Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 22, 1921, Page 1

SENATE FIGHT O ‘AX BILL RENEW INAL DECISION £07 REELOT sams IDMEETING PLAI wnOhe Casper Daily FPORT 1S OU Opening of the Debate is Featured by Disorder, - Claim WASHINGTON, Nov. 22. —Disorder marked the begin- ning today of senate consider- ation of the conference report on the tax bill, the climax be- ing reached in the unusual procedure of expunging senatorial re- marks from the record. ‘The words stricken out were con- tained in @ verbal clash between Sena- tors Penrose, Republican, Pennsylve- nia and Heflin, Democrat, Alabama, im which Mr, Penrose referred to the “black darkness of the state” repre- sented by Mr, Heflin and Heflin, the Alabama senator characterized Mr. “WABHINGTON, Nov. 22,—Bearing the stamp of house approval by the overwhelming majority of 232 to 109, tomorrow night. ° Pertumes, ‘seette proprietary medicines—$6,000,000. Parcel post stamp taxes—$20,000,- 009. Surety bond stamp taxes—}2,000,- 000. Art ‘works—$700,000. Electric fans—$300,000. ‘Thermos bottles—$200,000. Total $835,200,000. TEUTONS TO RENEW BIG GYM FETE NEW YORK, Nov. 22.—Revival of the. German gymnastic carnival, an annual sporting event in New York before the war, will be effected to- morrow night ty metropolitan turn- verein stars in the amateur athletic union's indoor meet at Madison Square Garden. Among the perform- Gen. Charles Bruce, who is well acquainted with the region, has accepted leader- ship for next year of the expedition which will-attempt to reach the sum: mit of Mount Everest, in the Hima- layas, the highest peak in the world. Weather Forecast er in northeast —_——————————— ‘Unhettied weather with snow or rain in north portion tonight and in west and north portions Wednesday; warm- portion. VOLUME Vi SNIPER AIDS FI CASPER, GHTERS Hospitals; Seventeen Prisoners in Irish Jail Refuse Food : BELFAST, Noy. 22.— (By The Associated Press.) —Gun- men resumed their sniping under cover of a mist which blan- keted the city early today, area, ing broke out Sunday to four. Being treated in the hospitals. negotiations Peate until the question of prisoners is ad- Justed. Denver, Nov. 22.—Mrs. Lena Gil. bert, 25, died at the county hospital today of a gunshot wound inflicted the night of October 31, last, at her he here, Her husband, Samuel L. Guldert has been held on a charge of assault to kill. Mediation Plan | In Greeco-Turk Dispute Ready CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 22.—(By The Associated Press).—The British government has prepared a mediation plan which will be laid before the gov- ernments of both Greece and the Turk- ish Nationalists after she return from mier Briand of France, according to a message received by the sublime porte from the Turkish charge d’Affairs in London. lin September of Miss Virginia . NOTED SOPRANO OF OPERA DEAD COPENHAGEN, Nov. 22— (By The Associated. Press)—Christine Nilsson, the noted operatic soprano, died here this morning. Christine Nilsson was one of the ss eee i Called stage of a ago. by many the “second Swedish night- ingale,” as @ fit-successor to the marvelous Jenny Lind, sle won triumph after triumph in the. fa mous lyric roles of her day, both im Europe and America, a frequent visitor to this from 1870 to the thne of her retire- mont in 1891. ~ ° Born in Stockholm fn 1843, she made her debut in Paris in 1864, as Violetta in “Traviata.” Mme. Nilsson married August Rouzeaud of Paris. in 1872. He died ten years later and in 1887 she mar- ried Count Casa Di Miranda, The pedestrian who was wounded yesterday, tat during the night. These deaths bring the total since the riot- a ithe Washington conference pf Pre,! Several wounded persons are which the city council last n States reclamation ‘service. Casper has had sufficient | time as proper # formal contract could ‘be prepared and signed by all parties. The néw contract. is of five years duration and supplants the temporary relief granted the city last spring, , when a committee of the chamber of commerce secured the release of 15 ‘second feet of water to méet the re- | quirements here. This marks a change in the attitude of the reclamation service. Formerly that bureau took the attitude that all the water that con!d be stored In the Pathfinder dam was required for the irrigation purposes for which it was jerected. Casper was given only the water which gathered in the shed be- tween here and the dam during the winter months. . Storing of the water all winter of- times caused Casper to suffer slightly by the high water during the spring months. The release of 15 second feet of water should result beneficially to the elty and its industries here. MOTHER KILLS LAD AND TAKES _ HER OWN LIFE TRWIN, Iowa, Nov. 22—Mrs. Dye Leretter, 38 years of age, wife of a farmer living near Irwin, yesterday killed thelr sevtn-yea-old son and then committed suicide. The double tragedy was pot discovered until the’) husband retu®fed from the corn field. The women is believed to have been violently insane, = PROSECUTION IS NEAR REST SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 22.—The details of the fatal visit Rappe, motion picture actress, jto San Francisco, from Los Angeles, were related today by Alfred Semnacher, manager for Miss Rappe, in the man- slaughter trial of Roscoe C. (Fatty) Arbuckle. death, following a party in the Hotel St. Francis attended by Miss Rappe’s Semnacher and others, was made the basis of the charge against Arbuckle. The prosecution announced that it would probably rest its case today. Semnecher said he brought Miss Rappe and Mrs,,Bambina Maude Del- mont, a mutual friend, to San Fran- cisco, in his automobile September 1 and that they attended the party to- gether September 5. ~ He testified to the finding of Miss Rappe in Arbuckle’s room apparently in a dying condition after she had been alone for @ time with Arbuckle. He met Arbuckle the next day, he said, and “all said we believed Miss Rappe was intoxicated.” Semnacher | refused to repeat a word he said was used by Arbuckle in relation to the attempts by guests of the party to (Continued on Page 7.) operating requirements-durin; 4 {to the operation‘of-a temporary contract WYO., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1921. FOUR SLAIN BY S, MIST MEXICAN BAND AMERICAN CAPTIVES FREED BY TO OBTAIN RANSOM, ISREPORT WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.—Four Americans werg cap- Criluuwe |, |: ITS ON FAILURE tured late yesterday by Mexican bandits at Santa Eulalia, 22 jmiles from Chihuahua, the state department was advised Open Statement of U. S. Delegates Is Key to Study of Nations’ Views WASHINGTON, Nov. 22. (By The Associated Press.) — jinions have been ex- changed delegates with such unprece- dented directness that with the conference only 16 days old, some of the experienced diplomatists here believe they can see, almost with ; Precision, what it will and will not ‘be possible to accomplish. Following the example of the Amer- ican delegation in laying down & sweeping naval reduction proposal at the opening session, tives of the other powers have put aside almost without exception the diplomatic indirection that usually be- fogs such negotiations and have re versed the dictum of Tallyrand that language is given to diplomata “to conceal their thoughts.” With the respective heads of the American, British and Japanese dele- gations working in direct personal conference almost daily on the naval reduction plan, there are Indications today. After being held for ransom, the party was released |th@t an agreement on all but details coming. Thosé captured were: Edgar Butts, & mining engineer of the American Smelting and Refining company and his wife; Willard Bénham, another em- ploye of the American Smelting and Refining company, and Miss Mary Long, daughter of a former American consular agent at Parral. Shortly after the Americans had been released by the bandits, Oscar kill a ‘Trevino, a Mexican mine owner wns ling a man in the York re captured by the same bandits -and|ten perished today ina fire which ‘or released by them on the pay-| swept through a playhouse. ent of $5,000 ransome, the Gepart- ment also was advised. water for Pu purposes during ‘at the end of a four-hour period when no ransom was forth- S-ccaaemengeaale Sam ot ieee Other Victims of Belfast. Disorders in, 12 PERISH IN HAMBURG FIRE HAMBURG, Nov. 22.—Twelve child- ‘Thirty others were injured. WATER CONTRACT IS : AUTHORIZED BY CITY Casper, the refineries here and other institutions are guaranteed sufficient water for the‘ winter months according to the terms of a new.contract it authorized Mayor Pelton to enter into with the United the past year, but that w: ‘aS due’ ,,; the United States department, until such is near at hand. In the same way, the readiness of all the nations to commit themselves to general prin- ciples relating to the Far East, and the outspoken objection of Japan to | discussing details of that — situation, }seem to have quickened a conviction that adoption of a set of principles like the four agreed upon yesterday will be the outcome of the Far Fast- ern end of the negotiations. In addition, the whole question of |land armament appears to have been | pretty well settled by the frank pre- sentation of the case of France de- livered in yesterday’s plenary session by Premier Briand. | teere remndas: the important ques- |tion of fortifications on which there has been no expression, but which may come to the fore when the de- Mneation of principles regarding the Far East have gone as far as seems possible. 4 Consideration of the Far Bastern problems was renewed today by the delegates of the nine nations, sitting again as @ committee of the whole, with the hope that further general principles could be {incorporated in the agreement reached yesterday. |. Tn the, main, the discussiois. ere | following the lines of the “ten points” suggestion hy, China, whose delegates are confident that in the end most of these points will have been translated jinto actual agreernents on polly, All the present indications point to “understanding,” rather than a (Continued on Page 12) MRS. OBENCHAIN DENIED TRIAL AS ARTHUR BURCH IS ARRAIGNED IN COURT Detense of Man Charged With Death of J. Belton Kennedy Based on Insanity; Jury Being Selected, Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, Nov. 2 ‘ 2.—The trial of Arthur C. Burch, indicted on a charge of the murder of J. Belton Kennedy, | began today in the superior court after a motion to try Mrs. Madalynne Obenchain, Burch's co-defendant, had been de- nied. Drawing of a jury started at once. case was continued until tomorrow, meant it would be continued from day to day, to follow the Burch trial. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 22.—Insanity is the defense offered by counsel for Arthur C. Burch, indicted jointly with Mrs. Madalfnne Obenchain for the alleged murder of. J. Belton Ken- nedy. When counsel secured a continu: ance of Burch’s trial to. November 22 in order to prepare this defense, they made the additional statement, in af- fidavit form, that they did hot be- leve Burch killed Kennedy, which the} prosecution contends he did’at-the in stigation of Mrs. Obenchain. Kennedy was shot to death on the night of August 6 Inst while etand- ing in front sof a cottage owned by him at Beverly Glen, a residential suburb. She told the police “two for- eign looking-men"- jumped from some shrubbery and one of them fired two| shots from @ shotgun, one of which struck her companion in the back of the neck. Then they disappeared. District Attorney Thomas Lee Woolwine’s investigators reported that’ Mrs: Obenchain, who had di- voreed her husband, Ralph R. Oben- chain of Chicago, had besought Ken- nedy ‘to marry her, and failing to do so had wired Burch to come to Los} Angeles from Chicago, Burch did so, and lett Los Angeles for the east the morning after Kennedy was shot. He Mrs. Obenchain’s which attorneys said Was arrested at Las Vegas, Nev., and brought back to this city. Later it was announced by the in- vestigators there was evidence Burch had been out on the night of the ing on an unexpiained mission, had carried a long object wrapped in newspapers from the hotel where he! this} was registered. His rooias-in hotel overlooked! the office of Kennedy on the opposite side of Broadway, Los Angeles’ principal business street. Another discovery claimed was that (Continued on Page 7.) Investigation of Film Actress’ Death Ordered Nov. LOS ANGELES, authorities here planned to invest!- gate today the death of the Coun- tess Du Cella, 45, film actress, who was found dead in her apartments 22.—The Sunday night. The investigation, it was stated, would focus about empty phials ea°S by the police to have been found near tho body, The countess was the wife of H. C. | Bunting of Buffalo, N. ¥. | a BRITISH SOCIALIST DEAD. LONDON, Nov. 22.—(By The Asso- ciated Press)}—Henry M. Hyndman, ‘aged 79 years. the representa- | hye, FINAL RESULTS OF ARMAMENT N TO EXPERTS HEAVY FINES ASSESSED IN BOOZE CASES Defendants A:raigned in Court Monday Evening Fail-to Inabi Taking the positio. whisky are guilty of a se. night disposed of a numh aviest penalties which h im Casper of this kind. The fines imposed in a nt osts and in each caso was thé equi alent of @ 14 months’ sentence\in th County jail because none of the con\ fvicted men were able to pay their fines and they must serve out the fine Bt the rate of $1.00 a day. Chas. Reid and Albert Butcher, both arrested hy Deputy Sheriffs Devlin and Hurt, pleaded guilty and were each fined $300 and costs of the ac- tion, The charge on which they were fined wan bootlegging. F. C. Ward pleaded guilty to boot- legging and was fined $400. He was arrested by H. L. Seidel George Monroe was convicted of transporting and selling Iquor and fined $300. Hr. ts also sald to be one of the operators of a still which was confiscated by Sheriff Joe L. Mar- quis and Deputy Sheriff Miskell. R. J. Emery “who was arrested tn Deer Creek Park by Sheriff Marquis and Deputy John Powert, charged with the operation of a still was fined $400 and costs. “Guy Nelce recently arrested for op- erating a still about 12 miles west of Casper was fined $400. All of the men convicted were re- manded to the custody of Sheriff Joo L. Marquis to serve out thelr fines until such time as they pay what the court had imposed. In sentencing the men Judge Brown paid: “The court can take no other view of such cases but they are heinous crimes and closely approximate the murier charge. This view is taken € cause blindness and even death.” ee an Finance Crisis Is Passed for PEKING, Nov. 22.—The financial crisis which threatened the stability of the government has been averted temporarily through remittances from provincial military governors totalling 7,000,000 tala. supporting the government banks by transferring their personal funds to Peking, and os a result notes ere again negotiable. ! Dr. Sun Yat Sen, head of the Can- ton government, Is not preasing his campaign to the north, which it 1s thought here may possibly have been abandoned, owing to the failure of Gen. Chen Cheung-Min to join the Canton army. Polish Forces Number 200,000 NEW YORK, Nov. 2:—The Polish |eonsulate today announced in con- |neetion with the discussion in the | Washington conference on land arma- ments that Poland’s army now num- bers 220,000 men. This force, it was added, was to be compared with a prominent Socialist, died here today,|Rutsian Bolsheyist army of 550,000! men. VIOLATORS WILL BE PLACED UNDER BONDS > A novel and effective means of combatting vice in Casper was put into effect by Judge C. O. Brown yesterday at the final hearing of the injunction actions against institutions |tiontsts” apparently having a pacify: which permitted gambling in various parts of Casper. In each of the cases which came before Judge Brown yesterday he announced that the SEVEN H ELD FOR LEITER ROBBERY FAIRFAX, Va., Nov. F 3 Weeks ago; Leroy Connors, another, is understood to have been there last night. Belloved by county authoritics to have been the biggest liquor theft of the prohibition area, the Leiter robbery was carried out with the aid of motor trucks used to carry the Hquor away after access to the wine cellar had been gained by burning through a steel door with an acetylene torch. It was commit- ted in the temporary absence of the caretaker. ‘ Before passing the decision of the court he asked each of the defendants in turn if they had anything to say. When each pleaded that if the abate- ment law was not operative that they would provide bond to insure that gambling or other law violations would not henceforth be allowed to operate in the place, Judge Brown placed each defendant including the owners of the building and the ten- ants under $1,000 bond. Tn future conviction of any kind of law violation will result in the bond of the tenants and the owners of the bufldings to be forfeited to the state, ® permanent injunction will be is- sued against the opening of the build- ing and the property will be abated for a period’ of.one year and sold if |tiecessary to pay the Gosts of the jcourt action. The individuals which came under the terms of this effective curb on vice % |permanent injunction, which would mean that the property was to be abated and sealed up ‘for a period of one year, was effective. inelude: Joe Wilson, (Contin: éorge Benaruf and on Page 7.) | ST. LOUIS, Nov. 22—A neighbor of Miss Agnes Aubuchon, whose fiance, Francis Feo, was found slain yesterday on a lot in the outskirts of this city, today was being held in Jail followiny the statement of the girl that the suspect had vis- ited her a few hours before her | fiance had called on her Sunday night. Bloodhounds put on a trail last from the report of the government that less than two per cent of the Nquor crudely manufactured will not Time in China Win' Clemency on to Pay Fines xt manufacturers of bovtleg crime, Judge C. O. Brown last bootleg cases by imposing the yet inflicted for punishment of cases totalled $400 and WOUNDS TWO, CUTS THROAT WITH RAZOR MEMPHIS, Ter ard Bhelley, gars fired five shots at his w @ brother and his sist ing his wife and threw the empty pisto er, striking him on the head. ley then ran into an adjoining room and cut his throat with a razor, dying as he was being taken to a hospitah Shelley, police say, became temporar- iy insa: MORE RIOTING IN EGYPT MAY. BE EXPECTED LONDON, Nov. 22.—(By The Asso- elated Press).—Although British of- ficial circles decline to comment on the’ termination of negotiations with the Egyptian delegation until Aolly Yeghen Pasha, head of the delegation, reports to the sultan, it was learned authoritatively today that the dolega---s tion departed for Cairo Saturday con- vineed of its fatiure and anticipating the return of unrest and internal dis- orders in Egypt when results of the London negotiations are announced. The reason for the failure of the’ne- gotidtions is ascribed by some critics to unwillingness of the foreign office to carry out recommendations made by Lord Milner, former colonia! sec- retary, who urged that “the promise of self-government cannot be postponed." TEACHER HIT BY SPEEDER TO DIE, IS BELIEF DURANGO, Colo., Nov. 22,—Miss Hilda Walter, school teacher, at Grif- |fith, near here, was run down and | perhaps fatally injured yesterday by a |motocyclist. She was hurled 20 feet, facturing her skull, collar bone and several ribs. The accident occurred when Miss Walters was in the road and had just assisted two children to mount a farmer’s hay wagon. ‘Reports From | Bombay Conflict LONDON, Nov. 22.—(By The Asso: |elated Press)—Owing to the difference in time and telegraphic delays, ths dates of happenings in connection |with the Prince of Wales’ tour of In: [dia are somewhat muddled in ‘the ad- | Vices reaching here. | Official messages and some press dis: Patches represent everything as quiet |in Bombay on Monday. A Reuter's High civil officers are item from Bombay, however, says jthat rioting was renewed there on |Monday, two Parsee temples being [burned and others attacked. Soma |shooting {s said to have occurred but no casunities were reported. Quiet was restored by night, the dispatch adds, and an appeal by Mahatma Candhi, leader of the “nonco-opera ing effect. It seems from thee dispatches that the Prince of Wales visited Poona, {ri Bombay province on Sunday, returns ing on Monday to Bombay’ where hé attended a number of public functions as guest of honor and was recetved with enthusiasm, SUSPECT SEIZED IN MURDER CASE night led police officers to the pris- oner’s home, @ few doors from that, of the girl. The body of the slain man was found a cinder path leading through # vacant lot near the home of his flancee. Police disregarded robbery as the motive of the crime and began working on the theory. that the young man had met deathy at the hands of a jealous suitor, , si EE. the and @ Sevvevevevwetereerevereteert ree tive terriers trevor y Bi i an were NE AS 7 EE 52 539-95500309 90990230 9000FF PPP IEDITOEDDED EE PEOEPS DDE DELS