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

| i Weather Forecast Cloudy tonight and Thursday, pob- ably snow in north portion; colder in north and cast portions. Che Casper Daily Cribune ;| EDITION CASPER, WYO., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1923. DEATH OF FILM | 1 AGTOR PROBED AT GOAST CITY Sheldon Judson, Mecused of Manslaughter, Found President Harding in Message to Con-| gress Asks Legislation to Permit Ad- justment of Great War Debt = WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—Congressional approval of the war debt funding agreement negotiated with Great Britain vas requested by President Harding today as a “recommit- ment of the English speaking act.” dress at a joint session of the senate and house, congress should enact into law the administration ship bill be- cause “it is as important to avoid \losses as it is to secure funds on Dead at Residence, |=” LOS ANGELES, Feb. 7.— The authorities today an- nounced they were investigat- ing the death of Sheldon 3ad- son, 27-year-old moving pic- ture actor, world war aviator, and son of wealthy parents, whose body was found on the floor of his room in the family residence here Monday. Police detectives and attaches of the coroner's office were trying to| ed by the American and British debt yea of President Harding’s address @ecide, they said, whether Judson's death was natural, suicidal or inflicted by some other persons. The detectives sald they found a glass syringe on the body. and on a table nearby a quantity of white powder and a coffee cup containing a dark fiuid. The county autopsy surgeon said death followed dilation of the heart which might have been caused by acute indigestion. the powder and liquid would be saplyeed; pointed out that Judson faced a charge of manslaughter as the result of an accident New Year's eve, when his*atitomobile struck an killed Charles Brown, a manufacturer of tents and awnings. RUINS GIVE UP THREE BODIES WICHITA, Kans., Feb. 17.—Three more bodies, all burned beyond identi- fication, were taken from the ruins of the fire-swept Getto building this af- ternoon, bringing to total number of bodies recovered to six. It is believed there are five more buried in the debris. 2 CORRECTION In publishing the final report on the Seal campaign the amount credited to roll call receipts from the Elk Street school was given es $7 instead of $17. The latter figure piaces this school well up in the Ist of contributors. Ample time for action on both of these: measures, it was declared, by Mr, Harding, remains before the pres- ent congress goes out of existence on March 4, and efther, he said, was fit to be recorded as a chapter of great achievement. The president made no_ specific recommendation as to the form the action of congress on the British debt should take, leaving it to the leaders in congress to decide what method should be adopted to amend the pres- ent law so as to permit consumma- tion of the agreement recently reach- commissions. “It was manifest from the begin- ning,” he said, “that Great Britain could not undertake any program of payment which would conform to the limitations. of time and interest rates which the commission had been auth- orlzed to grant. But here was a great nation acknowledging its obligations repay. negotiate in a business way for a fair sion went so far jas it belleyed the “So your commission proceeded to "LEGGERS B. ATTLE U S and just settlement. Your commis. a a . ‘American. sense -of fir play “would | « justify. © © Coupled with this approval, world to the validity of con-| the president added in an ad- important contribution to internation-) al stabilit; | Mr. Harding's apyeal for action on| the ship bill was prompted, he said, by suggestions that its opponents Were seeking to prevent a roll call on It before the end of the session. “Mere avoidance by prolonged de- bate,” he declared, “is a mark of im- potence on a vitally important Dublic | question. I plead for a decision. If} there is favorable majority, the bil! should be enacted. If a majority is opposed, defeat will be decisive. Then, if congress falls in providing the re- quested alternative measure, the exe- cutive branch of the government may Proceed as best it can to end the losses in liquidation and humiliation." ‘WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—The full PART ONE To the congress: You have heen asked to assemble | Tricolor a (Continued on Page Five.) WASHINGTON, ‘Feb. 7One man “It means vastly more than the | as in a hospital hero with @ bullet mero funding and the ultimate dis- charge of the largest international loan ever contracted. It 1s a re-com- mitment of the English speaking world to the valldity of contract; it is in effect a plight against war and war expenditures, and a rigid adherence to that production’ and retrenchment which enhances stability precisely as it discharges obligations.” Alluding tndirectly to proposals to attach to the congressional act of ap- proval a soldiers’ bonus bill, the pres- ident reminded congress that the war time authorization for the loans con- tained in itself a stipulation that when the money was paid back it should be applied to the retirement of liberty bonds and other government issues. ‘As a part of his statement on the edt negotiations the executive read a report from the American commis- sion, headed by Secretary Mellon, de- scribing the settlement as “fair and just to both governments,” and pre- dicting that it would, ‘make a most JAIL SENTENCES FOR LIQUOR VIOLATORS PROMISED BY COURT Judge C. O, Brown sprung a bomb- Bhell in district court this morning when he announced that all future convictions ¢f Hquor violations in his court would carry, in addition to a fine, a jail sentence. The judge made this statement in connection with a fing of $400 and a jail sentence of 60 days he !mposed on John Murdock on @ plea to being guilty of trans- portation of liquor. The judge postponed the jafl sen- tence until the next term of court THREE PERISH because Murdock has no one to look after the sheep which he runs in the vicinity of Pine mountain. Murdock was arrested by the sheriff's office yesterday afternoon on West Yellowstone avenue. Ho was (iriving a team to town and had jugs of Mquor concealed in sacks of oats, necordine to the deputies who made the arrest. A y.s.c to Murdock's sheep camp resulted in the arrest of Henry Mathisson, who will be charged with the manufacture of the moonshine, wound in his head and his two score| of: companions, \ alleged “tootleggers were still’ at largo and unidentified today following their three hour fight with’ 15 prohibition agents in Prince George's county near Walnut, Mary- land, late. yesterday, The wounded man, who was said to be in a serious condition, ‘refused to give his name before’ lapsing into unconsciousness. In the seizure of three stills, one of 1000-gallon capacity, and a great quantity of corn whisky at the other two stills in Maryland, after the de- fenders had taken to the woods when their ammunition gave out, the auth- orities say they have shut off one of the chief sources of Washington's bootleg liquor supply. When the enforcement officers armed with shot guns and .45 calibre revolvers arrived’ and separated into two groups to make the raid, after leaving thelr automobiles on a road PROPOSED TAX ON GAS IS CUT CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 7.—The lower house of the Wyoming legisla- ture this morning voted to reduce the Proposed gasoline tax from two cents to one cent per gallon, but deferred final action on the bill until the after- noon session. The senate took up the primary-convention bill and resumed discussion in the afternoon. A bill to consolidate the state boards of live: stock and sheep commissioners and the office of the state veterinarian was offered by Representative John Stevenson of Albany county. The house revenue committee last night considered the severance tax. mens: ures but took no vote. IN BIG FIRE Hotel Blaze at El Paso Takes Toll in Lives of One Woman and Two Men; Several Injured by Jumping EL PASO, Texas, Feb. 7.—One woman and two men lost their lives early today in a fire at the Hotel St. Charles, at El Paso and Overland streets. Five others were injured. The woman died from suffocation. from injuries received when h window. He was unidentified. Margarito Morales, Pueblo. Colo., suffered rio injurle leaping from a window adjoinin, the opel from. which the unidentifed man | One of the men died e jumped from a third-story to police Detective F mere: nic ¢ hosp’ Burns. They were examined by Dr. | John A, Hardy, police surgeon, but the unidentified man died a few min- utes after his arrival. Juan L. Stiff, the third to die, was suffocated by smoke. He was car- ried by firemen to the street uncon- scious. He died in police emergency hospital without regaining conscious. ness. Names of those be learned early injured could not today. There were three men, police officers said. One man was overcome by smoke and others recelyed minor infuries in escaping from the burning building. M. D. Sires, proprietor of the hotel, estimated his loss at a ately $4,000, ‘The bullding ia three stories and the hotel occupied the upper two. Origin of the fire was undeter: ined. ONE IS WOUNDED IN GUN FIGHT ‘He saia| 2nd secking terms in which it might | ® tricolor of Frapce was raised, \ AGENT @ mile away, lookouts were said to have given the alarm at which more than a score of men left the stills and opened fle. They then backed ‘off, it was said, to a second line of defense which they held for moro than an hour.’ Breaking from there the fight- ing then waged over a mile of open fields and wooded ravines for two hours more during which the boot- legger force was almost doubled by re- inforcements, before its members escaped into the wood FRAUD TRIAL KANSAS CITY, Feb. 7.—Defeated in h’s legal battle to evade trial, W. E. Stewart, indicted on a charge of using the mails to defraud in con- nection withthe sale of Jand - of Hidalgo county Texas for which 4 company known by his name 1s alleged to have received $60,000,000 was docketed for trial in federal court here today. American soldiers who arrived home today are leaye of wives and sweethearts at Coblenz. husbnads to the port of embarkation in a separate train. Supplants Old Glory on the Rhine iy Hero is shown the dramatic moment on the ramparts of the historic fortress of Ehrenbreitstein. The Stars and Stripes were lowered, bringing the American period of occupation to an end, and in thelr place tho When They Left Coblenz shown above Wives followed theri LAST YANKS TO LEAVE EUROPE ARRIVE HOM Mrs. Stillman To Open Shop In New York NEW YORK, Feb. 7.—Mrs. Anne U. Stillman is going into the whole: sale millinery business in’ this c! her secretary revealed after Jus- tice Morchauser in White Platns had denied application for extra alt- mony from her divorced ‘husband, A G transport 5 Savannah to Join in Ovation to Troops Back from Germany taking | soldier eur hae BU os) \ Thousands Crowd Water Front Today at SAVANNAH, Ga., Feb. 7.—(By The Associated Press.)—}| For many of the soldiers aboard the Mihiel, who formed the merican army of occupation on the erman Rhine, tt was tho first sight James A, Stiilman, of the United States for more than peared five years. While whistles and s'rens sent) up a shrill welcome and thousands at u the dock cheered, the veterans, crowd ing the rail of the transport, answered yell for yell r STATE SENATE CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 7.—A| resolution proposing a constitutional amendment for a soldier bonus was introduced in the Wyoming senate to- | veterans who married al. ‘The soldiers danced frantically about the deckiof the ship and tarew ats into the alr. ‘The wives and children of 24 of the in Germany clung to the ship's rail and gazed at? the throng welcoming | |husbands and fathors to the lan1| that Is to be their new home. 4 their soldier day by Senator Kelley. The proposed| ‘There were 908 officers and mon amendment provides for payments |aboard the transport which was man graduated according to length of serv-|ned by former service men fee to all Wyoming ‘residents y Fr of served the World wa A max mum of $500 is spec ate ‘ would be Issued to raise the necessar afte funds, The last American troops to return from the war in Europe, touched home soil here at 2:40 o’eclock this afternoon. | Navy Withdrawal at Smyrna Is De- manded Again in Warning Today CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. ’.— (By The _ Associated Press) The Turkish command- x at Smyrna has informed she commanders of the allied warships there that he has or- ders to enforce the!r withdrawal if they do not comp’y with the Turkish order to leave Smyrna. Constantinople’ dispatches yesterday announced that the Turks had not! fied the foreign commiss!ons in Con- stantinople that after today no for eign warship exceeding 1.000 tons might enter the harbor of Smyrna and that no two ships of one nation would be allowed there at the same time. The allies protested to the Angora government against the order and as @ result of a conference of the allied admira's, the British admiral, Nichol- son, on board the British cruiser Cur: acoa was ordered to Smyrna. The Constantinople advices indl cated the powers were disposed to dis- regard the order, PARIS, Feb. 7—(By The Associa- ted Press.)}—The French government ‘s cons!derably worried over the symp- toms of extreme nationalist action by the Angora Turks. The news that representatives of the Angora govern- ment have warned the allied warships to quit Smyrna is regarded as Indi- cative of the spirit preva'ling in An. NUMBER 103. ALLIED COMMANDER BRITISH DEBT FUNDING PLAN IS DETAILED COMMISSION TO REVIGE WYOMING TAX PROGRAM To BILL PROPOSAL Measure Introduced by State Solon; Purchase of Booze Would Be Fel- ony Under Another Bill CHEYENNE, Wyo.. Feb. 7. —A bill to create a Wyoming tax fact finding commission, to be composed of the gover- nor, the secretary of state and the state treasurer, was of- fered by R. H. Alcorn, chairman of the house revenue committee. The commission would investigate and re- port on the possibility of giving the state a complete revision on its taxa- tion system. Representative L. R. Ewart of Cody proposed a joint resolution set- ting aside February 26, the birthday of Buffalo Bill, as Cody day in Wyo- ming. Of two measures introduced by the house law enforcement committee, gora and which is considered likely to effect the disposition of Ismet Pasha with respect not only to the j clauses of the Near East pence treaty that remained contentious subjects at Lausanne, but also those that had a’ready been agreed upon. It is feared in official circles here that after a soujourn in the atmos- phere of Angora,. whither he is bound from-—Tausaimer Tsrmet “thay fes're to modify some of the concessions he has already made as Turk'sh foreign min- ‘ster and head of the Turkish delega- tion to the peace conference. Meanwhile exchanges of views wil! continue among the allied govern. ments as to how to prevent a fresh outbreak of hostilities between the Turks and the Greeks, LONDON, ‘eb. 7.—(By The Asso- elated: Press.)—The British intend to pay no attention to the threaening Turkish ultimatum demanding that the allled warships leave Smyrna, it was stated authoritatively this after- noon. There is nothing in the armis- ‘ea agreement prohibiting tha pres- ence there of allied warships, it was added, and the British do not intend to leave. The allied high commissioners have addressed a strong protest against this demand and uttered warnings of the gravo consequences which will follow any attempt at coercion ‘hy the The French consul at Smyrna reports the French colony thers as great!y disturbed by the menacing turn of the situation and has re- ed authorly to embark (French subjents aboard the French steamship Plerre Loti and the French cruiser now at Smyrn: pal ih 86! Plane Takes Food Suppiy To Marooned SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. i Pilot Kenneth Unger ‘of tt United States Air mail service, toc this machine to the head of Am ean fork canyon, southeast of hi and dropped from the air 200 pounds of foodstuffs to three per- sons marooned at the Pacific mine because of deep snows. A tele phone message from the mine yes- terday said the food supply was nearly exhausted and then arrange- ments were mace with the mail ser- vice to bring Unger's airplane into one would make it a felony to sell liquor to minors and the other would provide a fine and prison sentence for offering a drink or drinking in public places. w. Deloney of Jackson proposed to prohibit the granting of franchises for irrigation projects on the five Inkes nearest the Teton mountains, in the area that.will.be included in Yellowstone park if the park is extended. A third severance tax measure was offered by a group of nine leading re- publicans In the lower branch, P. W. Jenkins of Fremont county offered a resolution officially recognizing Mrs, Esther Morr's of South Pass, Wyo. ag the originator cf the world's sut- frage movement. The republicans of the senate went into caucus this af- ternoon on the primary bill and the one to abolish the appointive board of equalization. PHARMACISTS BILL KILLED BY SENATE CHE ve ming will not have “pharmacists? trust’’—not, at least, for two years. The senate mado that certain Tues- day afternoon when it killed house 5, lating to the sale of poisons but so Grawn that it would have prevented ayy save licensed pharmaeists from selling proprietory medicines, even in the origina] packages, Inasmuch as Feb. 7.—Wyo- there are localities in Wyoming scores of miles from tho nearest d pharmacist’s, but where prop- medicines » obtained from general the passage of 5 would have imposed a hard- of such reasons © patent medicines. house ship on inhabitants who desire to u A kindred measure, house 7, was awaiting action by the senate, Both were introduced by Representative W. H. Edelman, Sheridan, ‘The house also killed an Interesting measure | Tuesd afternoon—house 93, which provided that it should 1 unlawful for any landlord to refuse to rent or lease a house, room or apart- ment because the prospect tenant was incumbered with children less than 16 years of a Interlocutory divorce decrees will be granted in Wyoming if house 238, by Representative L. A, Bowman, in troduced Tuesday afternoon, is en- acted. It provides for a: probationary @ pharmacist of period of one year between the de- cision to grant a decree of divorce and the {issuance of the permanent de In the meanwhile an inter: locutory decree would be in force. action. (Continued on Page Five.) SHIP SUNK IN CRASH AT SEA No Lives Lost When Liner and Motor Ship! Collide 20 Miles Off Frisco; Crew of One Is Safe in Boats SAN FRANCISCO, Feb, 7.—Four hours after the pass ger liner’ Wilhelmina collided with the woodén motor ship s rra, at sea about 20 miles lock this mornin n- from San Francisco at 4:15 , the crew of the Sierra had taken to life boats, while the Wilhelmina was in no danger and was un- lamaged ex ept for a dented bow. | SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 7.—Rescus ships at daylight were approaching, about 20 miles from San Francisco, @ position at sea where the passenger Uner Wilhelmina and the wooden mo. tor ship Sierra gollided at 4:15 o'clock this morning. At last reports the Sierra was in a sinking condition while the Wilhelmina was apparently in Jia aking but dang, no imm«