Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 19, 1922, Page 1

vas “tary of the Casper fpost~ ane, Che Caap a VOLUME Vi. | IMPEACHMENT HEARINi P AAMY COLONEL’ WAS AUTHOR OF FAMOUS PHRASE ‘Lafayette, We Are Here’ Not Pershing’s Words, |< Says C. E. Stanion . CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 19.— (Special to The Tribune) —That | he, not General John J. Pershing | was the author of the famous phrase “‘Lafayette, We are here!” is stated by C. E. Stanton, colonel United States army, retired, commiasioner of the board of public works of San Frangiseo, in a letter to William \C, Deming, editor of the Wyoming Tribune-Leader, in com-| menting on a poem, “A Tribute to France,” recently published by Dem- eng. Colonel Stanton’s letter says in nr {hegun in sx of the eight or nine in- ‘etancer ho hadgmenticned, while Mr Slow Progress Made by Committee in Hearing Charges A gainst Attorney Genergl; Situation Changed WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—In the abfence of the principal prosecutor, Representative Keller, Republican, Minnesota, hearings before the house judiciary committee on impeachment. charges against Attorney General Daugherty moved forward today at a slow papce. Representatives: Woodruff of Michigan and Johnson, of South Dakota, Republicans, were before the only had he been “shadowed” but that committee ‘by inyitation of Chairman] his mall “had been interfered tead, but Mr, Johnson said his charges in the house last April re- garding war frauds were directed solely to the war department, and Mr. Woodrit? wan not ready to proceed. The Michigan member sald some of the charges he might present would be of an tmpeactiable character, but added that he could not form a defi- nite opinion until he had examined certain docuinents at the department of removed.” “Whether I was ‘shadowed’ by one or one thousand operatives was u matter of the utmost indifference to sa'd hey “E had nothing to con ceal and had they desired to read my mail [ would-have left it open for them.” Responding to further inquiries, Mr. had to auppoft his beilef was of a circumstantial nature and that ie) would not. care to state it. Mr., Johnson, questioned about the same reports, said he had heard of them but had given Mr. Daugherty and W. J. Burns, director*of the bu rea of investigat‘on, credit for much horse sense,” to “shadow” mem- bers o€ congress. Justice. Both Mr. Jobneon and Mr, “Wood: ruff said there had been a deciced change in the situation since last Abril when the latter charged the at- jtorney general with fatiure to prose- cute war fraud cases. Mr. Woodruff said agtion had been Johnson voiced the be'lef that consid ering .the amoéunt of re-organization in the department and the mass of In- a ; NEW FORK, Dec. 19.—0Officials 0& the New York G'ants and tho “The Article preceding the poem} states that the expression. “Lafayette we sre here!" was uttered by Gener-; nl Persfilng at the tomb of Lafayette in France. As this statement ts not one of fact, I desire to soy that it, was T who made use of thin expres-| sion on July 4, 1917, at Pte Aus cem- etery, Paris, France. accompanied Gorieral Pershing-abroad ak chief. dis-! bursing officer of thevA. B. F., ana| held: this ‘position until” June! of 1 When I returned to. station "in San Franciéct. About June 25:h, we hav- Ing reached Pars June 13, 1917, Gen- eral Persheng sent for me and said, In brief, that ceremonies were to be held at the burial piace of Lafayette on July ith-under the ausp'ces of the Boclety of Soss of the American Rev-/ olution and i<«t a representative of | the American Expeditionary» Forces Would be exnectod to make an ad-! dress. I whs deputied for this duty, prepared my oration, submitted it to} General Pershing in person. about July ist, and he markel upon nm original manuscript ‘1./K. J. J. P. 7 del'veret: the nddress and made usé of the expression quoted as can be testified to by many officers of the As Ki F., including Medor General Harbord, Major General Hines, Mar: shal. Joffre, secresary of war of Trance, Panlevy, and many others.} General Pershing has never claimed} he’ gdve utterance to this expression, | and would be glad to say so if you! were to question him in the matter.” bear cnt i la LEGION AUTO TO BE GIVEN AWAY JAN. 4: Announcement was mid: today damies Neilson, executive secre- of th 7 American Legion, that the Ga’e on which the automobile will be given away has been nostponed unt'l danuary 4, 2t which time a big legion. dance will be held at the | Arloon. Th: riving away of the | eur bad originally been set for De- cember 22, when the first legion dance will be held at the Arkeon. ao Runaway Sloop Is Found Off Florida Coast WEST PALM BEACH, Fla:, Dec. 19, =Local ‘customs officials have a ruyiil away eloop on their hands at Lake. Worth. The yessel, | registering "35 tons, was brought into- port. ‘yester- day by two:negro fishermen, ‘who re- ported shey found it under full sail in the gulf stream, 14 miing off: Jupi- te“Sunday: The vessel )iwas un- mam.*d, although a good suppiy of provisions was aboard, and ther: was evidence that it ‘had only Tecontly, been abandonec. No identifying papers ware found aboard. The word “British’ ‘is paint- ‘ed on the sloop's how, followed by the letters: . H.” Iecal authorities “be: eve the -¥essel may have been used as a rum runner, and thing it is prab-| ebiy a Bahama’ craft. No reason is Known for the crew leaving the sloop. It appears to be in good condition and} an ericountered) by the negroes, | i: came near running them down, \the ‘guard. [a restless night. formation that had to be digested ve- ‘foreand, the attorney goneral had moved with reasonable promptness in the war fraud cases, Questioned about reports that: he had been “shadowed” by operatives of the department. a ene h Representa- Svs Sold the. fe paraicioe had vended ier " New York Yankees at a meeting teday allotied to various chari'les $69,000 of the $190,554 which was realized fromthe sale of tickuts ‘for. the 1922 —world's series . game which resulted in a (Ye. The other $60 000 recently matbadisecea chorea SLAIN IN SUmeeRY PA ‘PLAYS T STAGE WHILE GR NG, REPORT, ‘Sorrow Masked by Tom Linton, Comedian When | : | Forced to Carry Out Stage Role After Hearing of Tragedy “DENVER, Colo., Dec. 19.—Tom Linton#son of Charles T. Lin- ton, guard forthe Federal Reserve bank, slain by bandits yester- day in a $200,000 robbery in front of the Denver mint, had to go on the stage at an Indianzpolis theater last ‘night and ‘“‘play the clown” despite his sorrow over the death of his father, according to a statement made heré today by Mrs. Ann E. Linton, widow of fell under the rain of bullets from’ Young. Linton, accoraing to his|the guns of the bandits. mother, ‘s a stccessful comedian who} Mrs. Linton declared that only a just began © 20 weeks’ engagement at|few days ago her husband had ‘told Indianapolis with his own company,|her he “wanted to die on his feet.” Mrs. Linton explained her son could BME rgt return to Denver for ue faneral SCRANTON, Pa., ‘Dec. 19:—While bycausd “he would lose the 20 weeks'!he mage hundreds of people In a lo- ;|cal theater laugh and applaud bis lines and antics on the stage here last night, Harry Linton, actor and eldest son of the guard shot ] killed by bandits in Denver, was” al- roqt bopaking with grief. Tom, the yeungér brother fa playing vaudeville in Thdtanapolis. Juse before he went on the the stage Linton recetved a message from his mother stating that his father, Charles Linton, bad been kilied by. trobbers who s-ole $200,090 in cur- rency on its way from the United Stales mint. Linton went through his net as usual, but after the perform. contract if he did.”” Mrs. Linton aid she believed her ee had a premonition of some ldire event hours before the ‘attack jupon him. ‘ “For. the first. time in. five years imy husbarid-failed to sleep well, Sun- day n'ght;" whe declared. was in the kitchen when he calicd “Good-bye’ to me. “T told him “Don't say good-bye, daddy; you'll be back; just say ‘au revoir.’ ‘Three hours later Mra. Liton re? ceived a telephone message- that sent her hurrying to the county hospital. She declared today that just before her husband died he told her: “I just locking the door of the car when the bandits surprised us. I saw them {audience id yot know: the striin ¢he coming and I locked the door as they |actor was working under. rushed."* * Soe ae “Why did you do that,” esked his| Under a new. ruling, women em- wife : ployed in the government printing of |, “It was my duty,” was the answer; | fice in Washington who perform the | Mrs. Linton sald. same operation as men are to receive i:ton fired three shots ‘before he COLD WEATHER _ 1S MOVING EAST Pennsylvania, New York and the New. Hng’and. states, coincidént with the arrival of cold wave that passed over the western portion of the United States yesterday. the same pay. CHICAGO, Deo, 19—Slow!ly ris- ing temperatures today marked the paselhg of winter's first determined offensive in the lower lakes region, which show the mercury down ‘to Its Chicago” today was recovering lowest of the season. - from its coldeyt weather of the year While slowly climbink thereaaen ss esterda. when the thermometer in the vicin ity from % to it belo’ Five deaths and more than 170 com ints of cold flats Wese attributed to the cold ware. s were forecast for the north- west, plains stiites and Reck} moun tain region and a geenral rise of > to 18 degrees for the northwest, capt wave warhings jwere issued for ‘ance started at once for Denver. The|- with" # and his office entered and “documents |’ Woodrwft said the only evidence be kecping # large force at the \ pansed by. ate and at the recent special er Hatlhy Crihunue CASPER, WYO., TUESVAY, uri tiBERK 19, 1922. | SPORTS | | MARKETS} Ten Thousand Dollars Reward Offered by City and County of Denver for Rab- bers Who Eluded Police After Killing Foes Circ 1—Greece is to be Slavs covet Bani duce ta jons. 3—Both Turkey and ws ‘CIVIL WAR MAY GETI WASHIN' ans of the Civil war, widows of the veterans’ and Civil War nurses probably will recelve Christmas presents from the government fm the form of Increased pensions a® the rerult of an agreement reached, by conferees on the Bursum pctsion bil. Bruin Routed ENVER CLOWN’ ON In. Collision FOR FOREST TRAILS FOUGHT BY With an Auto ROCHUSTER, N. ¥., Dec. | A big lack bear and an automo: bile came to blows late last night. Bruin, though a bear for punish: ment, could not stand up against the bumpe of-the bumper against his sensitive nose and fled. ‘The incident was reported by, Harry C. Simons, of Olean, who met the antinal about five miles. from that-place. The bear insisted on climbing into the car when’ tt stopped at @ curve. Simons thrett the machine tito gear. caught thé bear several times on the chin and hurled it to one mide of the road, It later fled. JAPAN TO GO” DRY, REPORT, SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 19,—Japan! will be a “dry” nation within a few} years, chancellor emeritus of Stanford un!- versity who han just returned from i visit of three montha in Janmn “The people over there forsee the} advent of prohibition,” Dr. © Jordan said. “Many of them are aiding to bring it about.” A donation of $50,000 to endow a chair of alcoholic research !n one of the Japanese universities way promis- ed hy Shyoru-Aok!, a retired merch-|) ant ahd capitalist of Tokio, Mr, Jor- dan said, after, he described the achievments of a similar char at} Stanford untversit: .|| Negro Refuses Parole, Prison Is Only ‘Home’}; MOBILE; Ala, Dec. 19.—Convict- ed in Mobile, in January,1875, and given a life sentence on a statutury -| charge. Henderson Poppins, negro, wan'granted pardon by the govern- or in 1898 and settled in Elmore cotinty. In 2902 he was: convicted of the same offense and given ¢ 99-year term.. Governor Kilby pa- roled Poppins yesterday. Poppins had bben behind the pr's- on bars for 43 years and after bein; at frépdom for three hours, he wan dered back to the prison tumpka and asked to be p | to ernfer afn ‘The governor wee notified tW&t the parole was not 12 be used) Poppins is about 99 yea) oar ™ aria desire western Thrace. 4—Greece is Bandit No. 1, age 21, five feet, six inches: tail, wetght 150 pounds, 19.—Veter-| Silght differences between the two | complexion, had handkerrhiet >| tha Eas Bont fm declares David Starr Jordan, | jhonorary member of Medinah Tem | Guard and Seizing $200,000 DENVER, Colo., Dec. 19.—The city - faye of — er pe | day offered a reward of $10,000 for the ure, dead o; | the bandits who yesterday shot and killed a apedy of ‘he yee | Reserve bank and escaped with $200,000 in currency in a sen | sational robbery in front of the Denver mint. le Greece | Dec, 19.—"Atter] Bandit No. 4, age 30 to 35 years 4 hours had elapséd feet eight inches tall, very dark | robbery of $200,000 fromjof complexion, thick lip mooth the Unjed|shaven, coffee co‘oret he hat and oret e1 to be man who shot KANSAS CITY Fede Jlate t«day offered a reward of $1,000 for the arrest-and conviction of States Feleral Reserve bank in. fr of the Dehver mint, executed wit almost unequalled daring and mination, pollce authorities that the four be touring car have at least temporarily cluded pursiit ove! elle 19,—The The thin alr in:o wheh the despe-|one who participated in the. robbery tadea ncemngly vanished is being! of 200,000 in currency from a f charged With radlograms broadcast! ora) reserve bank truck in front c from several sthtions conveying [tOlthe Denver mint yebterdey. A re 5 diatant potice stations a description | of $5,400 was paced on the total, insolvents 26-The Turks and Jugo | sf the bandits who shot and ki¥6d| yards, which were authorized by ‘the might. be content with port aécommod:-| Charles T. Linton, a reserve bant | teoral erve, “board at Washington guard, and made off With 40,000 of the 85 paper bills which Uncle Sam backs up with an-equal amount ~of gold. The children’s radio story hour las* night and this morning ,and the us ual musical ‘numbers were interpo- later! with criep recitations of police federal and army orators a8 follows fiver to keep the Turks back. SURVIVOR OF MINE KILLING TAKES STAND MARION, I, Dec. 19.—(y Th Associate! Press,)—Robert Offiver, REASE IN PENSION {ace when iast seen, dark cap, dark suit Belleved to be leader of federa! j houses have been compromised and the author of the Dill, Senator Bur. % eum(> Republican, New Mexico, an-.|reserve robbers and probably a Den-| bookkeeper, the first survivor to t nounced’ today that he hoped to ob- | ver man, ity, took the witnels stant tocuy at tingfinal congressional action and Bandit No. 2, age 28, six foet tall }the trial of five |men cburged with murder in connection witn the Her: in mine slayings when’21 non-union men were killed. Officer told of the attack on vatrip’ mine, thi the “presidential Cbrigumas. — | Pensions of veterans are increas- ¢d unter the measure from $50, to beavy bullt, weight 170 pounds, dark suit and dark ¢i no_overcoat, Hac. rifle er shot gun in his hands wher last Reon. bandit No. 8 age 28, five feet 10 jaches tall,.weighing 160 pttne's, slen der bullt, dtrk cap and dark sult. REDUCTION iN APPROPRIATIONS signature before BC to $50 from the mine. e Eined up before a barbed wir fence, the witness said, the 47 pris oners, were told they. would be «ven a chance for thelr lives and then the firing began. Fourteen bodies wer: afterwards found at this spot. 7 Officer explainec that he had e: caped by dropping on his face and then fleeing While the crowd was chasing some of the men who had es- CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HERE caped the hall of bullets, Resolutions Adopted at Forum Meeting Today Calls} 2» em s¢.ve souls su iach. On W: S ] W. k f board member of the miners’ union yoming Solons fo Work for who had driven up in an automo: bile und asked for the leader of tho crowd before the shoo:ing, Officer said he bad seen Wills in conference with another man and that both then disappeared. MISSING PILOT , Fund Restoration’ A fight against the proposed reduction in the federal appropria- | tions for forest road improvevments is being made by the Casper | Chamber of Commerce. The board of directors of that organiza- | tion passed a ‘resolution which was read at the meeting today. It brought out the fact that the congrgessman “and senators from | Wyoming will be urged to support the peresent appropriation of nix and @ half million dollars & year.! soseets have been barted under his}: i = SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Dec, 39. {his appropriation ts -for each of the , Utah, Dec. Teeny can Seeaaha aase. j#dministration which will lap over|-—Air mail pilot Henry G. Boonstra, The astion has been taken on’ tne! {nto the next and which he ought) to) missing since last Fricz>.. morning in office to complete properly, when he became lost fn a Dlizzard while flying with government mail from Salt Lake to Rock Springs,, Wyom'ng, was found alive and well at Rigby ranch near Coalville, Utah, early today by a searching party. Boonstra declared that except for slightly frost bitten foot he was un burt. {information that there ‘sa proposed) 4 committee, of five will be ap- reduction in the budget from six and|potnted by th® board to look over the a half millions to three million do:-|j,atter of the communt:y chest. It j!ars annually. |will be the endeavor of the chamber it was brought out at the forum/of commerce to get the. commun'ty |luncheon at the Henning today that/chest for Casper as the first thing on Wyoming hax 800 miles of forestithe program for 1923. reads at the present time. This i# @) There willbe no meeting of the atate that would be affected mater-| casper chamber Until January 8. Two| Tho missing pilot said his plane was Hally in any reduction of approprit-| Tuesdays will be skipyed becausel forced down Friday morning on Por. ons inasmuch as there are such / they fal yighin she Christmas and] cupine ridge about 12 miles northeast }large reserves as the Medicine How, |Bridger, Washukie ‘and others bee 9 jand thoroughfares. |New. Year ciate Mio pertod. P of Coalville and that he h’ked through thé*deep snows untfl Saturday —36 hours—before finally _ react The retaining ot Frank C. Emer- ~befu ally hia in his prefent position of state bs oe! ae an oe h is “aig tr |grgineer will be urgeC upon Gover Fig ies bouthivand (ous of Porcu- |nor-elect William B. Rosa by the pine. There {s no telephone service the ranch and Boonstra declared was awaiting better weather before Koing to Coalville to notify Salt Lake mat] authorities of his safety and whereabouts. Loard of the directors of the ch&mbt eccording to action take ntoday Mr. | |Emerison ‘s considered to be em» nently “quafied for the plece and) ALBANY, Gaz, Dec, 19.8, C. Wat- has ms t -d. Many! bas made ap excellent record. MANY | aon, former president of the First No- | 1 Menal Bank of Colquitt, Miller county.| Boonstra said he niade a perfect | Georgia, and. former mayor of Col-| landing on the fiat unwooded surface WILLIAM DALY, | quitt, was today indicted by the grand | of Porcupine ridge, but predieted that | jury in United States court here on| salvage of his plane is impossible be thirty-two counts, alleging embezzie-| cause of.the snow. He believes it ment of sums totalling. nearly | will lave to rest where it is as a | $100,000 memoriai to a'r ma‘? pluck the! saining ofa fiag of) Trias ek sutrehadt of te defenders! and of their ‘being marched to the power housd woods about three miles ISFOUND ALIVE BANDITS ‘HEADS IS RESUMED ‘STATEMENTS OF SENATOR CAPPER CHALLENGED BY SHIPPING BOAR Duaticdnate Sis Out by Weekly Contains | Many Errors, Lasker Informs Kansas Solon 1 Reserye bank of Kansas City/ WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.— Accuracy of statements made in a questionnaire sent out by Cap- 'per’s Weekly, published by Sena- tor Capper, Republican, of Kan- sas, head of the farm bloc, to as- certain public sentiment on the errtain public sentiment on the ad- roinistration shipping bill quest tioned by Chairman Lasker of the shipping board in a letter recelved” | bu Senator Capper. In his letter made public by the shipping board, Mr, Lasker told the senator that “whaterer may be yout | position upon the pending ship .sub- dy bill, I am sure you do not de- de the readers of your paper to |reach thelr conclusions upon — oither ; Imadeauate or erroneous s«tatements,”* | “Recaune the atatement® in the cir. j cular of the organ controlled by you are accurate and are wholly at variance with the fac the letter J continued, "I feel it my “auty to you. to myself and to the people we both yopresent..to give yott the tacts and not thus enatie you to correct the errone- cus impression your -pubjieation has created. You tainly Would not w'sh, and I certainly could not permit any, r2=t ct uur people to be misled concerning the provisions of the ship subsidy bill, or the facts surrounding Mr. Lasker questioned particularly Statements in the questionaire that the government intended to sell its war built merchant fleet for approx- imately $20¢.900,000, planned to lend *$125,000,000 to recondition the ships or bulld others," and then would pay owt about $750,000,000 in subsidies and alds'to ship ownera during ‘the next ten years. Mr. Tasker sald he challenged any one to find where tho shipping board ever had proposed to sell its merch: ant fleet for $200. Under x- | feging law, is made for a \3 0,000 construction fund, he: ge- clared. adding that the proposed leg islation only made slight modifica- tions in the present flaw meet conditions m esfully, As to the probable cost"of govern- ment eld, Mr. Lasker said shipping board offic'als vepeatedly that subsidy 1d not under any con- ditions exceed $30,000,000 a year. Pa ment of govcenment ald on all Am- crican @onnage now privately owned, would cause an outlay he added, of not more than $5,500,000 a year. “The statements as to the work- ings of the subsidy ili made in your circular,” Mr. Lasker stated to Sena- tor Capper, “are all taken from the minority house report prepared by Mr. Davis (Democrat) of Tennesseg— a partisan report .which every one Washington-wis@ knows, was prepar- ed for political purposes and is unjus- had averred tifiéd by t acts; your words are takeff practically syllable for syflable bart ity report. Carrier Pigeons Being Utilized. | In Drug Traffic | | WANCOU Dec. 19. Whilé tho police sd a house in Chinatown for — hidderr drugs, a carrier pigeon flew in bear- a tube of ‘colics. Two men arrested. RAWLINS, W Dec. 19- See Da’y, grand treasurer of the grand |lodge of Masons of Wyoming, and a | th’rty-second degree Scott!sh Rite Ma- died here today, He was a mas- ter Mason in.1876 and since that time fas been prominent in lodge circtes.| Mr. Daly was a former grand mender of the Knights Templar and NOT SERIOUS, PARIS, Dec, 19.—(By ‘The clated Press.)—Sarah Bernhardt's fainting rpe:l, which came at the close of a rehearsal yesterday after- noon, was brought about by work, in the opinion of her friends. son, ss0- When M. Guitry went to -Mmei Bernhardt'y home last “vening sh burst Into tears and exclaimed “Oh, or boy, to treat you in. such But this is the first time that ever happened to me.” oy |Mmystic Shr'ne, Chicago. » great actress had just returne:t One of the actresses’ clo nds a resident of Wyom!r from a long and tiring tour of It who saw h ate in the n 2 It fras sa'd but nots ported her much } frst Amer'can flag over . plun; : that was raised between the Platte, preparat i river and Montana when he was at) Sac . ;Fort Phil Kearney. He we: the, de Roman Simther of six children. its premicte res OFFICER, DEAD BE RNHARDT’S CONDITION MUST REST means death to me.” Alb Mowers from the theater were taken to the actress’ house, which ‘ephone was Madame fortabt Be ‘