Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 16, 1921, Page 1

sercnceccccccosococes - Accused Wom Weather Forécast, northeast portion. 4 Set Generally fair tonight at Thursday, somewhat colder ie eveccccccccveccooccose z VOLUME FRENCH FORGES TD ADVANGE TO MULHEIM, RULES ARE LAID DO Principles in Customs Collection Outlined in Report Sent Allies by German Commission DUISBURG, March 16.— (By Associated Press.) —New French forces have arrived here from the occupied a: and belief is expressed that their coming may foreshadow the occupation of Mutheim-on-Rubr, four miles east of here toward Es- sen. COBLENZ, March 16.—(By The As- sociated Press)}—Principles to be fol- lowed fn collecting customs in the new zone established east of the Rhing by. Eni . have been outiiged in a ene eee, the allies by ‘the Rhineland commission... » . Tle report also outlines the zone which would begin: at. Malhoim. and run along the-line othe cktroore out) oats of the newly occupied territory, and of the bridgeheads established tho Entente.. (5 : General Allen, Commander. of 4 mer- ican forees here, hus participated un- officially..in discussions of questions relative to. the tariffand the limits of the new zone. is HUNS MUST PAY BILLION IN MARCH PARIS; March 16.—The allied repa- rations commission, in its note to Ger- many demanding fulfillment of article 238 of the peac treatry, notified the German goverriment it must pay one billion gold marks before March 23, it was announced today. The money must be deposited in,the Bank of Prance; Bank of England, or the Federal Reserve Bank the United States, Germany was told. ‘The commission gave Germany un- til April 1. to submit ‘a proposal. to pay the balance of the twenty billion marks otherwise.than in cash. Ger- many ‘may submit a plan for a for- eign loan, the proceeds of which shall be payabje to the commission. The commission. announced that Germany. had virtually refused to pay the balance, asserting the 20,009,000 marks had been fully paid. LONDON, March 16—(By "The As- sociated Press)—The House of Com: mons, with the consent of the gov- ernment today decided that the Ger- man reparazions bill, providing for a levy of 50 per cent on the purchase price of imported German goods, shall not come into effect until March 31, ‘The measure passed its second reading in. the com 150,000 CASPER, WYO., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1921 ALL FUND Success of the movement BOOSTED AGAIN STRONG INDORSEMENT IS VOICED instituted for the aid of the Casper Midwest Baseball club was boosted another notch today when $100 in cash rolled into the volunteer fund being collected. by The Tribune, raising th: others have given assurance that they to, the list during the .week. ‘ported today were: Midwest Cafeteria, by Henry Bostick today voiced’ strong endorsement &|the plan to support the Casper ch and this spirit is reflected in the fol- lowing expressions: 'W.-J. Bailey, cashier Citizens’ Na-| has tional bank: “A good baseball team is a-valuable asset to a city and we should support the organization here, I like’ the plan fine.” : C. West, proprietor C. West con- Yectionery: “I’m with anything tend: ing to. boost the Casper team and' I believe every. fan in town, will | the same attitude.” ©0077) s/s) _ Vv. C. Wray, proprietor Wray'’a cafe: "Todon't believe there's.a more e total to 1,147. Several y would add their names Additional subscriptions re- and I'm behind the movement to give the Casper team the support it de- serves." Toda Bowman’ of Bowman's chapel: “Count me in on anything like that. It's @ wonderful plan and will have O. Ramsey, proprietor of Ramsey's soft drink parlors: “We all appre- ciate good baseball and Casper is for- tunaté in haying the organization it hed in the past.” wevenceccccccooocoses eeccoveccoces eeeccccces, dmits Anger at Hoffay But Declares Shooti NDER 133 COURT TO CHARGE JURY ON THREE COUNTS, HAMON CASE Testimony Concluded This Morning As| Defense Rests; Threats Rumored _ | If Woman is ORGANIZATION TEN UNIONS PLEDGE SUPPOR TO MEAT CUTTERS IF LATTER CALLS STRIKE CHICAGO, March 16.—Representatives of ten national packing plant unions today pledged their support to the Amalgamated Order of Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North American in case the members of that organiza- tion strike. Indications were, however, that no organization would Held Guilty strike until after the conference Mon- day at Washington when representa. tives of labor and of the employers are to confer with Secretary of La- bor Davis. 3 Union offiesils said they wished to go before Secretary Davis Monday “with clean hands” and for this rea- son probably would not order an im- mediate strike. They held that the war-time agreement with the packers still was in effect, that the packers had violated it by érdering wage re- ductions and that they would not vio- late it by ordering a strike without first taking every possible means to avert one. It was definitely decided not to re- sort to legal proceedings in regard to the wage cut at present. No injunc- tions will be sought by the laborers, ARDMORE, Okla., March 16.—Introduction of testimony |>ut it is believed that at the Wash- in the trial of Clara Smith Hamon for the alleged murder of Col. Jake L. Hamon, Republican national committeeman from. Oklahoma and millionaire oil and railroad man, ended at| 10:23 o’clock this morning and court was recessed until 3 Pp. m. to permit Judge Thomas W. Champion to FURTHER BIG GUTS IN U.P, FORGE NOT LIKELY CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 16.—Ru- mors of an impending large reduc- tion in the shop forces of the Union Pacific Railroad company here are of: ficially denied. It is stated officially eee ee that possibly a score of mechanics may be ‘discharged as a result ‘of the rough edges” ‘ eget cased by @' it reduction of near- sper aed ‘that no further mate: <yes-|rfal reduction is. contemplated atsthis AT GREAT RUSS FORTRESS REDS ROUTED Number at Kronstadt Increases as Red tea ‘IN ARMENIA NEW YORK, Marth 16—Armenia is virtually cleared of balshevist in- vaders and a new coalition govern. ment sitting at Erivan has control headai Near East Relief from Constantin- ople. fatale SSIES OHIO AIG IN MUDDY 1S DESTROYED BY FIRE A-short circuit in the wiring is held responsible for burning of a rig be- longing to the Ohio Oil company in the Big Muddy field last night. The der- rick was over well No. 10 on the Jones lease. No estimate of the damage is ayailable but the rig was completely destroyed and tubing for the string damaged. WOOL TARIFF IS URGED ON PRESIDENT Broad Embargo Suggested by Western Congressman; President Withholds Attitude for Present, Report WASHINGTON, March 16.— Western members of the house ways Harding tomorrow to urge be taken by the new congress Whether the president will see tively or individually was no! RUSSO-POLISH | PEACE IS NEAR RIGA, March 16—Official annonnce- ment was made yesterday by the Russo-Polish peace conference that the peace treaty between the two countries will be signed Friday even- ing at a public meeting of the con- ference, committee expect to see. President cond cpap that permanent tariff legislation ahead of revenue revision. the committeemen collec- t clear today,: although mem- bers, in the absence, of a more spe- cific invitation, expected to call at the White House af 10 a. m. tomor- row, » The delegation will include Rep- resgentatives Green, Iowa, ranking Re- publican of the Ways and Means com- mittee; Young, North Dakota; Frear, Wisconsin; Timberlake, Colorado; Hawley, Oregon, and Hadley, Wash- ington. An even broader embargo to cover all raw wool products was advocated by other members of the delegation. ‘The president took the suggestion un- der advisement without indicating what his attitude would be on any specific erhbargo measure, War Chief Belittles Campaign of Revolutionists in Statement COPENHAGEN, March 16.—(By Associated Press.) — Fifty thousand men have been gathered at the Russian fort- ress at Kronstadt and this number is increasing daily, says a Helsingfors dispatch quoting an American Red Cross worker has just arrived there from Kronstadt. Victor M. Tchhernoff, who Kerensky- cabinet in 1917, was the organizer of the counter revolution, it is declared by the Politiken. (By. Associated Press) LONDON, March 16.—Leon Trotsky, (Russian soviet war minister, declared in-an interview given in, Moscow. that “all talk of an uprising in Petrograd and a bombardment of) the town is silly fiction,” says & wireless despatch; from the soviet capital today. “Petrograd is just as impregnable against a counter-revolutionary coup de‘etat as; the Kronstadt fortress,” ‘Trotzky declared. ‘“Liquidatign of the uprising has been dragged out because we, wish to avoid seyér losses, not only to our troops ‘but to the insurrection- ists in the Kroristadt garrison. U; to the present our losses have been insignificant.” : Trotzky charged Russian emigrant centers abroad with fomenting. the revolutionary movement in order to break up peace with Poland and the agreement with Great Britain for the resumption of trade relations. Harvey Okehed By the British LONDON, Maréh 16— The British government today gave formal -ap- proval to the appointment of Colonel George, Harvey as United States am- bassador to Great Britain to succeed John W. Davis, who resigned. Se Truant Found | Selling Drugs ' Hid.in Books NEW YORK, March 16.—Charged with playing hookey to vetid drugs, Paul Sprofra, a 15-year-old school boy, was taken to children’s court today for arraignment. He was ar- tested in a Bowery alley by mem- bers of the narcotic. squad, who said they saw him sell “Decks” of drugs for $1 each. Concealed in his school books, the police said they found a supply of narcotics. Later the boy took them to a place on the lower East. Side, removed a brick from) an old. wall and exposed his cache, was minister of agriculture in ORIGIN OF FIRE WhIGH BURNED CAR UNCERTAIN Colorado State Inspectors Fail to| Ascertain Cause of Blaze Which Resulted in Death of Five DENVER, Colo., March 16.— State inspectors ofthe Colorado Public Util-! ities commisston and county authori- ties probing the tite which destroyed @ Denver & Rio Gyznde pullman, caus- ing the death of at;teast five persons near Roof, olorado, yesterday were unable to ascertain the origin of the fire. Officials today denied the pull- man carried a gas tank. A’ coroner's jury sitting ‘Walsen- burg, Colorado, will render a verdict this. afternoon. ‘The ‘train crew, pas- sengers and representatives of the railroad will testify. The State Public Utilities commis- sion inspector had not received a re- port from A. H. Samuels, commission inspector, at noon today. The inspect- or went to Walsenburg yesterday. A. Probe’ of lightirig systems ‘on all. rail- road lines of the state is not improb- able as an outgrowth of the disaster yesterday, George Flannigan, séero- tary .of the utilities commission, said: A. R. Baldwin, receiver for the D. & R. G. railroad has ordered an ‘in: vestigation by the company. ———__ Memorial for Wilson Planned NEW YORK, March 16.—A move- ment was lmunched’ yesterday to es- tablish a perpetual memorial in honor of Woodrow Wilson, “the man who projected into the world the idea of the League of Nations,” e prepare his| instructions to the jury. ~ for arguments, and it was said that if the court had prepared his charge ington conference they will urge the government to seek an injunction against the packers on the ground that the government was a party to the wartime agreement and that this agreement had been violated by the packers. The organizations represented at Hach side was allotted five hours|the conference today were: The International. Brotherhood | of will be gotten under way immediately. The court will enarge the jury on three points— which, upon conviction, Would carry a sentence of death or life imprisonment; first degree man- slaughter, the sentence for which upon conviction would be from four years to life imprisonment; and sec- ond degree manslaughter, with a min- imum fine of $1. S. Prince Freeling, state attorney }general in charge of the prosecution, said\that H; H. Brown, special prose- cutor, would make the opening argu- ment and that he would close for the state. There were*numeroys reports about me ‘this morning ‘threats made against state counsel andthe jurors should a yerdict of guilty be returned against Clara Hamon. Sheriff Buck Garrett said, however, that no such reports had reached him with one exception, that of a letter written to a. member of the defense counsel in which>a warn- ing was given of possible violence to the defendant should she be acquit- H. H., Brown, special’ prosecutor, said threats had been made against him,. but. he would not go into. de- tails. W. P. McLean of. Fort Worth, Texas, said that the defense had sub- mitted a proposal to the state coun- sel to permit the case to go to the Jury without arguments immediately after the judge reads his charge but that the state had declined. , The charge of Judge-Thomas W. Champion to the jury in the trial of Clara Smith Hamon for the alleged murder of Col, Jake L. Hamon, con. sisted of thirty-four articles in seven- teen typewritten pages. ‘The court chatged the jury on homi- cide and manslapwhter in the first and second degrees, and brought out the different points of justification. Article eleven follows: ‘You are instructed, Gentlemen of the Jury,’that homicide ts excusable when committed by accident or mis- fortune or in doing any lawful act by lawful means with usual and ordi- naly caution and without any unlaw- ful intent. “Second, when commhtea by acci- dent and misfortune and in the heat of passion, upon any sudden and suf- ficient provocation or upon ‘a sudden combat, provided that no undue 24- vantage is taken nor any dangerous Weapon used, and that the killing is not done in a cruel or unusual man- ner.” Paragraph twelve states: “You are further instructed, Gen- tlemen of the Jury, that homicide is justifiable when committed by any pecsory in the following cases: First, when resisting an attempt to murder @) person orto commit any felony upon such person, =, “Second, when committed in’ the lawful demense of . such person or when there is a reasonable ground to apprehend a design to commit a f¢l- ony or to do some great personal in- jury an dimminent danger of such design being uccomplished by the per- son killed.” ‘The court continued: “In ‘this case the defendant, Clara Smith Hamon, in support of her plea of not guilty, claims as a. justification for said homicide, that sho acted in sel@defense of her person; that is, that the defendant, Clara Smith Hamon, pleads that she did the WMl- ing but that same was done to pre- vent the deceased from either killing | her or doing her serious bodily harm, It is the right of every person to act in, defense pf her own person, where she is assailed in such a way to make it! reagonably appear that her life at the time was in imminent danger or that ’he was in imminent danger 0! serious personal injury. You are in- structed that before a person can justify a Killing upon the plea chat she acted in self-defense, there must not only have oxisted at. the ‘ime of the killing, reasonable groupd to o prehend a desidn on the part, of deceased to cither’take thy, life of the defendant or to do her some great personal injury, but “in “addition there to, it-must reasonably haycappearcd | (Continued ta Page 3.) Stationary Finemen, the International by the time court reconvenes they |Union of Stecm and Operating En- gineers, the International Brother hood of Teamsters and Chauffours, the Sheet Metal Workers Internation- al Alliance, the International Associa- tion of Chemists, the International Brotherhood of Blacksmiths, the Inter- national Association of Plumbers and Steam Fitters of the United States and Canada, the International Broth- erhood of, Electrical Workers, the Coopers International -Union,of North America, the Brotherh Carmen 9t:) i Amatennansd Wage Meat and Butch “ erica. tonal 9 the, dato volved in the packers’ wage ference today, eight independent packing companies, in or near tho main stockyards here, have closed dowh ‘ot greatly rediced their forces, | throwing « nearly’ 2,000 men out of work. x “We want to see how tho labor con- troversy is going to come out,” said Patrick Brennan, president of ‘the’ In- dependent Packing company, the lar- gest of the eight compantes. $ Heads of some of the other compa- nies declared the present price of live hogs and: the low price of the slaught- ered product have made operations unprofitable just now. Before the meeting opened, Dennis Lane, secretary of the Amalgamated Order of Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, the or- ganization which is taking a strike vote, said that unofficial conferences he had held with the heads of other packing plant unions convinced him that they were ready to order a strike ballot among their men. “They cannot, of course, make any official announcement until a decision is made in today’s meeting,” said Mr. Lane, ‘but I have yet to find a unton official who is opposed to the strike. All*seem to be convinced that: the packers are giving us an urfair dea! “There is no doubt there will be-a strike and little doubt, that sll the packing plant unions eventually will Join it.” VOTE OF MANY WORKERS ALREADY TAKEN. CHICAGO, March 16.—Balloting in the national referendum strike vote of packing house employes began here today. While members of the Amal- gamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen were voting or preparing to vote on a strike, ten allled unions haying member employes in the pack- ing houses, were conferring on the question of a simultaneous strike. The stockyards were quiet today, but 2,000 workers descended upon a union hall on the South Side last nigdt and their demands to vote became insistent that the ballot, boxes were opened. A conference between the 24 repre- sentatives of Armour & Co., employes and a like committee froin the com: pany met this morning,to outline the preliminaries of the company’s pro- posed industrial plan, Final returns giver, out by the com: pany showed that 4,987 out of 5,724 packing house’ werkers voted .on) the plan yesterday. Buying a Pig ina Poke *¢ The buying of advertising spac ised ‘to be buying “a pig in ke.” The quantity and qualit; f circulation was shrouded \fr Aystery and often the" bag was ed against investigation. That day has passed. The, ad- ertiser no longer depends upon ‘mere claims.” ‘The Audit Bureau of Circulations has untied the strings to the sack and the circu ation of the better class of pu {cations is thrown open for. th nost searching scrutiny. In buying advertising space in the Casper Daily Tribune you are not buying “a pig in a poke." Our A. B. C. statements will stand the analysis of the most exacting. in- |} vestigator. UFF”---MRS. ACKER Threat to Kill Is Denied When Mrs. Ackerman Takes Stand -in Defense Admitting that she killed Adelbert Hoffay, that she was | ith him, but that the resulted in an accidental shot, Mrs. Ackerman took the| witness stand In her own behalf this morning. On direct ‘tamination. she told a clear story. Atiorney A. E.! Stirret grilled her severely on cross examination, but did not materially shake her testimony. “I didn't know the gun was loaded ‘and merely used it to scare Hoffay away from my house after we had some words. Never at anytime did 1 threaten to kill him, and when the gun went. off I was sorry and terribly ‘That statement made on direct ex- amination is the keynote of the de-| fense's case and the strenuous efforts that are being made to free the woman of the charge of murder. Details of the reletiouship of the Ackerman and Hoffay families were re- lated by the defendant prior to and on the day-«f the killing. Mrs. Acker- man admitcedyfer close friendship for | of Railroad: Mrs, Hoffay and in answer to a ques- tion stated that the men of the fami-| lies were as intirnate as were the) women. After being asked to stay to dinner, Mrs. Ackerman claimed that she\ and Hoffay had some words because the man had promised to accompany her home and after it had turned dark protested on the trip Lecauso of his being tired. CRITICISM OF HOFFAY ADMITTED. “That is a hell of a way to do,” Mrs. Ackerman admitted she said, and later told Hoffay that he was not much of! a man to let his wife accompany the} witness home after dark. Mrs. Ackerman said that as they were leaving the Hoffay home in her automobile that Hoffay asked them to wait a minute and that he would ac- company both Mrs, Ackerman and Mrs; Hoffay and then walk home with his wife. ‘ 4 She. said she didn't wait, beciiise joffay instructed her to drive om, er saying, ‘I never had to wait for any man.’ ; It} was here that.she went ‘into the etaiis’ of r,-which she felt tah Ate Bohan Seomtas he did not contro-| Keep his word to accompany her*home. versy were assembling here. for" con- it ‘was learned that She said that she had lost the’ fecl- ing of anget when she arrived home and sociably asked Mrs. Hoffay to sit down for a while, LOCKING HOUSE ‘WAS CUSTOM “As has been my custom,” she said “the first thing I did was 'to lock the door and pull down the blinds. We had not been there but a fow Minutes when Ollie said ‘there is Del and Meredith.’ A moment later there ‘was a knock at the door and I opened it. I asked Del to come in and he said ‘you are not a lady and I will never enter your house again’ and then asked if Ollie was ready to go home. “I told him not to act like an ass and come into the house. He sald| something else and I told him to get off my lot. When he made no move to go I went to the bedroom and got the gun hoping that I could bluff him away. GUN EXPLODED BY ACCIDENT r “I jabbed him with the barrel of} the gun and then it exploded.” Mrs, Ackerman said that she could not tell much what jhappened from then on-but her first'thought was to secure medical aid for the wounded man. She started somewhere and when she next remembered she was (Continued on Page 9) ng Was Accidental EX-GOVERNOR OF UTAN (3 CHOSEN FOR TALLMAN'S POSITION, CLAIM Villiam Spry to Receive Appointment as Head Of Land Office, Wash- ington Reports State WASHINGTON, March 16. —Former Governor William Spry of Utah is understood to have been virtually decided vn by President Harding for appointment as commissioner of the general land office. Governor Spry has been endorsed for the post by Senator Smoot, is publican, of Utah; and by a numb of other western members of ¢on- gress. As assistant commissioner, the president ts understood to have under consideration R. C. Taylor of Boise, Idaho. - WASHINGTON, March 16.—A re- quest that a man from the northwest be appotnted to the Interstate Com: merce commission was presented to. President. Harding today by a delega- tion of republican senators and rep- resentatiyes from that section. In the group who called on the President were Senators Borah and Gooding, Idaho; Poindexter of ,Wash= ington; Stanfield of Oregon; Oddie of Nevada and Cameron of Arizona, and Representatives French and Smith of Idaho. The delegation also took up with the president the situation of western stockgrowers asking for relief legis: lation at ‘the special seasion of con- Several of those sont. sug- gested an embargo ony ops and %ool wastes as an enteaney measure until protective tariff legislation could be passed. WASHINGTON, March \16.— Fred hie, Scobey of ‘Sain Antonio, Texas; in understood to have been selected by President Harding.as director of the mint. BANK ROBBED OF $20,000 UNIONTOWN, Kans., March 16— The state bank at Uniontown was robbed early today of practically every dollar of cash and securities. The robbers gathered the mot into bags and escaped northward in a motorcar, Officials of the bank said the loss would probably amount to about $20,000. Salesman Takes His Own Life COLORADO _ SPRINGS, March 16.—H. HB. McDermott, 30, a salesman for a local wholesale grocery company committed swicide Tuesday afternoon by shooting himself through the heart. He came from Denver, where he had been similafly employed. He leaves a wife and two small chil- dren. Two brothers are in the bond business at Denver, The reason for the suicide is not known. Colo., “‘DOUBL E’ OF SLAIN YOUTH IS ARRESTED Hoped tc Get Own Life Insurance on Death of Murdered Youth; Was Made Out to His Brother, Is Claim WARSAW, Ind., March 16.—Formal charges of murder against Virgil Decker, aged 20, were made today by Prose- cutor H. W. Graham, in charge of the investigation here of the mysterious death of Leroy. body, first identified as that of a railway near here. Decker’s half brother, Arthur, age 16, also was arrested on the prosecutor's order. Virgil Decker was night at Marion, Indjana. } j arrested last; His ‘halt | brother, Arthur, is held by tho Blk-; hart police. | Mrs. Lydia Decker, mother of the wo was ordered held by B. Aspinwall as a material been released. The coro-| j ner's verdict was that Lovett had been | murdered by unknown partels. | Virgil Decker’s explanation of his{ insurance—thtee $5,000 policies and ‘one $5,000 with double indemnity ‘in event of accidental death—was said to have been a statement. that he wished to be well insured. Tho poll- cies were made payable to Fred Deck- er, a brother. youths, 4a Lovett of Elkhart, Ind., whose Decker, was found Sunday on The.youths were called “doubles.” GREEK KING TO HOLD THRONE ATHENS, March 16—(By ‘The As- sociated Press—King Constantine ta- night declared there was absolutely no foundation for reports published in the United States that he was con- sidering abdicating in favor of his son, Prince George. “Oh, let me have peace.” Constant- |ine exclaimed when asked if the re ports were true. “I have no dnten: {tion of abdicating in favor of George or anyone else, 2 y T pyp 2 4 a