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

Weather Forecast Saturday. Warmer in southeast and cold in extreme southwest portions to- > 569 Colder im east portion Satur- 7. Lay Prospect for Congressional Investigation Good Following Bitter Arraignment of Contract in Senate; Harding Calis on Departments for Details LIGHT, POWER VEMAND FOR TEAPOT DOME PROBE WINS FAVOR he Casper Dai RATES WILL BE _ ._WASHINGTON, April 28.—Congressional investigation into the leasing by the interior department of oil rights in the Teapot Dome, Wyoming nayal oil reserve, to the Sinclair ——_" VOLUME VI Defendants in Bribery Case Waive Pre- liminary Rearing on Arraignment in Justice Court; Give Bond Again county prisoner, were bound BIGAMIST HOLDS TO HERO CLAIMS DESPITE DENIAL Says He Is Innocent and Re- peats Alleged Fiction of War Record While Awaiting Trip. CHEYENNE, Wyo., April 28.—Fred @& Baer, pseudo-doctor and alleged re. ciptent of the Victoria Cross, appears to be unconcerned at the prospect of secving from four to five years in the Wyoming penitentiary, to whiehyho was sentenced Wednesday after en- tering a plea of guilty to a charge of bigamy. Baker, whom the attaches of the sheriff's office regard as careless of the truth as he was of legal. marital convenetionalities, persists in his as- rertion of innocence despite his piea of gnflty in court, and continues the allege fiction of a teroic war record despite derial hy the Vancouver post of Canadian war veterans. with which he claims to be at‘fliated, thit no sol- dier of his name is a member of that organization or was awarded Great Britain's highest decoration for hero- ism. ‘While Baker is in jafi hts two known brides are in hospitals, the first, Nina Winters Baker, to whom he was mar: ried at Detroit last August, in the ca- pacity of nurse at the Detroit Receiv- itg hospial, and the second Miss Selma Lauritsen, with whom he went through the marriage ceremony here last March, in the capacity of patient at the Frances Pershing Warren Mem- orfal hospital here. Miss Lauritsen has been seriously ill since she dis- covered the duplicity of her supposed husband. @ Miss Lauritsen's blighted romance is ‘said t> have had its inception a year ago while Baker was in jail here on a federal charge of conspiracy on which he was never tried. The bril- liant graduate of the University of Wyoming and ex-school teacher who had,dedicated herself to charitabto work as a member of the Salvation Army, visted the jail as a representa tive of the Army and so became ac- quainted with the deceiver who event- ually was to make love a bitter ex- perience for her. NO ELIGIBL TO OPEN PROBE Roy H. Bullack and Curley Gallington, charged with at- tempting to bribe Sheriff Joe L. Marquis for the relesse of a morning when they waived examina’ Tubbs. The bonds of each man was fixed at $2 Attorney W. H. Patten, spokesman and counsel for the over to the district court this ion before Judge W. E. 500, efendants, addressed Judge Tubbs, stating the defendants were willing to waive preliminary hearing if the court would make an order which Would enable the defendants to be tried at the next term of court which would convene September 7. M. W. Purcell, county attorney ob- Jected to such an order, but was wifl- ing to give the men afy reasonable time tn which to insure thetr having ® fair trial. Ho suggested to Judge Tubbs that the date for appearance in district court should be set for June 1, The court, taking the position that June 1 would not be too early a date on which to hear the case, ordered that the defendants be bound over to stand trial qn that date. The defense attorneys took excep. tion to the court's ruling and will attempt to show cause why the case should be postponed to the fall term of course, when it is called up for hearing in district court June 1, Mr. Purcell agreed with defense at- torneys thet his transcript and the called ‘up. SLANDERER IS WHIPPED INDEPENDENCE, Kan., April 28. of talk that he had been slandering them in. pool halls, Ben- son F. Prior, a laborer was taken out on a country road and whipped by two women early this week, it became known here today. STOREKEEPER SHOTBY BANDIT DENVER, Colo., April 28.—C. Ww. ‘Barnard, civil war veteran, was shot and dangerously wounded here last night, when he struck one of two young men who entered his grocery and ordered him to hold up his hands. Robbers became frightened and fled in a smail touring car, leaving $500 in cash. | ae Sasa KENNEDY HEADS ROTARIANS. 'T. Blade Kennedy of the United States district court for Wyoming Wednes- day was olected president of the Chey- enne rotary club. ES BOSTON, Mass., April 28.—Senator Walsh of Massachu- record of the case should show the exception and that this point would the: case is agein: CHEYENNE, Wyo., April 28.—Judge| setts in a telegram to Mayor Curley today declared that “early every member of congress, the senate particularly, is today either for or against labor, and the possibility of get- ting an impartial tribunal for a strike investigation is un- likely.” The message was in reply to one from Mayor Curley | Crime GALLINGTON AND BULLACK BOUND amed O | OVER FOR TRIAL “27 2i|IN MISSISSIPPI Unemployment Is Blamed On LEOMINSTER, Mass., Apr‘] 28.— Bobbed hair and its prevalent pop- Ularity’ was blamed for the con- tinued reign of unemployment in this city by Edward J. Driscoil, President of the chamber of com. the unemployment situation here was worse now than it was Janu- ary 1. He said the mania for bobbed locks had greatly decreased the demand for combs hairpins and ster’s chief industry. coerced Pleading guilty to charges of assault dy, four wom alleged to have at- tackel “Pat™ ney and Carl Zoll, Properietors of a road house (Tues- day night were each fined $100 and costs and put under $500 peace bonds each for two years. SLAYER OF TAXI CHMYENNE, Wyo., April 23.—Al- f A Walker, convicted last fall of murder in the first degree for the slaying of Louis Faller, today, was sentenced by Judge V. J. Tidball to expiate the crime on the gallows. ‘Walker was convicted of murder in the first degree with the qualifying phrase “without capital punish- CHEYENNE 15 JUBILANT QVER APPROPRIATION CHEYENNE, Wyo. April 28.—Tho roaring propellers of airplanes used in the maii service here seemed Wednes- day to catch the spirit of joy that pre- vailed at the landing field, and to take on a note of jubilation, after news was flashed fromy Washington that the house conferees had agreed to accept the, senate amendment to the postof- fice appropriation bill providing $1- 900,00 for continuation of the trans continental air mail during the coming fiscal year. Although attaches of the air mail service had been repeatedly assured from Washington that an ap- propriation would be provided there nevertheless was apprehension that a compromise might result in an &p- propriation so small that tho service necessarily would be considerably cur- tailed. . ANDIO APPARATUS SET ———UPINSSTATE HOUSE CHEYENNE, Wyo., April 28.—Wyo- |ming’s state house now has radio re- ceiving apparatus, but it is privately, not state owned. Deputy State Audi- tor Walter Bachelder hzs installed a receiving set of wide range in the audi- |tors office and daily catches news re- ports, while nearly every evening an audience as eager as it necessarily is small gathers at the office to hear radio-transmitted concert numbers. SS NES CHURCH TO BE IMPROVED. CHEYENNE, Wyo., April 28.—The |First Methodist-Episcopal church here |is to be improved through the expendi- jture of $35,000 for a new front and modern heating plant. urging a congressional investigation of the New England textile strike. “I rerret to say,” the senator said. _*that in my opinion any attempt to} ebtain favorable action upon the strike by the present congress will La futile. “There is evidently a movement throughout the country among, the capitalistic interests to refuse to arbi- trate or otherwise agree to a com: promise settlement of existing strikes. It is also my opinion that the major- ity of officials directing the policy of the present administration are not in sympathy with the strikers’ point ot view. To submit a strike investiga tion to those antagonistic to the fun- damental rights of the laborins class. such as the right to organize and liective bargaining, would hurt| rather than help the stril . SAN FRANCISCO, April 28—Po- lice here announced today they had received from the sheriff of Hilo, T. H., a cable easserting that Honore C. Connette, now held in jail at Los ‘Angeles, as a material witness in the William Desmond Taylor murder mystery, admitted that he “killed a man.” This alleged admission was waid to have been made in a state NEW EVIDENCE CLAIMED IN KILLING OF TAYLOR ment to thé Hilo sheriff. Connette, & newspaper man, was arrested here this week on his ‘arrival from Hono- lulu. Los Angeles detectives awaited him. ‘The cable received by the local po- lice and forwarded fo the Los An- goles authorities stated. “Important evidefice in my posses: sion concerning Connette Signed merce, yesierday when he declared | AMAZONS FINED. | GREEN BAY, Wis., April 28. — BLOWN CITY EDITION NUMBER 171. THOUSANDS CUT OFF BY (One Town of 500 People Engulfed by River Torrent; Raised in Many Districts ] VICKSBURG, Miss., April barrettes, which constitute Leomin- | are reported to have been cut off in the northern and eastern |the Mississippi river levees. came from a break higher up the river comprises a tract 35 miles long and 50 miles wide. Calls for help also have! reached Natchez ALEXANDRIA, La., April 28.—Stx DRIVER MUST DIE ON GALLOWS AT RAWLINS ment™ and the court, therefore, had no alternative to the death sentence. It is anticipated, however, that Gov- ernor Carey will commute the sent- énc to life imprisonment in view of the fact that Walker’s companion in the crime, Leroy Moss, although equally guil!y, was convicted of sec- ond degree murder. Moss was sent- enced to life imprisonment. Only One Kansas Home In 100 Has Hootch Supply WICHITA, Kan., April 28.—Intox- fcating liquor is manufactured or used in not more than one home in a hundred in Kansas, the original pro- hibition state, H. H. Motter, federal internal revenue collector for Kansas declared today. Motter’s statement followed one in which Governor Robertson of Okla- homa recently asserted ‘nearly every home has its own hootch. sittin at calle HOLIDAY OBSERVED. AN banks, city and county offices and semi-official institutions including the public schools remained closed yesterday to enable observance of Ar bor day. With weather favorable to planting many figurative acorns from which mighty trees will grow resulted from activities yesterday. There was no official or organized observance of Arbor day however. sections of Issaquena county by backwater from a break in| Five hundred persons are said to have been caught in the town of Valley Park by the rising water. and battery in municipal court Thurs-|this section, covéred by water, which; thousand persons, forced to leave their Oil interests today appeared in prospect after a long attack on the leases by Senator LaFollette, Republican, Wisconsin, and announcements by Republican leaders to support a reso- lution of inquiry. |intertor department officials to sup- President Harding has requested|Dly him with all correspondence con. tracts, departmental files and other data relating to the development of the Teapot dome, it was learned this afternoon, It is understood the presi | dent requested that these be gent to re oO re) D od the White House for his examination | at the carliest possible mom: WASHINGTON, April 23 Associated Press).— Republican, Wisconsin, attacking leases of naval off reserve lands in the jSemate today, declared the reserves |wero being “scrapped in behalf ot specially favored private interests.” His speech was in reference to leases |recently made by tne Interior depa: ment in the Teapot dome, Wyom: serve * Sinclair ofl interests. ‘The Wisconsin senator contended that the department in making the leases, was “granting to favored indi viduals public properties worth hun dreds of .millions of dollars which be long to the people.” He urged adopt fon of his resolution calling zo the ad ministration for all ‘acts and docu. ments regarding the Teapot dome leases. Secretary , Fall, of tho ‘interior de Calls for Help | 28.—Twelve thousand persons The entire area in| Partment, was attacked by Senator homes in Catahoul». nnd Concordia. par-|@ Follette as the “ablest opponent ishes Louisiana, by the flood waters of|0f the policy of conservation estab. the Mississippi and other rivers were|Ushed under Roosevelt.” In all his concentrated today in the vicinity of|Dublic career, Sunator La Follette Jena, Sicily Island and Holloway, La,|said, Secretary Fall was not conspic- According to the local Red Cross rep-|uous as a guardian of the naval oil mesentatives. | reserves. soe The value of the Teapot dome re- NEW ORLEANS, La, April 28—/serve was estimated at $500,000,000 With two great sections of Loutsiana|by the Wisconsin senator. farm land already inundated by flood| The connection of the Sinclair off waters from two breaks in the Miss-| Interests with the Teapet dome leasee, lemippi river leveo in the last 48 hours, | Senator La Folletie said, lies in the the torrent is threatening to break/fact that the vico president of the through at other points in the lower|Mammoth Ofl company, of Delaware, and middle reaches 6f the river. The| «hich was given tho leases, is a Sin- levee near Arkansas City, Ark. and/clair director. Harry Sinclair, the at Plaque Mine. La. were the two/|senator asserted, was “prominent in points where trouble was feared most| oil, racing and administration circles,” by levee engineers. Additional forces| During the period of “mystery$ abit of labor were put to work also on|the leases, Senator La Follette said, levees near Hickman, Ky., and Green-| “speculation in Sinclair oil on the ville, Miss. |New York exchange jumped in three Flood waters escaping from the| days’ trading to over $30,000,000." second break in tho levee yesterday at! “The throwing open of the naval Continued on Page Four.) i Continued on Page Four.) N MINERS | TO DEATH Bomb Thrown Into Bunkhouse in A pollo, Pa., Field Kills Three; Troops to Be Ordered Out in Utah Strike APOLLO, Pa., April 28.—Three miners were killed and jone seriously injured when a bomb was thrown early today jinto a bunkhouse at the Patterson miné of the Kiski Coal |company near here, The men, who had been employed on a non-union basis, were asleep in the bunkhouse shortly after dawn when the explosion occurred. that the situation at the coal mines is Each of the dead men was married different from what he understands and thelr deaths leave fourteen child-|2t the present. This announcement 2 tuthariouns wns made by Governor Crockett at 3 o'clock this morning. |. The Patterson paine ie ieee | The first bloodshed of the present jland county. Before the si om. strike situation developed at Scofleld ployed 75 men, its product being sent| yesterday. Mine guards and strikers to a steel company here. |clashed, many shots were fired, and caren three men were wounded, one perhaps SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, April 28.| fatally. —National*guard troops will be sent| The wounded were: Sam Dorrity, to Carbon county this morning as a|mine guard and formerly chief deputy | result of a situation which developed | United States marshal at Salt Lake lot Scofield yesterday afternoon, unless |CitY, wounded in the thigh. & Acting Governor H. E. Crockett is ad-| are Gavin, striker, !ungs. pierced Defore the time of entrainment|by bullet which entered from the bias back; believed to have small chance DESCHANEL OF FRANCE DEAD PARIS, April 28.— (By The Associated Press.) —Paul Eu-} gene Louis Deschanel, 65, former president of France, for life. Mike Stabos or Mike Makesmticos, | striker, shot throgh the right arm. | ‘The wounded are in a hospital at | Winter-quarters, where they were taken after the fracas between mine | sguards and strikers, which occurred {near the Scofield depot. | Acting Governor Crockett’s an- nouncement of early this morning was made following the receipt of a tele- \gram last night from Sheriff T. F. \Kelter, of Carbon county, who was at Price when the shooting occurred, but EU-!| who went to Scofield and Winterquar- died |ters by special train, immediately on |recetpt of the news Kelter said that REDUCED MAY 1 Sche Con he ny for 10 to > % 2 Electric re trona Power « & any, will d 'e Submitted by Natrona Power 15 Per Cent Reduc- 1 Casper, on service furnished by the Na- rop precipitcusly back to pre- war levels May 1, when a new schedule which calls for a re- duction ranging between 10 and 15 per cent on all classes of service becomes effective. The schedule carrying the E. P. Bacon, mana: and G. R Hagens, counsel, following a hearing yefore the s' public Jes com mission, in Cheyenne yesterday, Under the terms of the reducton, and by virtue of two 10 per cent re tuetions which have become effective during the present year, the ‘ate for t red to 11 cents a k ompares favorably with rates In ef ect In any other town In this vicinity or in the state, The hearing befor> the commission in Cheyenne developed the fact that the reduction schedule was to be based on Greater labor efficiency meral reduction in labor costs, ‘Widespread plant economies duc to adoption of efficiency rule By reason of the reduction of rates which becomes effective May 1, witch will make the cost of street lighting in Casper 20 per cent lower than it was under pre-war conditions, the cty will be able to greatly extend lighting service here into the outlying districts. At a recent meeting of the council it was stated that Casper was 1 the reduction becomes effective, is about the same as Sheridan's bill and those of other large cities in the state This comparison is in favor of Cas per however, because a much larger in Mghting: Casper than towns of the atate. been known as one of the best lighted per will get the advantage of a reduc: tion in rates averaging between 20 and 26 per cent as compared with rates in effect prior to Janu ROAD REPORT Reports received up to 9 a. m, April 28 at the district office of the ‘state highway commission indicate the following road conditions: Yellowstone highway east—road under construction between Casper and Parkerton with some detours, then good to Dougias, traveling from recent rains and snows toward Cheyenne and Lusk. Sunshine today should make these roads in fair shape by night Yel- lowstone high west, good to Pow- der River, then muddy to Waltman, then passable to Shoshoni and Lan- der. Casper-Sheridan road good to Salt Creek, then some rough’ for three miles and goed to county line, then fair to good t Sheridan. ic: Seine REFEREE NAMED. In order to settle a business contro- versy between Andrew Vaselias and George Houstulakis, Judge C. 0. Brown yesterday appointed Attorney George A. Weddell to serve as a ref. eree to hear the claims and present the evidence in the case, ‘The appointment of the referee was made at the request of the plaintiff Andrew Vaselias, by his attorney C. D. Murane. The defendant was repre sented by Winter and Winter. elty | area and much more equipment ts used | Philadelphia the other Casper haw always then heavy | reductions in rate was filed by BALL SCORES NATIONAL LEAGUE At Pittsburgh— RHE Cincinnati ____003 9002000—5 16 1 Pittsburgh -000 600 030-3 11 1 Ratteries—Couch and Wingo. Cart- son, Yellowhorse, Wheeler and Gooch, Nehf ani and O'Neil. At Brooklyn— a RHE. Philadelphia ~-002 503—x x x Brooklyn __. 000 000-—x x x Ratteries—Hubbell and Henline; Grimes, Mammaux and Miller. *| Chicago — extended over such a wide territory a! and required so much municipal light- ee reat ame Ainsmith; ing that the city would ba unable to » Keene and ‘arrell. bear a further burden. The reduction ee Fe ee the aity to add over 1! AMERICAN LEAGUE per cent to Its present street Nghting Ae SL oe equipment. Cleveland f Casper's lighting bill, even before|St. Louis — Batteries — Mails Shocker and Severeid. At Philadelphia— Washington Patteries—Mogridge and Gharrity Harris and Perkins. towns in the west At New York— R. LE, With the new reduction effective| Boston —-............690 000—x x x May 1. electric service users in Cas-]New York - 402 100—x x x Batteries—Karr and Ruel. Bash and Schang. - 002 010 2 x x Batteries — Davenport, Wilkinson land Schalk; | and Bassler. MOTOR GLUB TO ELECT OFFICERS ON TUESOY The Casper Motor club will elett five directors to serve for a two-year period at the Open Forum meeting of the chamber of commerce Tuesday, |May 2, Directors will be elected to | replace J. B. Griffith, Ben F. Petten Jr., Major Ormsby, A. L. Wallace and T, C. Tonkin, who have served fot |a tweyear term. All motor club members are especially requested to be present at this meeting and vote for directors. Members who wish to propose names of members for elec tion as directors are requested to send the names to the secretary. The directors of the motr club are |planning on a barbecue on top of | Casper mountain during the month of June or July. The details of this outing plan rill be announced later. Oldham. Stoner, Dauss | — BA ANDIT IMPROVED. CHEY 5, Wyo., April 28.—Adolt |Ptunder, Chugwater bank bandit, who jhas been suffering from influenza, ts |much improved and will be in condi- tion within a few days to be taken te the state penitentiary at Rawlins, DEATH TOLL IN TEXAS REDUCED this afternoon. : |the situation was beyond his control. He was the tenth president of France, entered upon a| okay seven-year term in that office on February 18, 1920, after hav- ing been chosen by the National Assembly the preceding) | January by the biggest majority since | the election of ‘Thiers, the first preai-|@uartermaster detachment | dent of the present republic. | Wyoming National Guare 1 On May 24, 1920, a few months after) ganized here by Adjutant € taking up his residence at the Elyseo| may GUARD UNIT ORGANIZED. CHEYENNE, Wyo., April 28 t A neral R | missing. territory yet is to be gone ov palace as the successor of Poincaire, | | President Deschanel when on his way| at night from Paris to Montbrison to | dedicate a monument, fell from a mov-| Bi G Ol L WELLS FORT WORTH, Texas, April number of missing flood sufferers that not more than ten of them lost their lives. ** | lies have been separated since the flood and are reported Only three bodies have been recovered, but much “| moet of 28.—Although the total 45 today, it is believed Many fami- er. d Cross officials believe the mi found alive. The Red Cross chapter is carrying Various relief or- ing wil on the relief work ganizations are fe 2,500 daily. jing train while attempting to raise a| | window in his sleeping compartment. | WEF = statements available wherein Con- |He was supposed to have been only| a DALLAS Tax.s ADT SR eee eae nette stated he killed man short | slightly injured. Thereafter, however» | aasvens filing mee here today time ago in defense of honor. He |the press of France expressed almost| — often having reached. &. Coot saseae also gave graphic description of | dally solicitude for his health. After) MOSCOW, April 28.(By The As- da charges t he ino w thi i the. agp ‘Taylor's room at time of killing.”” passing weeks of convalescence in| sociated Press)—Incendiaries, accord- a was the work within the next Oak nyc = The Los Angeles police said last | Normandy, he returned to Paris in| |) 4. tne Pravda, reo v ies, two of whom were os Oe weather Hisense Stee night that Connette was not accused |June to preside at the Council of} “"5 = rn eee ects ver will of anything but was held as a wit- | Ministers, Later it was announced] fire som of the | quence of the fire the ou be back in its ks in three days. nes: Connette has denied any |that he had snffered complete, the E r Rak a 4 ity continues knowledge of the film director's {breakdown and that his resignation great m pood is 36 area, condi murder, (Continued T Ten) wells in apid