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

Weather Forecast Fair tonight and Friday, slightly cooler tonight north- east portion. EV INVITATIONS SENT OUT TO WORLD MEET Stranger Leads Officers to Grave of Man for Whom Ransom Was Asked and Gruesome Find Is Made; Hunt Started for Slayer of Father Patrick Heslin CITY SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11.—The body of Father Patrick FDI I ION E. Heslin, missing Colma Catholic priest, who disappeared ¥ from his parish, Holy Angels Catholic church, the night of August 2, was found buried atthe bottom of a sand cliff near NUMBER 259. | Salada beach on the Pacific ocean, about 20 miles south of SAFEJOURNEY OVER RUSSIA Cribune CASPER, WYO., THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1921. Holdups Lose First Victims, Grab Others KANSAS CITY, Aug. 11—Asser- tions that they had arranged to hold his heart and through the head, the latter shot having torn away part of the skull. The body was exhumed at 11 o'clock Jast night by @ party con- sisting of Chief cf Police Daniel O'Brien of San Francisco, Constable 8, A. Landini of Colma, four news. paper men and William A. Hightower, discoverer of the grave. IDNAPED PRIEST SHOT TO DEATH, BURIED ON BEACH Whe Casper Daily MURDER CASE IS \ AKEN UP BEF\ RE JURY % ‘ % = Fifteen Witne, Summoned to Testify on Kennedy, %ne at Official Probe on Which Inucctments Will Hinge LOS ANGELES, Aug. 11.—Fifteen persons were named by the district attorney’s office today as under subpoena to testify before the Los Angeles county grand jury, summoned in special session today in regard to the slaying of J. Belton Kennedy. It was intimated others would be called whose names were kept secret up to the time the jury convened. ] it was not planned, District Attor- ney Woolwine said, to call Arthur C. Burch of Evanston, Il., who is being held on a charge of suspicion of mur- ait BALL SCORES 1 i y > e Mrs Made? e bench: . ‘sti . | Sp. Seco, bank wesseensers vcnerying last night acting: on ‘a. tih, &i¥en OF pee Nae ks 7 , M Hightower that he had discovered th cottage at Beverly Armistice Named as Definite Date for the} tie'rroposea cant 20 |7,000-Mile Trip From Peking Completed) ivr; ie .os. iets ts | NATIONAL LEAGUE, tir i Tekan make rie Bnei A ro ° 5 the light of a lantern. attorney said the jury would be ex Disarmament Congress in Formal ; With Arrival of American Party at peughowers after ble” cite had] ay meston— B. H, F, | Preted to indict, but would not spectty ved successf y the - H. E- the number of indictments to be aske i, P . | : : . “4 Philadephia .010 000 900 0— 1 6 1 1g police penc'ng further, investigation. 2 isin eieed 3 Notice Issued at Washington Riga, Tragedy of Soviet Is Told ‘Tho body was ‘buried In & cramped | Boston -....000 100 008 1— 2 9g) ,The witnesses named were: | Mrs, 1 } peaition, in a trench beneath an over: Batteries—Me: ws and Bruggy; + e t 4 . . to have been a confidante of Mrs WASHINGTON, F. a 3 5 ~ hanging wall. It-Iny parallel to the | McQuillan and O'Neill. Csencbatn inane So Grek REDE Cae veriea tions will be sent |, RIGA, Aug. 11,—(By The Associated! Press.)—Charles| all and seainst 1. tod was covered | ge cue yori myint gamer Be Me nn ennedy, tather of the fens ieateaen eee en: Toran end Chins tent; |R. Crane, former United States minister to China, arrived | {1 ("9 [rt of loose sand. | lacotiyn 000 112 109 5 10 i alain man, who. teatified at the in e So ras ference we ree rae t and Far Eastern ques- | ere last night from Reval, after completing a 7,000-mile} ia ne acted upon a clue given him|New York 002 001 000— 3 10 4 quest Mrs. Oberchain had begged his tions at Washington November 11. i journey from Peking, which took him across Siberia and|by « Dolly Mason whom he had pre-| Batteries—Ruether, Schupp, Smith son to marry her The text of the invitations will not be available here be- toawtat Russi Mr. Crane, who was accompanied by four| ‘ously known in. Salt Lake city and Miller! Ryan, Sheehan and Sny- . T. ™ he ey., tinaer of a dow in the i , . he sald, tol co own hotel where Burch occupied « fore late in day, it was announced at the state depart- Americans and a Chinese cook, told the story of his trip to| 27%). "°r.' yh gy a Be room for two weeks prior to the slay- . ‘The invitati a) Sunday that she had met a man who ; pa » thomtioal mana beaks eter & crowd of American reportera walt given a greater chav: to inspect con-|anpeared to be @ foreigner on Friday | At New York—(2nd game) R. H. E. ing, the window of which was nearly tped tebe: aansiea) Bae beer Srey BARON BYNG ing at the station to greet him. Iditions than has been granted any ny intoni| Brooktyn _ 020 00) 10— opposite that of an office the Ken- direct! he fe if Ane ARBIVES. i] night and who on becoming intoxi i will be sent directly to the foreign 0 Spa left the Chinese capital; Americans since the outbreak of the| cared eokcars New York_ 0 001 o— nedys’ occupied as insurance brokers. Tho! party capt cated had made broken gevelations fices and copies handed to the diplo- us Sree from that t! Russian reyolution, in 1917. Dolly — A. B. Niles, night clerk at the hotel, aire is \QUEBEC, Aug. Baron Byng, of on June 16, an@ trot ime until her. Police are searching for 9 were Teprésantatives of ‘the powers , Canada’s new governor general, August 6, when it left Petrograd for! During the journey, Mr, Crane spent| Mason. / The foreigner, Dolly Mason| At Pittsburgh (Ist game) R. H. E.| who told deputy sheriffs Burch left Preliminary negotixtions nave made|{7!vet here on thesteamerEmprees Roval, it traveled under a special per-|about 100,000,000 Soviet. rubles” or| told Hightower, had shown her a re-| Chicago 200 000 O10— 3 the hotel Friday night with a long certain the acceptance of the tnvita- tions and of agreement to open the conference on Armistice day. It is ex Pected that the acceptances will make clear how many representatives each tion expects to send. Upon the receipt of this information, @etails of caring for the visitors can be worked out: Questions of housing the missions and selection of a build- ing for the principal conference meet- ings and the many minor conferencee are being studied here. Further exchanges of opinion on the agenda will probably continue. All thought of preliminary conferences *been abandoned. ‘The final ar- ingement of the agenda, however, Probably will be made only after the conference meets: - L'Stibjects relating to the disarma- ‘tment ‘negotiations. were talked over for an hour today Ky Bre='4=0¢ Hard- ing and Senator Borat, auiies of the resolution requesting the executive to call a disarmament conference. The meeting was arranged. at the presi- dent’s request. Mr. Rorah is understood to have de- tailed his views regarding the stand the United States should take in the preliminary negotiations that are to determine what subjtcts will come: be- the conference. It was also in- dicated that the Idaho ‘senator urged all practical pubicity for conference meetings and that every ‘appearance Of secret dipomacy be avoided. The question of negotiations for a treaty of commerce and, amity with Germany also came into the discus: sion, Senator Borah inquiring. what ateps had been taken in that direction. ‘Afterward Senator Borah would not indicate what information the presi- dent had given him except to say that in his opinion; events were moving toward the conclusion of such’ a treaty. WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—Presi- dent Harding’s formal invitation to the great powers for a conference here beginning November 11 on dis- armament and Far Eastern problems was made public today by Secretary Hughes, - It was suggested, however, the question of naval armaments “may nuturally have first plaée” though it had been thought best not to. exclude questions pertaining to other armament from the subjects to be considereg by’ the conferees. It was quite clear, the invitation twid, that “there can be no final as- surance of the peace of the worl unless the desire for peace found ex pression “in a practical effort to re- move causes of misunderstanding.’ For this reason, it was added, the United States wished that through in, terchange of views, “it may be pos- sible to find a golution of Pacific and Far Eastern problems.” HOMER NO. 43 MADEBY YANK PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 11. — “Babe” Ruth knocked out his 43rd home run of the season in the fourth that in a game at the Polo grounds. CHICAGO, Aug. 11.—-A dynamite explosion at an early hour today wrecked the residence of Ashbel V- Smith, state's attorney, at Wauk- egan, Ul. The Smith family was asleep when the explosion occurred La privately REPLY OF IRISH ON day. Former Premier Maura, -bound for Cantander from Havana. PROSECUTOR'S HOME WRECKED of France. His arrival being earlier than expected, he will be entertained until tomorrow morning when he will be formally sworn in at the legislative bullding. mit from Nikolai Lenine, Russian Bol- shevik premier. The Americans had an opportunity fully to observe the comedy and tragedy of the every day Ufe of the Russian people and were volver and when she pretended to shrink from it in fear, ho said: You do right to be afraid of that gun. It has taken human life.” Dolly Mason then asked where the man was buried, Hightower said. ‘He isn't alone," the foreigner is said to have replied. “I've a man watching him all ‘the time—a man who sits and cooks flapjacks.” At times, the foreigner, Dolly Mason toid Hightower, expressed hatred for the Catholic church, Hightower, acting on the informa- tion given him by the woman, he said, conducted a personal investigation, and being somewhat familiar with the Salada, Beach vicinity, bad lttle dif. ficulty, in locating the signboard pic turing a man frying flapjacks. said“ he then started ‘search, finding bit of black rag and later a 45, cali- Se revolver cartridge. He said he then burrowed. into the newly dug sand by the face of the cliff and found ‘& blood-stained plece of gunny#ack. “That Was enough for one " day,” Hightower told the police. “I wanted to get-away from there, I didn’t want to look any further.” Hightower said he pondered over the matter for three days and last ight, after al further visit to his resolved to go to the’ residence of Archbishop Edward J. Hanna of San Francisco: and tell the high au- thoritiés of the church his story. The archbishop ‘was in conference at the time and Hightower told his story to & newspaper reporter who immedi- ately took the man to his newspaper office and ‘police officials’ were called. The man’s story was then investi- gated, Hightower leading the way to the grave of. Father Heslin. Chief of Police O'Brien and Con- stable Landini found in the pockets of the dead priest a watch. The Appropriation cf $5,000,000 to be|hands had stopped at eight minutes used by the president to aid in Rus-|before 10 o'clock. Other articles sian relief was provided ina bill in-) found on the body included a red mo- troduced by Senator King, Democrat,| Utah. | parece ss OE about $8,000 besides giving away the remainder of his stock of small mer- chandise. As ‘the train would halt here and there along the trans-Siberian rail: way, the Ameficans would get out of their special sleeping car to play base- ball or swim in nearby streams. Be- fore their train had left the Far Hastern ropublic, it was attached to @ hospital train carrying soldiers who had been :vounded in fighting against the forces commanded by Gen. Baron Michael Uagern Sternberg, leader of anti-Bolshevik troops there. The wounded men declared that the anti- Bolsheviks had been badly beaten. When the train reached Moscow the Americans did not’ leave thelr ‘car for n hotel, and during the eight days they ‘stayed at the Soviet capital had No trouble in etting, g00% food. _ PEACE IS DELIVERED Legionnaires T 0|\Text of Answer Made by President of Receive Great| Republic to British Proposals Is Welcome Abro. ad ‘Withheld Pending Conference . LONDON, Aug. 11.—(By The Associated Press.) —The PARIS, Aug. 11.—Organizations of !'reply of Eamonn De Valera, the Irish Republican leader, to French veterans of the world war are|the British government’s Irish peace proposals was handed making extraordinary preparations /t4 Austen Chamberlain, government leader in the house of, to receive and entertain members of |° € the American Legion wha are expect-| Commons at noon today. i . ed to reach Cherbourg on board the The tenor of the reply was withheld. The official ex- liner George Washington “tomorrow, || planation was that it would be. sub- A’ committee representing all these Jected first to conferences by the cab- societies has sent out an appeal to inet and that it was unlikely to be the French, who are urged to “let divulged for some days. our American friends feel the heart Robert C. Barton, member of the of France beat, ‘readin’ .3*rendh ‘ayes Dail Eirnan gave the reply to Mr. the hope. that inspres us and see the Chamberlain in the absence of Pre- implicit c@nfidence we have in tho mier Lioyd George in France. tute” Mr, Barton was accompanied by —— ai Art O’Brien, president «! the Gaelic MADRID CABINET RESIGNS. league in London. Both of these men MADRID, Aug. 11,--The cabinet of had been De. Valera's companions P ai ks Peart es aoa Hips during his. recent talks in Downing it is street with Lioyd George. Mr. Chamberlain announced in the house of commons this afternoon the receipt of the reply which was imme- diately forwarded to Lloyd George in Paris. The prime minister was planning to return to , London Sunday, Mr. Chamberlain said, and he hoped that a statement with regard to Ireland might be made by Lioyd George in the house of commons Tuesday or Wednesday of next wee! It was announced this evening that De Valera’s reply had been sent from London to the prime minister in Paris by airplane. Adispatch to Reuter’s from Paris tonight says Premier Lioyd George will return to Landon Friday owint to the developments in the Irish sit- uation. It is rumored’ in French sources, adds the message, that Ea- nonn De “Valera's reply means grave crisis. ; WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—Official word of the arrival at Reval of Amer- icans released from Russia’ reached the state department today and rela- tives were notified by the department| in every case where addresses, were known. The departmnt’s advices from Reval added nothing to accounts al- ready published of the arrival of the Americans. Negotiations at Riga and Reval for famine relief. will proceed on the as- sumption that all other Americans’ who chose to Jeave Russia will be giv- en facilities to cross the frontiets, it. was said authoritatively.. There are.known to be many Americans there who while not in jail. have been prevented from leaving and the soviet authorities ate reported to have pro- mised to circulate announcements that| unconditional - permission will be granted’ them ‘to depart. Pose as Revenue Men, Rob Safe NEW YORK, Aug. 11.—Posing as revenue agents in search of liquor, three armed men last night ordered Genaro Demicalo, restaurant keeper, to .opcz a small safe and then fled with $4,000 worth of diamonds and other jewelry and $100 in cash. stated, will form a new cabinet. U. S. VALUATION PLAN ADOPTED Tariff ‘Assessment to’ Be Based Upon American System, According to Senate Committee Agreement (Continued on Pace >.) | Number Increased to Twelve Today by} Arrival From Omaha of Man Accused of Running Car “Clearing House” WASHINGTON, Aug. 11,—The American valuation prin-| “LONDON, Aug. 11—(By The Asso ‘ Nf Fliers $. a per q CHEYENNE, .Wyo., Aug.)11.—Dick Henderson, the! ciple for assessing tariff duties in modified form was ac- pate seaneas neat paieinst 9 lieoey twelfth alleged member of a gang of Colorado-Wyoming-| cepted today by the senate finance committee, Chairman Pen-| wi return to London tomorrow, ac-| Nebraska automobile. thieves with headquarters here, to. be} cording to a Paris dispatch to Reuter’s late thid afternoon. ‘The dispatch said this action was due to today’s developments in the Irish situation. An exchange telegraph dispatch (rom Paris, received ahout the same time said the decision was due to a deadlock in the deliberations -of the allied supreme council. rose announced. Experts are workjng out details which are to be presented to the committee for ratification later in = he day. SHIP SINKS : Maes Say deciding on the ques- CREW SAVED tion, Republican members of the com- MADRID, Aug. 11.—The United mittee voted to request the Demo- cratic members to leave the commit- tee session. Seriator Simmons, the States Shipping Board steamer Biack Arfow, sank early today off Cape Villano, on the west coast of Spain. ranking Democrat, informed the Re- bulicans, it was said, that he recog- The crew and passengers were saved but it was thought ship and cargo nized the move as following preced- were a total loss.. The steamer was arrested during the Jast few days, was brought to Cheyenne| from O:naha this morning. He is alleged to have conducted | at.Omaha a “clearing house” for automobiles stolen in the Cheyenne region. None-of the other|cago real estate operator living in! 11 men’ under arrest’ has been able; Wilmette, a suburb, was stil) being to provide bail. held “hero. today by. local police far| investigation following his arrest last SUSPECT HELD BY night, yore ee —A man who|. S¥kes was arrested by R. L. Cratt. | said his name is F. M. Sykes, ana|2" sent of the department of jus) that he is the son of a wealthy Chi-|tie and turned over to the’ police. Craft's investigations have led to the| recovery of many stolen automobiles 7 ° | and several arrests in Colorado, Wyo- ming and Nebraska, it was said. Sykes denied he conspired with a RIGA, Aug. 11.—(By The Asso- ciated Press}—Conferences between Waiter L. Brown and Maxim Lit- band of thieves to steal his own auto- vinolf, relative to relief measures to mobile. He will be held, police said, until. his suspected implication is thoroughly investigated. be taken in Russia, will be resumed here tomorrow, but both men have made it clear ts each other that oo Neither herrings nor whales live in aquariums. will ent established by each party. AGRICULTURAL BILL REPORTED OUT. WASHINGTON, Aug. 11—The Me- Nary agricultural relief bill was -re- ported favorably with — amendments today by the- house banking commit. tee. Chairman McFadden #1id. te would press for house actiun ¢arly next week. = She DYE EMBARGO TO BE EXTENDED, WASHINGTON, ‘Aug. 11. — The Longworth bill to’ extend to’ Nevem- ber “27 the emergency dye embargo which <expires. August, 27, was | Lae ae: American Relief administration. M. | NEW MEXICO WINS PRIZE. Litvinoff presented is the representative of the Rus: WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—The bat- famine committee. tleship New Mexico, flagship of the Decision as ‘to whetlier American | Pacific flect, comes as near being the relief supplies will be withheld |“pride of the navy” as a ship of the from Russia until all Americans in |line can come. She has just been that country have been released jawarded the battle efficiency pennant as sian and rushed from the house but none was bill’ almost solidly, % ton, It is charged that the explosion | today by the house and sent to’ the et are not appearing in behalf of | and placed outside ihe borders of ‘for the highest combined merit in is the result of a relentless warfare, |senat~. The vote, 186to 91, was along| théir respective governments. Mr. Bolshevik Russia, has been ‘left to {|sunnery and engineering. -according waged by Colonel Smith against | party lines, Democrats opposing~ the| Brown informed M. Litvinoff yester- the state department in Washing. |to an announcement by the navy de- Ulicit liquor ‘sellers. day that he was representing the ‘partment last night. DOZEN AUTO THIEVES PLACED BEHIND BARS | tinent. Pittsburgh 000 004 03°— 7 Batteries—Alexander and O'F Hamilton and Brotiem. peckage under his arm and returned without it. Dick Parsons, proprietor of an auto- — mobile rental establishment from At Pittsburgh—nd game) R. H. which the district attorney's office 0 110 O1— alleges Burch rented a car Friday Pittsburgh AMERICAN LEAGU. At Philadelphia— RH. E. New York ....210 400 000— 7 Philadelphia \..000 001 110— 3 + Batteries—Shawkey and Schang; Hasty, Keefo, Freeman and Perkins. ——_—— HOOVER HAS BIRTHDAY. WASHINGTC Aug. 11.— Secre- tary. Hoover celebrated his 47th birth. day Jast night with a dinner to Attor- ney General Daugherty. High offi- cials of both the departments of com- merce and justice were present. night Lynn Keith, Parsons place, was rented. Deputy Sheriff John Cronin, who made t first investigation and ques tioned Mre. Obenchain at the scene of the shooting. Sheriff deputies Nolan and Bright, who brought Burch from Las Vegas, Nev., where he had been arrested on a train bound from Los Angeles to Chicago last Saturday Otis M. Wiles. reporter, who. found two empty shotgun shells near the Kennedy cottage. William D. Murphy, an associate of Kenn Dr. R geon. night manager of the from whom the car Wagner, county autopsy sur- Mrs. Kennedy, mother of thé slain man Mrs. Emma 8. Kirk, mother of Mrs. Obenchain, ‘The following report on road con- | Miss Glenys Smart, sister of Mrs. ditions today is furnished by the | Obenchain. district office of the state highway The, search for the shotgun with Rebartisone which it is clotmed Kennedy was Grant Highway—Nebraska line to Node, fair, Node to Shawnee, good. Shawnee to Orin fair. Yellowstone Highway — Platte line to Careyhurst « sontinued coday. Failure to find the weapon was described by investi- gators as the “only weak point of the case.” A feature of late yesterday's devel- opments was the purported visit to the district’ attorney's office of a young hardware clerk of this city, who was understoud to have sold shotgun shells to a stranger in his store about 10 days ago. It was understood an attempt was made to identify Burch as the man to whom the clerk sold shells corresponding to the two dis- charged ones found in the bushes near the scene of the killing Assistant District Attorney Keyes, with whom the man was closeted, de- clined to say who the clerk was or what information he had contributed to the tmfestigation Mr. Keyes re- plied to all questions about the hard- ware clerk with: “I cannot say anything about that.” It was not known whether or not this man would appear before the grand jury as a witness. It is understood that. indictments will be requested of the grand jury. as soon as sufficient evidence has been placed before the jurors to warrant the request A strict censorship of information coming from the district attorney's office bearing on last minute develop- ments was declared by Mr. Woolwine some rought stretches from rock to Casper. Casper to Sho- shoni good. Cars in good condition and not overloaded can make Birds eye Pass without difficulty to ‘Ther- mopolis, From Thermopolis to the Yellowstone park is generally good. Shoshoni-Lander Road--Good ex. cept somewhat rought between Riv erton and Hudson. Casper-Sheridan Road— Salt Creek and Kaycee, fair. per to FARMER HELD last night. He indicated that a "crit- gation had been reached and at the | same time declared no information ex- 7h cept of the most general nature would RAC N, Y., Aug. 11.—Frank}.be made public. Sheets, Oneida farmer, arrested after, “We have some good leads,” he said, the finding of Frank Jarmin of| “but they cannot be discussed now. Idaho Falls, Idaho, beaten into un-|He promised some action within consciousness _ besic the railroad | hours. tracks near Oneida yesterday made a She ee sworn, statement to tains S. J. 44-Hour Week Sought. McGrath of the state police admitting} QUEBEC, Aug. 11. — The 44-hour that {t was he who attacked Jarmin. The crime was committed with an iron bar and came. at the end of an automobile trip almost across the con- week in job printing establishments will be the goal of members of the International Typographical unfon, and if that is assured, efforts wil! be turned to secure the same hours in the plants of newspapers. A resolution urging the members to Lend all their energies to those ends, was adopted yesterday by delegates attending the annual convention of the union. The vote was unanimous. It resulted from a quarrel between the two men over payments on the car, which the two had purchased. Jarmin is in an Oneida hospital, hov ering between life and death, with 20 jagged cuts in his head. GENERAL WOOD NAMED FOR POST WASHINGTON, Alig. 11—Maj Gen, Leonard Wood was authorita- | tively stated today to have been se | lected by President Harding for governor general of the Philippines | ness to accept the post. ible for “civil offices of the govern- A MIL designed {o remove all | ment in administering its territer- | doubt of eligibility of General Wood | iai possessions.” for, the governorship was introduc ed by Chairman Wadsworth of the senate military committee, and un- derstood to have been suggested hy the administration. It provides that active army officers shall be elegi- and to have expressed his willing. 4