Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 6, 1922, Page 1

‘ , advisement the appeal of Clifford Se- ‘BONUS BILL TO GOVERNOR SMALL ASKS TRIAL DELAY POSTPONEMENT OF SIXTY DAYS Sm IS REQUESTED Presence Is Needed in Issuance of Highway Contracts, ( Claim WAUETGAN, Ill, March 6.—Governor Smail today asked for a sixty-day posi ponement of his trial in charges of conspiracy to em- bezzle state funds. C. Fred Mortimer, state's attorney of Sangamon county, declared the state was ready to go to trial and asked for a few moments time to ex- amine the defense motion and af- fidavits. The defense motion states Governor Smail's presence is needed at Spring field, the state capital, in connection with the letting of state road con- tracts. Wa&DKEGAN, Ul, March 6.— (By ‘The Asscciated Press. — Gov. Len Small’s trial on charges of conspiracy to embezzlo state funds was delayed again today panelled a grand jury and called the docket of the March tern of court. Fifty prospective jurors wero on hand for examination ster in the day and another fifty were ready to ap- pear in court tomorrow. ‘When the trial got under way, the court began heartng excuses of ventre- men and released many of them. Nearly a dozen dairy farmers present- 04 convincing pleas that their blooded cows needed them more than the gov- ernot’s trial, and they went home. Of NO BiG Loss ~ IN GAME HERD Special to The Tribuns. CHEYENNE, has been no extraordinary loss of elk, in Fremont county as a result of ex- traordinerily severe winter conditions, and nons is, anticipated. Major E. H. Goldman, représenting the biological survey, and Stae,Game Warden Bruce Nowlin reported to Governor Carey today, following a trip of inspection in connection with plans for federal and state co-operation for the preservation of elk. Goldman and Nowlin now will 50 into the Jackson Hole region where 11,000 elk are wintering. AUTO THIEVES GO ON TRIAL ( To The Tribune) CHEYENNE, Wyo.; March 6.— J. W. Frederickson and four other mem- bers of the socalled Frederickson gang of alleged Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska automobile thieves, went on trial in the United States district court here today on charges of transporting stolen automobiles in- terstate. At noon a jury had been se- cured and testimony begun this after- ere te HINDU'S APPEAL FOR PROBATE CONSIDERED CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 6.-The state supreme court has taken under wall from a decision of the Larami county district court refusing to sub- mit to probate an alleged will by Mar- garet Boyle Conroy in which the aged recluse, who died on Christmas day 1919, bequeathed to Sewall her entire estate of ‘approximately $9,000. St. Mary’s Catholic church and a niece of the testator are claimants to the estate under an earlier. will. ‘An interesting feature of the argu- ment in the supreme court was the as- sertion by W. E. Mullen, counsel for the church, that when Mrs. Conroy signed the alleged will making Sewall her heir, Sewall held her palsied hand and directed the ‘“X—Her Mark” which was affixed in Neu of her sig- nature. | Che Cazprr Daily Weather Forecast Fair tonight. ana Tuesday; much colder tonight in central and north- temperatures east portions; rising Tuesday. e VOLUME VI CASPER, WYO., MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1922. PACIFIC PACT DEFENDED BY SENATOR. NEW Administration Fight for Ratification of Treaty Opened With Declaration Denying Existence of Alliance WASHINGTON, March 6.—There is no “alliance” in the four-power Pacific treaties nor any obligation to use force, Senator New of Indiana, Republican member of the foreign relations committee, declared today in opening in the senate discussion of the treaties on behalf of the administration. Replying to criticism of the treaties, Senator New declared the four-power treaties gnuve safe- guards for peace to the United States and did not impair American sover- eignty. Senator New made a detailed comparison of the treaties with the league of mations plan and asserted that the treaties were “cooperative” while the league, be said, was “drastic and compulsory” and required sub- mission of all questions to a council. “Instead of threatening, injuring or impairing our liberties, free institu- tions, independence and sovereignty, this treaty (the fourpower measure) adds to the security of all of them,” Senator New. He emphastzed that re- jection of the four-power treaty would continue in force the Anglo-Japanese alliance with its menace to America. Regarding the treaty provision for conference and dettermination of pro- cedure in case of a: New said that the Bbottakancha agreement containd a similar clause. “We have had for a,decade an obli- gation with Japn couched in practi- cally identical language and yet no- body heretofore has suggested that this constituted anything resembling an alliance,” he said. “Certainly dur- ing the ten years of its existence, this has led us into no trouble, no embroil- ment, no operations, under a military alliance.” EFFECT ON FORMER AGREEMENT ASKED. WASHINGTON, March 6.—A reso lution asking President Harding what effect ratification of the four power Pacific treaty will have on the Lans- ing-Ishii agreement between the United States and Japan was adopted today by the senate. The resolution was preewvad by Senator Borah, Republican, ef Idaho, one of the treaty opponents, and was agreed to without a roll call, after a short debate in which Senator Un- derwood of Ajauuma, the Democratic leader and a/ member of the Amer- ican arms delegation declared that in his opinion the “agreement” would be wiped out entirely by the serics of conference treaties. Senator Borah offered his proposal after tho administration fight for rat- ification of the four-power pact had been opened by Senator New, Repub- lican, Indiana, in an address deciar- ing that the treayt contained no alll- ance but was a long step forward in (Continued on Page Four) ‘Son of 1776 Veteran Dies, 105 Years Old CINCINNATI, March 6—John H. Harouff, whose father fought in the Revolutionary war against the Brit- ish and then lived to the age of 112 years, died here yesterday at the age of 105. Mr. Harouff operated a flour mill in West Virginia until he was 99, then retired and came here to make his home with a son. ———————— FINED FOR SELLING SMOKES. DUBUQUE, Iowa, March 6.— Joe Costa, fruit merchant here, was fined $100 and costs for violation of the Iowa law and is the third dealer to be punished here. MAJORITY IN SU B-COMMITTEE TURNS DOWN APPOINTMENTS OF HARDING ON DEBT COMMISSION WASHINGTON, March 6.—A conflict of opinion over the eligibility of Senator Smoot, sentative Burton, Republican, commission today caused the Republican, Utah, and Repre- Ohio to serve on the allied debt senate judiciary committee to defer a final decision on its recommendations until Thursday. A majority of a sub-committee which has been studying Rep: the eligibility question today sybmit- ted a report that Senator Smoot and not eligible, This renort, was signed by Senators Brandegee, Republican, Con- Representative Burton were necticut; Overman, Democrat, North- Carolina, and Walsh, Democrat, Mon- tana. It sustained the contentions of the Istter’s résolution that Senator Smoot and o sional seats. Senators Curnmins, Republican, : Burton, would Besomé “offiters” “of the gov- ernment while holding their congres- sss: Crthame | sim | NUMBER 125. | | Attack Based on Pro-German Accusa- tions, Priest Says; Mob Made Up of Both Catholics and Protestants AMARIELO, Texas, March 6.—J. G. Keller, Catholic| priest at Slaton, who was seized by masked men at that town Saturday night and beaten, tarred and feathered, authorized the statement here today that the incident was the climax) of sentiment due to pro-German accusations against him dur- ing the world war. He said h e was denied final citizenship papers in federal court at Amarillo in SOVIET SOCIALISTS | PLAN BIG COMBINE \Third Internationale Votes in Favor of Conference to Unite World Strength in Fight Against Capital, Report | sion here. mentioned the various internationales with which a conference is favored |_—the second, or pre-war organization |—the second and a half, as the organ- ization formed at Vienna last year is termed, and the Fourth Inter- nationale. Ieon Trotsky and other Russian chiefs who were instrumental in hast- ening this decision explained that the |move simply was in keeping with new tactics having as their purpose a ,flank attack on capitalism instead of |the old open battle for an immrediate world revolution. Some upponents, however, consider | that this step would mean the ultimate |destruction of the Third Internation- ale, which would become only the left |wing of a united body. The French, Italian and Spanish representatives voted against confer- ence with “the enemies” on the final ballot. ‘Trotzky, Zonovieff, Radek and Lunacharsky and other Russians declared in fayor of the meeting. Nikolei Lenine was not present at the 'sesxion but his influence is under- stood to have been a movement syn- chronizing activities of the Interna- tionales with recent changes in Rus sian policies. A group of twenty-two Russian com- munists, chagrined at the new eco- nomic system which they describe as Towa, and Sterling, Republican, South!a resurrection of the bourgeoisie, pre- eligible. Dakota, submitted a minority report, | sented to the conference a bill of com- holding the two members of congress plaint against tho Russian communist party. ‘They were sharply rebuked BRITISH POLITICAL CRISIS NEAR CLIMAX Question of Lloyd George’s Resignation to| Depend Upon Developments of Next New Freight Taritis Are Seen in State CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 6.— ‘That railroads operating in Wyo- ming within the next 30 days vol- untarily will file a new intrastate tariff reducing existing rates from 25 to 40 per cent, is stated by Gov- enor Robert D. Carey, following conferences with representatives of the railroads which resulted from the Wyoming Public Service com- mission's recent rate hearing. BE REPORTED WASHINGTON, March 6.—The soldiers bonus bill will be introduced in the house late today and formally reported tomorrow, Chairman Fordney announced this noon after an) ‘| with him. 24 Hours, LONDON, March 6.—(By in twenty-four, or at most fo: Is_ Belief The Associated Press.) —With- rty-eight hours the world will know definitely whether Prime Minister Lloyd George has decided to resign or continue as chief of the coalition gov- ernment. This is the only substantial conviction emerging from a tangle of contradictory rumors in the crisis which en-; growed political observers over Sat-not in any event assume premiership, urday and Sunday. Experts today were diametrically op- posed in their opinion as to how the crisis stood as a result of week-end conferences. Some declared the out- look for a continuance of the coalition was improved and encouraged belief that the prime minister would not re- sign. Others declared all signs pointed to his retirement and that Liberal colleagues in his ministry would go Some were content to re- |frain from committing themselves to jany opinion whether the result would be a smashup or a patchup. Bven if the prime minister stays, nobody be- jlieves that the coalition can last mach longer though it may be prolonged un- til Irish legislation and the Genoa conference are out of the way. It is generally credited in certain quarters that nothing will be definitely an- nounced until the speech of Sir Ar- jthur Balfour on Tuesday. It is de- executive session of the majority members of the ways and |clared that the pre-eminent interest in means committee. A second session will be held later in the) day for final completion of details of the measure. Chairman. ‘CONFESSION’ MURDER OF PROBED LOS ANGELES, March 6—Fur- ther checking on the latest “con- fession” to the murder of William Desmond Taylor, film director—p 10-page document mailed from a small Connecticut city—was planned today by officers assigned to the case. According to the “confession” as described by the police, the “con- fessor” was a husband with whose wife Taylor had had an affair, only to “scorn” her iater, Then the hus- band and wife planned and exe- cuted the murder, the . document stated. The name of a Hollywood man, connected with the motion picture industry, was signed to the “confession,” but the police stated they were certain that the man had no guilty knowledge of the crime, ‘They said, however, that despite the fact thit a name. they believed was not the writer's was signed, they felt inclined: to . believe the “confessor” had “‘some definite con- nection” with the murder. Fordney said the major- ity then would pass on the suggested provision for adjusted service pay to the immediate relatives of men who have died since discharge from the ser- vice or might die before the legisla- tion came into force. Democrats on the ways and means committee will be called in tomorrow morning to vote on the bill before Mr. Fordney presents the report to the house. Meantime the chairman prob- ably will discuss the new bonus plan with President Harding. He said he had an engagement with the president for late today to take up another mat- ter and that he might present to the executive the details of the bonus bill. Representative Fordney said the committee had reason to believe Presi- dent Harding was not opposed to the certificate loan provision written into the bill under which national and state (Continued on Page Four) |Sir Arthur's utterances will be a pos- sible declaration as to the prime min- ister’s decision. If this expression is for resignation according to repeated statements made today but will be willing to take office under Austen Chamberlain as prime minister. (Mr. Chamberlain is govern- ment leader in the house of commons) Friends of Lioyd George assert he jis exceedingly tired and will gladly (Continued on Page Four) of Mr. Lloyd George, Sir Arthur will sociated Press)—Belfast was quiet today after week-end disorders in which two persons were killed and 21 wounded. A missile was thrown today at a group of early morning workers without injury to any one, Otherwise the city showed little evi- dence of yesterday's disturbances. The killing of Owen Hughes, who was shot while riding in a street necessity. IRISH SNIPING RESUMED ) TODAY BELFAST, March 6.—(By The As- y car in the York street district on Saturdey night, is described by tho authorities as tated. Ach cording to witnesses, four men naw Hughes seated with his brother and questioned Owen about his religious convictions. They then shot him dead and escaped without interfer- ence by panic stricken passengers. A bomb was thrown this afternoon in Gosvener street. ‘The explosion | injurea a hua, MGSCOW, March 6.—(By The Associated Press_)--A conference of all Socialist internationales to discuss the for- mation of a united front on world problems affecting capital and labor, was recommended by the executive leaders of the Third Internationale of Moscow after a two weeks’ discus- The yote was 48 to 10. The resolutions passed and were threatened with expulsion not only from the party, but from the Internationale unless they main- tained party loyalty. ‘Throughout the conference both the Russian leaders and the newspapers dwelt upon the idea that the dirvct attack for a world» revolution had failed. “The victory we expected now seems farther away,” says the Inves- tia. ‘Tho bourgeoise have held on, and the second internationale, which | we considered dead, is again on its fect. The commumistic internationale has not become a decisive force to [ehanse historical developments.” According to some of the speakers at the conference, the internationale should concentrate now on “revolu- tionary minimalism” instead of mak- ing the old, broad demands for a dictatorship of the protectorate. The principal objects of the united front which is desired, according to Ksrl Radek, are to gain recognition of Soviet Russia, the abandonment of reparation from Germany, the eight- hour day and the solution of the un- employmentment problem. ‘Trotzky declared that a united front by labor was essential in connection with’ the “united bourgeoise” confer- ence at Genoa. Delegate Marshall, an American, was among the support- ers of the new plan. ‘The conference requested the Zine- lovoff, presiderft of the executive com- jmittee of the Third Internationale and president of the Petrograd provincial Soviet, be relieved of his governmental duties at Petrograd and sent to Mos- cow to devote his entire time to the internationale. Watch Lost Ten Years Still In | Good Conditien | VANCOUVER, B. C., March 6.— | After ten years of exposure to the weather, a gold watch recently found by a member of a mountain climbing |club, has been restored to its owner who declares it to be keeping perfect time. F. V. Johnsen of this city found the watch. It was on a jutting rock, at a height of 7,500 fect. From an in- scription on the back he located the owner, the Rev. Benjamin F. Bacon of Yalo university, who identified it as his property. The watch was given him by a church congregation in 1892. He lost it ten years ago while on a trip into the mountains near Glazier, June, 1921, on the ground that he was registered as a German subject after taking out his first naturaliza- tion papers. “ler, who was ordered to leave 3, said the court had instructed > make reapplication for firs > and to go through the entire pr ‘ng again but that he had not | hax Iclent time to do this. Tr sked band is reported to have comj , \ both Catholics and Protes-} tants, @ aton. A mass meeting held | at sh yesterday adopted resolu- tions d ng the attack on the priest was ni rected at the Catholic church institution but at the priest ac ndividual. The re} of the federsl court here show ‘er's final naturaliza- tions papel. were denied by Judge James C. Wilson on June 14, 1921. The record in the case says “appll- cant after taking out his declaration of intention, registered with a German consul for military service in Ger- many.” —_—_——_. WET PLEA IS GIVEN SENATE WASHINGTON, March 6.—Senator Edge, Republictan, New Jersey, sub- mitted to the senate today a petition which he siaid carried the names of ten thousand citizens of his state, ask- ing for modification of the Volstead ‘act to permit the sale of light wines and beer. The physical proportions of the petition moved Senator Norris, Republican, Nebraska to ask humor- ously whether it might not be wise for the senste to appoint a temperance committee to examine the package be- cause, the Nebraska senator suggested “something illegal could easity be con- cealed in it.” 17-Story Hotel And Church Is New York Plan NEW YORK, March 6.—A combi- nation chgch and 17-story modern hotel is to be New York's latest nov- elty in buildings. The structure pro- viding Sunday school space in the. basement, a church on the first three floors anda missionary school on the roof, will be erected on the site of the Metropolitan tabernacle, Broadway and 104th street. A strict censorship will be exer- cised over hotel guests; and card playing and dancing will be pro- hibited. The estimated cost is $1,- 500,000. YOUTH GIVES UP AS MURDERER GATESVILLE, Texas, March 6.— Jack Wolf, 19, son of J. M. Wolf, prominent livestock man of Coryell county, surrendered late yesterday and was charged with murder in connec- tion with the stabbing of Willis Hop- son, 16 years old at a dance here Saturday. Yeung Hopson was called to the door of his home where the dance was B.C. ! The New York Of1 company, of |which Frank G. Curtis of Casper is | President, seeks authority to lay a | gas line from the Mahoney dome to | Laramie, thence southward to the | Wyoming-Colorado line, with a branch line from Laramie to Cheyenne. ‘The Wyoming Pipe Line company, } organized recently by E. T. Williams, | HE. J. Sullivan and others, seeks au- | thority to lay an oil line from the Salt Creek fleld to Caspér. The Wyoming Gas company seeks authority to lay a gas line from the| Nefber doms to Worland. C. A. Semrad and others seck auth’ jority to build an electrical transmis- |sion line from the reclamation ser- vice’s North Platte system to Yoder. All applications are under advise-| {ment, with the virtual certainty that! ‘all will be granted. i in progress and stabbed to death. TAR AND FEATHERS APPLIED _ TO PRIEST BY MOB IN TEXAS FORMER HEAD OF MANA BANK Ta SENT TO PRISON \W. V. Mathews Draws Sentence of One to 10 Years in Court OMAHA, March 6.—W. V. Mathews, formerly president jof the now defunct Pioneer State bank of Omaha, was sentenced to serve from one to ten years ate prison today. by District Judgo Leslie bei whom he recently pleaded gu’ to @ charge of embezzling $200,000 of the bank's turds. Mathews was tndicted on three |counts, chargi embemlement of $300,000, by a spécial grand jury that investigtaed stock and other financial transactions. When arraignet Feb- ruary 20, he pleaded guilty to ono count alleging he embezled $200,099 and the state dropped the other charges. He expressed a desire to be taken to the state penitentiary at Lin coIn at 1 o'clock this afternoon. The alleged offense which Mr. Mathews termed as “one of the head and not of the heart,” resulted from the purchase by the Guaranty Securi- ties company of Omaha of bonds cf tho Colonial Timber and Coal corpora- tion. which were security for loans by the bank to the securities concern. Mr. Mathews maintains that land of the timber concern in West Virginia which secures the bonds, is valuable and thet in time may prove of sufft- cient value to redeem bonds held by the securities company, now defunct, and provide a means of clearing uf the loss occasioned by tho failure of the bank. ‘Tho tiriber concern is incorporated in Delaware. The bank was closed in 1921 and according to a staternent made by Mr. Mathew’s counsel recently the bonds would have been marketable had times been good. “But times got bad.” ind the bank failed.” Bisiotinen = Reinet GAS COMPANIES WIN BIG SUIT WASHINGTON, March .6.—A statu- tory 80 cents gas rate in New York City for 1918 and 1919 was declared confiscatory today by the supreme court in a decision in the New York gas cases. ‘The Consolidated, the Kings County Lighting, The New York and Queens and Brooklyn union gas companies, contended the statutory 85 cent rate confiscatory during 1913 and 1919, and after an inventory of their property and a report by special masters on their operating expenses, the United States district court, New York City, declared the statutory rate void. ee Texas Appeal In Rate Case Is Dismissed WASHINGTON, March 6.—The su- Ppreme court today dismissed the casa brought by the state of Texas chal- lenging the constitutionality of tha control of the interstate commerco commission over state and other features of the transportation act of 1920 including the legality of the rail- road labor board. The opinion delivered by Justice Van Deyanter declared all suits to set aside a rate should be brought in United States district court making the interstate commerce commission and the United States parties to tha action. GREAT PIPELINES IN WYOMING PROJECTED CHEYENNE Wyo., March 6.—A as pipeline from the Mahoney dome to Denver, via Laramie and Cheyenne and intermediate northern Colorado towns; an oil pipeline from the Salt Creek field to Casper; a gas pipeline from the Neiber dome to Worland, and an elec- trical transmission line from the North Platte valley to Yoder are contemplated by appli- cants to the Wyoming state public service commission for certificates of convenience oe No Settlement In S. A. Dispute SANTIAGO, Chile, ‘ore eign Minister Ernesto Barros Jarpa characterizes as inaccurate dispatches published here quoting La Razon of Buenos Aires to the effect that a se- cret understanding has been reached by the presidents of Peru and Chile in the settlement of the Tacna-Arica dis- pute. Senor Barros, told the correspondent that he believed that Peru and Chile would reach an agreement at the con: ference in Washington. FOUR DROWN IN FORDING STREAM WINONA, Minn., March 6.—-Mrs, Gunder Midboe and four children were drowned, while her husband and George Wesland, a neighbor, escaped, when their sleigh drawn by two horses overturned in ford- ing Beaver creek near Caledonia, late yesterday. Midboe made a vain attempt to save twu of the children but lost them from his grasp in the swift current. Wesland clung to the lines and was -drawn the horses. , four, two years and four months old. The bodies of the mother and the infant Were recovered shortly after the ac- cident, while those of the three other children were being sought to- day. ashore by The children were 5 The slelgh had reac the mia- dle of the creck, according to Mid- boe, when it arently struck « stone or root. 2 eee ee PT