Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 29, 1923, Page 1

os at Casper Sunday The Tribune Carries More Classified Advertising Than Any Paper in Wyoming Morini And WYOMING WEEKLY REVIEW y Critame VOLUME 32. SENATORS TO FIGHT MAIN NEWS SECTION CASPER, WYO., SUNDAY, APRIL 29, 1923. MAIN NEWS SECTION NUMBER 40. i anag DETECTIVE’ Io GIVEN GD DAYS AT LOGAL TRIAL Smith, Who Fled With Reilly From House In B Street, Sentenced by Court The trial of A. F. Smith, charged ‘with carrying concealed weapons, im- personating an officer, and creating a disturbance, was held before Judge John A, Murray !ast night. Smith, it will be remembered, fled with Ger- ald Reilly, alias David Blair, from a house at 229 West B street on Wed- nesday evening, in which flight Reil- ly was shotfdawn by the police of-| ficer in performance of duty, after- wards Cying at a local hospital. When the trial befors Judge Mur- ray was concluded last night the mag- istrate assessed Smith a fine of $100 and sentenced him to sixty days in Jail. The hearing opened with Smith pleading guilty to the charge of carrying concealed weapons but pleading not guilty to the other charges. The tesimony was drawn out to the period cf an hour, with an at- tempt on the part of the defense to prove that he had been under the influence of liquor wnen he entered the house on West B street. From the statements brought out it seems that a friend of Smith's name Pearson had been in the house on B street and mad discovered a 17- year-old girl, who Pearson claimed was he'd against her will. He spoke of the matter to Smith two or three days before the visit which resulted in the fatal shooting of Smith’s ac- complice, It also seems that Smith has for some time possessed a flickering am- bition to be a private detective. He had sent $5 to a supposed detective agency -in=-Branden,—Ore.,~ according to his own words, and had received for this amount of money a certifi- cate declaring him to be a private detective and member of the agencv. On Wednesday afternoon the de: fendant had purchased a revolver and on the day following he was in- ten(ing to go cut in the country on a sheepherding) job, according .to the witnesses. He concluded on Wecnesday eve- ning that he would visn 229 West B street and rescue the 17-year-old girt. Wether he was just gormg to talk to her and urge her to leave or was g0- ing to take her out on the great wide range with him fs a point that is still a litt’e bit vague, Although Smith stated last night that, his conversati with Esther Nelson, the proprietor of the house, was a very pleasant one, the Nelson woman thought differently and was very emphatic in her statements that Smith had swore at her, had shook his fist in her face, had shown her his certificate from the “detective” agency, and had in other ways triec: to scare her. “You're no detective or you wouldn't get hard like that,” the woman said to Smith, according to her testimony in court. She denied having charge of a 17- year-old girl and gave Smith the priv- itege of searching the rooms if he de- sired to do so. The only other inmate of the house, said Esther Nelson, was the girl about as old as herself who was ill at the time . When Smith and Rellly refused to leave the house the Nelson woman went out and called in the officers fore whom the intrucers fled. Murderous Surf On Iron Shores Crushes 2 Men MARSHFIELD, Ore., April 28.— Murderous surf pounding on an iron shore which wrecked the il!-fated freighter Brush near Cape Arago, Thursday morning, claimed the lives of two “non-combatants” today. Ad Hoff, aged 25, and his brother- in-law, Cyrus Farrer!, attempting *o Teach the wreck in a rowboat today were thrown into the surf an’ drowned. Every man in the Brush’s crew of 86 escaped from the wreck and the men lost today had no con nection with the vessel, They wero drawn by curiosity, Their bodies have not been recov- ered. — ——__—_ TRAPS INTO GOLDEN GATE BAY TO DROWN TROUBLES OAKLAND, Cal., April 28.—(United Press—Beenuse her husband who had been without employment for some weeks tried to drown the fam! ly's trouble in drink, Mrs. Hulda Wt’ kins, aged 35 forsook her two young chi'dren here today, drank poison and leaped to her death in San Francisco bay. The body was found near the foot of Beach street by two boys: Memory of. Tribune Boy Not Taxed Compared to @ position as a deck hand on a submarine or the sine cure of sitting in @m a director's meeting and voting yourself divi- dends, the existence of a Tribune carrier boy is a life @f roses. Few if any of them would trade jobs. The carrying business, as far as the Tribune {s concermed, has be- come so simple that i is almost ridiculous. In days gone by, when the dally cireulation was considerably below its present mark, the boys had to at least have a good memory to keep in mind the houses on their routes where they left papers and where they missed. Since the recent campaign was inaugurated to increase circula- tion, ‘all that is necessary is to start a boy on a route 25 to 30 blocks long and tell him the three houses he should not leave papers. Right now the Tribune circula- tion has the town covered like a blanket. A recent newspaper cen: sus indicated that mine out of every 10 people in Casper read the Tribune regularly and the other one reads it spasmodically. Uo, WILL PROBE HOUSE OF OAV IN FRAUD TRIAL Decision of Judge Slater In Federal Court Awards $15,- 000 to Plaintiffs , GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., April 28, —Federal ivestigation into activities of the House of David is expected as a result of Judge John E. Slater's decision that the cult and .'King” Benjamin Purnell, its ruler, are frauds. The decision filed in federal court here today, awards John and Mar- garet Hansel, plaintiff in the suit against “King” Benjamin, $15,000 as recompense for what they donated to the “‘in-gathering’ when they joined the cult and for their labor and work done by their children during their stay in the colony. The Hansels asked for $80,000, but Judge Slater declared that was excessive. In his dec'sion Judge Slater charg- ed Benjamin with betraying young girs. In commenting upon the “king's” relations’ with the young women, he said. “That a man may so dominate young girls or mature women as to render them submissive to h'm, may be doubted or disbelleved by some but not to-a person who knows the details of genuine white slave cases. In this case the submissive gir's re ceived their keep, but in the name of religion they were taught that sub- jection was a holy rite and insured immortality to their bodies.’ The court held that Benjamin alone could refute the charges of immor- ality brought against him by wit- nesses, but that he did not and is re- ported to have disapeared. “His absence at th's critical period in the life of himself and his co!ony, when he should -have been quick to defend is significant,” the judge sald, The Hansels instituted thelr suit (Continued on Page Two) HILL'S HEIRS GAST LOTS FOR HS MILLIONS Youngest Son of Late Railroad Magnate Suggests Kelly Pool Bottle, Is Claim ST. PAUL, Minn., April 28.— (United Press.)—Lots were cast by heirs of Mrs. James J. Hill for $3, 000.000 in treasured possessions col- lected by her “empire builder” hus- band. The roll of Ittle black numbered pellets from a kelly pool bottle de- FAIR TRADE NO ROBBERY ON SANDBAR ‘There comes to most ‘persons, somewhere in the course of their 1 a time when they have some- which they would willingly ay. Further they feel as they simply couldn't ac- anything in return. This cept Was never better illustrated then by an experience that fell to the lot of Jim Hibbard, deputy sheriff, one night Iast week. The sheriff's deputies were mak- ing a raid in search of liquor on one of the well known resorts on the Sandbar. Just as Hibbard broke into a room on the second floor he epied a gentleman of color. pouring moonshine from a milk bottle out of a window. cided division of the heirlooms. Hibbard rushed across the roo: antiques, art treasurers and other (Pana shoved hia de into the valuables worth a king's ransom. |f anatomy of tho pourer. After a bitter battle for two years “rt take that,’ said Hibbard over division of the personal prop- erty, the heirs gathered around a table and took thelr chances. | Walter J. Hill, romancer of the family and youngest son of the rail- road magnate, suggested the strange lottery, according to reports. He) fared well in the lottery, an observer | stated. The heir obtaining the smallest number from the bottle, this man stated, was given possession of the prize treasure then on the block. At the first tip of the bottle, Walter drew pill No. 1 and that number was thrown out frequently as precious Jewelry, valuable paintings, and ar- ticles of family historic import were divided. | viously been apportioned between the nine heirs by probate cour} sessions were held in the HiIl family | mansion on Summit avenue, Others | were held at the Northwestern Trust) company where jewels and other, treasures were in vaults. 1,000 Injured In 200,000 Crowd At English Stadium LONDON, April 28— A thousand Persons were injured and treated in emergency stations when 200,000, the greatest crowd in the history of sport fought their way into the new Wem- by park staduim to witness the pro- fessional football cup final, won this afterngon by the Bolton Wanderers over Westman, 2 to 0. Many women were crushed, one probably fatally, as thousands of late arrivals rushed the barriers and broke through police cordons, swarm- ing over the playing field. “Lost Soul” Is Brought Back By Chicago Curator CHICAGO, April 28—John Zimmer, ass'stant curator of the field museum arrived in Chicago today from the wilds of tropical Peru, bringing with him a “lost soul” The “lost soul," Zimmer explained, {9 a very rare bird in Peru and emits a distressing cry simitar to that of, a lost child. Frightened natives rush to their huts when the’ cry plerces the air. Zimmer, who brought back with him some 3,000 specimens from hum: ming birds ty hawks, says he cap- tured the “lost soul” by makng sim- flar cries of distress similar to that of the bird. ‘LOVE NEWGPRPER GAME,” oAYS PRESIDENT HARDING TOECITORS “T Would Rather Be Publisher Than Anything Else | In World,” Executive Tells American Society of Newspaper Editors at Washington Banquet. WASHINGTON, April 28.—“I would rather be a news- paper publisher than anything else in the world,” President Harding told the American Society of Newspaper Editors at their dinner here tonight. “I am going to be owner of the Marion Star until they settle up my estate, because I love the business.” President Harding gathered with his follow craftsmen, at a banquet closing thelr conyentiom here and ad- dressed them cn the et&ics of jour- shop talk with the editors, took a slap at his critics who charge that he {s advocating American adhesion to the world court at the behest of international bankers. nalism. “There is not a grain of truth, to Tohn W Doevis, former ambassador | justify the statements," the presi to Great Britain, presi@ent of the] dent declared, with great emphasis. American Bar association and prom!-| He said that in the two years he nent Democrat, spoke on “the con-| had been in office not a singla inter- stitution and the press.”” national banker had asked for an ‘The president, in a heart to heart! audience with him. i‘ 3 as he reached for the bottle. “It's a fair trade." answered the wlelder of the bottle, “but I don’t want nothin’ back. CLARA PHILLIPS FAR FROM LAW | Property with $8,500,000 had pre-| IS [ | (P| \ | (IN Some | Hd « Sheriff’s Office Hears “Tiger Woman” In Honduras Has Performed Shift BY ROBERT A. DONALDSON United “Press Staff Correspondent LOS ANGELES, Cal,, April, 28.— Clara Phillips is far from captured That was the opinion of the sher. {ff's office tonight. Reports that the supposed “Tiger woman” held at Tegucigalpa, Honduras, had per. formed a quick shift from her orig- inal alias of Mrs. R. M. Young to that of Mrs, Jesse Carson, left the mat- ter of extradifion in the a'r tonight. Extradition papers, which have rushed throug? and are on thelr way to Washington, ask for the arrest and extradition of “Mrs. R. M. Young" on the ground that she is Clara Phillips. It may now be necessary for the state department to go through the red tape of returning the papers to the governor's office for alteration, it was reported at the sheriff's off: No action will be taken in this direc tion, however, until word is received from Washington Consul General Rodriguez, of Hon duras, declared tonight that he could not say what action h's government would take in the situation, but he fet sure that if either of the women were postively identified as Clara Phillips she would be detained as long as. legally possible. He said, however, that it ts (!egal to hold a prisoner without positive identification and without extradition papers more than sixty days after the date of arrest. Hence should there be unusual de- Jay, the papers might not be In the hands of Honduras in time to prevent lawyers of that country from obtain ing the “Tiger woman's" release. There is also a possibility, accord ing to UnUder-Sheriff Biscailuz, that Clara. may work some trick on the authorit'ees by identifying her com panion as “Clara Phillips,” and be. ing to Under Sheriff Bisca‘luz, that fer of the Tegucigalpa police, who said they would free either woman if she {dent'fied the other as Clara Phillips. In this event Biscailuz, who is to make the trip, would arrive Inte in man ready for his custody. It is not known how long both women wil be held“‘as the United States will only ask the exradittion of one of them, the other one be'ng something of a mystery. “We are going to put her fn trons and {f any of her underworld friends attempt to free her they wil! have to go some,” Said Biscailuz, “We are sure that one of the two women in custody !s Clara, We are sure sho ‘9 (Continued from Page One) May only to find an unknown wo-} JEM NELSON OF MINNESOTA, DIES ON TRAIN Arrangements Made to Take Body Off at Harrisburg. Heart Disease Is Cause YORK, Pa., April 28.—Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota died on 4 Pennsylvania train near York nig According to a message received by E. C. Greening, tratmaster here the cause of death was heart disease. Seator Nelson left Washington or the Dominion Express at 7 p. m. Death occurred shortly after the tra’n left Baltimore. Senator Nelson was accompanied by h's niece and by the commissioner of insurance of Minnesota. Arragements were made by wire to have the body removed at Harris. burs, where the train was due at 10 It wil! be embalmed there and on to “Minnesota on another sometime tonight. to. P. m. sent train HARRISBURG, Pa., April 28. (Un‘ted Press.\—The body of Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota, who died on the Dominion Express near York. Pa., ton'ght was removed from the t here at 10:30 p .m. Dr. J. H Kleider, coroner. recetved the body and started an examination to deter: mine the exact cause of death. After being embalmed. the remains will be sent on to Minnesota. Senater Nelson was one of the most colorful figures in the senate. He had been in politics s'nce 1863 ad since served as governor of Min- sota and was first elected to the United States senate in 1895. Short and thick set, Senator Nel son was physically of the old Viking ye Wheri'in his prime, « Of Nerwegian extraction, personalty and will, the senator had been praminent strong Minnesota in the Republican organization for years. Elected first to the senate in 1895. Senator Nelson was re-elected in 1901, 1907, 1913 and 1918, Senator Nelson's re-election in 1918 was with the ad- vice and consent of Woodrow Wilson, wiho, though a Democratic president placed ng obstacle in Nelson's way because of the latter's strong support of the Wilson administration's war policies, Born in Norway in 1843, Senator Nelson came to the United States in 1849, His family settled first in Chi cago and later moved to Wisconsin. From there Nelson moved to Minne sota, During the Civil war he served with the Fourth Wisconsin regiment} and was wounded and captured at Port Hudson, La., in 1863. Senator Nelson's home was at Alexandria, Minn. WASHINGTON, April 28.—(United Press—‘Ie was a stalwart American and performed a most useful public service with a record of great work cecomplshed.” ‘This was tribute of President Hard- ng tonight to Senator Knute Ne'son of Minnesota, who died on the Domin fon Express near York, Pa., while tomeward bourd from the capital, short'y after § p, m. ews of his death spread over Washington rapidly. It halted social functicns and caused the president. to pause in a speech he was delivering before a gathering of earors. | Mr. Harding. greatly moved, wrote out this statement: “He was a stalwart American and | performed a most useful public serv- }{ca with a record of great work ac: |complished. Senator Nelson was a | most inspiring example of American | opportunity. He came to us in pov- erty from Norway, acquired a compe tence, served in the civil war for the | unton, was governor of his state and | had a long and honorable career in) the senate, I held him in very high | regard and deep'y regret his passing.” | Senator Lodge, leader of the senate and the only senator who ranked Ne son in length of service, received the news of his friend and colleague's death with emotion. “It 1s a terrible shock to hear that ea'd Lodge, ‘Minnesota and the na- tion will mourn a great public serv | ant; I mourn a good frend.” He was one of the last of the o'd guard—the real o'd guard that was made up of conservatves of the schoo! | |whch numbered men Mke Hoar and | Aldrich in {ts ranks. Will be from May 6 to 12 week stretch. As official]; The Tribune’s Baby Week a week from today, May period. NATIONAL BABY WEEK inclusive, It is not a two- y announced the dates are the 6th to the 12th, not from April 29 to May 12. Number will be published 6, as an inaugural to the Look Out or You'll Lose Your Change Beware the short change artist! This is the warning issued by the Casper police department hay ing learned that two such ¢ dence men arrived in ( terd: nfi sper yes y and’ started a raid on cash registers of various business houses. In one or two instances the men succeeded in making money by thelr work while in a third case they were scared out when someone cried, ‘They're short change men.” In this in stance th fled and left the money on the counter. The short change artist works on the general theory that a per son especially a woman, at a cash register can be rattled and conse. quently can be made to hand out more money than the person re ceives. The artist will ask the cashier to change a $5 bill, per About the time the chan ded out he will make some objection stating that he has been short changed and will do his best according to all the tricks of his trade to befuddle the cashier until he finally succeeds in walk- ing away with more money than he came in with. In order that no more unsus: pecting cashiers may become the victims of the men who have made their way into Casper, the police have issued the warning to be doubly careful. APPEALS FILED BY 2 MEN IN LIQUOR TRIALS 18 Released On Bond—New Trials Order for Three In Calumet Conspiracy Case NDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 28.— Motions of appeal to the federal dis- trict court of appeals at Chicago were filed late today by Mayor Roswell Johnson and seventeen others of the Afty-two persons denied new trials and sentenced by Judge Getger in the Calumet liquor conspiracy cases, Judge Geiger today sentenced John- son to a year and six months in prison and fined him $1,000. This inflicted in The lowest New trials for the highest penalty the individual sentenc was one day tn jail. three were ordered. Included in those who appealed are Dwight Kinder, Lake county prose cutor; Clyde Hunter, former Lake county prosecutor and Lewis E. Barnes, former sheriff. The egihteen bond. Homer Elliott, United States dis trict attorney, declared the motions for appeal were made that the gov- ernment is ready to fight the eas long as there is a single defendant, “with a show of scrap left.” All who received sentences of more than a year will go to the federal prison at Atlanta, if they are unsue- cessful in their fight for a new trial be e the court of appeals. Others will serve their terms in the Marion county jail. Prosecutor Kinder broke down and were released on wept as he heard the judge pro- nounce his sentence, Mayor Johnson asked it he had (Continued on Page Two.) TOGWEUP WASHINGTON, April 2s GERMANS WILL PAY U. 3, FOR LUSITANIA LOSS Reparation for Life and Prop- erty Will Be Made, It Is Learned In Capital BY A. L. BRADDFORD United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, D, C., April 28.— |The German republic will shoulder | Mability for the loss of American Ife and property in the torpedoing of-tho | Lusitania, it was learned here to- night, While Germany wif probably balk at paying the entire-amount claimed by United States citizens as a result of the sinking of the liner, a frank admission of Hability will be made when negotiations before the mixed claims commission are restimed. American claims, totalling more than 12,000 and amounting to $1,187,- 736,837 have all been filed. ‘The ne- gotiations, which had not proceeded far when the Germans left, will be resumed within a short time. HUNGRY AND TIRED, HE NOW HAS STOMACH FULL OF dL TABLE O'HOTE SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 28. —(United Press.)—Too hungry and weary of life to care, George Downey 16 year old waif, was arrested h today after he had started to rob a/ Jeweler. He hadn't eaten for several days and he had been sleeping in Golden Gate park for three nights. “I looked for a job and couldn't find one," Downey told detectives | It was a Market street Jewelry |store that Downey wanted to rob. He looked wanly through the plate | glass at George Franklin, the clerk. | Franklin smiled and the boy entered. | “Hands up,” feebly commanded | Downey, raising a etick he had picked from the gutter. 1 Franklin laughed and Downey, sob- bing turned and filed into the street, ali his courage gone. A traffic policeman, attracted by the clerk's shout, captured the hun- gry boy after a short chase. Downey has a stomach full of food tonight, if it ts jail food. ‘WLWL ORDERS BOOZE JOINTS. TOCLOSEIWANIDSON COAST Summary Action Taken by Throng of Members Who Shut Bootleg Joints in North Portland; Police Watch Work of Amateur Agents With Interest. PORTLAND, Ore., April 28.—(United Press).—Sum- mary action was taken by a throng of I. W. W. members late Saurday af:ernoon when boot legging joints in the north end were raided ad forcibly closed up. A gang of 0 or 200 men swept through the district, call- ing on each of the illegal dispensaries. At each place the proprietor was ordered to shut up tho place or be thrown out. The doors were o'osed and locked and some were nailed. Some time ago the joint st com mittee of the I. W. W, organization caused posters to be datributed among the members warning them against the use of Mquor. The plac ards reads away from liquc You can’t fight the bors and booze at the same time.” The police obtained word of the raid and sent a spotting party out to watch the affair, Police o aft erwards expla'ned they did not fnter fere because there C and that the “wobblies' | places they knew shou clowed, ING AND WORLD COURT DENY BRITISH EMPIRE WILLING BVOTES FOR 3. Republican Opponents of President’s Plan Stil | Consider It “Entangling Alliance” and Will Battle, Despite Executive’s Bold Challenge to Them. . BY LAWRENCE MARTIN. (United Press Staff Correspondent). .—An unremitting campaign | against President Harding’s world court proposal will be car- ried on by Republican senators who for a time threatened an open party breach over the issue. Silenced :,44 driven under cover by Mr. Harding’s bold challenge to tném, the Republicans have not abated their ty to the court idea. They still it an entangling step and are unsatisfied about the British alx votes to America’s one in election Judges. A report circulated today that the British government had informed the United ates It would accept a sena- torial reservation providing that if this government had only one yote in the election, the British empire should also have but one, was de- clared at the state department an‘ the British embassy to be wholly without foundation. British willingness to accept almost any reasonable terms the United States might propose has always been well known, it was stated. ee — AUTHORITIES PROBE CASE OF BOAT FIRED UPON BY CANADIAN PATROL SHIP SEATTLE, Wash., April 28—Amer fean and Canadian authorities tonight ‘wero continuing their investigation of tho shelling of the fishing boat, Siloam, by the Canadian fisheries patrot bont Malaspina, in which a member of the Siloam crew was fa- tally shot. According to the story told bere by Captain John Courage of the Si loam, his yessel had just rounded Sape Cook when they sighted tho Malaspina which opened fire upon the Siloam with two pound shells. “I was orderéd to halt and dla so. In fact, I halted three times,” Captain Newcomb of the Malaspina etated that the Siloam had been surprised by h's patrol boat fishing within the three-mile limit and that he crew had refused to surrender. Captain Courage has vigorously matn: tained his innocence of violating the Captain Courage declared, | fishing regulations, Secretary of State Hughes has or- dered the American consul at Van- couver, B. C., to thoroughly probe the affair. Canadian authorities are also condu ng an investigat’on, _——_— (MORE THAN SIX THOUSEND ACRES OF SUGAR BEETS TO BE POWELL’S OUTPUT | Six thousand five hundred acres of rt will refined at the Powell factory this summer, accord- to P. P, Anderson, editor of the Basin Republican who with Harry J. Hall, cashier of the Basin State bank passed through Casper yesterday on |thelr return trip from Cheyenne to Buffa The Co-operative Market ing association has contracted for 600,000 pounds of the Basin beet crop | at $9 per ton. | The farmers are working with great be enthusiasm and expect wonderful re- sults from this season's crop. The price is going up, according to Mr. Hal, and this will mean the salvation of the Basin country. The state of Wyom!ng has approv- ed the proposition to purchase drains age bonds, thus underwriting the bonds, Soeedpene |Lloyd George In ° Speech Asks for Wage Increases MANCHESTE Prem David orge, in a here 1 liberals a f'ght against socialism and If socialism 13 to be com- declared, means must be about an increase of man and to of today to emp! Jago caused by excessiv ar ora