Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 11, 1923, Page 1

va erally fair tonight jot much chang Counties, Cities and Asked to Curb Expenditures in Inter- ; ests of Public Welfare CHEYENNE, —Gov. William B. Ross paints nomic: conditions in Wyoming in his message to teenth legislgture, delivered at a joint session of and house today, and economy “The people of Wyoming with the excéption of : legislature met in joint seasion at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon to hear Gov- ernor William B, Ross deliver his message. The governor was escorted to the, ball of the houlle by a com- mittee of senators and representatives and was greeted with applause. the advisability of WASHINGTON, Jan, 11.—An agree- ment was reached today by manufac ; turers of children's wearing apparel | and approximately 4,000: striking em-| Pployes in New York under which work | svill be resumed immediately, accora- ‘ing to information received by the de- partment of labor. The agreement affects 65 shops. Negotiations also are under way, it was said, to ter- minate the strike of 10,000 other elath- ing workers in New York. Submarine Is _ Safe in Tow NEW YORK, Jan, 11.—The sub- marine §-19 which sent out wireless call of fistress off Cape Hatteras last | night was taken in tow today by the gubmarine tender Savannah, wireless | messages picked up here said. With other submarines. she left ‘FINANCIAL DISTRESS’ OF MANY SECTIONS WINS RECOGNITION ¢ NEW EXECUTIVE IN SUGGESTIONS Wyo, Jan. 11.—(Spectial to New London, Conn., last Synday for Guantanaino, Cuba. . DEPOSE Cerebral Hemmorhage Claims Life of For- mer King Constantine at Exile Re- treat at Palermo, Sicily PALERMO, Sicily, Jan: 11.—(By The Associated Press.) —Former King Constantine of day of cerebral hemmorhage. The death of ex-King Constantine of Greece came after a trying experiences which the former ruler of the Hellens had undergone, beginning with the outbreak of the series of World “war, Constantine was e by the all successfull the he ott forced 1917 th: had after attempts to br’ on te side o be allies, In 9x! and 9 OF School Districts Ate, The ertbnae) a gloomy word p: is the keynote of ounsel. ose who reside in a few favored rae are} in great financial Md mes-' “Their livestéek and other , ranch and farm products are sélling below the’ cost of need all the assis y king /to the legislature and the’ executive to sive them relief, If it 1 within our | péwer, we should not fail them. Even though we were inclined to be extray-! gant.this year, we could not, owing to” thé ‘Imited funds at our disposal. We have no choice but economy. j In counseling economy in 8 ap- Propriations Governor Ross admits that even the sfrictest economy by the state government will accomplish little toward relieving the tax burden of the people of Wyoming. “If a substantial reduction of taxes. is who-eond elton. aad stat amount'to only about one- severith of all the: taxes leaped tn the state, adding that state taxes are such a small part of the tames collected’ that if'they , were wholly deducted (from the total amount, the’ difference would be so slight"it would hardly be perceptibie" Outstanding portions of the gover- nor’s- message relate to the taxation of. minerals produced in the state, en- |: forcement of . prohibition, rural ‘J credits, needed labor legislation and . highways. He rei government where feasible, stressing combining the state board of sheep commissioners, state board of livestock commis- stoners and state veterinarian's office, and abolishing the state immigration ; commission and. state farm. board. | Further retrenchments which he sug-| gests are the sale of four of the, _ state's seven experiment farms and the operation of only three state fish hatcherfes. State buildingy now in course of construction he believes should be completed, but he advises | t1.—Fred ember-and- stilt’a member, asserted on the witness stand: today at the open heating. 4nquiry. into hooded ‘band activities in Morehouse KLANSMAN GRILLED IN HEARING ON MURDERS -and the slaying of Watt Dantel Thomas Richard, thit although tended meetings of the Kanehe namé bit one offictal, Captain with. the Morehouse kian. Higgenbo! tham, alleged mease: s en? cha EY ‘Four Who Testified for State in. Herrin Mine Trial Report Receipt of {1 MARION, II, Jan. i Delos Duty, state’s att Threatening Letters ae 1.—(By The AssociatedPress.) — rney, said today four witnesses re- that no new building be authorizea| ported to him they had received death threats. until such time: as financial tions have improved. He sets forth the necessity for continuing ade- quately to finance the state highway department and for making adequate provision for the support of those who are charges of the state. “Tl legal rate of interest is. too high,” says the message, which sug- gests that the present rate of 12 per cent be reduced to seven per cent, and in any event to at most nine per per cent. ‘Twelve per, cent interest,” the governor states, 8 the same impovgrishing effect as hard winters, dry summers, high taxes or low prices of producys.’ ‘Therla of the state, the governor {Continued dn Page Two) cond. Greece died suddenly here.to- | e til after the war's close, Constantine’ was called back to Greece in 1920 and resumed the throne. Under his re ° plunged 6 Asia Mir p 1 ALTCO: Pa., Jan. 11.—Fire early today destroyed the S. L. Gold- stein Department Store and ehe Bon, Ton Departmnt Store adjoining with! less the witnesses retracted: their tes- an estimated loss of $500,000. The four men were warned to retract testimony given against the five defendants on trial for murder in connection with the Herrin riots, he said. They are George Harrison, $500,000 FIRE | banker, and farmer; R, Ps Poote, estate .dtaler; R. O. Greer, & farmer.- , pieces of hi man’s rope. x C, W. Middlekautt, special assist- ant attorney general said the dents had been reported to him that the letters threatened death imony before the end of the trial, ELLENES IS DEAD the best paper in Wyoming, It SATURDAY before they leave their homes. urday Copy must be tn the Tribune be ¢ of insertion. MIR. MERCHANT! Remember that the Saturday edition of the Tribune is de- livered in the homes of Casper—virtually. every home, for ’tho 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 Tribuno edition will bring, immediate results, reaches the SHOPPERS Your advertisement in the Sat- Try it and see. office Friday night in order. to city of Shipwith is exalted cyclopd of former mayor of Herrin, and George, Nelson, The letters were sald to’ have been, unsigned and were left at the homes INBIG STORES of the four witnesses, ‘in sveral in-|. stances. attached to tho Ruhr valley as apenalty for in Essen, Yana) for the black? hoodéd band’ at , tim nal witness today. During Jdly mger! _ (Cont’nued orw Page Fout.) the e Thomas Richard way! first kid-| ‘in. August Dire ody ean! | WN under. instructions frony Paris. and August Higgenbotham sald ‘ne was aj tary movement further into Germany, {Population Sullen But! FRENGH FORGES OGGUPY CITY FSSEN WITHOUT DISORDER TOO } No- Serious Trouble Is: Anticipated; Problem! Confronts Occupants. (By Associated Press.) i French troops entered Hs-' jSen, the heart of the Ruhr ‘Valley, today, carrying out jthe occupation movement de-| termined upon by France. Belgium and Italy. The occupation was without incl jdent, and up to th’s afternoon, the! new Invasion of Germany had. been accomplished “without bloodshed or even disorders of any “kind. Nearly all the troops’ employed Were French—two divisions of infan: | try and one of cavalry, commanded by, Colonel Henrys; under General Dé Goutte's direction. * | The. French advanced from Duessel- @orf and Duisburg. A small Belgian contingent came down through Ruh- rort and joined the French near Muelheim. While the troops were entering the {Ruhr the French mission which. will gontrol the minos and ‘other egsential industries was op the way from Dues. With the carrying: out of the miti- ie FINAL DITION WITHDRAWAL INTENDED AS DISAPPROVAL: WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—De- cleon of the government to with- WS American troops trom. the Rb ihe was regarded here today not of)" @& & move to emphasize tho adbunistration’s d'sapproval: of the F¥hoch reparations prografh but aisb am infieation of a definite con- widtion that’the program now must be warried to the final test of ro- sults before there can.be any hope Of fin alternative course, Np amplification of the reasons Whith prompted the withdrawal de- 5 ® forthcoming from any offivin) source tqday, beyond the ex- rinhat'on, given at the White. House yesterday: that the pres'dent deemed the Agtion expedient at this time. Wot, Had there been any disclosure of the nature of the diplomatic ex- changes By which it ts intimated F-ance "had been informed that per- epcverapo® in her plan for forcible meawures on Germany would result Amerioah withdrawal from the Ridne. Apparently this intention of the American government was carried, out when its reparations — | suggestions were not taken up by the French ‘government. ~ February 5 is the date by which the entire Rhine contingent ordered returned was expected to be in the United States. Actual movement of the troops fron Coblenz will not be- gin until, just in: time to. permit them to embark directly frcm the trains on the transport St. Mintel, which ts under orders to sall from New York tomorrow! She will go either, to “Hamburg or Bremen, whichever port’Is selected by Major General. Allen, commanding the American army of occupation’ ’ to piok Wp the force of mbont» forty officers .arid more than’-1,000 men. A smalb-detachMent to dispose of Stores and property not “Yroguht home and white cf the graves [Pr ‘Wilhelm. Mayer, German ambas- (Continued on Page Seysn) CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. 11.—An -eptomization of, Governor William "BBs recommendations to the ‘venteenth legisiature Wyoming | follows: Trrietest economy Rotrenchment: by state, counties, scboo! d'stricts ,And towns; no more public buildings until financial: condi improve; abolition of state im com: miss'cn and state farm board; sale of four of-state’s séven experiment ferms; operation of only three fish hatcheries; consolidation of state live stock and state sheep boards and sfate veterinarlan's office; de- .erease appropriation for state his- torian’s office. Interest: Reduction of legal rate froth 12 percent to 7 per cent. Rural credits; Increase state funds available for farm loans from $1,000,000 to $3,000,000, | Irrigation districts: “lake state funds applicable ¢o loans on securi- ,Ceseot such organizations. real ANs> fg Labor: Enactment of child labor Inals| 28Wi> Regulation. of employment of had| Women; legisint‘on to minimize dan- un-| ger of mine disasters; legistation to protect. workers aga’nst loss of wages: nerease of yworkmen’s com- pensation awardy rather than de- crease Of assese:nents. Ganie: Gtricter protection. — _ Highways: Adequate financing of state highway department and con- tinuation of construction and ma‘n- tenance. | Divores: - Legislation to make more difficult. i Taxation: Reduce land taxation; adoption of state severence Heense law taxing mineral production, pend'ng adoption of constitutional amendment providing for adequate } taxation of m‘nerdl property; com- pulsory return of bond holdings for taxation; increase in, tnheritancé tax, increase of 100 per cent recom- mended; compulsory filing of inyen- tories and reports by, property 8: Increase corporation fling foes to provide additional revenue of at Teast $150,000 annually. Unifarm laws: Adoption of cer- ta'n statutes identical with those of other stufes. Law enforcement: Imprisonment for first offenders against. proh‘bl- tion Jaw; authority for removal of officers refusing to enforce pro- hibition law; monthly reports to governor by sheriffs and county at- torneys on enforcement of prohibl- tion Jaw; severer penalty for manu- facture of quor than for sale: heavy peralty for sp'ring to vin. late prohibition law peal of au thorization of «x to sell Bnd to prescribe Nquor for physicians medicinal purposeg, SLAYER WICHITA FALLS, Texas, lov of charges he kilied his father, who! was 69 years old. At 9:20 o'clock last night he was in his cell. At 10:5 he waa gone but the four doors between him and free- dom were stilf locked. "The refugee wag born in the slums of Washington, D. C:, worked his way through high school, took a post: graduate course in engineering at! Harvard, and. became an officer in the army." He visited his wife last night and then his defense attorney, registration service will be the only (Cont/nuéd on Page Four.) FADES _ OUT OF CELL Four Doors in Texas Jail Found Locked | but Former Army Officer Under Serttence of Death Missing Jan. 11.—Another chapter was added to the varied career of Henry Toussaint, former officer in the United States army, victed slayer, as author‘ties searched for him early today fol- g his escape yesterday from the county jail. Toussaint was sentenced to death after he was convicted | before he fled or sought here. His wife said ahe told him to give & cache himself up to the sheriff but he laughed the remark off. Luther Hoffman. defense attorney in his 1921 trial, was next sought. The at- torney .was out dut servants called police when excited at a lurking fig- ure in the neighborhood, they said. Hoffman returned before the police arrivd, and the attorney said he saw Toussaint, 4 self-made man and con-| MAY BE TIED UP BY WALKOUT OF PLANT WORKERS Peace Treaty to Be De- clared Inoperative by Berlin as Result of French Invasion, Said: AMSTERDAM, Jan. 11.— A dispatch from Essen to the Rhenish and. West Phalian la- bor organizations have ¢e- cided to proclaim a_ brief strike beginning Monday throughout the whole industrial district in’ pro- test aga’nst the Ffench occupation. AMSTERDAM, 11.—(By ‘The Associated Presa.)—An Exchang® ‘Telegraph dispatch from Berlin today asserts that the German government has decided to take the following metisures immediately after thd French occupation {s accomplished: ‘First, the peace treaty will be de clared broken. and its execution das elared inoperative. Second—Germany wi Jan, no longer negotiate with the reparation: com- m'ssion unless this injustices is re- moved. Third—The use of alcoholic Nquors wil be teduced. Fourth—Suriday will: be declared & day of national mourning. RIOTING PRECEDES ESSEN OCCUPATION ESSEN, Jan. 11.—(By The Associa- ted Press.)—Approximately 5,000 Hs- wen citizens stormed last night the doors of the Kalserhéf, the city’s leading hotel, demanding the expul- sion of the French commission which the crowd believed was lodging there. The management's assurances that not a Frenchman was in the hotise Were unsatisfactory especially in view of the fact that a flower pot tnoppor- among the demonstrators. Scores of persons swarmed into the building but Dr. Hans Luther, former burgomaster of Essen and now minister of fond in the Cuno cabinet, appeared in time to prevent more serious consequences. | Dr. Luther, when the disturbance | began, had just begun to read an ad- jdress to the foreign correspondents |wathered at the Ka'serhof hotel, in |which he cited instances of heuté dls: |tress among the people to refute t French chatge that Germany is able but unwilling to pay. In the course of the interview De, Luther mentioned that he had ‘just come from the largest masa meeting ever held in Essen at which citizens of all political creeds, with the excep- tfon of the communists, had protested |against the French occupation, |, He read a copy of « resolution adopted at thts moeting. Tt was ad- dressed. to the German ambassadors to Great Britain and the United S!xtes and caljed attention to the alleged 11. legality of the French procedures... The resolution asked America. ani | Creat Britain to come to the moral ald of Germany. It further fam that the French policy spelled Det- (Continued on Page Two) bell’ and Weston CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. |The seventeenth Wyoming days in getting organized, and | may be. ’ The first measure to be passed by recommendations regarding legislation which | should consider, finally is ready for business. jing days in which to transact that business, whatever it '\Creation of County Out of Crook, Camp- Is Proposed by Solons from the Northeast 11.— (Special to The Tribune.) legislature, having spent three having heard Governor Ross’ he believes it to be favored by the entire member ship of both houses. this legislature will be the emergency; ‘The emergency appropriation act appropriation act. The emergency ap-| will be brought in by the budget com Propriation act always is the first] mittee as soon as that hard-working measure passed by any legislature| division of tHe legislative machine can inasmuch as no monsy is available for] grind 1t out, which pre will be the payment of the leg'siators’ tr: Friday morn 1 e ng expends salaries, or the Yhrough beth houses and ariew of'te emer e i fe x ce i. It has 82 work-| LECISLATURE READY FOR GRIST, COUNTY DIVISION PLAN TO BE CON SIDERED es a nee | ly after it becomes so the state treas- jurer will rece:ve some urgent eallers. Several days will elapse before the legislative machinery is functioning normally, ‘The earlier bills must bo considered , by standing. committees before they are ready for committee | of the whole consideration, and In the meanwhile, except for activity {nel tai he ewergency appropriay | ton bill's passage, there will be tthe that the legislators may do except de- | vote themselves to committee work jand the preparation of measures which.are to be introduced later. | DIVISION ADVOCATES FACE STRONG FIGHT. : CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. 11—(Spe celal to he Tribune.)—Despite the counsel of Governor Ross that “hard, Umes”. have the majority of Wyo. |ming's inhabitants in their grasp and that this ix not a period when inefease ie the burden “cf taxation should he ons’ deted county divis 6 ¢ ving AUHA INDUSTRY. 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