Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 9, 1923, Page 1

f ae Weather Forecast WYOMING—Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday. Not much change in temperature. VOLUME Vil. The Tribune Carries More Classified Advertising Than Any Paper in Wyoming YANKEES. PEACE OFFER , OF DE VALERA TURNED DOWN Free State Government Rejects Proposal. of Rebel Leader Barracks for for Election and Republicans DUBLIN, May 9.—(By The Associated Press.) —The Irish Free State government has refused the peace terms of Eamonn De Valera and has declined to communicate further with the republican leader. President Cosgrave in the Dail Eireann today read the cor- yespondence conducted with De Valera by Senators Douglas and Jameson, acting as intermediaries. De Valera insisted upon an election by September 15 and assignment to the republicans of barracks where thelr armé could be stored under re- publican guards pending the outcome Of the election. He also claimed the right of republicans to sit in the Free State parliament without taking she oath preacribed in the treaty. government, sald President refused these terms and de- clined to enter into further com- munication with De Valera. LIQUOR MOVED ILLEGALLY, 14 ARE INDICTED PITTSBURGH, May %.— Indict ments, growing out of the alleged Mllegal removal of whiskey, valued at $3,000,000 from the A. Guckenheimer 4 Brothers company distillery at Pa., were returned by 8 federal grand jury today. The com pany, four officials and nine other men were indicted. The indictments cover a perio® of two years. WOMAN SEIZED FOR FORGERY NW YORK, May 9.—Mrs. Myrtle B. Hayes, Boston business woman now living in this city, today was in dicted on @ charge of having forged the name of Charles M. Schwab to a $25,000 note, in connection with the reception of the Hotel Chatham in Boston. While the indictment was on one count it ts alleged that she negotiated seventeen notes totalling $326,000 bearing the name of the iron master as endorser. ‘The correspondence showed | British Repl To Reparations Offer Pending LONDON,, May 9—(By The Asso- ciated Press,)—The British reply to the German reparations proposals will probably go forward tomorrow or Friday. The note will de a terse energetic document, and, while not #0 sweeping as the French reply, i! will point out in unmistakable terms the utter unacceptability, of Chancel lor Cuno's proposals and the impera tive need for a more substantial anc workable formula for the solution ot ® problem which affects the economic Lfe of all Europe. RUNAWAY PRIA RAE CAUGHT IN BOXCAR Harold Tatum, aged 22 years, and a girl who claims to be only 14 years of age, were arrested at Basin Mon- day and returned to Casper by the sheriff's office. They are said to have run away and to have made their way to the Basin city in a box car. They had also been in Greybull. No formal charges have been placed against Tatum, who is repos ing in the Natrona county jail. The girl was released and allowed te re- turn to her parents here. ‘OWN YOUR OWN HOME’ SHOW CLOSES [in se NATIONAL LEAGUE. At New York— Chicago —_.. New York 210 012 000—6 11 3 Batteries—Aldridge and O'Farrell; | Johnson, Snyder. Jonnard, J. Barnes and At Philadelphia— St. Louis _ 000 150 003—9 15 1 | Philadelphia __..000 200 140—7 11 2 Batteries—Dell, North, Sherdel and Ainsmith; Winters, Mitchell, Bishop, Betts and Henline. R.H.E. | | NEW YORK, May 9.—Brooklyn- | Pittsburgh game postponed; wet grounds. BOSTON, May 9.—Cincinnati-Bos- ton game postponed; rain. ae LEAGUE. AMERICAN At St. Louis— Philadelphia St. Louis _ Batteries—Naylor, Kinney and Per- kins; Shocker and Severeid. CHICAGO, May 9.—Boston-Chicago game postponed; cold. , Ohio, May 9—New York-Cleveland game pestponed; cold. | pera et DETROIT, Mich, May 9.—Wash- i ington-Detroit game postponed; snow. panes ath boosting Bandits Rob Canadian Bank DOLLARD, Sask. May 9.—Five Hochelaga here early today and tlem after trussing the cler! occupied quarters on the second floor, with wire cable. bandits blew the safe of the Bank of escaped with $5,500 in cash and a large quantity of. negotiable securi- Che Casper Daily Tribune FINAL ‘EDITION CASPER, WYO., WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 123. Fly-Swatting Time. NUMBER 182. TONIGHT Second Night of Realtors’ Fete at Arkeon §)4 MEN ARE PLACED Is Marked by Larger Crowd; Dancing 1 and Entertainment Feature The last chance to see the realtors’ “Own Your Own Home” show will be given this evening when the Arkeon doors again swing open at 7:30 and the wonderful displays days are again thrown before that have been entertaining hundreds during the past two the public view. Those who have not attended this show already ought not to miss it, for to do so will be but to sacrifice entertainment that can be had at a nominal price. Then too, there {s an opportunity to become owner of a lot in Casper or to obtain a start in building and loan that may pave the way for future success. ‘These are all given without extra charge, All the visitor is required to do is to sign his name on a card, and await results. ‘The show last night took on more (Continued on Page Six.) STEAMER IS IN DISTRESS SEATTLE, Wash. May The coast guard cutter Snohomish is rushing to the assistance of the Alaska steamship company's steamer Lake Gebhart, on the rocks near Umatilla reef, and expects to reach the vessel between 10 and 11 o'clock today, according to a wireless mes- age received here. The Lake Gebhart, the message said, was in a “dangerous position", yut that the sea, at first running strong, had subsided to a light ewell. RUHR STRIFE TO BE ENCOURAGED BERLIN, May 9.—(By The Asso- elated Press.)—The sentences passed on Baron Gustav Krupp von Bohlen and his colleagues are greeted with indignation by the Berlin press. Even the communist paper Rote Fahne describes the sentences as “monstrous”. ‘The newspapers unanimously assert that innocent German citizens are be ing punished merely to save the prestige of Premier Po! are, The general view seems to be that the Werden court martial'’s verdict will result in the strengthening of passive resistance in the Ruhr. DUESSELDORF, May 9.—(By Thg Associated Press.)}—It is announced that sentences of death will be asked by the French military prosecutor in the trial of seven Germans now pro- ceeding before a court martial on charges of espionage and sabotage The prosecution. ha the belief that at least . fendants will be penaity. xpressed one of the given the death COURT DENIES INJUNCTION IN NEW YORK, May 9.—Federal Judge Meyer announced this after- noon the government's application for jan injunction to restrain the New | York coffee and Sugar Exchange and clatioh from dealing in sugar futures had been denied. ‘WASHINGTON, May 9.—The re fusal of Federal Judge Mayer in New York to enjoin the New York Sugar Exchange from dealing in sugar fu- tures may result in a direct appeal which will bring the case without fur- |ther delay before the supreme court. DEATHS IN ~ FLORIDA CARP TALLAHASSE, Fla., May 9.—With recorded testimony saying that at least nine deaths had occurred within the last year among the convicts leased by Senator T. J. Knabb the joint legislative cofimittee resumed today its investigation into alleged convict camp brutalities. . Mrs, Thelma Franklin of Glen St. Mary, testified concerning the deaths. Judge J. R. Johns, justice of the peace, who testified he had sentenced Paul Revere White to serve six months and pay a fine of $25 because | White “pleaded guilty and looked like a professional hobo”, | to be recalled today. was expected FUTURES CASE IN JOBS BY LESION Since the local post of the Ameri- can Legion established its employ- ment department two months ago to- day 624 men have been placed at work. The jobs have varied from common labor to a department store manager. All of the positions hav been furnished to the men free. There are at present several con- cerns in the city and in the oll flelds who depend entirely upon the Ameri- can Legion to supply them with men. ‘They report that the men sent them —_ —~ NINE-YEAR-OLD CHILD | TO BE BURIED THURSDAY Nineyear-ola Violet Bowers who died at Clayton, Wyo., May 7. was brought here’ last night end will be buried tomorrow. ‘The funeral will be 0 a. m., the Rev. C. M. Thompson will officiate, Dranken Driver Is Given Fine of $25 ©, L. Stan'ey was fined $25 by Judge John A: Murray in police court last night on the charge of having been drunk and having driven a car at the same time. P. O, Bush and Miss B. Hill who are said to have een found with a gallon of moonshine tn their posses- |sion will be arraigned before the! |judge this evening CUTTING CHICAGO, May 9.—The hole in the pler through which it has been ac- cepted that the body of Leighton Mount was thrust lay twenty months until a disarticulated skeleton was found last week, was cut nine months after the supposed interment of the Northwestern university tu dent who disap ared after inter: Iclass fight in September, to an 1921. have been on thé whole satisfactory. | he'd from ‘the Shaffer-Gay chapel at} the New York Coffee and Sugar Asso-| 1 Suffering Reported Pay Ransom but | Roland Pinger, Major Robert according to advices received SCAPE BANDITS TWO OFFICERS AND BOY FREE; OTHERS HELD Among Captives in Bandits’ Camp; Chinese Government to - Militarists Expected to Defeat Plans by Armed Expedition PEKING, May 9.—(By The Associated Press.) Major Allen and Major Pinger’s son, Roland, Jr., have escaped from the Suchow bandits, who held up the Shanghai-Peking express early last Sunday morning, here. This brings the total of those who have escaped or have been released to fourteen. | ‘The list of those who have escaped lor been freed by the bandits, as com- | piled here from various sources, is as | follow | Major Robert Allen, Major Roland Toye Carl Pinger, Roland Pinger, Jr., Heinovitch, Lloyd Lehrbas, Emile Gens. burger, G. G. Jacobsen, F. P. Day, Miss Lucy Aldrich, Miss McFadden, Miss Schoenberg, Miss A. Corralll. SHANGHAI, May §.—(By the Asao- ciated Press.)—Fourteen foreigners, including at least seven Americans, held in the hill# beck of Lincheng by | the Suchow train banditenae ‘almost dead” from lack of food and clothing Zimmerman, V. Heinz, TWO SLAIN IN MINER’S HOME POMEROY, Ohio,, May 9%—J. E. Miller, aged 53, a coal miner, today shot and killed Edward Arnold and, A. W. Swiner at his home here. Miller tod police that Arnold and Swiner were West Virginia non-union miners who had attempted to abduct him and take him back to West Vir- ginia. where he formerly worked. Miller is a union man. DRY CLAUSE | HELD VOID NEW YORK, May 9%.— Federal Judge Knox today declared void that portion of the Volstead act which | limits the.amount of liquor which a |physiclan may prescribe and granted an injunction restraining prohibition enforcement authorities from interfer: ing wtih the practice of Dr. Samucl W. Lambert. Attaches pf the court raised the question whether Judge’ Knox's deci sion, if suustained in the highe: courts, wou'd not also dea! a b'ow at the Harrion Anti-Narcotic act. Th's act, it was said, prohibits physicians from prescribing increased doses of narcotics to drug patients, thus in ef fect, limiting the physicians judgment as to what treatment shall be uesd It wap indicated that if the decision {s upheld, United States Attorney |Hayward might find himself com- pelled to drow preceedings against Dr. Ernest 8, Bishop, recently indict Jed under thé Harrison act for pre |scribing increased doses of a nargotic to @ patient. Dr. Lambert, who is dean emeritus lof the College of Physicians at Colum bia University and was chief of the igtoup of*physicians who treated En. |rico Caruso in his Inst il'nes@, filed his suit November 18, ‘922. : Prior to its filing, the Association for the Protection of Constitutional Rights, an organization of more than 100 prominent physicians of which he is president, had gone on record as sponsoring the test of the law. HOLE IN | PIER IS SOLVED Three boys inst night told Georgianna Juul, police woman who has patrolled the feach for years, that they chopped the hole in the Pler floor so that thef might have an easy dressing room.” Mrs. UL. J. Moun‘, the missing youth's mother and J. Allen Milis who led the freshmen in the class were important grand jury witnesses yesterday, ° STORM SWEEPS MANY STATES Snow and Cold Extend Well Into South and East to Atlantic Seaboard; Weather Man Promises Relief CHICAGO, May 9.—(Ry The Associated Press.)=—Unsea-' e thermometer down to freezing and was accompanied by snow flurries continues today to} bring shivers to the entire central west, but the weather u sees relief immediately ahead. | The cold will continue today, according to the weather | sonable cold which sent t bur report, with even lower temperatures in the lower Great Lakes region, the upper Ohio valley, and the Atlantic states. Snow yesterday was reported as far south as Missouri, Wisconsin, Iowa, Indiana -and other central states @ent reports that the flurries at times assumed proportions of a lead of winter blizzard. The north- ern section of Wisconsin told of a hree inch snowfall ; F On the other hand isolated spots In the southwest and on the Pacific coast experienced unseasonable hot weather. In Chicago, an inch of snow covers/| the ground «nd the temperature ts slightly below freezing. : The central west apparently was hardest hit by the momentary return of winter, upper Wisconsin, the northern Michigan peninsula, Minne- ‘ota, northern praska, South Da- kota and Iowa being the chief suf- fe One of the worst storms ever ex- perlenced during May was felt at Milwaukee? Reports from northern Wisconsin were that freezing ther with snow overspread that section. Menomjnee, Mich., reported the worst May storm since 1895.. A re@ lar blizzard as thick, as any last winter raged. “Along Lake Superior the storm was especially fierce. A northwest wind * packing ice into Whitefish bay and forcing it down 8st ry's river ‘Ashland, Wis., reports'a Reavy bliz zard raging and extensive, ice fields being driven about Lake Superior. | At St. Paul, Minn., the thermometer | went to two degrees below freezing. but rising temperatures 1s predicted |for today. Crops in that section of | Minnesota were not injured, ing to the state agricultural | missioner, accord com In the near houthwest, Kansas City | Mo., reportedsorchards were damaged quite a little. Hundreds of orchard, ists in the Ozark region of Missouri and Arkansas burned smudge pots last night in an effort to prevent damage The coc weather was felt as fa ‘as Texas, where, although tempera jtures dropped 20 degrees, it was | warm enough for the weather not to | approach freezing. In the old south, Atlanta reported | rainfall of 1.54 inches, precede |a heavy drop in temperature. |trical disturbances and a hard wind | accompanied the rain and damaged |property. The lowest temperature | Was reported as 33 degrees. Weather masts for that part of Geosgia for |today are clear and cold. | New Orleans and the coast section of Louisiana are not affected ma terlally. ‘ 1. ee OREGONIAN QUITS BOARD WASHINGTON, May 9.—Resigna tion of former Senator George E Chamberlain of Oregon, as a mei ber of the shipping board has been ef accepted by: I tive June 30 d he expected to remain in Wash ington for a It is understood he Il open a law office her: esident Harding, Mr. Chamb | F and exposure, according to a message received here today from Lincheng. ANXIETY ALLAYED AT WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, May 0. — The anxiety of officials here for the fate of the Americans, and other foreign nat‘onals held captives by the Chinese andits in Shantung province appear- ed to be somewhat allayed today by the reports*recieved at tho atate 4 partment from Minister Schurman, at Peking. ; ‘The department ennounced lets yesterday that it had been advised by the Amerfcan minister that tho Peking govermment hed sgreed to Pay ransoms on representations made to the prime minister by the Portu- guese minister at Peking, dean of the diplomatic corps there. The government also, the depart- ment was informed, agreed to act ae rapidly as possible in meeting the other demands made in behalf of the diplomatic corps. These demands were that tn ad- dition to immediate steps to secure the releaso of the captives, the gov- ernment should conduct an inquiry into the affair and take atrong mili- tary action to put down brigandage in Shantung. diplomatic corps the The was sald to have informed Chinese foreign office that it-“reserved the right to demand @ progressive indemnity for every day after the twelfth of May that the foreigners remain captive. Developments in the eltuation, cluding the reported close purauit of the bandits. by Chinese troops, ap- peared to have made more remote tho Possibility of using American troops in conjunction with those of other powers. It was said such a course would be pursued this country only as a last by resort. FARLY RE ‘OT EXPECTED KING, May %—<By The Ae sociate Press)—While the govern- ment sued orders this morning to the foriegn commissioner of Shan tung province to comply with all the demands of the Schow train bandits who have been holding for ransom a numbe Americans and other for- eigners, diplomatic circles were not optimistic over the prospects for an |early reease of the « | The foreign ministers expreseed the opinion that the Chinese cabinet was willing to pay the necessary ran som, but pointed out that the mill tarists of China probably would tn ter'vene and in on continuing op- erations against -u) bandits, The ministers fear that the efforts to res. cue the prisoners -¥!ll on'y endauger them further afd prolong the affair Yesterday afternoon the representa: tives of tore sovernments, Inter rupting a cby ting, impressed on Premier C Shao Teeng and his ministers the reriourness of the situation and the imperative need for action, of foreigners hid conflicting and or released sol) were tncomples + \ (Continued on Pago Six.) IDENTIFI HAMMER SLAYER ED, SAID TEGUCA Honduras, May 9.— (By ateq Press.) Photogr Clara Phillips, the hammer 1 pres which were brought here from a mafke resembl: held here as Mrs Los Angeles, show to thi *hillips. wom In adat E tion, both the blouse and large scart pin worn this morning by the prisoner apparently are {dentical w the pt The second time tremor was felt i in California At caus here, = some confusion, but she was foiled by the police guard i companion, wh us n called*Mrs, Young, is now alleged to be Mrs. Etta Lay Jackson, whose hus- band is said to have stopped off in Tampico when the woman came to Central America he man as J rson } alleged Ph | murder jn California,