Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 14, 1921, Page 1

KANSAS CRUDE “ISCUT AGAIN INDEPENDENCE, Kan., June Prairie Oil & Gas company Order Revoking Leave of Absence Not Yet|= Received But Admiral Will Sail for Home on Wednesday to- day announced a 25.cent cut in crude oll, making the new price $1.25 a bar rel. This follows a similar reduction made a week ago by the Magnolis Petrateum company in “the ,Healdton feld. . ‘LONDON, June 13.—(By The Associated Press,)—Rear| .,70'S4, Okie June 13—The Biv: Admiral Sims said this morning he had not received the|toaay posted a reduction of 2 cents cable message from Secretary of the Navy Denby cancelling|« barre! on Midcontinental crud the remainder of his leave of absence and ¢~dering him’ to} Headicn oll was cut to 75 cents a report as soon as possible in Washington. He left his hotel |°*™’: early in otder to fulfill a day of crowded social engage- 1 ee SS POSTAL GLEK ‘HERE AUUSED Wednesday. ' The admiral told an’ interviewer that “he believed Secretary Denby's second message had been dispatched because of Admiral Sima’ delayed response to the first one asking if he had been correctly quoted in his ad- dress here last week in which he criti- cised Americans in sympathy with the Irish republic. Admiral Sims insisted that ‘the delay in his reply was due jonly to delay in transmission” and declared that he made his reply within an hour after receipt of the cablegram.] leged pilfering of mail which came ,. Admiral dnd Mrs. Sims have becn) into his possession. Chandter was invited to dine this evening with! placed under arrest at moon today United States Ambassador @nd Mrs.) by a, postiffice inspector who has The duke of Connaught and) beon here’ for. several days investi- J. Chandler, clerk at the is heing held at the county jail on » charge of embezzlement growinr, wnt cf al- | Harvey, (othgr notable personages are among | is case. While the c: belie tneioa igre if See ‘ RecA him has not been made mang . ee St testis alld that his account shows —— : ws yi rae eR abeniegna ets reset oF ee Casper {8 propafing for the clean-up! LEEDS, Engiand, June 13.—The! piepaiashe. 2 banat campaign which will be jnaugurated | Yorkshire Post, 1 commenting today on| o : j here June 15 and 16 with a venomous! Admiral Sims, says: A, Ve 4 “There will be general sympattiy in ie this country for Admiral Sims, that = breeay, and inveterate friend of 4 menace to health, a fire rd, an impediment to. traffice or an eyesore 5 ancre $as 0 into ‘hot water in the United States fdr his plain. speaking about Anglo- Durbin strcet which is at the site the best interests of the. two coun-| of the tourist camp grounds. Small jes at heart. He has seen the danger! buildinis will be erected .t the pool whe which the Irish-American rancor} fer the boy: A_ dam thirty feet threatens their friendship ‘and’ whilo|; across will be graded up and fresh fighting {t openly in America he has| water from the city reservoir will endeavored to explain its significance} be provided for the pool. here. «The storm his utterances raised This decision was in line with the in his own country shows the reality) plans being made for organized play- of the danger. . | ground activitiy this summer. The ‘It would be no real help to the club alsc decided to erect cause of Anglo-American friendship| small buildings to provide shelter to pretend to ignore the cxistence of} fer the boy scouts while on woek- a strong Irish-German party in the| end hikes in tho mountains and in republic whose burning is to embroil! the Gothmore park vicinity this the two nations.” + summer. visit Casper this ‘summer. Great fleets of trucks are being lined up to handle the loads of ma- terlal that will be gathered on that gy. The hardest work that many @ Casperite has dohe in months will be the result pf the clean-up drive. Every person who has the interest of Casper at heart is urged to volun- teer. Either get a shovel and @ rake or hire someone to take your place. Also there are scorés of idle trucks in Casper that can get a little training in the volunteer squad. If you will appear in the, clean-up Procession, if you will hire a man to take your place, or if you have an extra truck ‘that you will volunteer you can get action by notifying E. C. Calhoun at phone 535 or by calling the chamber of commerce, phone 307. MARINE STRIKE SCHLEDOF AMERICAN IN DUBLIN SLAIN to the hundreds of tourists that will American relations. * * * It would be unfortunate if the action taken re- garding Admiral Sims were construed Into evidence of a definite attitude on the, government the news- Paper continued, ‘the mass. of the British people recognize that Sims had BALTIMORE, 2Uonai officers at Washington. members “ff! the Marine Mngineers’ neficial: association in ~ this city ed their strike off aud applied for ied, Le eer |London Report Says Navy Pensioner Is sehee "| Victim of Crown Forces; Four Killed - \ . “in Dublin on Sunday mornings. at — ROAD REP ORT 13.—(By | The Associated Press.)—A | ROAD REPORT | ay oN ngs Bigs eaeeiation from Dublin today H to:the ! ' : Le ate Thomas Rush, 35 years of age, said to be an Ameri- can navy pensioner, was shot to death yesterday evening at Lisacul. DUBLIN, June 13.—Two former soldiers were shot dead i 3 the street by three unidentified persons. re mene ee road, in the Falls divisions of 2 ‘AST, 5 a, June 1°5.—(By city. A peculiar feature cf the ¥ Se ica Patek Ribuae last {Street outbreak wes furnished by "he n ‘added four mors victims to Bel-|fact that the combatants for the ‘weskeond Gsath toll, three be-;mest part adopted the method of at ia renewed disturbances 1n/ firing through windows and skylights, i a i tes y inv m York street;and the fourth being marae which bdillots few in add direc: “i tivities ‘in Kashmir during. snipiag selivities | While pa:sing the area in a lorry, | Special ‘Constable’ Sturdy was killed. Whe other three Victims were civilians. Military armored cars opened ma- |chine’ gun. firc and restored order. U. S. POLICY IS m f ae i Sr | While the shooting was proceeding if 5 % | Kashmir road a church service was. HANDED MEXICO..222222= of: Hedeemet. The congregation became considerbaly alarmed Seen Te LARAMIE PIONEER DIES LARAMIE, Wyo., June 13.—James Hardman} native of ‘Engiand and an ol Laramie resident, died suddenly at fils -home here. 2 rahe Highway=? rom" Neprastc: line to Lusk got Lusk to Kee- very goo Keolhzs t@ Orin” dunction fair Yellowstune Tlighway—Orin to Glepreck good except defonr by La- Prete Dam road from six miles West af Douxiss to Uiree miles east of Careyherst which is somewhat roush, therm fsir to Casper. Casper to Waltman, Arminto and Shoshoni fossil lovel) showers last night. Casper to Sheridan—Goed to Salt Cteck. Pair Sait Creek to Msyees. Good Raveee to Sheridan. she the onty rejonider contemplated to Obregan's recent communication to tho state department dealing with the treaty of amity and commeree propused by the United States. Recent reports from Mr. Summer- WASMINGTON, dune 13. — On | instruvvens of Seer-tary Hughes, George P. Storueriin, American | at Mexieo City, } to Aioerta Fani Mexi- ——— | | f | | | can fcraign minisier, “the recent | tin are sald to have contaiied uo in- he funercl services for Katy Sasso stafemant. of the Amor:.an policy | ileation that Obregon will yield to | 35.years of age, who died at the family ; iste by the state — tha pressure brought apes him to | home Thutsaday is, were held . derstood tha: | agroe to sach a treaty an 4 eondi- | Friday at 10:30. o'clock from Fowmdn whapel, Burial was made at ‘ Gon te the rerognition vf his ad- re Highiané cegeters. Mr. 37 7 ; Jdent Obre. ashes expects Ereeiden: sion by the “nitet States. fot <a Chwder this statement #s | YFOUR WOME FOR PART IN CRIME ; midwife, wi - AUDITORIUM, DENVER, alliance between the Gompers today in addressing annual convention of the Ame’ JAILED Formal Charges Filed in Court on Revela- tion of Plot Which Lead to Murder of Ohio Publisher CLEVELAND, June 13.—Four wornen now are formally charged with the murder of Daniel F. Kaber, who was stabbed 24 times by hired assassins in his home at Lake- wood two years ago. ; E Ns Mrs. Ermini Colavito, 32 years of age, was booked on s Tevelations to the police. Others .Sam and Tony, who we to Mo the charged with the crime are Mra. Eva) work. were with me. Cathering Kaber, widow of the miain| “When we reached the hume that man; Miss Marian McArdle, her evening we were taken through the daughter, and Mrs. Mary Brickel, 69| halls and rooms. To help deaden years of age, mother of Mrs. Kaber.. the nolse made as we trampsd through Twelve, persons hevye been named in the house, Marian McArdle kept play- connection with the murder. [ing a piano. The two men were shown Mrs, Colavito, who was-known’ag@! the door to Kaber's room. arrested in Sandusky) “It was arranged that the hack several days ago. In her statement | door was to be open and Mrs. Brickel she told the authorities how, two days; was to be on the porch at 10 o'clock before the murder, Kaber’s assessing! the next night as a signa! that all had tp-toed through bis home t@ get) was well. the “lay of the land,” while Miss Me-| “The murder was to be done the Ardie played a plano to @rown- the | next night—Thursday. On Friday noise of their footsteps. She &lso is| morning I received a call from the sed to have said that the two men. ‘They said they had been sins demanded $5,000 fur committink| at the Kaber home the night before tLe crime but that “Mrs. Kaber de-| but"had found the back door locked clared she would not pay it Urleas| and no woman on the porch. her husband was killed with some! “I called the Kaber home o: mn the Weapon so she could collect an jn- telephone and Marian McArdli surance policy.” le, the | daughter, answered that she could not Colavito. declared that four men were! but asked me to meet her with the employed to do the killing, two to|two men, That afternoon, Friday Use the, Weapons and two remain} Marian, Tony, Sam and I met on outside as lookouts. ’ | street corner in the east end. Five hundred dollars had beon gi “Marian sald: ‘Come out tonight and t+ Mrs. Colavito. she said in hor you'll find everything ready leged confession, to-be. paid’ the assis. “We then discussed réw- plans: It sins inepart: af " i Sy csi hat tie mén were to Kesar to ‘the officers who ‘ques: fine and that Marian was to make the toned Mrs. Colavito, her statement in| rounds “upstairs. When everything part, rehds ag follo’ was feady and the house quiet, she t was on the Wednesday before; was to drop some water from an up- the myrder that we went to inspect/ stairs -window so that it would strike (he Kaber home, learn the arrange-|'the ground near a basement window. ments of the rooms and find out where| “The next morning I read of the Kaber slept. Two men, known murder in the newspapers.’ “Men in industry and in agriculture. This was denied by Mrs. Kaber. Mre.| discuss the matter over the telephone,’ Co-operation Is Necessary to Combat the Movement Against Both Forces, Says President of American Federation in Opening Annual Convention in Denver June 13.—Appeal for a closer organized {industrial workers and the farmers of the country was made by President Samuel the opening session of the 4ist rican Federation of Labor. ” he said, “must have lower alliance, to see to it that the shall not be crushed by captains » | industry and princes of finance.” | The veteran labor leader. warns! that the same interests t are pro Moting thé alleged anti-union drive this country are trying to “drive back the farmers from the position ney jhave attained in the last few years.” He urged united co-operation in op posing “the movement being made :o wipe out the department of iabor and destroy tho department of a ture. ‘The labor movement of America ‘tands now {ntact and will continue to,” Mr. Gompers said, declaring that the drive of the antl-union forces on ergantaed labor had failed. “Before the next snow fall he added,,“"there will be five million men. bers in the American Federation of Labor.” | “The labor movement &s well as throughout the entire jworld.” he said, “was never taught |the meaning of the word retreat, and jwul go marching forward and up ward.” No movement in history has been Put to @ greater test than the trades junion movement, aid President Gompers, adding that it had success. |tully withstood the “fires of antag joniam, bitterness.and relentiessness.” | “The only purpose of the anti-union |drive,"" he continued, “is to weaken {the spirit of the working people uf jthe country and make further in- [roads on the standards of life of. ihe |tollers of America and force @ reduc: tion in wages.”” | The labor leader referved briefly 10 | World disarmament, expressing the | hope that this would be brought about rough international agreement. “One thing we need is solidarity among the tolling masses of this couj:- try." declared Mr. Gompers. Ve need ® new spirit. not of resentment but of desire, to protect the Interests of the working masses of this coun. try, lo protect and strengthen the sreundwork of our own structure. “While we love every human being ho matter where horn er ,"where he may reside, on® principle from, which We cannot depart. is ‘Americas First! | otPhe labor movement of America endtayoring to cultivate the best. o: relations with other interests of our country, but if we are to retain our standards, and our>righte we must present ld front, united in spirit, in fact in {deallam. President Gompers was given a j (Continued on Page 8) of America HIGH WATER IS NEAR RECORD MARK HERE Reaches Pavement RUTH CLOUTS TWO HOMERS NEW YORK; ‘June 13.—Besides pitching for the first time this sea-! | ’ | son, “Babe” Ruth made his 20th home Standard Refinery grade, it ran of the year in the third inninx. highest water mark that was with none on, in toda: Detroit. WASHINGTON, Jane 13.—Amer- ican coastwise shipping would be exempted from payment of Panama canal tolls under a bill ordered {a- vorably reported today by the sen- ate interoceanic canals: committee. ‘The committee vote was unani- mous after Senator Walsh, Demo- crat, Montana, had withdrawn a re- quest that hearings be held. Chairman Borah, author of the pil, said that since the question was the subject of exhaustive hear- ings elght years ago there was no need of hearings af this time, tach 38h {a storm sewer. pray | has already done MF | Tho higa Water has already Minnesota To cenalderabie dumage to refinery Quip lequipment and small residences in the | Mills addition. Water came up on the Sandbar this morning and went For Free Lumber ica teas secnage water sehich |got through the railroad grade ov. jeral points. WASHINGTON, June 13.—The Min-| “\nighest point in severad years the nesota delegation In the house ar | water doesnot come from the Path- ranged to protest today to) Presiden’ | ringer dam but is the flow from floods of the ways and means committee to| ‘ roi Aun) mal pit lumber on the free list in the new | d@¥ Beoectpaa's ieee 2 spataasig sy ght} tariff bill, Representative Newton, | Fiver aehich Be iseh with O86 the , Payne-Aldrich fight,” Minnesota | eee icon are Seek eet ST ee tse . thrown up at threatened places. ia. hi -| Some slight inconvenicnce has been provision which would make finished emeen ae ive Fi gesinees the water lumber subject, as in the case of Can-\is s dda, to a 25 per cent ad valorem ing other slight inconvenience... The $1 a thotisand feet on logs.” condition and Izbor crews are further Tue decision to report out the Borah dill, applicable only to Amer- ican ships, rather than would give all Amiérican shipping free canal passage, was reached, committee members said, because to ‘pass a constwise shipping bill. Another consideration, it was safd, Was asstrance to the commit- led ‘formally dering the Talt administration that the Hay-Psunce- fote.’reaty axvehor!zed free tolls for run in the scventl inn!ng with one/came. out on the payement at 3 ment! and especially tw gravel pit Continue Fight as far cast as the corner of B and Ash | While the river has reached the Harding against the reported perusal} Bates and Stinking «creek yester: who headed thesgroup, declared that injment which came down | wit ted he said, “has agreed on a retalfatory duty and in addition has put 2. tax of Midwest pump plant is in precarious U. S. SHIPS URCED the. Jones-Poindext:= bill, which it was believed it would be easier tee that the British government conced coastwise American ships. hg with measurements have been taken. Ruth made his twenty-first home-| broke through to the pavement in one West of Casper for First Time Today; Outflow at the Pathfinder Dam Shows Gain With the Platte river just five feet nine inches below the is within three inches of the ever made by the river, since For the first time the water pace: The water one place but disappeared in intrenching the plant to keep out the water with sandbags. The Midwest foot bridge across the river has been put out of commission by the high water, A big bull wheel escaped from some drilling ris is-caugat in the flood waters north of the Standard refinery. ‘The Standard company is fillirfy in its property on the north side of the river to -ring {t up to the plant grade Spraguo and Nisley, hold a contract for this work. Across the river the main road to Mflis ts under water and dikes are being hurriedly thrown up around the light plant and machine shops to pre- vent inundation from back waters of the Platte river.and Casper Creck The crayel pits both the wagon ard hydraulic loaders are uncer. water and many of the cabins "in the vicin ity of the pits are standing several {feet: deep tn ‘water. | Conditions at Pathfinder dam are \impreving, according to figures ob tained from ther> this morning. The elevation of the dam increased | just .07 of an inch since yesterday but the inflow and outflow was more nearly equal than tt has been in | weeks. The inflow up to today's meas- |urement was 16,540 feet and the out- |tlow 16,3€0 second feet indicating that less than 200 second feet of w=ter are being stored in the dam tn 24 hours. Very heavy rains were reported in |the rural districts, especially between \Casper and the dam. Stinking Creek land Bates Creek, according to stat» |ments received from the Rollie Clark |ranch were raging torrents after the |heavy rains last nicht. Both creeks had the highest water that has been reported this spring. —— POLISH CABINET .CSIANGE. WARSAW, June 13.—(By the As jsociated Press.j---M. Skirmunt, Polish ambassador to Ita'y, has been ap pothted foreign minister in the Polish cabinet replacing Prince Sapieha, who | resisnes, ‘ | FLOOD VICTIMS STRIVING HARD TO ‘CARRY ON’ \Forty-three Refugees Found in Single House by Red Cross; Disaster Census Rev. -ls Trials of Pueblo Public PUEBLO, Colo., June 13.—(By The Associated Press.) — Stories of how the stricken families tried to “carry on” as well as they could after the flood, came to light today with the filing of disaster census reports by the American Red Cross relief administration. One small three-room house was found to contain 43 refugees without any bed¢@ing or any heat. Women and children , werv mong the refugees, but they had not asked for aid until they were found, needed !t more than they. They ‘were furnished elothing. bedding, food and shelter. During their survey, Red Cross oper-| AMERICAN LEAGUB atives reached a couple near the eighties. The old man, a G. A. R. vet — eran, was trying to dig out mud one| At Boston— R. H. BE. foot detp from his ruined house, The| Chicago ...;.510 000 090-6 18 1 19e 000 oO8— 4 tt O couple had to be persuaded to accept jon Batteries—Faber and Schalk; Jones; the assistance that was offered to them. Thormahien, Bush and Ruel. Two old. wormen, sach about 60 - At Philadsiphia— R. HH. E, St. Louis.... 001 002 910-4 9 §& Philadelphia, 000 696 O1°—7 8 I Batteries—Richmond, Burwell and Cecltins; Harris and Pericins. years of age, wer= found wading knee deep in mud, endéavoring to salvage the wreck of their, possessions. One of the women had’ discovered a saw and was trying feebly to cut through a heavy shed roof that had floated over her hydrant At New ¥York— RH. E, A young woman was visited while| Detroit .... 000 @40 IS1— 8 13 she was digging frantically into the| New York.) 123 @4f 20°13 15 mud, trying to save an clectric wash-| Batteries—Ehmke and Bassler; ing machine by which she had sup-| Ruth, Mays, Ferguson and Schang; ported hérself and her children. The| Hoffman, machine was a total wreck. seedy A two-room shack visited by Red| At Washington R. H. B Cross workers contained £7 refugees. ----000.002 521— 16 17 4 When a tent Waa ordered pitched for! Washington _.408_011-000— 6 11 them in the yard, the storm victims urged that tt be reserved for those who had suffered more than they. Some of the Ineidents roported by the census takers were not without humor, Visiting a Widow's home, they found that the flood. had carried the Nunamaker; Eriekson tnd Gharrite: NATIONAL LEAGUB AL-Pittsbursh— RH. B, one-room house of an pld man directly | Pl ja 000 O01 _si0— 5 10 upon the Widow's, repr, ere the old| Pittsburgh.. 040 921 \14°—12 17 man's hquse perched, ir the, wa: Batter’ Baumgartner and Peters; ters) receded the old tried to get! Hamilten and Setritvidt. his house down, but the widow refused to permit him to @6 soy for fear that it. would spotl “what was left of a cherished hedge in the yard." It took the “combined persuasivences - of the Red Croas official anda sanitary of: fiver to induce her to mecede to the old man's request. At Cineinnati— Hargrave. . 4 7 At Chicago— RH. HOTEL LOBBY USED Roston . 000 000 OF0— 0 6 FOR POLICE COURT. Chicago. orr— 5 8 PUEBLO, Coio., June 13.—The- teb Batterles—Braxton, Morgan and by of the Congress hotel, where mil.| Gowdy; York and Daly, ; itary headquarters are located, will be turned Into a police court tomorrow morning. According co Capt. 0. L. ‘Dennis, 010 20x— 10 17 commande: of the Colorado rangers, Batteries—Nohf, Ryan and Smithy the military has turned over the trial| Halnes and Clemons, of all etril offenses to the oivil au- a Court. will be held in the lobby daily, under Municipal Judge R. A. Crossman, A large number of minor onees are on the docket for to- morrow. Preparations were being made t day for paytr.g off the 118 men and of fleers that constitute Troop’ C and Battery A, which will be relieved from duty here tomorrow. About twenty rangers are expected to. arrive in Pueblo Wedresday’. ‘The flood was responsible for an- other death today. Mrs. Béna Hirtz, sister of Lieut. Morris A. Penter, of thorittes. PILOT CARRIES BOOZE, SEIZED GREELBY, Colo., June 13.—Aviator Eddie Brocks, pilot for an air. service ctnpany of Greeley, was arrested here this morning, upon his arrival from Denver, by Sheriff Frank Hall. In his plane was found a five-gallon demijohn full of moonshine whiskey. Battery A. died carly this morning a8| The plane was confiscated and Brooke the result of shock superinduced, bylis being held in jail. He was a for- excitement during th> recent disaster. | mer student at Denver university and Lieutenant Penter ist three stores | during the war was a lieutenant in the here during the flood. | United States’ air service. ————— | Work of Disabled — British Neutral Veterans of War’ Jy Turkish War To Be Exhibited | as LONDON, June 13.—(By The Asse- NEW YORK, June 13.—An expo-|ciated Preas.)\—The attitude of Great sition of the work done in hospitals| Britain with regard to the conflict by disabled war veterans will be held | between the Greeks and the Turkish in Ban Francisco the first week in| Nationalists will be one of strict neu August, in connection with the thirty-|trality, Austen, Chamberlain, govern- ninth internatioa! convention of the|ment leader in the honse of commens, Kights of Columbus, it is announced |@nnainced today. Be \Neck Is Broken In Wrestling SIOUX CITY, Towa, Jane 13.— While engaged in a friendly wrest!- ing ‘mateh Sunday, John Vaitkanas, 89 years of age, suffered a broken -——_ ——_—_ Plans Laid For Passion Play| OBEROMMERGAL y. June 13.—(By The jociated «Press.)— ‘The committee having charge of the arrangements for the renewal of the passion play has decided to give thirty | performances between May 11 and| September 24, 1922. Selection of the! cast will not be made until Gctober. | neck from whieh he died later when doseph Dalinda, his opponent, ap plied n /ull Nelson hotd. Vaithenas Is survived by a widew and two children. MEXICO TO PAY DEBT INTEREST MEXICO CITY, June 13.—Pay- , ment of interest on the Mexiean for- elgn debt will be resumed on duly 1, and the national budset ef expendi- — The interest on Mexico's foreign debt amounts approximately to 2@,- 000,900 pesos per year. The money received from petro- eum companies In payment of the tures will be “increased 20,900,000 new export taxes, which go Into ef- pesos for that purpose. Announce- fect July 1, will be deposited in the ment to this effect was made last Banco Nacional De Mexico, and #2 night by Erhanuel Pe: acting net be withdrawn except for th secretary of the treasury during the ahoorce cf Sdctto De La Hexte Payment of Interest on tht’ ferzige dsbt of tye country. aeaR