Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 28, 1923, Page 1

Weather Forecast WYOMING—Partly cloudy, VOLUME Vil. DENVER SOCIETY OMAN FACING TRIAL IN COURT Direct Infermmhtion to Be Filed Against Mrs. O’Connor, Report. DENVER, Colo., July 28.—A direct information charging Mrs. Katherine O'Connor, widowed daughter of J. K. Mullen, millionaire Denver miller; with illegal possession of liquor, will be filed by United States District At- torney Granby Hillyer, the district attorney announced. Mrs. O'Connor already is under in- dictment by a federal grand jury on a charge of conspiring to violate the ‘Volstead act. Father Walter A. Grace, priest, who was sentenced in federal court to two years in prison for forging an application for a liquor permit, and John R. Walsh, the priest's brother-in-law, were here co- conspirators, it was alleged. — io NANINJUREDIN “FALL OFF TRAN Falling from a freight train 20 miles east of Casper last night, Charles Wolf suffered a crushed chest and severe bruises and contusions. ‘He was taken to the county hospital where @ report this morning states that his condition is improved. His recovery is looked for. The injured man is 28 years of age. MAN 1S BOUND OVER FOR SHOOTING HOGS —- A.C, Hitt of Arminto, charged with Bh and killing two hogs belong- ing to Tom Hall, chairman of the board of county commissioners of Na- trona county, was released Friday at his preliminary hearing under $500 bond before Henry Brennan, justice bf the peace. The case is scheduled for the fall term of court. 7 » south to the Yosemite National park California. He and Mrs. spent the day in relaxation from the prob- ably local thunder shows this after- noon or tonight in east portion. Sun- day partly cloudy; cooler in east portion. Far North Territory Destined for Ulti- mate Statehood, In Reviewing Impressions ON BOARD PRESIDENT HARDING'S SPECIAL TRAIN, July 28.—(By The Associated Press).—After a rail water trip of more than five thousand miles to Alaska, Can- ada and return to Seattle, President Harding was again on board the train which left Washington, D. C., June 20, trav- eling with his official party along the Pacific coast range Harding | ¢ VOMAN IN TRE CASE’ (5 HUNTED BY SLEUTHOONTIBERNIAGRSE Trio Prominent in Financial Circles Spend the Night in Jail and Others Will Join Them When Investigation Is Concluded. DENVER, Colo., July 28.—Doors of the Hibernia: bank and Trust company are closed and three young men well known in Denver financial circles spent last night in jail, following the discovery yesterd: funds estimated to be between $400,000 and $500,000. Those taken to the county jail last night were Leo P. ay of a shortage in the bank’s Floyd, secretary of the company; John Harrington, teller, and son of M. C. Harrington, vice-president of the bank, and R. M. Mandell, head of Mandell and company, investment brokers. ‘1 District Attorney Philip VanCise stated late last night that charges against the trio would be filed today. More arrests'loom in the case, ac- cording to bank examiners who are investigating the affairs of the institu- tion, and officials of the district at- torney’s office. Detectives who have been called in to help unravel the financial tangle, intimated that “the woman in the case” is being sought. Her name was not revealed. Leonard De Lue, head of the De Lue Detective agency, who arrested Floyd, and later Harrington, predict- ed additional arrests soon. There will be an investigation also, he de clared, into what he termed a “tip off,” which enabled favored depositors to withdraw thousands of dollara from the bank before notice was post- ed on its doors that it was in the hands of the state banking examiners, De Lue estimated ihat possibly $40, 000 or- $50,000 had been withdrawn by these. depositors. “The beginning of the story hasn't been told,” De Lue said. “There are scores of papers to be examined and scores of questions to be answered before all the threads of the story are drawn together.” M. C. Harrington collapsed in his office at the bank yesterday when his son, John, was taken into custody. VALUABLE DOG POISONED. CHEYENNE, Wyo., July 28.—Per- haps the most valuable dog in Che: enne, a collie owned by Frank H. Smith, died from poison. The animal, ——_—_—_—_—_—___. DENVER BANK STEAL INVO CASPER, WYO., SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1923. MIST a0)9 LVE Bargain Day Every Day of Rodeo Week ings of Casper merchants. descendent of 16 champions, was worth $165. cf =| TLL SAY ILt BE THERE! Tribune advertising will be closely read tomorrow and during succeeding days by thousands of readers who expect to take advantage of bargain weex offer- Hundreds of extra copies of the big-‘Sunday Morning Tri- bune will be circulated in addition to 10,000 copies which go to regular subscribers. The Tribune covers Casper and points outside which will send crowds here during Rodeo week like a blanket. Tribune advertising pays.100 per cent in value returned. NEW YORK TO GET BIG FIGHT NEW YORK, July 28.—Champion Jack Dempsey will _| meet Luis Angél Firpo of Argenta, in a 15-round fight to a decision for the world’s heavyweight championship at the Polo Grounds on Friday, September 14, Promoter Tex Rick- ard announced today. The prices will range from $8 to $25, the lowest on record for a heavyweight championship bout and half that of the Defnpsey-Carpen- tier tickets. A crowd of 80,000 is ex- pected, after Rickard completes con- struction of’ new stands around the ringside. Rickard said the terms agreed upén after conference between the South American boxer and Jack Kearns, the champion's manager, would not be announced until the first part of next ‘week. President Says and yesterday In Seattle occasioned by the yed arrival that port of the navy t Henderson In turn Tentative plans call for Firpo to train at Atlantic City, N JJ., and Dempsey at Saratoga, oo GUARD ENCAMPMENT ENDS CHEYENNE, Wyo., July 28.—The Yast of the Idaho, Washington, Utah and Wyoming national guardsmen who attended a two-weeks cavalry in- struction school at Fort Russell, de- parted for their homes Tuesday. Showers to , Continue in Coming Week WASHINGTON, July 28— Weather outlook for the week be- ginning Monday: Rocky Mountain and plateau re- gions: Temperature near the aver- age for the season; generally fair except for widely scattered local thunder showers. Pacific states: Generally fair and normal temperature, BANKRUPTCY PETITION. CHEYENNE, Wyo., July 28—Guy W. Barton, trader, Casper, has filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy in the United States court here. He lists Mabilities of $12,329.88 and as- sets of $1,000, Barton did business under the name of Barton Produce company, HARDING TAKES TO TRAIN; ALASKAN POLICY OUTLINED the waters north and in the vicinity of Port Townsend, Washington. SEATTLE, Wash., July 28—(By The Associated Preas.—The Alaskan program of President Harding, evolv- ed from his first hand study of condi- tions in the territory, embraces in the main measures to conserve the sal- mon fisheries, removal of some of the restrictions on ultimately all of the forests, grant of more liberal appro- priations for road building, encourage- ment in agricultural experimentation and retention of the Alaskan railroad by the government. The chief executive presented t on his program and a re two durried and strenuous program of| caused by impenetrable fog bankg on’ weeks’ yisit to the territory in an ad- Gress delivered here late yesterday. He declared emphatically that he had found no “Alaskan problem'’ but that “Alaska is all right and is doing well" “Alaska is destined for ultimate statehood,” he asserted at another point. “In a very few years we can well set off the panhandle and a large block of the connecting southeastern part as a state, This region now con- tains approximately 90 per cent of the white population and of the develop- ed resources. It would be the great- est single impetus wi ‘ould possibly give to the right kind of development REFINERY SHUTDOWN IS ORDERED S MANY Near East Appeal | ENING PUNTS Che Casper Daily Tribune Brought to Casper One hundred thousand acres of re claimed land, doubling of the grain crop in Greece through the introduc: tion of modern farming methods and the establishment of industry where poverty flourished among the thous- ands of refugees driven from their homes by the Turk—such is a small portion of the record of Near East ‘relief activities, first hand informa- tion which has been brought to C per by a man who has been actively engaged in the work for several years. N. J. McKenna, special representative of the organization which sponsors the program, now in charge of work among the Greeks in Colorado and ‘Wyoming, iectured in Casper for the firat time this week and will go to Salt Creek to spread the gospel of this great work before he returns here to make a final appeal in behalf of the movement. Mr. McKenna was statfoned in Con- stantinople at the time Smyrna was devastated by the Turks and having viewed the ruins and the suffering that was forced upon thousands, has a graphic story to tell of the rescues effected, incliding those of relief workers themselves. As proof of the fact that these werkers undergo hard ships and risk their lives, 30 American engaged in it have been buried since January 1 of this year. Supplementing the tectures which Mr. McKenna gives is the showing of three reels of pictures which v: ualize the results being obtained. Last year $12,000,000 was spent in the work $3,000,090 more than during the pre- vious year and largely because of the Smyrna massacre. Part of this is told in films showing how refugees have been cared for and placed at profitable work. Headquarters of ac- tivities have now been shifted to Greece and out of 22,000 refugees being cared for there only a short OIL SHARES HARD HIT NEW YORK, July 28.—Prices tumbled sharply in today’s stock mar- ket in response to another series of bear attacks. Oil shares were the hardest hit, being hammered down one to three points. Extensive losses also took place in the railroad, steel, copper, equipment and automotive groups, and in‘ a large number of specialties. The gell- ing was predicated on the declining tendency of principal commodity prices, recent unfavorable develop- ments in the oll industry and specu- lative fears of political disturbance in Germany. FRONTIER DAYS | ionshi: | Park twenty-seventh Frontier Days Rough Riding—Dave Whyte, Chey- enne. Wome: Rough Riding—Mabel Strickland, Fort Worth, Texas. Women's Relay Race—Mabel Strick- land, Steer Roping—Ben Johnson, For- aker, Okla. Time, four-day average, 47.6 seconds. Steel bulldogging—Perch Porter, Clayton, New Mexico Time, four-day} average 87.1 seconds. Men's Trick Riding—Buck Stewart, Fort Worth, Texas, Women’s Trick Riding — Mabel Strickland. ( Trick Roping—Chester Byers, Fort Worth, Texas. SHOOTING HOLDS MYSTERY, ‘CHEYENNE. +» CHEYENNE, Wyo., July 28.—(Spe- celal to The Tribune)—Wesley Kline, 18, of Adams, Neb., is in a critical condition at Memorial ‘hospital from | ® wound in the abdomen sustained Friday, when he was shot by Myrle 1.W.W.FLAG ~ TORN DOWN| NEW YORK, July 2 day stormed Hoboken .—A crowd to- headquarters As to the remainder of the territory I Id le Alaskans of f e to decid b off the Industrial Waskers of the World, whose !ongshoremen are on strike and tore down the red flag of the organization floating over the puilding. AWARDS MADE CHEYENNE, Wyo., July 28.—(Special to the Tribune) .— The west and southwest divided honors in the world’s champ- wild west contests that were decided at Frontier iday afternoon, in the culminating program of the celebration, Following are the new champions: Zuver, 18, also of Adams, Zuver claims the shooting was ac: cldental and is sustained in this claim by Lawrence Varner, 17, a compan- fon, but both are held by the sheriff. Kline has been unable to make a statement. Zuver claims Kline handed him a revolver which he believed to be un- loaded, and that he was amazed when the weapon was discharged and Kline fell. time ago, only 500 are recetving ald. Modern farming equipment has re- placed the antiquated implements for- merly used and organization of the Boy Scouts has done much to bring it about. These lads are taught the use of the machimery. The result has been to greatly increase the grain crops and reclaim great areas of land. Food purchase@ for relief distribu tion is bought at shipping centers at advantageous prices, Raw materials, such as wool, are ghipped into the country and are worked up, the pro- duct of the industry established mul- plying many times the benefits ac cruing to the people engaged in it and providing remunerative labor. No immediate solicitation for funds will be made here, but contributions will be invited next month. Money donated by Casper people will remain on deposit in a local bank until it is drawn upon drectly to supply needs that are being met every day. The movement has received considerable encouragement here and Mr. Mc- Kenna is hopeful of a generoug re- sponse for the aid of suffering hu. manity, the cause to which the work 1s dedicated, DESTROYER HIT BY HENDERSON TOWED IN PORT WASHINGTON, July 28.—The United States naval destroyer Zeilin, which was seriously damaged in col- ston yesterday with the. naval trans- Port Henderson, bearing President Harding andhis official party, has brought @longside the army dock at Port Casey, Wash., the navy department was informed in a mes- sage received early today. The message said the destroyer, which was brought to dock in tow of the destroyer Nicholas, had a lst of thirty degrees resulting from. the flooding of the forward engine room and the aft fire room. Other com- partments of the vessel were said to be holding and it was said she would be towed to the Puget Sound navy yard for docking as soon as prac- ticable. The destroyer Woodbury also is standing by, and a barge with wrecking equipment is proceeding from the navy yard. CARNIVAL GAMBLING 15 STOPPED AT CHEYENNE CHEYENNE, Wyo., July 28.—All games of chance conducted by a street carnival here for Frontier week were put out of business by order of Mayor Taylor. The carnival was the first that had attempted to conduct such games within the city in recent years. Numerous such concerns, however, have pitched just outside the city Mmits during the last two years and operated games of chance without interference by the county| officials, | FRONTIER SHOW VISITOR AT 15 CHEYENNE. DEAD CHEYENNE, Wyo., July 28.— George W. Dunn of Sherman, Texas, here to attend the Frontier Days celebration, was stricken with acute! appendicitis at the municipal camp ground and died soon after an opera- tion was performed at Memorial hos- pital, The body was shipped to Sher- man Friday. FINAL EDITION NUMBER 249, t OF S0UTRWEST ADOPT PLANS 10 CURTAIL OUTPUT Cost-Fact-Finding Cone mission Also Planned By Operators; Over Production Is Cause. CHICAGO, July 28.—(By The Associated Press).—Oil men today have intiated two methods of action in stem- ming the tide of over produc- tion of crude oil. Decision of some 26 of the larger refiners of the mid-continent field to shut down thelr plants during August, automatically removing 112,000 barrels of gasoline today by the appointment of a com- mittee of jobbers, producers and re finera as @ cost-factfinding commis- sion, The leading refiners who adopted the shutdown decison, catled a gen- eral meeting of all mid-continent re July 31 to complete thelr plans. This action, announced by the American Ott Men's Association and approved at a directors’ meeting of the Western Pe- troleum refiners association, came after a meeting held the preceding day at the call of the National Petro- leum Marketers’ Association. The marketers officials advocated a cut in prices but some of the marketers Joined with the producers and refin- ers in opposing price reductions which they declared would bankrupt pro- ducers. A resoultion was adopted, however, at the appointment of a committee to make a study of costs. CHICAGO, July 28—(By the Asso- elated Press)—Reduction in refinery output. in the midcontinent oil field of approximately twenty per cent in August in a effort to reduce the present surplus of gasoline and crude ofl will be made by twersgetive of the largest producing companies in the territory as a result of action taken yesterday by representatives of the mpanies attending a meeting here called by the Western Petroleum Re: tiners association, American.O!l Men's Association and the National Petro- leum Marketers’ Association. The proposed action wil curtail the output from 60,000 to 80,000 barrels daily during August as compared with rung {n the last half of July, when the output averaged about 3¢0,000 barrels a day. Over-production, a flood of California crude into the normal mar- kets of the Midwest producers and a a saturation of the field with storage stocks of gasoline and crude which have been mounting rapildy the last few months were described as reasons for the action. ao ete EN. DEATH CHARGED TO LIGHTNING Sleeping peacefully in his tepes on top of Clear Creek mountain, Edwin O'Donnell, 66 years of age, met his death by a charge of lightning early this week. County Coroner Lew M. Gay brought the body to Casper yes- terday. O'Donnell was a sheep herder afd had pitched his tent on the high polit so that he might observe the herd as well as avoid being flooded out by the storm. Clear Creek is more than 100 miles from Casper and lies in a nortt- westerly direction. FRENCH WILL AVOID BREAK WITH BRITISH Full 'Agreement on Note to Be Aim of | Paris and Prospects for United Entente ‘Are Held Bright PARIS, July 28.—(By The Associated Press).—The French note to Great Britain; in reply to the British sugges-|the payment of repar sian note is ready or not, because Pre- mier Poincare is anxious to comply with the desire of Lord Curzon, the British secretary for foreign affairs, to recelve France's answer before the British parliament adjourns for the summer recess. The chances of re-welding the en- tente, with Great Britain co-operating in the effort to obtain guaran for ions by Ger- tions as to a joint response to Germany’s reparations mem- |™8"Y: 1* thought by those closely in orandum, was said authoritatively today to have been drafte a | with the determination to exhaust every means of reaching | a full accord with the British. Delivery of the Fr word from Br Belgian is algo ready | nch note fs only| The French communication in any | Minis’ will ha deliv of next week ‘od by the begin whether the Bel-/ case touch with the reparations questions to be better than at any time since the split of last January. Both Premier Pott Baldwin of Eng’ ha make every p and Prime nd are de- position to lar