Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 30, 1923, Page 1

AG PEACE MEET / . ‘ / Weather Forecast Rain or snow cooler in east portion. day probably fair. SIGNED BY TURK GETS UNDER WAY Near East Situation Is More Complicated by, Final Act; French to Meet Military Moves. LONDON, April sone convention under which Rear! Admiral Colby M. Chester, re- tired, and his associates are} granted development conces-! sions in Anatolia has been’ This, with announcement from one rigned mt Angora, the Turkish na-| tlonalist capita’ says an &xchange Telegraph dispatch from Constanti- nople today. } Announcement of ratification by by the Turkish nationa‘ist assembly of the Chester Railway and Mining| nvention was le at Angora on| 1 10. In interest was sed by the announcement that an en suc-| ican enterprise had tb alin obtaining development rights of such magnitude. Opposition to anything n the grant thaggmeht conflict with the rights of th na tlonals of other countries which had ‘nade claim or development agree- ‘ements with the Turks, has been bydhgly in evidence since notabiy Vrench and Brtsh quarters, and the subject has been discussed at the Lausanne Near East conference. FRENCH TROOPS ARE MASSED ON BORDER. PARIS, April 30.—As e@ precaution against what ts regarded af’ the threatening gesture of the Turks in concentrating 20,000 troops along the northern border of Syria, the French wovernment has decided to reinforce its own military strength in the man: dated territory by two divisions. This will place $40,00 Omen at the Clsposal of General Weygand, who sails this week for Beirut to take over the duties of French high commis- sioner in Syria and commander of the army in the east. The reinforcement of the 26,000 French troops already in Syria was decided upon, it {s understood, at conferences between Premier Poin- care and General Pelle, French high commissioner at Constantinople and head of the French de'egation at the Lausanne conference. RUSS DEMAND VOICE IN PEACE PARLEY. LAUSANNE, April 30.—(By the As- sociated Press)}—An official protest against “Russia being arbitrarily kept out of the conference,” was sent to the Near Bast peace conference to- day by M Vorovsky, the soviet revre- sentative here. He declared such @ decision was in direct violation of the terms of the invitation sent to Rus- sla by Great Britain, France and Italy preceding the first Lausanne ‘erence on November 14, 1922. M. Voroveky in his protest says Russia cannot accept the ultimatum of the conference that she must sign the convontion fixing the status of the Turkish straits before being ad- mitted to the conference. Russia must enter the conference “on full terms of equality,” the so viet representative insists. ee ear ‘KING’ PURNELL IS SEIZED IN OHIO, REPORT MARYSVILLE, Oh!o, April 30.— Michigan authorities are expected here teday to attempt identification of @ man believed by Sheriff Charles Coliter, to be “king? Benjamin Pur- fell, much sought leader of the House of David, a religious cult at Benton Harbor, Michigan, now the Subject of an investigation by the state of Michigan, arrested yesterday by the sheriff after he had communi- ated with Sheriff W. L. Smith’ of| Kent county, Mich. the man last} night refused to make known his name, when asked if he was Purnell, | He answered that he wna “Just a| man,” | He admitted, the sheriff gaid that he had been a member of the House of Dav m: but not | a they war insisted he was tonight and { Tues- /man, NATIONAL LEAGUE At New York— R.ELE. Brooklyn anon oo1—3 8 2 New York -002 010 167-410 1 Batteries—Reuther aud Deberry; MeQuilian and Gaston. At Philadelphia— RIE. Reston _ 103 303 030-13 15 4 Philsdelphia .001 000 10I—3 11 3 Batter‘es—Marquardt and Gowdy. Head, Betts and Henl'ne. At Cincinnati— RALE, Chicago -- 021 OL ONF—* © + Cincinnati -210 102 007 * » Batteries—Cheeves, Fussell and 0'- Farrell. Rixey and Hargren. At St. Louis— Pittsburgh _.. 100 St. Lous —302 Batteries — Bohle-, Carlson and Gooch. Doak and Clemens. ———(.71__ AMERICAN LEAGUE. At Boston— R. HH. E. Philadtiphia__000 001 100 20—4 10 0 Boston ----...100 000 100 00—2 8 1 Batteries—Naylor and Perkins, Wil- son; Ferguson and Picinich. At Detroit— R.H.E. Cleveland -110 002 00*—* * * Detroit ~ 000 000 Goe—* * * Batteries—Coveleskie and O'Neill; Collins, Cole and Bassler. At Chicago— St. Louis -_. Chicago Batteries—Shocker and Severeid; Faber, Cvengros and Schalk. _At Washington— RHE. w York _ -000 11° —- * + Washington ~-300 10° = pe Bind Batteries—Jones and Schang; War- mouth and Gharrity. —— LATE SPORTS HOUSTON, April 30.—Leo Har- man of Houston, holds the roller skating record of the world, it was said here today. He skated 50 hours, stopping at 10:40 last night. Four piano players, participants in a marthon, started here Saturday had played continuously for 43 hours and 30 minutes. —__—~—_——— MINER RESCUED AFTER CAVE-IN MIAMI, Ariz., April 30.—Shut off from the outside world for 20 hours by a cavein, E. Castenero, timber- was taken out of the Cactus mine, 10 miles west of here, by res- cue crews Saturday night nd today shows no signs of his experience. STRIKE BREAKERS TO BE USED IN WALKOUT Ship Owners Scheduled to Take First Steps Today to Break Strike of Marine and Forest Workers; Early Termina- tion of Walkout Is Forecast by Leader SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 30.—The first definite move to break the strike of Pacific coast marine workers called by the I. W. W., together with a strike of forest workers last The Ship Owners association at Los Angeles announced last night. that men would be brought there from this city to replace the strikers unless the lat- 10 o’clock this morning. About 1,800 marine workers have week, was in prospect today. ter had returned to work by quit work at Los Angeles sinc: This, with announcement from one I. W., W. leader that the marine walkout would. not be continued be yond May 4 or 5 and some disorder at Portland Ore., was the outstand- ing overnight development of the strikes. The word of a possible termination of the strike came threhgh the Los Angeles water front police from A. R. Gelbke, who presided at a strike meeting there yesterday. The offl- cors quoted Gelbke a#-aaying his or- ganization did not desire a protract- ed struggle and that if victory were not in prospect by three or-four days after May day its members would re- turn to work. Tho Portland arerder developed in the elty police station, a crowd of strike sympathizers creating a noisy | demonstration when two women were arrested for displaying before a hotel banners which chery? "‘quor was be- ing sold thero.“The batiners were part of a movement conducted by the I W. W., to prevent Mquor sales and gambling during the strike. One shop was delayed here, ten of CASPER, WYO., MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1923. The Tribune Carries More Classified Advertising Than Any Paper in Wyoming Che Casper Daily Trifme WHERE 33 DRY DIED WASHINGTON, April 30.—Here is the st of 33 federal prohibition agents who have been killed in line of duty to date, with the locations of their deaths: Stafford Beckett, El Paso, Tex. Apha Carter, Palisade, Nav. Guy Cole, Menifee co., Ky. W. D. Dorse: White co., Ga. Robert Duss, Menifee co., I Howard Fisher, Titusville, Va. Joseph Freeman, Titusville, Va. Joseph Floyd, Houston, Tex. John Thoma » Minn. Kirby Fran Okla, Bert 8. Gregory, Kansas City. Jacob Green, Richter, Miss. Richard Griffin, St. Claire, Charles E. Howell. Decatur, R. W. Jackson, Reynolds, Jesse R. Johnson, Saline co., Ark. Howell Lynch, ackson co., Tenn. Frank Matuskowitz, Pittston, Pa, Jumes M N. J. John O'7 . Joseph Owen, Kosci 3 Price, New Gran AGENTS Ala. Ala. Ga. ‘onne, Miss. Ronde, Glenn J. H. Reynolds. Paintsville, 5 J. Wayne count I. N. Scruggs, Knoxville, Charles Sterner, Kansas City,” Mo. Grover Todd, New nde Ronde, Ore. Ernest W. Walker, El Paso, John Waters, Dade City, Pla. John Watson, Anthrony, N. M. Stanton Welxs;-Okthoma: Citys Charles Wood, El Paso, Tex. LeRoy Youmans, Wartsville, Senator’s Body To Arrive In Chicago Today Tex. 8. Cc. CHICAGO, April 30.—The body of United States Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota who died suddenly Sat- urday on a Pennsylvania railroad train near Baltimore, was to arrive in Chicago today. Accompanying the body are Mrs. Edith Truscott of Jen- nings Lodge, Ore., Senator Nelson's niece; George A. Wells, Jr. and Walker W. Belford, Minnesota state insurance department officials, and Simon Michelet, the senator's secre- tary. e the strike was called. her crew having abandoned her when she put in yesterday. LIVING COSTS IN NATION UP 69 PER CENT WASHINGTON, April 30.—The'edst of living in the United States last March was 68.8 per cent higher than the average of the year 1913, accord: Ing to a computation announced to- day by the federal bureau of labor statistics, based on retail commodity prices and housing costs in 32 cities. Food was 42 per cent higher, cloth ing 74.4 per cent, housing 62.4 per cent, fuel and light, 86.2 per cent; urniture 4 per cent, and misce! neous commodity prices, 100.3 per ent. THE SHADOW OF BUCCANEE RS OF OLD DAYS HANGS OVER THE FATE OK SUCH CRAFT AS THE SCHOONER PATRICIA M. BEMAN» (BELOW),<FOEND: DESDRTED, AND: THE SISNK | STEAMER JOHN DWIGHT, LIFHBOAT OF WHICH IS SEEN ABOVE. EMERSON HOUGH, AUTHOR, DEAD NOVELS PAY TRIBUTE TO WEST | CHICAGO, April. 30.—Emerson produced in motion pictures. Hough, author, died in a bospital | In the winter of 1895, donning 3 skiis he traveled over Yellowstone in Evanaton today. Mr. Hough was | National park and his activity 66 years old and was taken to the hospital last Thursday suffering from an intestinal obstruetion, An operation was performed on Satur. day. Heart and respiratory com- plications caused death. Mr. Hough, who was a devotee and disciple of outdoor life had written many western stories, his most recent book, ‘The Covered Wagon” haviig just recently been after this trip was credited with instigating the act of congress pro- tecting buffalo herds. Mr. Hough explored many of the wildest and most of the out-of-the- way places of the country and dur- ing his earlier years gathered much of the material for his later books of travel, adventure and romance, Many of his novels were of the his- torical romance type, involving the building of the west, with its pio- neer difficulties, gold and Indians. The author was born in Newton, Iowa, June 28, 1857, Ho was grad uated from the Untyersity of Iowa in 1880. He is survived by the widow. Among his more well known and famous stories were “Fifty-Four Forty or Fight,” published in 1909, and “The Mississippi Bubble,” in 1902. There were many others, most of them having to do with the west or the outdoors, among them “The Law of the Land,” “The Way to the West Heart’s Desire,” “The Story of the Outlaw,” and “The Young Alaskans in the Far North," et oa eee SEVEN LOST IN SHIP SINKING VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass., April 30.—While the lighthouse tender Anemone was taking from the Vine: yard sound lightship today the 22 survivors of tho steamer Seaconnet which sank in the sound yesterday, the coast guard cutter Acushnet, was crufsing adjacent waters searching for seven missing men. Old Buccaneer Thrills Now Tame With Land Gunmen Rivalling Water Tribe; Four Killings W eekly in Gotham | | ee tT BY EDWARD THIERRY NEW YORK, April 30.—Piracy and murder are writing pages picturesque and violent in the booze history of Amer- lea No complete statistics are available of this growing crime phase, yet thrills surpassing fiction are found even in a brief and casual survey. Smugglers, pirates, “‘hi-jackers,” and bandits today furnish battle, blood and color not to be found be tween the covers of yesterday’s dime novels. gunmen, bootlegge sacks were found in the looted hold and a notebook showed jons of les of 3,918 packages of liquor. here was @ case ton package, {t | seemed, at $48 or $50 a case, or some Thirty-three federal dry agente) $190,000 worth of booze. have been killed since enforcement} began, not counting police and other} no The same week a Concord, N. H. city, county an¢ 6 officers. es ay ‘ a na off! vers. | automobile dealer was shot and killed Booz directly or indirectly killed| in his home during an argument over 72 persons in New York in the first|the ownership of an automobile four months of 1923, according which he had taken as security when records of the medical examiner’ fice; that's more than four deaths a K he paid the fines of two convicted rum runners in 1921 Two other v: wei plent deaths occurred Fights with the law and internal| in a single day. A New York man feuds have cost the lives of many shot to death and a Savannah bootleggers and rum runners. Un-|Ga. man was drowned when he listed numbers have died of poisonous iquor. Whenever and wherever an unidentified body is found, the specter of booze hangs prominently over the mystery of th ing. leaped into the river after being cap tured in a liquor-laden automobile. A duel between river pirates quar reling over Mquor from ocean liners 8 believed to have caused the death kil Disaster has overtaken schooners,| of the man found, revolver in h motor boats, airplanes and automo-| slumped over the. ateerin biles smuggling liquor; explosions of | a motor boat sliding slowly down th stills and barrels and bottles of booze | Hudson river. h caused damage by fire 1 shes menaced hundreds of autome biles have been stolen, wrecked and|_ During the same two weeks a Lor deserted. and\man was found insane from Stele sure, after drifting at sea witli two others in a © ‘ I Here's a fortnight's characteristic | py ° OTs 1 be sat ay bl booze record: Five men murdered, |." Cases of whisky . bik five drowned, one burned to death, rraititel te chal Peatieenes vit one drive insane, rc ounde it ame p00! bed 3 ieretecpbendles per snetAD bps nine | prookjyn; and. Beid@gepert police re Titoe Uno Ant wae hoxaa Beith {ported 310 stolen-automobiles attll un ree ee ree erin Mit | clatmed of ‘some 400 picked up by . best FR A : Connecticut state police since Jan Haven, Mas ght bod cre ea a ite panies “ves | uary and mostly said to have been | FINAL i EDITION NUMBER 174. DECISION REVERSED Piracy and Murder Feature Booze War on Coast RIGHT 10 SERVE LIQUOR ON HIGH EA 19 UPHELD BY HIGH COURT Neither American Nor Foreign Ships Allowed To Bring Booze Into Ports Under Seal. WASHINGTON, April 30. —The ruling of Attorney General Daugherty against the serving of liquor on Amer- ican ships on the high seas Was overturned today by the supreme court, which held at the same time however, that the ban pro- hibiting, both American ships from bringing Ii American porta under b und enforceable. and foreign or stocks int 1 was legal The court held that the probibttion amendment could F y be lied to prevent An an ships from ng be the °c at extent the ma lecision tn lige Hand at N Within the mile ever, the court found that an entire- ly different situation obtained. 8 taining the pe n tok » Hmndon th t, the jared it ille washed ashore after a battls at moa, | US0% oy ut - noisy enough to be heard at the dis. ' ¥*°4 PY rum runners, tant Gay Head life saving station. Mr ees The pirates’ vessel got away in the] Rtver pirates, afloat tn motor boats fog, but the steamer John Dwight, | scooting in and out among the pliers loaded with bottled ale, sank after|in every port along the Atlantic sea- her boflers had blown up. board, have been responsible for even One of the victims was burned and| more killings and battles than rum mutilated. Three appeared to have | p.ates who sai! the 12-mile limit. been clubbed to death, The other| Ocean liners tied at plers and cargo four were drowned. ships anchored in harbors are the sie pirates’ pzey. A fatal duel in the Pirates were blamed also for the| Hudson river was the latest of many mystery shrouding the fate of nine | Scrimmages; previously there was o members of the crew of the schooner | murder in a New York harbor smug Patricia M. Beman, found with sails|gling plot, another when detectives set and anchor dragging in Great| descended upon pirates looting a ship South Long Island. | at Hoboken, a battle in a Florida p Decks had been splintered by bul-| when one gang betrayed another t lets and were littered with cartridges. | government agents, a pistol fight in Cabins were in disorder, as if captain | which were seized an they and crew had left hurriedly. Were | boarde hooner in New York Bay, they carried away or driven into the/and a gun fight when pirates at sea? Empty whisky cases and burlap (Continued on Page Four.) COLUMBIA MOB LYNCHES BLACK Janitor at University of Missouri Hanged for Alleged Assault Upon Daughter of College Professor COLUMBIA, Mo., April 30.—(By The Associated Press.) —Police officials here were trying today to find out the names of members of the mob which early yesterday stormed the jail here, removed James Scott, a negro, and hanged him to a railroad bridge. A grand jury investigation has been promised by Ruby M. Hulen, prosecuting attorney of Boone JACK CLARK. MAYOR OF POWDER STAGE DRIVER, PASSES AWAY AT LOCAL HOSPITAL The picturesque career of a pio-|cattle and sheep business Buck- neer of Wyoming was closed early|num. Will Clark, a brother of Jack, this morning in the death of Jack | is stil] in the business in that vicinity, Clark, mayor of Powder River. Mr.} while Tom, another brother, sold out Clark passed away at a local hospital,| five years ago and moved to Call asthma being given as the cause of | for death. He was 55 years of age. | The outbreak of the Spanish Jack Clark came to the United| American war, Col. Torrey organized States from Scotland wnen he was|a band of ugh ride} an organt only flye years old, The Clark family; zation of men who worked on the took up residence at the old Goose|same plan as did Roosevelt's rough Egg ranch which has been made fa-| rid Jack Clark was mado “head | mous by ‘The Virginian." When tt ucker” for this outfit. In this] Northwestern railrond had Glenr apacity he to ft that all the} as its terminus, young Clark drove| horses and mules were saddied and stage from’ Glenrock to Besser packed correct Afterwards when the road was ex A few year Mr. Clark moved tended to Casper, the < his res to Powder River. His| obtained a contract to dri ts in this part of the The Clarks later went tr the | open p @ hotel at| county. The negro, m Janitor of the Uni versity of Missourl, was accused of attempting to attack a 14-year-old y girl, the daughter of Dr. H. F, Alm stedt, head of the German depart ment at the university. Reports that untversity atu took an active part in the lynchir were denied by eye witnesses and by Powder River and later began the| Dr. Isidore Loeb, acting president o operation 4 filling. station when | the unt the automobile traffic became larg _———— enough to warrant it EMBEZZLER Mr, Clark mar Miss Bertha Vv Froehn who survives him. He is also survived by two sisters, Mrs. IS CAPTURED B. L. Scherek and Mrs, Kenneth uv) McRae, of Cai and five children, Mrs. Guy Burchell and Mra. Annabell A Pererson of Cheyenne, George Clark] MEXICO CITY, April 90.—A 4 of Henrieta, Okia,, John Clark and] patch recetved here from Miss Wilhemina Clark of Powder | says that at the request of tiver, as well as by the brothers tea rnment, a man whose names have ady been| name of C. T. Holloway mentioned connection with 5 be at the ffer-| ment r in the will t ign ships t x orts or waters liq ealed in bond for the use of passengers on outgo- Ing voyages. The decision regarded by the feder- government as one of the most tm- portant yet handed down in regard to prohibition enforcement was read by Justice Van Deventer. Justices Mc+ Reynolds and Sutherland dissented. Justice Sutherland Gelivered a din senting opinion explaining that he ugreed that American ships cannot have aboard intoxicating liquors in American territorial water, but be+ leved the prohibition should not ap- ply to foreign ships. WOMAN BLOWN TO DEATH BY JEALOUS RIVAL PADUCAH, Ky., Aprfl 30.—Mrs. Rosetta Daugherty Warren, 34, w instantly killed early today in a dyna- mite explosion which wrecked By home here, Her three children Christine, 8; Aline, 10, and Eugene, 15, escaped injury. An arrest ts ex- A woman {s belfeved by the po! to have planted the explosive, Au- thorities attribute insane jealousy as cause of the blast. The charge was placed at the eor. ner of the front room directly under the bed on which s. Warren slept. The three children, who were asleep were nirest- women, 1 witn wie ause th MAN IS SEIZED “ ASEMBEZZLER OF $300,000 YORK, Apsit an rsenthal th the m the mene a ee ee