Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 12, 1923, Page 1

FRENCH EX ier Forecast Weath Saturday; not much change in temperature. , ‘Fair tonight and probably { r Casp Daily Cribune (55) VOLUME VI. GO SLOW, ADVICE OF IRRIGATION LAW AUTHORITY TO LEGISLATURE Nellis E. Corthell Says Doubt Exists on Advis- ability of Colo. River Pact, as Now Drawn. (Spec'al to The Tribune) CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. 11.—The ‘Wyoming leg!s'ature was advised to- day by Nellis E, Corthell of Laramie, irrigation law authority, to proceed cautiously in consideration of ratifi- cation of the Colorado river treaty. A compact covering dispos'tion of the fiew of the Colorado and its tribu- CASPER, WYO., FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1923. PECT NO TR HARVARD HI DEFENDS K NEGRO POLICY NEW YORK, Jar. A. Lawrence Lowell, of Harvard university, In a letter to Roscoe Conkling Bruce, prominent negro graduate of thé university, published in the New York World today, de- fonds the exclusion of negro students from freshmen dormitories. Mr, Lowell declares that while the negro is ontitled to the same. oppor- tunity for education as the white man “we do not owe to him to force him and the white into social rela- tions that are not, or may not be mu- tually congenial. Mr. Bruce's recent request that a room be reserved in the freshrhan halls for his son, who ts preparing to enter Harvard, was de L. Pres'dent Lowell's letter says: “I am sorry that you do not feel the reasonableness of our position about the freshman dorm'tories. It is not a departure from the past to refuse to compel white and colored men to room in the samo building. ‘We ows to the colored man the same opportunities for education that we do to the white; but we do not owe to him to force him and the white Through! 12.—President BLE: ALLIES RELIEVED yMePitewge Mayor Wore Hood of masked depredations in Morehouse! 4 r RUN LIQUOR IN piel -ASBLOCKADERS Skipwith, K. K. K. ESCORT PRIZES Cyclops, Admits| Asking Confer-| Small Craft Ply to Shore; pane | Thousands of Cases Landed from Waiting Bootleg Vessels. AUHA REGION {5 PEACEFUL THUS FAR, MAY OCCUPY ONE MORE ZONE Franc Shows Tendency to Rise; England Will Ignore Germany’s Pro- test. itveo BASTROP, La., Jan. 12.—Robert L Dade, mayor of Mer Rouge, testif'cd today in the open court investigation HIGHLANDS, Parish, admitting that on one. Ku| The Klux Kian raid in which he parti- cipated he wore a black mask. He declared all the other members of| tne x r 4 Peeeda int crane eg os ew York dry naval squadron The aoe een sic ga M. Me.| “8" being reorganized was still stand- Koin, Captain J. K. Skipw'th, Kelly|!"& off the Ambrose channel lightship Harp and Fd. Ivy as members of a| ‘ay, ready for business as usual. Ku Klux Klan band which held up| While proh’bition forces were tak- and ‘disarmed Watt Daniel, W. c.|!g to New York four small boats Andrew and Harry Neelis, Mer captured last night while attempting Rouge citizens, near the village of, to land Mquor from the mother ships, Gallion, La., several days prior to the| the rest of the welcoming fleet of 50 kidnaping and murder of Daniel and Were racing back and forth between Thomas F. Richard last August. {the rum carriers and shore. | Although observers ashore . J. Jan. 12.—(By Associated Press.)—The great rum fleet of 22 vessels which bobbed yesterday off Sandy Hook, while! DUESSELDORF, Jan. 12. —(By The Associated Press:) —General De Goutte, com- mander-in-chief in charge of the movement of the militar, into the extended zone of oc- estl- hat tarles, Corthell stated, is desirable but whether the compact drawn up by the Colorado river commissin and now to be submitted to the Wyoming legiglature js desirable from the Wyo- ming viewpoint is open to question, the Laramie attorney stated. He recommended at the least very strong and definite reservations by ‘Wyoming. Corthell was of counsel for Wyoming in the recent Wyoming- Colorado litigation over the big Lara- mie river which was decided in favor of Wyoming. Corthe'l's. address. on the Colorado river was delivered at a jo!nt session of the two houses of the legislature at which the Wyoming Bar associa- tion now holding its convention here, ‘was present. State Engineer Frank C, Emerson, Wyoming's member of the Colorado commission, Inter will request an 2p- portunity to reply before the jegisia- ture to Corthell.. into soc'al relations that are not or may not be mut congenial NEEDED PILOT: WROTE ON SKY —While cruising near the Golden Gate shortly after midnight, Captain J, M. Healey, bar pilot saw a spear of light sudden- ly thrust fts way through the drifting fog and trace on a passing cloud the word “pilot.” Interpreting It as # call for help from some fog bound yeeeel, Captain Healey started h's t, the “Adverituress”. through th mista toward the sours of the fiat | Be Ught and soon came upon the. T HUSBAND KILLS}. "== = WIFE, LEAVING; SLAYS HIMSELF told Captain Heatey that he had tried in Vain to negotiate the narrow chan- MUSKOGHBE, Okla., Jan. 12.—W. N. Graves, crazed by the annource- nel into the harbor ‘n the fog and ment of his wife that she intended to iow of no way to summon a pilot at that hour except by: writing his leave him today, slew her with an axe at their home here, probably. fatally need on the sky with his powerful searchlight. .— “Worked great, didn’t it,” Captain wounding her, and after failing in an attempt to kill his 11-year old sen with a butcher knife, cut his Cook sald. own throat and died a few minutes later at a hospital. London Mail to Public Daily On Big Liners “If love for me is gone from your ye kage lay heart then there is no other way but this,” Grayes cried as he buried the LONDON, Jan. 12.—A daily edition of the Mail is to be published aboard axe blade in his wife's head, his son told police, Cunard liners in the Atlantic service es after February 10, the newspaper an- nounced today. Arrangements have been made to absorb the steamship company's daily bulletin and radio news from America and Great Britain, edited by experienced men aboard the, ships, will be avaliable to the pas- sengers each day. The publication will be known as the Mail edition.” bi WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Kepre gentative Upshaw, democrat, Georgia. ‘@rho charged in the house recently that the Volstead act had been vfo- lated by members of congress and high government officials announced today that all the evidence in his pos- session wow!d be turned over today to TURKS DAMPEN AT CONFERENCE - LAUSANNE, Jan. 12.—(By The As. sociated. Preas.)—The return from Angora of Hassan Bey was followed today by a manifestation of renewed intransigeance on the part of the Turkish delegates. Ata meeting of the conference dealing with the economic capitula- tions ‘the Turks rejected the allied Project that the tax exemption hither. to granted foreign religious, scholas- tic and charitable institutions ‘Turkey should continue for five years after which they should be placed on the same footing as similar Turkish institutions. The Turks declared the equality of treatment must begin now. Furthermore they attempted to re- open other questions which had been considered as already settled. There is considerable uneasiness in allied circles over the general problem of capitulations, especially ss regards the special courts for forelgners. It 1s reported Hassan Bey brought {instructions from Angora that the Turkish delegation should no longer discuss this question, on the ground that the Turkish government has al- ready abolished all capitulations. | $6,500,000 in six per cent. first mort- gage bonds were approved today by; the interstate commerce commisston. ‘The corporation proposes to use the Proceeds to purchase equipment. Prohibition Commissioner Haynes. NG PROMINENT MEN ADDRESS MOOSE AS 300 JAM NEW HALL FOR DEDICATION Banquet Room of Temple at A and Wolcott Streets Crowded With Those Who Celebrate Occasion and Fifty Just Init- ited Into Order; Prominent Men Are Speakers SUICIDE MOTWE NOT DISCOVERED Mystery Still Surrounds Death of Assistant Rector of New York Church. NEW YORK, Jan, 13.—The motive for the apparent suicide of Rev. Dr. Percy Gordon, assistant rector of St, Bartholowmew’ Episcopal church, whose body was found yesterday in bath tub in his apartments remain- ed undiscovered today. There was a bullet wound in his right temple ‘and @ revolver with one empty cham: ber beneath his right hand. The contents of two letters, found near the body and evidently written shortly before he shot himself, were not made public, One of the letters was addressed to Dr. Leighton Parks, rector of 8% Bartholomew's, and the other to Dr. Gordon’s son, George, under secretary of the American embassy. in Paris, Dr. Gordon resigned from St. Bar-| tholomew's about a’x months ago.| Soon afterward he sailed for Europe. Only a few of his close friends knew he had returned to America, “They said he seemed nervous and appar: ently was not benefited by his sea voyage. Dr. Gordon was separated from his wife several years ago and she now lives in Florida. Explosion Traps German Miners BERLIN, Jan. 12—(By The Asso- ciated Press.)}—Forty-five miners were trapped today by the explosion of a gasoline engine in a coal mine near Hindenburg, Upper Silesia. It is feared they all have perished. ,.| mated that thousands of cases BASTROP, La., Jan, 12.—State's! been landed last night, the rum fleet attorneys announced early today that) presumably, hailing from the Baha- Captain J. K. Skipwith, exalted cy-|mas, had a vast stock still to dispos* clops of the Morehouse parish Kulof to bidders putting out from this Klux Klan. has requested a confer-/ resort and other places, along tho cupation tn the Ruhr, declared today he considered: his mission to have been successfully carried out, “I had instructions to, protect» the entrance of the economic mission into Essen and the Ruhr,” he safd to the (Continued on Page Five.) GOVERNMENT TO AVOID ACTION LIKELY T0 COMPLICATE CRISIS IN QUESTION OF REPARATIONS Washington Is Still Without Hope of Any Immediate Opportunity for Helpful- ness in Situation, Report of ensuring the security of the mem- bers government who do not. belleve that the firm policy of M. Poincare can have beneficial results."* “The stock markets are nowhere affected unfavorably ‘and the frane shows a tendency to increase in valu No trouble has occurred thus far and I do not expect any unless the Berlin government should give inflam- matory instructions to the Ruhr au- thorities, which I consider would. not not be to the best interests of Berlin 9 do." LONDON, Jan. 12.—(By The Asso ciated Press.}—An unmistakable: feel- ing ‘of ‘rellet the first 24 hours She passe ee > = 3 “ Frances Ruhr adventure . without @ breach cf the peace was Laer’ « ae ec ae evident here today. Although the WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—Developments in the repara-| French movement continues to be tions crisis in which further complications loom with the dec- laration of Germany that she is ‘‘not in a position to make actual reparations to those powers’’ participating” in the Ruhr occupation, found the American government today ap- parently still without hope of any immediate opportunity for A-soourse dictated by the friendlt- est sentiments toward France as well as the other allled powers has been WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—Whether|and will continue, to ‘be followed py the American and British debt com-|the administration, {t was sald, tn | awaiting any posalble opportunity to missioners would reach the discus) j\4 in adjustment of the reparations sion of specific terms tofay in con-| Crisis, tinuing thelr conversat'ons on tho/ 1, the meantime, it ts the adminis- refunding of Great Britain's four Dil-|tration’s purpose, it was sald authori- Non dollar debt to th’s country. ap- aes ee avoid oy ; action that ™ ther complicate matters or peared uncertain, Confidence still) Mght fur .|lead to needless micunderstandings. In bord vps ip: Sreve } Sramee se SoG this connection, it was reiterated that ccrcoment would be reached, before| there Was no present intention of re- anuary 20, the tentative date set for|cailins Roland W. Boyde~ American the departure of the British delgn-|Unoffic'al observer in the reparations p adlksocae commission, despite agitation in con- iid gress for h's return. The conversations UP to this ‘point | Holding the Ruhr occupation to bo te pee Ka Bapisdy ph Rad pix “tn contradiction with the treaty (of iminary ground of . Versailles) and international law.” dition of the British government fl-|¢he German government, in a formal nances. Before this had ‘been | protest left at the state department thoroughly gone over, it was aid. itl ints yeaterCay by Dr, Otto Wiedfeldt would be too early even to speculate|the ‘German ambassador, dec'arel as to the interest rate and ultimate that as long an the alleged violations time of paymnt that might be agreed] ohtained “Germany is not in a port. ‘upon, Gitaéininien Salina, Coeens chon: Girl Gets Wrong th's state of affairs.” The German Bag; Also Nets ‘Moon’ and Gun' government, the proes said, “did not PROVIDENCE, R. 1, Jan. 12.— Intend to meet violations with ylo- lations nor to reply to the breach of the treaty with a withdrawal from the treaty.” Mins Mabel R. Woods, a teacher in the public schools innocently enough today carried to her school room a hottle of “whie mule” and a revolver. She accidentally traded Boston bags widely condemned and deplored, there {sno general desire to see Great Britain's \ally. involved in conditions which would seriously add to her burdens. This attitude was reflected in some of the comments in the morning news- papers, which mention with approval the conciliatory tone of General De Goutte’s proclamation to the Ruhr valley inhabitants. ‘The newspapers also endorse such indication of Britistt good will to France and this govern: ment’s decision to allow the Frencty troops to cross the British Rhine zone. Although a majority of the presg opposes any co-operation by Great Britain in the Ruhr, it cannot be ignored that there exists in Great Britain a strong ant!-Ger nm senti> ment and it js unquestionable there would be considerable—if secret—pope ular satisfaction should France's con- tention that Germany 1s bluffing about her inability to pay be proved true by the outcome of events. This attitude, which frequently finds’ expression in conversations among Englishmen today has the outspoken support of the Morning Post and the Daily Mail which wish the French success and reiterate an uncompromis- ing distrust for the Germans, The Post declares it “a matter of regret to the vast majority of Eng lishmen that thelr country 1s not asso ciated in the disclplinary measures taxen by France. ie “With the watch on the Rhine? which to Americans is the fragment of a rong, to the Frenchman and te (Continued on Page Five.) HUNS AND FRENCH FIND | COMMON ENEMY AT LAST; In transferring from one street car “ fi \Lithuanian Advance on Frozen Shores of Baltic May Cause a to another, Somewhere in Providence | MAN FOUND DEAD - WITH COUE LYRIC PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan. 12,— Emile Coue's rythmic “day by day” uto-suggestion cure failed today In every way so far as Harry Conway is concerned. Conway was found dead tn his rooming house. Penciled in large letters on a sheet of paper at the foot of his bed was: “Day by day, in eve getting better and bette: On a table was a letter from Conway's mother of Jamestown, Pa. It said: “T am sending you a new method of healing. Say it ten times « day or as often as you wish.” Conway for the last two years had stomach trouble. way I’m ae | Curious Spectacle of Late Foes Figthing at Friends; Ger- | mans Hold Town on Which Troops Are Moving ence with Attorney General A. V.! coast. Liquor landed last night was nV r co Coco and his ass'stants in connection| reported to have been sent by motor] Correspondent, ‘and this has been Continued on Page 2) done. My further duties now consist | Three hundred men packed the banquet room of the new Moose hall last night to cele- brate the dedication of the temple and to welcome the fifty new candidates who had just been initiated into the order. Casper’s leadin; three years. When completed the building will have cost at least $260,- 000 and will be another fine monu- ment to Casper architecture. Two stories are already practically finished. ‘The speeches last night were couched in words of congratulmtions to the members of the order for the Progress they had mrde and to the city of Casper for {tx new buildter. John “W, Miller, deputy grand | t ns wince the signing of the| government at Ke Fexent, under whore direction #o much | of all mankind,” said the deputy grand | old people toward a happier existence. | be sure of insertion, internat UY ULES SCAM OO) Veemeee” Wem one . by sink. ort uve lS} regent. ‘We have met every obliga Wer closed with the expresse’ Yeresiien with. the ‘pirpone of. maln: | tary. protection: thas ey ns Ua: been pieced, was toastmaster at the; Uon in financing the building and we { tieining order, in view ¢ ei on| dred Frer ® part of @ bat-| frontle citizens, while after the banquet the party adjourned into an adjoining room and permitted itself to be entertained by vaudeville numbers from the Iris. Work on the Moose hall at A and Wolcott streets has been in progress during the past MR. 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 IP. M. This edition contains all the latest wire news, market reports and the best number of features which go to make the Tribunc the best paper in Wyoming. It reaches the SATURDAY SHOPPERS before they feave the'r 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 The occasion was marked with brief addresses from some of dinner last night. Mr. Miller tool advantage of the opportunity to urge his brothers on to the task they had set for themselves in the way of this home in Casper. Mr. Miller thanked the members for the support he and his workers had received from them and also told something of the obstacles that had been met. “We are here to stay and we are here to lead in fraternalism will continue to meet every obliga- tion,” He stated that although the Loyal Order of Moose was one of the young: est fraternities in existence it was the third greatest and that it was three quarters of a million strong. He told of. Mooseheart and Mocse- haven which are supported from dues taken {nto the Moose organization for the purpose of helping children anil |elated itself with the French in pro- | testing to Lithuania against the ad- | Vance on Memel and @ British cruiser jhas been dispatched there, LONDON, Jan. 12,—(By The Associated Press.) —The curious spectacle of the French and the German fighting a common enemy on the frozen shores of the Baltic | from today’s developments in the topsy-turv. }anian advance on Memel. The Memel police, composed for the most part of German and French troops, entrenched in the outskirts, will resist the Lithuanian raiders, advices received here, The British government has asso- PARIS, Jan. 12.—(Py The Asso ciated Press.)}—The French and Brit: ish governments are preparing {10 send warships to Memel, the former east Prus on the Bi erritor is expected y European situation, as a result of the Lithu- by the” Lithuanians, cetved today outskirts of by the indicate frregulars, earlier in the week, have reached the Memel French that who crossed the and Dispatches re- foreign office Lithuanian the frontier exchanged shots with the German guard. The large lumber port at Memel,| and cr which has been under temporary thor't | Germa au fa directcrate composed of according to talion sent there during the peace negotiations of 1919, While the Germans predominate fn the town the Lithuanians are In far greater number in the immediate out lying districts and there are fears in French official circles that the irregu. lars may overwhelm the local force e a difficult situation The Frenh and Brit a diplomat'c prote