Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 6, 1923, Page 1

Weather Forecast Thursday. in temperature. VOLUME VII. TOTAL FIXED AT “FORTY BILLION MARKS, REPORT New York World Is First To Secure Information On Brussels Plans. BRUSSELS, June 6—(By The care of France fs understood to have accepted in principly the new Bel- xium reparation plan, but asked that time be given for French ex- perts fo examine and report upon it. This accord Is sald to have been reached in a lengthy private conversation participated In by M. Poincare and Premier Theunis and Foreign Minister Jaspar of Belgium prior to their formal cnference here this oon. NEW YORK, June 6.— hat is stated to be an offi- cial abstract of the Belgian proposals on German repara- tions under discussion today by the heads of the French and Belgian governments in Brussels is printed by the World to- day. According to this abstract, the Belgian plan fixes the total indemnity to bé collected from Germany at forty billion gold marks, with servico on the debt computed at six per cent interest, plus a one per cent sinking fund, making the German payments work out at 2,800,000,000 gold marks a year. To meet these payments revenues from the German state railways, from special monopolies and from coal de- liveries are proposed—one billion gold marks from the railways, 1,530,000,000 from the special monopolies and 340.- 000,000 from coal deliveries. The monopolies proposed, which are sale monopolies not based on production o? manufacture, would be on tobacco, parkling wines, beer, still wines, spirits, sugar, salt, matches and lighters and electric appartus, the | total calculated at 1,530,000,000 gold marks annually. The monopolies would be assigned to the reparation commission which would farm them out to private syn-| Afoates, including German interests. PARIS, June 6.—(By The Asso- ciated Press.)—The rejection of Ger-| many’s new reparation offer was| foreshadowed 1n official quarters here | today, although the text of the note | is not expected before tomorrow and the unfavorable judgment is based only on unofficial advance indications that the offer from the French view- point does not even constitute a basis for negotiations. While awaiting the text of the note, French officials decline to ex- press themselves officially, but atten-| tion was drawn in official circles to/| the circumstances that the note ap- parently fails to mention the cessa- tion of pasisve resistance in the Ruhr, which {s considered practically a sine qua non to the beginning of negotia- tions, BRUSSELS, June 6.—(By The Asso- | lated Press.)—Today's conversations | among Premier Poincare, Charles de Lasteynie, French minister of finance; Premier Theunis and Foreign Min- (Continued on Page Nine.) Partly cloudy tonight and Not much change ee —— eee The Casper Daily Tribune CASPER, WYO., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1923. BELGIAN REPARATIONS|\Counterfeiters of PROPOSAL IS REVEALED OMNI apes Mtg w Mike Gibbons Will Be Guest Of Kiwanians Mike Gibbons, St. Paul, brother of Tommy Gibbons who meets Jack Dempsey for the heavy title at Shelby will be a guest at the Kiwanis club luncheon Thursday noon. Mr. Gibbons who is considered the world’s greatest boxer {s in Casper to referee the bouts staged by the Rodeo association Friday evening. Gibbons {is without a doubt one of the greatest fighters who ever drew on a glove and has battled the great men of the country. Mike has turned back such great boxers as Mike O'Dowd, Chuck Wiggins, George Chip, Knockout Brown, Jeff Smith, Bill Brennan, Harry Greb, Soldier Bart- field, Bob Moha, Augie Ratner and Eddie McGoorty. Gibbons, besides being a great fighter, is a great gentleman and has probably as many friends throughout the world as any man who ever trod the canvas. Gibbons will no doubt make a short talk before the Kiwanis giv- ing them an idea as to what the higher type of boxing really is to- day. eS LATE SPORTS CHICAGO, June 6.—Charles Brookins of the University of Iowa, who established a world’s record of 28 1.5 for the 220-yard low hurdles. at Ann Arbor Saturday will at- tempt to shatter the record for the same event around one turn, it was announced today. Brookins will try for the record in the national collegiate champion- ship meet to be held here June 15 and 16. Brookins’ record at Ann Arbor was made on a straightaway course. The record for the event around one turn is 24 4-5 made by John J. Eller of the Irish American A. ©, in 1908. BRUSSELS, June 6.—A_ nineteen year old boxer named Humbeeck won the heavyweight champion- ship of Belgium at Antwerp last night by knocking out Depaus in the ninth round. NEW YORK, June 6.—Mickey Walker, of Elizabeth, N. J., world’s welterweight boxing champion, was fridefinitely suspended today and his title declared forfeited by the state athletic commission for failure to accept a challenge from Dave Shade, of San Francisco. Under the commission's ruling Shade was accorded recognition in this state as the title holder. Washout Delays Burlington Train| ‘The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy passenger train from Billings was approximately four hours late Tues- Cay evening owing to a_ miniature cloudburst near Bonneville which aused a washout on the track. The train left Casper for Denver shortly after midnight. ment Features p7tentate today by the Ancient Mystic Shrine. elevation to the highest office in the order was followed by a promotion by one grade of all the other national officers, Int the fight for the 1924 conven- tion, which was to be decided later in the day, Kansas City and Phila- delphia eppeared to be the chief con- tenders. Clifford Ireland, of Peorta, Ml., a former member of congress was given & place in the direct line of succession when he was elected imperial out (Continued on Page Nine) NEW YORK NOBLE HIGH POTENTATE Mystic Shrine Elects Today in Annual Session at Washington; Entertain- Are Numerous WASHINGTON, June 6.—Conrad V. Dykeman of Brook- | lyn, New York, was elevated to the position of imperial po- | amination of his pistol disclosed one | overcome. RUSSIAN TRIED FOR 33 MURDERS SAYS HE IS NOW READY TO DIE MOSCOW, June 6.—(By The Asso- ciated Press.}—The trial of Vasili Komaroff for the murder of 88 per-|remarked calmly that murder is “an sons opens today. Such interest has|awfully easy job,” adding: been manifest in the case that the| “I killed a man who tried to beat proceedings are to be held in the|me in a horse trade. He was the and dont’ want to live any longer,” said the mild eyed peasant. He then large Polytechnic musue instead of|only one who ever resisted. It was in the ordinary court chambers.|very easy, I just knocked them on Komaroff, in his cell, told the corre-|their heads with a hammer or spondent he hopes the court would | strangled them.” make a speedy job of it and shoot} The prisoner sald he could not him quickly. even remember some of his victims. “I am 62, have had a good time! He has thrice tried suicide. or Labels Held TOCK SWINDLERS PLEAD GUILTY. DRAW FINES Federal Operatives Seize 13 ‘Alleged Violators in Two New York Raids; Big Ring Involved, Is Claim NEW YORK, June 6.—Thirteen men were arrested and millions of bogus government revenue stamps, whiskey and cltimpagne labels with the plates from which they were printed were seized by operatives of the United States secret service in two raids here last night, it was announced today. Clief Secret Service Operative Joseph A. Palma, who conducted the raids, declared that the) out on standard business lines,” Palma men had been flooding the country|said. ‘The chief of the outfit was with fake labels. Presses and other] Alfred Marziano of Brooklyn. Next printing paraphernalia were seized. n importance was Jeff Conrad, the “The gang had a manufacturing and distributing organization worked artist, who designed the plates. ‘Then came the photo engravers MINISTER IS SLAIN IN VIRGINIA FEUD RICHMOND, Va., June 6.—Two Cumberland county offi —face charges of first degree murder in connection with the slaying of Rev. E. L. Pierce, who was shot to death yesterday in a pistol fight with the G: land Court House. The fight, which threw Cumberland county into a state Virginia since the shooting up of the: Hillsville court ten years ago, was said by state officials to have resulted from a long standing political feud between county factions. The Garretts, merchants of Cum- berland Court House, and both hold- ing county offices, were members of | a faction which clergyman is said| to have actively opposed recently. The brothers also’ are said to have objected strenuously by remarks said to have been mado by Mr. Pierce| from the pulpit, which they con-| sidered as having reflected on the wife of L. C. Garrett. According to the testimony of wit-|fr @ pronounced break in the swelt- nesses at a coroner's inquest, the, ¢ring temperatures covering the cast- Garretts went to the home of the | orn part of the country was held out clergyman and called him outside|in “today’s weather bureau forecast where he engaged in a fight with|for the next 24 hours, The only op- L..C. Garrett. This fight ended, the timistic prediction was one for a minister went back into his home and| Slight lowering ot the thermometer emerged a moment later armed with, tonight in parts of ew England and a shotgun and a revolver. R. 0.|in the middle Atlantic states and the Garrett, witnesses said, wrested the, lower lake region. Hot weather was shotgun from the clergyman, throw-| Seneral today east of the Mississ!pp! ing it upon the ground. ‘The shoot-! Were reported from the far west. ing followed, it was testified, with| ~ the Garrett brothers and Pierce par-| ST. PAUL, Minn., June 6,—Cool ticipating. ‘The minister was shot | eather prevailed here today after sev through the heart and two other eral days of sweltering heat during bullets also pierced his body. Ex-|Which one man died and scores were ‘The highest temperature, empty chamber. 2, was recorded Sunday. The coroner's jury returned a ver-| The temperature early today was dict that the clergyman met his death, 60 degrees. at the hands of R. O. Garrett and L. C. Garrett “one or both.” Pierce was the pastor of four churches in Cumberland county. He| was 60 years old. R. O. Garrett Is! 45 years old and besides being clerk of the county court, he is secretary of the Cumberland Tobacco Growers’ Co-operative association. L. C. Gar- rett is commissioner of chancery for the county. K. ¢. GRAIN MAN WAS MURDERED KANSAS CITY, June 6.—Guy A. LOS ANGELES, Cal., June ago, who has been at liberty o tory offense against a young L. C. Garrett was at liberty today under bail of $5,000 while his brother, suffering with a serious wound, was under guard at a hospital here. NO BREAK IN EASTERN HEAT WASHINGTON, Jtine 6—No hope; WOMAR’S ASSAILANT FATALLY INJURED AT HANDS OF MASKED MOB WHEN BEATEN WITH CABLE home last night by a party of men who took him to the Hollywood hills, bound him to a post, gagged him and beat him with a wire cable until he was unconscious. who cut the plates. These were given to Antonio Voulo, the go-be tween, who took them to print shops and had the stamps and labels made. The printers arrested were Pasquale Riso and Rollo Vassallotta of Brook ly: “After the goods were all made up they were taken to warehouses for storage and détribute’ by Johnny Spears and Joe Peters in New York and three others in Brooklyn.” The secret service men also seized numerous automatic stamp numberin machines, official government water marked prohibition paper government prescription blanks and fake Confed erate bills. “This raid should act as a warn- ng” Palma sald, “to all those wh: think they are getting something when they buy bootleg Mquor wi a fancy label. A wel! known name doesn't cost any more to print than ; poor one. And federal bonding stamps can be turned out by the m lion. We have 500,000 right here in the office. ‘The seizures Mr. Moran predicted, will go far toward cestroying what prohibition enforcement agents have found to be one of their most d'ffi- cult problems—checking forged with- cials—R. O. and L. C. Garrett arretts at his home at Cumber- of excitement not equalled in FINAL | ‘EDITION NUMBER 206. ae Cadets Picked For Ushers at CONVICTION OF TAIO FOLLOWED BY FAST ACTION N OTHER CASES Rodeo Fight A platoon of Dean Morgan's high school cadets who were picked for their maners, appearance and gen- eral good behavior on the dri! grounds and in the class room will be on hand at the Rodeo grounds next Friday evening to see that the crowds are property seated and taken care of. The boys will be on deck from 7 o'clock on and anyone who has a ticket for the big fight card is assured of sitting in the P * S M 4 seat that their ticket checks call for. The boys will work courteous- nson Sentences ete ly and fast and will be dressed in thelr cadet uniforms. Out to Promoters of The platoon will consist of Bob G Le Archibauld, Vincent Duty, Barry enera io Company Mahoney, William Johnson, Robert Holman, Albert Van Doren, Rally In Fort Worth Court. Scown, Orville Overbaugh, Charles Holland, Patrick Culver, Paul Blod gett, Donald Latimer, Harry Prich- ard, Paul Cody, Fred Houser, Timothy Knittle, John Murray, Nel- son Van Netta, Rolland Nickolas, Clarence Thompson, John Norton, Donald Brown, Daniel Bell. FORT WORTH, Tex., June 6.—Walter Marks was fined $15,000 and Nathan H. Sang, Phillip Goldstein and M. Hirsch were each fined $10,- 000 by Presiding Judge Ben- Jamin Bledsoe in federal court this morning on their pleas of guilty to conspiring to defraud through the mails in connection with the General Lee interests ofl cases. All the de- fendants are from Chicago. No prison sentences were a District Attorney Henry Zwelfel questing the court to fines as punishment. Mr. plained in requesting only fines that the defendants had aided the govern- ment in the prosecution and convie- re- impose only tion of Charles Sherwin, H. Hg Schwarz and “General” Robert A: Lee, who were convicted and sen~ tenced to prison terms last night for misuse of the mails, Sherwin and Schwarz were sen=. tenced to serve ten years in the fed- eral penitentiary and pay fines of $15,000 each and “General” Robert A. Lee was sentenced to serve two’ yeara in the penitentiary and piy a fine of $6,000. All of the four Pittsburghg ° Batteries—Reuther, G. Smith, De- eatur and Taylor; Hamilton and Gooch. defendants wera connected with the Leslie Vincent; 301 0°* eee_e eo drawals of Mquor. He said that in all probability several hundred thou CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 6—As the dry spell continues, the suburbs of Cleveland face a serious water|sand of the withdrawal blanks were shortage unless the sprinkling ordi-|!n circulation, |nance which prohibits sprinkling of] ‘The mame situation obtained, the | laws between noone:and 9 p. m. is | enforced, according to the officials. In East Clevelad, the water pressure |is declared to be the lowest in his- | tory. chef added with respect to Coctors’ prescription blanks and the strip stamps affixed by the government when taxes were paid on the lquor, Prohibition headquarters declared today that the widely heralded in- flux of eastern Canadian whiskey in- to the United States had faile@ to matertalize, and that smuggling through New England ts confined al- COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 6.—Rain, forecast for today, was expected to prevent immediate return of swelt- ering weather which until last night had he'd Ohio in its grip for sever-| ost entirely to small lots in sult- Jal da: cases. } It was added however, that Mquor | smuggling along the Great Lakes, especially near Detroit, still pre sents a considerable problem. DETROIT, Mich., June 6.—Showers |early today broke the heat wave in Detroit. WASHINGTON, June 6.—The ar rest of thirteen men in New York and the seizure there of counterfeit reve- nue stamps, medical liquor permits| and withdrawal permits was declared today by Chlef Moran of the secret nervice to be one of the most impor- tant raids conducted by the govern- ment in many months. ‘The chief charged that the men ar- rested had been working with several other groups, one of which manufac- another employed medical prescrip- tions to deplete the supplies of legt- timate quor in drug stores and the third used the forged withdrawal per- mits to obtain lquor from bonded 6.—Frank Sinceri, 41 years of n bonds, charged with a statu- woman, was taken from his warehouse: They then tured concoctions sold as liquor while} Moore, grain man, was murdered and his body placed upon railroad tracks where it was found after a train had passed over it early Sunday, accord- to the belief of Dr. H. E. Moss, deputy coroner, following an autopsy. “There is no question in my mini that Mr. Moore was murdered,” Dr.’ Moss declared, “and more than oné man carried his body to the railroad track. RUHR REDS WRECK TRAIN MERLIN, June 6.—A freight train was wrecked last night ,at Linton, near Essen, by unidentified persons, | says the Central News. Many cars| | were derailed and smashed and the| embankment at the point of the| crash was torn up and traffic halted. | A German schol boy was shot and} Arabic Order, Nobles of the Mr. Dykeman during the past year has been deputy im-| aier responsible but was prevented by prial potentate and in accordance with the usual custom his the German police. killed at Duesseldorf by a guard at | a French post, the agency also stated. | A crowd attempted to lynch the sol-| left a fetter in which they sald that future offenders against girls and women would be similarly treated. ‘They left Sincert bound to the post. The beaten man finally regained conscfousness, worke2 free, and crawled to a nearby road. Automo- bilists took him to the recelving hos- pita’. Physicians said he probably would die. The note recited the history of the Children’s Parade Is Postponed Here Plans to have a Children's parade 2:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon at |to usher in Children’s day which !s Sunday have been postponed indefi- nitely by the churches of Casper who were to sponsor the matter. It was the intention of members of the churches to entertain the children fol- lowing the parade and in every way posible to pave the way for a ayc- cessful Children’s day. It is prob- able that the sermons next Sunday will feature the children of the nation | in an appropriate manner. ense in which Sinceri and four others were arrested, It said that all had confessed and accused the police and| Prosecutors of indifference in the| case. The writers said they had or ganized a committee which would deal with all future offenders, and they expressly disclaimed they were mem- bers of any secret order, They said they were all exservice men, with foreign war records. TEN INJURED IN COLLISION WASHINGTON, June 6.—Ten per- | sons were inured, two af them sert-| jously in-a collision today at River-| sido, Virgnia, between two electric! ltrains, whose passengers included a| number of visitors to the Washington | Shriners’ convention, One of the trains was returning to| Washington from Mount Vernon and |the other was carrying @ crowd of} One car was almost de molishecs Thousands of Flags to Be Given Away by Elks for Parade Four thousand, seven hundred American fings have been ordered by tho Casper lodgo of Elka to be uted among the achool child- ren of Casper who will participate {nm mammoth parade to be’ hold in Ceaper Flag day, June 14. It is the desire of the Elks to {n. culcate in the minds of the school children the history of the flag, everyone should have a thorough knowlege but which is a closed book to the average eltizen Flag day ie the anniversary of the day on which the Con ntal congress adopted the flag which was It {s something regarding which Agreed upon by @ committee eon: sisting of General Washington and Col, Ross and which was made by Betuy Ross. This was June 14, 1777. The star which the commit teo had decided on had but four HUNDRED LIGHTS TO BE WEN TO DARK DISTRICTS A hundred new ‘aghts are to be in- stalled in the residential districts of Casper beginning this month, accord- ing to announcement recently, The southwest portion of the ety, Ken- wood addition, and other parts that are dark at the present time will re- cetve lighting. The street lights will be placed at the insections every two blocks, In addition to this lghts will Center street aa far north as court house, ‘This work will be paid for by the property owners in this section while the other will be paid out of a general fund, the bey | installed on West First street and on Brokerage compan yot Chicago. In! Baiteries—Glasner and Henline; | passing gsentence Judge Bledsoe said Toney and McCurd; that if {t had not been for the district} ——._—_. attorney's request he would have tm- AMERICAN LEAGUE. posed penitentiary sentences. At Boston R. HF. i Cleveland ~—_-- — 4 H Boston -—"—-0m 000 00S 4 11 1| TWO SENTENCED i Batterice—Coveleskie and Myatt;| 1X DALLAS COURT. | DALLAS, Texas, June 6—Wade P.j Chancellor and B. H. Peeler, found guilty Monday by a jury in federal; court of using the mails to defraud in. Fullerton, O’Doul, Murray, Vance and Devermer. At New York— R. A. E. 2 conection with oll stock sales of tha, esy Ab ranay «72 ers ied ler Royalty company, were een- r: A tenced to one year and a day ims soy selma! and Schalk; Pen-| Srisonment and fined $00 each by; Judge W. H. Atwell today. Peeler At Philadelphia= SOO, a. | WEPE When sentence was pronounced. St. Louls .___000 108 010—2 10 1 SS Philadelphia __000 021 11°—5 12 0 Batteries—Vangilder, Pruett and| (J, Y Dry Repeal oI. Severeid; Harris and Perkins, Offers a Serious Problem -- Bishop Batteries—Francis and Johnson and Ruel. — ~>—____ “WYOMING POET’ IN SEATTLE ON WAY TO ALASKAT Bassler; CHICAGO, June 6.—A_ warning, oS | that minis and churches should SEATTLE, Wash., June 6.—¥.| take seriously the action of Governor Richard Shipp, a six-footer who is| Smith of New York in approving re< known as the “Wyoming Poet” is| peal of the state prohibition enforces here on his way to follow the trall| ment act, was sounded by Bishop of Robert Service through Skagway,| Homer C. Stuntz of Omaha, wha, Dawson, and Fairbanks. | spoke at a joint session here of the “Jingle stuff!’ exclaimed Shipp|Chicago Methodist preachers and. when the verre of Service was men-|the alumni association of Garrett tioned. “Tf I wrote like that I'd put/| Biblical institute. it out under another name.” “It was a shrewd move on the part Shipp's style is vers libre. He went|of Governor Smith,” said Bishop to Casper as a newspaper man, home-| Stuntz. ‘It produces a situation steaded land that is within the city| which ought to arouse the seriou limits and has a neat income from | consideration and the entire strength that and a law practice. of the chureh to combat.” LIQUOR RULINGS TO STAND, EDICT |American Decision on Ship Proceedure Is Domestic Question and Not Open to Foreign Intervention, Said j WASHINGTON, June 6.—Diplomats here who have dis- cussed the ship Page question with the state department! officials have had it pointed out to them that the question is purely one of American domestic jurisdiction and there- fore not subject to treatment through any joint international conference. The American government does not propose to points, but Miss Ross suggested the five-polnted star which was agreed to, The Elks for years have brated the by fitting exercises This year the cerenionies will be of fe cele seek such a method of adjustment of to accept any praposnla of that na ture from an outaide source, The question of rules and ulations wn- der the supreme court's Interpretas tion of the prohibition enforcement act is wholly a matter for congress it is said, and so far as known thi & publia nature throughout the | Viewpoint has no sli gat: United States, and the Casper lodge |" the pongenee We ae will observe the (ay in the great | Sovernments parade which will be in the Ae was indicated by Premier Raids pon and in a yp ritual | Win in tho British house of common! which will be held in the evening. (Continued on Page Vive)