Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 27, 1921, Page 1

. JUST FREED. DECLARES WAR ON STRIFE Che Casper Daily —_—_————————_— HITS FORGES wees! Crthune RUSSIANS SEIZE LIEUTENANT OF H 1S SPY, REPORT Stepson of Lord Wim- borne’s Son Thrown in Prison at Batum; Was Bom in United States LONDON, Dec. 27.—(By The Associated Press.) — Lieut. John Bigelow Dodge, stepson of Lionel George Guest, fourth son of Lord Wimborne, was arrested by Bolshevik authorities as an alleged secret British agent as he was about to embark on an Italian steamship at Batum on December 9, accoriling to a regi gs dispatch from Constantin. op! Lieutenant Dodge, a grandson of the late John Bigelow, one-time Amer jean ambassador to France, was born in.the United States but-is a natur- alized British subject. He served in the British army during the world war and was awarded the ish ed service order for gallantry in the Gallipolt campaign. His mother, now Mra. Guest, was formerly Mrs, Flora Bigelow Dodge of New York city. She married Mr. Giisst at Sioux Falls, 8. D., July 6, DONALD MICHIE, PIONEER WOOL GROWER, DEAD Resident of Natrona County for Many Years Passes Away at Home of ~ ‘ Daughter. es Donald Michie, 77 years of age, pio- neer ranchman of Natrona county, died Christmas day at the home of lus daughter, Mrs. Madge Hall, lin- colin, Neb. A bieakdown resulting from the {ntirmities of old age resulted, in his death. x ‘The body will be brought back to Casper for burial in Highland ceme- tery and until definite’ word 1s re- ctived of the arrival no funeral ar- rangements will be made. Donald Michie and his brother, James Michie, were ploneer -woolgrow- ers of Wyoming. The former had giv- en up active work of late years and turned the management of the 1p company and ranch east of Casper over to his sons. Mr. Michie had spent much of the time with his daughter in Lincoln since retiring, daughter, Mrs. Helen Michie Popple, resides in Casper. b) Mine Disaster Blame Placed On One Victim DENVER, Dec. 27.—1 ity for the Satanic mine disaster at Mount Morrison three weeks ago in which six men lost their lives, was placed on Mine Foreman Dunn, one ‘of the victims, in a report made by James Dalrymple, state mine inspec: tor, to Governor Shoup. ‘The blame is laid to an error in the judgment of the mine foreman in at- tempting to. set off tho fire during the day, and for not reporting the blaze to the inspector when first dis covered. fair VOLUME VI ATTOR CASPER, WYO. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1921. SUIT TO OUST NEY iS Fate of Joseph C. Pelletier, Accused of [WO DYING Accepting Bribes, to Be Decided at Close of Hearing in High Court BOSTON, Dec. 27.—The trial of District Atto C, Pelletier of Suffolk county on chateas’ of J pial bowl FROM EATING | HEAD CHEESE DALLAS, Texas, Dec. 27.—Ten per- his office upon which Attorney General J. Weston Allen has |*0"9 were made seriously 1ll, two pro- based a petition for his removal, was begun today. The pro-| >” ceedings, which were similar in form to those which res.1lted! in the removal of Nathan A. Middlesex county last summer, were held be‘ore the full bench of the Mass-| achusetts supreme court. H United States Senator James Reed! of Missouri, senior counsel for *Pelle- tler, announced to the court that he wished to serve fcrmal notice of his desire to file exceptions to two dect- sions rendered on December 16, Chief Justice Rugg in reply said: “The full bench of the ‘supreme sourt sitting in this cage can allow and can recognize no exceptions to its rulings.” ‘Taking of testimony then began. It had been announced by the attorney ‘yeneral that the evidence presented on the first day of the trial would relate to charges that Pelletier had thrente: 4d criminal prosecution to force Doro- thy Cole to relinquist claims against . man named Lawrence, a client of| Daniel H. Coakley, a Boston attorney, jnd that Pelletier from improper mo- ‘ives Nad not pressed complaints! wfainst Isaae Gordon, M. W. Shute, John Prendergast and Meyer D. Ber-| man. | 2h ly fatally from eating hogshead, cheese here Monday evening. The was a Christmas gift from { CITY EDITION ny NUMBER 67. ‘Socialist Leader Just Released From Prison Will Devote Life to Securing Vows ‘Against Taking Up ‘Arms; Calls | on President; Reception Is Pending WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—War against war is to occupy a great part of the future activities .f Eugene V. Debs, freed |from Atlanta penitentiary by |mas day, according to his own & | The Socialist leader said he could mz |the future until he reached his home SANTA CLAUS PLAYS CALLEDTODAY 10 FULL HOUSE HERE America and Tris Theaters }and inevitably Casper Elks Host to 3,000 Children in| Christmas Day Fete Sunday at ex *e clemency on Christ- ‘cement here today. concrete plans for «, tre Haute, Ind. Ho will Jeay tngton tonight. Debs anno. %% ‘4 determination to obtain, if Dp <> ~ vow from every man, wom child in this country and every * which he might visit, ‘that the. > to take up arms and go to wa “There will be war,” he said, “in some form, and war growing prog ressively more and more disastrous until a compétitive world has been transformed into a co-operative world. Every war for trade sooner or later becomes a war of blood.” Mr. Debs expressed the opinion that President Harding, at heart, was against all war but described the president as a representative of a sys. tem that made war possible. The arms conference he contended, was significant only in that {t was a recog nition of the cost of warfare and 51,971 450° FOR BIG HARBOR AT OAKLAND URGED UPON GONGRESS Completion of Project in Four Years Is the Aim ; of Army Engineers in to Speaker Report WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. —Expenditure of $1,371,450 for the improvement of Oak- land harbor, San Francisco bay, has been recommended to congress by army engi- neers. Major General Beach, chief of the army engineer corps, in a letter for- The Elks’ Christmas tree to the children of Casper and vicinity was an event which will long live in the memories of the little ones. Santa Claus played to a full house both in the Iris and the America, and long before Chris Kringle made his appearance there was nothing left but standing room, and very little of that, and in each theater there was a solid effort to reduce expense instead of | W8red today by Secretary Weeks to eliminating the cause. Speaker Gillett said that “for eco. Action in behalf of others still im-|"Omical prosecution of the work” prisoned for violation of war laws, $400,000 should first be appropriated, Debs declared, would be undertaken | the balance to be provided as needed as soon as he has readjusted himself |to complete the project tn four years. to circumstances. He began today ajAn annual appropriation of $60,000 series of conferences with friends and|for harbor maintenance also was rec- | 4 } i cheese friends in Farmersville, near here. SLAYER OF SCHOOL TEACHER IN ~ TOWA TS SENTENCED TO HANG WAUKON, Iowa, Dec. 27.—Earl Throst, who was sentenced yester- day to hang March 9, 1923, for the murder of Miss Inga Magnuson, Allamakee county school teacher, Tufts as district attorney of! ahead to give ‘Thront previously had pleaded guilty to first degree murder. TWO SETS OF CHARGES FILED. |, BOSTON, Dec, 27.—Removal of Jo-) seph C. Pelletier as district attorney} of Suffolk county, hearings in whose cane started today before the supreme, judicial court, is asked by Attorney) General J. Weston Allen on the gen- eral charge that Pelletier’s continued incumbency is “inimical to the pub- lic interest.” Two sets of charges’ against the district attorney, as well as a petition for his disbarment, have been filed. 2 In the original chargés, Pelletier is alleged’ to have aided in extorting or/ attempting to extort money or prop- erty from certain persons by threats of prosecution. The attorney general alleges that the district attorney pro- cured indictments that uoght not to have been procured; thyt he failed from improper motives to prosecute in specified cases and that he permitted persons to use his Office in coercing other persons to release or settle civil claims, The first charges, submitted on October 27 last, contain 35 spectfica- tions. Some of these are items taken @ petition of the grievance com- mittee of the Boston Bar association; others were formulated by the attor- ney general. Some are virtually the same as those on which Mr. Allen ts seeking the disbarment of Daniel H. Coakley of Boston, an attorney, who ‘was mentioned frequently in the pro- ceedings that resulted in the removal last fall~of Nathan A. Tufts as dis- trict attorney of Middlesex county. The second set of charges against Pelletier, filed November 21, resulted from a speech he made ‘when a can: didate for mayor. In this speech, as read by Allen before the supreme court, the district attorney was quoted as saying that he would nolle proses- qui the case of anyone who would “pack up” a denial that he (Pelletier) intended to resign. Attorney General Allen’s petition alleged that the acts of Pelletier, as district attorney since November 13, 1909, when he took office, down to the date of filing the charges, show him to be unfit to hold office. It (Continued on Page 4., $1,800 Worth of Radium In Ashes Saved mass of laughing, cheering, shouting rollicking future presidents and» first ladies of tho land, who thoroughly en- joyed themselves from start to finish. The doors were open at eight, andall children who were seen on the streets after that time were elther hurrying down town or gathering at the schools to get into cars. Everything was arranged for the comfort of the kiddies. The automo- bile committee had about fifty cars at its service, and dispatched them to the Several schools to bring in the children, and to take them to their homes immediately after they received thelr presents, and so thorough’ were their preparations that everything moved like clockwork, and a few min- utes «fter a child came out of the theater he was in an auto and on his way back home, and almost before one could realize it, the streets were cleared. The city fire department and police department co-operated ‘with the Eiks in keeping the streets cleared of autos, in unloading and reloading cars and in safeguarding the children while in the theaters. Both theaters were beautifully dec- orated with flags and thers was a big tree in the Iris and two in the Ameri- ca, all furnished by Fred Pattee, who has made it his pet hobby to furnish the Christmas trees for the Elks each year. The long hours put in by the decorating committes, from 11 o'clock {Continued on Page 2) Refusal of French and Japanese to ‘Ac-| cept American Plan Expected to Result in Postponement WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—(By The Associated Press.) — NEWTON, Kan., Dec. 27.—East- ern scientists to whom was shipped the ashes in which, it was believed @ quantity of radium lost in the Ax- teel hospital would be found, report that they have recovered about $1,- 800 or about one-third of the radium lost, from 800 pounds of ashes, it was learned today. On the supposition that the rad!- um had found its way into the hos- pital furnace the aches were shipped east for analysis. Cancer Deaths Total 73,000 In Single Year " WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—Deaths. ifrom cancer in the death registration area of the United States in 1920 total- ‘ed approximately 73,000, according to @ report today by the census bureau, which on a basis of propostional popt- dation estimated the total of deaths for the entire country at 89,000 or an in- crease of 5,000 from the estimate for 1919. Using an “adjusted rate for state and sectional comparisons of cancer mortality, the report concludes that the northern states have a compara- tively high and the southern states a comparatively low cancer mortality Among states in the registration, Mas:- wchusetts showed the highest “adjust- @d" rate, 98 per 100,000 while the rate of 45.9 for South Carolina was the lowest. BUILDING INSPECTOR AND THEATER MANACER HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR FIRE Two Criminally Liable tor Deaths of Nine in New Haven Blaze, Coroner Says; Incense Burning Cause Dec. 27.—City Building Inspector E. Carroll, manager of the Rialto NEW. HAVEN, Conn., Joseph E. Austin, Lawrence theater, and inally responsible for ater fire of November 27, today. ‘The coroner says catise of the fire was the, burning of incenSe to give “atmosphere” to a mo- Alfred S. Black, Theaters corporation which owned the theater, are held crim- the deaths of nine persons in the Rialto in a finding by Coroner Eli Mix that the direct|ing ignited from the incense. president of the Connecticut tion picture, flimsy stage draperies be- ‘The coroner finds that violations of the law in the theater included: the absence of the following safeguards: An asbestos curtain, water curtain, an automatic sprinkler, casks of water on the stage, hose connections, fire Proof scenery and woodwork. ‘The coroner says that had Building Inspector Austin done his duty in ap- plying the building code the fire could’ not have occurred. ———— AIR SERVICE HINDERED. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 27.—Plans to expedite important Christmas mail by airplane were abandoned here Fri- day when a blizzard made visibility too poor for air mail ships to take the air in safety. There was no air mail ser- vice east or west to or from Cheyenne for the first time this winter. nn nee rsceeetondenaereeaneaemnnamcaunnaees Suggestions that the whole submarine problem be left to a future world conference gained increasing prominence today while the delegates to the Washington armament conference waited for formal replies from France and Japan to the American compromise proposal for submarine limitation. Pending action by the French cab- M. Briand was turning to Senator inet at its meeting today, the French Schanzer whom he seemed to single delegates hers remained confident that} out as the object of his address. This their refuse] to accept the new Amer-|finally became so marked that the ican figures would be upheld by thelr| senator sald: government.. The Japanese, too, ex-| “M. Briand, what you say to me pected Tokio to insist that the Amer-|you should say to Mr. Balfour, in- {can plans was unacceptable. stead, because it was he that made ‘There was no meeting today of the the proposal for the reduction of land conference naval committee and ac-; tivities of the conference were con- fined to informal consultations among various groups of delegates. The dl- vergent methods of tonnage measure- ment employed by the several nations has led to some confusion in past dis- cussion and naval experts indicated today that a common unit of compari- son would be suggested when the na- val committee resumed {ts sessions to- morrow. The general impression that the question of land, armament will not again come before the conference for detailed consideration was strength- ened by the departure of the Italian military staff and by announcement| that the British military experts also/ eon the last day of the The French land armament also are gradually with- would le: month. advisers drawing. PARIS, Dec. 27.—(By The Associ- ated Press)—The United States prob- ably will be invited. to send official representatives to the international financial and economic conference, which is to be valled by the allied supreme council at its meeting in Cannes early next year. Premiers Briand and Lloyd George, it is said on the best of authority, are agreed on the necessity for organ-| izing such a conference on sufficiént-| ly broad lines to grapple not only with, the European financial muddle but with the world’s economic problems. FATAL RIOTS BASED ON ERRONEOUS REPORT. WASHINGTON, Dec. 27—(By The Associated Press)}—The story of just what occurred in the meetings of the) committee of the arms conference which with closed doors was hearing Premier Briand’s statement regarding the French position on the subject of | land armament became public today from an authentic source. erroneous account of this cabled to Europe by a European spe- cial writer that led to fatal riots in Ttaly. According to this version, Mr. Bal- four had brought up the subject. of} Jand armament reduction. Senator Schanzer, speaking for Italy, had given the Balfour proposition earnest support in principle at least, Then M. Briand opposed the proposal. As he progressed he showed a great deal of heat and emphasized his _ state- ments with strong gestures. But, ac- cording to the story, it was noted that} It was an| incident | armements.”” It-ig positively stated that from this slight incident grew the legend that M. Briand had said harsh things to Senator Schanzer. | BRITISH ASSAIL | FRENCH SUB PLAN. LONDON, Dec. 27.—(By The Asso- |ctated Press)—France's claims for #& }large fleet of submarinés, made before }the Washington conference are again jattacked by the London newspapers |which resumed publication after the Christraas holidays. “Doubling any class of naval ton- nage seems on the face of it, a strange proposition at a conference assembled to reduce armaments,” declares the |Daily Chronicle. ‘We cannot pretend |to fathom the French motive for such | an aggressive attitude.” Impatience with the French demand also is expressed by other Liberal |newspapers. Arthur J. Balfour, head ‘of the British delegation in Washing- {ton f given warm praise by several newspapers and the American offer |for a reduction in her own and British jsubmarine tonnage {s extolled as the |next best thing to abolition which Great Britain desired. |FORMAL FRENCH DECISION LACKING. WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—(By The Associated Press).—Failure of the French delegates’ to recelve the form- al decision of their government on the American compromise’ proposal for Umitation of submarines strength has caused a postponement of the meeting |of the arms conference naval commit |tee scheduled for today, until tomor- |row. It was believed that the Japa | nese also might be awaiting further instructions from their government | bearing on the American proposal. | There was no indication here what ever that the French were prepared to cut thelr suggested figure of 90,000 tons in submarines for France to the 31,000 ton figure under the American plan or that the Japanese intended to recede from their flat refusal to ac- cept the plan, and, chances that the dergo any improvement before the meeting tomorrow appeared slight. COMPROMISE ON CHINESE TARIFF SEEN. WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—(By The (Continued on Page Four.) SUB QUESTION MAY BE LEFT TO FUTURE WORLD MEETING When Is Girl Old Enough to Smoke? Query NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—When is & girl old enough to smoke? This question has cropped up at Col- umbia university and today is puzzling hundreds of coeds who want to be told why college rules say nothing about use of the sooth- ing weed in graduate dormitories and prohibit. ff ip those of the un- dergraduates. Two undergraduates recently were suspended when caught smoking. Bad 3 Tala 11 EGYPTIANS DIE IN RIOTS LONDON, Dec. 27.—(By the Asso-| ciated Press)—Eleven Egyptians were killed and 14 others wounded in the recent Nationalist disturbances in Cairo, says a foreign office statement today. No British casualties occurred, it was stated. Disturbances are continuing in} Cairo, the advices added, and attempts/ have been made to wreck trains. One such attempt succeeded, a train on the} Heluan ratiway being derailed Christ, mas day. BALL PLAYER ON VISIT HERE. Perce Malone of Altoona, Pa., ar- rived in the city Saturday night for; a visit with his sister, Mrs. A. M. season. Giants next spring. co-workers Which was expected to last until he left the capital tonight for his home. Mr, Debs sttll wore the clothin, given him at the prison when he was released and declared his intention of returning home in them and of wear. ing them for some time. “Like tho wrinkles on my face,” he said, “they have cost me something. WASHINGTON, Deo. 27.—tn order to confer with friends, Eugene V. Debs, the Socialist leader whose 10- year prison sentence for violation of the espionage act was commuted on Christmas day was spending another day in Washington before leaving to- night for his home at Terre Haute, Ind. He had first planned to leave here immediately after concluding his calts yesterday on President Harding and Attorney General Daugherty, but he changed his arrangements, Break- ing the silence he had maintained from the moment of leaving the feder- al penitentiary at Atlanta, from where he came direct to Washington yester- day, Debs declared after his confer- enes with ident Harding that he Would “devote his time henceforth to the freedom of all prisoners. He added that he had discussed his opin- fons with the president in order that there might be no misunderstanding as to his principles and ideals. SOCIALISTS GATHER TO WELCOME DEBS. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Doc, 27.— Terre Haute is aswarm with Socialists Roday, leaders of the organization from all parts of the country assembling here to welcome Eugene V. Debs on his arrival from Washington about 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Inquiries are coming in from all labor centers in the state asking about the demonstration. Phil K. Reinhold, chairman of the local committee ind charge of the plans said today there would be 25,000 men and wotnen in| the parade Wednesday afternoon. A| mass meeting has been called tonight at a tribute to Debs and to afford an opportunity for the gathering hosts| to give vent to their feelings for their) leader. Among those who will take part in the program {s G. O. Hoehn, editor of St, Louis Labor and one of} the oldest Socialist and labor publish- ers in the United States; Charles L. Drake, Chicago, editor of the Debs| Freedom Monthly; C. W. Erwin, edi-| tor of tho New York Call; M. Siegel,| Chicago, editor of the Jewish For-| ward, and U, Uretz, Chicago, attor- ney for the Jewish Forward INGERSOLL CO. IS BANKRUPT NFW YORK, Dec, 27.—An involun-| tary petition in bankruptcy was filed in federal court today against Robert) | ! | 2,000,000. Favor of Ratification; Approval by Dail Held Certain Next Week | LONDON, Dec. 27.—(By The Associated Press.)—Senti-| | ment throughout Ireland, as reflected in outlook for.an agreement would un-| newspapers today, is overwhelmingly i Reports from various provinces indicate that | peace treaty. | fully 90 per cent of the people dispatches to London n favor of the Irish in the 26 counties of southern \Ireland want the pact ratified. | This confirms predictions |when the Dail Eireann adjourned its made | ple's will, and the view is now put for- ward that when tho Dail reassem)! ommended. The proposed tmprovement would also affect the adjoining Berkeley and Albany harbors, the engineers’ report said. The money for the improvement would be proportioned as follows: On the Oakland outer harbor for @ obannel through Goat Island shoal 30 feet deep and 800 feet wide, nar- rowing to 600 feet at the ends of the Oakland jetties, $24,650, On the tnner harbors for a channel from the outer end of the jetties to Webster street, 30 feet deep and 600 feet wide generally and widening in front of the municipal wharf to the pler head line, $468,900, On south channel, Brooklyn ‘basin, for dredging to the extent of 30 fect deep and 500 feet wide, $526,600. On the turning basin at east end of Brooklyn basin to make ft 80 feet deep, 500 feet wide and 1,200 feet long, $116,100. For dredging the tidal canal chan nel to Pork street to provide a depth of 80 feet and width of 275 feet, $226,- 000. The engineers contended that the government's work on the inner har- bor should be made contingent on the willingness of local interests to con- struct and maintain a dike across North channel in Brooklyn basin and to provide free of cost to the goyern- ment any necessary right of way for @redged channels and suitable dump- ing grounds for material dredged dur- ing construction and maintenance. aches scott went SUICIDE PACT CARRIED OUT BY N. J. PAIR PASSAIC, N. J., Dec. 27.—As the result of a suicide pact, necording to th:® police, a 17-year-old girl an her 1s-year-old sweetheart took pol- son early today while the young man was visiting at the home of the girl, and they both died in the gen- eral hospital, about two hours later. Tho girl, employed as a clerk in a worsted mill, was Matilda Rist, and her sweetheart, employed in 3 local mill was Thomas Brands. Heir to Belgian Throne Engaged BRUSSELS, Dec. 27.—(By the A® sociated Press)—Reports of the engage- ment of Duke of Branbant, eldest son of King Albert to Princess Yolando, eldest daughter of King Victor Em- manuel of Italy have gained consider- able circulation. Ignorance of their Peightel, 733 South Grant street. Mr.) H, Ingersoll & Brother, manufacturers | reported engagement was professed to- Malone is a baseball pitcher, twirling|of the Ingersoll watches, of this city.,day in royal circles but other per- for the Knoxville, Tenn., team last| Liabilities were set forth as $3,000,000/sons prominent in Belgian society ex- He reports to the New York! and assets, exclusive of good will, at|pressed belfef that the report was not without foundation. DEMAND FOR TREATY IN IRELAND GROWS, DOUBT OF ACCEPTANCE \Ninety Per Cent of Southern Irish in| PASSING The Morning Mail's correspondent says a rumor is afoot of a “possible |mensation” before the Dial meets again, this being taken to mean that Famonn De Valera intends to an- nounce withdrawal of his opposition in ylew of the weight of opinion for the treaty. | BELFAST, Dec, 27.—(By The Asso- clated Press)—One man was killed and several wounded in a clash be- tween a constabulary patrol and a |number of men in the Marrowbone |area today. | ‘The constabules challenged the men |who were acting suspiciously where- | upon one of them opened fire, wound- A running fight ‘Associated Press)—Prospects of aj debate on the treaty last Thursday un-|the treaty will be approved by a m*-|ing a policeman compromise agreement on the Chi-/til January 3 that the recess would] jority which will make an appeal to followed in which tile sniper was \bring definite expression of the peo-!the country unnecessary. | kinea. th a I) &83 SaaS TS | | pip eWas ReGaeo. 22s on a