ Insane jealousy, the result of two weeks’ brooding over an es- trangement, this morning led Claude Teanor, Segate cafe cook, to murder his wife, Mrs. Myrl Teanor, 24, daughter of Charles M. Hawks |former county assessor of Natrona County, and then turn his gun upon |himself with probably fatal results._ Mrs. Teanor died instantly with a |bullet through her heart and another in her head. Teanor shot him self under the right eye, the bullet coming out at the back of his head, jand he was removed to the State Hospital in a dying condition. = Teanor died from his wound at the State Hospital at 2 o’clock this afternoon. : a The shooting occiirred at 9:40 in room 242 of the Wyatt Hotel. \Five minues before that time Teanor entered the hotel and: climbed |the stairs to the second floor, where Mrs. Teanor occupied a room with jtwo other girls, registered as Marie Vogel and Winnie Harris. Ms. Teanor got out of bed to answer his knock and admitted him te the reom. ~ a 'Demand to Return Refused; Slayer Draws Gun and Fires Reports state that-Teanor demanded that his wife return to li jwith him. “Are you coming back to me?” was his final query. Upon receiving a reply in the negative he is said to have whipped a gun from his pocket and started shooting. : Frank J. Wolfe, former chief of police, seated in the lobby down- stairs, answered a call for help from the head of the stairs after hear- ing the reports, which hié failed.to recognize-as pistol shots.” One-of ~ ‘the girls had fled from the room immediately after the tragedy and when Wolfe reached the room Dr. J. N. Frost was also in the hall ont- side. my Second Shot Fired ‘After Wife |Fell to Floor, Witnesses Say : Pushing open the, door he found Mrs. Teanor lying in a pool of blood, her body crosswise of the door, so that he had to step over to get inside the room._ The girl was already dead and Teanor lay peri the end of the bed, gasping and groaning from his self-inflicted wound, Mrs. Teanor was dressed only in her night clothes, as were the two other occupants of the room. One of the girls had remained when her companion went to call for help. : ; _ Coroner Lew M. Gay and Deputy Sheriff William Kyte took charge of the situation upon their arrival, the latter receiving a .38 calibre Colts revolver from Frank J. Wolfe, who had taken it from the left hand of Teanor. Four shots had been fired, one having missed its mark and pierced the. glass in the door to room 243 across the hall jand several’ feet down the hall, indicating that Teanor had shot from an angle with the door and missed his wife as she started toward the entrance. The theory was also advanced that the shot which pierced ee woman’s body was fired from behind and one of the girls in thé | | > oe (Continued on Page 8.) REPRISAL CALLS FOR BURNING OF _ TOWNS IN CLARE | Residents Given 24 Hours to Return Cap- tain Lenbrum, Who Disappeared; More -- Fighting in Dublin; Mayor Alive | | | | | | } (By United Press.) ° DUBLIN,, Sept. 28.—Police placards threatening to burn Coun- |ty Clare towns were posted today over the city of Ennis. The plac- ards stated that the cities will be destroyed unless Capt. Lenbrum, who. \disappeared, is returned unharmed within twenty-four hours. Several were wounded in last night’s rioting here. An investiga- tion has been started as a result of a storm of protest. against the riots. Swiney, lord mayor of Cork, passed a better night last night and as q come sequence was a little more refreshed this morning, said a bulletin issued by the Irish Self-Determination League He is very weak and exhausted, how> ever, the bulletin said. | (By Associated Press.) BELFAST, Sept. 28.—There was re- currence last night of rioting and shoot- ing which have been in progress here at intervals since the week-end. An IN: ARKANSAS outbreak occurred in the Old Lodge road district, where shipyard workers attacked by armed men. ,geven ons were wounded by revol¥er fir- The military dispersed the rioters bayonet charges. Seventeen were arrested for violation of the curfew law. (Ry Associated Press.) LONDON, Sept. 28—Terence Macq This is the forty-seventh day of his hunger strike. — . Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hoffman and daughter Marjorie are in the city trait Laramie on a two weeks visit with friends and relatives. They say that Lefamie is booming. They made the trip overland in their new Studebaker’ motor car and report the roads tobe” in fair condition,