Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 21, 1922, Page 1

he Casper Daily Weather Forecast Snow tonight and Wednesday; cold: cold wave in northeast portion tonight; strong shifting winds. | Crihune VOLUME VI RENTALS HERE CASPER, WYO., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1922. COMMITTEE TO MAKE SURVEY Chamber of Commerce Takes Up Study of Situation With View to Making Casper now has a chamber of commerce committee which will undertake an investigation of rental conditions here to make a thorough investigation, establish whether the rent|Reea of Missouri, as counsel for Pel- returns are fair or not and make the result of the investiga- tion public. Authorization of the movement was made by the. mesa ecnte chad vhs: UNA Sik: ton arab eather Menetl GREENWICH VILLAGE IS ‘ABUSED’ ° ° ° o > ° ¢ > o ferum at a meeting held this noon at the Henning hote. As soon as possible @ committee will be appointed to un- dertake this probe and its work will not be completed until an investiga- tion of alleged inequalities here is forthcoming. : ‘The decision to appoint such a com- the statement of R. 5S. Ellison who presided at the meeting and who said that there appeared to ba a decided sentiment to have the chamber of commerce go into every phase of costs here in order to weed out and destroy by publicity all form of inequality. ‘With no regular program scheduled for today, the forum luncheon was given over to a series of unprepared subjects. At the instanco of W, J. Bailey a committee was appointed to represent the chamber of commerce in corralating all organizations here who are undertaking work in securing trees or other improvement or beau- tification of the streets. The most vital question facing Cas- per today is the necessity of providing the Natrona County chapter of the Red Cross with a fund of $5,000 in a drive that will last all next week, ac- cording to the statement of lL. A. Reed. The money is required to per- mit the organization to carry out its program for the present year. The Rev. Phillip K. Edwards an- nounced that every dollar of the money collected would be spent in ad- ministering relief to the needy of Cas- per and Natrona county and stated that every dollar raised was being ex- pended in behalf of the organization. Mr, Ellison said that Casper was fortunate in having only to provide such a small sum and urged that the chamber reafirm its stand in favor of the Red Cross drive for the prestige it would give. Mr, Mechling asked that 2 commit- tee of three members be appointed to visit the Red Cross headquarters and determine how ever dollar was being spent to obtain relief here and asked that the committee complete its work so that it could make public its find- ings bofore the drive starts next Mon- bis a Mechling in a brief talk an- nounced that the building committee of the chamber of commerce was mak- ing progress in drafting an ordinance which will restrict indiscriminate building in the residential districts and that the matter would soon be (Continued on Page Four) ing conditions to Recommendations for Future NEW YORK, Feb. 21—Greenwich village is falling down. The villag- ers that speeding motor trucks miniature carth- quakes which are making their walls more Bohemian than is necessary, Charles Brady, city superintendent of huildings, agreed that the village one-of tie pidest sections of Man- hattan, is abused, and that it is povitively dangerous to permit exist- tinue. Landlords complain that the heavy Pelletier of Suffolk county was office. ney General Allen that Pelletier had deen a party to conspiracy to extort money under threats of prosecution and to suppress indictments. His re lations with Daniel H. Coakley and ether local attorneys were characteriz- ed by the attorney genvral as a “part- nership in crime.” ‘United States Senator James A. letier presented no testimony in de- fense arguing that the evidence con-' truck speed so fast over the streets that the resultant vibration causes walls to crack, heating plants to break pictures to fall from their hooks and water pipes to resemble futurist art, “Certainly the police department should see to tt that the speed of these trucks is regulated,” said Sup- REMOVED BY SUPREME COURT ON CHARGE OF MALFEASANCE BOSTON, Mass., Feb. 21.—District Attorney Joseph C.| today. The court found him guilty in several counts, under charges of malfeasance, misfeasance and nonfeasance in The court’s ruling was on charges brought by State Attor- cy | EDITION | NUMBER 114. | removed by the supreme court| growth of a conspiracy by “personal and political enemies. A verdict of not guilty owas returned on charges that the district attor had improperly dropped prosecution! of “Brownie” Kennedy, who as the conspirator of Mishawum Manor, fig- ured in the trial on which. District Attorney Nathana Tufts of Middlesex county was removed last fall. | The court found Pelletier. guilty in| most of the important instances of misconduct alleged by the attorney! general. . He was found guilty on the charge that while running for mayor he of- fered to quish any procedings against persons who took it upon themsnlyes to resent vigorously reports that Pel- letier intended to resign. The district’ attorney was found guilty in the Emerson Motors oise, in which that company was said to have paid $20,500 to stop prosecution in Suffolk county. A half dozen other cases were also decided against him. BOSTON, Feb. 21.—The trial of Dis- trict Attorney Joseph C. Pelletier of Suffolk county, before the full beneh of the Massachusetts supreme cou: which began on December 27 ended January: 24, was’ the hearing of the kind in the state's his- BLAST INTO BLAZING FURNACE , 33 DEAD — —————____ TURNS DIRIGBLE = Only Ten Out of Half Hundred on Board We "s Largest Semi-Rigid Airship Roma DISTRICT ATTORNEY ORDERED Reported Saved Late Today Following 1,00. sot Drop and Explosion Over the Hampton Roads Naval Base; Some Leap From ‘aming Ma ss While Others Are Buried in Wreckage; Fire Too Hot for Rescuers to.“ ork Long After Tragedy NORFOLK, Va., Feb. 21.—Exploding after crashing downward during a irial flight, the army’s Italian-built Roma was troyed and a half after the disaster dirigible in the world, had lost their lives. Difficulty in definitely fixing the number of killed and injured was nauged by the fact that intense heat from the burning wreckage prevented | close inspection, Eyewitnesses said the Roma was flying at a height of from 600 to 1,- 000 feet when she was seen to be in trouble. A thin wisp of smoke ap- peared and the craft started down- ward obliquety. Before striking the barracks bulld- ing a number of men were seen to leap, some with parachutes and some without. Some of those removed from the wreckage were badly burned bat oth- ers escaped virtually without injury. Members of the official crew of the Roma were announced. at Langley field as follows: Major John .G. Thornell, former commander. Captain Dale Mabry, commander. Captain Walter J. Reed, pilot. Lieutenant »>:0on G. Burt, pilot. Sergeant ober B. MeNally, coz swain. Sergeant Leo M. Harris. chief en- ineer. Sergeant Lewis Millard, engineer. Myron G, Field, engineer. eritendent Brady: “If this con- tinues we ‘may have a calamity such asa building collapsing one of these days.” ‘ory and involved 32 specifications. of alleged “malfeasance, misfeasance and non-feasance in cffice" formulated by (Continued on Page Four) | J. M. Biedenbach, engineer. Sergeant Thomas Yarbrough, gineer. Sergeant Billy Ryan, radio operator. en- Sergeant Virgil Hoffman, rigger. Corporal Irby Huzion, rigger. Corporal Alberto Floresa, rigger. Private Gus Kinkston, rigger. Private Marion Hill, rigger. Private Thomas M. Blakely, neer. Private John Thompson, engineer. Privete Vernon Peek, engineer. Sergeant Homer Girby. and Ser Geant Lico'G. Loupes, photographers, Twelve men were taken from the twisted mass of steel ang flume but two died on their way to the hospital. Ao the work of rescue was organiz ed, burned and charred bodies were discovered in the debris. engi ROMA WAS THIRD TO BE DESTROYED. NEW YORK, Feb. 21.—The dirigible Roma which blew up today over tori Roads, was the third big airship to be destroyed in a spectacular mis- bap in the last 13 months. On Angust 24, 1921, the ZR-2, built by the British for purchase by the United States as a cost of $2,000,000 exploded over Hull, England, killing 42, including 16 Americans. On January 1, 1921, the 44, which flew from England to Long Island and back in the summer of 1919, tho first airship to cross the Atlantic, was wrecked in a ‘gale while tethered out. side her airdorne in Howden, England. D'VALERA ADVOCATES TWO ARMIES MARY GARDEN TO RESIGN OPERA COMPANY, PLANS $250,000 CONCERT TOUR NEW YORK, Feb. 21.—(By The Associated Press)—Mary Gardex in- tends to resign her position as di- r of the. Chicago Opera com- pany at the close of the current season, if some one gan be found to take her place, but she expects to continue with the company as an artist “where she belongs and knows she belongs” it was announc- ed today by her secretary, Howard E. Potter. c Mr. Potter said -Miss Garden would make no definite decision until she had conferred next month at Chicago with Samuel Insull, the new president of the Chicago Opera company. ‘The diva had recetved a $250 .000 offer from a New York manager for & concert tour, and she had many other interests which she had found it impossible to carry out, he said, because of the demands on her time exacted by the position as director of the opera company, and the at- tending “responsibilities,. annoy- ances, troubles and harrassments” of that position. CHICAGO, Feb. 21.—(By The As- ‘sociated Press)—Samuel Tnsull, president of the Chicago Civic Opera association, which has charge of the Chicago Opera company, declared he was ‘not surprised when inform- j ed today that Mary Garden planned to resign as director. “There is nothing for me to add to Miss Garden's statement,” said Mr. Insull. “I have known for some time that she planned a re-organiz- tion of her personal affairs and it is. only natural that she should tire of the arduous duties of directing a company of grand opera singers.” ND AES OGOUT LEADERS WILL GONFER ON PARK TRIP CHEYENNE, Feb, 21,—Boy Scout leaders of Cheyenne. Sheridan, Lara- mie and Casper will confer with Gov. Robert D. Carey in Cheyenne next Saturday, relative to the project for Boy Scout troops of the cities named Plans fov the trip will be discussed, including « standard of proficiency in Scout work which each boy permit- ted to make the journey must at- tain. The tentative plans calls for the departcre for the park about Au- | gust 1 and an itinerary covering three weeks, of which one week will be spent in the park. MINERS TO HOLD PARLEY WOULD CHICAGO, Feb. 21—President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America, today asked coal operators of the central .com- petitive field, comprising the states of Mllincis, Indiana, Ohio and also of western Pennsyivania, to meet with union officials at Cleveland on March 2 for a wage conference which he said might avert their tin- pending strike. Similar requests have been re | jected by some operators who said }. they wished to discontinue collect- ive bargaining with the’ mine:s. Mr. Lewis’ messages for the Cleveland meeting were sent to all associations of coal in the centrat competitive field, and also operators who were signator- jes to the present wage agreement made in New York City two. years ago. The Cleveland meeting, if ap- proved by the operators, Mr, Lewis said, would fix the dates for nego- tiations on the wage scale, No ac; STAY BIG STRIKE tual work on a ocale agreement, he said, would bo taken at the Cieve- land meeting. In his messages Mr. Lewis re ferred to a provision of the pres- ent contract providing for the pre- liminaries of the wage negotiations this year, and ho said “aside from the obligation to meet as set forth in the agreement, I consider such meeting: essential and necessary fromthe standpoint of puflic in- terest and public welfare.” _ | a trip to Yellowstone park by the! | in Sinn Fein Ranks DUBLIN, Feb. 21.—(By for Ireland to have two armies, if the country were imperilled rather than one army divided in itself. Mr. De Valera’s speech was the out- standing feature of the morning ses- sion of the Ard Fheis, which had only |begun the discussion of the party's |future policy for or against the Anglo- Irish treaty when ihe luncheon ad- journment was taken at 140 p. m until 3 o'clock. | | Speaking to his’ resolution urging the Sinn Fein party to continue the fight. for a republic, Mr. De Valera won hearty applause @i mumterous points he made in his address. i “I would rather see the country} |flooded with British troops than give them the irrevocable right to be here” was one of his assertions, made in a: which resulted in “Treland,” he deciared later on, “is lentitied to the dignity of a mother |country and I will never consent to |make her the illegitimate daughter of; England.” Again, he said: “My position ‘s the same as when| tion, when I said ‘our colors are nailed to the mast.’ t I said I meant.” Mr. De Valera appealed for harmony between the divisions if a break up should occur, saying he and Arthur Griffith always had been colleagues and would continue so. Most of the morning session was taken up with making arrangements for a vote, which probably will be taken on Mr. De Valera’s motion about 7 o'clock this evening, although it was agreed this morning that if the Ard Fheis desired to defer the vote and continue debate it could do so. The hall was crowded, and many delegates! were forced to stand, finding great dif-| ficulty in hearing the speakers. EXCITEMENT MARKS CONVENTION OPENING. DUBLIN, Feb. 21—(By The Associ- ated Press).—The extraordinary meet- ing of the Ard Fheis, the national Sinn Fein convention, supplying an to whic hthe Sinn Fein clubs of Ire-} land are supporting the nevt provis: ional government, opened amidst tense Deposed Leader Would Compromise Split | Separate Forces for Defense by Maintenance of | | The Associated Press.)—| Eamonn De Valera, apparently regarding a split of the Sinn} Fein party as inevitable, openly advocated such a division in) addressing the Ard Fheis, the national Sinn Fein convention at its extraordinary session today, saying it would be better each ready to assist the other excitement in the rotunda of the Man- sion House today. After the delegates, who crowded the confines of the meeting room, had been seated a contest developed over| the question of the method of taking a vote on the resolutions setting forth} the attitude of the convention. | Austin Stack, minister of home af- fairs in the De Valera cabinet op- posed a secret ballot, saying he saw no reason why the delegates should not publicly declare their sentiments. | On a showing of hands Eamonn De Valera, who presided, declared those in favor of open voting had won their point. | Michael Collins, head of the provis- fonal government, assented to this de cision, thus checking objections to the speakers ruling. ' It was finally decided to retain the} ot form of voting but to yake} the vote public. The delegates, it was) Agreed should write their names on tho back of the ballot card. 4s motion to vote at 7 p. m. instead which carried. | A motion to vote at 6 p. m. failed but Kevin O’Sheil moved that the vote on the principal resolution, namely that with regard to the Sinn Fein’s| future policy for or against the Irish treaty, be taken immediately. He said the majority of the delegates had been instructed by their home ¢lubs how to vote, and, in any case, had definitely made up their minds. O’Sheil's amendment was defeated The Ard ¥heis decided also that if ‘at 7 p. m. the convention desired to} Gefer the vote and continue the dis-| cussion st could do so. | Michael Collins came forward to the Platform at this juncture. He re- ceived the greatest demonstration from the convention up to this point. He sald he favpred free and full discus- ior? of the important questions before the convention. ‘The Ladies’ Library association of opportunity for revealing the extent| Kalamazoo, Mich., organized in 1852,| t society of its kind in ates founded and-ysin. was the earli the United tained by women, TRUCK DRIVER IS KILLED AT GRASS CREEK Special to The Tribune, BASIN, Wyo., Feb. 21.—Charies Wilcox, one of the men injured in the Grass Creek explosion last May, in connection with which Alfred Lampitt was recently convicted for the death of Harry Foight, was kill- ed last night between Meeteetse and Grass Creek. The stage driver from Meetectse found the body of Wiicox morn- at the head of Gooseberry Creek, pinned under a truck which he had been driving. The truck apparent- ly skidded and overturned. Attorneys for the defense in the Lampitt case today filed motion for a new trial and if this is refused have announced that an appeal will be taken to the supreme court. bisa Se ecbaiendl BURSUM BILL PASSED TODAY WASHINGTON, Feb. 21—The Bur- sum bill giving disabled emergency I was made president of this organiza-lof at 8 p. m. as had been. proposed| officers of the Amorican Expeditionary Forces the seme retirement privilege as regular army officers was passed today by the senate 50 to-14 and trans- mitted to the house. Ten persons have been ard OM company plant at Sewell’s Point to jump from the ship while jshe was several hundred feet in the air. Fourteen men, according to other All are in nearby hospitals. UNDER WRECKAGE. PORTSMOUTH, Va, Feb. 21.—Re Met that 25 or 40 bodies still were pinned under the wreckage of the giant airship Roma which exploded over Hampton Roads army baso this afternoon was by <ictals of the Untted States public heaith serv- ice which has taken charge of the dis- Posal of the bodies and the reacue of the men pinned under the debris. The men have been taken to the hospital at the army base, the heaith service announced. ‘The j:st of Injured as given opt at 4 o'’clork included: Capmin Reed, U. 8. A Walter A. McNaire, of the bureau of Charies Wworch, master sergeant. First Sergeant C. H. Welch. Sergeant Peek. Roy Burley, aviation. Lieut. W. B, Riley died while be ing brought to tho United States pub lic heath hospita}. FOUR MEN TAKEN FROM SHIP ALIVE. NORFOLK, Vi, Feb. 21—The army dirigtblq Roma, purchased by the irshiy: today near the naval base here with the loss of an undetermined number of lives. Estimstes an hour placed the dead from half a dozen to nearly 40 out of the more than half a hundred per- bn on back Peay. tt dead yee estimated late today at 33 while it was said that there were a total of 43 men of th scealy tajured: The naval hospital at Portsmouth was ed’ the airs. € 4 rescued, many 4 cially informed that 38 of those aboard the airship, the largest semi-rigid were killed while undertakers in Newport News were officially notified that thirty or more persons It was officially announced at the army ba: t 3:40 o’clock that only t i h bee: d fi 3 | pibaeaeeeiereite ine ener pil se al oc a ly ten survivors have been rescued from the Roma. RESERVATION TO PAGFIG TREATY BEING DEBATED BY COMMITTEE: Majority Favor Clause to Offset Possibility of Understandings Not Written Into Records WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-= A reservation to the four» United States government from Italy and only. recently commissioned, was destroyed by an explosion today while Operating over the Hampton Roads naval base. The hig air craft believed to bo carryng @ number of passeng- ers, landed in flames near the nayal base. Soon after.she fell four men were taken off alive. The heat of the flames was so in- tense that those near where the craft fell were unable to approach. Thu four men rescued were badly Durned. The Roma, which was the largest semi-rigid airship in the world, was sailing in a southeasterly direction when according to observers, she sud denly burst inot fiames and fell like @ comet to the earth. The explosion occurred shvirtly after 2 o'clock. Authorities at Langley ¥ield, the home station of the Roma, and the point at which sho was assembled after being brought here from Italy. said that fully forty men were aboard the big airship but whether there was loss of life had not been ascertained half an hour after she was seen to burst into flames. Reports from Portsmouth, which is near the na base said the Roma after a slanting plunge of hundreds of feet struck one of the bar: r building at the base and then ex ploded, with a ripping crash. A shot of flame leaped from rent in the gas bag and the passeng er compartments slung underneath dropped twenty feet to the ground. Other officials at Langley field said there were 21 men in the official crew of the airship and 20 or 40 pas seagers and enlisted men. ‘One man was seen by observers at the Stand the observers at Porthmouth, were seen to leap from the ship as it became ap parent that she would strike one of the naval base barracks buildings. Some, it was reported, clung to para chutes while. others jumped straight to he ground choosing to take their cl ce in that manner rather than staying aboard the blazing ship. Witnesses at the scene of the burn (Continued on Page Four) power treaty, providing that no “adjustments or under- standings” reached under its provision shall be binding without the consent of congress, was debated for two hours by the senate foreign relations committee today without action but with a majority of the members indicating their general approval. Senator Brandegee, Republitean, Connecticut, offered the reservation ard committee members maid the dis- cussion developed that even Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, was favor- ably disposed toward it. Senator Pomerene, Democrat, Ohio, presented @ mubstitate covering somewhat tho same ground, but the committee re- ported no vote on either proposition. By some committee members, it whe predicted after the meeting that the Brandegee reservation would be epted by a very unanimous vate further discus: nh =oand that other reservations. which have been tentatively drafted. by various sena- tors would be withheld until the treaty comes into the senate. It was said favorable report, with the re- servation attached, might be voted to- morrow. A belief that the senate is entitled more information was expressed to the committee, however, by Senator John- son, Republican, California, and it was icated by other senators the sub- might be debated later on the sen- Jec' ate floor. The text of Senator Brandegee's reservation which is the first to be proposed to any of the arls conference senate advises and consenta to the following reservation which {@ made a part of the ment of ation to wit he United States understands that it assumes no oblig: either legal nts in re- 2 moral, to maintain the lation to the insular » sular domainions of of the other high contracting partis and Cute consent of the congress of the Un’ States shall be necessary to any justment or understanding under arti- cle 1 or 11 by which the United Statea ia to be bound in any way and that there is no obligation either legal or moral to give such consent.” WIRHOR VESSEL G SECRECY BEING OB MIAMI, Fla, Feb. 21.—Local Prohibition agents today professed to be without official information as to the seizure Sunday off Jewfish creek, about 40 miles squth of MI- ami, of the British schooner Anna- ing liquors on board. | All airplanes the prohibition squadron left Miami last night Capt. L. Rogers, commanding one of them, said } make no re | port to federal horitics here as belle with 11,500 cases of intoxicat- | j the squadron was operating under | | direct orders from Washington. Ho ; | sgid he hud placed a strong guard | over the schooner and its contra band cargo and added that the ve sel will not be moved from its an chorage off Jewfish cree vices as to its disposal from Washington. Prohibition } were still without from Miami of the | British schooner Ann ar ARBRE SERVED schemes proposed submarine sers and reinforced land forces in a concerted anti-smuggling cam- paign In Florida were still being oner Haynes to Lave no knowledge o! Cap- Rogers reported from Miami command of one of the air- es which captu Anna-