Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 11, 1921, Page 1

INJUNCTION ’ Weather Forecast Fair tonight and Saturday, eomiewiat colder in east: por- ion. é cA As CITY. EDITIO ER, WYO., FRIDAY, FEB. 11, 1921 NUMBER 105 William Randolph in District of Columbia to Restrain Secretary Houston of Treasury From Making Further Loans and Advances (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—Suit for an injunction restrain- Hearst Files ‘Action ing Secretary Houston of, the treasury department from mak- ing’ any further loans to foreign governments was filed in the district supreme court today by counsel for William Ran- dolph Hearst, who acted in his capacity as a citizen. Justice Hitz issued a rule SHARP TILTS MARK LEGISLATIVE DEBATE ON OIL AND ROAD TOPICS COMPLETE TEXT OF REPORT (Special to The ) CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 11.—The report of the joint legislative commit- tee appointed to investigate the state highway department at the request of Governor Carey, follows: Cheyenne, Wyo. February 9, 1921. {o the Honorable W. W.* Dailey, president, and the members of the Senate of the Sixteenth legislature of the State of Wyoming, Honorable L. R. Ewart, speaker, and the members of the House of Rep- resentatives of the Sixteenth legis- lature of the State of Wyoming: Gentlemen: “Your joint committee, appointed to investigate the state -highway depart- ment, begs to yeport as follows: In under the task which has been assigned to your committee, we have realized that time would not per- mit us to make a thorough investi- gation of this department. However, in the limited amount of time allot- ted us we have endeavored to cover as many as possible of the essential points and details of the highway de- partment. Our. investigation has work in Wyoming. Under Government Supervision. perintendent we learned that,all con: of $2,000 are let’ by the highway com: letting, to the lowest and best bid. ways has a representative at must be satisfactory to the ley. in confined chiefly to conferences with the Hon. La. R/ A. Condi, the Hon. R. M, John- Hon. Joe C. Kinney, state highway commissioners; Mr. D. 8. McCalman, state highway superintendent, and R. 8. Corley, highway engineer, for the United States government as district. superintendent over the federal aid In the conference with the high- way commission and the highway su- tracts exceeding in amount the sum missioners by and with the advice and consent of the highway superin- tendent, and that. these contracts are let, after public advertising’ of the ders. At this time we also desire to say that the letting of all contracts is by and with the approval of the United States government, which al- the opening of these bids, and the bids United States government. This information was given the committee by Mr. Cor- ‘These bids are always opened and the contracts let in public, usually|contractor a price consid in the senate chamber of the capitol |cess of that which the ‘tira coh building, and we are advised by the cominissioners' that such opening of ig of contracts is very MADE BY JOINT LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE ON | HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT INVESTIGATION well attended by contractors seeking the work, and that in nearly all in- stances bids for the larger jobs that have been received have been consid- ered as very satisfactory by the high- way commissioners and by the repre- sentative of the United States’ gov- ernment. In the awarding of. the smaller contracts the commission feels that in many instances, if al- -|lowed to do so, they could save the state money by carrying on the work -| themselves. One prevailing complaint, which came before your committee, was that in many instances the work was sub-let at a figure much less than -|that at which the original contract was let. These complaints were very pronounced in regard to excavation. The matter was’ explained to us that while in many instances certain sub- contracts would be let for a portion of the work at figures as low as one- half of those of the original contract, yet in sub-contracting other portions of the work to be done under the original contract, the original con- tractor would have to pay the sub- age was receiving. in- (Continued on Page 8) FOUR WANTED FOR BIG MAIL THEFT CAUGHT (By Associatetd Press) DALLAS, Tex., Feb. 11.—With the | Scores Injured by tially Wrecked G arrest of threo men in San Antonio, |tormado that partially wrecke ‘Texas, and a fourth in Houston, Tex., officers here yesterday thought all members of the band which particip- ated, in the $1,000,000 robbery of a postal sub-station here January. 14 were in custody. JAPANESE STEAMSHIP CARRYING STOWAWAYS SEIZED BY OFFICER: JAPS ARE PLACED UNDER ARREST HOUSTON, Texas., Feh:,11—The Japanese steamship Fukuye Maru, from Marseilles, France, was seized by a deputy United States marshal . in Galveston harbor Friday afternoon on a libel sult filed by D. E. Sim- mons of Houston, United States district attorney. Immigration officials charge that the ‘ship brought eleven Japanese into port as stowaways. The Japanese have been taken into custody. For some time federal officers have Million Loaves barpltincapy se pantie adbaprevatitivnys of Bread Wasted Weekly in N.Y. to enter the United States illegaliy. Recently a German steamship in Gal- veston' harbor was -seized in such a The Japanese’ were cleverly con- cealed, according to federal officials. Some were hidden almost under. the NEW YORK, Feb. ‘1.—New York- ers eat 2,500,000 loaves of bread dafly and waste 1,000,000 loaves weekly, de- slared Mrs. Louis Reed Welsmiller, feputy market commissioner, yester- day at a meeting of housewives and wholesale bakers. This is one reason, yery noses of immigration inspectors, One young Oriental was found under she said, why the price of bread does not decrease. no way of obtaining accurat numiber. a. tarpal along with some of the ship's supfilles. The government is contending “for penalties which may be as high as $1,000 for each “stow- away” in the discretion of the court. piles 1 Ma etc Cornell was the ‘first American col- lege to possess a professorship of Am- erican history. : here, remained today at about thirty. had been sent to nearby points and scores of the injured were in hospitals at Tennille and Sandersville and there was Twister Which Par- eorgia Settlement; Pupils Come Near Being Crushed (By Associated Press.) OCONEE, Ga., Feb. 11.—The death toll in yesterday’s d the Gardner Settlement near Many of the dead fe information as to the exact i} The list of fatalities stood at two |whites and miore than a score of. ne- groes, but a number of the injured chiefly negroes, were expected to dic. AUGUSTA, Ga. Feb, 11.— Heroic devotion of three women school teach- ers is reported here today to have sav. jed the lives of school children’ dur- ing the tornado which partially wreck- ed Aconee, Ga., yesterday. One end of & school building crumpled, under the drive of tne wind and the roof sagged down over the heads of 75 pupils. ‘The teachers held it up unaided while their charges escaped through tbe gap, then leaped to safety themselves. “Aion na > Bice ct Bib Police Find 400 Barrels of Wine First Overlooked (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Feb. 11.—Explora- tion of passages in a wine: cellar on the upper East Side, where * police have found 650 barrels containing 83,800 gallons of California claret, was begun today. ‘The police already have made two {trips into the cellar. On their first visit they discovered 400 barrels; the isecond revealed 250 others they had overlooked. DOUGHERTY TO BE NAMED ° o. > ° ° ° oo __ (By Associated Press) PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 11.—The Associated Press dispatches from Rome stating that Archbishop Den- nis J. Dougherty of Philadelphia would be raised to the cardinalato were confirmed today, The arch- ten days, the exact date depending upon steamer accommodations. The ceremony by which the office is bestowed takes place at the Vati- can and is a very elaborate one, making it necessary for the recip- ient of the dignity to be present to receive the Red Hat from the hands bishop will leave for Rome within > o- > ¢ ° of His Holliness, the Pope. Archbishop Dougherty, while re- ceiving the congratulations of close friends and church men who knew of the distinguished honor about to be conferred upon the metropolis of Pennsylvania, excused himself from public comment at this time, |in the lower house. instance. Discussion of the highway depart- ment was precipitated in the senate by jreceipt of the report of the joint com- mittee appointed to investigate the de- partment. This report, while signiti. cantly stating that the committee had not had time to investigate the two hundred odd contracts-let by the state commission or the warrants drawn vy the highway department on ‘state funds, and therefore had not investi- gated them, in general terms approy- ed the work of the highway commis- sion and the highway departmont, stressing the fact that the contracts had been let with the approval of the federal government which was co-op- erating with the state in supervision and financing of highway work. Senator Jee, chairman of the sen- ate committee, read a sheaf of tele- mercial clubs and ma and from indi viduals, approving the /highway 4e- partment and its procedure, which EMBEZZLER T0 FACE MURDER CHARGE NEXT (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Feb. 11.—Ralph Davis, arrested here yesterday on a charge of ombezzling funds of the farm bu- reau of Newton county, Indiana, also faces charg@s of having murdered his aged father and mother, according to a long distance telephone message re- ceived today from Sheriff Earl Gard- ner of Kentland, Ind. The message safd Davis had been indicted for murder and would be ar- raigned in Morocco, Ind., as soon as the excitement died down. Davis was rushed out of Chicago last night and taken to the jail at Rensselaer, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. W.-C. Davis, parents of the ‘prisoner, were burned to death when fire destroyed their farm home near Revers, Ind., January 21. fia aaa ids DOESN'T WANT HELP OF WALL STREET SHARKS (By United Press.) DETROIT, Feb, 11.—Henry Ford doesn’t need mdney from Wall street “loan sharks,” he declared today. The Ford company received orders for 67,000 cars in January and expects business to improve. Wages of his workmen will not be cut. The $6-a-day minimum will continue. The entire payroll of 42,000 men will be employed on al- ternating two-week periods until full production fs resumed, Ford said the demand for automobiles was growing greater each day. onic tis DM et oats $12,500 Express Package Missing TRINIDAD, Colo., Feb. 11.—An ex- press package containing $12,500 in currency shipped by the First Na- tional Bank of Trinidad to the Colo- tado Fuel and Iron Company's pay- master at Starkville, near here, dis- appeared today while en route to the railroad station from the local ex- press office. Police officials have no clue. An- other package containing $19,000 in currency and bags holding $600 in sil- ver were untouched. ‘Acrimonious Charges Exchanged in the House Before Free Measure Wins; Report Made on Commission (Special to The Tribune.) CHEYENNE, Feb. 11.— The Farmers of the Golden | Prairie district of Laramie county versus the State Highway commission was an issue in the senate Thursday; the Jenkins oil bill versus the Free Oil bill simultaneously was an issue The defendant was the winner in each mie county a declaration that these telegrams were purely state highw2y department propaganda and to be con- sidered only as propaganda instead of en expression of the independent opia- ion of the state. Senator Sibley then asserted that the people of the state in general and of his section—thé, Golden Prairie dis- trict—in particular were not satisfied with the state highway commission or th> work of the state highway depact- ment. If highway bond issue were suvmitted, he asserted, he doubts whether a proposal to issue more bonds would receive ten votes in hs district. He said that he had been be- fore the commission and had taken farmers before the commission anc the state highway superintendent, and that they had not been treated even with mmon decency.” Promise af ter promise, hé charged, hnd- bean made by the superintendent and the commission and not a single promise D BY TORNADO; SAVED BY TEACHERS “Dhe highway department {s not do- Ing its dut; the county” he declared: Bas The legislative ittee, he ‘said had Hot gone thoroughly into the af- fairs of the highway department, hav- ing lacked both authority and oppor tunity, he charged, to do so, The highway commission: arid de- partment, were defended ‘and eulog- ized by Senator Lee, Dillon and Kelluy and a motion that the report of the special ccmmittee be approved.and the committee thanked and adopted witi- out a division. is i Abuse of opportumity to misuse state owned automobiles fer, private purposes, the joint ~ commivzee's port stated, was admitted by the high: way department management, which was quoted as stating that it was at tempting to overcome this evil. The house sitting as a committee of the whole became involved in a heat ed debate over the: merits of House 116, the Jenkins bill for regulation of the oll and gas industry, and House 119, the Free bill for such regulation, Proponents of the Jenkins bill de. nounced the Free bill as Standard Oi} measure, and proponents of the Free bill charged that the Jenkins bill was an Associated Oil company of California measure, The debate at times was acrimonious, Representative Underwood, republ!- can floor leader, took umbrage at re- marks made by Representative Beach, a supporter of the Jenkins bill, assert ing that Beach had charged that he (Underwood) had accused the state geo- logist of being a crook and had paint- ed the Standard Oil company as a “bunch of crooks" which Underwood protested were “rather broad state ments.” Beach said he was interested in ob- serving how well representatives who had been coached by Standard Oil rep | resentatives had learned to speak | their pieces on the floor, Eventually the Jenkins bill was {1- definitely postponed and the Free bill recommended for passage. It was brought out inferentially during de bate that the Jenkins bill had the ap- proval of the state geologist and at the time of its introduction carried the approval of he governor. The senate declined to approve u report of its conferees on House 4, the soldier bonus bill, recommending that the senate recede from its amend- ments providing that beneficiaries of the tax exemption be bona fide rest. dents of Wyoming and that the burden of the exemption be carricd by the state in general instead of the coun ties in particular, and appointed a now committee. It was stated by Senator Chambers that placing of the exemp- tion burden on the state at large was disapproved by Governor Carey. UNIVERSITY STUDENTS VISIT LEGISLATURE. (Special to The Tribune) CHEYENNE, Feb. 11.—A joint ses- sion of the two houses of the Wyo- ming legislature and the college stu- dent body ef the University of Wyo- ming was held in the Hall of Rep- | resentatives at the state capitol this morning at 11 o'clock, with President Daley of the senate, Speaker Ewart |of the house and President Aven Nel- json of the university presiding joint- ly. Addresses were made by Gover- nor Carey, President Nelson, mem- bers of the student delegation and | Several members of the senate and |house. ‘The students expressed their (Continued on Page 12) , at least in my part of} on Secretary Houston to show cause February 21 ‘why an injunction should not be granted. Besid pray- ing for an injunction to prevent es- tablishment of any further credits to foreign governments, Mr. Hearst also seeks to enjoin the secretary from making any further advances on cred- its already estatiished for France, Italy, Greece, Czecho-Slovakia, Lib- erla and other countries. Ansell and Bailey are counsel for Mr. Hearst. pate Re IE OFFICESEEKERS TIDE IS RISING ABOUT HARDING (By Associated Press) ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, Feb. 11.— The quadrennial tidal wave of office- seekers and aavice-givers that always engulfs a president-elect on the eve of his inauguration, is rising steadily about Warren G. Harding's hedduar- ters here. Screened away from Marion by the conferences of ‘best minds” and then held at bay for three weeks while Mr. Harding was on vaca- ton, the rush of the job-hungry and the hobby-riders promises now to as- sume the proportions of a deluge. With just three weeks remaining before the advent of the new adminis: tration more than one of the aspiring is becoming less and less confident of Als prospects and is taking his case in his own hands with a certain touch of desperation. Of course, many ‘of those who have sngagements to see him have been summoned for consultation on various probiems, but the president-elect prjdes himself on being a good listener and he wants to be accessible to every ome. ; RS. P AGAINST FOREIGN LOANS (GERMANY ABLE TO] PAY 150 BILLIONS, NO MORE, IS CLAIM Report From Minister of Finance Says Reparations Should Be Cut in Two; Three Years Needed to Pay (By Associated Press.) BERLIN, Feb. 11.—The ministry of finance has reached the conclusion that the utmost sum Germany can pay in reparations is 150,000,000,000 marks, this including all she has so far paid in cash and goods, according to information which the Deutsche Zeitung says it has received from’ a “special’’ source. This 160,000,000,000 marks would be) paid off in thirty years under the FAMINE CRISIS plan outlined by the newspaper's in-} formant, who also is quoted as de-| claring that the proposal to pay it} would be submitted to the authorities | at Paris for the purpose of learning whether the coming London confer- | ence on reparations will permit of its | consideration along with the Allied proposals adopted at the recent Paris} conference. Refusal to allow consideration of | ii the German counter-proposal would] | WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—Relief result in Germany absenting herself) from the famine ravaging ten mil- from the London conference, set for| Ion Chinese is foreseen by Julean March 1, the newspuper declares it} Arnold, American commercial — at- has learned. tache at Peking. He says in a cable- It adds that Germany then would| gram received today by the “De- suggest that the United States be| partment of Commerce that present called in as an arbitrator for the pur-| plans for checking the famine to- pose of prevgnting the Entente from) gether with the mild winter should adopting measures such as an inva-| do much to alleviate suffering in sion of the Rubr district, which it] the inland provinces. declares would be looked upon by; Mr. Arnold gives great credit to Germany as an act of war which| the American Red Cross, which is feeding 17,000 daily, and says plans being made for the dredging of the Grand Canal, and’ for other Chin- ese public works will prevent pauo- erizing the people of the island dis- tricts, He adds that in séme. dis- tricts isolated from the famino . areas, there is already an actual surplus of food and that plans. to fake this overland to the starving millions are rapidly being carried would positively destroy the Treaty of Versailles. out.? . In the Deutsche Zeitung article the suggestion was made that while the} Entente was extremely desirous of bringing about the London confer- ence, it was unlikely that the delib- erations would be postponed to a date around the middie of March in order to give the new Washington govern: nient &n opportunity to participate iy them. TELL HER OWN YARN Wasn’t Allowed to Testify Because Shel Gave Wrong Answers, Convicted Woman Says SOS ANGELES, and her counsel prior to the take the witness stand and tell her story to the jury at her recent trial.) Present at ‘ the. conference, Peete said, were her chief counsel, W..T. Aggeler, acting public defender, and two of his assistants. y “They questioned me for three hours,” she said. ‘Then they decided not to let me go on the stand. “They sald I did not give the right answérs to their questions. “And I asked them, ‘How can I give the right answers when you don’t ask me the right questions?’ Mrs. Peete said that if the court denied the motion for a new trial for her, on which arguments ave to be heard February 16, she would appeal to the appellate court for a new: trial on the ground that she had not been|{ vermitted to testify. “I want to tell my story,” she de- clared. Mr. Aggeler today received from} Sheriff J, C. Winn of Aztec, N. M., a telegram stating the officer's belief that a man reggrted to be Denton, soon there after June 2, the date fixed| by the state as that ef the murder of the mining promoter, was Joo Mark, ley, who had since left that town, Sash A STEAMER DISABLED. BOSTON, Feb. 11.—The Shipping board steamer Hico is disabled after | losing ® propeller at sea, the tank steamer Cathwood assisting her, wire- less messages reported today. Tho Hico iq bound from Antwerp for Mo- bile, the Cathwood from Brest for (By Associated Press.) Cal., Feb. 11.—Mrs. Louise L. Peete, convicted of the murder of Jacob Charles Denton, disclosed today in part what took place at Mrs.} OFFICER SLAIN BY MAN FOUND DEAD, THEORY KANSAS CITY, Feb. 11.—Passen- gers on a street car in a residential district here last night heard several shots, investigated and found Willard C. Bayne, a police officer in a dying condition in the street and near him the dead body of a man later identified as Homer Van Sant. Bayne died at a Hospital, Beyond saying “they shot me," he made no statement. —$_$<—<—____. GERMANS TO RENT COY (By Associatetd Press) POLISH PEACE: BERLIN, Feb. 11.—Cows donated to | in Interview conference between her decision not to permit her to {Germany by American farniers will be rented out at the rate of one maric a year for each cow so that they wilt HELSINGFORS, Finland, Feb. 11,| remain American property and not hd —The treaty of pe: between soviet | delivered to the Allies under the peace Russia and Poland was signed at| treaty, German agents of the Amer Riga yesterday, it is announced in a|ican Dairy Cattle company have an- wireless dispatch received from: Mos- nounced, after a conference with the cow. German Red Cross. GERMANS NOT TRUE TO SELVES, SAYS KAISER; WORLD IS BEING PUNISHED FOR BETRAYING GOD (By United Press.) BERLIN, Feb. 11—In the first exclusive interview obtained with former Kaiser Wilhelm, the United Press was told today by the kaiser at Doorn, Holland, that Germany lost the war because the People were “not true to themselves.” They had already overcome hunger and need, he said, despite the fact that America joined hands with “our eternal enemy, Great Britain.” He declared that he never had wished war; that the whole world “has betrayed God and Is being punished”; that Socialists are chiefly gullty, Hampton Roads. and that the sword of peace was “struck from my hand by my best friends. JAPAN DEFEATS NAVY CUT SENTRY (By Associated Press.) TOKIO, Feb. 11,—Defeat of Yukio Ozaki's resolution proposing curtail- ment of naval armaments in the house of representatives here today does not end the campaign against military and naval expansion and in favor of more constructive work at home, according to newspaper com- ment on the situation. The Asabi Shimbun of Osaka declared that M. Osaki’s suggestion was “timely,” ° ° > > > e > while the Yoml-Urin Shimbun of this city asserts an agreement be- tween the powers to limit arma- ments is obligatory to save Japan {rom “eventual bankruptcy.” States cruiser Albany at Viadivostok late in December, has been decided upon by a group of army reservists here, Members of the association are descendants of the Edokko, the. origt- nal natives of ancient Tokio, who were (By Associated Press.) renowned for their chivalry. TOKIO, Feb, 11.—Formation of an| It is yrged that a petition be sent association to support the cause of| to the cburtmartial which tried Ogaza- Toshigoro Ogasawara, the Japanese|wara, asking for his release and de sentry who shot and killed Naval claring that his punishment would dee Lieutenant Langdon of the United]’stroy military discipline, & 2 Som ee ae me *