Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 22, 1922, Page 1

GOVERNOR IS INDICTED FOR ACCEPTING BRIBE | IRISH ARMY SPLITS Che Casper Aailsy Weather Forecast in east and north portions tonight. VOLUME VI Partly cloudy tonight and Thurs day; somewhat colder Thursday; and CASPER, WYO., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1922. Crihune! = | NUMBER 139. GAS AND FUEL OIL TO~ BE IN GREAT DEMAND Strike of Coal Miners April 1 to Create Big Market Throughout Nation, Bureau of Mines Statement Declares; Mine Workers Criticize Cushing’s Address WASHINGTON, March 22.—.An increased demand for pated in case of a coal] strike, the bureau of mines said today, a statement showing that the stocks of these oils on hand February 1 was 1,319,491,359 Based on the daily average domestis consumption, equivalent to 68 days’ supply. The production of these oils in gallons. 110.877 gallons. Stocks of gasoline were increased !nJ January by 119,000,000 gallons and on February 1 there was a reserve of 705,700,000 gallons, which 130,000,000 gallons more than for the correspond- ing date a year ago. The record was established in May, 1921, with 300,- 000,000 gallons. These stocks are equivalent to a 50 days’ supply. WASHINGTON, March 22.—Bitu- minous coal operators who see dan- ger to themselves from anti-trust law enforcement if they confer with the miners’ union nationally to fix wages were declared to be retting up “‘sim- ply @ smoke screen” in a statement issed today by the United Mine Workers. The statement referred to an address by George H. Cushing, managing director of the American ‘Wholesale Coal association here yes- terday in which the alleged legal! dan- gers were discussed. “They know this is a frivolous ex- use, but it is the only one they have left,” the mine workers statement said, “Only recentiy President Harding ennounced that Attorney General Daugherty had given him an official opinion that the operators and ri- ners would not violate any lav c< the ‘Untted States by meeting in joint conference for the purpose of nego- tating a new wage agreement. Both President Harding and Secretary of Labor Davis have been unsparing in their denunciation of the operator: for their assault on business morals by breaking the valid contract with the miners.” The statement asserted that the operators in the central competitive field were absolutely bound by con- tract to enter a national conference ‘which most of them have refused to enter, and added that “the plain, bald-faced purpose in the heads of the operators is the destruction of the miners’ union.” MYSTERY SEEN IN MURDER OF TWORANCHERS SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March 22. Mystery surrounds the deaths of Charles Bradford and his nepbew, George Bradford, who were found shot and killed, six miles of Monticello, southeast of UtaUh, Monday after- moon, according to word received here today. The Bradfords were on their way home to their ranch, ten miles east of Monticello, after a trip to town, when they were shot. The-team driven by the men reached the ranch driverless and Mra. Charles Bradford discovered blood on the ‘wagon seat. The sheriff was called nd the body of George Bradford was Carries Watch Of Slain Man, Stranger Held PASADENA, Cal, March | Sevano Telles stopped a stranger on the street and asked him the time. The stranger drew from his pocket a gold watch which, Telles Yater declared, had been the prop- erty of his son, Martin Telles, 17, whose body, stripped and with the head crushed, had been found in a reservoir. Telles examine1 the stranger more thoroughly. The clothes. he wore, according to Telles, had been worn by his son when he left home, Marché. The stranger was arrested. He gave the name of Esedereo Moreno and said the watch and clothes had been given to him by another man. gas and fuel oils may be antici- , and in that connection issued it added, these stocks are January amounted to 858,- TREATY ORATORY IN SENATE CONTINUED Poetry Cited In Complaint, Decree Issued CHICAGO, March 22.—Poetry, penned years aro by Edgar Lee Masters, author of “Spoon River Anthology,” was cited as the basis for court adtion hore yesterday,” wherein Mrs. Helen Jenkins Mas- ters was granted a decree of sepa- rate maintenance by Judge Ira Raynor. Mrs. Masters told the judge that the poet deserted her March 1, 1919, and has refused to support her and their two daughters. She said that while he was travelling in Bgypt and Europe, collecting material for his writings, she was compelled to open @ boarding house, in order to make a living and educate their children. Mr. Masters’ yearly income was said to be more than $12,000, ac- cording to Mrs. Masters. Her at- torney, Francis W. Walker, said “Spoon River Anthology” has gone into its twentieth edition, and since then Masters has published “The Great Valley,” “Toward the Gulf” and “The Doomsday Book.” With the publication of his “Anthology” Masters was heralded throughout the English-speaking world as a new yolce in contemporary poetry. Mrs. Masters, in addition to be- tng granted the decree of separate maintenance, was awarded $2,000 back alimony and $300 a month as alimony and support of the two daughters, was ordered paid by Masters. According to the evidence intro- duced Nasters declared he was tired of Mrs. Masters and expressed his intention to “get another woman.” “Get a divorce,” a letter intro- duced in evidence said. “I’m through. I'm tired. If you dom’t get a dl- voree I am going to get another woman in London, where I will be appreciated and where we will be accepted for our talents.” Masters is said to be at his sum: mer home at Springlake, Mich., at present. Lady Astor to Visit New York | Flood of Speeches Increased as Period for Arguments Nears End; One-Hour Limit Goes in Effect Today. WASHINGTON, March 22—A flood of prepared speeches for and against the four-power Pacific treaty was loosed in |the senate today as the period of unlimited debate came to an end under the unanimous consent agreement which will bring a final ratfiication vote Friday. The one-hour limit on individual speeches was effective at 3 p. m. today and several senators who had prepared long a@dresses jost- (Jed one another in bidding for recog- | nition in the eleventh hour crush of | “canned oratory.” siand Dance | Senators La Follette, iblican, .. Wisconsin, ‘and Waish, Democrat, || Above Shimmy, Massachusetts, were the headliners | today for the treaty opponents, while |on the other side, the right of way was given to Senator Pomerene, Dem- jocrat, Obio, a foreign relations com- mittee member and one of the lead- ers of the element of his party favor- ing ratification. With several others waiting to get in with speeches, for and against the pact, leaders were doubtful whether a vote would be reached today on any of the pending reservations or amend- ments. The fourpower arrangement was assailed by Senator La Follette as a scheme of Great Britain and Japan to secure cooperation and protection of the United States “‘in their further schemes of exploitation and imperial- He decinred it was viewed by both British and Japanese statesmen as merely an extension of the Anglo- Japanese alliance which it abrogates, and that in practice it would result in binding the United States to sup- port the policies of London and Tokio against such outside powers as China, Ru and Germany. “I do not know,” said Senator La Follette, “whether the British govern- ment would contend, if this proposed treaty went into effect, that its domin- ions should each have a separate vote under the treaty as they have under the league of nations. “At all events we do know that the AngloJapaness policy of aggression and imperialism which mada the Brit- ish empire an athe Japanese empire close allies in the past will cause them to stand as a unit in opposition to the policies of any power in the Pacific ocean which dares to insist that the rights of weaker people there shill Quartet Free NEW YORK, March 22.—Soothed with the judicial verdict that the dance art of the South Seas, grass skirts and all, can’t be worse, if as bad, as or native shimmy, four fair dancers arrested when they “shock- ed” Manhattan police detectives to- day were free to practice their im- Ported movements as they will. Gflda Gray, Betty Wonders, Dor- othy Conroy and Helena Kuski so stirred watching detectives who vis- ited the uptown cafe in which they were engaged that they were arrest- ed as stagers of an immodest exhi- bition. Their costumes, Detective Andrew McLoughlin told Magis- trate Douras, were modeled after Gunga Din’s justly famous uniform. “I've geen all kinds of dancing, but never anything half as bad as that,” said the detective. ‘Then one of the fair defendants donned her dancing garb—over her street dress—for the edification of the court, whereupon it was decided that Manhattan’s modesty remain- ed unscathed. ‘The court also dismissed the cafe Proprietor who had been arrested for engaging the dancers. Plot to Corrupt Barglar Alarm Makers Charged be recognized and protected. Whether they cut-vote us six to one, or two March 22—Mrs. foun on the roadway Monday night. ‘The body of Charies Bradford was found about a half mile east of where the nephew's body was discovered. Sheriff Lynn declared that he was con- winced murder had been committed Dut so far as he has been unable to wnearth any clues leading to the elayers. SEES FAILURE OF FORD PLAN route to his winter home at Fort Myers, where Mr. Ford will join NEW YORK, March 22.—Lady Astor, who hag vecn given headlines ever since she got inte the British house of parliament, will arrtve in ‘New York April 19. This was the word received today by Mary Gar rett Hay, chairman of the New York City league for women voters. JACKSONVILLE, Fia., March 22 Prediction that Henry Fords pro- Dosal to lease the government pre} ectsat Muscle Shoals, Ala, would mot be accepted becanse of “too much politics” was made by his friend, Thomas A. Edison, in a Swtatemant-here-tast night while-en- him tomorrow. to one, ts not material.” During Senator La Follette's decis- ion of America’s rights and duties under the four-power pact, Senator Hitchcock, Democrat, Nebraska, in- quired who was to determine whether a question or controversy should come within jurisdiction of the conference of the four nations, “That whole subject ts left pen,” replied Senator La Folette. “I assume the framers of this pact sought to make it as brief as they could, to avoid having an involved document, or else it might never get through this body at all.” The Wisconsin senator added that there was nothing any where in the treaty’s provisions which reserved to the United tSatey the right to deter- mine whether immigration, for «x- Ethel Goodwin, said to be the divorced ‘wife of Abe Attell, former pugilist, was arrested here charged with being a member of a band of thieves thag had been planning wholesale robberies of big fur stores and factor- ies through the corruption of em- ployes of burglar alarm protective companies. She was held by a mag- istrate in $3,000 bafl for a further March 28. “Wall street is fighting Ford and Ford 4s fighting back,” Mr. Edison said. ‘The fertilizer interests and Wall street are as one and politics ‘will keep Ford«from- acquiring the property.” ample, should be a subject with which the conference of the powers may deal. This brought from Senator’ Simmons, Democrat, North Carolina, the statement that one of ‘the reser- (Continued-on~Page Five) WASHINGTON, March 22. —A resofation making tomorrow a spe- cial'suspension day in the house so as to consider the soldiers bonus Dil under a suspension of the rules -was approved today. by the rules~ committees - with a Bloody Conflict In Convention Forbidden by Griffith to Be} Sight on Ulster Border, Report LONDON, March 22.—(By The Associated Press.)—The situation on the border be- tween Ulster .and southern Ireland is going from bad to worse, and is such that some trifling tncident may draw the rival forces into a conflict which will shat ter all prospects of peace in Ireland, says the Dublin correspondent of tho Times. “The tragic trony of the sttuation,” he adds, “consists in the fact that the vast majority of citizens of all parties deplore the danger, but seem unbale to avert it. Each side daily takes some measure of defense which it regards as legitimate but which produces prompt retaliation from the other side, with the result that polit- ical passions are intensified and the pleadings of common sense fail to find hearing. “The chief canse of resentment on the northern side of the border is the existence there in organized forces of the Irish Republican army which the northern government fnsists must de- part or be expelled before there can be any talk of peace. “On the other hand, the southern nationalists claim the right to pro- tect the Catholic minorities in the northeast by every means in their power. They believe the northern po- Mee cannot be trusted to act impar- ‘The tially. southern newspapers print daily reports of outrages in which these police are allegedly con-| CHEY E, Wyo., March Wyoming,” he said, “that I don’t cerned. Enormous — that's the only word | feel thero is much to worry about “It ‘fs notorious that certain sec- tions of the Irish Republican army do not necessarily take orders from Dublin, and that raids of armed Re. publicans into the northern area oc. cur at times.” The correspondent adds that the sentences meted out to captured raia- ers have added to the trouble, being denounced as savagely severe and in. tended to degrade the captives, while the incidents in Belfart add fuel to the anger. Southern opinion is con vineed that the flogging penalty wil! be reserved chiefly, and postpone en. tirely, for Catholics found in posses- sion of arms. While the north refuses to obey, order never will be maintained in the south, the attitude of either side is looked on by the writer as pregnant with a thousand menaces of disaster. He contends that the only thing neces- sary to avert a calamity is a frand exchange of views by the two govern- ments, but this has not yet been at tempted. He says the situation is grave enough to justify a meeting of all the members of both govern. ments, or if this cannot be arranged, & conference between Michael Collins and Sir James Craig. Moderate opin- fon in Dublin is represented as most anxious for such a conference, FIRING CONTINUES ALONG BATTLE LINE. BELFAST, March 22.—(By The As- sociated Press)—Desultory firing con- tinued all day yesterday from the free state side of the border along the frontier of counties Tyrone and Monaghan, between Aughnacloy and Caledon, mostly from snipers located im houses inside the boundary line, according to reports from the bor- der received here today. The Ulster border commissioners visited last evening the locality where the stping activities were in progress and heard the shooting going on during a visit to Ballagh bridge, which divides the two counties, while Captain Thomp- son and Head Constable Hall of the Caledon platoon, reconnoitering near the border, became targets for the snipers on the side. Other officers were similarly «x- Posed while proceeding toward Bal- lagh bridge and had to seek safer quarters, A force of Ulster specials has been moved from Newtownbutler, county Fermanagh, to within a few hun- dred yards of Clones, tn the Free State, where there ts a strong gar rison of the Irish Republican army. Five mobile platoons of specials from Omagh, Dunganon, Cookstown, Stra- bane and Kjlleter were concentrated last evening in the Tyrone hills from Pomeroy to the Sperrin mountains and searched the countryside. The Cookstown platoon found a number of rifles and made five arrests. Two families in the danger zone Moved thelr effects to a safer place im the Tyrone county tnterfor tn con- sequence of their farm houses being riddied by bullets. When a farmer in the Caledon @tstrict moved out his house was immediately occupied by snipers. The police report that the snipers are virtually good marksmen and pos- sess up-to-date field giasses, judging by the prompt way in which they spot the movements of the opposing ‘forces. ‘The large bodies of police have been moved to the district, and this is re- assuring the loyalists to some extent. BONUS HEARING CIVEN APPROVAL formal record vote. Only a majority vote by the house would be necessary for the adoption of the resolution which provides fur tour hours dehate onthe bill Held Sunday; Dail Eireann False to Republican Oat’ Latest Charge | | DUBLIN, March 22.—(By The tociated Press.)—It was} officially announced in the Republ: _ organ here today that | the Irish Republican army conventi % the holding of which | was recently forbidden by Arthur G.% *h, president of the Dail Eireann, would be held in Dublii% nday as arranged. The announcement is taken here to mea” , -at a definite split im the Republican army has come. jrestore to t ~— my its old volunteer According to Commandant Roderick | constitution | % which it elec O'Connor, director of engineering of |its own execu. « The constit the headquarters staff of the Irish | was abandoned when the Dail Eireann Republican army. 80 per cent of the| was established, Mulcahy declared | army's members believe the army has| O'Conner, had pledged himself in been “let down” and that the Dail|Pail to maintain the army as a Re-| Eireann has been false to he Repub-| publican org ization, but the pleige! ican oath by agreeing ‘to accept the/had been violated by the invitatior | inclusion of Ireland within the Brit-| given to the members of the army tc | ish empire. | formim the nuclens of the army of the | The newspapermen were tnvited|Freo State. Ho said the army con this morning to the Republican pub-/| vention would b held Sunday as Ueity department, where they were|there was no government in Ireland received by Commandant O'Connor./at present to which the army owed Discussiyg the army convention, the | allegiance. commandant pointed out it hadJbeen| A resolution would be submitted to originally summoned with the ap-|the convention, said O'Connor, re Proval of Richard Mulcahy, now min-|newing allegiance to the Irish repub- ister of defense in the Dail cabinet. | lic. The delegates, he said, had been se-| “You may, tf you like, call us mu- lected by companies and numbered |tineers,” added O'Connor, “but the about 600, |rank and file is always right. It ts O'Connor said tho intention was to| the leaders who have failed. * IMPROVEMENT IN LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY MARKED IN STATE that described it,” said Eugene Mey er, Jr., mamaging director of the War Finance corporation here Tues- day, commenting on the improve ment in conditions in the western livestock industry since his last pre- ceding visit to Cheyenne, last Sep: tember. Incidentally he stated that that more than $8,000,000 of war fi- nance funds have been loaned to stockmen of Wyoming. “Things are now going so well in any more. You people have one of the biggest and best loan agencies in the country. It is working ac tively and on a safe basis, and is proving thoroughly helpful. The large loans will continue to improve conditions and the small loans will help out those who need help.” The War Finance loans are ad ministered in Wyoming through the Wyoming Stockmen’s Loan com- pany. CRIME OF RING PROMOTER TOLD BY YOUNG CIRL Tex Rickard Faces Damaging Evidence Trial on Charge of Having Assaulted Girls; Details Are Recited NEW YORK, Mareh 22.—Resuming her testimony today before a supreme court jury trying Tex Rickard for crimi- jnal assault, 15-year-old Sarah Schoenfeld declared that three | days after his arrest the sports promoter took her and Nellie | Gasko, a school girl chum, for an automobile ride through Central Park and told them to say “another man did it” if lthey got caught. Rickard was under | larrest at the time for assaulting Alice | Ruck, fifteen. | “Isn't it too bad,”" Sarah quoted | HOUSE LIMITS Rickard as saying, “that Alice had to| tell such lies about me. I am awful, jawful sorry for her and wish I could} |help her.” | Continuing the girt said: “He said) jwe mustn't tell on him because if we |did we would be locked up until we were 18 years old and we couldn't visit| jour friends and have any more good} Sarah said that after coming out of} the park, Rickard drove them to an elovated railway station near their | hame. Max D. Steur, Rickard’s counsel, ob- | Jected to several portions of the girl's testimony. One sustained objection! Quinn, Democrat, Missisuippl, to de. referred to a telephone conversation! crease the enlisted personnel to 50,- that the witness said Nellie had with| 3 }000 men, was snowed under a viva Rickard soon after Rickard's arrest. | Joo9 vote. WASHINGTON, March 22.—The house today approved provisions the army appropriation hill which call for a reduction in the enlisted streysth of the regular army to 115,000 men| by July 1. | An amendment by Representative Lee Lot Prcgace: s Dele al iter By a vote of 84 *> 45 the house de. Sarsh said, she we Nel nome | prea Fieri De and learned that her chum had been | (ted @n_ amendment by Chairman Kahn of the military affairs commit- tee, to provide pay sufficient for 143, 900 men exclusive of 7,000 Philippine scouts—the number for which the war department asked congress to| Provide. | oe FIRE TAKES | FOURTH LIFE, }taken into custody by the Children's Ald society. The witness said she told Rickard about it and he advised her to keep away from Madison Square Garden for awhile. In winding up his direct examina tion, Assistant District Attorney Peccora asked: “Sarah, you never were married to this defendant were you?” “No sir," she replied. Mr. Steuer opened the crossexam- ination by asking the girl where she » WAR LOOMS DNCITIFHEN | IN OKLAHOMA TO FAGE TRIAL OM CHARGE OF JURY Bank Commissioner Par- ty to $25,000 Agree- ment Conditioned on Deposit of Funds, Claim OKMULGEE, Okla., March 22. — (By Tt Associated Press.) — joint indictment charging C . B. A. Robert- son of Oklahoma and Fred G. Dennis, former state banking commis r, with a ting a bribe to permit a State bank here to con nue to do business after it had been found insolvent wa me turned by the district court grand jury yesterday it was learned today by the Assoc Press. Sheriff Frank owers of ( ulgee county, now hi & warrant for Governor Rob. ertson’s arrest but said he expected to hear from the execu during the day and that intend to serve the w "© some thne he did not rrant today, OKMULGER, Okla (By The Associated Press)—Goy. B. A. Robertson of Oklahoma, Fred G. Dennis, former state bank- ing commissioner, were named re- cipients of a $25,000 bribe conditioned on their deposit of $150,000 of state March 22.— 2. and funds in the Guaranty State bank of this clty to permit the bank to con- tinue to operate while tn an insotv- in ent condition, an indictment re- turned by the district court grand |Jury against John P. Cook, former President of the bank and John H. Rebold, vice president. The bill was made public shortly after noon today after Cook and Rebold had been ar rested. The indictment charges that the money w: aid to the rand the “felonious intent to influence the acts, decisions and judg~ f the had co an examination of the bank’ m” aftor Dennis on the same day and found the ion to be in an insolvent con— dition and that Rebold was liable to the bank for money borrowed in tho sum of $400,000. Cook was president of the Guar anty State tonk which was merged with the Eank of Commerce here Jan- uary 3, 1921, and Rebold was a vice president. The bribery charges agninst Rebold and Cook made tn a Joint indictment allege that on Sep- tember 27, 1920, the two men acting together, “did wilfully, unlawfully, feloniusly and corruptly” give $25, 000 in a cashier's check to J. B. A. Robertson, governor of Oklahoma, and Fred G. Dennis, former state banking commissioner. OKMULGEE, Okla. Mareh 22.— Fifty-one warrants were delivered to Sheriff Frank Sowers today by the district court clerk for the arrest of Persons named in 23 indictments re- turned last night by the district court grand jury after an investigation into the failure of the Bank of Commerce here. Sheriff Sowers said last night that the warrants would be served immediately after they were delivered to him. A score or more prominent local men are understood to have been named in bills tin adi to a state official and a former officer. GOVERNOR PREVIOUSLY ACCUSED OF BRIBE. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.. March 22.—J. B. A. Robertson, fourth gov- or of Oklahoma assumed office anuary 1, 1919, having been elected on the Democratic ticket the preced- ing fall. He has been a resident of Oklahoma since 1893. Governor on was borp in Keokuk cot in 1871 The tndic Governor Robertson of connection with alleged iNegal transactions in connection with the failure of the at Okmulgee fs not © his name has been linked with the Okmul- gee bank situation. In a sensational report returned by tho investigation committee of the house of the eighth Oklahoma Iegisla- ture of March 31, of last year, the gov- ernor was charged with having accept- ed a bribe for misuse of his official frst had met Nellie. “In the swimming pool at Coney Island known eg ‘the fountain of jay.” Asked why she went to see Rickard, Sarah said: “I wanted some money of him.” Utilities Will Spend Millions In Wisconsin MILWAUKEE, March —More than $50,000,000 will be spent in Wis: ae powers in connection with alleged {l- ke 3 ’ _| powers ny Pog EU AES Pad paar the| lsat transactions involving the Guar- = . te janty State bank of Okmulgee His ieee Boe ie ee cet herelimpeachment was recommended but in a pectacular scene whi young mother of a family succumbed ber gyre rope: geet Democratic member of the house was c of| to burns suffered in the burning ot nrought: to: the chariber tn an efter her home. several days ago, which! ’™° 2 nbul kflled her husband and two children BILL REDUCES NAVAL FORCES (Continued on Page Five) consin by gas, electric, street railway and telephone companies during 1922 in new construction, extension and im- rovement, J. P. Pulliam, president of the gas and electric association of the state, told the members in convention today. predicting a business revival ‘of hom. industries, day to report a bill fixing the max- imum authorized ed strength of the navy at 80,000 plus 6,000 ap- prentices, or 10,000 than the number Secretary nby declared enli less Di WASHINGTON, March 22—The | was needed to operate the treaty fleet. Pa St eI Gee The bill also provides that not more than 200 members of each graduating class at the navy acad- emy shall be commissioned this year in 1923 and 1924. There are 6541 members of the first class at the academij, to be graduated in-Juma 1%