Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 27, 1922, Page 1

“tny possible danger to his lite, ac- Casper will send a delega- tion of 16 persons, including 4 high school students, to participate in the high school contests which will be staged during high school week at the University of Wyoming at Lara- mie March 13 to 18 inclusive, accord: WL BE-MSCUSSED_ Tress ~ FORUM TERE T in the fight will also address the din- CONDITION OF WOUNDED MEN 15 SATISFACTORY ‘While the wound suffered by A. J. | per National bank, when he was at- na shot by John Cisenros, Mexican shoplifter, is more seriosu than at first believed his remarkable and vitality -has removed cording to announcements made to as he rushed to the assistance or Mr. Cunningham is in more serious con-) dition than at first thought to be the his condition is said to be serious. ‘Eoth men, however, are sald to be their wounds. Mr. Cunningham’ remained at normal and while his is responding to treatment to remore| message tomorrow will provide for raising a revolving fund |i the swelling from the injured mem- ber. The condition of both men was said to be pericyanistacory to day. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Attor- ney General Daugherty has instruct- ed federal authorities at Boise, Ida- ho, to released a Pullman car seized there by prohibition enforcement of- ficers, it was said today at the de- partment of justice. The case, which is the first in- volving the seizure of a railway car for violation of the national prohi-. bition act, officials said, resulter PULLMAN SEIZED, ELEASED TODAY Weather Forecast e=-| Orthune | =, | SHIPBUILDER IS INDICTED WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 Conspiracy to Defraud Government Is Charged to Charles W. Morse and 11 Others by New York Grand Jury W. Morse, New York shipbuilder, his three sons, Benjamin, Harry and Erwin, Colin H. Livingstone, of Washington, Indictments against Charles president of the Virginia Shipbuilding corporation, and seven other j which pack Bil and some of his associates @ompany Inc., which ‘concerns are Reto 28 thee ree Geter are Morse in a statement nivale attorneys after the insict| mens hata been returned declared the! ‘against him weer the re-| proceedings slult of “animus” on the*part of At- torney General Daugherty. Ne ELECTRIC CHAIR NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 27.— Strenuous efforts by friends to stay the electrocution of four men con- @emned~to die tn the electric: chair here next Wednesday have failed to sway Governor Alfred A. Taylor, the executive said today. Charhe Petre, Otto Stevens, Tom : Christmas and John McClure, the con- demned men were convicted of the murder last spring of George Lewis, Kroxville taxicab driver. ns were returned today by the federal grand has been investigating the war-time transactions CHICAGO MOTOR DEALER TRIES TO KILL WIFE AND TAKE OWN) LIFE AS RESULT OF JEALOUSY MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 27.—The lives of E. C.-Frady, presi- cea of the Cole Motor company of Chicago, and his wife are anging by a thread today, ac pen knife, No charges have been placed against § Wrady, but a deputy sheriff is station- ed in the hospital. Mrs. Frady arrived about six weeks ago “nd he a month later. Other guests at their hotel say that Frady \|geamed to be unusually. Jealous arid FOUR TO DIE IN Feet Frozen On Roundup, Rider Reaches Lander LANDER, Wyo., Feb. 27.—Oon- fined to his bed in the Red Desert region south of Lander for nearly three weeks, until his supply of food ran ovt, and still suffering intense pain, Dick Baker, who had been rounding up horses in that region, was forced to take to his horse in an effort to reach Lander and was picked up in a serious condition be fore be reached his destination. The condition of his feet necessitated the amputation of six toes and the frost was drawn from his legs with diffi- culty. Baker is in the employ of SHIP SUBSIDY PLAN PENDING WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—The ship subsidy plan which shattered arm has not been reset, he| President Harding is expected to recommend to congress in a of about $30,000,000-a year through diversion of a percent- age of the customs recei ipts, it was understood today from callers at the White House. President Harding was said to- from discovery by prohibition ,au- thorities of a quantity of liquor on of the It said, that the possession ‘of liquor by an individual on a railway car was not sufficient cause to warrant seizure of the vehicle as such procedure car- ried to any considerable extent might result in seriously impeding transportation facilities throughout the country. day to have completed the main out- Ines of his message. Bills carrying out the ship subsidy Plan, it was said, will be introduced 9 | simnitancousty in the senate and house by Senator Jones and Repre sentative Green .of Massachusetts, chairman, respectively, of the mer- chant marine committee of the senate and house. Advocates of the plan that the fact that it will not require a direct up- propriation probably will cause it to meet with more favor than former ship subsidy schemes. Senator Capper, chairman of the un- official agricultural senate bloc, after @ conference with the president to- duy said the president believed he had ® plan which would be supported by the. farmers and the country gener- ally. — CASPER, WYO., MONDAY FEBRUARY 27, 1922. hital where both were taken yesterday following Frady’s attempt to kill his wife with a gun and then to end his own life by slashing his throat with a safety razor blade and a|tne situation NUMBER 119. ' BY STARVING Bolshevik Delegation to Conference at Genoa Prepared to MakeConcessions to Prevent Government Collapse MOSCOW, Feb. 27.—(By The Associated Press.)—The soviet delegation to Genoa will carry instructions to grant all concessions demanded provided a big reconstruction loan can be obtained. If this loan cannot be arranged then, from the Russian point of view, the conference has only the moral value of reconstruction of the present government. The basic reason of this attitude is|few weeks that the leaders of the So the famine. It is only within the last|viet have realized just how desperate} jis the food situation. So long as the! | famine starves to death the peasants/ and the remaining bourgeoisie, though |it be on « scale of millions, the Soviet | |leaders are untouched and rather indif- | ferent. But the famine now is slowly but surely encroaching on and encircling their stronghold—Moscopy-and Soviet representatives, sent to every part of |Russla for food, report there is less and léss to be had, that beginning with march the favored Red army will begin to starve and that each succeeding month will be worse, until July when harvests, more or leas scant cording to surgeons at the hos-| may relieve the situation. What may happen between now and the sutamer> month is troubling the So- viet leaders. If a big loan is arranged can be saved. If not, the | hundred million or so dollars in the Soviet treasury will have to go for scolded his wife for accepting introduc tions to men. Frady is said to have suffered a nervous breakdown several weeks ago) country from anarchy. and to have come to Miami to recuper- The frightened attitude of the Soviet ate. Mrs. Frady, a sister of John R. jhown by its daily changing attitude Thompson, wealthy c! jtaurant toward the American relief administra- owner, also came here ¢; health. tion. “When the Americans first caine, Only Contingency Centers in Crude Con-| tracts in Salt Creek; Definite Un- derstanding Is Pending Casper is virtuany assured of a new refinery which will provide additional relief for the excess production of the Salt | Creek field, according to optimistic announcements which} were made here today. | The arnouncements are based on a series of correlated | developments which have occurred during the past few| weeks and which were climaxed by of finished products is also said to the incorporation of tho Wyoming) }@ve been taken care of. Pipeline company in Cheyenno late While on the face of things the pros- pects for an independent refinery in| Saturday afternoon and a meeting of Casper are brighter than ever before, independent operators in Casper today.! there are many contingencies yet to be The Casper meeting ts for the pur|faced and threshed out by the inde- Pose of securing contracts on produc-| pendent operators which are meeting of the pipeline which will be built dur- ing the spring months to provide relief from the overproduction of the Salt Creek field. For the first time the new move which is accepted with lively interest by independent operators is backed by financial interests competent to con-! test the Midwest Refining company for at least an ample portion of the production of the field. While definite announcements are lacking it is understood that the pipe- {lime is the connecting link that will join the operators of Salt Creek with a refinery to be constructed in Casper. The Wyoming Refining company, which contem; erection of a plant in Casper in all probability is the con- necting link at the Casper end of the project. It is understood that the rp- fining company has been assured of ample financial [backing contingent upon its ability to contract crude oil in quantities that will work a refin- ing plant here at capacity. Marketing Powerful interests an@ financial operators who gathered, The (Continued on Page Four) ported without reservations th CHARGESPROBED Mrs. Lillian M. Duke, former wife of James B. Duke, millionaire tobacco manufacturer, and one of the first ‘women to bring the Lindsay case be- fore District Attorney Banton. She claimed she entrusted more than $400,000 to him. Mra.Carlotta, Nilson, former ac- tress, who also was summoned has told the authorities that she gave Lindsay $20,000 most of her life's savings. NEW YORK, Feb. 27.—Eight wit- nesses were subpoenaed to go before the grand jury today and testify against Alfred A. Linsay, former stock broker, charged by 11 wom- en with having fleeced. them of more than $700,000. Lindsay has been missing from his pretentious Nyack, N. ¥., home for more than a month: | Among the witnesses called was SOVIET IS CONQUERED |they have been better treated, until loutside help, they realize their power |is doomed. tion sufficient to warrant the laying| here today. | strength was represented among the| New} SOCIETY FRAUD WESTERN STATES FACES FIGHT TO HOLD CAMP SITE, LAND IN LANCE CREEK HOMESTEADED | GH COURT WOMAN SUFFRAGE ACT UPHELD BY HIGH ( Che Casper Daily MANVILLE, Wyo., Feb. 27.—Land on which the Western States Oil & Land company’s main camp in the Lance Creek field is located has been homesteaded and the company h been served with orders to remove its buildings, it has beco’ known here. Other buildings me on the land, including a small village, said to have been erected only through permission PEOPLE in Septembcr, they were received with scant courtesy, but with each month now, they are not permitted, but ask- ed to direct food shopments. If the Moscow Icaders do not obtain Already the Ukraine has shown its independence and has re fused to let any of its food be drained off to Moscow or for the Red army |ntationey elsewhere. The caucus has some food, but its attitude is doubtful. In the Kuban, where there also is food, hostility to outside shipments has been active jsince last summer. The Soviet government fears are in @icated in another direction. For the: time its entire oriental policy has been thrown overboard. The recent confer- ence of Far Eastern peoples, calied by the Third Internationale for the pur- pose of stimulating communism in Ja- pan, China and elsewhere, was given but the scantiest attention in Moscow. The delegates were poorly housed and turned over to foreign office. MOSCOW, Feb. 27——(By The Asso clated Press)—J. B. Murray of Wo- burn, Mass. connected with the Ame: {can relief administration, suffered a slight flesh wound when fired upon in the street carly yesterday. He w-~ accompanied by a Mr. Callahan, of Fall River, Mass. MOSCOW, Feb. 26.—(By The Asso- ciated Press)—The Soviet govern- ment's decree confiscating church mine sufferers, was published today. It provides for the taking over of all precious metala and stones “which Would not interfere with the interests 0% the’ war cults.” NEW REFINERY IS NOW HELD CERTAIN Family Accepts Starvation On Divine “‘Order”’ BLOOMINGTON, IL, Feb. 27.— Robert A. Schlossher, of Pontiac, Il. his wife and three children, Robert, Ellis and Marie, who were found starving in a denuded house, were under caro of city authorities today, Obeying what he Aeclared was the of the Wester- ates company, cemoved. ¢ land fs Emmett © Creek. Whore Mhwest quarter original home- ‘owed by the ‘away holds have application for \ of fection 25-36-65 stead entry has b Dougias ‘and office. o th: Wes mpany has ‘ la ough lack of improvement work > ww by its lease Thousands of dollars w ¢ prop erty 1s involved, including. “© -tores, poothall, two restaurants af. yovie theater. Hathaway, it is um __ovod, will demand compensation In the {orm of rental if the structures are not moved —— a Plans for Drive To Be Laid At SUIT DISMISSED IN DECISION OE TRIBUNAL UPON FAIRCHILD PLEA Transportation to U. S. From Alaska by Can- adian Lines Is Held Invalid by Ruling WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.— The woman’s suffrage, or 19th amendment, was today de- clared constitutional by the supreme court. The supreme court dis- missed for want of jurisdiction the suit brought by Charles 8. Fairchod, of New York,-who sought to challange the constitutionalty of the amend- ment. The opinion of the court was delty- ered vy Justice Brandeis. Dinner Tonight Preparations have boun completed for the Red Cross dinner which will be held at the Henning hotel at 6:30 tonight, when the teams appointed by various organizations to assist in the campaign which will be con ducted to aise $5,000 for the Red Cross this week will meet to organ- ize and perfect the details of the drive. Accommodations have been made for between 75 and 100 diners, The impression has apread that the din- ner is for team workers and Red Cross people only. This impression is erroneous as all persons interested in public welfare are asked to at- tend. ‘ “he money which will be raived @uring the campaign this week as is generally known will be spent in Casper administering relief in wor- thy cases and tn directing and asso- clating charitable undertakings in Casper. Nearly every organization whigh was requested by the Red Cross to appoint a team to work during the week has reported to headquarters. Other organizations which have ap- pointed tearhs but -harg not yet re- ported ate asked to report immedi- ately so that proper districts can be alloted to all teams. HINDUS FIGHT 10 GET ESTATE AGAIN IN COURT CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 27.—An ap- peal by Clifford Sewall from the decis- ion of the district court of Laramie ecovaty that a will made just before her death by Mrs. Ellen Boyle Conroy, bequeathing her estate of $8,000 to Sewall, who claims to be of Indian (Asiatic) stock, is void is to be argued in the state supreme wuri next Thurs day. The Laramie county court ad- mitted to probate an earlier wil! be- queathing the property to Miss Mar. garet Walsh of Lawrence, Mass., and St. Mary’s Catholic church of Chey- enne. GENOA MEETING voice of the Lord‘orderng him to | castrout all modern comforts, Schlossher had stripped his house bare of furniture, even tearing out the stoves, plumbing and electric fixtures. The entire family obeyed a further behest to abstain from food. The three children were taken to | st. James’ hospital IS POSTPONED BOULOGNE, Feb. 27.—Agreement to a postponement of the Genoa eco- nomic conference until April 10 was reached by Premier Poincare of France and Prime Minister Lloyd George of Great Britain at their con. ference here. The conference origi- nally was called to meet March 8. LAST TREATIES ARE - REPORTED TO SENATE WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Committee consideration of th was completed today when the senate foreign relations e general Far Eastern and Chi cases the action was unanimous, The committee acted virtually without disc posed Chinese customs revisions had been made by |Democratic leader and head of special arms which drafted the tariff pact. bodying the committee's recommienda- tions regarding the four-power Pa» sific treaty, the naval limitations treaty, the submarine and poison gas/ treaty and the two treaties favorably| acted on today was prepared for sub- mission to the senate so that it could] begin debate on the pacts as soon as @ ratification vote is reached in the separate treaty relating to Yap. The leaders hoped to conclude the Yap de- bate during today’s session and to bring up the four-power pact tomor- row. oo {The two principal colleges fur wore: en in Ireland are Queen and Alexan- ‘ara, both in Dublin, commit As a result, a general report | e arms conference treaties ittee ordered favorably re- inese tariff treaties. In both ussion after a statement regarding the pro- Senator Underwood of Alabama, the MERCHANT MARINE RULING HANDED DOWN. WASHINGTON, Fob. 21.—The mer. chant marine act of 1920 known as the Jones law, prohibits transportation of merebandise between Alaskan ports and continental United States by Can dian rail and water lines, the eu Preme court announced today in a case brought by the territory of Alas- ka and the Juneau Hardware. com- pany against the collector of custome for Alaska. The territory of Alaska contended the law was unconstitutional because it discyiminated in favor of the states and against the territory in that it Permitted merchandise to be shipped to and from the states via Canadian ships and railroads without imposing A penalty, whereas merchandise ship- ped from Michigan w the Juneau Hartware company via, the Canadian Pacific railroad to Vancouver and by Canadian vessels from there to Alaska was ordered confiscated. Justice McReynolds who delivered the opinion of the court announced the judgment vf the court below was affirmed. NORTH. DAKOTA GRAIN INSPECTION ILLEGAL. WASHINGTON, Feb. — The North Dakota law regulating grain Inspection at the purchase today was doctared invalid by the supreme court in an opinion read partly facbinn Justice Day. EX-POSTMAGTER GOES ON TRIAL INU. &. GOURT Special to The Tribune. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 27.—Guy Shoemaker, former postmaster at Laramie, Wyo., went on trial in the United States District court here to- lay on an indictment charging em- bezziement of postoffice funds total- ng $5,300. When the noon recess was iken two postoffice Inspectors, F. J. Crawley and A. B. Abney had been ex- amined. Abney testified that in April. 1921, while checking up the Laramie postoffice, he discovered a shortage in the stamp funds and called Shoemak- er’s attention to it. Shoemaker, he testified, said that somo one must have obtained the combination to the safe in which the stamps were kept and nave raided the stamps. Abney also testified that he told Choemaker to have the combination changed. Abney and Crawley testified that on July 6, 1921, they examined the Lara- mie office and discovered that the stamp fund shortage had increased to $6,300. When Shoemaker was asked why the combination of the safe had not been changed. as suggested by Ab- ney in April, they te: he had written to partment regarding the mat.er, had received no reply and had therefore changed the combination. Abney testified that the postal regu- lations made a change mandatory un- der the eircumstances and that author- ity from Washington was not neces- Shoemaker is one of the leading Democratic politicians of Wyoming. He is being defended by Nellis E. Cor- thell and G. R. McConnell of Laramie. the) conference committee} SPOOKS HALIFAX, N. S., Feb. 27.—The proximity of ario stations is the latest explanation of Antigonish county “spooks” which have driven Alex MacDonald and family from home and baffled investigators. Fire underwriters are discussing } suggestions that the mysterious fires have been die to electric phe- } nomena, caused by the powerful | wireless stations at G Bay. Sev- | eral other families in Anugonish BLAMED ON RADIO WAVES county are now reported to have been driven from their homes by mysterious fires during the last doz- en years. Inquiries received here Indicate @ small army of American newspaper- men is preparing to follow Dr. Walter Franklin Prince, director of the ‘American Institute for Scientifie Re- search, who has accepted an invita- tion to undertake an investigation of the mystery. ¥