Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 23, 1922, Page 1

SEARCH MADE FOR SLEET CARRIED ON CREST OF ; ulZJJIN USED TO. KILL COLD WAVE IN MIDDLE WEST TAYLOR PROBE Hundreds of Wire Poles Snapped Off and - RENEWED TODAY - ON ONESSIO LOS ANGELES, Feb. 23.— A second search was planned here today of the location where Harry M. Fields, under > arrest in Detroit, was reported ~ to have said the pistol used to iif William Désmond Taylor, film dl reetur, had been disposed of. Deputy sheriffs male a search asi night upon receipt of a telegram: from Detroit authorities, containing Field's alleged declaration on the subject, but without results. They also announced they would look today for a bank teller,,who, ac- cording to other information given out in Detroit by Fields, changed a $1,000 bil, in order that pergons named by him as having committed the murder might have $900 with which to pay him for driving the automobile in which they rode to the Taylor apart- ments. DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 23.—Inclined to'gpuibe. the iter at Sane emer a prisoner in the coun! ere, he wes implicated in the slaying of William PD. Taylor, Los Angeles mo- tion picture director, local authorities today were endeavoring to trace his movements immediately preceding his arrest in Buffaio February 6. Fields was arrested in Buffalo on a charge The Chinese gave him the money, Fields declared, changing a $2,i0 bill at a bank for that purpose. Tho re volver with which Taylor was slain, he said, belonged to the Chinese and tterward. but the authorities profess to have rea: son to believe Fields was either in New York City or in Buffalo at the time of the Taylor slaying. @er, pickpocket and stool-pigeon federal authorities, It was revealed to- forgery charge. At that time Fields told the police he came from Philadel- phia/ He now ims to have a wife and four children jn Los Angeles. Fields came to New York from the Pacific coast. Eight months ago he went to Canada to avoti trouble with the New York police, Mr. Oiler said. When he returned in November he had become such a confirmed drug ad- dict that .he was uselesg as a stool- pigeon and Mr. Oiler discharged him. renters rats RESOLUTION TO RECALL HARVEY _.IS INTRODUCED WASHINGTON, Feb. 23-—A reso- Iution designed to bring about the recall from England of Ambassa- AGED MAN DEAD. Sherman Morrow, age 60, for the pending arrtval of relatives who have been summoned here. MUST BE ,fO D CHICAGO, Feb. 23.— Apparently ureonscious of the fact that his last hope of escaping death on the gal- lows had disappeared, Harvey Church, eqnvicted of the murder of two automobile salesmen, lay in his cell today in the same position that he has maintained for many days, Warden Westbrodk said that be- cause of his woaknese he probably would have ty he carried to the gal- lows and dropped through the trap seated on a chair. He ts boing fed forcibly it was announeed. Che Casprr Daily Weather Forecast Fair tonight and probably Friday; E RESERVATION REJECTE Pair Look On, Robbers Pull Quiet Holdup LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 23.— Two holdup men observed a police man standing in front of the store of Harry W. Weber, in the Holly- wood district und after they haq en- tered and displayed their pistols, they quietly requested Weber not to hold up his hands, but to keep them at his sides. Then they- took $45 from the till and escaped in an automobile. Neither the policeman nor a cus- tomer in a telephone booth in the store knew of the robbery ‘Weber told them. MAS. B. H. FERISCH DIES, FUNERAL TO BE HELD AT 7 O'CLOCK TONIGHT Funeral services will be held at 7 o'clock this evehing at the Shaffer- Gay chapel for 3rs. B. H. Ferisch, 34 years of age, who died at 12:30 last night at a local hospital follow- ing an illness for which she under- went an operation over a week ago. The remains will leave on tonight's train for her former home at Mo- Cook, Neb., for iiterment. Mrs. Ferisch, with her husband, a refinery employe, had made her home ere for the last eight years. She leaves no children but ts survived by her husband and three brothers, the latter of McCook. She was a member of three local lodges—Neighbors of Woodcraft, Na- trona Rebekah lodge No. i3, Iriquois council, Degree of Pocahontas. (RIS VAUDEVILLE THIS ° WEEK ABOVE AVERAGE ‘The vaudeville bill offered at the Iris theater this week, closing with two performances tonight, is one of the best bills that has been staged at the local playhouse. The high class acts, musics! and novelty numbers, are far above the average for attrac tions of this kind staged here, Miss Billie Lingarde, in a novel posing act, opens the show. The beautiful and expensive scenery used in portraying this feature adds much to its effectiveness. Hahn and Curtis, a high class sing- ing and talking act in which the prin- cipals possess good yolces is the next number. “A Leap Year Proposal” as por- trayed by Price & Gilmore, carries tHe audience into the future when women is the dominant species. Novelty singing numbers featuring Miss Cur- tis’ double voice which ranges from deep tenor to a géod grade of so- prano adds to the act. Another singing and dancing act which goes over good is the Burke Sisters part of the entertainment. ‘They present ‘a high class attraction. Perez and La Flor in an unusual acrobatic act, closed the bill with ef- fective numbers, “The Recorg,” a story of the northwest mounted com- plete the program. a .NATIONAL BAIL FUND. . NEW YORK, Feb. 23.—The estab lishment of a national bail fund to bail in cases involving free speech and other civil rights was announcec by the American Civil Liberties union. The fund is in the hands of Albert de Silver and D. Hollingsworth ‘Wood, lawyers, and Norman’ M. ‘Thomas, associated editor of The Na- tion, as trustees. CARRIED EATH TRAP ICED MAN RIEVE. SENTEN( GIVEN REP! BETON, IIL, Feb. 23.—John Sa- vant, uyder sentence to hang for killing a delivery boy whom he ac- cused of winking at his wife, has abandoned his efforts to die by star- vation and fs devoting his time to writing letters to his wife and to Playing a phonograph. Savant was under the impression that he would hang tomorrow, but the sheriff was informed today that he had been grantod a reprieve un- ti April 21. CASPER, WYO., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1922. SUBSTITUT Committee Refuses Clause Approved By President WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.— A modified blanket reserva- tion to the four-power Pacific treaty laid before the senate foreign relations committee today by Chairman Lodge after a conference with Preisdent Harding, met with immediate opposi- tion from several Republicans as well as Democratic committee members. The new reservation, intended as a substitute for that proposed several days’ ago by Senator Brandegee, Re- publican, Connecticut, provides that nothing in the treaty shall be constru- ed as committing the United States to an exerciae of armed force without the consent of congress. After more than an hour’s debate, which failed to win over the new pro- posul any of the senatotrs who had supported the Brandegee reservation, the committee adjourned until tomor- row without action. < AYhough Senator Lodge did not in- form his colleagues as to the attitude of the president, other committee members gained the impression that the modified reservation would be ac- ceptable to the White House, It had beeh discussed at the earlier confer- ence between Mr. Lodgo and Mr. Hard- ing, but it was not formally offered to the committee with administration backing. ‘The committee chafrman said afverward that-he only had “sug- ‘Cribune |S, | NUMBER 116. CHICAGO, Feb. 23.—The whole northwest in its grip for there today and spr Kansas and Northt river. 4 The drop.in temp. ec wi Petroleum and Railroad Men In Dispute at Rate Hearing WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—Petroleum men and railroad representatives came into di- rect disagreement before the interstate commerce commission in general rate hearings today. Robert L. Welch, general counsel for the American Petroleum Institute, declared thit price declines during 1921 on petroleum products meant a loss of values for the annual out- put as compared with 1920 of at least one billion dollars. Freight rates, he said, were now too high. “Now the fact is that Oklahoma crude oll sold between 1913 and 1916 at from 38 cents to $1.16 per barrel, and in 1921 the average price of Okla coma crude was $1.63, isn’t jt?” M. G. Roberts, attorney for the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad demanded, taking up cross examination. “I haven't looked up those figures but if you have those returns I'll adopt them,” ltr. Welch replied. “Now the consumption of petroleum in the United States during the first six months of 1921 under these high railroad rates you mention, was actu- ally greater than it was in 1920," Mr. Roberts persisted. ‘The witness agreed that the statis- tical conclusion might be justified. “Now the consumption of gasoline actually was six per cent greater in the United States during 1921 over 1920, and 56 per cent over 291 ‘Roberts inquired. Mr. Welch did not challenge ‘the fig- ures but disagreed with the interpre tation which he said Mr. Roberts was seeking. “But the fact is that since the in- crease in rates in 1920 the petroleum industry has profited as it never did before?” Mr. Roberts asked. “I think the fact is." Mr. Welch protested, “that petroleum has gone DAYTONA, Fia., Feb. 23—John D. Rockefeller Sr., grandfather of 16-year-old Mathilde McCormick, whose engagement to Max © Oser, Swiss riding academy properietor, has been announced by members of the McCormick family, has not giv- en his consent to the match, accord- ing to close friends here of Mr. through the most drastic depression |that it has ever experienced.” Lacey Walker, a stativian for the pe- |troleum institute, calculated when call- led as the second witness that during 1921, 104,409 fewer carloads of petrol- eum products were shipped by rail- roads than during 1920, as the result of higher rates. PERMISSION OF ROCKEFELLER IS NOT SECURED FOR MARRIAGE Rockefeller who is now at the Case- ments, his winter home at Ormonde beach near “here, Harold F. McCormick, recentty 4i- vorced by ‘Mr. Rockefeller’s daugh- ter and Miss Mathilde McCormick will visit Mr. Rockefeller at Or- monde soon to discuss the propased marriage, tt was said today. SOCIETY LEADERS RECEIVE THREATS OF DEATH, REPORT DELEGATES TO LEGION AUXILIARY CONVENTION ARRIVING IN CASPER Fifty Representatives of State Units Outside of This * City Expected in Addition to National Presi- dent, Mrs. Hobart of Cincinnati With three additions to the 28 units of the American Legion Auxiliary in Wyoming within the last three days, and with delegates arriving from all parts of the state in addition to the presence of the national president, Mrs. Lowell F, Hobart; of Cincinnati, Ohio, the first state convention or cau- cus meeting of the auxiliary to be held Friday and Saturday promises to be one of vital interest to the organization. , ‘The purpose of the caucus is to form a permanent state organization of the auxiliary, to draw up a constitution and by-laws, and to make plans for the work of the future. It is expected that nearly 50 out of town delegates will be registered at the booth at the Henning hotel which wili be. head- quarters during the meeting. ‘The program for Friday and Satur- day is announced as follows: Friday, February 24. 10 a. m—Call to order by Dr. Flor ence Patrick. Invocation—Rev. C. H. Thompson, Address of Welcome—Mayor W. A. Blackmore. Response—Dr. Florence Patrick. Address—Mrs, Lowell . Hobart, national president. Appointment of committees. Adjournment for, Iunch. 2 p. m.—Call to Order. Report of credentials committee. Report of officers. Report of committees. Adjournment. 7 yp. m.—Banquet at Henning hotel. Music in charge of Prof. Rudolph jandberg. Address by D. W. Ogilbee, depart- ment commander of the American Le- gion. Address by Mrs. Lowell F. Hobart, national president. Further speakers to be announced later. Saturday, February 25. 10 a. m.—Call to order. Reading and adoption of constitu- tion. Adjournment for Im:ch. 2 p. m.—Call to order. Election of officers. Place and time of next meeting. Good of the order. Adjournment. All business meetings will be held in the council chamber of the city hall: Mrs. Cora M. Beech, acting state secretary, Dr. Florence Patrick, acting state president. and Mrs. Lowell F. Hobart, national president arrived’ in the city today ars] are convening with local delegates. In addition to the list of towns of the state having organizations of the auxiliary, Douglas, Lander and Lusk have been added an will send dele- gates. THREE DROWN IN 1OWA LAKE KEOKUK, Iowa, Feb. 23.—Joseph Haubert, aged 16, and two companions Misses Mae and Ida Printy, drowned in Lake Keokuk at 4 o'clock this morning when the ~ automobile in which they were riding plunged off a ferry boat dock at Nauvoo, Ill. BRITISH MORMON PLYMOUTH, England, Feb. 23— (By The Associated Press.)—A num- ber of Morman missionaries were pur- sued through the streets yesterday by mob because of their utterances in Market Square. Tho police rescued the Mormons with ‘difficulty. LONDON, Feb. ,23—(By The Asso- clated Press.)—Some of the newspap- ers recently have been conducting a campaign against Morman activities throughout the country, alleging that Washington Police handers Who Dem sums of money ranging from of the capital. The police as RED GROSS WORKERS T0 LAY PLANS FOR DRIVE AT MONDAY LUNGHEON The campaign to raise funds for the local chapter of the Red Cross will bo put underway Monday evening at a dinner which will be staged at the Henning hotel. While the dinner is primarily to get-together all workers who have been appointed by the nu- merous. organizations to Assist the Red Cross in its undertaking, the din- ner will be open to the public and all interested in the undertaking are in- vited to attend. ‘A program is being arranged. Good music and numerous short talks per tinent to the subject are promised. L. A. Reed, who is acting as chairman of the financial committee of the campaign will preside as toastmaster, Miss Vivian Rue and Miss Marjorie Smith have left for Glenrock, where they will resume teaching in the pub- lic schools, after spending the holiday here as guests of friends. Both young ladies attended the dance at tho Ter- race Gardens Tuesday night. CHASE ‘GROUP the missionaries were trying to ob- 'tain women converts who would pro- coed to Utah: and embrace polygamy. ‘This statement is denied by the Mor- man clders, but thelr meetings have been broken up in some of the thick- ly populated suburban districts. The: authorities have been urged from various sources to take action with a view to expelling the members of the sect. Home Sccretary Shortt Yesterday intefviewed two of the Mor- mon leaders, Guarantee Against Murder WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—Threats of death unless large were said by Washington police today to have been received within the last few days by four prominent society leaders operatives were said to be investigating the origin of the on Hunt for Black- and Thousands as $15,000 to $25,000 are paid well as department of justice threats. The threatening letters, it was said by a prominent police official, have been received ‘by Henry White, for- mer Americ: ambassador to France and one of the American commissién: ers to the Versailles conference; Mrs. Thom: Walsh, widow of the late Montana ‘copper Mrs. Scott Townsend, a well known society lead- er, and Madame Christian Hauge, widow of a former Norwegian min- ister to the United States. Police and department of Justice of- ficials alike were disinclined to dis- cuss the matter and friends of sev- eral of those reported to have re- ceived the jetters denied any informa- tion as to the threats. Definite infor mation however was obtained from the police that an investigation was being made and one police official said an arrest was expected at any time. The letters, according to the police, instructed the recipients to leave the sums demanded in lonely spots around the city. One of the recip- ients, it was said, was told to put the money in a tin can and drop it out of her automobile at a certain place. The chief of the woman’s burean of the police department, it was assert- ed, followed out the direcfions with plain clothesmen stationed in the vi cinity but no one picked up the can > Many Trains Are Stalled by Heavy Snow Farther North; Cold Wave Ex- tends to Chicago, Sleet Storm in Kansas cold wave that has held the more than 24 hours continued i through Iowa, Missouri, Oklahoma, xas, as well as east of the Mississippi as felt early today in Chicago and the mercury kept sinking as the day advanced. By tonight the ther Mometer was expected to be overing bout the ten above zero mark, ac tding to weather bureau forecasts, yough yesterday Chicago had its vent Washington's birthday tem- re since the establishment of Mh bureau here in 1871, the y reaching 67 degrees «nois and Indiana, which report ed high temperatures yesterday, also were beginning to feel the cold snap today In Missour!, Kansas, Oklahoma and Northern Texas the warm, soaking rains of yesterday had turned to sleet today with the sudden drop of tem. perature to below freezing. Streets in the cities and towns of the South- West were covered with sheets of ice. In the Northwest temperatures con tinued to fall, with the reaching from five to 12 below sero in Minnesota and the Dakotas. ‘Train schedules and wire communication Were stil! seriously interrupted. Ono death was reported at Rochester, Minn., through a short circuited elec tric wire, due to the storm. Northern and Southern Minnesota were in the grip of the blizzard as well as Western Wisconsin. Duluth reported nearly thirty inches of mow with drifts in many places more than 20 feet high. Many trains runnings out of Min- neapolis and St. Paul were from three to 24 hours late, and several were reported stalled in drifts. Several hundred telegraph poles of the Am erican Telephone and Telegraph com: pany in Wisconsin were snapped off during the sleet storm. No entimate of the loss was available today. Dam- &ge was also reported from many other quarters. " a“ h COLDEST DAY OF YEAR HERE TODAY. The lowest temperature of the year, 17 degrees below zero, - corded here last night, scouring Kd announcements made by George 8, McKenzie, local weather dbserver. From 35 above yesterday noon to 17 below last night, a range of 52 de. grees in temperatire in about 12 hours was the record variation .of the winter. Last night's temperature was the lowest hero since December, when 20 below was recorded. The low mark was followed tofay by moderate temperature which ap- Proached a thaw shortly after noon. MINNESOTA GETS NEWS ON 8,000-MILE CIRCUIT. CHICAGO, Feb. 23.—A_ telegraph circuit more than 3,000 miles long to carry news dispatches an air line dis- tance of less than 400 miles has been necessitated by the heavy sleet and snow storms sweeping across tho northern part of the United States, BLIZZARD CONTINUES IN THE NORTHWEST. ST. PAUL, Minn., Feb. 23.—Btiz- zardy conditions prevailed again early today throughout the northwest. The second day of the most severe storm of the year, in this section, however, found the snowfall subsiding in the eastern part of the Dakotas. ‘Temperatcres were falling rapidly with 5 to 12 degrees below zero re- ported in western Minnesota and the Dakotas. One death had been reported today as an indirect result of the storm, a woman being killed at Rocheste Minn., through @ short circuited ele tric wire, Most trains out of Duluth were an- nulled. Railroads running out of ‘the Twin Cities were making efforts to keep their crack trains running, both west and east, but many were from three to 24 hours late and several were reported stalled in drifts. —- Trial Costs in Arbuckle Case Total $13,000 SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 23.—The two trial of Roscoe Arbuckle on a manslaughter charge have cost the city of San Francisco nearly $13,- 000, it was disclosed with the filing of expense sheets. The first trial cost $5,953.25 and the second trial $6,788.71. WCE OF 10,000 FIREMEN, OLERS TO BE EDUGED Railroad Labor Board Announces Cut Affect- ing Workers CHICAGO, Feb. 23.—An- other pay. slash, this time hitting 10,000 sts tionary fire- men and oilers, was made by the United States railroad labor board today when it an- nounced rules effecti March 1, elim- inating extra pay until after the tenth hour and setting up a “split trick” of eight hours within a spread of twelvo without any overtime p Following several virtually restoring the for railroad workers, th authorized the roads to pay only pro- rata wages a‘ the regular eight hours which board retained in principle as constituting a day's work, Time and one-half will be paid for ten hours. In the case of the split trick straight time will be paid for the first ten hours work, whether in. cluded in the 12-hour spread or not, and time and one-half will be given thereafter. Formerly the firemen and oilers, all of whom work around rail road shops, were paid time and one half after elght hours. Sundays and holidays will be paid for at the pro-rata rate, a minimum of three hours pay being made for two hours work or less. Monthly rated employes’ wages are to be adjusted to climinate the old time and one-half Provisions. Ten rules regarding discipline, grie- vances, discrimination against com- mittee men and similar matters wero remanded to the employes and the roads for further nogotlation. The board's new ruley supplant the na- tional agreement made during federal control, which has been in effect sinco January 16, 1 OFFICER INJURED IN CHASING. A SUSPECT. J. L. Olsen, patrolman of the Cas- per police department, is temporartiy out of service, due to an accident he suffered earlier in the week while fol- lowing a suspicious character who made a dash for liberty when caught prowling around a public — building | here. When the man made a dash the pa- | trotman followed until the fugitive es- caped through a building which 1s be- ing erected on East Second street. Tho chase ended when Olsen fell, striking his leg on a steel beam which |was protruding from the floor. He paid little attention to the injury un- til lameness set ip, cqmpelling him to jleave hts beat, * | He has been under medical atten- |tfon for the past several days, and physicians attending are endeavoring to prevent serious Infection setting in jon the injured limb. | — — “ALVARADO FUNERAL 10 BE HELD ON FRIDAY her dicistons ten-hour day board today | ! Puneral services for Henry J. Al |varado, who died early Monday morn- ing from injuries suffered fn an au- |tomobile acc! mt on the Salt Creek highwayt Sunday afternoon will be held from the Bowman chapel at 2:30 tomorrow, afteencon, ” Arrangenients for the funetal were made yesterday upon, the arrival of Mrs. Alvarado and her daughter Inez from. Tyro, | Kans. | Mr. Alvarado was a member of both Masonic and Odd Fellows lodges here, BLOW FROM CUE FATAL. | MONTREAL, Feb. 23.—While pick- ing up a billiard cue, which he dropped lon the floor during a game with his father several weeks ago, Harold Stephens stepped on one end of the cue, causing the tip to flip up and strike him in the eye. | He rubbed the eye retrieved the cue, |and continued his game, thinking no more of the accident. Today he died of a cerebral abscess, which originated in the ihjured eye. ak caee a Sala Mayor W. A night for Den |the Wyoming E Blackmore left last + in the interests of ning company. HIGH SCHOOL BAND 15 EREDIT TO INSTITUTION The Casper public had an oppor- tunity to hear its new musical organ- ization, the high school band, when it furnished music during tho basfetball game between Casper and Worland, last night. ‘Tho organization is a credit to the school and a tribute to the efforts of A. W. Compton, who has built up a really finc band in a comparatively few weeks. ‘While not undertaking difficult | things at this the 20 piece or- | ganization acqit self creditably |iast nigh, and wa n| iby the large crowd | [heard the band for the first time, ed it CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 23. — Nine persons under arrest in connection with the investigation of the murder of Walter H. (Pud) whose corpse, with is in the head, was y two miles south jdentity of the Christensen, nine bullet wou found late Taes¢ of Cheyenne. Th prisoners; ‘with the exception of Billie Avery and Wyet E. is being withheld by Carroll develop but five are suspected Sheriff pending ments, Italis one a close friend ¢ boc clain man 's o egging NINE SEIZED AS CRIME SUSPECTS and another a woman other that Mrs. Ave ‘The investigation of Christensen’s death aled the interesting fact that hi anted room in three different widely separated, spending part of 3 time at aT Attaches of the sheriff's offi: ex- press the conviction that eventually it will be established that Christen- was slain by bootleggers with had b associated, Cheyenne. i | has pos bod)