Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 1, 1923, Page 7

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1923. FED LUNOI TO SURRENDER ON FRAUD CHARGES Political Boss Enroute to Chicago to Answer to School Swindle. CHICAGO, Feb. 1.—Fred Lundin, former congressman and long known as the silent power behind the ad- ministration of Mayor Thompson, will appear in Chicago tomorrow after- noon and surrender on the indictment charging him and twenty-three others ‘with conspiracy to defraud the school beard out of $1,000,000, his counsel announced today. Lundin is on his way to Chicago today, Attorney Clarence S. Darrow sai@ and would surely appear to- morrow before Chief Justice McKinley of the criminal court to answer to the indictment returned by the special } grand jury investigating schoo! board | affairs. Bonds in the sum of $10,000 fixed | by Judge McKinley, have been ar-| ranged for Lundin, his counsel said DELIGHTFUL MUSICAL NUMBERS IN “BUDDIES? COMING TO IRIS SUNDAY The well known New York success “Buddies” will be the opening play | to be presented by the Boyd B. Trous- dale Stock company at the Iris theater starting with a matinee on Sunday, February 4th. This play had} @ long run in New York and is filled with good comedy and clever! musical numbers. Among the ones which you will whistle for days to come ate “Please Learn to Love,”| “The Long, Long Trial,” “My Bud- dies,” “Fairy Tales,” and ‘Hullo! Home.” ‘The comedy is full of “pep” | from start to finish and if you miss| “Buddies” you will miss ono of the treats of the season, it is said. | Following “Buddies” the Trousdale) company will present for three and/ four dya*runs “Two Married Men,” “Turn to the Right” and “The Man on the Box,” each one of these plays are a full evening’s performance and will start promptly at 8:15 each eve- ning. There will be two matinces each week, Sunday and Saturday. There will be no reserved sefts. ‘The admission price will be 55 cents for adults and 25 cents for chjldrop| under twelve years of age. | pedal nes CONCERT GRAND PIANO PURCHASED FOR ARKEON FROM WELLS COMPANY 7. J. MeKeon, manager of the Arkeon, returned this morning from Denver where he purchased from the Charles E. Wells Music company, through its local agent, a nine foot Chickering concert grand plano. This is the most elaborate piano manu- factured and is the only one of its kind in Wyoming. There are at pres- ent two in Denver. Mr. McKeon be- Meves that the Arkeon will be the only dance auditorium in the west equipped with such an expensive in- strument. During the time he was in Denver Mr. McKeon made arraangements with the Pratt Costuming company for the rental of 150 costumes for the) St. Valentines day masquerade ball at the Arkeon. These costumes will ar- tive here Saturday, February 10, and will be rented at actual cost. The idea is that such affairs in the past ‘would have been more successful if more costumes had been available for the dancers. The prize lst for this dance amounts to more than $100. \I City Briefs | Glen Clay of Denver is in the city) for a few days on business. | 2 ee ¥. P. Williams came tn from Salt Creek yesterday and will spend some time here visiting friends and on/ business. } “S | R. G. Taylor came up from Denver yesterday to be here several days on business. see Jack Merrell is a business caller| for a few days from Salt Creek. | eee ; W. W. Black of Salt Lake {s hero! for a short business trip. eee | F,. W. Mann arrived Tuesday from GreybuN and will spend sever! days here. eee R. I. Piepmier, of the Business) Man’s Insurance company of Chey-| enno is in the city on business. Edward Gold is a busiess caller for) a few days from Denver. eee Thomas Cloud, manager of the Richard and Cunningham Dry Goods| department left Tuesday evening on) an extensive buying trip to Chicago and New York. . e. John L. Frazee of the Hart Silic| company of San Francisco js in Cas- per for a few a on busingss. M. A. Tis of Kansas Cig rived yesterday and intends spending ® week here to fs matters. | pe = » ae Los a Pa my The vanguard of the French army of occupation the French army scout planes flying over the troops. Che casper Daily Cribune Essen The Tribune’s Annual Industrial Edition The most complete, informative and authoritative col- lection of facts, figures and stories about Wyoming, will appear on Sunday, February 11. It is kept throughout the state as a reference work, and advertisers who take space in it are making a valuable all-year investment for their business. Orders for this great state-wide edition are pouring in rapidly. If you have not ordered your copy, or the copies you want to send away to friends, do so now. Later we may not be able to fill the order. Requests for last year’s edition are still coming in to this office, and we have had to refuse some of these because of the shortage of copies. Look for the Annual Industrial Edition It will be worth your while, TEX RICKARD NOT BIDDING FOR DEMPSEY FIGHT; CONDITIONS NOT FAVORABLE, PROMOTER ASSERTS NEW YORK, Feb. 1.—Tex Rickard, boxing promoter, to- day issued a statement declaring that he had decided, after full consideration, not to participate in any bidding for a heavyweight championship contest in which Jack Dempsey would defend his title. Rickard’s statement was issued upon expiration of an op- tion he had obtained, barring Demp-;that; stories which maintain I have sey from accepting offers from anyjbeen hampered and oppressed by s0- other promoter for s!x days. called political leeches, : Tri his. stateent Rickard anid: “Nothing is further from the truth. “I am not convinced in my own ming|Not once here or in Jersey City has that press and public as e unit would °"¥ ™mén or set of men forced any support any particular match right|™#tch on me, or exacted one penny now, although I feel sure that several °f ™Y Promotion earnings. matches which have been suggested} | ierer ay for Dempsey are all that could be de-|_ NEW YORK, Feb, 1—A blanket sired from a promoter’s standpoint | Proposition | AE hs Betapace rama abal would: have public sUD-| soe Beckett,” Hagiah heavyweight was made today to Jack Kearns, the “Tt is evident that opinion ts divided mae . as to the man capable of making the| ““™Pion's manager, by Tom O'Rourke, matchmaker at the Polo grounds, best showing against Dempsey. Ilatter Tex Rickard, internationally have always had the press and public! «nown boxing promoter, had decided with mo in my big undertakings. I) no: to exercise an option which he won't attempt any match unless that!haq on Dempsey's services. condition prevails now. -_..| O'Rourke proposed that the bouts “If any match that I propose should|e held at the Polo grounds tn this ever bring boxing as a sport into dis-!fity between April 15 and October 15, favor, I am always ready to with-| preferably on the Fourth of July and draw in the interests of boxing itself.{September 3, Labor day. Ma‘ ig of “T have been somewhat surprised] Dempsey and Beckett would depend on the outcome of a bout between the Hnglishman and Georges Car- pentier in London in May. over printed stories concerning pollti- cal pressure being brought to bear on me with regard to this match, and AMERICAN LEGION of the date, one. Joseph Sparks, National Rehabilitation Committee of the American Legion, has announced| chairman if his claim proved to be a legal ff lea | A sum of $25,000, the residue in that the “bedside cleanup” inaugur-/ +45 colorado war chest fund, has been ated last month in U. 8. Veterans’! awarded for the relief of sick and Bureau Hospitals by the Legion in| needy veterans of the World War, as conjunction with the Veterans’ Bn-| @ result of an injunction granted by reau had resulted in compensation| the. Denver District Court. The suit awards being made to 3,904 disabled| was filed by Rice W. Means, repre: senting the American Legion. The monéy has been turned over to a committee of Mr. Means, Morton M, David, Colora¢o Legton adjutant and representatives of the Veterans of veterans of tho world war now in gov-| ernment hospitala Checks for the amounts due under the awards have already been matied by the Bureau, | There are still 2,454 men in hosp}. tals whose claims haven't been ad-| Foreign Wars, Knights of Columbus judicated, Sparks said, but pointed| and the Y, M A out that this is less than ten per cent of the total of 25,355 veterans| now in government hospitals “Bedside decisions” were given during this Christmas clean up cam-| ‘The action of France in occupying certain territory {n the Ruhr valley was given a stamp of approval by the national executive committee of the paign, which was inaugurated at the| American Legion at its recent meet: request of The Legion. Uncer the| ing in Indianapolis attended by rep. usual bureau procedure, awards in| resentatives from every state tho individual cases would have been| The comm also adopted resolu made at the 14 District Offices of tha| tions approving tho action of the Bureau authoritie sulted Work will commence about Feb- ruary 15 on remodeling the bus'ness block on East Second street, next door to the Rialto theatre, which will make it one of the most attractive store and office structures in the city. The drawings, made by Garbutt, Weidener & Sweeney, architects, will be sent out to contractors for bids this week. The building, known officially as the Blackmore, and. built by W. A. Blackmore, mayor, {s now the prop- erty of C. E. Starr who is spending the winter in Californta. It is two story, of brick construction, with a 25 foot frontage on East Second street, The plans call for the front to be torn out and replaced by a lMmestone, Italian Renissance front, and the building to be extended 40 feet in length to the alley in the rear. The second story will be raised to permitt rutting in a mezzanine floor for the store space on the ground floor. This will give better lighting facilities and increnesed selling space: “There will be separate entrances for the stores United States to lend its ald to abate the wor'é: crisis and assist in the es- tablishment of peace. French occupation of the Ruhr was deemed necessary by the Legion heads. ‘The resolution charged that the Germans had attempted to wreck the financial system of their country for the purpose of avoiding payment and “by evasion and trickery sought to deprive France of the awards made by the peace conference.” The committee voted to send copies of the resolution to President Harding, the Congress and the French ambassador to the United States. The American Legion finished year 1922 with a membership of 302 ex-service men enrolied in 11,067 posts according to Temuel Folles Legion national adjutant. New York, Pennsylvania, ‘Illinois, Ohio and Massachusetts, in relative order, have the greatest number of Legionna: ‘The Legion is now organized in states, Alaska, Canal Zone, Hawaii Philippines and in the following for e’sn countries: Argentine, Belgium Brazil, British Isles, Canada, Chile, China, Cuba, France, Germany, Guat emala, India, Japan, Korea, New Zen- land, Peru, Poland, Porto Rico, Port ugese West Africa, Santo Domingo, Spanish Honduras, Turkey and. Ven- ezuela, ‘A state-wide basketba’l tournament will be held by the American Legion in Lincoln, Nebr., tho last week in February, the state athletic commis sion of the legion has decided at a meeting here. The state will be div:ded into etght districts. District championships will be determined at tournaments held in each district. The champions of each district then will compete in the state meet. Gothenburg won the tit'e of the legion last year. A letter has been sent to all legion posts of the stato urging them to organize basketball teams and enter the disrtict tournaments. The com mittee also recommended that posts promote track oro extensively. so that a better team could be sent to tue na tional American Legion convention in San Francisco thts fall. A butletin issued by the national legislative committee of the American Legion, in ¢xplanation of the new ad- justed compensation bill introduced by Congressman Frear of Wisconsin, declares that it is the duty of con- gress to determine the means of rais. ing the funds. “Many concerted attempts have been made to induce the legion to in- dorse some particular method of rals- ing government funds with which to meet adfusted compensation pay- ments, but the national legislative committee have consistently refused to do this, although representatives of two other veteran organizations have done #0 recently. The legion's policy has been that it ts the duty of con gress to determine the means of rats. ing the funds ani that this function does not con within the province ot} _ | ) AS Th a business caller | the week from Colorado Springs. | | the WILL REMODEL BUSINESS BLOCK HANDSOME STRUCTURE PLANNED and the offices on the second floor. The second floor wil] accomodate 10 offices, all of which will be entirely renovated and remodeled. Dr. M. & Kelth has made arrangements with the owner to take a suite of six rooms for his offices which will be at the front of the building. LAST REFUGEE VESSELS SAFF MANILA, Feb. 1—(By the Asso- clated Press.)—The last three belated Russian refugee ships arrived today, making a total of eleven now at Mariveles quarantine station. Admiral Stark, commander of the CASPER KIWANIS WILE ENTERTAIN WIVES AT DINNER February 12 Is Set for Ladies’ Night With Banquet at Henning to Feature Part Of Anniversary. The Casper Kiwanis club will en- Vertain the wives and sweethearts of thelr members cn Monday, Februar with a Ladies’ night. The w h starts on this date will also be annviersary week for the Kiwanis clubs of America, according to an announcement of W. D. Allely at the luncheon of the local organization today The Kiwanis club accepted an nvitation to take luncheon two weeks from today at the headquarters of the Wyoming Baking company. Th invitation was extended through Kiwantan W. J. Bailey. Following the meeting today the members pald a visit to the Moose hall which they had been invited to Inepect. The large new temple was gone through by members who were enthusiastic in their approval of the building. The meeting today marked a de parture {rom the routine of as sembling. The Kiwanians were placed at several smail tables instead of the usual long ones, it being thought that this would tend to heighten the sociability of the occasion. Buttons which had been ordered for some time arrived and were worn by members. These buttons are about two and one half inches in diameter and bear the name, nick-name, and business of each individual. They are for the purpose of promoting acquaintance. The attendance prize was donated by Dean C. Morgan and won by Jack Leary. It was a large bag of assorted nuts. FORTY NEW MEMBERS ADDED TO LESION ROLL IN TODAY'S CEMPAIGN Forty new members for the George W. Vroman post of the American Legion was secured this morning by the special “Mop-Up” squad of busi- district. Vladivostok exiles, and his chief of stau, Captain Firmin, came to Manila tonight to spend the week-end at Army and Navy club. They have been Invited to attend the ball to be given tomorrow night by the legisla- ture in honor of Governor-General Wo date es the canvassers work approxt mately an hour each morning. The regular business session of the ate, according to Governor Sweet Post will be held next Monday even-! —————————— ing fn the club rooms in the base ment of the Becklinger building. De tails of the business to be taken up/most readily will be forthcoming later. ness men canvassing in the business|ponement was assigned in th This is the best record tO/gram, except that the Wisconsin gov- OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. 1.—Police started a search today for an uniden tified men who Grove an automobil up to the curb in front of the dence of J. A. Horner, here ear day, and threw the body Lavera, 24 years of age, on the side-| walk after summoning the father | from his bed. The car then sped| away before the father coud ques! tlon its occupant. Horner told police he was) aroused by a heavy knock on his front door. When he answered it he discerned the car at the curb. | tr son h he quoted 1 the car as saying | I want to tall | 1 in here. to him." Horner replied, according | i} nis account to the pol: } “TI can’t’ the man in the car re joined, “He's dead.” And w these s he threw open the door anc: | hed the body to the sidewalk in here since Sun- the car in gea ner told the pi KIDNAPED RAIL | CHIEF IS FREE DUBLIN, Fet 1 the Asso- ciated Press.)}—Senator John Bagwell, general manager of th reat North. ern railway, who was kidnaped Tues- day night is again a free man, it was semi-officially announced this after- noon Whether he was released or escaped !s not’ known, the senate offi clals being siraply told he was free. ——— Conference of — Governors at K. C. Postponed) DENVER, Colo., Feb. 1.-The con jference at Kansas City next Friday of governors of e'ght states called by | Governor Blaine of Wisconsin, to dis [cuss “progressive legis‘ation" has been postponed indefinitely by the Wisconsin executive, it was an+ nounced by overnor am EB. {Sweet of Colorado. The governor said he had received telegram to this effect from Gov No reason for the post, tele a ernor Blaine lernor sald it would be impossible to hold the conference at such an early Birds are as sensitive to colors as jare huma: ings, but fish respond to green and yellow PAGE SEVEN. FATHER IS AWAKENED TO HAVE BODY OF HIS SON THROWN ON WALK; KILLING HOLDS MYSTERY Homer satd he carried his son's body into the house. Horner said the boy had been in t ph, Mo., about a year and po- ice ex 1 the belief that the bocy had bee! here overland. Investigation revealed that Horner had been shot once through the stom- ach and that he had probably lived some time after being wounded. Glenn R. 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