Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 12, 1923, Page 1

Weather Forecast WYOMING—Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday. Warm- er tonight. “VOLUME Vil. “POISON PEN: ENDEAVORERS IN'imissiNe MAN CASPER TODAY OR OPENING OF STATE MEETING Two Hundred Delegates From Out of City to Participate in Addition To Residents. The third annual Christian Endeavor convention for Wyoming opened at the Methodist church yesterday afternoon with approximate- ly two hundred out-of-town delegates present. These persons came from all over the state and were therefore as representative as {t would be possible to obtain at 2 convention. Services were held yesterday after- noon and evening which included an address of welcome by the Rev. R. R. Hildebrand of the First Christian Rev. Edwin A. Bell. e The Tribune Carries More Classified Advertising Than Any Paper in Wyoming CASPER, WYO., SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1923. i ft i SLAIN, BELIEF, AT GHEYERNE CHEYENNE, Wyo., May That the body of James J. Hall, 23, of New York City, will be found at some Isolated locality in the Chey- enne district, is the opinion ex pressed by sheriff's and police of- ficers and Max H. Tovert, “buddy” Hall. | Hall has been missing since Sun- day morning when he went to Fort Russel with $650 on his person He was seeking opportunity to buy a horse which he proposed to ride on a trip through Wyoming with ‘Tobert. The theory of officers and his friend is that he was lured into the country to look at a horse and there was murdered for the money he carried. 12.— of } J. B, Powell, American newspaper correspondent and editor of the Shanghat Weekly Review who was among the men passengers kidnaped from a Chinese train and held for $1,000,000 ransom for a time. RANSOM WILL BE PAID AS MOST FEASIBLE MOVE IN OBTAINING RELEASE OF BRIGAND CAPTIVES TIENTSIN, May 12.—(By The Associated Press.) —Pay-| church here and a response by the} ment of ransom, or compliance with whatever other terms! the Chinese train bandits of the Shantung hills might de- The main address was delivered by| mand for the return of their foreign captives, seemed today more than ever the only feasible move, in view of the letter, | urging such a course, received here from Major Roland Clarence C. Hamilton, field repre- sentative of the Christian Endeavor World. Mr. Hamilton took as his subject “Loyal Service, Fellowshin Through Service’. The speaker ex- plained the very heart of Christian Endeavor work and explained the great. need for service in the proper carrying out of a Christian program. Denominational conferences were held this morning. The Baptists, Christians, Congregationals, Presby- terians and Methodists each convened under théir separate leaders and went over points of importance. At 11 o'clock this morning a play- Pinger, one of the two American army officers who were taken to the out- law's stronghold with the other pas- sengers of the Shanghal-Peking ex- press train after it was derailed near Suchow last Sunday. Not on!y was the letter from Major Pinger dispatched here from the ban- dits retreat today, but the young son of Major Pinger—Roland Jr.,—was also. He came in company with an- other boy, Robert Allen Jr., the son of Major Allen, the other American of- let, “Accounting That Counts", was} ¢cor held for ransom. given by three Endeavorers of the North Casper church. Addresses of interest are scheduled for this afternoon. A fellowship banquet will be held at 6 o'clock this evening, after which further services will be held. An elaborate program has been ar- ranged for tomorrow morning and} afternoon also, The convention will close tomorrow evening. SUMMARY OF NIGHT NEWS "WASHINGTON—The only motive President Harding has in making hile western trip this summer is to visit Alaska to obtain first hand in- formation useful in dealing with the | problems of that territory, it was sald at the White House. NEW YORK—Field Marshal von Hindenburg told American army of- ficers in Hauover that he believed the United States would be forced into! a war with Japan within a few years, according to Captain Bernard McMahon, one of the officers. Demented Man Is Held in Cheyenne CHEYENNE, Wyo., May 12. — A man who says his name js Clifford and who {s believed to be demented ig he'd by the Cheyenne police. He was picked up while wandering aim- lessly through the city streets. He is unable to‘ give any information re- warding himself other than that his name if Clifford. The two lads, clad in Chinese cloth- ing, apparently were in good physical condition when returned to their very anxious mothers. The mothers, who were on the train but were not taken into the hills by the bandits, had re- mained here awaiting word of their imperiled families. The boys were enthusiastic over the adventure, and said the bandits had taken quite a fancy to them, seeing that they suf- fered no ill effects. The Pinger and Allen boys reported two women still in the hands of the outlaw band, They were unable to identify the women, but from their| description it is believed that one is Senora Manuel Anoira Verea, wife of a prominent Mexican, who also is held. “Rules of Order” Author Dies At New York Home| NEW YORK, May 12.—Brig. Gen. Henry M, Robert, U. 8. A., retired, author of Robert's Rules of Order, a standard work on parliamentary pro- cedure, died in a sanitarium at Hor- nell, N. Y. General Robert, who was 86 years old, was a native of South Carolina. He was retired in 1901, He was in command of a party which explored a military route from Vancouver, B. C. to Puget Sound in 1860. and served during the Civil war as engineer on the defense of Washington, Philadelphia and New Bedford. He was a member of the commission that designed the sea wall for Galveston, and also designed the bridge connecting that city with the mainland Rabbis To Be Barred From Buying Wines LO SANGELES, Cal., May 12. —A resolution requiring Jewish con- gregations in Los Angeles to with- draw permits to sell wine issued to rabbis has been adopted by the Los Angeles Kehillah, an organization which represents Jewish synagogues, it was announced by M. I, Grossman, the president. Henceforth, Mr. Grossman stated, grape juice will be substituted for sacramental purposes, the highest authorities on Jewish religion in America and Europe having decided wine is not essential. Dr. Mayer Winkler, rabbi who has taken a leading part in the movement to eliminate wine from the Jewish religious service declared ‘there are a number of frresponsible persons who have assumed the title of Rab- bi to cireumvent the law,” and as serted that “It is incompatible with the rabbinate for a rabbi to deal in unlawful commodities.” Miss Lucy T. Aldrich, sister-inJaw of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and daughter of the late United States Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, of Rhode Island, captured by Chinese bandits who held up a fihanghal-Pekin ex- press train nesr the Shantung border and c engers, many of them Americans; later re rried off more than 100 pass- sed, with other women pass- engers and suffering from exposure at Pin Cheng, near the scene of the hold-up. | | | t ! | Brigadier General William D. Gon- |nor, commander of the small detach- | ment of United States troops station- |ed at Tien-Tsin, who held himself in |readiness to lead American soldiers in chase of bandits who carried off |many foreigners in attack upon train “Cromwell of China,” who is oom-| near the Shantung border, Military action was withheld, however. Interested Military Commanders General Feng Yu-Hsiang, called the mander of the Chinese troops report- ed sent in pursuit of bandits who cap- tured Americans, Che Casper Daily Tribune RRESTS PENDING AMERICANS CAPTURED BY CHINESE BRIANDS. {WOOLBROWERS HOLDING FOR HIGHER PRICE WASHI growers fy ITON, western M sta | ‘8 pound. | S@%s have been made of approx! *RAlely 80 per cent of the Arizona | ofp, 75 per cent of the Oregon, 66 pér cent of the Utah, 90 per cent of the Washington of the Wyoming | ported by the department of « | Sulture ty be holding thelr clips \ | for higher prides although some \| states report 75 to 90 per cent of af their ell) sold or under contract at \ Prices ranging from cents | { Miss Minnie McFadden, of Provi- dence, R, 1, accompany®ig — Miss | Lucy 'T. Aldrich on a world tour, and| one of a number of women captured by Chinese bandits and later released reported ill from exposure. ROCKEFELLER’S SISTER-IN-LAW RECITES STORY OF BRUTALITY d 55 per cent wool Sales in cing states are reported at 3$ per cent o less the estimated clips. other range wool prod EDITION FINAL NUMBER 185. SOCIETY PEOPLE OF MANY CITIES REGIPIENTS Of LETTERS, CLAIM Eight Accussed of Part In Operations in Ad- dition to Geo. Max- well, Evidence Shows. NEW YORK, May 12,.—> The grand jury which has in- dicted George Maxwell, pres- ident of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Pwblishers, for sending ob- scene missives through the mails, has evidence against eight other prominent members of a polson pen clique which is alleged to have vic- timized 140 wealthy society people AT HANDS OF CHINESE BANDITS SHANGHAI, May 12.—The story of her experiences at the hands of Chinese brigands who carried her off with other foreigners in an attack on a train near the Shantung border | was related in person for the first time by Miss Lucy Aldrich, sister-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., on her arrival here. Miss Aldrich said when the train was derailed by the |handits she thought at first 1t was/mountains ahead and my heart sank ‘an ordinary wreck, and then the|as I contemplated the distance we thought flashec through her mind/had to go, strung out along the way the commotion might indicate an out-/in single file. break of one of China's inciptent| ‘In the gathering daylight ot. no- wars. -\tlood that sedernh witte-m Her first thought was for the Jow-| started in our party from the train els she bad with her—family hetr-/nmong the prisoners no longer were looms, and theso she was able to with us and I asked our guards hide before she was seized by the|where they had gone. I was told bandits. |that they had been sent in another Having done this, she was barely direction, able to put on her slippers and a! “Just when I felt that I must drop dressing gown when « brigand ®n-|from exhaustion one of the guards tered her compartment. The robber,|/turnes to me, pointed back into the a dirty, ragged truculent coolle, car-|distance the way we had come and ried a rifle and bayonet. all marched off, leaving me alone. “Then,” sald Miss Aldrich, “I|Immedintely I made my way back was marched off the train and herded to a village where I was given ald.” outside with the other passengers. Wo| —>—__—— all were co!d in our nightdresses “IRMY AVIATOR MAPPING ROUTE TO PORTLAND, ORE. gowns. “Che succeeding | hours were a nightmare. There were about twenty bandits in our cofvey, all carrying bundles of loot. “I wrled to forget my own suffe>- (ing in the chilly aJr and with my feet | bruised by the fough tra{l through my thin slippers, for others were; more scantily gfad than I and many “We toiled Jon through the n'ght, some times glong narrow foot paths and some times over rough fielcs. | * Dawn showed the outlines’ of the CHEYENNE, Wyo., May 12.—Cap Lynd of the United fying sto tain William B. ates army air service, y a. land, Ore enne air from Port San Antonio took off from t mail field ‘Thursd yent here inspecting / \ y a day landing Seized Trawler Skipper Freed HULL, England, May 12.—(By The Associated Press).—The owners of the trawler James Johnson, seizure |which occasioned a protest from |Great Britain to the Russian soviet | government, have recetved a telegram jfrom the skipper of the Nefisen stat- |ing he has been released by the Bol- | sheviki and is at a Norwegian port, expecting to sail homeward, HIGH COURT TO RULE ON FUTURES TRADING Agreement Reached Between Govern- ment and Exchange Counsel Calls for Direct Appeat for Decision NEW YORK, May 12.—An agre drawn out attempt by the government to obtain an injunc- tion in federal district court restraining the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange and its c agreement eliminating a long learing association from deal- ing in futures was reached between counsel for the goyern-| ment and the defendants, David A. sistant to Attorney L'Esperanco, «pecial General Daugh- erty, announced that it had been agreed to treat the affidavits and pleadings on the temporary tnjunc- tlon petition, rejected by the ciroult court, as though they had been taken in the final hearing of the case, As a result, he said, the ofroult court had dismissed the government's petition for a permanent injunction and the way was now clear for tho government to appea at to the United court, of | MOSCOW FEELING IS INTENSE | OVER PROTEST FROM BRITISH MOSCOW, May 12.—(By this morning to permit the em strants seemed to be peaceful meant to make the demonstration an tmpressive one, MOSCOW, May 12.—(By The Asso-| lclated Press)—Deputy Foreign Min-| | notsky's declaration to the | Moscow council of trades unions that although Russia is willing to | confor with Great Britain over the differences between the two coun-| tries, she “cannot accept such an! ultimatum,” as was set forth by Lord Curzon, is taken here ag an in Ajoation of the trend of official opin |1on toward the British note, Ganetsky told the council that the soviet government des'red no break | with Great Britain, | Tho soviet reply, {t is generally ex pected, will go forward te London after Forelgn Minister Tchitcherin's | address to the special sess'on of the} Moscow soviet, which has been sum | moened for today ‘Th assa Li ister anne has given ri no a yo to mar Factories and Business Suspended for | Great Demonstration Against Note Regarded as an “Ultimatum” The Associated Press.)—All Moscow’s factories and government institutions were closed ployes to take part in a great demonstration against the British note, Surging crowds early | began to fill the streets of the city. The intent of the demon- but it appeared evident they mors as to the probable course of the government, but so far thers ins been no indication of how the murder tg viewed official'y, LONDON, May 12.—(By The Asso e'ated Press).—The agitation which the labor and lbera!l faotiong are conducting against Lord Curzon's re cent note to Russia’ continues to fill & large space in the press, All the opposing parties are now marshalling thelr forees for next Tuesday’s de: bates in the House of Commons at which a lvely fight Is expected, Delegates the trade union con gress, the national labor party, and the Mamentary labor party, meet ing In joint session yesterday, issued * manifesto strongly condemning the note, One group of Socialists pectedly has unex: refused to share in the agi This fa the 1, reply ven.) und hangar facilities. He is f Martin Bombar and mapping the most feasible route for transfer of the national alr fighting, force at Kelly field to the Pacific coast. The route he believes will be selected is via Denver, Cheyenne, Salt Boise and Portland. ng a Lake, | Cows, Driver Of HGH COST OFLWINS’ |” Grorsee Injured SUBUEGT OF ADDRESS “a | | MARSHALLTOWN, Towa, May 12 —When an airplane flew over a herd of cattle grazing by the roadside near Luray, this cotnty, the animals stampeded and frightened a four ‘horse team driven by Wallace Perry. 19, of Missoula, Mont., a farm hand working for He Busse, The horses ran dragging Perry some dis: \tance and injuring him severe'y, He was badly bruised and waa uncon: scious for an hour, “Why the High Cost of Diving’ the subject of a lecture which will be given at 2 o'clock tomorrow after- noon in the Culinary Workers’ ha‘l |by Ea Moore, treasurer of the Cul |inary Workers! organization of Cas per, Mr. Moore has studied hts sub. ject thoroughly and should be able to | present considerable ight on the matter, Admission {s free, @n-who had. ‘S| Members of the soctety which Max. Plane Stampedes «: here, in Philadelphia, Buffalo, Pitts burgh, and other cities, District At- torney Blanton disclosed today, Eighty of the alleged victims als ready have testified before the grand jury, which is still in session. Mrs 3lanton revealed that their states had led to the uncovering of on pen letters and to the fact nine well known families had A man and a wo- that been broken up. man had died shortly after recetving vicious misslyes, and another womaa had gone insane. Maxwell's attorney here announced that Maxwell had cabled from Buropa a dental of charges, Maxwell himsel® received Several obscene letters from. the clique, said the attorneys, He would have to hasten home to face his accusers. Allan A. Ryan, the financier, whose wife was named in letters resulting in the grand jury disclosure declared today she also would return from Europe and that he would prosecute the writer of the tetters if !t took hie entire fortune. Among disclosures made by Mr, Blanton were that a band of anony- mous letter writers had been preying upon prominent people in this and other cities since 1914 and that th plent of letters included the late nrico Caruso, the Countess of Santa Eulalia, who was the widow of John. Stetson of Philadelphia; John Drew, the actor, and Albert Gallatin, Divorce cases involving per= sons not named by the district ators. ney now are pending in the courts; he said. 3 The polson pen clique’s method, ac- cording to the authorities, was to end letters to middle aged women, endeavoring to entice them into af- irs with members of the group. After several months, the writers would send letters to the husbands, | brothers or other male relatives of |the woman to whom they had written. | well headed say it is tnconcelvablé | that he could have been connected with such a plot. letters that Mr. Ryan turned r to the,authorities were recetved y’ Mrs.RYan: more tan a month All were typewritten and uni gned, but in the upper left corner each were typed the names and sses of several bankers and club The characters made by one writer have figured in the in- tigation r v Wie = decd MINISTER ESCAPES INJURY. RLIN, May 12, — The Chilear er here, Senor !rarrazayal Zans scaped uninjured and hia only daughter, Esther, suffered a broken arm wh tomobile in which they we a pleasure trip | from Berlin to the Ba'tic coast turned lover yesterday between Stralsund and Griefewald, !n Potterance, WITNESS BIG \Battles Staged for Benefit of Gotham Milk Fund On at Yankee Stadium; Thousands Crowd Arena ‘ex Rick- YANKEE STADIUM, NEW YORI May ard, promoter of the heavyweight boxing carnival this after- noon for the benefit of the milk fund, announced at 1 o’clock the show would be staged, rain or shine, as scheduled, At that time the r A few minute 1 had stoppec 3s later all gates | 1 16,000 FANS BRAVE RAIN TO FIGHTS | sons who had been waiting for hours swarmed into the $1 and §3 seats, Two bands tuned ‘up to amuse the early arrivals - ~_ PRAGUB AN AEE PRAGUB, qu ing AL CENTER cA ommercial ation company is airplane flights at eight a week between his cit nd Paria, Warsaw and | Con t ad return, Mails, passengers are