Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 29, 1921, Page 1

SPECTRE OF INTERNAL STRIFE LOOMS ON HUNS he Casper Daily | Crihune |S, | | Weather Forecast _ Forecast Generally fair tonight and Tuesday, not much change in temperature. VOLUME V urchandWoman Enter Not Guilty} Plea At Hearing Mrs. Obenchain and Burch Jointly Ar- raigned for Third Time for Hearing of Sensational Murder Case LOS ANGELES, Aug. 29.—Pleas of “not guilty” were en- tered in the superior court today by Mrs. Madalynne Oben-} chain and Arthur T. Burch, jointly indicted by the Los An- geles county grand jury on charges of having murdered} J. Belton Kennedy, broker, on August 5. THeir trial was set Hearings within 10 days will be held on for November 1. motions for separate trials filed by the defense. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 29. Madalynne Obenchain and Arthur ne Burch, jointly indicted for the mw der of J. Belton Kennedy Beverly len August 6, were scheduled to ap- p before Judge Reeve in the su- perior court this morning to enter their pleas. It will be the third time the two will have appeared together before the judge, having been grarrett two AVERTED BY that has existed among the bi postponements on order.obtained Ly|mailing out of strike ballot to the membership, was today in the! minimized by union officials here. Strike ballots were mailed out to 650,000 railroad workers counss! for Mrs. Obenchain, person of Paul Schenck, who returned to this city yesterday aftefnova from Flagstaff, Ariz. where he has ‘been engaged in trying o.case. ed both will enter pieas of reettataty: @ be ers, went on a separate ballot. Upon ‘arriving here Mr. Schenck) The trainmen withdrew because, conferred with both prisoners. officars the, bollot At the district attorney's office late| Grafted by the other four organiza- yesterday, it was forecast that the| tions “did not in our opinion, contain court probably would set the case for/an inipartial and unbiased: recital of trial for the middle of October. all that is involved, hor did it convey a yesterday and today but the ballot of the Brotherhood of Railroad Train- men, comprising abvut 150,000 work- CASPER, WYO., MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1921. HUNS TURN BANDITS; ‘Second of Bank Robbers Taken; Story of »;| THREATENED LABOR BREAK IS __ CHICAGO, Aug. 29.—The apparent break in the harmony 'Switchmen’s Union of North America in connection with the} NUMBER 274. EVENS SCORE Nation-Wide Scheme Against United States Is Told by Foreigners CHEYENNE, Wyo., Aug. 29.—Herman J. Kusel, 55 years of age, Bushnell, Neb., and Adolph Pfunder, 26 years of age, Baden, Germany, identified by their confessions as the men who last Friday held up Cashier Robert R. Lollier at the State bank at Chugwater, Wyo., in an unsuccessful effort to rob the bank, Sunday afternoon were taken to Wheatland, seat of the county in which their crime|immediately after the fold-up and occurred, by Sheriff Homer Payne, |escape of the intended victim, Lollier, of Platte county, and there will be|made a semi-confession in the Lara- held pending arraignment. They are|mie county jail bere Saturday morn- expected to plead guilty. The penalty ling, but the fact was supressed pend- for their offense is imprisonment for |ing the arrest of Pfunder. alias Hans any term between the minimum of/Martin at Bushnell, Neb., 60 miles east one and the maximum of 20 years. [of Cheyenne, late in the day, and until Kusel, who was shot and captured|Pfunder late Saturday night had yield- ——— ———<<<<=—s }@ to interrogation here and had made a full, confession of the affair. Pfunder’s confession, a disjointed narrative expressed in very broken English, is so illogical and improb- able that it suggests the ramblings of lunatic’s phantom haunted fancy, BROTHERHOODS ::: is believed by officers who heurd jit made to be the truth. It covers a jvast range of geography and. psy- chology and involves hatreds engen- dered during and as a result of the world war. Pfunder, German born and intensely |German in sentiment, entered the United States surreptitiously, via Mexico, October 20, 1920, and by stages made his way northward, via Denver jand Cheyenne, at each of which he | spent several weeks, to Bushnell, Neb.. ¥ T where Kusel, Swiss born but Germany eS sympathy and with a bitter grudge N P ist the United States, conducted ig four brotherhoods and the} ja nite tailoring establishment. They ‘had corresponded during the war, how it im not olear, and Kusel had sent |Ptunder, then employed in a dye fac- tory in Baden, $200 to defray his ex- Penses in coming to the United States where, according to theit plans, they the assurance that the wishes of the JAPLEADERS 2222 S50 ssc PEACE M TOKIO, Aug. =39—(By The Associ- ated Press)—Premier Hara and Field Marshal Prince Yamagata, one of the elder statesmen, had a lengthy con- versation yesterday, which newspa- pers here understood to have been en- Urely devoted to the conference on disarmament and Far Eastern ques- tions to be held in Washington this autumn. It was looked upon as indicating that Field Marshal Yamagata, who has been informally named as a mem- ber of ‘the mission to Washington, is wages, would determine the question, and that they would be permitted to ieave the service.” ‘The joint ballot deélared that if the members voted to reject the wage re- Pagan it was understood they would permitted to withdraw from the Eoriios of their companies “unless sat- Isfactory settlement can be reached unwer the laws of the organization. AMERICAN FEDERATION WILL DELAY ACTION. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Aug. 29.— The executive council of‘the American Federation of Labor has decided to take no action regarding railroad wage reductions; members said today but stood ready to give aid in any way requested by the railroad unions. The council is working, as in- structed by the Denver convention, on 4 plan to bring about “public own- ership and democratic control” of the railroads, but no action was expected for several months, leaders said, as peace United States on which negotiations havo been for some time, will be signed here at 5 o'clock this afternoon by Feroign Minister Banffy for Hungary and by Grant Smith, United States commissioner, for America. ‘The ceremony will take place at the reside nce of Mr, Smith. WARRANTS OUT FOR AUTO RING CHEYENNE, Aug. 29.—Additional warrants, the second in each case, have been issued by the United States court here against Walter Wells and Ray Pace, alleged members still influential in the empire, and aroused considerable speculation. Several newspapers declare that Premier Hara has been disturbed by the alleged insistence of the general staff that the Japanese army must be maintained at a strength of 21 divis-! ions and that, therefore, he sought the; counsel of the field marshal as a lead- er of the militarist element. | chemists of Canada, the United States Willard Training For Champ Fight iss £tte convention ot the Society of Chemteal Research. Among papers to be presented ts TOPEKA, Kan., Aug. 29.—Jess Wil-|one dealing with a new glass which, lard, while in this city today on busi-|its sponsors claim, would admit un- ness, sald that he had started train-jjimited light while eliminating aii ing for the proposed bout with Jack| heat rays. Other papers will describe Dempsey. He says he will scale his| steps being taken to replace coal with weight, 265, down to 238, his welght|peat and lignite, so as to make when he lost the title to Dempsey at ‘ario and eastern Canada less depen Toledo July 4, 1919. ént on the United. States for fuel. the union’ chiefs are occupied with the wage situation. Investigation of railroad executives’ salaries is being made by the council. ——s—. American Chemists Are Meeting Today MONTREAL, Aug. |. — Noted of a tri-state automobile theft ring, 19 alleged members of which have been taken into custody during the last three weeks. Wells and Pace are in the Laramie county *jail here in de- fault of bond. The new warrant against Wells charges him with sell- ing_a car belonging to I. A. Cable of Windsor, Colo., to R. E. Woods of ‘Cheyenne. That against Pace charges him with selling a car belonging to S. B. Huff of Greeley, Colc. to H. F. Welsh of Cheyenne. Railroad-Mining Pioneer Is Dead HIGGINSVILLE, Mo., Aug. 29.— Capt. Marcus L. Belt, 84 years of age, Pioneer mining and railroad man, died at his home here yesterday. He served in the Confederate army. LEAGUE TAKES SILESIAN PLAN Question Which Has Puzzled Ablest Dip- lomats Is Taken Under Advisement j for Treatment GENEVA, Aug. 29.—Solution of the Silesian question which has puzzled the abiest diplomats of the allied nations for many months, was taken up here today by the council of the league of nations. Viscount Ishii A. J. Balfour of Eng- land, Zeon Bourgeois of France, Paul Hymans of Belgium, Marquis Imperial of Italy, K. Wellington Koo of China, Count Quinones ds Leon of Spain, andjcouncil, has prepared a formal report Gastoa da Cunba of Brazil, all mem-|on Silesia and was veady to present bers of the council, were present. the documentary evidence placed in’ Viscount Ishif, prosident of In some quarters it was believed to- day that the council of the league would decide to refer the question to one of its members for more de- tailed treatment. There was little ex- pectation that a decision would be an- nounced for some considerable time. It was indicated today that Paul of Belgium would again bu elected presi- dent of the assembly of the league wich meets here next Monday. ‘This morning's meeting of the coun- cil was in the nature of an informal exchange of views as to procedure in the Upper Silesian question. The first point to be decided at the afternoon session was whether the council should accept the mission con- ‘idea to it by the allied supreme coun- the | his ands by the supreme allied ocuncil. cil. were to act as spies for Germany. The plan failed—why will be veverled later—and Pfunder did not join Kusel until Jong after the war was over, but they still were bound by mutual ani- mosity against the United States gov- ernment, Pfunder because it had been so instrumental in crushing his fath- erland rnd Kuse! because, as a result | of his proGerman activities during | hostilities, and while he was a resident of Sterling, Colo. it had confiscated his property And for a time detained him as an enemy allen. At Bushnell, which Pfunder reached about a month ago, he and Kusel en- couraged each the hatred for America of the other, and eventually there was born in their ‘twisted intelligences a| plot to make war against it, and at| the same time themselves profit, by | robbing banks, which institutions | Pfunder at least believed to be con-| ducted by the government. Securing | a small automobile, said to have been purchased from O'Mara Green of Den- | ver, they equipped themselves with | arms—a shotgun, rifle, automatic pi tol and revolver—explosives and camp- ing equipment and last Thursday set out for Wyoming, bent on locating a bank so situated that robbery of it, and subsequent escape, would be feas- ible. They found what’ they believed | to be a likely bank at Chugwater, 100 miles from Bushnell, and the follow- ing day attempted a robbery, with results heretofore related. Pfunder, disjointedly related, after the escape‘ from Chugwater, leaving his partner wounded in the street, hid in an eighty-acre willow thicket near the town until late Friday night. Soon after entering the thicket hé discarded his overalls and threw away a file and a key to the Kusel shop at Bushne]l. The willow jungle quickly was sur- rounded and was guarded thereafter but some time after midnight Pfunder managed to creep forth undetected. He realized the uselessness of attempt- ing to regain the automobile which he and Kusel had parked on the out- skirts of Chugwater, so got set out toward Ceyenne on foot. He had walk- ed 20 miles when, at 10 o'clock Sat- urday morning, he was picked up by a motor tourist and brought to Chey- enne. From here, he related, he walked fifteen miles toward Bushnell, then was given a lift by another mo- torist, and at about 3.15 Saturday afternoon reached Bughnell. He be- lieved himeelt safe from pursuit, but was determined to press on eastward as soon as he could change his cloth- ing, bathe his blistered feet and ob- tain food at the Kusel shop, which he entered after using a key concealed outside the place. He had been in fhe shop only a quarter of an hour when there was the sound of a Key in wung open and officers walked in and notified him he was under ar- the lock of the front door, the door rest. Later the brought him to Cheyenne, her» in the presence of Kusel he was informed of the man- ner in which he had been traced and thereafter made his confession. The key he had thrown away in the Chugwater thicket was Pfunder's undoing. It was found by Sheriff Homer Payne of Platte county. An identical key was found in Kuscl's (Continued on Page Four.) |regarding the Me: FOR MURDER O TACOMA, Wash., Aug. 29. Maude Moore, was convicted of the murder of LeRoy Harth, |Knoxville, Tenn., automobile dealer, and escaped while out on bond, ‘only to be found here after two years of liberty, was scheduled to start the return trip to Knoxville early today. IN U. &. 5 they said last night, McNew adding that “we will see to it, however, that| she does not get away from us this | time.” | William H. Stubbs, Tacoma hotel iS FACING TRIA proprictor, who married Miss Moore here, repeated last night his intention KILLING CHARGE CHE c, Wyo. trial of Horace Adams, the murder of F gin here today with Judge V. J. ‘Tid ball of the Second judicial district, Laramie,” presiding for Judge W. C “Mentzer of the First judicial district Judge Tidball later will preside for Judge Mentzer at the trial of a negro and*a Mexican. each charged with murder in the first degree. While he Is sitting here for Judge Mentzer the latter will «it for him at Rawlins. Adams, a veteran mining man, charged with murder ! the first de- ‘gree for killing Brown during a dis pute over a line fence. The state charges that the murder was deliber- ate—that Brown was shot while run- ning wway. The defense will contend that Brown, “young enough to be Adams son, was shot while attacking the old man and that Adams acted} properly in defense of his life HARRY NASH IS CONVICTED | OF MURDER (Special to fo The Tribune) CHEYENNE, Aug. 29. — Harry Nash, son of the president of Hills- dale State bank, Hillsdale, Wyo., was found guilty of murder in the second degree Sunday at Viagstaff, Ariz., ac- cording to word received here today. The jury was out 33 hours. Nash's attornvy is out of town, and sentence will be passed when he returns. It can be from 10 years to life. Nash is accused of killing Martin Schwab, a traveling man, near Flag. staff in April 1920. He was arrested after a chase lasting more than a year and covering several thousand miles. He is known throughou as a form He claimed self-defense. the: west er Frontier Days perforn motion picture actor on |the @Pacific coast. OIL COMPANY HEADS CONFER WITH MEXICO MEXICO CITY, Aug. 29.—(By The Associated Press)—The heads of five American petroleum concerns, who are to confer’ with Mexican officials an oil situation, arrived in Mexico City early this morning after an uneventful trip. Walter C. Teagte, head of the Standard Oil company of New Jer- sey and leader of the oil delegation, told The Associated Press he had nothing to say at present regarding the trip to Mexico. It is possible that the first meeting of the oll men with Adolfo de la uerta, secretary of the treasury, will take place late this afternoon. Dry Chief For Oregon Named 29.—Appoint- WASHINGTON, Aug. ment of Dr, Joseph A. Lindville of Carlton, Ore., as federal prohibition @irector for the state of Oregon, suc- ceeding Johnson S. Smith, was an- nounced jeitigas Aceon tm by Sommissioner Biair. ROAD REPORT Grant Highway—Nebraska line to Shawnee very good except at a de- tour at Keeline. Shawnee \to Orin, fair. Yellowstone Highway—Platte coun- ty line to Douglas fair, to good. Doug: las to Glenrock good. Glenrock to Casper fair. Casper west to Shoshoni and Bonneville good. Cars in. proper condition and not overcloaded have no} trouble over the Birdseye Pass route| © between Bonneville and Thermopolis. ‘Thermopolis to the park is generally good. Shoshoni-Lander Road—Good ex- cept ‘somewhat rough between River- ‘| British Inquiry | guarantee fucd was called upon BONDSMEN TAKE MAUD MOORE IN CUSTODY TO FACE TRIAL F TENNESSEEAN —Mrs. Helen Stubbs, who as Having waived extradition proceed: ings she will go to @ the retrial; she had been granted disappeared. Robert E. + Bae Boring and Edward’ Mo-| Knoxville businessmen, who had | furnished $10,000 bonds, and stood to| lose that amount had Mrs. Stubbs uot been located by September 1, will form her guard. The prisoner will not be handcuffed, ia to stand by his wife, stating that he would follow her to Knoxville later. Mrs. Stubbs reiterated her belicf that she would be freed of the charge| at her next trial. | ——_— Balloon Disaster Held in Secrecy HULL England, Aug. 29.—(By Th Associated Press)—Salvaging opera tions on the wrecked ZR-2 were con- tinued todayi No more bodies .were found up to mid-day but the pile of recovered wreckage on the quay in the Humber increased continually, while crowds on the waterfront still kept vigil near the scene of last week's| dirigible disaster. will be he’? this after. recovered in An inquest @eon over the recently bodies, The official government auiry at Howden was continued to behind closed doors > Government Delays Flood Protection WASHINGTON, Aug. 29—Improve ment by federal government of the! Brazos river and its tributaries in Texas to provide adequate protection from flood is inadvisable at present, according to the report of the army engineers transmitted today con. gress by Secretary Weeks. “No general works for flood protec: tion on the Brazos river and its trib- utaries are feasible at this time,” the report stated, they would afford no prospects of suf to ficient benefit to navigation to war. rant co-operation by the States,” cieahe™s >, SEE FIRE FIGHTERS | SAVE PRAIRIES * DOUGLAS, Wyo. Aus. Fire fighters who hurried from Douglas in automobiles checkéd a prairie fire in the Walker Creek distric northeast of town, after it had burned over 18 square miles. ° An automobile owned by Herbert Neal was caught by the flames and destroyed. The fire was diverted around the place after it had approached within a few hun dred feet of the ranch home of Paul LeBar, The flames swept grass and fences from an area three miles wide and six miles long. Abscending Bank | BLAIR, Neb., Aug. H. Claridge, former president the banking house of A. Castetter of Blair, which was found to have failed following his disappearance last Feb ruary, surrendered today and was re leased on bond. He is charged with| taking funds from the bank and loan- ing them to himself. The state bank for —Fred of about meet the losses. $700,000. to Strewn literally a vast sepulchre of th in nameless graes—victims of mas: sacre by the Turks in summer of 1919. The broken columns of a thousand ton and Hudson. Casper-Sheridan Road—Casper to twenty miles north, somewhat rough, | then good to Sait Creek. Salt Creek} to Johnson county line fair. shattered homes are the nesses of the martyrdom of the popu-| lation. | Although two years have passed| at the time she |, lavecestaston Kin-| dles Flames of FANATICAL ¥ mn Combus, “les; Sit- SWEEP| uation l. Grave} BERLIN Aug: —(By} The Associated Pre =Po- litical conditions in Gt % \ny which during the pas 3 w days have assumed a & aspect, were considered by cabinet sided ¢ called on Sat ef rout National conven already fixed, would promptly attack b overnment because of its a nee of paragraph 231 of eaty, by which Gi ny and her al accepted responsibility for th fication of the treaty, however, is Lelieved to be certain in the reich steg through the votes of the t coalition parties and the lists, whic 469 in the agic dea votes ng waged with inc gans. ing Zeitung Presi ling t res h con in the ime Herr the I for libel becau r, the and cabinet a serio the supposed journalistic et Ebert } wh such dent us predic of the Indeper and 27 re! mstag venom clerical rout e it in oft organ the IRISH PEACE DELEGATESIN DUBLIN AGAIN DI ciated Trish the ing they ing to an greeting was direct fr nothing could be expected ri the reply of the ter Lioyd G cation until 1 “and even if they were/and probably unt SHOOTT boribing occu! street and Belfast, are to patrol bullet wou hospital, one in the back along during the! dinner and it was necessary to send armored Two cases Mansion House here today the country wh but accord no formal It was stated tha’ rding om spent the week-end, offielal report, held eor! G a United BRI AKS OUT IHN BEL! . 29.—Shooting and North Queens road, hour today Aug. rred in N theelor nd cf binet to Prim 's latest communi the earliest of gathered at inesday. ew Lodge lity. at BALL SCORES National League At Brooklyn Pittsburgh Brooklyn Batteries — Cooper Ruether and At Boston— Cincinnati Boston Batteries — Officer Gives Up Quillan, Morga: 900 00 R. HL E 00 000—O 4 000 000 001— 1 6 situatio dent fight over the | berger is be-| com- shot and Schmidt; “IN DISTURBANGE Hundreds of Insurgent | Bands Killed in Tilts aC :} With British Forces in Effort Quell Outbreak n! LONDON, Aug. | The Associated Press.)—Re- | ports from the revolutionary area of Malabar, British India, indicating that British troops and cavalry had arrived there, t led to the belief that the uprising alth | the sorted poten Id ugh ni | MASKACRE OF EUROPEANS | ORDERED BY NATION. | CALICUT, India, Av out of} Associated Press.}—Nearly 700 mem jbers of the Insurgent bands which e been creating djsorders in the |district south and southeast of this in| city, have bi killed in fights with tsh f the up. sing, § have been killed, w 72 m regiment and 17 missing. Many massacred lan troops are being sent south ward from Cannanore Tt is reported the insurgents have destroyed bridges and felled trees across roads to obstruct troop move ments. Bluejackets and marines from warship Comus have been Is British troops, includ’ n of the Leinster native policemen aro Hindus hag} been the nded here. rived here from F Sunday proceeded to the disturbed area | Numerous reft who have ar |rived here from the Ernad district relate pitiful tales torture and looting. Te appears the rebels have deserted tenur and | have taken to the hills. The trouble in Malabar arises, it is ed. primarfly from rigorous fanatl- ¢'sm and from the intense hatred of |the ‘Moplahs, or Mohammedans of Arab descent, for Europeans and Hin other places and re 8S BARB ARIA Of. politicn t nothing as know they are virtual barbarians but the religious torch will always stir them to bloodshed as they live mainly for their religion and are willing ‘to’ die for it. Self-torture !s not uncommon among the Moplahs in the hope that they will thus arrive in heaven and they believe t death on the battle- field is the sure road after, Close observers here of ss the be to a happy here- Indian af- lef that the up- a is in part due to the wide aganda of native In- lonalists. To this agitation has been wrongs done Turkey and the Caliphate added reports of gre t by the treaty of Sevres. The situation for isolated Europeons and Hindus in the Malabar region is the Moplahs in the past at nothing in their fren- zied hatred. At the time of the pro- Jected uprising in the Punjab at the outbreak of the war some of the mo blooded cuments were is: 1 g how Eu ns were to be 0] terminated to last" person. lahs for the The equipment of the Mop! Miller. fghting consists largely of two edged . swords, extremely heavy and sharp R. H. E.|s razors and catapults, with a sprink- 40 031 002—10 1% 3| ling of antiquated muzzle loading 006 200.200— 4 rifles. It is reported, however, that Rixey and Wing they obtained considerable arms and o, Braxton and.( ammunition in recent looting and through the treachery of some of the At New York— Chicago .. New bole Batt an Killeter; Smith. im T. President home here. Mrs bank’s;band moved here Dude Ha from Ma Valleys -.203 001 001— 7 ae 002 21° ‘Toney At rding Dud Ohio. AIDIN, Asia Minor, Aug. 10.—(By The Associated Pres —One of the saddest and most tragic of all war memorial the Near East is the ruined city of Aidin, 60 miles southeas Smyrna, in the great fig-growing district of Asia Minor. R. H. E.| native police and former native sold- 12 @|iers in the British army 81 UMass Sk Jones, York ley ut 15 yet allee, Shea and her and her hus. ago More Courageous of Brave Population Returns to Dark and Debris- nocent Greek and Armenian women, children and priests lie Near-Beer Explodes Victim Breaks Arm Aug. 29.—White wh arm. W oken he keg exploded, s right when in two place: blowing out the head TURKISH ATROCITIES TURN RICH LAND TO CRAVE YARD 1 to be ders of en on the unfor ed and cour have ned to the deso! in th living former and de h wom ing move like tell a story of br ish. Some of son It is}. A group of Greek government offi e dead. Here hundreds of in- Athens recently visited Ince they were sacrificed PARIS. ili © ooctipe tina stone, no cross, now: Be aricirtnben OIC ae place where they fel jot Brusa, Asia Minor, whose capture ictims were burned to death. Their snind bonaei tara atnart=oC stn crumbling masonry and earth. The oppressive urch of the metrop