Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 19, 1921, Page 1

aR HUGHES ACCEPTS HIGH POST IN CABINET Che Casper Daily CHANCES FOR STRIFE. — ae ag. ek WITH JAPAN LIMITED Crilnuwe [entron TO COMMERCIAL WAR Official ‘Announcement Made by Har- ding of First Appointment in Next Administration; Policies Taken. Up For. Discussion by the President-Elect ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., Feb. 19.—Definit wae made by President-elect Harding ery that Charles vans Hughes of New York, Republican nominec for the Presidency four years ago, had. been offered the position of secretary of state in the ini i Cae next administration and had The announcement was the first for- mal confirmation of Mr, Hughes selec- tion, although it had been understood for some tmie that he would be given ad Weather Forecast Partly clovdy tonight and Sunday, probably sriow tn 4 tion; not’ much chang VOLUME V Orientals to Battle Whole World for Com- the place, BUD ROBBERS EXTENDED CLEMENCY BY FEDERA! !UDGE LANDIS ON He was in conference with} the president-elect here when the selection was made known officially, but he would’ make no comment be- yond an expressién of appreciation at SON KILLED AS AMERICAN SPY, mercial Supremacy, Dr. Fulkerson Declares in Forum Lecture CHICAGO, Feb. STRENGTH OF DOMESTIC DUTIES (By Associated Press.) 19.—A negro and a white youth, aft. pleading guilty to separate charges of stealing piles the mails, received clemency from Federal Judge Landis yesterday, who deferred passing sentence.as he did in the case of Robert the honor conferred upon him. Mr. Harding himself issued no for- mal statement, but said merely that he had asked Mr. Huges to come here in order to offer him formally the} slate portfolio. “{ am very happy to say,’ he add- hat he has agreed to accept. Asked whether he could go into de- tails about the consultation today in| regard to diplomatic and state depart-| ment affairs, Mr. Harding replied: “You must a : - J. Carey, 19-year-old bank teller of f You ask Mr. Hughes. ‘That| Both Houses Concur in Agreement Made reteased’on iis own rocoguizance after: Coctersing ty Cha) incite MT Boles ot thi] b Conf. R d a ek att pted theft of $92,000. the secretary of state will speak for] y erees NEAUCING Figures | _ Revert J. Grosn, 19 years olds wanjon the Mexicin border and in throo|'*G,c{MIe Qehattments Restored by Uper House (Special to The Tribune.) : CHEYENNE, Feb. 19.—Budget bill has jomed Wyom- fing’s ever-growing contingent of reformed bills, including Bill Carlisle and other bills too numerous to mention. The senate and house conferees on the appropriations measure reached an agreement Friday, which was approved by both houses without a dissenting vote. gre tee ent iM Under this agreement the showing military service of $58,000 added by the senate to the bill as it was passed by the house, and the senate receded from $23,000 EE ‘ of its amendment total. The amend- ments accepted ‘by the house includ- ~~ ed ‘those restoring to their original ; r , figure all appropriations for the state f university except an item of $2,000 for @ law library, which was cut out, and raising of the state historian’s Control Exercised by Southern Pine ‘Association Rapped by Federal .. Trade Board in Late. Report contingent from $5,000, the house fig- be ure, to. $15,000. 2 Associated Press.) ¥ after his wife becomes a mother. age from the mails. ‘7’m afraid that if I sentenced you her which I cannot be responsible for,” Judge Landis said. John W.«Fleming, a negro, who discharge, The total carried by the bill for ex-| penses of state government during the coming biennium is approximate- ly $2,800,000. ‘This will be increased to above three millions by an emer- géncy appropriations bill brought in| this morning. GO S Serene TO BE ‘AR, The bill, designéd to increase the salaries, of elective and appointive state officials $32,000 1 year was pass- " re ed by the house Friday after an amendment had been affixed increas- ing the” ry of the governor to $8,- 000-2 year., ‘The governor's salary originally carried in the bill was $6,- 000; the present salary is $4,000. SENATE CONFIRMS i APPOINTMENTS. . Governor Carey Friday afternoo: appointed ‘and the senate confirmed the following: G.B. Morgan. state geologist, Re- appointment, Leroy Laird, member of state high- ‘way commission. Reappointment. W. 1. Judkins, state game and fish commissioner. Judkins heretofore has been merely state game warden. He takes his new title and duties under an act of the Sixteenth legislature consolidating the state game and fish departments. sila LB aes COMPLETION OF HUDSON BAY RAILROAD PROMISED WINNIPEG, Man., Feb. 19.—Early completion of the Hudson Bay Rail- way from The Pas to Port Nelson, which will afford another outlet for Canadian wheat, has been, practically promised by the government, it was announced: today, (By maint mitted of the senate committee on housi: is based on investigation made by The commission charges that injprices have again started upward. 1919 the association refused to com- “The Southern Pine Manufacturers ply with reqtests of the federal in-; are prominent in a campxign now be: of the law. During the same period, the com- mission alleges, the fir rnanufacturers of the Pacific coast ‘“‘concertedly raised their prices in April, 1919,” after the Southern Pine Manufacturers had | conducted a campaign to induce them | to do so. “When the market showed signs of weaknkess last June and the recession from the abnormally high prices then current began, the mills generally cur- tailed their production.” says the com- mission. “That curtailment has con- tinued fo the present. It appears that. the downward ptice tendency already !has been checked az the supply “has of production. Lumber are being voted by the various afpiiat. ed regional associations, campaign. LLOYD GEORGE CANDIDATE IN CARUSO SPENDS RESTFUL NIGHT, WALES NAMED CARDIGAN, Wales, Feb. 19.—Cap- tain Ernest Evans, coalition Liberal, who was supported by the prime min- ister, Mr. Lloyd George, has been elected to the House of Commons over: Liewellyn Williams, independent RECOVERY NOW HELD PROBABLE (By Associated Press.) , NEW YORK, Feb. 19.—Enrico Caruso’s struggle for life, which began |Tineral, in the bye-election held. to last Tuesday night when he suffered a heart attack, apparently has been /fill the seat, vacated by Matthew won, Dr, Antonio Stella, his personal physician, said today. Dr. Francis Vaughan-Davies, who was elevated to the peerage. The vote as announced jtoday was: ‘ Evans, 14,)11, Williams 10,521> Morray said this morning that Caruso had “spent a and had a good sleep,” adding “it was the best night ised to return for sentence a month Green confessed to stealing a pack- now it would have an effect on your wife and something might happen to confessed to stealing letters from the mail, presénted Judge Landis: with a _.. WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—Further informatién regard- ing allegéd activities of the Southern Pine association in taining high prices for yellow pine lumber was trans- by, the federal trade commission to Chairman Calder and reconstruction, It : ie commission at the re- quest of the department of justice.; Leen brought below demand and that dustrial board to reduce prices, saying | ing organized to induce the public’ 'to concerted action would be a violation; beliéve that prices will not and cannot be further reduced owing to the cost)The subject of his banquet address “This campaign is being conducted under the auspices of the National Manufacturers’ association and special assessments have been and cwnai| SET MONDAY largo fund for the expenses of the battles in Frante. He went into 4ne the sole suppcrt of your aged mother ‘and af invalid sister. Who is going jo, take care of them. it T send you te “I am not going to sentence you now.’ Go back to jail and fn ten or twelve days I will have decided what action I shall take.” ‘GOLD BRICK’ BRINGS $600 IN ALABAMA (By Associated Press) MONTGOMERY, Ala., Feb. It still is possible to bricks” in Montgomery. This de- veloped today when it became u known that Sam Katz, » merchant, i If to the ex- ca te i in r of yellow me- later to be a finely polished ¢hunk of brass. Katz ex- Eee ct cand igonce ls eon agieoth ‘e f Vt } strangers,”. “ * LECTURE TOPIC TONGHT Dr. E. R. Fulkerson, who address- €d’ the forum luncheon of the Cas- per Chamber of Commerce at noon "| today will appear before a men’s ban- 4jquet at the Methodist church this evening and again lecture at the Sun- day morning service at the church. jwill be "The Menace of Bolshevism.” a LANDIS CASE WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—Im- peachment charges presented in the house against Federal Judge Lan- dis by Representative Welty, Demo- erat, Ohio, will be heard by the ju- diciary committee Monday. Mr, Welty had been asked to appear Tuesday, but the change was made #0 as not to interfere with Wash. ington’s birthday ceremonies. BIG SNOW IN | FOUR STATES KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 19,—A belated touch of winter came to the southwest today. Snow ranging from ‘four to fifteen inches was reported from various points in Kansas, Okia- homa, Texas and Arkansas, with the {storm steadily moving northward. BOLLING GIVEN CLEAN BILL AT HANDS OF SHIP foreign liners unless permitted to sell intoxicants during yoyages. Secretary Payne said that when. he became chairman of the board after the war, the accounts generally were in-bad shape, and that none had been kept of the 15,000 voyages made by No Irregularities in Conduct of Presi- dent’s Brother-in-Law, Decision; Congressional Probe Ends » | governmentowned ships up to, that ie} was due and in tts process. he said, (hy AsGaninicd Brees) the general comptroller and treasirer J i lost their, jobs. WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—The house committee inves- aii couldn't aca BNE eta hota bicke tigating shipping board operations, issued a formal state- | employing 160-persons was doing, so I + ment today exonerating R. W. scuel pgtnear emg wet reece ae ia) Seats vtec spares President Wilson from any wrongdoing as treasurer e shipping board. manner.”* . (By Associated Press.) Mr, Payne said there was no basis for the charge of Col. A. H. Abadie, WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—Congres- sional investigation of the shipping former general comptroller, that he had been railroaded out of his posi- tion. Col. Abadie was incompetent board ended today with the examina- and had too many men in his depart- tion of Secretary Payne, .a former chairman of the board, by the special house committee. A report on the ment, the secretary said. results of the inquiry, which has been Asked why the accounting of the board had been allowed to get into a continued intermittently for eighteen months, will be submitted to the tangle, Mr. Payne said ‘no ‘executive House before March 4, could devote his time to building up ‘The secretary of the interior critl- cizéd the provision of the merchant | marine act creating a board of seven members, A single executive, he ar- gued, should. de placed in control. The provision difecting the president to abolish commercial treaties also was attacked. Mr. Payne said he was’ convinced that the government could not suc- cessfully operate merchant vessels in competition With private shipping in- terests and also said American pas- senger linera could not compete with! enthusiasm and constructing a work- able organization at the same time.’ “Mr. Hurley (E,.N,. Hurley of ‘Chi- h BOARD cago, former chairman of the board) was the greatest man that could have been picked for the job,’ said Mr. Payne. “It was his task to create an.enthusiasm, ‘to sell’ ship building to. the country as a war measure and he did it.” Charges previously made before the committee that favoritism had been shown by operating officials of operating questions, were denied by the ‘witness, who said some of the larger shipping companies were “‘ore' because they were not given all of the ‘tonnage they sought. ; R. W. Bolling, brother-in-law of President Wilson, and treasurer of the shipping ‘board, was before the. com- mitfee again today to deny charges of irregularities on his part made by | Tucker’. Sands, formerly a Washing jton bank cashier, A. M, Fisher, an in | Vestigator of the committee, also tes. tified. claring that a searching inquiry: had convinced him there was nothing ir- fictions between Mr. Bolling and Mr Sands, MENACE OF BOLSHEVISM’ the) board in allocating of tonnage, divi-| sionof ports and routes and other! petvice when the Uniter Starssin,| 80 further than to say “Many sub: tered Sthe:-wak Jects,” had been discussed with his “This discharge 1s no license for} Chief about which he did not feel at stealing,” Judg> <a gdis said. st un.| liberty to speak at this time. “Of lderstand you rnd yous-s'=t2< here aro} COUrse: I appraise it a very high honor,” he said, “to be invited by Senator Harding to come into the ad: ministration. And I have regarded it as an imperative obligation to accept the offer he has made.” “The incoming executive,” said Mr. Harding, ufter a conference with Representative Fordney, chairman of the house ways and means commit- tee, “is going to be very anxious for some early tariff legislation of an emergency nature. I think it is im- perative for I don’t believe the coun- try can industrially survive under the Underwood law.’ ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., Feb. 19.— President-elect Harding. laid his un- completed cabinet slate aside for a and centered his attention rather than men. His consultations during the day, concerned chiefly the two © public questions which are expected to loom largest befove the new administration,’ Pair Suspected. of Robbery of North DRY AGENTS Coast Limited Give Battle When Ordered to Halt by Police Important decisions on both of these questions are to be made soon after the change of government at Washington. The manner in whith first steps are to ‘be taken toward” formation: of an association of nations, is believed ‘to’ have been one of the questions under discussion. Regurding a taxation policy, Mr. Harding saw Representative Fordney, chairman of the house ways and means committee, and author of the emergency tariff bill. Mr. Fordney urged: that emergency tariff legislation be the) first: under- taking of the special session to be called after inauguration. sate Lai Soham M urder Witness Is Poisoned by Two Assailants; (By Associated Press.) , Kas. Feb. 19.— Miss , summoned as a witness im a murder case at Wich- ita, died here last night as the re- y sult of poison forced down her throat by a man and woman, she told her mother before her death. Miss Foley, who had been staying with a neighbor for the night, rush- ed home in her night clothing, call- ing her mother. She died an. hour later, PRES v. Bank Embezzler Loaned Money To Bootleggers (By Associated Press) ATTLE, Wash,, Feb, 19.—Paul Schaefer, former teller in the North Side State bank here, recently order- ed closed by the state bank commis- sioner, confessed he had embezzled money from the bank and loaned it} to members of a ring of bootloggers operating in Seattle, Prosecuting At- torney Malcolm Douglas announced today Schaefer pleaded gull February 17 to a charge of embezzling $10,- 000 of the banie’s funds and was sen- tenced to serve from five to fifteen years in the state penitentia rh swath acide |Sleeping Sickness MOTHER IS TOLD (By Associated Press.) CHICAGO, Feb. 19.—Offcial rec- ords and Red Cross reports today brought to Mrs. Frank Kendall the story that her son, Lieut. Oliver J. Kendall, was shot by the Germans as a spy just before the first great American victory in the war at Can- tigny, because he would not reveal to his German captors the details of'the American forces. The execu- tion took place despite the fact that Léeut. Kendall was in full uniform when captured between the lines. Two days later the Americans captured the ground where he had been buried behind the German lines, and when the body was re- moved to the American cemetery at Bouvillers, France, it was identi- fied as that of Kendall. Kendall crept out of the Amori- can trenches to investigate the Ger- man lines and never was seen again, but from German prisoners captured the same night, his comrades learned he was taken prisoner. War between the United States and Japan does not men- |ace Americans, but the Japanese stand cut as rivals to the jentire world in economic progress. The danger of Jap ex- pansion is not a shadow of coming conflict on the battlefields, but a struggle for supremacy in commercial endeavor. So declared Dr. E. R. Fulkerson, former American con- sular agent in the Orient, Japanese; “Japan surely could not ask ¥ scholar and student of Ori tal prog-|land to aid her,” ¢ red Dr, Fulker- |ress, at the Chamber of Commerce |son! “It would be also impossible té !luncheon this afiernon in the Hen jask France, Italy prechance |ning hotel. Dr. Fulkerson, who has|many, They are all bankrupt They in the Orient for more than|could not extend credit. And, any score of years, serving thé American | Jaan is not seeking war with the |government in various capacities, told| United States if she can in any way |his after-dinner audience, that the| avoid it. j world must awake to the realization) what the Japanese really do de- jens Maceo oo ee ul factor | sire is the expansion,in the Far Bast, | fs | It was because of this desire that Jap | ‘The speaker declared the chief rea-}4n insisted on. the Shantung award, acnteenyis tween the United |Ahe peace table decision that will. + lies |entually breed trouble in. this section of the world. ates and J is_ impossible n the fact that while Japan may have | | the men, the nation cannot finance | ‘The Japanese have already accomp: a war against this country. Men and | lished the greatest chool system in credit, he decla are the cs: al | the world. In one uni sity they have | factors in conducting a war, and ask-| more than 100 professors who have jed who would finance pan if the{studied from four to twenty years in |vapanese sought hostitlities. as «|the world's greatest universities. means of adjusting their differences. (Continued on Page 10) i 42 “LITTLE FALLS, was slightly wounded in the ‘The men arrested gave the names of Buck Allen and Bob Ford, both of Mnneapolis. Sheriff Felix of Morrison county, was notified that a car going at /high speed was headed for Little Falls. He intercepted the suspects’ machine and when ‘they refused to stop, opened fire, which was returned. Allen and Ford are being held without charges pending further investigation. (By Associated Press) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. 19.— Only one man executed the hold-up last night of three clerks in a mail car of the eastbound train, the North Coast Limited, haying boarded the train at St. Cloud, Minn. He pro. duced a pass, supposedly forged, and after talking with the ¢lerks ordered one of them to bind the others. C. E. Strong resisted and was shot and seriously wounded. The bandit then temptied the contents of a registered mail sack into a grip and dropped off the train. Unofficially it was esti- mated the loot amounted to several hundred thousands of dollars, LOOT AMOUNTED TO SMALL SUM. MINNEAYOLIS, Minn., Feb, 19.— Postal authorities today said they be Meyed only a small amount of loot was obtained by the bandit who last night robbed the mail car on train No. 2, eastbound North Coast Limit ed on the Northern Pacific railroad, after probably mortally wounding ©. E. Strong of Minneapolis, a veteran mail clerk. Unofficial estimates of the value of the registered mai] stolen were as (By Associated Press.) fered a minor wound in his'hand. MAIL TRAIN HELD UP BY LONE BANDIT, SUSPECTS CAUGHT IN MINNESOTA | ACCUSED OF | BOOTLEGGING ° y RICHMOND, Va., Feb. 19.— Minn., Feb.. 19. — Two suspects were! Brown, state prokinttton gs arrested here early today following a gun battle with officers /and Harry F. ‘Sweet, Sr., former and are being held in the county jail here in connection with |™ember of the siate prohibition de the investigation into the holdup of a mail car on train No. 2} onthe Northern Pacific railroad last night. partment, were indicted by the grand jury on charges of stealing liquor and One of the men transporting it for bootlegging. head and a deputy sheriff suf-! Terre ‘MARINES DIE postal authori-| high as $300,000, but ties said the exact amount, of the| leral days. 1t consisted principally of| lregistered mall from the Pacific northwest | — | fr abs | (By Associated Press.) j Y Feb. 1 Two ma- | W OM AN IS rines were killed in an airplane crash | jat Donald 1. | SENTENCED eumnery erat" Donald e FOR LIFE las K. Booth! of Key West Fla. BOUNTY LAW VETOED. Mirebulais, Haiti, vy department yesterday, announced y Sergt the today. LOS AN Maybell ELES, Feb, 19.—Mrs. wus sentenced today to in the penitentiary AUSTIN, Tex., Feb., 19.- Jay vetoed a measure appr 0,000 to pay bounties for sc for the murder of McCullough Gray-! of predatory animals that abound in \don, a real estate operator. West Texas, DIG COAL OR SHUT UP,’ HOWAT TELLS GOVERNOR IN CHALLENGE Roe |life imprisonment (By Associated Press) | one and the one who backs out first PITTSBURG, Kans., Feb. 19.— | must agree to leave the state,” said } Alexander M. Howat, replying to- | Howat. | day to a statement made at Salina “I am getting tired of having yesterday by Governor Allen in | Governor Allen go around the state union soon “be doing some useful | telling the lo what a wonder- ful thing his industrial court is and what a soft job I havé and bow I sponge off the workmen. Now Is his chance to prove I am useless. If he does not accept this challenge he might as well shut up. which the state executive said that the president of the Kansas miners’ work for the state in the coal mines | at Lansing” challenged the gover- | nor to a test of ability to dig coal, | “I'll dig four tons of coal to his TARIFF | Result of Poison, | | Physician Thinks, BATTLE CREEK, Mich., Feb. 19. | Bellef that many, if not all the cases | recently diagnosed as sleeping sick: {ness throughout the country may have | ‘been botulinus poisoning was express: ed today by Dr. J. H. Kellogs of thts | house today sent the emergency tariff bill to conference on °°"s"* \ city. | Dr. eKilogg stated he initiated re-| search based on this theory shortty | ter three deaths occured in Graod | | Rapids from botulinuspolsoning which laboratory tests traced to" preserved spinach, Four cas iagnosed ping sickness occured here, as De. | ed *fatall Labo: being } ory tests are now bial ‘one of the recent victims, Dr. Kel logg added. |Prospects for Ena Immigration Cut to Three Per Cent of Aliens in Country ‘SENT TO CON MEASURE IS _ FEREES lea toda the senate without oppo-\ . . sition or a roll call ction Are Bright;\" ‘The effect of the amendment would | be to limit immigration to about 354,- 000 during the next year, senators said |} The amendment was offered by Senator Harrison, Democrat, Missis- |sippl, after one to make tb per cent |the b is had been rejected. The ba- }sis of admissions would be the nunt\- ber of aliens from Kurope in the ” WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—By a vote of 190 to 132 the) United States at the time of the 1910 the senate amendments, Th final passage. (By United Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. dent Wilson ‘hn surprise 19.—Presi- Republi He exonerated Mr. Bolling, de-| Kellogg said, and two of them result-| can leaders in congress by signing the tariff bill, Representative of Massachusetts, Repub emergenc ‘Treadway regular about private business trans-|made at Ann Arbor with the brain of |lican, told the house today during a debate on the Fordney bill. He said he did not believe Wilson would veto is is expected to expedite its} yy siincron, Feb, 19—By a of 43 to 19, the senate killed the the bill and did not want to take the bill, providing suspension of chance immigration for one year and, toa the bi ul even’ though « ions of will, up the senate substitute © eastern indust paraly it helps we NEW YORK min-infested imnii and a min An|suffering from a dis other than bill| typhus, who arrived here today after to 3 the | haying been admitted to; this countny who may be admit-|at Boston, were ordered to ‘a hosph year was adopt-|tal by city health authorities, tern farmer jleven yer Feb. 19 immigration WASHINGTON en amendment reducing from 5 number of alien ted during the neat per cent