Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 14, 1922, Page 1

Che Casper Daily 2 Crihiune | =, | CASPER, WYO., FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1922. GOSSIP REFLECTING ON SCHOOL PUPILS| OF CASPER REFUTED State Health Officer Brands Rumors as Lies and Condemns the Person Who Started Them in Report Filed at Close of Investigation Into Conditions Here i Complete refutation of gossip that as a result of inmoralities there is prevalent among the school children of Casper a marked amount of social diseases and open condemnation of the person or persons responsible for the statements are contained in a report on conditions here by Dr. A. B. Tonkin of Cheyenne, state health officer, after a thorough investigation conducted at the request of the Casper board of education. “Tt is a pleasure to feel that the conditions as represented by this irresponsible gossip are not/at all as alleged and that Cas- per school children and their instrne- tors as @ whole have been maligned.” says the statement of Dr. Tonkin. ‘The statement of Dr. Tonkin is self-explanatory as to other angles of the matter and follows in full: “Acting upon the request of the board of education, in my capacity as state health officer, I have completed investigation dren and as a result of such immor- altties thern was to his knowledge a marked amount of social diseases prevalent among the school children. “I was unable to find by my in- vestigation which consisted of visit- ing all the schools and various physi- cians Who treat these conditions, ex- amination of dixease registers in the offices of the various physicians and the records of the state beard of health, any grounds whatever for such gossip or statements. “Tt is well to know that the laws of Wyoming require of a physician who treats or makes a diagnosis of a venereal disease that he keep a reg- hig ‘disease register does not corre- nd. with the number represented by Bim then the physician is either lying or violating the laws 1H is just as well that some re sponsible persons take the mat, up aid eae ‘out some punishment,“as nly by punishment can such irre sponsible gossip be stopped. ‘When -I visited the Casper schools I talkeé with pupils and persons re sponsible for the health and treat- ment of the physical bodies of Casper school children and when I observed the modesty and standardization of clothing among pupils nothing was suggested to me that Casper school children are in any way worse than children’ of the same number and classification groups elsewhere. Cer- tainly nothing reflected whereby any responsibility for immorality or the spread of contagious diseases was the fault of the persons who were paid to oversee and direct such matters. “{ wish to.also include that the san itation of the buildings visitea by me ‘was unusually good. While there was some unavoidable crowding and use of improper rooms, nevertheless, it was the result of rapid growth of the Casper school population rather than intent and inefficiency on the part of the school authorities. The build- ings were all clean, neat and well kept. ‘The walls of the halls, toflets, bathrooms and gymnasiums were all free from defacements and vulgar in- scriptions. rs “As in so many schools there were @ great number of the children par- ticularly in the primary grades, who Presented evidence. of undernourish- ment, I might suggest that it might be well to get the various welfare some system of milk consumption in the school rooms. I know of no money that woule be so well spent. “It was a pleasure to obsérve the opportunities offered Casper chil- dren along so many diversified lines and to observe the efficiency of the administration under such crowded conditions.. It is also a pleasure to feel that the conditions ae represent- ed by this irresponsible gossip are not all all as alleged and that Cas: per school children and their\instruc- tors as.a whole have been mattghed. It would seem-to me that responsi: bility for,@uch conditions, had they been as represented, woulda rest more’ squarely upgn parents who neglect to control and keep themseleves in- formed as to the whereabouts of their children after the hours of school su- pervision rather than the school au- thorities. “Very truly yours, “ALBERT B, TONKIN, M. D., “State Heelth Officer, Cheyenne, \FOREIGN TRADE ~ TOTAL GROWS WASHINGTON, April 14.—Increase in the value of Amerila’s foreign trade was reported by the Separanent | at exports 000,000, the higest since October, 1921, and that imports totalled $258,000,000 tne greatest since December 1921 IRISH WAR BROUGHT TO AMERICA ALLEGED TRAITOR IS MURDERED = NUMBER 159. POWER PLANT ENGINEER CHEYENNE, Wyo., April 14— (Special to The Tribune.}-—For an unknown period of time last night the engines driving the big dynamos that supply Cheyenne with electrici- ty whirled evenly and unfalteringty his skull blown away by a gunshot and his brains spattered over the floor and nearby walls. The current of Cisco’s life stopped suddenly with the crash of a shotgun’s detonation but the current of the great plant depending on the engines which he had abandoned ficwed steadily on and there was no interruption of service to the thousands of homes which it supplies with light. How NEW YORK, April 14. — Ven- geance for his alleged betrayal of the Irish cause was ascribed by po- lige as a possible motive for the sheating of Patrick Connors in a gun battle with six other men in Central park last night, Connors was wounded five times and is not expected to live. Connors, a former Irish army vol- unteer, was sent to jail by the Brit- ‘sh government for his activities. While in prison he is alleged to have revealed information which re- acted to the detriment of the move- ment. On his release, about a year ago, he emigrated to this country. Members of his family, police said, admitted that Patrick had received a number of threatening letters within the last few months. Town Payroll Stopped, City Lacks Funds SYDNEY, N. S., April 14.— This city, due to coal strikes and long de- pression in the streel industry, i< “broke” according to Mayor Fitz- gerald. Until June no mor, checks for civic salaries will be signed, the mayor announced because there are no funds at the bank to meet such paper. ‘The overdraft allowed the city government by law—$214,000— has ‘been expended, and there is no way of raising money urttil June, when taxes become collectable. Jadge Prescribes FIVE LOST IN For Man Who Used Hooch as Medicine RIVER TRAGEDY | Brought Up for “< \Program Drawn Up by Allied Experts at | London Not Generally Approved When Discussion of “Big | Four;” British Favor Reparations GENOA, April 14.—(By The Associated Press.) —Diver- gencies of opinion of Russia are reported to have developed jat the meeting this morning of the economic conference’s | “big four” for discussion of Russian problem. The participants were Prime Minister Lloyd George of Great Britain, Vice Premier Barthou of France, Foreign Min- SUICIDES, PLANT LEFT RUNNING AT TOP SPEED long the engines operated after the hand supposed to be controlling them was forever stilled is not known—it may have been 10 min- utes maybe 20, possibly 30—but the period was not of sufficient duration for the machinery to begin to falter or to be damaged from neglect. Cisco's life ended in a little box of an office near the main switch- , board of the plant, far from the en- gineroom. Employes of the plant, in retrospection following revelation if the tragedy, recollected having heard @ muffled report at about $20 o’- clock. They paid no attention to it beyond a momentary conjecture re- garding what might have caused it. It was, presumably, the sound of the shot that ended the engineer's Itfe. At about 8:40 o'clock Harry Said ‘went to the main switchboard t> read an automatic record of the “load” the plant was carrying. Something impelled him to glance toward the office, and there, sprawled acrous the threshold, was the body of Cis- » & great weiter of blood and moment was in danger of death from contact with the terminals of the switches. Then he ran, shouting a message of horrifying portent to other employes of the plant. Mo- immediately discip!ine prevailed and the companions of the suicide turned back to duty, shud- dering at the scene they had viewed. hardly a minute elapsed after the (Continued on Page Ten). ister Schanzer of Italy and Foreign Minister Jaspar of Belgium. The Ttallan deisgation afterward confirm- ed the report that the document drawn up by the allied experts in London dealing with the question of Russia, which has been the center of much discussion, had not been in. dorsed by the various allied govern- ments. The Italian expert had dis- approved of the clauses of the report which if put into effect would humtli- ate Russia, it was declared. Mr. Lioyd George tt was asserted after the morning seasion, had favored the Russian proposal to grant Russia tndemnity for damages she had sus- tained an the result of military opera- tons against the Soviet regime. It was stated that England and Italy advocated that the judicial and legal system to be adopted by Russia should be such as not to consider her as a colony to be exploited but as a state to be helped to reenter the Eu: ropean family. Above all, the danger must be avoided, the Italian and English dele- Bates are said to have argued, that the Russians should break off nego tiatfons, having justice on their side or even appearing to have justice on their side. Therefore, it was argued. the solution of the Russian problem must not be of a transitory charac- ter or even the appearance of put- ting Russia on probation. LENINE CRITICISES SOCIET DELEGATES. MOSCOW, April 14 —Nikolai Lenine, in an article in the Fravia, alluding to the agreement reached recently bf the three internationales in Bertin, says: “Our representatives acted incorrect- ly when they promised that the So- viet government would not apply capi- tal unishment to indicted social revo- Iutionaries and that it wou'd permit the representatives of the three in- ternationales to be prosent at th {Continued Gn Page Ten) The attack occurred in the Sinn Fein section. Further shootings, although not be- lieved to have been in tho nature of reprisals, occurred today at the ter- mination of the curfew period. The first victim was assassinated while returning from work; the sec- ond was shot and is reported dying in the hospital and the third died in the street after being* shot. BELFAST, April 14—Two hundred and fifty men of the imsurgent sec- tion of the Irish Republican army, under the direction of the newly form- ed Republican army execttive or CHEYENNE, Wyo., April 14.—Barl ‘Welch, colored, has been advised to obtatn a different remedy for his “‘mis- ery.” His adviser was Judge T. Blake Kennedy of the United States district court, who emphasized the advize by making the remedy to which Bari was addicted highty expensive. In other words, when the negro was arraigned before Judge Kennedy ona charge of iMlegal possession of liquor, and plead- ed that he possessed hooch because he used it as a medicine to relieve rheu- matism, the judge fined him $50 and admonished him to try the effects of a recognized treatment for rheuma- tism. he CAROLINA SOLON DEAD. NEW BERN,-N. C., April 14—Rep- resentative S. M. Brinson of the third ional district of North Caro- lina died in a New Bern hospital. early today in the capsizing of a two) masted schooner in the Potomac river off Alexandria, Va. Lawrence and his eldest son saved themselves by climbin up a mast from which they were rescued by a Norfolk and Wash- ington steamer, RADIO MEASURE SIGNED TODAY WASHINGTON, April 14.—The bill extending use of the government's wal radio facilities for commercial ‘and press services until June 30, 1925, was signed today by President Hard- ing. WIDOW TAKES OWN LIFE SEQUEL TO LATE MURDER SEW YORK, April 14.—Another tragedy stewing out ef the sensa- tions] murder of Dr. Graham Glick- stein by Mrs, Jillian Raizen in Brooktyn last December was re- cord teday when his widow, Mrs. Anna Glickste ended her life by leaping ffom tho third story window of her mother’s home in Brooklyn. The doctor's mother dropped dead at his funeral. ‘Mrs. Glickstein had beem laboring sauder a heavy mental strain since er husband had been saot, mem- wes said she had been brooding over the recent acquittal of Olivia M. P. Stone for the murder of Ellis Guy Kinkead, former Cincipnati lawyer. Mrs. Raizen, who has confessed the murder of Dr. Glickstein, is now a prisoner in the same jail where Miss Stone was incarcerated, awaiting trial. Mrs. Lena Tubansky, mother of Mrs. Glickstein, said that at the time of Miss Stone's trial her daughter exclaimed: “If the Stone woman goes free, bee of the family indicated and its the woman who murdered my -hus- band will go free. Any way, 25 long as the doctor is dead, I might as well be dead myself.” Frances Glickstein, fifteen year old caughter of the dead woman who came from Lakewood, N. J., to. spend the holiday season, slept with her last night, the mother re- tiring about midnight. Frances said her mother seemed to be a little more cheerful than usual, When Frances awoke early this morning her mother was missing. Soon after- wards, a policeman who, had found the body on the sidewalk awakened the family, army council, seized at midnight the Four Courts building in Dublin, which, until the passing of the Irish act was the seat of the national courts of justice, it is announced in Dublin dispatches. The men who seized the building intend to utilize it as a permanent heacquarters, it is stated, They have barricaded: the windows with sand- bags, law books and bundles of docu- ments and also have commandeered the adjoining Four Courts hotel. A large body of Sinn Feiners en- tered the postoffice at Sligo today and took possession of all departments of the office in the name of the Irish Republican army. They gave instruc- tions that business was to procoed as usual, and left a party to see that these orders were carried out. ARMY REPRISALS MULLINGAR, County West Meath, Ireland, April 14.—(By The Associated Press).—A proclamation threatening reprisals for outrages in Belfast was issued by army officers here today. ‘The proclamation which was signed “antipogoromists” says: “We have decided that for every further casualty in Belfast which is the direct outcome of a pogrom every supporter of the pogrom, in the Mul- linger area, will be fined 50 pounds sterling which will be personally col- lected by us. This order is operative from Monday next.” Se RAIL EMPLOYES MEET. CHICAGO, April 14.—The biennial committee of the railway employes de- partment of the American Federation of Labor continued in active session here today.~ No announcement was |made regarding matters considered in tthe session, DRUG PEDDLERS HELD FOR TRIAL AT CAPITAL CHEYENNE, Wyo., April 14.—Mr. and Mrs. Ollie Kelley and Claude Van- dorf, all colored, have been bound ‘to the United States grand jury, the lat- ter under bail of $1,000 and the two former under bail of $2,000 each, on charges of illegal possession of mor- phine. A raid on the Kelley home by federal, state and police officers is said to have revealed the drug. and evidence of gambling and moonshining as well. Conference Held On Philippines! WASHINGTON, April 14.—Justice E. Finley Johnson, of the Philippine supreme court conferred with Secre- tary Weeks on the situation on the fsland and later expects to see Prest- dent Harding and make a report to him. In a formal statement he praised the administration of Gover- nor General Wood saying that ex- penses of the Philippine government Lad’ already been reduced about 25 per cent and that the legislature had passed a number of bills which form @ stable financial program. sent ama Fixtures of Old | Bar Auctioned To | Pay Liquor Taxes CHEYENNE, Wyo., April 14—The fixtures of the old’Arcade saloon here, which 30 years ago was one of the best known gambling houses of the Rocky Mountain region, have been sold by the collector of internal revenue to satisfy a lien resulting from liquor taxes, and the room occupied by the old saloon is to become a tailor's shop. ‘The Arcade hasbeen conducted as a “soft drink” parlor since the advent of prohibition. A few weeks ago it was | seized after a raid in which Uquor was found. ‘BLOODY EASTER ‘Continuation of Guerilla Warfare in Dub-|Mrs. J essup Wins lin Forecasts Stormy Activities During | Women’s Finals, the Next Few Days, Report BELFAST, April 14.—-(By The Associated Press.)—A stormy Eastertide in Belfast is predicted by those who have watched the sequence of disorders here, as the result of an|™Marion Zinderstein Jessup, of Wil- attack on a patrel of Special constables last night. The pa-|minston, Del. today defeated Miss trol was making its rounds after the curfew hour when heavy | Martha Bayard of Short Hills, N. J., in}eibly containing valuable oll deposits firing from windows and roofs wounded four of the officers. |stra!sht sets in the final round of the Pinehurst Play PINEBURST, N. C., April 14.—Mrs. women’s singles in the north and south tennis tournament. The scores were 6-1, 6-1. J. E. D. Jones and his son, Arnold, ef. Providence, won the men’s doubles title in a hard five set match’ from Raymond Bidwell and Josiah Wheel- wright, Boston 4-6, 7-5, 0-6, 9-7, 8-6. PARIS REPORT OF RUSS CRIME IS DISCOUNTED WASHINGTON, April 14—Reports from Paris that American drivers of relief administration wagons had been killed in Russia by the famine stricken populace who wanted the horses for food, were treated with re- serve today by Secretary Hoover. No ALLIES DIVIDED ON RUSSIAN POLICY AT GENOA MEET ONE DEAD IN WHIT| IG FIRE Three Others Inju =! and Damage From Blaze in Big | ndard Plant Is Estimated ver $100,000 State Historian WHITING, Ind., April 14.—One man was killed, three were injured and a battery of ten oil stills of the Standard Oil company burned up when an explosion in a single still started a fire early today which for several hours was be- yond control, The intense heat from the fire made a thor- ough investigation impossible for some time with the result that there were rumors that the casualty list was much larger. These proved to be unfounded, however. Damage was estimated at between $100,000 to $250,000. A similar explosion about a year ago resulted in the death of four men. The Whiting refinery is the largest owned by the company. ——$—$—$—$——————————— U. S. TO DRILL OIL RESERVES, STORE CRUDE Teapot Development Here Appears Cer- tain on Face of Policy Announced Today by Cabinet Officers WASHINGTON, April 14.—A definite government polly of storing the navy’s crude oil reserve in depositories above ground and not depending as heretofore on current produc- tion of reserve wells, was announced today as the result of a joint investigation by Secretary Denby of the navy and Secretary Fall of the interior. ;notes between the American and the ‘The decision, which affects particu- larly naval reserves Nos. 1 and 2 (Teapot Dome), was reported after the two department heads had become convinced that the government's re- serve wells could not be depended,en because of the extent to which private borings in the reserve districts bad drained off the underground supply. In a formal statement announcing the policy, Secretary Fall said the stored supply of reserve ofl would be “located at such points that in any time of crisis or need, the ships of the United States can obtain the same at points from Guantanamo, Cuba, to the extreme northeast of Maine,” and from California to Hawail. COMPLICATIONS IN’ LEASING DEVELOPED. WASHINGTON, April 14. — Hi ings before Assistant Secretary Fin- ney, of the interior department on the granting of leases on the Gebo Dome in. Wyoming regarded as pos- have developed international compli- ,cations. The Ohio Oil company, the Roxanna Petroleum company of Tulsa, Okla,, end 23 individuals, it was said today, by interior department officials, have filed conflicting applications ‘under the oll lands leasing law and in con- nection with the application of the Roxanrra company, it has been assert- ed that the concern was a subsidiary in California and No. 3 in Wyoming, |. Netherlands governments. The question also is expected to arise whether the ownership of the Dutch Shell extends “across the chan- nel” into England. Since the inter- jor department knows, it was said, the British government has not er- tended reciprocal oil rights to Amer- ieans, ——(.,._ BALL SCORES NATIONAL LEAGUE Weinert, Winters and Henline. At St, Louis—Pittsburgh-St. Lonis Kame postponed; rain. AMERICAN LEAGUE At Boston—_ R. H. E. 101 501 000-8 7 1 The question concerning the Dutch Shell, it was said, brings up ‘the en- |Itire question of subsidiaries of foreign |corporations now owning oil rights on private Jands who, it has been charged, are now “trying to obtain a foothold” on the public ofl lands. The Dutch Shell, plthough it now has various properties producing oil in the United States obtained no leases on Americans are ¢riving relief wagons) Public lands. in Russia, he said, and the American] Secretary Finney said today he relief administration has returned no|Would reserve determination of the reports of any Americans being killed.|rights of the Dutch Shell subsidiary Famine conditions in Russia are due| until all other questions in aispute to the physical limitations of the Rus-|among the claimants were disposed sian system, L. A. Wilkinson of New of. York, who has just returned from| Before a decision {s made, it was Russia reported today to Mr. Hooyer.|said, the state department probably There is every indication that the|will be consulted to determine it the maximum American program, which| Netherlands ‘government has with- Russian officials feared might over-|drawn from its position of antipathy strain their power to transport, will (be administered, he declared. jtoward Standard Oil concessions which brought forth an exchange of |of the Dutch Shell Oil company, a -000 O11 000—2 8 3 foreign corporation of a country not| Batteries—Rommell and Perkins: giving reciprocal rights to Americans.| Meyers, Ferguson, Fullerton and ‘Under the oil léasing act no lease of | Ruel. oil lands may be given to a corpor- jation the stock of which is owned by| At Cleveland — Detrott-Cleveland foreigners unless the country to| game postponed; rain. |which the corporation belongs grants reciprocal rights to Americans. At Chicago—St. ~ Louis-Chicago game postponed; rain. At Washington—New York-Wash- ington game postponed; rain. eet AMERICAN ASSOCIATION CHICAGO, April 14.—All games ‘in the American association scheduled for today were postponed account of rain. ° er LEWMAN SUCCEEDS CANNON. DANVILLE, M., April 14.—Com- plete official returns from the i8th congressional district show that John H. Lewman, of Danville, was nomi- nated as Republican candidate for congress at Tuesday's primary, over W. P. Holaday, of Georgetown, by a majority of 44 votes, “Uncle, Joe” Cannon, the present congreséman, will retire at the end of his term, > Cc. F. Miskell, peace officer in North Casper who serves part time as a deputy sheriff and part time as a member of the police depart- ment, will be given a preliminary hearing at 4 o'clock this afternoon on a charge of having assaulted Lou Munchow, North Casper pool hall proprietor. ‘The allaged assault is said to have occurred earlier in the month and Miskell is charged with entering the establishment of Muchow, threatening the latter with a gun and using abusive language. The case against Miskell is said to have been brought in behalf of Muchow by his attorneys I. G. Mc- Cann and John H. Hendrick, A warrant for Miskell’s arrest was is- sued by Judge W. E. Tubbs at the advice of M. W. Purcell, county at- torney who was desirous of airing the charges against Miskell. In order that Miskell’s trial will not be prejudiced by action at this PEACE OFFICER ACCUSED ASSAULT HEARING IS SET time Sheriff Joe L. MarquiS an- nounced today that he would stand behind the man until it was. con- clusive that Miskell was guilty of the charges pressed against him. “Officer baiting is a popular past- time" he said “and I am going to hold to Miskell’s innocence until he 4s proven guilty. He has always proven an efficient and trustworthy employe and I will not believe he is guilty but will abide the cecision the court, > ees