Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 12, 1921, Page 1

| PETROGRAD FALLS The Cape SPRINGFIELD. 1 SCENE OF RIOT, | POLICE BATTLE NEGROES FRIDAY Order Is Restored With Placing of Machine- Guns-and Arrest of 30 Offenders; Two Hurt = jetin) SPRINGFIELD, 0., ech 12.— At s conference. of s' . military and city and county oj today, Sheriff David Jones laced in full charge of the si ion bere ge out of lisorders growin; : which culminated last eet in the shooting of a Mtee nd a ne gro. he sheriff sued an order forbidd’ lic meetings after six || =m. and cessation of all traffig Smcluding street railway service a sat hour. SPRINGFIELD, (~~ March 12.—Springfield was quiet this morning following a night of disorder in which Patrol- man Joseph Ryan and a negro were wounded in interchanges of shots between police and negroes. Nearly thirty arrests were made. Three companies of Ohio National! Guardsmen, consisting of 150 officers and men under command of Lieuten- ant Colonel H. D. Horner were on duty today with headquarters at the city hall. :Military law*has’ not béen declared, it having been. announced that troops would merely aid the lo- cal authorities in maintaining order. Machine guns are mounted at the county jail, ready to answer riot calls. A truck with a machine gun mounted on it §# ayailable to make hurried trips, - - The trouble, which started shortly before midnight last night with the shooting of Patrolman Ryan after he had ordered.a group of: negrees:to dis- perse,/was the ‘eatgrowth of an as- Me Weather Forecast Partly cloudy and somewhat unset- \ tled tonight and Sunday; rising tem- perature Sunday and in Portion tonight. VOLUME V northeast Crthune CASPER, WYO., SATURDAY, MARCH 12,1921 Dailsy RUSS RE Minsk Taken -and Many Executed Both Sides, Claim WARSAW, March 12.-—(By Associated Press.) — Petro- \grad is in the hands of revolu- itionary forces for the bolshe- viki have been completely overpowered, according to a wireless dispatch today. The message, which was confused and disconnect- ed, owing to the weakness of the NUMBER 130 STATE PROFITEERING CASES CLOSE WASHINGTON, ‘March 12. — All United States district attorneys have been instructed by Attorney General Daugherty to dismiss profiteering and and boarding prosecutions pen(ing in their districts under section four of the Lever act, which recently was held ‘unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. It was suggested that other legis- lation might be sought which would enable ‘the government to keep prices below. unreasonable levels. The attorney genéral’s order _af- fects about 500 indictments, 350 charg- ing profiteering in food and 150 charg- ing profiteering In coal. Starving Chinese Selling Children NEW YORK, March 12.—Two hun- dred and seyen children have been sold, three abandoned»aad one killed by famtine-stricken ‘parents in the province of, Chihii, northern China, according to a dispatch -received -here sault last Monday’ ‘hight on eleven-| year-old Marge Kerntay by an uniden- tiffed égro : who. ,eseaped.+ Rumors Jeph wady ‘by the American Committée for} ing the latter, to relinquish his grasp| the charge, of attempted robbery. the China Famine Fund. ithe revolvér, leaving it in. posses-|\ “Herd Was bruised, cut, ‘and ae He . |slon “of ‘the physician, who promptly|scratched during the battle ‘in C. B. Cook of Tq awe G: bush: " ctlo fi \ is ness Visitor’ hers. yest lee + OFFICIAL BEATS OFF — ROBBER PAIR LATER CAUGHT Young Woman and Attack on Dr. C. needed for a poisoncd child, permitted to ride with him to the retary of the Wyoming State Board of Health, late Friday night suddenly felt the muzzle of a revolver pressed against his head and heard the com: mand: ‘‘Keep right on going, kid.” Beard did, but not it; the manner anticipated by the conspirators. He went into a clinch with the manipula- tor of the revolver, the male holdup, and engaged in a desperate struggle with the. man and woman while the automobile, with no hand on the wheel, bowled aimlessly along until it stopped after a spasmodic attempt to climb the street curbing. - At that moment the weight ‘of the combatants burst open » door and Beard and the male outlaw tumbled SIX IRISH BRE Dying Statement of Jake he Hamon As Given Jury Today Accuses Woman KILLED, TRIED AMBUSH OF 30 MOHILL, Ireland, March 12.— Thirty men 6f the Bedfordshire regiment while proceeding from Garrick-on-Shannon to Ballingmore, Friday evening, were ambushed and attacked 2ith rifle fire arid bombs. The military returned the fire with the result that six of.the attackers were killed and one was mortally unded. wthe six men killed were attired in bf of the Irish Republican SALARY CUT, MAYOR QUITS DUBUQUE, Iowa, March —12..— ‘When the city council of Oxtord danvtion, Iowa, keeping up the gen- eral movement for wage reductions, cut the salary of Mayor E. L. Ma- gruder from $10 a month to $1, the mayor resigned. ie se a EIU STRIKE-BREAKER ATTACKED. WATERLOO, Ia., March 12.—-Mrs. Allen Davis, employed at the Rath packing plant, where a strike is in effect, was attacked by three women while returning to her home last.eve- ning and bafly beaten. No arrests were made as the crowd had .dis- persed before the police arrived. Homes of two ‘men who remained at work: were bombarded with bricks thrown: from an automobile last night. of Duplicity at Hour of Crime ARDMORE, Okla.. Marcit 12.— Constantly interrupted in turn by defense counsel and then by state, the Rey. J. T. Irwin, pastor of the Presbyterian church at Lawton, Okla., and the man who delivered dake L. Hamon's funeral oration, today. detailed to the jury in the trial of Clara Smith Hamon, charged with Mr. Hamon’s murder, his last conference with the dying man. “This was a frame-up by others,” Dr. Irwin testified the dying oll man and railroad millionaire, and Republican national committeeman from Oklahoma told him. “Three times I have paid her of but this. \s the last time,” he quoted farther. The minister said Mr. Hamon made no specific reference to hay- ing been shot“ by with whom Hamon said he had been living for a number of years and who is the former wife of a nephew. Dr. Irwin said Hamon had _re- pented for the life he had lived and he had prayed with the wounded man, had sought to comfort him, and knew that Mr. Hamon had prayed. «He unhesitatingly replied. “That’s right,” when asking by defense counsel on cross examina- tion if he was still of the opinion expressed in the funeral oration that “if Mr. Hamon had not made his peace with God, then I am lost.” ARDMORE, Okla., March 12. — A dying statement by Jake L. Hamon. in which he said that C! lara Smith Hamon shot him as he lay on the bed in his own room of the suite they occupied at a totel here, was given the jury today in the trial of the accused wi oman, W. B. Nichols, former chief of police of Oklahoma City and business associate of Hemon, told the jury that Jake Hamon after tell- ing him he knew he would die from the bullet wound, told him Clara Hamon had fired the bullet as she stood at his bedside stroking his head with her left hands CHILDREN BARRED FROM COURTROOM. Court convened at 9:15, fifteen min- utes late, and the crowded room was again cleared of children»legs than 16 years old. Harry’ Foster, a garage employe, was the first state witness. He testi- fied that ‘a number of times he had seen Clara Hamon with a pistol. The day before Hamon was shot, he: said Clara came to the garage and ordered the two ‘spare rims on her automo- bile equipped with: extra, casings as she said she was “going to take a Jong trip.” He said on the mérning following Mr. Hamon’s shooting Clara| Judge J. W. Woodrough, in federal! came to the garage, asked that the Ure change be made quickly as she| others were found guilty last night of | had far io gv. Foster said the young woman was very nervous. He said he saw no bruises on Clara’s face or hands. Foster also testified on cross ¢x- (Contmued on Page 5) STANDARD READY TO ‘START HOMES HERE Officers and directors of - the’ Community Extension corporation met in the Chamber of Commerce last night for the purpose of dis- cussing plans relative to school sec- tion 16, the sale of which was con- firmed by the state land board Thursday. Beaumont Parks, third vice-presi- dent and assistant general manager of manufacturing of the Standard Oil company (Indiana), who is now | in charge of tho new work at the Standard refinery here, was present at the mecting and advised the board that his company was ready to recetve a deed tothe 40 acres wanted for a home-bullding site ‘for Standard employes. Mr. Parks also stuted that his company contemplated bringing a landscape gardener here to lay out the land. It was suggested that with the city working with the land belding company the entire section covld probably be laid out at the same time, The matter of a camp site was 4iscussed &nd a variety of locations Were suggested but none estab- Nghed until the site committee of the Chamber of Commerce had been conferred with. The meeting last night was at- tended by P. C. Nicolaysen, R. 8. Ellison, O. L. Walker, B. B. Brooks, R. M. Andrus, C. H. Townsend, Earle .D. Holmes, B. lL. Seherck and Beaumayt Parks. Proper address, Dr. C. Y. Beard, sec-| imto the street, the shock of fall caus- SHOT the defendant | Ex-Soldier Held For Y. Beard of State Health Board Following Ruse (Special to The Tribune.) CHEYENNE, March 12.—Decoyed to a remote section of the city by a telephone call stating that a physician was accosted on his arrival at the address given by a man and woman who said that a mistake! had been made and that the sick child was at a house several! blocks distant, and acceding to a request that the couple be jdiscomfited criminal dived into a con- venient ditch and disappeared. Mean- while the woman scrambled frora the automobile and scuttled away, Beard gallantly refraining from shooting her. Clews obtained) from persons who had seen the man and woman jurking in the vicinity of the attack resulted in the arrest by Sheriff Carroll at 1 lo’clock this morning at the Plains hotel of | Mrs. Harry McCoy, 19, pretty and stylishly attired, and the capture a few minutes late of McCoy, 26,.an ex-soldier, in the raflroad yards. Under’ grilling the prisoners con- fessed the attack on Beard, giving robbery as the motive, and McCoy attempted to assume full‘ blame, the woman glibly following his lead. The pair arrived here from Rock River, Wyo. Thursday. They are held on 150 POLICEMEN INVADE LITTL KANSAS CITY,’ Mo., March 12— One hundred and fifty patrolmen, de- tectives, motorcycle policemen and federal officers today invaded the North End section of Kansas City, known as Littic Italyj,to thwart a threatened “reign of‘ terror” by im- ported gunmen. Chief Edwards declared he had in- formation that the “booze ring” had hired gunmen from New Orleans to assassinate police and federal offi- cers. The underworld sebtion was first susrounded and then. combed ‘by the raiders who had instructions to “shoot if nécessary.” LIQUOR AGENT IS SENTENCED FARGO, WN, March 12.—R.-B, Leady, former federal _ prolijbition agent of North Dakota was sentenced to one year and one day in the Leav- enworth federal prison today by D., district court here. Leady and two conspiring to transport liquor from Moorehead, Minn., to Sioux Falls, S. dD. Federal Reserve ~ Divorce Talked WASHINGTON, March .12,—Plans for the separation of the Federal Re: serve Banking system from the treas- ury department, which includes abol- ishment of the office of comptroller of the currency, were disctissed today with President Harding ‘by Chairman McFadden of the House Banking com- mittee, Legislation destined to. bring about these change#, Mr. MeF adden said, will be considered at tle special session of corigrtes, % eS COLORADO BASKETBALL. BOULDER, Golo,, March 12.— Ro- sults in the morning games of the state high schhool ‘basketball tourna- ment here wert Greoley, 26; Fort Morgan, 10. Grand Jiwmetion, 3 2 ITALY INK. C. sending station, is believed to have been sent out from Petrograd. It was-declared in the dispatch that food sent by Colonel Ryan, American Red Cross commander, to the Baltic states, had afrived, but whether it had been received at Kronstadt or Petrograd was not clear. A dispatch from Vilna says anti- boishevik forces fought their way in- to Minsk and held control of tho city for five hours but were lat®r driven out by soviet forces. While occupy- ing the city, the reyolutionists killed many local communists, it is said, ard when the bolsheviki re-entered th» town they executed more th: £00 persons, many of whom were Polos, who were accused of. sympathizing th the insurgents. The reports received in goyern- mental quarters here say the revolu- Uonary movement continues to spread in the region surrounding Minsk. 'vhe soviet authorities are described as making desperate efforts to control tho -situation. A wireless appeal from the Kron- stadt insurrectionists was picked up today by the Polish government radio station hpre. It made an urgent plca for food supplits and for outside re- inforeements. THREE KILLED | IN BIG STORM ‘SHREVEPORY, La., March 12.— Three persons are dead, about 30 others are injured, several of them seriously and property damage es- timated at between $500,000 and $1,- 000,000 is reported as the result of a terrific windstorm which swept over northwestern Louisiana espe- cially in Claiborn and Caddo par- ishes late yesterday, At Gale, La, 37 miles south ‘of Shreveport, ‘two negroes were killed and nine in- | jurea. | "In the Homer oil fields, one per- son, Mrs. Ed Rogers, wife of an oil man, was killed and about eighteen others were injured. |. Several oil field camps were part- ly. wrecked. BANK RESERVES STILL GROWING NEW YORK, +March 12.—The ac- tual condition of clearing house ‘banks and trust companies for the week shows that they hold $34,683,930 re- serve in: excess of legal requirements This ‘is an’ increase | of’ $30,700,280 from last week. anitou Water Is NORTE es ent to Chris i: New Battleship, UKRAT S SEIZE |THREE RUSS CITIES. CONSTANTINOPLE, | March 12.— (By The Associated. Press)—Three jsouth Russian cities, Kiev, Ekaterino slav and Odessa, were recently occu- pied by Ukrainian revolutionary troops led by Simon Petlura, the peasant leader, and General Makno. Recent advices, however, would seem to indicate that Odessa has again been captured by the bolshevikl, The revolt, according to news reaching here, began on February 25, DISEASE CONTROL FOUGHT BY REFUGEES. CATTARO, Jugo Slavia, March 10. —(By The Associated Press)—Russian refugees brought to this. port follow- ing the collapse of the Wrange! gov- (Continded’ on Pagé 8) C DENVER, March 12.—Governor Oliver” -H. Shoup has~ shipped | to Washington a number of cases of Manitou, water to be distributed at the christening of the U.S. S. Colo- rado, The vessel will be christened by Mrs: Max Melville 6f Denver and Camden, N. J., March 22. Mrz.’ Mel- ville is 4 daughter of United States Senatdr Samuel D. Nicholson of Colo- rado. ) SE TRAFFIC VIOLATORS FINED CHILD RIO GRANDE ORDER FILED. DENVER, Colo, March 12.—The formal order in the Denver & Rio Grande foreclosure action, in which Judge Robert H, Lewis and W. H. San- born at Kansas City last Saturday denied confirmation of: the sale of the property in order to glye the stock- holders an ppportunity Ao bid in the property fur $10,000,000, was filed here| | wwo trame violators and one drug ordinance violator were arraigned in) today. police Gourt yesterday afternoon. E.| The stockholders have until March} Beck end G em, arrested on the| 25 to deposit $100,000 as an earnest first charge, were fined $5 each, Ray | effort of the intent to purchase twenty} Urango, charged with drug ordinance! days thereafter to conclude the pur-| violation, was fined $100. chase. Ki WARRANT ISSUED CHARGES FIRST DEGREE MURDER Coroner's Jury Fails to Indict Nicholson| , For Crime, but Charge Is Made From County Attorney’s Office No indictment charging L. B. Nicholson, former police) officer, with the killing of Edward Shuster, taxi driver, was| returned by the coroner’s jury in a verdcit returned shortl; before noon today, but immediately, upon completion of the hearing a warrant was issued from the office of Prosecuting Attorney Alfred R. Lowey charging Nicholson with first de- gree murder, this having been the | Officers declare that a bullet had been substance of testimony introduced at] tired from one. the inquest. ‘The coroner's verdict] The body of Kd. Shuster will be simply stated that Shuster came to|laid at rest Sunday afternoon unless | his death from a gunslic: wound. The|arrangements are changed. A brother | jury was composed of WAC. Shaf-|resides in Superior, Wis. fer, Joseph Londes and Richard Me- |Dermitt and returned its verdict af-| jter 20 minutes’ deliberation. | | Barl Barkalow, one of five whu wit- |nessed the shooting of Shuster, testl- [fied today that he was standing with- | in, 15 feet. of Nicholson when he fired the fatal shot. Barkalow sald} he was speaking to a colored boy when he heard Nicholson ask Shust- er why. he did not drive up closer. The Shot followed .Nicholson fled, no it: tempt being made to stop him, Tria! of Mrs. Jessie Ackerman for the alleged murder of Adelbert Hof- fay Is scheduled to begin Monday and may delay the date of. Nicholson's; WASHINGTON, March 12.— An appeal to the, American people to “do everything in their power" to- wards the relief of famine condi- tions in China, was issued today by {preliminary hearing. Attorney C.°D.| President Harding. |Murane of the firm of Hagens and At this, the earlfest practicable Murane hins been retained to defend} moment of my administration,” said |the "accused man, it is understood. | the president's statement, “I de- Nicholson, it has been learned, |ceeded in ridding himself of two pis- |tols prior to or while he was being “frisked” by officers who took him into’ custody. One was found in ao ash can and the other on the. ground. sire to alld my own to the many ap- peals which have been issued hero- tofore in behalf of the starving peo- ple of a large section of China “f am informed that the Amerl- can erat and the church and Lost by ‘Rebels;! 1 [Nearly $700 To Help Finance Baseball As Start Of Movement YOU CAN HELP BY FILLING OUT THIS COUPON. SPORTING EDITOR, Casper Daily Tribune. Dear Sir: Inclose please find my check for $--_----_____ as a contri- bution. to The Tribune's plan for helping to support our baseball team this year. Name -... Speaking of public spirit—well Casper sure has it. The plan to share a part of the burden of expense atten- dant to supporting a real honest-to-goodness ball team in Casper is gaining great popularity every hour. .Considering that the plan appeals to voluntary support, the response has been most gratifying. The movement is made with theme a spirit of showing the home team that|ment the people of Casper are behind it] and appreciate the efforts of the Mid west Refining company to give Cas. per high class pastime such as is af- being a public spirited move. 1 should be successful,” manager Henning _ho- te Henning is behind it We'll do our s part. poe i ele Bak) Sahat od | C. M, Gunnison, proprietor News Below is appended a list of con-| Depot: “I'm for it strong and I'll boost tributors received at an early ‘wurlit along with overy man. women ond Saturday. Monday the list should ‘in:/e>"@ velo comes into my store. The clude many more |News Depot will do its part.” Anonymous \""Harry Free, real estate dealer: “t 0. Ramsey like the plan very much. It will re- Dr. J. H. Joffrey eéive hearty support in Casper, I am Henning Hotel confident." 1 D. Holmes ctors 1 af Com- pMad settee rere Directors of the Chamber of Com- merce met vesterday and gave their indorse: to the plan os outlined in The Tribune, and, it fs stated that Boyle — Roy Williams t the Chamber of Commerce will lend sgehe f Brennan -. their support. W. 8.) imball, ‘Je Headway on the new cight-foot Harry Yesness C. A. Stafford C, M. Gunnison Little Brick Here are a few expressions indors- ing the plan: P, C. Nicolaysen, Nicolaysen Lum- ber Co.: “It is a good movement and we want to do our part in making it a@ success.’* Reeves, Little Brick confection- ery: ‘The idea:is a splendid one ‘and we are here to tell ‘em so. We're bo- OSTA | hind. it." Mr. and Mrs./J..D. Sullivan arrived Leigh Townsend, cashier, Stock-!from Sheridan last night to. become |men’s Nation] bank; “It appeala to residents of Casper. |fence to inclose the ball park is pro- gressing rapidly. A big force of tar- penters is on the job and the work should be completed tn the very near future. The Casper team is. to be incor porated for $10,000, according to an- nouncement made last night and con- ducted along the same lines of any business. The same rules affecting major league teams will govern the local aggregation, MRS. WATERS INSANE, HACKED AT WRIST OF WITH KNIFE Woman Who Killed Children Restorted to Gun After Failure With Knife; Was Subject to Dementia, Claim LOVELL, Wyo., March 12.—(Special to The Tribune. )— That Matilda Waters, wife of James F. Waters, was suffer: ing from homicidal and suicidal dementia hursday night when she shot the six children of the Waters household, | killing four, and then turned the revolver against her own breast with fatal result, was the finding at an inquest con- ducted Friday afternon by Coroner M. |S. Smith, of Big Horn county. COLD AND The coronor's inquiry brought out the fact that before resorting to the WASHINGTON, March 12.—Wea- revolver, a weapon with which she was unigmiliar, as the agency with ther. predictions for the week begin- ning Monday are— which to accomplish her insane pur- Norhtern Rocky Mountain and poses; Mrs. Waters had attacked one of the children with a table knife, hacking his wrist with the dul! instru- ment and that she used only seven Plateau regions: Cold, unsettled with snows first part of the week, .. Southern Rooky Mountain Plateau regions: Unsettled, frequent bullets to kill four people, mortally wounding a fifth, dangerously wound- rains and snows, temperature below normal. | {ing @ sixth and ending her own life. } Paul, age five years, the surviving son, {8 paralyzed from the shouldera down from the injury to his spine inflicted by his mother’s bullet and his death soon is regarded as inevit- able. Edith, eleven the surviving step- daughter, is expected to recover. ‘Testimony by Waters at the inquest revealed that Mrs. Waters had brood- ed profoundly over the death of a i baby born about a year ago and fre- in the Santa Fe district, New Mex-|quently talked of suicide, also that ico, totalling 1,499,000 acres were|before the birth of cach of her chil- opened for entry today by the De-!dren she had been irrational for vary- partment of the Interior and 47 ap-|ing periods. This testimony was sig- plications were approved under the|nificant in view of the fact that ahe stock raising homestead laws. The|soon was to hive become a mother remain\fer of the land is available forjagain. The mother. and four, possibly entry under a 63-day priority for for-|five, victims of her manical deed will mer service men, be buried in a single grave. Phe A ME ys LANDS THROWN OPEN. WASHINGTO March 12.—Lands FAMINE RELIEF iS DUTY, SAYS HARDING other organizations co-operating with it, have already remitted sev- eral millions of doilars to the Amer-, ‘ican and International’ Relief com- mittees in China and that already tinue to contribute to this humani- tarian cause as generously as they possibly can. “The appeal for succor comes te s from a people far distant, but @ great relief work ‘has been ac- | linked to us by manifold. ties of | complish Nevertheless my infor- | friendly association, confidence and mation is that the means thus good will. The American nation ced at the command of th has never failed to demonstrate its nizations are entirely ina friendship for the people of China quate to the task they confront. and that friendship has always. “The picture of China‘s distress | been reciprocated in a manner is so tragic that I am moved there to which I feel justifes the hope that } fore renew »p | fore made aad to express the hope | that the American people will con. the als hereto: in this hour of China's distress our people will do everything in their power pe its amelioration.” VOLUTIONISTS