Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 23, 1921, Page 1

> The Canper Baily Weather Forecast Gnow this afternoon, tonight and probably Saturday; colder Saturday and in extreme north portion tonight. VOLUME VI AREY 1S WILLING CASPER, WYO., AY, DECEMBER 23, 1921. TO ISSUE GALL FOR SESSION IF MD 1§ POSSIBLE Ef Pal z SEutg fife 3ef | i whee jel sbeneadisd rigation districts. ‘The association will transmit the result of its canvass to Governor Carey, who has under consideration proposals from numerous sources that be convened in extra Saree that relief must be provided for farmers if they were to be pre- vented from ‘aligning with the Non- Partisan league. > ANACONDA ISSUE. NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—The Ana- Observance of RE z | selves. A. E. Brown, Jack H. Weddell and Charles F. Miskel, two bandits in a gun duel as the latter were trying to rob a jthemselves as officers under dangerous circumstances. them of any responsibility for the death of the two men, in only when they had to defend them-jloaded guns, to-wit: By firing with intent to kill and murder the said by Sunday school wor! MAYOR HYLAN FACES ARREST NEW YORE, Deo. 23——Mayor Hy- Jan and other members of the board .|of estimate of this city face a jail sen- <|tence for contempt of court unless they provide in the city budget, not later than December 25, some $3,000,- 000 for pension funds which is made tion of the neglected items. —_———s «|Warm Weather tor Christmas WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—Warmer weather with rain promised today to destroy hopes of snow for Christmas over all of the eastern half of the country except the extreme northern states. West of the Mississippi river at|where there is snow, it probably will remain, for reports to the weather the/bureau from that territory said no thawing weather was expected be- Christmas. Seen in East Sunday Schools to Include Many Programs for Children Beginning with programs toni expression of the Christmas sp’ Observance of the day will be -|music having been arranged f i} At the Presbyterian tabernacle, Sixth and: Durbin, the program to- night will feature a chorus of 100 Voloes, folk songs in Dutch costume, \e fajty drill and dramatization of the , Story of Christ. Three Christmas|? jtrees will add to the beauty of the decorations. Sante Claus will be pres- ent with his Dutch mill and Brownies, and will have something. for every Member of the school. Baptist. The Baptist church ts giving a Christmas program tonight, beginning @t 7:30, There will be a tree and a regular Santa Claus. All the depart- ments of the Sunday school have con- tributed toward the provision of gifts for unfortunates. The program fol- ----—--. -Rev. C. M. Thompson, Jr. Dialogue__James Speck, Virginia Witz (Continued on Page 7.) SHERIDAN, Wyo., Dec. 23.— How high above her anskles should & lady permit her skirts to stray at a card party attended by male guests is an issue in a divorce ac: tion filed here by William H. Goodil, a wealthy ranchman of Banner, Wyo.,. who. charges his charming young bride—formerly his stenographer—to whom he was married January 27, 1921, at Har- din, Mont., with “gross and Iicen- tious conduct.” Mrs. Goodil retorts with a denial of all her husband's charges and a earieasecnd Aes sap @ithough wealthy, he has OPERATOR WHO AIFLED BAGGAGE [5 SENTENCED W. D. Loman, formerly employed as operator for the Frannie, Wyo., who was recently ar- rested by Frank Lee, chief special agent of the Burlington on this divis- jon, on @ charge of having rifled the baggage of Leo T. Spence, Billings, Mont., millionaire, pleaded guilty to the charge early this week when rafgned before Judge Percy Metz at Cody and was sentenced to serve a sentence of one year to one year and six month. Frank Lee returned here Burlington at! yesterday from Cody where he ap-|an peared as a state witness during the hearing of several railroad cases. DAIL’S ACTION IS ight of the Baptist and Presbyterian denominations, fall irit will hold forth over Sunday in the churches of Casper. general on Sunday in scriptural reference and songs, special wm 2 ‘or both morning and evening services, morrow suc! Mepis as emphasize the gift giving phase of the season will be presented and this evening and PUBLIC EXCLUDED FROM TRIAL HEALER IS ARRAIGNED AT CODY CODY, Wyo., Dee. 23.—Testimony offered Thursday, the opening day, in the trial of “Prof.” T. G. Day, “faith healer,” on a charge of hav- ing procured from Mrs. Disie‘Shoup | of Metestse, Wyo., $47.50 on the’ false pretense that he could effect an immediate cure of a rupture, was of such a character that Judge P, W. Metz excluded spectators from the court room. Conduct said to have been attributed to Day by Mrs. Shoup in her testimony was in no way associated with “divine heal- ing” as the term generally is un- A HIKED SKIRTS TO SHOW KNEES, WEALTHY HUBBY SAYS IN DIVORCE PLEA stingy 4 their’ married asso- ciation that he has given her only $28 since their wedding day. Goodil in his petition ssserts that Mrs. Goodil wore dresses with necks too low and skirts too high. On several occasions while she was at- tending card parties, he alleges, she displayed her limbs to above the knees, this, he charges, being inten- tional and for the edification of cer- tain persons of masculine sex who Were guests at the parties. Mrs. Goodil asserts that Goody is worth at least $250,000. She asks alimony of $416.67 a month. Disturbance by Unemployed In London Says LONDON, Dec. 23—(By The Asso- ciated Press)—An extremist group of the unemployed in London was de- clared in an announcement by Scot- land Yard today to be planning to cre- ate a disturbance today or tomorrow in tae West End of London. The West End is London's fashionable shopping district, which is crowded these days with Christmas shoppers and {s frequented by numbers of the unemployed who are soliciting money from the holiday buyers. HELD FAVORABLE a Walaoment Taken Yesterday Will Pro- mote Ratification of Treaty, Both : Dublin and London Advices Say » LONDON, Dec. 28.—(By The Associated Press.)—The Dail Eireann’s adjournment of further debate on the Irish peace treaty until January 3, herz was cousidered tion. By agreement. although coming as a surprise as favorable to the chances for ratifica- between the contending factions, the} Dail members will deliver no speeches touching on the treaty during the period of adjournment, nor participate in public meetings at which the treaty is discussed, but it is believed the Irish people will get together and agitate for ratificstion. Various agricultural and business} s ascociations and civic bodies in Ire- wand are said to be planning meetings to pass resolutions favoring the treaty. The English newspaper correspond- ents in Dublin emphasized the import- ance of the speech of Richard Mul- cahy, chief of staff of the Irish Repub- Mean armpy, in the Dail yesterday in which he advocated acceptance of the treaty. They though that his support, together with that of such fighting men as Michael Collins and J. J. Mc- ‘Keown, assured the adhesion of the Republican army throughout the country. LONDON, Dec. 23.—(By The Asso- ciated Press.)--The adjournment of the Dail Eireann and the delay in a vote on the Angio-Irish treaty is edi- torially commented on today by the Evening Standard as possibly advan- tageaus to the supporters of the treaty and at any rate not unwelcome to the ratificationists. De Valera opposed the adjournment h ‘we may perhaps assume that the vote of 77 to 44 with which it was car- ried is a rough index of the ratio of strength between himself and his op- ponents.”” DUBLIN ALSO SEES SUPPORT FOR PACT. DUBLIN, Dec. 23. —(By The Asso- elated Press.}— Ths decision of the Dial Elreann to adjourn until Janu- ary 2 was commented upon by all the Dublin newspapers today as favorable to the chances of the Anglo-Irish treaty's ratification. A note of regret is_struck by the commentators, how- ever. over the fact that the adjourn- ment postpones thp prospect of the The Pall Mall Gazette an@ Globe|realese of the convicted political pris- in its comment says that since Mr.joners, which is expected to follow rat ifcation of the treaty. The verdict which was returned by| deputy sheriffs who were attempting Harry Adams, J. F. Crawford, and/to arrest George Boche and John Doe Honry C. Posey, after an extensive) for holding up and attempting to rob |hearing of the case, follows: |Small and Willis, and to steal the “That the cause of the death of the| property of Small; and were at that said George Otto Boche and John Doe|time and under said circumstances was the direct result of the deceased| justifiably killed by the deputy George Otto Hoche and John Doe) sheriffs in the course of their official holding up M. L. Small and Jullus|duty in attempting to make the ar Willis in the grocery store owned by| rests.” the M. L. Small, located at 446 South) Joe Doe ts the name set forth in the Oak street, at 9.15 o'clock p. m., on|verdict for one of the bandits who December 21, when three deputy/has not yet been fully identified. It sheriffs from the sheriff's office, at-|is thought that his name is J. 8. tempted to arrest George Otto Boche) I) own but it is also officially believed and John Dos, George Boche and/iere that this name is an assumed John Doe resisting arrect and crim-|uliar and not the doceased's real name. inally assaulting the officers with) Nearly all of the persons who were leye witnesses to the shooting appear- ed witnesses at the inqgurst. M L.. 1 the proprietor of the grocery st.re at 446 South Oak sticet was (h+ {first to testify. Hn related his re ¢/.urn to his store about 8:00 o'clock Weonesday night and cf his notifica tin by deputy steriff's that a hold: |up would soon be staged at his store. |He then related his version of the | shorting saying thet the officers were fired upon by th. banilits and that even then the off: ers delayed firing unul Charles F. Miskel one of thelr nutuber had commu the bandits te ctick up thelr hands. J. K. Willis, pecvrietor of the meat ms: ket which is scnducte4 tn the gre- cery store, and one of the men who was injured in the gun duel related @ prominent citizen, has been dis- | tle position of the sheriff's force anJ missed because of lack of evidence |of the bandits. Ho said that he was to corroborate the child's story. Two |standing directly between the bani other criminal charges, in addition .|and Charles F. Miskel when Loth cx- to the Shdup chargé, remain to be |changed shots. He said that he be- disposed of, however. (Continued on Page 14) Gerstood, and was of such a char acter that Mrs. Shoup’s husband, Deputy Sheriff Wilford Shoup, after he had arrested, Day at Meteectse “beat him up” with the butt of a revolver. A case against Day involving an alleged criminal assault on a 15- year-old Meteetse girl, daughter of U.S. RADICALS TO COMBINE |\“Workers Party of America” to Include . All Revolutionary Elements in Country; Convention Meets NEW -YORK, Dec. 28.—Unification of all revolutionary elements in the ranks of America’s workers was contem- plated by radical delegates gathered here today for a con- vention called for the announced purpose of organizing “the Workers’ Party of America.” It was semi-officially declared these elements might,be defined as “those accepting the leadership of the Third ‘Communist’ Internationale in the struggle to ¢s- tablish, an American workers’ repub-| lc.”" It was expected that representa- tives of the following organizations would be present during the conven- tion, which will close Monday: The American Labor alliance, the Workers’ Council of the United States of America, the Jewish Social federa- tion, ‘the German Workers’ Educa- tional society, the Finnish Socialist federation, the Jewish Workers’ fed- eration, the Scandinavian Socialist federation, the Greek Socialist union, the Irish-American Labor league, the Hungarian Workers’ federation and the Italian Workers’ federation, Invitations to appoint the delegates to the convention were sent to the proletarian party, having headquar- ters at Detroit; the Bohemian Social- ist federation, Chicago, the Lett Wing elements of the Italian Socialist fed- eration, the Socialist Labor party and the Jugo-Slav Socialist federation. —————— Legion Requests Deportation of Illinois Editor CHICAGO, Dec. 23.—Counsel for the Black Hawk post of the American Legion, with representatives of other posts appeared today before Assist- ant United States District Attorney John V. Clinnin and urged that de- portation proceedings be started against Arthur Lorenz, editor-in-chief of the Ilinois Staats-Zeitung, a Ger- man language daily newspaper here. Lorenz is act an American citizen and one of his editorials was made the basis of a $100,000 libel suit against the newspaper for alleged slander of the legion. Paris Saving on Fuel Is Great PXRIS, Dec. 23.—(By The <Asso- ciated Press)—Two hundred thousand tons. of ‘fuel, representing 100,000,000 franes, was the economy achioyed by Paris by putting into force of the summer-time daylight savings hour from March 15 to October 25, it was announced yesterday. Santa Claus Is Abolished by Zionist Decree CHICAGO, Dec. 23.—Children of Zion, Ill, home of Wilbur Glen Voliva’s catholic. apostolic church, will sleep peacefully tomorrow night | with no thought of lying awake in hope of hearing reindeers on the roof or Santa Claus coming down the chimney. For Voliva has issued a decree abolishing Santa Claus. The Kris Kringle myth has gone the way—in in Zion—of the round world and the law of gravitation. they don't exist. Voliva, however, has arranged for a distribution of Christmas toys, dl- recting that the children shall be told they were “sent down from above” and distributed by parents. Voliva says | of deputy sheriffs who engaged |F; neighborhood grocery store on South Oak street Wednesday night, were commended publicly yesterday for conducting The verdict returned by the coroner’s jury both commended the officers and vindicated dicating that the officers fired STOLEN SAFE LOCATED OFF LONG ISLAND MINEOLA, L. I, Dec. 23— A safe containing stock certificates and Jewelry valued at $50,000, stolen last August from the home of Frank D. Hastings, at Port Washington was fished out of Manhasset bay yesterday. .The hiding place was disclosed by Olaf Olafson, a former butler in tho Hastings home, and divers found the safe in 2% feet of water about 600 feet from shore. Olafson pleaded guilty to the theft and* was sentenced In tho Elmira reformatory by County Judge Smith. Michael Picardi, his confederate, was convicted of larceny and will be sentenced today. EPISCOPALS FACE DEARTH OF CLERGY NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—The Episco- pal church in the United States faces a real problem through the steady de- crease in the number of recruits for the ministry, a commission appointed to investigate the subject declared in .«@-repert-made public todays ‘This stt- uation, the commission atated, “is more grave than seems to be the case with other religious bodies.” The report, perpared by the Rev. George Barthell of Philadelphia; Dean Fosbroke of the general seminary, New York, and Rev. Harry Nichols, said the sertousness of the situation was heightened by the rapid increase in membership. ‘Their investigation showed a general average of only one ministerial recruit to 2,251 communt- cants. SEVEN MEN ARE GIVEN HEARING. ARDMORE, Okla,, Dec. 23. — (By The Associated Press.\—Guy Harris, lan Ardmore businessman, testified to- day before Magistrate Butcher in the| preliminary hearing of seven men/ jcharged with the murder of Joe Car-| roll, at Wilson, Okla., December 15, | that police detective C. G, Sims had] asked him to accompany him to Wil- json on that date. Harris said be re- |fused. He said Sims said he had lo- jcated some stolen automobiles at Wil-| |son. Sims and John Smith were killed jin @ fight between masked men and| Carroll and the latter’s family, the} authorities allege. J. Brittain, custodian of a lodge hall testified that he saw J. A. Gilliam and | another man leave the hall with bun-| dles under their arms the night of the| killings. He said they were members of an organization known as the} “Businessmen's League’ or “K. K. | ————_——_. REAR ADMIRAL DEAD. | PHILADELPHIA, Dec, 23.—Rear| | Admiral John Kennedy Barton, 69, U. |S. N., retired, former engineer in chief of the died today. ‘BS EXTENDED PARDON AS CHRISTMAS GIFT OFFICERS JUSTIFIED IN KILLING BANS \So Says Coroner’s Jury After Hearing Evidence on Sho | George Boche and “John Doe” by Deputies of the She, iff’s Office; Identification Is Uncertain HARDING ORDERS RELEASE ALONG WITH 20 OTHERS IN SAME PRISON Five Soldiers Are Also Included in Long List of Christmas Pardons Announced Today WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. e 10-year prison sentence of Eugene V. Debs was com- muted today by President Harding and the Socialist leader will be released on Christmas day from Atlanta peniten- ary. Along with Debs, who was con- victed in 1918 of violation of espion age law, the sentences of 23 other per sons fery sentence for violation of war-time laws w commuted to ex- pire on Christmas day. Five former soldiers serving sentences imposed by courts martial were pardoned. The computations and pardggs are announced personally by President Harding who took the action in ac- cordance with the custom of extend- ing clemency to federal offenders at the Christmas season. The five soldiers given full pardons are. Carl J. Bryan, James A. O'Dell, Roy Youngblood, Georgy Van Gilder and J. B. Richardson, all serving life terms to which they were sentenced while with the American army on the Rhine, for tho alleged killing of George Lancefiel¢, a former British officer. Among those whose sentences were commuted were: Charles Ashleigh, a former newspaperman and a writer of poetry, who was convicted at Chicago for conspire<:; under the espionage act and givea a 10-year sentence. His sentence was commuted upon his agreement to accept deportation to England, the country of his nativity. Debs, who several times was a can- didate for president, was convicted on three counts growing out of his al- leged obstructionist activities during the war, but when his appeal reached the supreme court that tribunal acted only upon one—that dealing with the interference with recruiting, which the government charged, resulted from the speeches of the Socialist leader. A number of other cases involving military crimes committed by Ameri can soldiers still are awaiting consid- eration by the president. Pardons are lUkely in their cases. Of the civilian offenders released today about one- third, it was said, were officers or members of the I. W. W. who had {n- dicated a change in view Other prisoners released today tn- cluded: Orville Anderson, convicted at Deadwood, 8. D., October 5, 1913, un- der the espionage law and sentenced to four years; Glovannt Baldazzi, sen< tenced to 10 years after espionage act corvrtstion at Chicago; David T. Blod- gett, convicted at Des Moines, Iowa, and serving 20 years on charges of opposing the selective service act, who {s now tn St. Elizabeth's hospl- tal for the insane for observation. Others given commutation were: J. T. Cumble, convicted at Oklahoma ty and sentenced to six years for violation of the espionage act; Thos. Carey, convicted at San Francisco for violation of the espionage act, serv- ing a two-year sentence; Joseph M: Caldwell, convicted at Providence, R. I., for violating the espionage act, serving three years; Mojick Fieron, convicted at Detroit under the es plonage act and sentenced for 20 years, but already given a commuta- tion of sentence tq five years by President Wilson, |Inmates of State Home Have Xmas DENVER, Deo. 23.—Sixty-one boys jat the state industrial home at Gol- |den were given Christmas paroles to- day. Mayor Bailey of Denver granted Christmas pardons to six men held in the county jail here. ONE KILLED IN STRIKE RIOT AT OMAHA, SCORE ARRESTED THERE TODAY Identity of Man Sla Zone Last Night in in Packing House Not Established; Workman Stands Off Gangsters OMAHA, Dec. 23.—Police clause as to the identity of the man killed in the packing | house -zone and had found no person who could throw any! light upon the person or persons Officers dispersed a band of m marching in the street. ordered to disband and no trouble was experienced. Shots were exchanged between a workman and an gang of men who attacked his home eariy in the even- ing. One bullet went through a bed- room window and lodged in the wall directly above where t nan's wife ‘as sitting holding her 4 late last night were without a} responsible for his death. | ore than 200 strikers who were The crowd was good-natured when} Several persons were arrested) charged with disorderly conduct, dis- turbing the peace and carrying cor cealed weapons. Jacob H. Davis, president of dis- trict council No. 6 of the Amal |mated Ment Cutters and Bute | Workmon North America ht that the “spirit of clared iast \the strikers ts high” and that they have no thought of yielding. Mean- | time. packing plant superintendents said they are not concerned as to |whether the men return. They are \operating in a. satisfactory manner, | they declared. Union. leaders sald the |families of strikers, where the need |was apparent would be provided for on Christmas. OMAHA, Dec. 23.—Twenty men |were arrested today after police | charged into a crowd around’a street car, the trolley of which had been | pulled from its cable, in the packing \house district where a strike ts in progress. | Police today reported they had been unable to, identity the body of a man fatally shot near one of the packing offices last night or to find any clue might lead to the arrest of the son or persons who killed him.