Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 8, 1922, Page 14

PAt the h te The Best News, Weather Forecast Generally tir tonight and Setur- Gay. Not much change in tempers- ture. VOLUME VII. TURKEY § COAST POLICE ARE BAFFLED BY FUGITIVE Officials. Admit 1 They Don’t Know in Which Direction to Search for Mur- deress Who Broke Jail LOS ANGELES, Dec. 8,—Officials were quoted early tocay as admitting they “hardly knew iri what direction to look” for Mrs. Clara Phillips, “hammer murderess,”” who sawed her way to free- dom from the Los Angeles county jail last Tuesday mornmg. Since her escape became known, approximately six hours after she severed the bars ecross her cell window, the police of the greater part of the country and of the | Mexican territory of Lower Cailfornia g | As well, have been on the watch for | her. But eo far, the search has resulted | only in scores of “tips which proved FROM NSASTER worthless and in annoyance to wo- men, as far as Chicago, who were belleved to bear some resemblance Business and» Financial! Conditions Now on to the missing murderess and who Mend, Report Shows were passengers on trains om which she was reportud to be traveling eadt- ward. 4 While the police, sheriffs forces, Private detectives and citizens in gen- eral were still searching for her, the district attorney's office reviewed the punishment prescribe? by law ‘for Prisoners who break jail, to determine what further penalties might be given the woman already under sentence to serve from 10 years to life for beat- ing Mrs. Alberta Tremaine Meadows Bafrorge AS hepa ee Bee yen to death with a hammer. the last fiscal year ended June $0.| Charies W. Frickle, deputy district the territory of Hawal! successfully} sttorney wlio assisted In Mra, Phillips Treathered one of the moat critics’! prosecution stated the | California history, Gacunae By Partington penal code classified a jail break as a Aeclared ‘today in his annual report.| ™i*demeanor and fixed | punishment ‘Con: mative polictes' that, have al- for it at six months tmprisonment in waye controlled the business of the the county jail, a fine of $500 or both. territory were declared’ by the gov- But in damaging the jall by filing ernor to have beeff-the barrier that|‘"roush the cell bars, he added. she checked an era of widespread dlsas- had committed a felony, punishable ter. General business conditions now have imorgved as the result of more norm! world price for raw su- ger, the product from which Hawail Gerives its prosperity. He added, however. that agricultural conditions are still serious and command un- ceasing attention. Shortage of field labor has caused cons‘derab‘’e aban/t- unment of cultiyated land and legisla- tiony that will provide laborers, nt the same ''me bringing the racial pop- by a fine of $55,000 or by a sentence ulation of the territory. more nearly into balance, was recommended’ as a prime necessity. Raw sugar and pineapples contin- ued through the year to hold first place in the food crops of Hawail. The yield of sugar for the calendar year 1922 was estimated at 546,344 tons, and that of pineapples at 5,- 000,000 canes. Hawaii is en integral unit of the United States, although not enjo¥- ing statehood, the Seport said, and as such nays into the federal treasury more in taxes than nfany states, Dur- ing the fiscal federal trxes am- ounted to $14,597,017. The Hawelian homes commias‘on ‘was inaugurated with President Har(ing’s approval in July, 1921, and was a radical departure in the ad- ministration of the public lands un- Ger control of the territory. It was Gesigned to offer land to natives of Hawatl, under 99 years lease, for nominal sums, and was said to have operated beneficially. In co-operation of the action of the law there was an increased movement in the schools to take up nature study and agzi- culture. Health conditions were good during the year, and treatment of leprosy with chaumoogra of] d=ztvatives con- tinued: with good success. the penitentiary. If she hed accomplices in her es- cape, he said they were guilty of fel onies and liable to serve punishment, if apprehended. Tiger of France Winds Up Visit In U.S. Capital WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—Georges Clemenceau, war time premier of France, will congluds his visit here today with the fifth “format” address of his American tour. -The address will be delivered this afternoon before the International Lyceum and Chau- tauqua association, He considers it the most important of his Wasting: ton appearances. Invitations to‘attend have been ex- tended to government offic’nls, lead- ers of congress and members of the diplomatic corps. Clemenceau planned to spend most of the day in seclusion, marshalling ‘9 tacts and making last minute pre- parations for presenting*them, There was a possibility, however, that hs might make a brief sight-seeing tour. After the address he planned to re- turn to the home of Henry White, his Washington host,-for a brief rest be- fore going io his private car for the trip to Philadsiphia, his next stop. BREACH BETWEEN ‘HENRY IS SEALED BY DISMISSAL OF CHARGE AND ME’ Aitorney General of Kansas. Calls Off Prosecution of Author-Editor for Dis- playing Strike Posters EMPORIA, Kans., Dec, 8.—The receipt of a telegram directed last night by Attorney General Richard J. Hopkins to Roland Boyn- ton, Lyon county attorney, apparently wrote finis today to the friendly duel between Henry J. Allen, governor of Kansas, and his crony, William Allen White, editor and author, \Mr, White planned to make a statement today. Ths attorney general directed the; White when @iamiseal today of charges of violat-|aign in the window of his newapap tag © provision of the (Ndustrial court |oftice, the Emporia Gexetia, durin jar ct Kansas, preferred. against Mr.|the nationwide railroad shopmen's j , the Iatter disp of feom s'x months to five years in| Testimony of Accuser Branded as s Lie by} | Mississippi Executiveon Trial for~ | Alleged Seduction of Girl inching Theelons ig Fits tn more than a score of witnesses. mer governor of Mississippi, t be heard in the trial of the $100,000. dick suit against "yoo Russell, governor of Mississippi by. Miss Frances C. Birkhead, stenographer, entered upon its third day session here today in the United States district court. Governor Russell répeated his test!- : mony that*when he first. met Miss Witnesses were to ba called for the) Rickhead she. made clprges agate defense and additional testimony ‘n Dr. Henry Boawell, superintendent of rebuttal was expected to be presented) tne. state tuberculoma Ranitariam at by Miss Birkhead. Magee, whe: formerly was a The trial was sfarted Wednesday | stenographer, sfahar to howe . she following two days of argument over! made against him.~ Dr. Ai, F. Garri- & demurrer by the defense which|son and C. D. Mitchell, then merabers was overruled. There is no indica-|of the board of health, corroborated tion early today when the trial would| this testimony and the declaration be brought to a close. that Miss Birkhead had threatened Governor Russi was called as the)to kill Dr, rr, Boswell first witness by ‘the defense after ‘ opposing counsel had rested thuir “J ps peat rah wi iar Montana Solon cross examination when ‘court ad-| Journed for the day. The executive, in. anewer. to a) question as whether he had used) some of his funds to effect a settle- ment) With Migs Birkheatl, replied Has To Be Told yed aed, Of Smokes Rules with dtamatic emphasis: “I'never authorised anyone to pay WASHINGTON, Dec, 8.—Clouds of ward where Miss Birkhead eat with floor ‘was an unusual but bHef spec- her counsel; “it is a delfberate false-'tacie* in the senat where smok* hood and she knows it. Miss Birk-|ing has been bannéd since*the days head had ‘testified the governor toldjof “Pitchfork Ben” Tillman, to whom her that he had alithorized Theodore|tobacco was abhorrent. ‘Unfamiliar G. Bilbo, former governor; of Missis-|with the: senate rules, Senator Elect ippl, and one or two other friends :0|Whegier, make a settlement with Ber, : seat tafay and puffed hie after-lunch- Misa Birkhead ynder cross exemin-\éon cigar until Senator Ladd, Repub- ation during: most of the morning, lican, North Dakota, Another mem- admitted that during the gn |ber cf the new progressive bloc, sent for the governorship, in 1919, she in-\a page to the new member to inform formed Oscar Johnston and ~.Zarl him of the no-smoking rules... i Brewer, a former governor.gbathr pol!- Seno aw E tical opponents of the governor, of; ‘BOSTON — the alleged wrongs, which form the; | jl terion Yor protecting coal dea basis of her suits. ; Man Must Eat Goose a Day For Penalty ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 8.—Louls \Pasoll today began serving his sen- tente of eating one goose a day for s'x days following his arraignment in’ police court here yesterday be: cause his flock of six» domestic to kill her services of a geeso_kept neighbors awake with |to commit murder. thelr hissing and honking, Denying the charge, Mrs, weet de- Pazoll, unable ‘to sell him feath- jciared she was the ‘victim. of “a ered flock, suggested to the cdurt that his case de dism'ssed tf he frame up" that grew cut of ‘her do- served one goose & day to his fam- |mestic difficulties, seis, crete! ily. He expects to encounter no jinclude a sult for Ajvoree, ; trouile in carrying out the sen- Fence in which she charges ae bonita . and a mult edking for $25,000°damages ¢ her estranged husband, for alleged | Mra. For( waa arrested inst nignt, . tt ia alleged, she was about: 0 meet ‘Edward Kunath;-a detects Ueutenant, for a ascond conference on her reported plana for the slaying of her husband, Kunath. it waa said, poted ae-'n Kanban gus jan, ‘Wednesday night wien the ailoged ba ‘wan first revealed by Mra, Foca, ‘The firat. weating, nocord:ng te the detectives, took piace in an apart: strike, The placard expressed per cent sympathy” with the strikers, | pose, Mr, White's trial was wet for today, The ittorney” general's (elegram followed his ‘conference with Judge James A, McDermott of the industriai ‘ court, designated by Governor Ailen ea hla representativa when the gov- ernor Jeft for the east days’ ago, Judge MeDermott had previous ly written a letter te Mr, White: ra- ferring to .Mr, White's - insistence that the case be broughs' to. trial tut saying that he wee eonsurring in the recommendation ef the atterney gen: eral's office that the ease be dismias- Mr, White ‘contended that trial arranged, police said, after, they heard Mrs. Ferd ‘was, tUKing for a \ her a dime.” adding as he looked to-|oigar smoke rising fromthe senate “fj t, Montana, took a © Shae tall shina ef the ‘service on * Madelyn Obenchain Released Five! Jrics falled to reach an iguana es aed Arihar ©, Peek Angeles, Cal. Prosecuting ich nyomey Otgnchatn was ye SN Bia Wiad aoe eee S etugunt at Northwestern University GUNMAN HIR =D TO MURDER HUSBAN Mrs. May Blenn Ford of Detroit Paid $20,000 for Slaughter of Wealthy Mate, Four Detectives Declare DETROIT, Mich, Dec, 8.—Mrs. May Blenn Ford solicited the wealthy husband, Ney J. Ford, offered the gunman $20,000 for the “job” and gave him a photo- (er ph of her husband to make sure the right man «as slain, accord- ing to the swotn statements of four detéctives whose investigation resulted in Mrs. Ford's detention today on a charge of attempting in Toledo, She has two children by a former marriage. Another Poem by Stevenson Found Niunw YORK, —An unpub- lished’ writ in. Beptergber, 1888 by Robert Loulé Stevenson has been brought to the attention of -the Bteyonaonwooisty of. New ° York through the visit here of threa natives of Tahiti Mm‘le Martin, Mauar(t F, Hintae, and Branscomb Chave, The ts a thank you," in two. stanane written *by! Stevenson ‘on hl yacht..Casko to Franag.s oonat fn aoknowledgement of the hospitality of , who was governor @f tho 'Fakarava in the South seas, | -Puton Mail Lines West of Cheyenne = | AHERENNE, Wye, Deo, §—Thres conference with the ‘detectives waa new airnlanes of the improve? 4 executed in Mount Jey p typa-have been planei in service in tie vip mail west pf Oheyenns, an tots 4 equip pped with ia Mra. Fosd was a nurse. emainved \preved firs-exting as to the be erage meter of J, HRon Beuepey seers ty be eu: i The Turks ask; +~ the security of the straits of Marmora. _ “Limitation of naval forces bound for the Black sea ao that they will hot constitute a danger to ‘the zone extending between the two straits to *he Black fea; (Turkey expreanég the View that these (orces might be com- posed of light warships, eraployed for the protection of Internatinal com- merce.) “Interdiction upon the maintenance of Warships in the Black nea, and, “Liberty <i: passage for mierc! men tn t'me of peace and of war. ‘The Turkish: position was presented hy Jemet Pashat-who gave a hlatori sketch of the problem of the str: declaring Turkey nover had acted con- trary to international treaties con- cerning the waterway. Ismet. mentioned certain po'nts tn the Miter-allied spropossis which. he considered” particularly harmful Turkey. “Of these the first was the ineluston ‘of the séa of Marmora in the definition of the straits, because prep- arations for defense on the shores of nt- 8 “4 afd Thrace ant yet would not affect the liberty of pass- axe for vessels Another point’ he made was that it wan neédiess to have a. demilitarized zone around the Bosphorus. It, was suffcient, he red, to indicate that there would be no fortification: either Iand or navai,‘on either shore. + His third point .was in connection with the altfed suggestion that in the #emilitarizea zones there should be no niovément of troops. fle thought that movement should be fermitted be- cause the zones in question connect the two parts of the country. Again, he ‘contended that in order .| to defend the shores of the sea of Marmora by .a fieet Turkey would have to keep arsenals and other naval equipment, in Constantinople and the straits. He thought also’ that the Umits of the demilitarized zones were too great and contended that the four islands in the straits should be recog- nized as under Turkish’ sovereignty. As to the Gallipoli peninsula, he thought a minimum means of defense ought to be assured sto Seornatahn it aga‘nst surprise attack. The conference took ‘a recess until afternoon to give the allies*time to study the Turkish suggestions. Some of the European delegates thought that the points raised by the Turks should not make a final accord aiftioult. Foreign “Minister “‘Tehitcherin vf Russia again insisted that the straits should be colsed to all except Turkish warships. He believed, he said that E setting bp of buffer ‘states like the guilt of Mrs. M waste » resiase of both. This Mercury Drops To Four. Below ~ This’ Morning After a delay of two. days, the cold spell which was reported trom. all sections of the middlewest and the south, reuched Casper Thursday and the mercury dropped to four below in the ear'y hours of this morn’ng, according to George A. McKenzie, weather observer. > Phip ts'the first time this fall that the thermometers have rosintered zero weather or betow in Casper. Other/towna in Wyoming report Turkey would prevent future clashes. He warned Rumania against accept- ing’ the allied plan, saying Rumania ‘temperatures ranging around zero | would mest the same fate as Greece— oF. below." that is be a sport f the great powers, ae, only to be abandoned evasively.- NDON: — Zoaland gave n | M. Duce, the Rumanian foreign a - bihgh = minister protested against M. Tchitch- orin's remarks with. regard to Ru- mania, Ho said Rumanin had never ts Prompt Reprisal for ‘Aslossiialisn of Par- liament Deputy Is Carried Out by Officials of Free State UBLIN, Dee, 8.— the Associated Press.)—Ro: O'Con- oo eaten te 1 with two other fh sale svere m this merning,-it was officialy an- nounced, The two other men exeeuted were Joseph pte and Rich- jard Bareett, beth prominent republicans, ; “Guarantees against surprise attack fread land or sea threaten- to; Governor Denies Offering GUARANTEE OF} Miss Birkhead Hush MoneyPROTECTION IS MAIN. OBJECT Ismet Pasha Would Eliminate Marmora * Sea trom Straits, Which Allies Would Have Right to Use LAUSANNE, Dec. 8.—By the the Associated Press. —Turkey pre- 7 sented to the Near East conference today counter suggestions con- cerning cenirol of the straits of the Dardanelles-and the Bosphorus. Constantinople or of the sez of been content with the former ‘esi: of closing the straits. Rumania, Serbia, Greece, and Bul garia ‘announced '%eir adhesion to the Allied proposition © COLUMBIA BAS PROJECT URGE BEFORE HEARING Would Be of Greater Value to United States Than Egypt Is to British, Super- visor Says. WASHINGTON, Dec, 8. — Comple flor, of the-Columbin, basin irr gation Project would be of more value to the United States than the development of Egypt has been to the British gov ernment, Fred A. Adams, supervisor of the basin told the house irrigation committee at hearings on a hill to,eu thorize the reclamation pervice to vestigate the feasibility of the plan ‘Mr. Adams sald © 500,000 persons would settle on the 1,750,000 acres in Washington state embraced {nthe istrict, and estimated that $200,000 000 a year would be returned to th nation in new wea'th produged. “Tho Yakima valley he said, with soil no bets than that which would be made ible in the Corumbia basin, had ptireseret for the past five years an average of $34,000,000 in new wealth from 30p,000 acres. After four years of study by Wash ington state offic‘als, Mr. Adams said, the coneltision had been reached that the Columbia project could be ommpleted for $255,000,000 within a period of six years, and that within two or three years thereafter the settlers ‘on the land will be ready to begin. repayment of money expended by the government. Members’ of the committee ques- toned. the witness at tensth reeard ing the Washington state law, which advocates of the project have. con tended“ would prevent the hold'ng of the land by 2 few persons at unrea sonable prices. At the conclusion of Mr. testimony the committee adjourne! the hearing pending the return to the capital of Director Davis of the rec lamation service, who is expected to appear early néxt week. Acensed of Auto Theft, CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec: 8~Sam Chip, 16-year-old Rock Springs youth Was brought from Laramig, Thursday. ‘n custody, charged wi:h the theft Sere: last “Moniay night of John Huckfeldt’s automobile. He was ar voted at Laramie while attempting to drive the car to Rock Springs. FOUR PROMINENT IRISH REBELS ARE EXECUTED TODAY AT MOUNT JOY SR ‘The startling swiftness with which * the Free State government acted in -| Scnmaquénce of the assassinat‘on of Deputy ‘Hales caused @ great wensa- tion among Dublinites; used as they are to sensational happenings. Through today's execution, the !r- regulars icet two of ‘their principal Jeaders and two other ‘mportant al- though Jess’ known men. All four surrendere after the destruction of the Four Courts in the se’zure of whioh O’Cennor and Mellowes took « Iending part. An official army report states that four men were executed as 4 © Continued on Page Five.) |