Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 20, 1922, Page 1

NO SECRET UNDERSTANDINGS ON PACIFIC TREATIES Che Casper Daily Weather Forecast Snow tonight and Tuesday, prob- ably mired with rain; elder Tuesdoy. + VOLUME VI CASPER, WYO., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1922. GENERAL DiAZ IS SLATED FOR MEX PRESIDENT Nephew of Late President to Be Placed in| Office if Revolution Launched in Lower California Succeeds EL PASO, Texas, Feb 20.—Col.. Esteban Cantu, governor of Lower California during the regime, is the lead- er of the present revolutionary movement against the Obre- gon goverzment in Mexico, according to Jesus E. Flores, pub- lisher of El Presente, a weekly Spanish language newspaper of El Paso. Mr. Flores reported having received a personal atrector of California. communication from Colonel Cantu ‘The same authority declared that a personal representative of Colonel Cantu was in El Paso recently, and extended invitations to various rsvolu- tionary elements to attend a ineeting at San Antonio to be held in the near future. General Diaz was last reported liv- ing in exile at New-Orieans, La. juested newspaper to: ws! of the outfine of a decree, given out earlier in the erican, oil t relative to the payment of export taxes. His request followed recetpt of tele- graphic information from New York, the nature of which he did not dis- close. ARE INDICTED RAPI DCITY, 8. D., Feb. 20.—Or- ville Rinehart. former candidate for the United States senate on the Demo- cratic ticket and John Burke, presi- dent of the Dakota Packing compary, have been indicted on charges of mak- ing alleged fraudulpnt’ misrepresenta- tions to the state securities commission as to the books kept by the packing , it was learned today. eoRinchart was treasurer of the com pany. In a separate indictment, H. H. Fellows, an} attorney, was cl with seven embezzlement counts, as- gregating $6,341.39 while he was secre” tary of the Dakota Packing company. eo ASSAULT CHARGED. Homer Helms is being held by the police on a warrant charging assault upon a 14-year-old boy. The details of the case were withheld pending @ formal hearing in , police court to night. 3 INJUR IN CRAS Lad Walks Off Ice, Drowned !n The Big Horn THERMOPOLIS, Wyo. Feb. 2°. —Attempting to cross the Big Hirn river on the ice after dark, Clyde B. Woodring, 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Woodring, stepped into open water and was drowned. Searchers who went out to look for the Iad traced his steps to the b-ink of the and succeeded in recover- ing his body som distance below the point where he fell in. iD hea 1 Aces Stee en NEW DBY CHIEF. WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—S. F. Rutter, former associate federal pro- hibition director for Pennsylvania ‘was summoned to Wasrington today to confer with Commissioner Haynes before leaving for his new assignment ‘in Callfornia. Officials confinued to withhold com- 3 ment upon the reported resignation of BE. F. Mitchell, federal prohibition Crihine |, | ~ NUMBER 113. Senate Request Pacific treaty, stated it was quested information because DAWN OF NE PROSPERITY IN STORE FOR U. S. | jail today in conformity with the order issued last night by Viscount Fitzalan, the viceroy. The released men were convered in motor cars across the Irish Free State border in Donegal by Commandant land. BELFAST, Feb. 20.—(By The Asso- ciated Press) —The situation in north- ern Ireland is considerably calmer than at any time during the last week, and the fear of a class on the south- ern frontier has dwindled. ‘The rival forces, however, retain their positions along the border and hope is expressed that the next few days will see them withdrawn. Meanwhile the joint liaison commos- sion aro understood to have begun their operations. Two British officers and two officers of the Ulster special constabulary form the northern com- mission, with headquarters at Clogher; the southern commission comprises two British and two provisional gov- ernment officers with their base at Monaghan. They apparently will in- stitute a sort of patrol, keping in touch with each other and using their influ- ence where it may be needed in the interests of peace. It is stated unoffictally that the de- cision to release the Irish Republt- can football players from the London- derry jailwas reached when the north- ern govefnment informed the British government that it had abandoned its intention to prosecute the men. ‘A party of class B specials chal- Jenged a Crossley tender bearing @ BONUS Family Offers To Adopt Baby Found on Steps Cuban Slayer - Is Arraigned ‘ HAVANA, Feb. 20—Rep:esentativie Antonia Alentado, who, with Jose P.| Cano, also a member ‘of congress, is| charged with the premeditated murder last Tuesday of ‘Representative Rafael Martinez Alonso, Liberal candidate fer mayor of Havana, pleaded not guilty British troops. They were accompanied on the remainder of the journey by Shiels of Donegal, Sinn Fein liaison officer. BILL the special tax sub-committee Opponents of the sales tax began to lay their plans today for a fight against this proposition. Repreeenta- tive Dickinson, Republican, Iowa a leader of the agricultural bloc, called a meeting of Republican opponents for late today. It was said that aside from referring the finance question to the sub-com- mittee, the majority members dis- cussed the Fordney bill as originally tmtreduced and approved some slight changes. It is indicated that further action by the majority would await @ report from the tax sub-committee. WASHINGTON, Féb. 20.—Majority members of the ways and means com- mittee went into executive session to- day to wrestle anew with the soldier bonus question. Coincident with the meeting of the committee the statement was made by at @ special hearing here. Cano has|a White House official that many let- not yet been detained. number of specials to the Cavan coun- ty line yesterday. The driver of the tender did not stop, whereupon a num- ber of the challenging party fired. (Continued from Page Four) Henry J. Alvarado, Who Lost Partner in ‘Accident Two Months Ago, Victim of Auto Wreck on Highway Henry J. Alvarado, 37 years of age, proprietor of the Ideal Tire company shop at 136 West Yellowstone, died at a local hospital at 2:45 this morning of injuries received about 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon when the auto in which he was riding plunged over a 12-foot embankment on the Salt Creek highway, about four miles north of Casper, and pinned him underneath. ‘The injured man suffered] panion, who was driving the car, es- concussion of the brain and minor] caped with minor bruises. . Dunphy was also under the ma-| fects and he is also survived by a Baptist church cf Torrington. bruises while R. J. Dunphy, his com- nee ne ‘The house of representatives has voted to deprtve both members of par- liamentary immunity and their im prisonment without bail has been or- dered by the court of instruction. |ters and telegrams had reached Presi- dent Harding opposing enactment at this time of bonus legislation, while the executive committee of the Amer- ican legion made public a telegram to the president from:the legion’s nation Y RECEIVED H FATAL chine when it came to a stop but was able to extricate himself and lift the car from the unconscious form of Al- varado. He was placed in an auto which passed. the scene of the wreck a moment later and brought to the hospital here. ‘The accident occurred when front and rear tires on tho auto blew out almost simultanecusly. is to Duaphy, the machine was making a speed of about 15 miles an hour when it left the concrete road and roiled over. Alvarado came to Casper a year ago from Lead, 5. D., and friends today were making efforts to communicate with relatives. An insurance policy of which his wife, Inez Alvarado, is the beneficiary was found among his ef- daughter supposed to be living at Tyro Kan: A brother-inlaw who is an oil well driller had not been located to- day. The deceased was a member of both the Odd Fellows and Masonic lodges. Pending funeral arrangements the body is being held-at the Bowman mertuary on East Second stret. ‘The death of Alvarado is the second tragedy to befall proprietors of the shop, his partner. Orange Keller, hav ing been killed by the explosion of a truck tire he was inflating about two months ago. waite Tee SSE NEW PASTOR INSTALLED. TORRINGTON, Wyo., Feb. 20.—Dr. H. T. Clark, formerly of Gillette, has essumed the pastorate of the First soldiers’ bonus is to be financed. committee would meet tomorrow and would go into the ques- tion of a sales tax among other things. Business Revival Now Pending Will Be Followed by New Era of Activity, Says Federal Reserve Board WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Business throughout the coun- try progressing through well defined circles, is nearing the|treaty, I have to advise that it is point of the upward swing of the economic pendulum, ac-|!™rossle to comply with the sen- cording to the annual report of the federal reserve board transmitted today to congress. “There are those,” the report said, “who believe that the there are many conversations and dis- Irish Football. Team Freed, Sein Feins Gather For Meet BELFAST, Feb, 20.—(By The Associated Press.) Members of the Irish Republican army football team, Captured at Dromore last month, were released from the Londonderry beginning of revival is not far distant. When it does definitely set in it will era of prosperity.” followed its usual rotation. tion is described 2s fojlows: | production; of slow liquidation,’ ‘business depres: \sion and stagnation and then revival. “In the light of recent experience,” the report warned, “we should remem- ber, when" we again enter into a pe- riod of full prosperity, that a reaction will follow sooner or later;.and if the|most emphatically that there were no flow of the incoming tide can be con- trolled so that the crest may, not be|secret exchanges of notes, and there reached too rapidly nor risé too high) (Continued on Page Four) REFERRED BACK Tax Sub-Committee Again Wrestles With Financial Program to Meet Cash Payments of Compensation WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Majority members of the house ways and means committee, referred back today to the whole problem of how the It was announced the sub- a! commander, Hanford MacNider, suggesting that the legislation be no longer delayed. ‘The letters reaching the president opposing enactment at this time of bonus iegislation greatly outnumber those favoring immediate legislation, it was said at the White House. Some of the opposition letters it was said, showed however, a similarity in form. Commander MacNider ir. his tele- gram, declared “the negligible minor- ity in opposition can be traced in nearly every case to certain selfish in- terests intrenched in great financial ‘The commander said the American legion did not understand “first com- mittment and then retraction” on the bonus question. _ Much of the house ways and means committee's time was today given over to consideration of the original Ford- ney bill, as amended by a special sub- committee. No changes in the five options were made but the question of making more attractive the insurance, land settlement, home aid and voca- tional training options so as’ to reduce the cash payments to a minimum was before the entire committee majority. Suggestions that the cash payments be deferred for a year or longer ap- parently have not been received favor- ably by leading Republicans on the committee. Chairman Fordney has sald that in his judgment, the bill should provide for beginning the cash payments next October 1. Mr. MacNider in his telegram de- clared the legion believes the issues now being ratified relative to the rev- enue features required by the presi- dent to be included in the bili “are being used scleiy for the purpose of misleading the general public.” The national commander further as- sertel that whenever the people of the United States have been given an opportunity to voice their feelings on the question of the bonus, their an- swer always has, been unmistakable. “Had capital and labor been draft ed when men's lives were drafted," the telegram continued, “the present as- ravated situation would not exist. ‘When it was a question of reimburs- ing manufacturers for war contract never fulfilied, requiring some three billion dollars," no such hue and ery was raised. It was an obligation and it was paid. Certainly the services of the manufacturers, railroads and ship- ping interests were not so much more (Continued from Page Four) Business, in one of tts “long swings" | from prosperity, the report said, has) win ‘th re © amenities’ of international | “Business activity and increased) paws 2 tion and (oT discussions of which ne record was | speculation, followed hitherto by panic bey forced liquidadon; a long period So Says President Harding in Reply to for Information on Negotiation; Records of Parley Not Available; Yap Past Is Reported WASHINGTON, Feb. 20._President Harding, replying today to the senate on the Hitchcock resolution asking for information relative to the negotiaticn o fthe four-power impossible to furnish the rv most of the negotiations we conducted without the maintaining of a record. The president said it world not be compatible with public interests to disclose the confidential negotiations of the treaty negotiators, but he de- clared that “there were 10 concealed understandings and no secret ox changes of notes.”* Almost coincident with the arrival of the president's letter at the senate F foreign relations committee of that body by @ vote of ten to © ordered avorably reported the treaty between te United States and Japan regarding the island of Yap. The acti:n followed a two-hour de bate in the committee, and was taken after several Republican and Demo- Meratic senators had indicated they’ would favor reporting the treaty to the senate but reserved the right ta) further discuss it on"the floor. The single negative vote wag cast by Sena- tor Pittman, Democrat, Nevado. The president's reply to the Hitch- cock resolutioi., which waa adopted by the senate last week, follows: “Responsive to gtnate resolution No. 237, asking for records, minutes, apguments, debates, conversation etc., |relating to the so-called four-power jate'’s request. Many of the things |asked for in tha resolution it fs literal- |ly fmposnible to furnish, because cussions quite outside the conference, yet vital to its success. Naturally be followed in due course by @ new| these are without record. “I do not believe it#to be compat- ible with public interests or consistent |Negotiations to attempt.to reveal in- |formal and confidential conversations jkept, or to submit tentative sugges- tions or informal proposals, without |which the arrival at desirable inter- national understandings would be rendered unlikely if not impossible. | “While I am unable to transmit the information requested, I do, how- ever, take this opportunity to say understandings, and |concealed no jaro no cérmitments watever except i (Continued on Page Four) W. T. JUDKINS DIES TODAY AT RIVERTON HOME te Game and Fish Commissioner Falls tim to Cancer for Which He RIVERTt. * Wyo., Feb. 20. William T. Juakins, missioner for Wyoming, died this morning. His last critic. five or six days during which the stomach, for which he und some seven weeks ago, caused his fleath. At that time physicians ad. vised him, it is understood, that his condition was hopeless and he ro turned to hig home here to spend his Inst days. Funeral arrangements have not Deen completed but it is definitely known that he will be Inid at rest Wednesday afternoon, Burial will be madi here. > Mr. Judkins had made Riverton his home since the town was founded 15 years ago and before that he was agent in charge of the Wind River Indian reservation. Gov. Robert D. Carey appointed him head of the state game department on his suc- ceasion to office and he served the state in this capacity conscientious- ly and well. A widow and two sons survive him, one of them, Lincoln Judkins, being @ resident of Salt Creek. Princess Mary Receives Gift Of Rich Jewel LONDON, Feb. 20.—Xing George's principal wedding gift to [Princess Mary is a handsome picce of jewelry, which hay already been given to her, says the Daily Mail. ‘she will receive another ‘present from her father be- fere her, marriage to Viscount Lascel- 4 ———$—< ee Mistakes Made In Prohibition, Bishop States CHICAGO, Feb. 20.—Bishop ‘Thomas F. Gailor, president of the National Council of the Episcopal church, said in an address here last night, that he believed “the eigh- teenth amondment was a mistake.” He also said that he believed in the modification of the Volstead law. “I am in favor of mortality," he said, “and I personally observe the Volstead law but I am opposed to putting sumptuary laws of so dras- tic a character in the constitution. It partakes of the old philosophy thar matter is inherently evil. i am not speaking in the interests of the underworld but in the interests of intelligent, upstan@ing men.” pombe rine deh HES M. E. BISHOP IS CLAIMED LONDON, Feb, 20.—Bishop John Edward Robinson, who since 1875 has been missionary bishop for the Methodist Episaopal church in the United States, died at Bangalore Thursday night, says a Madras dis- patch to the London Times. He is} especialiy remembered !n London for | his strong views during the war. At one war time meeting he declared he “thanked God, as an American and in behalf of the American people, for British protection abroad.” Ireland in February, 1840, but emigrat-| ed to the United States when he was| 16 years old. He was ordained a| Methodist Episcopal minister in 1874 and soon afterward went to the mis- sionary fields in India and Bermuda GREYBULL COMMERCIAL CLUB 1S REORGANIZED GREYBULL, Wyo., Feb. 20.—Reor. ganization of the Greybull Commer- cial club was perfected here under the name of the Gréybull Chamber of Commerce and plans have been made for financing the organization by an assessment to be levied on business firms. The latter will pay $25 each and employes will be xdmitted to membership for $2.50 each. pein Sein s thal ox we = Harding Signs Market Bill WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—The Cap- per-Volstead co-operative marketing bill which legalizes co-operative asso- ciations of farmers and producers for marketing purposes and exempts them from the Sheriman anti-trust law was signed by President Harding. .— (Special to The Tribune.) — years of age, state game and fish com- at his home here at 1 o’clock al illness covered a period of he failed rapidly. Cancer of erwent an operation in Denver prcseinteneasasid steteiassetsiecanndioctra hh CHIEF NISBET | PINNED UNDER GIR IN WREGK Two Have Narrow Escape When Machine Turns Com- pletely Over and Comes to Rest in Snowdrift. Alexander Nisbet, chief of police, narrowly missed death of serious in- jury Sunday morning when a car in which he. was driving to Salt Creek turned over, pinning Mr. Nisbet and another man under the car for a short time. The accident was fortunate in that @ heavy bank of snow prevented the car from turning completely over and rolling down the hill to a draw many fect ‘below. But for the snow bank it {s_probable that Mr. Nisbet and his companion would have been killed as they would have been unable to leave the car which was completely en- closed. Mr, Nisbet is able to be about hi«c dutios hero today, suffering only slightly from the effects of the acci- dent. His f{njuries consisted mainly of bruises and shock when the car plunged over on its side. The accident happened while Mr, Nisbet was on route to the field to look aver the Salt Creek Consolidated company properties. The ‘scene was the top of the hill just before enter- ing Salt Creek. After emerging from the car Mr. Nisbet and his companion emerged from the curtained car and awaited the arrival of trucks to right the car. The machine was able to proceed on its own povier to the field and make the return trip to Casper. 11,500 CASES LIQUOR SEIZED MIAMI, Fla, Feb. 20.—The Brit- ish schooner Annabelle was seized late yesterday off Jewish creek about 40 miles south of Mianu with a cargo of 11,500 cases of whiskey aboard by airplanes of the prohibition squadron operating out of Miami! and’ adjacent coastal towns, it was learned today from officials here. LAWSUIT OVER NITRATE PLANT IS THREATENED Acceptance of Ford Offer Will Lead to Court Test of Option Given Ala- bama Concern, Claim WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Acceptance by the United States government of the offe: r by Henry Ford for purchase and lease of the Muscle Shoals, Ala., nitrate and water power project ‘“‘would constitute a violation of the solemn and bind- John Edward Robinson was born in|ing agreement entered into with our committee, under date of June 8, 1918,” J. C. Hammitt, vice president of the Air Nitrates corporation, notified house military committee today. Tho witness asserted that, despite the opinion of Colonel Hull, acting the TOKIO, Feb. 20.—The instrue- tions of the Japanese foreign office to the Japanese consulate in San Francisco that it refuse to vise the passport of Mrs. Margaret Sanger head of the Birth Control league, were on the ground that propagan- da along the lines it was understood she proposed was illegal to Japan and an improper subject for public discussion. | . BRITISH CONTROL LEAGUE HEAD IS DENIED PASSPORT BY JAPAN The foreign office's action, how- ever, it was stated by an official to- day did not mean that Mrs. Sanger would be denied admission to Japan. Statements that she would not be permitted to land in Japan were in- correct, he declared. On the con- trary she would undoubtedly receive permission .to enter the country, upon the condition that she would not attempt propaganda. jdudge advocate general of the army, that the agreement was “null and void,” he believed it would “hold-in the courts” wher= ‘t tronld be tested ji the government insisted upon vio- lating its. pledge. | Mr. Hammitt, explaned that the | Air Nitrates corporation was a subsi- |diary of the American Cyanamid com- |pany of Maine and was created to pro- jtect the stock holders of the latter in case the corporation “fli down on its |war contracts amounting to seven | times its capital. Without the assistance of the con- cerns, he declared, the nitrate plant could not have been erected by the government. “We could have asked," he sald, “that the plants be destroyed after the war. But all we requested that the corporation be given a right to purchase the plants on as favorable terms as given others after their op: jeration was stopped by the govern- iment.”