Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 17, 1922, Page 14

PA Weather Forecast VOLUME Vil. ———— Read The Interesting Article By L. A. Reed On The History of Crude Oil In Sunday’s Magazine Section Che Casper Daily Cribune CASPER, WYO., FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 17. 1922. SULTAN FLEES TO SAFETY FROM TURK CAPITAL * Three Killed, Nine I > NO CHARGES OF FRAUD IN >: OIL COMPANY Statements That Vice President Randall of Pierce Corporation Testified to Swindling Attempts Erroneous RICHMOND, Va., Nov. 17——Examination of the court record the 7 today of the testimony Wednesday of C. W. Randall, vice-president im of the Pierce Oil Corporation, in a suit of preferred stockholders a seeking to annul the recent election of directors of the company, nae revealed that he did not testify to the existence of a secret agree- He ment between H. L. Doherty, of New York, and H. C. Pierce, presi we oe jdent of the Pierce company. as re. ble |ported in these dispatches Wednes ap day. Mr. Rardall further, it was 4 shown, did not testify. as state? in Pr the dispatches, that it was the pur-| to |pose of any such agreement td de-| “4 | fraud the stockholders and obtain an ntrol of the compgny. Mr. ftan- ac cs testified and Mterated [n al whi statement last night that he had no| 4 wledge of any such agreement, | HI 4 shows that Mr ate examination — ¢0 no . iar ¢ that he knew © general - terms of en agreement intered into ea aes ; 54] |between Mr. Dal ‘ por. sael Significance of Recent Financial |be!ween Mr. spas, bap hoy se ‘ u . on. This egreement dated Octover| Disasters Discounted by 1922, 4 purported copy of whicn e “seer Minhantsias vo8 produced in court, was produced | Mexico City Au by Mr. Pierce, Mr. Randall testi-| % . ei % Ged, at a conference at which five MEXICO CITY, Nov. 17.—(By Thelot the eight membera of tho poirdl be Associated Press.)—The bak failures tor directors were present. He teath of the last few days are not sgnifi- fied that Mr. Doherty was elected a| cant of an economic crisis of a gon j director of the corporation and par-| m eral character and should cause nol ticipated in the conference of direc | T alarm in financial circles, according| tors on that date. | an to Secretary of Pinanoy De La Huet) a viene curther,sMroWadball pall hy. 7 t : ale He decries sensational reports of eee hejwras use oblleatens im impending further failures, express: [1/000 40". pabees oe mindy Riad elt ing the belie that business in general | 299 099° and on Oeteter pare, than sr will proceed along normal lines. Hit | ine Corporation the tenet eee statement was in response to frank | oat ty the limit of #1000 000 | pr predictions by the newspapers of fur- Mr. Randall, the rec Lis subered:| te ther difficulties following the clos'ng Fug not testify, an remy Geeree: w of the Banqua Francaise de Mexiauc.| jer A secret. agreement, betwent wn | the Eulalia Roman, a Spaniah insti | wyepcy “ecg qyereement: Datween Ar, | pars Py eh aceapang ie aang ei vas to put up $300,000 and to have ang the Milmo, a private bank of | ine jcieilege pt converting ingot SoneeNys ‘erred stock whatover debts he chose The Fulatio Roman, according to}.c hermit, Further he did net stots PN rc A Ellon pat \S Teported, that it was the purpose financial support was withdrawn. such plan to give Mr. Dot and the unctable condition of the nder the ednvatsion priv | Banqua Francaise had been realized lege of exercising virtually. an option | on onehalf of the voting power thus practleally controlling the c for some time. A moratorium is not being consid na 01 information ered according to from | noration official sources. ; Mr. Randall's dental of any knowl-| NEW BRUNSWICK, N.\J.; Nov? © a | -twe ‘of a pecret. agreement between 18—Morbid curiosity in, the. #Halld| b tO Mir. Doherty and Mr. Plerce. was} Mil's murder case is being further = Cement Output © XS 208 ee es areca us the witness Mr, Untermyer re-|~ Walter Masterson, a carpenter, w . rding .a “secret agreement” for an! today began erecting a high fence m Is On Ino CASE | need stock Jobbing scheme, j around the Phillips farm, the scene ——___. of the murder, which in the last WASHINGTON — All Americans in the vicinity of Valparaiso and Coquimbo were reported safe in a dispatch received by the state de- partment concerning the carth- | quake in Chile. goth alec CL NEW YORK—Edward more Burlingaine, Scribner's Magazine from 1914, died. i ce HOUSTON, Tex.—James Negro, was ‘sentenced ‘s in the penitentiary arges of burglary. TON, Nov. 17.—Portland during October ny month of this S at the end of the month were the smallest they h ‘e been in the same period. October prc Liver- editor of | 1886 to | 850,000 with 12,114,000 year. Stock ageregated 4,157,000 ed with 5,348,000 a rrels compared October last October 3 rels com: ZO. Davis, to 111 on 35 wease WE'D sel Ter JUST GFEN A CAN OF SARDINES FoR OUR TRANKSGIVING DINNER MURDERESS WAS eS ee: M oonshine Estab tillery, resulting in the death of at least nine others. The explosion happened in a wrecked. In tho ruins of one building, which was swept by flarves, police and fire- men-found the wreckage of two stills. ‘The original report of the firemen was that one of the stills had = ploded. Later it was learned ,that former coupants of the building had been in by bombs and that threats had been made agatnst the lives of famt- |ler, who up to last night lived In the jstructure. The ground floor ‘of the building In which the distillery was loq.ted was oecupled by a grocery store and the [living quarters of the man who own- ed it—Joseph H. Verdoni | and hte family. Nerdoni is in a hospital suffering from severe.burns. His wife. Paulina, 35, and her fifteen months old baby were burned to death. Firemen found the bodies, with the child, clasped in its mother's aris, Immediately after, the explosion flames enveloped the building, trap- “|ping the occupants, : | Donning a gas mask and ordsring {none but his chauffeu., Charles Bratt, to foliow, Frank Braband, battalion fire chief, plunged through the flames with Bratt at his heels. | Firemen fearful for their chief when he failed to reappear in a few min- utes were on the point of dinobeying |his orders ‘by attempting to follow. | Suddenly Braband burst through jt. the outside, aschild under each arm, He turned back and soon VED BY SMILES IS FENCED OFF AS SHOW PLACE few weeks has proved a Mecca for motorists from a score cf states. He is prepared a sign for the gate ading: “Admittance, 26c."" Masterson, it was learned has leased the farm for $30 a month. It a'so became known today that a decrepit piano and a venerable horse hair settee which had formed part of the Phillips’ home furnish- ings had been sold to a New ‘York freak museum for $250. Hucksters previou: had taken bits of the crab apple tree under which ‘the slaying occurred, hawk- ing the souvenirs in New York and Newark at ten cents each. OF GEORCIA IS STATUS OF SENATORSHIP 'Men Members of Los gallows by her smiles. | the | The men members of the jury convicted of first degree munger without @ recommendation for cjgm- ency, thus making death the only pen- alty. | They said that Mrs. Phill'ps seemed) jto study them, one at a time, and to} flash frequent smiles at them. while she turned an apparently stocial back to the spectators crowded in the court room. “And she had the most appealing smile I ever saw,” was the way one juror was quoted. But the women jurors were not af- fected by it, it was announced later ag all three favored a verdict which {would have ‘sent Mrs. Phillips to the gallows. They found a compromise Was necessary ‘to avoid a disagree- ment. { While the defense planned to ask a } mew trial next Monday, the time set; jfor passing sentence which. may be any period.of years trom. ten to life, . That Clemency Extended Hammer Slayer Because of Persofality LOS ANGELES, Nov. 17.+-Mrs: Clara Phillips was saved from| jdeath with a hammer were quoted today ‘as admitting that had it jnot been for the defendant's smile, she probably would have been |the state council said they had no PUZZ l E: | comment to make on’ the verdict, Angeles Jury Admit WATER PEACE "BEING FRAMED _BY COMMISSION SANTA FE, Nov. 16.—(By The As- which found her guilty of second . . ciated P: Th Cok + degree murder for beating Mrs. Alberta Tremaine Meadows ts | “°° cleed TL ease paces dit’ ssrumission, composed of representa- | tives of seven western states and the | federal government at its eighteenth quoted | meeting. today reached agreement up- don’t know whether I killed Avot thd main prideiples. of a treaty beria Meadows or not. but tf T ald, 1¢| 2 02 SBeeEed Into between ithe seven was for mother love, for Armour I,,| Sates in the basin and the fecerai Phillips, my husband, is my only baby, and when I realized he was be- Ing taken from me, I fought, and fought and fought. So I might have him always,” One \ newspaper reporter Mrs. Phillips as saying: and the proper development of the river. ‘The plan provides for a division of the basin into two groups ambracing | the states of Utah, Colorado, Wyo. | ming and nNew Mexico, in the ‘upper division and the states of Arizona, Nevada and California in. the lower division. It was considered that inasmuch as the character of agriculture, the |method of use of water, the general Ch 2 t; M il economic conditions surrounding pow- ristmas CLUE cx ana other uses were widely differ: ent in the two’ areas, separated as |they are by -,000 miles. of Colorado War Trucks to Help Transport WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. — ‘The! irai and logacil one. usual congestion of mail facilities ex| ‘allotment perienced by the «postoffice depart-/ amount of the, Waters of the river ment throughout thé country at) was agresd upon between the two di- Christmas time will be relieved this| *itions. and .provision was made for | “Definite of an equal | Wrecked With Tragic Results to Two Families in Building CHICAGO, Nov. 17.—Police today worked on the theory that a bomb caused last night's’ explosion and fire in a moonshine dis- a melting pot for 11 different nationalities, | government for division of the water? | river canyon, this division was a nat-! NUMBER 47” ABOIGATION NOT ‘FUGITIVE FROY KEMALIST IRE Mohammed Finds Ref- uge on British Warship In Flight to Malta from Constantinople Palace three persons and the injury of mixed foreign quarter of the city; Two buildings were biought out another injured -cJilld. Bratt rescued several othera. No ‘attempt was made to save the building ‘while the rescve work wax roing on, and an adjoining building ‘was soon in flames, Although ; they believed all the oc cupants had be; ted f Nov. 17. m en accoun’ V of today, police and’ firemen searched|—(By the Associated Press.)— the ruins forother bodies. Mohammed VI, the Turkish Sul- Mrs. Bottiry ved her baby, Jo- i mbpaacsat trons ‘keris injury when {2 apneic nos een bound or she rushed to a window and drop-{9n @ ped the child into the arms of a fire-| falta, Upon embarking, the jultan emphasized that he was not man. ; 8 Verdontwas placed under arrest at] sparcating Wut merely: removing bim- velf from immed ate danger. } the hospital today. Police said they believed the grocery store he. con- ducted. was only & biind for the tlle. gal distillery in the basement, —— ee BOILER SHOP FOREMAN | AT CHEYENNE INJURED | CONSTANTINOPLE, Much criticism is he. Tarkish newspapers” regardi Veged propaganda in the Un! jiates against Turkéy. The Anatol- um News Agency, official mouth jece of the Angora government de- lares this campaign is belng conduct- od by American missionaries and re- lef workers who, it alleges are at- INE, Wyo. Noy. 11.— 0} tempting to bring about war between D. Beifield, boiler shop foreman at|TYrkey, and the United State, the Colorado ae Southern shops| “We remind all impartial and con- Noy. 1 t Se : here? was seriously injured Wednes- Be i aaratoan haat tis oe day afternoon when he attempted to tlonalist government has accorded snatch an fron bar from a track on {which a ‘locomotive was approaching. | °¥ery facility and hospitality to these As he grasped the bar the locomotive | People, and ached find to oe a strudk it, causing it to fly up violent-|07Fow that they have turned agat ly and hit him dn the face. Both his| ¥% , sae ‘were fractured. It was neces.| 2t.Js unnecessary to say that all the sary to dress his Injuries without aa.| tatéments they have ssuDhiaieent Are ministering an anaesthetic and the{‘lumnies. They have caused: deep resentment on the part of the Turkish = of the operation was very se people and officials. toward Ameri- Two Arrested For Box Car Robberies CHEYENNE, Wyo., ‘Nov._17—Bm- jery Goodrich and» Ea Shafner, 19- year-olC hoboes arrested here for “mooching” on the streets, now are held for investigation on .the theory that they were implicated in @ series spEEDY PEACE of box car robberies between the Pa-| AgSKED BY TURKS. elfic coast and Cheyenne. They aro! aia ens. ¥ ‘anid to have made a partial contes-| ANGORA: bhp csaiarain Amey sion, but to deny implication in a $50,-/clated Press.) —, essing ‘Sasion- ; al assembly on, the allied postpone- 000 robbery in California: of which they are sala to have boasted to oth-|™ent of the Lausanne peice confer- (Continued on Page Eleven.) er hoboes. : —— ITALIAN LEADER SCORES HIT IN FIRST ADDRESS Review of Foreign and Internal Policies by Premier Mussolini Meets With Approval of the Assembly Nov. 17.—(By ‘the Asso ated Press.}-The Turkish Sultan's flight. from Constantinople: today on British warship bourd for Malta was after he had received In! a tion tha: the Angora assembly just voted to try the Sultan and his ministers for treason, according to « | dispatch -recelved at the Fronch for- eign office this evening. ROME, Nov. 17.—(By the Associated Press.) —Premier Mus- solini’s first appearance before the Italian chamber proved a’ great Personal success. He spoke to the deputies as he had addressed the leaders of his Fascisti legions and his orders were received with imilar apparent obedience. a. adversaries that the Fascist! govern- ment, had come to stay, ask, but demanded, a vote of confi- | He announced his foreign and internal policies and warned his He did noel Congratulations were showered up- on the youthful leader from. all sides after he had concluded his' exposition KE OATH Destitute Yanks ‘Are Repatriated' Mrs. Felton has no official right to e a * j the ‘oftice By Association WOMAN MAY TA Honor of Being Sworn In as Senator Is Asked by Women for Mrs. Felton, Who Was Appointed Before Election Mr. George arrived here yesterday to meet. Mrs. Felton, who will come here today from her home in Carters: ville. He said he sanctioned the| COBLENZ, Nov. 17.—(By ‘The ‘As- | movement to have Mrs. Feltori offic-j sociated Prese.) — Twenty-one desti-— ally seated in the senate and would| tute former soldlers of the American sper 23 Ses like to see the distinction of be!ng the| army, 17 of whom were accompanied J first woman in the country to serve|by German wives and their children, | ATLANTA, Ga., Nov 17.—Mrs. W. H. Felton and Walter F.|in"tne senate confererred upon’ the| lett Coblenz for Paris on their way to George, senator-elect from Georgia, will confer here today upon | 86-year old Georgian. Cherbourg whence they ‘will safl for 5 - 5 | He added, however, that the seating| the United States with a contingent the question of allowing Mrs. Felton to take oath of office as| 6x5. reiton ts of course, & matice|et other stranded Americans, who are United States senator for one or more days a privilege that the! with the senate, since it is the exclu-| being repatriated by the American women throughout the nation have requested for her. | sive judge of the eligibility of its mem-| Relief association in Paris, Eleven Z | bers. children in the party, born in the Following the death of Senator Thomas E. Watson, Governor! Hoth xf George and Mrs. Felton,| Rhineland, are. being sent’to. the} Hardwick t | . er 7, Mc. George, Democratic accord:ng to reports published here! United States by Rhineland post 700,/ Fe ad antit af e was elected to fill the unex. y e planning to leave here on} Veterans of Foreign wars, through an} succes nator Watson could be | p erm, and according to Governor; the same. train Saturday afternoon! arrangement: with the Paris commit-| elected by Georgia voters. On No-| Hardwick, following this “election, for Washington. tee, |wear insofar as the"\war department {office authorities. dence in his government, declarin, {of the government's program, hi that if the deputies refused : fr the their) pariiamentary groups joined in the mandates would be withdrawn. “(applause with the exception of the His bitterest enemies who hadjextremists, who abstained from dis- looked forward to. his encounter with}playing any emotion. ;the summoning of a second commis- {sion some years hence to provide for can make its machinery effective./the equitable division of the unal:| Orders issued today by Major General! ictted water in the light of the then| Davis, adjutant general of the army, | increasing knowledge. and inéreasing| the\\experienced. pol! : ced politi¢ians on thefe to all commanding officers .of corps |need. Jows batt¥s, were disappointed land {preegion wore’ atterwants,, the ex: areas, directed them to hold all motor Fao ie lar Basen ode nao bay eo Preference in rights for use of'the|that his friends are. saying, that he peat Nehicles “not actually needed for mil-| water is to be established to ergicul-lis the greatest leader Italy" has seen ‘the ‘Ghia see rea a itary purposes” for, use of the post-|ture/and. none of the rights in the|since Crisp! and that the Fascisti rule |looking for any ween thie basin are’ disturbed... .~ will endure: ‘deputies exclaimed to another: | He reminded me of Louls XIV— _ SCHOONER OFF COAST OF WASHINGTON, REPORT At todays meeting of the chamber [the minister of the treasury, Profes- SEATTLE, Wash., Nov. 17.—Cap- ture by plrates Wednésday night of |Sor Tangorra, will explain the finan- cial goveriors plan for bureaucratic ard fiecal reforms and other aeputics lof the 47 remaining regist; the pirates |may speak. wees hauled, it is xsserted, just ‘out of | ing to reports, and Piumper's Pass between Victoria and taken, lu made off with th. eschooner. Premier Mussolini, howev the schooner Daisy, laden with | Yancraver: B.C im American | Taibot sald that huis craft was en- Dressed the desire that only. one | whiskey cost him $37,000, Larry | Crew posed a. sensiome offen | Eaged in a legitimajo enterprise, | {*°C0" ftom each of the 11 groups | Talbert, owner, declared here this | The crew of the y was pot | Me had ceared from Vancouver for /hetore ‘the rete geome £0 speak | morning, The Daisy was over- | on Stuart Island. nearby, accord. | Ensenads, Mexico, # on ne vote” of confidence : te | |