Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 4, 1923, Page 1

> 1 Weather Forecast Generally fair tonight and Not much change Thursday. in temperature. VOLUME VII. $51,510,000 The Guaranteed Circulation of The Casper Daily Tribune Yesterday was 10,212 Che Casper Daily Tribune CASPER, WYO., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1923 FINAL EDITION NUMBER 152, AGE SUIT IS FILED _ AGAINST GREAT AIRPLANE ‘TRUST’ W. E. Dever, Democrat, Elected Chicago Mayor ‘BLACKMAIL PERIL CROWS VOTE. PLURALITY S LARGEST IN pIY'S HISTORY Other Democrats Elected To Office Tuesday by Big Majorities. CHICAGO, April 4.—On the top of a Democratic} landslide, William E. Dever,| judge of the superior court, was carried into the office of mayor, succeeding William Hale Thompson, rettring after serving eight years for the Republican party The avalanche of votes that gave | Judge Dever the biggest plurality in the city’s history, with one exception, that récelved by Mayor Thompson in| 1915, also placed in office Democratic | candidates for city clerk and city treasurer. Unofficial returns of yesterday's} election, compiled by a news gather-| ing agency gave Judge Dever a total vote of 387,961 and Arthur C. Lueder, | Republican mayoralty candidate and former postmaster, 284,213. Judge Déver’s plurality was announced as 108,748. | In the only congressional election | in tho state a special call to fill the| vacancy in the Second Mlinois dis: trict created by the death of Con. gressman James R. Mann, the Re- publicans were victorious. Mdrton D. Hull, former state senator, defeating Barratt O'Hara, Democrat and for- mer, Meutenant governor, by 56,830 to 42 according to unofficial figures. Although the old city council was Democratic, the party increased its strength, the election giving the party 37 aldermen as compared with the Republican thirteen, AS a result of the election, {t was stated, only two aldermen of Mayor Thompson's political machine, sald to| be controlled by Fred Lundin, in-| dicted on a charge of grafting schoo! | board funds, remained in the council. | William A. Cunnea, Socialist mayor- | alty candidate, according to unofficial returns, 1 ed 40,841 votes and Seymour Stedmon, Socialist candidate | candidate for congressman in the second district, was orded 5,955. The election was quiet. “KLAN” COMMISSIONER CAPTURES OFFICE T LOUIS, Ill, April 4.— (By The Associated Press.) — The municipal election here yesterday, which aroused intense interest owing to reported activities of the Ku Klux Kian resulted in the election of one candidate said to have been endorsed by the klan, and the defeat of two| candidates, alleged to have had. klan support. Ralph Cook, who was one of the late’ of three canidates said to| have been endorsed by the klan polled the largest number of votes among the eight candidates for city commis- sioner, four of whom were chosen. ‘Two other candidates for commis- sioner who were sald to have held the indorsement of the klan were beaten. Two arrests, a slight disturbance between two groups of young men one of which accused the other being knights of the Ku Klux Klan and re-|scription of a year or more. Every ports that klansmen paraded in| candidate starts on even terms tomor- full regalia last night, marked the|row for the extra special prize. An election. absolutely new candidate can enter ee today with positively no handicap KLAN CAN) whatsoever as far a» the Hupmobile ELECTED TN KANSAS. Sedan extra prize is concerned. 3 Everyone has the same big oppor- TOPEKA, Kans., April 4.—Candi- Gates, alleged to have the support of the Ku Klux Klan, were successful in the majority of cases where the klan issue’ featured in Kansas muni- cipal elections yesterday returns to- day indicated. ‘RELEASE TO _ BE SOUGHT BY DANCER NEW YORK, April 4—Eéward Collins, counsel for Evan Burrowes Fontaine, dancer, and her mother, Mrs. Florence E. Ames, charged with |; Perjury as an outgrowth of the dancer's suit against Cornelius Van- |derbilt Whitney for breach of prom- | se, today announced thet when he j withdrew their pleas of not. gullty jin Rockland county yesterday !t was a preparatory step to asking for dis- missal of the charge. He declined to state on what ground he would ask for dismissal. Mr. Collins stated that he expected to make his motion for dismissal}, be-| fore Judge Wiggins in New City, next Friday TAXI DRIVER LOSES RACE WITH STORK CHICAGO, April 4.—Losing in a race with the stork, Sam Colter, a taxicab driver, was forced to play the | role of a physician when Mrs. Mar- | garet Coales, his fare, gave “birth to son early today. Later he was congratulated by physiclans when he arrived with Mrs. Coales and Mr. Coales an their new son at a hos- pital. ‘The boy was born as the taxi- cab was passing tho’ postoffice. LINKED WITH MYSTERIES | By Edward Thierry. NEW YORK, April 4.—Organized | black#™il, perhaps the weapon of a single gang, is considered a possible solution to a series of crimes having startling coincidences and culminat- ing in the murder of Dorothy King, | Broadway model. | Millions of dollars are secretly ex- \torted, crime experts say, in black- mail plots that have wealthy men and womén as victims. These conspir- ators are known sometimes as “crime |scavengers.”* Analysis of the possibilities of a series of notorious crimes having been In the hands of one organized band of blackmatlers shows these cases as links in the chain: MYSTERIOUS slaying of William Desmond Taylor, movie director, in vos Angeles a year ago last February. KILLING of a sailor by Walter 8. Ward, milllonatre baker's son, near s, N. Y., last May. 1D double murder of Rev. Edward Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills at New Brunswick, N. J., last September. CHLOROFORMING of Mrs. Irene Schoellkopf, wealthy Buffalo woman and $520,000 jewel robbery in New York New Year's Eve. MURDER by chloroform of Dorothy | King and theft of $15,000 worth of jewels in supposed plot to blackmail J. Kearsley Mitchell, son-in-law of E. T. Stotesbury, millionaire Morgan partner. Blackmail persisted as an explana- tion of Taylor's murder. Walter Ward, whose release has been the subject of an tnyestigation by Gov- ernor Smith, declared he killed his of three blackmatiers who had al- ready obtained $30,000 and demanded HUP’ SEDAN IS ADDED PRIZE Seventh Handsome ‘Automobile Will Be Awarded on Work Done from Now Un- til A pril 28, End of Third Period For new subscriptions received in the Tribune's great $16,- value $2,000. Think of it! mobile Sedan to the candidate who secures the most votes in NEW sub- scriptions only, between now and Saturday night, April 28. Count for Votes, Too, The special extra added prize has no relation whatsoever to the $16,000 in automobiles and gold and silver except that the new subscriptions re- ceived on the extra special gift pro- position also count full value in the race for the capital prizes. New sub- scriptions this second and third period carry the bonus vote of 15,000 and 10,000 extra for each new sub- tunity to win the Hupmobile and pile up votes on the double-quick for the other six big cars and cash prizes. Read the Tribune's formal an- nouncement of this new offer else- where in this issue. Here is a won- | 000 “Everybody Wins Campaign” during the next three and }a half weeks the Tribune offers a new Hupmobile Sedan, Not satisfied with giving $16,000 ,in automobiles and gold and silver in this big campaign, the | Tribune will now give a special prize consisting of a Hup- derful opportunity. An absolutely new candidate-can enter and win the Hupmobile prize by Saturday night, April 28, and at the same time get | @ running start for the other big au- tomoblies and purses of gold and silver. Is Ono Real Opportunity. A candidate already in the race can win this extra prize and boost his or her vote to the top of the column. Yes, and an absolutely new candidate can enter and {n eleven days win this truly extraordinary special prize. Must Be New Subscriptions, All new subscriptions recelved in the campaign during the second and third period closing Saturday night, April 28, will count for the special new extra prize and also the regular- ly scheduled and bonus yotes given in this big third period. (andre sh exe Sal Ben Bayless will leave this evening for Golden, Colo., where he {s a stu- dent at the School of Mines. Mr. Bay less has been in Casper for the last week on a business trip. HOUSE OF DAVID SCORED STATE ASKS ABATEMENT LANSING, Mich. April 4.—Formal, Today's charges allege that the col. | {astical purposes, but on the contrary charger that the Israciito House Of] ony has set itself up as a ‘k!ngdom'’} has for its true object the enrichmen Vavid eclony at Benton Harbor '8) iin penjamin Purnell, head of the|of Benjamin Purnell and his eleva basod upon a ken peo nat i) order, as “king.” ‘The allegation also| tion to the rank of temporal king and badd eri Ags te ansing) circuit| is made that the association, which| the establishment within the state of bie ein aS GY guerty, | filed articles of incorporation in’ 1903] a kingdom, whose king and his sul ors La Mgnt as a veliglous and ecclesiastic corpor-| jects or eventually shall be, fre rs ped its privilege of an] and independent of the civil power of the state ‘ n J f Benton Harbor t attorne sald the How no! | PE Davia ts ready for any investiga tion that state may make. victim to save-himself from a gang} | 000 more. In the New Brunswick the Hall family’s theory was that Rey, Hall and Mrs. Mills met ath at the hands of a band of black mailers and robbers. The Schoellkopf robbery case, the only one that did not end in murder, is linked with both the Hall-Mills and the King cases. Chloroform was used to subdue both Mrs. Schoellkopf and Miss King; in the latter case {t came from New Brunswick, scene of the Hall-Mills morders; and two men con- nected with the Schoellkopf case are said to have stayed later at the same New Brunswick hotel which employed a man who disappeared from the apartment house were Miss King lived. Another coincidence 1s that Neilson Olcott is counsel for Mitchell, whose letters to Dorothy King are belleyed J. KEARSLEY MITCHELL (ABOV. WALTER 8. WARD (CENT AND WILLIAM MO “OR, WHO. F 09 UNSOLVED MYS ERIES WHICH POLICE LAY TO BLACKMAILING, MAN FRACTURES Carl A, Duke les in a critical con dition at the Casper Private Hospital as a result of having suffered a fra tured skull when he jumped from al wagon he was driving ton crossing on at the Burlin North Center stre at 3:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The team had become frightened at the approach of a locomotive and Duke jumped when they started to| run away and show signs of atriking| an obstacle. He struck his head on} the pavement and remained uncon-| scious for several hours. | Dr. H. R. Lathrop, Dr. T. J. Riach, and Dr. Victor R. Dacken attended the injured r Mr. Duke had been employed t anckard Construction — cor yesterday morning and was ¢ © of thelr teams at the time necide He has # wife 1 not i of cident, to have“been sought by blackmatiers; and his father, William M. K. Olcott, former ict attorney, admits he consulted by the Hall family in New Brunswick double murder and is regarded as the “brains” that directed the attitude of the Hall family, ' “I have had a theory that the same gang of blackmailers might have been involved in other crimes previous to the King murder,” said Assistant Dis-| trict Attorney Ferdinand Pecora. Pinkerton detectives say blackmatl- ing of wealthy men and women has become one of the greatest crime menaces. Most of the cases, they Say, never come to light, although several months ago complaint was made to the district attorney's office that blackmailers had been active against many New York society women. Edward 8. Schwab, for 11 years postoffice inspector, blackmail cases hinge on _ letters through the mail, and postoffice in spectors have investigated some that run into amazing figures.” Chief Detective Edward Raines, at- tached to the district attorney's of- fice, says only a few blackmail cases a year get into the courts because most wealthy victims are willing to submit rather than face exposure, even though innocent. In 33 years of police work, he finds blackmail “rates” steadily increasing uptil late- ly $100,000 has been mentioned as the n demanded in several cases, in- uding that involving Mitchell. Police Commissioner Enright’a of- fice Is one of the few crime agencies that favors the robbery theory rather thancblagkimmiiein: the Dorothy King ‘Case, . say “Many ST. JOSEPH, Mich., April 4 at § ing his instructions. --B. Ruthenberg for April 16. WOMAN JUROR IS MOVED TO TEARS. ST. JOSEPH, Mich., April 4.—(By The Associated Press.)—Mra. Minerva Olson, the woman juror in the trial of William Z. Foster, of Chicago, could not refrain from tears when Frank P. Walsh, Foster's attorney, made his closing argument, describ ing his feelings when his son went to war in 1917. 0, I. Smith, assistant attorney general of Michigan, directing the prosecution in his closing argument recited tho war time po “In ¥F ders Field With the trial record complete the jurors today awaited instructions from Judge Charles White before retiring to consider thelr verdict. Statements from counsel for the de- fense in yesterday's arguments caused Judge White to charge the jury in part that Foster was not placed on trial for opinions or beliefa that he held but because he was alleged to have advocated illegal methods of social and industrial reform ' William Z. Foster ts gullty of vio- lation of Michigan's law t | criminal syndicalism, Judge s White instructed jury today, if: 1—The communist party of Amer-| ica, at the time he attended its con-}| vention last August was a society formed to advocate and teach crim. {nal syndicalism, and if: 2—Foster assembled with the con: vention delegates voluntartly or, tn ls considera FOSTER CASE GOES TO JURY Instructions to Jury in Case of William Z.| Foster, Syndicalist, Are Completed | Early Today in Michigan Court —The case of William Z. Foster, charged with violating the Michigan law against criminal sy 0 a, m. today when Judge The court and attorneys agreed to set the trial of Charles) y| EX-GOVERNOR PLEADS PARDON FOR CORDILLO | BROTHERS AND NEWELL CHEYENN Wyo., April 4.— Former Governor Robert D. Carey, appearing before the Wyoming State Board of Pardons Tuesday to | urge that the board give earnest | fon to a plea for pardon and John Cordillo and Newell, serving time for | murder of Frank Jennings, | Laramie ranchman, at a time when | the Cordillos and Newell were em- ployes of the State Prohibition de- partment, explained that he was not asking that the trio be par- doned, but impressing that serious consideration should be given their application. | “I am not appearing before the | Notice to Contestants Because of the thousands and thousands of votes in subscrip- tions and coupons that were cast by the contestants Monday it || impossible to get them double || by Pete Walter the checked in time for the count to appear in today’s issuo of the Tribune. The count {s being made how- ever and will appear Wednesday || or Thursday, including all votes |/ cast for publication up to and including Monday night. .—(By The Associated Press) yndiccalism, went to the jury | arles White finished read-| today and eleven men and one woman then retired to consider a verdict. Judge White instructed the jurors that {t was not a crime for the com-| munist party to assemble in this state, nor was {t a crime for Foster to preach and advocate in this state “the theorles or doctrines of class struggle, mass action, the dictato: ship of the proletariat, the Soviet sys- tem of government, the abolition of the capitalistic syste industrial unfonism, internationalism, affiliation of the American Trade Union move: ment with the red internationale of la unions, support of the Soviet government of Russia, independent working 8 action, the communist | social revolution, and other indus trial, economic, and political changes | mentioned in the documents of the| communist party in evidence in this Yo crime was committed, the court | said, unless Foster and ‘the com-| munist party “taught and advocated crime, sabotage, violence and terror- ism as the method, or one of the| methods of accomplishing the changes! (Continuea on Page Two.) | ward, | kets. Board of Pardons on behalf of the Cordillo brothers and Newell,” said Carey, “but rather for the purpose of urging upon the board the neces. sity of making a thorough Invest!- gation of their case “There was a time when I was convinced of the guilt of these men and for that reason until about two weeks before my term of office ex I cases with them. “On my last visit tentiary I had an interview with John Cordillo, the result of which made me feel that there was a pos: sibility that there might have been a miscarriage of justice in his case, as well as that of the other two men who were convicted with him. “Had it been possible to obtain a transcript of the evidence between the time that I saw Cordillo and the end of my term and to have made the investigation that is necessary in cases of such impor- pired refused to discuss their to the pent- tance, I should have placed the matter before the Board of Par- dons. I regret that there was not time for this, “It is my hope that the board will g0 into the matter most thorough- ly. I feel that if it does it can obtain the evidence which is neces- sary to arrive at a fair decision of the matter.” LARAMIE FIVE ELIMINATED IN CAGE TOURNEY CHICAGO, April 4.—Bellevue, Ohio, high school defeated Laramie, Wyo., 29 to 22, in the national basketball tournament play this morning. Lara. mie was eliminated by the defeat. Laramie led 9 to 2 at the end of the first half but its defense ebbed away in the last half while Bellevue {m- proved its game. Bellevue got away to a slow start but in the final half of the contest smooth passing, and especially rough the play of Corbin, left for. who shot six baskets, four of them from the side and near the center of the floor, went into the lead, Starr, right guard, won praise for his dribbling and he also caged four bas- Aigler, right forward, scored | three times from the field. Mast, Laramie center, was the out- | standing player of the Wyoming quintet, with four goals from field and three free throws. eer SHERIFF HOLDS KLAN “PALACE ril 4.—(By The Sheriff J. 1. Lowry ed Preas.)- ton county, with a force of deputies, early today took charge of the imperial palac iquarters of the knights of tt Klux Klan, under an order signed by Judge D. Thomas. This order ii W. J. Simmons, imperial arters: who took charge of the headq: of the klan yesterday under a tem-| porary injunction secured by him against Imperial Wizard H. W vans. The order directed Emperor Sim- mons and the other plaintiffs in the action to appear for a hearing this afternoon to show cause why the temporary on oagainst Im-| perial ¥ ans and the other| officia CONSPIRACY Ta AUIN: BUSINESS 1a GHARGED BY NAS. V. MARTIN Slander, Arson and Many Other Crimes Charged Against Association im WASHINGTON, April 4.4 Alleging conspiracy to de- stroy his business, James V. Martin, of the Martin Aero- plane factory, Long Island, filed suit under the Clayton act here today to recover $51,510,000 from the Manufacturers Aircraft as: sociation, Inc, twenty-seven other corporations and thirty-eight in- dividuals. ‘The corporations named tnclude the Boeing Airplane Company of Seattle, Wash. The plaintiff declared his business had been damaged to the extent of $17,000,000 and under the Clayton law he claimed triple damages plus an attorney's fee of $510,000. He charged that the defendant corpora- tions and individuals had conspired to monopolize the aircraft trade, «and told the court that whereas he had worked as contemporary of the Wright brothers and Glenn H. Cur th and had invented {ndispensable ts of present day aeroplanes, none of the defendants had invented any aeroplane or aeropiane cevive, In furtherance of the alleged con- spiracy, he charged the defendants had slandered him, burned his planes, Med about his accomplishments, de- stroyed government reports com- mending his devices, and even made plans against his life. The result, he declared, was to bring about failure of his business in England, Canada and France, Among the individual defendants named were Benedict Crowell, for- mer assistant secretary of war; How- ard EB. Coffin, Major General Mason M. Patrick, chief of the army air ser- vice. Rear Admiral William A. Mof- fett, director of naval aviation; Sid- ney D. Walton, Detroit; Edward A; Deeds, Harold E. Talbott, Charles Fy Kettering, all of Dayton; Jess G, Vine cent, William B. Stout, both of De troit; Richard F. Hoyt, Henry M. Crane, Benjamin F. Castle, George H. Houston, Clement M. Keys, all of New York Cley; Horace M. Hickam, chief of the information group of the army air service; Frank H. Russell, vice president of the Curtiss com- peny; Commanders Hunsacker and Krauss, U. 8. N.; Thurman H, Bane, B. D, Schnacke, both of Dayton; Les- ter D. Gardner, Caleb S. Bragg, John K. Robinson, Jr.; Samuel 8, Brady, James A. Blair, Jr., Gover C, Loening, Albert B. Loening, all of New York City; Delos ¢ amons, Dayton; Fred B. Rentschler, Patterson, liam B, Sabherz, East Greenwic! I.; Inglis M. Uppercu, Keyport, N. J. Roy D. Chapin, Detroit; Major R. H. Young, U. S. A.; Howard C. Blood, Detroit, and William D. Gilmore and Rt. H. Fleet, both of Washington, D. Cc. The corporations named include the Aeronautical Chamber of Com: merce, organized at Washington; Burgess Company of Massachusetts; Boening Airplane Company of Se- attlea. Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company of New York; Dayton Atr plane Company; Ellas Brothers, Inc.. Bulffalo; Engle Aircraft Company of Ohio sher Body Corporation, De- troit; Gallaudet / aft Corporation, New ¥ Goodyear Tire and Rub ber Company, Akron; L. W. F. Engl- neering Company, New York; Glenn 4. Martin Company, Cleveland, Mit= sul and Company New York; Packer Motor Compa Detroit; st (Continued on ® Two.) TELLEGEN DEFENDS GIRLS GOING B the words of the court, “with con-| scious design and purpose to further| NEW ORLI La., April 4.—] nd promote the teaching and ad-) Lou Tellegen, actor husband of Geral | vocacy by the communist party of gine beech: Vibes ts aeadiivi’ sot the doctrine of criminal syndicalism, | It ts not disputed, the court said,| York at the conclusion of his the that the meeting was a convention] trical engagement in © and offer | of the communist party, or that| testimony in behalf any of the Foster was present at some of the| young women nar respond: | |sessions, so, he continued, only th ents by the diva livorce suit consideration Te i | The court's instructions, a 6,000|terday when ir nat Miss J word document, were read to the jury| Stella 1 re, he co ‘ ren ents 1 been denied a fur 1 that had been the names of co re A not be made pub-| Mi ed not to contest the| dive 1 that if Farrar been ACK TO A ything possible harges. must not be blemished and I > stand by her.’* en declared that character the charges sonvarsivte "Mike more or any 1 as co-respondents were tk emphatically deny that er in the guilty y wrong