Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 20, 1923, Page 1

"Weather Forecast —e FINAL EDITION Wyoming —Partly clou@y tonight and Tuesday, probably local thunder showers. Slightly cooler tonight in ==--| Ohe Casper Daily Cribune OLUME Vil. CASPER, WYO., MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1923. eres OROOKMART O NUMBER 268. Mt a | At Detroit— R. H. E. Boston 001 000 221-6 11 0 Detroit 000 011 000-2 4 1 “They are furnishing testimony and producing witnesses that are inval- uable to the government's case,” he sald. “They are unquestionably doing it out of loyalty to their husbands. They believe that by doling this they will be lightening the punishment that faces their husbands, even though they seem to be incriminating them.” Emerging from the “seclusion and which they have sought refuge ever since the spectacu'ar fall of the buck- et shop with its $6,000,000 losses to ty’. 4.000 investors, Mrs. McGee and Mrs. “XQ Fuller talked to newspaper men in the offices of their husbands’ counsel. All the published stories about me hay'ng been ‘a milion dollar bride’ Were absurd,” began Mrs. McGee. Newspapers had told of a trousseau, including priceless jewels and a splen- did wardrobe, with automobiles bear- ing the crest of foreign makers, a mansion or two and other gifts. “Frank was in no position to lavish a ‘on me,” she said. ne ain way I was, satistied with just him. "He hasn't given me any of the firm's assets either.” Mrs. McGee told of her childhood at Waco, Texas, and her dancing in the “Kiddié Classes’ on Young's mil- Mon dollar pler at Atlantic City where Dillingham discovered her. She nev- er has lived extravagantly, she de- clared. Mrs. Fuller made her's a short story. A New York girl, she left the Midnight Frolic six years ago to become Mrs. Fuller. “Until this trouble came,” she lived {a a two room kitchenette — bath ‘apartments without servants, she sald, Recently she went to make her Freighter Goes Ashore; No One Reported Hurt SAN FRANCISCO, Calif, Aug. 20. --8. O. S. calls, saying the freight steamship Dakotan went ashore at 2:50 a, m. on the Pacific coast of Mexico about 500 miles south of San Petro, Calif, were picked up here early today by the Radio Corporation of America. No details were given, but It later was learned that the army transport Henderson and the oil tanker Charles Pratt were speeding to rescue the Dakotan. The Dakotan left Los Angeles harbor for New York several days ago. The Dakotan is owned by the American-Hawallan Steamship company. Her net ton- nage is 4,014, her port of registry , New York. * Los ANGELES, Aug. 20—The freight steamship Dakotan went ashore near San Lazaro, on the west coast of Mexico, according to a wire- less message from her picked up early today by the Federal Telegraph company. No one was injured, the message stated, and the tanker Charles Pratt was expected to reach the stranded vessel at 7 a. m. and pull her off. Careful examination of the binds the United States Are Invaluable, U. S. Agent Says In Discussing Case. Careful Examination of Report of Offi- ‘ cials Will Be Necessary Before. U S. Can Take Definite Action WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—Arrival in Washington today of Charles B. Warren and John Barton Payne, American commissioners who conducted recognition negotiations in Mexico City, affords administration officials here their first opportunity to study in detail the report of the conference. to extend recognition to Mexico, necessarily will Precede any action in that direotlon. In the event restoration of diplo’ home with relatives until her hus- band is freed. iI didn't know about Mr. Fuller's business,” she said. “Once he showed me some figures and laughed, saying ‘they*ve got us failing for $6,000,000, and it's only $1,800,000." CDV BARBER SHOT BY WELL KNOWN LAWYER Victim of Quarrel Tragedy Expected to Die With Wound in Abdomen. paign is in full swing. bile men of Casper have backed the} NEW YORK, Aug. 20.—Louise Grody McGee and Flor-| drive to the limit. The people are quick ence Ely Fuller, Broadway musical comedy stars, were re- vealed by United States Attorney Hayward today as his ac- tive agents in running down evidence against their husbands, Edward M. Fuller, and W. Frank McGee, principals in the most sensational of current bucket shop prosecutions, yaur friends and neighbors, which ap- pear in each issue of the Tribune? The Drive Right! Walk Right! cam- The automo- is already apparent to those The pedestrian must remember that an automobile is a dangerous thing. Perfect control cf a motor vehicle is still far in the future. The man who walks the streets must depend upon himself for the safety. He must never fail to look both ways before cross- Ing any street, and while crossing that street he must keep his mind al- ways upon the safety of his body. Motorists must remember that the moment they climb in behind the wheel of an automobile, they take into their hands tne responsibility of | countless human tives. They must never forget their obligation to their By Caroline Lockhart) ODY, Wyo., Aug. 20.— W. L. Simpson, one of the most prominent attorneys in northern Wyoming, last night shot and probably fatally wounded Ed Rains, a barber, after the latter had hit him from be- hind, knocking him down so that his head struck an iron post in the pave- ment. Rains then walked away, told what he had done and declared, it is stated that the next time he met S'mpson he was going to tear his head off. When Simpson recover- ed sufficiently from the blow he went to h's office, got a six shooter and located Rains in the Mint Pool hall. He walked over and struck him on the head with it and then the men grappled. Simpson shot him twice in the stomach during the struggle. Rains was taken to the Powell Hos- pital where his recovery is considered doubtful at this time. Simpson has not been arrested to date although| in the custody of a local attorney who was deputized and is responsible for! him. Simpson is a cripple and no match in strength for Rains although neither one is a large man. The trouble grew out of a case which was tried at the last term of court. Simp- son {s one of the most successful criminal lawyers in the Big Horn Basin, keeping an office at Thermop-| olis as well as his office in Cody. He assisted the prosecution in the Ten-| sleep murder cases some years ago and more recently was counsel for Bert Lampitt who blew up a bunk house at Grass Creek to kill a rival. ——-—. CY WILLIAMS GETS 30th HOMER PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 20.—Cy ‘Williams, center fielder of the Phila- delphia Nationals, hit his 30th home un of the season here today in the third inning of the second game of the double header with Cincinnati. Benton was pitching and there was one on base. DETAILS OF REPORT ON MEX RECOGNITION ARE AVAILABLE AT CAPITAL 'Pipe Line Fire Floor of Moose B principles of safety. A human life {s far too precious to be sacrificed nt the altar of careless- neas. Unavoidabls accidents are few and far between. By far the greater number are the direct result of a lack of thought upen the part of one or to throw themselves into the breach | perhaps both of the directly interested and fight for the cause. An improve-| parties. ment who watch the situation closely. The Tribune sees great good in the present campaign. It can hardly help causing considerable serious thinking among the citizens of Casper. It is a campaign which affects everybody. All of us are either riders or walkers, and practically all of us frequent the downtown streets. We should all be firm supporters of safety and ‘ts all embracing principles. Watch closely for the contributed sufety editorials which will appear each evening in the Tribune from now until the closirs; of tho drive. They contain much that you probably have not known. Ar, above all, remember in the future to “Drive Right! Walk Right.” REMODELING OF OFFICES BEGIN P. & R. Takes Out Permit to Alter Lower|| Amundsen: Will uilding — Casino Closes Dance Hall First steps in making the Moose building ready for the offices of the Producers and Refiners corporation were taken this morning when a permit of $4,000 was issued from the city engineer’s office. The cony. hall. The Casino dance palace auto matically closed with the sale of the building and will not be open tonight. The departments which will be in- cluded in the Moose building here are the accounting. pipe lina, gas engi- MORE BEER IS COUNTY FIND Fifteen cases of beer and a quantity of moonshine were found late Satur- day night by attaches of the sheriff's office in a house on West First street. A genera! row had attracted the offi- cers to the scene where the stuff was found. Earl Sheil and Dodge Shan- non were arrested in connection with the affair. In California Kills One Man LONG BEACH, Cal., Aug. 20. — A pipe line fire in the Signal Hill ofl district which caused the death of one man and the serious injury of another early today, was virtually out at day- break, fire department headquarters announced. place for some time, Not only will time be needed for officials concerned with the Mexican problem to digest the formal report submitted by the American commissioners, but they are expected to obtain additional in- formation regarding various phases of the situation in conferences with Mr. Warren and Mr. Payne. The Mexico City negotiations, ex ermit calls for erecting wood- With Great Britain Would Be Considered Criminal, Premier PARIS, Aug. 20.—(By The pression drawn from Premier ville is that France does not desire to see an end of the en- tente and that she hopes a way to an agreement with Great Britain can be found. Refuting many of the statements made in the recent note of Marquis Curzon—especially the ar- gument that the Ruhr occupation was illegal—he referred to the alliance of the World war, and pointed out that “Friendships which remain sacred through hurricans become neglected when the tempest has abated.” He addea: “As far as we are concerned, we should consider as criminal any act or word which would tend to dis- turb or weaken this alliance. We have made and will continue to make all efforts to draw our policy closer to'that of our allies and will always be prepared to seek with them such alleviations as concerted action may bring to thelr suffering: Says in Address. National League. Associated Press).—The im-| Poincare’s address at Charle- as T should have wished and as she might have profited if she had been by our side in the Ruhr, but I have the right to say that if there are too many unemployed in England, Gen- eral Degoutte has nothing to do with ft,” he added. The Ruhr occupation, he asserted, is not fllegal, inasmuch as the Ver- sailles treaty and collective allied declarations recognize the right of the allies to occupy additional terri- At Philadelphia (First Game) R. H. E. Cincinnati 101 004 000—6 13 1 Philadelphia 800 000 000-3 9 1 Batteries — Luque and Wingo; Couch, Head, Weinert and Wilson. At Boston— St. Louts R. H. E. ---000 110 000-2 7 2 Boston -200 020 10x—5 10 0 Batteries — Toney, Baerfoot and Ainsmith; Marquard and O'Neill. At New York— Pittsburgh New York 000 000 010-1 6 2 Batteries—Horrison and Schmidt; Nehf, Jonnard and Snyder. At Brooklyn— R. H. E. Chicago - --000 050 023—10 12 0 Brooklyn ----..000 001 030— 411 7 tory as security for reparations pay- ments. Turning to the question of British trade and the effect of the Ruhr occu- pation upon it, the premier said Brit- ish statistics showed an increase in the tonnage value of exports and im- ports during the first months of this year as compared with 1922. “I do not conclude that England has profited by the Ruhr occupation Make Another North Pole Trip ST. PAUL, Alaska, Aug. 20.— Cap- tain Roald Amundson, Norwegian ex- plorer who was forced by an accident i 4 to his airplane to abandon his pro- en partitions eight feet in height on the main floor and bal-| posed air fight from Alaska to Spitz This floor has been used for some time as a dance | bergen over tne North Pole, has indi- neering, purchasing, operating, land,|cated that he will make another at- scouting and geological departments. About sixty office employes will be] according to officers located here. Offices of other compan- ies that are located in other parts of the Moose building will not be af- fected at present, it is understood. The Moose building 1s the largest office bullCing of the Producers and Refiners corporation west of Chicago. It marks a step toward centralizing the western activiti pany in Casper. tempt, using Spitzbergen as a base, of the coast guard cutter Bear, which arrived here today from a voyage to Point Barrow and Wainwright, where the explorer made his base. oe DY SOEs GAS CUTS CONTINUE UNTIL edie wo wan ew mee FUEL 1S BEING SOLD AT quarters in the basement of the butld- ing unt!l spring, according to a stip- ulation In the contract. A new struc: ture will be built by the Moone at that time. It was unneunced this morn- ing that the organization Is already to build. NEW ISSUE IS RAISED IN AMERIGAN VESSELS LOS ANGELES, Callff., Aug. 20.— Whether Mquor carried as cargo by a freight vessel can be selzed under the Volstead act if the vessel stops at an American port was the ques- tion confronting federal officials here today. The British liner Southwestern Mil- ler reached Los Angeles harbor from Antwerp, carrying 3,400 bottles of French champagne consigned to En- zenada, Mexico, by way of Vancouver, B.C. Mquor was declared on the vessel's manifest, and Captain L. Wil- amson, her master, contended !t was ® part of her cargo and therefore could not be seized by American cus toms agents. ‘The customs officials merely placed the liquor under seal and waited until today to ask for a ruling from Wash- ington. CHILD BITTEN BY DOG EXPECTED 10 RECOVER Martha Mead, the 10-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs, E. L. Mead, was bitten by a dog yesterday when tending over more than thirteen weeks, were concluded last Wednes day. At that time confidence was c expressed in the Mexican capital that document, which in no way | Mexico's interpretation of its sub-soll matic relations between the two gov- m legislation and agrarian ernments is the outcome, actual ex | laws. contained in the conference tension of r nition, it was reiter | record, would prove acceptable to the ted today, probably will not take (Continue@ gn Page Four) veloping. COST IN GITY OF SEATTLE SEATTLE, Wash, Aug. 20.—Six- searching for a new location on which| teen cent gasoline was sold here to- day. Several independent service sta- tions had announced reduction of the retail price to that figure. The re- duction was not general, however, and officials of the big ofl compantes these dealers were selling the At all Standard, Union and Sell sta- | tions the prevailing price ot 19 cents ja gallon was maintained with reduc- tions of one cent per gallon to users of coupon books, [MELLON WILL RETAIN JOB IN TREASURY WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—Secre- tary Mellon of the treasury let it be known definitely today after a con ference with President Coolidge that he would remain in the cabinet. Retail Food Prices Jump Two Per Cent WASHINGTON, retail per cent higher June, while during the year ending Aug. 20.—The cost of food averaged two in July than in July 15 the general advance amounted to four per cent. The average fall expenditures for food she was passing 4 house near on| increased during July in 45 repre- ,CY avenue and near ‘Thirteenth| sentative cities and decreased in street. The anima) bit her on tho! six. Only two cities, Los Angeles wrist and thumb, The child ts being! and Louisville, reported declines as attended by the Lathrop clinic. She] high as one per cent. Six cities was reported to be doing all right} showed reductions for the year pe this morning, with no bad signs de-| riod, amounting to two per cent at Portiend, Ore, aod Warren Maupin died at a local hospital yesterday after- noon as a result of gangrene t been shot by a member of the sheriff’s force in an attempt CRIMINAL SHOT ESCAPING DIES Gangrene Sets in Wounds in Legs of Man Known as “Tangle Eyed Tex,” Wanted in Nebraska Batteries — Kaufmann and 0'Far- rell; Grimes and Taylor. THEATRICAL STARS AGT AS HUMAN LIFE IS TOO PRECIOUS —(POINCARE’S SPEECH INDICATES ‘aces = MARKET PANTG TO SAGRIFICE ON ALTAR OF | —QESIRABILITY OF AGREEMENT <= sees S-i= STARTS SUIT _ BUCKET SHOP DETECTIVES) SPEED FIEND’S CARELESSNESS | La alll Furnish Testimony and Produce Witnesses That} r vou sneverine the xt te arma ntonmen, x ix in tne power ot one] Any Act or Word Which Would Disturb Compact it = eRe ee ee re Only Thirty Cents as Compensation. DES MOINES, lowa, Aug: 20.— Charges by Senator Smith W. Brookhart of Iowa, that E. T. Meridith, while occupying the office of sec- jretary of agriculture “sat in in the Wall Street game and helped Produce the greatest panio in farm prices in the history of agriculture.” prompted Mr. Meridith to instruct his attorneys to file sult agninst the senator for Ifbel and damages of thif- ty cents. Mr. Meridith declared in & statement to The Associated Press to- day. Senator Brookhart's charges, madé in an address at Radcliffe, Towa, last Wednesday, Mr. Meridith said. “in volved my integrity and honor and was without basis in fact.” “But few peaple give any credence to Brookhart's statement,” Mr. Mert dith declared, “and while the damages of his statements might be more, I estimate his effectiveness at about thirty cents, so I have instructed: my attorneys to sue Mr. Brookhart for bel and damages in this amount— the real compensation being in get- ting Mr. Brookhart on record under oath. E “The public will now have en op- Portunity to see how nearly he can come to proving even one of his many mouthings. iy “It ts futile to argue with @ man who {9 so careless with his statements hat set in his legs after he had to capture him, Maupin, who carries such aliases as Tangle Eyed Tex Moss, and others, was captured at Salt Creek Au- gust 12. He was in a car with a 30-30 calibre gun between hig legs ready to fire as soon as he could ‘get under cover. The officers beat him to it, however, and wounded him in both legs. The man was wanted m Nebraska on a car stealing charge and on the charge of breaking jail. In the tele- gram which the local authorities re- ceived there were words to the effect that Maupin was a “bad man.” After his capture Maupin himself had stated that he had intended to fight it out with the authorities. The Inquest into the man’s death will be held within a day or two, SCOUT GAMP REPORTED TO BE IN GOOD SHAPE Camp R. T. Kemp, the Boy Scout summer camp, is getting along first rate and the welfare of the boys is all that could be asked for, accord- ing to H. Roe Bartle, scout executive, who spent a few hours in Casper to: day, returning to the camp in the Big Horns late in the afternoon, There were 156 boys and 16 officials encamped during the first week, and there were 168 boys and 14 officials during the second week. A large group of members of the council visited the camp Sunday and were entertained with true scout hos- pitality. They returned to Casper possessing an excellent impression of the camp. OX AMERICANS KILLED IN PLANE ALL AT NIE NICH, Aug. 20—A motor bus em ployed in regular service in the Alps fell into the river Var at point three kilometers from Guillaumes in the de- partment of Alps-Maritimes today Six persons were killed and thirteen injured, all of them, {t 1s reported, being Americans. PARIS, Aug. 20. — Six Americans are reported to have been killed and thirteen injured when a motor car fell into the river Var, near Gutilla- umes today. The names of the vic- tims are unknown her Clearmont Man Commits Suicide By Poison Route EARMONT, Wyo., Aug. 20. Loy |L. Zingg, 46, of Clearmont, commit: ted suicide by drinking poison in his home in Clearmont yesterday. Des- pondency due to {ll health was given as the cause, It was disclosed at a ccroner’s inquest held here today. He bad been ill five years. He leaves a wife and six children. ARMY OFFICERS INTERESTED IN Who were Thought \German Newspaper Prints List of Men to Have Known of | ‘Attempt to Kidnap Slacker HEIDELBERG, Germany, Aug. 20.—A list of American officers, said to have been found in the baggage of Roger |Sperber, who was wounded during the recent attempt to kid- |nap Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, is printed by the German| |newspaper, which say Sperber told the police the men were somewhat interested in the Bergdoll cz a confess plot or 1 tat attribute to Spert r uted that the ‘aris Bev ago and he and Carl Schmidt were to rece as Senator Brookhart,” Mr. Meridith continued, recalling tat the senator had declared the slump tn agricultur- al prices had cost the farmers of the country thirty-two billion dollars, or eight billions more than the whole cost of the war. “The issue between Brookhart and myself was whether the American farmers’ financial condition 1s worse this year than last as Brookhart claims. I pointed out in a recent state- ment that the grain farmer will re- ceive five hundred million dollars more for his grain this year than last year In spite of the slump in the price of wheat, I note that he admits this in his last outburst. = ‘Since my etatement was given out the department of agriculture has an- | nounced the agricultural price inéex figures as of August first. This index figure inctudes all the princfpal farri products and shows that the Ameri can farmer was 15% per cent better off on August 1 than he was @ year ago, and 25.2 per cent better off than two years ago on August 1. “The War Finance Corporation fig- ures show that the farmers of Towa, whom Brookhart has fancied were ruined long ego, borrowed approx’ mately $24000,000 two years ago, and that $17,000,000 of that principal sum with Interest, has already been repair. In Nebraska, the farmers have al- ready repaid eleven-twelfths of the money they borrowed, and tn Illinois they have repaid four-fifths of the money they borrowed. “Can Brookhart convince any one, in the face of these facts, that the farmer {s ruined, when he has records Uke this? “While there fs still plenty of room for improvement in farm prices, and this is said with @ full understanding of many unfavoratle farm conditions, these figures indicate that the farm- ers’ condition is improving as I have claimed, instead of steadily growing worse. j “Brookhart, as has always been his Practica in his campaign attempts to befog the issue between us, by claiming that I “sat in the wall atreat game and helped produce the great- est panic in farm prices in the his. tory of agriculture.’ “Ho assails my integrity and honor in an effort to mislead and prejudice the farmers, “His charges are not only fale& but libelous and I belleve it to be |a real service to show the public that | Brookhart makes many wild and ex- | travagant statements without any basis of facts. In his Radcliffe address Senator Brookhart declared Mr, Meridith as secretary of agriculture, wished that jthe farmers be “defeated;" that he was in @ position to aid agriculture and to avert contraction of the price of agricultural products, but that he failed to do so. “Instead,” said the senator, “he sat In Wat! Street game and help- ed produce the greatest panic in farm prices in the history of agriculture,” Senator Brookhart further declared | that before the deflation” of the farmers took place, “the Wall Street- . the packers and the big fellows rally except Henry Ford, were e. 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