Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 15, 1922, Page 11

Weather Forecast east portion with zero Saturday fair. VOLUME VII. WHITEWASH OF DAUGHERTY INTENDED---KELL Lurks To Be Welcomed in League Cloudy tonight: cold ware in south- temperature | INJECTION OF NEWVIGORINTO | ORGANIZATION IS PREDICTED IF | TURKEY IS GIVEN MEMBERSHIP England Fights Turk Plan for Deporting| Greek Church Patriarch from Con- | stantinople, Is Report | LAUSANNE, Dec. 15.—(By The Associated Press.) —European diplomats gathered here believe that the admission of Turkey to the league of nations will impart new vigor and a new meaning toy From the beginning of the Near East confer- ence, the Turkish leaders have stressed their desire to westernize their country; and European statesmen are convinced that coopera- | tion by Turkey in the league’ that organization. MORE EVIDENCE [5 INTRODUCED INHERAIN CASE Scores of Witnesses to Be Called in Ini of Five Men. MARION, IL, Dec, 14.—The prose- eution continued the Introductionof evidence today in the trial of five men charged with murder in connec- ton with aie Herrin ridts. last June. ‘The speed with which the addresses to the jury by both the prosecution and the defense were reported yester- day and the examination of three available witnesses practically with- out cross-examination forced an early conclusion of yesterday's session when it was found that many of the state's witnesses were not in court. A Mst of more than 30 witnesses has been prepared by the state, while the defense, to support its contention that the five defendants were not present at the scene of the killings, was sald to be ready to call one hun- dred or more. ———-—,.— Famine Relief For Austria and Germany Asked WASHINGTON, Dec, 15. —Appro- prigtion of $70,000,000. for relieving famine conditions in Germany and Austria was proposed in a resolution introduced by Representatives New- ton, Republican, Missorct. ‘The resolution which declared the people were in despair, provided that the fund be expended for purchase of food supplies in the United Btates to be distributed by the American Red Cross with the ass'stance of Rew Cross organizatins in Germany and Austria. Chicago Drops Sex Discusssion Befere Pupils CHICAGO, Dec. 15.— Discontinu- ance of sex discussion before public school students, except ‘the fourth year high school pupils on the ground that “it is destroying a responsibility that inevitably must continue to re- main a sacred duty upon our fathers and mothers" was urged in a resolu- ton presented to the Chicago school board yesterday by Hart Hanson, hoard member. BIGAMY CHARGED i | maintenance of a general peace. affairs Prove an important step in the will ‘The thoroughly occidental aspect of the majority of the Turkish delegates has impressed everyone attending the conference. Some members of the delegation remain loyal ‘to the fez, but generally the men from Angora and Constantinople present an ap- pearance as smartly western as that of any of the European delegates. Several of the Turkish delegates are here with their wives who are fash- fonably gowned in the latest Parisian modes and are the center of interest atthe afternoon teas in the Lausanne hotels. A foreigner who engaged a Turk in conversation will learn sooner or later during their chat that Turkey first of all wants complete sovereign: ty over the Ottoman territory and that secondly, Turkey desires to be ©ome a real member of the comity of ations, If she joins the league, which stepiIsmet Pash yesterday «alt he would seek to take jf peace was signed hére, Turkey can walk into Europe by the’ frony*coor und’ make herself at home. . LAUSANNE, Dec. 15.—England took an energetic stand at Lausanne yesterday against the Turkish plan of deporting the patriarch of the Greek orthodox church at Constan- tinople. The British delegate told the sub-committee that the expulsion of the’ patriarch from the trad tional seat which he has occupled since the conquest of Constantinople would strike a moral blow against the re. ligious sentiments of all orthodox peo ties, and shock the religious senti- ments of countries like England. “England has great sympathy for orthodoxy, wh'ch {s based on the re ligious traditions of Christianity,” said, “and other couner'es . feel same; probably America also.” he the Spark Plug Lost; Will Be Back On Comic Track Soon Spark Plug, the famous black gelding by Rteumatism out of Joint Trouble, owned and operated by that notorious turfman and plunger Barney Google, “is lost somewhere between New York and Casper. Efforts to locate’ the great race horse so far have proy- ed unavailing, but he will positive- ly be back on the Tribune ‘Track on Monday possibly before. Race- goers .and laugh-followers may then clock Bis practice workouts. It's bac weather for a horse like Spark Plug anyway He js. thought to have been snowed in somewhere between Chicago and Omaha; al- though one city in Nebraska re- ported that Sparky had been ap- prehended there, suffering from spavin, the heaves, chilblains and horsemaid’s knee. Like Clara Phillips, however, he is sti:l on the loose. The Tribune has been making “herculanean efforts all week to locate him, and he will be back on the comic page as soon as ips'can be obtained. TO U.S. OFFICER CHICAGO, Dec. 15. — Captain Charles Pike of the army medical corps, stationed at a Chicago army hospital, was arrested last night on a charge of bigamy and was report- ed to have been taken to Crown Point, Ind., for a preliminary hear- ing today. Mrs. Pike, who witnessed her hus- band’s arrest by three men, at first expressed fear that he had been kidnapped. Later, police investi- ating the alleged kidnaping learn- ea that a warrant and requisition papers had heen issued for Captain Pike on a complaint of bigamy brought by @ womai: who asserted she had undergone a common law marriage with him at Phtadelphia, Pa. It wags reported that details of the charge against Captain Pike Washington after Captain Pike had ‘were recorded and forwarded to teen called before a special board of inquiry recently. He came here from Fort Thomas, Ky., a few months ago. CASPER: WrU.. FRiva1, DECEMBER 15, 1922. Russia’s Portion at Lausanne. Military In War NEW YORK, Dec. 15.—The story of how Ferdinand Foch became a | generalissmo is told by Major Gen eral Tasker H. Bitss, U. 8. A., retired who was America’s repre: tive of the supreme council, in an article pub: ished today by the magazine Foreign Affairs. General Bliss concludes that “no harsh criticism can justly le against the inevitable result of the limitations of human nature,” declaring that “the i same bloody process would probably be followed” in a war on American soll before America would “yield » preme command to an ally who, we kriew, had his own ultimate object in the war would the ally, for the sume reason, accept our supreme com mand ant!l {t hed become a matter of life cr Chath for both,’ Although he mrce no direct accus ation of “military sy" against any individual, the of Fu Marshal Haig of Great Britain, sta out most minently in his discus son of how all efforts tending toward unity of control were blocked until April 3, 1918, with the German forers opening a breach between the French and British frontm, the allied ‘och the command nor leadere gave General Bliss said that one of his first acts, after he arrived overseas in November 1917, as a member of the American mission, was to recommend te President Wiison the creation of a unified control of the arimes, “even going if necessary, as I beiieve it is to the limit of unifed command.” Political conditions in Europe caused the president to withhold ef forts at that time toward the end recommended, General Bliss says, the result being that “up to the moment of the criss, the only attempt at uni- fled control—not command—had to be made by thé supreme war council.” ‘This council, he continues, decided ‘after conferences at wuich many dif. ferences. were accounted, to create a general reserve for the western front, to he directed by military. representa. AMERICAN CRUISER STRENGTH LESS THAN BRITISH AND JAPS Recommendation for Ne wLimitations in Light Naval Armaments Explained by Figures Announced Today The figures credit Great Britain with 45 ight cruisers of the first line, built, building or projected, an aggré- gating 206,480 tons; the United States with 10 ships build’ng, 75,000 tons and Japan with 11 ships bullt and 21 building and projected, aggregating 191,450 tons. In addition the list shows Great Brita'n to have 13 lght cruisers of the second line, 69,230 tons, neither the United States nor Japan being 31 tor ficaton. In fleet submarines Great Britain | 16 in credited with six of the first line, 11,280 tons, six of the second lne,| 7,200 tons and two duilding or pro-) Assessment Session Is Held to Revise Taxation M caSuTel, CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 15.—Fifty county assessors and county commis. sioners are in sess'on at the state capitol, holding a three-day meeting to discuss assessment affairs and probably to recommend taxation legis- lation to the legislature which will meet in January. Chairman Claude Draper of the state public service commission, is presiding at the meet-! ings. ' NEWSPAPER HIT BY FIRE, FORT WORTH, Tex. eDc. — Damage estimated at $15,000 was caused to the paper storage and press rooms of the Star Telegram by fir 15. three building, 6,375 and six additional authorized. but not, under contract; Japan with no fleet submarine built but three under construction, fleet credited with 42 built 33 ‘six building, credited with any ships in this classi-| States with 59 bu'lt building 39,750. ton: built, 23,538 tons and one program of | building program of 28 vessels “ton- nage unknown.” | American infer‘ority in Ught cruisers; | |the United States has a distinct ad-| half miles of road between Bonnevill®, | vantage in first line destroyers with 295 built agajnst 178 for Great Brit- the’ United States! ‘LEWISTOWN REFINING COMPARY GETS CAT CREEK ROYALTY OIL [AT INCREASE OF Si A BARREL WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—(By The Associated Press.)—A| tabulation obtained by the naval department showing the positions | of the British, Japanese and American in cruiser strength apparently sheds light on the situation which led the house appropriations com- mittee to propose that President Harding negotiate an international agreement to check competitive building in these types. Jected 3,800 tons; with three of the first’ line, built, 3,-| present quo! WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 15.—By the terms of a contract just signed by Secretary Fall with the Lewistown Oil & Refining | company of Lewistown, Mont., the government will receive $1 | | more per barrel for its royalty oil from the Cat Creek field, the new | bid being Mid-Continent posted price plus 40 cents which at the tation will place the price at $2.20 a barrel. It Is estimated that this boost will $ tons, none.of the second line, 4,500 ns. In first line submarines other than submarines, Ggeat Britain is .740 tons and| 5,850 tons; the United 37,120 tons, 34 Japan with 27 c ENNE, Wyo.,. Dec. building, 13.480 tons and a second pacilits A Lovell, Wy While the tables showed decided MIR. MERCHANT? Remember that the Saturday edition of the Tribune is de- livered in the homes of Casper—virtually every home, for the Tribune blankets the city with paid circulation—by 1 O'CLOCK P. M. This edition contains all the latest wire news, market reports and the best number of features which go to make the Tribune the best paper in Wyoming. It reaches the SATURDAY SiiOPPERS before they leave their homes. Your advertisement in the Sat- urday edition will bring immediate results. Try it and see. Copy must be in the Tribune office Friday night in order to be sure of insertion. CONTANGT LET TO LOVELL CONTRACTORS ON HIGHWAY WORK NEAR BONNEVILLE | Fremont county, and the Boysen dam. increase the revenue to the govern- ment on that field $182,500 a year over he present income, of which tho state of Montana wil receive 37% per cent, the reclamation service 624% per cent and the federal treasury 10 per cont. No decision hs yet been made on the disposal of the rovalty o!l from Salt Creek, although !3 bids are be. |ing considered and it is probable that ja contract will be made at an early 15.— date. Wickham Brothers & Schwe'ger of| ., have been granted a contract by the state highway com- mission to construct eight and one-| The government's share from Salt Creek at present runs about 8,200 barre’s dally as against 500 barrels from the Cat Creek field ——— |\Cheyenne Lions Ask ain atid 54 for Japan. Sx new de. The road will link up the Yellow-} chasyath vate “GiedT Gitta. Teeitun| stonel highway) with the new roadi/More Forest ‘Roads building program, none on the Amer- , through the Wind River canon. The! fean and 38 on the Japanese. contract price is $103,000. | |} CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 15.—The \ Cheyenne Liona club’ has adopted = resolution requesting congress: to irr crease the annual appropriation for forest road construction from. $3,000.- 000 to $6,500,000, A similar resolu: tion has been adopted by the Wyom- ing state highway commission Warsaw Riots, Minister Quits WARSAW, Dec. 15.—{By The Asso- c'ated Préss.)—The minister of the in terior has been forced to resign as @ result of Monday's rioting in connec- tion with the installation of Gabriel Narutowilez, as president Poland ‘The chief cf police has been a’smissed and is to be prosecuted. Most of the workmen hiv a symp against strike the outbreak. Read The Sunday Morning Tribune Everything You Could Ask For In A Great Newspaper SECTION eadership es of the various govrnmnts rep- resented. These representatives com prised the superior war board, and Foch was mad But when th sent letters to president Superior War Board the commanders of the various armies, calling for the setting aside of troops for the general re- verve, Marshal Haig replied that con ditions on h’s front, made it sible for him to set aside any for the reserve, and added that he and General Petain of the French army already had worked « joint agreement for supply’ng each other impos troop) with reserves in case of emergency Subsequent events, Gneral Bliss asserts, proved the futility of the arrangement. The German attack came at the juncture of the French and Brit'sh forces, precisely, he de. clares, where overy officer had pre dicted {t would come, and when Foch would have massed his reserves, and the British and French commanders both found themselves in such a bad he that neither wae willing to send rrves to aid the other. “Haa been an allied com er in chief, he would have had a reserve,” General Hliss writes. “And that is where he would have located it. March 21 and subsequent days would have been ‘another story.” Finally, on March 26, he continues, the British and French civil and mili tary authorities, meet’ng at Dullens, ag to charge General Foch “with coordinating the action of the allied armies on the western front.’ ve It was not until a week later, how ever, at Beauvais, whe enerals Pershing and Bliss were also present that Foch was given “all the powers necessary for effective accomp|'sh ment” of his task of coordination, sven then," General Bliss con- cludes,-"the provision in the agree. ment of Beauvais. permitting army Commanders to appeal to their oWit governments should they think that tun order from General Foch imperilied the safety of thetr own armies, showed that opposition to absolute unity of command was dying hard.” —_ Village Debt Is Wiped Off Slate By Liquor Fines MILFORD, Ky. hibition enforcement coffers of this river persons. Mayor M. B. Scott, who doffs the role of mayor and ascends the seat Dec. 15.—Pro- has filled the town of 2,000 of justice to hear all court cases, has the welfare of the town's finances at heart. When prohibi- ticn violators confront him, he promptly assesses them and the city treasurer collects According to Mayor and Magis- trate Scott; in the past year he has imposed fines totalling $88,860 on Hquor law violators. Of this, $58,165 has been collected, exclusive costs, Suspended fines aggregated slightly less than $7,000, and those deemed uncollectable total $6,939. Money from this source has freed the village from debt LEWIS RETAINS HIS MAT TITLE Stanislaus apa Defeated for Second Time by World Champion. ST. LOUIS, Mo Dec. 15.—(By The Associated Press.)—Youth triumphed over age and today Ed “Strangler” Lewis of San Jose, Cal., champion, retained his laurels, having defeated Stanislaus Zbyszko, former champ! second and third falls after losing the first. in a match for the heavyweight wrestling champion of the world here } last. night The champion won the Che Casper Daily Tribune 1 TWO NUMBER 58. ER Jealousy SOLON REFUSES TO RETURN FOR HEARING TODAY IN IMPEACHMENT Postponement Until Sat- urday Is Requested by Representative Who Filed Charge in House. WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.— Representative Keller of Minne- sota failed to appear today be- fore the house judiciary commit- tee in. response to the summons served on him late yesterday after he had refuse further in the pre peachment charges neral Daugherty James A. Vahey, an attorney Boston, handed to Chairman Vo'stead a letter from Attorney Jackson 1H. Ralston, announcing that Mr. Ralston had been retained as ounsel by Mr Keller and asking a postponement of further proceedings until tomorrow Chairman Volstead said the letter fave no excuse for non-appearance and directed the sergeant-at-arms to call Mr. K # name three times, . but without ry Graham, Pennay?- ranking Republ’can of the committee asked that it report to the house with recommendation for action onse, Meainst Mr. Keller .for contempt. Other memby however, suggested that the postponement asked for be granted and Mr, Graham would not press his motion. Attorney Vahey, replying com: mitteemen, said ould not say whether Mr. Keller would appear to- morrow, that this would depend upon the advice given him by counsel. inally the committee voted to grant Mr. Keller's request for a delay until 10:30 a, m. tomorrow. WASHINGTON, Dec. 15,—Charace terizing the proceedingn before the house judiclary committee as a “bare fared attempt to whitewash Harry M. Daugherty," Representative Keller of Minnesota, has refused to assist furth- er in the presentation before that come mittee of his impeachment charges against the attorney general Voting to go on with the hearings despite Mr. Keller's withdrawal, the committee planned to put him under oath today and call upon him to give fd he to he all the information upon which he based b's charges of “high crimes and = misdemennora’ against Mr. Daugherty. Mr. Keller's refusal to assist furth- er in the proceedings came late yes. terday as a dramatic climax to ithe third day of the hearings. He had prepared a statement to read to the committee, but he never got the op- portunity, Several members wanted to put him under oath while others wanted to know if it was his purpose “to lecture” the committee. ; Refusing to be put under oath, Mr, Keller replied to the inquiries that he might “lecture” th members. To that he udded demands that he is heard. Chairman Volstead repeatedly broke into the general hubbub to or- der Mr. Keller to “sit down” and to Inform him that he could not “bully rag” the committee. Advancing to the chairman's place at the “bend” of the horseshoe-shaped rail behind which the committeemen sat, Mr. Keller threw his prepared statement in front of Mr. Volstead and dramatically announced that if he could not read it to the committee, he was through with the proceedings. Then he stalked from the committee room, wh'ch had been thrown into an uproar with attaches in the huge office building arriving on the run from several directions to find out what Was causing all the excitement, Meantime, Chairman Volstead had (Continued on Page Seven) SHANGHAI, Dec. 15.—(By The Associated Press.) —The Russ'an refugee fleet of 14 ships, loaded with the destitute remnants of the White guard forces Vladivostok which arrived here a few days ago out of fuel and provisians, still is 1 at anchor in the river, unable to pro. ceed farther and barred from land ing its human eight by Chinese authorities. In the meantime | gantzations have | for the relief of ti lifferent local or cor more ribt jate REFUGEE FLEET WITHOUT FOOD needs of the homeless wanderers, who are hoping something will “turn up” so that they may con: tinue the'r voyage to Hong Kong, Manila, or some other warmer and more hospitable po : Chine al organizations have offered A al Stark, leader of the expedition $20,000 GMfex) approxi= mately $10,000 in the United States and Chinese Red Cross $20,000 (Mex) if he will sail away with his. charges and agree not to attempt to land at any other Chinese ports