Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 11, 1920, Page 1

RED SUSPENDED! Tribe Which Found Its Inception Six Months Ago Culminates in Dismissal . ‘When Shortage isFoundi in Books W. Ww. Sproul, postmaster ‘ace and Assistant’ Postuiaster Parker were supended from their official duties in Pr pens of fe is stated. Difficulties between Postmast which started about six F ‘the ‘suspension of Mr. Sproul and his assistant. Three inspectors had been sent. ‘here several weeks ago to investigate the situation in the Casper postoffice, seen exact amount of the alleged is not known, although it has been variously estimated at from | $2,000 ‘to $6, that his lips were “sealed.’” pte ley said that all statements regarding |‘ WORLD F yg ED RECORD IS changea would come from Mr. Sproul. Mr. Sproul denied that the amount would be as much as $5,000 and that he si not expect it to be nearly that muc! Charges of insubordination were made at Washington against Mr. Sproul Tt was {ls trouble which "Mr. 8 difficulty. sp held up ‘and | ~ : acting post- “ Consequently when it was le- Ered ‘e remove him from office this week it was-not necessary to have the aetion of the president and. approval of the senate to remoye Mr. Sproul. Mr.’ Sproul was informed yesterday that he and his assistant ‘were suspen‘l- ed pending! the result of an investign- tion as to irregularities in his accounts. “I do not like the manner in which I am. leaving office," Mr. Sproul said this morni “TI had expected to leave the next spring and even now I leave only regretting that I am forced out under, such unfortunate’ vg Shue stances.” The distnissal of a trained account: ant Mr. Sproul had in office in October last year (id away with his. carefil system of checking all postal accounts. Minor infractions of postal laws brought about the dismissal of this man, Mr. Sproul ‘ When Postmaster Sproul insisted on haying an assistant to care for these figures, a clerk from the northern part of the state was sent to act a assi:t- ant postmaster, Mr. Sproul) bélieves that the discrepancy in figures occur- red after October 1, 1919, Cc. B, Stafford. secretary of the Cas- per Chamber of Commerce, speaking for the chamber of commerce this aftor- noon, said that the: body which he rep- resented expresse@ faith in Mr. Sproul's integrity and tly to his exoi ir. i forward confiden- Frawiey, Ernest Abony inson, the other two inspectors, ine heen investigating here. as a result of certain discrepancies i ice. Others may be involved estigation of three post office the Casper postoffice late inspectors ‘is made, it ostmaster- Sproul ‘and the civil service de-| ago, cluminated yesterday FORMER RESIDENT HELD FOR MURDER states that she caused the death of Mary Zorano- sent to Denver for further examination and test. vitch and the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wes- ley Law, when each was less than a week old. ices led to the investigation ich later resulted in sending the stomachs of the Special to The Tribune) CHEYENNE ‘Wyo., Dec. Schuetz, former: Casper a Neb., on hese, fant ‘Children on fniad TPALIAN QUAKE TW IS RAZED (By Associated Press.) } ‘ROME, Dec. 11.—AU “villages ~ tn! the Tempeleni distflct, Southern Al- | bania, were destroyed by a violprt | *arthquake, according to an. Avyiona message to the Tempo today. hundred persons: killed and 15,000 left homeless, Two ported the hes nai still peat (By Associated Press. BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 11—E£arth- | Yquake shocks were ‘distinctly felt in some parts! of Argentina shortly after midnight. |FOREIGN TRADE. | CORPORATION T. BE ORGANIZE (By Associated Press. CHICAGO, Dec.) 11.—The | foreign trade conference today voted to proceed with the organization of a ‘foreign | trade corporation, ‘capitalized at $100,- 000,000, under .the provisions “of the Edge act. CONSTANTINE IS GIVEN CALL BUT AIDES EXCEPTED Former ‘Foreign Minister and Aide-de- Camp Not Wanted, Says Message to Ex- ' King; Naval Escort to Greece Promised / LUCERNE, | = of the plebiscite in Greece reascend the Greek foe Cees Constantine here today. Prof, chief commandan: reek navy and Constanitingtd ae da eoeaey oe pro:|stantine that it will have a Greek hibited from-returning to Greece by the] cruiser ani. an escort of ‘warships to Greek government in the telegram in-|receive him and his family at Venice viting Conétantine to return. a, Dee. 11 Official notification of the re- Greece and an invitation to return to throne immediately, were received by former former foreign minister and Constantine’s| his exile, and Capt. Stefan Paparri Gogululor The Greek government notified Con- in postal accounts at! before the complete of murder, the warrant ing forth that she feloniously caused the death wh Nevember 13. s being returned to Cheyenne. The WY0., TURDAY, DEC. 11, 1920 WHILE U. S. BUILDS tae To Reduce Two Billions Can be Clipped from Bill Paid by People (By United Press) é WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Approxi- mately two billion dollars can be cut from the cost-of-living bill of the American people next year if congress works along the right lines in revis- ing the tax laws crovernment offi- cials/believe. Abolition of taany indi. rect, t#xes on business will affect a BS-psmeat it is stated. pproximately $5,500,000,000 was collected in taxes for the year ending June 30, 1920, Most of this was from indirect taxes which multiply the price of the article to the consumer TMs: NVilliam has been arrested at bal of y, rw. C. A. a Foreign Fields is Told i in Address “World Fellowship” and the needs of the-women and girls of the world were brought strongly before the people of Casper yes- terday afternoon and evening by Mrs. ‘Katherine Willard Eddy of the foreign department of the Y. W. C. A. who spoke at several meetings during her stay here and addressed a large gathering at the Methodist Chureh last night, The Y. W. C. A., she stated does not go into any country or section of any country unless invited there by the mission boards which’ are working in that section. When jt does go in it does not seek to start an American ¥. W. C. A. in a foreign land, but it seéks \| instead to build up a native Y. W. C. A. with a board of native women and manned by native secretaries. The Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. | strongly appeal to non-Christian for- jelgn men because they can understand the work being done for young men and women, Mrs. Eddy stated, where they often cannot understand the : Christian chureh end its worship, and they willingly aid the work financially. The great need which the entire world has today is understanding, Mrs. Bady asserted. “No League of Nations which ..is ‘built on paper can evér en- dure, she said, ‘but if the important Nations can extend to those less for- tunate a hand of fellowship, can build; up a friendly feeling of understanding, there is greater likelihood of a true bond which will unité ali tations. “"The-people of America need to understand both sides of the American- Japanese question as it affects Cali- fornia,” she asserted, “and there are two sides. They must uriderstand both sides of the Chila-Japanese auestion, and there are two sides to that also.” . Preceding Mrs. Eddy’s talk of last night the members of the various Girl Reserve corps under the direction of Miss Helen Wells, gave a veyy beau- tiful pageant showing the meaning of world fellowship, One of the corps, in white middy dresses with the Blue Girl Reserve emblems and ties, formed, the choir and sang “Praise Yo the Father," while World Fellowship en- tered bearing a globv representing, the world in her arms. To her came first the allied nations, Beigium, France) Italy and Britain, the uniting of the world, “América the Beautiful.” waa sunc llowghip to other lands. ‘then came China, Japan, India and South America—the lands in which the Y. W. C. A. has most of its foreign work, each with an offering to make. Fellowship removed her on Wednesday, ity,” while a solo, from two to five times, it is stated. must pay from eight to fifteen bil- lion dollars in increased prices if in- | direct taxes are retained. A general tax on all articles to he purchase is favored. It is also declared that stockhold- ers and not corporations would have to pay the proposed 20 per cent tax on undistributed profits: CONGRESS LIMITED TO BRIEF HOLIDAY. (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, ‘Dec. 11 or at least the house, may forego most to expedite its work. Members of the house steering commitice said it was the intention now to adjourn Thurs! Certain cir while America entered followed by her} midens who extended the. hand of) switzerland last summer, which day, December 23, and resume worse the following Monday, and to adjourn The ie which Christianity has to give to the world was typified by a lighted candle, and the spread of that Nght was shown when each of the girls tuking part in the pageant lighted a tiny taper at the candle and passed from the room while the “Hymn of Lights” was sung. <\merica’s wealth as the Christmas season approaches as compared with the poverty of France, Rumania or Armenia, was vividly pictured by Mrs. Eddy. Christmas this year will be} hard for Germany, laboring under the opprobrium of the whole world and sut- fering under a poverty the more ter- rible because it is concealed. Mrs. Eddy drew a vivid picture of the work being done in Constantinople) for the men of the navy by the Y. M. C. A. and for the women of Armenia and the Russian refugees by the Y. W. C. A. hostels. In India, where thousands of young girls were’ made widows, forever out- fast by the war, there is need of much help. Factory life has come to In- dia and many girls are working their lives out there because there are’ no laws to help them, Factory life has come to China, too, and women and children from country | districts perhaps, are at work for ten and twelve hours in the silk mills under conditions which mean physical| break down and death in very few} years. i “But we cannot criticize there,’ Mrs. Eddy said, “for when we see well-| Ughted and ventilated factories in China we think of similar ones in our own land, and when we see dark, fll- ventilated factories we remember that, America has them, too. And when we| see the little children at work tossing] the cocoons in the boiling water, we femember that Christian America has} its child labofers, too. Mrs. Eddy described famine condi tions in China such as prevail today.| telling of incidents which happened when she was in that country @ few years ago. | The United States needs to give to} these. suffering, starving people, she asserted, for the saving of its own soul, And America ‘must. give, not only money, which is the cheapest thing we have, but sympathy and understand- ing and workers to carry this sympathy and understanding to these countries in their hour of need. Mrs. Edgy spoke mire intimately concerning the life of women and girls in war- stricken countries, in India, China and Japan before the Welfare Club yesterday ‘afternoon. She was the guest of the board of directors of the ¥. W. C. A, at tea at the association building following the/ each with an offering to give toward) ff, ‘ternoon address, and spoke infor- mally of the work of the Y. W. C. A. in other lands and of the spirit which animated the world conference held oi she attended. Mrs. Eddy was very happy to meet here eysterday, Mrs. Frank ©. War- ton, whose sister, Miss Grace Coppeck. fs the national secretary in charge of cloak of the Y. W. C. A. work in China. Miss blue and’ stood revealéd as “Christian. Coppeck visited in Casper last spring “Oh, Jesus, Thou on her way to attend the world con- Art Standing Outside the Fast Closed ference in Switzerland. It is estimated that this year people | paid by the consumer at the time of | Congress, | of its Christmas recess this year so as | | Cost of Living, Belief Abolition Indirect Taxes Proposed, in Congress Thursday before New Year’s day and return the following Monday. WAR-TIME LAW. REPEAL GETS RIGHT OF WAY. (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Under a special rule reported out today by the |rules committee, the Volstead resolu- tion repealing most of the war-time |laws would be given the right of way in the house after the Johnson immi- gration bill is disposed of. Debate cn the resolution will be limited to two hours. + Rides Patras at Rate of Over Six . M iles a Minute (Special to The Tribune) CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 11 —His airplane losing ground against a hurricane at an alti- tude of 5,000 feet, during an leffort Friday afternoon to go west with the air mail for Salt Lake City, Pilot: Jack Knight turned back 45 miles west of Cheyenne and covered the distance to this city in seven minutes at the rate of 6.41 miles. a minute or 385 miles an hour, the greatest speed ever attained by man. Turning back into the teeth of the wind over the landing field here the push of the 400-horsepower Liberty motor and the shove of the wind so exactly counteracted one another that for 20 minutes the plane hung motion- less at an altitude of 3,000 feet, Knight finally managed to land through a se- ries of side slips coming down vertl- cally but on an even keel the ship having so little headway when it touched the ground that it ran leas than 75 feet. Knight "begged for refuel and make an attempt to ride the hurricane to Chicago, which he figured he could reach in two hours and 15 minutes. {permipagpn sto ‘EXPRESS FORCE IN COUNTRY IS BEING REDUCED NEW YORK, Dece. 11.--Working forces of the American Railway. Ex- press company are being ‘seduced throughout the country because of a general slump in business, it was an- nounced today at the company’s head- quarters here. The number of em- ployes affected was not learned. “Business is flat all over the United States,” said officials. MAN BREAKS NECK IN FALL pas ys as Wyo. Dec. 11.—The| position in which the body of James Gallagher, a pioneer ranchman of this district, was found with his neck broken, the corpse being sprawled on a hay rack, indicated that Gallagher, | attempting to walk across the rack j while it was in motion, had fallen and his neck had been fractured by coming violently into contact with the rack frameyork. Death had occurred several hours before the body was found, and in the meanwhile the team hitched to! the rack had stood patiently awaiting guidance from the dead owner. in Denver tests showed traces of morphine. Mrs. Schuetz was formerly a practical nurse at the Cheyenne private hospital. sworn out by Doctors J. D. Shingle and George P. Mrs. two infants to the state chemist at Laramie. When Johnston, RE PRIRoNs of the Cheyenne private hos- charge nothing was found to be wrong, the stomachs were WEATHER FORECAST ~. Unsettled weather with snow Su day and in west and exireme north por- tions tonight; colder Sunday and in extreme west portions jtonights high winds will continue. 7 NAVY SSE DELEGATE INLEAGGE ASSE Disarmament in Three Stages Urged ow Geneva Conference by Commitiee; Holland to Send Army to Vilma ~ St (By Associated Press) GENEVA, Dec. 11.—Japan cannot reduce her armaments as long as the United States is increasing hers, Viscount Kiku- jiro Ishii, of the Japanese delegation declared at a meeting of the armaments committee of the league assembly today. GENEVA, Dec. 11.—Disarmament in three stages is the ‘substance of\a recommendation the committee on armaments of the League of Nations assembly will make to the assembly as a result of re- cent deliberations, The first ‘stuge would be marked by an agreement among the powers to make no further increases in armaments, The secon) stage recommended in the procedure is the gradual reduction of armaments. The third stage would be that of gen- eral and complete disarmament, exceps insofar as arms are needed for policd purposes, . The warrants were HOLLAND AGREES | TO USE OF ARMY. (By Associated Press) GENEVA, Dec. 11.—Conditional so- jweptance by Holland of the invitation | of the League of Nations to coftribure @ ‘portion of the military force to be sent by the League of Nations to the | Vilma district for the plebiscite there Was announced today. Poland sent a note to the council of the league re- questing that the fortress and forti- fied zone of Grotino be excluded froin the Vilna ss ays dard area. PASSPORT REFUSAL 18. REFERRED TO LEAGUE. (By Associated Press) § WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Represen-" tative Mason ‘of (Tlindis today made’ public a cablegram sent by him to. Paul Hymans, president of the League of, Nations, appealing for the support’ LOT Vane ws 2 BOMB PLANT IN DUBLIN RAIDED ONE MAN SHOT (By United Press.) DUBLIN, Dec, 11—Sinn Feiners and the police engaged in a battle here today following the discovery of a bomb factory. One man was shot and three arrested. A large quantity of bombs was confiscated. Other attacks throughout Ireland on post offices, mail tnains and railway \stations were’ behets ba > sd eta PNEUMONIA TS FATAL TO NORTHWESTERN FOREMAN. Victor Chacon, age 46, foreman of the extra gang for the C. & N. W. for od several. years, died at a local hospital Mahogany trees do not grow in cluat of pneumonia at 6 o'clock last night./ers, but are found scattered through. The body is being held at the Bowman! out forests and hidden in dense under. LIFE PENALTY IS PAID BY SLAYER FOR KILLING TWO George Bosco Sent to Gallows Friday Night in Colorado Prison; Has to be Helped to Gallows When Nerve Fails dred’’ investigating the Irish questid to send a special investigation body t, Ireland. Passports issue by the staio department to members of the invesrt- gating committee were refused vise by the British embassy. COL, HARVEY ARGUES AGAINST HUGHES PLAN. (By United Press) MARION, Ohio, Dec, 11.—An earnest argument against entering the Leaga+ of Nations is being made to Presiderft- elect Warren G. Harding by Col. George | Harvey, an irreconcilable. Harvey la trying to defeat a plan which Charles BE. Hughes is believed to-have outline1 |to Harding in favor of American par? | tletpation inthe league with proper safeguards. With the departure ef Hughes, the belief that he would be asked to accept the position as secré. tary of state grew among Harding‘s, closest friends. om (By United Press.) CANON CITY, Colo., Dec. 11.—George Bosco, slayer of William |Hunter and Elton C. Parks last April, was hanged at 9 o'clock last night at the state prison. He was in a state of nervous collapse and had to be helped to the gallows. His neck was broken and he died in eight minutes. His mother er collapsed and fear is held for her recovery. |The brothers escaped to Utah, where (By ‘Assotiated Press.) they were arrested on May 16 at Ken- George T. Bosko, 25 years old, and! fiworth, after a chase of three days his brother, Thomas Bosko, 18, left) in the hills, & Pueblo on April 10, 1919, without funds | Jeorge Bosko, soon after his arrest, | and looking for. employment jon| confessed to the double murder, de- ranches in that vicinity. On April 11,|claring he committed the crime to se- jnear Rye, Colo., while walking along) cure funds, The younger Boska also |the road, they encoutered an automo-| contested to his part in the killing. | bile driven by Biton C.. Parks, in which} On June 19, 1919, a jury in Pueblo | William T. Hunter was a passepger.| sentenced George Bosko to hang and Parks permitted the two pedestrians to| Thomas Bosko to life imprisonment. ride in the car. The two men occupied! Several reprieves were granted by the |the rear seat. Eighteen miles from) tloutenant governor, the last reprieve ; Pueblo, according to his own confes-;}on December 2nd, when acting Gov. ; Sion, George Bosko drew a savin | sores Stephen announced he would and shot and killed Parks and Hunter.) grant no fourther extension of time. !