Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 3, 1923, Page 1

Weather ‘orecast —— Fair tonight and Si ; not much change in al ture. vou Vu. ww ee —_ a Mountain Resion Is Swept By Icy Blast GUNS ON GERMANS STATE CAPITAL REMOVAL BILL | IN NEW. FORM Natrona Measure Changed te Permit the Voters to Name Any City in State as Location for the Capitol CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 3.—(Special to’The Tribune.) —! Natrona county’s delegation, in the lower house has intro- duced House Bill No. 168, providing for submission of a con- stitutional amendment to decide the permanent location of the state capitol. This bill differs from the same delegation’s house bill, No. 129, in that it @ candidate for the capital and that the town receiving the largest “ma- jority’ vote shall ‘be the capital, ‘whereas.'the earlier Dill provided that Casper should be the capital. House Bil No, 129 will be withdrawn. The senate adopted a resolution late yesterday asking the federal gov- ernment to recognize Mexico. ‘The “Carbon Black" bill was re- ported in by the house oil and gas committee Friday with a recommen- dation, that it not be passed. Representatives Deloney and Healy introduced bill making it a felony for a etate officer to exceed his con- tingent fund, Tepresentative Froyd of Salt Creek Friday introduced House Bill No. 167, designed to increase the amount of the state's federal oll royalty in come applicable to construction ofa Casper-Salt, Creek cement highway. PRESERVE BILL IS PASSED The -bill creating a gamo preserve on Casper mountain was passed by the senate without a dissenting vote. ‘The, senate also finally cpmpleted Giscussion of senate 6, the Sibley child labor “bill in committee of the whole. As approved by the commit rovides that any town may be \treasurer, a Republican, whereas should the bill not pass and the in- surance commissioner's office. remain as at present, the commissioner will be appointed by the governor, a Dem- ocrat, andthe patronage will be dl- rected by the ‘governor’ appointee. Representative Harding, Republican, and Leslie A, Miller, the Democratic floor leader, engaged in a debate over (Continued on Page Four) | Shocks France Victor Margueritte, author of “La Garconne,” a novel which depicts the vices of the Paris smart set, has been called’ before the commission of in- quiry and has been suspended ftom the Legion of Honor, in which he had the grade of commander. The latter action was the result of complaints by several miombers of the legion who were shocked by publication of the bool. DEBT PROGRAM IS COMPLETED U. S. Commission Agrees on Details of Recommendations To Be Submitted to President Harding Today tee the measure is ame“ed to create | - a 6 child labor commission, which a rmeaty occupations in which children under 16 years of age may be employed outside of school hours. ‘As the bill was originally drawn thi: authority was given to the state labor commissioner. Senator Chambers introduced a bil’ designed to make the .'eugenics” law of the 1921 applicable in all counties This law provides that every mak person applying for a marriag: license shall produce a certificate from a physician that the applicant is-not afflicted with a venereal dis- ease in communicable form. As a result of a ruling by the attorney general's office somo counties have been enforcing the 1922 act and some have not. Dr. Chamber's bill is in tended to compel all counties to en force the act. _ A measure of great importance to irrigation and drainage districts was approved by the committee of the whole house. It provides for certifi- cation and guarantee by the state of bonds. issued by such districts. - The ‘bill constitutes the five elective state officials a stato fiscal board, which may, on recommendation by the state engineer, invest permanent funds of the state in irrigation and drainage district bonds. The investment, how- eyer, must bo authorized by \unant mous vote of the board. ‘The committee of the whole house approved Representative Jenklits’ bill requiring that candidates for puiiic offices shall file sworn statements of their qualifications for the offices to which they aspire, Tho"bill is de- signed to prevent the election to of- fice of persons. not qualified to hold them, ‘The first variance from ‘‘party lineup” in the house came Friday afternoon when epresentatve Jef- frey of Natrona county, a Democrat, voted with the entire . Republican membership to consolidate tho state insurance commissioner's office with the’ state treasurer's office. The re- mainder of the Democratic represen tatives voted against approval of the bill by the committee of the whole house. Should the consolidation bill be enacted and approved by the gov- ernor, the patronage of the insurance department will be directed by the WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—-(By The Associated’ Press.) — The American debt funding commission has been. called tc meet late today for a discussion of the form of the recommen dations it will make to President Harding in connection with the plan for funding Great Britain’s war-time debt, fnally nupproved by the commission last night. It is the hope of the commission to Place the draft of its recommenfa- tions In the hands of the president tonight. While there was no official statement indications werg that the discussions today will embrace main- y methods of procedure, authorization for which the president will be urgéd to ask of congress in translating the results of the commission’s negotia- tions into Iaw. As announced last night after a meeting of the commission with Sir Auckland Geddes, the British am- bassador, ‘the funding arrangement conforms. with previous announce- ments as to interest rates and provi- s'on for final extinguishment of the debt in 62 years. The interest rate is fixed at three per cent for. the first ten years, from December 15, 1922, and three and one half per cent there- after, with a fixed schedule of amor- tization payments approximating an average of one half of ono per cent of the principal. The British .government is given the right to make the annual pay- ments on principal in tyree year in- Stallments instead of every twelve but I feel that the ‘terms are hard. I still think that the proposals of the Balfour note are sound,” © REV. GRANT TO NEW YORK, Feb. 3.—The Rev. Dr. Percy Stickney. Grant, rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Ascension, has escaped trial for heresy for his pulpit utterances in which he professed doubt as to the deity of Christ, Bishop Wiillam T. Manning, who had demanded that~Dr. Grant ‘either recant or resign, says in a letter to the rector, published here, that his statements are too vague, and am: biguous and that a heresy court re- quires clear and convincing :propt of disbelief, “Therefore the present mat- ter rests,” says the bishop. i The bishop rebuked Dr. Grant not months, and aiso, on ninety days no- tico, to fetire any additional amount| OMY for Hie Peeper cee at of the bonded principal Groat Brit-| 80% ees ain’s financial position permits, ‘LLOYD GEORGE IS DISAPPOINTED. PLYMOUTH, England, Feb. 3.—(By The Associated’ Press.)—Davia Lioyd George, the former British prime minister returning today after hi vacation in Spain said he felt that the American debt settlement terms were hard and that he was “frankly disappointed." “England is able to pa: he said, “but it is a heavy burden. I do not think {it will benefit America as it must diminish their markets in the world, whether here or elsewhere. “The United States made the best terms ‘for their own country. It fs not for Me to complain or criticise SIMS FLAYS THE KU KLUX BOSTON, Feb. 3.—The Ku-Klux- Klan and Sein Feln sympathizers were equally condemned by Rear- Admiral William 8. Sims, retired, in an address to the Loyal Coalition. He advocated that the wearing of masks be made a criminal offense, suggesting an open season against masked men and urging that a boun- ty bo pad for their ears ns was pald for the ears of. wolves. a CORBIN ROW IS SERIOUS CORBIN, Ky., Feb, 8,—Twenty- five Kentucky national guard ma- chine-gunners were here today in response to an appeal to Governor Edwin Morrow by Mayor John Gitl- Yam and Shorift Young of Whitley county, who agreed late Friday that the wounding of two otler Ina gun thelr coxtrol. The situation has been tense since ‘the killing of two men and the wounding of two others 1 a gun fight betweon railroad workers and #pectal police on early Tuesday, J.C, Barker, Loutsville and Nash- ville engine dispatcher, and George the atreets here | Yaden, of London, a special officer | were killed. The officers, according to one version of the fight, approached the railroad men to inquire concerning | nm yolley of pistol shots. Tt was | claimed by surviving officers. tho |_men resented the ensuing interro } gation and the sun fight followed ESCAPE TRIAL GUARDSMEN CALLED OUT | | | sper Daily Cri CASPER, WYO., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1923. PMUTOIML EL IIS. Zero Temperatures Are Reported in Three States; Six Below in Casper DENVER, Colo., Feb. 3.— The Rocky Mountain region early today was gripped by the coldest weather of the winter with sub-zero tempera- tures being reported from every state. The cold wave was severest in the region in northeastern Wyoming and southeastern Montana, where the mercury descended to 18 degrees below zero. * Although the brunt of the cold blast has passed this morning, according to officials of the United States dis- trict weather bureau here, and fair weather was forecast in most of the Rocky Mountain states today, a severe cold wave was predicted for southeastern New Mexico today and freezing temperatures were forecast for southeastern and southwestern Arizona, ¢ Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico all reported the coldest weather of the.season in contrast io the almost- June-like days experienced during January. All low tempera- tures for the winter were shattered. Denver, the coldest po!nt In Colorado, had a temperature of 8 degrees be- ow. Temperatures below zero were general over the eastern slope of the state last night. At Lari Wyo., it was 10 below last n'ght and at Cheyenne, four be- low. The coldest pont west of the mountains, according to the weather bureau, as Modena, Utah, which shivered in 12 below zero weather. Northern Arizona and parts of west ‘Texas and New Mexico also were in the sub-zero wave™ Only light snows were reported in iny of the statea of the region. Mod- erate temperatures were reported In southern Utah and western Colorado ‘ast night, Salt Lake City reporting <x above zero and Grand Junction, Colo., had 26 above zero, which was he warmest weather reported from anywhere in the region. ‘The temperature herg was forced lown to six degrees below zero th morning by the icy blast which e: tended over the mountain region and he cold was aggravated by a light breeze. So FIRE IN LATHROP HOME CONFINED 10 BASEMENT; CLOTHING (5 DESTROYED An explosion caused from heating some automobile of] in a bucket on a gasoline stove iy thought to be the cause of a fire that broke out in tho basement of Dr. H. R. Lathron's resi- dence, 905 South Center strect at 9. o'clock yesterday morning. The previous day's washing was hanging on lines in the basement and the oll flew all over this as well as to other corners of the ryom, A Llaze broke out instantaneously and it was only a moment be‘ore the quarters were wrapped in flames. ‘The arrival of the fire departmeat prevented the blaze from spre .ling’to the upstairs. A fire on South Cedar street at 1:30 yesterday morning called out the fire dopertment, It was only « shed that way burning and did not result in nwich of a conflagration. ey LAUSANNE, Feb, 3.—{By The fers as fixed by of the districts istands of Imbros dnd Tenedos pass according to the terms of the draft, recognizes the British annexation of Cyprus. as a frontier between Turkey and Greece In Europ anople, but Greece gets the railroad station at Karagatsch, . Proposed Turkish Boundaries Lo from Greek to Turkish sovereignty, but have outonomous rights. Turkey hue | DRIVEN BACK FINAL EDITION , NUMBER 100. COBLENZ MOB Butt Ends of Guns Crowd Gathered Used Over Heads of Before Commission Building to Protest Removal from Rhineland of German Officials, Said COBLENZ, Feb. 3.—(By The Associated Press.) —French troops threatened with bayonets and used the butt ends of their guns at noon today to break up a crowd of 3,000 per- sons noisely protesting before the Rhineland high commission | building against the deportati DUE! DORF, Feb. 3.—(By The Assoc'ated Press.)—The temper of the {population in | pears jthough the industrialists and the im Associated Press.)—A clause in the al-/ portant magnates are as unalterably Ned draft of the treaty now being studied by the Turks provides for the opposed as ever to any co-op>ration renunciation by Turkey of all her rights to territories beyond her fron.|withy the French and Belgians. Pople ange treaty. This implies ths definite abandonment | from Turkey which now are under the mandate resumed thelr Joba at Cologne, Cob: of foreign powers. ‘The renunciation, so far as % affects all Turkish rights|lenz, Treves and Ludwigshafen, to Egypt and the Sudan, will be regarded as taking da‘e from 19) the occupied to be undergo area ap- ng a change, al- Not only have the railway workers as The | well as on some of the Rubr lines, but the Schutz-Polizei ave refused to at obey Duesseldorf Berlin's order The Maritzt river is fixed | that they ignore the French officers, Turkey obtains Adri-{and ntinue to salute them, German members of the z ‘Conquering Hero’ Is Arrested At Banquet in Honor NEW YORK, Feb. orchestra blared “Hall the Conquer- ing Hero Comes,” and Elfas Davis, 26-year-old real estate broker, went Just as the to the seat of honor at a banquet table at a club in Brooklyn last night, detectives intercepted him with handcuffs and a warrant charging grand larceny. -Women, stripped oft thelr jewels and men hauled out check books with offers of security if their guest was unmolested unt® after the feast, but the detectives were not to be diverted. In night court Davis’ bail was f'xed at $1,000. He ‘was charged with having given a man who painted his automobile a check for $53.77 which was returned stamped “no funds.” Returning to the Capitol Davis was presented with a gold mounted monogrammed pipe. He was to have sail@™ for Europe on the steamer George Washington today. . EXPLOSION IS STILL MYSTERY SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Feb. 3.— The explosion that shook this city with three deaths and injuries to more than fifty persons in the wreck- ago of Windows and walls over a wide area Thursday, was still un- explained, That it was due primarily to a leakage of gag in the purifying plant. of the Springfield Gas Light company, where it occurred, waa nd. mitted by company officials, Insurance adjusters were estimat- ing Camages, the amount of which was several hundred thousands of dollars. - club, The Tribune’s Annual Industrial Edition The most camplete, informative and authoritative col- lection of facts, figures and stories about Wyoming, will appear on Sunday, February 11. It is kept throughott 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 comin to refuse some of these Look for the in to this office, and we have had ecause of the shortage of copies. ‘Annual Industrial Edition It will be worth your while. Work is progressing rap'dly on. thy Casper City Director which the Tri- bune is to publish—the first directory here, at least in recent years, put out by a Casper organization. Many of the leading. merchants have already reserved apace in the directory, and those to whom Tribune represnta- tives have talked are enthusiastic in their support of the proposition. That a local directory compiled by local persons snd containing no for- eign advertising 1s something Casper ought to have had long ago 5 1 aelf- evident fact. A Casper directory should be devoted in iformation dnd SPACE IN TRIBUNE DIRECTORY RAPIDLY BEING FILLED UP AS MERCHANTS INDICATE APPROVAL dvertisement tles. pilicy of boosting Cas: alike Space is fast being Anyone who wants to,keep his goods, his business or his namo always be fore thé public should act prompt to the end that he may get good pos!- interna- to.Casper’ activi-|eoal to France. The Trbune, following {ts usual will ‘accept no out-of-town ads for the directorf. apportioned, ions of officials, tional commission at Badems, in the Coblenz area, who have been working with the allied experts in issuing ex- port licenses, quit, but- when Paul Tirard, the French Rhineland com- missioner accepted the'r resignations and announced that he would fill their places with French and Belgian functionaries, the Germans reconsid- ered and remained on the job. In Witten, where the restaurant and hotel keepers have been refusing to serve food or drinks to French offi- crs and soldirs, the situation has com- pletely changed. No discourtesy is now shown’ toward the forces of oc- cupat'on, The improvem between the the nt in the lations Populat c Working classes and to the sma!l tradesmen and shopkeepers, ‘The French authorities believe they have & long and bittr fight to wage: but hope to bring Berlin to terma. and foree the surrender of Gen. Payot, who is o i rot, 0 {8 operating eralof the important. ratlw for the French, she ts In tion to feed the civilian and will soon be the magnates, lines posi- Population ple transport Food trains are ale districts whe: strike 1s stilt effective: a to ready moving into railway CUPATION IS England, Feb, 3.—(Ry Press.)—An , act o: tion. The best space will not long be and the wrong way to i Calg {i_mer Prime Minister Lioya George's The Tribtne directory will be an|roich the! reparations problem. wae accurate, painstaking and complete ;¢naracter’ zation of the Ruhr occupa- work, and will far outelass any other|* 0": {7 an interview here today on similar publication issued during the past. RUM RUNNERS MEET DISASTER NEW YORK, Feb. 3.—(By The As- sociated ess.—Rum runne suf- fered two casualties early y in extensive landing operations from the Nquor fleet off the Jersey coast over night. ‘With drawn revolvers, customs offi- cers selzed the occan-going tug John L, Cann in Arthur Kill, arresting three men and seizing 600 cases. The other casualty occurred when coast guards captured the motor boat Rose on the ocean beach a mile south of Highlands, N. J. eae TWO ARRESTED IN AAI ON ALLESED BODTLES JOWT ON CENTER ST. In a raid on an alleged bootlegging }empor’um on the second floor of the Duilding at 220 South Center strect |Friday afternoon, Sheriff Perry Mor ris_and his deputies arrested J. W Cunningham. A young wom: headed and aged 25, who name of Esmer Mabee, sald to have Nn, Fed/are willing to compromise for $300, gave the) their Fair Weather Scheduled to Return Here Ww HID IN, E le. -Weath: er outlook for the week beginning Monday: Northern Rocky Mountain — and plateau regions: generally fair with temperature near cr somewhat be- low normal. Southern Rocky Mountain and Plateau regions: snows and rains at beginning otherwise fair; tempera- ture below normal, Pacific s es: Considerable cloud- iness and occasional rain. ature 1 Temper r normal INDIANS TO DROP CLAIMS | PHILADELPHIA, » Feb. Two Ind chiefs who came from Wisconsin to claim for the Oneida tribe plots of land in the heart of the city worth more than $1,000,000 allroad fare ‘back home and enough money to pay their board bill. been slightly scantily attird, was ar- “These Indians,” Richard Weglein rested at the same time on a charge} president of the clty of vagrancy. May, “are remnants Cunningham obtained his freedom! o; on $1,000 ball this morning but it was short lived. Five minutes Inter was rearrested on a, charge of vag rancy. Last Survivor | Household Dead he} owe them something | \“Old Hickory’s’’ | fa ie ei NASHVILLE, Rach T 1 Jacks neral Lawren Jack dau Andrew owned all of the were probab'y {ll ad: in Casper 4s return from Spain, “Tt iso sure way not to get repara- |tlons, T thinks,” at dan he said. | GE government's note to the reparat‘ons commission Protesting against the recent refusal of & moratorium 1s regarded by a part of the French press as a fore. of German and |a8 a direct result of the French action jin th Rubr. Pub'leation of the note today causes commentators to remark that it rep- resents Germany's first attempt to- ward resumption of exchanges with tho allies. PARIS, Feb. 3—(By The Associa- ted Press.)\—The reparations commis- js'on today adopted a resolution sus- |taining its own action of January 26, jin refusing Germany a moratorium. |The resolution was passed as a reply |to yesterday's protest note from Ger- n Ttaly r and Belgium yoted |for the resolution, Great Britain ab- |stained from vot'ng, as in recent rep- jaration commission ballots, |, The speed of the commiss'on’s ag jtlon on this no » is pointed to as em. The note w: It was received Fri- ¢ and answered today. reparations commission, after noting the German reply on February 1, maintains {ts decision of January |26 with its consequences,” the resolu- read, The January decision refused many moratorium and put tn {force n the schedule of payments adopted May 21, umission today by the same The vote & reso’ution to maintain for 1924 schedule for deliveries of |wood b; rranged last July, WASHINGTON show teological sur. production of OIL ° Py * ° TULSA, O} ady Mrs, | “Mid-c tor | triby Feb. 3.—Recent price posted neces DEMAND ICES RESPOND many cornered contest on the part of the major purchasing companies t n the for high grado