Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 8, 1923, Page 1

The Circulation of the CASPER DAILY T RIBUNE Yesterday Was 9,703 Che Casper Daily Cribune (6, CASPER, WYO., THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1923. NUMBER 129. BLOODY REVOLT BREWING IN RUHR DISTRICT v | FOR SIDEWALKS INVESTIRATIONS. FINE AUTOMOBILES MAY BE WOH IS AWARDED TO Weather Forecast Unsettled tonight and Friday, rain er snow in north portion; cold to- night in west and Friday in south portion. ‘LUME VII. bpiteetness Toward French Is Growing | Among German Public as Pinch of ACTOR Hunger Is Felt; Death Rate Among Children Increases 20 Per Cent First Shall Be Last New Legate LONDON, March 8.—(By The Associated Press.) — Gloomy pictures of the situation in the Ruhr, with warnings | of an impending crisis, are painted today by some of the Lon- AT MER ROUGE MORE DEFINITE Torture Instrument Used On Daniel and Richard Is Believed Known. BASTROP, La., March 8. —FPersons who have exam- ined carefully the report of the pathologists on the con- dition of the mutilated bodies of Watt Daniel and T. F. Richard, found in Lake La Fourche, December 22, last, and who are fa- miliar with mechanical devices, de- clare they believe they have !dentified the socalled “torture machine’. as one of the many road or farm tractors fn use throughout the parish. Daniel and Richard were missed on August 24 and nothing was heard a them until four months later when two bodies were d'scovered lake and missing men. The head of each was crushed. The hands and feet of each had been crushei off and at equal distances the lower lexs, thighs, up- per arms and forearms were broken. The chests had been crushed in. The patheologists testitied at the open hearing iere In January that an examination indicated the woun¢s had been inflicted before or just at death. The heart of each man, they said, had been drained of blood. About three miles from Bastrop on the Batstrop -Collinston-Monroe high- way is a huge tractor used to pull a road scraper, a typical machine of Its kind. propelled by a heavy duty gaso-} line motor. The iron wheels re seven| first day as a convict. or eight feet in diameter while their rims haye width of approximately » three feet. Riveted to the rims to pre yent the wheels from slipping in soft earth are steel cleats the width of the wheels and about 15 inches apart. The bodies apparently had been stretched full length when they were mutilated with the arms brought above the hvad, Fractures of the fore- arms were on a level with the heads and those who assert the bodies must have been broken with a tractor be Neve they were stretched on ground and the machine run or push- ed over them. Such a machine as the one near here it {s contended, would inflict such injuries, the heavy cleats on the wide wheels fracturing the arm and leg bones, crushing the heads and chests and severing com.) pletely the hands and fect at the ts and just above the ankles. ie is Piaen that the authorities have received numerous anonymous letters from plantation owners and farmers suggesting that a tractor must have been used. — in the! identified as those of the| the} MAJ. J, . DOWNER NEW YORK.—The phrase “Tho! last shall be first” was reversed in! the case of Maj. J. N. Downer, who! was among the first American officers to entrain for Europe and was the last to return. He served five months in France. years and seven MRS. SALUDES TRIES | give some of your time and thought ja very few days’ work. Work dene these “big vote” days will easily bring success to contest- ants in The Tribune's big “Everybody Wins Something” e‘ection. The lag- gard, unwilling to devote any time or thought to the grand prizes, however, will reap no reward. ‘This is a cam- paign strictly for “live wires.” If you are alive, awake to the op- portunity now before you, willing to to a proportion whereby over $16,000 in prizes are at stake—then you should be a candidate in this cam- paign—a live candidate. You should send in your name today. You can secure your choice of the six big, powerful, beautiful automo: biles or hundreds of do‘lars in gold in ‘The work is easy—requires no special talent or ed- ucation to earn the very biggest of the awards. Your opportunity, then, to win a prize that will repay you many times SUICIDE for your efforts'is here, But, to get your rightful shares, you must get busy and take advantage of the op portunity. Don’t lag in the campaign; don’t hesitate or be timid about your race. Go right to it and keep right at it Give your campaign as much atten- tion during your spare time as you would any good business proposition FOR RIGHT HERE IS, NO DOURT, THE GREATEST OPPORTUNITY THAT WILL COME TO YOU IN YOUR LIFE. Stop and consider; did you ever before in a few-short weeks have the epportunity to cash-your spare time for $2,400? Do you think you haven't a chance if you enter now. Why you have every chance. Not one candidate has Continued on Page 2) Sick Girl on Mend Despite Temperature ESCANABA, With Mich., the start of the nineteenth March §.— don newspaper correspondents ¥ | ployment is increasing and t dangerous. conditions he j asserting that| in onomic ‘ous, without work eldort and that emp'oy- | wages are insu: t. *Vork- |men are noticeably depressed, the cor- |respondent adds, and rumors are enr- |rent that they are beginning to doubt the issue of the struggle. ‘The French, this despatch asserts, | are pre ring to deal with the food Problem which will undoubtedly arise |with the increase of unemployment |Thetr soup kitchens, boycotted at first, are now popu | The Cologne correspondent of the Daily Express reports that conditions jdescribes as disz } 25.00 persons aro alone MGR. FUMASONI BIONIDI |in Essen and Bochum are pitiful and ROME.—The Pope has appointed a} that the death rate among the chil new papal delegate to the United) dren has arisen 20 per cent in the| States. He is shown above. Megr.|jast month and that milk is almost Bionidi takes Cardinal Bonzano’s| unobtainable. place. ( The phrase “hunger blockade” ts FRENCH TO CUT NAVY PROGRAM day of her temperature of 114 de grees or better, Miss Evelyn Lyons, Woman Convicted of Murder in Serious Cendition from Taking Poison; Seventh: Attempt Fails~ -- NEW YORK, March 8.—Attendants at the Tombs were watching carefully today to p revent Mrs. Paulette Saludes, the little French woman convicted yesterday by a jury of the murder of Oscar Martelliere, from cheating justice. Mrs. Saludes, who killed the insurance broker in his office October 1Q, was in a serious condition from swallowing polson when dawn broke upon her ‘Three times after the jury foreman had spoken yesterday she had renewed attempts to take her own life. Since Marte” lere's death she has failed at suicide seven times. Unless her attorney, James A. Tur- ley, succeeds In having the conviction set aside, or in au appeal fox a now trial and obtains a’ stay of sentence, Mrs. Saludes will kow her fate next Wednesday. She is the second wom- an in three weeks to be convicted of second degree murder in New York city for killing a faithless lover. Her predecessor, Mrs. Lillian Ttal- HERRIN CASE IS HALTED MARION, Ill., March 8.—(By The Associated Press.)—The second Her- rin riots trial was ha‘td today by the illness of Mrs. Nathan Barns, wife of one of the jurors. Judge D. T, Hart- well announced a eces at the opening zen, was sent to prison for at Ieast 50 years. The dark hours mm ths tombs were broken Jast night by Mrs Saludes’ ef- fort to beat out her hrains against her cell walls when two previous at- tempts had failed. Sho made tise first two attempts when being led from the courtroom. 40, chatted freely with her friends at her home here. She seemed to be resting better, her pulse beat more normally and her faco still re- tained Its clear look. Her tempera- however, remained at 114 de- against confinement gave way to a smile and she expressed her grati- tude for the» thirty telegrams and -} a flood of letters and postcards of consolation and advice which she has received from’ persons all over the, country. “I wish The Associated Press to thank all of these people for me," Miss Lyons declared. “I am glad to have their comfort in my. fight for recovery and I would like to thank each one separately. I know I will recover.” “I wish that I could get out though,” she said, “because I know that I would be better off if I got out into the cold air.” i | ernment’s naval program was introduced in the chamber of New Program Offered to Deputies Based on Tonnage Instead of Units in Line With Policy Okehed at Washington PARIS, March 8.—(By The Associated Press.) —The gov- deputies today by Minister of Marine Raiberti, with the re- mark that the program “was conceived within the frame work of the Washington accords, so that the government can- not give stronger proof of its intention to obtain their ratifi- cation.” “The program,” continued the min- tent for the present, for these rea- ister, “docs not fix the number of 2 80 Firstly, the type of capital ship has not been settled upon; secondly, the fleet must be in accord with our financial means, and France has not the means to construct a fleet of capital ships and a fleet of light units. “We must choose and we have chosen the Iatter.” units, as that may vary with the needs of the national defense, but it fixes the tonnage for each category. “For battleships it provides for 175,000 tons but the preamble ex- plains that the government has no intention of constructing to that ex- PAROLED NEGRO SHOOTS FIVE FREED ON BAIL | NEW YORK March 8.—Walter L./ ‘Webster, under indictment for grand larceny {n connection with p'ans for) coun SPENCER, Tenn., March 8.—Posses from both this and White | a ty are searching the banks of the Calf Killer river near Sparta CS hace es ae ' RED PLOTTER ‘Members of Prominent Tennessee Family MOONSHIRERS Victims of Ex-Convict; Bloodhounds | Placed on Trail of Assailant TOBE INDICTED FRANKLINTON, La., March 8.— t least two men were expected to be indicted when an extraordinary | A Duesseldorf despatch to the Telegraph says that unem-| COLORAN F| A Mi } hat the political situation is on the lips of the whole German population The French military authorities have given definite orders to admit all foodstuffs to the cities but some of the trucks never arrive and part of the shipments are stolen. Education, the correspondent adds, is at a standstill for the French have occupied the schools. each day The passing of finds public feeling more | embittered. The impression that the “cauldron the Ruhr may boll over at any time with fearful results in blood expressed by the Cologne representative of the Westminster Gazette. Hoe continues: “It is the opinton of those best able to judge that unless an agree- ment im soon reached it can only be | matter of time before another war breaks out. * * * I am told that France would not hesitate to declare war and bomb the German cities in- cluding Berlin if her forces are at- tacked.” The correspondent adds that !t is only fair to point out that many re- ports of this character may be traced to German sources. He asserts that the difficulty of obtaining reliable in formation ‘because of the severance of communications is being constant- ly emphasized. In this connection the Cologne cor- respondent of the Express says it is impossible to, verify some of the stories in circulation and that rumors much more serious-than the facts warrant are rif in shed” is BERLIN, March 8.—(By The Asso- clated Press.)—A telegram from Dort- mund states that the French re- entered that city surrounding a school house and disarming the po- Mee who were quartered there. The foree was removed to an unknown destination, The French allowed the patrolmen to take their belongings with them while the officers were permitted to retain their swords. The town hall was later occupled. Units from Dorstfeld and Herten were used in the operation. GERMAN MINERS BEING DISMISSED. ESSEN,. March 8.—(By Tho Asso- clated Press.}—The German coal min- ers in the Ruhr are gradually being dismissed from work, according to the French authorities, who declare 2,000 were discharged yesterday from the mines in the Recklinghausen dis- trict alone. It is assumed by the French that these dismissals are part of the German plan to reduce the coal cutput gradually to a) minimum as part of the passive resistance pro- gram Tho French have occupied part of the Bismarck coal mine near Reck- linghhausen because the Germans re fused to load coal for the occupation- al authorities. The men olosed down all the loading machinery in protest against the occupation, Meetings of the unemployed are be- ing held !m various points, according Extensive Improvements On Many Streets Pro- vided for in New Work Authorized by Council The contract for the con- struction of Caspe side- walks and curbs during the coming months was let to Scott & Curlee of Sterling, Colo., by the city council in open session Inst night. Tho bid of this company was $122,816.50, which to be put in Ife all over the city. In submitted. It was $57,000 lower than the bid made by the Re!d Construction company of Casper. The extent of the work which ts to to be put in Me all over the city. In many instances the demand for walks has been pressing al! winter but it has been impossible to until warm weather. walks will also be la'd The extent of the work’ fhich {s to be done led for a while to the inten- tion of letting two contracts in order to facilitate the speed of completing the construction, but {t was later thought advisable to let the contract to one company only. Councilman §. F. Pelton recom. mended to the council! last night that & complete bookkeeping department ve added to the city of Cusper. Mr. Pelton stated that this would be the best means of keeping a check on every department now functioning and would show just where the money was being spent and how much was spent. A broom factory was the proposal of a member of the audience who de- olared that he had received offers of concessions from -other cities in the state {f he would build such a factory Just what concessions he would asi of Casper he did not explain. The council decided to include auto- mobile dealers who handle second- hand cars in the proposed second-hand put these Many in cross dealers’ ordinance which {s being thought out for the purpose of keep- ing @ check on all articles bough: 1 sold by these merchants, It will mo. increased convenience for the police department in checking up stolen ar- tleles. The council agreed to enter into a contract with the Burlington raf!road whereby tho railroad company will bo permitted to build a spur down the |alley betwee h and K streets, cr A hu ninety-feet of the alley will be. taker up by the spur. thus enabling the Bt Ungton to serve some of its wa houses that le there. Lh a TRIBUTE 15 PAID JUDGE 2 4 a ” : session of the Washington parish|to the French, in protest against the lof the morning eyecare the age, (00 bail, te) for Lewis Douglas, negro paroled convict, who early today at-|crand Jury ts convened here toaay to Siete neato of pasion’ actke, aries to ore aa AptiRaAsconee: that tie siaaisee bene jtempted to kill the Haston family at their home at Cummingsville, | !2vesti#ate the slaying of Wesley| tunds, and. there {a much unrest Setacsdutes 7 sae pear sage th ip| les f fs 'y g *| Crain’ and Wiley Pierce, deputy|amang the thousands of miners and 1 ie - . | sheriffs, who we ot and killed y worl 7 *% manufacturing firms and spent in Pay ree miles from here. sheriffs, who were shot an Ned | factory workers now idle. BOYS SOUGHT TULSA, Okla. March 8.—The flog: gers of two li-yearcld youths who were seized here last night and taken to a grove ‘outside the city) where the lash fas applied to their backs, were! being sought by officers teday. Tne victims of the floggers were George Irrice and Fred Sanders. fish The boys toll the police their a>-| Quetors questioned them about A tarty they attended several weeks ago) 4nd accused them of causing a 17 year-old girl to become intoxicated, N. Y. EXCHANGE DEFENDED: RESTRICTIONS WELCOMED §.—Seymour New NEW YORK, March I Cromwell, president of the York Stock Exchange, in an address before the Merchants association of New York today declared that the Pers'stent stories to the effect that Wall Sreet, without reservation, was Opposing legislation jooking *to the checking of fradulent practices in dealing in securities, were untrue. Such stories, he said had en circu- Inted in an eff the pub a pr rt to crea mind dice 1 st treat. Wall | pulston 4 THREE PERISH _ IN FIRE, BELIEF | PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 8.— Police and firemen today were search- ing the ruins of the Shelton Hall building for the bodies of three per- sons reported missing after the fire last night in which one man was killed. The fire was brought under control early today. Fire Marshal . } ‘Thomas L. Pfarr estimated the dam-| according to a report received by the |»owever, Doug'as returned and when! Calf Killer river near Sparta. age at $150,000. hed statements | Referring to put attributed recently to District Attor. ney Anton that $3,000,000,000 had been lost to the public through brok ers since the war, Mr. Cromwell said he wished to deny that spurious se- curities were issued by brokers. He said that bucket shops were not brok- ernge houses, and that wash sales had been punishabie by expulsion for years. Any member of the N York | Stock exchange found gutity ft the} offense, he said, was punished by ex-! He said the stock sichanse was op The wounded include. Sam Haston, brother of Ernest Has- {ton, Tennessee's secretary of state; Mrs. George Haston Sr., his mother; Mrs. B. D. Shapero, a sister; Tullus |Trogden, n hoy lving on the place, jand another person, a'so living on the |p'ace, but whose names not known effort to finance a corporation to} trade with Russia after the overthrow ff the soviets, but that he had spent $50,000 of h's own money as well ns three years of his t’me on tne project. 3 hes, AVAL AIRMEN KILLED P YASHINGTON, March 7,—Lieu-| here. tanner ee Me Waceot,c ba var ariatoatt Members of the Haston family were and Stephen F. Sullivan, a mechanie,| iting at the bedside of Mrs. Sam were killed when the airplane they |Haston, who was critically il], when| were bringing from Philadelpia to 8°™@ One went to the corn crib and) Washington crashed tcday in the |! sald to have found Douglas there. river seven miles from Philadelphia, | ® was ordered away and left. Later, near the house called out. Members |o the family went to the door, and/ navy department. Douglas, who had armed himself with a shotgun, began firing, it is reported. Sam Haston was shot in the thigh. The wound is regarded as serious. Saturday by alleged moonshiners {n the swamps of Betsy Creek. — JOHN DREW IS HONORED. Mra, George Haston was shot in the} New YORK, March 8.——John head. | The ‘Trogden boy's eye: was! Drew's half century on the American wounded. Mrs. Shapero was shot in stage will be celebrated at a dinner in his honor here March 25, it was an- nounced by a committee of 36 promi. nent men in and out of the theater. Among members of the committee are Elihu Root, Otto H. Kahn, Thomas W. Lamont, Frank A. Munsey, Bran- der Matthews, Coleman Dupont, Rod- maan Wanamaker, Charles Dana Gib son, and David Belasco. both hands and in the arms as she attempted to close the door. The in- juries of the other persons are not known here. Following the shooting the negro escaped, and was heard of later near Sparta, in White county. He ts re- ported surrounded in a bend of the ‘The injuries of the wounded were dressed ESSEN AND DUISBURG ARE ISOLATED. BERLIN, March 8.—(By The Asso ciated Press.)—Essen and Duisburg have been isolated from rail com- munication with the rest of the Ruhr, according to the Berliner Tage- blatt. The railway station at Lan- gendreer, one of the largest switch- ing points in the Ruhr, a few miles east of Bochum, has been occupied. an well as that of Wattenscheid, to the west of Bochum, and the railroad Une from Dortmund to Bochum to Essen is completely blocked. ADOPTED BY ATTORNEYS Resolutions on the death of the late Judge John A. Riner, who for 30 years was the federal judge in the district of Wyoming, adopted Wednes- day afternoon by the Natrona County Bar association. The judge died at his home in Cheyenne Sunday. The resoluton expressed sincere re- gret at the passing of Judge Riner with its subsequent loss to the bar of the state. High tribute {s pa'd to the character and services of the late jur- st. were (Continued on Page Five.) for all advertising copy to be NOTICE TO ADVERTIS Hereafter the final edition of The Tribune will be on the street by 3:80 p.m. every afternoon. o’clock a.m, on the day of publication. | ICE This makes it necessary in The Tribune office by 10 NEW YORK, March 8.—(By The | Posing certain legislation now pend It will -be better for the advertiser to have his copy in the ensolaten Brean) i v.| ing at Albany, but that Wall street night before. No ads which come in on the day of publication | aback tender at interests would rally to the support will make the mail edition. The advertiser will get better dis- Dougherty, member c detective | of leg ‘on in which the operations play and more results if he will systematize his methods so as ing labor to industrial concerns, has | of legitimate businesa men were di to always get copy in on the day previous to publication. labor to industrial concerns, has | he operations of swind- ‘ i ven up his hope of helpin, Na tanraapie aoe e The Tribune can positively not guarantee publication for any ald i (rg a “Reputable and responsib'e dealers advertisement which is not in this office b; 10 o’clock on the the Ruhr through the medium of | in securities,’ he sald “have done morning of the day for which it is intended. And you, Mr. | American negroes. moro to give New York ita great pres. | Advertiser, will be the one who will profit most if your adver. }| EES Tanita ncnd’ upens tke tise! thiit’ afy! ethes: Danlhame eat tisement is in earlier than that; that it may receive the careful {| arrival on the steamenip sajeat pretest’ aiaitist: the 6ouplue ob lente attention which takes time, and which helps to make any ad | Srrival on the stear rs necessary bust more effective of swind:|{ remely operations from 2,500 t the Rubr dropped he because the plan paid > he had NEGROES NOT AVAILABLE RUHR JOBS GO BECGCING learned since his arrival that in- stead of thousands of negroes eager for the jobs, he couldn't find 100 who. were willing to accept them He said his plan for transporting @ miners’ expeditionary force had been started January 16 when on a voyage from Algiers to Marseilles he met Louis Janeau, a French labor commisslone Janeau was conveying about 700 He me that these A no s that is was th his ‘secc bunch had lasted Tanean at once and pro » what I could do, uld use all the men © 2,000, He 1 he ame int posed that I s ng me he co I obtained v