Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 17, 1920, Page 1

Confiscatory Laws Govern Attitude, WASHINGTON, hr 17.—No corporation, no group ora- tions and of individual | WEATHER FORECAST erin northeast portion tonight. is going ognition to Mexico,” it was stated at the state depart- ment today, It was stated that as pre- liminary to recognition the American government did not insist upon abroga- ton of article twenty-seven of the Mex- iona constitution, provided that opera- tion of the article did not infringe on the rights of Americans in Mexico. If laws enacted under the article are confiseatory and retroactive, the United States could not recognize Mexico, it was’seid. The United States “is actuat- 4 solely by a desire to protect all valid interests, (of, Americans in Mexico. FOREIGNERS NOT TO 5 OPERATE PIPE LINE. . MEXICO CITY, Nov. 17.—Pxclusio! of foreign powers from diréct participa- tion in the operation of the proposed oil pipe “line across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec was recommiended today by committee experts. They also urged that foreign warships be prohibited from using any oll products Aawing through such a Den UR DS: 2 , line. BONVIGT SLAYER WANTED IN WYOMING KILLED BY ROYAL MOUNTED POLIC ‘ THRERMOPOLIS, Wyo., Nov. 17.— ‘William Brown, an escaped convict who was accused of the murder, imme- )Biately after his escape several months of Frank Belcher, a ‘sheepherder, tee “is reported to have been, killed by Can- adian mounted police while resisting frain No. 104, eastbound, Opens Fire; Switch senger Which Trailed First One DENVER, Nov. 17.—The police here are searching for armed men who last night attempted to hold up and rob Union Pacific passenger at Sandow, six miles east of Denver. Generally fair tonight and Thursday except rain in northwest portion; wafm. RECOGNIZING The Casnyp er Daily Cribune No, 81 Westbound_-10:30 p.m. Stops No. 82 Eastbound -_Starts 245 p.m. Cc. & N. W. Arriv. No. 606 Eastbound _.2:35 p.m. 2:55 p.m. No. 603 Westbound__3:20 p.m. 3:40 p.m. BANDITS DRIVEN OFF | IN GUN BATTLE WITH UNION PACIFIC CREW Bold Attempt at Holdup Six Miles East of Denver Frustrated When Brakeman| + Thrown to Wreck Pas- HOONEY CASE TO BE DISMISSED IF NEW TRIAL IS GRANTED NOW SAN FRANCISCO) Nov. 17.—District Attorney Brady today declared that if the court granted Thomas Mooney a new trial, he would probably move to dismiss: the case and free Mooney, who is serving a life sentence for the bomb explosion of the Preparedness Day parade in 1916. NUMBER 342 | oe conc BARE tte Premier Venizelos is quoted as JOE LYNCH AND | HERMAN SIGNED FOR 15 ROUNDS ) NEW YORK, Nov. 17.—Pete Herman, \bantamweight champion, and Joe Lynch of this city were signed today to fight 15 rounds on December 2. MART SWAMPED Eighteen shots were fired by the bandits and members of the train crew, who, since the last Carlisle train robbery in Wyoming, have been armed. Qne of the bandits is believed to have been wounded. They escaped in an automobile waiting near a siding. Three of the bandit party, believed to number six men, fagged the train and ax it pullel to a stop they approavhed the baggage car.. The brakeman armed EXPULSIONS FOR HAZING PENDING AT ANNAPOLIS WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—Rear Ad- miral Scales of the United States naval academy has the hazing situation well in hand, according to Secretary of the with a shotgun, jumped from the train and when the bandits opened fire he replied. Other memebers of the) train WITH HALF-FED Nuvy Daniels, who declared today that hazing would be stopped. It is under- stood that the midshipmen fear the ex- Questioning of Defeats mer Service Man IDENTITY PROOF CHALLENGED BY WIGKEY DEFENSE STATE WITNESS IN WOOD CASE. HSS EXAMINED titcace Attempt to Prove That Decomposed Body Was Not That of For- in Newcastle Trial (Special to The Tribune.) NEWCASTLE, Wyo., Nov. 17. —Cross-examination of witnesses arrest. The report is being investi- pulsion of aney. members of the acad- for the state in the trial of Frank Hickey, charged with the murder of Laban M. Woods, which entered its third day this morning, appears to indicate that the defense may be laying the groundwork for an attempt to prove that the decomposed body found in the mud on a river bank near the Hickey ranch, and identified as that of Wood, may have been gated, as the tah popes has a CHIPPEWA FALLS,. Wis.; Noy. 17, -—Louis Krueger, 30, sought as a draft evader for two years, was captured to- day. He was one of. four brothers in- volyed in the shooting of several mem- ‘bers of a possee, two years ago when federal agents tried to arrest them as draft evaders. peered > SELEEE CASPER ASKED TO JOIN EQUGATIONAL MEETING TN COLORADO CAPITAL Casper residents who are interested in educational problems and who may be in Denver December 8 and 9 aro asked to communicate with the Cham- ber of Commerce and arrange to rep- resent Casper at a regional educational conference which will be held at the Capitol buildingon those dates. ‘Thesc conferences, to be composed of legislators, members of Rotary clubs, members of women’s clubs, members of school boards, school superintend- ents, etc,, are being called in all parts of the country by P .P. Claxton, United States commissioner of education, to consider legislation on school matters which should be put before the jegisia- tures of varicits states at their meet- ings during the coming year. BRITISH NOT TO PARTICIPATE IN IRISH. HEARINGS St At EROAL Nov. 17.—The’. Brit- igh embassy today notified the commit- tee of one hundred investigating condi- tions ‘in Ireland that {it did not ap- Prove the pitrposes to ibe served or the westnede to be followed in the commit-| ‘s hearings scheduled to begin here teacsow and fore could not ac-) cept the committee's invitation to. be represented. League, Greeting to _President Wilson Is Acknowledged WASHINGTON, Nov, 17.—President ‘Wilsoh in a message today to Paul Hv- mans, president of the League of Na- tions assembly, expresued the hope small vessels were driven ashore. tric traffic and communication 1 were paralyzed, due to @ heavy sléet and snow storm, CATTLE, REPORT a ae ete CHICAGO, Nov, 17. eee and” infefior grade being rushed to™ market from’ all sof the country by panic-stricken farmers is causing the demoralization of the cattle mar- ket, according to Albert Baker, head of the United States Bureau of Mar- kets. He has appealed to the farm- ers to stem the tide. Farmers have become panicky over the future of livestock prices and ‘are unloading underweight stock, which has caused wide breaks ix prices, Cattle are cheaper now than at any. time since 1916. The hog market is not affected. |POLES MASSING | BIG FORCE NEAR UPPER SILESIA BERLIN, Noy. 17.—Confidential .re-| ports that the Poles are’ concentrating large masses of troops near the frontier of Upper Silesia were received here to- day. The attention of France, Greet Britain and Ttaly was called to the sit- uation. BUFFALO,N.Y.,1S ‘SNOWBOUND BY BLIZZARD TODAY BUFFALO, N. Y., 17.—Buf- falo is snowbound in one of the tvorst 4a. m. to 7 a. m. today over a foot of snow fell, Local and interurban traffic is demoralized. Hundreds of people walked to work while thou- sands remained at home, BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 17.—Shipping was endangered today by a heavy nowthzast gale which is raging along the North Atlantic .coast. Scores of) At Cleveland, Ohio, railroad and elec- lines! Pol hace oO A. J. Schwarz, internal revenue of- ficer, is in the city from his head- November storms in history. From [ crew also, opened. fire. ne. Rock ‘gun ry Kangis Arain No: 6. -to avoid a collision. train’s rear coaches were derailed as it passed the Sandow switch. Union Pacific train left d’clock, F. H. Briggs Oil company, will leave row for Union, Oregon, and Nee Salas ¢rn_ points. . Denver at 9 pS ES PER Harry Briggs of the Briggs Oil com- pany, who is here from the Osage fleld, is in Douglas today. LATE FLASHES FROM THE WIRE (By Associated Press) COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, Nov. 1i.—Fred Poffenberger, 19, arresjed in connection with the mailcar rob- bery here Saturday, is alleged to have told officials that he cut open one of the stolen mail sacks containing $750,000 in bonds. He declined to say what became of the bonds. NEW YORK, Nov. 17.—Robert P Brindell, president of the New York Building Trades council, was indicted today on a charge of extortion, Bail was fixed at $100,000. The indictment was the second voted in connection with the legisla- tive investigation of the so-called building trust. (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Nov. 17.—The Walsh: congressional committee investigating the United States Shipping board was} told today that when Alonzo, Tweed- ale was made treasurer of the board and the Emergency Fleet corporation in 1919, no record existed in either of- fice showing how $2,500,000,000 expend-| ed up to that time had been disbursedy| [sian soviet offensive. emy. ‘Notice » wens seived : on. 8. meni” and Chicago,!'that ‘they must remain’ in’ their build. over the vit tracks came up behind.| ings while the Army plays. the Navy The fagman stopped the train in time] football team at Annapolis on Novem- The Rock Island} ber 27. Daniels declared that every midshir.- Railroad| man guilty of hazing would be expelled officials believe the switch was pulled| if it meant every student in the acad- (when the train was passing over it. The|emy. SNA he Sd ae ssarasea_ «| GHILOREN'S BOOK WEEK BEING OBSERVED HERE BY NATRONA COUNTY LIBRARY Children’s Book Week, nationally ob served from November 15 to Novem ber 20 by all public libraries in the country, is being especially featured at the Natrona County Public library this week. Upon a table in the children’s room which was so attractively fitted up thir summer, is displayed a complete assort ment of new and attractive children’s books recently purchased by the li- brary. Parents are particularly invited to the corpse of another. Counsél for the pecused declined to discuss’ ‘such an angle of the case, but: thelr insistent welling in cross-examination on the possibility of a mistake in identifica {tion Buggests the preparing of a foun- dation for a defense of the character related. The progress made during the first three days of the trial indicates that it will be finished this week. To late no sensational testimony has been brought out by the state. The chief witness so far, Mrs. Carrie| Grellinger, sister of Woods, was sub- jected to a grilling and merciless cross- exhmination by counsel for the defend- ant Tuesday. When required to go into minute details of the finding of the body identified as that of her brother on the bank of the Little Missouri River last May, she several times was overcome by emotion. resulting from the grewsome recital and was in tears when. finally leave ‘the permitted to stand. fs Five witnesses for the state had been ‘xamined when. court convened Wednesday morning. ‘Bullets taken ‘rom the body found on the river bank haye been introduced as exhibits, They were passe@ among the jurors, who oxamined them closely. Evidence will be introduced in an effort to identify) these bullets with a gun found at the visit the children’s room this week and inspect the books..which their children are reading. The library has @ number of lists of books for children of various ‘ager which will be distributed free of charge to parents, from which they may se lect books which their children should read, or hooks which they may wish to give as La vnaaedls ia, at Christmas. KIEW EVACUATED BY UKRAINIANS; REDS ADVANCING WARSAW, “Nov. 17.—Ukrainians have evacuated Kiev and other towns and are fleeing before the new Rua- Bolshevik cav- WASHINGTON, Nov. 17—A_ veitea!alry swept trough the Ukrainian) lines threat that. permits granted. for the! at various points, Three of General 7 he | Petluna’s divisions were surrounded by ape ot abies IN Nox to Oalewt troops when: the Ukrainian left wing broke because of bad communi that company continues to accord the Mona American government the fecretlgy: 4 big Bettas leges that it accords the other ‘governments in taiag ps poe Raa EE a | quarters in Cheyenne attending, to busi- ness matters for the next few days. MILLIONS LOST IN MAIL OMABA, Nov. 17.—The loss in th was the greatest in the history of crime in this country, it was intimated to day by a federal officer working on the case when he declared that a ‘news- paper estimate of the loss at $3,500,000 was too conservative. The loss may go to $7,000,000, Merle Phillips, who is under. arrest, has refused to give information re- garding his confederates. He has been under the third degree for forty-eight hours. messages, was contained in a statement issued: by: the state department today. TRUCK DEMOLISHED BY TRAIN, DRIVER ESCAPES A White truck was almost complete- ly demolished last night when struck by a C., B. & Q. switch engine on the commercial track crossing on West Second street. The driver of the truck escaped injury in a manner considered almost mirdculous, by those who saw ROBBERY he Burlington mail train robbery here the accident. His name was not learned. WARSAW, Nov. 17.—Lithuanian troops fired on members of the League of Nations control commission as they were crossing “no man’s land” from Hickey place. Mrs. Grellinger’s testimony {n_ part elated to the finding of her brother's saddle, with a heavy fock tied to it, in the bottom of tne river prior to the discovery of the corpse on the river bank. ‘The finding of the saddle was in part responsible for the ultimate Inding of the corpse, which it was sus- pbsted had been cast into the river dur- ng the flood time in the hope that it Soa be carried away, leaving the fate of the murdered man a mystery. An intensely interested spectator in the courtroom is the wife of the de-| fant, who is suing him for divorce on| the ground of cruelty. The divorce} action will be heard immediately after | Yhe murder trial is. concluded, Mrs. Hickey, whom it is stated related that she saw her husband kill Woods and lrag his body to the river, but who eannot be compelled to testify, ap-| peared to be, profoundly affected by} Ms. Grellinger’s relation of the details of the finding of -the corpse, BENNY LEONARD AND KELLY TO| FIGHT TONIGHT OIL MUST COME FROM FOREIGN HATIONS SOON WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. — The American petroleum industry must look in the future to foreign coun- tries for its raw material and cannot “close its eyes to the portent of ob- struction that looms ir its way,” due to the attitude of foreign govern ments, President Walter C. Teagle of the Standard Oil company of New Jersey, told the American Petroleum institute today. The American industry has to face ® problem of production, he declared. During the present year, he esti- mated, the United States will consume 445,000,000 barrels of crude oil pro- duced within the nation and imports | of 120,000,000 barrels additional from Mexico. TEXTILE MILLS’ OUTPUT IS CUT IN TWO, REPORT BOSTON, Nov. 17.—Curtailment of production which began some months ago in New England textile industries employing 00,000 operatives has reached a point where the total out- put is fess than half that of a year ago, according to estimates made to- day from a canvass of the great mill © centers. ANTI-REDS ARE DRIVEN OUT OF SIBERIA, CLAIM PEKING, Nov. 17,—Anti-Bolsheviki forces have fled across, the Manchurian ; border frora Siberia, according. to of- ficial reports. Bolsheviki troops have occupied. several towns... Japanese NEW YORK, Nov. 17.—Benny Leon- ard meets’ “Harlem” Eddie Kelly ina twelve-round bout here tonight. EARLINGTON, Ky., Nov, 17.—F' the Arnold mine here, were taken out two negroes lost their lives. Eleven Gen. Zellgousk’s lines to those of the Lithvanians, according to dispatches received here today. Members of the commission were carying a white flag. troops are being rushed to the border to preserve order. The Bolsheviki were warned not to pursue the defeat- ‘ed army. ELEVEN RESCUED FROM MINE FIRE: ‘ive of sixteen men trapped by Are in dead this morning. Three whites and others were rescued in a serious con- dition. The firs was discovered in the mine Tuesday. The rescue was effected by tunneling around the fire, which had shut off the single entry of the mine, and came twenty-four hours after the flames broke out, STATES NOT TO BE FORCED _ BLOODY RIOTS BREAK EXICAN RULEOUT IN ATHENS OVER. RESULT OF ELECTION ATHENS, Nov. 17.—Rioting again broke out this morning in front jof the foreign office here as a result of the Greek national elections. ; Many persons, including a number of children, were reported killed jas the open space was swept by machine-gun fire. Supporters of King Constantine were blamed for the firing. saying: “I have done my part for demned my policy. I have been ac cused of being a tyrant. I have re- tired,” (By Associated Press) ATHENS, Nov. 17.—The resignation of Premier Venizelos was made public today. Majority leaders say the re- storation of King Constantine is an ac- complished fact. ELECTION VICTOR: DEMAND CONSTANTINE. ATHENS, Nov. 17.—"Constantine* ts our rightful king,” Former Premier Gounaris, ader of the successful party in the Greek elections, today told: a correspondent, “and we expect him back as soon as a plebiscite is held | showing that the people want him.” “We expect to assume the govern- ment in a day or two," continued Goun- aris, ‘when the results of the elections become official. Then we shall quickly call the chamber and have a plebiscite.” QUEEN MOTHER TO ASSUME REGENCY. ATHENS, Nov, 11.—Queen Mother Olga of Greece probably will assume” the regericy today. She is the widow of the late King George, who was a8 Sassinated at Saloniki in 1915. NEW (MINISTRY TO BE SWORN TODAY, ATHENS, Nov. 17.—George Rhallis,. former premier, has succeeded in form- ing a cabinet to succeed the Venizelo¥ government, defeated in Sunday's elec- tions. The new ministry will be sworn in Wednesday. Rhallis is 80 years old. GRADING AND PAVING ARE DISCUSSED BY COUNCIL Discussion of the paving and grading districts and the problem of gecuring bonding houses. to carry improvement bonds took up the larger portion of the short, adjougned session of the city actual action on any subjects of im- council last night at the city hall. No portance was taken by the council last night. Payment of bills and comple tion of unfinished business started at the afternoon session of the council Monday Wgsteadeach ee BELO FOUR SHOT DEAD AFTER ARREST WHITE GAT COUNTY CLAR®#, Ireland, Nov. 17.—Four of six men ar- rested last night under the restoration act were shot dead this morning, while trying to escape an escort, said an of ficial report today, Alleged Bootlegger Gets Hearing Today . Bootlessing was profitable for Alb Trucks, it is alleged, until he was rested last night by the police depart- ment near the Northwestern. Railroad depot: His trial probably will be this aft oon in police court. Jack Keiser, a taxicab driver, was ar- rested on a charge of violating traffic regulations of the city. Keiser’s alleged offense was turning around in the mid- dle of the block. OFFICIAL GANTASS OF FLEGTION IS STARTED The ofMficia} result of the November election in Casper and Natrona County will be known some time this week. ‘The ballot boxes will be opened by county officials thia afternoon and the official canvas will start at once. ‘Today ts the last day that the count could gtart. Fit- een days after election are ‘allowed by law in‘which to start the official colint*” * ph alata’ Bh awh 1 PUEBLO MEMBER TO. BE GUEST OF ROTARIANS HERE Special plans are being made for the meeting of the Rotary club ‘at noon tomorrow at the Henning when the dis trict governor, Bert Scelbner of Pugb- Colo., will make his official’ visit to the Casper elub. VILLA AT HEAD | OF BIG COLONY SAN’ DIEGO, Nov.’17.—Pancho. eae who suddenly appeared Friday in Bins |zenada, is reported to be at the {oe a large colony of followers on. tion of land in Lower California, [miles from Tijuan, ve ;the Greek, people and they have con PY 22 & be: a her tae cS rt tas ur far Khe t ily et t