Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 25, 1923, Page 1

Weather Forecast Snow tonight, colder in east portion; fair. VIOLENCE MARKS GENERAL STRIKE IN-DUESSELDORF Rail Service Paralyzed in Ruhr District by Walkout Today. By The Associated Press. The Germans seem to have made good their threat to tie ap the Ruhr valley railways. Duesseldorf advices report thout the valley ent occupied ‘The French are making prepara- tions to operate the roads with out- side railway workers, Reports from various sources indicate the process of cotlecting these men from differ- ent parts of France is well under way. It also is reported that ratlroad men, miners and other workers are General Weygand, Marshal Foch's ehiet of staff, and Minister of Public Friday generally JURY HEARINGS FOR INSANITY CASES UPHELD CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. 25—(Spe-| cial to The Tribune.}—No person in Wyoming whose sanity is doubted! will be dented the right of trial by jury, and the Wyoming Corrupt Practices act will not be repealed. Thwe things were made certain by the lower house of the. Seventeenth legislature Wednesday afternoon when it killed house bill $9 and house bill 4. The former, introduced by tho Judiciary committee, provided that district judges might pass on the mental capacity of defendants in in- sanity and feeble-mindedness Proceed. ings without ca'ling a jury, The. lateer, introduced by sentative J. D. Woodruff, was designed to wipe from the statutes the election law providing that candidates for public offices must file accountings of thelr campaign expenditures, and must Lmit these expenditures to 20 cent of one year's salary of the office sought. The house comraittee of the whole viewed a number of other measures with a friendly spirit, however, and Placed the sea! of its approval on the following: House 65, to validate the organization of Teton county; house 21, prohibiting hunting without per- mission on the property of, another; house 30, providing for legislative representation for new counties im- mediately after organization; house 43, providing that participants in bond elections shall be ho'ders of real property; hot 17, providing that casting a ballot at an election shall constitute registration for the suc- ceeding election, and house 34, defin- -ng slander and providing pena'ties therefor, : The ‘biennial, primary election law amendment bill made its appearance Wednesdey afternoon. It fs seriate and wag introduced by Senator Louls Kabell of Uinta county, who was the author of a similar measure that was rejected by the Sixteenth legis‘ature. ‘The Kabel} bill provides for party con- ventions prior to primary elections, and furthermore that any person who 4s indorsed by 25 per cent of the dele- gates to such a convention for a pub- Per |the last of the negroes were on their. erman Rioter NEGROES VACATE LANFORD UNDER THREAT, REPORT Indiana Town Quiet But No Blacks Are Left After Assault. BLANFORD, Ind., Jan. 25.—This) little coal mining town was quiet to- @ay and all negro families had moved ‘away following the warning !asued by & number of white citizens that un- less the colored man who attacked on ll-year-old white girl was turned over to them before noon yesterday they would be ‘1 out of town.” When the “zero hour” approached, et Daily Cribune |, CASPER, WYO., THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1923. 3; One Wounded PROPOSED REDUCTION IN STATE FAIR APPROPRIATION TO MEET All friends of the livestock Wyoming are much concerned Governor Ross that the approp Fair be cut to $25,000, which tical abandonment of this great exposi prospects look brightest. Without any attempt to criticise the new governor on his determina-| tion to cut down the operating ex- pense of the state government, the friends of the State Fair and all those| interested in the furtherance of the agricultural and varied interests in Wyoming po'nt out that the Gover. | nor comes from a section of the state | where the state fair is of little inter- est and where the great agricultural | problems of the state fall on unsym- pathetic ears. In contrast to this at- titude, !t may be said that five out of he seven judic’al disricts of the state are to have increased appropria- tions, the governor being natur®ly familiar with the needs of the judic- An investigat‘on was being made today by Capt. H. A. Collins, of the Indiana national guard, who was or dered here by Governor Warren T. McCray. YANKEES CIVEN | CREAT OVATION BY BELCIANS Hearty Welcome Awaits Homeward- Bound:Troops at Antwerp;Gratitude— for Aid in War Again Expressed ANTWERP, Jan. 25.—(By The Associated Press.)—A hearty welcome from the Belgian nation awaited the home- ward bound American troops fary and has sympathy for thoso needs. In four years the state fair has grown from 2545 total entries with a, disbursement for premiums of §6570 upon their arrival here today | ably the smallest of any state in the WITH OPPOSITION IN WYOMING and agricultural industries in over the recommendation of; riation for the Wyoming State} will, in effect, mean the pra ition at a time when its to a total of 8046 entries and $11,000 in premiums. If ere is any in-| crease in the number of exhibita dur-| ing the next two years it must at; once be manifest that the entire $2 000 which the governor recommends will be absorbed by premiums alone, | leaving nothing for the many other} expenses incident to the conduct of, the state fair, It {s the paramount duty of every! citizen interested in agriculture and its varied industries to advocate the continuance of the state fair with ap- Propriations not only sufficient for the maintenance of it in its present state, but for a healthy growth, whch is bound to come with increased activ- ity In agriculture. If this {s not to} be done, then the gates of the state fair should be naf'ed up, with the ad- mission that Wyom’ng {s too poor to| conduct a state fair. If this is done, | the responsibility for it should be} placed where tt belongs—on the state| officials at Cheyenne, down in the! southeastern corner of the state, far) removed from the center of Wyom- ing’s industrial activities State ald for the state fair is prob- Union which makes any pretense of supporting a state fair. Montana ap. Propriated $110,000.00 for the main- tenance of its state fair in 1921-22. Ar’zona appropriated — $55,000. Colo- rado set aside $80,000.00--$30,000 for maintenance and $50,000 for improve- ind now Dduilding: If th eee RW after theirindustrios have been established, then “urely Wyoming can afford an equal amount while getting pure bred livesteck firmly established where Jong horns once ranged, and to en-| courage agriculture and dairying Where straight alfalfa was once the only crop grown. ‘The state fair is the mirror where ‘Soviet Ready to Battle RUSSIANS WARN [LATE FLASHES LAUNCHING WAR Senger tran No. 18, eastbound, were derailed in the yards today. No one was injured. The accident was at- tributed to a defective rail. INDIANAPOLIS — American gion national headquarters an- nounced here today that the Knights of Columbus has set aside fund of $50,000 for the rel'ef of thousands of tubercular former service men who have migrated to the southwest and who at present are in destitute circumstances, le Common Foe If Poles Attack Germans. GENEVA—The hygiene commit- tee of the league of nations has de- clded to invite Dr. Hugh S. Cum- ming, head of the United States Public health department, to sit MOSCOW, Jan, 25.—(By The Asso clated Press.\—The Russ’an press continues to warn Po'and and the! public that Russ.a might be drawn into a Buropean war if Poland at tacked Germany. with the committee in a consulting M. Trotzky after a week in the country, returned to Moscow yester-| capacity. bee SLE SSE jday and plunged into Internal rather |than international affairs. RAIL HEARING LONDON, Jan, 25,—A news agency in Berlin has informa-| tion from Warsaw that the Pol!sh| war minister has ordered men of the) Polish and former German arm'es, whose service tle has expired and who are familiar with the operation| Si. LOUIS, Mo., Jan. 25.—Hearings of Failways, mines, smelting works| scheduled for today in federal circult and postal services to hold themscives|court here on the supreme court's at the disposal of the French govern-| mandate for a separation of the ut the d’sposal of the French govern-| Southern Pacific and Central Pacific ment, says a Reuters dispatch. were postponed until March 19. ALL EMBASSIES SEARCHED FOR sem|-officlal |. LIQUOR. LEAKS Federal Dry Sleuths on Lookout for Ex- cessive’ Shipments; Several Large Consignments Revealed by Probe FINAL DITION NUMBER 92, MURDER OF PAI FOUND IN LAKE I CHARGED T0 KLAN BY STATE Story of Atrocities in Parish Feud Is Closed Today by Declaration of Attorney General. BASTROP, La., Jan. 25.— (By The Associated Press,) — The state’s open hearing here nto the so-called “Morehouse hooded atrocities” investigat- ing floggings, deportations, kidnapings and the death of two men, was concluded today after haying been In progress since January 5. Lon Jones cf Moselle, Miss., the last and only witness today, told of having seen two cars with masked men near Lake La Fourche the night Watt Daniel and T. F. Richard were kidnaped near Bastrop. Two bodies, {dentified as those of Daniel and Rich- ard were found floating in tho Inke on December Before adjournment of the hearing, Attorney General Coco made a state- ment to the court concerning out- rages in the parish, charging the Ku Klux Klan with respons'bility for them. Judge Willlam Barnette, counsel for Dr, B. M. MeKotin, T. Jett Burnett and “Newt” Gray, identified by num: erous witnesses as having been mem- bers of various masked parties, alno Issued a statement attacking the te gaiity of the hearing und. the toatl Mtiony iiven by those summoned ‘to the stand, Judge Barnette’s first formal comment for the defense, follows’ fn’ part: “This hearing has been held under section 1018 of the revised statutes of this state. “The statute does not provide that witnesses may be drawn before a | the activity of every county in the state is reflected. The abandonment orks Le ‘Trocquer are in the Ruhr, He office shall be entitied to have his|to board the transport St. Mihiel. They arrivel in two spe- court: isd grilled: aad-oroas aceasta to consider sterner military measures| "me placed on the primary election and the putting of the occupation on} ballot without. filing the customary & systematic basis. It is assumed tn Par's that General Weygand wil take chief command of the occupation. The German mine owners have promised the Ruhr miners full pay in case of a strike or a shut down forced by circumstances. Everything was quiet in Mayence today following Inst night's demon- stration over tk cour verdict fining Fritz Thyssen and his fellow magnates. The French military has taken over the supervision of the German police there. DUBPSSELDORP, Jan. 25—(By the Associated Press.)—Virtually the en- tire railway system of the Ruhr valley and the occupied territory immediate- ly adjoining was paralyzed today by ® strike of the railway men. ‘The disorganization of public utill- ties, which has been slowly spreading throughout the Ruhr since the begin- Ing of the Franco-Belgian occupation, thus received a great impetus. ‘The main rail nes on both. the wight and left banks of the Rhine are tied up along a stretch of nearly 60 miles between Wesel to the north of Duesseldorf and Cologne south of this city. The Paris-Berlin and Warsaw- Paris expresses are stalled in the (Continued on Pao Four.) RAID RESULTS HELD SERIOUS Abatement of Beckl Possible as Result of Late Raid in Which 22 Gamblers Were Seized Abatement proceedings to for an entire year may be instituted as the result of the raid Tuesday evening at 10:30 wh 22 men and confiscated $300 i decks of cards and three truck loads of tables, chairs and other paraphernalia in an alleged gambling club there. Information was forthcoming this morning from E: H. Foster, prosecut- ing attorney, who sald that he had not made up his mind wh ot to institute the If proc thre clos © ness buil f foree numeroy stores and prominent bu nese companies to seek new quarters. Zh the Ust of tenants now occupying were put it would ie bus of the delegates to a convention is not debarred from being a candidate in the primary, but may get his name on the primary ballot by filing a pe- tition of candidacy, which petition must be signed by 10 per cent of the electors ef his political denomination |1€ he be a candidate for a state office, 20 per cent if he be a cgndidate for a | county office and 15 per cent if he }be a candidate for a precinct office. The bill provides, furthermore, that no person may file a certificate of change of party affiliation later than 90 days preceding a primary election. The livetiest exchange of the ses- ston of the Seventeenth came Wed- nesday afternoon when Leslie A. Miller of Laramie county, Democratic floor leader of the house, arose to inquire why house 24, providing for shot-firers in coal mines, and house 22, making safety provisions for the protection of employes in coal mines, had not been repnrted out by the com- mittee on mines and mining although ‘the five-day period for their consider- ation by the committee had expired. Representative W. H. Ede!man of Sheridan, chairman of the commit- tee, responded with a request that (Continued on Page Ten) inger Block Is Held close the Becklinger building en the sheriff’s force arrested in silver, a gunnysack of chips, This the building !s the Charles EB. Voss, Music company, the Mills Stationery | company, the Casper Typewriter. com- pany, The Music Shoppe, the offices of the Texas Oil company, the Harry {Bree and the J. F. Jones redi estate agencies. A barber shop and beauty |parlor are also tenants of the base- ment of the The sheriff's reports that |when the raid was made that a | gambling club was found in the base- jwith silver money in racks. *P=ce, G. M. Randolph, J. Wilson, B. cial trains. M. Deveze, the minister of Pres. Harding Back at Desk | After Illness WASHINGTON, Jan. 25,—Presi- ent Harding returned to his desk to- day for the first time since he was taken 111 with grippe more than a week ago. During his absence he was confined to his bed for several days and subse. quently remained in his room under orders of the White House physician, Brigadier General C. B. Sawyer. The past few days, however, he has virtu- ally been in normal condition, accord. ing to Dr. Sawyer, but has been kept from work because it was desired that he take a rest after a strenuous year without a vacation. The president reached the executive offices at 10:30 a, m. and immediately delved into accumulated official pa- pers. Dr. Sawyer said he would not be restricted in the amount of work he did. ment in rooms formerly rented by the Oll Workers’ union, and that several gambling games were being conducted Most of the furniture was moved out and the safe will be taken out today according to Perry Morris, sheriff. That part of the basement has been padlocked since the raid. The 22 men arrested were held under bond of $2,000 and $1,000 re spectively, The let, furnished by the prosecuting attorney this morning cludes R. §. Tobin, E. R. Vance, Ernest Hammon, H. Johnson, J. Silver, 8. Churchill, R. A. White, Pete H. Dutch, Frank Willams, F. C, Brennan, Willlam Drapkin, D. K. Selman, J. Burns, C. Gut, W. L. Harvey, and J. M. Ryan The date for ings had not t The copy of the I posing the safe sheriff's @ shows that it was signed Jan 7 Imst by M. A. Becklinger, (Continued on Page Seven) v A. Tatum, John Robert Taylor hear today. which Is r the prelimina en set at noo! the in in war, paid a tribute to Amer- fea's part in the great conflict. “Thanks to the American boys,” he} sald, “the unjust aggression of which/ Belg’ um the victim did not main until punished, Belgium could not therefore refrain from expressing her gratitude at this oment of depart- ure, “The Belgians will keep in p'ous memory those American heroes ‘vho fell Upon Belgium's soil, We shall derive from our common endeavors! and our common bereaveents a con- fiding and reciprocal affection that distance can never weaken,” WASHINGTON, Jan. department has advised Maj. Gen. Allen at Coblenz that the shipping board steamer America wil! sail from Antwerp February 7, and can carry all personnel of the retunring Ithineland army not sent home on the transport! St. Mihiel. The department does not} know when Gen. Allen himself will return although it is thought possible he will come on the America. TURKS REJECT BRITISH PLANS ' FOR OIL ISSUE LAUSANNE, Jan. 25.—(By The As- sociated Press)}—The Turkish delega- tion at the Near East conference hers | refused the proposition made by Lord | Curzon of Great Britain ,to submit! the Mosul question to the league of} nations, ‘They demand a plebisite to| decide the future of the Mosul area. | Lord Curzon would not consent the plebiscite proposit’on. poe batch —The war i to Foreign Movies Being Adapted To Propaganda | { | | | | ALBANY, N, ¥., Jan, 28,—Charges| of @ persistent effort by foreign mo-| tion picture producers to import films disseminating propaganda against American {natitutions are made {n the annual report of the stite motion pic ture ccenmminsion published here. Certain Amer! ning out #u and te and are t adds, pting to m volutionize our forr government. The department of tlee, according to the report has taken) cognizance of the situation and is aiding in suppressing the films. ‘ jana WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.— The:machinery of the federal motion to ascertain whether an; tions here, have brought into th of the fair wi'l also probably have an unfavorable result on all extension | work, which may lead to the curtall- ment, if not thé complete elimination of that line of work. TURKS ATTACK ‘Y’ ACTIVITIES CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. open attack on Woung Men's the national capital. As a result of recent disclosures by the Washington police, who charge openly that some foreign envoys are using their diplomatic tmmunity to supply bootleggers, the treasury de- partment! has sent a memorandum to the state department which is under- ¥tood to call attent:on to certain “un- \usual shipments” of Uquor coming to embassies and legations here. While no formal protest was made, Christian association high treasury officials said today that the Young Women's Christian several shipments in recent weeks association was made by the radical; were of such magnitude as to attract newspaper Tevhid Afkiar, which de-|the attention of prohibition enforce- mands that the government take ment officers. The treasury was rep- steps against these organizations, resented as pelleving that more liquor ‘This newspaper alleged that under the was coming in than was “reasonably guise of education and physical de-!required” by the staffa of the foreign velopment the associations are carry-| representa: here. ing on a religious propaganda and d2- DON Diese ST en eG oe LITOTAL: MEAT EXPORT OFF future motherhood of Islam. WASHINGTON, Jan 25.—Value of 25.—An the activities of the ae exports of meats from the United IN Ol CAMP FIGHT ASKS sx2e" in 1922 totalled $34,919,843 as ; compared with $160,878,243 in 1921, it was estimated today by the com {merce department. Dairy products ’ exported in 1922 were valued at $24,- Alleging that he hit him over the| 1921 While exports in 1922 of grain ing his shot, W. Ferguson of Salt Fie ere Creek is suing Herman Timmers, a'so PLAIN TIFF IN of Salt Creek for $7,500. The inci mas, according to the suit, and it in HEART BALM stated that the pla’ntiff suffered a| ot | fractured skull and that he was| ear, cue was | fractured In the mixup, which occur-| | red“in the Carter poolhal! at the’ oil| Cat The plaintire Bullack & Lacy isgpre ts Atos teetchag a Hugh 1. Patton, United States marshal in Wyoming, arrested threo men at Salt Creek yesterday charged th or 1 Howard Burgess $500 bond t OAKLAND, Cal, Jan Mrs, | represented py! Rodney Kendrick, who recently filed da suit against Mrs, Edith Sprecklies Wakefie:d for $25,000 damages, al feging that she allenated tho aftec tions of her husband, Rodne | rick, newspaper artist, died here | Tuesday. She was 25 years old | ee $300,000 FIRE in attorneys. 905,495 compared with $44,145,749 in head with a bill’ard cué without call.) ®%4 rain products amounted to $515, dent occurred the day before Christ endered pei ently deaf tr | a S ~ | rendered permanently deaf In his lett | SUIT I DEAD) The billiard 0} camp. with infrin Thomas Bus! as brought to th Orville Anderson wax, bond of $500 after M. P, Wheeler, L released ¢ hearing commission 8 lof liquor which later was diverted into the bootleg trade in IN GULF CITY): (By The Associated Press.) — government has been set in y foreign embassies and lega- e country excessive shipments but in order that ther depositions may be taken. “None of this has been done in this case, therefore ths whole proceeding in my Jud a nullity, and the testimony adduced can not be legally used in any proceedings whatsoever. It can not even be used legally before A grand jury, it would be hearsay and any bill of tndictment predicated up- on this testimony would be quashed by the court. ‘The corpus delictl has not been ex- tablished to a reasonable certainty, to say nothing of the rule that it muat be established beyond a reasonable doubt. Two bodies wero found in lake La Fourche. The coroner of the parish, Dr. ©. M. Patterson, a man of unquestionable integrity and ciated Press.)—Admiral Stark, exiled #tanding both as a citizen and as a anti-Soviet leader of Viadivoatok, ar-|PhY#0:8n, was not permitted to make ‘ i Jany examination of them, He neither rived at Mariyiles quarantine station! cor closer than 40 feet to the bodies today with five ships of his fleet of|wihie they were yet in the water, and Russian refugees. Five other ves-|he was told that hs could not make sels of the homeless flotilia are ex-|further examination; while at the pected to arrive in a few days from/same time two pathologists seemed to China. |have already been arranged with, even Governor General Wood, who has|Prior to the finding of the bodies, who lett for an {napection’ tour in|Were to come and make an examina- Zambales province, will visit the Rus.|4on which would disclose great bru- blana before .returning, to. Manila,|talty. as to the manner In which with a view of determining what ia to|the bodies found came to thelr death, to be done with them. |And it might be sald here that thelr 1 (Continued on Page Seven) Refugee Ships Dock Today at Manila, Report MANILA, Jan. 25—(By The Asso- MILLIONS TO BE SPENT IN SOVIET FIELD Exploitation of Russian Oil Region Ex- pected to Return Great Profits Under Barnsdall Contract, Claim CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Jan. 2 head of the Lucey Manufacturing company, announced here today that the estimated amount to be expended/under his contract recently made with the American Barnsdall cor- poration in the exploitation of the Russian oil fields, had been underestimated and later investigation showed that it would be between $30,000,000 and $50,000,000. be get —Capt. J. F. Lucey, tt 10,000 barr 2, a designin