Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 4, 1922, Page 1

AVIATION OFFICER SHOT 70 DEATH BY OIL MAN CANDIDATES FOR THRONE SPRING OP IN HUNGARY; ELECTION NEAR Death of Charles Means Redrafting of Provis- ional Constitution by Assembly, Is Report BUDAPEST, April 4.—(By The Associated Press.}—With the death of Charles, crowned king of Hungary, the provi- sional constitution, which was based on the fact that the king was prevented from exercising his prerogatives. must be re-drafted by the assembly about to be elected. Further postponement of Hungary's choice of a furm of government has become impossible and through the coming elections the people, must de- cide the question and elect a king if the monarchial form is preferred. Candidates for the throne are spring- ing up again, strong parties form- ing for the support of the Archdukes Aibrechet and Joseph Ferdinand, but many deputies are reviving the pro posal for the election of an English prinee. ‘The parcy favoring Frances Joseph Otto, eldest son of the dead monarch, however, unquestionably is the strongest Although the legittmisrs are united on a platform uphokiing the claims of Otto and their program ‘s growing mote radical, the indications aro tbat Charles’ death has strengthened the position of the government of Admiral Horthy, the regent. ‘The menace of a patsch, or uprising, has lost its acute- ness and the opinion is growing that Otto will Jose the support of those pro- Hapsburgs who founded Charles’ claim to the throne on the fact of his coro- nation. ‘The government is conceding the le- gitimist desires for national mourning, as for a sovereign, and also has stated there is no objection to the burial of Charles in Hungary, if he expressed euch a wish in his testament. ‘As regards the claims put forward for Otto, the government insists that the rights of all the Hapsburgs were abrogated by the dethronement act passed in the national assembly, and that even the election of Otto, which is barred by that law, depends on the consent of the allied powers. ee. srokoc ss pion Radio to Serve In Rescue Work GENEVA, April 4.-— Radio may soon rival the St. Bernard dog as the savior of mountain climbers lost in the Alps. : After twenty years of experiment- ing, Jean Lacarne, the French en- gineer connected with the Vallot Ob- servatory on the summit of Mont Blanc, has perfected radio apparatus which ordinary wireless in- aoe ‘The suggestion is made that cltmb- ing parties hereafter carry small wireless outfits so they can obtain quick help through the Mont Blanc observatory if necessary. INDIA STIRS UP STRIFE. BOMBAY, April 3—(By The Asso- ciated Press).—Meetings are being held here almost dafly to stir up interest in the observance of the so-called ‘“na- tional week” which is planned to com- memorate the inauguration of Mo- handus K. Ghandi's “Swarajia” cam- paign in April, 1921. The week bée- gins April 6, and an all-Indian hartal a form of general strike, is planned at its conclusion. Che Casper Daily Crihume| Si | Gonty tonight tonight and Wednes. day with probably rain or snow. Coid- er in west portion tonight and in east portion Wednesday, Weather Forecast ===] VOLUME VI MERCHANT MARINE ACT T0 GET THROUGH HOUSE BUT SENATE IS DOUBTFUL, LEADERS THINK WASHINGTON, April 4.—Joint congressional hearings) on the administration’, 8s merchant marine bill’were begun to-| day with Republican leaders confident the house would be| able to act on the measure before the close of the present session but generally doubtful as to whether the senate would find time to dispose of it rntil after congress reconvenes in December. !merchant marine and fisheries com- Sitting in jotnt sessions the *senate! mittee plan first to hear the testimony gemmerce committee and the house| of shipping board officials, with Chair- ISK RONG N WOOL SALES the legislation. Members of both committees were generally of the opinion the hearings would continue for a month or more, Action Deferred by Council on Truth-in-Fabric Meas- ure Designed to Back Up State Law. ing, {dentical bills proposing govern- ment aid for the United States mer- chant marine are pending before both committees. Mr. Lasker has announced that tn hiis opening statement to the commit- tees he would declare tho shipping board believes that any free compe- tition with the privately owned shtp- ‘ping of the world, through successful government operation is an impgssi- bility. Government operation of ships, in the opinion of the shipping beard head, ts not only a costly faflure, but is driving private owners off the seas without accomplishing anything Itself. Action looking toward the enact- ment of a truth-infabric law as a city ordinance was indefinitely delayed when such an ordinance presented on behalf of the woolgrowers of this dis- trict was tabled by the city council last aight. Under the parliamentary rules in- yoked the bill will have to be called up for three readings, submitted to special committees and in other ways tossed about before final .considera- tion of the measure will be possible by the city council. ‘The measure,-designea merely to back up the state truth-in-fabric law, prescribes that ell merchants dealing in woolen goods conspicuously post tags on the merchandise offered for sale telling just exactly the wool con- tent of the cloth. ‘The ordinance as submitted would imp2e penalties, including fines rang- ing from $5 to $100 and a jail sen- tence not to exceed 90 days or both. Tyrone Keep CASPER, WYO., TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1922. WASHINGTON, April 4.—Miners’ dema nds for a six-hour day and five-day week— issues involved in the national coal strike—w ere described by John L. Lewis, president of| the United Mine Workers, in continuing his testimony today before a house committee as NUMBER 150. LEWIS ARGUES _| LABOR CLAIMS Lively Tilt Centers About Demand for Six-Hour Day and Five- Day Week Advocated at House Committee Hearing by Miners’ Chief; Tex as Solon in Dispute largely a move to force regularity of employ ment . “Men employed by the day,” he said, “w ould receive the same wages they are now get-| "™° ting, and put in less time, but the miners who dig coal would be paid as they the number of tons of coal they pro- duce.” Representative Black, Democrat, Texas, calculated that if the five-day six-hour demand was granted, “the public would pay $244,000,000 addi- tional for the same amount of coal they are now getting each year.” “Who will that come out of? Black demanded after figuring up his total. “Noboty,” Mr. Lewis retorted, “be- cause your figures are absurd. I can't follow your mental gyrations on this subject on the field of mathe matics,” Mr. Black pressed his calculations. “Congressmen, when the 12-hour day was changed to SINN FEINERS AT PEACE ON ULSTER LINE Firing Ceases*From Free State Side of Border; Crown Forces in North War Blazing . ‘After the measure was read before the city council opposttion developed on the ground that passage of the ordinance would necessitate the city going to a great expense to see that the law was enforced. Members of |the council held that tt would be a | useless expense in view of the failure of state authorities to provide a means of enforcement of the similar state statute. Attorney Marvin Bishop, Jr., speak- ing as a representative of the Natro- na County Woolgrowers’ association, spoke in behalf of the measure, citing that many state statutes had been enacted as municipal laws to give the city direct control over various in- fractions. | "The motion to defer final considera- tion of the Dill for at least three meet- |ings passed the council by unanimous vote. eS gees EVANSVILLE MAYOR DEAD. EVNSVILLE, Ind., April 4.—Benja- min Bosse, mayor of Evansville, and Democratic state chairman, died this morning. $300,000 BLAZE TANK AT END SAPULPA, Okla., April 4. .—The most spectacular and BELFAST, April 4.—(By The Associated Press. )—Col. Montagu Bates, chief of the southern liaison commission, said today that orders had been given to Sinn Feiners at Bal- lagh bridge to cease firing and that these orders were being day,” Mr. Lewis interrupted, “the ef- ficiency was increased and the pro- duction per man per day increased. ‘The same effect continued when the ten-hour day was cut to eight hours. The efficiency increased more than sufficient to make up the loss. The fact has been unthoritatively deter Mr.| mined and universally recognized.” “T can’t figure out how you can ex- pect the production to increase,” Mr. Biack said, “after you have reduced the hours of work down below a rea- sonable basis.” "Td like to potnt out that we are willing to discuss all these demands around a council table with opera- tors,” Mr. Lewis returned, “and then if we can't show them to be reason- able we won't expect to press them.” Mr. Binck declared that “while wages of anthracite miners now can purchase 18 per cent more than they could in 1920, the purchasing power of the farmer in my territory has been cut 50 per cent since 1920,” and ask- ed Mr. Lewis: “Do you think that tnfustrial and transportation workers can long with- stand the pressure to have them take some of the loss too?” {It Sg well to remember that dur- ‘ing the war, farmers got the advan- tage of great inflation in their prices Lewis replied, “while we contend that mine ‘work- ers were never able to get the full increases in living cost represented in their wage advances.” Mr, Black advanced the suggestion that considering the present level of prices, mine wage scales were far above 1913 in thelr buying power. “Even if that ts so,” Mr. Lewis re- plied, “the miners have never accept- ed the principle that wage increases should be tied down to the bare cost of living. That theory would chain FATHER-IN-LAW OF E. ¢. BELL DROPS DEAD ON READING NEWS OF TRAGIC KILLING ON TRAIN MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., April 4- shooting of his son-in-law, E. C. Bell, known to him for.the first time through was believed today to have caused the de 4,9 years of age. May had been widely known among fi a the Little Sister ~ drove a wagon homes regularty. Bell was shot to train near Le Sueur, under circumstances, he detention of his w ‘Yock over the fatal ‘asper, Wyo., made ‘wspaper account, of Peter May, 78 ¥ aso ies served by the Poor, 1 visited oroner’s had ki the k jury, ed him- ling . was which found that Be! self, the ne of withhel@ from May. He came upon a newspaper account of the affair yesterday. Stunned by the news, apoplexy MANY MISSING | IN BIG FLOOD DALLAS, Texas, April 4.—Several persons are reported missing and livestéck drowned in Sabine river, near Greenville, as tho result of are now for heavy rains of the past 24 hours. The river above Greenville is reported 91 Slain This more than a mile wide. Two men Year in Gotham have been rescued and parties are seeking others believed to have been caught in the rapidly rising waters. ———— UTAH PIONEER DEAD. | SALT LAKE CITY, April 4—Thom: jas Robinson, 78, pioneer Utah bank- NEW YORK, April 4.—Ninety-ono! er and business man and reputed foun Persons have been slain in New York|der of the beet sugar industry in Utah since the first of the year, according | Idaho and other inter-mountain epee to records in the office of the chiet| Hed yesterday at Long Beach, Cal., |cording to word received here. medical examiner. There have been| Mr. Cutler was born in England in 105 holdups. 1844 and came to Utah in 1864. INDEPENDENT MINES WOULD RENEW SCALE Anthracite Committee Meéts'Wednesday in New York to Consider Offer Made by Eastern Operators NEW YORK, April 4.—Strike leaders announced here to- day that the anthracite miners’ general scale committee would meet in New York tomorrow to act on the reported offer of several independent producers to grant the strikers’ nineteen wage demands immediately if they would return to work. will be the introduction in congress,of Acceptance of these offers, hailed by} Dill providing for appointment of stroke of | ' as he| | OKLAROMA CITY OPERATOR FINDS WIFE ATTACKED BY GUEST, CLAIM Slain Man One of First Four Airmen to Enter Service; Home Tragedy Being Investigated OKLAHOMA CITY, Okia., April 4—Jean 0. Day, former state su- Preme court justice and prominent in financial circles of the state, to- day was held under $5,000 appear- ance bond pending an investigation by & coroner's jury into the death of Lieut. Col, Paul W. Beck, assist- ant commandant of Post Field avia- tion station at Fort Sill, Okla., who was killed early today at Day's home here. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., April 4.—Lieut. Col. Paul W. Beck, of Post field, the avia- tion section of Fort Sill, Okla., was shot to death here early today in the fashionable resi- dence of Jean P. Day, widely known ofl operator. Day ts held at his home in custody of a deputy sheriff pending an investigation. According to a statement fssued by R. W. Dick, Day returned to his house after escorting home a number of guests which his wife earlier had entertained at cards, and found Mrs. Day struggling in the arms of the army officer. Dick who {fs an inti. mate acquaintance of the family, said Day authorized the statement. Lieut. Col, Beck had tong deen a close friend of the Days and came here yesterday by atr#lane from Fort SM. He was one of the guests at the card party last night, Dick sald, and was left alone with Mrs. Day when her husband saw their friends home in his automobile. Upon his return home, Dick «ald Day peered through a porch window and saw his wife fighting to release the aviator’s hold on her. He rushed upstairs and obtained hts revolver, Dick asserted, and returned to the room where the couple were still struggling. Beck made motion as ff to strike Day, continned Dick, and Day ‘struck him over the head with the revolver, the gun exploding. Beck fell to the floor and was dead before the police arrived. Mrs. Day this morning was tn a state bordering om nervous collapse and would make no statement. Day has been prominent tn political and financial circles of the state since Oklahoma was admitted to the union He was a member of the snpreme obeyed. Despite the lull in sniping activities however, loyalists have not been per- mitted to return to their farms, which are occupied by southerners, of whom about 60 are moving out of this area. Excitement has transferred to the desolate Sperrin mountains in north ‘Tyrone, which are swept nightly by large bodies of crown forces, who are some times fired upon by Sinn Fein- ers. Frequent encounters have been reported and the Belfast telegraph correspondent has been told that 25 Sinn Felners have been killed and many more wounded. DONEGAL, April 4—Twelve arm- ed men early today held up a, passeti- ger and freight train on the Swilly railway, took off the Londonderry newspapers anfi burned them. They also seized a quantity of sugar and bacon and several hampers of bread. BELFAST, April +, —{By The As- sociated Press.}—Bernard McMahon, eldest son of Owen McMahon, seven members of whose family were. shot by a band of men on March 24 , died today. LIBERICK, April 4. —(By The As- gociated Press.—Two bombs shattered the glass windows of the Y. M. Cc. A. building here last night. Volunteers surrounded the area but no arrests ‘were made LONDON, April 4-(By The Asso- He said there was now no shooting from the Free State side of the Ulster border. workers to a fixed economic level for always.” Miners’ day wages {n 1913, Mr. Lewis estimated at $2.04, while the “pasic day wage” under present con- ditions was placed at $7.50. —o—— FALSE FIRE ALARM. ‘The fire department was called out at about 11 o'clock this morning to West First street, in response to a false alarm. Je ea a MINISTER RESIGNS. PARIS, April 4—(By The Associ ated Press).—Marcello T. De Alvear, Argentine minister to France, has re- signed. NO REFLECTION IN DISMISSALS WASHINGTON, April 4.—The recent dismissal of up- wards of thirty officials of the bureau of engraving and print- ing by President Harding involved no desire “to reflect upon the character of any government employe,” it was said today by Secretary Christian. In a letter to John J. Deviny, one of the dismissed execu- tives, Mr. Christian declared the pres-)a sweeping change in the bureau was ident regretted that “insinuating pub-| essential for the good of the public turbances in Belfast 32 Protestants wer killed and §6 wounded and that 51 Catholics were killed and 115 wounded. One military officer and six police, of whom three were Cath- olies, were killed”and a number of others wounded. MULLIGAR, Ireland, April 4— A freight train bound from Belfast to Galway, was raided here last night by armed men who ripped open all the flour bags and destroyed ther contents. costly oil tank fire in the history of Sapulpa has burned itself out after raging more than 36 hours, doing damage estimated at $300,000.and threatening property worth more than a mil- lictty" had attended the dismissal order and indicated that a statement broadly covering the whole incident ciated Press) — Winston Spencer Churchill, the colonial ‘secretary told the house of commons today, in an- lion dollars. gwer to a question that between. Feb- Early this morning tank No. 38; the third tank to catch‘ruary 10 and March 26, during dis- ° ° ° ° ° ° ¢ ° ? REPUDIATES LATE ‘CONFESSION’ fire at the Sapulpa Refining com: panySs plant near here after a light- ning stroke Sunday night, fired a 55,- 000 barrel tank. boiled over and the fire rapidly died out. ROBBERS BATTER SAFE BUT FAIL TO GET FUNDS GREYBULL, Wyo. April 4.—Rob- ders who entered the First State Bank of Kane, a small town north of here. battered tho safe but failed to effect entrance and secured nothing for their trouble, according to reports re- Geived here. Tools used by the rob- hers were taken from the. toolhouse of railroad sociion workers nearby. AUSTIN, Texas, April 4— An af- fidavit by Willie Carter repudiat- ing his statement at Belton recently exonerating George Hornsby of the murder of J. N. Weatherby, for which Hornsby is sentenced to hang April 14, has been recetved by Gov- nor Neff, it became known today. Hornsby is in the Travis county jail. 4 Carter testified against Hornsby fn the trail and later said that-his testimony was not true, implicating other men. He declared that Horns- by was innocent. The affidavit made public today said that his life had been threaten- ed if he did not swear that Horns- by was innocent. He declared his testimony in the trial to be true. Governor Neff has been asked to commute Hornsby’s sentence to life imprisonment. might be made later at the White House. The secretary’s letter, the first of- ficial comment to come from White House officials since the dismissal or- der was announced, was written as a result of a visit to the White House yesterday by a number of the dis- charged officials. Secretary Christian's letter, written yesterday, said: “I have shown to the president the statement left by you and your asso- ciates on the occasion of your calls at the White House this afternoon. He asked me to reply and say that bh would have been glad to meet your delegation had he been present at the time of your call, though he ts not yet prepared to make his statement relative to the executive order which was made effective on Friday even- ing, March 31. “The president has no wish to re- flect upon the character of any gov- ernment employe but he did hold that service. ‘He regrets the insinualing publicity no less than those do who have been discontinued from the pub- lic service.” 3 court commission and o: two union men as “the first break in the |sovernment “fact-finding” commi mie sil : men who farmed Oklahoma's first ranks of the operators” may result in|This body, he said, would be charged] code of statuter. He was active in the negotiation of separate contracts |with making a thorough investigation] the political campaign of former and reopening of the mines affected,|o¢ mine development, alleged waste,| United States Senator Thomas P. Gore. Day ts 50 years old and president of the Foursome Producing & Refin- ing company and the Continental according to district presidents of the! Profits, working conditions, ¢ | United Mino Workers’ international. | markets. 5 aubeiiiaiag re ca Some of the 40 delegates to the thres| district unions composing the policies committee arrived here today. “Whe are confident.” said Mr. Gold- en, “that the revelations of such a committee would cause the public to vice president of Asphalt & Petroleum C. J. Golden, president of district|Gemand that control of the industry be|CO™Pany. His wife Is sald to be a 9 at Shamokin, said that at least one| ‘sien trom private interests and piacea| fe Years younger. They have one anthratite mine in the United States|inger government supervision. child, a daugh studying at the 1s operating, regardless of the strike.|" “One of the planks in the piatform| University of Oklahoma. ‘The family It is the mine of the Philadelphia! o¢ the unions, when the time arrives} ha 1 in Oklahoma City for the and Reading Coal company at.Locust| op jor Inst seven years. islation toward nationalization, Gap, Pa., where for three:mojiths the| |will be for regulatory control of all} Lieut. Col. Beck was one of the og! = ve been digging Seay Praia) mines. This would mean that the] ‘Ir four ators in the United arch of a miner, Stanley Zullskl,! covernment would forbid the dev: States army. He had been in the ho disappeared under an avalanche! ment of new fields until the present Re era rooan early 2b: SAD UAE: Trieds are worked out. It would halt Knowledge of this violation of the|the existing condition of over-develop suspension order became general when ment, bring production to balance de Mr. Golden, before the wage negotia- (Continued on Page 4) tidns committee, asked the joint and sent of miners and operators to con-| tinue the rescue work while the strike | progress. | ine hundreds tons of anthracite JAI S BA i ; | E Ce ats prtshed betare the hensc| .. TOKIO, April 4.—(By The Associated Press.)—Special labor committee yesterday by John T.| dispatches from Vladivostok today report a clash between Lewis, president of the union. | Japanese troops and forces of the Chita government when 800 of the latter attacked the Japanese near Spassk, about 100 miles from Vladivostok, following a demand by the Jap- aneses to disarm. service since 1899, according post adjutant at Fort Sim. to Fort Sill trom July, 1921 a widower. to the Beck went Arcadia, Fia., tn He is said to have been have been removed from the scene of the collapse of shaft walls in efforts to uncover Zuliski’s body. Mr. Golden} estimated. If the work goes on, he| said, shipments of coal removed in the| rescue work would be continued at| the rate of over 20 tons 4 day. | Union léaders here today elaborated on the United Mine Workers program | The first step, according to Mr. Golden, who is a member of the un-| ion’s committee which is drafting the nationalization legislative program, Kighty of the Chita soldiers were reported SAYS KU KLUX KLAN IS MENACE TO GOVERNMENT COUNTER ORGANIZATION IS PROJECTED AT DALLAS * ~*~ WEATHERFORD, Texas, April 4.—Expressing opposition to every- thing that the Ku Klux Klan stands for, “as far as I know,” Federal Judge James C. Wilson, ad- dressing the chamber of commerce last night declared that Senator Culberson “did not miss it far” when he said, “if permitted to con- tinue, the klan would soon over- throw the government. eral judge stated that it w ing more than a form of which operated by members the sheriffs, then the po- lice, trial judges and preachers.” “It is a smooth system of chlo- roforming the government under the plea of 100 per cent American- ism,” he declared.. Judge Wilson asserted was as strongly against th the t he anti- he was against he Ku Klux Klan as the klan. stated. bad,”" movement discountenancing “river and “‘clandes- tine applications of the lash.” Gen- eral M. M. Crane, chairman, said the movement was an outgrowth of floggings here. bottom courtrooms” “We realize,” he said, “that an olerable situation has arisen, and are going to form ourselves into a strongly organized body to en- force the law of the state, country | and the city ‘And we will not wear masks to killed. Later the Chita troops attacked in force with field guns and fighting is continuing along the Ussuri railway ‘CAMPBELL COUNTY WILL | IMPORT DAIRY STOGK | GILLETTE, Wyo. April 4—ar- rangements for the shipment into Campbell county of a carload of fine dairy cows were perfected at & meet- ing held at the Bank of G tween officers of t a group of promin: rict. and nt farmers of this