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

eearch, FINAL EDITION WASHINGTON, Dec, 4.—Presideni ‘Harding, ting the anrual federal budget for the next fiscal ly told congress today that whether there was to be any ma- terial reduction in government expenditures and in taxes in futture years would depend largely on whether there was to be a‘ curtailment or expansion of federal aid in lines of re-|: improvement and develop. The president aid, however, that he ment. Placing the estimated government outlay in 1924 at $3,843,234, a decrease wbout $500,000,000, as compared with estimates for this fiscal year, Mr. Harding called attention that two thirds of thig total was pn account of Practically fixed charges, such os the Puli febt, national defense, «pen- sion», world war allowances and fed- eral ald. There wag left, he said, yoniy avout one billion dollars in + charges subject to administrative con- trol and against which, he added, the retrenchment policy of the fovern- ment had been directed. t ©01 in thi sul is as of as functions or operations of the bust- ness ‘of the government. continued, “have flowed from laws enacted pursvant to popular demand, and I take this occasion to refer to them for the purpose of showing that the taxation which necessarily re- ment of the popular demand. “In the efforts which have been di- rected. fo reducing public expen: tures, I have been much concerned in apparént increasing state, county and municipal. indebtedness, and I am fearful lest this condition may be in part attributable to the expenditures made by the government pursuant to its federal aid laws, as many of these state laws, requires state contribu: tions as a prerequisite to the exten- sion of the federal ald.”” ‘The summary of the budget for 1924 as given to congress shows an estimated excess of receipts over ex- penditures next year of $180,969,125 Patrick Sullivan, cominitteeman, through hi Denver, against the M with a superior and paramount right, title and interest to 960 acres of land in the heart of what is known as the Teapot Dome. Mr. Sullivan alleges that the action arises under the constitution and Jaws of the ‘United States, and then the plaintiff, proceeds to allege that certain individuals, respectively, with associates fromeseven to nine in each instance, located certain ofl placer mining claims in what 1s now. known While expressifig the opinion that further reduction undoubtedly would result from a re-organization of government estubliyhmests on a more scientific basis, the president said alone would not affect) a ma- v terial cut in operating ogty as would Justify wu expression rope for a nsiderable Jessening of expenditures the years to comv.. Taking up the question of federal aid, the executive declared that this ‘was a rapidly broadening fidld of ex- ponditure and ‘that there was a ques tion as to how far the governments should participate in it. Ho added at it.did not pertain to the normal ‘These ekXtrancous activities,” he its in providing funds to meet them. a necessary incident to the fulfill: compared with an estimated deficit $273,938,218 for this fiscal year. ‘was hopeful that the estimated deficit for 1923 ‘could be redued in ma'ning seven months and@ that. the close of the year next June 30 would show & balanced account. Estimated expenditures of #2.180,- $ 843,234, for 1924 which are tac ~“pive_ : 3 : of the postal service, compare with ae bt . Ae ere estimated appropriations 0F-$8.078,940,- : ‘ 2 331 for the same period. Mr. Harding explained that % pend'tures would oad nae ge including some on account of ap: propriations in previous years. Another deficit in postal op¢rations wa forecast for this year, but Mr. Harding said it was estimated that through proper readjustments «there } would bea surplus of postal revenues over expenditures in 1934 amopat! to Mee i SFor this year po “at $ORG,906,84: pdebelency (Of $51:50¥,670, as compared with un actu) deficienty the last fiscal. year of $04,246,234. ‘The 1924 costs are given at $584,653, Soe cu GEST PLN UAGED. frespiax farsa of 15700 Satigat rae, nae Teneo cease and»men to 215,000 officers and-men. For the army air service, $12,871,500 Casper to include all worthy move- is proposed, or $23,500 less than met - Feopriated diis- yaae: AD- nts which. call for public financtug said this sum would permit the serv- ice to operate efficiently’ in accord- ance with existing policy. For the navy $288,850,993 is asked. This amount, the president asserted, would provide for the present enMsted personnel of 86,000 men; maintain all - ef commission and : make provision for continuing all new ship eonstruction in privately owned | BUS” t© finance the Red Cross, Boy GADSKI PLA yards, except for reduction in speed | S°OUts Salvation Army, kf of construction on-three light cruisers. Provision is made In the budget for in. pensions; in world war allowances and $20,389,- 289 in retirement pay. include $41,764,550 for Mvers and har- bors; $31,480,000 for good roads; $5,-| Rotarians today was Chauncey Peter 718,950 for hogpital construction and |Colgrove, who emphasized the {mpo: facilities for war patients; $2,200,000 | tance of National Education week as for railroads in Alaska; $6,889,105 for|it is being cagried on in the schoots. (Continued on Page Four.) present sh'ps $434,564,050 Other items : : | -|man Denby the opera singer's local T T manager, that he would appear before | LE. a meeting of veterans Monday aight the legion’s charges. T P| E E A _“Madanie Gadski will positively ap- | 4 i ; = pear here December 11 as announca,” } CHEYENNE. Wyoe., Dec, 4—Patrick Sullivan of Casper be! at cancel the ours’ agp thn = ree tly eni an ie clair tating tne ibe action reached the clerk of the United States etrice court ing corporatio, the Teapot Dome Oil. Struct ; today i oe gl path tage Hn Suit has. been filea in the féderal,court ‘at Cheyenne by local capitalist and. Republican national |: ig attorney, Johr. T. Bottoms of |@r#wal orders: beginning. September in tranamit- Department of —- Year frank- ae de 11,908.91 60,627, 346,894,386 100.459,000, 27,115,556 $1,844,149,890 =1.100.000/900 Fn nn nnn SS OTB AONE si ga a A Ln ital costs |. ora dn} f: A Community Chest program forjP. Wheeler of the Casper school board along the same line and report on his recent trip. to Chicago ahd New Harding | recetved further impetus téday at the} York by C. H.Townsend,: who re- Rotary club luncheon when it was] ferred to the improvement in business brought up for discussion and ré-jand industrial circtes, ceived enthusiastic indorsement from|~ C. W. Barton of The Tribune called many, members of the organization.|attention to The Tribune's Pure Food, The {dea has met with favor amohg|Health and Household show -which other organizations wherever d's-/opens tonight at the Arkeon. cussed, the proposal being to. prepare SEES a budget and institute « single cam- home and other institutions which call for arnual support. The plan is being carried out in Denver with great success and many Individual drives are eliminated, Among others who spoke before the CONCERT OVER LEGION FIGHT ” UGS ANGELES, Dec. Action of and elsewhere, @ brief address by M.| the Los Angeles county cotincil of the American legion in‘adopting-a resolu- tion “protesting ‘against the appea: ance here of Miae, Johanna Gads!: on account of alleged pro-German ac- tivities during the war, was followed today by an annuuncement from Sher- and present Mme. Gadski's answer io said Mr. Denby, “and if any attempt is made to harass or prevent her sing- of the original locators of these|!28-We shall apply to the Courts for Prior Right and Title to 960 Acres of Land | isis. tint tvs tcators wore citzenn |g" tepcct tua tate. commander ot Leased to Mammoth by Government Claimed by Casper Man of the United. States and. possessed |ine American legion to be here’ Mon- of all the’ qualifications requisite for/a,y and I believe he will be able to the due, legal and valld locations by put the matter before local veterans them of sald lands as placer: mining |i, somewhat of m different light.” claims, that they complied fully with — all of the requirements of the Jaws cf the United States and of the State of Wyoming and the local mining rules, customs and regulations of the min- ing distriet in which the placer claims were located, that the locators and their assigns were in a continued and undisputed possession, use, occupa- tion, working and: developing, of -the said mining claims down to the dates the ‘several Presidential With- 27, 1909, and:including the Executive ammoth Oil company, a Delaware cor-| 573. “ot Wathdrawal, dated April. 3 poration, 4 and the Pioneer Oil and Refining company, a Wy0-| i915, by which the President of the asking that it be decreed that he is vested | United States created Naval Petro- ‘The locations were rade February 6,|leum Reserve No. 3, which includes 1967, anu the different located placer | sl! of the lands invol¥ed in the suit claims include all of section two and {as the lands leased by the government the south half of section three. town-|to Sinclair's Mammoth Of] company. ship 38, north of range 8, west, or dine hundred avd sixty. heart of the Teapot Dome ana near the very center of the 9,000 acres in- ernment officially determined and cluded in the lease from the United announced to the world that the lands States to the Mammoth Oil company. |clatmed..by him as placer locations ‘The plaintiff allegea that he has fcr a good and valuable congideration | succeeded to the rights and: inter The plaintiff also alleges that the crea in thy| United States through both fts execu- tive and legislative branches of gov- were oli or oll and gas bearing lands and that the same were particularly: ts. (Contirtyed on page four) W. L. Barnett is spending a tew flays in thé city from’ his) hoiie tn | Ladder. Sacrifices Needed to Cut Budset REDUCTION OF HALF BILLIONIS - SHOWA iN TOTAL SUBMITTED TO CONGRESS TODAY BY PRESIDENT Governmental Expenses for Fiscal Year Placed at Over Three Billions, Most of Which Is Fixed Charges ANNUAL SEAL sz DRIVE OPENED | INGITY TODAY The sale of , Chrletenas ‘Seals, the proceeds of which will go teward the fight against tuberculosis, be- xan in Casper this morning with the commilttee reporting fair re- turns. The seals are not only an attractive adjunet to m letter but ® distinct help in a great charitabig. movement. Casper has led the state in Christmas seal sales the last two Feprs and wishes to continue the s00d record. A different committer will handle the work each day of this werk under the supcrvtsion-of Mrs. B. B. Brooks, reneral chairman. Those Rath Bridenbough and Adele £ son. 4 Sy LOPES ees GOVERNOR KENDALL ILL. earigd MOINBS, Iowan, Dec. 4.—Gov- ernor N. B. Kendall yhome here today. bean that his co: nm is not sert- ———_ { L. A. Reed is out of the city on business. ‘BRANDED AS Family Whose Name Is Garry Gordon's “Statements in Newspaper BY ROSS M. GRANT. “The majority of the statements which appeared in a Sun-| W! atly Cribune | sror's. -yrere Government Seeks Return of $29,000,000 in Six Actions Filed Today Against Contractors Accused of Great Fraud in Constructio nof Army Cantonments WASHINGTON, Dec: 4.—(By The Associated Press.)— Six additional suits seeking recovery of large sums alleged | to have been mis-spent in construction of the war-time army cantonments were filed today in as many cities by represen- tatives of the department of justice. The six actions sought to recover $29,000,000 and brought the total claimed by the government from war contractors to[been instituted tocay but was not more than $50,000,000. completed in ‘time. The projects, contractors and sums} y, involved in the six suits’ were: Th Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas Stone and Webster $3,000,000; Camp | Suit against Charles Weitz Sons com 2 pany of Des Moines, butlders of Camp ee baa einige Va. Rhinehard and) ), age, charging misappropriation of jennis, Inc., 7,000,000; Camp Custer, | $4,500,000 of funds in the construction Battle Creek, Mich., Porter Brothers, | of the camp. $5,000,000; Camp Pike, Little — Roc The petition was brought to Des Ark., James Stewart and company,|Moines today by special messenger Inc., $3,000,000; Camp Dodge, *Des| from Washington and is signed by the Moines, Lowa, Charles Weitz Sons, $4..| attorney general, 00,000, ahd Camp Dix, Wrig¢htown, Fa na N. J., $6,500,00. The six billk of complaint, almost identical In form. were filed In the federal court at San Antonio, Rich mond, Detroit, Little Rock, Des Moines and Trenton. They charged PAIN HEPAATED fraud, connivance, weste and im- Memorial Services Sunday proper use of funds and material Further suits against “prime contr Well Attended; Inspiring Program Is Car- tors” on government wartime con- struction are in preparation: by the ried Out. say MOI Towa, Dec, 4.—(By Associated »Press.)\—The United department and wiil be filed as they are completed. .A suit involving co struction of one of the major army projects in New England was to have The memérial program hel® yester: we sion, ’ “Deceaned of the Year” was the Troubles Denies subject of the eulogy delivered by G. R. Hagens, an impressive address delivered in a dignified manner and with a fraternal spirit. the benediction, The oration given by Thomas W. ite of the McKeesport, Pa:, lodge day morning newspaper and which brought a lot of regretta-| N° 13¢ was an address of great ble noportety on the members malicious and. without a shred expected. to fly off. Casper mountain, to the Haggerty family. ‘These statements were unques- tionably instigated by Mion McMa, hon, whose Jealousy for Mr, Gordon resulted in the unfortunate “state- ments being made. If they were not made by: Mr. McMahon. person- ally to hté newspaper they can be traced back to him.’ Mr. McMahon is a lo¢al ‘contractor, who, according to Mrs. Haggerty has been posing as a friend of. the fam- ‘y,-and who has insisted on mixing himself in their private affairs for, some time past. “Mr. MaMahon has been intensely Jealous of Mr. Gordon ever since he became acqtiainte®~ with us,” sald Mre, Haggerty ‘and I am quite sure that he put the foo‘ish !deq in my husband’s head that Mr. Gordon and my. daughter Jessie were thinking of leaving. Casper together. Such an idea was never even thought of by e’ther of them bu? it resulted in my hus- band bringing.an officer to the house one’ night last week and demanding that Mr, Gordon leave the house. The story in the newspaper saying that my husbarid called two officers is as untrue-as the rest of she ‘statements. Mr. Haggerty brought the officer with tim and there was no trouble or demonstration, Mr. Gordon left quietly and was not ‘removed fore- ibly’ as stated in the newspaper. _“An additional untruth published in the same story was that I had left my home with my daughter, Jessie, in- censed over my husband's actions and had 'gone'to live with my son-in- law, A. Hy Wood, at his home on Box- elder _street.» I went to my ‘#6n-In- law's home to stay one night dust as an ordinary visit. My huaband has not asked me to return and quite na- turally, I haye not refused. I am just staying’ here until this trouble 1s cleared up. “I further doubt the truth of the alleged telegrams published signed by Ina Davis, Mr, Gordon's former wife. We have been.unable to clear up the supposed accidental death of Miss Davis and do hot know today wiether she {d-alive or dead; Her divorce from Mr. Gordon ts belng handied by Alex King, Casper attorney, and was the natural “procedure folowing a hasty marriage which wis bound to result in incompatibility.” Mr, Gordon met Miss Davis in-Cas- per when she wis a ember of the | George Hunter’s “Bouncing Babies" ‘musical ~ comedy numer, -Hej had | gerty this afternoon in discussing the relations of Garry Gor- | organization don, aviator and builder of a motorless glider with which he | ‘h® sen! fascination. Mr, White dilated on the ates government today instituted | day afternoon by the Casper Lodge No, 1353, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, In their. auditorium was excellently rendered and was iu Linked V7 iF fy | Kecvins witte the mae of the occa- A. Y. Wallace, chaplain, delivered HEAD OF STATE UNIVERSITY T0 ADDRESS FORUM HERE: TUESDAY Dr. A. G. Crane to Visit Casper for ihe First Time; Other Educators to Address Gathering. The Casper Chamber of Commetce forum meeting on Tuesday, December 4, which will be conducted along lines conforming to American Edu-- cational Week programs, will be addressed by notable Wyoming educators and welfare workers. r. A. G, Crane, president of the Wyoming State University will be the principal speaker of the day. Other speakers will be L. C. Tidball, state commissioner of education, and 0, EB. McCracken of tho Wyoming Chil- dren's Home society. A five-piece or- chestra selected from the high school band will play several selections as the special entertainment feature of the program 7 is will be Dr. Crane's first visit te Casper and the Forum committee la anticipating a capacity attendance, as many will wish to hear the prest- dent of the university Plans are now being considered. by the Wybdming~ Radio corporation to broadcast a speech by Dr. Crane either from the Forum meeting Tues- day noon or as part of the regular ‘Tuesday evening program. bag a )6 ta Man Would Become Merchant; Steals Goods for Store The nucleus of a grocery and dry goods store was found with'n the apartment of a suspect yesterday by of my family, were absolutely services to be rendered in life ani| prodg on shot tenes OF Cannell of truth,” said Mrs. E. H. Hag-|on the great usefulness of such an treasing at great length nee of the day in honor known her in Fort Upton, New Yor’, Viren Cae, mee nae dea where she was rtationed a6 8 nUrD¢! of ytre, Madeline Treber assisted by and he was in the aviation depart-| yy Don Lebdell. Both:~ot ment. According to Mr. Gordon’s| jagtog deserve proat ‘ these ladies deserve great -redit for the way statement he married Miss Davis on|they hundied thelr part of che cere. the spur of the moment principally|mony. Many solos were rendered, becayse he was feeling depressed | some assembly and choir wongs were over an unfortunate financial invest-| also given. goods and about 30 caps were in the lot. They wers summer caps. ee SALES ES wor HEVIVAL MEETINGS 10 OPEN IN NORTH CASPER ment and that she brought up ‘the aside <i Ae The revival meetings which will subject of marriage to which he continue for two Weeks will be opened acquiesced. Flax Seed. this evening at the orth Casper “Three days after I marr'ed Miss! DULUTH, Minn., Dec. 4.—Closing| Christian church a wGo8 tH Davis," said Mr. Gordon this after-}cash prices: Flax seed, December| street. The Rev. G: 1 Bennett will noon, “I realized that I had made a} 2.4%; May 2.94% bid; July 2.33. be the aker. The public ia invited. mistake. I further heard that she had never obtained a divorce from her previous husband. J told her that it > was impossible for us to live togther and she subsequently filed suit for a divorce. I bellove the divorce has not yet. been granted. S’nce leaving here Miss Davis was reported killed in a story carried in the newspapers but I haye never been able to verify the re. OF U. S. UPON Ce ee ee| > LANDS UPHELD “I never had any intention of leav- ing Casper with Mias- Haggerty or marrying her until the matter of my divorce was cleared up. I have yet to Supreme Court Decision Affirming Con- find ou: whether Miss Davis 's dead or alive and seriously doubt the au‘ thenticity of the alleced telegrams from her in California.” A. H. Wood, son-in-law of Mrs. Hag- gerty, and his wife, formerly Miss Ruby Haggerty, were equally forcible in the den’al of the statements in question which they characterized as malic‘ous, malignant and lUbelous. WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. McKelvy and others in the viction of Idaho Men Important in Western Prosecutions —The conviction of Charles United States district court of i SBUGH sR amtory 7 mala > Mr: W008 Ideho:in October, 1920, involving the question of federal not only brought a lot of unfavorable! jurisdiction over public lands, it was decided today by the publicity but reflects on the character of my sister-in-law. supreme court, will stand. (Continued on Page Four.) - The case was considered o FRAMEUP AGAINST UNIVERSITY was euihed companions * were LOS ANGELE Sykes’ purported confession, ad- Sykes, ex-service man and federal | dressed to the student boiy of the Dard student at the University of | University of Southern California, southérn branch, who | states that its eis Kécame the center of a heated dis- | far as possible, repair and pute between students of that insti- | the {irreparable injury dons tution and those of the University | Inst!tution by reason of b of Southern California when he was | responsible by the» public found bound and gagged with the.| branding ‘on my face on € detters $. C)) branded on his " and to ‘inform you forehead with iodi ha ontessed } bran g owas a fram up |, that the branding frame up | the University of Souther | against the yuthern | “nia, exclusty | Caljfornia prigges Story | students ef rota, South £ much importance in the west- ern. states. Men driving sheep over pubile lands on Lost river | Idaho, were o | viene oi associates. ht ensued in which one man MeKelyy and Wis government, wh’ch, claimed its juris diction extended ts of law- lessneas committed on The court held that “ public be violation of the er temporary or. perm trot b and wa nent con+ ng the land : c © e