Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 3, 1922, Page 1

Weather Forecast —_— ean tonight and probably Wedtnes- Gay; alightly colder tonigu: in ex- ‘venue north portion. .: 2 VOLUME Vi CASPER, DAM PLANNED Community Extension Corpvuretion Plans Water Supply Sufficient for Lakes on ' Tract South of Casper Holding a vision of Casper of the future, a city of 100,000 or more people, the most practicable plan ever advanced to} sT. PIERRE, Miq, Jan. provide adequate water supply to the city was informally | Newfoundland schooner, discussed by the directors of the community extension corpo-|#‘t>"s coal from Sydney. S.. to 3, 1 Freight Rates: SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Jan. 3.— F. B. Cook, F. R. Marshall and P C. pointed as a committee to outline the case proposed to-present before the interstate commerce commission in he- | half of shippers: of intermountnin | pense of Presenting same a‘ the con- ference of various state reptescnta- | tives, in conference here. 3.+-The Bohemia, Gil, ull of Balt Lake City, were: ap-|» states “0 governors of thos states and/| | dak that individual states bear the ox-| SCHOGNER IS LOST. | leesolution Offered World Conference the war. Mr. Reavis, in a 12. | of the debi should be insisted U.S. WALK OUT Proposal for Eight Per Cent Cut in Wages Brings on Strike of 3,400 Union Members in Country \Photo Engravers’ union in 80 cities ofthe country went on strike today in protest against a wage reduction or lengthen- ing of working hours, accord::* to reports to the headquar-! Burien, N. F., was lost w blown ration following the annual meeting of the organization | ashore by a northeast =urricane. The| which was held at the Henning hotel this noon. The plan in detailis to ‘build « pipetine to Pathfinder dam, of ade- quale size to bring the waters to Cas- \PHOENIX IS ME sion corporation squth of Casper. Casper, expanded beyond expecta- tions, due to its tremendous indus- trial advancement, has given little acon to plav or recreation. The thousands of kiddies of the city, - prived of many of the pleasures of voy and girlhood due to the absence of the old. stimming hole, or of Jakés, with boating, fishing and nu- merous other pleasures to be derived, PHOENIX, Ari., Jan. all morris. Others liv- ing in that rection of the city are moying their furnishings to the upper Moors of their homes. No estimate of the total amount. of Water in the flood is yet ae been ‘brought by the purchasing commission for ete relief and, one shiplosd of 210,600. bushcls tert New Orleans December. 5 Se the the sates during the first year American Farm Eureau federation of its life, namely: P. C. Nicolaysen, . Walker, Patrick Sutiyan, C. Hy R. Hagens, B. , Scherck, Holmes” and~ “Earl Cy unanimously re-elected. At the directors’ meeting the or- ganization was perfected for the com: ing year by the revlection of all of ficers, including P. C, Nicolaysen, president; C. H. Townsend, treasur-} 9. - - er; B. L. Scherck, secretary. G. R, Hagens is the agent in charge of the company and his offices are the head- oi the concern. ‘The history of the corporation was contained in the report filed by Sec~ L.-Scherck. He told-of the In Sleep Is Girl’s Record GREELEY, Colo., Jan. 3,—Dor- othey Sherman, 1? yeara of age, daughter of J. lL, Sherman of Ea- ton, walked a distance, of 11 miles” in ‘her sleep last night, according to reports here today._ ‘The girl, dreased in her brotuer's overalls, sweater and jumper and ft her father’s wool socks staggered —> —>——_. "|| into LaSalle, four, miles, i 2 Hie | of Eaton, sole 4 a i here and 13 miles south refinery for $1,000 an acre and oe Tapthods used in rcevting title to [ Bl Pitse onayertn be. meine My the tand required. He also told in The girl declared she wert to Getil of the corporation's good for- sleep last night and that she kner- nothing more until she-~ss-nwaken- ea by & passing aiemobile on a bridges a mile of La Salle. ‘The girl. according to her father, had not been well lately and- bai |, expressed the desire to vigit"@ sick friend in Denver. — Broadway e tomobile with a sum estimated BANKER DEAD. be offered the {hy _.o company at about $10,000. The} MEMPIIS, San. v.—Major G. W. / 3 Casper public a eee) meee a d°-|opbery. occurred on the busiest street | MacRoe, 83, banker and philanthropist, tailed report. hich valuable) sn downtown Los Angelec. died at his home here today. Is IMPROVED = ‘Community corporation has met dur-} ' ing-its few short months of existence. abla. iis sie Si Big Cattieman _ Under Arrest NEW YORK, Jan. 3.—Aliens seeking ‘admission to the! United States will in future enjoy improved conditions be waiting at Ellis island. Recommendations made by the: ad- visory. committee appointed recently by W. W. Husband,' Towa; Jar. $B. F. ‘Kneeskern of; Castalia, Iowa, one of te eattle buyers in north- eantern Towa was artested here in preirpaneed ‘with the murder on Dz- » Of Mr. andMrs, Cheries $a Beoskn a ee home mature of the «vi- AGAIN BY BIG FLOOD .—Flood water from Cave creek reached the city limits of Phoenix shortly. after 8 o'clock this morning, according to reports received by officials of the SaJt River Valley Waterusers’ association. Officials of the waterusers’ association said that the crest of she tend passed the Ari- zona canal, 10 miles north of Phoenix, about 5 o’clock this morning. the water at the caual dropped 18 inches. Fear that continued reins might Eleven Miles | ters here of the American Photo Engravers’ association. crew escaped with difficulty. | Employers sought to reinstate the 48-hour week at the present rate of, pay or to ‘reduce the| wages $5 and allow the 44-hour week/ to contfmue. The union decihied to _-)aceept the change and went on strike, according: to Lewis Fiader, commis- sion of association. The wage ce- : @uction “would have approximatnd elght per cent;"he said, the average 4e- ing about $56 a’ week. AN union plants ip Chicago were 40 members of 48-hour week {involved in the strike. ~ ‘one of the employers, ae 8 plan. to operate on the “open shop’ } today it had ‘been informed by Don Livingston, commissioner of agriculture of South Dakota. The corn. tina’ been bought, it was said for delfvery on” shipboard = at mar Orleans, Baltimore) and New one shop was working today. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. °. (Continued on Page —Approz{- Approaching Vote on the Newberry-Ford Contest to Be Factor in Naming Senator From Pennsylvania “WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—Prediction that Governor Sproul of - Pennsylvania ‘would within 48 hours announce his inten- 4son of resigning to accept a position as-a United States sena- tor to: succeed the late Boies Penrose was made today by Sen- ator Watson, Indiana, one of the Republican jeaders of the senate, after a call at the White House. The particular reason which influ-)responsible for his breakdown. He enced the #énate Republican organiza-| war 61 years.of age. tion in- filling the vacancy left by| Funeral, gervices wil be ‘#trictly {outed ~her ‘ENGRAVERS IN Is Appointeded O [ @- I T i ES OF CHICAGO, Jan. 3.—Approximately 3,400 members of the} closed today. DENVER ENGRAVERS ZOIN IN STRIKE. DENVER, 3.—Approximately Denver Photo Hn- gravers’ jinion employed. by five Den- ver concerns, struck today in protest ‘against « 16 per cent wage reduction |the war. that hour, they said, ana ‘a change trem ine 44-hour to the! Employers filed a no- tice of the wage reduction ana the change ‘in working hours with the Colorado industrial commission last month. Nowspaper piants did not cut or increase hours and are not)tress in which France ix According. to Charles M. Welch, the eres plan, opening one shop at'a time with employes who remained at work at all the plants. According to Welch, SPROUL IS PROBABLE PENROSE SUCCESSOR in» House. Demands Payment on Ground That French ce Money to Spend on: Navy Leads WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—The administration would be directed under a resolution introduced today by Representa- said prompt payment upon becauce France has of ae “large sums ~t money on increase naval armament.” ‘The resolution id not mention W tater by name but im Mis formal statement, Mr. Reavis stated that it Was directed at France because of her stand at the armament conference on the submarine question. The text ofthe resohition follows: “Whereas, the proteedings of the conferente on the limitation of arma- ments disclose determination on the part of certain €ubtor nations of the United States to expend large sums of money on Micreased naval arma- ment. > “Resolved by the ouse of represent- atives (the gate concurring) that it is the desire of congress that the gov- efmment of the United States advise such nation or nations through the Proper channels that the payment of jobligations now due to the United States will be acceptable.” Mr. Reaves" statemext was as fol- [lowa: “The United States ferls very great js¥mpathy for the distress of Europe =< BANK WERGER tive Reavis, Republican, Nebraska; to'demand oS cael hed To sen Purges poo Continental Interests” SChieago Take Over Fort Dearborn Properties as Climax to Str. ained Credits CHICAGO, Jan. 3.—The' Continental & Commercial Na- tional bank and the Continental & Commercial Trust and Savings. bank today formed the second largest banking insti- tution in the United States and the largest west of New York thro} its a bank, that action averting what was described as the most serlous! dift- fi Which had threatened Chica- g0’s. financial district in 16 years. The merger was announced tate last night, after an all-day session of the Chicago Clearing House associa- tion and Jeading, financiers, the Con- tinental and Commercial institutions agreeing to assume liabilities. of $60,- 000,.00. The absorption placed combined de- Posits of the four banking instito- tions at more than $400,000,000, and total resources at a figure greater th absorption of the Fort Dearborn National bank and lated institution, the Fort Dearborn Trust and Savings LENINE HOLDS DICTATORSHIP RIGA, Letvia, Jan. 3—(By The Associated Press)}—Nikolat Lenine re- tains his position as executive head of the Russian soviet government as a revult of the unanimous action of the nizth all-Russian goviet congress just than 525,000,000. before its sessions cl 3 ‘ a losed iast week, Difficulties of the Fort Dearborn }according to a radio dispatch from properties were attributed to over-| yyoscow. extension of credits. “Owing to the overextended condi- tion of Edward: Tider & company (chief stockholders of the Fort Dear- aside from any selfish interest we |may have in the matter. I do not |doubt that congress will be willing to fund the European debt as suggested by the edministration {f the necessity for, it: 1s msde apparent. But with France standing unmovable before the Prayers and pleading of mankind for ja tranquil world and asserting the [Intention of vastly increasing the most |barbarous an inhumane implement'of War, viz: the submarine, I think ft is “Tranes has today an army larger than had Geraiany at any time before reduce it but insists upon perfect free- dom of action to increase it. Her position with reference to naval in- creases «ame the expenditure of hundred: of millions of dollars. Strely no nation in the financial, dip- aljered to be, would 6é contemplating = ee an arma- ment program. “France fs a soverign nation and as "\suich ts fFée to follow her own inclina- ton., But the go ment of the United States beinwmg, that huge ar- yaaments are as provocative of war to- day as they were in 1914, san with justice Insist that the program which France ‘has rfapped out, should be (Continued on Page <.; Sale of Stills Causes Arrest of | Hardware ~Man KANSAS CITY, Mo.,’ Jan. $—Ied- aral= prohibition enforcement. agents arrested Joseph Timmer, a wholesale |hardware merchant doing business on the Missour!-Kansas state line late yesterday, and held him on a charge of violation of the federal prohibition law in the manufacture and sale of Hho not only. declines toprns c, | snatched a half hour for dinner. born organizations) and some recent: ly made loans and investments which proved to be bad and entailed heavy losses, it was found on examination ot the two Fort Deafborn banks by the Chicago Clearing House @xeic- iners that the capital of both banks ad. been impaired,” said a statement by James B. Forgan, chairman of the Chicago Clearing House committes. ‘The clearing house banks|.qusran- teed. the Continental and Commérciat n} of $2,500,000 and the Fort Dearborn stockholders made « further guaray tee of $1,500,000. ts a capital, surplus and undivided profit. of approximately $8,000,000. ‘ontinental also pays approxi- mately $1,250,000 for the goodwill of the two absorbed institutions. ‘The clearing house committee tn- tigated the Drovers’ National bank: the Drovera’ Trust # Saving#| nomination. o co mm which Bérard Tilden & Co. s)" interested “And cnnoufeed that those banks were solvent. A special cormittes was appdinted to take care of the Englewood Siste bank, also x ‘Pliden {patitution. In LaSalle street Saturday the Dearborn National stock was quoted at $230 a share, with. rene offered, and the State bank's stock at $185 a share. LONG HOURS SPENT ON NEGOTIATING SEAL. CHICAGO, Jan. 3.—Several dozen Chicago bankers who have — under their control more than a billion a. lars spent thelr new year's holidnrs Sunday ,and Monday working 20 hours a day solving the. difficuities of two big banks whose $85,000,000 as- sets had been impaired by over- extended credit and impaired invest- ments. Between meetings last night they A group of junior vice presidents and newspaper) men started out’ to- gother but divided when the bankers flecided the nearest eating place—a ‘one arm’ lunch roonm—vwould..not guit them. The newspaper men went customers. : They were: James B. Forgan, chafr- man of the board of the First Na-| tional bank; Frank .O. ‘Weitmore, president of the First National;.Johh J. Mitchell, presigent ofthe Tlinots D. Hutbert, president of the Mer- chants Loan & Trust Company and Tr addition there to. the lunch room and found four} Trust & Savings bank, and Edmund) His retention in office wes brought about by the unanimous resilection by the newly created executive body of the’ congress which in turn unanf. mously reappointed Lenine as presi dent of tho council’ of peoples com missars. M. Tsurupoff. former minister of food. ard 37. Rykoff, former head of ‘the eco.ore council, were appointed Wico presifents. According to the dispatch, Premier Lenine is expected to reappoint Min: ister of War Tro‘zky and the heads of other gortet hesnrseman "4 FLETCHER IS. AMBASSADOR TO BELGIUM WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. -- Yhe f Henry P. Fletcher, Y of state to be mam- Dbassadar to Belgium, was announced today at the White House. WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—Preai- dent Harding has nominated William ¢. O'Toole of West Virginia to be minister to ‘araguay, it was an nounced t.day at the White House. TAX EXEMPTION LAW 70 BE PUT 10 TEST BY LEGION MEN OF LUSK | LUSK, Wyo., Jan. 3.—A test case to’ determine whether ex-soldiers un- [der the Inw are entitled to the $2,000 Property exemption granted them by the last legislature will be instituted by Lusk post No. 4 of the American Legion as the result of action taken by ‘Niobrara county authorities to lect the tax on property of service men-on the same basis as assess ments against other holdings. Lusk eervice men will refuse to pay the taxes and the case will be carried to j the supreme court if necessary for « final ruling. | Wireless Phowe* Message Clear Senator Penrose’s death, is understood to be the approaching vote cn the Ford-Newherry election contest. Se tor Watson said today that the vote probably ‘would, be om, SENATOR BRORE UNQER PHILADELPHIA, Jan... 3.—The death of Senator Bols Penrose just before’ midnight ‘Saturdey was due to an attack of heart failure as he; ‘was preparing to retire. He had been}, |m es some days but some improve- it had ben noted Saturday in his condition and his sudden death was Iearned with surprise. Physical strain of recent months in |rose of Pennsylvaria, one of the most jinteresting personatities in the upper Corn Exchange: National bank. a od private in accordance with the desiro of tho Jate senator. Only mumbers of the family will attend the ser- vices, vessels for use.as stills. A quantity of the alleged ‘still material was also ‘seized. Prohibition agents asserted that they, visite@ Timmer's store and were terial for any size still, which coula |i. Jer might be calle into a cunfot- easily be set up from the parts. ence to deal with the subject. EUGENICS LAW ECONOMIC SITWATION DISCUSSED WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—President Harding and the cabinet spent two hovrs today in discussing: the Furo- United States- Senator. Bolse »Pen- house, which he entered in 1897 as the ‘Successor of the late Senator J. Do: ald Cameron, was one of the wealthi- ‘est bachelors in the senate. An/“Old [Guard” Republican he was a member of four important senate committees, namely, the, finance. committe, of which he was chairman, banking and currency, immigration’ and naval af- fairs. Chief lieutenant of Senator Matthew connection with working out finan- clal legislation is said- to have: been YOU WILL HAVE TO HURRY detivg against Knecskern hag not been commissioner general of immigration, have been adopted and 4 divulged: will be put into effect immediately. CRUDE PRICES 222222 BREAK IN EAST®= c oo of various: faiths, wii fut PITTSBURGH, Jan. 3.—Tiie crud oi! merkct opened int ‘t Ellis aisand t thtgee Dae Steams fok the en today with the announcement by the prin- wi larger facilities f¢ eee with ra friends and ‘paatires in modious quarters in the main bulld- cipal purchasing agencies that the price of Pennsylvania EAS: PUL Ae z grade was $3.50 a barrel, a .rejuction of 50 cents. ae Re eS ae : | Corning, Cabell, Somerset and Somerset light were cut |.,PUB™ aaeat« coisa taste | 26 cents and Ragland 10 cents a barrel, ratification-of Anglo-trish treaty, — / It. you are tobe Phiesaditied in the big New Year’s «Prosperity and Industrial Rdition of the Casper Daily ‘Tribune and Weekly Review. tion is so broad-and its distribution will be so wide that merchants and business people will make a grave mistake by not “getting in.” arrangements for representation in this great edition, i call the Tribune and a representative will call on-you | and explain the proposition in detail, BUT— Stanley Quay, whose representative he (Continueé on Pagé 10) CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan: 3. ‘an; 3.——(Special to The Tribune. )—} Denying that the state attorney. general through a mere opin-| ion has authority to suspend the operation of a law which he believes to be unconstitutional, Dr. Albert B. ‘Tonkin, state | : health officer, has instructed all county clerks to enforce the so-called “eugenics law” which Attorney General W. L. ‘Walls recently held to be unconstitu-} tional, The scope of this edi- ‘This lew reaiires & male applicant physician’s certificate that ‘he is| free from venereal disease in communicable If you have not made form. ees PATRIARCH NAMED. ATHENS, Jan. 3.—Llection of the bd Jan, -| mons general hospital at Denver. ENFORCEMENT ~ YOU WILL HAVE TO HURRY Most Rey. Archbishop Meletios Meta- kakis as patriarch of Constantinople has been declared nullified by the ec- |clesiastical congress in session at Sa- }iontki. The congress has decided that |it was necessary topostpone the elec {tion of the new patriarch until the (beginning of February, j b, BUDAPEST, 3.—Activity among the royalist. supporters of former Emperor Charles is report- ed to be increasing and 20 members of the chamber of deputies are said to baye:‘ehowed, Count Juliis Am- sy in his) opposition to Premier count Bethl, BAN ANTONIO, Texas, Jan. 3.--The first radiophone message to be received jby the glant radio tower at Fort Sam Houston came tn from the Fitrsin- The voice was clear and distinct and no trouble wns experienced tn under- standing the sender. Larceny Charge Is Dismissed DETROIT, Jan. 3—A charge of larceny against Miss Caroline Murray, age 26, was’ dismissed here when W. J. Jury, of Denver and San Fran- cisco, who alleged she made extensivé | Purchases in local stores on his ac count,- withdrew: the complaint. Jos Boyer, millionaire automobile race | driver. today dented the « statement published yesterday that Miss Murray [is his divorced wife, adding that un: jtil her. arrest he never had heard of her. | Sox. e'SUPPORTERS OF EXILE ARE ACTIVE Prince Sixtus of Bourbon de Par- na, brother of fo-iser Empress Zita, is reported to be In Rome with oth ers endeavoring to arrange for | Charles and Zita to leave «Maderia. | and settle in Laly, a © : 4