Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 25, 1922, Page 1

FINAL EDITION VOLUME VIL. EMBEZZLING CHARGE DENIED Lasker and Daugherty Banquet Partners The Casper Daily Tribune TRIO FRE — - ———_— — CASPER, WYOMING, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1922. | HACKENSACK, N. J.,, Oc George Cline, Charles Scullion and Alice Thornton Go Free on Verdict of Six Women and Six Men Who Made Up } t. 25.—George Cline, Charles | SPORTS MARKETS “NUMBER 21. T BERGEN MURDER BRITISH BEAR ~ FRANCS, POUND - COLORADO -UTAR Ly MINES AGENT T0 FIGHT CHARGES Says Securities Held as Collateral Pending Sal- ary Settlement CHICAGO, Oct, 25.—Gec. E. Orr, financial manager here for the Colorado-Utah Mines Holding company, sur- rendered to the police today on a charge of embezzling $152,000 in. securities on complaint of Charies Hayenor, president of the concern. Orr's legal counsel declares the securities are in his possession and being held as a lien until the courts have passed on a five-year contract entered into by Havenor employing Orr st a malary of $1,000 a month. Orr's counsel say# the contract was approved by Havenor’s attorneys at the concern's Kansas City. offices but that he has recelyed only Uf of $200,- 000 in stock supposed to have been promised him and. that $5,000 In sal-/ ary is due. Orr js sald formerly te -have heen head of a timber company in. Wiscon- sin “bot a forest fire wiped out Its property, DIRIGIBLE IS SAVED WHEN GAS ESCAPES NEWPORT NEWS, Va. Oct. 25.— Destruction of the army dirigible C-24 prevented today in the opinion of! officers at Langjey field, by the pres: ence of uiind of a member of the crew when a hole wus torn in the blimp’s’ gas hag as it was belng taken from its! hangar. When hydrogen began to hiss! from the, bag those nearby scurried for safety, except one man who pulled tho rig cord, releasing the gus. Albert D. Lasker, head of “Tq if ay eon comin with juors: y are com] the great papers of New York would herve named) him’as the most, likely Officers who witnessed the accident! declared that if this had not been done| the dirigible probably would have met} 2. fate similar to that of its sister ship, the C2, recently destroyed at San An tonio. | } i EVIDENCE IN PHILLIPS CASE IS SUBMITTED 25.—} LOS ANGELE: Fred A. ‘Tremaine, Alberta ‘Meadows, w 8. Clara Phillips, was the first wit-| ness in the trial of Mrs, Phillips, when the taking of testimony began} today. An alternate juror, Mrs. Maade Utley, was obtained after a special panel of jurymen had been called. ‘A.tremendous crowd gathered in| the corridors outside of the court room,: attracted by tht) prospect of! ‘Cal., Oct. the beg:nhing of the taking of testi-|kinds of nlaces’ before he. established | jis premiership among the. tenors of | mony, In the-crush. one woman faint ed. Mrs. Phillis retained her com- posure. She dy charged with having! beaten Mr a small hammer last July, ‘The state assigns jealousy of tho defenedant’s husband as the motive. HAY TO up oné fine morning to discover that candidate. for, the mantle of the great Caruso. Chamlee being a perfectly Normal,’ healthy, | sane America® young man would haye tapped forehoad significantly and: let % at that. \And last November cfter Sis |sensationa® debut in the Metropolitan when Pitts Ganborn of the dubbed ‘him’ “ycung Caruso” received from all the other papers such notices) as have seldom been given in New York to any tiew: sing- er,-young or old, he would sill. have remained skepticel, because Chamileo is modest. too modest tis friends think, Yet it has hapnened that in all the talk that has followed the lament- ed: death of the Italian. superman among tenors, Chamlce’s name ‘5 the most often mentioned nd the Ww Globe nd father of Mrs.|york Evening Globe of its own accord | Was killed by lin the absence of Mr. Scnbérn in Eu-| rope, has said thet he is the most likey cancidate. There are curious parallels between the lives of the young Ameri. cha tenor and the great Italian. who bas Diese? sway. Caruso did Hot wake he was a world-famous celebrity. Tt took him years to get to that point and meant all kinds of singing in all his time. “He was over thirty when he came to this country. Chamiee has Meadows to death with|done all kinds of things to mske him-) self a celebrated tenor and if it should turn out that the next five or six years put him in the place left vacant SPEAK HERE OCT. 28 doin W. Hay, candidate for gov- ernor of Wyoming, w¥l be in Cas- per Saturday, October 28, to deliver an address to the citizens of this community in regard to Wyoming political and ecortomic affairs, with a special reference to retrenchment | in the expense of government, re duction of taxation, development of | the highways system to provide geod roads in all sections and de- | -CHEYENNE, Wyo., Oct. = yelopment- of. Wyoming's. tremen- dous ‘natural resources with the view to obtaining for the state the greatest benefits from such devel- opment. ‘Addresses will also be delivered by other Republican candidates. ‘Mr. Hay will visit at Salt Creek Fridzy. He probably will remain in Casper Sunday. “He will speak at Wheatland Monday, and at Torring- ton 2nd Guernsey Tuesday. “shipping board, sat noxt to Mr. his he| made @ spicch supporting his foreign vessels. Left to _ Mario Chamlee, the tenor who has succeeded Caruso in (he Metropolitan Opera com-! pany, and recognized as the supreme tenor in America, opens the Casper concert sei night at the Rialto theater in a program that prom#es to &e the most brilliant: musical of- fering presented to a loca} audience in recent years. and tickets are on sale only at the Rialto box office. If anyone had seriously suggested. to. Mario Chamlee, even eighteen months ago, that by the beginning of August, 1921) une of bY Caruso, jt will be largely bis own]ond, added, of course to his very rare etforts which hays brought about this| gifts as.a singer, herty, attorney general, at banquet of the | stand that American ships right, K. A. Moon, A.D. Lasker, and Attorney Gen *(5) shot. The performance will begin at 8:15 Squire, reached its veriict after two ihours and forty minutes deliberation. ‘The return of the jury, headed by its }youthful fprelady furnished a dra jmatic climax to the case. The jury filed fato the box with emotionless faces and everyone in the |courtroom tensed for the verdict. The Feourt clerk asked for the verdict and in almosy. inaudible tones Miss hese replied: “Not guilty.” Persons near her thought she had answered “guilty” and it was not un til the clerk had asked her a second time that she answered Jn tones which {could be beard throughout.the cvurt- ‘oom. | Cline buried his head in his arms on ithe trial ble and wept. Scullion and {Miss Thornton smiled Fioth the prosecution and defenese rested before 11 o'clock today and the case went to the jury carly this after- { noon. The last witness called by the de- fense was James Egan, formerly an artillery officer under whom Bergen ad-served. He testified to having in tructed Bergen in target practice and must serve | said Bergen had become an expert pid ‘LIQUOR STAYIS M. aro Chamnilee in “REFUSED SHIP - Casper for Concert, swmenstopay Rich Treat in Store for Music-Loving Public Expected to Fill Rialtg Theater to Capacity Tonight to Hear “Young Caruso” of Operatic Fame WASHINGTON, Oct: 25.—bespite the ucquiesnence of counsel for the federal government in the petition, | Supreme Court Justice Brandeis today refused*fo grant foreign shipping lines @ stay against the erforcoment of Federal Judge Hand's decision at New | Yoric yesterday, which applies Amer- fean prohibition regulations against their transportation. of . intoxicating Uquors In American waters. Siraultaneously with the refusal of the supreme cour: just to give relief to the complaining ship companiés, however, it was announced at the ltreasury department that for the present, at least, foreign ships would still be permitted as a matter of pol icy, to enter American waters ith liquor on board under seal ies to- HEROIC EFFORT FAILS TO SAVE LIFE OF BROTHER, WHO DROWNS | WHEATLAND, Wyo., Oef. 25.— Without thought of self, with hero- ism’ of spirit and fortitude of flesh | Superior (to peril of death and the matrow-chilling agony of immer. sion in ice-cold water, Fritz Drube, | | dr., plunged into Merrill's like, three | | miles from here, to reseue his broth- | | er, George Drubs, and after a strug- | gle which he barely survived won | back to land, dragging a corpse. | Simultaneously Victor Murbank was exemplifying as great, if not greater courage and fortitude in aiding one to whom he bore no kins | ship, Dr. Paul B. Holts, whose life | he saved. |. The four went to Merrill's Uke | before dawn tohunt ducks. George | Lube and Dr, Holts rowed out up- 'President Will . . Retain Sawyer : | Despite Protest; WASHINGTON, Oct. 25. ain wD AAT L WA 4 D - N | | Hardirg is perfectly satisfied with the] lseryices of Brigadier General Charies) B. Sawyer, it was said at the White House, and will not ask for his resig- haton, as demanded by the American Legion in its national convention last week at New Orleans. l White House officials added in dis: |cussing the subject that the federal |bodrd of hospitalization, of which General Sawyer !s chairman, was a voluntary creation of the president and as such the president slone was | responsible. 5 } The president, it was said, expects! |te bring ibe hospitalization board into! c'oser co-oberation ¥ the agencies of the government having to do with jthe tteatment of disabled former serv-| ice mén and in dalng so expects it to |miore than juatit its creation, | | owned the Drube garage here and [bers early today cut all telegraph and/ | ment grew out of the death of Alpha McCook Flying Field Will Be Largest In U.S. on the Jake in a ramshackle boat; | the others remained on shore. Two | hundred yards out the boat. cap. | sized and its occupants, encumbered with hunting coats loaded down with shelis, plunged into the. icy water, They struggled “desperately to swim, but tho welghted garments pulled then down, Fritz Drube and Murbank, cast. ing off their coats, without hesita- | tion leaped info the bitterly cold | water and swam td the rescue. | Mrbankesetzed Hs ax the phssi ROBBERS MAKE | } burdens, but it was a dead man that | 3 A L Drube brought in, Holts was resus- é : se Murbank seized Holts 2s the physi- cltated with difficulty. | i j cian’ was going down for the last George Drube, 35 years of age, + »STQUFFYVILLE, O., Oct. 25,—Rob. DAYTON, Ohio, Oct. 25.—Announce ment that McCook field, the center of jexperimental work of the United States air service, is to be moved to a jlarger site east of this clty and made |the largest flying field in the United | States, was made today by Frederick |B Patterson, president of the Nation- al Cash Register company, with the approval of Secretary of War Weeks. ~~ time, .Both rescuers mahaged to struggie back .to shore with their was on> of the town's most populer | telepbone wires, broke into the Stand-! citizens. He was unmarried. His | ard bank, drilled open the safe door aged parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fritz and escaped with approximately $10.- Drube, Se, and five brothers and {000 in cash and a quantity of secur sisters surviye him. hities. | which had as its foreman, a 23-year-old girl, Misss Susan A. between men and women and Depression ‘Analyze | PARIS, Oct. 25.—(By The | possession is said by French |to the United States. | Bankers and the financial authori ties of the government appear undis |turbed by the rise of the dollar and the pound. “It is rarely possible for one to put one’s fingers on the actual financing exchange said a high official of the Bank of France to the Associated | Press. Then attempting to exzpress |himself by using an American collo- quialism he said: “But this time we can locate the plored gentleman in the wood pile.'” “The British banks and the British |treasury, which have long been accum | ulating francs have ysed them, as was | JACK BERGEN, slain actor. W arren Pledges Aid For Postoffice Here Increased Facilities for Casper Favored by Senator; G. O. P. Success in Coming Election Predicted United States Senator Francis B. Warren of Cheyenne, who is spending the day in Casper, when visited this morn- ing by members of the postoffice committee of the Casper Chamber of Commerce, promised his wholehearted support of any projewt to increase Casper’s postoflice faciiities. Senatcr Warren said that if the committee would outline some feasible plan whereby addédjJong a time. t of re tT conyeniences: might be obtained he! lief will be obtained soon is practical-| MINER KILLED INCAR CRASH wouM do all in his power to push the/ly assured. project through. Senater Warren returned to Wyo- He brought out the fact that a new) ming this week from Washington on building on a new site could not be/his first visit, home since ‘congress; constructed within less than three or} adjourned. In connection ith the four years, for it would mean ,the| coming election expreseed co passing. of special bill» allowing|dence that administration candi buildings of the.same class all over|would be supported by the voting t! country An. addition to the! public and rs witness to prospects present brilding could be secured, ac-|of sweeping Republican majorities in cording to the senator, within not too|the t and middle west. | | BOND LOOT TO BE RECOVERED | MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Oct. 25.—Bond loot of four dar-| ing California mail robberies has been located in Minneap-| olis by postal inspectors investigating deal: stolen securi-} ties, R. M. Hugdal, postal inspector in charge of this dis-| trict, sdid today. This discovery, he said, confirms the| theory on which the federal authorities are working, that the | disposal of bonds taken by mail ban-[about similar action in other places| dits has been effected by a nationwide| was indicated today when posts] in-| ring. spectors working out of Tulsa, ¢ ‘The California robberies, whose loot| were reporter. to be on the t totalled ‘severa! hundred thousand dol-jdeaiers in stolen bonds. This th | jars are: gation, it is revorted, links up with in Minneapolis Holdup by four bandits of station C|the Investigation unearthed here. | in Los Angeles September 10, 1921. | through informa ion ing of dollars by British banks with French francs cause of the present weakness of the francs. were used by the British to pay the interest on their war debt Scullion and Alice Thornton were acquitted of the murder jof Jack Bergen, movie actor, by a juryrhere late today. |. The jury, equally divided d in Paris Said to Have Been Resulted from Payment of British Debt to America Associated Press.) —The buy- n their financiers to be the principal The dollars their right to do, to buy the dollars they needed instead of using pounds,” he continued: “The consequence waa that th? payment of the big sum of in- terest to the United tates has had no bad effect on the pound. On the con- trary, British exchange profited by tha subsequent depreciation of the franc.” | The British banks, 1 x disposed jof thelr francs, ,cannot repeat such ait |Opration easily again, it was pointed jout. There, are other factors in the |sftuation which was also regarded as |temporary, such as large purchases of woo! and cotton in the United States by French manufacturers. “They are not alone temporary but they ‘are immensely =," said the head of the economic. research fdepartment of a Ieading French bank. ; They show signs af revival of French industry, ‘The _importations of suclt raw material means the exportatioa | of Uhe manufactured product ‘OIL PROMOTER | ~ UNDER ARREST | encour: EL DORADO, Ark., Oct. 2 Cox, oll operator and promioter, was held here today to await action by federal officials at Los Angeles, Cal., jon charges of using the mails to de |fraud. Cox was arrested on a war- rant issued in Los Angeles which, a |cording to telegraphic advices, wa: |Vased on letters and printed matter sent to stockholders and prospective | stockholders ious - oll enter His bond was fixed at $25,000, said to have been the largest exacted iin Arkansas on such a charge R, A, BUTTE, Mont Joseph Glenn, ner, was instantly killed at 3 a. m. teday when an automobile in which he was riding shed into an train on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul crossing near the old local cemeteries. Two, companions, Gus Nygard and Gerald Duggan, escaped without in- jury, Glenn's head spiit open, The brains protruded, Duggan, whi was driving, aid he the head. light of the train but mistook it for the light of @ street car. ats Ae 8 Reception For Peace Delegates Being Arranged Michael was saw LAUSANNE, Switze ‘The municipality land, Oct. of Lausanne has already begun preparations to receive the delegates to the Turkish peace copference set to be held here Nov. 4 though no’ been offi- lally commu: Wiss government concerning tt e of the elty for the conference. Hoidup of -station K in San Fran-} cisco, October 14, 1921 | of registered mail| 1921. | in San o, February 1 iS INDICTED 1 DENVER, Colo,, Oct. 25:—War- Ed Elson, a guard at the jail, den Frank M. Kratke of the Denver | pe eine an charged with as- | saul som. } county Jall was indicted by a coun: | “mhe: grand jury investigation of ty grand jury today charged with | conditions at the fail grew out of “assaulting a prisoner.” The indict- | charges made in court at the recent trial of Orville Turley, convicted of land subsequent indictments will bring Cal., March 1, 1921. That the Minneapolis investigation of the disposition of the stolen bonds Police Court Fines | CHEYENNE, Wyo. slaying Mrs. Emma J: Wise. Au attorney for Turley charged prison- | ers in the county jail were subjected | to ill treatment unless they agreed to testify against Turley’s conduct while Turley was 9 prisoner. The, attorney asked an investigation of the jail be made. E. Ransom, an invalid who was sent to jaii in default of a ten-dollar fine assessed in police court, The true bil charges Ransom died from injuries received during a brawl in the prison, in which Kratke and others intervened.” | fires. SENT TO PEN Oct. 25— , when the cattle were stolen. “The arias Uh, Mawchditien, ¢ | court instructed the jury, however, Net Treasury $1,040} Shsries nan of Lonemont, | that connivance by MeFetridge in | owner and ranchman of Longmont, | the theft, even though he were at Be - Colorado, Tuesday afternoon was | the time beyond the jurisdiction of Monday “night netted the pélige| sentenced here to serve from four to | Wyoming, made him subject to con- court of Canper exactly $1,040 In| five years in the penitentiary for } viction in this state. jollars was! euttle-theft. He was convicted of the theft of blooded cattle from the Hereford Ranch, Inc., near Chey- enne, an unusual feature of the case | being’ that he was not in this state hundrec at t McFetridge before sentence. made a plea for leniency on the ground that he had a wife and two small children. Notice of appeal was given, i POs