Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 28, 1922, Page 1

» FINAL PLEA FOR SHOP GRAFTS 16 MADE IN SPEECH OF 8. M. JEWEL Union Head Says Cen- cem Which Can Not Meet Charges and Pay Livmg Wage Bankrupt CHICAGO, March 28— The business concern which cannot meet its fixed charges is bankrupt; failure to pro- vide a healthy standard of liv- ing for his family—a working man's fixed charge—means eventual rafiroad me nics in 1921 were able to purchase ut 64 per cent of the meat, fish, milk and eggs railroad falls short by nearly $200 ® year of the actual amount which these famffies spent.” 2 ‘With prices prevaiting during the year of 1921, mechanics in raflroad shops were able to purchase about 64 per cent of the meat, fish, milk and ‘Es necessary to maintain their actual families at the lowest levels of-satety, Mr. Jewell said. They were able, he continued, to purchase only NT per cent of the necessary cereal foods; only 91 per cent of the neces- sary vegetables and fruits and only 71 per cent of the necessary butter, fats and oils. “The results of such a deficit in terms of the general physique of the country and also in terms of tho ef ficient operation of the railroads is sufficiently obvious If an industry meet ts first fixed charge, tho pay- ment of a healthful livlihood to its employes, it is indeed bankrupt.” “Weges are the life blood of the nation. They are not money, they are pounds of life blood which flows out to nourish the body of the peo ple. A reduction in wages docs not mean a reduction in dollars and cents; it means a reduction in pounds (Continued on Page Five) CASPER MAN SHOT (0 DEATH ON VACATION TR Che Casper Daily Crihiune Weather Forecast STRIKE CHIEFS [RICKARD CASE WILL: REACH JURY TONIGHT. BIG SUM LOST IN TWO FIRES BUFFALO, N. Y., March 28.-- Fire caused more than a half million dol- lars damage in the wholemle district at the Elk street fruit and farm pro- duce market today. The Becker Prentiss company was the heaviest loser, its stock of groceries vatued at $400,000 being burned or ruined by water. . Pa. March 28.— Fire carly today damaged the Elk Tanning company’s plant here to the extent of about $300,000. teensy | DARK SINKS WITH COAL NEWPORT NEWS, Va., March 23. —The Panaman bark Marie Borges loaded with coal, mysteriously sank in the harbor here. Several of her crew escaped small boats. They reported that the craft filled rapidly and went down a short time after they found she was) leaking. She went down in 40 feet . | of water, leaving only the tips of her masts protruding. TO STAND in| CASPER, WYO.,TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1922. Dispute Ready for Walkout NEW YORE, March 28.— After a week of preliminary skirmishing, the miners and operators sub-committee on day agreed that neither side could look for an easy victory in the date fixed, assert their men are “will- ing to go on a long vacation.” ‘Thus, they say, they can take their tir:o to labor. ingness that the mines shal! producing, temporarily. They have | taken a positive stand against any in- crease in miners’ wages, and have announced their intention of using present schedule. ——_s_—__ A woman in Stockholm is the mother of three daughters of differ- ent ages whose birthdays fall on the |same date. Principals to Wage|| Twins Joined Together In Grave Iilness CHICAGO, March 28.—Josephta and Rosa Biazek, two isecho-Slo- vakian twins joined together at birth and known as “the Sizmeso wage contract negotiations to-| twins” were in a serious condition with yellow jaundice at a hospital but physicians said an operation to Present conference. The miners, with} PeDerate them was out of th aques. [the knowledge that every anthracite} “on for would men the deat! colifery in the United State's union-} Of both. If Josephfa dies her sister ized and will cease production on the} Must die also, the physiciars say im spite of all medical skill. Josephfa was taken ill first. To. day she was uncon’4ous. The dis 5 thresh out the whole station In the| °28° also has sprad to Rosa and anthracite industry as it affects union she lies in a semiconscious state Two physicians are sttending them. Th, aS ay wim-| Rosa is a widow. She has a 12- ae that aT snal! ceasn| year-old son, Frantz, who plays about the hospital unminéfel of fate's misfortune and tho possibility that he may lose his mother. He is a very bright boy, hospital at- |every means to negotiate a new con-| ‘aches say, perfect mentally and tract on a basis of decrease from the} Physically, they believe. The sisters were brought to this country for ex- hibition purposes. TAXI STANDS ON =-INEGRO BANDIT CENTER STREET IS SHOT DEAD/AE PERMITTED Another Captured by Housewife in Home but Several Make Big Haul and Escape in Chicago Crime Wave Part of Business District From Which Stands Were Barred Is Thrown Open by Council. After a fight which has extended over @ period of several months the taxi drivers here gained a victory when the city council decided to permit CHICAGO, March 28.—While one band of bandits can| a=! stands on streets in the restrict. look complacently on the results of their last 24 hours of | 8? Which includes Center street, activities there are several others today with prospects that are’ less bright. One negro, shot and killed by a negro police officer. caught robbing a victim, was One burglar was from the Northwestern tracks to the courthouse and Second street from David to Durbin streets. An ordinance was unantmously captured by a housewife in her home and police arrested |P=98e4 by the council at a special several alleged burglars. Bandit successes included the in- vasion of the farm house of Arthur ‘W. Cutten, multimillionaire grain broker at Downers Grove, where they obtained $500 in cash, $17,000 worth of Jewelery and nine cases of whiskey. Another group of robbers operating in the loop district held up the man- ager of a clothing store as he was about to close and escaped with eight suits. Mrs. Bdna McKenzie, armed with her husband's revolver, answered the alarm given by a neighbor who found a burglar in her apartment. The burglar ran but was pursued and cap- tured by Mrs. McKenzie. cer, saw through a grocery store window a negro pointing a gun at the) certain stands within the meeting yesterday afternoon allowing the taxi agencies here to establish district wife of the proprietor of the store.|rnamed. The number of stands to be Green went inside and-when the rod-| allowed to the taxi companies have ‘ver turned his gun toward him the not been decided upon yet. The coun- officer fired three shots. Three bul- lets within a circle no larger than a dollar went through the robber’s heart. ‘ cil can use its discretion in granting such stands. The change in the ruling which prohibited taxis from using the streets Numerous arrésts were made last|for stands came because of the coun- night following reports of minor rob-| cil view that the taxis provide the bertes. jee Se FLOOD CRISIS NEAR. MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 28—The| © definitely marked and only kind of transportation and that centrally located stands would be a boon to local people. The stands will zones in crisis in the Mississippi river flood which these markings will be made is expected Thursday. No serious Raymond Green, negro police offi-|damage has been reported so far. ORANGEMEN CET ORDER TO LEAVE IRISH TOWN; MURDER REPRISAL SEEN Notices Demand Exodus by This Evening; Protestants Deplore Outrages of - Catholics in Resolutions BUNCRANA, County Donoegal, Notices have been posted about town o Irelgnd, March 28,— ering all Orange- men to leave by this evening—a measure of reprisal for the recent McMahon murders in Belfast. Trish provisional gov- ernment troops have taken over the police barracks here which were evacuated by the royal Irish constabulary. An unsuccessful attempt was made; factory was situated in Unity street, last night to burn Masonic hall. The| which is inhabited by large numbers ‘Windows were smashed and petrol|of each faction. Each faction accus- was sprinkled about the premises. | ed the other of starting the fire, and Firemen from: all the fire stations{it was in the midst of this hubbub tm Boelfest were busy ‘throughout ‘the| that the bomb was thrown. might combatting this new terror and although fires were continually break-| DUNDALK, Ireland, March ‘28. — fax out, they were able to save a con-|(By ‘The Associated Press.}—In re- a@iderable amount of property. sponse to the notice posted near the Axmong the. buildings burned.were a| town hall yesterday threatening re- today and reeffirmed thetr abhor. rence of all outrages on Catholics. ‘The Protestants also expressed re had any doubt concerning their views of the outrages. IRISH LEADERS CONFER TOMOREOW. LONDON, March 28.—(By The As- sociated Press)—Orthur Griffith, president of the Dail Eireann and Ha- monn J. Duggpn, Dail minister of home affairs, arrived in London from Dublin this afterncon to attend to morrow’s conference of Irish leaders. They declined to seo representatives of the press. It was expected they would confer with Winston Churchill, the colonial secretary, later. Michael Collins, head of the pro- visional government, who wns detatn- ed in Dublin by urgent business, was expected to cross to England tonight, as would Str James Craig, the Ulster premier and his colleagues of the wtore, = fleur milf. end # shop, 2)l of jprisals for Catholics killed im north ‘which were tn the central arm. The} Ireiend, a croup of Protestants met cannot be occupied by other cars. obras tena SANITATION WORK OPEN TO ALL WHO COMPLY WHEN HOAX | today lifted the ban on sr denly as he clamped it dow Alderman McGuinness’ anv been passed by the board of CITY EDITION NUMBER 144. [ | HARKNESS LEFT GREAT ESTATE NEW YORK, March 23.—A net es-| tate of $151,589,210, the bulk of which was industral, railroad and public util ity stock was left by William Hark-| ness, Standard Ol company official who died May 10, 1910, the appraisal in the state tax commission office) showed. He held Standard Off stock | amounting to $22,554,050. Child Pleads” For Father In Store Holdup) Evidence All In at Noon; Arguments Are Launched NEW YORK, March 28.— Evidence in the Rickard trial was all in at noon today. Su-| preme Couré Justice Wasser-| vogel told the jury he hoped| to give them the case late to- @ay after both sides had summed up. The state, in its efforts to prove that Tex Rickard had assaulted fit- teen-year-old Sarah Shoenfeld, cailed only one witness in rebuttal. Detec-| tive McGanna, who arrested the sport promoter last January. The defense took several exceptions. Mea Ste a THREE KILLED IN RAIL WRECK ROYSE CITY, Texas, March 23.— CHICAGO, March 28 — A chfkt's| plea, “Mister bandit, please don’t shoot daddy; he'll give you his money,” caused one of two holdup men who were robbing a drug store late yester-| day to withhold fire from a pistol point at Thomas Murphy, a customer. | Murphy, in the store with his son,| Three men were killed, one injured|showed fight and one robber had| seriously and two slightly hurt one|knocked him down. He surrendered | mile sast of here Monday in a wreck }$75. Tho robbers stole 4 pints of | of a Missouri, Kansas and Texas|whiskey, a quantity of narcotics and| freight train. $75 from the drug store. | BAN ON SMOKING BY WOMEN IN PUBLIC LIFTED IN NEW YORK | gether for lnmcheon. NEW YORK, March 28.—Police Commissioner Enright ‘g by women in public as sud- ‘night, when he learned that ‘ding ordinance had never nen or signed by Mayor . % W. F. Mocoy, an employe in the % srk's office, was ied forth, in m % ¢h and ashes as official roat error that had set pro- fessiona. ven anti-smoking wom- en on th * th from the Battery to the far aes of Hartem. McCoy, % was explained, was charged with clipping the official city by the mayor along to the forcement Ho was still trying to explain how the anti-smoking bill was sent along today when City Clerk Cruise rallied to his support with a broadside agamst Commissioner Enright’s staff for falling to examine the purported ordinance esrefully enough to see that it was not properly stamped and endorsed. News that it was all a mistake came Ifke a reprieve from the gallows to proprietors of scores of places where gratification of milady’s pas- sion for the soothing weed wre the chief source of bread and butter rev- and sending them Proper officials for en. Jenues. Fashionable smoke snors for |wemen had sprung up in Fi nue, Broatway and other a centers, while Greenwich village had come to depend almost exclustvely on smoke rings to produce an atmos. phere of Bohemianism—since the Passage of the “cup that cheers.” The ordinance had its effect even on downtown cafeterias where ste nographers and women clerks fore For the smok- ing “evil” the ordinance was devisne? to check has spread to New York women in many walks of life. Taxicab drivers were beginning to worry, too, for fear their conveyances might be ruled “public places” and banned as smokers for fair fares en route home from the theater. Alderman McGuinness, father of the orfinance that had a hectic life from sundown to sunrise, was slmost the only New Yorker discoverah!s to- dcy who scemed to regret its passing. * Fair Sex Winst.Out at St. Charles and Calamus; Municipal Band Turns Out to Be Leading Issue DES * NES, Towa,. March 28.—(By The Associated Press.)—Activity of women in the political affairs of Iowa towns and cities at yesterday’s elections is believed to have brought about the election of two of their number as mayor, victory to candidates they endorsed in other towns, the de- feat of Sunday motion pic the routing of the town’s pool hall at New Market. Mrs. C. J. Young was elected mayor of St. Charles by a small majority. Mrs. Harry Steadman is the new mayor of Calamus. Voters at Charlotte, Mount Vernon and Lenox defeated women candidates for mayor. Women wers elected to the city) council in several towns. It turned out that a municipal band was a collateral issue in ten towns and nine of them voted two mill tax levies to have town bands. CHARLOTTE, Iowa, March 28.— “Liquor and money won the slec- tion," was the charge made today by Mrs.’ James McDermott, defeated woman's candidate for mayor in yes- terday’s town election. “The charge is false,” responded J. R. Kane, who won from Mrs. McDer- mott, 151 to 104. “Liquor was not the issue at all,” he continued. “It at Ames and New Sharon and was women suffrage.” The mayor-elect added that every ‘vote in the town was out, asserting that the challenge of the young wom- en to bachelors and swains to sup- port the women's ticket or cease courting them had added fuel to the feverish campaign. ST. CHARLES, Iowa, March 28.— |2rs. C. J. Young was elected mayor here yesterday and with her ths entire women’s ticket, Mrs. Jennie Lamb and Mrs. J. K. Nickle, both ranning for clty council. ————.—_— | HEARING GIVEN BILL. | WASHINGTON, March 28.—The |house judiciary ‘committee began hearings today on a bill by Represen- tative Bacharach, Republican, New | Jersey, which would give state courts [official jurisdiction over all orders is |sued by state administrative bodies, with the right of appeal to the su TOWNS OF IOWA CT WOMEN MAYORS Bulte Estate __ Is Probated KA CITY, Mo., March 28.— August J. Bulte, who with his wife and three other persons lost his life in the Miss Miami tragedy off the Florida coast last week, left an estate estimated at between $50,000 and $60,- 000, according to letters of administra- tion filed today. ered Panama Banks Under Orders PANAMA, March ment has intervened in the Panama bank. It has ordered, as a measure of protection to local de- positors, that no funds be sent out of the country. rea reeneees ALASKAN WORK URGED. WASHINGTON, March 28. — A house bill to expedite Alaskan roxd construction during the approaching open season, by authorizing the war cepartment to make contracts In a4. vance of federal appropriations, was reported favorably today by the sen- preme court of the United States. ate territories committee. \ FG. BELL, RL EMPLOYE, DIES ON TRAN FROM BULLET WOUND Was Taking Wife to Hos- pital in Minnesota to Undergo Operation and Tragedy Intervenes | record for resolutions and ardinances | that have been adopted and approved | SUEUR, Minn., March 28.—E. C. Bell of Casper, Wyo., was fatally shot last night in a stateroom aboard a Chicago, St. Paul, Minneap- olis and Orgaha passenger train. Ho died here Mrs. Bell, who is held without charge pending the coroner’s inquest told the authorities her husband had been drinking and that he had enter- LE tained a garty of men in thelr srate rcom from (ie tame the train ift Minneapol's. . The fatal wound was tnflicted, she said, after her husband. took a revolyer from under his pillow and started shooting. She said she tried to take the gun away from him, “but he kept on shooting and then he went limp.” Mrs. Bell was placed under the care of Dr. F. A. Dodge, who put her to bed and said she would not be in con- dition to talk until probably tonight. He said she had been drinking, though Mrs. Bell insisted she did not have any drinks until after the shoot- ing. The woman was not certain wheth- er the shots her hushand fired were directed at her. “I tried to get the gun away from him," she said, “and I do not know what position we were in when the fatal bullet was fired. All he said was ‘Nell! I'm shot.’" Evidence of a struggle were found on Mrs. Bell, according to Dr. Dodge. She had a black eye, numerous body bruises, and marks on her arm indi- cated she had been held in a rice- like grip. She said the marks were inflicted in her Struggle with her hus- band for possesston of the revolver. Fart Clark Bell of Casper, reported shot and killed aboard a train near Le Sueur, Minn., last night, came to his death on his birthday, the ahove @ spatch indicates, as yesterday marked the 38th milestone of his life. He was a switchman in the employ of the Chicago & Northwestern railroad at Casper and left here March 1. He ob- tained a pass to Minneapolis and an- nounced that he was going to take his wife, Ellen T. Bell, to Rochester, where she would undergo an opera- tion. Mr. Bell was born in Ellsworth, Kan., March 27, 1884. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Bell, live in Glendive, Mont., and he has a brother who is prominent in Billings. Mr, Bell left his last place, Vancouver, B. C., where he was employed by the Can- adian Pacific railway, on account of his wife's health. He is a member of the following lodges: The Masons, Elks, and Mouse, ss weil as being affiliated with ths Brotherhood o: Kailroad Trainmen. The Bells lived at 843 South Center street and had resided in Casper for three years. Mr. Bell having assumed ,his work with the Northwe: January, 1919. | | |. ROCKFORD, IL, March 28.—Toid |by the court that one or the other must serve a jail sentence for vioia- tion of the liquor law and that they |must decide between them which it should be, Mr. and Mrs. Anton Good joff decided their own fate before | Judge Weish. Mrs. Goodoff as |sumed the responsibility for the ii }quor sales and was given sixty days tin jail. WICH 240 ACRES OF SALT CREEK OIL LAND ARE Any person or firm who can com- ply with the stringent regulations which control sanitary institutions in which were made by numerous other firms here against the granting of an exclustve franchise to the City Sanitation com- pany. ‘The new decison reversed the stand of thie councl taken recently which prohibited any firm from operating here except the City Sanitaton com- pany. The council's decision is sub- ject to change if necessary when a supreme court decision on the action is heard. En . APPROPRIATION BOOSTED. WASHINGTON, March 28. — By a vote of 158 to 54 the house adopted an amendment tnereasing from $27,- 635,260 to $42,815,661 the lump sum amount carried in the army ap- propriation bill for continting work on river and harbor improvements éuring the coming fiscal year. An- :northern cabinet, other vote-on the amendment can be demanded before passage of the bill. to have a potential worth of $ man; James D. Darden of New York, I. N. Clay, James G. Stanley, the Midwest Refining company, the Glenrick i! company and the Royalty and Pro- aucers corporation. ‘the plaintiffs ask the court for an erdcr of specific performance cl an allcged contract raid to have been executed in 1919 hy Taylor with Ots Prominent Operators and Companies of | Casper Made Defendants in Suit Filed | Today in Denver Court DENVER, Colo., March 28.—Suit involving an interest in| 240 acres of rich oil lands in the Salt Creek, Wyoming, field| was filed in the district court here today. 1,000,000. The suit was brought by Norman R. Otis and the Plains) Oil company against Robert G. Taylor, a Casper, Wyo., oil! proval of 121 advances for agricultur- John F. Campion, of Denvec, and A. E. Lawr:n-e whos? interests|al and livestock purposes aggregating cince have been absacbed by the Plains ON company. According ‘o the ecmplaint Otis and Le-srence found certain plots of land upon which the necessary assessment} Iowa work had not been done in the heart of the Balt Creek field. It is alleged that in return for this The interest is said | IN LITIGATION lor, they were to receive 8 per cent royaity and cash of $1,000 apiece. The money consideration was paid, it is alleged, but the royaity interest never ments have been msde. ‘The claims are reported to have sev ¢ral producing ofl we.’s on them now. | a Livestock Loans Are Authorized WASHINGTON, March 28. — Ap $2,324,000 was announced by the war finance corporation. The loans in- cluded. Artzdna $50,000; Colorado $288,000; 3,000; Montana $220,000; Ne- braskn $39,01 New Mexico $98,000; Oregon $112,000; South Dakota $173,- 000; Texas $3 8,000; Utah $69,000; knowledge, which they sold to Tay- Wyoming $104,000. bas been acknowledged and no pay-| Military Bill Is Pushed By | French Premier | PARIS, March 28.—(By The Asso- ciated Press)—Premter Poincare in- j tends to force the passage of a meas: ure providing for eighteen months |military service over the various sub- jstitute bills proposing a shorter period jot service, he declared in a letter to the entente republica which was read jlast night at the party meeting. The |party voted to support the govern- j; ment. Parliamentarians have expressed jthe opinion that the premier will not |need to.make it a matter of confi- |dence to get the bill through, but with the cabinet making it an issue they ‘predicted a heavy favorable vote.