Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 9, 1922, Page 1

& of Crew; Vivid Tale of Rescud Told NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Feb. 9.—Survivors of the former transport Northern Pacific, which was burned at sea yesterday with a loss of four lives, are not convinced that the burning of the ship was wholly accidental. While neither Capt. William Lusti, who was would make a formal concerning the fire, some of the latter. declared the: play, ‘ Belief was expressed among the survivors that the fire was the result of some activ- See eg eee ee oe eee Yo SOMO ACHY- ity on board the vossel before ‘she lett! her berth at Brooklyn. An attorney for the Sun Shipbuild- ing company was here today for the purpose of obtaining sworn statements from the crew. So far as could be learned the agent failed in every case. the expianaton being given that the men had been warned to say nothing. One of the three boats picked up by the Transportation contained thir- teen men and in the other two were distributed the remsindr of those saved, including Captain Lusti, Cite! Sngineer Clayton and Executive Off! cer Clyde Smith The Wylie hr'ncting ‘five eurvivers from the Northern Pacific, came into Hampton Roads unannounced last night Survivors aboard the Wy fe declared they have not the slightest idea how the fire startef. They ale? are at a loss to understand how the Sun ship yard Jost their ives. The four men were all sleeping near the place where the blaze originated bite<ites-crew thinks they had ample time to out unless they were suffocated by smoke. Unless the ship yard men took to a small boat by themselves they were lost when the Northern Pacife burned, for they were not aboard the Wylie, according to a marine man who talked with the survivors. Captain Lusti is said to have warn- ed his men that the shipping board orders prohibit their telling anything of the accident. ‘When Captain Lust was asked today concerning reports that the ship might have been “fixed” by some one before she left her berth, he quickly demanded to know the origin of the report. On being told that it could nut be traced to its source, he declared he must decline to answer any and all questions. 5% Captain Lust! said he was not aware the shippliig board had ruled that the ship was regarded as the property of the charterers or operitors. The ship was insured to the account of the charterers but was not to be finally delivered it was understood here, until reconditioning was completed. Captain Lustt’s confidential report to the shipping board was in course of preparation today. The statement is a lengthy one and goes into details. A conference between Captain Lusti, shipping board officials-of this district, officials of the Barbour Steamship company and officiats of the Admiral line wil be held here today. NORFOLK, Va., Feb. 9.—The fire which destroyed the former transport Northern Pacific yesterday with a re- ported loss of four lives, originated in a leaky oil tank on a lower deck amid- ships, according to officers of the ves- sel. Capt. William Lust!, command- ing the Northern Pacific, is under- stood to have includeda statement to this effect in his official report on the disaster to the shipping board. ‘TRANSPORT TURNED INTO ROARING FUSNACE. NORFOLK, Va, Feb. 9—The for- mer transport Northern Pacific, de- stroyed by fire yesterday off the New Jersey coast was described as a roar- ing furnace inside when the fire was @iscovered at 12:35 o'clock yesterday (Continued on Page 3) EVEN PRINCESSES ARE HARD UP ROYALTY 1S ANXIOUS FOR JOBS i in command, nor any member of the crew! GENEVA, Feb, 9.—An indication of the straits in which many Ecro- Pean noble women find themselves after the war is given in the experi- ence of the American wife of a Geneva banker who advertised re- cently in a Mupnich newspaper for an educated woman secretary with a good knowledge of languages. The banker's wife offered’a salary HOLLY’ Man Drops In Street, Dog Stands Guard | CHICAGO, Feb. 9.—Threo weeks ago Peter Ribik, unemployed, was wandering the streets when he struck up a friendship with a Great Dane. Ribik. weak from the lack of food, fell in a busy street yesterday sand the dog, halting traffic stood guard over the man, protecting him from passing trucks and wagons. ‘The dog also kept pedestrians at bay until a patrolman coaxed him from his. post with a piece of meat! Ri- bik was revived. $5,000,000 ON ‘DUMMY’ NOTE WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—The as- sertion that William Boyce Thomp- son, “of the national republican or- ganization,” had borrowed $5,000,000 from the New York Federal Reserve bank on a “dummy note” was made by Senator Heflin, Democrat, Ala- bama, in the senate today in the course of an attack on the federal reserve board. COLUMBIA CO. _ ISINSOLVENT . WILMINGTON, Del., Feb. 9.—Ap- plication for a receivership for the Columbia Graphopkone Manufactur- ing company, a Delaware corporation, was made today in the United States district court. Insolvency is alleged. of 300 Swiss frans monthly in an addition to a comfortable home and thus far she has received more than 1,600 replies, from all parts of Ger- many and Austria. The applications include three Princesses, nine baronesses and 30 countesses, but the majority are widows or daughters of former high officials, many of them asking only for a home. y suspected foul atlay NUMBER 104. | Professionals In ‘Ch?’ Total 10.000, Claim CHICAGO, Feb. 9.—Chicago is the home of about 10,000 professional criminals, according to estimates of tha Chicago crime commission made public today. The reason for such an unprecedented number of law breakers here is ascribed by crime experts to the slowness with which the wheels of justice are set in mo- tion and their sma!i number of con victions. During 1921, ti fs pointed out, less than one out of four of all the de- fendants tried for murder in Cook county were convicted. On April 1, 1920, there were 135 Persons indicted for murder and awaiting trial. As proof of thelr contention that Speedy justice reduces crime, the | commission cites statistics showing | that when this condition was brought to the attention of the courts and an effort was made at | Once to clear the murder ‘docket, twelve, ef these indicted were sen- tenced to hang and the others were | siven jail sentences. The effect produced, it is clatmed was eloctrical. The murder rate in Chicago was almost cut in half. Where theré were 330 murders in 1919, there were 190 In 1921. ————___ | President to Pass Through State. CHEY: EB, Wyo., Feb. { --Presi- |dent Harding will pass throug. Chey- jenne about June 1, next, en route to |Alaska, according to information re- ceived here from Washington. morial this country and Japan” should be cancelled as failing to carry the pur pose for which it was made, and this country should, by treaty or proper legislation, accomplish the intent of that agreement as clearly set out by President Roosevelt, under whom it was made.” Although immigration from other countries has been sharply curtailed under the immigration act, Mr. Me Clatchy said approximately 6,500 Jap- anese have heen permited to come into the United States under the agreement since that legislation went into effect. While the immigration of Japanese ‘pleture brides” has been stopped “in deference to public protest,” he said, there now are coming to this country “in still greater numbers” what he de. scribed as “excursion brides.” These he declared are “urged to beget many children in order that the Tomato Continued Admission United States government “must effectua the rapid increase of Japanese population (Cal.) Bee, declared in a statement today before the house immigration committee. | Urging federal action along the lines approved by to congress last year, Mr. race may be permanently established on this continent.” Mr. McClatchy asserted the Jap: anese in this country were “maintain- ing here a government within a gov ernment most dangerous to American institutions.” The citizenship of those born here is being “utilized largely for purposes of Japan” he declared, add ing that of the 90,000 claiming rights as American citizens by registration u pto last year only 73 had applied for expatrition from Japan and only 64 had been granted it. Thousands are be- ing “ ‘ast for loyalty to this coun- try.” Mr. McClatchy asserted, by re- turning to Japan at an early age to be educated there and later to re-enter this country. He said there were near- ly 20,000 Japanese minors born in Ha waii now temporarily resident !n Ja- pan and being 10,000 and 15,000 who were born in California. CO-OPERATIVE MARKETING BILL PASSED BY THE SENATE, 58 101 WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—Passage by the senate of the house cooper- } ative marketing bill by a vote of 58 to one was viewed by many today as the most sweeping ~victory yet attained by the farm bloc. Before passing, later yesterday, the house measure which relieves the former's co-operative association from the application of laws prohibiting trusts or unfair business practices and places authority or determine when such acts have been commit- ted wiih the secretary of agricul: ture, the senate rejected by a vote of 54 to 6 the bill reported by its own judiciary committee, which would have held the associations amenable to present laws. The measure now goes to con- ference for adjustment of differ- ences with the house. 900 1S COMBED FOR FACTS Packet of Lost Love Letters Missing From Taylor’s Home Is Found Stowed Away in Boot After Search of Six Days; All Classes in Movie Land Are Quizzed SAN DIEGO, Calif., Feb. 9.—Be- lief that a man known both as Wil- liam Koegel and James Martin, and who committed suicide here last Sat- urday night or Sunday is Edward F. Sands, sought in connection with the murder of William Desmond Taylor was today by Cor- orner S. C. Kelly. According to Kelly, the description of Martin or Koegel fits perfectly that of Sands as sent out by th» Los Angeles police. Martin is believed to have come to San Diego last Sat- urday from Los Angeles. He regis- tered at a hotel that night under the name of Martin and that aftersioon wss found dead in his room, with a bullet wound in his heart. Paper found among his effects showed that he had a bank account in Los, Angeles under Koegel. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 9.—The camera of the district attorney’s office was turned toward Hollywood today to imprint all the information that can be obtained from noted ac- tresses, producers, directors and others in order to.find a solution of the mystery drama of the death a week ago last night of William Desmond Taylor, noted director, and formerly known as William Cunningham Deane-Tanner , who was killed by a pistol bullet in his home. District Attorney Thomas Lee Woolwine, it was announced, turned the case of Mrs. Madalynne Connor Obenchain, on trial for murder, over to his chief deputy, and devoted his attention to the mo- Complex ahgles of acts that occurred since the murder which investigators say give strong indications of connection with the murder itself were placed under tion picture colony murder. exhaustive scrutiny. They include recoyery of a packet of letters, inciuding some written by Mabel Normand, actress, and last per- son known to the pulice to have been with Taylor just prior to his death. ‘This packet was found late yesterday at the murder house in a boot in a clost on the floor above that in which It has According to lor kept these let- ters in a drawer of his desk on the lower floor. It was announced at the district attorney’s office that would not be made public at this time. investigation” will be carried on as follows: Questoning of severai wealthy and influential producers, one of whom the murder was committed. been sought six days. Mabel Normand, T: these The centralized DEFENSE PRESENTS CASE LAMPITT TRIAL: NEAR END (Special to The Tribune.) BASIN, Wyo., Feb. 9—Statements that the defense would attempt to Prove A. J. Kelly, drifier for the Ohio Oil company and witness for the state who testified to threats having been made by tho defendant, Alfred Lampitt, against Harry Foight, for whose murder Lampitt 4s on trial in district court, did net go to bed early in the evening on the night of the explosion in the Grass Creek field but rettired short- ly before the hour of the biast, were made by -W. L. Simpson, atte for the defense, in his opening state- ment to.the jury. The defense would also show, it was set forth, that a Lig automobile was seen near the bunkhouse near the time of the ex- plosion with the engirie running and that others had seen this car leave the field by a little used road, Much of this testimony was barred later when objections of the state were sustained. W. E. Thomas, defense witness, said he was at the destroyed bunk- house the morning of the explosion and saw no fuse on the concrete slab where a state witness said he had found a fuse later. The defense wtiness said the wall of the bunk- house was not shattered but was in large pieces and afterwards hauled away. PF i Tina Gee for the defense !m- Peached the testimony of Leo Chap- man with reference to time the state witness had seen the defend- ant on the night of the explosion. ‘The defense will probably close case badly crippled in effort to get alleged happenings of the night ‘be- fore the jury and with many wit- nesses summoned unable to testify. Continual objections by the state have marked the presentation of the defendant's case. The defense will probably finish its direct testt- mony today and the state start its rebuttal. The case is expected to 3 be finished by the end of this week. |eral weeks previously in dis letters had been questioned before in the case. i Questioning of a number of film directors, two of whom have been ex- amined by the police. Questioning of at least four motion picture actresSes, in an effort to de- velop further information concerning the theory of a woman being the mo- tive for the slaying. Questioning of two men, not con- nected with motion pictures, along lines of “jealousy” as a motive in the case. Close examination of former em- ployes of the slain director in order to reveal intimacies of the past that came under their observation. f Among those who will figure in the investigation are Mabel Normand, Mary Miles Minter, Neva Gerber and Claire Windsor, motion picture ac- tresses, the first three of whom have been reported to have been parties to love affairs with Taylor; Henry Peavey, negro house man, who found the body; Howard Fellows, former chauffeur of Taylor; Charles Eyton, manager of the Famous Players-Lasky studios in which Taylor was employed; Mrs. Douglas MacLean, wife of a mo- tion picture actor, neighbor of Taylor, who saw a stranger leaving the Tay- lor doorway after hearing a shot there jon the night of the murder, and a host of others concerned from whom bits of information have come to in- vestigators, Unexplained circumstances surround movements of the packet of letters in- cluding letters from Mabel Norman to Taylor, which was found by a police detective in the Taylor house yester- day after the police had denied knowl- edge of the letters for a week during which a search was made for them. Mabel Normand, who was in com- pany with Taylor until 7:30 o'clock Wednesday night, « week within an hour of the time which investigators fix as the time of the murder, visited the house the following morning and sought these letters. She said they might be misinterpreted if read by the public, but denied that a love affair existed between Taylor and herself. These lettprs, sho said, were kept by Taylor in the drawer of a desk in the room in which the shooting oc- robbery of the house, mentioning that the letters had not been taken. Published hints of a grand jury in- vestigation into the idsappearance of the letters followed their disappear. ance. Captain of Detectives David L. Adams denied he knew that any let- ters existed, as did detectives of a private agency. Two days ago reports were preval- ent that they had been returned to Mabel Normand and other letters writ- ten by Mary Miles Minter had been returned to her. Statements were is- sued in behalf of each actress deny- ing that any letters were returned to them. Removal of Taylor's effects started yesterday and Lewis P. Waterman, representing the public administra- tor’s office, was present in behalf of that office. © Captain of Detectives Adams said that no ‘eport was made to him as to what detective found the letters or where they were found, The letters were turned over to the district at- torney’s office. He announced this morning that he had the letters and had been informed they were found in a boot in the Taylor house. He said he “attached no significance to the fact they were found in a boot.” Whether the packet had been dis- turbed, was not revealed by investiga- tors. Henry Peavey, negro house man for Taylor wito found the body on the morning after the shooting took place, ‘was brought into police headquarters today for further examination by de- tectives. He was present at the public admin- istrator’s removal of effects from the Taylor house and during the progress of the removal announced that he made a find. “Here's the handkerchief all you boys have been bothpring altout”" he said. It was a dainty woman's handkerchief with the initials “M. M. M."* in a corner. ‘This was the frst mention of this handkerchief in the case. Another handkerchief which police say is miss- ing, was one, a man’s, with an {nitial “S"yhich a detective picked up from the floor of the room in which the curred. He showed them to her sev-| ussing a murder was commtted. It disappear- (Continued on Page 3) Negroes Shoot Craps, Hungry Patrons Wait KANSAS CITY, Feb. 9.—Diners in the large down town hotels wait- ed patiently and loudly demanded service last night while the manage- ment started a city wide search for a crew of missing waiters. The search ended at polce head- quarters. Thirty-five of them, no- groes, had been arrested in a crap game in a nearby house. A call to police headquarters brough® tho waiters, racing back through the down town section on foot. The patrons turned back to the dining room, assured of something more sustaining physically than the strains of the hotel orchestra. And the negroes forgot the dice—until this morning when they face a gamb- ling charge in police court. Generals For Reserve List Are Announced WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—Secretary of War Weeks announced he had selected for nomination as gener> als in the officers’ reserve corps the following officers: Brig. Gen. V, B. Metts, Raleigh, N. C;. Col. John H. Rice, retired, Wash- ington, D. C.; Col. John Greenway of Warren, Ariz; Lieut. Col. Guy M. Wilson, Flint, Mich.; Col. Edward G. Heckel, Detroit; Col. Robert H. Tyn- dall, Indianapolis; Col. Luke Callahn, 3ristol, R. I.; Lieut. Col. Lincoln Andrews, U. 8. A., retired, Rye, N. ¥ 3rig. Gen. Charles Y. Zimmerman, Cleveland and Col Henry A. Shaw, Worcester, Mass. EXCLUSION OF ] URGED BY PUBL?SHER and Rapid Increase in Nippone.,. Popu- lation Must Stop if Peace W ith Island Empire Is Main’, tained, Owner of Sacramento Bee Declares WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—If friendly relations with Japan are to be maintained the lly stop the continued admission of Japanese and ,” V. S. McClatchy, publisher of the Sacramento the California legislature in its me- McClatchy declared the “gentlemen’s agreement” between Mr. McClatchy declared the last census cnumeration of Japanese in the United States was “many thou. sands short even of the acknowledged incomplete return secured by the Jap. anese under order of the Japanese gov. ernment. They are increasing by re Production, he said, “ten times as fast as the whites.” Asserting it was made clear beyond any misunderstanding not only by his published utterances but in his autobiography that Roosevelt, under whose administration the gentlemen's agreement was entered into, intended that if it did not effectually stop the entry of Japanese settlers into this country, the government would “keep them out by an exclusion act,” Mr McClatchy declared the sta\s of Call fornia had the right to demand that the government carry out the agree- ment which he sald was made with the state to that effect. He maintained that tho assurances given the state by President Roosevelt in his messages to the legislature in February 1909, during adjustment of the Japanese scheol question, should not be considered as superseded by the commercial treaty concluded with Ja- pan by President Taft in 1911, al- though this, he said, had surrendered theh “safeguard” of President Roose yelt's “express understanding” with Japan regarding the alternative of ex- clusion if the agreement proved in- effective. SWINDLER WHO MADE $500,000 UNDER ARREST CHICAGO, Feb. 9.—Casimir Phil- lipovitch was arrested here today and the Denver, Colo., police were requested to arrest M. P. Weston charged with operating a confidence game which had netted them more than $500,000, through sale of worth- less oil leases. More than 5,000 per- sons were said by the police to have been swindled through the scheme. DENVER, Feb. 9.—N. P. . West, sought in Chicago in connection with the arrest of Casimir Phill!povitch on a charge of operating a confidence game, was arrested here yesterday on a request of Chicago police. He gained his release later in the day on a writ of habeas corpus at a hearing before Judge Butler of the district court. West has been a resident of Denver for many years and has been engaged in oil company promotions. According to his counsel West will not be returned to Chicago until a complaint or an indictment has been filed against him. st 3 thea FIFTH VICTIM FOUND IN FIRE RICHMOND, Va., Feb. 9.—Firemen searching in the ruins of the Lexing- ton hotel, which was destroyed by fire Tuesday, today found a man's head, bringing the number of known dead in the disaster to five. FORMER GASPER MAN I REPORTED SROWNED Roscoe H. Edmeister, formerly ac- in labor organization circles here is reported to have crowned in the Yakima river near Tasco, Wash., according to word re- ceived by friends of the dead man who have requested to co-operate with Pasco authorities in identifying the man. PENDLETON, Ore, Feb. 9— Large areas in northeastern Oregon and southeastern Washington washed out today and train service is held up in many places as a re- sult of heavy rains that have been falling since yesterday afternoon. Dynamite was used early today to dislodge ice floes pressing against the center pier of the Northern Pag cific railway bridge at Pasco, Wash., northwest of here. Anxiety for that are and other bridges menaced by ice floes has been relieved somewhat, however, wjth the coming of a warm rain last night and carly tor y. Tracks on the Walla Walla and Pendleton branches of the Northern Pacific are out and all trains are be- ing held at the terminals. ‘The Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation company tracks at Prescott and Berryman, Wash., are underwater, holding up irains from Spokane and ‘the Northern Pacific bridge at Berryman is so weakened by high water that train from Pas- co is being held up Flood danger over Umatilla coun- ty, Oregon, was reported on the in- eres early today Wild Horse Creek is out of its banks, flooding | ] NIONISTS RELEASED BUT RAIDERS KEEP BUSY iChe Casper A Crihune CASPER, WYO., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1922 INCENDIARISM IN SHIP FIRE Destruction of Transport “Northern Pacific” by Roaring Fire at Sea May Have Been Result of Foul Play, Say Members MORE SEIZURES ANNOUNCED AS MAJOR 1S FREED Ulster Border Is Guarded By Anny of 5,000 in Addition to Police BELFAST, Feb. 9.—(By The Associated. Press.) —Maj. Miles of South Donegal, one of the prisoners taken by the raiders of northern Irish counties yesterday, returned to his home today. Others from th same area are reported to have been released. BELFAST, Feb. 9—(Ry The Asso. elated Press.)—Additional kidnapings cccurred today in County Fermanagh, one of the counties in which yester- day’s raids were carried out Four class ‘B" special constables were kid naped in the Rosslea district. The: were taken in the direction of Bally Ray where it is believed other prison- ers are being kept ENNISKILLEN, County Fermanagh Ireland, ‘Feb. 9.—Quiet had been re- stored here today. The roads were closely patrolled. The provisional government, it {s stated, has telegraphed instructions to the commander of the Irish Repub lican army to release the prisoners taken during the raids. ULSTER ARMED AGAINST REPETITION OF RAIDS. * BELFAST, Feb. 9.—(By The Asso- ceated Press)}—Ulster’s frontier was virtually a line of steol today, follo ing tho raids yesterday, in which many unionists were kidnaped. From Portadown, County Armagh to Rel- leek, on the Fermanagh-Donegal bor der, forces of “speciale were on guard, as well as heavy contingents of the regular constabulary. It was estimated that five thousand \uan were engaged in polfcing the line. The forces began to move toward the border yesterfay. The roads leading southward from Belfast. today Presented scenes of activity, motor truck and armored cars bearing the soralled “A and “B" specials. Ac- companying them were other trucks with stores and ammunition. High tension prevails at all points. Strangers traveling ehrough the stx counties are subject to the cibsest serutny and in some cases are halted and interrogated. No communication was possible with Enniskilisn today in consequence of the wires of this city being cut. Colonel Wickham commandng the Ulster specials, has received a com munication from Dublin Castle stating that the provisional government is sending special officers to investigate the kidnaping. still uncertain today, but a county in- spector of police who returned today from a tour of the lines said no re prisals had been attempted over night by the unionists. A British regiment, transferred from Free State terrtory ts due to reach En niskillen within a few days. It was reported today the transfer would be expedited. An Ulster police officer who mado a tour of the border during the night said tod “The police arrangements are now as complete as they can be made to insure immunty from invasion. It is unlikely that rebel forces will ever again attempt to raid the border. I¢ they do happen to pentrate to this side they certainly will not find it easy to get back."* ISH REPUBLICAN CHIEF NOT SURPRISED. ’ DUBLIN, Feb. 9—(By The Asso- ciated Press,—Owen O'Duffy, chict of staff of the Irish Republican army, has issued this statement: “That there should be spontaneous and determined action in Ulster is not surprising. The patience of our people there has been sorely tried lately by continued raids, arrests and tortures inflicted upon them by agents of the northern government. “The majority of those in prison in Belfast and Dery are suffering be- cause they carried out my orderd while I was liason officer, to protect the lives and property of Catholic civilians from the ravages of Orange mobs when those who are entrusted (Continued on Page 3) COAST REGION FLOODED RAILROAD DAMACE HEAVY crops. Numerous yashouts are re- ported on the highways west of here. Due to frozen ground the re. cent rain and snow is not soaking in. Luck alone probably saved North- ern Pacific passenger train No. 51 from going into Dry Creek at Sud- bury, Wash., yesterd afternoon A farmer Jagged the train in time to keep it from going over a bridge whose abuttments had been under- mined. Tthe Snake river br t the gon-Washington and Navigation company is tied up with washouts and landslides, 9 Telephone and communication was-