Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 22, 1923, Page 1

K Generally fair ton‘ght and Friday, except rain or snow in extreme north- west portion} mot much change in temperature, VOLUME VII. Weather Forecast | MORE INTEREST NOW MANIFESTED INS16,000 GIFT CAMPAIGN HERE: Tribune Finds Encouragement in Fact That Many) Are Helping Favorites; Subscription-Getter Is One Who Piles Up the Most Votes. A little more interest has been manifested in the Tribune | “Everybody Wins Something” competition for the six big, | handsome, speedy motor cars, the purses of gold and silver M * se t | interndttewa? Ramifications Develg p in’ Breaking Up Gigantic Ring; Mainry Still Being Sought Here © NEW YORK, Feb. 22.—International ramificatioyhs of the FREE OFFICERS huge counterfeiting system which secret service cd bared yesterday were indica announced that 15 arrests have Persons have been arrested Hamburg, Germany; Havana, Cuba; Austria, the Bahamas, Naples, Ital, and France as a result of clues given | the police of the foreign countries by secret service agents here, Palma said. In Naples two men and a woman Palma, secret service agent in charge of the inve: and the cash prizes. This is indeed gratifying to hope that eventually this campaign would get under way in|of them escaped, Palma said. The who ts resorting to this method, there-| something like the manner that it ehould, is seen., However, nothing, yet has developed that indicates can- didates have even begun to hit their stride. Response so far has heen dis- appointing—d'sheartening. Candidates Slow to Respond. Candidates are slow to respon’. Many are spending most of their time chasing after coupons and put- ting off getting of subscriptions. Subser!ptions count. for so much, count up so much faster than cou- pons, that there {s no ‘compar'son. One new yearly subscription offsets 270, of the coupons good for 100 votes each, Then, too, subscriptions count on the tlub rate and figure on the commission of 20 per cent guaranteed to every active candidate wlio does not win a ‘prize. Coupons are not , worth a cent toward comm‘ssions. \ Tuesday and yesterday brought sev. eral inquiries, some accompanied by votes. Some of those who have been nominated. too, evidentiy have thought over carefully and have de- elded that the opportun'ty of secur- ing an automobi'e is too good to pass by, j It ts to be hoped that this election! will soon begin to show a live‘ier in- terest than has been man fested since lout the Tribune. The first ray of by injuring other candidates, No “Bluff” Tolerated. No “bluff” game witl be tolerated. The Tribune campaign is and will be conducted in a fair, square and just manner to everyone and those who participate must conduct ther own races in exactly the same manner, Not Fair Indication. Neither the list of candidates nor the recorded vote today ts a fair {ndl- cation of how the race will be. Sub- scriptions and coupons have been turned in for some who as yet have made no apparent actual effort them-, selves. Another few have tried to skim the cream. Eventually the elec- tion will narrow down to the real workers—the real prize winners. Some contestants there are who will- get a'ong very well for a few days. They will bubble oyer with enthust- asm. But it won't last. They'll go nd “get ther ears knocked down" once or twice and they’ ready to quit. They haven't got the stuff in them that will urge them on. And rather than admit the'r deficiency they’! come in or write in and say f'n@ T haven't got the time.” Oth- ers wll he content to let the'r friends be} yote for them when they turn in their subser: ptions over the counter tn ithe Tr’bune éffice, but wil! not fin'sh. é Moiature Life's Battle. this big gift distribution was rst an-) nounced, : Circulate False ‘Rumors. In some campaigns there are usual-| ly @ few candidates who think they! can win by attempting to bluff or ture, discourage competitors by false Fu} selves: mors of exaggerated success. To a! become so w'th the proper urge. Still within them- Others can Some have | it to be successful. small extent the Tribune has heard others Iack confidence in themselves| thoroughness. sibly some one interested, directly or Really !t is regrettable that indirectly, in the fortunes of a can-| votes cast are no more than they are. aidate's election, is resorting to this|In truth, the present status of this method. election would not justify the Tr:bune The Tribune calls the attent'on of! in putting up mors than a cheap dia- all participants and their friends to! mond ring. a f'ashy watch, a music a rule of the campaign whereby ths|box or a whoople. management muy disqualify any can-| The prizes are extraordinary. Never didate or candidates in this election Continued on Page 2) rumors that lead to a belief that jor ability to stick and win, SLAYER SEARCH AIDED BY U. S. Bootlegging Developments in Mysterious Killing of Earle Remington Makes Case Even More Complicated LOS ANGELES, Feb, 22.—Federal prohibition agents to- day joined the police in their search for the slayer of Earle Remington, electrical gnetneer, shot down in his own door da Kk tonight. a Thee cty came eae a declaration by the police that the widow, Mrs. Virginia Lola Stone Remington, had told them the dead man was a “soctety” boot- Remington was also said to have Some will start! the) legger and after the police had found, questioned and temporari'y released, ® man who admitted having operated three atills for the engineer, ‘The police also said they had locat- e4 a large quantity of liquor said to hayes been in Remington's posses- sion, but the chief interest of the fed- eral officialy wus believed to rest in the police statements that one of Temington’s notebooks, containing | 200 namea and records of sales, had| | come into their hands, It was said that although the liquor in question was disti'led by an ama teur it waa sold to # weléect clientele ineluditig persons high in business and society siectes of Los Angeles, The police questioned several men whore names appeared in the Rem: ington notebook and stated they ob- fained admissions of purchases of} Maquor from the engineer, ‘The officers took nearly 100 gailons of bootleg whisky from the basement of the* Remington residence and de- cared they had been told by the man who admitted having operated stills for the slain man that one of them, with a capacity of 75 gallons, had| heen installed first in the basement | of Remington's business office here} and later moved hia ranch neav{ Ch’no, 40 miles east of Los Angetes, According to the operator, whe name wie withheld, the last of th bootleg whisky ja sleek was made in December, | war, either because he cut the price, had some bonded whisky in his pod session and an angie of the investiga- tion was an effort to learn whether he had any direct dealings ‘with rum- runners operating out of Canadian and Mexican ports, Bearch for’ other personas believed to have been connected with the filicit Mquor activities credited to’ Reming: ton Jed the detectives to revive their earlier theory—once discarded—that he wana victim of a bootlegger’« they sald, or because he bought a Jarge quantity of amugesled bonded lquor and “paid” for it with a check upon which payment could not be | were arrested with $50,000 in spurious | money in their possession, but ‘one | ozen others taken into custody, he said, were all traced as ‘a result of |the investigation which culminated | in the arrest here of 28 persons Tuesday night. * sought. Already he added, about 1,000 passers have been captured in| Amer‘can cit!es and have been tried! on such charges. | NEW YORK, Feb. 22.—Secret serv-) jice men began today drawing in the [strings of a nation-wide net that they \expect will enmesh 1,000 members of} Jan international counterfeiting con: jSpiracy that they believe has its ten-| tacles gripped in every important city) of the country. The ring {x bel'eved to have made jand distributed between one and ten) {million dollars of bogus bills and spur- fous stamps. | Arrests all over the country with |raide centering in Chicago, Detroit, Sun Francisco and other cities were forecast today by those federal offi- clals who completed last. night thi ting of 64 alleged counterfeiters ‘n | tho metropolitan district. Deprived of its brains the sleuths belleve the or- ganization to be incapacitated. While secret ‘seryico men tn id jSountry"are following the trait they) hit upon eight months ago in Detroit It is junt the batt'e of Efe in minia-| the police of several countries have |been hunting the mémbera of the/ {band which extended its operations lover three countries with amazing The haunts of the principal mem- bers are known, so secret service men say. ‘Thirty one of those arrested were held in the Tombs prison in bail rang: \ing from $2.500 to ten times that amount and two others held in New- ark, N, J., also under bond. : ‘The raids that.fetched the 64 — ‘twenty-eight in the last two days — | also developed huge stacks of coun- terfoit bills, stamps, Mquor permits and Mquor dottle labels, besides a complete printing an dengraving out- fit, planted In Greenwich Village. Several Gistributing offices were found, one within shouting distance of police headquarters. The state of the printing plant in- ONLY ONE MORE DAY Contestants shou'd bear in mind that they have but one more day in which to secure the winning points toward the splendid prizes the Wyo- ming theatre has so generously offered, All subscriptions received at the campaign department by 9 o'clock Friday night will count toward these prizes. “The Flirt,” starting at the Wyo- ming theatre on Thursday ts a vivid cross-section of American home life by Booth Tarkington. It has been gcreened as a Untversal-Jewel pro- duction, with Eileen Percy Helen Jerome Eddy in the feminine roles and George Nichols, Harold Goodwin, Lloyd Whitlock, Edward Hearn, Bert Roach and William Welsh among the men folks, ‘This ia a production, that will in- eed mean a very enjoyable even- ing not only to yourselves, but also to your friend«, to whem you will have the opportunity of extending an invitation to Join you in tho eve: nings pleasure, {f you do your very best between now and Friday night, Your friendu have been very, loyal in thelr support, here {# an oppor. tunity to elmburee them for their and jin Itatfan and Jewish ved lon the Aleova road. A 5! atlas AY, FEBRUARY 22, 1923. GERMANS CALL ON FRENCH TO sratives! Pra Also Demand Satis- 4 faction for All Vio- lence, Said ted today when Jc been made abroad, / in Egypt, Liverpool, If ngland;| dicated that the detectives (arrived as! the trial was growing cold: 4|Msmantle-| ment had been begun. Joseph A. Palma, chief a)! the spe- BERLIN, Feb. 22.4-(By The AAso- jcial_ squad that bared the) ¢/onspiracy/¢tatea Press.—The German govern- said that the chief avenugy of distri-;ment demands the release at this bution was through bootle|-gers and drug peddlers. Much ¢jounterfeit money was palmed off to “bootleg row,” while it swung at ag/ichor last! month off Highlands, N. J4) discharg-| { ing Mquor, she eid. The thoroughness of the! organiza-| tion Palma said was asta) mding, It Jme of all police officers still under rest in the French area of occupa- lon in a note presented to the French overnment by the German charge res at Paris, it was learned here eee reserves the right to demand fill satisaction for acts of violence in The leaders of the band operating} W88 divided Into — marmijifacturers,the Ruhr and vigorously _ protests |in the United States are under arrest,| Wholesalers and retail aigjonts, gun! against such acts. | Mr. Palma said, but a,» number of; men and liasison officers |) who kept} “In the note, the German govern passers of bogus money are being | each department in contacts) ent gives its version of the occu Ignorant immigrants of } thelr own) rpnces at Gelsenkirchen on February blood were declared to hava, been prin-! 72 when two French gendarmes and a clpel prey of the counterfell|/ters whose, German potice sergeant were wound. various headquarters werg) centered!ef, The sergeant died Inter. | \'The note calls attention to the aub- sequent measures undertaken by the , French occupational authorities, re- ferring to the imposition of a fine of 100,000,000 marks and to arrest of members of the police force. The communication alleges that the later step was attended by “brutal ex cesses” on the part of the French troops. : “The German government,” he note continues, “states that the clash with ene j \ i" \ y the individual officers over the ao Schutzpolizie by French gendarmes was considered by the French occu- Orsicere: Cothe Samrit Serre OPEL Dstional fotver, an auifficlent reason to arrested Tom Willlamson) and L. Ik! proceed against the entire city with Braswell in a raid on a mg gnshine es-| forceful measures, tho severity of tablishment 30 miles west} of the city! which could hardly be exaggerated. Tsatton sti Even in case blame had rested with ‘8. 4 at from nar, the re- &) profit. ‘The bogus stuff was p 50 to 17 cents on the d taller getting most of t! FINAL Crihune HOOVER SEEKS APPROVAL FOR FORD’S OFFER \U. S. Operation for, Shoals Project Is Opposed WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—Secretary | Hoover told the house appropriations committee considering the third de- ficlency appropriation bill, that he fa- Yored development of Muscle Shoals for making nitrates, and thad he was against government operation, it was disclosed today when the committee record was made public, “I would like to seo Mr. Ford do It, if that would suit anybody,” the sec- retary sald. <sress ought to adopt. I could not yapeak as to that, but I would like to feo anybody who has capital take (Muscle Shoals and turn nitrates out of tt. It was brought out that the United States has paid nearly a billion dol- Jars for Chilean nitrates since the civil war and the secretary sald that |as a protective mesure “we ought to | slo something for ouro wn relief.” Ho [added that there was 4,000,000 horse- [power on the Colorado river in Art- zona that he “would like to see turned into the manufacture of nitrates.” Tho Cotorado river, he sald, is “preg- nant with larger possibilities" more than any other horsepower project. U. S. FLAG ON PARIS HALL Major General Cronkhite, charges that certain important docu: ments dealing with the death of hi son, Major A. P. Cronkhite, who was shot and killed at Camp Lewis,| Wash. wero tampered with have | been ordered investigated DEBT FUNDING “I do not know whether} Mr. Ford's terms are the terms con-) EDITION NUMBER 117. Arrests Made Abroad in ‘Counterfeiters Cleanup Cronkhite Probe RIGHT OF TEXAN TO OCCUPY SEAT IN THE. SENATE I CHALLENGED Fraud and Illegal Expen- ditures Also Charged In Papers Filed with | Solons by Opponents | WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. —(By The Associated Press.) |—-Sweeping charges against |the Ku Klux Klan and its offi- cers were made today in papers filed with the senate jchallenging the right of Earte B. May- field to take his seat in the next con- gress as a senator from Texas. The election contest and {ts accom: panying charges were filed by George E. B. Peddy, who ran for senator last November in Texas as a Republican and independent Democrat, and who accused Mr. Mayfield during a bitter campaign with being the candidate of the klan as well as of the regular Democratic organization. Excessive and illegal expenditure of money by the Mayfield forces, fraud in counting the ballots and. other |{rregularities were charged in the |contest petition, which asked for a |recount. It was contended that Mr. Peddy actually was elected but in the event the senate does not so de- clde it was asked in the petition that Mr. Mayfield neverthelss be barred from taking his seat. The Ku Klux Klan was charged in the petition with concealing its real designs under a cloak of patriotic ithe German officer: icore mnaeite, 2c cers the punitive ex. ‘wagcconfiscated. The’ o Pedition would have been a serious with no trouble jn mak fed the 8P/wiolation of law as not even tn war @o“ncts of Individuals permit the im- | Worthington, known as Position of penalties upon the entire Population. “The French government apparent. ly approves the action of the local commanders, 4s these, without re- straint, are cohtinuing the maltreat- ment of the.city.” BERLIN, Feb. 22.(By The Asso- clated Press.)—A dispatch from Essen i Ai / says that General De Goutte has CHICAGO, Feb. 22,—FQMleral Judge) issued an order forbidding the entry Alschuler today sentencd John W.| of German cabinet ministers into the ‘the wolf of occupied area, The general has in- La Salle street,” to Leavy nworth fed-| structed the police and other author- eral prison for two year and to pay|\ties to arrest any minister disobeying | a fine of $1,000 upon @nviction of| the order and to take the offender using the mails to defrag 1d. before the military court. WASHINGTON IS PAID TRIBUTE Governmenti tl ‘Activities Suspended in Observani'e of Day With Exception of the Legislative Branch ] WOLF’ DRFIWS 2-YEAR TERM WASHINGTOS/, Feb. 22.—Federal government activities in all branches wi! h the exception of congress were suspend- ed today for the observance of George Washington’s birth- day. Both sena‘a> and house remained at their task of clean- ing up the legis] tive jam before adjournment of the session March 4, , the fordes at work against the well The official eéleb ry tion here cen- tered in ceremonies |) at Washington monument at which governors of being of the nation, particularly in regard to prohibition enforcement. BILL FINISHED BY THE HOUSE WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—The last action necessary to congressional ap- proyal of the British debt settlement agreement was taken today by the house, which, without a roll cail, ac-| cepted senate changes to the bill! amending the allied debt funding act. The measure now goes to the presl- dent 6nd upon his signature the agreement between the United States) and Great Britain worked out by the American and Britigh debt commis-| sions will come into force, having | been approved by the British cabinet. Under the terms of the arrange- ment Great Eritain will have 62 years! in which to liquidate ite war debt of $4,600.000,000 will pay interest at the rate of three per cent for the first ten years and 8% per cent thereafter, sit rb International and Goldwyn Merge, Report NEW YORK, Feb. 22.—The Inter- national Fitm corporation of which William Randolph Hearst 1s head and which controls the Cosmopolitan pro- ductians, has merged with the Gold- wyn corporation, it was disclosed to- day, ’ The merger, however, affects only the dittribution of pictures ar\\ each company will continue to produce| flms as a separate organization. There will be no changes in the executive branches of the two companies, The Hearst pictures haye for sev- the PARIS, Feb. 22—An American flag} pretensions, in order to hide plans to flow trom the Paris city hall today|‘ subject the government of the eon. | in honor of George Washington. The} stitution to the ‘inyisible empire’ fag Wan presentad br W. Alexander: nd-with conspiracy to evade, violate of Philadelphia through the French/ and defeat federal and state laws. It embassy at Washington. It was ac-|was further charged that the organ- companied by letters from President) ization had attempted “prostitution Harding and the governors of 32!of the Christian religion” and had states. resorted to use of “brute force, intimt- RRS ep, EL GPL dation and tmmoral and lawless OSTEOPATH FINED Practices.” SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Feb. 22.—The supreme court adjourned today with- out passing up on the constitution- ality of the Tilinois medical practices act of 1899 ‘under which Dr. Robert Schaeffer, osteopath of Chicago, was! fined $100 for practicing operative surgery. A misunderstanding of a| statement fn the court room by a newspaper man led to the erroneous report that the act had been upheld. A detailed indictment of the klan was made in the petition, which was regarded as the opening gun in ‘a senatorial election contest of un: paralleled bitterness. In addition to these charges, Mr. Peddy based -his claim to the Texas senatorship on an allegation that 200,000 votes counted for Mayfield were illegal and fraudu- lent” and that “several thousand’? (Continued on Pago Seven) MISSING BANK = CHIEF CAUGHT Trail of Fugitives in $213,000 Embezzle- ment Leads to Chicago and Search Is Made for Two More i CHICAGO, Feb, 22.—Frank L. Taylor, president of the First National bank of Warren, Mass., closed by bank exam- iners investigating the reported disappearance of $213,000 in securities today, was under arrest here and detectives awaited the arrival of his wife to apprehend her. A search was being instituted for Abraham Goldman of ing the bank's bonds and securities, Chicago, owner of the controlling tn- terest in the institution and Joseph|, Taylor said in his conference with B. Marcino, his son-in-law who it was) Goldman the latter voiced a suspicion all states had been 4 avited to listen “With aroused public opinion, in by radio, Layirng of wreaths at|honest administration and real co- the base of the mosy ment by Becro-| operation,” he said, “I am confident tary Weeks and otha; high govern-|that America is equal to the task for ment officials as © representa-| which the father of our country #0 tives of a number pf} patriotic organ: | ably Infd the foundation, and who wos izations and the paving of military! thoroughly imbued with faith in our honora to the mexsa\y of the first| institutions, faith in our people and president marked )10 ceremonial! faith In the ultimate outcome of our program, | figh with these great sources of Senator Shortrid ot Californ'a| evil." was the principal # panker on the pro dictions gram arranged by /th10 local chapter! BYRACUSE, N. ¥., Feb. 22.—The at the American | {deal of America is the building up oral years been distributed | by said had purchased a controlling in- of the Daughters Famous Players-Lasky corporation, which now is facing prosecution by the federal trade commission, charged with unfalr competition and monopo listic_ policies. LOST CHILD FOU The six-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Gray, 107 South McKinley, who was reported lost yesterday, was found during the afternoon by the | terest in the Merchants and Me- chantes bank at Philadelphia and the that Ma funds. Extradition was walved by Taylor ino had fled with the bank's Niagara Life Insurance company of | a he expressed a willingness to Buffalo, N. Y. to Warren at once. Arrested by private detectives here can't even pay my way back last night Taylor said the first news| th * he told detectives, of his bank's failure reached him investigation here last through newspapers. A suspicion! night disclosed that Taylor had a that all was not well at the institu: | responsible position with the Cooper tion, Taylor told the officers brought of America here until him to Chicago to confer with Gold when he resigned. man, Marcino, Taylor said, had dis ttending high schoo] appeared a week previous with the here. |Itevolution at Con Hiiental Memorlal| (Continued on Page Two) police department. key to a safety deposit box contain-| Marcino, who officials said, acted made, kindneas, |hall with other m k/etles partic!pat- agent Goldman, was reported ing, Among those, pank!: the an-| as be a fugitive from justice. nual pilgrimage ‘id lny to Mount) é REDIT “222 THIEVES ARE SURPRISED... +s Scouts? to lay & wreath on the tomb. | |Frank L. Tay president of the A floral tribute fr¥m Air Auckland} > ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° | First National bi of Warren, un- Geddes, the British | 93 hbassador was | |der arrest in Chicago, local authori. Hplaced on the tort yosterday by | | tle ues baie Lee gs gird sr to |Chartes Chilton, ody imbellor of tho | a search r Joseph B. Marcino, A embassy, acting for) yhe ambaasador, | 5 Q to be the brains behind the *e it thia aia not|W22, 1 confined sw fIlneas, Mir peace disappearance putes hone a AYON, Fret : ‘Texas, wanted to know if this did not! Gniiton was nccamg 4 10 Mount | anc es fi pank's vaults. Ridenot tbs today in the} mean that the former service men Wessel by Meet iitlem ‘Cumming| OMAITAy Neb, Feb, 22—An un- rifling ears, The un identiciea man ts believed, etther abandoned their} re have been ts Vordney of tha| Wowd have to wait 62 yeurs, the time! storey, honorary Adent general of| {dentified man wan xilled and two| Was dead when potice who had rein-| supposedly wounded companions or) missing since y 12, was. be- satrap te> attr REY A which the British Joan is to run, the D, A, R, who alag placed ® wreatl)) otners aupposodly wounded early thin| forced Curtis upon hearing the ex had them out of sight within tho|Heved to be on his way to South ways and theans committes as stating) H#phe gentleman knows better Chan|in the inner tomb, S1SUPD ibd yong ore than 100 shots, reach-) © % my moder 4g, America, officials said : that he had no objection to use of] that,” returned Ford In @ statoment t@ fay Yederal Pro-| Morning when Bam C. C policeman on a nearby'| fl Piaasortar| ‘ was said to tia money received from the foretan debt) 'T committee chairman Commisplad ier | Hayne e-| Chica 1 Great Weaterr - ed sed 8 nd Jose I "| l settlements for the payment of 4 sol-| Metion | told him be would pr that from 4, he characte t dete uf Havin enled re devs bonus after the monoy was in| that the matter he + 1 oup with orgs Washingtes the American) bimae thin the road's yards here e ee me Box r ‘ A rs € and | hand. President Harding before another] p should draw a lesson of pa opened fire on a party of #lx men| This ted of having con-| have been robbed aln nightly fo! ante bank Representative Bianton, Demperat, | bonus bill wag introduced, ‘ence and confiderf : in overcoming | whom he discovered in the act of} talned g bandits, who, it’ the last two weeks 1