Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 17, 1923, Page 1

Weather Forecast WYOMING—Unsettled weather to night and Thursday, probably snow or rain extreme west portion. Colder in north portion tonight and in east portion Thursday. —_—_—_—_———— VOLUME Vil. eee FRENCH TO SUOUT THEORY SLAIN. ROBBER (MINT STOLE FUR IN. CASPER Denver Police Expect to Quiz Several Who Knew Bums and Thompson Women. DENVER, Jan. 17.—Police stated today that they expect- ed to interrogate several men who are thought to have had acquaintanceship with Mrs. Harold G. Burns of San Fran- cisco, and Mrs. C. C, Thompson, alias AGAIN MEET ON CONSOLIDATION OF RAIL LINES Merger Talk for Roads in Northwest Resumed Be- fore I. C. C. WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—Cons!der- ation of tentative plans for railroad consolidation in the northwest under the 1920 transportation act was re- sumed today before the interstate commerce commission. after a suspen sion of several weeks. Walker D. Hines, representing the Hl ratiroads—the Great Northern, Northern Pac:fic, and Chicago, Bu: Ungton and Quincy—relterated his previous statement to the commission that managements of . these systems Preferred tha hey be left in the pres- ent association, whatever disposit’on the commission might make of other Sloan, who are sought in connection with the $200,000 federal reserve bank truck robbery, here December 18, Inst. Chief Rugg Williams said this morning that the police had little in- formation concerning the women and that questioning of several men who met them at places frequented by the women—dance halls and cafes— was expected to give information which might establish their where- abouts. Authorities today were scouting the theory that John C. Sloan. the sain bandit, who was found dead in the automobile used Curing the hobl- up in a private Capitol Hill garage had been implicated in the robbery of a fur store at Casper, Wro., where Sloan and his purported wife, Mrs Thompson are alleged to have assum- ed the name of Tobin. Casrer polices mre cooperating with local authorl- tes, . San Francisco poee are searchin for Mr. and Mrs. Harold Burns connection with the fobbery. accord: ing to the police. The couple are sald to have come to Denver in an eutomobile from, Cal'fernia ‘ast No- vember Burns alleged to have been the bandit car driver. ‘The pollce department here bas been-working on the case for the last two days but to date have been unable to connect Sloan, alias Tobin, with the robbery of # Casper fur store about six weeks ago. They have also been unable to definitely check up any activity of Tobin dur- ing the t!me he was in Casper. ——$_——— German Mark at New Low as Nose, . Dive Continues, NEW YORK, Jan. 17.—German) marks established another new low record at 6§-100ths of a cent a hund- red, or 18,181 to the American do! At the normal, or pre-war rate of exchange which was 23.8 cents each, 18,181 marks would have been worth $4,327.08, eles ere LEONARD WOOD IS NOW GRANDFATHER MANILA, Jan. 17——(By The Asso- ciated Press.)—- Governor General Leonard Wood became @ grandfather for the first time when @ son was roads in the territory. In a*presentation of evidence as to the results which. could be expectcd from any other method of dealing with the situat’‘on, Mr. H'nes called Vv. P. Turnburke, a statistician for the Great Northern ag the first witness. He testified that if the Chicago, Mil- waukeo & S. Paul railroad should he consolidated with the Norhern Pac- fic a possible saving of $6,500,000 might b® made in the operating ex- penses of such a unified system as compared with the present total op- erating expenses of the two systems operating separnely. Mr. Turnburke presened a detatled *nanc’al analys's and asserted that 372 miles of line now kept in opera- tion by the two systems might be abandoned if they were unified with: out immiiring the.public service now Tendered. 4 yf Ba MEL ah PRACT BS 10-CENT BOOST ACAI MADE BY PRAIRIE OIL €0. Following the announcement on Tuesday of a raise of 10 cents a barrel in Pennsylvartia crude, the Prairie Ol and Gas company, *@ccording to dispatches from Forth Worth, met the Increase in the Mid-Continent fields th's morning with a like boost of 10 cents, making the new quotation §2.20_ a barrel. i This followed @ raise of 10 cents made late Saturday which was met here on Monday by the local pur chasing agencies. When interviewed this morning, R. 8. Ellison, vice-president cf Mid- west Refining company stated that he did not believe there would be any immediate raise in prices in the local flelds. pa Mae aad “Sab ahh BOURKE COCKRANE ‘ SCORES PROHIBITION | WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—Declar- ing that prohibition had “utterly failed to prohibit,” Representative Bourke Cockrane, Democrat, New York, told the house today that if the president should call into the enforce- ment service all the forces used after ‘the Civil war iv enforce the 14th and 15th amendments “the result would borh here to Lieutenant and Mrs. Oaborne C. Wood. be the same—a dead letter in many stetes. Wwrvo. 2 TAKEN WITH DREAD DISEASE Casper Schoo] Teachers Thot to Have Sleeping Sickness; One Better. Two cases of sleeping sickness, the first that have appeared in Casper since 1920 according to local medical records available, have been found here, it became known today. One case is that of Miss Alma Abrahamson, teacher in the grades of the North Casper school, who is at present undergoing treatment in the Womens’ and Children’s hospital. Dr. H, R. Lathrep, the physician in charge of the case, reported this morning that the young woman's general condition was good but that she slept practically all the time copt when awakened to be given med- icine. The other case is that ot Miss Helen Stone, teacher in the same school, who suffered with the disease but who was sent to her home tn Arvada, Colo., last night in a much improved condition. Doctor Lathrop attaches no signifi- cance to the fact that the two cases Were teachers in the same echool. He Pointed out that the possibility that one of them had caught the disease from the other was improl He said that while the disease infec- tous that such contact as the teach- ers had with their pupils, previAis to thetr discontinuing thelr duties, would not render the pupfla subject to the disease. Se NEW YORK, Jan. 17—{By The As- sociated Press.)—To protect the pub- {le from poisonous whisky bought at drug stores On predcriptions, the -gov- erpmént has decided to. bottle all! bulk! Uquors vow. heid tn. beni guarantee thom <a top quality. * - Pabe has CASPER, WYO., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1923. t Di “Firel Fire!’ BY GUM! | HOPE IT DOESN'T SPREAD S The Casper Daily Tribune DRASTIC ALCOHOL CUT BY SILL WOULD ASK REFINING; TEAPOT CASE UP Representative Woodruff Introduces Res- olution Requesting Department of In- terior to Require Petroleum Be Refined Within State of Wyoming CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. 17.—(8pe-) great natural resource and character: olal to the Tribune.}—The Teapot)ized the removal of ofl under federal Dome naval reserve lease to the Sin-|leases as “continued gutting” of Wro- c’alr interests was brought before the| ming. The reso‘ution was referred to Wyoming legisiature Tuesday when|the committee on ofl and gas after Representat've J. D. Fremont county quest, a resolution request! partment of the interior of the Unitod Woodruft of) Woodruff had stated that, if dispos!- introduced, by re-|tion of it were left to him, he would the do-| toss it in the waste basket. The resolution sets forth that the Btates to require that all petroleum! proposed piping of Teapot Dome oll produced from federal lands in Wyo- ming be refined within the boundar'es ot Wyoming. The reso'ution, which ‘Woodruff maid was introduced at the request of J. J. Spriggs of Lander, ar- raigned the Teapot Dome lease’s pro- Visions as perpetrating an injust'ce Wyoming. referred to the royalti accruing to the state of W; to Kansas City would divert one of Wyming’s most important and value- ble resurces to another state and that while the state of destination wou'd benoft from the addition of many mil- Yons of dollars to its taxable wealth Wyoming would recetve nothing. Both the secretary Interior and congress are petitioned t> take stops to provide that all ofl pro- (Continied on Page Nine) DRYS IS NEXT DRIVE MOVE SAPHO AND CLEO WERE NO BEAUTS CHICAGO, Jan. 17.—Sapho had a wrinkled neck and Cleopatra fat nome, If Venus was to re- appear today she would be classed as a truck horse while the Queen of the Nile would like a washerwoman if caught walking down a boulevard. With those few words Dr. J. P. Fernel, plastic surgeon dismissed the beauties of the past and an- | nounced there are more beautiful women in the world today than ever before, in an address de- livered last night to @ halr dreasers association. Within the next few years the Proportion of beautiful women will be immensely multiplied" Dr. Fernel sald. “It will almost reach the state where homeliness, like poverty, will be a crime.” Juanita Hansen, Movie Star, Let | Go by N.Y. Cops NEW YORK, Jan. 17.—Jane Han- sen, {identified by the police as “Juanita Hansen, movie star,” today was discharged in court when ar- raigned on a charge of possessing narcotics, She recently was arrested in a West Side apartment. The actress accused the police of having “framed” her. Miss Hansen was arrested during a party attended by several men and women, Detectives asserted they| found her in act of using a hypo: dermic needle, The courtroom was crowded with actors and Laas, Naa Heavily veiled and wearing a heavy fur coat, Miss Hansen nodded. off to aleep several times while other cases were being heard. Semeiennlieetiiieenentintis, NO KIWANIS MEETING TOMORROW, ANNOUNCEMENT Owing to the fact that the Lions club will entertain as local their Revocation of Scores of Dealers’ Permits for Denatured and Industrial Alcohol Is Ordered by Prohibition Authorities in Latest Campaign WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—(By The Associated Press.) — Drastic curtailment of dealings in denatured and industrial alcohol has been decided upon by federal prohibition author- ities as the next step in their campaign to combat the illicit liquor traffic. Orders’ have been issued for the revocation of scores of dealers’ permits, among these being that issued to one of the largest alcohol producing | Aer the guise of having been landed y rum runners, wleate in the Seantey, The conference of prohibition offi: Decision to withdraw the license of clals was given further detailed re- this plant and to refuse to re-ismue) porta on the invest’gation of the ra: dozens for which appl'cations wer|cont operations of the rum running pending, was reached at a conference! fist off Highlands, N. J. There 1s of prohibition enforcement officials now no disposition at prohibition attended ty Acting Commissioner headquarters to deny the probability Jones, Acting Director Yellowley of that a considerable amount of liquor New York and heads of the principal was landed. bureaus at headquarters here. It ‘8! Act’ng Director William B. Moan of understood that reports submitted by New Jersey reported he had checked Mr. Yeliow'ey of his investigntion into/on the movement of vehicular traffic the sources of Christmas beverages over all the roads from and to the had much to do with the order. H’ghlands const section and was cer- Investigation made by Mr. Yellow-|tain that there was not sufficient <on- ley in New York of recent supplies of|nage in transit in the period of «ms bootleg “whiskey” led to seizure of|gliing activity to move a 35,000 case 3,500 galions of re-distilled alcohol andjecargo if every truck act’ve in that & number of st'lls designed for this! period had been loaded with prohib- operation. He obtained evidence that|ited freight. Agents near the coast, much of thls product was retailed un-|he said, confirmed these observations. WHAT NEW RAILROAD \ WILL MEAN TO CASPER, The construction of the proposed railroad from Ca per north into Montana will mean an almost undreamed of in- crease in the present population of this city. It will mean a sound basis for industrial growth. railroad will be here after the oil is exhausted. It will mean the opening of the state north and south, for the natural corollary of the Haskell railroad will be another of like length extending into Colorado. The It will mean that Casper is no longer to be isolated but is|*h¢*ter#. the telephone exchange and| to receive the full benefits of communication by direct rather than round-about routes. Poor transportation facilities have kept Casper down. Good transportation facilities will bring expansion. It will mean lower freight rates. Freight rates at the pres- ent time between Casper and other places are four times what they should be. It will mean that untold w Ith will be realized by ship- pers, that the cattle and sheep business will receive a new guests this evening the members of the Casper Kiwanis, the latter organ- ination will not hold the regular; luncheon scheduled for tomor- gh geen impetus. It will mean the making of Casper the metropolis it is des-| *o"4'ne tined to be while at the same time helping ward a better futuro, 1 Wyoming to- | MAYOR ASKS TELEGRAMS; COST $3,000 SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 17.— Mayor James Rolph Jr., faced to- day an organized assault on his personal exchequer as the result of a random scientific experiment laut night. Dedicating a radio broadcasting station, His Honor spoke in ring- ing tones into the transmitter. Said he: “I want to find how far my yoice is carrying, how big my audience is. Send in telegrams to me, and send them collect. Come on— everybody! Mayor Hylan of New York and you, Mayor Curiey of Boston—everybody."" Radio fans were not slow in re- sponding. By midnight at least one telegram had come from every state in the union, {t was an- nounced at the mayor's office, and Honolulu and a ship 1,000 miles at sea were represented. And as the night crept on toward dawn, the messages continued to arrive. By daylight it wan estimated that the mayor had incurred wire tolls of $3,000, with the possibility that the figure might be doubled during the day. Jap Fire Burns 500 Buildings; it Still Blazing {ciated Press.)—Fire ai stroyed 500 pbullfings this morning and was still burning at noon. A large number of public buildings, two Fukuoka de & department store were burned, Fukuoka ts a city at the mouth of the river Naka, on the coast of the bay of Hakata. Its population fs re- ported at 82,106, a meee Ae i Be BURLINGTON AGENT, NOT DISPATCHER The men who Big Horn county being held in the inl for alleged ab on funds was was telegraph bacame not a disp operator a | todyy nown FINAL {EDITION | TOKIO, Jan. 17.4By The Aneo-| SINCLAIR SAYS HE GOT STOCK FOR BiG LEASE Testimony Is Resumed Before Senate Committee on Oil Prices and Condi- tions. WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—Deciara- tion was made ‘by Harry F. Sinclair, chairman, of the board of the Sinclair Oil corporation, in testimony today at the senate oil investigation that in creases in the prices of crude oil made by the Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing company in the Mid-Continent fleld in 1920 were due to signs of a decreased oll supply. WASHINGTON, Jar. 17.—Any con siderable airing of the Teapot Dome controversy by the senate manufac. turers sub-¢ommittes “Investigating prices. and conditions-in the oth indus: try appeared improbable today when Harry F. Sinclair, of the Sinclair Consolidated O11 corporation resumed his testimony in the inquiry. Mr. Sinciair testified yesterday it was planned he should receive all the stock in the Mammoth except the ten qualifying shares in return for a lease to Teapot Dome obtained trom the secretary of the interior. “That offer I suppose was accepted by the Mammoth wi Mr. toe asked on resuming the examina. tion of Mr, Sinclafr today. “Tt wi replied the witness, who aid the stock len was issued to him in accordance with “the offer. He also submitted the lease contract for Teapot Dome as entered into with by cretary, Fall, “How was. the stock in the Mam Motiv distributed of disposed © ef!/? MrRde asked. “Part of it was ex- changed for shares of the Hyda Ol corporation, a Sinclar controlled com: pany dealing in stocks and. bonds,” replied Mr. Sinclair. The witness added’ that the ex. change included about one million shares of Mammoth stock but could Lot recall the basis of the exchange. “What became of the rest of the stock?” the committee attorney in- quired. “There were 191,200 shares donated by myself to the Mammoth company which later were sold for develop Ment purposes for $3,250,000, a real- {zation of $17 a share,” Mr. Sinclair replied. ‘‘The rest was my own.” ‘The first signs of a possible row between Mr. Sinciair and the commit tee developed a few minute) after Mr. Sinclair took the atand today. When the committee attorney at tempted to delve deeply into the transfer of Mammoth shares to other Sinclair companies, Mr. Sinclair in- terjected: “I do not know whether this com- mitten has the authority to go into the affairs of a private corporation.” “You may answer," Chairman La- Follette replied hotly. ‘The commit tee, will decide on its authority.” Mr. Sinclair then gave the details of the transfer and said the holders of more than one per cent of “class A” abares of the Mammoth company were as follows: H. W. Kenwell 370,000 shares; Harry F. Sinclair 1,049,000 shares; Sinclair Consolidated 600,500, and Harry Payne Whitzey, 50,000. ‘The witness said stock of the Mam- moth company was quoted on the stock exchange at around $50. He further testified the Mammoth had | accumulated no net earnings since its (Continued on Page Nine.) ] if NUMBER 85. SCATE MINES; ARREST LEADERS pute Unlikely COAL BARONG 10 OBEY BERLIN; 4 GERMANS TAKEN, REUTER REPORT Guards Will Be Put at Pit Heads Tomorrow and German Labor Requis tioned If Necessary. DUESSELDORF, Jan. 1% —(By The Associated Press.J —The French will take pos- session of the mines through- yut_ the district tomorrow morning, placing military guards at the head of every pit The Ruhr magnates were informed late this afternoon that their prop= erty will be confiscated and will be workel under French management for the benefit of the reparation ac- count. ESSEN, Jan, 17—(Ry The Asso ciated Press)—The French occtipa- tional authorities announced this*af- ternoon that they will begin operat: ing the mines of the Ruhr district to- morrow, requisitioning German labor {f necessary The Ruhr coal and tndustrial mag- nates who refused to cooperate with the French, will be prosecuted before a courtmartial At Bochum, the population bas been notified. by the occupying ofti- cials that the troops will act without warning against any action directed at. the .Freneh- troops. or — officials, even if it be only whistling or shout- ing. In general, conditions throughout the occupied area continued quiet this morning. Tt is intimated that French circles here are finding the situation per- plexing but feel that even should the |mines cease operations txnporarily the burden of sufferings would fall upon the Germans, while the occu- pying forces would continue applying pennities until thelr demands were met. Meanwhile the French authorities are taking steps to control the movement of coal ang haye establisi- ed controlling stations at Essen, Werden, Muelheim, Bottrop anid Oberhausen, It is considered s'gnificant that al- though . announcements posted at jrailway stations in the Ruhr distrigt indicate that more than 20,000 rail trucks had been despatched within 24 hours, none has been returned. It is reported the Berlin government has ordered that coal cars be not re turned to the Ruhr. If the German mine owners refuse to carry out tue French instructions the k », Stinnes and Thyssen | properties will be first to suffer un- der the new sanctions or penalties, las they are the richest in Germany and ther owners are the leacers ‘in industrial welfare. In view of the incidents at Bochunt mart'al law {is being enforced mora strictly there than elsewhere. A press censorship was established at Bochum. be LONDON, Jan. 17.—A Reuter a> patch from Essen filed Tuesday sayt that according to reports from Ger man sources four of the Ruhr indus (Continued on Page Nine.) Dog Houses and F. With the wind bowling merrily along all through the night at a rate | variously estimated at from 60 to 149 milos an hour, Canper citizens woke up this morning to find themselves minus articles ranging from dog houses to false teeth. ‘The real estate transactions during the last 18 hours have been reported | very heavy. Conscientious lot own Jers have been busy this morning | checking up and several of them have found their holdings have been moved over into the sand hills of Nebraska. There reems also to be considerable jreal state in town today that hears oun Por the stamp of Fremont o P who have steadis and ishing their to’ get MANY GOGD SITES CHANCE HANDSIN CHAMPION WIND Casper Folks Wake Up to Find Stray Lots, ‘alse Teeth in Place of Ones They Left Night Before | De or as. found 4 » pur s Ie ay jot, yours. bl want ad In the Tribu Fortunately ther observer here is not suppl h wind intra | ments, so that no accurate report o4 | the velocity can be obtained thy |morning. If the gentleman “wht wears out his old clothes forecasting what the weather will not hat been equipped with said instrument) | they wouldn't have lasted long {laa j night's gale. If t had survived tht | storm, he we e been publichy bra as the All-American Anantal deca ot my